If I say something but nobody hears me have I made a sound? I wasn't trying to say that speech s/b unprotected by the Constitution but that I wasn't sure the aforementioned example constituted speech.
If people just write worms and never release them we would never know - it's hardly even "speech" if no one sees it. It's as if I whisper libelous comments about someone but not in anyone's presence...
Imm not sure his PhD was honorary. Several biographies state that he was awarded a PhD in 1948 from Columbia University.
Additionally, he was a professor of Biochemistry at Boston University - it's unlikely that he was given a research position for his fund-raising abilities.
I'm a degreed EE (BSEE, MSCS, PhD any year now) and have never had to take a course in either Ethics or Occupational Safety as a degree requirement, nor have any employers ever required or inquired about these. I don't recall *any* courses in the engineering or CS disciplines like those. On the other hand, the philosophy department did offer Ethics.
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A true CS degree teaches much more than just programming. The majority of the CS classes I took were theory,with only 2 focusing on programming.
If I say something but nobody hears me have I made a sound? I wasn't trying to say that speech s/b unprotected by the Constitution but that I wasn't sure the aforementioned example constituted speech.
If people just write worms and never release them we would never know - it's hardly even "speech" if no one sees it. It's as if I whisper libelous comments about someone but not in anyone's presence...
Bandwidth is measured in bits per unit time, as in bits/sec or MB/sec. You can't pass "over a gigabyte of bandwidth on this crap".
Working for a "slimy advertising firm" is a real job?
Imm not sure his PhD was honorary. Several biographies state that he was awarded a PhD in 1948 from Columbia University.
Additionally, he was a professor of Biochemistry at Boston University - it's unlikely that he was given a research position for his fund-raising abilities.
I'm a degreed EE (BSEE, MSCS, PhD any year now) and have never had to take a course in either Ethics or Occupational Safety as a degree requirement, nor have any employers ever required or inquired about these. I don't recall *any* courses in the engineering or CS disciplines like those. On the other hand, the philosophy department did offer Ethics.