http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/201311071754973439.html

http://www.texasobserver.org/seeds-of-discontent/

http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/farmers-sue-monsanto-over-seed-contamination.aspx

http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-court-plaintiffs-seed-747/

Ah... I think I see were Sun can do some layoffs. First, promote the management of the team that came up with the new numbering. Then layoff all the programmers, except for one intern.

But then there is the other issue... Monsanto has sued farmers out of existence when their fields were contaminated by a neighboring farmer's Monsanto GMO crops. It should be the other way around; if a farmer's organic crops become contaminated by Monsanto GMO crops, the farmer should be able to sue Monsanto for the cost of decontaminating their field.

Actually, I started programming computers in the mid 70's. I've seen quite a bit more than you in both large and small companies. 10 years? That doesn't even get you back to the Y2K panic days of development. You can sit down and shut up now.

#1 reason that anyone, in an career, that is over 40 is doomed... the employer's cost of employee benefits skyrocket on employees over 40. Employers would rather have a bunch of kids fresh out of school, working for peanuts, with very low health and life insurance premiums, than to have any employees over 40 drawing a higher salary and having to pay higher premiums. (Well, except for the over 40 management types making those decisions; they won't lay themselves off)

No. Because the programming robot will deliberately leave the gloat() function as an empty stub in the hardware design robot's firmware.

k... well I guess I should not have expected anyone to actually read the page on how the index was created. But I thought at least the title might have been a clue. Let's take it one word at a time, shall we?

• Corruption... ok, should be easy, it's the subject we are talking about.
• Perception... So it is based on people's perceptions since corruption is difficult to uncover in absolute values.
• Index... So the numbers are a score, which is why some countries have the same score, and there are gaps between index numbers.

Citation please!

Spoiler: 13 other governments are less corrupt than the US

They wrote a bill that essentially says, "We affirm that we think the internet is fine the way it is." Wow! What a bold move!

Thanks to Costco having a very liberal return policy on computers, I tried 5 different computers with Windows 8 on it. I hated the first 4. I swore I would hate Windows 8 forever.

But unlike the first 4 computers, the 5th computer had a touch-screen (an Acer V5) and suddenly Windows 8 make perfect sense. Without a touch-screen Windows 8 is a useless piece of crap, even with add-ons like ClassicShell. With a touch-screen, Windows 8 is faster to use on most tasks than Windows 7.

I've found the "Better WP Security" plugin to be pretty good at stopping all of this. You can set login limits, 404 limits, etc., and have it automatically deny offenders IP addresses from accessing your site by modifying the site's root .htaccess file.  But even it doesn't cover everything.

Many WP attackers probe for themes and plugins with known weaknesses, or exploit the upload system to upload executables.  But what most people don't know (including most WP developers I've worked with) is that there is no reason for PHP files to be directly accessible anywhere in the /wp-content/ directory (which includes uploads, themes, and plugins).  Simply adding a .htaccess file to the /wp-content directory with something like the following in it will protect against poorly written themes, plug-ins, and most not-yet-known exploits of WordPress.

# Add allowable extensions as needed
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
<FilesMatch "\.(jpe?g|gif|png|mp3|mpe?g|flv|swf|js|css|pdf|xml|html|gz)$">
    Allow from all
</FilesMatch>

If that breaks a plugin or theme you use, then it's not written very well and you shouldn't risk using it.  Contact the developer and tell them they should not need direct access to executables in /wp-content

The summary contains almost the entire FA. But there is this...

In other words, it was no longer the "Paleo diet" and a shift away from it is what brought about bad oral health.

The article is talking about the scam trying to get consumers to buy uncompressed (as in data compression, not audio compression) 24-bit 192KHz sampled audio as opposed to 16-bit 44.1Khz sampling. I don't care how long you've been a studio engineer or how perfect your hearing is, the human ear is incapable of hearing the difference between the exact same audio sampled at 16bit, 44.1KHz and sampled at 24-bit, 192KHz in a blind ABX test. And even if your system is actually capable of playing back the ultrasonics that a 192KHz sample rate can capture, that is just wasted energy and storage space. It makes about as much sense as making video cameras and TVs that could reproduce ultraviolet light and claiming that somehow improves picture quality.

Easy fix. Crunchbutton declares bankruptcy, employees get paid all wages due at 100% first, everyone else waits in line and gets pennies on the dollar. The same startup group then fills out the paperwork for a new corporation under a different name, does that same thing but without using the "Spicy With" name. If the Brown lawyers still try to come after them, just direct them to the back of the line for the bankruptcy hearings of Crunchbutton.

I've seen startups do this many times before, and it works. It's not like they have a decades old company and brand names to protect. Just keeping abusing the corporate veil until they find a formula that works without getting sued.