I lost my last 30 lbs using "Hacker's Diet" (tracking my weight every day with a 20-day exponentially-smoothed rolling average chart) and tracking my food intake with My Fitness Pal. I exercise a lot, but that didn't do it. In 2012, I averaged 64 minutes a day of vigorous physical exercise, but lost only about 3 pounds. But in 2013, I used Hacker's Diet and MFP and went from 180 to 155 in six months, then slowly tapered down to 150, where I've now been for over a year (fluctuating +/- 3-4 pounds). (And this at 54 years of age!) I wrote a few newspaper columns about it, including this one: http://arneberg.com/columns/ch...

Except that it's a known key with a known loophole?

You may as well try to tell me WPA-2 encryption is meaningful. It's not.

Maybe because they're trying?

You can't just magic your way into a SCOTUS review.

No, it doesn't sound like a good strategy.

It sounds like "Spray and pray". In fact, people who don't use google do not exactly jump to searching on Bing, mostly because bing is terrible at being a search engine. Are there alternatives? Yes. Is this a way to bring light to them? Not even remotely.

Yahoo is bing, so using yahoo is using bing and is just as much garbage as bing.

The fact that the FAA is attempting to define commercial activity with a drone is exactly the problem.

Maybe the part about "I deleted all the unimportant emails. Trust me" part?

I can't wait to hear what happens when forensics gets to their machines and hopefully finds tons and tons of illegal activity.

No person should ever be allowed to do this, especially someone who doesn't understand the impact of doing this from a technology perspective and only from a political one.

You're misunderstanding. If you create a form of encryption to which you do not hold the keys, all of the compelling in the world isn't going to do anything. Which is what most modern OS's including ios do.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Being able to search the archives, and including other people in the reply, are some of the most power components of communicating by email. I wrote a newspaper (remember those?) column about this way back in 2003 that is still mostly relevant: http://arneberg.com/columns/ch...

When my employer moved us 15 miles away, I started biking to work. (I am very fortunate to have 80% of my route on paved bike paths.) I thought I'd do it once or twice a week, but I ended up loving it so much that I bike nearly every day in decent weather! In fact, I only drove eight times from May 20 through November 7. Unfortunately, in northern Wisconsin, winter means early darkness, slippery ice, and corrosive SALT on the roads. So I only bike from April through November. Still, I pedaled 4000 miles in 2014! Try it; you'll like it...

"Apple doesn't mine it"

Yeah, ok. Show me where/how you can guarantee that any more than anyone else who already has your data? Apple in this case *already has your data* without HealthKit. Apple is identical to google and facebook and every tech company that collects user data in this regards.

Sirius isn't free, you pretty much have to buy the hardware too.

Also, 90% of their stations are outright garbage and far less personalized than Pandora.

At the same time, Pandora is ridiculous because it's treated more like a radio stream and less acknowledging basic functionality like "I want to play a song again" or "I want to restart the same song". Spotify is equally garbage in this regards as you are limited on the number of streams and the selection is limited. Google music is the next closest thing at $8/mo, but in reality it's no better as well.

Until you have a streaming service that doesn't have to resort to covers to play certain songs just because the big bad publishers think their music is so magically valuable (it isn't), we're going to be stuck with garbage solutions like this.

What isn't mentioned about every music streaming solution? None of them pay the artist *anything*, because this assumes artists actually get their tenth of a cent per stream. It's unlikely, because that's probably split 20/80 with their publisher, assuming they even get the money and that a publisher isn't somehow taking all the money from the artist who doesn't even work for them.

To get a PhD at 20 I imagine you've spent a lot of your childhood reading and doing maths and physics. What is it about physics that draws you? Why does it keep you interested?

Lack of interest in fiction is not a diagnostic criterium when it comes to being placed on the autism spectrum (also, Asperger's syndrome no longer exists as a separate classification but is now merely defined as being on the autism spectrum combined with normal language development and a few other criteria). In fact, an obsession with fiction would be one, just as a very strong interest in trains or squirrels or tarantulas or whatever else would be. Just look at comic con.

Just wanted to make that clear.

Well that certainly sounds like a standard undergraduate engineering program to me. Don't most of them have students publishing widely in well-respected journals before they've even entered grad school?

Oh wait, no they don't.

I spoke about engineers in general. And as you know, as someone who apparently lives at the end of a bell curve, when speaking in general there are always edge-cases that can seemingly contradict the general statement being made, but that doesn't stop that statement from being true.

That's the point. When it comes to engineering, "in the real world" is the overriding concern, not "why is this this way rather than another?"