Forget Congress for a minute, the world has enough EE's and EECS's. https://www.sos.ca.gov/adminis... "Padilla is often asked how he moved from engineering to public service. He explains that in many ways they are similar; the goal of each is solving problems."

January 2013: NY Times headline: "Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months" Security experts ... gathered digital evidence that Chinese hackers, using methods ... associated with the Chinese military, breached The Times’s network. China's response: “to accuse the Chinese military of launching cyberattacks without solid proof is unprofessional and baseless.” So NYT - where's your retraction for these baseless accusations?

What are /.'ers using for interactive video conferencing to replace Adobe Connect?

Sending images that include your face that you don't ever want to be associated with your identity to a company that is investing millions in facial recognition tech to identify users? What could go wrong? And that boyfriend who posts a slightly cropped image won't be blocked using hash matching.

> The university's actions will ultimately lower their annual $5.83 billion budget by just 0.1%. well, I can certainly see why they would risk the unavoidable disruptions, loss of direct control, loss of continuity, loss of institutional knowledge, etc

tell me again - how does this nifty tech read your fingerprint through your gloves or other coating?

Wendy Seltzer is spot on about the slippery slope of degrading the line between content and carriage. The entertainment industry has always been years behind end users and tech innovation, neck and neck with Congress in most cases. Oh that we could only have more savvy folks like Miss Seltzer in senior roles in government.

The graph in Moore's article clearly predicts double the number of chips every 13 months. Nine "doublings" in 10 years.

Well I guess that's it for the bad guys. Now they'll have no way to register their evil domains.

Probably meant they predict near zero rate of false positives.
Ahh, statistics; in the hands of amateurs, any conclusion is possible.

Complete Freedom of speech... with the minor exception that (from the whitepaper): no organization or individual may produce, duplicate, announce or disseminate information having the following contents: being against the cardinal principles set forth in the Constitution; endangering state security, divulging state secrets, subverting state power and jeopardizing national unification; damaging state honor and interests; instigating ethnic hatred or discrimination and jeopardizing ethnic unity; jeopardizing state religious policy, propagating heretical or superstitious ideas; spreading rumors, disrupting social order and stability; disseminating obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, brutality and terror or abetting crime; humiliating or slandering others, trespassing on the lawful rights and interests of others; and other contents forbidden by laws and administrative regulations.

Given the uncontrolled collection process - guarantee this study will provide some unique data on tolerances for folic acid and lactose in DOGS AND CATS and not just in students.

The new trend: Closed-standard Xml Acquisition of Patents That seems to be catching on pretty well lately.