Well, i've had my del laptop for about 7 years now and I still can't load up the buffer when I type, runs like a champ (on linux). Unlike my government dell (MS vista) machine which if the mostest uptodatest, fastestest piece of poo i've ever used. hangs all the time, will not even move the mouse around smoothly. It is not the hardware it is the software and your (my in this case) sysadmin moucking around in the OS and screwing it up for you. All in the name of security most likely. If it is freezing at odd moments then I'm with the previous poster check your connectors and power supply first. software hangs are usually repeatable.

Kinda hard to do that since they rely on people and those folks (rascals IMHO) typically only have access to one nations secrets. Bill SOF Imperative #12 Balance security and synchronization

See, the PSYOP campaign is working just fine!! Bill SOF Imperative #7 anticipate and control the psychological effects

lurking in the background, it's what I do. Actually, I got devorce, married, got custody of my kids back from the EX....... kinda had my attention.

Well the only "sane" answer is that we sure must have a lot of organized patriotic people out there to conduct such a well organized DOSA. Thousands of people all getting up in the middle of the night and logging in at the same time …… It is the only way to explain such things. Now someone is going to say “ it’s an illegal government plot to cover their posteriors.” I would note that governments determine what is and what is not illegal! Bill SOF Imperative #9 Develop multiple options

Which is why we have a law in the US that allows us to have guns. It is not about hunting or home protection it is about making the government cautious of oppressing you. I've been following this on SIPERNet and the tipping point seems to be that "they" embarrassed the state department and Hillary complained. Given the resources available to government organizations with three letter acronyms and their ability to "remain undetected" it is not really surprising. Course if they were just "military" leaks that would be fine (with them) but don't go embarrassing our state departments. Typical Bill SOF Imperative #11 Provide sufficient intelligence

It is all about having agreed upon definitions. Without agreement you simply can't compare things. Which is exactly what most corporations want. If they can take a lowly "code examiner" (mythical beast) and charge more for his services by simply renaming him "senior software analysist" then that is just good business and the buyer should beware (as always). Professional organizations exist for just this reason. You have the ACE (auto society of excellence) certs to do what? I have several and can tell you it does not begin to make that person a good auto mechanic. My former boss did charge the customers extra for my services though. He who controls the lexicon controls the thinking (and the amount of money charged) bill SOF imperative #2 Recognize political implications

Well the Army Special Operations Forces (Green Berets) in Afghanistan are using the andorid with some new aps. Put it in your pocket and use the voice to text to construct some of their formatted messages and send them without touching the device. Kinda handy when your hands are full. So we could take this from text and pictures to voice control and a smidgen of automation. I'd think GPS directions would fit this model well. "GPS, take me to, MacDonalds, 4th and main" and the phone starts giving turning commands. Perhaps not a paridime shift but it is starting to look and sound more like the assistant that I always envisioned instead of this thing I have to futs with. Short of putting a PCIMCIA card slot in the back of my head. On a similar note, Cloud computting smells very much like the old dumb terminals and mainframe setup that we had in the 70s except now we have the bandwidth to make it happen outside the mainframe's building.