Exactly. You read about things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A and you just have to wonder. That's an Internet backbone, who knows what they're capable of parsing and retaining from it. And if the capabilities existed to data warehouse the entire backbone, why not (if you're the NSA)?

I was a developer on the CMS in question when this happened. The possibility of this guy getting up to 10 years in prison seems harsh.

I was a developer on the CMS in question when this happened. The possibility of this guy getting up to 10 years seems harsh.

I used it for information about crime in my neighborhood, not much else.

I accidentally Ctrl + W my terminal window quite a bit. With tmux my session is persisted and I can get back to it easily.

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell

also, "second coming" by yeats, but i am not sure it is true - i have been lucky enough to work with some very good people, and some of the best were like this.

as j_baker says, it seems like it's just one of those "life is complicated" things...

I will possibly be in attendance.

I'm a Python/Ruby developer in Chicago originally from Michigan. If you want to stay close to Michigan for whatever reason, but need a job, Chicago is a great compromise.

Chicago has an excellent Python user group: http://chipy.org/ Get on the mailing list and let them know your situation. Also consider learning Ruby on Rails. If you Python, Ruby will be easy to learn. If you know any Javascript at all, leverage that.

EFF also has a good form letter: https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=Us...

I was going to build a bot in Python. (Javascript is also a possiblity) Care to team up?