Car dealers are powerful in most states...

They seem to be influential in most countries. The part I cannot fathom though is why?

A car dealer is nothing more than a middle-man/sales-man. This dealership is literally a gift of the car company, which can be revoked at nigh any time. His capital base is pretty small next to even a moderately sized small business, he's very sensitive to shocks, and if he's in the used business he's deeply mistrusted and unpopular.

So where is this influence coming from? The cars?! Are they giving off some kind of pheromone that he absorbs by osmosis?

they frequently work under-the-table

Correction: Someone pays them to work under the table. The same person who won't pay you to work above the table.

He called LLVM a 'terrible setback' and BSD a 'pushover licence'

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

I saw this in college with the women who took CS seriously feeling like they had to work twice as hard because half of the girls were getting by, in their minds by "flipping their skirts and smiling the guys" to get them to do their work for them.

How would this even work? Most Engineering degrees are based principally on examinations. You can't smile your way out of solving a differential equation on paper.

The older you have become, the more exceptions you have encountered which shatter common stereotypes. By the time you hit 70-80 years of age, the whole of humanity probably seems like am unweighted random behaviour generator.

The relevant Quote:

The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

-- Jonathan Swift

I'm confident most of us can name at least one "superior" who held critical decision making powers in an organization who would print off their emails to read them rather than reading them on the monitor. Why are these people not being publicly shamed?

The joke is on you cyber-man. These guys print off the emails to make sure they have a hardcopy for everything they're read so that all their bases and asses are covered when its hits the fan. Those who rey on soft copies will be left flapping in the breeze at the first hard disc failure.

Personally, I find this to be the single most infuriating aspect of the financial crisis -- in any country. Every single time I hear about public time and money being wasted on frivolous prosecutions, I am keenly reminded that these are the same police services and directors of public prosecutions who won't investigate the banks. Not who can't; who won't -- Refuse to even. it would be one this if the justice system was simply universally inept. But cases like this shows they can and do act with extreme prejudice when they have a mind to.

It's shambolic, slipshod, corrosive to the justice system and ultimately seditious. It's the clearest indication of the justice system which has been seized by political interests, and which refuses to perform its stated function to maintain the rule of law.

P.S.
Regarding Corzine. The money did not "disappear". Corzine stole it out of customer accounts to covers his bills at JP Morgan. He knew exactly where it went; and the SEC and the Justice Department know exactly where it went but refuse to do anything about ti. They're too busy perusing basement dwelling geeks and beatniks to investigate those cases which actually rock the foundations of commerce and law. Stellar job there Mr Holder; Kudos.

which OS/Web-browser is so insecure that it accepts a root certificate from the network like this?

Firefox.

Firefox loves CAs. Firefox must have CAs. If your website uses a self signed cert, Firefox will scream unholy murder and frighten most visitors away until you register with a proper, Christian root CA and do thing the way the applied cryptography community believes they should be done.

And all the while, the entire root CA infrastructure is so shoddily implemented that MITM attacks like this are common at most companies. What a joke! HTTPS and SSH are almost meaningless in such an environment.

I think it's time for the entire Internet to admit that the current CA model is a joke of an implementation and cannot be relied upon to protect privacy, security, or trust for ordinary users at all.

The NSA approves of this messege.

In retrospect, I rather regret not leaping on some bizzare and obscure science topic very early on in my career. With my early knowledge of pop-science and fantasy TV, film, and comic books, I could have made big headways in modern cosmology and theoretical physics by now.

A Typical Mix-Maxer response. The rules _technically_ allow this, so I will ruin the game for everyone by twisting/optimizing them to the limit to win even if I have to destroy the game to do it.

Future generations will see the mass influx of STEM geeks into the finance and business arena as a catastrophic social development in early 21st century industries.

Obviously, I imagine an upskirt picture does not reveal any more than what you would see at a beach in any western country.

It's not about what is visible and what isn't. It's about technologically equipped perverts intimidating women on public streets and public transport, for their own personal kicks. It's about people doing something wrong because it offends another person. If you allow this kind of behavior to go unchecked, worse will follow.

(A) If it's visible in public, it's fair game. (This is the only way really to square this with so many other free-speech issues.)

Wait; Do you literally live in a sewer drain?

He flew a model next to a helipad and wonders why the FAA are stomping on him. They apparently overreached a bit when going into the commercial motivations for flying the model, but he was being a dick and the FAA is not entirely wrong to stomp on people who are flying like a dick.

You sir are a unapolagetic "moocher", obviously ignorent of the Galt-ian philosophies of liberty which divinely entitle -- nay, oblige -- this man to use his superior intellect and skills to pilot and above all profit by flying this cheap, personal risk-less drone in an environment which should be free of all oppressive government regulations, no matter how many leechers walk or crash into the path of his unfiled flight-plan. The world's creative and productive elites will not be held back by the like of you and your FAA -- they'll strike!

That's what the media is supposed to do.

Actually the media is supposed to speak truth to power, an to perform these investigation and exposes on corrupt and criminal bankers, politicians, civil servants, etc, etc. Needless to say, this isn't happening.

Whoever Dorian Nakamoto is, it's clear he's not a powerful person. So this isn't journalism; it's exploitation.