I wonder what the impact of encryption is on a laptop? Can you be arrested if you don't reveal keys?

At least that puts you in control. You can determine...

just be glad your name isn't Robert Johnson. You'd have trouble every time you fly.

It is incredible that mismatching social security, physical descriptions, addresses, ages, are completely igonored when a...

These marketing people need to get a clue.

I had signed up to an information website that promised product whitepapers (not you guys). Since my contact information was part of the...

securing the data ports is the legitimate approach. Some employers have tried banning ipods etc, but this attacks the wrong problem. First these products have legitimate use that is completely...

A big pet peeve of mine is the screwy legal structure that requires this. Employers have a fear of being sued successfully  because someone decides to be offended at what...

I agree that maliciously modified information is vastly less likely of a threat then simply wrong information. People who don't know still voice their theories. While true experts are seldom...

Good article, appreciate your writing about your experiences (sounds a bit tough, glad you survived).

 I think there is a need for more articles about the conceptual mapping: how does one...

Actually her words were "it will cost me $20,000 to take this job", meaning that it was that far below her last position.

Sometimes our 'last position' may have been an...

The way I see it, if he recognizes that email is vulnerable (which it is), but he works in a field where secure communication is necessary, then the best thing...

Sounds like consumer acceptance will be very hostile.  People don't like not being in control of their email (the one that claims to delete if the wrong key is pressed...

What is MS thinking?

They should be interested in getting as many qualified people certified on their products, not fewer. The more qualified experts, the more product they will sell.

That 'erratic and spontaneous discontent' is no accident. If humans were not obsessed with searching for greener pastures, we'd still be a minor player on the Savannahs waiting to get...

First, if I understand you correctly, this relies on the sending side to impose those delays. A spammer mailing through a server in some back corner of the world can...

There can be a lot of work. Unlike older VB version changes, which were minor syntax and some new features each time.

Much of th IO has changed so completely that...

I agree with Tatsu: open source != unsupported, it is a different support model (provided by local experts rather than a central organization). Nor does published source necessarily mean free,...