Is it true that you're contributing to the open source versions of the apps so that they don't rot away?

I have assets (laptop and monitor) from an old job, and they can have it back the moment they figure out how to write a check for my back pay.

That only works if you lock up your server, otherwise you've just provided a thief with more portable electronics to take.

Repeatedly quoting this won't make it true.

I myself am out of date, so I need to beg off of specific numbers, but there is a third metric to consider here, power consumption. If the Intel is $50 more expensive, but the AMD consumes an extra 10W, and you pay for your electric bill, then there is a good chance that the Intel is actually cheaper to own. It's basically like gas mileage on cars.

Does this mean I won't have to pay $600/yr soon if I want a wildcard SSL certificate? I've never been able to figure out why they cost more from a technical standpoint, except that they may get more requests on average.

No, that means you have to fix the problem over the phone. Do you know what kind of descriptions you get when you ask someone non-technical to tell you what's on the screen?

At least there's logmein now.

How many 14 year olds are the captain of their high school varsity team? That might only be local news if it happened, but slashdot is specialized news too.

We outsource to Russia at my office.

India probably has one of the most active software industries out there, but how many major Indian software products do you use on a daily basis? (Indian CEOs and branch offices don't count) If you're a global company, you tend to make the USA your HQ. It just makes sense given the dominance of the USA stock exchanges.

Also, there's a reason why Kaspersky doesn't have trouble hiring AV developers.

.3% false positive rate isn't bad but isn't great. However, you have to think of this approach as a technique rather than a solution. An effective anti-spam solution will combine several techniques, so the false-positive rate of any individual technique won't be enough to reject mail. Also, the penalty for flagging a mail as spam can be scored in a way that mail is not lost. For example, yahoo is notorious for flagging legitimate mail as spam, but generally delays the mail via greylisting instead of rejecting it outright.

When combined with other scoring mechanisms into an overall heuristic, .3% is tolerable as one tool in the box. However, my first impression is that this is at best an incremental improvement over an IP blacklist.

I think the full court press reference is "how david beat goliath". Basically, some guy who had never seen basketball had to coach for a league of 12 year old girls. The full tactic wasn't just full court press, it was 4 full quarters of full court press, at a level of play where no other team had the endurance necessary to sustain it. "How david beat goliath" is actually a pretty good analogy, as it came from a coach who was unfamiliar with social norms, felt that his job was to win at all costs, and received a lot of negative feedback for making the game not fun for other teams.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell

The hardcore gaming industry frequently suffers from delusions of grandeur, and feels that it represents the gaming industry.

OP: Teach yourself some flash, and write a game. Or learn how to make maps/mods/etc. for existing games with game builder components. Repeat until you've written something good enough to grab some attention, and you now have a portfolio.

You mean you've only noticed one false positive. I'm sure it's been mentioned in half of the comments in this thread, but security by obscurity is effective because there is value in stopping half of the spam, unlike traditional security where having your data stolen and sold once is not a big gain over having it done many times. There are many reasons why obscurity works towards this goal of reduction rather than elimination.