Err ... this course was in "Strategic Managment", right? Backstabbery, cheatage, etal are necessary or at least ubiquitous skills. Just what does the prof expect?

It's a joke, LAUGH!

This mem.thrasher pgm will be a very fat piggy -- load one core 100% and slow everything else _way_ down. I don't know about you, but I slaughter such beasts on principle.

Should this mem watching ever become a threat (keystroke time-gap reading?) then an easy counter-measure is to detune the high-res timers, say zero out the lower 24 bits of rdtsc() in the JSlib. Still leaves ~10ms resolution but will break any attempt to time cache-reloads.

I said nothing about combat being allowed. You assume a "Wild West" lack of law enforcement. Like today, anyone threatening or using firearms without justification would be caught on camera, warrents would be issued, and police would serve them with a justified level of force (including SWAT for the really aggressive).

GOOG has to be rather careful in what it does because it has an effective monopoly. _Anything_ that could be seen as anti-competitive, will be. So soon after the EU ruling, GOOG is just bating them.

I would consider current [techno-]society as very much homo-sapiens "in the wild". Any outside influences/zookeepers are carefully hidden :)

But I agree hunter-gatherer societies find other traits more advantageous. Even industrialized societies have lower intelligence advantages than information societies. "Mate attraction" is obviously a second-order effect with lags (it is what used to pay). We are 10 generations into the start of industrialization but only 4 into info.

The gross advantages of intelligence are quite apparent and quite large. That intelligence is only slowly taking over implies the net advantages (after deducting disadvantages) are much smaller.

Certainly -- renorming measures the Flynn Effect. If it helps your understanding, please read the quoted sentence as "... moved the IQ average intelligence level to what we currently consider 130, 150 ...". And since you apparently like pedantry, please learn the difference between ignorance and stupidity.

... from Robert Heinlein. In both cases, the consequences of rude behaviour are much greater.

I worry most about the years-later consequences of surveillence on politicians and other leaders. They all seem to have sordid episodes, and this leaves them highly succeptible to hidden blackmail/pressure by data-holders. We will never know how they are manipulated and abuse their wide discretionary powers.

Not to protect "the little children" but to protect "the pervy pols."

If high intelligence were an unmitigated benefit, natural selection would have moved the IQ average to 130, 150 or whatever over the eons. There _must_ be commensurate down-sides. Depression? Slower reflexes? Go fetch!

As it is, we just have the Flynn effect of average IQs rising about 1 pt per decade over the past century. That might [or not] be considered as fast evolutionary change.

Release? Released? Why should such a dangerous hax0r ever be released? He should be locked away forever in Gitmo or some SuperMax :)

Seriously, "unauthorized access" looks most like the cyber-equivalent of the ancient infraction of trespass. The same common-law defenses should apply (here the concept of "attractive nuisance").

Pandering to the fear of the ignorant with draconian punishments is the very opposite of liberty. And progress will suffer for the witchhunts (already has).

90% UI sucess rate? Hire them -- most legit websites have 80% or lower success :)

I suspect this is a made-up/"customized" statistic.

Did [m]any in their youth? Human behaviour is not a state function, it is path-dependant.

No, `crosh` is a protective shell.

Just what can you reasonably expect? Most programmers have been emotionally hurt repeatedly by women (much fewer by men) so it is natural they form protective shells (no not `bash`, the other kind). Yes, that does tar all women with one brush but all men are equally tarred by the misbehaviours of a small minority.

As for discrimination, I personally consider it cowardly -- fair competition, and let the best [wo]man win.

append fake_ACPI=2 to wherever your kernel command-line hides. At least this is easily done and more importantly, people can know it might help.

Whether Linus will accept another switch is a totally different question -- Does his famous "The kernel will not cater for broken hardware" extend to BIOS firmware?

Anyone who uses force and evades investigation, responsibility and punishment is indistinguishable from a criminal.

I fear many LEOs have forgotten their job is not to catch bad guys but to create respect for the law by enforcing it impartially and in a manner seen by all to be correct.