they looked at grades, which is a dubious measurement of intelligence at best.

How unusual that someone wants to address this logically. Ok, let's start. First, list all the causes of death. What? Shootings are way, way, way down the list? hmmm, let us address those other things first.

The point is not whether that can decrypt a selected target, rather it is that encryption causes a problem with surveillance from both a practical and legal standpoint. First by encrypting your communications, you clearly establish an assumption of privacy, which isn't as obvious with clear text (IANAL, but I assume that creates a hurdle in the courtroom). Second, applications that take in massive data of warrentlessly available data streams don't have the facilities to hack each one and still provide timely indicators of malfeasance. This kinda relies on the first point, because if someone didn't encrypt their communications, one MIGHT argue that the communicatee didn't mean for it to be private.

the use of Indian consultants is about to drop dramatically.

Just because I have intellectual curiosity on how they built a bomb with a pressure cooker, does not in any way mandate that I'm interested in building one. I'm interested in how submarines work too, but I can't imagine wanting to build one. In either case, I should be able to investigate this without being harassed at my home. THAT is what the constituion is all about, limiting the government so I can be free to explore ideas, without harrassment.

This seems like non-news, but my real question is, since the author claims neural nets duplicate brains, do zombie servers crave eating neural nets? Just asking

Clearly what happened is a girl looked up how to make a small scale explosive and did it in the school yard. Got caught and claimed it was a science experiment, then went further to claim it is racism. Ridiculous, she got caught and is trying to deflect condemnation from pointing at her behavior.

It is not science fiction, rather actual science, but very short, easily digestible, and interesting read. Yes it is about house flies. I found it interesting. I find it a little disturbing that you think you have to result to absurd science fiction to make science interesting. Hitchhiker's guide is a great fun book, but it isn't science.

+1 very important for me as well.

Yes, either the poster doesn't understand what Machiavellien means or they don't understand the situation at hand.

Create a self-forming mesh network device (preferably solar powered). It can use a wifi-like technology. This is important for true democratic freedoms. Its power is not controlled by a central service. There is no central router to control access. All it requires is a little bit of spectrum. This is where all the tv spectrum should have gone in the US, to the people, not the corporations. I've been too lazy to do this myself, but have been thinking about it for a while. A few inconveniences in rural areas, but all can be over come. Our government paid ridiculous sums of money so that people could manage the digitial television switch just so that media wouldn't loose customers. Such a device would not cost much more and would be a statement for freedom and democracy because it would not be controllable.

and wish I had done it sooner. I actually did it by accident. I had satellite and uverse became available. They offered a free digital video recorder (DVR) for about $5 cheaper. Unfortunately performance sucked, so I canceled it. Then it occurred to me that I had been a directTV customer for years and they should give me a DVR to keep me. I requested it, they denied so I said, cut it off. THE VERY NEXT DAY, I get an offer for a DVR if I came back. I did not and have no regrets. Digital TV is ok, and we(my kids) only watch PBS. I get all my programming through netflix, hulu, and other online sources. So much better to watch what I want when I want.

A Good 2nd degree would be business. Think long term. Whatever you do, you'll eventually want either more control or to start you own business and management is the key to that. A business degree would be helpful in the endeavor.

when I received totally non-nonsensical adds for feminine hygiene products (I'm a man), dating services (I'm married...in the traditional sense), and other products I don't care about! This whole only having to see adds that I could possibly be interested in is way too much! BTW: Yes I get that the point is about privacy, but seriously, privacy is a fairly recent invention in human history that only is a convenience for the wicked or helps validate the prejudices of the ignorant. The truth is that privacy, although attractive to our weaker side, is an illusion and not truly a fundamental right.

Why have the headaches, why not have it hosted companies like Rackspace make it so easy and simple. You can also use there cloud services real cheap and easy setup a server in less than 5 minutes and only pay for the memory bandwidth you need, need more? just a few mouse clicks away.