I'm having trouble seeing how you can call what he did whistleblowing. He didn't find evidence of wrongdoing and send it to a third party to investigate... he released tens of thousands of cables wholesale. He had no idea what he was releasing to the public, and I haven't seen a single cable that shows wrongdoing on the part of the US government. If they exist, point them out and I'll retract that statement. But even if he had exposed crimes, it still doesn't excuse his actions. If a gunman fires randomly into a crowd and ends up killing a wanted felon accidentally, that doesn't excuse the original crime. Manning needlessly put lives at risk. He should be punished.

>It's the job of educators to make complicated material straightforward to understand.

Well, almost. It is the job of educators to make complicated material as straightforward and easy to understand as possible, but no more. Some things are just plain hard. Additionally, educators must concern themselves with what works for the majority of their students, and have to accept that they won't be able to make things clear for everyone. There comes a point of diminishing returns in simplification and ultimately it is the responsibility of the student to fill in the gaps.

>If it can't be done that way YET, then people with more imagination than you will figure out how to do it. All I ask is that you don't stand in their way, or denigrate them as they accomplish what you cannot imagine.

And in return I ask that you recognize that educators are doing their damndest to teach material that they have spent a lifetime gathering and that expecting them to have a magic bullet is unreasonable in the extreme.

In addition to the point made by _0xd0ad, note that camera takes a picture of everything in its field of view which may include the car in front of or behind a car running a red light, and, depending on camera placement, cars which are legally stopped at the intersection. So no matter the country where the camera is deployed, it will probably be capturing innocent vehicles along with offenders.

Red light cameras take pictures of everyone at the light, not just those running it.

How long before we have " I am the 95%" protests?

From TFA:

>Two text analysis tools were used to examine the crime narratives of 14 psychopathic and 38 non-psychopathic homicide offenders

The abstract indicates that the study only looked at homicide offenders, and compared them only to other homicide offenders, not to any non-homicide offenders. They also only looked at a total of 52 people which doesn't seem like enough to me. There are so many factors which can change an individual's speech patters that claiming that the findings mean anything at all is irresponsible.

Take this study with a statistically significant grain of salt.

I wasn't aware that place names weren't allowed to change over time. Do you still refer to Canada as The Dominion of Canada too, or do you just stick with New France to be safe? If you want to be truly pedantic, it should be pointed out that the term "America" was originally only applied to what is today South America, with North America labeled "Terra Incognita" or Unknown Lands. So what right to you have to say that YOU live in America at all? According to Vespucci, you may not.

And at £10 per request, this could turn into a profit center for Facebook.

No, I'm not saying that there is no difference between CS and IT work, but I'm curious to know what the difference is as OP sees it. You ask if taking an IT job will hurt your chances of landing a CS job, but without knowing what you mean by that, it's tough to answer your question. For example, is a UNIX admin job CS or IT? DBA? C++ programming? Network Engineer? I would personally put all of those firmly in the IT category, but your opinion may be different.

Replying in case the AC comment slips past people. SFPD confirmed that there there were SFPD officers along with Apple investigators at the house.

Quite the opposite. If your contract says the code belongs to your employer, then the code belongs to your employer. The only way for you to retain ownership is for a judge to decide against your employer in court. The burden of proof is on YOU, not your employer.

That depends on your contract. Code you write at home belongs to your employer if those are the terms of employment. It's not uncommon.

Assuming he had the right to GPL the code at all. The company can just say he did it without permission, and never owned the rights to the code in the first place. OP won't win this fight.

As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, if municipalities were really interested in accident reduction, they would increase the length of yellow lights before they installed red light cameras. I won't argue that careless people cause accidents that is self evident, but there is no reason that we should actively increase the chances of putting people in a situation where carelessness leads to an accident.

As for whiplash, you DO in fact get whiplash when hit from behind. A good, properly adjusted (most are not) headrest will decrease the chances of whiplash, but they are not eliminated. In fact, some studies http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15667814 have shown that firm headrests will INCREASE the chance of whiplash, not decrease it.

But you've entirely sidestepped the point of my original post. A question like "So which is better, a rear-end collision outside the intersection, or a broadside collision inside the intersection?" alone is pointless. You can't consider the question without looking at more data.

It depends on the frequency of each occurrence and your definition of "better". I would bet that one mid intersection collision is, on average no worse than two rear end collisions. Whiplash can kill, and it doesn't take much to total a car.