would you rather use a one-liner that requires a 3-line comment, or a 10-liner that requires no comments?

Easy. 10 lines, no comments. After writing a couple of million lines of code, the more code I write, the more I unwind it. Somewhere along the line, adolescent programmers got the idea that jamming all your logic into as few unreadable lines as possible is the fastest way to manliness. Way, way wrong.

Modern compilers and interpreters do a pretty good job nowadays. Source code bytes are near free. If you have to skull out dense code 6 months after you've written it, you're doing something wrong.

(OK, Lisp and APL are special cases, but really, when's the last time you wrote Lisp or APL, other than for fun?)

Yes, I know the chances of surviving a 24 kilovolt shock are pretty low, but I'm willing to risk it.

Nope. The chances of surviving a 24 kilovolt shock are actually pretty high, if the amperage is low enough. That little spark between your finger and a doorknob on a cold, dry day can be millions of volts.

It's current that kills, not voltage.

"Also, S.139 would grant an exemption for data that 'was rendered indecipherable through the use of best practices or methods, such as redaction, access controls, or other such mechanisms, that are widely accepted as an effective industry practice, or an effective industry standard.'"

I think that the whole purpose of this is to cover things like storing passwords, etc., as hashed data. That's something I tried to get into Virginia's data breach law (and will probably give it a shot again this year), but try explaining the concept of "cryptographic hashes" to legislators who are mostly lawyers. Three guys on the subcommittee got it (engineers and tech guys), but it was WAY over everybody else's heads.

And it's not just the legislators. the LexisNexis lobbyist went ballistic over the idea until she talked to somebody in her IT department, because she didn't understand what was going on.

I understand what this language is supposed to do, but it's just poorly crafted.

Doesn't this guy have a sixth amendment right to a speedy trial?

Besides (and Google may have led me the wrong CA statute) but it look like the penalty for the remaining charge could be as little as a $5,000 fine. It also seems to have an out:

"Subdivision (c) does not apply to punish any acts which are committed by a person within the scope of his or her lawful employment. For purposes of this section, a person acts within the scope of his or her employment when he or she performs acts which are reasonably necessary to the performance of his or her work assignment."

I'd been looking for an adapter to use an old IBM keyboard with my Mac. I'd never liked "squishy" keyboards, or ones with short key travel, and Apple keyboards seem to get squishier and shorter as time goes by. Then I found the Unicomp. My fingers are happy now.

The only downside is that you need to do a little prefs-setting and key swapping to put the option and command keys in the right place, but that's no big deal.

Get one. It's 70 bucks well spent.