Truly wise money would go yet another step further. Instead of using a regular laptop, bring a commodore 64 and put sensitive data in the $E000-$F000 region. Mark the machine with a sticker 'confusius'.

My job is about software development, just call me a programmer. Last time I went to a trade show I learned that some 500 new acronyms had been invented. By now they must be out of fashion again because I never hear about them anymore. Sadly, in my area of expertise not a lot of groundbreaking stuff is happening. Sure, there are many who pretend that they have the new golden recipe that makes the new software easy to write, with 0% defects etc. In reality there's always some point where the dirty work has to be done, the result is prone to bugs and is hard to maintain.

I'm a bit fed up with these shows promoting extensions to bad management and recycling of meaningless mumbo jumbo.

Have you been watching the 40 year old virgin too many times?

at least they got the hairdo correct

your rants about the rich make you look stupid.

Get a job.

I think Mr. Hogan should stick to wrestling.

how about: Hahaha!!

my prediction: they will all press the button just once and be content to say that they tried.

Peoples habits are hard to change.

That is disgusting

Too late, Bob is already pissed off because the entire board has been told Bobs system sucks. Being uninformed, they agreed.

One of you two guys has to go. I suggest it better not be Bob.

I'm with you Bob.

Let those bureaucrats with their clouds, protocols and acronyms for procedures go screw themselves. We live in the real world and like to get things done.

Oh well, who is John Galt?

Reading the question, seeing that that there were over 300 comments, I thought I was in for an hour of reading one-liners marked funny +5.

This being slashdot I was confronted with hundreds of comments containing advise, sympathy and conflicts over why it is illegal to own certain kinds of pens.

Take a step back people, we're talking about pens here.

Still nerds, but older and with more money. If something breaks, you used to take a screwdriver and soldering iron. Nowadays you click a button in a webshop to replace the device.

Thanks, I appreciate your comments.