Yet another reason the DHS should be disbanded. You know, beside the half-billion other reasons. The RIAA treats their customers this way, and it got them everylasting scorn and loss of a non-trivial amount of their customer base. The government treats their customers this way (let's face it, we're no longer citizens, we're customers), and there is absolutely nothing we can do. If we speak out, we're labelled as "unamerican", and subject to a host of more intrusive measures, from which we also have no recourse. Habeas corpus be damned! Fourth amendment be damned!

I refuse to get on a plane in the US until they're gone... so that means I'm probably not going to fly again in my lifetime.

Well said, sir! +1, Eloquent pwnage

+1 Insightful.

You've hit it spot-on. The rich aren't going to be getting richer quite as fast as they used to, and they're upset about it. And of course you know the golden rule, "he who has the gold, makes the rules."

I kind of fell into doing IT, because I couldn't think of anything else to do. I had been programming since age 10, and had fun doing my little projects, and thought, "oh sure, I suppose I could do that for work."

When I had originally gone to college, it was to a photography program (pre-digital, all wet process). I burned out on that, and went to a different school, and decided that since I have always loved cars, I wanted to work with designing and building them. The engineering program where I was quickly quashed any such notion. So I just kind of fell back to what I knew best. I got into the CS program, coasted through it, and here I am, <mumble> years later, in a job about which I couldn't care less.

I'm at a salary level which I couldn't hope to match with any other profession, especially considering that I'm unexperienced in any other field. I think that I would just have to swallow the pay cut, and make a clean break, because IT just doesn't do a thing for me any longer.

So now I just have to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. Most of my hobbies involve some sort of hand craftsmanship - cooking, baking, woodworking, photography, even sewing. I'm sure doing something similar would be awesome.

<aol>Me too!</aol>

My brain more-or-less ignores the lazy eye, so instead of giving me headaches, it just fails, and causes the film to look crappy. I hope they make a 2D version, and have the 3D one as a special IMAX showing or something like that.

You've hit the nail squarely on the head. It's just another piece of our culture of fear. I, for one, do NOT welcome our "ZOMG, you might die!!!" overlords.

My home network is all named for the outer planes in D&D. The firewall is nirvana, the general-purpose mail/web/ldap server is limbo, one of the normal hosts is paradise. The non-host devices are named after the elemental planes - the printer is earth. There are a whole ton of names left, including lots of sub-planes. There are 7 sub-planes of the Seven Heavens, f'rinstance: lunia, mercuria, venya, solania, mertion, jovar, and chronias, in addition to heaven. I've got 90 hostnames in my zonefile, only a few of which are being used right now.

A couple of jobs ago, we had a set of machines which ran an Oracle stack. fred and barney were the DB nodes; pebbles, bambam, and dino were the app layer; and wilma and betty were the web heads. It was easy to talk about the Flintstones gang, when referring to the whole stack.

And also because they bought Veritas a few years back.

That Quill mouse, on the ergonomic page, just looks cool. Seems like it would be very restful to use - you just hold your hand in it, and don't have to grab anything. Pricy, but seems awfully neat.