If the issue is impersonation, then the headline of Schneier's post should have been "Counterfeit TSA agent IDs and Uniforms Will Now Be Sufficient to Bypass Airport Security". Every TSA agent has access to the "secure" areas of the terminal and passes through security unchecked throughout the day. The assumption that counterfeit pilots will have access more than counterfeit TSA agents at a large airport is a little silly. What happened to Schneier's desire for intelligence based screening? If we assume that everyone has to be verified, aren't we back to strange child pat downs and removing the Depends of senior citizens. I suspect what Schneier thought but didn't want to say is that he thinks that people with the "background" to require strict scrutiny may be allowed through in a pilot uniform because the program creates a situation that removes the discretion of the security personnel.

This is one where I believe that no amount of logic and reasonable precedent will matter. The court will simply not invalidate the basis of an existing industry and it has nothing to do with corruption. No quantity of shine can alter the fundamental nature of this complaint. It won't happen, don't get excited.

Maybe it was targeted advertising, but I wanted to learn more about the RC trucks being advertised in the side-panels. They were slightly obscured by the "model".

Who modded this Funny? She's a judge, for crying out loud. If she were trying to be famous for being rich that would be one thing, but come on... I don't want to see her confirmed, but this is ridiculous. There is nothing to like about her politics, er, I mean, judicial record, but why would anyone hope she had an angry ex with a sex tape? If people were thinking that justice was supposed to be blind, that the constitution has a text that is meant to be followed and amended by the will of the people, and if anyone thought that the commerce clause was meant to give Congress the power to regulate interstate trade, we wouldn't even have to think about putting her on the bench. To think that people need to hope she has a sex tape that would get her excluded (though it shouldn't) is part of the problem. There are so many good reasons to keep her out, let's not hope for the bad ones.

TeX and it's offspring LaTeX aren't editors, they are programming languages that generate typeset output. My editor for TeX is emacs, but I have used Notepad, vi...anything to edit my TeX files. TeX and LaTeX are passed down from user to user in graduate programs because the learning curve is extremely sharp. The two reasons that TeX won't be supplanted quickly are that (1) academic journal formatting for TeX (in the form of style files) is commonly available and graduate students in many science/engineering programs use the style files from their senior counterparts. This builds familiarity and then you just keep using TeX because you recognize its beauty and ease of use. More importantly (2) TeX files are simply text files. A dissertation is very small in this format. It is very, very portable; very, very stable; and you can use any editor you want (well, except WYSIWYG editors unless you do some pre-formatting). TeX is a programming language for typesetting, lets not call it an editor.

Despite the fact that we didn't have accurate data about the pattern of ocean currents earlier, we can now welcome panicked decrees that we are changing the pattern of ocean currents!

What? Why is it that when a country wants to import jobs for its citizens and substitute the resulting household income tax (and resulting sales tax) for the corporate taxes, people claim tax haven? Ireland isn't Monaco, any country could (and should) consider doing exactly what Ireland is doing.