You think that's bad? Wait a few years until there's some kind of real problem and they come at you with a $3000 proposal for treatment and an application for a consumer credit account. No joke. People get very emotional about their pets. I knew a woman who put her dog through chemotherapy on credit and couldn't pay her rent.

I've been using Yahoo mail since almost the beginning and still do.

I changed my password as soon as I heard about this. Or, I tried to. Yahoo makes it so difficult to change your password that I actually had to go to Google and search for "How do I change my Yahoo password". Then once I figured out where to go (none of the links worked - I had to paste it from an answers.yahoo.com reply), the AJAXified page wouldn't work in Firefox on Linux, so I had to fire up my work PC and use IE.

Unbelievable.

While I was there, I deleted an old yahoo personals alias (also didn't work in Firefox - had to use IE), and then changed my backup email. But that didn't work either - the link in the confirmation email went to an error page.

But if you like your Nobel Peace Prize then you can keep your Nobel Peace Prize.

That, we already have.

What we really need is a 500lb precision bomb that can take out an anti-aircraft gun and NOT damage the school or the mosque that it's sitting on.

And if they try, they screw it up anyways.

My wife and I needed IUI for our first baby. By VA state law, if we hadn't been married, I would only be a "donor" and would have no parental rights over my son.

Any PHB who puts developers in an open plan has no clue what we do. Which they don't. Obviously. My last job put the developers AND phone tech support in the same room.

My current gig is so cheap that it's an open floating plan where nobody even has their own chair and we telecommute half the time. So half the time I'm in a noisy office with a shitty laptop PC and no personal space, and the other half I'm at home listening to a screaming baby from the next room.

I'm amazed at how much money they'll pay us in salary and then cheap out on little things that kill productivity.

I have to disagree. If you expand too much on what you already know and become too specialized, you can end up unemployable. Chase the JavaScript stuff and then use that 15 years of experience to end up managing those 20 year old whiz kids.

I have two domains of my personal name, each with a place holder "Under Contruction" home page. My company blocks one as "Pornography/Inapropriate" and the other one as "Gambling". I've owned each for more than a decade and they've always been blank.

So I think they make up these ratings.

That joke was funny when I was in fourth grade. I don't think it's funny anymore.

I had to dig for it.

The difference is, Mark Warner will be president someday and Christie won't. They'll probably both be candidates in 2016, as Warner was a front runner in 2008, and then he'll have 4 years as a senator (apparently twice the experience needed to be president). The press will ignore these things yet we'll hear about Christie's bridge over and over and over again.

Here's a citation.

It's a pretty big hassle when you have to drive an hour away and stand in line for four hours to renew your drivers license. Especially when it's just because you had the nerve to vote against the governor's party.

After that, he turned the Virginia side of the D.C. Beltway into a foreign owned toll road. Then he ran a dirty smear campaign for Senate and won by convincing the general public that his opponent was trying to ban the birth control pill (a lie).

Or is this just because Christie is a republican. 2016 is starting early around here.

The democrat governor of MY state closed the DMVs in all the districts that voted in republican delegates. Didn't make the news at all. And now he's a U.S. Senator.

Client side Java would be alive and popular if they'd made the Windows Look-and-feel the default. Or just given up on Metal entirely.

Your other complaints are the fault of the developer, not the platform.

Think about the worst requirements you've ever had to deal with. Now imagine 2700 pages of even worse requirements written by CONGRESS. Then throw Obama in the mix, issuing Executive Orders that change the system at every turn.

My "workstation" is a seven year old laptop that I can buy on eBay for $50. I make more than that per hour. I've offered to bring in my own hardware, but - no unapproved hardware on the network. And no admin rights, because, you know, I might break my $50 PC, so if I need to change an environment variable it's a week wait for a helpdesk maggot to show up.

It's just a side effect of senior management not having a clue as to what we do and seeing developers as nothing more than a cost.