Try obtaining a job without having a social security number ? Try obtaining identification without one. No above board company can hire you without an SSN. They wouldn't be able to withhold your federal or state taxes (and they ARE required to do it).

No. This would be akin to requesting who is a licensed fisherman, hunter, driver. If you have to obtain a "state" permit of some sort, the data should be public. To me this isn't any worse than them publishing the names of "John's" arrested in prostitution busts (I still think that they shouldn't be able to print the names until conviction). The information above is not "public" information.

Yet you don't see the apple fans talking about THAT now, Do you ?

Then give them 30 days to send payment. If they don't show up with a sherrif and basically claim their property in the office ( It worked against Bank of America)

A Dove IS a Pidgen with a good press agent.

When my 3 older brothers were small, my mom used leashes on them. (Ages 4, 3 and 2). They weren't traumatized by it either.

Not to mention it CAN be done in a way that is fun AND educational and JUST might help his child to be "better". A Chem example I still remember almost 25 years later (from College) and it STILL amuses me. It was essentially how much sand would you need to replace the gold idol and NOT trigger the gigantic marble. He gave you the volume for the gold statue and you'd need to figure out the mass (since it was 24K gold, etc.) Chemistry can also help improve math skills since its formulaic and it can also help (as has been said) reasoning skills because you sometimes have to make observations and then figure out what happened (then explain it in detail).

You don't know what you're missing. I've been married (to the same woman) for 21 years. She wasn't a geek when we got married but she's become one. She runs a Linux desktop and she games ( She bought me a WII for my birthday one year, and then we got a PS3 for x-mas).

Do agree about kids. No kids (Granted we have fur children instead..), but you can put out food and water for cats and leave them alone for a night without protective services arresting you.

I have a home Linux machine, my wife's machine, my laptop and my work machine.

How can I share my authentication amongst them ?

It also needs to take into account licensing issues. In even a medium sized organization an audit finding an "unlicensed" server could cost MAJOR bucks in fines/etc.

It may also not be secured to the corporate requirements and they may already have a server that can be used in another group that is already maintained/etc.

It might cause issues where someone is using "unproven" software for a project (not approved of by a tech/architecture team, etc.) that will either NOW have to be scrapped, or completely retooled because of issues with the software.

There are a bunch of issues that could cause problems when someone tried to "save time" without going through the channels.

Answer with nonsense (that you CAN remember).

• Where were you born: In a Brothel in Bagdad
• What was your father's name: Jor-El
• What was your favorite pet's name: Shit Licker

Yeah there is. Companies need to figure out how to assign realistic values to the software ("What will this save me in 1yr, 2yr, etc.) vs. which is cheapest to do now ?

It isn't worth it if you don't care about a long term job. Usually once you're at one of those companies (Utility or Defense Contractor) you're there for as long as you want to be there.

Too many younger programmers are looking for a fancy title and stay only long enough to find their next job (not staying long enough to invest in a 401K, etc.)

There are ways to determine quality. One pretty standard way is to count the number of bugs found during testing each phase of development (design, coding, unit test, product test, integration tests and after its in production).

And if its for a classroom, why wouldn't they do ONE machine and an projection screen for the entire class to view it at the same time (instead of between their facebook and twitter updates) ?