In 10 years I may regret posting this non-anonymously but the previous poster hit upon something I have been thinking about recently (in an abstract way!). Good people, loyal corporate drones at the end of their ropes after being on the wrong side of our winner take all system, finally lose it and act out in a spontaneous manner. The end is usually suicide by cop or killing a cop or some other non-productive result. I certainly do not advocate doing this but it would interesting if people that have lost everything and want to end it all and simultaneously strike back began to aim for the head the snake instead of the tail. It's unlikely due to the way people seem to suddenly crack but it seems a few days of research and a little road trip might make a an exponentially bigger statement without a corresponding increase in effort. Or maybe that amount of effort isn't required. Maybe publishing a dossier of the executives listing their addresses, time lines of their daily movements, pictures of them on the golf course might serve to moderate their behavior. Or maybe we will just get martial law earlier than otherwise... Again, I am not an advocate of this type of thing for moral reasons, I do not want blood on my hands, or the dystopia that would be sure to follow.

I think I would have preferred PKD to author Solaris instead of Stanislaw Lem. The novel would be worse but the movie would have been better.

That make sense to me, Everyone/everyplace already has POTS so it makes sense to take advantage of the existing infrastructure. And while they are at it lets get some decent bandwidth out of it. Say symmetrical 100Mb at least. This would let us save the bandwidth for other purposes.

It looks like the requirements are quite demanding, even for 2010. I would expect multiple mishaps before it reaches production status. As a side note: MILSPEC RFP's are generally quite aggressive and challenge the "state of the art" and requires correct operation in all conceivable environmental conditions. This accounts in part for the expense of military equipment.

I don't want to come off as cynical but am compelled to remark that "If you're not lying, you're not trying". HR attempts to game the hiring process (8yrs experience W2K8) which one must circumvent by gaming them back (9yrs experience W2K8) so that you can get the face to face interview that you need to get the gig. Maybe my approach works because I've been doing this a loong time. BTW, 3yrs ago I could almost assume that if I got an interview I would get an offer, these days its running more like one out of two or three. The economy does seem to be making things more competitive...might be time to color the gray hair a bit.

Only $90K? I'll pass.

I don't expect to have privacy while I am at work. The datacenter has cameras, my entering and leaving secure areas is logged, my internet traffic is monitored. I don't have a problem with it as it serves to protect me AND my employer. Police Officers, if you don't have anything to hide why is it a problem videotaping you? Policing is serious business, the stakes are high, and in the interest of fairness both parties should be able to document the transaction. Police already have the upper hand, they have legal powers and lethal force at their disposal.

Until recently I worked as an American employee of an Indian outsourcing firm at a Fortune 100 client in the US. One day I was in the break area with my Indian coworkers and they were commiserating with each about about recruiters exacting skillset demands, I joined in and added, "yeah, they want all that and want to pay $35K/yr!" All of the Indians there looked at me like I had said the dumbest thing imaginable. At that moment I realized they were probably making LESS than 35k in spite of the market rate being >$70K/yr for the described skillset. I thought H1B's had to be paid market rates, apparently the rules are being subverted and they are being paid far less. What we are seeing is the decimation of another good paying industry. In a few years IT architecture meetings will be conducted in Hindi and the remaining Americans will be frozen out. I don't blame Indians for pursuing their interests, I blame the multinational corporations for wanting it boths ways: They want the advantages of the American system AND the labor costs of third world countries. Corporations should display good citizenship and realize that if they want to enjoy the advantages of the developed worlds markets they need to pay developed world wages. The trends really suck...It used to be one citizen = one vote, now it has become one dollar = one vote. Corporations are selecting our political candidates, Democrat or Republican they have to suckle the corporate teat to be elected....

Novell...I didn't know they were still around. When someones says "Novell" I think of Lantastic, Banyan Vines, 100VGAnyLan, etc. NT4.0 ate their lunch and had freaky buttsex with their mom. My first NOS was a pirated copy of 3.11 (20 floppies) running on a 12MB 386DX 33 with a 90MB hard disk. Someone gave me two Arcnet cards (ARCNET!) and I was all set. The first time I saw that F: drive in Windows 3.11 I got so stoked I lived and breathed Netware and was CNA the next month and CNE about six months later. I was having a great time and these were the days when knowing a few DOS commands would get you a gig as sysadmin. I expect another graying veteran will point out that 3.11 needed (officially) 16MB to load. I spent hours tweaking the thing to get it going in 12MB. Now get off my lawn!