I have many complaints about the first company I worked for out of school hiring and paying me as an intern instead of a full employee, but I will admit that I did get quite good experience out of the deal.

I graduated with Honors last year, went through a 6-month internship (we're going to hire you on full time and pay you market rate! Honest! It's just this is a bad time right now, we don't have the authorization for more manpower, we'll keep you on as an intern though...) - found another job with that experience easily enough.

Now with only a year's experience, I'm getting headhunter E-mails once or twice a month.

I would not even be a student there. I would immediately cancel my registration and take my money elsewhere. Period.

This has 3 possible outcomes. The first one could be combined with either of the other 2.

(A) University enrollment will suffer.

(B) Some clever students will find a way to bypass this, just as they have always found ways to bypass everything else.

(C) The scanners will somehow, mysteriously, get "accidentally" broken.

Seriously, I have a hard time understanding how they could even consider something like this, given the current backlash against data-gathering and surveillance!

The truth is, the universities have been trying shit like this for the sole reason that it gets them more Federal money. Which I am sure many students feel is an excellent reason to hack it.

The price eBay payed was so astronomical that it could only have been with back-door funding from the Government. The point was to get Skype out of Estonian hands because there was no reliable way for the NSA to tap into it.

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Shut up, already. It's SCIENCE!

To be a successful corporation in today's Amehrica, you cannot just spend all your time and money on a single party. You have to buy members of both parties in order to maintain your cozy relationship with the federal bureaucrats.

you're basically left with no beliefs at all.

"It's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant." - the Apostle Rufus

The basic technique has been used in the laboratory for ages

Yeah, a friend of mine worked for a private research lab a decade ago and they were curing MS in mice models using an HIV vector, as just SOP (the HIV vector part was already old at that point). BTW, they abandoned that work for something that could pay the bills as they didn't have a business model that could earn enough to pay for the FDA-mandated trials. He tells me this kind of thing happens at labs all over the country and when it's a for-profit lab, they don't publish if they're going to reuse part of the tech in their next endeavor.

Of course it does. I didn't claim otherwise. But you ought to be asking yourself what the real cost of that convenience is.

confirming for the bandwidth challenged. Also firefighting foam on the pavement.

There are interesting longitudinal lines across the scorched area - is the composite body laid down in strips?

Yeah, but at the same time, their "suggestions" carry some weight. Certain DefCon folks have pwned the Feds more than once... when they had far less reason to do it.

Flamebait story titles are highly correlated with non-productive comment sections to a degree such that the click revenue from my views won't increase beyond this point. I wonder how many others behave similarly.

Oh, no, this one isn't "nothing", you've read it wrong. What they mean by this is "we have equipped your local police force will military equipment and trained them how to treat the local residents as enemy soldiers." And they've done a really good job at it. They're now using no-knock paramilitary raids for pretty much any suspect, whether they are considered potentially violent or not. And killing the pets.

I think the GP was referring to the military contracts, not necessarily the medical research. Be that as it may, it seems wasteful (and ... cronyish) to hire a powerful Federal administrator that can use influence and connections to obtain grant money rather than allow the grant applications to pass or fail based on the merits of the research involved. They've already gotten too focused on "monetizing patents", which can bring in a lot of money for treating things like sexual dysfunction and balding, than on work to actually cure diseases that cause suffering and death.

Do the "UC Officials" realize that J. does not use email? I suspect she doesn't even know how to use a computer. I'm not convinced someone like that is really suited to run a university system, where students should have those skills, and are in an environment where communicating electronically is essential.