thats very nice - pas the law - government wants to increase benefits - government increases benefits - no need to budget, companies pay for it yep, totally works. Next thing is the news: arms race between companies screening out anyone eligible for any benefits and regulators taking decades to amend labor laws. Oh well.

I've owned few logitech alert cameras, and all of the ones that had IR illumination dies withing a year or two. The one i was "lucky" to have die withing warranty period was replaced fairly pain-free. I expected for those $350/pop things to live for over a year, but you know, buyer beware and stuff. One thing going for them was that the picture quality was pretty decent,and tgey supported rtsp.

Secular private schools in NYC run around $40K/year, not counting after school programs or transportation. And at that price, they fill up like a year before school starts (at least elementary ones seem to).

I am a product of post-soviet education of past 20-30 years, from a reasonably large city, and I can tell you that my generation (from which a lot of those hackers seem to come) was not "taught" any computer science, or tested on it, not on highschool, and certainly not in elementary school. Whatever my friends and I have learned was from playing with things on our own. The educational system, however, did provide us with very solid math foundation, geared towards multi-step problem solving, logic, and at least some critical thinking. In my opinion, the abundance of russian hackers is due two a combination of lack of consequences and lack of other as-lucrative economic opportunities. In US, one could easily end up in a world of legal trouble for experimenting with hacking. In post-soviet space, the worst that can happen is one would have to share profits with some thugs (from the government or otherwise).

I think it is the middle-middle class who are getting screwed by high tuition: if you are poor and you get very good results on SATs, you will get into top schools, and these tops schools will give you financial aid. If you are not-so-poor, you'll be stuck borrowing money, unless you are really, really good. I have a few friends who chose a free ride in a state school over ivy league. As for merit-based system, I think any "objective" tests always favor kids from families that value education, and thus are not as conducive to vertical mobility as you think.

What if the husband and hist lover are of different race? Or what if his lover is another dude? Should then there be permissible to charge her, on account of the possibility of "bias"

The problem with this approach is that the next target will be XML based services, JSON services, and whatever else that is out there that accepts user input and turns it into a map. Feels like yet another pointless rule that developers will have to remember till the end of days (and will probably keep ignoring in 99% of the cases). Processing input from users? Use String objects with a cryptographically strong hash. Pay the price, keep track of them all the way downstream.

Actually, there is absolutely something "they can do to eliminate your commute" - they can pay him (her?) more money to make up for the (likely) difference in rent or inconvenience of relocation expenses. This argument in general is highly unreasonable and perpetuates the "fuck everyone" attitude. Meanwhile, even in very big cities individual industries in IT have a relatively small pool of people, and a good % of jobs are found via former coworkers. So while the company might not think twice before fucking you, you should think twice before fucking your colleagues - in a few months, when you interview in some other company, your resume might be on their desks.

dividends and capital gains are double taxed

Because before you steal stuff, you discover the whole. Unless you know it is there because you left it, there have had to be this "aha" moment when some dude logged into *his* citibank account and tried it. ah, its too late to respond, this post is too stale

Seems like the website required to have *some* authenticated sessions. Even though they probably used some stolen credentials (at least one would hope), they must have used their own when they *discovered* it. So the way to find them is to look at the logs and find people who accessed diff acct urls under the same auth token prior to this massive theft. I bet there are not going to be that many of them.

Seriously, they offer credit protection for 1 year??? Like the your personal information that they had stolen from them EXPIRES in one year or something? With all those millions of records at hand, chances are whoever has their hands on this data will not even get to you until 3-5 years from now (good luck proving then that sony had something to do with it:( )

Anyone implying that science is harder than law is probably neither well equipped to do science now knows what law involves. Unless you have an Ivy MBA and are willing to work 100 hours a week for several years, you will NOT be making anywhere close to what junior it personnel makes, "financial mumbo-jumbo" or not.

So what happens then if a particular "open" standard is abandoned and the existing viewers for the content grow insecure?