They tried this at a bar I go to in the early 2000's all laptops were banned, it worked until about 2005 when Blackberries started coming out and now 80% of the bar is on their iPhones but you will still be asked to leave if you use a laptop.

Where do you work that you are not using cloud or at least gearing up to move to cloud?

That should be a clue that something is wrong, gold mines across the world that were abandoned when Gold was half the price it was now are all being reopened. If people think gold can withstand 2x the amount of gold tonnage on the market coming out in 2012+ they are delusional.

Almost all the industrial use captures 99% of the gold and reuses it over and over again as well, that should be clear. We use about .001% of the weight of copper per annum. The few gold contacts and insulation that are on satellites being pretty much the only exception. Besides Chinese New Year, Valentines Day and Christmas, there is not a large demand for using gold. Gold mines opening up worldwide on the current prices will see gold drop dramatically in value once they come online in 2012 and beyond.

When this show started 10 years ago the amount of servers for a 1000 person "shard" was measured in racks, by the end of this decade I would not be surprised to see 1000 person servers on a single blade.

QA can be contracted out for 20 dollars an hour in house, I would suggest you look into that. It is a full time job for anything but the smallest of code bases.

The long lines are what they are bombing now, terrorists targeting airports right now are thinking that rolling up with a suitcase filled with explosives in the middle of a large crowd waiting for security:

a) Shuts down the whole airport.
b) Inflicts more causalities than randomly crashing an airliner
c) Will make security spend massive amounts of money countering

Let''s review, TSA has made us less safe by offering us up as a larger and slower target. It is like putting security at the watering hole to make sure no one is a crocodile while lions eat everyone else who is waiting in line.

It was in at least 5 newspapers yesterday, Google it, I'm not your bitch.

I don't know ask them, they released over 50 of them last week and deported them into Afghanistan. Maybe to kill Americans?

The only current threat of nuclear war in the middle east comes from Israel, unless you have some other proof of a secret program somewhere? Iran has 50 years of oil left and its gone, they are currently developing a nuclear program, no one has shown it be anything but civilian.