You missed the opportunity to craft a link to pay yourself as the referrer! :$
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And the article misses a BIG obvious reason for laundry lists. The better, more experienced candidates don't have certifications for any current technology because they have been working while the current technology was invented and rolled out.
The young "certified" candidates will command a significantly smaller wage and they might even be able to do the job. They also won't push back on the endless demands that you be available 24/7/365...

And when it blows up in their face you will have to find an IT worker with lots of solid real world experience to dig you out of your hole ... as a consultant...

Lack of a Social Security Number in no way makes it legal for you not to file taxes. It only makes it so you are harder to track.

If they become an established content providor it will force torrents to be treated like an intrenched pipeline like cable, satellite, or broadcast.

I double dog dare you!!

"Large inherent losses" can be easily dealt with if there is a large supply of affordable energy.

The cost per unit of energy must be calculated to include the cost of the storage scheme. If that total cost is viable then it is "problem solved".

I've never seen a cost analysis of what it would cost to use hydrogen generation as a storage medium. There are so many uses and benefits that I've always been interested in that as a system.

The "measurement made by a conscious being" is not the deciding point. It just makes it more interesting. The quantum implications of the uncertainty principle doesn't require a consciousness to 'make a measurement' that would cause a wave function to collapse to a single solution. It happens all the time with normal interactions. The only unique thing about a consciousness being involved is we can decide to set up the conditions where it will happen and then we notice it. No one spends a lot of time on what we don't notice...

I think almost all of this discussion comes under the second heading of: http://www.suck.com/daily/1997...

RAID is not a backup or an archive solution.
If you store a raid it can't detect data and/or media degradation because the system isn't running. I haven't seen many safe deposit boxes that allow you to run a computer inside of them. The drives will most likely degrade inside of 10 years.

To archive something you want archival media. Something like the 100+ or 200+ year gold archival DVDs and Blu-ray discs. The readers for those disks will be available for a couple decades at least. (Look at M-Disc as an example)

Enforcement has always been about money instead of safety. NHTSA studies have consistently shown that driving slower then the flow of traffic has a WAY higher risk of causing of accidents then driving the same speed faster then the flow. The fact is people get excited by speed so they put up with the focus on speed and cops get a rush out of enforcing it. It is much more interesting then enforcing failure to yield / right of way and other truly dangerous acts.

Can the police supply a single instance where Waze actually caused a single injury of a police officer? If is amazing how many police officers signed up for an exciting career in law enforcement (exciting because it has risk) and recently they have been starting to whine about the risk from non credible sources of risk.

Exactly!
I can see the headline now: "340 car pileup caused by 'terrorist' who rented a snowplow."

The issue is money. The Mac and PC products are major dollars multiplied by a major quantity of installs which equals $$$$ for development. And people are willing to pay those prices as the market clearly shows. Unless you have a large player make the investment (like a major studio) or unless you get a huge developer base (like Linux has) you aren't going to end up with anything compelling.

They found it wearing a thong and lacie bra.

From the OP it said it disappeared in "the early naughties".

Yeah! Americans won't stand for slave like labor conditions which is why the iPhone bombed in the US market after working conditions at Foxconn were revealed. Yup! The iPhone is completely dead in the US!!!

Or option B ... - You are a complete idiot.

There is nothing safer then being "made helpless by law".


Oh yeah ...
CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL. Because condensation because of low pressure vortices is much less believable then a secret program to spend money to spray chemicals that have never been detected and have never been reported by low paid airport ramp workers!

While we are talking to idiots... What other swamp land can I sell?

This gets to the heart of it. The type of person you put in an organization obviously fuels the traits of an organization but over time it will be trumped by the structure of an organization.

First off, If you haven't read "The Peter Principle" (1969) find a copy. It is funny but the humor is built on the fact that it is based on truth. Once you start getting a feel for how the normal actions of people are influenced by life inside a hierarchy then turn your head to the problem of how people get to the upper portions of the hierarchy. The leading motivations of people will be getting a raise or bonus, getting a better position or a promotion, and avoiding being terminated. The way you do this is by currying favor with people above you in the hierarchy, and creating alliances with people at the same level or below you. (And yes, "currying favor" can be as simple as simply doing a good job but it also includes making other people's work look bad...)
The number one way to accomplish this is to have a convincing, persuasive personality. The ability to actively manipulate someones impression of you is not tied to any level of morality and is commonly found in sociopaths. A famous quote, "Power corrupts ..." leads in to an observation in many financial news sources over the last 10 years that CEOs have a MUCH higher percentage of psychopaths then the general population. Just one example: Do psychopaths make good CEOs? The pretty obvious conclusion that the tendencies that lend well to the "climb to the top" also tend to lean away from moral functioning.

Existing in a framework of power is not a way to build toward actions that would be perceived as moral. A new organization can be a wonderful thing because it was created in situ. But as time passes the inexorable influences of a hierarchy will bend it in much less altruistic directions. Over time your only real influences to counter this are the need to counter outside negative perception ("Hey! They aren't moral!") and the need to fight stagnation which leads to reorganization.

You can ascribe the actions of a hierarchy as being what you think of as moral but a hierarchy is not sentient so it cannot be moral.
You are an individual sentient being so you are able to judge that the Salvation Army acts in a way that you perceive as moral. That is your perception not the thinking judgment of a hierarchy.

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BTW - Good example using the Salvation Army. They are the only charity that I support!!!