I'll say. I was 23 when in seventh grade.

Business programmers who don't have a choice and must use what the IT department gives them.

So, you are telling me that all those engineers, programmers and research scientists I have known, and many others I have read about and corresponded with, who have had their jobs offshored, don't exist? You really have an imaginary mindset. Things are far bleaker than you can imagine, bubba!

Take a close look at the GDP, then come back and dare tell me we have an economy any longer in Amerika!

That makes sense on one level, but using telnet is a bad habit one shouldn't get into.

I agree. A better habit is setting up and using SSH.

Not only that but "defense in depth". Do NOT rely upon your perimeter defenses to stop all attacks. It only takes one person with a compromised laptop and you're cracked.

1) these were default passwords that everyone on the team knew

SSH can be set up the same.

2) the development VLAN is secured from outsiders

Until it is compromised.

Remember, in defense you have to be right on everything all the time. An attacker can just stumble into something you missed. Like someone's laptop that was brought in when it should not have been.

It's a single fool with a gun, not a group.

" Do you know how many terrorists that wanted to kill me I have come face to face with? 0.

Remove the "I have come face to face with" and that answer will certainly not be zero.

I think they picked the Czar they did for his marketing skills, not his medical skills.

You need a larger C: drive.

Windows doesn't have enough space for your temp directory for the code base you are working on.

Waterfall vs Agile. Waterfall, you get the spec, go and code. Agile you get lucky to code a couple of hours a day, the rest is ALL spec gathering, and then you stay up all night for the sprint right before you submit the code for user acceptance testing.

I remember, back in the early 80s, some friends and I pooled our allowance, bought an Atari joystick, then tried to make an adapter for the 9-pin Apple IIe joystick connector- not realizing the reason the Apple joysticks were so damn expensive was because they were analog.

Not for my last 6 computers have I seen a 9 pin serial port.

The world's biggest Lego Land. Do they sing "Everything is Awesome!" while they work?

Very true. Multiculturalism and pluralism, like urban living, requires liberty and individualism.

The way I usually put it is "limited but strong"./ Limited in topics they can intervene on, strong enough to defend their competency.

Perhaps this link will explain better. Government only exists to build a fraternity of human beings.

Two and a half centuries is an experiment, not a tradition- and one that is either failing or failed.