nor would I have any other way of proving my knowledge to other schools or potential employers
Google for CLEP tests, older than dirt or at least older than me.
One school I attended only allowed two CLEP tests per semester. I have absolutely no idea why both in this practical situation or in theory. Also they only accepted CLEP tests for certain classes. I'm pretty sure calc was one of them, but if there is a CLEP test for diffeqs and you pass yet they refuse to accept it via the xfer process, you're pretty much SOL other than the appeals process.
Potential employers don't seem to care about much other than granted degrees. HR doesn't care about anything other than Bachelors, Masters, and Doesn't have a PHD.
Lead dev, eh? I'm betting you sit in on lots of spec definition meetings. Maybe with The Man himself. Does he give informal presentations just like the real lectures or ? Feel free to lie if the answer would get you fired. Hmm maybe this question sucks.
Ah F it that was dumb lets ask something more realistic. I always ask coder/tech types whats their coolest hack / coolest piece of code. Not something else someone else did, not some giant overall project or vague thing like "world peace" just your coolest isolated to one individual "thing" hack. Something they did personally not hired someone else to do, or something their boss did. Maybe in your LOB its an amazing caching technique, or an astounding way to compress video or whatever. Or some astounding workflow thingy. A short story just a paragraph no more. The kind of thing a/. audience would respond with "cool!" when they read it.
Short summary of the whole thing,/. comments and all: Pointless intermediation doesn't improve the experience or outcome. Doesn't seem to matter if its.edu software or most anything else.
he still taught machine organization using 8086 assembly language on MS-DOS... was intended as an intro to assembly.
As a guy who learned assembly in the early 80s, its not a bad choice. There are architectures that are absolutely beautiful and nearly perfectly orthogonal, like the 6809 and 68000 and dec pdp-11 but thats not real world anymore. MIX and MMIX literally are not real world and the simulators that exist usually don't provide much training in device driver development (if any). Stuff like IBM BAL or whatever its called is too high level CISC'y. Stuff like ancient (pre-pic24, pre-pic32, etc) PIC microcontroller assembly would simply scare the kids away. Hell, it used to scare me. Overall you would do worse by selecting most anything other than 8086 assembly. Have you got a better suggestion?
Yeah either that or booze. Or both as in rum -n- coke, which I enjoy on rare occasions.
I believe there is a constant quantity of junk food but the variety varies by decade. When I was a little kid we had a whole aisle of cake mixes and frostings, which has imploded down to maybe 15 lineal one sided feet and at most 10 different flavors of frosting. I was actually kinda depressed last time I wanted to bake a cake from a mix. I had to "settle" instead of picking what I wanted. The energy drink category and bottled water category have exploded in size since I was a kid. Also, tea. You couldn't buy canned/bottled tea when I was a kid, just poisonous tasting instant powder mix and bags. Now they've got looseleaf in the store, and an whole section of different types of bottled (heavily sugared) teas. Another category that's exploded: refrigerated ready to bake "stuff", when I was a kid they had ready to bake rolls in tubes and thats about it, there is now a 10 foot wide section of ready to bake cookies etc. We have almost nothing to chose from anymore WRT jerky and nuts, which is too bad because I like those snacks.
I think its more a chronic issue. 5% less fructose doesn't sound like much, until you think of a hard core addict drinking 3 cans/day thats 1000 cans/yr or about 5 kilos less of fructose.
Kind of like "low tar" cigarettes. Yes quitting smoking is the best "low tar" solution, but its better than nothing.
Its interesting that the LAPD has shot at more innocent civilians than Dorner has. The primary difference is that the LAPD is so unprofessional they haven't successfully killed as many innocent civilians as Dorner, at least so far, although they're trying their best to even up the score. I have faith in the LAPD, they'll catch up soon enough.
But the excursions from the background are also not actionable data. Right back to my original example, OK the important part is not that 15% of the dirt villagers like Bieber, its that 85% actively dislike Bieber. Still not actionable because the subject of discussion is useless from a military tactical / strategic / logistic perspective.
I will say that you could see a meta-pattern of peoples behavior when they know they're being monitored. Like if you have people faking data, poorly, to make it look like an empty booby trapped dirt village is currently populated, but it only contains poison gas cylinders. Of course a IR satellite shot would be simpler and we've already got that tech deployed... Basically a psyop detector would be kinda interesting. Somebody could make a synthetic flash mob artifical data generator that makes it look like we're gonna riot at the west gate, but we're all actually going to the east gate... That kind of thing.
