Can you please explain how the RIAA crushed 'individual rights' and 'innovation and personal freedom'? I mean, from what I know they only got it to be illegal to copy movies/music, right? And the DMCA was passed unanimously by the Senate, so it's clearly not just the RIAA that is interested in 'crushing innovation and personal freedom in the United States' as you claim. What am I missing?

this is gonna sound silly, but is anyone else scared to visit cryptome? same with wikileaks.

No. Why would I be scared?

Why would you be scared to visit those sites? What do you think could happen?

Here's a mirror, if you don't want to visit the original site:

http://cryptome.org.nyud.net/ukpk-alt.htm

They didn't exactly go out on a limb with their predictions - they said that GSM security technology and SSL implementations are flawed, so we'll see more attacks on them in 2010. Anyone who follows security and/or web technologies could have said that.

Thanks, Jeff. Could you also please lecture us on properly backing up a site?

compared to the traffic the servers are seeing from the bots, the single requests of curious people is pretty negligible.

Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! is also a great listen via audiobook, especially on road trips!

this is the doing of 4chan, right?

G.E.B.? Fun book, yes, but to make a list of 10 books to substitute a Bachelor's degree in CS? nonsense.

I'm only about halfway through it, but it does seem like a decent intro to the math and CS concepts that will be needed for more advanced material. A CS degree program isn't all senior-level coursework.

As pointed out in one of the comments, this doesn't hold for recent college grads. I know a lot of very smart people who graduated in the past 2-3 years and cannot find jobs.

What kind of fields?

I know plenty of people that graduated, some of them can't find jobs but they're mostly in the 'soft' sciences.

How are the recent college grads faring relative to the recent non-college grads?

an amazing gift I received for a birthday one year was a gift certificate for a beginner flight. Something to keep in mind (or to ask for!)