jcox92

+1 Probably my favorite talk at Strange Loop this year. It's worth watching just for the minute or so starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU&t=33m

The Guardian did a piece on this last year including a video of part of the ceremony: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-peop...

They need to sound way scarier than that, though.

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Steering wheels have 9 times more bacteria than a public toilet seat. That's 967,402 bacteria! Well by cutting the number of steering wheels per person to 0.1, over 104,345 billions of bacteria will be removed from earth by doing so. Those bacteria will never know what hit 'em.

You taught me python the hard way. I watched all the videos at 1.5x speed so I will always picture you as having a curt, snappy, slightly high-pitched voice.

Also, that's nice of you to help out. I hope he gets in touch with you.

I'm a fan of the 'c-spiral' rule/ http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html

He mentions Musk by name.

'skeptical' doesn't seem like the right word. I think 'loathsome' would be more fitting. While the author makes some good points, it was hard to consider them legitimate given that he sandwiched the article with opinionated rants that seemed to abhor the idea of successful people having good ideas.

I should make a distinction between the data itself and the processes through which the data is collected and used. I'm not saying that the data related to every case should be made public. I'm just wondering why the processes to collect and use the data need to be secret. I think the process should be transparent without the data itself being public.

Agreed, but I still think it bears some relevance in this situation. Is any security added by making these programs and processes secret? What would the security issues be if everyone knew exactly what was being collected, when it could be accessed, and the requisite processes needed to access it?

Security through obscurity came to mind when I was watching US Cyber commander, Keith Alexander, testify at the senate hearing yesterday. In this clip (http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4455801) he seems to be making an argument for secrecy of the NSA's programs saying that it makes them more secure. From a purely engineering standpoint, this seems wrong to me.