Am I the only person who had to re-read the headline multiple times to understand WTF this article is allegedly about?

Agreed! People like free food. Bring in something once or twice. It makes you seem approachable. Don't look at it as "buying friends". You're sharing with people who you spend a large portion of your day with. Your generosity on occasion will be remembered on the day that you forget your wallet/lunch at home.

Everyone knows of a company that is implementing SAP. Can anyone name a company that has completed their implementation of SAP?

The untold story is that the hackers tried to give back the source code but Adobe said NO GIVE BACKS!

Why are people acting surprised or offended by this? This is what alphabet soup agencies do! Don't tell me that other governments agencies aren't doing the same thing. Intelligence agencies spy on everyone friend or foe. It's their job. The only real reason for shock about this is that they got *caught*.

Maybe this is is just a ploy by Google to keep their Chrome version number larger than FF's.

If the government is supposed to be shut down, how could anyone release this money?

Even Unionized Americans couldn't churn out something that clumsy!

Government projects don't use ready-made solutions. Government projects are always cobbled together from ground up by their own (internal or contracted) people. I find myself wondering which outsourcing agency it is that chunked this together with their army of H1B's.

And of course the manufacturers will blame it on the software companies who will in turn blame it on their developers... Whatever happened to suing the person who drove like a jackass and hit you?

...Because of the absurd costs for mobile data plans and their overages make using "free" wifi a lot more appealing to those who can't curb their need for their constant internet fix.

Isn't that against their TOS?

(In regards to physical security) We just installed fancy pants finger print readers and timer locks. HR was the dept driving this project and we found out about it when the install people showed up saying "where's the database server we're going to use?" Management looked at us as though we were speaking Klingon when we asked if they were going to do anything about the glass wall/windows right next to the doors. You can still pop the lock by sliding something like a credit card or drivers license between the lock and the door frame. I find myself wondering if measures similar to what my company did are being done as a window dressing. It's like the big scary barking dog in someone's yard. The owner knows that the dog will in fact just hide under the bed if someone breaks in so they're banking on an outsider not willing to gamble that. Perhaps companies like mine are doing that to give off the perception of uber security to deter the majority of criminals.

I work for a company that supplies office products to the federal government agencies. Though our business was down from previous years, it was still pretty crazy the last couple of days with sales people working until midnight processing orders. Outsiders just don't "get" that these agencies wait until the end of their budget year. They've gotta use it or lose it. We know that and we in turn stock our warehouses like crazy in anticipation for this to save these agencies a ton of money with volume discounts. Outsiders don't understand that this spending spree that my company benefits from results in a lot of money being pumped into everyone's pockets. From the sales bonuses being given out, to the lowly IT grunt (me) keeping things running, to the pizza delivery driver who came at 11pm Sun night, this is not technically "news for nerds" but very much "news that matters". Unfortunately it's spending sprees like this that draw the wrong attention to this yearly ritual. The wrong attention that will try to scrutinize every expenditure that agencies make during this time and make a mountain out of a mole hill because something looks "odd" on paper but in reality it makes good financial sense to buy in bulk.

Are you suggesting that people use "common sense"? What next...? People shouldn't post pics of doing a keg stand the night before calling into work???