Totally agree, this is a scam article submission. Someone is playing with us.

We usually just rub the wireless mouse on the cat for a bit. It's good for a couple of clicks. Then you got to rub the cat some more which the cat will only put up with for so long. I really need more cats.

You know, I think that's gonna be my new password. I will of course, have to change it up a bit to avoid the easiest combinations. Hmm, lets see
PotKettleBlack - Nope too easy
P0tK3ttl3Bl@ck - Nope too common
K3ttleBl@ckP0t - Nope not enough changes
PanDutchOvenNegro - Nope no numerals or special Characters
Jf4D##10Sju@1q)99~ - That'll work.

XKCD got it right. CorrectHorseBatteryStaple
http://xkcd.com/936/

Yep, I've setup Itunes accounts for people to get their Iphones running. I have had folks insist that their password simply must be 123456. Then when the Apple site wont take that they simply must have ABC123456. Dumb asses. It's right about then that I start making them pay up front.

I totally agree, who the hell would buy Cisco stuff from that site and think it was legit? Certainly not our military or government. All jokes aside this lady made millions with a site like that?
No way, I say it was a front business for drugs or stolen goods. The Cisco angle was just cover.
We should hunt down any bone head net admins who bought from them and take away their geek cards.

Gotcha man, good comments. I have not traveled around Sol quite so many times but I aint far behind ya. I always wondered about that "brain continues to function" part. I mean if you do go senile and your perception changes wont your brain just think that the senility is the new normal. It'll tell your consciousness that everything is A-OK. So how you gonna know?
After years spent in systems and user support I can honestly say that reality is seriously a function of perception.

Forgive me please, I just crawled out from under my rock. It's cool, the rock is self imposed after all. I was busy with work and must have missed a major new story. Are you saying that in these modern times someone named Hoffa said he was gonna take people out? Obama somehow approved this message? What the hell happened. I missed something here.

If a member of a crime organization needs to kill someone they definitely do not make public statements about it. Your paranoia runs thin upon close inspection.

Yeah, I was once about 50K lines down into an old Cobol pgm. I found a little subroutine called GoManGo. Never figured out what it did for sure cause every time I handed it a little tax problem it tried to dominate the Mainframes time. Translate that one to, frantic calls from the mainframe people asking me WTF I thought I was doing and informing me that my pgm was just de-nutted by their sysops. After a little debugging I finally just cut the damn thing out and started calling the newer tax tables from the approved libraries. It was supposed to figure out how much tax to place on a pack of smokes based on the state, county, local municipality the smokes were gonna get sold at? Some old dude had written his own code to do this and it was buggy. He retired and I was sent in to figure out why the old code would not run anymore. Lots of fun, those were the days.

Ours do. You just scan the doc to PDF and chose yourself as the recipient. The Canon has a big old automatic document feeder and everything. All users who do this commonly are in the list. It will talk to AD via LDAP or even a Radius server if ya got one. Then go back to your desk and lo and behold you got an email message in your inbox and it has a PDF attached. Amazing.
The Canon Image Runner will also fax and print and even scan to a network location. (shared folder)
The best part and the one that saved us the most money and trouble is the incoming faxes. This machine will receive a fax off the phone line, turn it into a PDF and save it on a network share. Then the users just look at the folder from their desktops and do whatever they want with the doc.
Of course, it's the size of a small washing machine and cost about 10 grand. We only have 3 of them scattered around in this building.

Ever see Logans Run? The older children aren't welcome anymore. They usually don't make it long out in the country side.

Have your buddy pop those annoying balloons at the fair. You know the ones where the balloon is tougher than the blunted dart tip?

I live in Louisiana, US. We get 2 full seasons. Hot and wet followed by cold and wet. They being at different times each year depending on how many of the pine tree farms they have clear cut last year.

I don't know about anyone else but I still get people coming into the IT room asking questions.

What phone should I get?
Do you know a good laptop I can buy for my kid?
I think my personal PC got infected, can you fix it?
Can you synch my Itunes playlists with all these devices?

I try to stay educated on all the new smart phones, decent laptop deals, repair of older PCs :), All this while we try to do more and more with less and less IT money. I think they will still need the tech who can keep everything running smooth and all the various devices talking to each other. Security, configuration, maintenance and repair will be with us for awhile.
Of course, if you're one of those dark IT dudes who still thinks you are in charge of the main frame and all users are idiots, your future is limited.
Embrace the change, we are in the middle of a Technological Revolution. Just like the Agricultural and the Industrial Revolutions.

Almost everything I know today will probably be worthless in a year.