The article linked *is* bad.
I checked a few others that included information regarding how her 20 yr. old son's internet usage may have contributed to this situation.
Also, one from the guardian specifically stated that her husband does make work related trips to China and South Korea.

I would guess they don't really care about the answers to the questions regarding pressure cookers and where are your parents from.
Instead they are: A) A diversion while the other agents look around B) Watching your behavior to see if you are lying and/or exhibiting certain behavior patterns.

I don't know why people get so steamed about having more options.
I think it's great that there are more fish in the sea.
Seriously folks, stop crabbing.

A short non-exhaustive list of reasons:
- New tech typically has to burn in for while before people trust it.
- Many companies who needed that level of speed were already invested in 4Gb and/or 8Gb Fiber.
- The cost wasn't dropping very quickly
- Slow desktop hard drive speeds meant 1Gb to the desktop was more than sufficient

Now two of the big reasons it's more prevalent now:
- Virtual desktops and application virtualization have significantly increased the bandwidth and low latency needs on your network
- More (and somewhat cheaper) onboard availability in new servers makes the transition decision easier, especially in smaller budget operations

This is what passes as news on slashdot now? Let's see what's that brady bunch phrase?? oh yeah..... jumped the shark.

The bar has wifi, so we can remote in an fix stupid user problems in between drinks.

I think you'll have a hard time getting a tech savvy person to consider this hacking when the users are allowing public access. You'd need to prove that they opened an image file for any of the pron charges. There is no evidence of conspiracy to distribute unless you prove they opened any of the files. You could possibly get in trouble for intent to exploit, depending on the the laws of the country of the owner and yours. (Throw in a jurisdiction issue or two.)

Okay, so I wasn't going to go see the Croods movie because the trailer looked awful.
But based on your comments as an industry profressional, you say I can expect to see at least one car chase, some explosions and bare breasts.
If you can assure me that it's not a bunch of man boobs, then I promise to reconsider my decision.

Make sure you have a few 'working' lunches with the new guy AND someone reasonably technical from the client. The purpose of which is to discuss (not at a low level) and issues the new guy has in taking the reigns. This will help make you look more professional and helpful, as well as have a mitigated any damage from you being thrown under the bus after you're gone. Just make sure the client knows the code/app worked as intended/designed before you left, and the new guy claimed to understand it as well as had all his questions answered. If he crashes and burns after you leave then it's on him. You need someone from the client side to has reasonable technical ability, so that they understand the problem if the new guy is asking for you to teach him how to design/code. If the client doesn't understand that, you will definitely be the the fall guy.

In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

The downside to that is if you ever really do need credit. Your credit report shows the highest balance you've had on each card.
Someone with an excellent pay history and a highest balance of $8000, is a better risk than someone with an excellent pay history and a highest balance of $200.
Just note that it's something that does figure into the mix.

The proof of concept (known as the Carnival Splendor) for the "floating city" idea isn't going well....

I first became aware of this when my kids came home from school the first day with a 4 digit number written on their forearm.

It reminded me more of a concentration camp move than big brother.
Especially since last year they had a card they showed and about an hour after lunch I could log into the parent portal and
see what they got for lunch. So it's that much different than last year.

Sadly, if you don't know what The Onion is, this is just as believable as Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) thinking that Guam will tip over if there is too many people on it. http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/3169-rep-hank-johnson-guam-could-tip-over-and-capsize

How much electricity will this box be using 24x7 to do it's monitoring?
Wouldn't all the electricity that the box uses, be unnecessary?

You mean like sharks with frickin' lasers?!?!