I agree completely, roll your own is the best method. The only issues with it is technical know-how, and ISP limitations (and cost). But if those are a non issue, there is no better solution.

Domain names are relatively cheap, and hosting is relatively cheap. I go that route myself. The only people that have access to my server is the hosting company (which is no worse than Google to be honest)

if you have the means, the very best solution is to run an email server out of your home or place of business.

I used to work for a smaller semiconductor fab. The site itself was considered a foreign trade zone, which meant you were subject to search entering and leaving the building. It doesn't matter if you were paid or not, you were subject to search.

I seem to recall something very similar happening with Ubuntu last year with Ubuntu 12.10. Canonical received all sorts of flack for it, and rightly so. But at least with Ubuntu, you can at least disable that "feature" without much effort.

Makes me wonder if Microsoft is going to get a free pass because, well, Microsoft.

Seriously, I have to ask how anyone is surprised at all by this. I pretty much wrote it off as an expectation that LEOs would be doing this routinely. And why wouldn't they?

True in Arizona. Plus refusing to take a sobriety test (they give you a list of options, so you have to refuse all of them) is an automatic 1 year license suspension even if you are not convicted of a DUI. And then they can still arrest you and/or a judge will issue a warrant for your blood.

I'll give you that one. Unfortunately malware in general is a major problem on the Microsoft OSs, and I'm sick and tired of dealing with it.

I'm not gonna pretend that viruses and malware don't exist on Linux. They do.

However the final straw that drove me to Linux over Windows 7 was a very, very nasty Java virus that managed to disable my antivirus program outright, disable my administrator account's admin privs, and even manage to corrupt some core DLLs required to boot Windows. At that point, I literally said "fuck it" and downloaded the then-current version of Linux Mint and gave it a whirl (after a few months I settled into Arch Linux and never looked back).

Also, I realized that I only really needed Windows 7 to play games, and I just don't have as much time for games as I used to. I still keep it around on a separate hard drive, ready to boot into at any time, but it is no longer my primary OS.

Funny thing with BB late fees, you actually had until 2PM, not Noon, to get your movie checked in. I know this because I used to work for BB from 2001-2002; the 2PM deadline was to allow the clerks time to get the movies checked in, and even then the late fee could be overridden by the clerk.

Then again, considering that it was a minimum wage job, most clerks didn't care (I was one of the few who actually gave a rats ass). Its hard to give quality service when the majority of your staff works minimum wage. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for, and employees who care is no exception.

There are other reasons why BB is doomed; profits from late fees is only one facet of a much larger problem.

At my company there is a lot of internal chatter about BYOD, along with the security concerns (especially in terms of IP).

My stance: Just say no to BYOD. If my company deems it necessary for me to use a portable electronic device to perform my job, then either:
a) They supply it, and it remains company property, or
b) There is no option b

Aside from the visible light spectrum, it also has a Bluetooth receiver/transmitter. So probably 1W/m^2 is my best guess (and its probably a poor guess).

I disagree. In order to maintain a constant cruising velocity, the airplane still has to exert a constant force to counter drag and gravity, and that force is directly proportional to the mass of the airplane (as well as its cruising velocity). More mass means more force needed.

If you say that a Boeing 737 has a mass of ~40,000 kilograms (a ballpark estimate, not counting fuel), and each Boeing 737 has a seating capacity of ~180 passengers (another ballpark estimate), each passenger would be responsible for ~222 kilograms of plane in addition to their own mass and cargo they bring aboard. And keep in mind that the average adult human has a mass of 60 to 80 kilograms.

Never said my equation wasn't linear either! I'm basically just changing the Y-intercept of the equation and the slope.

You mean they don't already?

It appears that their cost formula is a strictly linear equation:

Cost (price) = weight (kilograms) x rate (price per kilogram)

Though their cost formula doesn't take into account the amount of airplane that each person also needs to haul around in addition to themselves; the price to fly children is disproportionately cheap, while larger adults are disproportionately expnsive.

I probably would have priced it as such if my goal were to meet expenses

Cost (price) = fixed_cost (price) + weight (kilograms) x rate (price per kilogram)