Mostly because it doesn't void the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution, and because private firms are much easier to sue in class action suits, have a harder time delivering the whack-o scare tactics via the mass media to ensure a government run bureaucracy stays intact, and don't always grow through the middle-management principle of no more work without more people, even when those people are tasked at less than 50% productivity.

But, that's just my $.02.

TSIA

I agree. A good hiring manager tries to find individuals that will enhance the mix of people he or she already has. If your team consists of a bunch of young prima donnas, then adding an older, experienced person, who's going to bring their own skill and will to the table, you're going to upset the bunch. But the manager made a mistake, and didn't find a good mix in the first place, and all those prima donnas are going leave soon any way.

Same goes for the manager with a group of old slackers. Bring in a young fired up individual who's going to bring skill and will to the table will upset that group too.

There's a lot of ego involved, and when you're constructing a team, that's a factor.

So in the city I live in, there's a reverse age bias.

Basically, sometime in the 80's most of the companies stopped investing in software development, and instead accepted the party line from IBM and kept increasing the capacity of the SYS-370 systems. The distributed computing age came and went, and many of them totally missed it. Now they're trying to fix the problem, before all those folks who were hired in the 70's and early 80's retire (not much turnover in many of these brick and mortar {read track and dollar} companies).

So what you have is a huge gap, caused by entry level job descriptions that require 5 to 10 years of experience. There's very few Gen-X software developers, and a bunch of Boomers and a handful of Millennials hired as interns. So banking, insurance, railroad and distribution industries here are trying to make the move from monolithic systems to distributed ones, and their experience lies in PHP and SYS-370 assembler.

Makes it kinda tough to push an OO architecture. But, heck they're too hard to understand anyway.

That's exactly right. The TSA is going to keep making you take off your belt and shoes and empty all your pockets, otherwise they will be admitting they didn't really need to do it in the first place. Like those small town prosecutors on the TV news magazines, who refuse to believe that the guy the wrongly convicted isn't guilty, even though he had an alibi and the DNA evidence confirms it wasn't him.

Michael Chertoff.

He's became security lobbyist, and the go-to guy on air travel security after being replaced as head of DHS. Meanwhile, he has interest in one of the larger companies that manufacture the back-scatter x-ray imaging devices. He gets paid to talk influence government to buy the machines, and he started shilling them while in office.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/fear_pays_chertoff_n_787711.html

Like fourth link when Googling his name.

Here's the deal the Fourth Amendment specifically guarantees the right to privacy. The First Amendment guarantees the right to speak out about the government, and bear witness against it, specifically because the United States of America is a representative democracy. Also, there's a long standing tradition that persons acting in the role of public office have no expectation of privacy while executing that office. This is always true. The only instance when the general public is barred from an exchange is when the subject matter is sensitive. Even then there are only two instances, to protect those in a judicial interaction from excessive exposure, and those in an active military action, to protect them from enemy attack.

What we need is one of these cases to make it to SCOTUS for final review. If police officers cannot be video recorded while executing official duty, then the public may not be video recorded by the police while in public either, however this is very common. SCOTUS could be very specific, and limit these laws, saying that once an officer identifies himself as such, he has no expectation of privacy, they could even codify what actions include identification.

My $0.02...

How true. In those days right after 9/11 when they had National Guardsmen stationed in the airports, they were issued their rifles, and between 3 and 10 rounds of ammunition, less than typical police officers carry (which is about 30 rounds, two spare magazines plus a loaded weapon). It was supposedly to protect the population from further attack, as if there was going to be a full frontal assault on airports. It maybe made a few people feel safer, but not me.

I know I feel safest when there are no police, no security guards, or no bouncers around. Why? Because those people are there for a reason. There's a reason there's a police station in the center of Times Square, there's a lot of petty crime happening there.

The thing about those NYPD officers in fatigues? It's not happening just there. Some of the Douglas County Sheriff's Deputies (in Omaha, NE) are wearing them too, and mounting an assault rifle in their car instead of a shotgun. The reason? No one really likes to wear wool and polyester all year long. It's not comfortable, the fatigues are cotton. Plus an assault rifle is so much cooler than a shotgun, although for a policeman's job, not as effective. The same goes for those officers in fatigues in Penn Station. The assault rifles and fatigues are scary, so no one's going to ask them for directions, or help, easier on them. It's about using a situation to get something more for yourself, instead of responding in a cool, even-keeled manner to awful circumstances.

I picked up that strain on my desktop PC Friday night. Weirdest thing. It started out by popping up a window (that I thought was Windows Defender) indicating I had a trojan. Might have even have been from Defender, it would close right away... Anyway, I started with safe-mode boot, Ad-Aware and Spybot, no dice. I ended up installing Norton Network Security, and it couldn't find it. I had to run Norton Power Eraser. Crazy. A commercial virus scanner that can't find viruses.

It installs itself in the MBR as a root kit, the proxy may even be local on the pc, downloaded on start-up.

Those of us with proper dental care prefer, THE CRUNCH! All others are just like biting into some false air filled crusty balloon. Not to mention the surface area of crunchy cheetos is much superior, thus transferring more of that tastefully delicious cheddar cheeze. Puffffs do have their place, dipped in molten carmel and rolled in a paper bag. The best karmel korn EVVVVAR!

They get a show on Fox News or MSNBC and pretend they are newscasters.

I'm sure Freud would have something to say about it. Let me see, it would go something like this, "The Fanboy is motivated by his Oedipial need for self-validation. Just as he is unable to leave the security of his mother's bosom, he is unable to leave his fear of his self-failings behind, projecting his intrepid insecurities onto all that is around him. Even to the point that he must declare Doritos and Coke to be the best rage fuel of all time; when clearly there is no substitution for the dopamine releasing, neuron enhancing combination of Mountain Dew and Cheetos." Freud FTW!

Chrunchy Cheetos FTW! All other snackz DIE DIE DIE!

Hmm, me thinks it wasn't an accident, but the microbial ridden primate marketing. How best to get news about your new product but to have a supposed mishap to build buzz about it. It's like a sex-tape for software.

Super deliciously sweet honey, and lots of it!