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Who's Ethics are we going to integrate into STEM?

The teacher's, of course. And that of the teachers of teachers.

Rule #1: it is unethical to vote for RethugliKKKunt$...

heh, I did a PPT (well some similar program at the time anyway) on the history of cars back in the mid 90s. you are close, same company as its known today but it was actually Karl Benz who created the first practical automobile in 1893

https://www.biography.com/peop...

None of the scum that killed police recently are Conservatives.

By "recently", you must mean, "this week".

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Excuse me, ... while your sleight of hand is impressive (and good for mod points), you aren't playing this straight. The article you link to doesn't list conservatives, it lists white people. That isn't the same. One deals with skin color, the other deals with ideas. There is nothing contradictory about being black and conservative:
  Clarence Thomas
  Thomas Sowell
  Herman Cain
  Larry Elder
  Sheriff David Clark
  Condoleezza Rice

Also note that there doesn't appear to be any common thread among the killers in that article as there is among the killings with connections to either Black Lives Matter or the New Black Panther Party.

Just stick around. I don't think even Trump wants to be reelected for a second term. He's the 21th Century James K. Polk. A single term fixer-upper president.

Just curious, but how many languages does Tim Cook program in?

Considering you've been able to buy a programmable home computer in any department store for the past 35 years or so then I'd assume ol' Tim must by now be a coding demon?

I couldn't find an answer to that question; but since he has a degree in Industrial Engineering, I would imagine he has taken at least ONE programming class in college.

Listen, little tough guy, you're not impressing (or schooling) anybody. Before you get all impressed with yourself at bursting my bubble, I'm a fucking atheist, you twit. I know full well there is no invisible man that lives in the sky, and have no illusions about that, m'kay?

Now as for your "two types of people" thing, you're right, you are in the second group.....they're called imbeciles. If you honestly believe that these texts have nothing to do with either religion, when you obviously have absolutely no understanding of either and are just pontificating from whatever you're dreaming up in that head of yours.

But I digress, that isn't really the point here, is it? The point of this whole thread was the folks who are trying to link this type of terrorist violence to a religion (thus all the talk about religion and texts). I'm illustrating that the religions have nothing to do with it, and I'm countering arguments by other morons who like to cite the "violent" passages in the Koran by showing them that the Bible is no better. They don't seem to like that. And you don't seem to like the fact that I can prove my point. So let me get your position straight here. So if the KKK had more press lately, and had committed more mass atrocities more recently, then the argument works, but since they haven't been getting a lot of air time lately, it's not the same thing. Is that it? The Westboro assholes aren't big enough, and they haven't detonated any bombs yet, so they're good, even though they specifically exist to incite hatred and bigotry, it's not a big deal, and not at all proof that Christians do bad shit, is that it?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume that you probably have a reason in mind that I can't point to Hitler (also a Christian)....probably too long ago, huh? Never mind the 6,000,000 dead.....that's old news, huh? How about this guy , or maybe these folks ? No? Are we allowed to count these guys ?

Probably not. I'm sure you have a reason that you've dreamed up that they're totally different and therefore, they don't count.

I love how guys like you believe you're super informed and intelligent, but it never occurs to you that when you spend 16 years raining fucking bombs down on a country, eventually, the poor, uneducated, starving people in that country might rise up and right back, in whatever rag-tag militia that they can cobble together.....nah, you just focus on the fact that they're called Muslims, and therefore, Muslims=bad. The reality is, your a fucking hack, dude. You know squat, and talk all the shit you want, but you KNOW I'm right here. You're off base, I tried to be nice, but you wanted to be a condescending prick about it.

Seriously, read a little bit sometimes. Stop dreaming up your own delusions, and for goodness sake, stop listening to Rush and Drumpf.

This guy looks most orcish to me, but who knows. He certainly shares the hair thing going on with Trump.

You take it to them and they say they're not interested while copying your idea. ....

This is kind of what happened to the inventor who came up with the concept of the Television, designed, and prototyped; Philo Farnsworth.

Except it was even worse... the Inventor was sued for patent infringement after he couldn't sell the technology and had to start his own business.

Ultimately, his invention was stolen by RCA, and Filo lost mucho $$$ of his own money and bank money, and never got a dime of profit from having invented the Television; in the end, he was forced to sell his patent rights for a $1 million token amount of $$$ to reduce crushing debts.

He died destitute, with no recognition or respect from the public for his invention.....

You're thinking of the wrong school. Mass murderers have daddy buy their way into being a C student at Yale.

Al Gore or John Kerry?

Not Al Gore, given that he went to Harvard, not Yale.

Others have already answered this more succinctly ("politics"), but sure, I'll bite.

I get a little tired of the Musk worship.

Why does his company need a huge pile of tax breaks to succeed? If I open a company tomorrow, how can I get away with not paying taxes?

Rich people can affect public policy to help them make more money. But in this case, think of it less as giving tax breaks, and more of giving tax incentives for finally succeeding at doing something we've been trying to do for a long time anyway. I'm sure Musk made plenty of threats to build this factory somewhere in Asia if he didn't get favorable treatment here in the US. At least, he would have been a dumbass not to.

