"You said whizbang."

Chairs, Lamps, Globe, and Laurence Fishburne: "AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

You read that article and think "Name calling? The police state is violating that persons Freedom of Speech, thats a problem". I read that, see that its from Somerset, Tx, and I think "thats probably gang related or some cracked out trailer trash and they threatened to rape and kill that girl. Thats a problem".

In both cases, none of us knows the specifics of the case, and are both talking out our asses. And even RTFA, given the PD cheifs in the San Antonio areas notoriety for spewing lines of BS, we won't in the immediate future.

I thought they were telling us how to throw an Orgy. All this talk of "activities" and "pictures" and "watching videos of activities" was a little vague, I swear this is an advertisement for an amateur porn site.

I use an Android device on Verizon now (HTC Touch/XV6900). Its fine for the built in Google apps, but the Android Marketplace has thousands of apps that were obviously designed for 1 device, the G1. with all the screen clipping issues and resolution issues, most of these apps are just plain junk. And if they ran it on Verizon, I'm sure Verizon would do all those great things they are know for, such as locking down the GPS functionality to only work with VZNavigator. Android has the feel of a cobbled together imitation iPhone. While its better than Windows Mobile, and iPhone killer it aint.

I informed my boss that my personal life involves me choking people and applying pressure to joints, and clarify that if my work life enters my personal life, then my personal life will enter my work life. Haven't had a problem since. You can't just let people walk all over you just because they have the title of "boss".

Doom
Turbo Pascal
Ethereal
Red Hat Linux 4

For one reason or another, those apps changed my entire computing landscape.

They are just shelving it, not putting it to sleep. We still need to convince them that that "educating" us is stupid. We need to put this issue to rest. Continue to send emails and sign petitions, and join a boycott.

Time Warner Petition/Boycott

Or better yet, a Space "Whale" like in Final Fantasy 4... oh wait, we saw how that would end on South Park. Poor Willzyx.

I'm gonna piggy back on your post since your a fellow resident from SA. :)

I can't believe the paranoia based on a college kids report in the local flea rag? Come on. The SA Current is is local college rag, they advertise current events, gay clubs, have the worst food critics, and have the most left learning articles this side of San Francisco. The first paragraph in the article is total BS, there are either no NSA employees or a skeleton crew at that facility. Its still under construction, and I highly doubt the illegals working on the building give a crap about some college kid taking pictures. They might finally have employees starting to trickle in, but the place still looks under construction every time I pass it, and I live like 4 miles from it. Maybe thats part of the subterfuge, which I highly doubt. All I ever see out there is a single cop car, and that guy is usually asleep, tons of barbed wire fence, and tons of construction workers. I could go over there right now, take pictures to my hearts content, and not be bothered, or detained. I seriously doubt this guy was "detained" since the NSA is not a law enforcement agency, and one of the skeleton crew that would be there has about as much legal right to detain you as the desk clerk at the DMV. So unless this guy crossed that fence to take pictures, or is making a joke, I call shenanigans. The fear mongering about big brother is bullshit in this case.

The reason the NSA is opening a data center here in SA is no secret. Its dirt cheap land, period. They got the the cheap land on clearance from AMD who bought it and never did anything with it. The same reason Citi opened a call center here several years ago (still there, although they sold the land and lease from them due to their financial issues), same reason Toyota opened their plant here, same reason that Microsoft is planning a call center here. Same goes for USAA, Valero, and Tesoro. Its the same reason I can buy my house here for less than 200k where the same house is close to a million in other parts of the country. Its cheap real estate. Period. AT&T was stupid to leave for that very reason. They got some sort of kick-back from the city of Dallas and used the airport (which is under an expansion project currently) as an excuse. They may "save" in the short run, but their executives will be long gone and counting their money by the time the savings run out.

The problem with opening high tech facilities here is finding qualified labor. So for all the guys wearing a tin foil hat about this, keep in mind, this is in a city where the high school drop out rate is outrageously high, the teen pregnancy rate is the highest in the country, education is piss poor with high schools putting more focus on and the only state college, UTSA, has in the past lost its accreditation in core subjects like Math and English for failing to meet standards. I've worked with several of the graduates of their security program before, and they had no clue what a packet capture was, and had never heard of TCPDump or Wireshark/Ethereal before. It might be like any other curriculum in any school, and there are the bright kids, and the dull ones, but the ones I've encountered have definitely been on the lower end of that spectrum. The other colleges in the area are either community colleges (which, mind you, the kids out of one of the local community college security programs knew a hell of a lot more than the state schools), or are outrageously expensive private schools. So unless they are willing to lower their hiring criteria to associates degrees, or get their candidates from elsewhere (either from one of the remaining air force bases here or from other cities or states), qualified candidates might be hard to come by.

I'm 30, and I still love my 300 in 1 Electronics Kit I bought from Radio shack like 10 years ago. Bought it because it had a breadboard with basic power inputs so I could use it on other prototypes and easy to assemble external pieces like switches. Been using it again recently to build schematics I find off of various sites online. They have more basic kits that have snap in components. Don't know about these kids, but I would have loved one of those at 13 since I was already soldering and wire wrapping basic circuits.