I wonder at what point the TSA will simply declare that flying in and of itself is so dangerous or so loaded with potential terrorists that all air travel will be banned.

And I really wish I could use a "sarcasm" tag with my statement. Unfortunately, I can't bring myself to do that.

And how exactly do those shirt even matter if almost all of the communication is over e-mail or the phone where no one is going to even SEE the damned shirt?

Uniforms for IT is a ludicrous requirement, held in high standards only by those who think that we need to be back in the 1980s working for IBM.

Forcing uniforms especially for a group of people that have nothing to do with PR are nothing more than rose-colored, management "feel good" techniques. If the people were out in public, meeting clients, or standing in front of a television camera regularly, then fine. But sitting at a desk? Where almost all of their communications are by phone or e-mail? Uniforms are demoralizing, as far as I'm concerned. Professionalism comes from the heart and soul of a person and nothing else. The structure and design of the cotton on the exterior of a person's external integument mean nothing, especially to those who sit at a desk all day. You tell me who's more professional: the person in the three-piece suit who belches, farts, and swears all of the time, or the person in the t-shirt and jeans who acts respectfully, always smiles, and courteously helps those who ask for help? The notion that a tie or uniform suddenly converts a person into a "professional" is insulting.

I can't believe that there's no Chernobyl reactor as art! I think that in its current state it has a very Dali-melted-watch look to it with a bit of Picasso thrown in.

We did? Funny, I thought that most of the replies on /. might have questioned it but eventually agreed that it's not a bad idea to have a redundant array of satellites out there.

God, I wish I had mod points for you.

I live about 15 miles away from TMI and I have for 20 years. I've never felt unsafe or felt like I was in danger. People seems to enjoy comparing TMI to being a potential Chernobyl, but there's simply no way that the two can even be compared.

On the other hand, head up to Centralia, PA where the whole town has been demolished because of a fire that has been running through the ignition of a natural, coal vein. A fire ignited some coal, and now the whole town has been abandoned, homes have been razed, there are very few buildings to speak of, there are dangerous leaks of carbon monoxide and other lethal gases, the ground has swelled and cracked from the heat, and this fire is expected to last 250 years.

Now ... how much nuclear power is involved with Centralia? Ummmm.... NONE! A natural resource (accidentally ignited by humans) has destroyed a town completely. Personally, I put Centralia on a higher level of "disaster" than I do TMI.

Even if it would attract non-human females, would that necessarily be a bad thing? For example, it be so bad to attract her, her, her, her, or her, to name but a few?

Learn to expand you horizons, man!

But then if they issue a challenge, you'll have to fight their champion to the death. And if they they decide to use the captain of the football team... well, you might want to rethink that.

That's a great "fan" movie as well. (Actually, it's directed by Tim Russ and has a ton of Star Trek actors in it from all of the series.) And I love your handle. There aren't many people around anymore who understand "POKE 53280,0". :)

Hey, whatever gets me some hot Orion slave girls works for me, particularly this Dabo girl turned Orion slave girl.

Holy sh*t! TRS-80s? Boy, are YOU showing your age. Wait ... I used to work on those things.

Aw, damn. {whimper}

{face palm} It's a Monty Python skit. Hand in your geek credentials immediately. You are no longer qualified to carry them.

Isn't this what a passport is for? Is the U.S. government actively trying to stop tourism? How is this supposed to be any safer than ... oh, I don't know .. highly porous borders to the north and south, not to mention two really large oceans on either side? The idiocy of a government trying to look as though it's protecting its citizens shows itself once again.

Oh, you mean on the Comcast lines that were partially funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars that were given to Comcast (and others) to get the Internet infrastructure to reach as many people as possible? And now those lines that were funded by the public are to become new profit centers under the guise of "network management"? And you don't have a problem with that?

How about instead Comcast actually do what they were supposed to do and build capable infrastructure that has enough bandwidth for everyone to do anything?

Personally, I would love for the General Accounting Office to take a nice, close look at Comcast's finances to find out exactly where that taxpayer money went to. Looks more like it went into Comcast's advertising budget so that they could oversell their capacity instead of putting it into the hardware that could have prevented all of this in the first place.

Verizon has millions of miles of dark fibre and have said numerous times that they have plenty of bandwidth as it is. What's Comcast's excuse?