It's weird for the article to not even address this, given how two sentences earlier they said "To prevent two of them from colluding to cook the results..."

Javascript can have linked lists and recursion. It is not uncommon for me to use recursion in my js code. Linked lists are less common since js arrays can do most of the things that you would normally use a linked list for, but there is no reason why you couldn't have students build their own list implementation for the sake of instruction.

There may not be pointers in js, but there is enough of a concept of references to explain it. Similarly, you can show a student typeof() show them how types are mutable in js, and explain that in some languages that is not how it works. Any halfway smart student will understand the implications that strong typing would have.

If a keylogger finds its way onto your computer, then all your passwords are essentially toast anyway.

I think that your reasoning is assuming a much smaller chunk size than torrents actually use. Torrents usually have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 pieces, which would translate to roughly 5 seconds of a 90 minute movie. The pieces are definitely way too large to support your claim of, "practically that would make every sequence of bits someone's intellectual property," you could download torrents for the lifetime of the universe and probably not have two identical pieces.

Courts have found for copyright holders when musicians have sampled less than 5 seconds of songs (a single bittorrent piece of a move would of course not be playable for even 5 seconds because of the way video encoding works, so that argument may or may not hold up).

I'm no rocket scientist, but I am pretty sure that they largely use liquid oxygen for the rocket boosters. Most of the exhaust is probably water vapor and oxygen.

They gave him that one because it was the original one that caused such waves when it came out. 30 years from now they are not going to give a kid an ipod nano, they will give him the original 5GB one where the scroll wheel is a mechanically moving part.

Thank you for being the one thinking person on /.

People have watched too many movies if they think scientists walk around with laptops full of nuclear weapon designs. These were most likely 13 laptops that had powerpoint presentations used by the employees to beg DOE for more money.

Yeah, so all the terrorists need to do is assemble a team of physicists with the brain power and knowledge of Oppenheimer, Feynman, Fermi, etc.

Yeah, no criminal mastermind will ever figure out the hack of pressing their finger over the speaker.