Nowhere in NY is below 8% either.

From having been on the market recently, it sure seems to me like jobs are being created like crazy. I have never had so many people trying to get me to accept a job somewhere. Mostly spamming recruiters who don't know who I am, but still, the shear volume is telling.

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver It's true, but the local districts have been failing hard too.

Agreed, seems like every district but one around us is increasing taxes like crazy, the one where I live now had to get a vote to increase taxes this year over the usual annual increase...

@Reid-Cooper said:

The thing that I found to be most interesting was that Word started as a UNIX product, on Xenix, and was only later ported to DOS.

I had no idea. I worked on Xenix circa 1997.

@scottalanmiller @coliver I did not have time to set it up yesterday, but I will try and do it today on CentOS 7.

Tonight is my online D&D game so nothing will get done after work hours today!

@Dashrender said:

I understand that Security is rarely if ever free - but $10/user/month - this is really just an example of the government mandate and the ability of these companies to hold us over a barrel at this cost.

I think that it is more a sign of how lazy companies are. $10/user is a bit of money. But there are free options. People just don't like them. You could set up something like Zix, it's really not all that complicated. But the effort to do so and the cost of running such a service would make it hard to maintain.

If you think about the fact that they are doing something niche, that is more complicated than Exchange and only MS pulls off Exchange for $4/user. Rackspace charges $12/user for Exchange as do several other third party vendors. So $10 really isn't out of line with niche, high end email offerings.

@scottalanmiller said:

NTG uses 7zip, PuTTY, Notepad++, VirtualBox too.

@scottalanmiller , you should check out KiTTY. Built from PuTTY but way nicer!

Not bad, but things like 3 and 4 aren't really resume items. Those are more either cover letter and/or interview tips.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

The fact is that the answer of totally blocking both is likely not the best answer.

I don't understand. If you are okay blocking the useful one of the two, why would it ever be allowed to not block the less useful and more risky? This just doesn't make sense. If you are willing to block cloud storage you should be blocking USB by default, no question. Blocking only one doesn't make any general sense. Blocking both or neither, does.

Scott, just drop it. This discussion has run its course.

@Dashrender said:

I guess I'm going to have to look this up, I've never heard of Functional Programming.

It's pretty big today. In general, though, people aren't switching to F# or Haskell. Instead they use the new functional extensions in C# or other languages to mix functional and procedural elements together to make it far easier for non-functional programmers to add functional elements without being unable to program normally.

It does work great. I have small hands and love that I can do that and have the bigger phone.

@Brett-at-ioSafe Better late than never.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller said:

e that term a lot, after 9/11 in the US "orange alert" is what they meant when there was no danger at all. When everything is an emergency, nothing is. So orange status became the new green and instead of making people more alert, we simply eliminated the ability to warn people at all. Now red means orange, orange means green and there is no way to make people actually pay attention as nothing is the new red.

Yeah I saw another report this morning about Staples having a breach, and it was malware this malware that, and not really on how they probably pulled a Home Depot and hired a hack for their head of IT security. (speculation yes).

I prefer to be always vigilant, instead of always afraid.

Staples got hacked? I'm not surprised. Their infrastructure is ancient!