I am a university professor. I prefer that my students address me as "Dr." or "Professor", BUT I address them as "Mr." or "Ms." (or "Mrs." in the case of a female married student who reveals that she is married.) It goes both ways. I find that the formality helps the students to take the class a little more seriously.

I am a forensics professional and I teach forensics in a university. Don't mess with it. If you think there is evidence of illegal activity on the computer then you need to hand it over to someone who knows proper procedure for maintaining the chain of custody, chain of evidence, etc. Anything you do may be considered tampering with evidence and could actually get the perp off on a technicality. You certainly don't want that to happen. Seriously. I could teach you how to do it, but I STRONGLY advise against doing it yourself because you could sabotage the case against the perp.

Works for me. In Boston most bars would give the designated driver free sodas back in the 80s. Since I don't drink anyway, I'd go and enjoy the free sodas and then make sure my friends made it home safely.

Most likely it's on Slashdot because the technology (the uber-cool electric car) is being blamed. The father is grieving the loss of his daughter, so cut him a little slack for his momentary lapse of critical thinking skills. If she was that much over the limit then the Tesla's insane acceleration (see below) was most likely not a factor.

Note: I have had the pleasure of driving my company's Tesla. (there was a drawing to get it for a day). The acceleration is impressive to say the least. I had the sense to try it out on a very long, straight, and empty country road. The girl should not have been driving ANY motor vehicle while drunk, but flooring the pedal on a Tesla in that condition is essentially a suicide attempt.

All these mentions of the name Flynn and not one TRON Reference? Putin = MCP, anyone?

I used to work in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Corrections. I helped set up a special facility (Longwood Correctional Facility) where the only inmates were those whose crimes were related to substance abuse problems. We kept them away from "regular" criminals, provided treatment, and we had a less than one percent repeat offense rate. IF they do this correctly and provide treatment for those who need treatment, I believe that this can make a huge difference. I am not overly confident that it will be done correctly, though.

Congratulations on the significant weight loss!

This was my post - I don't know why it came up as AC.

"Care to explain why the Communist party of China has offices inside of Huawei's headquarters?"

Sure. They do that with most large institutions from what I've seen when in China. There's a Party office in all of the universities, too. It allows the Party to keep an eye on things as well as serve as a liaison between the institution and the government when needed. Also, since companies are responsible for handing certain things for their employees that we would not necessarily consider companies doing here in the USA, the Party office helps administer those things as well. It's no huge conspiracy or anything like that. It is just a government that has more direct interaction with people's lives than people in the US would think is normal.

I've been to China many times (mostly to universities) and these Party offices are nothing unusual there.

The idea of "keeping an eye on things" may fit into various conspiracy theories. All I know from my many trips to China about those Party offices is what I've been told by my fellow professors, by the graduate students I taught, and by my friends and colleagues over there.

Mr. Wozniak, thank you for taking the time to read and respond to questions.

What do you, personally, believe to be the reason why there is not more malware on OS X? While I personally believe it to be a combination of improved security in the OS and the lower market share (thus making it a smaller target than Windows), I would like to know your opinion and beliefs on the matter.

Thank you.

Mr. Wozniak, thank you for taking the time to read and respond to questions.

Given the rather open beginnings of the Apple computers, some have seen the turn toward the "Walled Garden" security model in iOS as a step in the wrong direction. Leaving the debate about cell phone security alone, there are theories that OS X itself is moving toward more of a "Walled Garden" approach. While this may be a good thing for the general, non-technical populace, it leaves hobbyists and developers at a loss.

What would you propose as an acceptable solution in order to maintain the hobbyist aspect of computer programming (and even electronic tinkering) alive while taking steps to reduce risk to the proverbial "grandmother who only uses the computer for Facebook and email"?

It looks like both WSJ and Gartner have both long since jumped the shark. I was in university in the 80s. Anyone who was at large university in the 1980s would have been there to "watch the Internet happen", so to speak. BITNET, ARPANET, MILNET - how can these "reporters" (and yes, I used 'scare quotes' intentionally) hope to be taken seriously when there are plenty of people still alive who were there when the whole thing started? At least wait until most of us have died off before trying to rewrite history like that. Amateurs.

I'm a college professor and I've never heard of these kickbacks except from people claiming that they exist. I select textbooks because they are what is available. I hate it when publishers change a few minor things and put out a new edition. I have three versions of the same book published within a four-year period and the fourth edition is coming out later this year. And they keep changing the order of the chapters so I have to change assignments, test questions, etc. Granted, I don't mind keeping my courses up to date, but I think a new edition of a text book every 16-18 months is a bit much, especially when the editions are not compatible for things such as exercises and chapter ordering. I LIKE used textbooks. I would encourage my students to use them if I could, but it seems that the publishers are trying to kill the used-book market for textbooks. I realize that things change rapidly in computer science, but I think they could slow down the update rate a little on these books without sacrificing much. The only thing worse is when a good textbook is NOT updated at all. One of my favorite texts is now horridly out of date, but there is no new edition on the horizon and I really can't find a better book for the subject. I've been forced to use two lesser books (which I also hate doing - I think you should have one textbook per class). Sorry for the rant, but I want people to understand that the professors are just as frustrated by all of this as you are, except perhaps the ones who author the textbooks. The fact that I receive free "desk copies" of books does not eliminate my frustration. I know my students are still paying huge amounts of money for textbooks and there's only so much I can do about it. I'm trying to find open textbook alternatives, and I may have to take time to write one if I can't find one.