I use both VirtualBox and VMware Workstation. I prefer the VMware, but VirtualBox is free...I like free...so, for personal use, of those 2 options, I would use VurtualBox.

Oh, really? How about when Clinton relaxed the lending restrictions on banks allowing them to make questionable and fiscally irresponsible loans? That was the beginning of the end. They all played a part in this, but don't blow hot air up my ass.

No, it gives you a good idea that they're incompetent. You can download a free viewer program to read docx, regardless of whether you have MS Word 2007+ or not.

Sounds like you need to update your OS. I have both Android and iOS mobile devices and they are able to automatically configure themselves with the exchange server. It even tries to find the exchange server based on your email address. Besides this is a one-time configuration issue and not enough to complain about.

Unless your organization uses a cloud exchange service such as Office 365 - it does not discover this automatically, and you have to change your user name and mail server address. This is NOT a 1-time deal usually. Users sometimes have to delete/re-add their email account from the phone. Or do a hard reset to fix other issues on the phone. And if they are not techy, they will need to be walked through this every time. Can be frustrating

Blackberry has its share of exploits. One was demonstrated at Pwn2Own which exploited the browser of a BB Torch 9800. This exploit could be used to install Flexispy. There was also a talk at DefCon 2006 where the BB could be exploited to get access to the internal LAN of the corporation.

My point being that don't be so smug about the security of your device. There are exploits out there.

Agree with you there, there are exploits for just about everything. But the organization will usually be best-served by making their devices as secure as possible, and the per-device AES encryption is pretty good

They've been doing this for years. Third strike, no more internet.

Sure, but they have to register with ARIN and give a legal business and the name of an officer for that business to attach to the ASN right? Seems less than completely safe.

I thought that was a fantastic book as well.

We try to complete a sprint every 2-3 weeks and then push to production. Occasionally (more often than I would like) there are hotfixes that need to be done in between. Scrum with agile software development.

I use the software service cloud for my personal and for work we have our DNS servers, web servers, load balancers, SQL servers, FTP servers all in the cloud. Works great, and has been an enormous money-saving option as our servers were at end of life.

No more moronic than supporters of any other party and most likely less moronic. What's wrong with supporting the idea of smaller government? It's one of the concepts that this country was founded upon.

The recording industry will never receive one more dollar from me. The artist may receive some money from me if they happen to be coming to my city and I go to their show. If music becomes unavailable for free, I will simply use a streaming service.

Well, there ARE some of us using Windows 8 not on a tablet...

Imagine how bad TSA is going to be on your pre-flight screening to go into space!

It's a downward spiral though - with the individual elements feeding off each other. The jobless people and illegal immigrants who are being provided for by the government (which is provided for by the people who work) with money which is therefore not available to be used for other programs. The money, if there is not enough, is then created by the federal reserve, further devaluing the American dollar, which makes it even less likely that minimum wage will be a suitable source of income. However, jobs like McDonalds for instance start employees at $10/hour, which surpasses the federal minimum wage by somewhere around 30%. I lived on minimum wage for many years, and with the help of scholarships and student loans, put myself through school and now make considerably more than what I was making before.

Providing meaningless employment for people is NOT a solution. Where is the incentive to excel at what you do if others reap all the rewards from the fruits of your labors? There ARE jobs out there, the difference between people today and the people of let's say 50 years ago, is that the people of 50 years ago did not have the overabundance of social programs to fall back on in the event of a job loss or some other similar event. They had 2 options - 1: Go find a job (not necessarily the one you want, you may even feel you're "too good" for that job, but you take it) and provide for you and your family; or 2: Don't find a job (and starve).