Ah, I see what you were saying; that makes sense now. Thank you for the clarification.

DELETE FROM yourtable;

Care to explain how replication is a backup for that? IIRC, it will faithfully replicate the delete on the slaves. Repeat after me: replication...is...not...backup.

What happens when a bad update or a hardware failure renders the service (for which you have the account) inaccessible? What happens when electricity stops existing? What happens when the Martian lizard baby eaters who were behind the JFK assasination fake their moon landing in 2012? What happens when the sky falls on your head? In other words, problems can be solved by parts; trying to solve them in a all-or-nothing way as a single large interconnected hairy mother-of-all-problems blob only leads to hair loss.

Ok, I see "encryption" in the summary now - given that it was broken, stored passwords == plaintext passwords + 10 minutes of CPU time. Why does every dumb site need to store the damn passwords? It's not like they have to re-invent hashing, is it?

Exposing the password list implies that the passwords were actually stored, in plaintext. Wtf, what year do people think it is, 1241? Plaintext passwords == passwords stolen from you sooner or later. One would have thought that after all this time - and it's been a long time - they would have learned by now.

[citation needed] - outside of Hollywood, the idea of actual physical feedback is doing quite well. I for one like to *feel* where one button ends and another starts, thankyouverymuch - something that touchless interface can't give you, per definition (oh, but then we can build touch feedback to the touchless interface! And something to rest your hands on! And we'll be back full circle where we started, but much more *high-tech*, yaaay.).

3. Profit!!!

Which it, incidentally, also fails to do: from TFA, testers tend to use the surface as two separate screens, which sort of makes the hassle with curved surface quite pointless; and don't get me started on the horrible UX of large, upright touchscreens.

...and they want their gorilla hand syndrome back. As the makers themselves admit, completely lacking any ergonomy ("users tended to separate the vertical and horizontal planes and avoid using the curve as much as possible."). Working with your hand(s) above heart level is tiresome, for reasons entirely physiological - there's plenty of research for that, but we geeks just tend to dismiss it as NIH and assume "we know better", don't we? It's a very cool toy project, yes - but utterly impractical.

Coming soon, to a website near you!

Eh. From what I see, most people are on FB precisely because of it - people seem to like clicking on stupid shit.

If by "getting a discount" you mean "sue the pants off them after the fact", the answer may be "yes". This is now a (first-)world-wide phenomenon best described as "I'm only responsible for my actions when I feel like it, otherwise I'll use {the devil|my genes|the society|the Internet|the weather} as a defense." Unfortunately, it works, thus affirming the meme.

Eh, it depends on the country, and eh, not really. This looks more like a variation on the "me-not-responsible-devil-made-me-do-it" theme.

Much like "flammable" and "inflammable", "pressed" and "depressed" are synonymous in this context.

From what I've seen so far, this is just the old "half a ton of crap" trick:

-Microsoft: We'll force-feed you a ton of crap!
-Windows users: WTF, you *&*(&*s!
-Microsoft: In our infinite goodness, we decided to only force-feed you half a ton of crap!
-Windows users: Not a full ton of crap! Yaaay, go Microsoft!

Windows 7: Sucks Less Than Vista (TM)