When our choices dwindle to none.

This programmer guy I know who works for Verizon, calls himself "The best of the best of the best" . He has no problem telling people he works with, people in other departments, and even clients, that they are morons. When he has a mouthful he never holds back. If he can(and has), he will go out of his way to get people fired for being stupid. He will berate people to tears. He says he just can work with morons, and he lets every one know that. He thinks he's the Dr. House of programmers. I ask him if he can get in trouble or fired, he says how he is the best programer ever known, and verizon would fold if he was fired.

What is it with programmers? Are they all arrogant?

It's interesting they would produce interference way up into the 700Mhz range. It obviously must be harmonics from a switching type electronic ballast, but still that's really high frequency.

For example, I just drove 3 blocks to get some beer. I was seen by 1 traffic camera and several cameras at the store, and who knows how many other private cameras along the way. Think about it, even in your own neighborhood. As soon as you step out you door SMILE! You are on camera!

Watch out for excessive beta particles.

It's been a good 16 years. I'm packing my bags and leaving. Bye Slashdot!

O im sure there is something in the EULA that prohibits that.

Fans? I don't need no stinking fans.. Sniff Sniff..
What's that smell?

Yes I know, that's why I said modbus/over rs-485. It's modbus that is not very secure.

This is interesting coincidence because I am currently learning the modbus protocol over rs-485 - which is what is used in industrial control. The protocol is very old - circa 1979 and is simple, cheap, and brain-dead. Perhaps that's why its still used because it easy to implement on low power hardware (like in a microcontroller, which is what I'm currently working on). There is no security in it whatsoever, and rs-485 is used because it is differential, and immune to electrical noise. It can run over a kilometer, even more with repeaters. Modbus can be run on top of tcp/ip too. I am using it to connect various sensors around my house (weather station, fuel tank levels, electrical load, etc with local microcontrollers). I had no idea they ran the serial line outside of a building to other sites where its easily intercepted. I am actually surprised it's still used at all in critical applications..

You know your post will never make it through to the Brits, right?

NASA, Scientific research, climate research - you know, the unimportant ones..

I wish I had an answer for you, other than the media. The last 20 years has been the "coming out" years for stupidity. Ignorance and stupidity are rewarded and intellectualism, logic and reason is to be avoided because it's "geeky". No one seems capable of critical thinking anymore. There are people who know they are stupid, and are proud of it! Really - with all thees low-brow TV shows like "honey boo boo", "duck dynasty" , " kardashians", etc - they seem to make being stupid vogue somehow. Then on the flip side of the coin, last month CNN did a short bit on CERN'S LHC and the 2 reporters were giggling, making jokes, couldn't keep a straight face during the piece. They were obviously uncomfortable reporting on this subject for fear they may get labeled a geek or something. Perhaps our future is shown in the movie "Idiocracy". I fear for our future generations. I saw something here on Slashdot the other day which I posted on my fridge; that sums it up:

"“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”"

Until the entire industry colludes and washes each others hands to up the bar for all of them.

So much for "We only collect Meta Data"
Liars