Are we really pondering the question of how to convince more women to code for free? Why? What barriers are there to their participation?
On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog - just pick a cool l33t name for yourself and start contributing, and when anyone finds out you are (or identify) as a girl, you will become real popular REAL FAST.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So your argument is that it's the STATES, not the federal government that should be collecting phone call metadata?
Right, the NSA bought truckloads of desktops to implement massive warrantless wiretapping, just like the ones sold at Best Buy and Frys... Oh wait, the NSA bought servers?
Huh - I didn't know retailers sold rack mount servers...
Hillary can beat any one of the Republicans When the Republican vote is spread across a dozen candidates a year before early election starts in 2016... Big whop.
A year before the 2008 elections she was the odds-on winner, head and shoulders ahead of all Democrats... Then she wasn't.
And now, after TWICE launching her second presidential campaign (traveling to Iowa in a Sprinter? Wow.), her leadership position is tenuous, based on the whim of Joe Biden and his decision to run or not. Without even entering the race Biden is only 20 points behind Hillary - imagine what his poll numbers will be once he actually decides to run and campaign!
Republicans like Hillary, because she's so easily defeated, as Joe Biden will demonstrate in a few weeks.
A tier-1 vendor supplied servers to the NSA! OMG! We need to boycott that vendor!
Wait, what? Other Tier-1 vendors ALSO wanted to win the NSA procurement contract? We must boycott them also!
And you know what? I hear they have Coca-Cola machines at the NSA! I bet their employees drank countless caffeinated sodas from Coca-Cola as they were violating the civil rights of countless millions of Americsns - we need to boycott Coca-Cola as well!
You know what? I bet all the government cars in the NSA fleet come from GM - we need to boycott all GM cars for their support of warrantless wiretaps!
Wow, it's amazing how many corporations secretly support the NSA's warrantless wiretapping!/sarcasm
Well, it seems that sweet little Ahmed was 'radicalized' by a teacher (into a rebelous prankster, not a terrorist - I repeat, not a terrorist), and has a rich history of problems at school, including him having a history of making 'inventions' to disrupt classes (like his invention to turn off the projector in class)...
Hillary has claimed that when she assumed the Secretary of State position she didn't spend a lot of time thinking about what email she would use, with the clear implication being she was too busy to think about such things... Meaning she wants us to believe she was 'so busy' that she arranged for a private email server, hiredxsomeonevto managevit, and paid a monthly stipend/salary for services rendered because it was easier than using a state department email account.
Reminds me of the Lois Lerner IRS scandal, wherein it was claimed the reason the IRS workers were asking so many probing, illegal questions of certain tax-exempt organizations was because the office was simply over-whelmed with applications. As seen in the email server scandal, the claim is that their natural reaction when overwhelmed with work is to take on additional, in some cases illegal, additional work...
And there is an alarming segment of the population that will parrot those illogical claims as a defense of possible illegal, at best improper actions.
objectively, to think that line of reasoning makes any kind of sense means you're genuinely a stupid person
It's called a publicity stunt, and it wouldn't be the first one to blow-up in someone's face.
It may not have been the motivation here, but it is certainly within the realm of possibilities, given the well-documented history of the boy's family.
Did you notice how fast they set up an online account to collect money for his college education? It proves nothing, but it gives some people to question his motive.
Climate Achange critics build a convincing case that climate scientists are manipulating environmental data in an organized manner to secure more federal grant money? Should they also be prosecuted under the RICO statute?
Yes I have, I attended a prestigious east coast engineering school and worked for a time at a bell labs spin-off... Nerds do these things to either solve a problem or provoke a reaction from the 'straights'. Putting a breadboard on your shirt with blinking lights solves no problem I'm aware of, so in my experience it was most likely done to provoke a response. She arguably could have been going for whimsy, but if that was the case she missed the mark.
His accomplishment was repackaging a clock using a box of his own design.
No, he didn't - that would have been something to talk about, he stuffed the pieces into a store-bought pencil case... Which had to be opened to plug it into the wall for power and the display was only visible when the box was open.
