If you actually like blackbox testing, I might have a job for you. It's USA only. Basically you look for security issues in all sorts of apps on all sorts of platforms. It helps to be comfortable looking at disassembly for different types of CPU. You make things crash and then look at the program memory, or you stare at the binary in a disassembler, or you do some more exotic analysis. Alternately you could help develop the exotic tools if you are comfy with writing stuff that can get meaningful data out of a binary blob.

Any takers?

I have a gmail account, doubleplusgoodalbert, to which you can send a resume.

Tuberculosis is common, deadly, difficult to avoid, and now sometimes even impossible to treat. HIV is a disease that hits the very unlucky and the very stupid. If you're very unlucky, I'm sorry to hear that, but statistically you're a rounding error. Tuberculosis is an **airborne** killer. (read: uber-fucking-scary germs from Hell)

A kid could be coerced into writing a bullshit paper about Hemmingway, not paid a single dime, and... well nobody would even want to rights to that work. It's already in schools, and you really can't get away from it. Hemmingway isn't even useful on a resume, but "designed and built a weaponized UAV" sure is. Actually you could skip the resume and college even; get a SBIR contract and start your own business.

Usually the weapons are either primitive schoolyard tools (prison grade!) or unbuilt hopeless fantasy, but don't pretend that kids are innocent. Kids love to design deadly weapons. Kids love to build weapons. This is good for the mind. It's normal and healthy behavior. Look, even chimpanzees build weapons. Do you want kids less advanced than chimpanzees? Maybe more dog-like or cow-like? No, we are tool designers/builders/users. Weapons are deeply human.

I don't have a problem with my nation killing troublemakers. Every nation does it, and most have a genocidal history. Heck, there are countries that would improve if turned into glass parking lots. My kids would love to help, and I'd love to see them have the chance.

Only under modern copyright law, which doesn't fully apply in this case. The speech was not implicitly copyrighted.

That place in India you're outsourcing to? Yeah, about that... Seriously, what country to you expect an Indian citizen (at home or abroad) to have allegiance to? Even if he isn't being paid or otherwise coerced? The same goes for anybody from any country really, perhaps excluding people fleeing oppression.

TDMA is "Time Division Multiple Access". In other words, we use time slots to control pipe usage.

This will definitely work as long as the time slots are big enough. The city sends water for an hour, drains the pipe so that it can serve as a waveguide, transmits ultra wideband internet for an hour, then fills the pipe back up so that water can be transmitted again. Throughput will be excellent.

Yes, of course. The default xterm font, known as "7x13" or "fixed", is the fastest. Next best would be whatever Firefox uses for Slashdot...

It's not just a matter of roads. It's the court system that must resolve any disputes, it's the things that generally support your life (animal control, flood monitoring, etc.) and the lives of those workers at the seller's business, etc.

Also, nobody said "digital download". That's a weird special case where you are essentially giving somebody money for nothing. One could argue that you are paying for a service. I'm buying physical objects. I bought a washing machine over the internet. It's fucking heavy and it obstructs my kitchen until I install it, so I know I got something for my money.

Any time you do a sales transaction over a border, even by phone or snail mail, both places should get paid but each at half their normal rate. Example: You're in a state that wants 7%, and the seller is in a state that wants 4%. OK, your state gets 3.5% and the seller's state gets 2%.

The wrongly-named "GNOME 3" should have been a new project. Don't force us to participate in your experiment. New ideas can be great, but normally they suck. We have work to do, and we can't be having our workflow fucked up because you thought the UI was no longer cool. If your project gains a reputation for being nice, then one by one we'll try it to see if we like it. You won't get complaints. If you drag us unwillingly into your experiment, we'll rightly be pissed off at you.

Gradients mean that contrast on one side is compromised. There is a good foreground/background color pair, and the rest of the gradient is necessarily worse.

Curves help the eye follow object edges. When multiple similar rectangular objects (windows, buttons, whatever) all have corners in the same area with some of them being aligned on one axis or the other, rounded corners dramatically help telling which edge goes with which object.

Gradients make you slower. Curves make you faster.

Ubuntu's unity also does this. I **never** want to maximize a window. The closest thing I ever do is to have a video player go full screen, but that is a weird special case because it also hides the controls.

I lost too many hours tweaking config files for twm, ctwm, vtwm, and fvwm. Dragging icons to configure that layout it nice. Restarting the window manager to test a config file is not nice. Having the window manager die because of some typo in the config file is not nice.

That said, my needs are simple. I don't even want a file manager.

I want a taskbar on an otherwise empty (adjustable solid color) screen. I want a start menu that gets updated as I install/remove packages, ideally without restart but I'll settle for restarting. I want a 24-hour digital clock. I want a desktop switcher. I want a launcher button for 100% genuine xterm, not some defective (but pretty) imposter.

I want rounded window border corners, both top and bottom. I want window borders that clearly change to indicate the active window. I want focus-follows-mouse. I don't want any sort of see-through transparency bullshit making things harder to read.

It shouldn't need to be said, but... NO NOISES!

GUI config is sadly needed for the network, since modern Linux does some convoluted disaster involving D-BUS and udev and other weird shit. Probably the same is true of modern audio, since some ass couldn't leave audio working simply and sanely like it was 15 years ago.