| #4 I've been working with computers for over 30 years now but I'm getting weary of it. The Internet held great promise back in the early '90s but has now shown itself to be a very dangerous place. Russians, Chinese, Ukrainians and various other bad actors all over the world including the United States threaten our security because we let them. Just like the failure to secure the border, the government has failed to secure the Internet. Hackers in this country should be ruthlessly prosecuted and countries like Russia should be denied access to our Internet. If the Chinese can do it, so can we...er, that is, if we didn't buy all of our computers from China. I can't keep up with all of the new vulnerabilities that are being discovered every day. I'd have to patch my servers every damn day to keep up with it. Then I'd have to upgrade to a new release of software every month. That requires downtime and my bosses and users would freak out. So I sweat and I'm growing weary of it. I'd rather be programming and creating value than playing defense all the time. Away from the job, I'm afraid to use my credit card, or is it my debit card? Or is it both? Cash works. At the polls, we're afraid that some Democrat party boss has rigged the computerized voting machines. I like paper ballots. I still like Rantburg but I worry that Barack Obama and his IRS henchmen will persecute me for my comments, either that or some jihadi will bomb my house. I want out of this business. |