datacharmer

"LOL away?" What gave you the impression that I was making fun of it? I am the one who found the bug and reported it, and this is the explanation I got. Since the person I talked to is someone I trust, I don't have reason to think otherwise. I can elaborate further and tell you why this particular error was likely to happen: it's because since the beginning MySQL was built with root user without password, and most of the tests were running in such conditions. That was the culture of rapid growth that gave MySQL its popularity and the developers are paying now the technical debt that has left so many features with poor testing behind. What Oracle is doing now is trying to redress that situation by strengthening the defaults, for which I commend them. Being a QA developer, I am less pleased with the quality of tests that let such mistake pass, but I know that such things happen, and it does not necessarily mean that there is a can of worms behind this bug.

I know that it's the publisher, or at least I am aware that Amazon puts the blame on publishers, but I am baffled that Amazon, which is THE BIGGEST online bookseller, has to bend to such insane demands.

Not a bad thing. It's a good thing, provided that the progress in the new devices does not affect the owners of the previous generation devices. I love getting the latest and greatest as any geek does. I just want to do the upgrade on my terms, not being forced to.

Not so simple. Sometimes you need to update an app, because of bug fixes or security issues.