Simple, every male teacher is a punching bag with a huge target on them. You smiled at the girl when she turned in her paper, you are a pedophile man! Girl hugs the male teacher, he goes to jail. Female teacher fucks a student, claims "alcohol was the problem" and walks away. Wholly fuck, you would not be able to pay me enough to teach with the current climate. No, I quit mentoring too for similar reasons! The only way a guy can be safe in a school is to have a woman with him 100% of the time, and he's still fucked if she decides he's no longer needed.

This attack looks like something else though, judging by the numbers they are attacking. I speculate:

- They have fake certificates from trusted authorities for some major sites, and use MITM attacks to serve up fake pages with them. We know that GCHQ loves doing the latter, so it's a question of working out which certificate authorities have been compromised and deleting them. We can also potentially defend against this by using more certificate pinning and warnings which certificates change unexpectedly, as well as distributed certificate checks (to make sure the one you get is the same one everyone else gets).

- They capture a lot of encrypted data but don't decrypt all of it. They store the data and crack it later if it seems interesting. Much of the cracking probably relies on flaws in the implementation of the encryption - small RSA keys, bad PRNGs (we know that the NSA compromised at least a few of them) and the like. They seem to have massive amounts of computing power available too, which is hardly surprising given what we know of their budget and data centres (really supercomputing centres dedicated to violated your privacy and various laws).

The modern Lenovo keyboards are just as good (not the consumer ones, the business class ones costing â100+).

dont forget the 390,000 illegal downloads. you need to count those as well.

A kid sharing a song to 10,000 people is nothing. a Company selling it to make a profit off of it is very different. Not one person says that someone making and selling copies is innocent. Not even the most rabid of file sharing proponents.

Not if they slapped the press all over with it. The best way to combat sony is to humiliate it in every media possible. get it out there that they STOLE her music and are making millions off of her hard work.

Under the DMCA Sony needs to pay her $22.7 Trillion dollars for her losses. Use SONY's own bullshit made up numbers, bankrupt the whole fucking company over it like they do to people that can't defend themselves.

Hirose, who used to be the sole Cherry distributor in Japan, make some unique variations of Cherry parts under license. In particular they make a silent switch based on the MX line, which has a similar feel but almost no noise.

Today, there's no reason to not drive drunk. The expected cost of driving drunk is less than the cost of a cab. So it's rational to drive drunk.

It's only rational if you (a) value the price of a cab more than the risk of injury and death and (b) are a colossal arsehole.

Actually that happens to be exactly correct.

Vinyl records can't be quite as "loud" as CDs, because of the physical limitations of the movement stylus and the durability of the vinyl itself. Basically you can compress (in the sonic sense, making the music sound louder) music on CDs a lot more than you can on vinyl, so the vinyl release of an album can sometimes sound much better than the CD simply because it isn't over-compressed.

A few years later they release the "remastered" version, which is just the vinyl mix on CD, and it sounds great.

While I don't have a FB account, I understand why some people do. My friends used to communicate with text messages, and I was always in the loop. Then it all moved to Facebook, and fortunately they remember to invite me to things now but in the early days they either forgot or remembered right at the last moment.

I can see many people being basically obliged to be on FB just to keep up with their social circles. From there it's easy to get sucked in, and people start tagging you on photos etc. It sucks and demonstrates why we need to EU Right to be Forgotten as soon as possible, so we can purge ourselves from social media if they start to misbehave.

I agree that over-engineering is not going to be the way forward, but the greatest value of lessening risk is the PR aspect and it should not be overlooked.

Just look at the people in this thread who argue that the space program and all of the research and the eventual benefits from extraterrestrial energy and resource production are a waste of money. Now, add some deaths to it. It doesn't matter if there are one or two or a hundred.

Those deaths will get exploded in the media in a manner that mirrors how people are afraid of things like Ebola or terrorism while the actual probability of being killed by those things is much less than being killed in a car accident. There will be commissions, there will be spineless politicians grounding whole programs, and then those same individuals will complain that NASA isn't making any advances and is a waste of money.

Accepting risks like that is not something an individual can do in a risk adverse society without it rippling outward. And that's ultimately where the US is going.

The US needs to look outward to save not only its position in the world, but also preserve the underlying morale of the people who live in it. Granted, the old method of looking outward tends to lead to wars, but the interesting thing about space exploration is that it provides people a means of looking outside their borders without having to dominate their neighbors. And if you think about it, that might well be the greatest advantage of all.

So, I agree with you on what needs to happen. Astronauts and test pilots dying in accidents needs to increase our determination, not cause it to fold, but that is a problem with our inward looking society which NASA engineers can't control. What they can control is trying to be as safe as possible to make sure they can keep going. What we need to do is to not accept that there will be deaths, but to make the case that there is concrete benefit to those risks to begin with. The case isn't being made where it needs to be.

I had a similar experience to you. Mechanical keyboards feel nice, but laptop style scissor switch keys are faster and more accurate. I ended up with a Microsoft wireless model. Many of their keyboards have a "compact" layout that sucks, but they do a few that have proper spacing. They tend to have F-lock keys as well, which are not ideal, but they are hard to beat for feel and quality.

The other obvious choice is a Lenovo Thinkpad style keyboard. Their wireless models are insanely expensive though. These days I prefer wireless because it's just so handy to be able to throw the keyboard to one side when I need some desk space.

Sure, as long as you don't try to change the key on your pre-heartbleed webserver. They charge money for that, as far as I understand it.

Great. And what does somebody do if they have a pre-heartbleed certificate from startssl? Last time I checked they charged to revoke a certificate, and as I understand it they won't let you issue a new certificate for a domain you already have one for. Thus, I imagine that MANY startssl sites are using potentially-compromised private keys.