Amazon is a monopoly? Last time I checked Barnes and Noble was still in business and both Apple and Google had launched e-book stores of their own.

Are you planning to run for office because none of the people who normally run seem to have a sensible grasp on these things as you just displayed.

My personal view is that it should be an absolute percentage. Everyone feels the same pinch and it does scale with income. What I disagree with is that percentage rising the more you make. How is raising the percentage of your money taken the more money you make seen as "fair"? If the poor cannot afford to pay that percentage and have enough left to live on that is certainly a problem but I don't think the current "solution" is ideal.

That TV is quite possibly the most hideous thing I could think of putting in a living room. You'd have to pay me to take that.

I can just see the ads now: "Just one dip in this tub of electro-clean and all the transistors are completely gone!"

It's always good to have paper as an option. I suspect the real driving force behind this idea if it is implemented will be from government agencies wanting an effective tracking system for cash. God forbid we pay the neighbor's kid to mow the lawn without the government knowing about it.

Write them down, then what? It needs to be secure, you don't want someone else getting their hands on your password. It needs to be accessible, you may want to access that site on the go.

Beyond that, for the average user convenience will kill that idea quite quickly. After a few times of "I lost the damn paper" or "I left it in my other pants" etc... they will decide it's simply too much of a hassle and go back to their familiar memorized passwords.

The user you're replying to is not the same user whose wife graduated in 2003...

I suspect the amount of people with iPhones or Android devices is high enough that it would still be profitable to get malware on either one of those platforms. iPhone would probably get you the most in a short time but Android may work better long term as some of the carriers are horrible about issuing updates.

The most amusing part of that was walking through the local Apple store and noticing Cydia on one of the iphones. Checked the rest of them and realized someone had gone around and jailbroken every iphone in the store, I got a good laugh out of that.

The iOS PDF exploit that enabled jailbreakme.com to work could run just from the user clicking a link.

All sarcasm aside if GP is referring to the incident I'm thinking of that was only because people never changed the root password after jailbreaking. More recently with the iOS PDF exploit tools to help users protect themselves were available to jailbroken users 3 days after it was widely known (release of Jailbreakme.com which used the exploit). "Jailed" devices had to wait for a fix from Apple which came 10 days after. This is still a good response time and should not be taken as a bash on Apple, it does illustrate that assuming jailbroken automatically means less secure is wrong.

I applaud your optimism but I suspect the uninstall process may require a good-sized hammer.

SQL syntax works on Oracle too... Shove that user input straight into an Oracle query and you'll find SQL injection is alive and well on all SQL databases where input is not sanitized properly.

Even if the law did I would hope it would specify the levels/types of encryption acceptable if only to avoid "Yes your honor, we were completely compliant with the law. All of our customer data was encrypted in ROT26 format".