What's controversial to me is choosing to have a baby with defects.

And another benefit - when you find an email address being used for spam, you can disable it, or worse.

Another issue is that setting up a catchall/default increases spam. I get spam at addresses on my domain that I certainly never used; spammers seem to guess/make them up.

I actually have more trouble getting into Canada for some reason (I am a US citizen). One time customs or immigration or whatever asked me to search my hard latop for "media" files. I think they were looking for child porn or maybe copyright violations? It definitely felt like a violation to me. What would have happened if I had refused? What would they have done if they found something? I hate what has happened to this country in such a short time, not that it was perfect when I was a kid (I just wasn't aware of the issues).

Don't use the same password for any two accounts. Second most important: don't use the same email address for any two accounts.

What about when you need to send a message, do you create a real email account for the organization then, or use a real account? I tend to use a real existing account when working with real people.

I do the same thing, but more like company@mypersonaldomain.com. I don't think that most companies sell or give away my email addresses, but they give lists to their MARKETING PARTNERS, which certainly do pass them on, or get hacked. I found this out by checking the to lines in spam and seeing united (airlines) and a CMS vendor. I also saw something from a company mailed to the email address associated with one of its competitors; from talking to people I found that a marketing person left the second and apparently took a contact list to the their new job at the first. It is a very worthwhile thing to do.

Trust me, we are on the same page. I claim credit for the phrase "peeping obamas". I believe that even this conversation will be tracked.

How do government contractors make money from that though?

And tiping. My fingers still ain't tiping write.

Let's worry about terrorism instead.

America is "free"? The only more capitalist place is "communist" China.

You mean you didn't learn ABAP and can't understand tables named with German acronyms?

I was on an SAP project in 2000. They were $20M into the implementation and changed course. Then they switched to Oracle for an expected $30M. The software never materialized from Oracle.

They don't have an advantage. They think they have an advantage. Professional traders see HFT as adding liquidity to the market and don't see them as competition. That says quite a bit in itself.