Planning is very useful even though things never go according to plan, honest.

Also who writes the plan is completely disconnected from reality, so the plan is completely useless.

The context of this conversation is the actions of a senior developer. If the senior developer allows someone else to write the plan in isolation (thus allowing a completely useless plan to be devised), then they’re by definition of the senior role, not a senior developer, right?

A senior developer is not a passive position.

Sitting on a Swiss ball hurts me less than a chair. For the first few days it even enforced perfect posture, but that effect went away pretty quickly.

Fixed goals and flexible tactics, I say. PG comes along and says it much better...

Or 5.

Nice solver! I did optimize the sieve a little...

N = 100000 primes = [False, True] * N // 2 for i in range(3, N, 2):

    if primes[i]:
        k = i ** 2
        while k < N:
            primes[k] = False
            k += i * 2

N = 100000 prime = [False, True] * (N // 2) primes = [] for i in range(3, N, 2):

    if prime[i]:
        primes.append(i)
        k = i ** 2
        while k < N:
            prime[k] = False
            k += i * 2

useful = [ str(i) for i in primes ]

# Enter your clues

for i in useful: if i[0] == '6' and ('3' in i) and len(str(i)) == 5: print(i)

30" monitors....

Subarus tend not to make it to the used-car market because they stay wonderful forever. ;-)

I'd expect places with Real Winter to have different taste in cars than California, wouldn't you?

How could the FBI not know his SSN?!

They want to know the subscriber's SSN, the person who owns the phone. He said the phone belonged to his sister.

How should Google know that?

So the FBI has been waging war against the US government; interesting.

If you read the article, the leader was not a proper member of the FBI. He merely collaborated with them.

If these reports are to be believed, Sabu was working on an FBI-provided laptop with direct 24-hour FBI surveillance of everything he was doing when he hacked Stratfor and dumped their emails to Wikileaks. Other parts of Anonymous disowned Sabu afterwards (see pastebin) for attacking Stratfor, which they considered a news organization and off limits.

The Stratfor leak involved almost 1M email addresses and ~100K credit card numbers. A lot of them are said to be bigshots in DC military/security circles.

No, I can't explain it either.

I believe the word you are looking for is "incompetence".

Our law enforcement organizations spend years and millions of dollars to infiltrate, track down, and bring to justice criminals. Who do they target? Organized crime? Hostile foreign nations? Fraudsters? Nope, they go after lulzsec and IP "pirates". I don't have a ton of sympathy for either lulzsec or kim dotcom but I can't help but feel that the FBI et al are screwing the pooch here and arresting the moral equivalent of pot dealers while the true terrorists and mobsters go free.

No, the FBI is not incompetent.

Anonymous/Lulz was/is the biggest hacking group ever. They were hacking businesses, law enforcement, media, websites of the US Congress and the CIA (just to name a few).

I really doubt that one could describe a plausible ranking system of law enforcement priorities that wouldn't direct real resources at Anon/Lulz in 2011.

On the other hand, it could turn out to have been valuable practice in the event China gets really serious about cyber attacks.

Besides, I would guess there's a rather limited amount of work the FBI's cyber crime unit can do to help bring in mobsters.