Zuckerberg spends $100 million to prove that throwing money at broken public schools does not fix them.

Are we surprised? No.

"Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she'd rather see companies pay more in taxes and fund schools that way, rather than relying on their charity or free software."

Of course she would. Big Labor's all about squeezing those nasty eeeeevil corporations for all they can get.

Why should Google pay taxes to the district so they can buy Microsoft? Why should they be forced to help their competition at gunpoint?

No, you're likely to get a recipe.

FWIW, this is a good one. I make it about weekly, though I use chorizo; real andouille is hard to find in the wilds of rural Minnesota.

This would be at the top of any list I'd compile.

The other ruling, by Judge Richard Leon, distinguished this case from Smith v. Maryland on the basis that the NSA's metadata collection was different in nature because of its volume. However, as Power Line's Paul Mirengoff noted,

But these changes provide no sound basis for distinguishing Smith. That case rests on the view that, because of the nature of metadata, its collection by the government without a warrant isn’t constitutionally problematic. This true no matter the quantity of metadata the government collects.

It's going to take the Supreme Court deciding that yes, you do have an expectation of privacy in records you did not originate, never possessed, and have no control over, and thus to throw Smith v. Maryland out the window, to have the NSA metadata collection ruled unconstitutional. Fourth Amendment jurisprudence rests very squarely on the idea that you only have an interest in not having subject to search those things and places where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. That's where the arguments will fall down.

The article summary is misleading. The Supreme Court ruled, in Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979), that you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in records you don't control. It's not Judge Pauley's conclusion, it's binding precedent that the court that rucked against the NSA handwaved away with not good explanation.

Duh, Bruce *Sterling*, not Bruce *Schneier*. Still, this Bruce's perspective might get interesting...

I keep saying that if I were President, I'd appoint you head of the TSA. Would you accept? If not, who would you recommend for the job?

There are a couple of parts of the flight where the pilot is required to use the automation. The biggest is during cruise in what's known as RVSM airspace, where the vertical separation minimums are reduced from what was standard before RVSM was implemented. There, if your autopilot quits, ATC will send you down below the RVSM floor. RVSM is in use above some altitude in the 48 states and on transAtlantic routes. (I don't recall the exact altitude.)

The other is in flying an instrument approach to very low altitudes, known as a category III approach. IIRC, those must be flown on autopilot in order to continue below category III minimums.

That $460 million came out of Knight Capital's pockets too...and is far more effective than any fine the SEC could levy. Why should the SEC pile on, aside from the populist outrage that goes along with people handling billions of dollars?

...WANT.

Not hard to find. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2012 that private sector union membership was down to 6.6%, and overall membership was 11.3%, compared to 20.1% as recently as 1983. The 6.6% was the lowest since 1932.

There are plenty of sources cited all over the net. A good place to start is this Wikipedia article.

Unions were good in the 1920s and 1930s. Now, they've priced the American worker out of the global labor market.

There's a reason that union membership is down to historic lows: all they do is take money out of workers' pockets to line the bosses' nests and send money to Democrat politicians.

Just give the whole thing to Bruce Schneier and stand back.

The original poster misunderstands what EXPDT= in JCL specifies. It doesn't mean the file will be automatically deleted after that date, only that the file may not be deleted before that date without the operator at the system console giving permission.

I'm no patent lawyer, but it would seem to me this is less prior art than he thinks it is.