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Can you please explain how the RIAA crushed 'individual rights' and 'innovation and personal freedom'? I mean, from what I know they only got it to be illegal to copy movies/music,…

this is gonna sound silly, but is anyone else scared to visit cryptome? same with wikileaks.

They didn't exactly go out on a limb with their predictions - they said that GSM security technology and SSL implementations are flawed, so we'll see more attacks on them in 2010. …

Thanks, Jeff. Could you also please lecture us on properly backing up a site?

compared to the traffic the servers are seeing from the bots, the single requests of curious people is pretty negligible.

Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! is also a great listen via audiobook, especially on road trips!

this is the doing of 4chan, right?

G.E.B.? Fun book, yes, but to make a list of 10 books to substitute a Bachelor's degree in CS? nonsense.

As pointed out in one of the comments, this doesn't hold for recent college grads. I know a lot of very smart people who graduated in the past 2-3 years and cannot find jobs.

an amazing gift I received for a birthday one year was a gift certificate for a beginner flight. Something to keep in mind (or to ask for!)

What makes it worth paying for?

When I was in about 8th grade I downloaded a copy of Visual Basic 3, which was my first introduction to a higher-level language. Before that, I had played around with basic on one …

right-clicking to remove a marker would be awesome. having accounts would be nice, too. and being able to upload data from gps watches. but one step at a time. this is really cool,…

Why don't any of these articles put blame on the users, for broadcasting their data without any encryption set up? I guess that's not the exciting news story. They could at least u…

probably too much paranoia.