Maybe not keeping them out of, but many women and girls are discouraged from entering STEM fields. Both my girlfriend and our daughter were strongly discouraged from STEM fields by teachers, advisors and others. Those people claimed that such careers were "not appropriate for girls." They both said "BS, I'm going to be an engineer." My girlfriend is an engineer and our daughter will soon get an engineering degree. Very few of their classmates who were also interested in STEM (and got A's in highschool science classes) actually went on to pursue STEM degrees.

My Palm T3 does this with IR. But then, few phones/tablets have an IR receiver - even if they have an IR transmitter (which can be used for remote controlling TVs).

EV's do have to be charged. A suitable metering system could be built in to the battery packs. Make tampering with the battery pack a tax evasion crime.

Where I live, the moderately wealthy neighborhoods are built around the up-scale office parks in the suburbs. The poor neighborhoods are the ones around the factories (mostly defunct, but a few still operating). While the middle class neighborhoods are in between. Also, the middle class often can't afford to move when they change jobs, so many live in one suburb and have to commute 2 or more suburbs to get to work.

(The very wealthy, however, do tend to live further away in semi-isolated suburbs.)

There are already significant penalties in places for failure to repair/replace a broken odometer. they will just get increased.

The legal theory that allows this "use tax" is that the items were purchased for use in the purchaser's state of residence.

As pointed out in another post, the device could calculate the miles drive in Oregon (or whatever state) and only report that.

Of course, I'd want proof that was all it was reporting.

For pure electric vehicles, build a kilo-Watt-Hour meter into the battery pack that monitors the power used to charge the battery. This would be similar to a gas tax.

In theory, the device could calculate the miles driven within the borders of the state, periodically updating it's "taxable miles odometer" and report only that. If more states institute this system, the device can have an odometer for each state,

For me, at least, Eclipse provides decent support of the languages I need to code in. If all I coded in was C/C++ and/or Fortran, I'd probably use Code Blocks. CB's support of other languages is mostly because it uses Scintilla as the core of its editor. Maybe in time CB's plug-in ecosystem will provide better support for more languages, but, for now, Eclipse is doing a much better job of meeting my IDE needs. At least for an open source IDE. If you include proprietary IDEs, then Slick Edit is the one I like best. Used that at work until recently. (After finance demanded we reduce our recuring tool support costs, the company directed us to use open source tools as much as possible, so good-bye Slick Edit (despite the fact its license is perpetual for the specified version).

I am a Team Leader / Lead Engineer. I report directly to the Software Manager, who reports to the Product Development Manager. I am on the same "level" as the Project Managers, who report to the Program Managers, who report to the Product Development Manager.

I do the (mostly) technical aspects of managing my team[1]. But most of my work is still design and coding. The PjM handles the project level administrivia while my manager and the PgM handle other administrivia.

That works for me, so I am reasonably satisfied with my work situation.

For a different employer, I've been as high as Product Development Manager, but I disliked 90% of the work. Even as Software Manager, I disliked 80% of the work. As a Team Leader / Lead Engineer, I only dislike 30% of the work. (When I was a Senior Engineer, I disliked 20% of the work.)

( [1] For me, team management involves delegating tasks, discussing effort estimates with team members, overseeing design and code reviews and other things entwined with the technical realm. While I do provide input on the technical aspects of my team's performance, I am not responsible for doing performance reviews, nor other administrative things.)

Another detail that the founders could not have predicted at the time. Though the founders attempted to provide for the unforeseen in the 9th Amendment.

Back then, staying several meters from other people meant that while you and whomever you were talking with could be seen, you could not be heard - at least not without the would be snoop being painfully obvious[1]. The founders had no concept of "wireless bugs" nor today's tiny, super direction microphones and highly sophisticated signal processing nor other surveillance tools.

( [1] In theory, even back then, some one with a small telescope could attempt lip reading, but lip reading is not reliable and requires a lot of context. Depending on the presumed context, a snoop could easily turn totally innocuous speech into dire threats.)

In terms of programmers most of the employers I know would deem employable, they are only looking at the best programmers so they only see a few percent at one end of the slope. The rest are just increasing numbers of increasingly unacceptable programmers. The shape of the curve doesn't matter to them.

For some job postings I've seen, "Entry Level" means less than 4 or 5 years experience. And when you factor in "internships", having a recruiter or HR staffer say "you don't have enough experience" to an applicant for an "entry level" job is no longer the oxymoron it once was.

My employer already requires its employees to keep their education "up-to-date" (at our expensive, though the company will pay for any classes it requires us to take). I happen to use an Android device - but not for accessing company resources as the company expressly forbids that. I also happen to use electronic bill payment - for my convenience. The company doesn't care. And while my employer happened to find me through Linked In, they don't care about my "social network" usage (I last used it during my last job hunt, years ago). (The closest the company comes to "social media" is an internal IM/VOIP conference system they have us use instead of using conference rooms for meetings.) They also don't care that I've contributed to open source projects unrelated to the company's business. (They would care if I contributed to a project they view as competition, of course. Nothing new or surprising about that.)

Unless the job I was applying for actually involved working with social media, Android, iOS or electronic bill payment, such requirements would be improper. Unfortunately, it would still be a major pain to get yet another ruling to that effect.