Does this story come with any indication that their isn't a mixup on Netflix's part?

With what libraries and languages what you worked in C? Won't those change? If you're a games person, are you up on DX9? DX10? 11? Database backends? SQL? NOSQL? Have your version control skills expanded to match existing systems? Still using CVS? SVN? Git? "The Cloud" ... have any of your applications been designed with that kind of focus in mind of starting and stopping at any point and being part of a model with dynamically changing resource allocations?

Evolving skills are a demonstration of the ability to continue tackling new problems. I personally don't care less what knowledge you're exhibiting as long as I see things that are on the leading edge still showing up on your resume.

I suppose I mis-stated myself. They have nothing special in the trade-secret sense; ostensibly nothing that can't be derived from looking at their website.

What the hell could EBay have possibly stolen from Craigslist? The site only charges for job postings in a few cities, and that's an easy and publicly declared business model. The webpages are statically generated on a periodic basis, and that's as dumb-down simple as it gets. Unless Ebay walked off with Craiglist's super-secret-neverf-get-spam-through implementation (which I don't think they have), I don't get it.

Craigslist is nothing special, just simplicity done right.

There has been a lot of push at the recent DEFCON conferences, and associated conversation since, to look at alternatives to the current CA system. Moxie Marlinspike has been pushing a remote-view notary system called which is currently a Firefox plug, and Dan Kaminsky has been pushing for DNSSEC.

There has been an awful lot of discussion about the technical details of SSL certificates on the Security StackExchange (Stack Overflow cousin) website, including the related blog post I penned: A Risk-Based Look at Fixing the Certificate Authority Problem.

Besides the articles that were linked to, I'd also check out somebody's question of "Trustworthiness of kernel.org post attack" at http://security.stackexchange.com/q/6768/836 (the site is a cousin to stackoverflow.com).

Hell, I miss the days when the pilots would sometimes just leave the door open, and I'm a pretty young guy. It weirds me out whenever I get on a bus service that has the driver behind a plexiglass cage. I won't say the cockpit door isn't a reasonable security measure, but the bus thing is asinine.

I don't think box cutters were ever a credible threat. The thing we had all learned is that unless John McClane is involved, you'll be a few days late getting home and see another country should your plane get hijacked. Hijackers weren't resisted because nobody feared they were going to die -- why risk injury? Aware that the goal of the hijacking is death, there will always be enough motivated passengers on a plane to fight back with anything they have. You can hit pretty hard with a metal Macbook.

Before the September 2001 attack, you could have hijacked an airplane with a herring. While some hijackings still happen in modern day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings), it's more common for passengers to overpower hijacking attempts.

The question mentioned the US specifically, so it was a US-specific answer.

Federal law prohibits websites from collecting personal information from anyone under the age of 13.

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That is the case primarily because the system seems to have lagging displays and other indications of really shitty design.

In the days of print images, every image was "manipulated" in as far as color and contrast go. Color filters were used to print the negative, papers of appropriate contrast were selected. In the modern age, the question becomes, "Did the photographer feel he could better select the colors than the camera's algorithm could?" Color and contrast should be adjusted for most images, including journalistic ones.

Your understanding of color as a person, and the reality of color seen by a machine are two very different things. That's why a person needs to adjust.

A typical duplexer uses two frequencies in the same band that are usually close to each other. This is definitely an advance on that idea.

Permissions are distinctly different from logs. Both are "controls" in the audit sense of the word, but this is not a case of access control.

I strung a hammock between two chimneys and one of the chimneys collapsed on top of her.