Ah I must've overlooked that detail in my rage.

I remember when computers used to fill an entire football field! Now look at this, the powerhouse of the world, the biggest monstrosity on the scale, coming up at what, 8 racks?

You can use your Puppet/Chef tool to generate DSC information for Server 2012+. Was it hard 10 years ago? Sure. These days? Not so much. There's just the problem that Linux admins are so inherently afraid of Windows that they'd never dare keep up with what's going on with it, out of fear of being rejected by their *NIX peers, and Windows people have a disturbing tendency to stop learning as soon as they figure out they can open up GUI interfaces.

No they don't. They remove plenty of sites from their archive. It even makes /. headlines occasionally.

We should get started then.

As in people will have to use the officially TSA-provided charger cable. Of course. Reaching into your backpack while three humongous, and absurdly inconsiderate TSA footmen are looking over your shoulder might be considered offensive, outright dangerous, criminally insane, HE'S GOT A GUN! SHOOT HIM!

Sure they will. How else will NSA hot-drop spyware on every single device that leaves/enters the country?

Oh that's a good one too.

They went to a FedEx hub and found tons of discs, though no counterfeits. BUT! When they went to a pirate DVD factory, they found TONS OF PIRATED DVDS! Conclusion: Dogs can smell pirated DVDs.

And by booboo I naturally mean something along the lines of

if(target->ThreatRating == ThreatRating::American) { target->Kill(); } // booboo

if(target->ThreatRating != ThreatRating::American) { target->Kill(); } // what it should have been

There's a new movie out, with Johnny Depp in it, called Transcendence. If machines ever take over the world, it'll be like in that movie. What these self-proclaimed naysayers don't seem to comprehend is that AI doesn't just magick itself up a reason to destroy humans. It takes a human to think like that. We still don't understand free will, emotion or consciousness, let alone how to replicate it in a machine. So until we give machines a reason to destroy us, they won't.

Then again with killer drones and whatnot that the military is building, perhaps it won't take long before some overworked, underpaid programmer makes a booboo.

Apple doesn't own iNames.

A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

Liquid Nitrogen/Helium cooling is great... while it lasts. When it's used up however, you've got to pay for another bottle of cooling. I have no idea how long a $200 CPU can run at 8GHz on a bottle of Nitrogen, or how much a bottle of Nitrogen costs, but I can't imagine it's a good long term solution.

Clearly people want to be monitored at all times, they just haven't been convinced properly yet. And as a result of the monitoring that NSA done up to now, they already have a list of all the people who don't want to be monitored. They could just pay those people a visit. You know? Convince them properly. Or make them go away.