JVP wrote:
HR at Rockwell put me under 100% prior censorship. I had to submit everything before publication. Not just aerospace, but Science Fiction stories, and poems.
I can think of several employers locally (Dayton, Ohio) that have that sort of restriction for certain classes of employee.
I generally find BoingBoing to be a good source of interesting links.... but sometimes, I want to reach into the screen and throttle Cory Doctorow for overreacting.
I just remember the furor that erupted when a plastic model manufacturer came out with their version of a "stealth fighter". People outside the loop were furious as to how a supposedly secret program got compromised by a toy manufacturer..... and then, when things eventually became declassified, it became apparently how utterly wrong the first "leaks" really were.
All this speculation about these programs is amusing, if only because I can't wait until several years down the road to find out who's wrong, and by how much.
Re: the amusing little sidebar link about the bizarre discussions on the Senate floor.
It's going to get even more amusing.
The three books I've got in my queue at the moment:
- Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver.
I kept getting distracted by schoolwork and the kids when I originally purchased it--and now that I have the whole trilogy on hand, I figured I'd take the chance to restart from the beginning.
- Mark Lutz/David Ascher, Learning Python and C.V. Jakowatz et al., Spotlight Mode Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Signal Processing Approach.
I figure the best way to really become one with a new programming language--- try and write non-trivial programs in it.... and SAR is the least trivial application I can think of at the moment.
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