You obviously haven't owned a Harley in the last 30 years or so.

"Hold my beer and watch this!"

'friggin "type to fast and not read my preview" thinks == things

Yea, we're getting used to a lot of thinks here in Amerika. Not much of which is "right".

From what I understand, it went to Canada

Um..... no: http://www.cycleworld.com/2013/07/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ethanol-fuel-and-your-motorcycle

As an MCT, I get the TechNet subscription as part of my annual fees. Probably the most valuable benifit of the MCT program. Since I'm not really doing much with MSFT training these days, having much more fun with Linux and Open Source stuff, I've been debating weather or not to keep my MSFT certifications going. I stopped doing all the Novell certification crap back in the '90s as they became less and less relevant. I'm thinking this is just more MSFT not being able to figure out how to play in today's environment. I guess I'm done with Microsoft now.

In his fictional book "Daemon" , Daniel Suarez showed lots of ways that Internet connected devices can whack people. Many of them are not that far fetched.

Assuming she finds work as an engineer somewhere, she will probably be issued an employee badge. She will then be asked to "badge in" when she comes to work each day. Is she going to sue her employer because this is against her belief system? Sorry, I agree with her in principle, but I' afraid she has just torpedoed her career.

I'll just run down to Borders and grab a copy. Oh, uh.... wait a minute.

Yea but.... we're not talking about a company where they could become the target of civil litigation. We're talking about the US Federal Govurn-munt. Need I say more? I don't feel good about this at all.

Not saying I got it all figured out, just saying I believe some uber-smart person will figure it out and release a hack into the wild.

There will be a "jailbreak" or somesuch available for these within a matter of hours from when they hit the street.

Oh yea, don't get me wrong - they made money on the HDs. The thing is, they make WAY more on the software. When it comes down to it though, their money is in the software.

I probably shouldn't have opened my mouth anyway, I got sick of defending their hard drive prices when I worked there, been gone over a year - don't want to revisit that BS.

I worked at NetApp for 11 years. The intent never was to sell hard drives, the intent was to sell the software; ONTAP, Snap*, etc.

Dan Warmenhoven used to tell people "give away disks, but sell the software licenses." They make almost nothing on drive sales, they make huge margins on the software