According to what The Master did, he refused a regeneration even if he had more left. Rumor has it his lifeforce and Timelord DNA are in the ring he left behind. That ring can activated and steal a body like when The Master stole Tremas' body for his 13th regeneration.
Also the original show had The Doctor in his 12th regeneration as evil, more evil than The Master.
The Doctor is clever enough to find a way to grant himself more regenerations.
It is debatable if Galifrey still exists in some form or can be renewed again. All The Doctor need do is violate the laws of time and travel back to save it or stop the Dalek invasion before it reaches Galifrey. I am also having a theory that Romana still exists with her own TARDIS and K9 unit and has 10 regenerations left, and she could take over for The Doctor or even The Doctor's daughter from that DNA clone can take over. I have a theory that other Time Lords still exist but are unaccounted for. Since The Daleks survived, chances are some Time Lords survived as well.
Someone set up the time agency that Captain Jack Harkness is a part of, maybe they were Junior Timelords who left Galifrey to set up the Time Agency?
some claim Vista and 7.0 are so bloated that OpenGEM on an 8 bit 8088 Laptop using CGA can beat them both. OpenGEM vs. Windows Vista even on an 8088 laptop it beats a modern system running Vista.
Sometimes less is more, the less the OS has in features the faster it runs. Like the TinyXP version that had the core of XP ran faster than Windows XP with full features. It is also why WindowsPE boot disks are so popular, they can run a version of Windows faster than the real version.
If you take any Windows version and strip it down to it's core, minus IE, minus Media Player, minus a lot of annoying features that most people don't need, you get a much faster OS.
Some people have to use 4Gigs of RAM just to get Vista running fast enough to matter. 4 freaking gigs of RAM, that is because of how bloated Vista really is, and all Microsoft and hardware makers are doing is forcing us to buy all new hardware and software every three years or so. Notice that Vista didn't run a lot of legacy Windows programs and a lot of those were development tools and business applications.
Forcing people to upgrade every three years is ridiculous, most people don't need that many features they just need a PC than runs to surf the Internet, do some word processing and email, and maybe play a few games or something else. Windows XP does that good enough, we shouldn't have to be forced to upgrade to Vista or Windows 7.0 because most of us don't need those features.
It is like when the Macintosh came out, nobody needs special effects like zooming windows and other things, AmigaDOS/Workbench lacked those and ran faster and then someone wrote a shareware program called MacGag that did every special effect a Macintosh did on an Amiga.
When I use Windows XP I turn off all special effects and use the classic interface just to get a faster system. I don't need bloated crap features that I hardly ever use. Most of what I need is the core of Windows XP.
Instead of adding new features, Microsoft should be fixing the broken security model of Windows and make blue screens of death a thing of the past by properly error checking the OS and having code that recovers from situations that cause BSODs. The Amiga had a program called GOMF or Guru Out of My Face, that error trapped AmigaDOS/Workbench so we never saw the Guru error red screen of death anymore. So I know it is possible, but no, Microsoft would rather keep adding new features to the OS instead of making them optional or available via add-ons like Windows Plus Packs or something.
that defeats the purpose of a free encyclopedia Wiki.
The only reason why I don't edit it often enough is because of the political BS they pull from other editors and admins. Their NPV is really a liberal point of view. I write true neutral point of view and it gets rewritten to the liberal point of view and I am told mine is not NPV because it does not favor the liberal viewpoint. Then my articles get deleted because they are not the liberal point of view.
Wikibooks is the same way, I wrote an article on psychology and philosophy, but I get told that self-hypnosiscan reduce anxiety and other therapy in psychology is pseudoscience. That trying to think of an imaginary vacation scene is witchcraft and religion and not science at all. Despite me citing reliable sources, my article gets deleted.
That is another thing, reliable sources, if it is not a liberal web site, and more neutral like webmd it is not reliable enough to make the article accurate.
they won't use printers for printers, but use the CPUs and memory in those printers to modify their missile guidance systems for longer range.
