Most days I'm busy enough without needing to redo something 10x

I've dealt with that same situation quite a bit.  Requirements gathering is the task it seems no one really wants to do, and unless it's strictly enforced, it's a nightmare. ...

At one place where I worked, there were two servers that controlled RF communications.  A primary, and a backup.  No one ever thought about them because, well, they just worked,...

it's worse then that... most people don't pay attention, but, it's not uncommon for an additional block to be added to one end of the card reader that does nothing...

Wired had an article a while back on how to break the RFID chip in a way that would appear to be just wear and tear.

You could also use an...

1) you have now put a permanent record of me on file, and even if I never do anything wrong, that can still have implications.

  a) I'm going to someone's...

I don't like the fingerprint file.  how about we just use quantum entanglement in the ID cards, then we can all know we're going to make a purchase before it...

nonono... you got it backwards... you want the female droppings, it's the male droppings that illuminati planted the mind control waves in.  I hope you have those well shielded with aluminum...

My mother-in-law has... well, from his father anyway.

It's true, the govt doesn't care who anyone is, just like identity thieves don't care who someone is, or spyware/adware authors don't care...

hey, just because I'm a paranoid delusional DBA doesn't mean that I'm good at organizing physical objects. 

Besides, I already have most of the mason jar organization done.  I don't...

I don't trust the govt to do anything but what is in their best interests to stay in power... I particularly don't expect them to protect my privacy when they're...

One of the problems I've seen is that ritual is the norm at most companies.  I don't know how many times I've seen someone doing a job without realizing what...

At a company I worked at years ago, the IT/Ops group at one point fell under the Accounting group... bad idea.  Once day, the person on ops went to the...

Thing is, if this had been a hurricane, it wouldn't' have been in the middle of the work day, and our recovery plan would have worked.  It's the loss of...

"And flicking the power on your drives? I'm not sure what I'd even say to someone who suggested it."

Depends on context... our AS/400 has 3 RAID arrays of 15 disks...