I'll have to start looking about getting a confocal microscope or nice NMR setup for my garage. Maybe I can find one on Craigslist. Then the cute postdocs can come to my place for some research and a movie. Or, the postdocs will go back to China, Japan, Europe, Latin America etc. and just do their research there, provide the startups and universities there with the patens and license the technology to local companies there when not teaching the next generation of scientists and engineers abroad.

A photo that someone takes is automatically protected by copyright like other creative works are. The creator can decide to release it into the public domain, but there's no decision about copyright protection in the first place. People in the picture may have the right to be compensated for their likeness, and art work, architecture, costumes, makeup etc. in the picture may also be protected by copyright separately, requiring agreements between all the creative professionals for use of the combined work, so it's not as simple as saying the photographer can do whatever he or she wants and nobody else gets any rights.

Happened to us at work in the '90s. That being said, having a few officers knock on the door of a suburban home and having a discussion with the parents about the possible felonies the family's offspring is engaged in seemed to have the desired effect.

Also, you can just re-enter your old password as the new one. There's no enforcement of password history. Not to mention, no email alerting one of the need to change the password.

The problem is... They want an Java programmer because their new CNC machine only has Java libraries, and they don't want to train the C programmer for Java. So, the C programmer has to find another job. However, the company is in a small town, where nobody else wants or needs a C programmer. There's need the next state over, but the C programmer is upside down on his house and his wife doesn't want to change jobs or move the kids out of school. There's a lot of inertia and cost for the worker to move, so in many cases they can't just job-hop at leisure.

That's awesome... Although selecting Sci-Fi and Fantasy as genre results in a depressingly short list.

All of this conversation is a lot more idealistic than what I've seen in the places I've worked -- which is that when a new position opens, the employer looks to see how much they have to offer to get qualified applicants, and does this. The existing workforce doesn't get raises, or only gets a pittance, and so the newest hires almost always make the same or more than veterans. Existing workers face the option of either finding jobs elsewhere to stay within the pay curve, or staying in a comfortable environment where they know the culture and can be productive, until they get sufficiently pissed off at being rewarded for loyalty with being paid less.

This is why the less clueless ones of us are eagerly awaiting MacSec / 802.1AE. Also look at Cisco TrustSec for implementation plans.

No.

Eh? There was an Symbian app like that well over half a decade ago on my Nokia. How's this news?

My first grade song book from my Finnish elementary school had staves and notes, and I distinctly remember being shown how to read sheet music for extracurricular pre-school recorder lessons. Why wouldn't you teach kindergarterners the basics of sheet music, pitch and note duration seem to me a lot simpler than trying to teach reading the alphabet.

I kept reading through the comments and couldn't believe nobody had pointed that out before, so thank you. It seemed pretty clear to me that they said chances are that one of the lines around you moves faster than yours, which is probability 101 and just common sense.

That's actually kind of what the bill says, to my reading: http://www.scribd.com/doc/44617300/Federal-Wi-Net-Act

What I want are European style plans. They have unlimited data, but depending on how much you pay per month your actual bandwidth, not the amount of data, is shaped. So the 15 Euro plan caps at 384 kbps, the 50 Euro plan at 2 Mbps etc. That allows people to use a 3/4G modem as their primary network connection if they just want to do email, web browsing and basic youtube; and it won't kill the network, and it's cheap.

The one blind person I once tutored at my university completely ignored all those signs -- she had no way of knowing they were there, and she didn't spend time groping the walls looking for signs that might or might not be there. Elevator buttons and such yes, but random wall signs no.