As a Texan, I somewhat resent this statement. Some of us were lucky enough to have parents who valued education, despite the State's constant de-funding of it.

Also, there are dumbasses everywhere in "amercia" it would seem.

No they're not!

Alternatively, it's been approximately a decade since I went past the first page of google results. Siri basically gives you the same result as "I'm feeling lucky," but we don't actually want google.com to hide all of the second-run results.

I would at least consider buying it, if Sony would promise not to sue me if I actually used it.

My entire tech team is full of people with liberal arts undergrad degrees (Classics, Philosophy, Humanities), and equally non-techy advanced degrees (International Policy, Journalism). You need to find the right team to connect with. Look in non-traditional spots for jobs; interesting non-profits who need generalists, thinktanks who could use your research skills as well as some coding skills, startups who need your psychology chops to help with marketing and your coding chops to build what they manage to sell. That being said, make sure your self-taught programming is top-notch; audit some courses and find some mentors as you go along to help you not only write beautiful code, but understand the architecture.

Overall, you just need one first employer to bite, and everything after that is built in to "or equivalent experience"

Way to drive home the stereotype that the only value for bitcoins is for anarchists and terrorists. Some of us would actually like to see a functional, non-fiat currency that doesn't raise the ire of governments such that they seek to shut it down.

That brings up another interesting alternative - don't try and get rid of pennies by having banks collect then and not provide them out as change, but simply stop producing them.

Regardless, making nickles cheaper that 11 cents per to make seems to be ... well, kinda obvious?

What Brick-and-mortar store can hope to compete with the internet for commodity-level components? It's not even fair to hope they would. I mean, cmon - Best Buy stocks even-further-overpriced Monster Cables as their entry-level cable. I don't fault the Shack for seeking higher rungs on the value chain. And I'm hardly a fan of either the Shack ("You have questions, we have blank stares") or Best Buy ("Best means most expensive!"). But, I do fear for the complete loss of generalist tech stores. A book is a book is a book, but when deciding between tablets or notebook PCs, or the like, actual interaction with the device answers a gazillion questions that don't seem to have answers on websites.

So, let me try to get this straight. Is Zuckerberg complaining about a corporation that facebook is compelled to interact with using facebook's "personal" data in ways that, while protected by his terms of agreement with said corporation, are disliked and overly revealing, and he wishes they would stop or at least have explicitly asked him first?

To that, sir, I say, suck it.

Well, that depends on your diet, now doesn't it?

Oh no, in fact, we embrace irony.

So, I have to admit I'm a hater on Unity; it really is not meeting my needs. However - I'm very excited that Ubuntu is innovating here - Apple is beginning to stagnate, Microsoft, well, let's see 8. Ubuntu is leading some exciting discussion in user interface, and even if they make some mistakes, I'm excited that they're doing something.

I'd also appreciate lower rankings for sites that have invasive pop-over ads (and surveys) interfering with my access to content. These have been better of recent at sneaking through adblock.

I'd also loooove to eliminate more of the craptastic content aggregation sites fro search.

The path this opens, though, is "google reduces rankings for sites that use non-google ad engines." I'm pretty sure google is smart enough not to do that explicitly, but this is certainly a step towards that with a hat-tip towards user happiness.

By your logic, why then do pirates get sued for the full commercial value of each copy of a song they have?

This. Yes, there's some free-speech debate to be had around this, but let's have that debate, not the rest of the thread so far which is ever-closer to fulfilling Godwin's Law at a record speed. This should be treated equally as to someone posting the same text in their front yard, and this is one of the tricky areas in US free speech laws - hate speech.