He's 14 years old and he thinks what he did was 'inventing' something? In an interview with Chris Hayes on MSNBC he describes how he has been tinkering with things since he was 8 or 9 - his clock project is something I would expect an 8 or 9 year-old to do.
The problem is Boston repeated the scare later, closing down their airport briefly when an MIT student brought an electronics project to the airport.
The girl in Boston didn't just 'bring an electronics project to the airport' - she had a breadboard on her shirt/sweater with blinking lights which, from a distance could cause someone to think she had a bomb vest on.
Her claim of 'absent-mindedly' putting it on before going to the airport to pick up a friend (as I recall) was about as dubious as Ahmed's 'I invented this clock and wanted to show it off' claim.
Ahmed didn't build a clock. He built a PROP. And the police wanted to know what he was planning on doing with prop bomb at school, which Ahmed simply wouldn't answer. And that's why he was arrested.
If Ahmed had taken the clock apart, organized the parts on a tri-fold poster board and could explain what each part did, that would be an accomplishment worthy of showing off - but that's not what he did, he claimed he 'invented' the clock.
If he bought a clock kit off eBay, soldered it together and it worked that would be an accomplishment worthy of showing off - but that's not what he did, he took a working clock and wound up with a working clock!
The only skill evidenced by Ahmed's 'invention' was his application of that engineering reminder - "Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey" and earned himself a visit to MIT and the White House.
The teachers believed Ahmed wanted the teachers to believe it was a bomb. The school called the police about a possible bomb hoax, not a possible bomb, as evidenced by the police response that did not include sending the bomb squad to the school and the school's decision not to evacuate.
Can we talk about the really troubling thing about this story - that a 14 year-old high school student thinks removing the case from a store bought clock radio is a process of 'invention' as evidenced by his repeated claims he 'invented' this clock and that he was 'proud' of his project and wanted to show it off to his teachers?
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Are we really pondering the question of how to convince more women to code for free? Why? What barriers are there to their participation?
On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog - just pick a cool l33t name for yourself and start contributing, and when anyone finds out you are (or identify) as a girl, you will become real popular REAL FAST.
The Tenth Amendment?
So your argument is that it's the STATES, not the federal government that should be collecting phone call metadata?
I think you meant the Fourth Amendment...
Right, the NSA bought truckloads of desktops to implement massive warrantless wiretapping, just like the ones sold at Best Buy and Frys... Oh wait, the NSA bought servers?
Huh - I didn't know retailers sold rack mount servers...
Because she single-handedly created the dot-com bust?
Hillary can beat any one of the Republicans When the Republican vote is spread across a dozen candidates a year before early election starts in 2016... Big whop.
A year before the 2008 elections she was the odds-on winner, head and shoulders ahead of all Democrats... Then she wasn't.
And now, after TWICE launching her second presidential campaign (traveling to Iowa in a Sprinter? Wow.), her leadership position is tenuous, based on the whim of Joe Biden and his decision to run or not. Without even entering the race Biden is only 20 points behind Hillary - imagine what his poll numbers will be once he actually decides to run and campaign!
Republicans like Hillary, because she's so easily defeated, as Joe Biden will demonstrate in a few weeks.
A tier-1 vendor supplied servers to the NSA! OMG! We need to boycott that vendor!
Wait, what? Other Tier-1 vendors ALSO wanted to win the NSA procurement contract? We must boycott them also!
And you know what? I hear they have Coca-Cola machines at the NSA! I bet their employees drank countless caffeinated sodas from Coca-Cola as they were violating the civil rights of countless millions of Americsns - we need to boycott Coca-Cola as well!
You know what? I bet all the government cars in the NSA fleet come from GM - we need to boycott all GM cars for their support of warrantless wiretaps!
Wow, it's amazing how many corporations secretly support the NSA's warrantless wiretapping! /sarcasm
Remember Ahmed, the clockmaker in Texas?
Well, it seems that sweet little Ahmed was 'radicalized' by a teacher (into a rebelous prankster, not a terrorist - I repeat, not a terrorist), and has a rich history of problems at school, including him having a history of making 'inventions' to disrupt classes (like his invention to turn off the projector in class)...
http://www.dallasnews.com/news...
