for the benefit of the planet

Well, no. The planet will be just fine, thank you. It will exist long after we're gone. It's for the benefit of people. Except, of course, for the 6+billion you have to eliminate to get down to a billion.

Of course, it used to be expertsexchange.com, which always got a giggle from me when I saw it in a URL.

• Who provides the notification (might be HR, might be the manager to whom the employee reports,...)
• Disabling logins
• Archiving emails, home directories, project repositories
• Establishing exit interviews
• Defining last-minute deliverables (typically just knowledge transfer)

It's worth pointing out that you can't know that this isn't a "disgruntled employee scenario" unless you have learned to read minds. They wouldn't be leaving if they were 100% happy.

Be careful what you ask for.

Most /.ers probably are not old enough to remember the days when all telecommunications were regulated under title II. Let's just say that costs were higher, innovation was essentially prohibited, and service was even worse than you can get from Comcast today.

"So, the next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string? We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."

Or by having someone else take the interview for you. Most profs in big courses don't know all their students.

The issue that Silent Circle points out is that SMTP is inherently unable to provide security against traffic analysis. Even if the body of the email is encrypted, the headers cannot be.

So yes, you can run your own email server, and require that only gpg traffic pass through it. But that won't keep you secure against traffic analysis (aka "metadata collection") with collection performed at your ISP.

You can't re-use nodes, but you _can_ put in crossing lines, which makes the grease smears less useful.

We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!

Most software (games being the obvious exception) has the possibility of creating harm to humans. Payroll, accounting, project management, word processing, etc. all have that potential.