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This researcher found statistically significant differences between boys and girls at the high-end of mathematical ability as early as Kindergarten. So we're talking about 5-6 year-olds. Of course this is just one paper and (for all I know) it's been refuted elsewhere in the literature.

What right does the United States have to invade a nation for thinking about allying with someone else, or for refusing to submit to our trade demands?

Please be sure your argument would also justify other nations invading the United States.

As for your "ding":

In March 1906 several hundred Filipino Muslims ascended an extinct volcano known as Bud Dajo on the Island of Jolo. There in the circular crater of the dormant cone the Moro band dug in in defiance of the American military colonial regime. Their act of resistance was prompted primarily by the much hated cedula tax and rumors that the U.S. military intended to eradicate Islam from the Islands. Despite repeated pleas for surrender from American officials and fellow Muslims, the rebels refused. The U.S. military responded with a full-fledged assault that was intense, chaotic, and bloody. Moro warriors were cut down by krags and machine guns while women and children in men's clothing led charges against American artillery positions and fought hand to hand with American troops. In the end over 600 Filipino Muslims lay dead, many of those women and children.

When news of the massacre spread throughout the colony and into the United States, military officials were condemned as savage murderers of women and children. The massacre at Bud Dajo was heralded by anti-imperialists as the quintessential example of raw American imperial ambitions in the Philippines. Though press coverage of the ordeal was intense, it shortly fell from the news pages in favor other domestic political issues. To this day, however, the events at Bud Dajo stand as a critical symbol of American colonial rule in the Philippines' Muslim South.

Are you proud of moments like that? Is there a shred of human empathy in that carcass of meat you pilot around?

A lot of graduating high school students are completely unprepared for college. Programs like these should fill the gap and keep engineering freshmen from failing the "make or break" first year courses. In my university for example, the freshman Engineering Calculus 1 course had an absurdly high failure rate because it was a lecture-based course, completely different from how high school classes are taught. With a teaching grant, one of the professors taught an experimental Engineering Calculus 1 course which was much more similar in format to a traditional high school class setting--and as a result the failure rate dropped dramatically. I hope to see more advances in this area in the future.

Ok. Going off of the description http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/4/3/5/0/2/p435027_index.html TFA and the summary are somewhat inaccurate. He wasn't calculating the speed of different methods. Rather, he took two well known methods of approximating a square root, both of which when starting with a rational number give you a sequence of rational numbers which converge to the square root, and he gave a close to complete description of when the two sequences share infinitely many terms. This doesn't have any obvious algorithm application but it is very nice number theory.

Basically, day one in Numerical Analysis at the University level.

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/4/3/5/0/2/p435027_index.html

• Study 1
• Study 2
• Study 3
• Study 4
• Bonus article

Let me know when you're done with those and I'll find some more.

There's a number of reasons why they might have gone to a PC room instead of playing at home, cost and sociability.

The cost per hour for a PC bang was less than a dollar generally and sometimes less than 30c per hour according to http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/7/0/0/6/pages170061/p170061-1.php .The reason is that the population density leads to a large number of vendors who compete with each other both making it more available and driving price down. They still make a profit mind you. At 30cents an hour it's probably cheaper to do gaming at the PC bang rather than at home and in addition.

In cultural terms playing at home like it's done in the west is deemed unsociable in korea. Gamers playing in a group (eg. cooperative multiplayer) tend to gather at PC rooms and play there because it's both sociable and it's much better to just call out to each other than to use voice relaying software.

In this case though I suspect that the parents were heavily depressed due to joblessness .. aparently the job market is very tough and competition is incredibly fierce for any good job that opens up. This sounds more like a case of depression rather than addiction .. not that it makes it any better.

Ahhh finally the whole meat of the bleeding heart argument. How about I take the opposite position? Let's turn loose every single murderer in prison because one of them might be innocent.

Consider this: you are driving, and summoned to stop. It just so happens to be that the cops are corrupt and have to make their monthly quota. One of 'm plants a baggie in your vehicle, and you go off to the Tent Camp. It doesn't even have to be about corrupt cops if you think this is implausible.

Honestly, I would take my chances with a "less than perfect" justice system that offers greater deterrence

Here's the trick though: death penalty doesn't offer greater deterrence per se.

And, as Terry Pratchett once said, the death penalty combines the maximum deterrence with the minimum chance of recurrence.

Terry Pratchett writes satire. Errors (which are made a-plenty) can never, ever be righted again. But do continue your belief in your own infallibility and the absolute correctness of the justice system, because these are all disgusting liberal bleeding hearted links, and I'm obviously very much misguided, being a subject in the People's Republic of Europe.

I'm sure everything would've been right if they just would've manned up.

"There are two kinds of CS degrees, one tends to be more like a MSCE type degree aimed at getting you employed in a job shop. Typically you'll find these at ITT or University of Phoenix. Frankly, as an employer of CS folks, I can tell you these degrees are not worth the paper they are written on, and they rarely offer job security, they teach you to be a 'cog' instead of an independent thinker."

