And the solution to capitalism is?

I keep hearing "OMG capitalism is teh evil!", but I've yet to hear of an alternative that's even half way plausible. Humans are by nature greedy and lazy.

I knew of a guy who would always get to work well before everyone, and always leave well after, but then take 3 hour lunches so it just looked like he worked like a demon.

I'm sure 4chan was grown the same way.

Any scanner is probably set up to watch the internet gateway, its not likely to be watching vpn traffic and unless you abuse the bandwidth no one will go looking there. My experience is that the corporate world is a place where talent goes to die. Don't expect anyone to show enough initiative to search for something that unusual. My favourite corporate client has a policy of tweaking internal linux boxes to withstand syn flood dos attacks and non root users cannot view about 90% of /etc, but the boxes themselves are unpatched RHEL5 boxes that the most amateur of hackers could walk through.

The real golden rule is always find out what level of corporate psychosis you are dealing with first. I've seen several corporates where staff above a certain level are issued with 3G dongles to bypass the firewall, others where porn sites are added to a blacklist with no further comment. I've also seen companies where even browsing Slashdot might not be work safe. YMMV.

Meanwhile the real data thieves just dump everything to thumb drives.

Don't forget that the docs say they will only sync the time once at the start of the window so yes the skewed clock for mates is EXACTLY what is going to happen.

You have to do this through by clicking on the button in IE on their half baked treacle slow citrix desktop application so you can't game it that way.

Rumour is that there are something like 1400 applicants at $180k a pop that's well over $250 million.

Jquery is simple to use and "just plain works"(tm). Trying to manage ajax queries on multiple browsers or work the DOM yourself sounds way too much like advanced masochism to me.

And someone competent in using the language would know enough to use the db independent function calls and that once you start escaping strings you are doing it wrong. Much like a competent c programmer understands the specific limitations of strcpy.

All the very well paid professional python programmers I know seem happy using a language with significant whitespace.

That's exactly what the SA law would do. The paper is REQUIRED to turn over all documents to the nearest police station and give the name of the whistle blower or editor would face jail time. Not sure of the exact penalties, I think its 5 years for not turning over the docs and 25 years for publishing the information.

Instructions for apple are on page 4 half way down. Did you fail reading in high school?

As far back as I can remember Slashdot summaries have put fox news headlines to shame.

The starving poor steal things like brass garden taps. The gangs doing the copper cable theft are VERY well equipped.

The governments policy of only allowing political appointees (i.e utterly unqualified) to run anything they control is the bigger problem. The odds of being caught are extremely low and a huge number of state prosecutors are incompetent so conviction rates are not great. There is no incentive for the thieves to stop.

My Wife is a staunch catholic, I'm more FSM. It's never been an issue other than that the kids need to be raised catholic. On a side note we live in South Africa, and while no priest would publicly say "use condoms", they definitely do so privately.

His complaint is rubbish. You can already use greasemonkey to do what he wants as far as replacing the browsers scripts. Remember that javascript is plain text in the first place so it is basically open source so you can easily write a free client to gmail if you want to. BTW. there is already a gmail based fuse filesystem out there.

I have the greatest respect for the things RMS has achieved in the past, but he needs to retire from the public eye now. He just isn't in touch with modern technology anymore.