Read her post. She does not think that Groklaw communications are of interest because of national security.

It is that she feels the NSA's grubby fingerprints over everything she reads and writes, and she can't stand the privacy violation. She likens it to when she was robbed and the thief pawed through her clothes.

My own company announced that they would give each employee $1,500 to kit out their work area however they like. Extra monitor, some nice plants, miniature trebuchet, whatever.

That is what I call appreciation.

Jailbreak, inject a new encryption key?

If I remember correctly, the fundamental encryption key is burned into ROM. Can't inject a new one.

I kind of hate this recent assumption that all open-source programmers with work on github must be programming geniuses.

That's the thing about metrics. "If you cannot measure it, it means it doesn't exist." Consequently, the only things that exist are the ones that you can measure.

They can measure your contributions to GitHub. They can't measure your contributions at your job.

It sucks, but any improvement is welcome. After all, according to another maxim, "the perfect is the enemy of the good."

Selling hardware at a loss is always a loosing proposition

I dunno, the market might be tightening up. Personally, I'm riveted by the turns that the economy has been taking. Granted, we were all screwed by the banks, but the recovery has been nuts. Everyone's been really driven, and I think we're really threading the needle, here.

In fact, I'm going to go mix up a screwdriver and drill down into some quarterly statements.

Maybe, but you'd think you'd notice a dude in a gorilla suit wandering in amongst a bunch of basketball players, and yetâ¦

For the record, there never has and never will be races that exist as "genetically distinct units". Humans have always been too mobile, even in prehistoric times

Hell, we banged Neanderthals back in the day. People aren't picky about who they shack up with.

This is a problem with English. What is a good word for a collection of processes and interrelationships that exist but were not designed by people? But not as an independent noun, like "system," but as an properties of a system?

Maybe more flexible, put it in flattering terms.

"Not like a gymnast, limber and spry, but rather a broken man. Shattered beyond discernible anatomy."

http://sodiumeyes.com/2008/08/08/the-language-of-words/

It also has the distinction of being invisible - out doesn't even feed back.

It wasn't always invisible. As far as I know, the Macintosh brought the clipboard concept to the masses, and it came with the "Clipboard" desk accessory where you could see whatever the clipboard currently had in it.

In fact, I've just discovered that that feature is still in place. The OS X Finder has a "Show Clipboard" command in the Edit menu.

Why does Slashdot even accept a submission in Fahrenheit when the subject is science?

Because you can't do car analogies in SI units. It just doesn't work.

Yeah. It's like...talking about the miles per gallon of an electric car.

The problem is not that an unsafe program might not be updated in the next 25 years.

The problem is that an unsafe program might have to look into the future.

Don't talk to me about JSON. JSON does not specify a date/time format at all.

That means the date will be transmitted in some half-assed quote-unquote "format" imagineered by the whimpering skunk fetuses that oh-so-poorly serve as the brains of the inbred sasquatches that are writing the server side.

You'd be amazed at how many programmers don't understand the concept of time zones.

(Invective courtesy of Sodium Eyes.)

The Polarans solved FTL travel ages ago, and now use it to troll other civilisations by placing their star along some life-bearing planet's axis of rotation, waiting for people to develop advanced astronomy, then randomly feinting at them to mess with the scientists' heads.

Applying Occam's Razor to the question, you are almost certainly correct.

Seriously, I rode a bike for years, and had a few encounters with cars (and their inattentive drivers) that could have ended fatally if I didn't have quick reflexes.

Did you miss the part where you're supposed to do something to raise your heartbeat? A near-fatal accident will do the trick.

More seriously, though, reflexes and attention to surroundings are like anything else. If you don't use them, you lose them. If you want to keep those skills, you want to ride in (or at least near) traffic.