Look at it from a hard science perspective. You're running a really big complicated experiment and have one (of many) really noisy input streams and there may or may not be a signal buried deep in the noise. Stick a 10x amplifier on it is not necessarily gonna help the SNR. In fact "demodulating" that noisy input stream may very well be impossible because there's nothing actually there. If you're smart enough or have enough AI maybe you can make a demod, maybe... Or maybe there's just no useful data from that source because its a junk source.
Yeahbut... if the "best match" for 5 popes ago is actually the one liner officially for 20 popes ago (roughly) then the "last pope" is actually about 16 popes in the future. so something like our grandkids get to hack the planet. Kind of like seeing Babbages original difference engine parts live and in person and realizing you're not gonna live to perform a buffer overflow on a 386, but... maybe your grandkids....
This goes back to at least ancient greece, regardless of your goals, what's a "better" leadership style, oligopoly or dictator? Nobody was ever come up with better than a temporary local maxima, so there likely is no truly "correct" answer.
Back to the original topic, a fixation on the theological meaning (as if there is any....) behind the moral and ethical equivalent of teabagging your enemies after their (temporary utter) defeat is looking for something overly profound in something overly base.
.... always provided something unique, fun, and mentally stimulating.
This is hardly a rare combination of adjectives. I could say the same thing about slashdot, reading classical literature, ham radio, and pr0n. At least those do it for me. Not necessarily in that order or individually. Although ham pr0n initially sounded pretty icky I thought back to some pics I've seen on 20 meter slowscan TV and...
If you want a career in technology that might eventually lead to... get a degree.
In my extensive personal and observational experience a CS degree does not lead into flexibility WRT job titles or opportunity to advance as you state, it just pigeonholes into a different set of jobs, mostly developer-type roles.
If you really wanna "eventually lead to" management or production or sales, don't get a CS degree and try to transfer and compete with people who actually got degrees in that specific field. For example, if you wanna be an accountant then get a degree in accounting, don't argue if a CS or MIS degree is better before you transfer into accounting. Maybe MIS would be 1% better, but a degree actually in accounting would be 100% better.
and have been appalled by what passes as a Computer Science education from some schools
Check your job requirements. If HR carefully and methodically filters out everyone who's honest on their resume, leaving nothing but the liars and cheats, you're not gonna be very happy with your interviews. There's not enough jobs out there for everybody, but I hear constant complaining on/. that once you filter out everyone who's honest, and everyone over the age of 25, and everyone who has kids, and everyone who has a spouse, and everyone demanding more than $30K/yr, you get nothing but whack jobs. Which can lead into a death spiral, where the solution to too many whack jobs is even higher standards. Leading to job reqs that should be pretty noobish getting tightened to ridiculous levels... 25 years experience with windows 2007, leading to even bigger whack jobs who pass the HR filter, leading to even tighter requirements (damnit I'm gonna require 50 years in server 2007 next time!). I've seen it happen.
I will add a disclaimer that the existence of one way to poison the applicant pool does not imply no other ways exist.
If you can only learn in a classroom format, you're doomed in a fast moving profession. Switch to something slower moving or you'll be back to school in 5 years or less.
If you merely need knowledge from a classroom format and don't care what corporate HR thinks (aka you're ok with never being hired and being a contract worker, because HR gives zero respect to associates degrees) then my local tech school offers:
Web and media digital design aka online graphics artist. Web and software developer from the school of business
You can also pay 4 times as much per credit hour and take 1/4 of your credits in liberal arts electives and 1/4 in math and learn about the same thing for a 4-year degree, which HR more or less respects, so you could end up an employee as opposed to lifetime contractor. If you actually looked you'd probably find some manner of graphics artist class in the art department and surely the b-school has something you'd like.
Or just switch schools if what you want isn't offered.. I went to 3 schools. Its really not a big deal this early in your schooling. Note that if they rubber stamp all incoming (for example) calculus transfer credits as denied, that doesn't mean you can't sweet talk a dean into a special exception, or follow the appeals process, or demand the right to test out (assuming you actually learned the topic...) or just F it and get the worlds easiest "A".
Amusingly around dotbomb collapse time I was attending a private college at night for CS, and they theoretically offered all specializations at night but in practice only offered your "web developer" classes. Needless to say the job market stank and I didn't want to do "web developer" anyway, so I simply moved to an online local university (a local university where practically the whole CS curriculum was available almost every semester and online 24x7 so I had no problem working full time).
