Their goals are in direct opposition to the maintenance of rights/privileges held by US citizens.

The only way to balance it out is to have an element in government with as much power as them who's job it is to maintain those rights. Basically you need the ACLU with enough juice to not be afraid of the president.

Or a president with enough nuts to do the job himself. Or a public who would vote him out if he didn't.

It all comes back to us being misinformed douchebags with no concept of what is important in government.

Assuming that he had a supercomputer to crunch the data, knew the algorithms the NSA/FBI uses, implemented them properly, and then understood the results and what conclusions we would come to -- then yes, your supposition is reasonable.

Otherwise, your nuts.

Exactly the reason you should be immersed in your field.

If we don't know the buzzwords and their real meaning/applicability -- we then leave it to our management to deal with them.

Thats why you see the word cloud on anything involving more than one computer these days.

If you are selling technology and you dont keep your product relevant, you company will soon be irrelevant -- if it isnt already.

The real problem is that there is an idealized picture of an average, competent engineer.

The reality is that the average engineer is barely competent and average companies will be full of them. Any team you end up on in such a company will almost certainly contain a handful of them, and worse will likely contain at least 1 sub-par engineer to boot. This is just a fact of life.

The problem is not being unhappy with crappy help -- the problem is the stupid idea that you should never have to deal with crappy help. I think any good engineer should be prepared to absorb some adversity, whether it comes in the form of a tough problem, a bad team member, a bad market, or bad management.

It's called life.

Sorry, but anyone who refers to contemporary technology as "buzzwords" should most likely retire or find a different line of work.

A great engineer pushes technology forward and leads, a good engineer stays current and keeps his company in good technical standing, and bad engineers make excuses and rest on their laurels.

If you find that the language is changing around you and you can't keep up - you are most likely doing your company more harm than good.

"It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles."

It is the only natively compiled language that I know of that tries to offer those things.

Cmon, this is a real improvement to the functionality provided by modern linux terminals. I think it's cool as hell.

Microsoft has confused security with authority. Or perhaps they think they are synonyms.

Regardless I think Linus responded quite appropriately.

Is it better for there to be two jobs at $8-hr or one job at $16-hr?

Just because an individual makes more money with a higher minimum wage does not mean the workforce overall is going to be in better shape.

If there are alternatives, then the wait will probably be short. If there aren't, then you should suck it up as long as you can.

Keep in mind, if you pay for service and they don't provide it, you are due a refund. This is quite separate from whether or not you choose to do business with them in the future.

There is a difference between taking action and making a difference. I was suggesting that they could not be effective, not that they couldn't act out.

Also, I think the Buddha had the last meaningful word on a human beings ability to stop change, and that was a few thousand years ago.

I find it strange to see someone discount the idea of debate calling it "the problem", and the in the same breath talk about the rigorousness of science.

A scientific treatment of these papers would include taking each at face value -- not conferring those that agree with the status quo with a special status.

I think you are part of the problem as much as anyone else.

Not like we have world or national governance that can do anything about it.

The US government can't make a budget or run a money system of their own creation -- yet you think they can absorb science, understand it, and react to it in an effective fashion?

Such things only exist so that there can be sides for people to join and so there can be issues to argue about.

And we should all piss our pants if someone publishes that its slightly higher or slightly lower than expected? Laughable.. argue on children.

A felony would almost certainly require real damages to the target, DoS or theft or the like.

Furthermore, the kid already told the school about his find and made no attempt to conceal his identity on his second connection. He had gotten no negative feedback on his first connection. For a website, any connection outside of the provided user interface is outside of the normal terms of service.

Neither of his connections to the site resulted in any action by the actual owner of the site besides perhaps a call to the school in a moment of panic.

All of the evidence supports his claims of innocence in intent, if not in action. Furthermore, he wasn't given any opportunity to give his side of the story -- if he was arrested or sued he would have been able to defend himself.

The kid should retain an attorney and sue the school for the damage to his prospects and reputation, then we will see if a jury of his peers feels he's lost touch with reality.