mlankton,

You make a valid point. The discussion becomes what is private and what is not. Lets go to your example of pedophiles. First off, I agree with the bullet to the brainpan concept of handling pedophiles. However, I am think more of the implied children. My brother does not want pictures of his sons on the net while they are minors, especially when they are very young due to the preceived temptation it is to preditors. It is a valid point to encourgage better privacy. When we consider the number of complaints comming to light of Iran's intellegence services targeting expat dissidents, the argument becomes stronger. When we allow for information that can be sigificantly damaging to someone to become public domain, the World suffers in ways we might not anticipate.

For some reason, I think cryptography is going to become more popular... what is the stock symbol for PGP?

Having a kindle and a tendency of reading more then the average geek, due to my Ph.D. work (I read about a Robert Jordon book and a half a day between work-school-pleasure reading, not considering websites and email). I love my kindle for pleasure reading, but find that it does not do a good job for academic or professional reading where one has to cite the work. The form factor works for me, where a DX would be a little too large. I can do about four page flips per second with my kindle, which isn't too bad.

The PDF function works for me since the firmware update, but I don't read game manuals or such. Mostly I read journal articles and vendor documents. I prefer to print those out, since my note taking methodology is kindle-incompatable. I am building summary of the articles I am reading for annotated outlines, so it makes sense to print for my type of work.

What I like the best about the Kindle is the portability mixed with readability and battery life. I have mobipocket on my windows phone and could be a pain at times to read, due to the eye strain and backlight sucking the life out of the battery. I use a book light, which has an advantage with regular books and journal articles. In all, the kindle works for me.

I do have the Kindle app for the PC, but it doesn't really work for me. I wished they did have one for the android phone, just when I can't take my bag with me.

Database size is usually not an issue for modern RDBMS, such as Microsoft SQL, Sybase ASE, Oracle, or IBM's DB2. I am running an ERP on Sybase with 3 TB worth of data, a datamart on Microsoft with 5 TB, a Patient Record System on Microsoft with 20 TB, a HR system with 2 TB, and a Patient Accounting system on Oracle with 8 TB of data. All of these systems talk with at least one other system, usually with the assistance of SSIS (Thank god for SSIS, our ETL is heavy lifting, approx. 5 TB a night of incrementals). With enough server hardware, we can scale up to very large levels easily. We forcast out our data size needs out for the next three years and have been very accurate, not running across SAN issues.

Only systems we have had issues with in the area of data size is MySQL and Informix.

Write a detailed report, explaining all the jargon simply, and then summerize it to about 150 to 350 words. Most executives will read the "executive summery", but you will get bonus points from having the further content. However, if you decide to fill the body of the report with junk, you will find out that some of your reports are being read front to back.

Working on my Ph.D., I have a tendency of writing work reports within the 10 to 20 pages range, using APA citing. I use extended abstracts (~350 words, check the report section of APA 5) and use a clear style of writing, expecting my readers to be college educated, but not to the extent that I am educated. However, I tend to be writing lengthy project plans, audits of projects and systems, and in depth analysis of business processes and products.

I treat status reports differently. Status reports are rarely over ~350 words, weekly reports trending at ~150. Brevity is king here. I put in a table of all of my projects with their status, next milestone, CPI, SPI, and EAC. I might also include PDFs of relevent reports that I had published that week.

Silence shrouds the forest As the birds announce the dawn Three travelers ford the river And southward journey on The road is lined with peril The air is charged with fear The shadow of his nearness Weighs like iron tears

Listen to this person. They know their shit. Moving through project management does help with the transistion, but depending on your org, it might not help. All that MBA bs that people complain about actually has purpose.

Well cited, very informative. I love it. Hey, what is with the helicopter over the hou0u8409ulksfd['OQ#([No Carrier]

We have a lot of cable, considering the campus with quite several 4 or more floor buildings with three seperate networks, with redundant run cable. We buy the patch cable in bulk, but the long lenths, we pay someone to run and make. It is just cheeper and we get higher quality. Most people, without a lot of experience, will make crappy cable.