Bull.

The BART cell phone repeater system has only been in place for a few years as a courtesy to riders. There are still emergency phones in stations (along with employees who have access to land lines) and the train conductors have the ability to call for assistance as well. People have built systems for calling for help in emergencies for decades before cell phones existed.

Sadly they'd still be beaten by my local ambulance chaser who is in the phonebook as "A Accident Attorney"....

Live in a nice central american or asian dictatorship for a while and tell us what a hell hole this place is. This does look like a terrible decision and they should have overthrown the other case instead of extending the state powers to the feds, but the flying spittle does nothing for anyone's cause.

Inciting violence against/threatening a federal judge.... nice work committing a federal crime there. Way to go.

Though I agree with the sentiment, at least your gun doesn't broadcast it's presence in the house to the potential criminal. That is a significant difference between the two scenarios.

So you're one of those "network is the computer" guys or you misread/didn't read either of the first two sentences of the summary... I'm gonna go with "didn't read" on this one.

Actually as a person currently look to hire F/OSS experience would be a definite plus. It shows that an applicant is really interested in the field and the work. Granted, we're not the corporate IT office you refer to, but if an applicant for our software position (if anyone is curious and interested in north central FL.... http://tdt.com/news/jobs/softwareengineer.htm) was actually interested enough in programming to do outside projects that would be a positive.

In general you need something to make you stand out, and contributing to or starting a project is a reasonable way to stand out. I interviewed some current master's students and was optimistic until it was clear that they did exactly what coursework required but weren't interested in exploring for their own interest.

Not the only or maybe even the best explanation, but I'll take a stab at it.

Having that information would be useful/necessary when investigating why differential services are already being provided. As much as we want the gov't (at all levels) to be color blind, it isn't. I live in the south and racism is still evident, and I expect always will be to some degree. When a voting district has been gerrymandered in such a way as to weaken the impact of african american voters that census information would be useful to use as a tool when outing the people who made the district changes. Given racial sensus information an automated system could even look for patterns that show where previous or current generations have screwed with boundaries for similar reasons.

It's a lot harder to detect such manipulations without that data unless you live in/near the affected area.

This paints faaaar too black and white a picture of security. Factoring the huge RSA key that you're using within the next few days is "next to impossible" (the first pair of large primes I try could be the ones) but that doesn't make it bad security. What you have to do is raise the bar high enough that your data/house/identity is adequately protected. Absolutes do not exist. That said, I'm not making a judgment on this particular hack or its difficulty, just that claiming that the ONLY good security is absolutely uncrackable security is incorrect.

I was going to just mod you down, but the summary at least never said anything about lowering any part of the device below ambient. It said that the headband will "feel cold". Touch a piece of wood at room temperature. It will sometimes "feel" warm. Do the same thing with a piece of steel. It will "feel" cold. This is true even if both are at the exact same temperature. Heat conduction

The kids section of my local science museum even has hand-shaped pieces of different materials to demonstrate the effect.