Sort of the same. But the difference is very important. The difference is that any RSA customer could decide (and some have probably already decided even before this) that a software system running on a networked PC is not secure enough and decide to only use the hardware tokens, which are not susceptible to cracks like this.

There are many tax strategies that are illegal if they are implemented only to avoid taxes. The trick is that the burden of proof is on the IRS to prove that the only reason you implemented the strategy was to avoid U.S. taxes. So all he has to say is "I gave up my citizenship because I didn't like U.S. policy on ______", and they can't really touch him. And he's probably smart enough to have avoided a paper trail.

But the question is: Is he burying the bone because he knows he will eat it later? or is he burying the bone because that is an instinctual behavior of canids? With dogs, a simple logical argument would tend to point to the latter reason. If the dog were really thinking "I should save this for later", then why is he burying it? Are you in the habit of stealing his bones? Many domestic dogs bury bones. Very few domestic dogs have a reasonable expectation that anyone/anything would steal the bone if it were not buried.

Wait... that can't be right. I thought everything bad was caused by the government and everything good was caused by free market forces.

As an employer you wouldn't care if your employees are lying to you as long as they get the job done? No wonder business ethics in the U.S. is in the shitter.

We have the highest corporate rates, not the highest corporate taxes. After all the deductions, credits, loopholes, etc., our corporations do not generally pay more than in other developed countries. GE and Seimens have pretty similar businesses.

From GE's last annual report:

"Income taxes (benefit) on consolidated earnings from continuing operations were 28.5% in 2011 compared with 7.3% in 2010 and (11.6)% in 2009."

From Seimen's last annual report:

"The effective tax rate was 24% in fiscal 2011 and benefited from the income tax treatment of the Areva disposal gain, which was mainly tax-free. For comparison, the effective tax rate of 29% in the prior year was adversely affected by the goodwill impairment charges at the Diagnostics Division, the majority of which was not deductible for tax purposes."

But that's still just as true for WebM. This issue is not a differentiator between the two codecs.

I interpreted that comments as "Ogg Theora and WebM are no better in quality than what MPEG3 might have been if there had been a codec between MPEG2 and MPEG4".

Maybe I'm just giving the poster too much benefit of the doubt?

But this is true of any codec. You could patent an optimization for WebM just as easily as you could patent an optimization for H.264.

Re-read what you just wrote and explain how it possibly makes sense. The only way your money buys more stuff is if the prices are lower. It's a tautology, not a symptom.