if i had mod points i'd mod this +1 Insightful also. I've had an increasingly-long resume as I have moved up in my career. It started out as one of those "fit it in one page" jobs which makes sense when you are starting your career. People who have no experience, should not have a long resume. But if you've had any sort of career (which this Grossbart fellow seems to have had) it's right and proper to give adequate space to explaining what you did in these jobs, and highlighting your successes over that time. Most importantly, don't assume anyone is going to actually "read" your resume. Bullet points let the reader skim quickly, which is what most people do. Grossbart's resume has a lot of words about his decade+ at Novell, but even reading it, it isn't clear what he actually accomplished as an individual.

Interesting with all that policing and tolerant liberal/progressive do gooders running things Austin can't seem to do anything about the homeless begging at every major intersection even outside the city, and harassing you for change urinating on things, stealing, and generally being a nuisance, if you are walking around downtown. I don't live in Austin but I visit for work and the people are mostly nice but the town they have created for themselves really does suck.

great pic. mod parent post up. amazing to see the damn thing still works after you drop a bomb on it and set it on fire.

A second article linked from that lifehacker post pointed to this item http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50035115 at ikea that looks really useful. You attach it to the underside of your desk at the back, and it acts as a tray for the wires which at least keeps them off the floor. That plus cable ties is probably the most straightforward thing to do.

It's precisely the most unpopular speech that requires the most vigorous defense. If "freedom of speech" were only about defending popular speech, it wouldn't be worth much. You defend the bigoted neo-Nazis right to speech most vigorously because you might find yourself tomorrow saying something deemed unpopular, and then where will you be? In jail right next to those neo-Nazis!

Question is do we really need the Federal government rather than state/local governments assessing taxes and doling out money for road repairs for anything other than federally funded interstate highways? And why do they need to track *everyone's* movements in order to determine this? Seems to me the same effect would be gained simply by ratcheting up the per gallon tax as cars get more efficient without the dubious need to invade privacy.

Also, having worked in computer security, I've learned that there is an *awful* lot of information that can be gleaned by analyzing traffic patterns. You can extract all kinds of information, based on your behavior and patterns and networks of locations you visit.

See for example http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_ice_icepic.pdf (emphasis mine):

"ICEPIC is a toolset that assists ICE law enforcement agents and analysts in identifying suspect identities and discovering possible non-obvious relationships among individuals and organizations that are indicative of violations of the customs and immigration laws as well as possible terrorist threats and plots."

So the lesson here is, install a clean copy of windows and don't install any software unless you want your boot time to go up by 4x and the machine to not be responsive?

I'm so glad I finally smartened up over the past few years and abandoned windows for greener OS pastures...

Unfortunately that doesn't quite seem to work in the UK, apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer)

So what you're saying in effect is subordinate yourself to the system and you'll "feel free". Are you saying you feel free relative to your neighbors who aren't allowed free expression or association? How's that Great Firewall treating you? Want to talk to your friends over there about the Tiananmen Square massacre which has been effectively erased down the memory hole? Care to associate with spiritual seekers from Falun Gong or does that fall outside your definition of living within the law, to shun those who the government has deemed unacceptable?

Would be helpful to know where those numbers come from, do they represent total public + private healthcare investment (big difference would be seen in those numbers for statist versus free market systems) but I also don't see how investment in military is a bad thing given the original question.

If I migrate to a Latin American country that is on the "high HDI" list, but there's suddenly an authoritarian government coup in the country next door, who then starts agitating for a similar takeover in my new home country, how strongly will my new country be able to resist backsliding into anarchy or despotism? I think that has to factor in, not just how "free" the place is today, but how likely or unlikely for things to reverse themselves quickly. The relative long term stability of the system that country has must be a factor as well. The Baltic states look good on the HDI list now, but keep in mind there's been a hell of a lot of turmoil there in the past decade or so.

The poll in TFA is funny: 98% against, 1% for, and 1% don't care. I'm surprised the "don't care" isn't much higher given the level of apathy about ANY topic in this country, but who is the genius that instituted this policy, which is totally obvious to the most casual observer as being completely absurd?

There are some niche markets where price/performance or raw speed matter, but for the majority of buyers it's irrelevant. I've recently convinced my baby-boomer parents to get a new computer, and in the store they kept asking about the speed as though they would have any clue what 2.4GHz meant anyway. I finally convinced them it was the features other than speed they should consider, and as long as the computer has a modern CPU it was going to work for them just fine. Good enough is good enough for most people nowadays! There are some cases where it matters even for the average user (such as the differences between netbook processors) but for anything with a dual core or quad core, forget it. It is all "fast".

If you fly enough, you'll get treated reasonably well, at least by the airline if not by the TSA. And that is how it should be. One-time super saver fare customers should be herded like cattle into their coach seats. Taking the train on such a long trip you must have a lot of free time on your hands and not mind being in transit for 2-3x longer, or are a leisure traveler.