I am not.
Quite honestly, I thought "writing emails" was not even a question here.

A basic course in programming (coding, CS, call it what you will) must be on the curriculum for any modern school. Something that teaches how computers work, not only how to use them. With the ubiqousness of computers today and in the future, the point is so painfully obvious IMHO that I cannot understand why its opponents don't even bothering to explain their standpoints.

In this day and age, basic computer skills should be a mandatory field of teaching. Right? As a side-effect, it solves this issue for every other minority aswell.
Assuming they don't have ergonomic mouses.

Or does K12 mean university level?

And last I checked, BitTorrent was a p2p protocol...
Time marches on, I guess.

After the first paragraph, I thought I'd mod this up. This deserves to be +5, Insightful.
After the second I thought +4 Insightful is sufficient.
After the last paragraph I decided just to post this reply instead.

Sitting on top of a huge canister of highly combustable stuff, propelling you to orbit, isolated in a thin canister full of pressurized tanks of who knows what. And all this solid Soviet craftsmanship.

Why does the (safely stowed away) gun sound like the crazy part here?

Informative? Informative 4??
I was aiming fror a Troll with positive rating. Or Funny in the worst case.

Most articles?
From the rat's nest of links in the summary, it seems the Cringley article is the only one out there.

Great troll. Its just sad to see how many /.:ers bit.

My HP z840 is not three monts old, and fully supported by HP and/or RH.
It even had a physical RHEL 6 driver CD in the package!
As of a few years back the 3rd party SW vendors have slowly started to add support for Ubuntu, but as of now, only the linux fanatic could even consider switching. RHEL has been the obvious choice on the desktop for the last 10 years (if you didn't want Solaris). I even had RHEL 5 on my laptop for a while back - no problems whatsoever.

Never mind how you twist light into a Mobius strip.
How do you twist light into a regular strip in the first place?

Finally, a proper use case for the Raspberry Pi. And in its natural habitat at that!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

So much stuff one has never heard about.

Please spare me from "programmers" who have never seen the inside of a computer chassi!

I guess the crux of the matter is with this quote from TFA:

With 4Mbps as a limit for "broadband intenet access", you just can't boast about being a leader in internet accessability. And not being able to boast hurts the American psyche.

Because 4k TV is a Basic Human Right. Right?

or alternatively - go do something already!
Looking at all the smart(ass) comments on slashdot gives me hope that 'living in harmony and peace' is not beyond our intelligence capabilities as the human race (how hard can it be?!?). Somebody just needs to kick the cynics' collective butt.
Fair try with the clock. 7/10.

Precisely.

According to a news article dated 29.12, the police announced they intend to interview 'Ryan' in the coming days.
(http://yle.fi/uutiset/epailty_suomalaishakkeri_krpn_kuulusteluun/7710003) Sounds to me like they asked him to come to the interview. No detaining or arresting involved.

I guess it is not the Finnish language that is to blame here, but the mentality.