"There's a good argument that minorities are disadvantaged by generations of discrimination, so efforts to reverse that are still needed"

There's evidence that letting folks in to college who haven't shown a scholastic history and test scores fail to complete college at significantly higher levels (and they are already at 30%-40%.

Only 46% of blacks make it to the finish line (and that's after decades of affirmative action). Compared to 72% of Asians, 67% of whites and 55% Hispanic.

The answer isn't to abandon college readiness evaluation tests... the answer is to figure out why they are so ill-prepared.

" If you don't see the value in an educated populace, there's no hope for you"

If you don't see the drag on the economy such debt creates, there's no hope for you.

The way we are doing things is driving up the cost of education, increasing the amount of debt students must assume. And NOBODY appears to be doing a ROI when taking those loans.

Go to community college and then transfer to state. Shine there and maybe go to graduate school. You don't need "the college experience" on top of the education (living on campus across the country). Particularly if you need to take a loan for it.

30%-40% drop out and dont even get a degree. But they're still in debt. This isn't a healthy way to manage education or life planning.

"College isn't trade school"

Maybe a healthy chunk of folks should go to trade school if so many cant make to the finish line. Think about it! Plumbers are aging out and we don't have enough folks in the field to replace them! We need far more skilled plumbers than folks with degrees in biology or some generic humanities subject with post-grad skills as a barista.

" Very few of the old members into science-y stuff are left..."

Today the "/." effect is much like a gentle evening breeze vs. gale force winds.

It's not "why", it's "why bother".

CA is doing horrible producing students who have a good understanding of English and math. With even our poor graduation rates (lower than 85%), it's even worse than that because we've lowered our standards to achieve even that.

If/When Archive.org (The Way-Back Machine) ever goes off line.

"You figure more people would buy it if only it were more expensive?"

What I figure is that there will be less of it (content) if the value of the IP is lost.

Right now, I think the only two profitable streaming services are Netflix and Hulu -- but Hulu's days may be numbered since they were bought by Disney+ which is losing money hand over fist.

Excuse me? Lack of availability? We're not talking about some esoteric 1 season TV show from 15 years ago or limited run films that aren't available on media or streaming services -- we're talking about first run films.

The only thing 'inconvenient" is the price.

" just trying to re-impose horse whip industry on the unwilling consumers"

Not really related, is it?

There are people streaming IP that they have no right to -- and people paying (and often not paying) to watch it.

That is illegally lowering the value of the IP causing the LEGAL providers of the IP to lower prices (often below what is profitable). Lower the prices beyond what can make a profit and/or make the risk too high to be worth production costs and guess what? No new content.

Pidgeon logic. No understanding of short-term gains vs long term loses.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/20...

Because providing such footage voluntarily is clearly a privacy violation?

"the program that had allowed law enforcement to seek footage from users on a voluntary basis"

Now they have to get a warrant and provide it to ring bypassing the ring doorbell's owners say in any of this.

I'm not seeing this as a privacy win.

"This unit only has a handful of games on it."

It has "M.U.L.E." on it. And what appears to be a possible 4 player possibility. That alone makes it worth it for me. I haven't seen a full list of games on it, but if it includes ARCHON, then it's heaven -- wit a fuji logo.

How many errors before it should count?

Two can play at that game. Inject the mic with epoxy, freezing the diaphragm so it doesn't conduct sound.

Score 2 points out of 5 for the que-cat reference. I still have mine.

Full marks for those who thought "i-Opener".

The one I use at work is at least 18 years old and still going strong. Sure, the silver coating has worn through in a few places, but all the buttons and the scroll wheel still work. I expect it'll still be working on the day I decide to retire, which is 10+ years away.

It was a 16 year old who reverse engineered iMessage and worked with Beeper

https://www.wired.com/story/be...

Oh, how I miss that /.

"In early August, Migicovsky received a message on Discord from the user JJTech0130. JJTech0130, whose name is James Gill, said he had just released a coding project called Pypush—a mashup of “Python,” a coding language, and “push notifications.” Gill claimed he had “reimplemented iMessage” and thought Migicovsky might be interested. Less than 10 minutes later, Migicovsky responded, “Holy crap! Does it work?”"