A small plastic whistle will come in handy...

I'd rather that congress focus on this than on more ways to waste tax dollars. There is a lot to be said for a congress that can't do anything.

No mod points today. Sorry. Or I'd mod you up on humor. For a sec there you almost had me.

BTW, many higher end restaurants do exactly that. You are expected to take your nonsense to the lobby. Data use seems to be fine.

What will you do when a drunk manager is shrieking into his phone at his sad minions?

Oh, God! That's all I need. Cramped in a tin can with a pack of bored nitwit talkers for a five hour flight to the west coast. There is absolutely no need for this at all.

But then there will be all of the amusing fights that will surely follow. Maybe I ought to get an upgraded device to record videos. :)

Yeah. I've changed my mind. Allow cell phone calls on a plane.

Now THAT ( having one's grammar corrected ) would shame a German. Watching pron, would not.

Germans do not shame easily. Especially when it comes to porn. They've done far worse.

How about these nitwits find some better ways to improve the human condition before they go off to tilt at windmills. I am all for the prevention of cruelty to animals, but this has just gone over the top into nutcake land. I don't want anything to do with PETA anymore because of the looney positions they started taking in the past few years.

The whole lot of them, just look silly and make it a lot harder for reasonable actions to be taken.

A rite of passage? You must be joking! I've never met anyone stupid enough to have actually run that command with those parms. The first time someone tried that on me, I did a 'man rm' and looked the doc. I always thought that was the lesson; RTFM.

Nah. He's been saying stupid things since slashdot first opened its doors for business.

You should include the business owner on your emails to your boss outlining what is wrong AND how to fix the problem. Include in the what is wrong part, why the app is vulnerable.

Since you state that you came into the migration towards the end of the process, state that you are just now understanding that these issues even exist.

Right? And John Thain still runs free.

Really? Wow. I've never had an issue. I just stick it in. In and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out...

I doubt they did sufficient testing. The issues they have now, should have come up in testing. Yeah, sometimes unforeseen things happen in production that did not show up in testing, but this goes ways beyond that. The Federal version of this system was, simply put, never tested from end to end. I suspect that is what happened here.

Okay, so that sounded like a defense of Oracle. Well, it ain't. Blame should be placed where it belongs; on the government hacks that put this tragic waste of tax-dollar money into service.

And then I have to ask; why the f*ck are they not using open source?

Same here in New York