If you're a noob, unless you've already experienced a "higher calling" to do webdev, you really do owe it to yourself to try electives like business analysis class, database design, maybe a networking, project (mis-)management, and the CS you're already complaining about. Maybe you think you're a future frontpage jockey but you're really unknowingly a DBA or router jockey. Won't know till you try it.
tracking people's movements and predicting future behavior
Time for a forest and tree analogy. On a rounding basis, the masses have historically never done anything terribly exciting, important, or relevant. So paying intense attention to them is a waste of resources. Its always the 10% or less who actually influence history. If we made all predictions based on the median joe 6 pack couch potato, we'd still be british subjects, we'd still be in control of independent south vietnam, iraq and afghanistan would be fully pacified, blah blah blah.
I don't think that knowing 30% of the population liked the most recent american idol episode is actionable intelligence information in either the short, medium, or long term. Imagine a squad about to deploy on a mission in Iraq being told that the best help intel can provide today is that 15% of active facebook users like listening to Bieber. Umm, thanks guys, on to the next briefing.
Its a self blinding technology, not an enlightening technology. I'm sure its highly profitable for contractors of course.
Because its pretty vague astrological type stuff, it can apply to anyone because it means almost nothing. You could map the lines to/. UID numbers almost as effectively.
You can have fun with that list by "correcting" it. For example I think the "burning fire" would be WAY better for pius 12 aka the WWII pope. You got trinity, hiroshima, nagasaki, a zillion conventional firebombings... but no, its applied to a guy who's mostly known for codifying canon law, and not that cannon either. Boring.
Or how about "Light in the sky" for sputnik / Apollo 11, instead you've got a guy who's era is mostly known WRT lights and sky for... well, nothing really.
I've probably already put more work into it that it deserves...
I'm no religion nerd, but my understanding is the infallibility is vested in the job position not the person.
There's a lot of BS and propaganda about the whole papal infallibility thing... you have to realize the cardinals and pope have spent centuries fighting over who's really in charge, and by fighting I mean literally to the death by sword and poison. So "recently" a strongman (relatively...) gets in power and as a weapon he declares he's the boss and everyone else aka his opponents (the cardinals) are his underlings. Frankly not all that exciting. When even a guy like me sees it as a pretty simple political play as opposed to religious mythology, using the political play to make fun of the catholics just isn't funny anymore. I would not be surprised if when the cardinals gain supremacy they put a guy in who reverses that declaration and makes the college of cardinals infallible as the leaders and declares the bishop of rome as merely first among equals... Its politics not theology. Or at most, theological politics.
There do exist religion nerds, just like sports nerds, tv nerds, drama (theatrical) nerds, music nerds. I've already seen them coming out of the woodwork in MSM articles about how this crisis was handled in 1084 and the biography of his previous namesake and what amounts to jailhouse lawyering about the election process, blah blah blah.
Last time around we had a irreverent time comparing the current pope to a variety of sci fi figures and tropes based on everything from trivial physical appearance, to behavior. Emperor Palpatine, etc. I'm sure we'll have plenty of fun here when the next political leader wins, doing about the same thing as last time. The tech aspect is keeping the comparisons "sci fi". In comparison, making jokes about Hillary getting selected would not be "sci fi" or "tech".
I'm having serious difficulty thinking of a famous living catholic IN TECH who could theoretically become pope. At least one probably exists? Technically all they need to be is baptized, although for the last couple centuries they've all been cardinals, which kinda cuts down on the possible selections from a billion or so down to about 20. A pity, I'd like to see a Catholic evolutionary biologist get selected, and then watch the teabillies squirm.
Property rights are the foundation of all rights in a free society unless the property we're talking about are domain names that you feel are yours
I think this is unintentionally very funny because the domain name is his name, which is presumably his property. Now if he was trying to steal "campaignforliberty.com" that would be an interesting argument assuming they weren't just domain squatters who registered well after the PR campaign started.
If there is a lesson, don't start up a 3rd party site with a name consisting of nothing but the 1st party name. Even "unofficialsupportforronpaul.com" would have been more morally justifiable than just taking the dude's name and slapping a dotcom on the end.
Slashdot Mirror
nor would I have any other way of proving my knowledge to other schools or potential employers
Google for CLEP tests, older than dirt or at least older than me.
One school I attended only allowed two CLEP tests per semester. I have absolutely no idea why both in this practical situation or in theory. Also they only accepted CLEP tests for certain classes. I'm pretty sure calc was one of them, but if there is a CLEP test for diffeqs and you pass yet they refuse to accept it via the xfer process, you're pretty much SOL other than the appeals process.
