And both depend entirely upon the software packages their corporate businesses subscribe to.
I'm not entirely anonymous here on DU. My name is Hunter, for what it's worth. (No, not the DailyKos Hunter.) A few people here on DU know who I am and where I live. A few people have seen naked pics. A few people have seen me naked in person.
Mostly when I'm being obtuse about my identity it's because I'm seeking plausible deniability should anyone ask family or friends if I'm that guy.
I've burnt most "real world" bridges long ago. However rational or irrational I am here on DU, then why yes, that was me locked up in the psych ward last year. It's not the kind of thing you'd put on a résumé, but a diligent employer would find it, especially in the fields that best match my natural talents.
Ian Murdock's death scared the shit out of me. It was small part of the downward spiral that got me locked up.
I have a long ago ex-girlfriend who scares the shit out of me too. She once sold my code. She once handcuffed a pimp to a urinal and beat the crap out of him as I was outside the door claiming "rough sex" to guys who had to pee really bad. She's wealthy now, I'm not. Whenever we've crossed paths since, we've pretend not to know one another. Would she handcuff me to a urinal and beat the crap of me if I crossed her? Probably not. That's what her bad-ass lawyers are for. I broke up with her by jumping out of her moving car on a street in Berkeley. PTSD street. She put all my stuff in a cardboard box and sent it to me General Delivery without a note. I'd retreated to living in my broken car.
Beyond my unfortunate personal history it still appears the dragon is real and I'm it's chattel.
Sure I can read the source code. It's the shit built into the hardware that scares the me most these days.
I'd like to live in a world of universal transparency, but it still eludes me.
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