The idea that programming is something anyone can learn if they just sit down with a book and type examples is not just offensive to programmers—it’s a dangerously misleading idea

Facebook can just give them the data if they ask.

I don't want to fund research on gun violence either.

The problem ISN'T guns.

Not here in Massachusetts. He will be taken to a world-class hospital and his wounds treated. Once he is well, he will await trial in a comfortable jail, with access to his lawyer so he can prepare his defense. If he can't afford a lawyer we'll hire one for him. In such a high profile case, he may even get a top drawer lawyer working pro-bono to ensure his defense doesn't get steamrollered by public opinion. If he chooses to plead not guilty he will have the fairest trial we can possibly contrive, and the burden of proof will be on the prosecutor. If the prosecutor proves he is guilty, and he escapes the Federal death penalty (we don't have a state death penalty), he will be housed for the rest of his life in a correctional facility that is humanely operated to the maximum extent consistent with ensuring public safety.

And I'm proud that's we do things. It's civilized. Some people may kill, maim or hurt people because they're feeling angry, but we as a people don't do things like that. That's what makes us better than they are.

We got the job done, there's no reason to spike the ball. In fact there's plenty reason *not* to. We give the state power to kill people, to inflict pain, to deprive them of their freedom, but those powers ought to be limited to their proper application by strict rules. They should not be used at the whim of an individual government official or group of officials.

Had Tsarnaev continued resisting arrest and got himself shot, I'd shake the hand of the officer who shot him. But now that he's given up, I'd call for the prosecution of any official who uses excessive force on him.

"About 982 megawatt hours a day, to be exact" 982 MWh/day / 24 = ~41 megawatts Come on reporters, convert brain-dead units into normal units.

Yeah, we want it 1.21 GW/day units, e.g., how many bolts of lighting per day.

There is no sound in space. To pretend that there is, the density, temperature, and atmospheric pressure would make it vary greatly. So really this is just made up bullshit.

I developed a newer version of RC4 called RC64, uses a 64K (65536 or 256 ^ 2) key. The randomisation process is very complex and the algo was only just slightly slower than RC4, which is very fast anyway. A graphical representation of the 64K key visualized pure white-noise when the key was viewed in grey-scale. They need to start using mine me thinks :) Oh, and in a 50MB file full of the same repeated char, the password was not even hinted at and no 4 bytes were the same.