Methane weighs something, too. I believe I lose .2 kg/night, though my wife thinks it's more. I don't have a scale that could measure that. Cheap digital scales are worse than none at all.

That's what he gets for clicking through the license and TOS pages on webmail. The guy is obviously a desperado.

You make a good point. My theory is the 1% don't realize if they pauperize everyone they'll end up poor themselves. I don't know how it was in other times, but today it's no problem to be both rich and ignorant.

A poster elsewhere in this thread mentioned personal debt-- negative net worth. This is the definition of slavery, and some among the 1% probably assume they'll make money from usury. Fie.

Close to the median however.

Oracle, the database and connection software is quite respectable. The problem with Oracle is the organization which sells and services it. They like to "partner" with their customers, and comport themselves like a criminal enterprise. They send auditors to their customers' sites to ensure license compliance (meaning shake-down money for Larry Ellison). Training is expensive, but so are trained Oracle specialists. They're risking ruining Java with slow updates, and MySQL development seems to have slowed-- probably a good thing. Larry Ellison doesn't really get open source.

There are many Oracle-like features in PosgreSQL, so it's helpful to learn, but here in the US, Oracle work pays very well-- probably the best in the industry. I don't know how many of those jobs are available. I do know there's some foreign competition, both from Europe and Asia. The company I work for has some excellent DBAs from India monitoring our servers.

I thought the same as you on reading the headline. I thought perhaps Netflix's code had caused data centers to fail.

Often in publications, this kind of word misuse is caught and corrected by someone called an editor.

Posting to clear a mistaken moderation. This is a very good point.

But only the guilty have something to lose in the case of mandatory DNA tracking. Why protect perpetrators?

you left out
"... Profit!"

I believe the happy CEO cut personnel costs by 40%, unless there is some arithmetic I'm missing here (which often happens with CEO fiscal shenanigans).

They'd have an extremely hard time pressing felony(!) charges. This is a fat-fuck bureaucrat, management lardo with an ego problem, who happened to get pwned, hard! The CIA is full of these guys-- think DMV only the clerks are given Glocks with silencers, and don't have to talk with anyone-- they're sitting around waiting for their pension, maybe an interview on the Today Show. Certain IT companies (especially security-related) love to hire these guys, who sit around thinking up threat scenarios, trying to figure out what a router does, and when they get too boring, they're sent out to trade shows in their bad suits and funny ways of talking.

The employment future of the leaker is not in the hands of this idiot. The HR department is legally obligated to confirm the employment period, and is legally enjoined from telling anything else, not matter what the employee's status at the time of their leaving. Cisco got caught and exposed doing what they do-- screwing over (in this case) the CA education system for millions of dollars. They do the same in many industries, public and private. It sucks to be caught at that, but it happens all the time. And this beefcake with the polyester dress pants will survive his job too, if he just shuts up.

380 million is nothing to Apple. At least they weren't forced to apologize again. Mea culpa!

This is the difference between good coders and bad coders, no matter the age (well, except for the retire part). This is a career whose first mandate is constant learning and refreshing of skills. If an organization finds itself with older programmers and technicians who haven't learned anything new, that's a sign of bad management, and a waste of human capital. One of the things that led me to leave consulting for a steady job 20 years ago was the huge cost for training to stay up to date. Since then, my employer has footed the cost of that development. And yes, I'm an old developer, 59, and do mostly database work.

This looks like another Adobe exploit. Both the bad guy and the good guys used it. And when they infected Boris Badenoff's computer, they only took .doc's and not .pdf's. I wish I could be so selective.

I assume there was a list of remedies on about page 14 of the license agreement you probably clicked through when you signed up for their service. My advice is same as previous poster, move and forget about it.