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I have 52 passwords.  I know back-end server names, IP addresses, control panel logins galore.  I’ve got 19 ways to get to e-mail.  I’ve got local users on domain machines.  I can remote control the router.  I’ve been in a triple nested RDP session to out of country servers.  I’m fastidious with access information, and keep good notes.

Why can’t I get in to anything?

Why, despite what would seem like overwhelming access to data and connectivity resources does it seem increasingly difficult to get to the information I need?  I have an identity, I can prove it on demand.  I know secretish things.  Why are all access systems internally controlled?  Shouldn’t they rely, or at least tolerate, external authentication services, which would allow a user to have a single, albiet complex or rapidly changing access to literally

EVERYTHING

that that person has ever had access to? I just read about Ventner patenting artificial life, a completely custom sequence of self-replicating DNA.  We can do this, and I can’t get to my work?  W. T. F.

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Just saw Transformers. Love it. Frustrated that film makers in the last 5 years have gone to this shaky cam, massive particle effects, blursmokedustshize all over the screen style of action cinematography. When Optimus Prime punches Megatron, you should be able to see it, without slo-mo, and clearly tell what’s going on. I was against the high-detail designs of the Autobots and Decepticons at first, but after watching the movie i’m sold on that. Good job Michael.

But zoom out a bit, let us see the full shape, let us soak up the beauty of the 40-hour frame rendering…

Is it too much to ask?