Not nearly enough power. I would go with illegal aliens running on treadmills.

Apply some of that massive Silicon Valley brainpower to developing large-scale desalination instead of the next batch of faddish social media apps.

well, as always it's an all or nothing proposition, so good luck!

Actually, CALEA means that it's basically illegal to deliver a full end-to-end encrypted system that does not have a back door. Now, if Verizon simply passed encrypted data between endpoints, and let a 3rd party app developer create the endpoints which encrypted/decrypted the data, then Verizon could not offer a backdoor - it has no way of intercepting/decrypting the data. But by doing the full chain (encrypt, transport, decrypt) it simply has to offer a back-door per CALEA because it is obviously possible for them to do so (they see the raw data prior to encryption, and know the encryption scheme and keys - they did the endpoints).

Can you design a system you would solely supply for encrypted end-to-end communications that could NOT have a backdoor implemented? If you implement the end-points, then a back-door is automatically possible - you control the encryption/decryption on the ends.

See the CALEA Act passed in 1994. Telecom providers HAVE to provide that backdoor. If not - they are subject to fines of up to $10,000 per day per connection not in compliance, and having their network shut down until it comes into compliance.

Your indignation should not be directed at Verizon - it should be directed at Washington, DC.

People are running around with computers in their hands, the phone is now nothing but an add-on feature, as such we should be able to have a real p2p encrypted channel with communications over it, so for people with data plans this shouldn't be a problem. I am more interested seeing if we can have a system that uses voice to send encrypted data over it...

It used to be that any degree would get your "foot in the door" with HR. Some of the best programmers I worked with over the years had degrees in English, Philosophy, and even a History major.

University teaches you how to learn new material, how to prioritize it, how to summarize, how to reach the meat in the middle of the chaff. It does not teach you how to program. While there are benefits to knowing computing theory, it's not theory that gets the job done -- experience does that.

I'm surprised you're having such a tough time finding work if you're actually good at programming. Perhaps it's the way you're presenting yourself in your resume, because, as I said, it doesn't really matter what your degree is in for getting your foot in the door.

It's far easier to just have the cops shoot the white people, too. Then they'll know what it's like to be a "person of colour." :(

Because a free market in labour is as important as a free market in goods.

Do away with the welfare state and fewer people will have a problem with unchecked immigration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Because before you can win the war you have to win a first battle.

If I were that man I would have shot out the damn camera before doing anything at all on my front porch.

Denmark's play was a grab for the assets of financially troubled toymaker Claus Industries. Little did they know that Claus had already solved his problems by relocating to Shenzhen.

If this is what is really happening, then this will be not only be evidence of life, but Republican life. Look for traces of wealthy activity.

Please try reading the article with the graph. Dr. Easterbrook gives a pretty convincing argument of why this type of graph (ice cores) tend to be more accurate than the mish-mash of multiple proxies all packaged together. The former gives you higher resolution, the latter tends to average over long, multi-century periods (eliminating known events like the Minoan, Roman, and Medieval Warm Periods).

Well, it seems over the last 11,000 years we've had considerably warmer periods - and our species survived and even flourished! The Minoan warm period, the Roman warm period, the Medieval warm period - all were good for worldwide cultures. We're not "headed" anywhere our species hasn't been, and our species has done pretty darn well when it's warmer as opposed to when it's colder.