http://abcnews.go.com/Business/debit-credit-facts-fraud-liability/story?id=16090439

You have a maximum liability of $50 for fraudulant credit card purchases - no liability if the phsyical card wasn't used to make the purchase (.ie online purchases). That's hardly losing "100% of [your] stuff" if someone rips off your card number.

NOTE: Identity theft is WAY different than somoene using your CC#.

My son, who is 27 months now, has been using a tablet since about 8 months old. We started mostly with apps that consist of pressing a button to hear animal or machine sounds, he also liked the bubble pop games - especially ones with lots of colors. He caught on really quickly and was able to navigate around my parent's kindle better than them shortly after he turned one. He liked the kneebouncers apps when he was little too, which are just a series of simple cartoon characters that do repetitive things every time you press any button. I also think the book apps on the tablet really helped him to appreciate actual books more, we had problems getting him to listen to a book until we got him some book apps. After watching them with us for awhile he really started liking real books too. The Netflix app is also nice. Lets face it, there's times where having 15 minutes to make dinner, take care of bills, etc are needed and I'm glad my son can watch something to keep him entertained that doesn't have any commercials in it.

I realize that everyone thinks their child is above average, but my son has a great vocabulary, counts to 15 by himself, knows all his colors and shapes, and has an extremely active imagination. I definitely think the time he spends on the iPad helps contribute to that.

Don't listen to the self-righteous assholes telling you your a bad parent because you want to spend time doing something other than peekaboo with you child. Anything that creates a form of bond between you and your child and stimulates their motor and cognitive skills is a valuable tool. It's obvious that a tablet should be just one form of stimulation you provide for your kids, but since there's several hours in the day for play there's plenty of time to include games/tablet use amongst books, puzzles, play-dough, blocks, etc

As someone who spent some time several years ago developing a picking algorithm for plumbing / electrical warehouses, there's generally much more to it than just a simple scanning / shortest path equation. You'll generally want to make sure you're going through your older stock first so you don't end up with old, unsellable stock, sometimes you want to actually clear out bins that have only a few items in them to make room for more stock, and many more things. So, just because you may walk by a few bins that have your item in it already doesn't mean the algorithm is dumb (though it very well may mean that), it may mean that those who set up the system assigned higher value to other picking / service priorities than just pick speed.

That just gets back to the point of offering a competitive salary. If your people are jumping ship because they can earn more elsewhere, it means your company is offering crappy pay for the job - or, as is more often the case, not offering any raises commensurate with experience levels or acquired knowledge while on the job.

If I start as an entry level developer then after about 5 years I should expect to start being payed like a mid-senior level developer. Sadly, that's generally just not how it works with most companies. You get your 2-3% (if you're lucky) raise per year and that's it...so, you have the option of working 20 years at your company just to make it to the pay level that you could have been at in 5 if you'd jump ship and landed a senior development gig at the point you hit that mid-senior experience level.

That's just a no-brainer decision to leave for another company.

This is bang on. You really need a good 15-30 minutes to decompress after you finish work and let your brain wind down. I find the gym is great for this - a walk or run would likely work just as well. Definitely get some exercise, because you do so much less movement / walking working at home.

Google Voice is actually great for this. Especially since it allows you to set up rules to "turn off" your business line after hours and have calls go straight to voice mail (just like it would if you had an office line and were no longer there). There's nothing worse than having a customer get a hold of your personal number and call you during off hours or a weekend.

The problem is that if you have your Oracle DB's linked together in the fashion described in the article, having just a single little random Oracle DB owned can result in a DOS of literally every Oracle DB in your company that is linked together. It's not limited to just the DB connected to the front end that was compromised.

Furthermore, from what I understood from the article, the only real way to recover from the DOS is to restore EVERY database from a backup after rolling back the SCN number on EVERY database you run. If you miss rolling back and updating just a single one, you're hosed again.

This is a really insidious bug.

I thought that myself too and that was one of the reasons I held out to SD over HD content w/ DirecTV for so long. I bit the bullet in October and got the DirecTV HD DVR. There's only 2 things I've found that it can't do that the DirecTivo could do. Suggestions (which is something I think is patented by Tivo - and I didn't actually use) and undeleting shows from your recorded list you've deleted. There might be more, but they'd be things which I don't miss and the DirectTV DVR does quite a few more things that the aging stock Tivo one didn't.

I was expecting to miss the Tivo, but I don't at all.

This is EXACTLY what the protocol allows and the reference implementation does. At some point about 2/3rds of the way through the video when they're talking about federating wave servers together they show a wave that they've sent between 3 different organizations. They specifically show that members from one organization (in the example, Milton and Peter from Innitech) can branch a portion of the wave and speak specifically to one another and the Innitech branch is never broadcast outside of Innitech's own server. If Milton had not been a member of the original wave he'd also only see the wave branch that Peter specifically added him to.