Try having text-to-speech read you a flash-based site some time. So much for ADA compliance on the web. HTML5 will encourage sites to fix this.

'Nuff said.

You're misunderstanding what FIPS 140 covers. FIPS 140 says nothing about authentication systems, only cryptographic modules. I can write a module using a certified FIPS 140 cryptomodule and encrypt everything with the same key-- 0x0 -- and the system is still FIPS-compliant.

FIPS 140 doesn't cover authentication systems, FIPS 140 only covers cryptography. They got the crypto right, but the authentication system was a sham.

Common Criteria certification would cover the authentication system. Note these drives carry no CC certification.

...and the light on top (vertical hang) or to the left (horizontal hang) is *red*. That's actually law too, IIRC.

What he said. :)

Most engineers are too narrowly educated. As a result, they're ill-equipped to construct counter-arguments when they encounter a line of non-engineering bullshit.

I recall a conversation I had with my department chair as an undergrad (I ran into him on the T). He was considering altering the curriculum and adding a slate of new technical requirements, but it would have to be at the expense of humanities requirements. I advocated instead expanding the program to a five-year degree instead, because I felt (and feel) that an education in humanities is vital for all science and engineering students--if only because they teach students how to *explain things to others*, something that's so incredibly important once you're out in the real world working as a science or engineering professional.

And since the null-termination cert *doesn't chain to an EV provider* it's not much of an exploit, really. No green bar, not safe.

It's actually called "base rate fallacy."

Get a clue.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/07/warminginterrupted-much-ado-about-natural-variability/

Or do you mean for a job?

The two are not necessarily the same.

I found languages like Lisp, Prolog, and Smalltalk to be of the most use for learning the science. These are not your sweatshop languages, though.

On the plus side, if you learn the science, learning a new language isn't tough.