What new features does Dash offer? The only one OP mentions is viewing your code on a simulated mobile device. While that's useful, it's not particularly relevant to the target audience of beginning web developers.
Note: Learned the basics of web programming from Codecademy - extremely helpful service.
If the NSA didn't guard against him using accounts with more clearance to download documents he wasn't supposed to have access to, I don't think Snowden's intelligence is what we should be worried about.
Which I don't understand... they're claiming that we should trust them but they aren't (or shouldn't be [hiring]) the most brilliant people. So, how many other holes exist in their systems and oversight that are unknown because there aren't brilliant people finding them?
What are you referencing? The quote (from an NBC story):
> “Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was,” said a former U.S. official with knowledge of the case. “This is why you don’t hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.”
Not only that, but isn't the NSA required to have a sufficient level of auditing to detect (or at least record) those accesses before the systems are even fired up?
Interestingly it mentions that King himself was involved in suing people for selling videos of his speech, showing that the final lines of the blog article are wrong - he actually did enjoy the protections that copyright law offered him.
No, because of the principle of eminent domain, meaning the government of California can forcefully purchase the land for public use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
Legally, whoever tried this would be forced to give over the land for "fair market value", and if they were difficult about it they'd probably receive much less.
This is a minor point, but I'm really glad the article title uses "allegedly". Even if it's quite probable Samsung is guilty here, I'm glad the article doesn't adjudicate the way so many news articles do.
> Today, we are large enough to avoid these petty discussions of withholding review samples. Most manufacturers know that one way or another we'll get our hands on a product for review and don't try to play these sorts of games. Rarely we are faced with a manufacturer or advertiser who is looking to influence our content. We have a firm internal policy in place to deliver honest, balanced reviews to the best of our ability - regardless of external pressures. Fortunately, as I mentioned earlier, we have been around long enough and are large enough to avoid this being an issue in the vast majority of situations.
