You see that everywhere there, though. It's not age, it's the fact that there are just too many techies competing for the same jobs.

Nonsense.

They post one of these every month or so. Maybe my perspective is off because I've worked more with Fortune 50 companies there, but I've never seen a real life age bias out there. Intel, for example, when I was there, hired a few really talented people in their 40's as contractors. So did HP, when I was there. In fact, most everywhere I went, there were at least a few 40ish or over 40 people working hard on project work. Same with the Microsoft related entities. Getting an orange badge is easy if you're smart enough to get through the interview. I haven't worked for Facebook, but I would assume, based on what I've seen that it's the same there, too.

Then again, I do my best never to work for startups. My wife doesn't like the horrible instability it brings.

I think, as a general rule, there are more kids that are scared of one day becoming totally obsolete on Slashdot, than there are working professionally in the Valley. When age is an issue, it's usually mainly their issue. Not really anyone else's. Experience in production counts. Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of shit.

Yes, but then you have to wait for it to ship.

Like cat blockers! Yes! They make the web a much more adorable place.

I disagree. Unsolicited, untargeted irrelevant advertising is always annoying, yes. But not all advertising is untargeted or unsolicited. Take sites like GroupOn for example. People sign up for that one all time, and they go there to get deals on advertised products, essentially lending their "permission" to the system. I find GroupOn far less annoying than Google Deals, for example. Then there are targeted mailing lists. I subscribe to several. They're always advertising something. But I read them with vigor because I am deeply interested in the subjects they cover, and the products they're trying to sell me. It's because they're not interrupting something I do naturally. They're part of the content cycle for me, not a distraction from it. I think the distinction is key.

Nobody's trying to stop people from getting ads they want, that are useful to them.

Seems to me that if an advertising scheme is so obnoxious that an entire category of software arises to block it, then it's the fault of the medium of advertising being too invasive, too obnoxious. Not the fault of the people who block it.

Israel is fighting organized armed insurgents whose stated mission is to destroy it. It's a threat that's existed in this form since 1967, and it's not going away.

Just think for a minute about how America would handle this. It only took one terrorist attack on our soil for every politician and every government agency in North America to collectively lose it's mind. We started two wars, eroded our own civil rights, distorted Constitution and treaties with other nations beyond recognition. We created new government agencies which (let's face facts,) do nothing, and we've been berating and hate killing Muslims ever since.

And that's just one attack. Before you judge Israel, think for a second about how we would respond to thousands of them. I can't tell you what America would do, but I'll tell you this: America would respond in ways that make the entire history of Israeli threat response look like acts of kindness.

Man, you would think they would have learned when they required every website operator in the world to flash a sign about cookies that they don't know enough about the internet to govern it adequately. These people are intentionally ignorant, and it would be annoying, if it wasn't so adorable.

Does Unity count? The thing is a steaming pile of dog shit. Gets worse every time I peak in on it too. Christ, it sucks.

Obviously, it was the one armed man.

Who knows, maybe she's a lot better looking in person?

Egad! It all makes sense now.

Yeah, but it should be obvious to anyone who travels to or decides to live in a third world country that you just don't fuck with the the management. Look, it sucks, but these people have absolute power, and very little accountability. Third world countries are often corrupt, and the last thing you want to do is paint a target on your forehead. No telling if McAfee is behind it or not, but any way you look at it... he's pissed somebody off.

Or, the other possibility is that he's a crazy old man, and all of this is in his head.

None of the outcomes here are good.

Look, if Microsoft didn't like people using "non-standard" filter code, they shouldn't have come up with the whole idea in the first place. Even IE 10 (especially IE 10) has it's own equivalent filter markup for CSS. If they didn't LOVE THIS, why are they doing exactly the same thing themselves? Christ. Get me some coffee.

Simply called the sales department, told them that I would like to sign up for their cell phone service. After being approved, casually mentioned that I never agreed to data caps, and they removed it from my account no questions asked. Now I stream porn and netflix all day, without even thinking about it. Life is good.

I'm calling it. Google buys them, and merges them with Motorola mobility in six months four days. Half the combined company is laid off, and the new company makes the must have next generation devices we techies crave like crack. Seriously, May 17th 2013 will be the day they announce. In future analysis, we'll learn that Google did it for the sexy graphics chips.