Video stores are closing all over the world because of the internet. Newspapers are downsizing, magazines are closing their doors because of the internet. It's another logical step to see book stores downsizing/closing as well. There will probably always be book stores around, but it's going to become a niche market where instead of having a book store in every town you will only have them in major city centres. It's inevitable. Kicking and screaming about it is just wasting oxygen. As for the publisher, you add a table of contents, some proofreading and expect a 30% cut! Word can add a bloody table of contents, pay some underpaid English school teacher to proof read it, get on Deviant art and get some underpaid Art student to do a cover and voila, instant publisher. The only need for a publisher was to upfront the costs of printing the fvcking book! That's gone now, and so should publishers. I have read about authors who eventually became big big names who were continually rejected by publishers because they had their head stuck up their own asses. How many masterpieces are lying rejected and discarded because some publisher did not enjoy the book or actually did not take the time to read it. I don't need some opinionated greedy middle man deciding what is good enough for me to read. Get rid of them.

How many times did he try this and it didn't work? He just kept trying until he got one lazy/incompetent teller and bingo! Scam!

I would imagine it would take a lot of rewiring to get the camera's etc in place. My father used to work for an aerospace company as an electrician, trust me, there is not a lot of room in fighter jets to just add more stuff. Components would need to be replaced with miniature or more compact versions to make more space for the new equipment, this in turn would require changes to the wiring harness etc. etc. Probably be cheaper to buy an F-35 than try retrofit another plane - well maybe not considering the price tag of the F-35!.

Obligatory xkycd

There are ALWAYS people in a company of significant size who are not pulling their weight, or for whatever reason are no longer team players, no longer have the skills required etc. etc. This sounds like a classic chaff cutting exercise (soz to those who are losing their jobs though), I am sure having MS on your CV will help tons in getting another position, and since IT is in high demand at the moment it should not take long :-)

No, it's probably the separatists who wear a Russian uniform and were delivered by American transports using American bought Russian equipment so that America can stick it's nose into another war to fuel it's war machine.

If your comment wasn't already a 5 (and I actually had points) I would mod this. There is so much cr@p in the app stores it boggles the mind.

Or they just post an advisory stating that your software is a big pile of steaming security holes and to avoid it at all costs.

I wonder how accurate that figure is, even Russel Peters jokes about how if you want your taxes done "right" you take it to an Indian book keeper.

Ditto, don't play much online anymore, tired of paying for a 6 hour single player campaign, there are better alternatives out there for single player games. Was VERY disappointed in Watch dogs :-(

The only reason they are "free" to speak what they feel like is because they have all been brainwashed by their own media machine into only speaking what they are trained to. Spend an hour or two on Russia Today to get an idea of how biased news reporting is (including RT, but it illustrates the point). I have feeds to several eastern and western news sites hoping somehow that the amalgamation of the two will be closer to the truth.

putting African TV manufacturers out of business
Wahahaha, that's real funny, we Africans get our TV's from the same place you do. China.

Sorry, but as a programmer different dates formats are a bloody pain in the ass. Say it like you want to (while putting a pancake on your head, I don't give a shit) but store it (ie. type it) in ISO format. YYYY-MM-DD

There are a lot of systems which transmit data as strings (xml, json, csv) which need to get parsed back into datetime and a simple thing like YYYY/MM/DD instead of YYYY-MM-DD can cause a cluster fuck of note. If everyone just used the ISO format my job would be a lot easier.
As a developer who helped fix the Y2K issues that would have happened at a major bank I am well and truly tired of different date formats.

lol, must be nice where you live, where I live (South Africa) a lot of the time the real criminals ARE the cops.

Been there seen that, trying to refactor a steaming pile of cr@p right now into something that doesn't fall over if a user farts.
Doesn't help that it's really old code, changed by people who could not be bothered to figure out how the underlying system worked and just hacked away at it like a drunken monkey in front of a keyboard until it sort of worked.
To add insult to injury, when they needed to add a table or a new report they simply used whatever was at hand instead of sticking to the framework or report generator the system was built on. So now it's a mishmash of four different data layers, three different report generators, and two different programing languages, all because figuring out how nHibernate and Crystal Reports worked was too much effort.

Some programmers should be shot.
Or at least made to maintain their own steaming piles of cr@p.