What the US need is an equivalent to the Norwegian Data Inspectorate, see English webpage at http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/Page____194.aspx

Doing any of the things the patent and the article suggests in Norway is illegal. If you have the permission to collect any form of private data from a client you have to protect it and you can only collect what is absolutely necessary and under no circumstances can you sell any part of the information collected.

It just baffles me that other countries are so lax when it comes to private information.

The Hulks is in reality a lichen?

Who could have thunk?

Yes, the sloika or layer-cake design was used to trigger a fusion reaction.

The problem with young Americans is that they have an attention span equal to the time between two commercial segments on TV.

USA will never again become a world leader in anything, get used to it. The time for America is over, USA will over the next decade see a steady unemployment around 20% and it will not drop.

There is still time to avoid becoming a full fledged third world country but I do not see any work being done to avoid it, quite the opposite.

This is incorrect.
Even before Apple launches the Mac, I ran a graphical environment much like Windows under CP/M-86, it was called Gem and was used by amiong others, the British computer Apricot. It was made by Digital Research, the same company that made CP/M

I don't make jokes like that

But I have never and will not ever, buy any Apple products. I have been in the business since before Apple's birth and they are no better than Microsoft, just smaller.

This is great news!

Noe I can back up my 3 TB porn collection...

I-can-see-russia-from-my-space-station is also available!

What's next? Space Porn? Zero-G gay-men-in-space-orgy?

Can you imagine a stripper pole dancing in zero-G?

Jawohl, Mein Herr!

Und was ist neu?

My company just moved to a new support system built upon Flash and used by thousands internally. It's a huge mess!

I've been livid but to no avail of course. Who the fuck designs a support system in flash?

And I do take a hike in those cases.

If I encounter such a webpage, I simply move on as I am running Linux and have no interest in any web sites that think they need to force me to run any Windows crap.

The filesystem they should have used, is btrfs, http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

But I guess it's a bit too early yet. I'm running it on a 1Tb without any problems and it is F-A-S-T.

Well, I guess your company is mismanaged then.

I've been working from home for over 7 years. I have two USB drives I use for work, a 1TB and a 2TB FreeAgent drive which have been encrypted using TrueCrypt. My /home/xxxx directories are also encrypted.