Potential employers don't seem to care about much other than granted degrees. HR doesn't care about anything other than Bachelors, Masters, and Doesn't have a PHD.
To help google for it, its an old TED talk maybe came up in the rotation a year ago. I saw the presentation you've only heard of. It was fairly cool.
Lead dev, eh? I'm betting you sit in on lots of spec definition meetings. Maybe with The Man himself. Does he give informal presentations just like the real lectures or ? Feel free to lie if the answer would get you fired. Hmm maybe this question sucks.
Ah F it that was dumb lets ask something more realistic. I always ask coder/tech types whats their coolest hack / coolest piece of code. Not something else someone else did, not some giant overall project or vague thing like "world peace" just your coolest isolated to one individual "thing" hack. Something they did personally not hired someone else to do, or something their boss did. Maybe in your LOB its an amazing caching technique, or an astounding way to compress video or whatever. Or some astounding workflow thingy. A short story just a paragraph no more. The kind of thing a /. audience would respond with "cool!" when they read it.
Short summary of the whole thing, /. comments and all: Pointless intermediation doesn't improve the experience or outcome. Doesn't seem to matter if its .edu software or most anything else.
he still taught machine organization using 8086 assembly language on MS-DOS... was intended as an intro to assembly.
As a guy who learned assembly in the early 80s, its not a bad choice. There are architectures that are absolutely beautiful and nearly perfectly orthogonal, like the 6809 and 68000 and dec pdp-11 but thats not real world anymore. MIX and MMIX literally are not real world and the simulators that exist usually don't provide much training in device driver development (if any). Stuff like IBM BAL or whatever its called is too high level CISC'y. Stuff like ancient (pre-pic24, pre-pic32, etc) PIC microcontroller assembly would simply scare the kids away. Hell, it used to scare me. Overall you would do worse by selecting most anything other than 8086 assembly. Have you got a better suggestion?
Is it served with every meal or something?
Yeah either that or booze. Or both as in rum -n- coke, which I enjoy on rare occasions.
I believe there is a constant quantity of junk food but the variety varies by decade. When I was a little kid we had a whole aisle of cake mixes and frostings, which has imploded down to maybe 15 lineal one sided feet and at most 10 different flavors of frosting. I was actually kinda depressed last time I wanted to bake a cake from a mix. I had to "settle" instead of picking what I wanted. The energy drink category and bottled water category have exploded in size since I was a kid. Also, tea. You couldn't buy canned/bottled tea when I was a kid, just poisonous tasting instant powder mix and bags. Now they've got looseleaf in the store, and an whole section of different types of bottled (heavily sugared) teas. Another category that's exploded: refrigerated ready to bake "stuff", when I was a kid they had ready to bake rolls in tubes and thats about it, there is now a 10 foot wide section of ready to bake cookies etc. We have almost nothing to chose from anymore WRT jerky and nuts, which is too bad because I like those snacks.
I think its more a chronic issue. 5% less fructose doesn't sound like much, until you think of a hard core addict drinking 3 cans/day thats 1000 cans/yr or about 5 kilos less of fructose.
Kind of like "low tar" cigarettes. Yes quitting smoking is the best "low tar" solution, but its better than nothing.
Programmers too. A 36-pack precisely fits in a mini fridge.
No coincidence. Real programmers (or at least real old programmers) program in 36 bits.
Using drones that cause "collateral damage" to kill a suspect? What happened to the right to a fair trial, due process... ?
911. The bad guys won.
The body count in the war on drugs is pretty high too
Its interesting that the LAPD has shot at more innocent civilians than Dorner has. The primary difference is that the LAPD is so unprofessional they haven't successfully killed as many innocent civilians as Dorner, at least so far, although they're trying their best to even up the score. I have faith in the LAPD, they'll catch up soon enough.
excursions from that background
But the excursions from the background are also not actionable data. Right back to my original example, OK the important part is not that 15% of the dirt villagers like Bieber, its that 85% actively dislike Bieber. Still not actionable because the subject of discussion is useless from a military tactical / strategic / logistic perspective.
I will say that you could see a meta-pattern of peoples behavior when they know they're being monitored. Like if you have people faking data, poorly, to make it look like an empty booby trapped dirt village is currently populated, but it only contains poison gas cylinders. Of course a IR satellite shot would be simpler and we've already got that tech deployed... Basically a psyop detector would be kinda interesting. Somebody could make a synthetic flash mob artifical data generator that makes it look like we're gonna riot at the west gate, but we're all actually going to the east gate... That kind of thing.
