what *really* makes it is his delivery. His first line (“I’ve seen things”) sounds like a very gentle, yet cranky statement, followed up immediately with the C-beams line that is articulated with a sense of wonder, like he’s still impressed with it. Finally, he brings it to a close on an obviously down note. Basically, he sang a song, with great lyrics, and that takes some serious acting chops to pull off properly. I watched the YT clip and even knowing word-for-word what he was going to say, it still chokes me up, especially with his perfect delivery. RIP Mr. Haurer.

...and I did all of them with a series of iPod nanos for tunes (replacing when they broke, got soaked, whatever), and a Garmin 305 for tracking distance. The 305 is the most accurate gps watch I've found that, while it doesn't have a lot of nice features (color screen, map details, start up time less than 15 minutes), it has been invaluable for training and the race, never letting me down on accuracy. I haven't found a do-all tool that I could stand to run with (I like the idea of the apple watch, but running with an iPhone to provide gps is an absolute no-go as I can't store it in a place that would remain comfortable for 26.2 miles). Hope that helps.

Also it's a very interesting time. Right after they find out that the recent breach by the Chinese Government got the personnel files with information for all executive employees up to cabinet level (including the security clearance data) they reveal that the Chinese (and Russia) got secret personnel information after all via the Snowden leaks. Something seems weird about this timing.

First (as stated in the summary): "Have the actions of Snowden, and, apparently, the use of weak encryption, made the world less safe?"

Second (not asked, but as important as the first): Was it worth it? Did the revelations made the world a better after the revelations?

IMO yes, it was worth it. Having secret programs authorised by secret laws and secret alliances to reduce or remove the privacy of the population as a whole for some geopolitical goal is not something that should happen in democratic countries.

This is a weird subject matter for a book review to be on Slashdot. I don't want this to be dismissed like one of those "this is not news for nerds / stuff that matter" comments so I will develop further about why this is my opinion:

1. From Slashdot's own Book Review Guidelines (emphasis mine): "In particular, we're interested in reviews of books on programming, computer security, the history of technology and anything else (including Science Fiction, cyberpunk, etc.) that fits under the "News for Nerds" umbrella."

The reviewed book doesn't seem to fit any of the name checked categories and even to fit in the more general "News for Nerds" umbrella seems to be very generous for most interpretations of what a "nerd" would be in this context (of computer, technology, science fiction and cyberpunk).

2. Here are the reviews from the past 12 months. Despite of the lack of reviewers the theme is almost always related to technology (even if as a pretext to discuss infosec, law enforcement and natsec). Curiously the same reviewer that submitted this review submitted most of the barely related ones.

by Saint Aardvark: Book Review: Networking For System Administrators (subject: infrastructure, sysadmin)
by Michael Ross: Book Review: Drush For Developers, 2nd Edition (subject: web development)
by benrothke: Book Review: Future Crimes (subject: infused, cybercrime, law enforcement)
by benrothke: Book Review: Data and Goliath (subject: infosec, privacy, law enforcement)
by benrothke: Book Review: Core HTML5 2D Game Programming (subject: game programming)
by benrothke: Book Review: Designing and Building a Security Operations (subject: infosec)
by Saint Aardvark: Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials (subject: infrastructure)

2014

by MassDosage: Book Review: Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress (subject: web development)
by benrothke: Book Review: Spam Nation (subject: cybercrime)
by benrothke: Book Review: Bulletproof SSL and TLS (subject: infosec)
by benrothke: Book Review: Countdown To Zero Day (subject: infosec, cyberwarfare, natsec)
by benrothke: Book Review: Measuring and Managing Information Risk: a (subject: infosec)
by sobczakt: Book Review: Scaling Apache Solr (subject: networking, infrastructure)
by benrothke: Book Review: Architecting the Cloud (subject: networking, infrastructure)
by benrothke: Book Review: Social Engineering In IT Security Tools (subject: infosec)
by benrothke: Book Review: Introduction To Cyber-Warfare (subject: infosec)
by benrothke: Book Review: Data-Driven Security: Analysis, Visualization (subject: infosec)
by benrothke: Book Review: Hacking Point of Sale (subject: infosec)

I don't want to speculate about the motivations for this review to be on slashdot but this seems to be a recurring theme: to inflame the audience with polarizing subjects and what more polarizing now than "who is more to blame for the Iraq mishaps: 43rd or 44th?".

But between this and the monstrosity that attempt to change the target audience that Beta was the most visible aspect we (the loyalty audience) will sure be needing a new home very soon.

However, these electronics will continue to operate normally until at least September, when the deactivations should actually begin. Until then, the system will only mount a database with information on the equipment in use in Brazil.

This is a new low, blatant lies in the summary only for cheap country based hate and some pageviews. Good job!

What would have been his mission at Adobe and Juniper? To sell them to McDonalds?

My family and I considered getting one for Xmas, but as others and TFA points out, there weren't any games we were interested in. I appreciate that Nintendo always seems to make Zelda and Metroid games "right", but any guesses as to when there will be a Wii U Zelda? Also, didn't they say they were rebooting Zelda, so that makes more more willing to hold off.

Heck, I (might) get it for Mario Kart, but no, gotta wait for that too. Maybe when Zelda and Mario Kart is available I'd get a used Wii U, as I'm not sure I'd care enough to even splurge for a new one; the kids have already pretty much moved on to other things (especially LBP on the PS3) in addition to various iOS games. Geez, they're not even teenagers and they already see Nintendo games as "retro".

System 76 will sell you a Linux-based laptop, as well as other companies (don't have additional links offhand) that take regular hardware (Lenovo, Dell, etc.) and will install Linux on it, and support it. At this point I buy hardware only from companies that support exactly what I want (e.g. MacOS, Apple, Linux, System76). Maybe I'm getting old (git off ma lawn!) but tracking down bleeding edge drivers for this and that equipment has ceased to be any fun; I want my machine to start up, get to a desktop, so I can do *my* stuff.

I don't know what these folks are doing, but I wrote a sort-of-similar-but-not-really system that uses Wikipedia data and all you need is the "pages" and "pagelinks" tables, which you then load into your own mysql database; no touching of the actual site is necessary (and allowed; they have some strict rules about spiders and you can get your IP banned for abuse).

Two words:

1. Filmstrips
2. Beep

(For all you whippersnappers on my lawn, instead of watching actual movies, we'd watch essentially a roll of slide film that was projected, and the accompanying audio, on either tape or LP, would have the narrator pause, then a "BEEP" was made to indicate it was time for the oh-so-important (*cough*) member of the AV squad (only person who could be trusted to load the projector properly) to advance one frame).

I'll bet that the brothers did not consider this for anything other than for the game hunter, where it would not be out of place. Any other situation and I'd guess they'd say "uh, why not just use a regular camera?"

I pick up every coin I find and put it in a large jar. Once it's full I take it to the bank and, though it really upsets the teller to have to deal with it, I end up netting around $300. Granted it takes a few years, but every little bit helps. :\

To quote Bob Fosse: I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who *need* to dance. That is what I look for during an interview, someone who clearly loves what they do and doesn't just sit around waiting for orders or just did whatever was told of them. I typically ask them about a project they were on, and if they get into the details, even if it's not exactly specific to programming but that they understand the "big picture", as well as their role in it, and look to see the eyes light up. It's especially Then I move on to the question that a lot of people don't expect, surprisingly, but is very telling: "What got you into programming?" Any flavor of "because it's really really cool" works; sadly a lot of responses are "it was either this or becoming a lawyer | dentist | whatever".