You could draw many fun, but useless conclusions from this data. This is probably the kind of info that sales pukes, marketing drones and security theater types drool over.
Mad Men was only rented by those Hollywood types in Glendale and West LA
Tyler Perry's chitlin flicks do well in South Central, Inglewood and Long Beach - why?
Religulous' demographics proves that rich people really are godless.
White people really liked Australia, but Vicky Cristina Barcelona is better than the US Census for racial profiling.
Crooked cop movies, Pride and Glory, do well in "concentrated urban areas" - interesting.
Pinapple Express proves that some things are universal - legalize it

"This can allow you the freedom to act in the ways the job requires, which may include being subservient to your customers", surely you must be trolling or have never worked in the lower levels of IT.

Meaningless management seminar psychobabble doesn't apply to the real world.

I'd far rather wear black jeans to work. They wear better, they're more comfortable than slacks and they're what I wear socially.

There are more comfortable things than jeans, but I don't have the legs to be wearing a short skirt to work..

At a helpdesk level, IT staff are just a bunch of replaceable skilled technicians. Why do you think helpdesk is one of the first things outsourced by non-IT companies? Helpdesk staff are an off-the-shelf commodity in employment terms.

That's not disrespect, that's simple reality.

Server admin, network specialists, storage gurus, developers all have a stronger argument that they're doing a professional job that needs in-depth expertise and has a career path, but helpdesk? No.

Not sure that justifies uniforms though...

rsmith-mac: There is a price at which Nokia will license their patents - however it looks like they aren't making it available to Apple.
sznupi: Yes, there is a price. I guess the one made available to Apple is very comparable to rules by which other manufacturers play. But Apple wants to have better rules.

[Citation Needed] you two.

Then what the hell do we have lawyers for? The fact of the matter is that the system is a complex one, and precedent shows there's a certain level of detail that is needed to ensure a law holds up without significant loopholes.

Maybe once upon a time the full code of laws and common law judgements could be understood by the average educated person, but unless you've got an interest or are law-qualified it's unlikely that the average educated person these days would be able to fully grasp a particular law without some assistance. I'm not suggesting that legislators shouldn't understand at least somewhat more than the average person, but that's what they should have legal staff for, practically speaking.

I just tried to fix a neighbour's new Toshiba laptop which came with Windows 7 home premium installed. I have fixed similar Toshiba machines with Vista. The difference between the two is so small as to be negligible, both in speed as well as 'features'. The Windows 7 panel might be nicer than the Vista/XP/2000/w98/w95 panel and the somethat less torrential flood of UAC prompts is an improvement but I really do not get why Windows y is being portrayed as the second coming while Vista is painted blacker than black.

If you like Vista you will like Windows 7, if you dislike Vista you most likely will also dislike Windows 7. Some anecdotal evidence comes from the experience I had about two hours ago...

The new Toshiba my neighbour bought did not want to connect to his wireless network while it does connect to mine as well as the one in the shop where he bought it (which he found out when he brought the thing back to complain). Other machines with other operating systems have no problems connecting to the same router so the router is OK. Debugging this problem was made impossible by Internet Explorer and the panel crashing all the time. This might be due to his installing of some Norton crap product. The machine bluescreened three times in a span of 20 minutes while it was only in use for light web browsing (looking for a new 802.11 driver for the RealTek chipset in the machine). The only way to get the machine to be in a usable state was to start it with a Ubuntu 9.04 CD. Unfortunately Windows 7 did not want to recognize the Windows Mobile (!) phone which was used as a temporary storage device for the downloaded driver.

I ended up giving the neighbour the Ubuntu CD with some instructions on how to use it for browsing etc. As to whether I will retry getting that machine connected with Windows 7 or just try to downgrade it to XP or upgrade it to Ubuntu I don't know yet. For now he can at least use the machine he bought, no thanks to Windows 7.

One of these characters is already under indictment for similar shenanigans http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/rbs-worldpay , so a good bet is that the Feds have a rat, sorry, a cooperative concerned citizen, big deal. The real story, not these unfortunate Estonian freelance security consultants, but that if RBS was stupid enough to get nailed like this, who else is this sloppy with their security? A decent amount of work and planning went into this ( except for the exit strategy), and no one noticed all of the poking and prodding that was going on in RBS' network. Banking regulators have their own IT security compliance audit, that is a lot more serious than PCI certification, so did RBS have a few holes that got covered up for the audit, then put back in production later? We may never know.

Its a hippie spider, Cartman save us.

One Botnet to rule them all,
One Botnet to find them,
One Botnet to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.

Hugo is Lost.

I honestly don't know. Some days I am just in the mood to burn karma and I fail miserably. I was shooting for Funny actually.

You have far more faith in humanity than I do. I suspect most people understand animal territorialism but they either agree with it or just don't care. If there is a finite resource, X percent will want to control it. Another X percent will go along because they benefit. And X percent of economists will write books justifying it.

The controller didn't lose his job or go to prison. He was just put on leave, IIRC. So the killer did the right thing, since the system failed. It also doesn't matter if his mistake was intentional or not, since it resulted in so many deaths. If the controller had any honor at all, he would have committed suicide. Since he didn't, he needed to be killed. Not everyone has a sense of responsibility. Just look at the people running our government and financial institutions. Now that this controller's been eliminated, it'll probably make other air-traffic controllers do a better job or find another job if they can't hack it.

That's fine, so long as I can execute drivers who speed, run yellow lights or stop signs, don't yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, and who even think of drinking before driving. With 40,000 fatal car accidents a year in the U.S.A. alone, perhaps if we execute some of the 25,000,000 drivers who are issued citations a year (perhaps 1 in 10 like the Romans - that's only 2.5 million a year), we might reduce the accident rate! It doesn't matter if thier mistake(s) were intentional or not, since they result in so many deaths. /sarcasm

Air traffic controllers are generally highly skilled, responsible, underpaid professionals who do a thankless job cleaning up messes of overloaded and antiquated systems. If you believe extra-judicial executions are okay for them, guess what - you won't have an ATC system at all, because no one in their right mind would bother. In the real world, where serious adults are interested in systematic safety improvements instead of chest-thumping suggestions of violence, nearly all aircraft accidents have been decriminialized (the exceptions are made for 'careless or reckless operations' or willful violations of law), since nearly every professional in the aviation industry doesn't want to cause an accident, and is more likely to be truthful about all the circumstances that led to the accident if they are not in jeopardy. The results of these more candid examinations of accidents (look up ASAP programs if you want to learn more about them) have lead directly to multiple improvements in regulations, procedures, and the overall safetly level in aviation - in other words, they have saved lives.

Your casual suggestion that executing people is a good way to encourage others makes me wonder whether you are even serious.

... four fifths of the worlds population could honestly give a rat's ass that the other fifth can't see the Milky Way at night. And this just in: one fifth of the world's population now considering living on the moon to avoid real estate taxes and to get a better view of whatever is causing all the fuss in the night sky.