You make a good point about developers having admin power on production machines; which could be extended to showing (one reason) why dev boxes should not be running production code (there was an article a while ago about testing on production boxes that would be relevant.)

Do you feel the same way about developers having admin rights on their development workstations (which I think is what others are commenting about)?

I think you meant to say: 9/11 could have been a major tragedy which we mourn and deal with directly but instead ...

Totally. My years of work are backed up.

True, but you might be overlooking that they shot her laptop; that's pretty key.

Also, all her prefs were there. She'll never be able to rearrange the icons. It won't be the same. Nobody backs up the prefs :(

I thought my Slashdot profile was set to show it. :) If not, I'm going to go change it.

I actually *just* (20 minutes ago) put my picture up there. Can you guess my email ;)

My pet might notice a collar on it's neck, are there any that might attach with a magnet? So I can stick it underneath my pet without it knowing.

It's also important that I can track it in real time, because it tends to run away. It also runs fast, like a golf cart.

Seriously, it's been around for some time now, and it wouldn't require much to change in the application side.

I agree, time to break up.

I nominate that the ISIS be named after the man who popularized the phrase.

It looks like they're using the "Opal" standard as a way of selling essentially the same hard drive slightly crippled since if you don't have the key for the thing you "can't even sell it on eBay", whereas admins can "cryptographically erase" their data with ease. Does this mean that the well priced one has a one-key no-reselling system, and the artificially inflated "server" class one can be rotated? I'm going to ere on the side of "companies get together in order to hurt us all" and fear the worst.