Bad programmers write bad code, period. Process can't get better code out of a bad programmer, sorry.

I don't have an iPhone. Never will.

I just read your article quote as "the same half-assed security will be used everywhere therefore once it's cracked we're all fucked!"

You think they're really any better?! I'm moving to the fucking Amazon jungle.

We're talking about just another computer system here. It can and will be hacked.

Obama being a constitutional lawyer has only lead to his administration performing the most heinous, yet "legal", violations of the spirit of the same document.

Indeed. Emancipation from all that is right and embracing all the corrupt practices that defines our day to day existence.

It will be voluntary until businesses only accept transactions associated with this ID and, like EULA's which are also completely voluntary, people will simply "agree" and go along with it so they can watch their porn, buy their Amazon merchandise, or whatever have you.

Business is conducted in SO many ways online. This won't pass, I bet. Every single online retailer, from mom-and-pop to fortune 500, will need to either maintain a database of states and their rates or the government will need to provide an API so sites can get access to states rates. Also, who is going to maintain the database if it is federally maintained? States? The federal government? Either way that's just needless work being created. What if the rates change? I certainly don't watch the news from all 50 states and all my online business would be affected by such changes. (I don't have any online businesses but I very well could and many many individuals just like myself do.) This will result in several small e-commerce sites being put out of business simply by virtue there are so many stores out there that don't have this in their systems and they are maintained by non-programmers and probably can't afford to pay a programmer to implement this. I know it's not technically hard but like any other sudden, regulatory need I can guarantee you there will be developers out there taking advantage of this and saying "this will cost $5k, minimum" to the mom and pop shops.

There is precedent of that in the U.K but not in the U.S from what I've seen.

Does anyone know if by "search" they can, for example, remove the hard drive, otherwise dismantle the device to get to memory chips, etc?

I would love to be able to download stuff in the background (pdfs, music, movies, whatever), respond to texts as they come up, play a game, pause it because I got a thought, jump over to my browser and look something up, jump back to my game, get a call and answer it all without any background threads having to "sleep" or whatever. I would utilize it.

SQL is a set-based language. It was never intended to be an object based language like C# or a procedural language like VBScript. Most of the trouble I've found is when I have tried to write SQL like I write C# code. The two almost never mix. When kept to set/result based operations, SQL is awesome. It's making that mental switch back and forth that hamstrings most developers.

I can't believe how many people just accept apps regardless of what warnings pop up. I like how my Android phone would tell me which pieces of the phone an app would access. I refused to install a game that, say, wanted to access my address book. It had no reason to be there so I kicked it to the curb. On my Blackberry I don't give any app "Trusted" status and restrict GPS access to all apps except my AT&T Navigator and Maps apps and then I even restrict each app meaning, for example, if I download a game, I deny Security Data access, Email access, etc. People just need to pay attention and give a damn about their data.

Java troll be trollin'