use passwords like "Ihavefiftydollars$dollarsy0" -27 digit strong password. It's super strong and really easy to remember. It's not advisable to md5 hash your weak password then use the hash as your real password; but can be similarly strong.

Evolution occurs through mutations. The applicable mutation would have occurred during the egg stage. The first chicken with an appropriate amount of mutation would have happened at the egg stage. The applicable article would have been an evolution a stage ahead of the actual genetic level.

That and in addition we have a situation where we protect bad teachers. Billy has poor marks? He must not try very hard, he's a good kid with lots of potential, but he doesnt apply himself. *wait no couldnt possibly be the teacher is shit* Personal story: I'm terrible with english, my english teacher was a bad teacher, I was a 90s student otherwise. He never taught worth shit. He would be 15mins later everyday for the 1hr class. Half the time he wouldnt actually teach. He would simply talk about last night's basketball game or some movie or whatever. On top of that... as an anti-cheating measure we had to write our essays, on a topic he gave during the class, in class. So we were given 30-45mins to write 3-5 page essay. Everyone would fail unless they cheated. If he didnt like you. You would get caught cheating. While if you were his friend... you could cheat at will as he never said crap against you. Infact he would talk to these friends out of class and tell them ahead of time the topic of the essay, they'd write the essay and bring it to class on the day. So I complain and complain and everyone says it's my fault for not trying hard enough. I go up the chain. Which then gets back. They basically blind the teacher. He has to start giving the tests the other english teacher gives. The same ones. Since he never taught worth a shit. Everyone basically starts getting about 20% on the tests. Which proved how shit a teacher he was. Except he got to imput the marks and decided to give all his friends 90s then basically input everyone else on a curve. Despite that curve i was basically at the top of the curve. I still end up with a terrible mark and no knowledge. tldr; bad teachers are protected and hurt students.

My n900 is badass but ya they never advertised it. If it wasnt for slashdot i most likely never had heard of it. The one thing that bothers me. Nokia doesnt seem to be apart of the community at all. They seem to have released the n900 and said go wild, while walking away. They also seem to be walking away from maemo, leaving n900 in the dust.

I'm what you might call a linux zealot. I couldnt find a school which offered any sort of IT program that wasnt a microsoft partner and pushed microsoft entirely. So it's a pretty big lie at least for my city that microsoft isnt getting access to students. Ya I got onto dreamspark, msdn and technet for free; but I think that's exactly the issue people have. Developers want free at every point. Free as in freedom and more importantly free as in beer. The hip and cool devs cant afford to be paying microsoft licensing so they cant go.

1. You could auto release 0day; never contact the fella like Microsoft to see if they'll fix it. You are left with lots of known insecure machines. 2. You could give microsoft all the info and tell them to fix it and never release info to public. Microsoft never fixes these. You are left with a public who is insecure and doesnt know. Best Practice is both. Contact Microsoft get them to sign NDA that expires in ~1 month(or whatever is plenty of time to fix the bug relative to severity). Give them all the info they need to fix it. Tell them that X date full disclosure so fix it or be in bad PR situation of explaining why they didnt fix it in that time period given. MS really really is going to fix it then.

I wonder how hard it would be to computer generate every possible combination of music in music sheet form. To the level of satisfying copyright "it's practically the same song" rule. That way it isnt a matter of generating every possible combination per bit. This would obliterate the copyrights of the future music industry. Placing all the copyrights in control of the distributed computing group that does it. A GPL equivalent or perhaps lesser one could be used. All music from day 1 on has to be released under that copyright. Which bars them from suing consumers.

The problem with the businesses doing the training. When you're fired, what are the chances you're competent as a worker for anyone else? The reality is that highschool grades are even more useless then postsecondary. We need a post secondary situation where the students are given crafted tasks as the graded tests. They can use google and their textbook and everything to get the task done. In essence representing what happens in the real world. If I'm a physicist lets say. I dont need to memorize every equation known the man. If I'm doing work... I look up the equation. Why then are the grades in school dependant on my remembering the equations?

Woman's first step is take the classes perhaps in high school? Do the teachers stop women from doing that? Not likely. Next step might be post-secondary if you have the grades and money. Do the colleges/universities say "You're a woman you cant go in IT!" ? Not likely. Next step might be industry certifications. Does prometric/comptia/microsoft say "NO you're a woman you cant" ? Not likely. Still nothing in their way. Do employers discriminate? Not likely. So really there's nothing stopping them from going into IT. It must be either lack of interest or lack of incentives. Lack of interest is never going to be fixed. Incentives are possible; but doesnt mean you lose women over it... unless other fields are giving women incentives and that's where the women are going. Which is exactly what's happening. My city's university offers free tuition PLUS addition $1000 to women who take engineering. Why in the world would women turn that down?

Personal use should be limited to retail value of the product at sentencing. No paying lawyer fees or any of that. That way there's a fair balance. If im pirating $50,000 retail worth of stuff... then maybe ya i should be paying out. Gross commercial infringement on the otherhand should be the multiple millions per work. The judge knocking the amount down to $54,000 is attempting to make it reasonable to avoid copyright infringement all together being thrown out.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (10 December 1948)

Article 19
        Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Perhaps we should jail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sawers for breaking the UN rules?