One of my banks has "eight digit, numbers only, cannot repeat numbers", and each time I change it, it no digits must me replaced in the same place as the last password. No three digits must be consecutive numbers, or consecutive in reverse order. Amongst other conditions.

Generating a rememerable password is extremely hard. Even random numbers are of little use, since they tend to be rejected as well.

This results in me having to use keepassx (instead of MY BRAIN) to store my passwords.

Meanwhile, I can easily remember passwords for sites with free-form strings as password. I can even use unique ones everywhere. It would also take several centuries to brute force any of those.

Indeed, this being "news for nerds", these are the actual facts we all care about!

Horse-pulled carridges just work, and don't need to be replaced.

If my employer doesn't trust me with sensitive data (which I need for my own work), then they should not keep me their employee.

"graphic routines" in this case, doesn't just refer to drivers.

Oh, that's why Value got more FPS on games natively on linux vs windows, right?

I don't think op has flash installed.

Even so, polling a webcam is a few seconds at most, not minutes.

So we need DRM to support things like discographics?
Great, let's scrap those plans for DRM then, and see if they (and their deprecated business model) go away once and for all!

Those same kids that use their cell phones at school have 3g/4g, so they still have perfect access to porn.
They probably have internet at home as well.

FTFY

I don't think I installed all my packages into /home. I don't think I did system-wide configurtion in /home either.

BYOD isn't a priviledge. I'm actually putting additional resources onto my job to do it more efficiently. Why do I also have to give YOU control over it?

I use my personal PC for work. If my boss want access to wipe it, install stuff etc, my answer would be "No. I own it. If you want control over it, give me one payed by yourself. I want to do whatever I want on it on non-work time. Also, don't expect me to ever carry it with me the moment I leave the office."

Yeah, really high quality employees which were illegaly redistributing copyrighted works inside a corporate enviroment!

I agree. Even before the age of the internet, users had the change of bringing in a floppy with Monkey Island on it, buy nobody did that because they know they'd get fired for fooling around in work time. The same needs to apply to modern internet usage: you don't restrict it, but make sure people aren't slacking off all day long.

If users bring their own devices, and those have OSs that don't even support HTTP proxies, then that's the users' problem.
You can't have a BYOD policy and then have to deal with devices that have network support that looks like it's 2001.
What's next "my device doesn't support TCP/IP"?