When corporations keep record profits internally and pay their people minimum wage, we scream that it's not fair and they need to pay their employees more. When they pay no taxes because they paid their employees with large stock options, they aren't paying their fair share, even though the marginal rate for employees is typically higher than the tax rate of a corporation. And contrary to the implications of the article, stock options do cost the company something, they cost the company the future ability to use those shares of the company to raise investor funds.

This all said, I do agree there's an inherent unfairness to small businesses who can't easily utilize international laws to move profits to a location where corporate income isn't taxed. But unless you're trying to move more business out of the US, I don't agree that the right answer is to force companies to pay taxes on foreign income. Rather, we should be doing more to eliminate red tape and other barriers to entry faced by people that want to start a company and hire people.

Hardcoded initial passwords should never be used for anything other than the first access to a device (after a reset) to configure it with the customers own password and settings. It should also not be usable from any public facing interfaces, but that's a side issue. This is no different from being given a temporary password and told to change it when you first login to a computer or web site.

Leaving default passwords, even if they are unique per device, exposes the security risk that someone will discover those passwords. With unique passwords, all someone needs to find is the database or printing records used to create all those unique labels, or they can discover an algorithm used to generate the unique passwords. Once hacked, unique passwords provide only marginally better security than identical default passwords, but they create a bigger issue because of the false sense of security they have given users that assume they are secure.

You don't register with a party in my state, but my neighbor still has a list of names and addresses to visit when she canvases the neighborhood. I'm pretty sure they just note which primary elections you vote in, and since Democrats have been incumbents lately, I've been classified as a Republican. I vote in every primary in the false hope of blocking the extreme right and left wings from getting on the ballot.

Not only should we make someone's vote secret, we should also make it secret whether they voted at all.

You have to look at the intention of the monopoly and the competition they face. When the bundling of IE happened, there was no desktop OS competition. All they had was the competition of moving the desktop into the browser, and MS wanted to be sure that they controlled that migration and limited it to their browser. Their competition was Netscape and their intention was to eliminate this competition by bundling and keeping their product "free."

When you look at the AV space, MS doesn't face competition from the AV vendors, they are helping their product work safer. Their competition is from Apple in the consumer space, Linux in the server space, and Google in the mobile and cloud space. Adding AV to their OS is an attempt to compete in the market, not to eliminate their competition of AV vendors.

That said, it will be interesting to see if and how 3rd party AV vendors will be allowed to replace the built-in AV.

Admit that you'll never know if anyone's name online is their real name, let them put whatever name they want, but then limit what they can do until they build up some reputation.

If they are a new user, don't let them run around spamming on everyone else's posts and throttle the number of activities they can take until it's been verified by other more trusted members. Allow people to flag posts or identities as spam, and follow up with moderators (or even algorithms analyzing the flags) to suspend or outright ban the offender.

There's no need to reinvent the wheel here.

Can you even access the pull down the activate USB mass-storage mode when the phone is locked?

Yes you can activate the USB without unlocking the phone, at least that's the case on my G2. But this only gives access to the SD card, which you have physical access to anyway (remove battery, pull SD card, mount with any adapter). The device's internal memory is another case, and may be protected when the screen is locked and development mode is disabled, but I personally wouldn't trust this lock. An obvious first step for anyone that is paranoid is having a remote-wipe capability.

To every inquiry, it will answer you in the form of a question, just like every other sales and support person I've worked with. Doesn't seem much different to me.

Maybe now all the established security vendors will create a decent offering that works over IP, rather than plugging their old technology into a voip box. I wouldn't trust my home security to Comcast, but the established security vendors need to upgrade their products off of telephone modem technology badly.

If you were on IP, a simple "ping" could be run periodically to make sure you haven't had your connection cut. And you can get more advanced, like viewing the status on a web page (we already have banking online, so this can be done right) or getting a feed of the audio and video during a break-in to give police a heads up if it's a likely false alarm or send pictures of the criminal so police know who to look for. The alerts would also be sent faster, and can be encrypted over IP, rather than waiting for the modem to dial out.

In a statement released on the Kremlin's website on Thursday, Medvedev instructed the country's communications ministry to draw up amendments "aimed at allowing authors to let an unlimited number of people use their content on the basis of free licensing."

So before they didn't allow authors to use free licenses?

And as much as I'd hope that Russia is relaxing copyright for the greater benefit, I'm pretty sure this is the same as it's always been for nations that are below the top. Mainly, those on top try to stay there with strict IP laws, and all the other nations have lax enforcement and laws to make it cheaper to compete and catch up. The US did it while we were a developing nation, China and India do it today, so it's no surprise if Russia goes this direction if they see themselves falling behind.

So far, the NOVA summary is on target. In addition to the pitot tubes freezing, which is an obvious design flaw, it sounds like the pilots reacted improperly to the loss of speed data.

Just sign the contract as Bugs Bunny. Odds are, if your signature is bad enough, no one will notice.

That said, any doctor that is this afraid of bad reviews is a doctor you should be afraid of. I prefer the ones that offer a survey on my way out and let me know some of the common sites that they need more reviews. If you've looked for a doctor on the internet long enough, you find that they all have bad reviews, but not a lot have good reviews, especially ones that look like they were written by an actual person.

Given the prevailing options, I'll take nuclear for now. No power is safe, but we over emphasis the rare and unknown deaths while ignoring the common ones that happen every day:

http://www.geekosystem.com/coal-oil-nuclear-deaths-chart/

That said, we need to figure out a better solution for the used fuel. And long term, we really need to work on energy storage so that renewable becomes a better option.

Instead of spending all the time, effort, and high risk should there be a failure, on an auto-pilot to handles real world situations perfectly, why not focus on the easy wins. Over long highways and busy cities, build HOV like lanes designed just for auto-pilot cars. If the car has the technology, it communicates with a gate that allows the car to enter the physically separate lane. When you get to the end of the special lane (or to your exit), you take control of the car before it lets you exit back on to the existing roads.

Include the technology for automatic valet parking that could be a seller for high end/big city areas, and you start the adoption process gradually. Even better is if the car can self-dock with a charging station while you're not using it. Companies like zipcar could purchase vehicles with the technology to get through rush-hour on the special lanes, and then the cars would reposition to high demand areas by themselves. Or the city could purchase vehicles and use them as an individual mass transit option that doesn't require building tracks, high voltage power lines, train stations, and the train cars.

For the paranoid, they don't have to give up control or even buy a car with the technology in it. But for the rest of us that would like to have our car drive at an optimal fuel efficient speed without any traffic jams while we read a book or talk on the phone, we can choose to trust the technology.

Where are they getting the prices for the smartphones in this table? For Sprint, I don't see anything resembling a $30 unlimited smartphone plan. The closest they have is a $70 plan with a 450 minute cap. Are they taking that plan and subtracting the 450 minute plan with no data for $40 to get the $30 for just the data? Something tells me you can't buy a plan like that. So while it's interesting for comparing data to data between carriers, it doesn't have a lot of practical use for anyone looking for the most affordable data plan.

Ref: http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPlans?INTNAV=ATG:HE:Plans