Comment nothing to hide (Score 1) 16
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/
http://imandy.ie/social/story/92483
http://imandy.ie/social/story/92412/
http://mashable.com/2010/08/05/online-education-social/
http://mashable.com/2013/06/08/facebook-search-history/
http://www.zdnet.com/what-happened-to-the-new-york-times-website-7000019453/
Specifically, according to a source close to the NYT, the primary cause for the outage was due to bad firewall configuration change that blocked all incoming traffic and for some reason the IT staff wasn't able to rollback the change.
These high-tech mystery machines — 29 feet long — are about one-quarter the size of NASA's old space shuttles and can land automatically on a runway.
The X-37B is not one-quarter the size of the Space Shuttle, it's one-quarter the length of the Space Shuttle. The launch weight of the X-37B is 5.5 tons. The launch weight of the Space Shuttle is 125 tons. This ignorance about the meaning of dimensions reminds me of the Stonehenge scene from Spinal Tap.
Inspired by the dictate within its Japanese parent company Rakuten to have all its employees become fluent in English, Jaconi decided to have everyone, from himself down to the interns, learn to code.
In other words, if anything, he should really be inspired by his parent company to force all his employees to learn Japanese, but JavaScript is easier.
http://www.inventorofemail.com/
He calls himself the "inventor of email" which is silly. He registered a copyright with the US copyright office. Again, there did not seem to be any innovation involved. He wrote an email program, and registered his copyright. The only remotely interesting thing about it is that it was named EMAIL. If he had produced a television and called it TELEVISION, and it was after other people had already produced and refined televisions, it would be false to claim to be the inventor of television.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc524
I agree that the guy's claim is dopey, and I'm not paying careful attention to Chomsky's claim, but I suspect that here he is playing some semantic game that he finds relevant in theory, but serves no useful purpose in fact.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.