Actually, it does happen here in Canada. It depends on the industry. It typically does not happen in Computer/Engineering internships, but in other areas such as publishing, social work, unpaid internships are common. My sister is in such an internship (social worker), although it is clear that she is being trained and not replacing an existing worker for grunt work. She is rotated through the organization, acting as an assistant to multiple paid employees, staying with each one only until she has learned the issues involved with that position.

Part of the problem is the fact that the US classifies anything that even looks like it might be sensitive. While there are some arguments that this might be prudent, the problem is that everyone involved with those projects has to have a clearance. I rember a report from the Bradly Manning media circus that there were multiple millions of people in the US with a security clearance. And that is part of what is being discussed in the BBC article you linked to. You can try and compartmentalize, but once compartments are not nearly as secure as the airgapped ouside fence. Ironically, a more secure approach is to classify fewer projects, and as a result have signficantly fewer people with access to the real secrets.

Cool. Never thought of that one... Or rather was never told that one by the prof or upper years.

That why you use sequence numbers in 73-80. Been there, done that. But only did it once.

North Korea has detonated several Nuclear Devices recently. While in general the education system is poor, there is a privileged elite that does get good education. So while I have to wait and see, I'm not going to be terribly surprised if the trail leads to NK. But I won't be surprised if it leads to China either.

And they sent back a photo of handcuffs... Old joke..

But who owns the copyrights to the quotes? That is the gist of geist's article. The article in the national post has a quote from an article in the globe and mail. Is it legal for the national post to collect a copyright fee for text for which they do not own the copyright?

Maybe notify members of the list that the list has been compromised and they might be getting virus loaded emails?

The move to open concept happened when the IRS changed the rules for deductions of renovations (i.e. from a short period of time to a very long period of time). But some companies are still willing to go the distance. Before I moved back to academia, I spent 5 1/2 years in the private sector at a company that "got it". The research team had individual offices that we could shut the doors to block out distraction. The development team were two to an office because we were running a hybrid process of team programming. But they could still close their doors to block out distraction. The only people that ended up in an open area were the summer interns because we couldn't justify a year round office for 4 months of seasonal work. It was amazing how productive we could be. In one project that I managed, we did a migration of 200,000 lines of COBOL to Java in about 3 months (2 months planning 1 month execution, total of 4 developers and 1 reasearcher). It amazes me that the people who run these companies are willing to take the hit in productivity that cube farms generate. The smaller city we were in was considerably cheaper for office space than the big cities, but still...

Wasn't my title. My title was password protection. It was changed by slashdot editors.

Which of course are food for pythons!!

Even the guy with all the bees is not immune from corruption. He could be bulking up his own honey with corn syrup or other subsitutes as well.

Most of the injuries in Russia were from flying glass because of the explosion. For the larger more dangerous asteroids, a longer detection is possible. For the smaller ones like the recent one in Russia, 12 hours warning to get everyone to stay away form glass might be reasonable.