For both signatures and private/public encryption, NIST has gone through three rounds of public submissions and scrutiny for new post-quantum algorithms. They're actually a bit delayed in announcing a winner, but it should come any day now. Why the need for a startup to create some off-shoot non-standard solution?

Here's the funny thing about traffic enforcement cameras in the US.

I'm not sure this is 100% true in all states, I wouldn't be surprised if it is because it should be, but I at least know this is true in many states. One state in particular, had to change their laws because law enforcement kept perjuring themselves over it.

In the US, constitutionally, a criminal offense has to be proven to be you doing it. All cameras prove is that someone driving your car did it. Camera resolutions are nowhere near 100% in identifying drivers, and moreover, what if you had a twin? That is not sufficient for a criminal offense, aka "moving violation" for traffic laws. Financial responsibility of the vehicle does not equate to committing the violation. So you don't go to traffic court for camera violations, your insurance doesn't increase. Moreover, in some states, like mine, a moving violation citation needs to be issued by a uniformed law enforcement officer *at the time of violation*. They can't just mail it to you like they do with camera violations.

So, camera tickets are *civil* penalties. They're like parking tickets. If you don't pay them, the state can send it to collections, ding your credit, forbid you from other related government services like drivers license renewal and car registration renewal until you pay, but they cannot throw you in jail.

In my jurisdiction, there is a small rectangle at the bottom of a back page where I can affirm that I was not in control of the vehicle. There's also a line where I "MAY" identify who was driving. I don't have to give up that info under the 5th Amendment. I just sign that declaration and The End. The ticket goes away.

I knew a woman who gave birth to a kid with an extra digit on his left hand. I urged her not to get it amputated.

"Put a baseball in his left hand now! With that extra finger and being left handed, no telling what he'll be able to do as a pitcher! He'll make you millions, and he'll be famous!"

She didn't listen to me.

Objective C will be dropped in the future. Once Apple says "This is the way to go," it *will* drop the old one sooner rather than later. Carbon, Rosetta, and WebObjects are examples of previous technologies that Apple has killed off.

Dropbox starts scanning your files and prevents you from sharing what *it thinks* are copyrighted materials, and instead, you guys bitch and moan over some Hollywood-celeb-type bullshit?

As a guy who worked for a company with its headquarters in France, I'm siding with the CEO on this.

Football is fundamentally different from baseball and basketball. It has a lot more strategy, deception, teamwork, and on-the-fly communication between players. Something that happens innocently on one side of the field often has tremendous consequences on the other side. All this is very hard to quantify in a statistical model. For example, if your star receiver is shut down for a game, that might be because he's drawing double or triple coverage. Sure, his stats are low, but your slot and split ends can now have a field day.

The San Francisco 49ers tried a sabermetrics in their crappy years this past decade. Pioneered by the head of player personnel Paraag Marathe, they fielded a bunch of .500 and sub .500 teams before they moved him more to the business end of things and went with more traditional executives at talent evaluation.

In the 80's, I was told we would all be speaking Japanese very soon, and I needed to learn it.
In the 90's, it became Spanish.
In the Aught's, it became Chinese.

We're not all speaking Japanese, and in the US, unless you're in landscaping or the fast food business, how often do you need Spanish?

Don't pay attention to the so-called futurists that have such a great vision of future society. Pick something you like and go for it. I grew up in the Western US and learned German in high school. Never did me a lick of good until I went to Germany for a few days this past summer, but it was fun to learn and close enough to English to not be hugely difficult to learn. Learning Hebrew's on my list this year. It's pretty much going to be useless because I'm not Jewish, but what the hell. It's interesting to me.

And Larry Ellison's good buddies with Steve Jobs. Coincidence? I think not.

Last I checked, the hosting was either going to be you download and run it on your own server, or you pay them X dollars for them to host it for you. Is that still going to be the case? If so, this thing is dead in the water because Aunt Jane has no idea what a web server is, and she's not going to buy hosting from Diaspora when Facebook is free.

2010 and we still have the "I'm a Programming God So Get Out of my Way, Managers" mentality. Great.

And 2011 will finally be the year of Linux on the desktop.

If they were on the up and up to begin with, they wouldn't have to "clarify" anything.

Stop using Yelp. They have no credibility. Google Maps is now aggregating reviews of businesses. Use them instead.