Groupon had no intention of paying at all. If it weren't for that they would have just brought up some other technicality.

Now security researchers know what they really need to do if they want to make money from Groupon vulnerabilities...

Use liquid nitrogen and freeze their skull from the inside out, then smash it with a hammer and watch it shatter. Put it on Pay-per-view and make enough money to solve all municipal budget shortages for the foreseeable future.

Federal judges can do whatever they want. There are no limits to the kinds of orders they can issue, unless overturned by a higher court which this won't be.

Nope. This is the New Slashdot.

All they're doing is speaking the language of their user base. Slashbots are pedantic, rude and trollish. There's nothing wrong with an editor that tailors the content accordingly.

"Feinstein has always been a closet Republican"

Come again?

"Then again, killing civilians indiscriminately with drone strikes as "collateral damage" is pretty barbaric as well."

You are an idiot. The entire purpose of drone strikes is to carry out very targeted killings. If we didn't care about collateral damage and didn't mind indiscriminately killing people, expensive drones would not be necessary. All we'd need is some far cheaper cluster bombs. Maybe some napalm.

There was a time when you had to patent a thing, as opposed to an abstract idea. Imagine if someone had been able to patent "using a mechanical device to cool the air". Refrigeration technology would have been held back for decades.

I think he was speaking figuratively. You took the parent post way too seriously.

Getting everyone on the ground safely is the pilots' job. Keeping planes in the air safely is ATC's job.

Is this why the entire nation's ATC system limped along at a severely reduced capacity when a single Chicago facility was taken offline for 3 weeks due to a single contractor cutting a few cables?

That's not just Oracle. That's every IT consultancy. I've never heard of a large outsourced IT project that wasn't overbudget, behind schedule, and ultimately did not do what it was supposed to do. Of course most in-house projects suffer the same fate. And there's positively zero correlation between certificationed personnel and project success.

Makes sense, considering their CEO does not have an ethical bone in his body.

It's good enough, until someone discovers the obscurity and then its not so obscure anymore (or secure).

Those of use who have been coming here for a while understand perfectly well why its redundant. We're sick and tired of hearing the 12+ year old joke over and over.