So which multinational conglomerate is making the over priced pork barrel replacement?

All I get from the comments here is that a lot of people feel entitled. If anyone has something they don't, however trivial, they feel entitled to have it, and it is morally wrong that they do not. I saw this strikingly when I moved from the Midwest to California. I see if more and more on Slashdot. I don't know what this has to do with anything. Just an observation.

But shouldn't this have been part of the design BEFORE you rolled out 500 servers?

More like, "doesn't behave like I think it should." Nothing to see here. Move along.

Before all the bragging about how bad-ass everyone was, I was one of those quiet good kids that read and studied. That's how I got into a top college without being rich. Getting into trouble? Too busy, or maybe too smart, to get into trouble. There's my bragging.

How many times do we have to go over this. College is NOT supposed to be trade school. Yes, you learn things that have no real world application except on an intellectual level. No, all the classes are not tailored for making you marketable in the work place. No, computer coders should not expect schools to be turned into their personal trade schools.

So please set up coding schools where they can learn their trade along side the welders and auto mechanics, and leave the colleges alone.

Proving again that the "geek" community is going the way of the idiocracy. News about Linux will NEVER be more important than impending war.

I guess people still haven't come to the realization that enterprise level stability and uptime are neither simple nor easy.

Are you joking, or have you been asleep for the last decade? Those rights were thrown out right after 9/11 with nary a peep.

It works for Fox News. Make outrageous statements, and let people get all riled up about it. The next say explain that it was wrong, but you have already won with that emotional tie. Same for Apple haters. Rationality never enters into it.

It is much more useful to have the phone active and record all conversations. Why would you cut off your "bug?" Also, hacking a phone to brick it is pretty boring. The person is inconvenienced so much that they waste an hour getting a new phone. Also also, anyone with any common sense in a protest is going to use a burner phone, which is much harder to back track to the buyer.

So you wish you were a sociopath? BTW, I gave A LOT of thought to the "career" aspect of programming when I started out, which is why I moved into systems and network administration.

Levels, classes, spell slots, armor class, superhero hit points, check, check, check. Everything that SHOULD be changed is still there. They've basically gone back to the original rules because that is what people are used to, instead of even TRYING to make a better system. Sigh.

Any word on the proposed Blake's 7 movie? That one show that deserves a resurrection.

People with functioning brains will remember CRT monitors measured in inches, hard drives measured in 1000 instead of 1024 kbytes, 4G phones that weren't. Nothing happened to them, and nothing will happen in this instance. The judge will rule: It's common advertising, all vendors do it, and people understand what it means, so worrying about it is being pedantic.