It'll drive people out of their minds and since Slashdot won't have any users it will be easy to access.

On a more serious note, I see Skinny Puppy's billing of the government to be a sign that they condone the use of their music in such a way. I know that's not true but a C&D letter would have been a much better political statement.

Still, boycott the Beta. Fight Dice.

It makes the site harder to use. The user becomes angry and upset and decides that they'd rather spend their time elsewhere. That's what happens when a PC gets hosed up by garbage and that's what will happen if SlashDice gets hosed up by garbage.

I will not give in to the powers-that-be-Dice and put up with a terrible design with no functional gains.

Boycott the Beta!

Slashdot Beta is still around, that's who.

Fight the power, brother. Speak out against the beta.

I don't even know why they would. A new OS could be written to run Androids current apps, sure, but further fragmentation of the ecosystem wouldn't help either party and Samsung has the most to lose. They know this.

I'm all for a multiOS mobile culture today. I've owned phones with 4 distinctly different OSs on them and each has their pros and cons. I just don't feel that yet another player, even the size of Samsung, is going to make much headway in the current market. Though I will say Samsung is probably in the best position of any hardware manufacturer to do this. If they felt that they could do it I would be interested in seeing what they bring to the table, I just don't see Samsung benefiting overall from leaving the established OSs.

It's a real method that has been used for at least hundreds of years and is still practiced today. It's not a clean shaving method but it is one way to get rid of excess hair without the use of a tool.

Maybe they used fire?

I'm pretty sure that what they're talking about relates to this. A lot of estimates that have been made in the last few years said that our volatiles would burn off in 500 million years. This is just a new estimate.

If you think the NSA issue is a right vs left kind of argument in today's political climate you're even further gone than what I first thought!

Agreed but as long as people play the "less of two evils" card this isn't going to go away. Partisan politics fuels an ugly beast. Any fool can see that.

And I'd like to point out that part of this idea that they have floating around their heads that they're the ones who know best comes from citizens crying to the government for solutions anytime there is a problem... a lot of the time there isn't even a real problem. We live in a nanny state because we've demanded a nanny state.

We've sold ourselves down river in about a thousand ways. Most of it comes down to laziness and mistaking inconvenience for oppression. Most people have more information, intelligence, insight and stronger opinions on the upcoming Super Blow than they do about their position in society and how it relates to government.

If you think Feinstein holds the 2nd Amendment as gospel then you have no idea what you're talking about.

I couldn't take CS classes at my high school - I graduated in '98 and high school level comp sci wasn't even a thing yet except at specialty schools.

I went to high school in suburban Pittsburgh. I graduated in 1991. I took my first "CS" class in 7th or 8th grade. We're talking mid-80s. It was a BASIC programming course on a TRS-80 Model 2.

Granted, I think it's a bit heavy handed to call it computer science but we did learn some BASIC. I already had a VIC-20 at home so it wasn't anything new to me aside from having a teacher to ask questions to instead of just learning from the manual that came with my VIC.

When I was in 10th grade we had another BASIC class that was pretty much the same material but didn't go over as much of the fundamentals as the first one. In 11th grade I had a Pascal course. There were no further programming courses available at the time and I've never heard of AP CS high school courses until I read about it here or on Facebook in the past few weeks. I had a couple nephews who went to the same school I went to. One had graduated and one is a senior this year and by their accounts it seems that programming is no longer offered from what they've told me and one of them would have been likely to take such a course if offered.

To touch back on the question of girls and minorities, I only recall there ever being one girl in my high school level courses and she dropped it early on. There was one minority student and he kept on it through both courses and went on to be a CS major and is still working in the field, AFAIK.

Maybe I misstated my point but that doesn't make the overall tone of what I'm saying any less relevant. I could spend all day on slashdot pointing out where people have fumbled with the nomenclature but still have a valid point.

To me, it seemed fairly obvious to try mixing such things!

Then why didn't you produce it if it was so obvious to you?

Yeah. It happens in nature too.