Mod parent up. This is the most insightful comment I've seen on /. in quite a while.

The more "services" the government provides, the more you're dependent on it. That alone will limit your freedoms. However as the above post points out. The real problem is by providing these "services" there's just more government around and it does what government does (attempt to control people).

Want government to provide health care? Next thing you know it will outlaw a bunch of "unhealthy" activities b/c treating the effects are too much for the government provided health care.

Want government to provide water, electricity, and other utilities? Next thing you know watering your lawn, turning on a light, or visiting certain internet sites will be illegal b/c it puts too much of a strain on the government provided system.

You're much better off finding a place with none of these services and fight to keep them from ever being implemented.

Personally I live in the US and have for 6 years been thinking about moving out. Unfortunately there isn't any place more free. However we're on the wrong track heading in the wrong direction, while there are a number of places heading in the right direction.

IMHO after a lot of thought the right choice is to stay and fight. Fleeing will not improve the situation in the long run.

PHP is not JavaScript.

In this day of over-specialization, I can see how someone would be a PHPnerd and not know anything about JavaScript.

Heck where I work, I'm pretty atypical in that I know not only PHP and JavaScript, but Perl and a number of other scripting languages. Most people just know one language and don't seem to have the ability to branch out beyond it.

As for what hulu is doing...
I'm guessing (I haven't read anything more than the summary like a good /.er) hulu is encrypting the video and on the same page in plain text is the way to decrypt the video.

It's already been cracked. When will people learn?

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/04/01/hulu-tried-to-encrypt-content-already-cracked

Um... wouldn't that be a reason to use MySQL?

Right after college, desperate for a job, I interviewed with Circuit City.

I had to go to the main place down near the city instead of out in Henrico.

First thing I notice is there are a bunch of people who look like a bunch of junkies hanging out in fron of the door.

I walk past that into the reception area. After a brief wait, a guy and a girl who I think were younger than me at the time, took me into an office for the interview.

As soon as I sat down they started reading questions from their clipboard.

These questions weren't the kind that would see if you knew anything about their products or could otherwise do your jobs. They were all about "If you saw one of your coworkers using illegal drugs in their home, what would you do?" With few exceptions they were all about drug use.

The last question was, do you have any questions for us? My answer was "Yes I do. Since y'all seem extremely interested in drug use, does Circuit City have a lot of employees with a drug problem? I certainly don't want to work in such an environment."

They gave me some BS answer about weeding out that kind of employee.

I walked out the door knowing I would not accept a job with them no matter what.

Of course they didn't call me either so I guess I didn't give them the answers they wanted.

I am a trek fan and excited about the new movie

Not possible. The phrase before the conjunction is contradicted by the phrase after the conjunction.

Either you're a trek fan and your horrified by the new movie. Or you're not a trek fan and are excited about the new movie.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s.00436:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.01076:

Why is this under idle. It really should be YRO.

I hope you realize that by paying the fee, you also are admitting to be guilty of driving without a license. So on all future job applications you need to check that little box saying you have been convicted of a traffic violation.

The signature on the card must be reasonably close to the signature on the slip they sign.

Mastercard has a nice little web form to report merchant violations. It usually only takes one or two reports to get the merchant in line.

Actually his writeup hits a point I've been struggling with for a while and one that is making me reconsider Linux as my desktop OS.

Is there a diagram editor that works on Linux? I've tried Dia and it seems clunky and lacking. Is there anything out there with the functionality of Visio, but runs on Linux?

I guess you've never gotten a raise and ended up with a smaller paycheck. It happens all too frequently.

It's already happened before (back when you still used film in cameras). Some folks took pictures of their kid in the tub just playing with some kid's toys.

The person at the place that developed the pictures (fox photo I think), call the police and I believe the parents ended up with jail time and had their kid taken from them.