Not impossible. Impractical.

Many eyes look at open source software. The NSA only has to get busted once and they lose all their credibility as a source of contributions. They'd rather have a tool that includes the code they need for their own security efforts.

As for encryption -- the overwhelming majority of sensitive but unclassified information held by the U.S. Government is encrypted with exactly the same algorithms you use. If that's a fakeout, if the NSA knows the algorithms to be breakable by our adversaries, it's one hell of a fakeout.

I abandoned it over backspace = page back. Lost too many web app sessions that way.

But the firefox memory leaks really bother me. Every couple of days it's kill the process and restart.

If noscript still works, I don't care. If it doesn't, I'll dump firefox. Browsing the web with javascript blindly enabled is unsafe, as has been proven malicious web sites time and time again. I'll enable it on web sites whose apps I want. The rest can do without javascript or do without me.

That's because Virginia is interested taxing use of the roads, not air pollution. Our air is breathable. Our roads are stuck in gridlock.

Buy your friend a tin foil hat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Security_quality

You do a root cause analysis on a selection of IT's failures. After you sort through the proximate causes, see if justifiable case can be made for management error as the root causes. If yes, the presentation is: I analyzed several failures and it all tracks back to Joe.

Also, the right against self-incrimination disrupts chains of horror like the Salem witch trials.

If you have the right not to be beaten but don't have the right against self-incrimination then after the beating the confession is still valid in court. If the executive then declines to punish the officers for the beating, the right not to be beaten fades to a paper tiger.

Your error lies in thinking like a computer where something is an absolute yes or an absolute no. The law is a living thing implemented by people in a "more or less" fashion. If you're serious about preventing a bad behavior, you make it worse than futile to engage in it.

10 scraps of paper are labelled 0 through 9 and tossed into a hat. How many combinations of numbers can you get if you randomly pick 4 scraps of paper from the hat? That's combinatorics. It helps you understand the size of the data sets your code may need to process so that you can choose a reasonable approach.

You need basic algebra and boolean algebra for any code beyond the most simplistic scripting or web hack job. Given the quality of most device drivers, I can believe they were written by people without those skills. If you want to architect a software system that scales, you'll need at least some understanding of linear algebra as well.

Can't live without algebra. Combinatorics is critical for computer science. Statistics is very helpful.

Unless you go into scientific computing, you'll almost never run in to a computing problem for which calculus gives a boost. The math computers work with just doesn't relate.

Differential equations was my bane as well. I failed it several times and ended up not correcting an error when I transferred schools and they assigned credit for it as a result of a different course I'd taken. Now I earn near $140k and I'm the go-to guy at the office when there's a particularly complex data handling or networking problem to be solved.

If the interface encourages or facilitates harmful mistakes then it is a poor interface. If it encourages behavior that encroaches on others' good will then it carries major ethical implications. If it does neither of these things then what's the problem?

One of the worst places I've worked had a well stocked break room. Sodas, chips, ice cream, everything short of a full meal. They patted themselves on the back about how well they treated their employees. And failed to treat them well in the areas that matter.

You can document prior art by publishing it on a web page and having a printed copy notarized for $5. No need for the cost and rigor of any kind of patent filing.