Went for a job interview a few years back and they wanted someone with "10 years experience with Solaris 11." I pointed out to the HR screening guy that Solaris 11 wasn't released till 2010 or so, and that asking for anyone with that experience was unlikely to get any honest responses. His reply was astonishing - he said "well, I guess you don't meet the qualifications, this interview is over." Lazy HR folks are not doing their companies any favors.

Proving once again (as if proof were needed) that science and politics are the worst possible companions. Read the Feynman Report on the Challenger disaster ( http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html [among many others]) where he lambasts NASA decision makers for using politics-inspired wishful thinking instead of science to decide to launch over strenuous objections by staff scientists and engineers. This meme is seen throughout history as the politics of wishful thinking crash onto the iceberg of reality time and again.

..and want to help" Frequently the last words a great idea ever hears.

In an related announcement, Sen Schumer's office also wants a new law recalling the 'F word' and all sticks and stones in the US. "People could get hurt" a spokesman for Schumer was quoted as saying.

Not sure that Obama really appreciated what he hat in this surveillance by 2010, but I guarantee Hillary did.

Don't be silly, you can write FORTRAN in any language..

Thank God I've never actually purchased any Adobe products. Phew, that was a close one.

So does beating your wives, but that doesn't stop it from being a widespread Saudi tradition..

This usually happens right before the company tanks. Also, huge edifices as home office/campus are another deadly sign. poof! It'll be over before you know it Apple.

Quoting ThinkProgress as a source of facts exposes your latent bias against facts. Go find a reputable source and get back to us.

Larry kills another one. The ultimate bait-and-switch operation is Oracle.

Windows 8 is about as functional as Vista as well. Pretty low bar. If folks had a choice Windows 8 would simply die.

..and in the second year of the invasion, all Internet commerce ground to a halt - stranding most earthlings in their home-offices to starve.

Java is (to me) a neutral issue. What's truly alarming is Oracle's treating of every ecosystem it comes upon as gold to be mined. Not *everything* in the world is a Larry Ellison piggy bank.

Make one that erases the passage of time then make a movie about it.