If this were to actually work (big if, I get that) isn't there a non-zero change that we're driving additional energy into the planetary budget? This energy when used will produce some sort of thermal energy and won't that take a while to escape back whence it came? Or are we talking about energy that would have been incident on the planet anyway?

Because they clearly have 2 horns, hence not "uni."

Adorable and I hope they can be protected. Amazing discovery, poor journalism.

So both the UN and the Council of Europe disagree and assert that internet access is not only a human right and go so far as to outline how that should work.

Of course the US wouldn't condescend to respect international governing bodies. :(

Specifically for anything sensitive.

It would be fine if we could host it, so the unencrypted bits were in our enterprise (a feature once promised but I think gone from the roadmap.) Also fine would be an option to encrypt the store on their end for just our bit (the encryption doesn't need to be mandatory.)

Employees should be mostly focused on their role while at work. This assumes you're in a job where you're required to be on the clock during a certain timeframe. But whether you're hourly or salaried, you are to be focused on work while at work. While I understand there are slow times, and occasional needs to tend to personal issues, by working on a side project you are changing your personal frame of reference. You will be slow to return to the actual work. I've asked some employees to avoid multitasking to avoid the same problem between multiple actual work projects.

While you're off working on your side-thing, what initiative aren't you taking in your job? What problem aren't you pondering to solve at work? What project that you've been procrastinating on are you avoiding by doing your own thing?

I support employees being empowered to do things like this by their employers and managers, it can be part of good management, but never assume.

As far as compensation, you're paid whatever you negotiated for whatever you produce. If you are unhappy with your compensation because you think it doesn't reflect your potential, go get a job that will allow you to realize your potential. I don't owe anyone for their potential if I don't plan to use it. Again, good managers will, but no one owes it to you.

Aside from the abominable intrusion of privacy this amounts to (because an action is a crime, not a belief of a sympathy)...

I work in security for a large company that uses gmail as its corporate email.

When we receive phishing or malware-containing emails, along with a robust response, we work with our admins to have the emails removed from the mailboxes of the recipients (better safe than relying on every user to not be an idiot.) This is enormously time-consuming, difficult, and all this on what one can only assume is a tiny fraction of over-all gmail. So let's call it impractical.

So where do we go from there? Well, naturally if you'd like better searching capabilities, we should index all the email, all the files. "Pre-search," as it were. I'm sure we'd all be happier with that.

Wait. That's what the NSA was already tasked to do by the US government. And we all lost our shit about it. And for good reason. (And BTW, the NSA, who has a ton of experience and lots of very smart people in this area, never managed to make this terribly illuminating.)

Drugs are costly to develop and then Big Pharma are large corporations who want to make money. If they can market these drugs to larger populations (say the smart-drug set as well as patients with degenerative diseases) the costs may come down substantially, and they may be more likely to develop more of these drugs.

I am a huge fan of the Heifer Project. Feeds people and provides sustainable lifestyles for them. Geeky in a maker-type, back to basics sort of way.

And Johnny deserves a plug, too, though he's a fairly small-scale charity. But he sets the standard for going and doing for others: Hackers for Charity.

Yes, you need a strong grounding in Math to ensure you understand all of the underlying concepts, even if you don't need to implement them yourself. Like learning the CLI before falling back to the user-friendly GUI. Eventually you want to do something the GUI can't, and you're back at the command line.

Besides, most programmers son't spend their whole life as professional programmers. In fact, some who start out in that direction end up elsewhere. Why limit your choices later in life by short-cutting now? If nothing else, the rigor provided by math will suit you well whereever you go. And while you're at it, please take a statistics class. About 85% of americans couldn't tell you what 85% actually means.

Does anyone have a less malicious, less illegal, less profit-driven way to do this at a level that doesn't violate civil liberties?

I have kids who are well-internet-educated. I trust them. But I also want to be able to see what's trying to leave my network. I'm a hardcore security guy, but I have better things to do than spend my free time setting up netflow on my Tomato-USB router. I use OpenDNS as a first line of defense (kids are still young enough to be more likely to find porn by accident rather than on purpose, but I know that won't last.) and I have their internet connections cut off at night so they'll go the hell to bed.

I don't want to spy on my kids conversations, but I reserve the right (and make this abundantly clear to them) to see where they're going and what they're doing. As they get older that will fade a little, especially if we can maintain the level of trust we have today. I want non-intrusive but effective ways to keep tabs on goings on without being a dick.

Thoughts?

But if you have all these other interests, one does wonder why you didn't pursue them at school too. I'm not denying the value of knowledge gained in a psych program, but knowing that it's one of the worst degrees for post-degree employment and underemployment? I coupled my English Lit degree with one in Math, and lots of physics, chem, comp sci and engineering.

If you continue your education (either with training or a degree program) in whatever field you pursue, you'll end up a better, more well-rounded employee for having the psych degree, but as you can tell it's a bit up hill to start.

Where are you located? I could stand to hire someone like you.

2 bits, written poorly and so problematic on that basis, but with the right idea at their heart:

1) To protect students from having to provide their personal login info for social networks to coaches or administrators. This is in response to NC State (or is it UNC?) requiring exactly that, after the NCAA faulted them for NOT doing it after some NCAA student-booster violation of some sort. Nothing illegal mind you, but they broke NCAA rules.

2) To protect employees (or prospective ones) from having to turn over these credentials.

I say they're poorly written because they are too specific, and somewhat inaccurate, in their technical prohibitions. The university system testified that they were problematic because they would potentially prohibit US from requiring students use antivirus programs or other security measures when on our networks. We hope they're fixing that bit.

I'm pretty sure that it says that exercise ramps up your metabolism, and so does caffeine, but exercise is less likely to kill you in the process. That this happens isn't even remotely surprising, nor a new development. What seems new is that it is taking place at such a low level in the metabolic process (i.e. at the genetic level.) I think.

So as a consumer already paying for cable (because I have an outlet to connect to, unless I've gone to heroic effort to run my own in from the street,) I choose to pay money to one guy's company to get internet access for free instead of paying an incremental increase in service fee for internet access that's "legitimate?" Seems like a fair amount of work and money to "steal" something.

I'm all for sticking it to the man, especially cable companies, but this seems to make not a whole lot of sense.

Google has deep pockets, and has been known to do good things for their own sake (no, I don't buy the whole "don't be evil" thing, but there's a decent track record there) Setup or fund existing mesh networking systems to allow a grassroots network (with a new name) that is decentralized completely. I know research is going on in this area for a variety of reasons, put more brains and money on it and make it happen. "Work toward saying to the UN: You can have the Internet, we're done with it now."