Plus those HP printers use an encryption scheme that is greater than what is supposed to be sold to the Middle-East. They can unassemble the code from the printer memory and drivers and use it to encrypt messages that are harder to crack.
But it is useless because all they need do is download the source code to GPG and they have one of the best encryption systems there is known to Earth.
they turn over their passwords, and then change them before the feds can log on and read their data?
It would be better to just get a warrant for the web sites to turn over records of the sex offender's accounts, as well as constitutional as well.
Much as I hate sex offenders, they still have constitutional rights like any other group. If you want to monitor them online, you need a warrant. If not then anything you get from them turning over their passwords cannot be used in court against them, and they will walk free.
Now you play The Bard and instead of a real RPG it is a fake RPG ala a choose your own adventure.
The Amiga, Atari ST, and Apple//gs versions of the games had the best sound and graphics and are the only versions of the entire Bard's Tale version that are enjoyable enough to run via emulators. The PC version used 16 color CGA or Tandy/EGA graphics, and the Mac version was made black and white and then they didn't make any more Mac versions like Bard's Tale II or even a color version when the Macintosh II came out.
There have been failed attempts at making a FOSS version of it, and usually it is a clone of the Bard's Tale construction Set. People used to make their own Bard's Tale games via the BTCS for the PC once Bard's Tale II or III started to support VGA graphics and sound cards (no more beeping speaker, finally real sound for the PC version of Bard's Tale).
If I were to remake Bard's Tale I would keep it close to the original, but with better graphics and sound and new music. Plus the rules would be based on D&D 3.5 or something more modern. Plus I would add in more classes like Ninja, Cleric, and some new Magic classes as well as new spells from the D&D book of spells. I'd have the native version of the game that runs on Windows XP/Vista, Windows 9X, Mac OSX, Linux, and Java for systems not supported as long as they have a Java runtime they can run it, which means cell phone versions, etc.
Nothing was ever as fun as leveling up your characters at the guild, after fighting monsters in a maze and trying to get one of your team to a temple to get healed before that poison kills him or her, while still in a maze and still fighting monsters.
The PC Version had a big cheat, hitting the "Z" button gave you a Stone Golem in the friendly monster slot of your team, six player characters and one NPC usually a monster. That monster snare spell did come in handy as well as those spells that summoned undead monsters to fight with you as well. The monster snare steals one of the enemy monsters and makes it your ally. Fighting fire with fire.
You NWO conspiracy theorists really crack me up, lizard people who can shape shift to look like human beings are behind the New World Order and they live in Hollow Earth.
It is also another open source project OpenGEM based on the original DRI GEM. GEM was a Windows like 16 bit interface for DR-DOS and MS-DOS like Windows 3.X was. Apple sued them and they had to change their look a feel, and Atari used GEM as a GUI for TOS.
We once at a college computer lab wanted to make random memorandums, Novell Netware messages over the network like:
Captain Hook "Ahah, Peter Pan, I found you at last!"
Mickey Mouse "I want more cheddar please."
Cookie Monster "Cookies! Omm omm omm! I want more cookies."
and all kinds of fictional characters sending random messages like that to various people as a joke. My supervisor suggested it and I had hooked the DOS interrupt that Netware used to send messages. But our lab manager spoke out against it and the other supervisor who had admin status got upset that we were testing it and set a batch file to tell us to knock it off and repeated the message a hundred times.
But now that I think about it, it could be a fortune cookie LED with random fortune cookies.
if you set up a web filter, all they need do is use a search engine to find a way around it. You cannot block search engines as they can be used for educational purposes and some like Google have adult content words in them as well as a cache of the web page so students can get around the filter by using Google's cache.
The only thing you can do is teach the student to be responsible and use good judgment via critical thinking or love and logic and give them consequences for viewing material that is mature in nature, like taking away Internet privileges for a week or detention or whatever your school code of conduct says is a consequence for breaking the rules. Somehow they must learn to keep it educational.
