My favorite is Flingware. I always picture monkeys, but it came from "throwing something against the wall and seeing if it sticks".

nelsonj-902869 (4/16/2010)

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Imagine my surprise a week later when at home, in the mail, with no notice, I received a letter from HR that I had been awarded three additional, paid...

(This is US and I am not qualified to give tax...

You sometimes forget how good you have it. Until reading some of these posts, I didn't realize how good my company is to work for:

1) We have...

john.campbell-1020429 (3/17/2010)

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Just going over my lecture notes on Citizenship in the Nation, which deals mainly with the US Constitution I somehow failed to find any reference to the federal govt.'s...

Steve,

I can't believe you are advocating a police force on the internet! Did you think this through?

Who is going to comprise the police force? Who is going to...

"If it ain't broke, why "fix" it?"

Giving the masses the ability to vote on it without them having some type of ownership stake in it is a sure way of...

Did you read the article about encrypted drives, that most of...

I vote for external storage. hard drives, thumb drives, even cloud drives. They're all the same. You plug 'em in and they (should) work. No voodoo...

I disagree on the use of Hungarian Notation as well. It is way too handy in debugging applications, reporting, etc to not use it just because some people go...

With almost 20 years in IT myself, I...

Steve,

I had a customer non-service problem with Sears. They actually owed me money back and held it for months. It wasn't worth court (<$1k). I sent letters...

Steve,

Unix existed for almost 20 years in proprietary instances. It stifled innovation and went basically nowhere. I hate malware and crap-ware as much as the next person, but...

I agree with GSquared -- open and shared sandbox, a little tighter security on the dev and QA and production are locked down. I've been in situations where dev...

At a prior job, I had a wonderfully comfortable $199 chair, but had to give it up when I went to management. The management chair was 3-4 times as...