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Comment Re:Glassfish is a Must-Have for Oracle (Score 1) 234

They'll can Glassfish because they're committed to Weblogic, and it would be very not good to release 3 different J2ee servers in 5 years. OAS is an absolute rotting turd. Weblogic is probably going to suffer the same fate unless they manage to write some awesome tooling. There's a ton of potential to create a painless j2ee development stack with Oracle and Weblogic eclipse plugins. They've never managed to do this. Eclipse + OAS is a friggin nightmare. OAS + Oracle DB works fine if you don't do anything fancy like HA JMS Queues (ActiveMQ) or use the data-guard debacle against an oracle RAC db. You'd think they'd get database connection failover right, seeing as they own both ends of the stack. As of 10.1.3 R2, you'd be wrong. They needed Sun badly. I don't know if they'll be able to fix things, or if they even need to (for all it's flaws, it's still the hottest corporate stack going right now).

Comment Re:First you need root on the box (Score -1, Redundant) 393

It's a whole new class of vulnerabilities. In addition to remote code execution and privilege escalation vulnerabilities, we now have privilege equalization vulnerabilities. Scary stuff.

How do you not have any of this if you have root? You're root! You can replace the kernel! This isn't scary at all!

Comment Re:Let me be the first one to say it ... (Score 1) 1870

They're in no danger. Law is not equally applied. It's The Pirate Bay because their stated mission is to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted material. This is not Google's stated mission. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that Google hasn't gone out of its way to thumb its nose at the powers that be. This verdict is a message to anyone who would consider acting in a way that would affect the bottom lines of those in power. Google has never made any such intentions public.

Comment New Tax Idea (Score 4, Interesting) 315

Let's just tax bad parents. You let your kid fail spelling? That's a hundred bucks. You let your kid fail math? That's two hundred. You let your kid fail PE? Well, celibacy is it's own tax plus, he/she won't be squishing out any more sedentary, garbage pile producing crotchfruit to compete with the resources of other, more fit people. TAX PARENTS.

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Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers 384

Sweden's tax authorities are cracking down on unreported webcam stripper income. They estimate that hundreds of Swedish women are dodging the law, resulting in a tax loss of about 40m Swedish kronor (£3.3m) annually. The search involves tax officials examining stripper websites, hours upon hours, for completely legitimate purposes. A slightly disheveled project leader said 200 Swedish strippers had been investigated so far, adding the total could be as much as 500. "They are young girls, we can see from the photos. We think that perhaps they are not well informed about the rules," he said.

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