I take it you're as leveraged as you can get to take advantage of such amazing returns?

If they hadn't locked it out everyone would be complaining "Why is it taking so long to patch *it's being exploited in the wild*!"

There is just no good way to deliver news of a security hole.

"you people"? The thing is you can't respond to people like the GP and say "well.. not really. come on, here's an anecdote about our CIO planning ahead."

Maybe P8 can maintain the integration between the P1-7 providers, P9 can handle all the different contracts, and P10 can figure out why it takes so long to load data through 5 layers of providers?

The IRS stole from you? You should take them to court.

• The company I work for with ~2000 employees paid $80,000 AUD for our Christmas party at a convention center.
• We spent $xx,000 on a marketing firm to develop a screensaver which promoted our corporate values, but which flickered in a way that gave some people headaches, and had to be taken down.
• Our department went Go-karting twice last year, and I was given 5 days of training for something I haven't used before or since.
• Two years ago someone in our department was paid by another department ~$40,000 in billable hours to write some software which for whatever reason wasn't suitable.
• There are spikes in the number of broken company iPhone 4s after iPhone 5s come out.
• We spend tens of thousands on color ink because engineers don't like electronically marking up documents.
• My sister works for a charity which spent $30,000 for a web-dev company to build a template-based website (which the web-dev company owns).

Large businesses waste money, you're in no position to say it had no value, and the amount of money is trivial. If you consider this excessive don't get mad when you run into a front-line IRS worker who hates their job and behaves as such.

In computer science at uni we learned Oracle for database stuff, C for network programming, UNIX system calls for OS design, OpenGL for computer graphics, Java for basic programming, Linux was our OS and Eclipse was our IDE.

In my first job out of uni all of those were exchanged for the Windows equivalents; it really doesn't matter what platform you learn on.

I know right, they started teaching history in high school, now everyone considers themselves a historian and the hard working historians are out of work!

We need the next generation to be as dumb as possible, so we can be employed for as long as possible.

Loosely translated: The people in the code.org film already knew each other from other places before they made the film! And they have similar ideals and goals! And therefore they were probably involved in 9/11!!

Maybe start a petition?

More generally we need a consumer bill of rights for digital goods. When the copyright on these goods expires they must enter the public domain; the assumption that they do is part of the justification for granting a copyright monopoly. DRM prevents goods from entering the public domain. A consumer bill of rights should require that either (i) digital goods protected by copyright are free from DRM (conversely you can choose to use DRM but you lose the benefit of copyright protection); or (ii) any person or organisation that employs DRM to protect copyrighted digital goods must provide the digital good(s), DRM design specifications, source code and keys to a designated government office that will verify that the provided keys/source/tools can unlock the DRM and then hold everything in escrow for the term of the copyright. There would of course be an administrative fee associated with (ii), and if the fee is not paid then the information under escrow is released into the public domain.

If it's not the GnuSense Linux fork GnuTense it's worth actively working against, because anyone we can persuade to stop working on other distros will start working on GnuTense!

Some routers are worth $20k, but obviously a school will never need one of these.. The question is why they were sold to schools; was it fraud by Cisco? was it a badly designed procurement process? was it corruption?

At a glance the patent seems to be for a very specific approach to measuring pulse oximetry. The approach seems near identical to US patent 5737439 Anti-fraud biometric scanner that accurately detects blood flow. In any event the basic technique for using pulse oximetry for liveness testing is described in Sandstrom, "Liveness Detection in Fingerprint Recognition Systems", 2004 and Hill & Stoneham, "Practical applications of pulse oximetry", 2000. The use of two IR absorption measurements is not novel (see patent 5737439).

And then US businesses are at a disadvantage to EU businesses which only sell their products in the US.