In fact, holding another citizenship in addition to your US citizenship is normally disqualifying. I do wonder what they do with military personnel from friendly countries engaged in liaison activities, some of whom seem to be embedded in ways that give them access to secret information.

Shingles sucks, that's for sure. I had it make a visit via my trigeminal nerve when I was 29. The eye doctor was freaking out for a little while, but fortunately it ran its course without any eye complications.

I believe that the survivors are generally thought to be immune to further infection as well, so it's a bit scary that the virus can still find repositories in the body where it can hang out for longer periods of time.

It's not anything particularly new - we've known for decades that anyone that's had chicken pox still has the dormant virus in a number of nerve ganglia near the spine, and sometimes it reactivates and causes shingles.

O.J. didn't have qualified immunity. The cop you're going to sue does, and the civil case is likely to be tossed as a result.

I'm surprised he didn't include a "BSD IS DYING, NETCRAFT CONFIRMS IT" in the article.

Carry on, my wayward company.

They might not be programming languages per se, but I've spent a lot of time with autohotkey, NSIS, apple applescript and the like. The one thing all of these have in common is quick, clean looking applications with a narrow degree of focus; automation and deployment.

I've done some pretty nice tricks with them, mostly from a IT side of things. I've done a few applications with autohotkey. One startup I worked at couldn't really customize their helpdesk system, but wanted more info from tickets. I made a nice little app that took it from editing a txt file, to a few tabs of checkboxes, radio buttons, etc that would copy the answers to the clipboard.

Automator has helped me tons, especially when creating apple accounts. I started with a script I found, and I've been customizing it for our own needs within the company. We have a few services that only have a web interface to administrate them. Using the appleIDautomator script as a base, I've been able to tweak it to set these up as well.

Finally did an active directory rollout a few weeks back and needed to bundle meraki, bit9, and forsit's profile migrator. Bundled all 3 setups in NSIS. I've done even better installers than that with NSIS. I took a 7 server JBOSS application, bundled mysql, apache, etc and made an installer that even did CRC checks on the files post install. Meh, it did all kinds of crazy stuff, changed the machine name, added entries to the hosts file. It cut the install time down from 40 hours to 4.

I hope they enforce all vaccinations for entry, other than those with legitimate medical exemptions.

by the time dell got big, hp and compaq were both considered, at least in the people i know to be inferior products to others available at the time

And this was really a shame, because Compaq's early machines were awesome.

Unlike internal combustion engines, electric brushless motors can last pretty much forever. Drivetrain wear is probably the #1 reason cars depreciate in value. If there's no wear, there's no depreciation.

I usually get one or two of these spammy mails every day. My favorite was one I got several years ago, which described an interesting opportunity, but I wasn't (and still am not) willing to relocate. So, I wrote back and asked the guy if the gig could be done via telecommuting. His response was "yes, but they require that you work from the office. Will that work for you?". I wrote back asking if he knew what "telecommuting" meant, and never heard back.

I get these every damn day. You would think these folks might take the time to look at where I live (it's on my resume) and compare that to where they want me to work. Never happens.

and reaping the benefits by selling it at some indeterminate point in the future.

Or when the company declares a dividend, but that's a bit of a quaint idea nowadays.

"In that case, if you write me a check for $12,500 I'll start ripping this bed out right now and we'll both come out ahead!"

Serious question (from a non-American); can companies in the states increase the amount they charge you without notifying you first?

Depends on your contract. If the contract says they can, then they can and probably will at some point. Regardless, it pays to watch your bill like a hawk - plenty of U.S. providers, cellular providers in particular, have gotten in trouble for charging customers for stuff they didn't order. I've been fortunate, I guess. My provider hasn't tried to raise my prices, but they have tried to upsell me to higher tiers of service when they often can't provide the bandwidth I'm already supposed to be getting.