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So the government should have had a year to catch him before he went AWOL to HK? Holy Cr*p! Please, please, please... when do they learn to shut up?

He was suspected of carrying sensitive material, which apparently couldn't be found. The search and interviews apparently lasted 9 hours to the minute according to reports and his detention wasn't extended. In my book: if there would have been something, they would have made it stick. Now they couldn't and apparently out of spite they detained him for 9 hours to the minute while grilling him about the actions of his partner.

John Bull and Uncle Sam have got another blackish eye publicitywise from this affair. There may be a lot of frustration about this Snowden fall-out in Intel circles, but really, let it rest for a while. Sit still while you're being shorn, as any PR person can tell you.

IMHO an alpha engineer should do one of two things:

1) Architect the application and divide the detail programming in enough well-defined subtasks that lesser gods can start working on these subtasks while the alpha starts engineering further. Well-defined subtasks need relatively little communication, and economies of scale are used. 2) Add the brilliance to an existing framework built by beta engineers (Like Rembrandt painting the lace on the painting of an apprentice).

It basically depends on where a product is in the life cycle which of the two strategies is most effective.

I would be highly surprised if mails (even spam) wouldn't be scanned for steganographically hidden messages (no insider knowledge though). Hell, I would even want this for my own antivirus functionality.

I would be surprised if your stegospam wouldn't have a red flag raised by any scanner which utilizes advanced heuristics. Especially since your stegospam utilizes a form of steganography which is already described into great detail by e.g. David Kahn in The Code Breakers (nice crypto history book).

No. Users are fickle and unpredictable.

Lefthanders like me need an inverse Colemak to remain effective, given that many of the most used letters are on a QWERTY keyboard on my left hand (while with Colemak e.g. the E has moved to the right). Does an inverse Colemak exist?

Global Warming Alarmism? Physics isn't alarmism.

Despite not being a US citizen, I fully support this petition since in a capitalistic society it isn´t up to the government to determine the way goods and services are delivered to customers. Government has only a role in policing this process for misuse and fraud.

Only fragile jobs are lost during technological upheavals (See Taleb, Anti-fragility).

Slate is an anagram of Tesla. Brilliant.

1) Not okay: what constitutes the 'best interests of the USA' is in the eye of the beholder. A libertarian might have a different outlook on 'best interests' than say a religious zealot, etc.

It seems that in the end the install was performed on a system where no Ubuntu disks were present (Ubuntu disk was removed). If true, the whole dualboot discussion is moot. Personally I also encountered registration hell. After some time trying to get it working I just quit on windows and installed Fedora without dual boot on the new system. No windows (XP) traces were left. And everyone (at least in my home) lived happily ever after.

I guess that France is of the opinion that from a French perspective it is better to let Dailymotion grow and develop the European IT scene further, than to be opportunistic and do another sell-out to an US company.

a speculator is also (a certain type of) user.