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As a degreeless, high school drop out who works for a very large corporation that's not the case. In a time where many are screaming about shortages in skilled IT people, mandating a degree is only going to narrow the already small pool of possible candidates down even further for no explicable gain. Many job advertisements I've seen will say "degree or relative experience", the latter being the key part here.

What for? Apple discourages the use of OpenSSL[1] and instead use their own open source library[2] which also has an API present inside of Cocoa and iOS.

1: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/securi...

2: http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55471/

I suspect mirror delay is less of an issue than you might perceive it to be. Many CPAN mirrors manage to stay within tens of seconds/no more than a minute from the main CPAN mirror that PAUSE publishes to.

Of course not. It's open source, nobody would do anything malicious right?

Also, I imagine the various regulation ISPs and hosting providers are obligated to inside the country - if customers can siphon off data that local officials disapprove of to another region easily, it puts Amazon in a difficult position.

https://twitter.com/homakov/status/387805705669206016 https://twitter.com/homakov/status/345544666483130368 https://twitter.com/homakov/status/218630370231451648

On the flip side, Homakov personally has incredibly bad OPSEC practices which would make me think twice for using him. There's a correlation between what you pay and what you might get.

Yes, npm itself is the only reason why.

No, actual whistleblowers should be covering their own asses as much as possible with informed decisions and good opsec/infosec practices and not trusting anyone or anything else which includes the press. If a whistleblower's identity is exposed, it stands to reason media outlets have more to gain from the fallout.

Mandatory SSH keys mitigates the brute forcing risk, and turns it into a nuisance. My employer presently has this arrangement and has done so for a while. Bastions only get you in the door: different entrances for different environments, users keys are only propagated to the machines they need.

It's far simpler to remove the need for passwords alltogether or at least minimise them than to offset the liability against your employees using security software correctly.

2FA and VPNs are not exclusively the only way to secure things. X.509, bastion servers, airgaps that require physical access to a secure facility etc are also valid options, dependent on your systems and their configuration.

Bike shops already do this in some places. In the UK and Japan at time of purchase you can register your bike with the police and it's handled by the store themselves. Both countries use the serial number imprinted by the manufacturer.

If there is indeed a problem of a lack of registration at point of purchase in your area, have you considered bringing this up with the cops, the shops and the politicians?

The idea that code be "self-documenting" is naive at best. Action does not necessarily infer intention, and without explanation can lead to assumption. To reach the code we end up committing a process of thought should have occurred by those who wrote it. For some things such as "boilerplate" code this may not be seen as significant. For others of increased complexity like explaining interactions between two pieces of logic, performing a complex set of logic or the expected usage of an externally provided interface comments are in my opinion essential.

In contrast to what you've said I completely disagree with the notion that the "best code transcends the need for comments". I'd argue the best type of code has the most effective comments in line with code to ensure the next person can gain with the least amount of effort clear understanding of both the rationale and of the functionality that lead to what they see before them.

So... where are all the Syrian programmers? This website says none are available.

The fact you have to have your screen on and unlocked is intentional and by design, otherwise there is plenty of potential attacks where NFC is used to exploit phones whilst it's in your pocket.

They've had standalone systems like Edy and other systems tied into retailers on their phones for years. Given that Japan is hugely a cash based society, I wonder if this will really take off.

Personal opinions of said founder aside, all three were bringing arguably trivial products to market where there already was a large presence of two or more players dominating (Twitter/Facebook/status.net for Pownce, HipChat/Campfire for Grove) and with a lack of game-changing innovation to separate them.

Makes less sense to blame the people, rather than lay blame to what they did (or did not) do.

More or less. The more evidence of all communication of theirs and yours, the more useful it is as either plaintiff or defendant in court.

The acceptance of this seems to vary towards the reliability and availability of transport (both personal and public) amongst other factors. Here in London where train frequency can be as little as 90 seconds but compensation payable to punters only if the service is greater than 15 minutes late - "stuck on the tube (with no phone reception)" is almost always an acceptable excuse.

In Tokyo, given as your employer usually pays for your train fare and the train service is notorious for being punctual and reliable, you're expected on time and if you're not, the rail company usually issues on paper an apology like this http://traininfo.jreast.co.jp/delay_certificate/pop.aspx?D=2... .

As someone who goes in and out of the UK on a regular basis, this is news to me as I've yet to be subjected to full body scanners.

So I've experienced something similar minus the overcrowded room with British immigration. I watched the immigration official turn from apathy the moment I handed my passport over into passive agression with loaded questions ("When was the last time you were deported?" answer: "never") into apologies ("Sorry for making you wait sir there clearly has been a misunderstanding") to vague answers to the question of future prevention.

After being told "and there's nothing you can do to stop this happening again", I tell every British immigration official I stand before briefly what happens every time I want to come back here and they're usually understanding about it all.

Sounds like this person needs to learn how to become an iOS developer. There is so many tutorials, guides and sample code out there and a very large portion of it is free.

No, it's no easy. No it might not be as fast as getting a seasoned developer, and yes the code might be poor but I hold to the belief if there something you can't find someone to do for you - figure it out and do it yourself.

It is never easy when people you know pass away, especially those younger than you. However, I'd argue it is more difficult when the situation happens at a much younger age for the realisation that the deceased were given less time alive than we will receive no matter how abrupt our lives end.

Dr. Crandall was fortunate to have a daughter and time to achieve so many things, more than I can say about some of my peers who left the stage before their twenties. For some of us, the bittersweet position has already arrived.

They repeatedly send you emails even if you don't have an account.

Ryan caused a lot of drama not so long ago saying some things that escalated into quite a lot of people flaming him on Twitter - I'm unsure if this is why he's abandoned the other websites as well.

Plausible reasons have already been suggested somewhere else[1], in summary chipset makers are creating dual purpose chips with dies that support LTE, but have fuses burnt and a cheaper price tag to restrict their usage. Even if you could reverse the fuses, there is still a lack of hardware and calibration for it to be possible in the nexus 4.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/13cods/nexus_4_t...

The implementation certainly differs. The US at least keeps copyright infringement civil unless significant damage or financial gain has been made from the infringement. In Japan, the police already go after infringers, irregardless of the damage. They also put a lot of resources into breaking the encryption used in the various Japanese p2p networks.

Interesting how this will actually happen, given as all the popular Japanese p2p networks are encrypted - of recent their efforts have not been on downloaders but on uploaders since Perfect Dark is apparently leaking information on the latter.

Actually, it's the other way around. NFC is a superset of many different types of RFID standards that operate all under 13.56MHz - FeliCa, MiFARE, Topaz, ISO14443 etc in addition to include different communication protocols (SNEP for example) as well as payload standards (NDEF).