Hillary has claimed that when she assumed the Secretary of State position she didn't spend a lot of time thinking about what email she would use, with the clear implication being she was too busy to think about such things... Meaning she wants us to believe she was 'so busy' that she arranged for a private email server, hiredxsomeonevto managevit, and paid a monthly stipend/salary for services rendered because it was easier than using a state department email account .
Reminds me of the Lois Lerner IRS scandal, wherein it was claimed the reason the IRS workers were asking so many probing, illegal questions of certain tax-exempt organizations was because the office was simply over-whelmed with applications. As seen in the email server scandal, the claim is that their natural reaction when overwhelmed with work is to take on additional, in some cases illegal, additional work...
And there is an alarming segment of the population that will parrot those illogical claims as a defense of possible illegal, at best improper actions.
Maybe they accept EBT as payment for the camp?
...to open a 'Boys Only' computer camp and watch the feminists rail against it's exclusion of girls, as they should...
Of course - makes perfect sense:
The teacher in the classroom thought it was a bomb, that's why she picked it up and carried it to the office
The Principal thought it was a bomb, that's why he didn't evacuate the school building
The police thought it was a bomb, that's why they didn't send the bomb squad or call in EMTs/Fire engines
Or, and this is only aguess mind you, you are wrong.
I see what you did there... ;^)
It's called a publicity stunt, and it wouldn't be the first one to blow-up in someone's face.
It may not have been the motivation here, but it is certainly within the realm of possibilities, given the well-documented history of the boy's family.
Did you notice how fast they set up an online account to collect money for his college education? It proves nothing, but it gives some people to question his motive.
It was NOT a school project.
Climate Achange critics build a convincing case that climate scientists are manipulating environmental data in an organized manner to secure more federal grant money? Should they also be prosecuted under the RICO statute?
Except the ones that are remotely detonated, like, when strapped to a child that can't be trusted to 'do allah's bidding'.
Yes I have, I attended a prestigious east coast engineering school and worked for a time at a bell labs spin-off... Nerds do these things to either solve a problem or provoke a reaction from the 'straights'. Putting a breadboard on your shirt with blinking lights solves no problem I'm aware of, so in my experience it was most likely done to provoke a response. She arguably could have been going for whimsy, but if that was the case she missed the mark.
Sorry, they all got 'blowed up.'
No, he didn't - that would have been something to talk about, he stuffed the pieces into a store-bought pencil case... Which had to be opened to plug it into the wall for power and the display was only visible when the box was open.
He's 14 years old and he thinks what he did was 'inventing' something? In an interview with Chris Hayes on MSNBC he describes how he has been tinkering with things since he was 8 or 9 - his clock project is something I would expect an 8 or 9 year-old to do.
Watch this interviewwith Chris Hayes from MSNBC - within the first minute he claims to have bought a bunch of parts and put them together himself.
The girl in Boston didn't just 'bring an electronics project to the airport' - she had a breadboard on her shirt/sweater with blinking lights which, from a distance could cause someone to think she had a bomb vest on.
Her claim of 'absent-mindedly' putting it on before going to the airport to pick up a friend (as I recall) was about as dubious as Ahmed's 'I invented this clock and wanted to show it off' claim.
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What was Ahmed's 'accomplishment'?
If Ahmed had taken the clock apart, organized the parts on a tri-fold poster board and could explain what each part did, that would be an accomplishment worthy of showing off - but that's not what he did, he claimed he 'invented' the clock.
If he bought a clock kit off eBay, soldered it together and it worked that would be an accomplishment worthy of showing off - but that's not what he did, he took a working clock and wound up with a working clock!
The only skill evidenced by Ahmed's 'invention' was his application of that engineering reminder - "Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey" and earned himself a visit to MIT and the White House.
The teachers believed Ahmed wanted the teachers to believe it was a bomb. The school called the police about a possible bomb hoax, not a possible bomb, as evidenced by the police response that did not include sending the bomb squad to the school and the school's decision not to evacuate.
Can we talk about the really troubling thing about this story - that a 14 year-old high school student thinks removing the case from a store bought clock radio is a process of 'invention' as evidenced by his repeated claims he 'invented' this clock and that he was 'proud' of his project and wanted to show it off to his teachers?