should != does

Most (?) cell phone companies have explicit privacy policies, which should both prevent them from releasing customer data unless legally required (i.e. a warrant), and at the same time give the customer a reasonable expectation of privacy. The king (11th Circuit) has no clothes.

The fact you think you suck already means you have drastically higher potential than a large number (perhaps even a majority) of developers

Far better to think you suck and know that you can improve than to think you're awesome and stay shit forever.

Humility is the number one most important defining trait shared by the world's genuinely great developers. I've met plenty of developers who think they're great, claim they're great, but repeatedly prove their development ignorance when they start talking about the subject. In contrast, I've never met a humble programmer that isn't either awesome, or well on their way to being awesome.

Depends on the water quality. Just a particulate filter and softener are pretty common in my area. A softener will remove small amounts of iron, but there are systems ("iron filters") which will remove higher levels. But none of the above will remove organic chemicals or biologicals.

I don't think he even understands the concept of drinking water coming out of a tap.

But we make our wo-men wear clothing.

One of my friends (who now has a masters in CS) was asking me why his programming 101 course was so heavy on pointers when nearly everything in the 200+ range was taught using pointerless, or nearly pointerless, languages.

The reason, of course, is to figure out as early as possible which camp each student was in.

I've used a similar technique with cousins and nephews who have come to me, as the adult in the family that works with computers, for advice when trying to decide to start (or sometimes quit) a CS course.

So, your logic is that if there weren't a Standard Oil, there would be no gas stations, and we'd still be riding horses.

Well I'm glad we have you here to arbitrarily define intelligence. It's about time, the human race has been struggling to define it precisely for hundreds of years.

Where have you been all this time of self-declared definer of terms?

But just to clarify, basically, what you're saying, is that intelligence is a form of magic that we have inside us? Where inside us does this magic exist? Where does it come from? Are you saying it's a special undetectable thing? Your comment seems to imply it disappears in adults, but we can't detect it in babies either.

We can't do any of the things you suggest because we don't have computers even remotely as powerful and capable of rapid complex processing as the human brain. I also can't teach a dog to do any of the things you suggest, so are you declaring dogs as being unintelligent? Your examples seem to suggest that intelligence is unique to human beings and nothing else has the capacity for intelligence.

Ooh, or even better, an IPv6 to IPv4 tunnel broker used by some major brand of Wi-Fi router....

Or a VPN provider of some sort.

From my perspective, anybody who never had to program using punched cards is an immigrant. I'd tell you to get off my lawn, but my community's security guards wouldn't let you past the gate anyway.

they take most shit and are happy eating it.

One of the big reasons they're happy to eat it is that they haven't learned yet (some of them never do) that they don't have to take that kind of treatment and that good managers don't need to treat their subordinates that way. And, of course, there's also the fact that there are lots of other kids out there trying to get their foot in the door making them easily replaceable and bad managers know how to play on their understandable insecurity.

pretty hard to mismeasure a newton + of thrust...

Where do you get that? According to the article:

For the EM Drive, the one in question here, thrust comes in consistently at between 30-and-50 microNewtons, where the limit of the measuring device is 10-to-15 microNewtons.

This pretty much says it all right here.

They might as well advertise for "Naive, spinless young suckers who'll do anything for a buck."