Assuming you have enough memory to not swap to disk under normal usage, replacing a spinning disk drive with an SSD is by far, hands down, the best all around performance improvement ever in the history of computing.

I don't see a problem with this.

If you want to be paid for your pictures, host them with a stock photography site that will pay you money when they sell your picture. Or if you want your valued pictures private, and they are actually valued, stop using shitty free services, and pay a couple bucks for real hosting.

Don't be an idiot. Every major city in Canada has at least 1 university, and several colleges/technical institutes. It's not the frikkin 3rd world out here.

Eastern Canada would work as well, but there is a somewhat higher risk of earthquakes there, whereas the prairies are very stable from geologic and weather perspective.

Exactly. That Twitter of Facebook are "public" is irrelevant.

First of all, they are privately owned and operated services, subject to the whims and policies of their owners.

Second, SEC has certain requirements for disclosure, not necessarily because it is "public", but because it is a clearinghouse. It is not reasonable to expect traders, investors and analysts to keep track of the 100s of thousands of Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, company blogs, CEO/CFO/CIO/etc blogs, even if they are all "public". That's not disclosure.

It's all on-the-job training and work experience anyways. Just do the minimum to get the piece of paper admitting you to the club.

If you're into "a few hundred terabytes", you're not dealing with Oracle anyways (or even SQL) because you've already hit the query performance wall around 10 terabytes and had to look for alternatives, such as NoSQL and Hadoop and Cloudera.

I like how this is modded funny, because overriding the status bar is something even Google does with its search results to hide that every link is actually a redirect.

Objectively, that's just common sense. If you're ever in the position where you're seriously hurting someone or fighting for your life against an intruder or attacker, you're best off to finish the job, so to speak, so there is no witness/victim to contradict your lies, or to supply lies of their own. This outcome has nothing to do with stand your ground laws.

I don't get it... do you normally hold your pants up with your hands?

There's ALWAYS pressure on the household budget. This is not unique to any particular time in history or geographic region. Fact is we've been compromising our principles (supporting free speech and independent media) for a perceived short term gain. This is classic slippery slope. Doing the right thing is always hard. This is entropy in action. Consistently doing the right thing, or taking the easy way out, has a compounding effect over time that gets more difficult to reverse. But the default is the easy way out, because it requires no thought, no action and no effort. The flip side of other people doing things for you "for free" is that they're not free at all; their agenda takes over, and you get consideration for table scraps.

0. We're too cheap and now all our media is funded by advertisers, while we wonder why it's not accountable to the public anymore.

Jupiter having moons has nothing to do with distances.

Microsoft doesn't have to do anything right. In fact they don't have to do anything at all, just wait, until technology miniaturizes enough that you can run desktop business apps in a tablet or phone hardware format. The portable device space has been all about device and feature consolidation, and I don't expect that trend to suddenly reverse because Google excluded Microsoft from some list they made up.

You got the "Tea Party" think backwards. They got co-opted by Republicans, much like the Green Party was absorbed by Democrats and no one takes Ralph Nader seriously anymore.

Why are they voting on stuff then? Aren't they just figureheads?

The average politician does not read the bill he is voting on, and he certainly doesn't write it. And that's fine, but I don't think the average voter realizes this.