The private sector pays for all the research anyway, so bully for them.

I'll protect my family with a de-personalized gun, thanks.

Companies that provide snacks and drinks expect an ROI. And they all know how to offshore your overpaid code-monkey ass so shut up and get back to work.

Actually, this scheme to appease the dumb masses by reducing H1B visas will simply encourage U.S. companies to set up offshore development centers.

French? Multiculturalism is hella whack.

Apple Computer should be commended for following the Law. Congress itself should be offshored.

I've aimed microwave STLs before and that was a royal pain in the ass. In the hundreds of gigahertz range aiming the antennas has got to be a bitch. And damn well better make sure the mast and mountings will never shift under wind pressure.

RTFA. . .especially this paragraph: "The water enters the first facility at 42.8 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) and exits at 53.6 F (12 C). It's pumped to a second site, which it leaves at 64.4 F (18 C), and a third, which it leaves at 75.2 F (24 C). It's then sent to a heat pump and used to heat local homes and offices."

Lynx and Pine are certainly not for everyone, but I'm glad to hear that some young people are still using this stuff. Pine rocks. I remember getting reprimanded for chatting at work while at Apple in the late 90's. I dragged my ignorant boss into my lab and showed him that what he assumed to be chat was actually an e-mail program, and he changed his tune when he realized that I was not only not-chatting, but using a highly-efficient e-mail program to get my work done. In the early 90's I developed a website for a public science center. My boss thought I was wasting time optimizing web pages for Lynx as well as Mosaic but changed his tune when he started receiving thank-you e-mails from public library administrators throughout the U.S. At the time, web browsers were not ubiquitous so it was important to implement solutions with old-school tools as well as new-school tools. In these two cases, using old-school technology raised skepticism from key stakeholders: management. But note that in order to please all stakeholders I also had to reduce my own skepticism of emerging technologies.

Great CIOs, demonstrate a balance between understanding the business and understanding the technology in their communications. Fortunately I've worked for a couple of these in my career. Few and far between.

22k USD ensures only spoiled rich Goth kids'll use them. That may not be a good thing. But online videos are about to get even more creepy.

if the curricula is kept up-to-date.

Great question. Two at work: Firefox and IE. Two at home: Chrome and Safari. Sometimes up to 50 tabs can be open at once, combining all the browsers.

With location-tracking, I feel like a sitting duck. Now I don't even want a smartphone.

Lot's of folks got dogs in this race. Farmer was an idiot to push this one.