How much do you trust subordinates proficient with technologies you have limited understanding of? How often will you require in depth knowledge of technical changes before they are implemented and if you do not understand any aspect of such changes will you forbid them? Etc. etc....its possible many of us have had the techie vs. non-techie issues with bosses before and these hit home for me

here, here! isnt this short attention span theater for the interwebber?

Microsoft has ALWAYS behaved this way. How many 3rd party applications or features have /.ers discovered dont work properly in Windows when there is anything remotely resembling a competitive product offered by Microsoft...anyone ever try to use hotmail in non-IE browsers or chat on msn via trillian? Browsers in general for those of us that remember the big IE integrated with windows debate/doj case and the resulting minor concession MS was forced to make. I am not just talking about when MS updates Windows and your display drivers start causing bsods and you grab a vendor update and its fixed, I mean real anti-competitive practices in Microsoft's consumer and enterprise products... If I sat here and thought about it I know I would have a long list - what about u? How many times have you all looked straight up and raged GAAAAAAAATES!!

I should qualify - I havent worked with this product but I know that none of the umpteen other cisco product lines I have worked with have included any feature or style of feature implementation that could even be remotely considered sinister. this last poster may very well be right - you ssl to the device and the device ssls to the site you are attempting but id bet my ccnp that device includes no features for collecting personal data - sites visited, history, etc? sure, there isnt a proxy in the world that doesnt and for that matter there isnt a (significant) company in the world that doesnt use some kinda proxy or caching server, but these devices dont do anything worth resigning in protest over. they do good stuff! helpful stuff!

Yea um, cisco doesnt make devices that do this. Google it.

Really? You think they are decrypting your traffic and stockpiling data on users? You can have a hundred trusted signing authorities, it doesnt mean they can decrypt your data. Read about public key encryption - its point to point - they would need the other endpoint's private key (combined with your public key) to decrypt. Even IF the other end used the same CA, their key is..um...private. Chill brother/sister!

imho Jobs shed his hippy roots and became not just a ruthless capitalist himself but made Apple pretty imperialistic - yes we all know the complete control over hardware and software was a pro vs. con of apples over PCs but apple pushed the line into making some consumer choices not just with the app store but what was "allowed" on the platform itself. I found it shocking that even though we all know Microsoft does little things in Windows to give its app layer products the edge over its competitors compatibility was always there, one way or another....in my eyes Jobs was a ruthless dictator and the Microsoft counterparts were like modern democracy (if you pay, anyone can play)

Sorry, nothing too insightful to say other than how sad I am! Can we do a /. funeral? We could hire the Donwanna Behere funeral home.....Yea, lame I know - - see? we need them!!

Without facebook and others, how many consumers (outside of iPhone holders) really wanted any kind of data plan or could be convinced to pay that extra $20++ a month beyond already high cellular prices? Business users that required mobile email, right? Besides, how many times does someone have to get charged that same $20 a month for texting before they get a plan? We can be wasteful, but when it comes to our cell phones they are usually the first bill that gets paid, even if its at the last minute! If it werent for content management sites like Facebook making it easy and useful for everyday folk to collaborate in a mobile setting then telecom couldnt possibly convince everyday customers to pay so much as they are now "to get my facebook on my phone". Anyone shop for a new plan lately? You can't really get anything from big telecom "with facebook" for less than about $80 a month after all is said and done (except metroPCS, but if you have had them you know you get what you pay for) Sure the markup on texts is something like 5000% but with the absence of truly unlimited data and all these pretty new phones available to everyone, something tells me they will make their numbers. How many texts is $20 a month even with the markup? Now can we help them get more spectrum please?

I did mean to put that I am a total um "not a physics guy" just the armchair piece-together-what-i-can-repeat dreamer type. but heck yea thanks for the detail

Does anyone ever wonder if antimatter is our representation of what exists as matter on the other side of any given (or perhaps all) black hole(s) inside another dimension/universe/whatever you wanna call it? Universe pairs? Hawking theorized that black holes have white hole pairs - maybe his math just indicated that there is no Lord Nibbler poo at the completion of a black hole (or the start of our universe) but rather another instance of er...space ie- how does a singularity occur w/ infinite mass (or so we would calculate) with the law of conservation of mass - lots of cosmologists must be trying to prove it goes somewhere so why not another dimension/universe/etc - and to consider attractive forces like that perhaps draw a theoretical parallel with polarity so that since our typical everyday matter is attracted to a black hole, perhaps that dimension/etc's typical everyday matter is as well (their own BH, WH to us) and perhaps the other side of any black hole is what would be our theoretical white hole counterpart to a black hole, our antimatter counterpart to our matter, etc etc?

like i said - gotta be a good consumer (i.e. their payroll feeds the balance sheet of other traded companies as best they can) - ive been there, and this latest background check is the worst ive been thru (mainly cause theyre disorganized but they actually wanna see my HS diploma!)

I would love to rant about the privacy we are compelled give up even applying for a job - companies pull credit reports and wont hire you unless youre a good consumer and all but um...we need a law to prevent employers from demanding LOGON CREDENTIALS? I just love MBAs.

I coulda made millions betting against it the second it came out. Anyone ever try to use a search on a MS site before like say support.microsoft.com? lol...they never could do search

We all send them a check for $3.17 right? Thats all I got when they conspired to rip me off for those degradable 20th century recording media they forced on us...