People where hostile to people with Cell phones in the 1980's, In college back in my day, if a student went to class with a Laptop we were hostile towards them. Portable technology takes a while to get into the culture.

  Google keeps telling us what the future is going to be ... the problem is that future is designed to profit Google. Well Duh! Google isn't going to try to push a product that will put them out of business?

In general Google Glass may or may not make it. However its failure doesn't mean the end. The Apple Newton failed too, from its experience and lessons learned it became the iPhone, and iPad.

The vast majority of students will never need to know how to analyse literature.
The vast majority of students will never need to know about world history.
The vast majority of students will never need to solve algebraic equations.

Learning to code, isn't about knowing the silly commands, but training your mind into solving problems by breaking them down into elementary instructions. It helps you understand the world and trains your mind into different ways of thinking.

I think we need to get off this GPA concept.
Right now students with strong in Language skills, get a higher GPA than students who has strong analytical skills.

By keeping the system, such students with stronger analytical skills, will not get credit for what they are good at and will penalized for deficiencies in language skills.

I was able to write code at 6 years of age, I knew more about science than most adults. However in elementary school, I was placed as a troubled student group, because my reading and writing performance was behind my grade level. Sure we had science classes, and a few other classes where I was excelling at, but they were pass/fail... So I was still tagged as the stupid student.
 

I am not talking about the money. But how such programs are implemented to get it.

I am all for greater education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. However when they put it in a group called STEM, that makes me nervous.
Just like in the 1990's when they decided to teach kids how to use computers. They had a watered down process. In the 1980s while I was in elementary school, when they taught how to use computer they showed the class how to program, in the 1990's when they really pushed computer education, the focus was on how to use Windows, Word, and Excel. When you make it a requirement, it means the class needs to be watered down, so the average student can get an A+ in the class, otherwise, they would be making a class that could hurt their GPA. Where before, it was an elective class, where the student can take the class if they knew they could do in it.

Security vs. Liberty, It is always a tradeoff. And basicly we as a culture doesn't want to accept that reality.
If you want the liberty without people spying on you, you will need to be brave enough as an overall population to say, I am willing to accept the Risks to our safety so we can have our liberty. Or if you want to stay secure, we as a population will need to say, We want to be safe, and are willing to trade our liberty for it.

America like to say Land of the Free and Home of the brave. You need to be brave and accept the risks to be free. The more we cower in fear that the popular bad guys of the time will get us, either being the native americans, british, anarchist, communists, terrorists... The more liberties we lose. Or we stand up an say we are willing to take the risks, even it it means those guys will sneak in, but we will have more liberties.

However Efficiency is one of these numbers used to explain the lack of common sense. Sometimes the best method isn't the most efficient one. How much extra power and wasted disk space are you actually using in your RAID 5 Systems? It is more efficient to have everyone live and work in one building.
But efficiency is only part of the issue. Having a lot of small power generation, while say wasting twice as much power generation, means no wide scale power outages. Also easy to heal environmental wounds.

Hydroelectric for some reason is never talked about for green energy. Because of the Hoover dam image. A large structure that completely changes the local environment. The problem is in america, we are still stuck on the idea of Big Energy large grids covering the nation. We don't think in terms of small energy, having a small community powered by modest green sources. And every community can have different sources to meet their needs. Solar is good. But some of us live in areas where there is a lot of tree cover (and cutting trees isn't really the green option), Other areas have a decent wind, and others are near running water. These smaller sections will in agragate may take up more space, their impact is actually a lot less, as a smaller plot of land can heal a lot faster then say plowing down hundred acres.

That is arguing that using the Web Standard as a means for Application deployment isn't the best method. I agree... However it became the only practical one organically.
It offered a few key advantages.
1. Everyone had a browser. Not everyone had any other thin client protocol that works with Windows, Mac, and Linux and Unix systems. So for a thin client solution it was the only tool you had without additional downloads.

2. The Web give your data then disconnect. Design while an issue in programming, does allow the server to handle much more active users then say with Xwindows, or Telnet or most other thin client solutions.

3. HTML was designed for relatively slow connections. If you were to strip out images, you probably can still browse many pages even with a 14.4k modem.

I wouldn't say a browser is trying to be an OS but more of an interpreted language compiler.
But if you turn off those nostalgia blinders. Of the days of the old web. We needed to install a program for almost everything, you needed an encyclopedia, then you put in that Encarta CD. Every piece of software worked for a particular OS. We had some multi-platform but they required other software that you needed to be lucky enough to have a version for your system as well. You needed ports open to share data with an other system...

This is why back in the 1990's nearly everyone had to use windows. It is because buying a Mac, or using Linux will give you disadvantage in available software. The advanced browser opened up your Linux and Mac to the world, and people really don't care much what freaking OS you are using, because the content renders nearly the same.

I want to know how vulnerable browsers are, not if they are. Always assume what you are using is vulnerable, if you feel completely safe with your software, then you are the one most likely to get hacked. But I want to know the level of effort it will take to perform such exploits. Some interestly coded HTML/XML /Javascript where you can drop the files on Any Web Server and perform the export. Perhaps it is in the HTTP protocol, where you need to write a Server Side application to perform the HTTP Calls. Or is it in in the level of special TCP/IP packets where you need to have the OS send funny data.
Is the exploit Just by going local and using local data, is it outside exploitable.

This is important. Not to excuse having a software vulnerability, but by having a priority for them to get fixed, and assessing how far such things can spread.

As far as I see, there is just as much danger for a rating system to be packed with ultra conservative everything is evil, as it is with an ultra liberal where everything is OK.

Now that said, just because you may make morally questionable products, it doesn't mean you think that it should be all rated "e"

Most of the fear around genetic manipulation falls around Science-Fiction scenarios. Which in order to make it entertaining they will often play with the worst case scenarios. Super soldiers, Freaky Person/Animal hybrids, etc. which to get such a case means a lot of experimentation, that would lead to a lot of dead or grossly Ill people. Such science on humans is already unethical, as your are giving birth to a bunch of people with a high chance of failure, and Illness.

However the goal for Genetic Manipulation in humans, isn't making someone a super human, but an average human. For people with genetic traits that make people sick and prone to disease. Giving them a chance to live a healthy normal life.

I love Postgresql... However I agree pgAdmin, isn't that great. I would love an alternative.

1 nanosecond adds up when you have millions/billions of records.