Because of course slogans are where it's at. Not a decent laptop to replace my old one which stops every 30 seconds because it can't handle the antivirus and other bloatware that corporate has dumped on my current laptop.(In all seriousness there's no reason to not give the developers decent machines since giving them shit machines only frustrates us and makes us develop more slowly with more mistakes.)

I totally forgot about that part but you're right. Schwarzkopf was definitely knew his business.

Which amongst other things pretty much says the best way to nail another plane? Shoot him in the fucking back before he even knows you're there.

Since I saw one of his fan boys basically claim Boyd invented the flanking maneuver. (For those that wonder I've heard that Boyd came up with the plan for the first Gulf war, instead of "hey diddle diddle, straight up the middle." because generals are too stupid to know the right thing. It was described as revolutionary but it was really a basic flanking maneuver. I didn't believe it since a flanking move like they did was kind of the obvious best move that even I predicted it before the ground war started so why would Schwarzkopf do the straight up the middle? Real answer, because originally he didn't have the troops to do a flank. When asked what the best move would be if you had enough troops it was do the flank. So they gave him enough troops and they did the flank. Of course since I'm not a general I didn't understand how the lack of troops would screw up a flank so before I read all of that I didn't appreciate what the general needed to consider to pull that one off and most likely Boyd didn't either.)

extremely left wing, pro big government. (Really I say that because I knew a fellow student in college who said they were an anarchist. Oddly enough there was no big government policy that they weren't totally for. For those that don't know anarchy literally means no rulers so this was a case of them not quite understanding what anarchy is supposed to be about.)

Because if you did and then the FBI downloaded everything(with your permission like the guy in the story) you might have some stuff to explain.

follows the "Hollywood Blockbuster" management style. You know where the guys in the trenches try to tell the higher ups what's going wrong and are ignored.(And if they were listened too there would be no problems and the movie would be over in the first 15 minutes.) Only through heroic efforts by the grunts do things work out and only in the last 15 minutes of the film, err I mean the last 10% of development time. I would bitch about that but then I'm reminded I work for a company that isn't part of the government and they do the same shit, they think it's a peachy idea.

That's hot air, the place is full of it

Well if we're going to be technical MIT and Harvard aren't in Boston, they're in Cambridge. But to be fair it's probably would have been better if I had written "BU is a research institute the runs an undergrad school on the side."

BC, aka Boston College, is the catholic college that's not actually in Boston. BU is the research institute in Boston that runs an undergrad school on the side.

an SSD in my work computer since the thing is so damn slow. (Yes I've asked for one and no they haven't gotten me one.) If they're not willing to buy me one of those I can't see them actually be willing to spend, oh my god $500, on a new monitor. (But of course the next time anything goes wrong upper management comes running to dev without a first or second thought.)

for an example. So if you broke your leg because you fell off a ladder I'd expect the over all treatment to be a bit different than if you broke your leg because you have Osteoporosis. Come to think of it you could also break your leg because you have a tumor in the leg, that would be a VERY different treatment.

Then there's a chance, admittedly very small, that congress might actually do the right thing and put some restraints on them. (More likely, they just make it illegal to spy on congress but everybody else is ok.)

I mean the younger people here might not have heard of this one but John Fogerty effectively got sued in the 80's because he sounded too much like himself. (No, I'm not making that up.)

I was wondering when somebody would point that out. Anyway like you point out, their "cracking" of apple products consists of getting to it before the end user gets to it. Any system is vulnerable if they can do that.(Yes, even Linux.)