Interesting list. But I have issues with item's 5 and 6.

When you look at Boys who go into Technical Fields, including CS, you find quite a large number of them who were as children quite interested in video game systems. This and their curiosity propelled them to try and figure out how these things worked. Some of my first programs were simple games, and hacking your way around the DRM for some games was a key technical puzzle to solve when I was growing up.

Also a key feature for many boys that later go into tech was figuring out how devices work. Nowadays, the smartphone is one of the devices to analyze that way, especially if they get into rooting the devices and reinstalling OSes on it.

Now kids may play the games and use the smartphones and not become interested in CS, but I'm don't think thats because of those activities generally.

I think kids interested in science and engineering are the kids interested in how those games and devices WORK.

Exactly. If the data being used against your arguments is so faulty, let it be put out there and publish your paper proving their conclusions wrong. Calling for overt censorship, from certain perspectives, looks no different than trying to hide something.

I think people in general are getting pretty sick of having islamic terrorists do horrific stuff and then the first thing the media does is point its finger at us saying "and don't you retaliate about this". In fact we don't, as individual citizens retaliate about this at all. There may be some instances here or there of poor treatment of muslims from some people, but they're constantly berating ALL of us to "not judge".

I think people are through with that, sick of being scolded for things we're not doing, while our leaders are developing habits of NEVER calling out these murderous islamic terrorists and stating that they are completely unacceptable in our world. They are only yelling at us to not ever respond in any way.

This is exactly it.

No one could bring themselves to believe the horrors that the Nazi's did UNTIL the pictures could be seen.

These things are hard to look at, but they must be seen.

Maybe if we don't look at it we can pretend it doesn't exist, right?

I commend Fox on this. As a consumer of news I want the CHOICE of whether I view this or not. I do not want the news provider to choose for me. As a point of fact, I have up to this point chosen not to view the video.

I am actually not upset a Fox for this, I am upset that the New York Times are such cowards that they won't show Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

Well judging by the Aereo decision where they were just like a cable company in front of one court and not at all like a cable company in front of another court, I'm not counting on the courts being logically consistent.

Sorry? No, you're not. What a horribly cruel comment.

Many people struggle at public school for many different reasons.

Telling them that THEY suck isn't going to help them.

I stream that movie to find out which of the two monsters comes out on top.

Or they could both die at the end ;-)

To progressives, everything is a zero sum game. The metric they are measuring gets a desired increase if a girl joins CS or if a boy is excluded from CS.

Yep. And this costs way less than bringing in and swapping out a part.

I don't see any real reason not to just spin the spare drives.

Heh, with a quick glance, I read your first line as:

Histrionic Storm!

Or maybe I'll just fail to notice when the site turns out the lights.

I don't get the general feeling that Dice decisions about running /. are actually increasing the user base.

Yep. Slashdot has become a huge pile of suck lately. It used to be "News for Nerds", now its looking more for "News for Nerd wannabes".

A political bent has been here a long time, but it used to be more even keeled, and the discussion used to be more open. Hell, even Jon Katz was better than some of the political drivel being posted here lately, especially vis a vis "diversity" and gamer gate. The progressive, hipster, and white knight posturing here lately has been sickening.

RIP Slashdot. We used to have logical discussions around here and talk about technology, when culture came up it was viewed from within and around the technology. Well the SJW's are on the march and they've arrived as /.

I'll be signing off now.

Please adjust your sarcasm detector.

Here ya go.

http://www.wintersoldier.com/i...

It is well known that John Kerry testified against the Vietnam war in a congressional hearing. This link is the second one found by google.

I'm not saying anything one way or the other but him speaking out against the war is a well known thing.