To be fair, while it is tempting to put the blame squarely on her shoulders, it is probably not her own fault that she grew up with such a sense of entitlement.

If she didn't learn this before, this will be an opportunity to learn. Unfortunately for her, it may be a painful experience. But she'll learn, and in 5 years she will have a job and this will all be a bitter memory, with loan payments.

Her family/school are likely very much to blame though, for not teaching her how the world works.

All people, even teenagers, are capable of learning stuff on their own. Family and school can't teach you everything.

Perhaps people in the school did try to teach her how the world works, and she simply didn't understand or didn't pay attention.

This is for my staff, and it needs to be on the local network for a variety of reasons.

In my case, we can influence the choice of software clients.

You kids and your "Bubble Wrap".

When I was your age, we didn't have "Bubble Wrap". If we were stressed, we would to stomp around on wood chips and get splinters on our feet and squeeze rocks with our hands. You ever pop a rock, young laddy? No, me neither. But stomped until our feet were full of splinters. We squeezed until our hands bled, and we liked it.

If we were still stressed, we'd grab a gun and a bottle of moonshine.

Have many groups looked at WebSAV or FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) as a replacement for FTP?

1. Encrypted communication, using the industry standard TLS or SSL.
2. WebDAV offers the power and maturity of Apache HTTPD. I believe that several of the mature FTP packages also support FTPS.
3. Apache authentication options include Radius, LDAP, etc. and are generally easy to install, provided you have the infrastructure.

I still mostly use SFTP. However, the design of FTPS looks a little more elegant and standards-compliant.

I'm webdav

I'm _evaluating_ webdav.

I'm webdav (or Subversion, which uses WebDAV) as a possible tool for simple editing and publishing data to a website on the local network, using FreeBSD, Apache 2.x.

Why do you think that WebDAV has been slow and unreliable? Is it due to your implementation? Do you know if the problems were client-side, server-side or both?

HTTP is a pretty robust protocol, Apache is a pretty robust server. It seems like WebDAV would be a simple and robust, but I am reading about other stability problems as well. In addition, few people use WebDAV. I can't find many details or good articles which suggest why.

You can use a Virtual Credit Card number, which is a temporary credit card which is tied to your main CC account. I believe both Visa and Mastercard offer these, or it's issued by the bank who issued your credit card.

I don't think Dow Jones is targeting the average consumer, but are targeting higher-end financial consumers, investors, financial advisers, etc. Maybe they are mostly "old" people ;)

In the financial world, there are still plenty of vendors who charge for their content-- Barron's, financial newsletters, Bloomberg's "Professional" news products, etc.

Overall, these vendors generally (But not always) provide good-quality, in-depth articles and opinions. People will read their copy of Barron's like a student reads a book, complete with bookmarks and highlighters.

While the free sites are cheap, many of the news sites are filled with noise, the forums are filled with scams (The comments at finance.google.com are entertaining to read).

Wow. What are your frame rates? Do the tile bevels look any better? ;)

It doesn't make sense to spend on Mississippi and Louisiana because of Hurricane Katrina, because you are just subsidizing people living in a dangerous area.

Many people live in a dangerous area. What's the alternative? Should people vacate Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida because of the hurricanes? California because of the earthquakes? The Northeast because of the snow and ice storms? The Midwest because of the tornadoes, floods and extreme winters?