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Fair enough, and I have and will continue to not really want to invest time into learning Microsoft's stuff, based on past experiences (my first being wanting to develop for the pl…

I basically do my best yes, whilst having to earn a living in my chosen field. FreeBSD and Linux where I can advocate them. Part of my current contract is migrating a customer away…

Pleasantly surprised by powershell? I don't know what to say. I have to essentially copy and paste fragments of things that work, it's so arcane. Its like writing 90's Java on a co…

Personally, I'll never forgive them for their practices. They deliberately stifled competition, shafted developers, abused their position, and rubbed it in our faces. There's no co…

Perhaps, it just sounded like you thought these very intelligent (for the most part) doctors, were unaware of what they were accepting, which isn't the case. It's very clear in the…

They're not falling for anything, its just plain and simple greed. My father was in the radiology area and he constantly received 'bribes' (didn't accept them, but had the offers).…

I'm guessing Brazil.

Well, the religion is nonsense. Not that that differentiates itself from others. Love one another, as you would have banks do to you.

It sucks to watch corruption and violence win the day. We seem to be seeing it. Where an economy can be based on maintaining a military force in other countries, to maintain the pe…

A good point. It seems to me an increase in people annoying you throughout the flying process is only going to have increased costs, coupled with expensive hardware and presumably …

I'd do it if I have cause to fly into the States again, but I can't help but think its not really going to help much. From my youthful experiences at being a knob, I'd say don't pi…

Definitely a way to find a silver lining hehe. Maybe we're getting better at shining a light on things, and they'll crawl back into the slime over a generation or two.

It's bizarre it can happen. Surely the wheels have to fall off that out of control cart soon.

Well, all of the Five Eyes are complicit, no argument there. Certainly a top-heavy weighting from the US though, with basically control of the net, and a stellar budget. The peons …

Any time I read this type of article, I keep recalling what irritated the hell out of me with the Snowden leaks and responses of US citizens. To paraphrase: "It's terrible they're …

Seems to still be a lot being done in the name of security theater in the US, and just wasting dollars on the TSA, for what appears to be very little effect. Who's really profiting…

> Quite a lot of the stranger aspects aren't so much "features" as blast craters of past disasters. Cracked me up, very well said. In general I agree that the document-centric brow…

There's createdb from memory (?), but for other bits and pieces, it might be worth spending a bit of time on a thin wrapper script e.g. "create-pg-user foo" that just wraps the ann…

I think the problem is, its a bit more complicated than that. There are a myriad of factors that might influence that IQ score, and I haven't looked at the studies. Lack of wealth/…

True. As a consumer, I'd have to subscribe to three+ different providers, all charging a monthly cost, to get at everything now. Or more specifically, just the things I want to wat…

Its fairly poor comparatively. The way things are going though, I wouldn't be surprised to see VPN's banned, or attempted to. I'm not against paying for content I must say, there n…

I'm thinking nonsense. We have to descend to the lowest common denominator to make things work? That seems lazy to me. The system we have at the moment is geared towards a few, ext…

If they get the data? Hehe. Its a hosepipe direct to the people you don't want having that data. It's really beyond me why anyone would sign up for Facebook nowadays. Feels like we…

Followed up with snark of your own, you arrogant wanker.

My immediate reaction is, if they hire someone that has great security knowledge, they'll be better placed to compromise mine; their business model seems to be pillaging my data an…