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  1. Re:CS should _not_ be taught to teenagers on Code.org Disses Wolfram Language, Touts Apple's Swift Playgrounds (edsurge.com) · · Score: 1

    The punchcard operators, switch board operators and keyboardists said the same things about their jobs as Slashdotters are saying about theirs. It's perfectly relevant.

  2. Re:Opposite is true on Code.org Disses Wolfram Language, Touts Apple's Swift Playgrounds (edsurge.com) · · Score: 1

    Need it for what? There's no compelling need for everyone needing to learn programming. Most people would benefit more from learning medicine that would help safeguard their health.

    How exactly do you think work gets done at most jobs? There are people that still manually sort Excel files because they don't know the sort function exists. Millions of jobs would benefit from a bit of scripting to cut out repetitive, error prone human tasks.

  3. Re:CS should _not_ be taught to teenagers on Code.org Disses Wolfram Language, Touts Apple's Swift Playgrounds (edsurge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Some things are jobs for specialists that have the aptitude for it,

    They said the same thing about punch card operators, switch board operators and keyboardists.

  4. Re:green fantasies on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    The thing is you need to look at the big picture in energy production and that includes energy consumption.

    How much energy generation would you need if houses were hyper efficient like the new German ones are? How much energy would the southwest need if you could scale the Einstein refrigerator? You don't just go renewable, you also go renewable, reduce consumption and work with the environment you have.

    The Nordic states and Germany seem to be off to a good start and they're at latitudes on par with Canada.

  5. Re:They are pledging to something in 30+ years on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Way to aim low GM. Honda will have self powered cars by then.

    Subaru's plant in Indiana has been Zero Landfill for sometime.

  6. Re:Yeah. Well, on Intel Breaks Qualcomm's Hold On Apple's Baseband Chips (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can't have the government dictate stuff like that. Look at how few phones Europe has. The mandated GSM standard killed innovation and phones barely took off.

    In 'Murica it makes sense to not only have competing standards but to have them on different frequencies. (Can't have T-mobile talking to a AT&T tower). This sort of competition has let companies pick the best and most profitable route for roll out. As a result we have the cheapest, fastest most ubiquitous cell phone setup anywhere in the world.

    Capitalism wins again over dirty socialism and government intervention.

  7. Re:What the hell? on General Motors Recalls 4.3 Million Vehicles Over a Software Bug (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    How exactly do you think a modern car works?

  8. Re:As the saying goes... on The USB Kill Stick, Priced at $56, Is Designed To Destroy Laptops, PCs, TVs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Sometimes you don't have physical access to a device but physical access to a person that does. Label this "Vegas Photos" and drop it in a parking lot.

  9. Re:Clickbait troll much? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 2

    Uh, didn't you hear her softball answer on NBC? She had a second secure account. She accessed it under a cone of s 'those little booths'.

    Which means that the FOIA should be able to not only find the account but print some e-mails from it.

  10. Re:Not a 'real' group. on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 2

    I forgot to list their best of:

    • that human activity has not contributed to climate change, and that global warming will be beneficial and thus not a cause for concern;
    • that HIV does not cause AIDS;
    • that the "gay male lifestyle" shortens life expectancy by 20 years.
    • that there is a link between abortion and the risk of breast cancer.
    • that there are possible links between autism and vaccinations.
    • A series of articles by pro-life authors published in the journal argued for a link between abortion and breast cancer.
    • that the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are unconstitutional;
    • that "humanists" have conspired to replace the "creation religion of Jehovah" with evolution
    • that "anchor babies" are valuable to undocumented immigrants, particularly if the babies are disabled.
  11. Re:This is why psychiatrists are not allowed to co on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like how she agreed to release the transcripts when everyone else in the race did?

    When it was down to Bernie, Trump and Clinton I don't remember seeing any thing.

  12. Re:Let's face reality on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    Red Pill is leaking off of Reddit.

  13. Not a 'real' group. on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are countless faux doctor groups. This is one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a politically conservative non-profit association founded in 1943 to "fight socialized medicine and to fight the government takeover of medicine."The group was reported to have approximately 4,000 members in 2005, and 5,000 in 2014. Notable members include Ron Paul and John Cooksey. Ron Paul's son, Rand Paul, was a member for over two decades until his election to the U.S. Senate.