When they graduate and work a job, if they don't learn that in high school, they will get fired at work for goofing off on the Internet and looking up non-work materials. You need to teach them responsibility as soon as you can, the sooner the better. Because you cannot control them, only they can control themselves by making good decisions instead of bad decisions.
Richard Branson can build you a space ship for less than that, he did it to win the X-Prize. Next I suppose he will be selling the space ships as part of the commercialization of space.
Besides I found plans for building a model 30 TARDIS on the Internet, it will be a fun project.:)
My Pirate Corsair crashed and burned, and it needs repair for the time drive and jump drive, but I think I can get the maneuver drives working for $3M.:)
would have put the Post Office out of business and cause massive job losses. All one need do is send the letter via a pneumatic tube. But the switching of the tubes would be hard to maintain.
It would have been cheaper to have a tube between each government building that can send messages back and forth rather than every citizen and business. But then they had the Pony Express that could deliver letters fast as well.
because I am a Christian or that I am mentally or physically ill. It is really hard to hide either of the two but mostly my mental illness causes a writing style that has cyberbullies pick on me.
I've attempted suicide a few times as a result of the cyberbullying esp when they find my home number and harass me at 3am my time using anonymous calls like 012-345-6789 as the Caller ID spoofed. Try to ignore them and they call Anonymous with no number and we cannot tell if it is my wife's family members in Thailand calling for an emergency or the harassers calling again, so we had to get our number changed. Police reports got filed, but they hardly ever catch the person doing the bullying and harassment.
Might as well talk about Vegetarian Vampires, African-American KKK members, Atheist Christian Pastors, or Dotcom CEOS worth billions who still live in their Mom's basement. It just makes about as much sense as this story.
Almost but Mr. Spock saved everyone in Star Trek II and died. Mr. Data died in Star Trek Nemesis. Sometimes a major character dies to save the universe or ship from destruction or being taken over.
Star Trek ending with the enemies winning would be a Shakespearean or Opera type ending where the bad guys win. but then they'd do a "Mirror Universe" episode where the bad guys are the Empire of Planets. Like they did in "Star Trek: Enterprise" just for ratings.
But Dona Noble gets mindwiped so her brain doesn't burn out with the Timelord knowledge from Dr. Who's brain. So technically the brilliant Donna died, and the bossy and ignorant one was taking her place as if she never met Dr. Who.
Grade Schools and Junior Highs used to teach PILOT or LOGO or both on the old 8 bit computers when I was that age. It was fun giving a virtual turtle commands to draw shapes and solve problems.
My father before me had all of his skills on the Bell Labs 1ESS computer. Then AT&T got broken up and companies stopped using the 1ESS and used the System/36 instead. Nobody wanted to train him in System/36 and the 1ESS was not that different that he couldn't learn the IBM System/36. He even knew Unix but the HP-UX and SunOS jobs wouldn't hire him even if they are based on Unix.
'Leave the ISPs out of it â" it's not their job to protect a failing business model, and a movement toward a tiered and filtered Internet will do nothing to stem the tide of piracy, but will result in great restrictions on innovation, freedoms, and the general use of the Internet. There's nothing to be gained down that path other than possibly to expand the wallets of a few companies.'
QFT
I wonder how much lobbyist money she took from the RIAA to say those things?
It is not just the business model that is failing, it is the government model that is failing as well. Remember that the DMCA was passed by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and signed by Bill Clinton, why only pick on the Republicans when the Democrats have an equal share of the blame?
Actually there is no lack of US native computer programmers. There is a lack of US native computer programmers that are willing to work for below average salaries with little to no benefits and work 80 hour work weeks for no extra pay. That could mean working a programmer analyst job for $20,000 a year when the average is $55,000, but try making house payments when you only earn $20,000 a year. You'd have to live with your parents until you reach retirement age. But the H1B-Visa holder will work for that $20,000 with no benefits and share an apartment with 3 or more people and sleep on the floor, just to get the privilege to work in the USA and send money back home to their poor family. When companies do that in the millions, it sends billions of money out of the US economy to foreign economies.
