It seems to me that many organisations would consider payroll, health and other HR info as private and hence restrict access to it on the network, but they wouldn't consider encrypting it with a passowrd - well at least nowhere where I have worked.
And perhaps military institutions consider attack plans, weapons secrets and such as worthy of protection but not an "inteview" that we did "ourselves", "inhouse".
We are learning more and more that this is a connected world - yes even your fridge will have an IP address and be on the net one day mark my words and EVERYTHING will need to be encrypted. Encryption grammar and other security verbiage will be second hand speak for moms and kids ...
"have you packed your lunch"
"Yes mom"
"And MD5 SSL'd your homework via the kerebos LDAP certificate server? You know what happened last time when Mr Jones found your SSH key unencoded on the SELinux partition - I don't want to go through that again"
"Arghh yes mom I have been over this 1000 times with you let it go - my friends and I were scanning photons of the prom dance when James accidentally Bluetoothed a letter from his brother in the army to Amy's communication jewellery which had a compaible 3DES encrytpion algorithm - now will you let it go!? Shees!"
"I'm just saying is all - I have to go and buy some groceries and when I scan my embedded subcutaneous barcode it better not say that I have been SQL Injected because of a bad CRC checksum - I won't be embarrassed like I was the last time"

Wow that was quite an open and honest confession you just laid out there. I am glad that you have found help within the church. I can tell you from experience that if you spend time in prayer and meditation, God's Holy Spirit will work with you to achieve a healing in your iife. Peace comes through the knowledge of God - the more you learn about him the more peace you will find. Be strong in the Lord and meek in his strength.

How do you know a corpse can't hear?
Does the tympanic membrance still vibrate in a corpse? If so does this mean that the ear has registered the sound?
Does the absence of - measureable - brain waves or other responses to auditory stimuli automatically mean that it is not registering?
Hmmm ... I wonder ...

Just so I understand, hasn't anyone been able to buy / build a model aeroplane for the past few decades and possibly attach a camera or weapons to it? The only difference now is that they can go a little further - I guess.

I don't want to sound ungrateful or anything but is $100K really all that much considering how expensive it must be to do this kind of research?

Hmmm ... good point but I think that the shareholders are like "who cares - where my ROI? If we were a university then that would mean something to us but we are a commercial entity.

You gotta spend money to make money that is just the way it is. Also, Apple has no where NEAR the the service/product offering that MS have. There are overlaps in their target audiences but there are also major variations.

Hmmm ... yes these are some good points. So over here we say "cisco rowter" as opposed to "cisco rooter" [router]. We also say "deeb-eye-an" as opposed to "deeb-i-in" [debian]. Soo-zee as opposed to Soo-zuh [Suse] Dee-min as opposed to Day-mon [Daemon] Ah and two of my personal favourites: This same guy I mentioned above will correct you if you don't say the WHOLE name. eg: Postgres - he will correct you and say postgresQL OpenOffice - he will insist on OpenOffice.org and so forth

I agree - I too will prejudge a person based solely on their use of colloquialisms etc. I once had a friend who said that anyone who used the term "sequel" as opposed to spelling out the letters "S-Q-L" knew nothing about databases!!!!!!!

If you just want to turn on your PC and it must just "work" then I highly recommend PCLinuxOS. I have run it on EVERYTHING I have and it just fires up and starts first time. It has all the codecs I need and a very easy to use and navigate package system. Check it out.

Have you considered PC-BSD? It is to FreeBSD what Ubuntu is to Linux.

Hey that is a good point - I have never thought of that myself. How can you tell what your bot community is doing? Is there a way to tell? What about SETI? Is that a botnet? How do we know what it is doing with all out free CPU cycles - maybe it is a government conspiracy to ... wait wait only kidding.

I hear what you are saying - but what is the business model? IIRC Borland tried to sell commercial Linux apps without success. I'm not sure if Oracle do any client-type apps but off the top of my head I can't think of any company that are doing it. I'm sure I am wrong but it seems to me that the Linux user base are reluctant to pay for Software - they would rather wait for a community supported FOSS version to come out. Yes I am generalising but that has been my experience.

I remember watching a show on television about doctor's salaries. One of the MD Union guys said, "Hey we pay athletes millions of dollars to hit a small white ball around, so paying 100K for a life saving operation shouldn't be too ridiculous." what's my point? Well, it all comes down to "money". I used to think that those "Learn to program in 24 Hours" books were the worst thing that could have happened to our industry because it has allowed "cowboys" to enter the business and run-a-muck (you wouldn't build a house after reading a "Learn to build a house in 24 hrs" book right?). But then I remembered how I have used short articles and "dummies" books to quickly stick something together to meet a need or a deadline - and I had to because of MONEY!!! Employers have deadlines and need results and they push us to "whip something together". They are not academic institutes that care about the protocol for SOAP etc they just want you to link to that server and grab that info. It seems to me that there is a place for the "technician" and the "academic" in this world. In my experience it has only been with the advent of "architects" that more time and money is spent on proper planning, design etc. I think that it is a good development for the industry and I hope to see more of it, but no matter how much academics jump up and down and rant about this stuff - if there is no buy-in from the business side nothing is going to change. And as long as they can make a buck off of quick-fixes there will be no buy-in.