Why are Tesla's debt bonds in Junk status but he continues to get freebies from states?

S&P 's reasoning was that Tesla had all of their investment in one kind of product: electric cars and batteries. Not enough diversity to avoid risk. So if China preemptively opened their own Gigafactory and undercut Tesla's battery prices, all of Tesla's assets would be kind of worthless and they'd go kaput. It already happened with Solyndra, it could well happen again. Hell, we might as well give up and let China build batteries and electric cars for the world now.

Why are Tesla's cars so rudely expensive? Is there a plan for a 4 door sedan that a real family can afford in the 20K - 30K range like the Prius?

OK, I'm not a Musk worshipper, but I've followed enough tech news that the "Model E".. oops, sorry Ford, "Model 3" will be priced at 35K after they finish fleecing the early adopters for funding all of the preliminary engineering R&D costs with the Model S and the Model X. And they would have come out with the Model 3 sooner, but one of the blockers is... the lack of a Gigafactory. Tesla already consumes the majority the world's supply of Li-ion batteries serving the Model S production as it is.

Why is it that a guy with a big mouth and political friends on all sides gets so much tax subsidy, loans, breaks and deals?

I dunno, ask your friends at Exxon and Monsanto? I would think Musk seems to be some kind of small fry in comparison. Oh, now you've got me looking up his bio... http://www.biography.com/peopl...

Why are guys who run factories employing tons of US citizens in US based factories (like Toyota) who produce super reliable product with great mileage get slapped by the media when a bogus story about a gas pedal getting stuck?

Heh, do you also remember the story about the faulty seatbelts back in the 90s, and Toyota blamed messy American fast food culture for spilling food in the clasp mechanisms and jamming up the works? Silly media. Anyway, I bet those companies also get some nice tax breaks. Maybe some of those tax breaks are expiring, because Ford/Mazda has been moving some of their assembly plants from Michigan to Mexico. BTW, if you're interested in that kind of news, http://www.thetruthaboutcars.c... tends to have pretty good coverage and typically includes a healthy helping of humor, wit, and sarcasm.

Not sure why people need a super-hero.

Er, are you suggesting that Musk should have gotten into boring venture capital financial firms after making his fortune? It seems to take a special kind of nerd to throw your finances at the relatively high-risk and low-margin pursuits of electric cars and space launch vehicles. Most other nerds I know do that kind of thing as a hobby.

3.8 million priuses have been sold and cab drivers will tell you they easily go into the 300K range and even if the battery runs out the car is still useable.

I like the Prius (at least the Gen2 Prius)... it's a very diff

http://www.biography.com/people/steve-wozniak-9537334

Since Dancing With The Stars, he's been working at Fusion-IO
Looks like he's been developing distributed flash-based storage solutions. Not much solder, but plenty of design.

I still remember him for the universal remote....

Well, we upgraded to include a dynamic self-modifying portion, but there are some bugs; the basic self/non-self discrimination regularizer has a high tendency to cause wars over stupid things like who has the better facial hair. Unfortunately, the wide range of other regularizers—emotions, convictions, self-preservation, altruism, and the rest—aren't enough to completely repress this sort of thing. On the plus side they're now inventing new ones.

(In all seriousness, I think comparing the human species to an ensemble of classifiers is perhaps the most profound and interesting analogy ever made. The passing of genetic algorithms out of vogue in ML research reflects our own development of an advanced nervous system as an adaptable survival mechanism; culture, then, is the mass of concepts and rules we can integrate into our personal collections of weights to tune our nets to do specific things.)

And if someone at the school had a gun, no one there would have gotten hurt at all. In fact, if the assailant had known about such a gun he may not have attacked at all. We can play the "if" game all day.

Fact is, lots of mass murders happen without firearms being involved.

Such as this one, where the assailants were armed only with box-cutters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

Or this one, which was actually linked in my previous link and you chose to ignore.
http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/14014789-ax-wielding-man-kills-3-kids-wounds-13-in-china?lite

And here's another.
http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-kehoe-235986

And here's one with a kitchen knife.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre

Now go fuck off, troll.

I think Harrison Ford would actually be in complete agreement with you. I recall an interview with him where he was recounting his early career and how he eventually became a big name actor. Basically, in a minor role as a bus boy, he had been pulled aside by a movie exec and told that he didn't have the 'star power' required to make it in Hollywood. The exec cited another popular actor of the era and said that he was easily recognizable as a star, even in a similar minor role. Ford replied something like "I thought the audience was supposed to be seeing a bus boy, not a movie star".

I managed to find part of the interview here:
http://www.biography.com/people/harrison-ford-9298701/videos
Relevant bit starts 40 seconds in, but unfortunately it does not include Ford's rebuttal to the exec.

Well then find an actor who looks like Hoagy Carmichael, as that is who Ian Fleming compared Bonds looks to in the first novel, Casino Royale. For kicks, compare the above linked picture to this one of Ian Fleming.

