Your mom is a virus. ;-)

This is why when I develop applications with VB6, if I'm not satisfied with the speed, I typically use ASM as a back engine, and have the main interface and said engine communicate back and forth via commandlines and/or files. It might not be the most elegant solution, but it works in terms of stability and usability.

That might be what they're saying, but that's probably not what actually transpired. Therein lies the difference.

Won't someone please think of the children?

I'll remove the crapware myself AND have the $100 of my own money in my pocket. I'm sorry, but that's the fattest steaming load I've seen in quite some time. The consumer should be able to choose whether they want the abomination that is shovelware on their comptuer or not before they purchase it.

"They say the device is low-cost, capable of grasping a variety of objects, and can remain in a hardened state for extended periods of time using little energy."

In The Industry, they're called "fluffers".

This shouldn't come as any surprise, since Google didn't have an outage due to a "leap year glitch". Any wonder why they skipped over Office?

Angry loud posts! Groundless conjecture! Half-baked retort and unwarranted pretense! THIS ISN'T FAIR, I HAVE IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME!

You can't be too careful these days, and I think they should have given that 4 year old a full body cavity search. Who knows what dangers could have been lurking in her lower intestine that would have posed a flight risk.

You seem to conveniently leave out the fact that there are also numerous cultures with counting systems that extend beyond base ten. Simply because a few cultures have only developed the need to count to a maximum arbitrary number does NOT mean that numbers are non-intuitive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems

And once we take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septemvigesimal into account, your carefully crafted argument pretty much breaks down.

Numbers are not an intuitive concept.

For your sake, I hope you're joking.

Dunno. I've discovered that on the internet, indisputable fact is often dismissed with the wave of a hand.

I believe Undercover Brother was technically the first.

This is proof that Flashback is nothing more than an exercise in fantasy. How dare these security companies speak ill of Steve Job's creations!

While using one name does make it easy for snooping/cranks, it also really narrows down who's doing the snooping, since tracking is a two-way street. Also, if a company is going to decide whether to hire you based on a social media site like facebook (barring pictures of drug use and/or illegal activity) as opposed to whether or not you're qualified for the job and could meet the job requirements, then they're not a company worth working for.

The other red flag is if they ask for any account passwords that are not created by and/or directly controlled by the company itself. This is a violation of privacy, and should be treated as such. The only time you are required by law to disclose such information is when an attorney is present, or if you're required by a court of law to do so. At any other time, you're free to laugh at them and leave. At least that's how it works in the U.S., it might be different in other countries.