    In 2004, AAPS filed a brief on behalf of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh in Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal, opposing the seizure of his medical files in an investigation of drug charges for Limbaugh's alleged misuse of prescription drugs. The AAPS stated the seizure was a violation of state law and that 'It is not a crime for a patient to be in pain and repeatedly seek relief, and doctors should not be turned against patients they tried to help.'"

    The next year, AAPS helped appeal the conviction of Virginia internist William Hurwitz, who was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for prescribing excessive quantities of narcotic drugs after 16 former patients testified against him. Hurwitz was granted a retrial in 2006, and his 25-year prison sentence was reduced to 4 years and 9 months.

    The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is not listed in academic literature databases such as MEDLINE/PubMed or the Web of Science. The quality and scientific validity of articles published in the Journal have been criticized by medical experts, and some of the political and scientific viewpoints advocated by AAPS are not held by mainstream scientists and other medical groups.

  14. Re:they should be teching real skills not outsourc on University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, Welding Engineer. Look it up.

    And the MPlumbers go by "Mechanical Engineers with specialization in fluid dynamics"

    and the PhCarpenters are Civils.

  15. Re:I can't wait on Microsoft To Launch At Least One Surface All-In-One PC Next Month (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They must have all been given to the NFL and CBS for gratuitous Windows logo placement.

  16. Re:they should be teching real skills not outsourc on University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    > And how is designing, building, upgrading, maintaining and troubleshooting complex systems anything like welding?

    Spoken like someone that doesn't weld in an industrial setting.

    A CS major should have as much to do with what the programmer does as a college welding major does with skilled trade welding.

    Didn't ITT Tech just go under

    Good, maybe we can push people to community colleges and high school voctech programs instead of for profit colleges.

  17. Re:Investigative journalism in the comments... on Super Mario Is Coming To The iPhone (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's Shareware from the 90s.

  18. Re:they should be teching real skills not outsourc on University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    should they all be replaced with vocational school graduates?

    They are. My wife is a doctor and what a doctor does in 2016 has changed a lot from what they did in 1996, 1976, 1956, etc. You have nurse practitioners, registered nurses, all the way down to orderlies. You can get into the medical field with... voch tech level training. It's not because the work doesn't need to be done it's because the doctors need to work on other things and it's too expensive to pay them to do something someone with a tech degree can do.

    A doctor should know how to put in an IV but there's a good chance they'll suck at it. They don't do it anymore that job falls to other positions.

    We need fewer CS code architects and more Programmers that can actually build it.

  19. We graduate college STEM graduates. We need voch tech STEM graduates.

  20. How many USB Mice were there in 1998? Keyboards? Printers?

  21. Since your google seems to still be broken.

    http://thewirecutter.com/revie...

    That's the CalDigit’s Thunderbolt Station 2, StarTech’s Thunderbolt Laptop Station, Elgato’s Thunderbolt 2 Dock, Kanex’s Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock, StarTech’s Thunderbolt 2 Docking Station, and OWC’s Thunderbolt 2 Dock.

    6 by my count.

    And these guys reviewed 7: http://www.omnicoreagency.com/...

  22. Re:they should be teching real skills not outsourc on University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those skillsets are high school level skilled trades these days. Because of the insistence that IT was only something you could get into with a full college degree by people like those on Slashdot we never trained those workers in the skillsets.

    IT is the equivalent of welding these days. Until the US vocational schools start cranking out IT and programmer techs companies are going to fill the positions with Indians.

  23. There are multiple to pick from from multiple price levels. Just because it's not a price level YOU spend money in doesn't mean others don't.

    I'd hate to see your incessant whining with what embedded development tools cost. $300 and even $1000 is a drop in the bucket.

  24. Fine since your google appears to be broken, newegg has similar offerings. NewEgg

    only have 4 categories under

    How many categories of things do you have that need the bandwith of Thunderbolt? Just because you don't have a need for a tool doesn't mean others don't.