Look, to be quite frank, local short to medium range intercepts really only work when you have good intel and good signals.
Hypersonic cross-Atlantic or cross-Pacific missiles are something you take out using other technology we're not supposed to talk about. And that tech still works. It would only not work if it rapidly corkscrewed in flight in a varying pattern, which no missiles actually do.
Relax.
(caveat: I can neither confirm nor deny working on or near such systems)
This is the kind of military model scout concept that works great when the 1 percent do it - but utterly fails when the 99 percent do it.
One drone over a traffic jam is one thing.
6543 drones over a traffic jam crashing into planes and helicopters and police drones and DOT drones is a total catastrophe.
People don't get that stuff that works when very FEW people use them is ok but when anyone can buy it, the impacts - and by this I mean the objects falling from 1000 feet through your sunroof and killing you or causing more crashes when they hit your windscreen - are a nightmare.
They're just like the Slashdot Beta - great idea on paper, incredibly bad very bad insane idea in reality. Kill that with fire!
Not true. I happen to know at least one young women who has been trying to get into programming, and what I said are the most common complaints she has about the whole process.
(yes, she has a Bachelor of Science, just not in STEM, and she has work experience but not in programming, and she is a native English speaker born in America)
To be quite frank, a lot of the reason why you don't get many young women in STEM - and Open Source projects - is you insist they have lots of experience.
Open Source used to be mostly rolled out by students and people between jobs, but nowadays a lot of Open Source coders have full time jobs at various tech firms.
Those tech firms tend not to hire women with non-tech degrees and without extensive experience.
There's your problem.
Originally, you only needed some form of 2 year or 4 year degree, of any type, not tech, to get hired. And experience came on the job.
Fix that.
Then you'll get young women doing Open Source coding.
A lot of so-called "fake" accounts were created because FB is way too pervy, wanting to know enough information about you that they can sell it to content aggregators.
So one creates "fake" accounts with no real phone number attached and a generic image to stop FB from being too NSA.
Maybe they should back off. Everyone is leaving fast because their perv-quotient is way too high.
Slashdot Mirror
Look, to be quite frank, local short to medium range intercepts really only work when you have good intel and good signals.
Hypersonic cross-Atlantic or cross-Pacific missiles are something you take out using other technology we're not supposed to talk about. And that tech still works. It would only not work if it rapidly corkscrewed in flight in a varying pattern, which no missiles actually do.
Relax.
(caveat: I can neither confirm nor deny working on or near such systems)
I vote for pitchforks and guillotines.
Slashdot Beta craters faster and makes a bigger mess than even the one on Mars does.
Kill the Beta with FIRE!
This is the kind of military model scout concept that works great when the 1 percent do it - but utterly fails when the 99 percent do it.
One drone over a traffic jam is one thing.
6543 drones over a traffic jam crashing into planes and helicopters and police drones and DOT drones is a total catastrophe.
People don't get that stuff that works when very FEW people use them is ok but when anyone can buy it, the impacts - and by this I mean the objects falling from 1000 feet through your sunroof and killing you or causing more crashes when they hit your windscreen - are a nightmare.
They're just like the Slashdot Beta - great idea on paper, incredibly bad very bad insane idea in reality. Kill that with fire!
Which part of No! don't you get?
Slashdot Beta is chock full of Death Star.
Where's an X-Wing when you need one?
It could target a Bitcoin with a 10 Megawatt laser and hit it 9 times out of 10 and then the Slashdot Beta Empire would be no more.
I can't think (radio signal interference) what could go wrong (rock slide) with this approach (mine).
Great (massive failure) idea!
You assume this is my planet.
The rebellion will live on in our ice base at Tattoine.
More like $500,000 USD.
The more star systems you squeeze, the more will slip through your grasp, NSA Vader.
Mind you, that storage just "burnt down" conveniently.
Enjoy living in East Germany!
Mwah hah hah! ...
Constitution?
What Constitution?
lol we used 2 bits and we liked it.
I remember when PUSH and POP only had two registers to work with.
Some of us have been working in programming for longer than others.
And have trained women and men to do it.
But, sure, pretend there's not a problem, if you must.
Most of the first programmers were women. They're fairly old now.
They wrote tight efficient code that had a lower error rate and worked better than a lot of what you see nowadays.
Nice concept, but in reality, that's not how it works.
Most people think "Oh, let's make it an Elite position and hard to get into".
And then they act all surprised that this discourages the vast and overwhelming quantity of young women that might be interested in doing it.
You have a problem. It has been identified. You just don't want to do anything about it.
Again, cart before the horse.
The problem has been identified.
The problem is that young women are not doing Open Source coding in reasonably large numbers.
I identified the barriers young women tend to perceive in Why they don't do Open Source coding.
You just don't like my answer.
You obviously lack a solution that works in the real world, or there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
You are missing the point.
The point was: how do we get YOUNG women to be interested in Open Source.
I gave you the answer.
You just don't like my answer.
And, yet, my answer will get results.
Not true. We used to train people to code in a couple of months.
Just because we do something one way today doesn't mean it's the way it's always been done.
Some of the best coders I've known came from non-tech fields and only had a couple of months of training before they started coding.
( /s/women/woman/g ) oops
Not true. I happen to know at least one young women who has been trying to get into programming, and what I said are the most common complaints she has about the whole process.
(yes, she has a Bachelor of Science, just not in STEM, and she has work experience but not in programming, and she is a native English speaker born in America)
To be quite frank, a lot of the reason why you don't get many young women in STEM - and Open Source projects - is you insist they have lots of experience.
Open Source used to be mostly rolled out by students and people between jobs, but nowadays a lot of Open Source coders have full time jobs at various tech firms.
Those tech firms tend not to hire women with non-tech degrees and without extensive experience.
There's your problem.
Originally, you only needed some form of 2 year or 4 year degree, of any type, not tech, to get hired. And experience came on the job.
Fix that.
Then you'll get young women doing Open Source coding.
You had Use*Net?
I remember when we used SMS and FTP and we liked it!
(of course, that's what twitter is for the most part, with some Mosaic thrown in)
A lot of so-called "fake" accounts were created because FB is way too pervy, wanting to know enough information about you that they can sell it to content aggregators.
So one creates "fake" accounts with no real phone number attached and a generic image to stop FB from being too NSA.
Maybe they should back off. Everyone is leaving fast because their perv-quotient is way too high.
See, this is the problem with STEM. Computers, Engineering - they all don't train people anymore.
Just look at the year to year metrics of in-house training that employers used to do in the (more productive) 50s and 60s versus today.
There's your problem.