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  1. Then find a way to remove the lobbyists. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    Why let the lobbyists win? If the lobbyists are hurting, twist the knife even more. If they go offshore, our military and intelligence departments can handle that easily. The idea is that if they play hardball, you have to take it one step higher.

    Turn up the pain on business, even if it means that the lobbyists cry out. When they stop crying out and actually want to not obliterate the US, continue a bit more. Then stop when they have no strength to do anything against the US.

  2. Only if we don't stop business. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    Why should business get the complete favor, instead of letting them trample on everyone?

  3. Re:It Doesn't Matter Why Johnny Can't Code on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    Not if our government steps in.

  4. Help our own, help solve the greater problem. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    Then remove offshoring and all the fraud/waste it brings. Not only does it allow our programmers(and anyone else) to thrive in an honest environment, it would have the side effect of bringing in new ones that see actual opportunity.

  5. Defending fraud? on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    The only way those offshore coders get a chance is through fraud. Our worst are better - and we don't make them suffer Third World conditions.

    The odds are in the US's favor that there'll be a good one. Get rid of the fraud that seems to always accompany offshoring, and Johnny will code.

  6. Wow, your contempt for the US shows quite well. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except that Jina only is coding because of anti-US fraud that works in her favor.

    Sounds like you don't want a US citizen until they've been beat down to a level of world subservience. Another point to add - you weren't paying attention that we're not asking about Jina, just Johnny.

    We need less of you, less of Jina, and to give every advantage to Johnny.

  7. Re:Offshoring. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    The more reason to give our citizens every advantage. If they want more coders, perhaps the US should tap our population first.

  8. A case for intervention by government. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    Get rid of the means for business to send work offshore or to make work less secure, and that can change for the better.

  9. Re:Offshoring. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    If it's already going to be a long-term issue, killing offshoring would be a long-term solution. If you want to get Johnny coding, he'll appreciate that he can actually get a job.

  10. Re:Offshoring. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 2

    He is, just that he isn't paying attention in the way you might think. While we might see trade relations, he might see it in his parents losing a college-paying job from it, a relative experiencing the same, or perhaps the news.

    He is brighter than you might think.

  11. Modbomber didn't think of the long term. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    You want Johnny to want to code, give him every advantage to get him wanting to code. He is paying attention to the long term when he's deciding where/for what he wants to go to college.

  12. Develop a home market for IT & CS on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    How about just making it possible to not require a degree? Combine that with a required preference for US citizens - linked to the long-term and short term unemployment rates - and allow ourselves to redevelop our home market.

    It might be painful for business, but getting obstacles out of the way for workers is as valid as removing obstacles for business.

  13. Offshoring. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Johnny can code, just that there's too much against Johhny to make him want to do so.

    Get rid of offshoring, and Johnny will want to code.

  14. Already there. on Man Updates His Facebook Status During Hostage Stand-Off · · Score: 1

    That functionality exists, just not for cops - but for data mining.

  15. Preventing a murder-by-cop. on Man Updates His Facebook Status During Hostage Stand-Off · · Score: 0

    They saved that guy's life.

    Now if he provoked a shot, then he's given up any good position whatsoever.

  16. When friends trust you more than the police... on Man Updates His Facebook Status During Hostage Stand-Off · · Score: 1

    ...do not be surprised if they're willing to get rid of the surprise.

    Hopefully none of them get charged with anything that sticks - since they'd only be making things worse off.

  17. So much for shutting off power. on Man Updates His Facebook Status During Hostage Stand-Off · · Score: 2

    Looks like batteries and internet got around the cops.

    Then again, will a hostage situation also require that phone networks go down too?

  18. Re:If they hadn't broken addons... on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: 1

    Kind of hard to fix a security issue if you only know that it exists, but not where.

  19. If they hadn't broken addons... on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...they would be fine.

    However, it looks like Mozilla failed to communicate it well enough, thinking their own notice was enough. The result is that Mozilla seems to take Microsoft's path for once - refusing to patch security issues on a relatively new release, and washing their hands clean with an EOL.

  20. I believe you want the show computer on Japan's 8-petaflop K Computer Is Fastest On Earth · · Score: 1

    That is, you want the unrankable Tianhe-1 GPU "show computer".

  21. Re:Not fair on Japan's 8-petaflop K Computer Is Fastest On Earth · · Score: 1

    Better than Chinese slave labor.

  22. The fastest rival isn't the show computers. on Japan's 8-petaflop K Computer Is Fastest On Earth · · Score: 1

    So it's faster than the Crays on the list, the nearest competitors?

  23. Re:Headline from tomorrow's People's Daily: on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1

    No, they just don't report the story, per instruction from the government.

  24. Re:FUCK CHINA on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1

    I'd think that all the toxic chemicals in China would be worse than any STD.

    On the other hand, if you want to cripple their government(and the people that send work over those kind of countries) for the second time in 200 years, I have no problem with that kind of fucking.

  25. Stability is the function of good living condition on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1

    You can't split the two without splitting society.

    Without social stability, you don't get bearable living conditions for more than the governmental apparatus. See China, North Korea, India, Vietnam, Brazil, and Russia for examples of that. These countries are split - businesses get all the freedoms to run over regular people, while regular people are silenced or disappeared for doing the same things as business.