From TFA:

Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon. ...
You’ve never said it was named after Springfield, Oregon, before, have you?
I don’t want to ruin it for people, you know? Whenever people say it’s Springfield, Ohio, or Springfield, Massachusetts, or Springfield, wherever, I always go, "Yup, that’s right."

Only if you get the Mobius tape, which costs extra.

Here's how it works under the GPL: FAQ - Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money? Most of the info is behind the "right to sell copies" link. tl;dr: you can sell the binary for whatever price you want, but (1) you have to also provide the source at no additional cost (except reasonable shipping fees if you send physical media) and (2) the user can turn right around and sell the software for whatever price they want. AFAIK this is exactly what happens with Red Hat Enterprise Linux vs. CentOS, for instance; Red Hat doesn't charge for the software itself, only for support contracts (and I think some branded images/names/etc. which the CentOS team can swap out).

...those extensions being KvasdoPager (preview widget in taskbar, supports drag+drop) and SwitchDesk (separate wallpaper per virtual desktop).

Sysinternals Desktops mentions some limitations up front. I don't remember whether I've tried any of the others.

According to TFA, it's because "how do you want to pay for this?" is one more opportunity for the user to stop and think "meh, I don't, really". (But this could be mitigated by letting you set up a default method.)

from the tempting-fate dept.

Not that you're necessarily wrong, but VirtuaWin works well and has for a while. Add the KvasdoPager plug-in to get a preview widget within the taskbar.

From TFA:

Seigo also noted that the tablet will indeed blend, although that would void the warranty.

Oh, shit. There goes the planet.

As I understand it:

• Rule #1 is the current system (6.2% on income up to $110,100)
• Rule #2a is the Democrats' short-term goal and the primary subject of TFA (4.2% on income up to $18,350, 6.2% on remaining income up to $110,100, then revert to rule #1 after February)
• Rule #2b is a hypothetical case (4.2% on income up to $110,100, then revert to rule #1 after February)
• Rule #3 is the Democrats' long-term goal (4.2% on income up to $110,100, lasts through December)

Consider Alice (annual income $24K), Bob (annual income $72K), Charlie (annual income $120K), and Dave (annual income $1.2M):

• Rule #1 - Alice pays $124/month, Bob pays $372/month; Charlie pays $620/month through November and $6.20 in December; Dave pays $6200 in January and $626.20 in February)
• Rule #2a - Alice saves $40 + $40 = $80, Bob saves $120 + $120 = $240, Charlie saves $200 + $167 = $367, Dave saves $367 + $0 = $367
• Rule #2b - Alice saves $40 + $40 = $80, Bob saves $120 + $120 = $240, Charlie saves $200 + $200 = $400, Dave saves $2000 + $202 = $2202
• Rule #3 - Alice saves $40 * 12 = $480, Bob saves $120 * 12 = $1440, Charlie saves $200 * 11 + $2 = $2202, Dave saves $2000 + $202 = $2202

So the purpose of #2a is as a stepping stone to #3, and the purpose of #2a instead of #2b is a hedge in case they don't get #3; Dave doesn't get his bigger savings unless Alice also gets hers.

And even then, you'd throw it in anyway and cackle with sadistic glee, wouldn't you? I sure as hell would.

"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." -Jack Handey

btw, in "hashing the same password with different salts", "the same password" is precisely the problem on both sides of the analogy. How do you get the same unencrypted password/fingerprint to not pass through whatever the current hash/salt happens to be? If the salt is a PIN, then that's a whole additional factor.

Yes, we heard you the first time, now bugger off.

Back on-topic: Not only are fingerprints liftable, but (at least when I tried them out a couple years back) they didn't work for crap anyway. I would have screamed bloody murder if they'd been a requirement rather than an option. Checking Wikipedia, there are other methods like iris scans, as well as basically the equivalent of hashing the same password with different salts; anyone know how viable any of those things actually are lately?

This. More specifically, Googling (2012 Social Security tax cut) leads to http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/20/payroll-processors-say-two-month-fix-undoable/

According to the proposed law, the two-month extension of a 4.2 percent taxable wage is applied only to the first $18,350 of income. Wages exceeding $18,350 paid during the first two months of 2012 would be subject to a 6.2 percent Social Security tax rate.

Yes, any decent payroll software has tax table updates, but they don't all support multi-tier rates like this. I consult on an accounting suite with a payroll module, and they had to release a full-on code patch this year to support a change in Connecticut that took effect in August, whereas they usually just release simple updates that save you the trouble of hand-entering all the new rates.