from environmentalists over warming the fjord water in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

It's the sort of stupid article you'd expect from an organization that is supposedly all about information technology, but is so backwards that they're endlessly pestering me to take a free subscription to their dead-tree edition. If their web site isn't even worth visiting for free articles, why would they think I want to spend the effort moving their magazine from my mailbox directly to the trash?

...and put on some Rush. :-)

The real purpose for Google putting everything into one entry box is that everything you type gets turned into a search, and therefore gets sent to Google. It adds a very significant amount of data to their user search information database - essentially monetizing everything you type up there (Microsoft does this with IE as well). My guess is that Mozilla is getting something under the table for this as well. Fork time?

Why? Do you think regulations will magically make these companies haxx0r-proof?

Here's what happens with the regulatory process: the companies lobby the shit out of the appropriate politicians and agencies. Regulations are produced. They don't solve much, but now we get a new bureaucracy to handle the regulations. The companies still get cracked, but now they can say "Hey, it wasn't our fault - we followed the regulations."

Happens all day, every day.

George Jepsen is a Democrat. (Disclaimer: I am not a Republican - I can't stand either major party).

...then why do they pass laws and ordinances mandating their existence? If you don't believe me, try starting your own phone or cable company sometime.

I love it when government passes laws adding new regulations to solve problems created by government rather than just fixing their initial mistakes. The closest we got to to sanity was the AT&T breakup by the Judicial branch, but the legislative and executive branches were bought off sufficiently bought to more or less undo all of the good done there.

Heck, my freaking blender has a microprocessor in it (and takes a second or two to boot up when I turn it on).

Yes, it's a BlendTec.

Santa's having to spend all of his energy moving his workshop whenever the North Pole shifts. This screws up Christmas gift giving, which is a major economic driver.

Somehow this is all Bush's fault - and like everything else Obama's just putting Bush's policies on steroids...

Ugh. That's only because the ASA CLI is so hopelessly, thoroughly screwed (actually, that describes ASA software in general). I love running "sh run object-group | b " and then scrolling back through 600 object-groups to see the one I was interested in. Or searching through access lists that are in no particular order. Or remembering that clearing a site-to-site VPN connection is in the "clear crypto" command tree, and remote client VPN connections are "vpn-sessiondb logoff" (I could go on for ages).

The whole thing should have been refactored ages ago...