Now for the real question...

How does virtual machine automation help paypal's release cycle???

That part doesn't make sense to me. It has the potential to save them money and better manage and trend their VM environment, but... faster reaction times? What they can't clone a VM in a timely manner? It certainly won't write code for them, oh well, IT buzzwords ftw.

Sure, let's see your math... oh wait that's the unknown here isn't it. We know something's changing, but we have no idea how fast or by how much, or any of the long term effects, so you can't put real numbers on it. Saying blah, this is going to cost us $5 tril in 30 years makes somebody sound like a futurist (still waiting on my floating car) as there are no figures either way.

Also, psychologically speaking, people are perfectly capable of setting long term goals, just the smart ones like to justify them too.

Yes, exercise reduces stress, this is a proven fact. Kids aren't allowed as much outside today, or want to for that matter due to the internet, and parents fearing pedos. Somewhere I'm sure we can blame the media for this situation and slashdot.

People react differently to different things. This shouldn't come as a surprise. For some people violent video games increase stress, for some they lower it. Some people find driving stressful, others find it relaxing. Applying the video game debate to driving: because some drivers have had road rage and have caused accidents as a result some of which led to fatalities, we should ban driving in favor of catching carts driven by those who want to ban violent video games. Any volunteers? (We'd also be contributing to fixing the obesity plague)

but... think of the children!

But ya, two things going against this one:

1. It's New Jersey
2. The standard for becoming a judge seems to be somewhere in the mariana trench

And you just unwittingly made a point yourself. Climate change itself is reversible in a limited manner and we have the technology and resources to do so before people, animals, and plants start dying / become extinct. Why don't we? Economics, TFA was written by a moron.

Right... because I can't make a language a job requirement.

We make it a felony to be a member of an internet task force without having a sense of justice? A felony for what? Making Brad Pitt slightly less rich?

*shrug* verisign isn't the only CA, it's just the biggest one. It doesn't even have to be a trusted CA (you'll just get ominous looking browser messages till you add it). I think that's going to be the biggest fallout from this, non-NSA compromised off-shore offerings are going to start cropping up for services primarily used by everybody but hosted in the US. Megaupload's takedown took down a ton of other businesses as well, somehow I doubt those businesses host their data on shore now.

This however won't fix the problem of our government using fear to infringe on the constitution and using fear buzz words like post-9/11 America. Also gotta wonder how much they're subsidizing CNN.

It is however true that you can get a better plea deal by threatening to go to trial, especially if the prosecutor has to work it's ass off to get a conviction. It's a gambit, but if your lawyer feels they have a weak case, they may not be willing to spend hours and hours of their time to get a meaningless (to them) conviction. The legal system's always been a circus where if you show them you're hard to get they'll be a lot more wary. The alternative is they'll destroy your life without remorse.

In V they put black bags over people's heads and made them disappear, we've had Guantanamo for years. And... remember anthrax?

I think anybody that doesn't suck at IT has been burned or attempted burned at some point in their career, usually early on, then we all learn, then employers wonder why nobody stays over 3 years at their company in IT. Maybe we need to make skills marketing a part of the CIS curriculum. Still, there's some stuff worth working hard for, just none of it is located at any type of for profit business, well maybe r&d.

Sorry indeed, some people are so into computers and tech they don't realize that they're being abused by their employer as a result. It's something I've had to learn to deal with too, I get asked to do minor stuff in hats other than the code realm because I know them and they're on my resume, but if its something major like come be our DBA til we hire a new one, that requires a pay raise or a bonus (I try to be easy to work with).

Also, I'm happy answering questions, like where is this located, where does this pull from, or where can I find the password to this, if it's how does this work, or can you help me get this working, that requires a consulting fee, no idea why it would be anything else. My time will always be more valuable than theirs.

Yep, when you have physical access to the ISP to plant your MITM hardware/software its do-able. I think we're saying the same thing which is basically if you have unlimited access to high level networks like the government seems to, google MITM is easy to do, but the original post I was responding to said ANYBODY can do google MITM, which is completely untrue.

Ummm....

http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Remote-Control-finder-Glasses/sim/B002II81N0/2

5 seconds of google. YW. Still doesn't fix the root cause of why you can't find your remote in the first place though!