From the article: "While processing 212 small retail orders that Knight had received from its customers...."

Knight Capital are themselves listed on the stock market. Their stock took price collapsed as a result of this blunder. I think it's fair to say that other people's money was lost here

"one should start by noting that it should be possible to create a tool which reads current iptables configurations and converts them to the nftables language - or even directly to kernel virtual machine code."

It looks like you may not have to learn any new syntax - just use the, yet to be created, iptables to nftables convertor tool!

From TA:

"Shukla (the report author) was given exclusive access by the anonymous author to the sensitive data collected in the project (using an illegal botnet to scan the target devices)."

Sounds just a little too convenient to me

That's possibly because most people haven't a clue that they can or should set a master password. I didn't know the feature existed until I read this article!

I too am glad they cast an older, white guy. There was speculation whether the new Dr would be black or a woman. Either of which could have made for an entertaining television show, however it wouldn't be Dr Who. There is far too many $$ riding on it to go messing with fundamentals like that. One memorable twitter comment I saw:

"For anyone who wishes the new Doctor was gay, black, or a woman, Capaldi's a good enough actor to play the part as a gay black woman." @sfdebris

First thing I ever programmed on was my dad's programmable calculator using BASIC. These came out around 1982 I believe, however I didn't use one until probably '86,'87. It had a 12 digit LCD display, 2KB storage, 2KB RAM

This. I was in line at the checkout just the other day watching someone casually wave their card across the scanner, thinking to myself in a sarcastic voice 'what could possibly go wrong!?'

This is a troll right? What a ridiculous statement to make! Waves of free immigrants from UK + Europe after the initial convict settlement dwarfs those convict numbers. Only a minority of 'white' australians today can trace their ancestory back to criminals and 'jailers', as you put it.

I've created dozens of 'projects' under my account - none of which have any license. I get an idea, throw together some code to test the concept and back it up to Github. I'm the only one who cares about them, and I'd be surprised if anyone ever saw, let alone used the code. If any of my projects were to gain traction, I'd probably consider putting a license on it, but until then, who cares!? I wouldn't be surprised if a large proporation of the 1.7m projects are just like mine - tumble weed territory.

Vint's talk is on Youtube here (14mins in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUGythq9TI#t=844s

I live in the UK and came to the same conclusion regarding CBS's Survivor series. It doesn't get shown here on free-to-air TV. It's available on both Amazon & Itunes as a download (which I'd be happy to pay for)...but try downloading from outside the US and you're told to p!$$ off. There is also no DVD available for the season that I'm interested in. I tried contacting CBS about this, but so far no response...

Another aspect of this is the old, inefficient legacy gear that could be decomissioned but isn't. Where I work there are literally dozens of old physical servers that could be virtualized. It's not being done, essentially due to mismanagement. I wouldn't be surprised if this pattern is being repeated many times over across the globe.

There should be an annual 'decomm a legacy server' day!

Where is the love, the love, the love?

I agree. Both parties were in the wrong: the men should have shown more consideration for others and self-awareness than to tell off-colour jokes in situation like that; she was wrong to publicly escalate the issue the way she did. This philosophy of "I should be able to say what the f#$k I like, and you should just deal with it" is really wrong, especially when you're in a work or semi-work situation. This isn't a freedom of speech issue, but about respect and care for your fellow man (or woman).

In my experience it is common for the employer to pay for all or some of the training on the condition that if you leave the company you pay them back a percentage based on a sliding scale e.g. if you leave before 12mths you pay back 100%, 12-18mths, you pay back 50% etc Seems fair to me.

I don't think it's reasonable for the employer to be expected to pay for failed exam attempts however.