TFA says he's in Des Moines and claimed $24K in salary for 2002 and 2003. The BLS website shows that the mean annual income for "Accountants and auditors" in Des Moines for those two years was $46K and $49K, respectively.

http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm

Oh, they get paid a lot more than $1. But it's in forms that isn't subject to FICA (e.g., incentive stock options).

The distinction between Mr. Watson and Mssrs. Jobs, Ellison, Brin, et al, is that the salaries of the latter are set by independent boards of directors of public companies. Mr. Watson set his own salary, which the court found was not commensurate with the market rate for that sort of work.

Check your stats a bit more carefully.

The University of Kentucky athletics department brings in about $60 million/year in revenue.

That funds their budget (and Calipari's grotesque salary). Roughly $1 million, IIRC, makes its way back into the general university system.

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=49

Seriously, it's a very useful tool to get the gist of things.
More amusingly, it come up with gems like this, (FTA):

No, they announced they will drop support, but not until HTML5 storage support is in, which is already supported by Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4, Google Chrome 4, and Opera 10.50.

"I used to agree with this...but now that I have spent more time in a business setting, I can say that there are very real reasons why top posting and html email make sense."

Then fail to provide any reasons why top posting would make sense.

More like vice versa. Theora is an extension of VP3, the only codec whose patent holder (On2) has licensed it worldwide for use in software meeting the definition of free software. All other codec owners have rejected Firefox.

Meaning this happened before and they still were not prepared?

My old phone allowed me to record my voice manually for voice dials, which was great, since there are only a few people I call regularly. My current phone instead just tries to use voice regonition plus interpreting what I've typed as the contacts' name. It simply doesn't work; I wish it had the option to act as my old phone did.

Why in the hell is the max $75 million?
The fund for oil spill cleanup aught to be every dime they ever made not a tax I pay. You make the mess you clean it up.

I know Markus Kuhn et al have published some software-based attacks against CCA (the standard software IBM ships with the coprocessor), all of which have been fixed. I have not seen anything about a successful attack against the secure hardware enclosure. Got a link?

No, I'm saying that the post to which I responded in which the poster said he'd pay for the WSJ but not for Murdoch's crap is internally inconsistent...