This opinion gets written up at least once a year. Nothing's new this time around.

Except..

Now we have a viable alternative to Hypercard: the Brainfuck programming language.

You can thank me later.

Like I said, No True Scotsman.

That prompts two responses.
First, your sentence is a variant of "no true Scotsman." What's the point of having a pope if every Catholic gets to interpret matters religious on their own?

Second: on the bright side, unlike a certain other religion popular the world around, you can say something against the pope and not get assassinated by religious leaders for doing so.

and here I thought it was the lead-in to a video about a woman and four pizza-delivery boys...

SRSLY? You bought a house in [redacted] Hawaii and didn't get volcano insurance?

Depends: does Batman have access to some Green Kryptonite? Does the fight take place on a planet orbiting a red star?
Does Batman say (quite out of context), " You can't win, Darth^H^H^H^H Superman. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."

Quote: "'They're going after people who are really not criminals,' said David Smith, a former federal prosecutor "

Ummm, hey Mr. Lawer Dude: why should they be allowed to impound ANY non-criminal item from ANYONE? It's one thing to remove, say, guns and illegal drugs when arriving with a warrant. It's another to say "hey, I bet that cash and those guns are illegal so let's take them " (and the car they're in -- the car is often taken as well) It's been pretty well established that local police depts use the forfeiture laws as a moneymaking operation. How about we take property the old-fashioned (joke) way: after conviction, or at the very least, grand-jury indictment?

I'm not in the least convinced that it was illegal. Revealing classified info which reveals the existence of criminal behavior is not necessarily illegal (at least as of one of my early briefings when having a clearance bestowed upon my august presence).

And you're offensively paternalistic in thinking I want to go thru 10 minutes of booting & reloading all my apps and active development docs every day (or even week) just to satisfy some IT god's paranoia. I repeat: load the patches and give the users a minimum of 5 day's warning before forcing a reboot.

Wow -- someone's doing it right :-). Can I come work for your company pleez?

You're entirely missing the point. Aside from the fact that viruses almost never penetrate the corporate firewalls, what I stressed was that system (and AV-software) updates can be pushed without executing a forced shutdown. There are better ways to achieve the same goal.
Call someone else a PEBCAC, 'mkay? I lost 2 days of work because some red flag went off and IT wasted 2 days doing their SuperSpecial scans only to find nothing at all -- and here I am with an 8-core machine but they wouldn't let me run their scans while simultaneously working.

Without that, what's the point :-) .

Go ahead, make some Rule34 versions of what "bobbles" you want to get.

And, THAT is why we call IT workers total fuckwits. Until you figure out how to tell the users they must reboot without doing a forced shutdown of apps without so much as saving the work in process, we're going to do everything we can (e.g. pulling the ethernet plug every night before going home) to stop your idiocy. Granted Windows itself is largely to blame, as it's incapable of understanding that force-quitting apps should never be allowed sans local keyboard interaction (i,e. direct user approval), but the typical IT approach of nuking from orbit is unexcusable.

So what you're really saying is "Criminals are the job creators" ? :-) :-)