Depending on the industry, black jeans (in good condition) are acceptable, but blue may not be.

Dress codes are always praised by those that cannot offer anything else besides conformance. At the moment, many companies are getting rid of the creative thinkers (to their long-term detriment), and a dress-code is a good way to do that, as creative thinkers really hate spending time on complete side-issues like dress.

All it will do for HP is that the remaining (few) good engineers and scientists will take a hard look at their other prospects and some will leave. A tech company that does not place the techies first is dead in the long run.

A uniform is not a "dress code". It is a provided, fixed dress style. A "dress code" allows various selection of garments. Also remember that pupils have limited say in what schools they go to.

Indeed. All show and no substance. Currently, substance is becoming more and more important in IT as troubles raise, and they try to piss off their staff? HP is a goner for sure.

With regard to IBM, having met one of their highly-paid technical consulting teams, I know what their problem is: Incompetence coupled with arrogance and no social graces. They also failed to solve their task for 3 years, when something similar took me a year to get to run reliably. Them being IBM, they actually got paid more for failing repeatedly, so at the moment the incompetence still works out for them, but eventually the customers will not be willing to pay a fortune for trash.

Slashdot's 3rd-party linking is now worse than even CNET, Target, Walmart, etc.

All hail our new corporate overlords. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The king is dead, long live the king.

etc.

The writing has been on the wall for years, now: Why are we still here?

Shutting down nuclear and reducing carbon?
At best you can get one of the two.
Frankly if France really wanted to decrease carbon it should increase nuclear and using their hydro for peaking along with some solar and wind.

" Even if we point SETI-type radio telescopes at it and monitor it for signals, they will have spent 1400 years getting to us and there is no guarantee that whatever civilization was there is still there."
"Interesting discovery, but I can't muster up much excitement about this one."
Really? You are an idiot.
The discovery of life in another solar system would be a HUGE discovery. Finding a technologically advanced civilisation would change everything. There is no telling what we could find out if we could read the data from the signals over time. However just knowing that we are not the only life in the Universe would be huge.
Sorry sparky this is science not Star Wars.

Yes I would have to agree that the S100 was on the way out by then.

And one extreme example has exactly what relevance to the general case?

If you claim anything on the Internet today with high enough visibility, you are going to get threats. There is a small sub-species of the human rage that cannot abide others getting attention. Hence these threats do not mean anything, except that she had visibility. Making these threats the core of the discussion is exceptionally unprofessional and misses the point of the discussion entirely. It is a tried-and-true strategy for styling oneself as a victim though, because these threats will always come.

Well said. I also completely agree that in order to be a good engineer/developer/scientist, you need to be that first (at least when you work) and anything else second. You cannot claim to be "good" or "experienced" in order to make that happen, you have to be these things. Nothing can substitute.

The problem Ms. Wu has is that she claims these things, but does not deliver on the claims. That produces an understandable counter-reaction. There is also a hate-reaction by some people that attack anything they do not like, but that does not cover the majority to the reaction to the claims Ms. Wu has made. It is a side issue. Of course she tries to focus on that, because she cannot actually deliver on her claims. This is merely classical misdirection.

Limited use of connections, tar-pitting, etc. are only for really bad passwords and provide only limited protection even there. Anybody that understands security already has passwords that are not guessable in practice.