commodity based you can at least barter with or consume; in general you are correct and we agree.

they all have trade off's. i'll take decentralized, secure (potentially anonymous) Bitcoin and fend off the hackers while others pay banking intermediaries high fees for transactions performed at their leisure, presumably with less risk.

to each their own... ;)

absolutely true!

fiat currencies are just as much a shared hallucination as bitcoin.

    at least bitcoins may provide more privacy...

SCADA systems are not designed, implemented, or operated with network and application level security concerns in mind.
  (Usually. The exceptions know who they are :)

Your compensating control is physical security to limit access to SCADA elements and programming. It costs more, but you have no sane alternative.

And before you get too cocky about that restricted air gap, consider Stuxnet turning such a strength into a weakness for exploit. At some point SCADA systems will be security conscious; that day is not today...

So carry the keys on your keyring you need all the time. Your place, your girlfriend's place, your office, whatever. Your grandparents' garage key can stay at home, or in your car, or somewhere off your person until you need it.

Also, I used to carry a knife on my keyring as well, and a mechanic told me that it was bad for the ignition mechanism to have a bunch of heavy stuff hanging off the keyring. He might have been BSing me, but he said he was serious, so I followed the advice and took my knife off.

Politics does have a tendency to produce gang-bangs.

Go to school for Computer Science, they said... Get a good job, they said...

How long before HTML5/SVG next-generation browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Epiphany, and other Web-Kit based browsers completely supplant Flash and Silverlight/Moonlight?

Gee, I dunno. How long will we have to support IE6?

Really? I would think that's the safest place for it.

Personally, when I feel so stuffed I can't eat any more, I just use the restroom. Then I can eat more.

There are a lot of ways to make your point on the internet, and one of them is to not talk about shit you don't know. It's Ad hominem. And yes,seriously, that's a wiki link. If you would deign to look at it you might learn something, like the fact that dakameleon didn't commit an ad hominem. Saying India won't develop nuclear weapons when they already have makes you look like an idiot, and I thought dakameleon let you off lightly.

Okay, so first, in order to make this work you'd have to outspend Google. I mean, for Microsoft and pals (you know, anybody who can afford to spend a billion+ dollars to topple Google), search is a nice business that they want; but for Google it's their core business (well, it's what powers their core business). You'd need someone else willing to bet their company (or someone who dwarfs Google, maybe GE or BP wants a search engine really bad?), because the stakes will be that high for Google. At the first sign of a strategy like this working, Google simply shows up with a bigger check. You think it would be easy for people to lure Google away with a million dollar check? How easy would it be to convince them to stay with a two million dollar check?

Second, Google has lobbying muscle now. Assuming this is legal, it might not be soon. They'll probably outlaw it in an amendment to the next Puppies for Orphanages Act that comes through. "It's not Evil, it's Democracy!"

This strategy would have worked great before the IPO.

I don't see why you're so worried about cooling... it's fireproof.

We see dishonesty from head hunters all the time. Personally I'd much rather if there was a mistake on your resume as we have it in front of us, that you point it out.

Absolutely. It's well known that most of these guys are human garbage, including the ones we work with. I would never fault you for correcting something a headhunter said about you, and if it was unflattering I would respect you more for being honest. I'm not going to lie, the best case scenario is that we never find out at all, but it will be much worse for you if it comes to light and you weren't honest about it, no matter what your recruiter did.

Best to just fess up, but some managers are idiots so play it by ear.