The NSA announced today that they are offering secured online backup for all Blackberry users. RIMM responded saying they were surprised how quickly the DNS poison spread but wish the NSA well in their user friendly backup service. Many Middle East governments are also now offering the easy secure backup service as well.

I've experienced these issues and it isn't the game, it's your PC. Run Autoruns and see what is interrupting your game. Kill off those extra services. Then experience TF2 smoothly as everyone else does.

The iPad and alike competitors should bet on business communication suites. One which has video conferencing, document presentation and sharing collaboration tools will be the most successful. I would like it if I could do an impromptu video conference meeting with anyone remotely as face to face interaction leads to better understanding and communication. Take the meeting collaboration space, have the pads chirp to each other forming a meeting share where they can present documents live and collaborate in the editing. Combine the video conference and meeting function together so remote operations are included just like person to person. You could make a remote desktop viewer that shares to everyone else. Give us a headphone and mic jack for privacy as well. Make a scrum board that has tasks that are passed seamlessly through the pads and updated live remote and interoffice. That is a sweet pad.

256 solar masses should be enough for anyone.

All the criminals have to do is purchase tons of phones prior to the law take effect. Prohibition anyone? http://www.alwayshungryny.com/images/content/Screen_shot_2010-03-25_at_2.23.30_PM_thumb.png I bet it sure makes it easier to track your political enemies too.

Wubi is pretty nice in that it installs a file onto your windows partition. Once they are finished, uninstall and all is better. Could be a good middle ground.

http://wubi-installer.org/

Another consideration is to run something like ESXi and let the students just terminal into little VMs. They could use the client to have console access. Slap that onto an NFS disk running lessfs to save disk space.

I've watched the video and I'm sorry but I thought those were weapons in their hands as well. RPG and AK's in a zone that you are trying to clear out? Check. Light 'em up. The guys shooting were wrong about the weapons and that sucks. The real issue here is the verification of danger. Of course when you unleash a force to stop all other potential force, people are going end up killing each other.

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Enthusiasm is crucial however, I would say you will work an 80 hour week. Just let them know that in crunch time you will rise to the occasion but you should never be putting in way more than is expected unless you are directly paid for those hours. Have a life and enjoy the lack of responsibility when you land the job. It'll pile up soon enough as you prove yourself. As for advice to get the job, my experience was that you have to be open to move. My experience was basically searching local job ads in the areas I was interested in and found those which I had to contact directly. Take initiative to know about the company you are looking for and then be confident in your ability once you hit the meeting. You are in the situation of not being too tied down so don't make hard core concessions such as 80 hours weeks right off the bat, look for the good deal and find something you love to do. Oh and make sure your resume is is triple checked for spelling and grammatical mistakes, something I will not do on this post

Bigbrother, snoop, and even Stasi perhaps but KGB, Gestapo? No, as tempting as it may be, the FBI is not rounding up all IT people and sending them to the showers....

I got so high in my car last night!

I've enjoyed roboform as it works great (ahem on windows) and has nice encryption. The random password generator and information form auto filler are tools which I use almost every day. I was somewhat perturbed that they didn't support linux but then I found that it will install on wine if you open the installer from an IE browser so their is cross platform compatibility.

9 feet of vertical leap should be enough for anyone.

get your comm out fast! like fp

Microsoft made 16.37 billion dollars last year selling their server products and bundling everything else. That is a huge chunk of change. They have their finger in every pie and people don't care, they chomp down. Has this guy even looked at the cost of SQL 2008 Enterprise? $25,000 per processor can rake in the cash like none other (than Oracle). When it comes down to business, if MySQL could trade places on who was charging what, they would take it. There is no way Microsoft is giving away the keys to the castle. Too much money involved.