But not BASIC. It's just dirty prototyping. :P

Many of them are or were college students. What do you think? :P

R.net?

Anybody having a modicum of tech support experience would know that even "point and click" is overly complicated for plenty of average people. :P

"Yes, I need you to turn it off and on again. You need to pull the trigger and slide back th-no, don't worry sir, we already dispatched an ambulance. Now, has your remaining hand stopped bleeding? Sir, I need you to stop the bleeding first before we can proceed. Now, hold the handle with your teeth an- sir? Sir?"

Just don't drink and drive. It's not rocket science.

It's been a long time since I last studied physics, but an extremely strong EM field can have mass.

We can outright throw it out, as there isn't an infinite amount of energy in the visible universe.

No, it's just 'Doctor'.

Please don't make me explain the joke.

"s/electric universe/flat earth/g"

gnuSSL? Although TLS should be supported, so maybe gnuTLS?

It's the british that use '-re' to sound like 'er'. My guess is that most americans have heard spanish long enough to link '-re' to sound like 'ay'. And have heard canadians long enough to put an 'ay' at the end of any word anyways. :P

Seeing as how the news is about programming, who's being silly?

Here you go: three internets.

And the vast majority of all those are not in programming at all. Programmers/CS/IT workers make good money, have a very low work death rate, and CS graduates are overwhelmingly dominated by males. It's a privileged field (not saying that's wrong, but compared to blue collar work, let's be real here. You know, like work where there are actual deadly hazards?), and while I'm no fan of affirmative action, it's absolutely silly to complain that there's a little extra incentive to teach an couple more people from an under-represented demographic in such a discipline.