#42: You say "it's all about precise control of the content". Amazingly enough, that's what people said in the 80s when they refused to use compliers. "But I'm just more efficient!" "The complier can't optimize like I can". "I don't believe the complier can produce good code".

Are the tools really this bad? Maybe we're really just stuck in the 80s.

I'm sorry, but am I the only one here who finds this incredibly sad? Is this really the state of the much vaunted Web 2.0/3.0/whatever - that people are bragging about HAND CODING their content?

How many people are sitting around being proud of assembly-coding in x86? In 2008?

I love to flog the TSA as much as the next guy, but the villain in the article isn't the TSA -- it's the CBP (Customs & Border Patrol).