gerbil

What is your point exactly?

I have to agree wholeheartedly. I find SQlite a great choice for web apps and small DBD websites as it's so much easier to deploy and more than fast-enought for most projects. Plus it is easy to upgrade if the need arises as the queries are for the most-part identical to SQL.

What do you mean by show I am working? Projects? Love to, how?

As for comparing Square to loyalty cards, I have to give actual consent to the card issuer, with Square, they track me as a customer without permission or consent just because the merchant has done a deal with them.

You are mostly correct.

The real question is, when there are hundreds of horror-stories out there about Facebook and Google et al terminating access without notice or review and the devastating effects upon people's digital lives, why do the media and Gov do NOTHING despite thousands of complaints?

Your approach is just so backwards.

The threat from the [insert latest bogeyman's name here] is no reason to limit the freedoms of US citizens or spy upon them. It calls for the administration to take decisive action to prevent unauthorized access to critics systems.

Systems can be easily isolated and access totally restricted to trusted persons only. The rest is for movies.

The real question is why is no one looking at the US administration and asking simply, "why are you not prepared for this?"

Solving these threats along with SPAM and DOS attacks is child's play if you are really serious, yet it is played out in he media as if we can't do anything about it other than restricting personal freedom and creating national citizen surveillance systems.

Blame the boogeyman not the admin.

This approach means that every US citizen is a potential threat the the system and is treated as such making total nonsense of the entire premise of keeping America safe by these means.

I feel lucky that I am NOT a US citizen after all...

Well said!

This. Is just sucker marketing to the 'cant afford a real POS system' and I don't mind giving-away for free (betraying) my customer-base for a cheap-assed alternative, merchants who can't be boned to read and comprehend the T&C.

Square = tracking/profiling of customers without their direct permission = scam-artists. Jack, please reply.

Square should admit that their real purpose is to track the customer without their direct permission and sell the data to the highest bidder.

Square is for morons who love Facebook profiling coz it's free.