It is greed and sloth, and it has been used for the past 20 years to drain the US economy to what it is now, on the verge of collapse.
We used to learn Quality Control, Software Psychology, Logical Methods, Flowcharting, Debugging, best practices, naming conventions, etc.
But around the 1990's that all changed and most Comp Sci programs became diploma mills, even graduating students who cannot even finish writing a program. Professors gave them an "A" for effort even if their program was incomplete and compiled with errors.
The industry reacted by requiring certification exams, but those too became diploma mills, just buy the exam CDs or download them off BitTorrent and remember all trivial questions and pass the exam with 98% and still not know what the programmer is doing.
Companies reacted by only keeping programmers that could write code on time, quality was no longer an issue a programmers became the equivalent of a burger flipper, quick and sloppy wins the job, slow and quality control can get you fired at the next downsizing. Computer Science and IT became another Fast Food industry with Bit Flippers passing themselves off as programmers.
Java and C# were invented because the average programmer was too stupid to understand what pointers were used for, or how to do garbage collection, so they got written out of the new languages and they do their own garbage collection. It seems the practice of close off an object when no longer in use and freeing up the memory is no longer practiced these days.
Programs became so inefficient that faster processors covered up for that. It used to be when a report took 15 minutes to generate, they'd hire me to rewrite the code so it runs in 15 seconds, but now all they got to do is just buy faster computers so that 15 minutes becomes 3 minutes and that is good enough for the managers. So the optimizing code to run faster skill is no longer needed or taught.
Greed and sloth have ruined the computer industry as well as computer classes.
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According to what The Master did, he refused a regeneration even if he had more left. Rumor has it his lifeforce and Timelord DNA are in the ring he left behind. That ring can activated and steal a body like when The Master stole Tremas' body for his 13th regeneration.
Also the original show had The Doctor in his 12th regeneration as evil, more evil than The Master.
The Doctor is clever enough to find a way to grant himself more regenerations.
It is debatable if Galifrey still exists in some form or can be renewed again. All The Doctor need do is violate the laws of time and travel back to save it or stop the Dalek invasion before it reaches Galifrey. I am also having a theory that Romana still exists with her own TARDIS and K9 unit and has 10 regenerations left, and she could take over for The Doctor or even The Doctor's daughter from that DNA clone can take over. I have a theory that other Time Lords still exist but are unaccounted for. Since The Daleks survived, chances are some Time Lords survived as well.
Someone set up the time agency that Captain Jack Harkness is a part of, maybe they were Junior Timelords who left Galifrey to set up the Time Agency?
some claim Vista and 7.0 are so bloated that OpenGEM on an 8 bit 8088 Laptop using CGA can beat them both. OpenGEM vs. Windows Vista even on an 8088 laptop it beats a modern system running Vista.
Sometimes less is more, the less the OS has in features the faster it runs. Like the TinyXP version that had the core of XP ran faster than Windows XP with full features. It is also why WindowsPE boot disks are so popular, they can run a version of Windows faster than the real version.
If you take any Windows version and strip it down to it's core, minus IE, minus Media Player, minus a lot of annoying features that most people don't need, you get a much faster OS.
Some people have to use 4Gigs of RAM just to get Vista running fast enough to matter. 4 freaking gigs of RAM, that is because of how bloated Vista really is, and all Microsoft and hardware makers are doing is forcing us to buy all new hardware and software every three years or so. Notice that Vista didn't run a lot of legacy Windows programs and a lot of those were development tools and business applications.
Forcing people to upgrade every three years is ridiculous, most people don't need that many features they just need a PC than runs to surf the Internet, do some word processing and email, and maybe play a few games or something else. Windows XP does that good enough, we shouldn't have to be forced to upgrade to Vista or Windows 7.0 because most of us don't need those features.
It is like when the Macintosh came out, nobody needs special effects like zooming windows and other things, AmigaDOS/Workbench lacked those and ran faster and then someone wrote a shareware program called MacGag that did every special effect a Macintosh did on an Amiga.
