https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fjquery%2Fsta...

Indeed. Per TFA it's "only" $400M in cash and $1.6B in stock.
(and an additional $300M in earn-out based on undefined goals)

I was one of these customers.

I ordered a mSata SSD that via Prime 2-day was scheduled for delivery on xmas eve. I got a notification that day (from Amazon) that UPS was overwhelmed and the package wouldn't be delivered on the "guaranteed" date.

On xmas day I received a (totally unsolicited) $20 gift card credit email from Amazon, that let me know $20 would be waiting in my Amazon account, no code necessary.

On xmas +1 the SSD arrived (and I ordered something else, taking full advantage of the gift card).

Result? At least in this regard, 100% satisfied customer...

5 million gallons of water is approximately the size of one football field x 12 feet deep... or 360' x 160' x 12' ... or if you prefer cubed... about 87.4' cubed of water

actually much easier than you think. $100k is only ten of these stacks (three pictured):
http://www.officialpsds.com/10000-Stacks-PSD63355.html

Assuming all US$100 bills, an average sized briefcase (25" x 18" x 4") could theoretically fit about US$2,400,000. An average attache case (18" x 12" x 4.5") is good for about US$1,000,000.

Calls in mind the scene from Dodgeball where they show a suitcase of $100k, namely:
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dodgeballmoney2.jpg
(although that's comically undersized for $100k)

Yet Another Information Security Professional, working in a sensitive information startup.

Of course, a lot of these have been in use long before the NSA revelations...

A few of my personal tools and our corporate-used tools:

All OSX shop configured with strict firewall, fileVault, and openVPN,

Browser plugins to block ads (adBlock Plus), scripts/flash (NoScript), popups (Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon), trackers (Ghostery), and enforce HTTPS (HTTPS-Everywhere).

GPG Tools for encrypting individual files / emails - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgpgtools.org%2F

OTR for secure messaging (use Adium which has OTR support off the shelf) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fotr.cypherpunks.ca%2F

Silent Circle for encrypted voice and text - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsilentcircle.com%2F

Personal VPN for traffic encryption for browsing outside of corporate purposes, e.g. one of these:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestvpn.com%2Fblog%2F4809%2Fbest-vpn-service-top-10%2F
note that several offer payment methods that are anonymous, e.g. gift cards purchased with cash, i.e. http://www.paygarden.com/

Obligitory Schneier:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance

>Oddly, budget and midscale hotel chains are more likely to offer free Wi-Fi, while luxurious hotels — already costing the traveler more — regularly ding us.

Not odd in the slightest -- the majority of said "luxurious" hotel rooms are being consumed by (in no particular order) #1 the price insensitive and #2 business travelers (arguably a great overlap, if not outright subset, of group #1).

Few of either group in covering a hotel bill for a few nights in San Francisco are going to care much if it's $845 or $885 with Internet.

Finally, those in group #2 are much more likely to have elite status with the hotel, which typically (at the higher levels) includes free internet -- making it a "valuable" perk for your brand loyalty...

Yeah, no.

The round used by the primary firearm in this incident was, according to all the reports I've seen, the .223, aka the 7th round in your chart labeled "5.56 x 45 Nato." There's an important digit of distinction between a .22 and a .223. The projectile is only slightly wider, sure, but it has a lot more mass (approx double) and is moving at a much higher velocity (around 900-940 m/s vs 300-500 m/s).

For pedantics, .223 and 5.56 are not the exact same thing, but they're externally the same, i.e. the same size cartridge (casing and bullet). The interior volume of the 5.56 round is smaller, and can create slightly larger chamber pressures when fired in a gun designed solely for .223.

Not that it matters, but I'm a certified firearms instructor (certified to teach pistol, rifle, home firearm safety and personal protection) and strong advocate that the concepts being banded about for "gun control" are absolutely ludicrous at best, but that's not relevant to this specific bit of misinformation.

The reference to ISO compliance here isn't to the ISO9001 quality standard, but the ISO 27001 and ISO 27002 best practices standards for information security.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_27001

Or, instead of an RDBM to manage all of this info, how about a meta-database that allows you to take all the outdated spreadsheed processes of today and put them in a managable solution that allows everything to relate together.

Most of the products that do this today are focused on specific and well financed areas of the economy. Of course, if the easy money is in regulatory compliance and risk management, it would make sense to focus there. On the plus side, once companies buy products like this, often times it becomes viral and eventually takes over those non-wealthy group's processes, improving visibility across the whole company. Almost like one giant intelligent spreadsheet to run the company :)

The two that come to mind for me are Archer Technologies (http://www.archer-tech.com/) and SalesForce's new Force.com stuff (http://www.force.com/)

There are others out there, but not nearly as mature as those two.

You're contradicting the hell out of yourself, so I thought I'd help you out a bit.

This was the second ammendment in the "Bill of Rights" which contained the first 10 ammendments. While you can use the term "add-on"... relegating it to an afterthough is a bullsh*t way of trying to bring the entire bill down.

These ammendments were submitted about 1 year after the ratification of the US Constitution. Beyond the fact that the name of the bill contradicts your statement... the wording of #2 specifically makes your argument false...

Since you seem unaware of it's content, here it is:

"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

You'll notice "shall not be infringed" explicitly directs that the government not be allowed to prevent the "People" from their arms.

If you familiarize yourself with all of the Ammendments in the Bill of Rights, you'll notice they do, in fact, specificially limit the abilities of government.

Your final statement is only true because of the Tenth Ammendment from the Bill of Rights... stating very clearly that... "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

Hope that helps fix all those pesky uninformed contradictions.

"Teach kids not to give a rat's ass about what others say."

Far better to teach kids to respect each other. It's a real short trip from not caring what they say, to not caring how they feel. Children can be cruel enough as it is w/o encouraging that. Teach them compassion and respect, a sense of community and belonging, rather than apathy.

Congratulations! You just re-invented two factor authentication! Of course, what you're proposing is nothing as elegant or simple as market leader RSA's SecurID solution

And a good number of banks offer the use of two-factor authentication to protect your money, including the mid-sized midwestern financial institution where I currently work.