        Don't let your bias and elitism hit you in the ass on the way out. You're making decisions based on ignorance and habit, not information and truth.

        My IT degree at University of Phoenix taught no less than 4 languages (C, C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript) but also taught things such as databases, telecommunications, networking, usability and project management. The CS program at a traditional university taught programming and nothing else. Both taught the same programming concepts, but the traditional degree left out all the other things that go in to a modern programming and computing environment, rather spending 6 semesters teaching mathematics. Additionally, they not only emphasized independent thinking, they also taught the skills necessary to work in a modern team-based work environment as well as critical thinking skills. Something you appear to be lacking.

          I see programmers every day that don't understand network communication, database optimization, interface design or other things that, in my opinion, would allow them to make better applications. These skills have been lacking in the computer industry to the point that traditional universities now have degree emphasis' that are closer to what I got from UoP than what you are claiming is a good degree.

          Maybe you should try some of those University of Phoenix folks. They are going to be more knowledgeable than you think. If they weren't, why would the slow moving traditional universities be emulating their degrees?

Here's some information that you can read to bring your hiring practices out of the dark ages.
Engineering stereotypes drive counterproductive practices
Using Team-Based Learning to Teach Teaching Critical Thinking in Undergraduate Courses

        As for the parent post, learning the concepts of how to build and debug a program is more important that what language you learn in school. A wider breadth of languages will give you more insight in to the concepts, which actually is the high level techniques you seem to be looking for. Understanding of how things work will serve you better than being an expert at a programming language that will change in a year or 3. Languages are fluid, concepts are fairly static and built upon. Being able to learn on an on-going basis is a skill you will need to master.

you have to buy something sometime. once you have done so, as long as you own the original licensed copy, you can replicate it on other gadgets for more convenient use. as long as you only use ONE at a time, and don't give any of it away to non-licensed users.

Except the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has made fair use illegal in some cases. Look at the ruckus caused by DeCSS.

Falcon

Retired? Really? Not a week ago. He may have given the CEO reins over to our favorite chair tosser, but he's still Chairman of Microsoft. No doubt his stock option package is quite good.

That's good for Microsoft, too. Three nines of companies don't long survive the loss of their founders. As Damon Runyon said, "The race may not always be to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet".

The fall may have even begun before he retired as CEO. When SCO's backstop with Baystar dried up, Microsoft lost all of its credibility in the smoke filled rooms where the real money makes deals. Who knows how much this cost RBC and the other partners? Gates will spend the rest of his life trying to make amends, but those who suffered will never forget. You can't swing a billion dollars without somebody dies, and the dead stay dead no matter how many soup kitchens you volunteer in afterward.

Eventually, pigeons come home to roost. The devil will have his due.

There are other options. The comparison with car GPS is interesting - ok, they don't mind people navigating and mapping roads, since they are public anyway. But small GPS devices that look like mobile phones - could these be more of a security risk? It is possible to walk to many more locations than can be reached on the public highway. It is possible that they could be used as trigger devices, just like in the Madrid train bombings. Consider that the phones are used as timers, and that one of the standard protocols in use in security sensitive areas now is to jam RF and cell phone frequencies to block this kind of trigger. It's not a huge leap to realise that a GPS device could be similarly linked, and would provide an accurate non-blockable trigger for a vehicle based bomb.

It sounds as though Egypt bans or disables all personal GPS devices. I guess it shouldn't be that much of a surprise that a government is concerned about the military implications - remember that the United States only turned off Selective Availability 8 years ago, and this was only after they developed new technology to actively jam GPS signals in targetted regions. And don't forget the political fallout after the EU decided to implement the Galileo M-code overlay inside the same frequency band as the US military GPS in order to ensure that there was no way to block one without blocking the other. GPS technology has traditionally been militarily and politically sensitive, but at the same time we are now seeing the rise of a new world where most human are going to have cell phones and GPS devices. This is inevitably going to cause some social conflict as societies adjust to the new reality.

Voters could demand alternative methods. One already exists as absentee voting. One need not be absent in order to use it. However, the results of that come too late to make a difference. Politicians are aware that alternative methods exist and could manipulate availability of them to their own ends. See, for example http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/4/1/5/2/p41525_index.html
Since the last presidential election went to court, I think politicians are hoping future elections will be decided that way. That often means the best lawyers wins, as well as manipulating whether or not the case gets heard by a court sympathetic to them.

Its not "foolish" its a fact. Perhaps you should google before calling people foolish, eh?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040105071229.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5576/obesity_and_poverty_the_poorest_of.html

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/correlation-between-obesity-and-poverty-health-people-2010-should-increase-attention-those-poverty-14046.html

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/469027

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/2/0/6/1/p20614_index.html