When I use Windows XP I turn off all special effects and use the classic interface just to get a faster system. I don't need bloated crap features that I hardly ever use. Most of what I need is the core of Windows XP.
Instead of adding new features, Microsoft should be fixing the broken security model of Windows and make blue screens of death a thing of the past by properly error checking the OS and having code that recovers from situations that cause BSODs. The Amiga had a program called GOMF or Guru Out of My Face, that error trapped AmigaDOS/Workbench so we never saw the Guru error red screen of death anymore. So I know it is possible, but no, Microsoft would rather keep adding new features to the OS instead of making them optional or available via add-ons like Windows Plus Packs or something.
that defeats the purpose of a free encyclopedia Wiki.
The only reason why I don't edit it often enough is because of the political BS they pull from other editors and admins. Their NPV is really a liberal point of view. I write true neutral point of view and it gets rewritten to the liberal point of view and I am told mine is not NPV because it does not favor the liberal viewpoint. Then my articles get deleted because they are not the liberal point of view.
Wikibooks is the same way, I wrote an article on psychology and philosophy, but I get told that self-hypnosis can reduce anxiety and other therapy in psychology is pseudoscience. That trying to think of an imaginary vacation scene is witchcraft and religion and not science at all. Despite me citing reliable sources, my article gets deleted.
That is another thing, reliable sources, if it is not a liberal web site, and more neutral like webmd it is not reliable enough to make the article accurate.
they won't use printers for printers, but use the CPUs and memory in those printers to modify their missile guidance systems for longer range.
Plus those HP printers use an encryption scheme that is greater than what is supposed to be sold to the Middle-East. They can unassemble the code from the printer memory and drivers and use it to encrypt messages that are harder to crack.
But it is useless because all they need do is download the source code to GPG and they have one of the best encryption systems there is known to Earth.
they turn over their passwords, and then change them before the feds can log on and read their data?
It would be better to just get a warrant for the web sites to turn over records of the sex offender's accounts, as well as constitutional as well.
Much as I hate sex offenders, they still have constitutional rights like any other group. If you want to monitor them online, you need a warrant. If not then anything you get from them turning over their passwords cannot be used in court against them, and they will walk free.
They took an exciting RPG full of puzzles and mazes and monsters based on the D&D 2.0 rules with great music and special effects and turned it into a parody of itself.
Now you play The Bard and instead of a real RPG it is a fake RPG ala a choose your own adventure.
The Amiga, Atari ST, and Apple //gs versions of the games had the best sound and graphics and are the only versions of the entire Bard's Tale version that are enjoyable enough to run via emulators. The PC version used 16 color CGA or Tandy/EGA graphics, and the Mac version was made black and white and then they didn't make any more Mac versions like Bard's Tale II or even a color version when the Macintosh II came out.
There have been failed attempts at making a FOSS version of it, and usually it is a clone of the Bard's Tale construction Set. People used to make their own Bard's Tale games via the BTCS for the PC once Bard's Tale II or III started to support VGA graphics and sound cards (no more beeping speaker, finally real sound for the PC version of Bard's Tale).
If I were to remake Bard's Tale I would keep it close to the original, but with better graphics and sound and new music. Plus the rules would be based on D&D 3.5 or something more modern. Plus I would add in more classes like Ninja, Cleric, and some new Magic classes as well as new spells from the D&D book of spells. I'd have the native version of the game that runs on Windows XP/Vista, Windows 9X, Mac OSX, Linux, and Java for systems not supported as long as they have a Java runtime they can run it, which means cell phone versions, etc.
Nothing was ever as fun as leveling up your characters at the guild, after fighting monsters in a maze and trying to get one of your team to a temple to get healed before that poison kills him or her, while still in a maze and still fighting monsters.
The PC Version had a big cheat, hitting the "Z" button gave you a Stone Golem in the friendly monster slot of your team, six player characters and one NPC usually a monster. That monster snare spell did come in handy as well as those spells that summoned undead monsters to fight with you as well. The monster snare steals one of the enemy monsters and makes it your ally. Fighting fire with fire.
loan part of that 700 Billion package to Internet companies to lay down more broadband.
