Totally agree. The only reason for mySQL lingering popularity is that many years ago it WAS faster than Postgres. The only reason it WAS faster - it did not have proper transactions. Don't take me wrong, current version of mySQL is solid product, but one will always wonder why DB company like Oracle will want to keep alternative DB around?

and hopefully it will be outlawed way before it could go neutrino-power. Any financial mechanism

1. 1. which allows to create money out of thin air,
2. 2. which allows to create money regardless of where market is going (up or down)
3. 3. which allows to create obscene amount of money, but only if you have lots of money to begin with

has no logical reason to be legal. It does well documented harm to economy as a whole, while not doing any good (except for few... see #3. above)

and it shows. First of all, I have been using Intuit for last 6-7 years. Secondary, I do appreciate the fact that US tax law is horribly complicated. However it seems that over last 5 years quality of Intuit software is going down the drain. Go to Intuit support forums and you will see what I am talking about. So answer to the question "How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code" is - poorly.

During last 12 month almost every single news outfit run a story (and some of these outfits run it more than once) about companies (like GE or all Oil companies) not only not paying any taxes in US but actually getting substantial refunds. At the very least, Apple and MS do pay some taxes in US. If you create a crooked tax system, do not complain that peoples and companies learn how to "use" it, change the system. It seems that lately someone figure out that any news gets "hotter" if it has "Apple angle". I am getting sick of it, but apparently stories about how incompetent and dysfunctional US congress is can not sustain "public" interest as well as "Apple ... doing ... anything".

I have seen this thing in person. It looks absolutely amazing. Stationary or when its go full bore. I wonder why its called - failed? This ship was used extremely effectively in intercepting drug runners using speed boats. Not only its fast enough to keep up, despite its size it sits very high in the water, so it can follow these light boats in very shallow waters. Also if you read these "for sale" ad, what they selling is floating dock and scrap metal from this boat.

got the whole new meaning!

So now instead of pitching your IT security related technology to the customer (competing with other vendors), you just need to get really good friends in DHS and they will mandate use of your tehnology?

Is there any electricity flowing and if there is, how can we harvest it?

I am not sure if this is a good marketing/political move on Google part. They demonstrate to the whole world how easy it is for them to "alter" search results. So today they choose to alter it one way, but what prevents Google to do it other way tomorrow?

Agree. And the fact that these days more and more people do not store ANY music at all, but instead stream it over internet makes it even more idiotic.

Do not full yourself. They will charge you $3 AND then sue you (or rather sue 10K of Jon Doe's - and you may just end up one of those)

Buy VPN service from one of UK companies like http://www.ukproxyserver.co.uk/info/uk-tv-streaming/ It works nicely.

This is typical "bight - and - switch". Start with controversial statement to get eye-balls and then switch to self-promotion. Statement about App Store (which he completely fail to explain/justify) occupy barely 15% of the article, rest is promotional stuff about Wikipedia. On top of this, any article which claims that most of "net-neutrality" debate focused on "hypothetical" issues makes me highly suspicious in regards to author real intent.

It is far from been open standard AND its actually uses H264 under the hood. I will not congratulate Google on been Champion of Open Source until Chrome will stop having Flash EMBEDDED into it.