If you leave everybody benefits. You gain a better commute, better pay and more opportunity. The old company's two junior programmers will benefit from new responsibility. The company will survive just fine without you believe it or not. If they really need you perhaps they can pay you a small retainer to consult for a few months.

Bottom line, don't ever hold yourself back.

Agree with the Crashplan advice. I spent a lot of time using manual scripts and ssh, but the time I've saved with Crashplan has been well worth it.

- It supports local backups as well as remote network backup, in one interface
- Runs unobtrusively
- Linux, mac and windows
- The UI is easy to understand and schedule.
- If you really need to, encrypt your important stuff to a truecrypt volume and back it up like you would any normal file.
- Inexpensive

It actually works very well. Almost every break-in attempt is from a script. Almost every script only tries the default port. You can easily eliminate a very large number of script attacks just by changing the port.

That's a fine idea for private systems. For private servers I use only ssh with certificates. Poof, hack attempts are gone.

For a public facing FTP server the idea is to keep it easy. It should work with any FTP client out of the box with no configuration. In this case your only defense is to pick real username and long, quality passwords.

Well obviously they should stop using wires. Everything is wireless these days, stop using the wires - problem solved!

Yet it did not stop every Blog and media outlet on the planet, including Slashdot, from picking up the story. Welcome to the blogs-as-news era.

Fuck yeah, I'm going to park on this Comcast DHCP assigned address for the next 10 years then sell if for a fortune!

Sorry but I can't agree with you. Expectations could never have been so high if the first two movies were not so genius. I'll never forget that moment in the theater watching "Phantom Menace" when the thought crossed my mind..."This movie sucks." It was an utter letdown. We were all violated by a marketing machine, and we were angry.

And they really were genius. Of course, I was just a kid back in 1977 but even in later viewings those movies were pure gold. To me, that shit was REAL. We cared about the characters, all of us did. I mean, Han Solo fucking shot a guy in a bar. Arms came off! Uncle Owen and Aunt Berew were slaughtered and their corpses set on fire. These bad guys were BAD and the fate of the universe was at stake. This was legitimate cowboy space-opera magic.

That's why the new movies are so hated, because we bought in and then our childhood memories were raped for money. Fuck you George Lucas!

No, it isn't. There's always a new generation of kids upon which to foist the Star Wars franchise. The best part is they're too young to realize they're watching pure crap.

I think it would be useful for somebody to figure out who commissioned the AIM Group for this "study."

Sorta but not quite. This is all directed at Amazon. Apple has always delivered really well engineered premium products. It's just that the latest batch has a built-in distribution system. So now that they have a ton of customers they're going to try abusing their near-monopoly position. There's also some collateral damage to other companies who are doing business via Apple's platform. Where are they gonna go, The Blackberry App Store? It's not so different from what Amazon has been doing the whole time, but it was 100% closed. Would you expect to see the iBooks app on the Kindle 4? Nah, probably not.

Except it's not quite a monopoly. The positive outcome from this will be that Amazon (and others) will be forced to go with Android if they wish to avoid the Apple tax. Which they must do because their margins don't support giving 30% to Apple. It will suddenly become necessary to make Android just as popular and polished as iThings. I would expect to see some large resources devoted to Android evolution happening real soon, maybe forks backed by some deep pockets.

My next bet is Kindle prices drop down to around $99 by next Christmas. I bet Amazon wishes now they'd dropped the price much earlier. Then they would have the near-monopoly to abuse.

That little quote will cost you $0.99 royalty. $0.29 will go to Apple, $0.687 to EMI and $0.013 to Pink Floyd. Pay up!

The answer is of course, product placement in-line with the text. They could do this pretty easily on the back end of many books automatically.

"... all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as he opened forth his Pepsi-Cola, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it."

Since FB is so heavily load balanced I would expect that they're using SSL dedicaetd modules on their load balancing solution and still running their servers HTTP. Since they didn't care about privacy enough to use SSL until it became a PR issure, I doubt they care too much about encryption on their internal network.

I use it to bug the shit out of people. There's nothing quite as irritating as a dozen smiley icons in a row.