If you care enough about what they are providing to sign up then clearly they are providing you a service.

OEM is a device license, the full version is a user license. Also the full version includes x86 & amd64 while OEM targets a specific architecture. You can buy an OEM license and use it but the terms do not permit you to move it to a different machine.

Breaking news: Steve Jobs bombs Oslo after finding out Apple slipped 31% YoY in the tablet market.

> It's not full proof, of course, but if it's the only evidence one can go by, it's better to regard it than disregard it and claim the opposite.

Or one can recognize that the question is impossible to answer and so either view point is absurd. The rational position is one of agnosticism, along with a healthy dose of “it doesn’t really matter anyway”, and generally regarding those with extreme atheist or religious views to be equally batshit.

The bits that make sense in cross platform systems have been done: http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility

Those that are missing currently (almost entirely limited to entity framework and workflow) have open source alternatives already available (EG NHibernate for EF).

In terms of release cycles it varies fairly wildly. Mono actually was at release for several parts of Framework 4 before Microsoft had their version out of the door, Microsoft tend to be fairly verbose with the roadmap and also put out a great deal of CTP’s targeting small sections of functionality which allows downstream projects to stay on top of what’s coming,

I'm not a fan of our current tax system, but that's the stupidest thing I've ever read.

That would be the Sixteenth Amendment, prior to this all income taxes had been temporary (with the bills having a fixed expiry date) and the single occasion they tried to make them progressive it got shot down in court. The end result of this was the only legal way for the federal gov to tax people was to tax everyone at the same rate, A16 was to allow them to progressively tax again. A16 was only pushed through in the end under the premise that it would only ever apply to the richest 1% and would never be for more than 5%.

The FAA only has legal authority inside US borders, last I checked the US border ends at 100km so irrespective of this power grab the FAA lacks any form of authority to regulate.

No, Mono is a mechanism to use the CLR. I can quite hapily use any language I have an IL compiler for, there are some available under the mono platform for c# and vb.net etc, or I can use my MS ones under windows and run my assemblies under mono on nix.

The sensors are static ports ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot-static_system), there are two and the both need to agree for the AP to work.

With one blocked the instruments for one of the pilots would have stopped working entirely and the flight computer would start giving extremely odd error messages. They may well have figured out what was going on but there would be no way to determine which set of instruments were correct and given position & time of day they didn’t have a visual point of reference to be able to orient themselves. This has happened before ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroPeru_Flight_603), when the aircraft is throwing you overspeed and underspeed messages at the same time which one do you believe?

London has ~250,000 cameras according to the CCTV user group. According to NYACLU New York has ~12,000.

In some US cities it is harder to get a license to carry a gun outside the home then in the UK, Italy has fewer restrictions than half a dozen US states. The US states with few restrictions (open carry, must issue concealed carry) also have the lowest levels of violent crime. Also most of the US has lower level of violent crime then anywhere in the UK. Even non-urban crime rates are higher in the UK.

Do you intend on paying £1000 a month for the unrestricted packages then?

Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Washington have legislation barring adoption of RealID. As the standard can't be mandatory (fedgov has no authority to force states to adopt a particular ID standard) there is little they can do other then try and bribe the stategov’s and make life difficult for the citizens in those states.

Higher corporate taxes lower the salaries of individuals working for organizations, particularly if those organizations are SME’s where margins are much tighter. Also in the retail sector higher corporate taxes translate to higher price points. There is simply no such thing as distinguishing between individual economic freedom and corporate economic freedom, they don’t exist in separate vacuums. Restrict individual and there is less investment capital available for organizations, restrict corporate and the buying power of employees drops.

The use of "fair share" is half the problem. In anything else other than tax charging a single group of people one amount and a different group of people another amount for the same services would be discrimination and in many parts of the world would be illegal. The word fair means without favoring one party, given the wealthy are charged both higher in value and percentage the word fair is wrong. If everyone was charged 40% then it would be fair, when one set of people are charged 10% and another set 40% it is not even remotely fair.

The “tax dodgers” are in almost all cases already contributing a vast sum in taxes anyway and the offshore accounts only hold proceeds from offshore earnings which government (under the guise of society) can’t legitimately claim to have helped to produce (even though they do using worldwide earnings rules). If I live in country a but for whatever reason earn some money in country b then the government of country a should have absolutely no claim to any of it, the society of country a had no hand in creating that wealth.

The summary is missing the words "could possibly". There is no evidence that this has ever happened or any suggestion that there is a security hole that would let them do this in the first place.

Also the original source is wrong about monitoring. One of the reasons to pay $10k+ a year for 1u is that the bandwidth and latency to the trading platform is extremely low, there are multiple systems in place which monitor both sides of the exchange and validate each other’s stats, this is a fairly significant portion of the system - knowing how long ago news was released and how long it will take to make a trade based on that news is what makes HFT effective, monitoring is not an afterthought but is pretty much the core of the applications. In addition simply because of how HFT works when the “hackers” started gaming the system the other systems would stop trading until a human restarted them which would significantly limit the ability to exploit a security hole.