I wonder if they would consider giving kickbacks to professors for failing students who've bet on themselves.

People admire complexity. - Rob Pike

I think that 60 days is a good time frame, because on top of fixing the vulnerability, you also have to convince users to install the patch. Deploying a patch to a large userbase is going to take time, and probably longer than it takes to fix the problem in the first place. That being said, maybe a more responsible approach would be to tell the vendor (and the world) that you're going to publish the vulnerability in X days or 30 days after they release a patch, whichever is longer. Now the vendor has serious motivation to fix the problem and users aren't needlessly being put at risk.

Kudos on citing your source, but you're completely misrepresenting what the article says. The article states that, overall, two thirds of corporations don't pay income taxes, meaning that large corporations are actually better at paying taxes than other corporations. Furthermore, the article states that the "vast majority of the large corporations that did not pay taxes had net losses... and thus no income on which to pay taxes". Claiming that large corporations don't pay taxes because of loopholes and sheltering schemes is patently false.

Let's hope it's not made by HP and accidentally filters out darker skinned people.

I think the difference there is you never paid to use Slashdot. If you disagree with their change in terms, you can return the item for a full refund. I doubt Sony's going to allow you to return your console for a full refund.

Orville Redenbacher's popcorn already did something like this, and the results were pretty creepy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcn4p213Zg8

Here's the whole thing: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544&ei=uXohS5uKGaG8qgKc7djzDw