The tablet thing has worked out well for Ballmer and Windows 8, hasn't it?

Well, they are doing an effective job at keeping the Confederacy alive!

Webmaster adept with HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP and MySQL and lovin' it!

'Nuff said.

Clearly this is all Al Gore's fault!

Ridiculously uninformed: http://thechive.com/2012/07/09/a-little-redneck-innovation-is-just-what-we-need-30-photos/

The lingua franca in international air travel is English, so international pilots and all air traffic controllers at international airports must learn English. (See this reference. Maybe we ought to let each airport direct traffic in their own language as well?

Get over it!

Should be called Babelscript as it reduces comprehension. (See Tower of Babel.) Like APL, a write-only language.

HIPAA rules only apply to "covered entities": payers, providers and clearinghouses. DHS is none of these, so HIPAA doe not apply here.

Actually, I suppose if you adopted pure gold as the national currency, as Ayn Rand advocated, you really could shut down the Fed. So when you start running low on funds, you could mug someone with gold teeth instead of robbing convenience stores!

Their rhetoric even sounds like Ayn Rand's tirades in Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead and elsewhere. This is logical since Ayn Rand is their idolized ideological forebear.

Let private industry do whatever they want to the Internet. Smart people and the corporations they heroically work for have made the Internet what it is today. So let the Verizons, the Comcasts, the Cox's, the Rogers' and the Telus' of the world give priority routing of their ad-laden drivel over what some of the customers of these paragons of individualist virtue would like to do, which is to communicate, to learn and and to chose their entertainment from wherever it suits them.

And if our corporate overlords who provide us with their extravagant priced "pipes" wish for us to have no access outside their hallowed walls, what then? What choices do 99% of us have? Zip. Someone said the Pauls are our friends? Not in this lifetime!

That was Bill Gates' avowed corporate strategy. I remember reading about a Gates interview in a 1990-something issue of Computerworld (I looked for the article but couldn't find it online) in which he said words to the effect that "I can't think of a worse reason to release new software than to fix bugs. People want features, not bug fixes." I was stunned by this (trying to run a 120-person IT shop on Win95) and reading it, I came to understand why MS products are always buggy and always different. "This changes everything" was corporate policy! It always seemed intuitively obvious that if a UI is a little messed up, you tweak and tune it. You don't toss it out and start afresh, thus pulling the rug out from under your installed base.

LinkedIn were known to be sleazeballs. Now they're known as incompetent sleazeballs.

Maybe some of you haven't seen this uber-geek way to get the charcoal started: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sab2Ltm1WcM

You might want to watch the stereotyping. I'm the (volunteer) webmaster for a fairly affluent community of 2,000 or so mostly retired people. We require registration for our website to keep community information away from outsiders like Google and spammers. I personally approve each registration after verifying residence status. At the moment we have about half our community registered; around 250 are on the site weekly, another 100 or so lees frequently, and another 200 occasionally. My site does make provisions for vision-impaired people, but is pretty attractive for all. It's dynamic (changes a few times a week), and has lots of AJAX pages like directory lookups, bulletin board search etc.. We do have our share of problems, many related to lack of computer skills and knowledge, e.g., when users "can't login" or "can't find xyz page". With patience and some hand-holding, our users mostly find what they want with little hassle. So I submit that at least from my N=1 sample, you might find the computer usage among older demographic follows income and education as much as age. Oh - I'll be 73 in July.