I'd treat it the same as any other currency transaction. It's fairly well defined how to handle gains while playing Forex.

A Russian can import goods from China into the United States. They pay duties and other fees at the border of the United States as the goods enter the country; even if they intend to pay Americans to take the product.

The internet needs some kind of enforced border to ensure duties and other fees are paid on content as they arrive. The ads, in this case, would require payment in order to be presented to an Italian client. The "good" is being consumed by an Italian and taxes/fees should be paid when it crosses the border or by the local company regardless of where the purchaser or the manufacturer are located.

In my experience, one never stops creating bugs, they just get more subtle and harder to find. Nothing personal against you of course, but the statement above calls to mind the study that demonstrated how the less a person knew about a particular topic, the higher his level of confidence about his competence in that topic.

They'll notice the same way they find out about other hidden income. Bank activity and assets in your possession.

True, but kernel deficiencies cannot be fixed that way.

Agreed. If the chinese are going to the moon you can expect them to stay there permanently, claim ownership, and begin sending back resources (rare-earth metals necessary for many manufactured goods).

Science is a process, not a field of study or a result.

That process can be applied to anything where you want to find a fact.

You don't really think the majority of the funds in your bank account sit in a random bank vault do you?

Of course you don't need DRM. You don't produce content with value.

Producers of content with value want DRM.

FinCEN and FINTRAC has been around for a long time and tracks most large transactions in any monetary form. Lawyers, bankers, and even folks like real-estate agents are reporting entities.

I don't see why this is a problem for me using a credit card.

Credit card companies (well, retailers) take on the risk of fraud themselves. When you see a charge you didn't make, you call up Mastercard and let them know. A few days and an affidavit later and the charges are reversed.

If this was a bank issuing a debit card I would be concerned. Getting debit charges reversed is nearly impossible IME.

MongoDB makes a great caching layer.

Write your data to Pg into a permanent data-store. Use a trigger to push the data into MongoDB (foreign data wrapper).

Enjoy the query benefits of Mongo and the reliability of Pg with the caveat that you need to occasionally rebuild your cache (MongoDB copy).

The fibre backhaul between data-centers being cut is a better analogy.

Sections of power plants (most have multiple generators, etc.) are taken offline frequently for maintenance.