Does the degree even establish much anymore? I seem to be hearing from many sources on the grapevine / interblag that a portfolio of real output is much more useful in judging an applicant than a CSBS. Articles are surfacing saying "don't even pay attention to degrees, they are useless for judging a candidate."

The other 10% that isn't nut job parents instilling their nuttiness in their kids is actually just sending them through the same academic channels out of sequence. A lot of homeschoolers just go to community college or get curriculum from a homeschool group.

You are wrong in your understanding of science. Nobody came to a conclusion without using almost entirely information from elsewhere. For example, how did the researchers discover the mechanism of action of the drugs? Did they try random things and then investigate what worked, or did they synthesize known facts about how the systems worked into an engineering feet that acted upon those facts? You've described the only possible routes for science, and then called this kid somehow unimpressive or unmeritorious because he used them.

We have barriers to entry for a reason! Think about the guys who actually spent 8 years in academia in order to get to work on this problem!

Get 'em under payola laws.

Actually they seem like indicators of opposite behaviors. Being preoccupied so as to fail to see your surroundings is the opposite of what one usually thinks of in the case of ADD.

Fuck off. How about "I can't pay attention because I learned this 4 years ago and am thinking about much more advanced topics?" It's been 'an excuse' forever. Now it is backed by science, and you 'conventional thinkers' can SHOVE IT and go dig a ditch.

Thank you! Dull witted folks running the world continue to fuck over the more intelligent students. How about we respond by NOT FUCKING DOING THAT ANYMORE?

You don't know what you are talking about icebike. We are all bombarded with these agreements on a regular basis because NOBODY USES AUTO-AGREE PROVISIONS. I'll bet you can guess why too.

"whose apps are now worthless" You say that as if they had worth at one time!

So let's see, what's the API to pop up the Apple App Store on Windows 7 phones? xD

Firefox just tends to be leaky; I've never heard of a Firefox build that didn't gradually consume all the memory if left running long enough.

Seriously. Chrome is too resource intensive for you? I'm not sure you're gonna find a better option. Maybe (*maybe*) Lynx will work for you.

Regardless of what you do about tab use, FF will still be a bloated resource hog. Careful use of tabs doesn't change the fact that the whole UI is interpreted XUL scripts. Extensibility comes at a cost.

... are obligated to abide by the international standards of operation for their industry. Breaking the protocol stack intentionally should make you no longer a common carrier.