It's not that the systems are poorly designed (filesystem access, and hell, Oracle DB has its own filesystem), it's poorly designed DBAs who think that because the system needs it, they need it too.

Nah, just a guy concerned that we're a generation or two away from people who knew how to do this kind of stuff.

So far I can make beer, butter, mayonnaise and soap. Not all that useful yet, but I'm getting there.

And for the sodium hydroxide, drip water through ashes (hardness of wood tends to determine hardness of the lye). Soap is pretty dadgum easy to make.

My calculus class in college wasn't a lecture class, thank goodness. We were able to interact with the prof, ask questions during the lesson, and learned much more (and quicker) for all that.

A video lecture class on calculus would be helpful, but not nearly as helpful as having the professor interact right there to the 20 or so students in the room.

From TFA

Damaging the primary submission system could be a range of things, but given the accusation I'd say they sound more than suspiciously similar.

So I suppose you can believe his own words or not... up to you.

The final question in the grilling by Reps. Chris Smith and Bill Keating to Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg...

"So, how much does this cost and why don't we have it in place here already?"

Criminal vs Civil. Lawsuits are civil, what was flawed there was the criminal system.

Our justice system allows for people to go to court when they feel like they've been wronged. That's not flawed.

The problem is companies like Sony abusing that right. I hope they get their backsides handed to them and additional fines for wasting the court's time.

I don't think you're really reading what Jeremiah is saying. This guy admits to removing a component guaranteeing the anonymity of leakers. On top of that, he's taken with him backlogged (read: not yet published) leaked documents. Assange's alleged wrongdoing has nothing to do with the functionality and business model of the site/company.

Now, strangely, if this guy was a programmer and the component was software, all they would need to do is go to their SCR and put the code back in.. and possibly some data cleanup (redaction of names of leakers). If it was hardware, then plug it back in. If it's damaged, the author of the story needs to report that.

The fact that there are insufficient laws governing taxes on sales of items bought on the internet from a company in another state doesn't at all make it dishonest or tax evasion. You cannot evade taxes that don't exist.

And I argue those jobs will not reappear, people will still continue to buy from Amazon regardless of the location of a distribution center.

Fair enough. I suppose the punchline is my Samsung device is unblocked. Back to the comment above where someone said (paraphrasing) caveat emptor.

I remember hearing about this a while back though, and I believe it all actually started before the budget crisis.

That said, I live in Texas, and am pretty incensed that my state is trying to do the same thing a few other states have to companies that do business on the internet. The end result is they've cost quite a few jobs, meaning they've actually eliminated some tax revenue (no state income tax, but jobless people buy fewer things, so less sales tax). Also, that when I buy something from Amazon it's likely it will take a little bit longer to get to me (not a big deal, just me whining a little).

I think your friends left out the fairly high property taxes in most parts of the state... it's sort of how they make up for no income tax. Then there's the state lottery which pays something like 80% into a general funds pool.... ugh. Plus my ex police officer wife agrees most fines (speeding etc... minor stuff) are for revenue rather than punishment, but that's probably true in most if not all states.

Its 106 miles to Chicago, weâ(TM)ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarretes, someone elses zip code, itâ(TM)s dark and weâ(TM)re wearing shades. Hit It!

Or XDA. They're how I'm running Froyo on my AT&T Captivate now.

Argh, I just ran out of mod points to give your post a +1.