The study, in case you don't want to read the article, paired people off (so they didn't see each other but knew the other person was there), then one was offered a choice of various "shock bundles" (like 10 for 7$, or 15 for 10$ or the like) along with the choice who should get the shocks while this "decider" always got the money, no matter who he dealt the shocks.

People now taking shocks for the money they take doesn't say anything about altruism. It says something about what people perceive as fair. I get the money, so I should do the "work" for it. If you want altruism, check out how many will take the shocks while giving away the money!

Judging from the people I worked with during my years, a good deal of them would shock others for free.

An even bigger portion would pay YOU to let them.

If the alternative is to give someone else one and cash in on it...

Replace pre-flight ass groping with post-flight luggage roulette and you're there again.

Truth dies long before planning even starts.

The feds had no problem ferreting out the Silk Road operators, but it seems they're completely unable to do anything against the cryptolocker extortionists. Despite the damage being by some margin bigger.

One really has to wonder where the priorities are...

*shrug* Communism, Socialism, Terrorism... I stopped keeping current with the boogeyman du jour.

I don't fight. I have people for that.

Could we have a business meeting? Preferably all day, every day? You see, I'd LOVE to turn that bugging device off, but my boss insists that I have it with me.

That's maybe what I forgot to write: Google Glass doesn't have any kind of corporation backing that forces people to use it, like it or not.

After 19 weeks you have, essentially, someone who may or may not have grasped the very basics of the topic (provided he has any kind of mathematics or logic background, else it's "may not" for sure). Unless he has some sort of prior knowledge, it's quite useless.

I see the whole mess as some sort of fast track "look, I have some sheet of paper that makes me something" crap to fool gullible HR departments.

A bubble is a thin, shiny, colorful film, surrounding mostly hot air.

So by definition it IS a marketing phrase.

Odd. During my university years, Modula2 was the language for our coding introduction course, C was used in system programming, Pascal/Delphi was it for Software Engineering classes...

In other words: The right tool for the right objective. Language does not matter. There's exactly two kinds of languages: Imperative and declarative. The rest is mostly dialect. Whether you write your code in Java or C++, in Python or Perl, from a purely educational point of view it doesn't really matter.

I'm all for it and I'm looking forward to total job security.

For the rest of you, it's never too late to get into security consulting...

Oh believe me, they can. If they're loud enough about it, stick some unfavorable label on anyone who opposes them and can whip out the thinkofthechildren bat.

Think there was ONE politician who'd dare to say as much as "but"?

Think again whether you're like a private entity to take care of this. Ponder for a moment: What private entity do you think gives more than half a shit about whether a game is sexist or not.