..get the damn product finished Oculus.

If you do not have men with guns to protect your freedom, money, women, *insert thing here, other (bad) men with guns will come take it from you.

That's human nature, and I have no problem with my way of life being protected under threat of planetary annihilation.

Forget that lesson at your peril.

You are making a huge financial investment in both real dollars and opportunity cost.

Don't worry about developing web sites. Spend that time advancing your core knowledge. Learn as deep and as abstractly as you can. The technologies will change, the knowledge will not.

Any job you take now will likely not impact your career. Find out if there's a professor you can work with in another faculty instead - by going up and down halls knocking on doors if possible. Chances are they have some IT problems that need solving this summer or know someone who does.

It's so goddamn awful, it will drive me away from Gmail, its uncomplicated and great search results, and make me get off my lazy ass, and set up my own cloud service that I control.

It might even make me motivated enough to limit my exposure to Google in other ways, too.

The volume of non-work email I deal with has been dropping steadily, anyway - to the point where my own solution managed in my own cloud service might be worthwhile.

I strongly suspect I am not alone.

Full speed ahead Google!

The people doing the funding there most certainly need more code monkeys..

The standard model has been verified in countless experiments, and made predictions that have been subsequently verified.

Opinion is not the same as experimental validation, and I am unaware of such experimental rigor as applied to climate modelling.

You don't get it both ways. Unfortunately, we've gone down the road where you can't question climate science anymore, and that's where it stops being science and starts being something else.

Are we changing the planet? Almost certainly. How much? Unknown. What is the impact? Also unknown. We do know that the climate has changed large amounts in a short period in the past, and will do so again. That's about it.

It doesn't matter anyway - nobody is going to stop driving, nobody is going to accept the sacrifice. Our best bet is to accept the change headlong, and pour our intellectual capital - all those people - into figuring out ways to engineer the planet's climate, and develop clean, high density power that can drive those technologies (that is code for nuclear power).

C'est la vie. But don't compare climate science with the standard model or general relativity. You are wrong.

..for average high school teachers.

The jamming gear, likely by an order of magnitude or two.

You've just realized why autonomous drones are necessary; they can't be jammed.

If you're broadcasting a 1 MW jamming signal, you are a pretty bright light for HARM missiles or other radar-seeking technology. More sophisticated schemes or ECM are possible, but the physics is pretty clear on how you track down a broadcast location.

..they haven't outlawed any of those things, and the technology adoption is growing like wildfire now. Commercial enterprise wants secure commerce, and they're going to get it.

Never underestimate the almighty dollar.

"I expect you to hold the United States to the standards that I've outlined, I also hope that you won't let the world forget the places where those who hold their government to standards go to jail rather than win prizes."

I don't even know where to begin with this one.

Don't worry. The internet will deal with this because there's money on the line, and the US should understand this. If you start with a base assumption everything is being recorded and monitored, then you can build systems that have protections against that designed in from the start. Math is awesome.

The outcome from this will be an even harder to stop internet. This may have be an unintended effect, but may end up being a net positive gain for personal liberty in the long run. History is full of reasons why this is a good thing, and why we must never lower our guard.

Interesting times.

That's great, but certain professions limit your options for self expression.

These are also the professions where one is likely to have the disposable income to drop $5k on a watch as your primary accessory.

See how that works?

Does this prototype work for those who need glasses?

This happened a few years ago and is why I have nothing to do with Bitcoin - I lost quite a few coins, then decided it was too risky to be involved with until the exchange problem was figured out.

I am not sure why this is not more widely known, but there you go. I am not sure there is a solution to this problem.. without the involvement of traditional government.

1918. Less than 100 years ago. 3-5% of total world population died.

People forget. History repeats. :(