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So the government should have had a year to catch him before he went AWOL to HK? Holy Cr*p! Please, please, please... when do they learn to shut up?

He was suspected of carrying sensitive material, which apparently couldn't be found. The search and interviews apparently lasted 9 hours to the minute according to reports and his …

IMHO an alpha engineer should do one of two things: 1) Architect the application and divide the detail programming in enough well-defined subtasks that lesser gods can start workin…

I would be highly surprised if mails (even spam) wouldn't be scanned for steganographically hidden messages (no insider knowledge though). Hell, I would even want this for my own a…

No. Users are fickle and unpredictable.

Lefthanders like me need an inverse Colemak to remain effective, given that many of the most used letters are on a QWERTY keyboard on my left hand (while with Colemak e.g. the E ha…

Global Warming Alarmism? Physics isn't alarmism.

Despite not being a US citizen, I fully support this petition since in a capitalistic society it isn´t up to the government to determine the way goods and services are delivered to…

Only fragile jobs are lost during technological upheavals (See Taleb, Anti-fragility).

Slate is an anagram of Tesla. Brilliant.

1) Not okay: what constitutes the 'best interests of the USA' is in the eye of the beholder. A libertarian might have a different outlook on 'best interests' than say a religious z…

It seems that in the end the install was performed on a system where no Ubuntu disks were present (Ubuntu disk was removed). If true, the whole dualboot discussion is moot. Persona…

I guess that France is of the opinion that from a French perspective it is better to let Dailymotion grow and develop the European IT scene further, than to be opportunistic and do…

a speculator is also (a certain type of) user.