The headline said "computer science", which is an academic discipline and therefore all about degrees and not at all about work experience.
However, it is true that many former programmers decide to acquire a degree in computer science, and many former computer scientists decide to start a career in programming rather than finishing (or after finishing) a degree. Both fields have their advantages and can be quite lucrative and rewarding, but mistaking them for each other is an error.
Ludicrous measure that will fail epically, but will cause a stink among voters.
It's like politicians are conspiring to get online rights into the political mainstream. What's the recent membership trend for the Italian Pirate Party?
The patent system is broken and inhibits innovation. This decision may have had the effect of stimulating exactly the kind of life-saving research they were trying to block.
Quick, can we convince them that all science is of the devil so they'll scrap the patent system entirely? Donate to Fox and the Westboro Baptists if you have to.
What does "left-handed spin" even mean when there is no "up"?
If we see a galaxy spinning clockwise, then someone looking at it from the other side (facing us) will see it rotating the other way. If they're all spinning the same way when viewed from our perspective, does that also mean we are at the center of the universe?
When both users are registered, Facebook is able to extract relationship data from somewhere. I have received friendship suggestions for people who once sent a single email to an alternate email account I used years ago, which I never put on Facebook. Even assuming all these people are fucking idiots who gave Facebook access to their email accounts, this shows Facebook harvests far more data than it lets on.
In this case, it firstly stores your email contact lists even if you decline to manually send these people contact requests. It secondly is able to form (from other sources, maybe other people's email accounts) a link between different email addresses you have used.
Problem: You can't trust your device to reliably store information without leaking it. Solution: Trust your device to reliably delete that data automatically.
Actual solution: Stop relying on untrusted blackbox devices. Particularly in the military, which can theoretically afford the technical manpower to scrutinize and audit source code, closed-source software should be banned. The general in the example is smart enough to know when to delete stuff from his phone, but he needs to be sure the information is actually gone and not stored in a cloud somewhere.
If he used that address for anything security or privacy relevant, it's surely encrypted.
This isn't scary for the threat to Jacob Applebaum's secrets so much as for the precedent and principle. We can't all afford, effort-wise, to be as security-conscious as tor developers are. Yet if our email records can be forced from us without charges filed, then we need to be in order to keep our privacy.
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Work experience and no degree
The headline said "computer science", which is an academic discipline and therefore all about degrees and not at all about work experience.
However, it is true that many former programmers decide to acquire a degree in computer science, and many former computer scientists decide to start a career in programming rather than finishing (or after finishing) a degree. Both fields have their advantages and can be quite lucrative and rewarding, but mistaking them for each other is an error.
Maybe 25th time is the charm: "Significant link found between cellphones running Windows Phone, p < 0.05!"
Ludicrous measure that will fail epically, but will cause a stink among voters.
It's like politicians are conspiring to get online rights into the political mainstream. What's the recent membership trend for the Italian Pirate Party?
Doesn't a crash usually mean a record low, rather than the decline of a particularly enormous peak?
If it's still a multiple of what it was earlier in the year, that's just a regular fluctuation.
(Still, I'm kind of miffed I didn't pay attention in June and sold my mined coins for more money than I've ever owned.)
It's a bit late for that thought. Traffic lights and modern braking systems have been electronically controlled for many years...
So they've moved on to lions now? I hear the chimpanzee thing didn't work out so great. ;)
The patent system is broken and inhibits innovation. This decision may have had the effect of stimulating exactly the kind of life-saving research they were trying to block.
Quick, can we convince them that all science is of the devil so they'll scrap the patent system entirely? Donate to Fox and the Westboro Baptists if you have to.
Sure, all coastal cities might be gone in fifty years, but who cares; it's lovely spring weather at the pole.
What does "left-handed spin" even mean when there is no "up"?
If we see a galaxy spinning clockwise, then someone looking at it from the other side (facing us) will see it rotating the other way. If they're all spinning the same way when viewed from our perspective, does that also mean we are at the center of the universe?
When both users are registered, Facebook is able to extract relationship data from somewhere. I have received friendship suggestions for people who once sent a single email to an alternate email account I used years ago, which I never put on Facebook. Even assuming all these people are fucking idiots who gave Facebook access to their email accounts, this shows Facebook harvests far more data than it lets on.
In this case, it firstly stores your email contact lists even if you decline to manually send these people contact requests. It secondly is able to form (from other sources, maybe other people's email accounts) a link between different email addresses you have used.
In Soviet Russia, Facebook has profile on YOU.
Yes, and @BadAstronomer is his username on Twitter. It's a nickname.
Problem: You can't trust your device to reliably store information without leaking it.
Solution: Trust your device to reliably delete that data automatically.
Actual solution: Stop relying on untrusted blackbox devices. Particularly in the military, which can theoretically afford the technical manpower to scrutinize and audit source code, closed-source software should be banned. The general in the example is smart enough to know when to delete stuff from his phone, but he needs to be sure the information is actually gone and not stored in a cloud somewhere.
Voters and politicians would finally care about what happens to the planet and humanity over the next fifty years.
The latter, and then complain about those evil pirate hackers who figured out how to read the censored text.
Conjoined twins. In this case, you start out with two heads which then merge into a single body.
They can't. You're probably thinking of worms.
The only vertebrate with a (very limited) form of limb regeneration is the salamander, and that's an amphibian, not a reptile like the snake.
As non-idiots know, batteries are a so-called "energy storage device" that requires charging with a "generator".
Could completely cripple the modern world.
This was just a test. We don't know when they'll strike in earnest.
QC's future is closer than people think.
I thought we used car analogies, not ark analogies...
We don't have to tell you that.
(Oh wait, that was too much information already; now we must kill you.)
That might be one reason why they're so reluctant to let him back in the country whenever he returns from a conference.
@ioerror Every single time I re-enter the US, I am denied information about why I have been selected, detained, and so forth. It's clearly not random
If he used that address for anything security or privacy relevant, it's surely encrypted.
This isn't scary for the threat to Jacob Applebaum's secrets so much as for the precedent and principle. We can't all afford, effort-wise, to be as security-conscious as tor developers are. Yet if our email records can be forced from us without charges filed, then we need to be in order to keep our privacy.
Did you think Google deletes email you download?