Perhaps you meant to reply to the parent? It's ALL about the prestige.

Exactly, although your country choices are bad: India has Bollywood, and China has a system where only the "perfect" people get the acting/TV jobs. The positions have the same prestige as in the US. However, going to pretty much any country in Africa and setting up this experiment could have very interesting results...

They don't tend to block acceleration, nor do they block data exfiltration when you remove your phone from them to make/receive calls.

Oh Wow! So the hacker has installed something like MotionX -- commercial software for iOS that's been around forever and does pretty much this (although I don't think it contains subway lines in its accelerometer fingerprint list).

FB image link appears to be down, or just not accessible for people not on FB.

The real takeaway from their research seemed to be the bit about promoting CS as a vehicle for social change / making a difference / getting noticed.

Out of curiosity, what is the goal of the after school program? Is it just to build neat things, or are their goals or competitions associated with it?

In your case, it's competing with the school play, which enables the girls to be the focus of an entire audience with much applause. It has weeks/months of buildup with ads in the school and community. It has a number of accessible topics that people who aren't in the play can take part in, and it has a hierarchy (their girls don't like hierarchy thing is pure hogwash) where different people can get "better" and "worse" parts in the play, as well as default exclusivity (not everyone can play the leading roles). It also enables them to communicate under the guise of a fictional character. Beyond this, it likely involves a bit of fundraising and some costume building/time sunk in by parents where they're forced to spend time with their daughters helping them prepare.

I bet if you set up the after school program to check off all those qualities, you'd get girls flocking to it and the play would become a distant second. Maybe have an end-of-year project that encorporates what they've been doing all year, and the resulting "performance" goes up on youtube? Have some "milestones" throughout the year that they can share with friends in the same way? Create some sort of plot arc that can grab their imaginations?

You may already be doing all this, but it's what has always made school plays popular with the girls.

I recall all the people who used to head to Canada for summer holidays with their fish canning set-ups. I wonder if that stuff would make it through the border these days...?

And if you're using GoogleDNS or OpenDNS, you're back on the tracking bandwagon.

And maybe this is the way it should be... have the DNS providers be the tracking clearinghouse, and serve only relevant ads in a way that doesn't get in the way of the actual site content.

The fact that Apple sticks "Safari Reader" in the Safari browser says something about how bad things have got... not only do you end up loading a bunch of stuff you don't actually want that takes time/bandwidth, the end result is often bad enough that your browser needs to reformat it for you to be able to read it comfortably.

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The answer appears to be "yes".

If your license is revoked, don't store a pressure cooker in your parked car.

That's kind of the point -- most people with Soviet roots have a somewhat negative outlook on Russia if they aren't Russian. And many Russians have a somewhat negative outlook on the soviet bloc. Soviet culture has shaped the societies of current ex-Soviet countries significantly -- promoting the strong work ethic and "must make things better for my kids" attitude that isn't so widely spread in North America anymore.

He's a Romanian living in Canada... Soviet roots.

I think people on here are having a difficult time differentiating between two actions that have taken place here: 1) security research that discovered a hole and 2) unauthorized abuse of that hole to prove a point and demonstrate the severity of the flaw.

Starbucks is hostile to the second, not the first. If he'd stopped at discovering the flaw and bringing it to their attention, I doubt they'd be hostile.

If you parked your car and someone noticed the door was unlocked and the keys were in the ignition and came and told you, that'd be under 1) -- if instead, they got in, drove your car up to the door of your building and honked the horn to get your attention, that's under 2). And that's exactly what he did.

Looks like we also need a security researcher wall of shame that lists "researchers" who go beyond the research and commit federal crimes to demonstrate what the flaw allows them to do.

Any time you're inside a network you're not supposed to have access to, you've crossed the "hacker" line from "white" to "grey". If you don't immediately back out and report, you've slid all the way to "black".

I wish, when I was in school, I understood exactly what the permanent record was.

Of course, by the time I graduated and had the right to pull my record and see what was in it, I really didn't care anymore, as it said nothing that would influence the rest of my life in any way.

"The top-secret document, obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was published Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept."

For those not in the know, CBC News is roughly equivalent to CBS News in the US. So on the one side, it's not going to be in the "middle of the newspaper." On the other, publishing this on the CBC News website is equivalent to publishing this on the CBS News website -- meaning, it didn't even make it into a newspaper in the first place. CBC News does television, radio, and web.