Louis Armstrong never walked on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. Alan Shepard was the guy who golfed on the moon. There wouldn't be a reason for NASA to send a jazz trumpeter to Earth's only naturally occurring satellite.

I had to look this up just out of curiousity.
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In 1970, at the age of 15, Bill Gates went into business with his pal, Paul Allen. They developed "Traf-o-Data," a computer program that monitored traffic patterns in Seattle, and netted $20,000 for their efforts. Gates and Allen wanted to start their own company, but Gates' parents wanted him to finish school and go on to college where they hoped he would work to become a lawyer.

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His acumen for not only software development but also business operations put him in the position of leading the company and working as its spokesperson. He personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, often rewriting code when he saw it necessary. As the computer industry began to grow with companies like Apple, Intel, and IBM developing hardware and components, Bill was continuously out on the road touting the merits of Microsoft software applications. He often took his mother with him. Mary was highly respected and well connected with her membership on several corporate boards including IBM. It was through Mary that Bill Gates met the CEO of IBM.
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http://www.biography.com/articles/Bill-Gates-9307520?print
The point I want to highligh here is:
He personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, often rewriting code when he saw it necessary.

So, the man was a developer.

I thought he also wrote the fat file system, but I couldn't find supporting links for that.

Oh well.

Now about those "mistakes were made" issues? According to Knight-Ridder's senior military correspondent

Cheney and Rumsfeld were so convinced that they believed the invasion could be done on the cheap. The generals wanted an invasion and follow-on force of nearly 300,000 troops. Rumsfeld thought it could be done, a la Afghanistan, with fewer than 50,000. After all, there would be no need for an occupation force or any nation rebuilding.

So Rumsfeld hammered the head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. Tommy Franks, to reduce the force to just over 200,000, cut two divisions out of the follow-on force, and reduce the total U.S. force to 138,000 to deal with occupying and keeping the peace in a fractious country the size of California with a population of 25 million, divided into ethnic and religious groups.

When the whole deal went south on them in the summer of 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld stuck with the idea of fighting this war on the cheap. American armored divisions, the deadliest in the world, were ordered to leave most of their armor at home, because it cost too much to run them. Tank crews dismounted and became infantry patrolling the deadly roads and streets in Humvees, slightly heavier versions of the old Jeep. Ditto artillery crews.

That bears repeating: the Rumsfeld Doctrine depended on high technology. So now, in 2007 in Wired, Noah Shachtman tells us that the geeks implementing the high tech are responsible for the mess. Shachtman frames the issue in a way that assumes the Rumsfeld Doctrine is correct and blames the geeks! Gosh, other than Noah Shachtman, how many supporters of the Rumsfeld Doctrine do you think you can find in the punditocracy? Does this framing tell us where Shachtman was cheerleading in the run-up to the Iraq war? I do believe it does. Shachtman appears to be one of the last true believers in the discredited Rumsfeld Doctrine, and the Wired article that sparked this story is his declaration of faith.

Björk is from Iceland

Did you notice that RotJ was being made right at the same time Lucas and his soon-to-run-of-with-another-man wife adopted a kid? I don't think an explanation of the replacement of Wookies with Ewoks needs to go much farther than that.

Having kids changes your perspective something massive, I suspect. Did you notice how Greedo's blasting was taken out of the original SW in the remakes? How stormtroopers (real people in suits) were replaced with morally easier to kill robots in the new stories? He's gone soft, and the turning point seems to be the time of his first child and divorce. Coincidence? Perhaps -- I don't know the man. But it seems unlikely.

Hopefully with the remake of this apparently fairly hard-core movie, he'll regain his edge, and maybe remake these last three, well, first three, well, most recently released Star Wars movies.

(And hey, don't slam a guy for copying. Every great author's done it as certainly as every one of my apps has a copy of paste of Hello, World in it to thank somewhere. Isn't that part of the reason /.ers as a whole dislike current copyright laws?)

Figures. In my lame attempt to be funny I picked the wrong Bernstein. I guess I should have said "OK, what has the composer of West Side Story gotten his fingers into this time?" Never mind that he's been dead for several years.

About a month ago I saw a Biography on Steve Wozniak.

They talked about hacking he did in high school. One time he broke into the schools computer and changed all the times the bells rang.

Another time he left a box which had a ticking sound in it. The principal ended up rushing the thing into the middle of the football field thinking it was a bomb. The person saying this was laughing about it

If he did this stuff today how many YEARS of prison would he get?

About a month ago I saw a Biography on Steve Wozniak.

They talked about hacking he did in high school. One time he broke into the schools computer and changed all the times the bells rang.

Another time he left a box which had a ticking sound in it. The principal ended up rushing the thing into the middle of the football field thinking it was a bomb. The person saying this was laughing about it

If he did this stuff today how many YEARS of prison would he get?

The Woz was featured on A&E's Biography last night. Excellent piece; talked about the plane crash, the Apple I/II, Captain Crunch and blue boxing, and loads more. I didn't see this mentioned on /. so I thought I'd mention it now since it's somewhat pertinent, given the topic.

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