We just sprinkle them over the poor, and POOF! All better.

When they passed seat belt laws in Michigan it was a "secondary offense" - you couldn't be pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt. Until they changed the law after about 10 years, once everyone had gotten used to it.

Try carrying a big costco sheet cake that says "Happy Birthday!". Easier than carrying all those tools, and you can go business casual.

1) Set up in a foreclosed house somewhere
2) Answer ad on Craigslist for reshipping job
3) Keep merchandise, send out packages weighted with bricks
4) Disappear before 1st package arrives in Russia
5) Profit???

It seems that the success or failure of the company is hinging on your loyalty. If that's really true you should expect some kind of equity stake if you stay. If your compensation is just conventional hourly and benefits you have to take the better opportunity.

Apparently they have an internal working android port, and the community is requesting the source code (per the license). If it can be shown that HP shipped android, even accidentally, then they need to provide the source on request.

The leads are weak. The f-in' leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business 15 years ...

I've worked in shops that called the software development group IT, and the maintenance / infrastructure team IS. I think this is turning into an unhelpful terminology war due to the poor phrasing of the OPs question.

Not hardly, since so many patent trolls aren't developing anything. You can't even sue them back for violating your patents, so mutual assured destruction breaks down.

Probably? They will PROBABLY offer chase.llc to Chase? That's your whole argument, that the new owners of each and every new TLD will probably do the right thing, so we have nothing to worry about?

You realize we're going to have full character sets available, so you'll have a dozen different characters that look like the letter "a"? There will be hundreds of domain names that look like "chase" in each TLD.

And you've seen how the registrars behave right now with the existing domains? And you're still optimistic?

FTFA - "GTLDs such as .nyc, .london or .food could provide opportunities for many smaller businesses to grab names no longer available at the .com level -- like bicycles.london or indian.food.

What part of this is confusing you?

Wow, did you even read the comment you included in your reply? I am saying they will NOT buy an entire TLD. Scammers don't own the whole .com TLD - they buy _individual domains_ under existing TLDs.

Once someone registers a new .llc TLD what do you think they are going to do with it? They are going to sell domain names for $10 a year - to anyone with $10. And sooner or later someone with $10 will buy chase.llc and use it in a scam.

Again, buying an individual domain in a new TLD will not cost $185k; it will cost whatever the owner of the new TLD is charging.

But once someone DOES register .bank, will I be able to buy chase.bank from godaddy?
It's not the people registering the new TLD you have to worry about, so much as the people that they sell domain names to in the new TLD. Scammers don't need to own a whole TLD, they just need a close-enough domain in some new TLD.

We know very little about the cooling powers of the sun.

That's my new yardstick for insane figures. When someone says we spent 700 billion bailing out the financial companies, I'm going to picture 20 IBM sized companies funding 100 years of research.