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The summary should have included this.

Yes there is no "shortage" of tech workers, however, a more open immigration policy would be more fair and lead to even more technological progress for American than would occur without STEM immigrants. The economy isn't zero sum and a slight reduction in wages for some, if it means many more people in the pool, would lead to greater economic results overall.

It's not the auto manufacturers' fault that their best customers think that way.

If you're blind, it's the driver's responsibility to avoid you, not your responsibility to jump out of the way.

True. And I bet most of them would be better for beginners than either Java or C.

Actually, I don't think it's a completely dumb metric. It shouldn't be the only metric or even the most important one. However, for a beginner, there is a lot of value in quickly getting to the "I can tell the machine what to do and it does it" part with as few "toll gates" as possible.

Exagerration. Hello World in Java is about six non-empty lines, i.e. on par with C.

By that metric, I present the clear winner: BASIC

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"

Down with presidents. Long live the queen!

The emergency room visits are anything but free.

I have faith that with enough lawsuits eventually one will end up in front of a judge who also got hit by malware who will be less forgiving.

Defunding education is not the "tragedy of the commons." It's the tragedy of failed policies. If your hypothesis were correct, the military would also have reduced funding because it is also a socialized endeavor.

The only other manufacturer with 14nm capacity is Intel and there's no way Intel will sell them some capacity.

Why wouldn't Intel sell some of their capacity to nVidia or AMD for their GPUs? It's not like Intel directly competes with them (yet) in the high end GPU market and high end GPUs help sell new computers with Intel CPUs. I mean if Intel needs full production to fill orders, then of course they wouldn't sell capacity. But baring that (or engineering limitations), there should be no reason for them to refuse to sell capacity.

I thought I'd seen this before. Here's the Slashdot story saying windows 7 would be subscription based.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

For a senior level position??? They need to update their salary reference tables.

I'd wager that people who are doing what they're interested in make more anyway because they learn how to do things their uninterested peers don't care about.