>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

s/Google/Facebook/ and that's true. Anybody with a Facebook account can create an advertising account and see what any advertiser sees for targeting options. Try it out, it's eye-opening. You can only provide ads to Facebook users through Facebook. Here's one step further from the company's 10-K filing with the SEC:

(*.3 = 630 million).

If I compare that to Facebook's income statement, that leaves 235 million (3% of revenue) in loose change revenue. So basically, Facebook isn't running around making money except by selling ad placement. Fair disclaimers: I work for Facebook as a backend engineer for nearly a year now. I pulled all these numbers from the publicly available 10-K report.

I think that Facebook has matured into better respecting privacy from its early days through the years before I started there and I'm very happy with seeing how things are treated internally. I'm further certain that the idea of Facebook selling personally identifiable information about its users would massively undermine the point of having an advertising delivery platform. The attitude of everybody I'm around is about trying to make something that enriches the world.

Your assumption is that you'll give me hardware and I won't alter it or use a software radio to MITM my own equipment. Neither of those is a safe bet.

Because I'd put something behind the modem and rate-limit, filter, or otherwise alter the traffic. The quality of the service still isn't guaranteed without some agreement.

Well, let's explain it right: the compare function uses a variable type cast that paired with certain compiler flags will improperly reduce a larger number storage to an 8 bit interger. memcmp returns 0 when there's a match, any other value otherwise. When some larger number is interpreted as a character and that number is mod(256), then you get a zero when you truncate the leading numbers.

Since the hashing function in MySQL has some variable used every time, you get a different number every time that returns a mismatch. 1 in 256 of those mismatches gets reduced to a number that is represented by a zero... which is appropriate to the cast function, but causes issues when used with memcmp.

3. There has been, up until 2008, and attitude in the U.S. that any college degree is good enough. My state only graduated 40,000 people from community colleges/trade schools this year. Everyone with higher aspirations just went to a 4 year school. To do less is to view oneself as a failure(and employers do too).

There has been too much emphasis on college degrees, I think. This idea that everybody should start with getting a degree out of school seems to lead to many folks with a load of debt who may not be in the field that suits them at the end of the degree. Further, a degree in CS seems to have little correlation with the ability to effectively program. I'm sure there exist some programs that might relate to other fields of IT, but I don't personally know of any that properly convey the skills required for other IT disciplines.

Latency depends on your destination. It is limited by the speed of light, and governed by how lousy the link itself is. It's how you sometimes get stories like the 500 mile emailFor some reference points:

A map of expected United States latency from some place in Texas.

Often times your first hop on DSL will be slower... my own network right now shows 40ms to my ISP's gateway. 300ms is my ping time from Maine in the US to Australia.

Another helpful source of references are looking glass servers that will let you drop right into another provider's system and see ping times from their perspective.

This was brought up when kernel.org was compromised last year. The decentralized nature of git makes that really hard to sneak by, especially if you use the kind of process controls that the Linux kernel uses. Legitimate commits go through maintainers, and maintainers will definitely flip if they see code pulls into their repository that they didn't commit. Some deeper discussion about how you can't just sneak things into the past history is here: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/6771/836

Hell, I joined the Ops team at Shmoocon this year without any credentials or signup. I tell you that isn't part of their plan. http://storyinmemo.com/?p=48

I spent a day at my first DEFCON missing my badge and managed to keep going all over the conference. Every year at DEFCON I make it a point to get into a guest-listed party that I didn't have access to. Why would RSA be different? I guarantee the DEFCON goons care more and the RSA ticket funds aren't going to making the conference more secure.

Their cost / benefit for tightening things down would be basically nothing.

As this school is not part of the public school system, there are other public schools as an alternative for the student to attend.

Compulsion to attend a school is different from compulsion to attend this school.

This has a very military / boot camp feel to it, and it is obviously have some sort of affect.

Students aren't required to go to the school, and the fines are relatively small. $5 seems enough to be discouraging to the students without breaking anybody's back.

More than anything, somebody is experimenting with a system, and education needs that. I don't know if it's right, but it's not a compulsory place to be and it's not wrong. Good on them.

Using it to knowingly misrepresent for fraud, even to a vending machine or kiosk, definitely isn't legal. I doubt advertising a tool as such is acceptable either.

Europe.