If evolution had its way I would have been dead a long time ago. Fortunately for me I have great corrective lenses so I can see the lions trying to kill me.

Take that, evolution! I may even procreate!

So sharing source code proves this how? Couldn't they just include the spying mechanism before they create the binary that actually ships?

This article is very true. At the time Encarta came out I was working for a company that sold PCs. We were located in an area where there were many affluent African American families. Not being raciest by any means, but typically all we had to do was bring up the article on Martin Luther King and start the "dream" speech video and they just had to have that for their kids. Encarta sold the computer.

Privacy is a huge issue here. Now if you have to go to a voting booth to vote your overbearing SO can't coerce you to vote one way or another. You have plausible deniability. That's kind of hard to do when they're standing behind you watching you vote from the family PC.

In my example, all tax is calculated in the BSI software. It talks directly to the ERP. There are a handful of tax software companies like this. Very few HR/Payroll systems actually calculate their own taxes. Too much to keep up with, especially if you had to keep up with all of the crazy county/parish/municipality taxes for all potential places where any of your employees live.

This is exactly it. And almost every shop that processes payroll subscribes to a service that updates the tax tables for you as the laws change. www.bsi.com is one.

I'm sure they have the tax tables written up either way the vote goes so they can get it out the door.

So how are we to know that this isn't anti-FUD?

"Yes, Citizen, your full disk encryption is just too much for us to crack. I guess you're in the clear."

YOU-fee?

YOU-fi?

you-EF-ee?

Thanks, Mom and Dad.

So my 3.12 CNE is no good any more? Dang!

I'm getting a kick out of this because I have use of only one eye.

S

As was I. ;)

Man. There English sucks.

The quality of the many recent graduates I interview from traditional colleges and universities is atrocious. They have no analytical skills what so ever and expect to come in making big bucks and leading projects. The ones that I did hire sit around all day worrying about how they could have used super duper new programming paradigm X and take forever to complete what should be simple development tasks. They shut down if a design spec given by a customer is not perfect rather than working with the customer to clarify or work through the issue.

Argh! You kids get off my lawn!