Look at it from a hard science perspective. You're running a really big complicated experiment and have one (of many) really noisy input streams and there may or may not be a signal buried deep in the noise. Stick a 10x amplifier on it is not necessarily gonna help the SNR. In fact "demodulating" that noisy input stream may very well be impossible because there's nothing actually there. If you're smart enough or have enough AI maybe you can make a demod, maybe... Or maybe there's just no useful data from that source because its a junk source.
Yeahbut... if the "best match" for 5 popes ago is actually the one liner officially for 20 popes ago (roughly) then the "last pope" is actually about 16 popes in the future. so something like our grandkids get to hack the planet. Kind of like seeing Babbages original difference engine parts live and in person and realizing you're not gonna live to perform a buffer overflow on a 386, but... maybe your grandkids....
why do the politics exist at all?
This goes back to at least ancient greece, regardless of your goals, what's a "better" leadership style, oligopoly or dictator? Nobody was ever come up with better than a temporary local maxima, so there likely is no truly "correct" answer.
Back to the original topic, a fixation on the theological meaning (as if there is any....) behind the moral and ethical equivalent of teabagging your enemies after their (temporary utter) defeat is looking for something overly profound in something overly base.
.... always provided something unique, fun, and mentally stimulating.
This is hardly a rare combination of adjectives. I could say the same thing about slashdot, reading classical literature, ham radio, and pr0n. ...
At least those do it for me. Not necessarily in that order or individually. Although ham pr0n initially sounded pretty icky I thought back to some pics I've seen on 20 meter slowscan TV and
If you want a career in technology that might eventually lead to ... get a degree.
In my extensive personal and observational experience a CS degree does not lead into flexibility WRT job titles or opportunity to advance as you state, it just pigeonholes into a different set of jobs, mostly developer-type roles.
If you really wanna "eventually lead to" management or production or sales, don't get a CS degree and try to transfer and compete with people who actually got degrees in that specific field. For example, if you wanna be an accountant then get a degree in accounting, don't argue if a CS or MIS degree is better before you transfer into accounting. Maybe MIS would be 1% better, but a degree actually in accounting would be 100% better.
and have been appalled by what passes as a Computer Science education from some schools
Check your job requirements. If HR carefully and methodically filters out everyone who's honest on their resume, leaving nothing but the liars and cheats, you're not gonna be very happy with your interviews. There's not enough jobs out there for everybody, but I hear constant complaining on /. that once you filter out everyone who's honest, and everyone over the age of 25, and everyone who has kids, and everyone who has a spouse, and everyone demanding more than $30K/yr, you get nothing but whack jobs. Which can lead into a death spiral, where the solution to too many whack jobs is even higher standards. Leading to job reqs that should be pretty noobish getting tightened to ridiculous levels... 25 years experience with windows 2007, leading to even bigger whack jobs who pass the HR filter, leading to even tighter requirements (damnit I'm gonna require 50 years in server 2007 next time!). I've seen it happen.
I will add a disclaimer that the existence of one way to poison the applicant pool does not imply no other ways exist.
Web development can be found in the art & interactive design programs, not computer science program.
Not just "web development", but "women" also.
Not trying to make a value judgement or insinuate anything, that's just the facts.
If you can only learn in a classroom format, you're doomed in a fast moving profession. Switch to something slower moving or you'll be back to school in 5 years or less.
If you merely need knowledge from a classroom format and don't care what corporate HR thinks (aka you're ok with never being hired and being a contract worker, because HR gives zero respect to associates degrees) then my local tech school offers:
Web and media digital design aka online graphics artist.
Web and software developer from the school of business
You can also pay 4 times as much per credit hour and take 1/4 of your credits in liberal arts electives and 1/4 in math and learn about the same thing for a 4-year degree, which HR more or less respects, so you could end up an employee as opposed to lifetime contractor. If you actually looked you'd probably find some manner of graphics artist class in the art department and surely the b-school has something you'd like.
Or just switch schools if what you want isn't offered.. I went to 3 schools. Its really not a big deal this early in your schooling. Note that if they rubber stamp all incoming (for example) calculus transfer credits as denied, that doesn't mean you can't sweet talk a dean into a special exception, or follow the appeals process, or demand the right to test out (assuming you actually learned the topic...) or just F it and get the worlds easiest "A".
