Because those jobs are not staying overseas. Some of the companies that tried outsourcing their entire IT departments are now feeling the competitive disadvantage of not having the same amount of control they would get by owning custom systems. Sending a bunch of requirements to a contractor and getting a crusty system eight months later just doesn't cut it in today's business world.

Even in a big school in an affluent community in Minnesota (a really good public school with over 2000 students) seems to have had fairly low interest in CSci. When my son went, they had an AP computer science class that had 18 students. The next year, they had 15, and then the next there wasn't enough demand to hold the class. The sole qualified teacher in the school moved out of state about the same time my son graduated, and I don't know if or when they hired a replacement.

That said, it's a few month course for a teacher to become certified to teach AP CSci. If there is a critical shortage, it could be fixed by the start of the next school year if they act now.

You don't think Walmart's lobbyists from Bentonville aren't earning their keep in Little Rock? The Waltons are not about to share a dime they don't have removed from their pockets at gunpoint.

Why blame the kid? Perhaps because he was attempting to murder other people?

There isn't a technical,fix for a sociopath, other than to remove the sociopath from society. The only utility you can get from this idiot is to show other people that SWATting will be met with disastrous, life-ruining consequences in hopes of dissuading them of copying the crime.

We already have flow batteries, such as vanadium redox that have 75% round trip efficiency. With more research, we may be able to get beyond 90% RTE. Battery storage can distributed throughout the grid, just as solar generating capacity is, so grid losses (currently about 7%) are reduced.

Private schools and charter schools both pay market based salaries, and neither has a problem finding qualified teachers.

Mass transit must pick people up where they are, and take them where they want to go. For most people, SkyTran would do neither of those things. It is only viable in dense urban cores, where decent public transit already exists.

Of course. But it is too soon to say whether I was right or not.

Literate does not mean knowledgeable. It means able to read.

In this case the warning is, there is a very high likelihood that they will send an artillery shell back in the direction the drone came from, pretty much guaranteed and then bluff it out with nukes. Do not play with other people's lives, it is seriously not nice. North Korea is run by psychopaths, totally out of control psychopaths versus our own somewhat constrained political and corporate psychopaths. Change will come only via the elimination of those psychopaths, want fast change, than just put your own life on the line, sneak across that border and well, make those psychopaths go away, good luck with that. Patience, attempting to communicate with North Koreans, not letting any North Korean leaders out of North Korea, ever for any reason, and cutting off all luxury exports to North Korea (psychopaths must have their ego driven luxuries) are the only way to go. Either North Koreans achieve their own freedom or they will just lose it again, much the same as the rest of us. Fortunately most of the rest of us do not need to resort to violence to achieve a social democracy instead of a psuedo democracy but actually a corporatocracy. For North Koreans the choice is either bite the bullet or eat the bullet.

In two words, Star Trek. Reality is we are very used to communicating verbally, we are built for it genetically. Our brain is of course far more complex than any CPU and we have huge problems understanding each other, not just foreign languages but accents as well. So yeah, just like in Star Trek the majority want to communicate verbally with their devices, just like "Sudo Make Me Sandwich", yep, everyone does want that, especially women ;).

Think about this. Many people might consider paying the M$ tax in order to avoid the real cost of upgrades. Having to retrain staff, having to install upgrades, having hardware drivers fail and needing hardware to be replaced, having to convert data to make it compatible with upgrades, all of those cost more than the unit price of the upgrade, far, far more. So a protection racket, pay the rent or else face upgrade nightmares ;D.

This only works upon the basis of using economic and military warfare to keep the majority of the planets population from using energy at the same rate as a minority of the planets population. Simple, hard, fact. Should the majority use energy and create pollution at the same level as the current military leading minority, then the global environment will collapse, no ifs, no buts and no maybes. So either the minority bomb the majority back into the stone age or we make some real changes in energy production and usage upon a fair and reasonable basis. Nuclear is the only choice, the only option on the table that goes anywhere near solving the real problem and the problem also includes the "I got my energy, fuck you and your needs" problem.

Energy also has a resource use balance, you can minimise upon the use of other resource by using energy to substitute for those resource ie drain rivers dry or desalinate salt water and pump the fresh water produced to where it is needed (gravity is a huge energy burden when it comes to shifting water about, far bigger than most people realise).

You left out the ponzi scheme element of bit coin. Where people who start the scheme get to print out their own money, like printing hundred thousand dollars bills at the start and as more people join the scheme the size of the bills being printed shrink enormously. So that suckers at the other end of the scheme are printing fractions of a cent but running around promoting the scheme to everyone in order to give value to the fractions of a cent that they are printing. Meanwhile the schemers at the other end who were printing hundred thousand dollar bills are laughing. Admittedly this is very much like the US Federal Reserve where corporate types print fake money, that the US government pretends is real and then owes it to those corporations who printed it.

Hugely, dangerously, in the case of the US government is this leads to idiotic statements from the US like "WE MUST LEAD, we have the military and the economy and we MUST USE IT", the US must lead of course to protect the illusion of the US bitcoin 'er' dollar. Basically threatening other countries with it's military and economic sanctions to defend it's bitcoin 'er' dollar scam, so that it can continue to pretend the US GDP is not hugely parasitic off other countries economies. No fucking wonder bitcoin was so popular in the US it is pretty much exactly like the corporate Federal Reserve US dollar 'er' bitcoin. So in the same fashion bitcoin ultimately leads to the similar kinds of crime and abuse associated with the US Corporate Federal Reserve dollar.

Until Dice stops their blatantly user hostile behavior, I will be boycotting their services, and I encourage you to join me. My company occasionally posts ads on Dice, but we we no longer do so. We will also try to avoid buying from any company that advertizes on a Dice Holdings website.

If Dice wants to stop this boycott, they need to post a public message stating that the auto-play videos will stop, and that Slashdot Beta is permanently cancelled.

If we want to see changes, we need to hit them where it hurts.

Free speech, according to the US government money is speech. So if I pay someone to kill someone else am I not exercising my right to free speech, after all I am not doing the killing, I am just exercising my right to free speech. So where exactly does the fucking slippery slope start?