When you have a high profile job in the public sector, you can expect that people are going to find out a lot about you. The media will want to know, and if you have any skeletons in your closet, they could well be revealed, one day.

Bravo on you for wanting to keep your personal details private, but don't seek out any high profile positions as a result.

quantum physics... which also has a large number of people (spending money) that believe in something that can not be seen or proven.

FAIL - [...] there is no doubt that quantum physics is the most successful theory of physical phenomena yet invented by the human mind. Why is it successful? Because it predicts physical phenomena, phenomenally accurately.

Physicists around the world a dedicating a large amount of their lives to theories many of which ARE MUTALLY EXCLUSIVE meaning someone is going to be wrong.

Perhaps you don't understand the scientific process. That's OK if they are mutually exclusive. One day somebody will make a prediction and do an experiment which falsifies one or other of the theories. Then the false theory will be amended or discarded, perhaps both (since investigation of theories is not a process limited to a single person). Science is a quest to find the truth, and false starts and back-tracking is part of the process.

Not at all like Religion, which is: Get an idea. Ignore contradicting evidence. Keep idea forever. (thanks to WellingtonGrey for that).

Don't talk to the Chancellor that way!

And from the 7th General Conference [bipm.org] which was held in 1 948:

There, fixed that for you.

I concur. OpenVZ is very lightweight. For a large number of small servers it saves on disk management because the OpenVZ instances' root directories are just a subdirectory on the physical server (and so they can share space in the same host partition). There's no dealing with virtual disk drives.

"... but still, they come..."

If they're not robots, what can possibly explain this:

Verizon doesn't know Dollars from Cents

Here's the background: I have a Verizon unlimited data plan in the U.S. and recently crossed the border to Canada. Prior to crossing the border I called customer service to find out what rates I'd be paying for voice and data. The data rate I was quoted was ".002 cents per kilobyte." I was surprised at the rate so I confirmed it with the representative I spoke to, and she confirmed it "point zero zero two cents per kilobyte." I asked her to note that in my account.

The stupidity just goes on, and on, and on ...

• Lame TLDs (.museum, .coop, .jobs etc)
• The domain tasting debacle
• The UDRP
• Allowing VeriSign to ride roughshod all over the DNS with their wildcard entry "Site Finder"
• Lack of openness and insufficient public participation

Some of these problems were the result of ICANN's actions; some were caused by ICANN doing nothing when it should have acted. The GF's point is valid; the DNS is only good for squatters and registrars and registries; what good will more gTLDs do?

Deny them all and problem solved!

Who will rid me of this troublesome gTLD madness?

Sorry, but I don't see any evidence of Microsoft's attitude changing.

I hear lots of talk and activities such as the Codeplex Foundation, but scratch a little under the surface and it all looks like more of the same old microsoft: crush competitors, destroy alternatives to Microsoft dominance on the desktop, make tactical partnerships and strategically ruin the partner.

Basically when Microsoft holds out the hand of friendship, first check if there's a knife in the other hand.

With a 1980s-era 3-character file extension, to be sure.

A documented binary format is better than an undocumented one, but it would be better to enable import/export of XML files or some other standard encapsulation.

So that's what the guy meant when he said he did 3 activities in half an hour.