$20 and I'll turn off my regression suite that checks if your site is still IE6 compatible.

Abstinence from real time cable and a whole lot of missed commercials. Going on 5 years now. ~$16/month for Netflix and Hulu.

Sure there are some shows that I have seen adverts for that look cool, but I'm not forking out a premium cable subscription for 1-2 shows a month.

But what if you brought a CD Burner and a blank into Best Buy? It'd save you the hassle of waiting in line.

Not as far as you'd think. The things that are possible with the amount of tech we have now should scare you.

Look back 50 years and wonder if your grandfather ever worried about an automated system logging his license plate as he went to the drive in or back and forth to work? What about a red-light camera sending him a ticket in the mail because he was late to work?

I've always been told we're having difficulty getting enough stuff into space to build a decent sized base.3,000 tons is an awful lot of raw materials.

New TV series. You cross Monster Garage with Survivor. First one to build a shelter lives.

A couple weeks I got a new "pat down" procedure where they ran their hands down the inside of my thighs. I was unsure whether or not I was supposed to tip them.

I think the concern is more around sensors that provide input, such "big object ahead"!!! Sensors like that needs some form of validation routine that says "I can still see stuff"

I wish I had a mod point for you.

Contract work is by the hour. If you're not clocking your hours and getting overtime, you're doing it wrong.

Without the almighty Google to guide us in our everyday life, we will falter and be led astray, fumbling blindly in the absence of readily available knowledge.

He didn't have access to Google when he was writing the summary to know which to use.

How will it be delivered?

I worked at a place for 7 years as a developer. I gave 2+ weeks notice. I was immediately bolted to another dev and we began the brain drain on getting that person (more senior) up to date on all my systems. I retained full access to all of the systems I had prior. I was removed from all new dev work and was a "reference point" for the remaining developer base for the remainder of my time.

A DBA at the same place left about a year after. He didn't make it back to his desk before he was given his boxes.He was paid to "not work" from home. Part of that was risk aversion, because of his production access and part of it was his everyday attitude.

If you show yourself to be low risk, you will be treated as such. It is in the company's best interest to siphon off as much knowledge at possible, but not at the expense of a disgruntled employee with production access. The comments about "locking file-shares and emails" was silly. If you are doing pre-delivery archiving and server file system level backups, you're doing it wrong.

I'm glad you realize that your are critical part of your offspring's development.

That was amazing. Thank you for protecting our future.