Right now nobody knows what the banks are doing with that money. Could be spending it on hookers and booze for all we know. :)
Yeah right The reptilian race is on the move again now with universal broadband.
You NWO conspiracy theorists really crack me up, lizard people who can shape shift to look like human beings are behind the New World Order and they live in Hollow Earth.
Check out this OpenGEM project maybe you can run it under DosBox or some other emulator?
It is also another open source project OpenGEM based on the original DRI GEM. GEM was a Windows like 16 bit interface for DR-DOS and MS-DOS like Windows 3.X was. Apple sued them and they had to change their look a feel, and Atari used GEM as a GUI for TOS.
We once at a college computer lab wanted to make random memorandums, Novell Netware messages over the network like:
Captain Hook "Ahah, Peter Pan, I found you at last!"
Mickey Mouse "I want more cheddar please."
Cookie Monster "Cookies! Omm omm omm! I want more cookies."
and all kinds of fictional characters sending random messages like that to various people as a joke. My supervisor suggested it and I had hooked the DOS interrupt that Netware used to send messages. But our lab manager spoke out against it and the other supervisor who had admin status got upset that we were testing it and set a batch file to tell us to knock it off and repeated the message a hundred times.
But now that I think about it, it could be a fortune cookie LED with random fortune cookies.
if you set up a web filter, all they need do is use a search engine to find a way around it. You cannot block search engines as they can be used for educational purposes and some like Google have adult content words in them as well as a cache of the web page so students can get around the filter by using Google's cache.
The only thing you can do is teach the student to be responsible and use good judgment via critical thinking or love and logic and give them consequences for viewing material that is mature in nature, like taking away Internet privileges for a week or detention or whatever your school code of conduct says is a consequence for breaking the rules. Somehow they must learn to keep it educational.
When they graduate and work a job, if they don't learn that in high school, they will get fired at work for goofing off on the Internet and looking up non-work materials. You need to teach them responsibility as soon as you can, the sooner the better. Because you cannot control them, only they can control themselves by making good decisions instead of bad decisions.
Richard Branson can build you a space ship for less than that, he did it to win the X-Prize. Next I suppose he will be selling the space ships as part of the commercialization of space.
Besides I found plans for building a model 30 TARDIS on the Internet, it will be a fun project. :)
My Pirate Corsair crashed and burned, and it needs repair for the time drive and jump drive, but I think I can get the maneuver drives working for $3M. :)
would have put the Post Office out of business and cause massive job losses. All one need do is send the letter via a pneumatic tube. But the switching of the tubes would be hard to maintain.
It would have been cheaper to have a tube between each government building that can send messages back and forth rather than every citizen and business. But then they had the Pony Express that could deliver letters fast as well.
because I am a Christian or that I am mentally or physically ill. It is really hard to hide either of the two but mostly my mental illness causes a writing style that has cyberbullies pick on me.
I've attempted suicide a few times as a result of the cyberbullying esp when they find my home number and harass me at 3am my time using anonymous calls like 012-345-6789 as the Caller ID spoofed. Try to ignore them and they call Anonymous with no number and we cannot tell if it is my wife's family members in Thailand calling for an emergency or the harassers calling again, so we had to get our number changed. Police reports got filed, but they hardly ever catch the person doing the bullying and harassment.
Yes I live in Missouri.
Might as well talk about Vegetarian Vampires, African-American KKK members, Atheist Christian Pastors, or Dotcom CEOS worth billions who still live in their Mom's basement. It just makes about as much sense as this story.
Almost but Mr. Spock saved everyone in Star Trek II and died. Mr. Data died in Star Trek Nemesis. Sometimes a major character dies to save the universe or ship from destruction or being taken over.
Star Trek ending with the enemies winning would be a Shakespearean or Opera type ending where the bad guys win. but then they'd do a "Mirror Universe" episode where the bad guys are the Empire of Planets. Like they did in "Star Trek: Enterprise" just for ratings.
