There goes the bankroll for our precious Ron Paul.

You're not too far off from the truth there. While there's always been a small contingent of native liberals that gather in Austin, native Texans are vocally concerned about the waves of Californians moving to surrounding states. The thinking is that these people supported stupid policies that transformed California from the nation's envy to Greece with a Valley Girl accent, and now they're leaving California like locusts that have eaten up one field and are moving on to others. I've got friends there that are worried about Californians coming to Texas for the jobs, and then trying to turn Texas into California.

Stop pissing in my Cheerios. I was raised on Star Trek, and won't take reality for an answer to faith in Scientism.

Don't they know that they are standing in the way of the last escape from this polluted trap?

What do I DO wiz PART0 FILEZ? PLZ HXLP!

Honestly, the TLD system has been broken for a long time. There should probably never have been TLDs without country codes, for one thing. And enforcement on TLDs that were supposed to be reserved for specific purposes was always lousy -- I remember seeing clearly commercial sites with .net TLDs popping up in the mid-90's.

Microsoft should be perfectly happy with their ownership of .crash, .virus, and .bsod.

Fair enough.

At work, I get the choice of the Dell "Power User" Business Lattitude. - Or?

A MacBookPro.

I need to run ESXi virtualised on top of Workstation or Fusion. Dell killed me, trying to get this to work - 4 cores and all...

So Apple's limited choice in models, and non-responsiveness to IT requests for support features plays to the interest of the user.

CIPS really stands for Child Internet Porn Society. They're clearly a bunch of pedophiles, because otherwise, why would they be trying in any way to limit efforts to PROTECT THE CHIIILDREN?!?

This. When I started an MS program in biostatistics, with a BS in math and an MS in computer science, I figured I already knew at least half of what I'd need to know. I was wrong -- the biostatistics coursework was the toughest I'd ever had.

That being said, a math BS is fine preparation for a statistics or biostatistics MS or PhD, and most graduate biostatistics programs, at least, come with excellent financial support packages; the TA and RA stipends tend to be quite generous, as such things go. And the job prospects once you get the degree are good too.