"no good reason"? This should be marked +5 Funny. How would you like to find out that your next surgery will be performed by a surgeon that was taught by a grade school dropout that had never performed surgery themselves and they just bullshitted teaching the class? That's what you are saying you want, you want doctors and lawyers that were taught by "schools" and "teachers" that have no accreditation, no proof they know what they're talking about. Or wouldn't it be nice to know the "teacher" you just paid $15,000 and studied for a year with was a scam artist and ran away with the money? Great now you wasted a year of your life and you're $15,000 in debt and have nothing to show for it. I think those are very good reasons that the state should regulate who can teach.

Fraud? This goes way beyond fraud. How do you prove the education you recieved is fraudulent or not? If I opened a "school" tomorrow that promised to teach programming and charged $15,000 don't you think some government organization should make sure the students are actually going to learn something for their $15,000? Really this is to protect these schools, because if no one is watching out that means a scam school could open tomorrow and copy their business model and rip students off and it makes all the programming schools look bad. These cease and desist letters are a Very Good Thing.

If nothing happened we would not be talking about it. But something did happen and now it's major headlines across the world. "Cry wolf" and no one will remember the day off next month, but say nothing and they will never forget sitting in their freezing car for 18 hours straight.

Please play hard drive dominos and post to YouTube and /.

I still have a core 2 duo laptop with one of the broken nvidia gpus. For about two years there any laptop with a nvidia chip would eventually fail. Nvidia settled quickly so many people didn't find out about the class action lawsuit until their laptop broke and by then it was too late. Not that it mattered much, the most nvidia offered was a Eee PC netbook to compensate them for their broken Alienware laptops.

you misspelled nvidia.

Agreed. We need to move to text message confirmation. Google, Facebook and Craigslist all send text messages to your phone before any major changes can be made to your account.

Because Google

You can if you support a smartphone OS that does not casually give all your information to every app that requests it

There is a big difference between the govt building and maintaining roads and establishing police and fire departments then, say, giving someone free welfare for 20 years despite never working or paying taxes and giving them more money for every additional child they have. Systems like that will only create more poor that will depend on the system when their children become adults because that's all they have been taught their entire lives. If you give a man a fish today he'll need you to give him another fish tomorrow again, but if you teach him to fish today he will be able to fish for himself tomorrow. Learning is much harder than just getting a hand out but with learning he may someday catch several fish a day and become a successful fisherman. We need a welfare system that encourages people to get off welfare and get a job, not a welfare system that rewards them with more money for more children for 20+ years. Unfortunately democrats encourage people staying on welfare forever because they know people receiving welfare will continue to vote for them so they can keep getting welfare. They don't even recognize the damage staying on welfare is doing to themselves and their children and democrats don't care as long as they keep getting elected.

Haha yeah slashdot lets bash all the stupid poor farmers and make fun of them because all those idiots in fly over states are unworthy! On the other hand, students everywhere might get more use of 2 years of C++ or php than 2 years of Spanish. I know I would have used programming more in college and everyday life than Spanish, and if you need Spanish in everyday life you're going to learn it whether its taught in school or not.

Aren't you both assuming google hasn't already patented system restore... er, I mean restore last good configuration? They could have patented it years ago and no one noticed considering the number of patents they file

This. The next generation are tired of republicans and democrats. They want something new. Libertarians are the new popular party to belong to. They believe in gay rights and legalizing pot and lower taxes and small govt and no surveillance or drone attacks. What's not to love?

Google vision? Am I the only one concerned with how evil Google has gotten in recent years? Yesterday there was an gmail outage and I couldn't access any google service on my account. No emails, no google+, no youtube, nothing, it was like my account didn't exist. Then I realized how completely reliant I am on google applications. But it's not just outages I'm worried about. I'm actually moving away from chrome and back to Firefox to ween myself off google products

If the mother had money to pay the father she would not have gone to the state for assistance in the first place