But Dona Noble gets mindwiped so her brain doesn't burn out with the Timelord knowledge from Dr. Who's brain. So technically the brilliant Donna died, and the bossy and ignorant one was taking her place as if she never met Dr. Who.
PILOT and LOGO:
RPILOT is a FOSS version of Pilot. Here is a list of LOGO resources find one that works for you. Berkely LOGO or Star LOGO or Net LOGO take your pick.
Grade Schools and Junior Highs used to teach PILOT or LOGO or both on the old 8 bit computers when I was that age. It was fun giving a virtual turtle commands to draw shapes and solve problems.
the old "If it is any good you know it does not come free." argument from a teacher.
Does the air we breathe come free? Some day someone will figure out a way to charge for that too. :)
My father before me had all of his skills on the Bell Labs 1ESS computer. Then AT&T got broken up and companies stopped using the 1ESS and used the System/36 instead. Nobody wanted to train him in System/36 and the 1ESS was not that different that he couldn't learn the IBM System/36. He even knew Unix but the HP-UX and SunOS jobs wouldn't hire him even if they are based on Unix.
Combat piracy? Maybe the pirates just need to fight back?
Grab those pirate hats and eyepatches and protest outside of her office! :)
'Leave the ISPs out of it â" it's not their job to protect a failing business model, and a movement toward a tiered and filtered Internet will do nothing to stem the tide of piracy, but will result in great restrictions on innovation, freedoms, and the general use of the Internet. There's nothing to be gained down that path other than possibly to expand the wallets of a few companies.'
QFT
I wonder how much lobbyist money she took from the RIAA to say those things?
It is not just the business model that is failing, it is the government model that is failing as well. Remember that the DMCA was passed by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and signed by Bill Clinton, why only pick on the Republicans when the Democrats have an equal share of the blame?
Actually there is no lack of US native computer programmers. There is a lack of US native computer programmers that are willing to work for below average salaries with little to no benefits and work 80 hour work weeks for no extra pay. That could mean working a programmer analyst job for $20,000 a year when the average is $55,000, but try making house payments when you only earn $20,000 a year. You'd have to live with your parents until you reach retirement age. But the H1B-Visa holder will work for that $20,000 with no benefits and share an apartment with 3 or more people and sleep on the floor, just to get the privilege to work in the USA and send money back home to their poor family. When companies do that in the millions, it sends billions of money out of the US economy to foreign economies.
It is greed and sloth, and it has been used for the past 20 years to drain the US economy to what it is now, on the verge of collapse.
We used to learn Quality Control, Software Psychology, Logical Methods, Flowcharting, Debugging, best practices, naming conventions, etc.
But around the 1990's that all changed and most Comp Sci programs became diploma mills, even graduating students who cannot even finish writing a program. Professors gave them an "A" for effort even if their program was incomplete and compiled with errors.
The industry reacted by requiring certification exams, but those too became diploma mills, just buy the exam CDs or download them off BitTorrent and remember all trivial questions and pass the exam with 98% and still not know what the programmer is doing.
Companies reacted by only keeping programmers that could write code on time, quality was no longer an issue a programmers became the equivalent of a burger flipper, quick and sloppy wins the job, slow and quality control can get you fired at the next downsizing. Computer Science and IT became another Fast Food industry with Bit Flippers passing themselves off as programmers.
Java and C# were invented because the average programmer was too stupid to understand what pointers were used for, or how to do garbage collection, so they got written out of the new languages and they do their own garbage collection. It seems the practice of close off an object when no longer in use and freeing up the memory is no longer practiced these days.
Programs became so inefficient that faster processors covered up for that. It used to be when a report took 15 minutes to generate, they'd hire me to rewrite the code so it runs in 15 seconds, but now all they got to do is just buy faster computers so that 15 minutes becomes 3 minutes and that is good enough for the managers. So the optimizing code to run faster skill is no longer needed or taught.
Greed and sloth have ruined the computer industry as well as computer classes.