Amusingly around dotbomb collapse time I was attending a private college at night for CS, and they theoretically offered all specializations at night but in practice only offered your "web developer" classes. Needless to say the job market stank and I didn't want to do "web developer" anyway, so I simply moved to an online local university (a local university where practically the whole CS curriculum was available almost every semester and online 24x7 so I had no problem working full time).
If you're a noob, unless you've already experienced a "higher calling" to do webdev, you really do owe it to yourself to try electives like business analysis class, database design, maybe a networking, project (mis-)management, and the CS you're already complaining about. Maybe you think you're a future frontpage jockey but you're really unknowingly a DBA or router jockey. Won't know till you try it.
tracking people's movements and predicting future behavior
Time for a forest and tree analogy. On a rounding basis, the masses have historically never done anything terribly exciting, important, or relevant. So paying intense attention to them is a waste of resources. Its always the 10% or less who actually influence history. If we made all predictions based on the median joe 6 pack couch potato, we'd still be british subjects, we'd still be in control of independent south vietnam, iraq and afghanistan would be fully pacified, blah blah blah.
I don't think that knowing 30% of the population liked the most recent american idol episode is actionable intelligence information in either the short, medium, or long term. Imagine a squad about to deploy on a mission in Iraq being told that the best help intel can provide today is that 15% of active facebook users like listening to Bieber. Umm, thanks guys, on to the next briefing.
Its a self blinding technology, not an enlightening technology. I'm sure its highly profitable for contractors of course.
Because its pretty vague astrological type stuff, it can apply to anyone because it means almost nothing. You could map the lines to /. UID numbers almost as effectively.
You can have fun with that list by "correcting" it. For example I think the "burning fire" would be WAY better for pius 12 aka the WWII pope. You got trinity, hiroshima, nagasaki, a zillion conventional firebombings... but no, its applied to a guy who's mostly known for codifying canon law, and not that cannon either. Boring.
Or how about "Light in the sky" for sputnik / Apollo 11, instead you've got a guy who's era is mostly known WRT lights and sky for... well, nothing really.
I've probably already put more work into it that it deserves...
I'm no religion nerd, but my understanding is the infallibility is vested in the job position not the person.
There's a lot of BS and propaganda about the whole papal infallibility thing... you have to realize the cardinals and pope have spent centuries fighting over who's really in charge, and by fighting I mean literally to the death by sword and poison. So "recently" a strongman (relatively...) gets in power and as a weapon he declares he's the boss and everyone else aka his opponents (the cardinals) are his underlings. Frankly not all that exciting. When even a guy like me sees it as a pretty simple political play as opposed to religious mythology, using the political play to make fun of the catholics just isn't funny anymore. I would not be surprised if when the cardinals gain supremacy they put a guy in who reverses that declaration and makes the college of cardinals infallible as the leaders and declares the bishop of rome as merely first among equals... Its politics not theology. Or at most, theological politics.
"is this news for nerds?"
There do exist religion nerds, just like sports nerds, tv nerds, drama (theatrical) nerds, music nerds. I've already seen them coming out of the woodwork in MSM articles about how this crisis was handled in 1084 and the biography of his previous namesake and what amounts to jailhouse lawyering about the election process, blah blah blah.
Why is this on slashdot?
Last time around we had a irreverent time comparing the current pope to a variety of sci fi figures and tropes based on everything from trivial physical appearance, to behavior. Emperor Palpatine, etc. I'm sure we'll have plenty of fun here when the next political leader wins, doing about the same thing as last time. The tech aspect is keeping the comparisons "sci fi". In comparison, making jokes about Hillary getting selected would not be "sci fi" or "tech".
I'm having serious difficulty thinking of a famous living catholic IN TECH who could theoretically become pope. At least one probably exists? Technically all they need to be is baptized, although for the last couple centuries they've all been cardinals, which kinda cuts down on the possible selections from a billion or so down to about 20. A pity, I'd like to see a Catholic evolutionary biologist get selected, and then watch the teabillies squirm.
Property rights are the foundation of all rights in a free society unless the property we're talking about are domain names that you feel are yours
I think this is unintentionally very funny because the domain name is his name, which is presumably his property. Now if he was trying to steal "campaignforliberty.com" that would be an interesting argument assuming they weren't just domain squatters who registered well after the PR campaign started.
If there is a lesson, don't start up a 3rd party site with a name consisting of nothing but the 1st party name. Even "unofficialsupportforronpaul.com" would have been more morally justifiable than just taking the dude's name and slapping a dotcom on the end.