One one hand, I am convinced school should teach basic skills and that there is a lot to improve there.

On the other hand, I came to computing because of that the exact same kind of initiative in the 80's. The difference with today may be that it was not so obvious to have access to a computer at that time.

The brain blood barrier is not just a fence against bacterias (evolution would have gave us blood barriers for other critical organs). It is also there to prevent neurotransmitters to leak or to break in.

For instance, eating dopamine does not increase dopamine in the brain. If you want to increase dopamine, you can either take a drug that prevent it from being cleared, or eat a precursor that can cross the barrier like Tyrosine, or closer, L-dopa, but here the brain remain capable to regulate dopamine increase.

Blocked sites are: jihadmin.com, mujahida89.wordpress.com, is0lamnation.blogspot.fr and alhayatmedia.wordpress.com.

But the system is incomplete: smaller ISP do not seems to be blocking them right now. Perhaps the government forgot to tell them about it.

Summary says: "Syrian military allegedly launched sarin gas rockets".

It is not that obvious who used chemical weapons. We have evidence rebells used sarin

IMO, tools are a secondary problem. Many FLOSS project succeed with just e-mail and a distributed version control system (even plain old CVS). Motivation if the key point of FLOSS: people really want their contribution to get upstream, and that push them to make a lot of efforts. This may be difficult to reproduce with employed developers that may not care much about the project.

We are heading to the situation where patching the kernel will be faster than patching applications:

Kernel upgrade: no downtime

Adjusting a parameter in Java application: wait for 4 minutes for Glassfish to restart

Submitter wants a "widespread compiled language that has good ties into FOSS".

What about plain old C? Otherwise, second best choice seems C++

Posting porn: wrong

Expressing your identity by posting porn: good

There is something weird in this logic.