A CS degree, and consequently most CS graduates, are hyperfocused on one aspect of software development: algorithms and data structures. Unless you're making AAA games, your learning should not end or begin there. Any other, more useful, parts of software development (design patterns, TDD, etc.) fall by the wayside because so much time is spent familiarizing the students with, well, programming language and OOP basics. However, since the CS degree is the closest thing to a "software development degree", employeers will continue to require it for even the most basic programming jobs. I don't expect the complaints about CS degree holding aplicants that can't fizzbuzz ending anytime soon, either.

Wikipedia links to this PDF: http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf

The closer to the hardware you get, the more the lines blur between the CS ideal (Big O) and the hardware reality (registers and bandwidth and machine code interleaving). You really can't optimize for one without optimizing for the other.

Another interesting fact about low-level languages is that it is much more difficult for bugs to hide. Writing correct code is nearly the same as writing understandable code. The only things that can go wrong (huge functions, tons of global variables, etc.) could just as well go wrong in a higher level language. Just look at all the ruby and python developers writing code that translates easily into c, and only throwing in a class or two to look OOP.

Except the code has to be decrypted to run on the cpu. The only "uncrackable" (in the very crackable ps3 sense of the word) way is to have a cpu on the dongle with signed firmware.

First of all, "IT" encompasses a whole lot more than you think. So yes, a broad field such as that should be able to escape across-the-board HIPPA-style regulation. Secondly, absolutely anything can be said to endanger national security, as we have seen. So dont think this wont expand past its stated purpose s decade or so down the road. Lastly, you know as well as I do that the best solution is the threat of serious fines for a business that gets hacked and lose sensitive data, but clearly the government is not interested in any legislation that would have to be used, only legislation thay they have the option to use (govt IT security audits wouldnt hit campaign contributors very hard, now would they? Fines after the fact would.)

...so long as there aren't any serious IDEs that run on Android/iOS.

if emacs or vi will support gesture recognition first.

Okay, is that "sudo apt-get remove autoplay"?

Let's see... Three moves shaved off every 2 years... That means that by the year 2024, we'll be able to solve any Rubix Cube in 1 move (or less!).

At a time when there seems to be more defunct than active game companies, and huge gaming monstrosities such as Activision and EA are merging/acquiring left and right, it's a welcome change to see new developers like Runic spring up overnight.

Vandalism, yes. But it also probably counts as hacking, since you're accessing some computer system (the iPhone kernel), without permission, display model or not. This jailbreak frenzy is just getting silly.

The rover will be equipped with weaponry for use against cats.

... how long it'll be before a movie is made?

I give it about ten weeks.

It's not fully understood yet? Quick, somebody write a sci-fi novel, à la Michael Crichton or Parasite Eve!

What world did I wake up in where Charlotte's Web is considered "great literature"?