The moon's orbit is getting wider because it orbits slower than the Earth rotates.

The tides aren't just 'pulled up' by the moon, they also pull on the moon. The changing shape of the Earth('s oceans) due to the tides being moved by the speed of the Earth's rotation, adds energy to the Moon's orbital motion. The added energy forces the moon into a higher orbit. That energy isn't free, it's extracted from the rotational energy of the Earth itself. So as the Earth's rotation slows, so does the Moon get pushed into ever higher orbit.

They did. For example, puzzle zero's capitalized letters form the pattern RPASSWODMIXSWAP...

FORTRAN, COBOL, Java, JavaScript, ruby, assembly (arm, intel, 6502, intel), c/c++/objc, BASIC, LISP, Prolog, Pascal

I think thatâ(TM)s it.

Then whoever they are they are not experienced or they donâ(TM)t know what they are talking about. This demonstrates what Iâ(TM)m talking about. NP complete problems are not unsolvable they are non polynomial. The solutions are done via heuristic approaches. For example: your cars gps is solving an np complete problem (routing) by using what is called a greedy algorithm. It will find itâ(TM)s way from point a to point b, but it may not always be guaranteed to find the optimal solution. It can only find an acceptable solution in polynomial time. Finding the optimal solution (I e the absolute best solution) is what takes non-polynomial or NP time. So whoever was stopped in his tracks is full of shit.

Non-CS majors are likely not to recognize intractable (NP-complete) problems when faced with them. I have seen many non-CS majors who call themselves programmers ignore (or just plain not be knowledgable of) simple approaches / heuristics to solve these problems. Also, non-CS majors tend to be unaware of time saving solutions to problems and will often go for the "straight forward" or "brute force" approach which ends up being more costly algorithmically (the difference between solving something in O(n) vs O(1) can be horribly expensive).

I don't know why questions or assertions like this come up every so often within the community, but I find it deeply concerning that many people hold the opinion that CS isn't needed or that an institutional education makes you arrogant. By definition, someone who is intelligent is flexible and willing to change... if they are not, then it's a problem with the person, not the institution.

CS is needed. Make no mistake. If you don't have someone who is a problem solver and knows what they are doing on your staff, you're wasting time and, possibly, lots of money. There is a reason why Google looks for the best of the best from CS programs all over the world.

Your numbers and/or units are wrong.

> 33,480,000 bytes

That is only 33.48 megabytes.

But your error is before that.

3600 * 24 * 31 = 2678400 sec/month (that one you got right)
2678400 sec/month * 100,000,000 bits/sec = 267,840,000,000,000 bits/month (you had an error here)
267,840,000,000,000 bits/month / 8 bits/byte = 33,480,000,000,000 bytes/month
33,480,000,000,000 bytes/month / 1,000,000,000 bytes/gigabyte = 33,480 gigabytes/month
33,480 gigabytes/month * 15 $/gigabyte = $502,200

Optical scanner systems have been hacked already.

How long has OpenSSL been open source and had major vulnerabilities before they were found?

Two possible reasons:
1) the receiver would still be more complex
2) lack of a single, standard frequency to set the receiver for.

And what library did OpenBSD use for SSL/TLS before LibreSSL? Oh wait, it was that same OpenSSL as Linux, until Heartbleed caused them to fork the project and clean it up.

How do you know there aren't patches that are much more effective than those which were adopted? Can you say that he has managed it optimally? No management strategy based on ego will ever survive. I worry about the future.

Additionally, with respect to his hatred of BSD. I find that hatred of anything technological is stupid. I would hope that he has some technical / logical reasons for rejecting such things rather than just saying "it's stupid".

GC

Anonymous Pro's is awful. Mainly "a", "c", "e", and "s".

Oh really? Then how did that Jeep Cherokee hack via the infotainment system work?

from http://www.wired.com/2015/07/h... (emphasis mine)

As the two hackers remotely toyed with the air-conditioning, radio, and windshield wipers, I mentally congratulated myself on my courage under pressure. That's when they cut the transmission.

Immediately my accelerator stopped working. As I frantically pressed the pedal and watched the RPMs climb, the Jeep lost half its speed, then slowed to a crawl. This occurred just as I reached a long overpass, with no shoulder to offer an escape. The experiment had ceased to be fun.

In addition to the package .deb files being signed, the official package repositories have signed package indexes. I suppose one could just serve up a modified index without a signature, but apt might warn or error on that. (I haven't checked this part)