What the hell do you care if the NSA is looking at your source code?

I mean seriously. Do you have pictures of you doing blow embedded in your source code or something?

The Tesla battery design is a technological breakthrough.

Also, electric vehicles like the Tesla have lower maintenance costs due to a significant reduction in moving parts.

Then your network isn't secure to begin with. You just use your control as a pathetic crutch.

1000 people is a statistically significant sample size as long as there's no sample bias.

I do think the race issue is worth discussing. As well as the gender issue.

But there's something more fundamental and less likely to stoke passions at play here:

DOING SCIENCE IS ABOUT MAKING MISTAKES. Her "punishment" should be to write a paper on what she was trying to do and why the results were not what she expected. Simple, end of story.

There should be no real punishment of any kind, much less the over the top expulsion and arrest.

The simple fact is that she should be encouraged to make mistakes, not punished for them. And the most basic problem we are dealing with is that our school systems don't understand this fact.

His password is 7 lower case characters. It's a wonder his GMail account wasn't hacked ages ago.

This was true about 10 years ago, but now we exist in a tech world in which there are way more jobs than people to do them. If all you are doing is low-level gofer programmer and you're 40, yes, you are in a dead end job. But if you have managed to amass technology experience that matches your age, you are extraordinarily valuable.

Congratulations!

You just managed to get the stupidest Slashdot question of the year submitted in time for 2011 consideration!

There's always someone willing to pay more. Companies that pay gobs of money at the expense of other factors have high turnover.

Ethics are absolute. Laws are relative. There's no such thing as personal ethics.

I am guessing 100% of Android users are ignorant jackasses?

What a lovely little world you live in. It's one in which people who don't agree with you don't "want a good product".

I use an iPhone and continue to use it because it is a better product for my needs than the Android. I'm not being a doofus like you and claiming that the iPhone is a better phone for your needs.

It would seem that the only honest conclusion is that, of the survey population, more iPhone users than Android users believe that the iPhone best meets their needs and will continue to meet their needs.

Country A has a population of x.

Country B has a population of x*4.

Which country will have a larger pool of job applicants with an IQ above 140?