Wait.. wait.. hear me out. The MBA will give you insight into how those who are MBAs think (and therefore, most of management). Also, your experience will say "I can do IT/CS", while the degree will say "I can do business". Which means you're more likely to be able to make a jump to management if you find your career options topping out on the IT/CS end.

And you'd be following in the footsteps of Alan Cox.

It's also worth pointing out that they suggest that common phrases like "Manchester United" or "Harry Potter" would be used quite a bit. Just because it's a passphrase doesn't mean you shouldn't still use a "common dictionary" (or in this case "Common Phrasebook") to prevent people from choosing things like the above, possibly with a length check of some sort involved as well, to prevent cases like "fee fai foh fum", which may not be caught by the common phrase check, but has all words of the same length.

Four or so words chosen at random without association can be memorized and provide greater security. They can even come from a book, as long as they come from different places ie: "Classes Default Automatic When". Words chosen at random, almost sounds like a phrase, but is unlikely to be checked within a certain number of retries. Even using less common phrases from a source would likely be fine. "To be or not to be" will probably be checked early, as it is common. "Nobler in the mind to suffer" would not likely come up, as it is not the start of the phrase, or even the complete phrase.

The certs noted in the article are almost all for products that aren't on the edge of technology anymore, and in one case was for a specific version of that technology. I bet the number of jobs in those areas are also shrinking a bit. The article also notes that certs for jobs that are the most "in demand" have growing salaries.

All in all, the article is crying wolf.

(Also.. for those of you who are managers and don't like certified people: Some of the certs out there require hands-on experience to be proven.. research before you reject all certifications out of hand).

It's a good ruling (and about damn time on this one), but it could have gone farther. As the minority opinion says, and I agree, what's to stop non-intrusive methods such as future UAV drones from being used without a warrant?

As someone else with high blood pressure, I have to ask: did you ever ask why the doctor is doing so much lab work?

I don't know what medication you're on, but I know that the one I'm on requires regular checks on kidney function. A previous medication would deplete my Potassium (yay, Bananas). Now to be fair this didn't require MONTHLY checks, but I have normal kidney function and was fairly good about keeping my potassium levels up. If my kidney functions showed a little bit off, or I had some other risk factor, I wouldn't be surprised if my normal doctor visit went from 3-6 months to once a month.

As to why they do the blood pressure check every time is simple: people lie. (After all, how many people do you think will admit honestly: "I don't bother doing this at home even though you said it was important". They'll more likely go with "I do this three or four times a week and my numbers look good")

It's entirely possible your doctor is just milking your insurance for all he can get, but at least ask. Take control of your health and don't just be a sheep.

Sounds like you have had a collision with this recently, and for that you have my sympathy.

However, I think you missed some of the important questions in there and seem to have tried to group them all under "WTF does that mean".
For examples:
Cloud email - What is the guaranteed uptime? What are our support channels when things go wrong? Do you offer those channels 24x7? What is the frequency of your back ups? What data is backed up, just the configurations or actual email? -This last one probably would have shown enough specific risk that your average handwaving exec would have looked for a different provider in your case.

Cloud file storage - As above, but I would add "How will you provide us with a copy (backup tape/media/etc) of OUR data?" especially in the event that we migrate away or you decide to stop this service.

Cloud Accounting software - What are your user acceptance testing processes before you roll out a new release? If we don't accept the changes what are our options (run on old version, get our data and go elsewhere?)

These kind of questions would have identified specific risks which the vendor couldn't just handwave away. If don't have these things they don't (obviously didn't) meet business requirements and a different vendor should have been considered. "Cloud Provider" is just a fancy word for "Service Provider", and if you aren't questioning your vendors you'll get bad results. Same thing applies when choosing a datacenter, an internet provider, a telephone provider, etc.

Being "Cloud" or "Outsourced" or "Buzzword of the day" isn't the problem. Acting like "Cloud is not a good move for us just because of the word Cloud" is just going to get you branded as not being a team-player.

Just to turn this around for a second: Why haven't you?
Try house of reps, or more local.

I've thought about it, and my only issue with doing so myself is "electability" (ie: the people that vote care more about a candidate's opinion on , for example, abortion than if they will fix the immediate real problems out there) coupled with the massive amount of fundraising which must be done to be a "viable candidate".

....Considering I pay the city for trash pick up (and where I am, we actually pay private firms.. the city does not provide trash pick up) they should be the ones to sort it, in my opinion. If I can pay more and not do my own sorting, I'm all for it. Everywhere I have been that makes you sort recyclables has been way too picky about what can and can't be recycled. "Plastic, but not this type, paper not including newspaper, x glass but not y glass". Pain in the ass.

for some reason I hear this in the voice of three-dog from Fallout 3.

Siri's biggest plus, I think, is the integration of text to speech within iOS. It's fairly accurate and no longer requires a separate app (like the Dragon dictate app).Now, if it's a text box that pops up the on-screen keyboard, you can talk to it.

Siri's downside comes in the limitations that appear to have been arbitrary decisions: I can't add or manipulate contacts hands-free, Most of the information (including directions) that siri retrieves will not be read. (Seriously, how hard is it to say read me the weather that was just retrieved without me having to ask "Describe the weather on sunday"?) and an inability to do simple tasks it has information for ("Pull up facebool/Open Angry birds.." or "List [songs|albums] by $artist that I have" both should be trivial)

I am happier with it's overall control for the ipod, however. It's about time I can ask it to play a song by title.