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It may seem like renting to you, but unfortunately those licensing terms you agree to when you open a package of new hardware or install a piece of software, are legal. It is a sha…

There are a few nice places around Chicago. Have you been to Ten Ren? Edit: Most of the places in the child comments are great too. I'd personally try to avoid Teavana, though. Fro…

I honestly thought the WSJ essay was as good or better than A Modest Proposal.

Perhaps 92% is poor in a lot of scenarios, but for this type of approach it's a good accuracy (within some 1-delta confidence). The unfortunate part is that it really was just a si…

The buildings on our campus keep their lights off for the majority of the day, probably to make room on the grid for this machine's energy usage.

Well, it looks like the 9 Things To Hack Before You Die are already posted.

And if you can actually input data using the protocol, you can take some standard packets and tweak a byte/short/long at a time and see what changes. Reversing USB is the same as a…

Definitely. .NET is .NET and especially being imperative, VB is mostly just syntactic differences over C#. But neither of those languages are tested on the AP exam ;)

Python is an awesome language, but in a HS class you probably won't get past simple scripting paradigms. If you guys were already CS students with solid programming experience as w…

Walk down NW 23rd.

Python powerset() with max(), list.remove(), and sum() builtins made the last problem's solution ~5 lines long :)