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As someone who has worked on the "other side of the aisle" (I worked at a healthcare startup as a production support and network engineer) I'd say absolutely, you should try to lea…

I believe you mean "White Hat Hacker"... I think everyone gets the gist of what you mean but just wanted to clarify in case someone's thinking you're a racist hating on "Whitie" or…

SOPA is but a battle in a war. The "war" is the corruption in the US Congress. Go check out what Larry Lessig is doing nowadays... he's trying to fight the war, not the battle. His…

What's the information security posture on these things like? What I mean is, what was considered "secure" in 1977 (DES based encryption was state of the art back then, right?) wou…

Your grandfather was absolutely right... this post reminded me of something too in fact. Every single time I go into a doctor's office or a waiting room I look for a Smithsonian Ma…

I think the "creepy" factor of the images is probably due to the "uncanny valley"... Pixar fought this effect when they were first rendering humans "The uncanny valley is a hypothe…

Well put sir. I "grew up" on Slashdot as well (started reading circa 1998 as I recall) and although it's definitely declined, there was a "golden age" of Slashdot when the comments…