What does that mean for your posts here? "Comments owned by the poster." Yet you can't edit or delete posts.

Seems Subby is the type who doesn't learn from mistakes. In trying to remove "owned" content from one site, you just get more content created with the same issues on a different site.

The question is tautological.

How much of my media do I store locally? If it's not local, it's not mine.

So 100%.

Apparently "early software days" means "before invention of the paragraph." ;)

It's time to start a boycott of Slashdot. These summaries are getting too bad to ignore. Weeklong hours? Peace prize in physiology or medicine?

I might have to resosrt to doing work to pass the day.

weeklong Hour of Code

How about 'learn to tell time' before 'learn to code'? If they don't know the difference between a week and an hour, I doubt they have much to contribute in the areaof education.

1) This is not an issue separation of powers. SoP is between branches of government, not between states.

2) This case is not about taxing transaction that happen in another state. This is about who has to collect taxes and what constitutes a business presence in a state.

If I'm in state A and Amazon doesn't have a business presence in state A, then Amazon doesn't collect taxes for state A. But if Amazon has an affiliate or other partners in state A, is that enough to qualify as a business presence?

Yeah, but there isn't any of that in this case. The people paying taxes to state B are in state B. The question isn't even does someone/business in state A have to collect taxes for state B. The question is for a business like Amazon, what does it mean to "be" in a state.

This may be a bad decision, but your comment doesn't address why.

On that note, non-printing characters should be allowed as part of a password. E.g. "12345" is a bad password. But why shouldn't we be able to use "12356[backspace][backspace]45"?

"people are lousy at picking good passwords"

This begs the question. There is some reasonable expectation that people should learn to properly use the tools of modern society, but in the end, the tools should serve the people, not the other way around. If your car pulled to the left, would you say you were lousy at driving in a straight line? No, you'd say your car was out of alignment and get it fixed.

A password is something we're expected to remember, but we're wrong to pick words or numbers that might be easy to remember, such as familiar names or dates. Even if you say pick a system of choosing passwords to remember rather than an individual password, that's impossible. Every different system and site has different password requirements, so no single easy to remember system will work for all of them.

"You have to remember we are all human and we all make mistakes"

Yes, and Mr Thorsheim's mistake is assuming the issue is with the people who are using the system and not the people designing the system. The truth is,

"password systems are lousy at serving people."

(as an aside, WTF is up with systems that do not allow special characters in passwords? Are they worried about SQL injection? If that's possible from a password field, the system is FUBAR.)

A wind farm getting blown away by a typhoon is ironic. A geothermal plant getting blown away is not.

It's not ironic, it's unfortunate.

Ethanol requirements are corporate welfare for Big Corn.

It has nothing to do with renewable fuels or dependance on imported oil. The second the US has large scale ethanol production not using corn, any requirements for ethanol use will disappear.

Why does it need a picture of the card? That seems strange. RTFA, but it doesn't have any more detail than your comment. I did like this nugget:
"If it loses contact with your phone for a self-designated amount of time, Coin will deactivate itself."

Nice security feature. Until my phone runs out of charge, and suddenly I can make a call and I can't use my credit cards.

I have the same thought from all the proposed smart phone-as-wallet apps. Great, let me put all my eggs in one easy to lose, easy to break basket. This one was interesting until they made it dependant on keeping a live phone near by.

And the customer is not always synonymous with user. The role of the BA is important, but it should be part of facilitating communication between the developer and the user, not a firewall keeping them apart.