If you're teaching high school auto shop, does their class need to include the social and economic impact of the automobile? Hint: The answer is no. It's a course on a specific subject. It's supposed to be compartmentalized.

They can and will hear all about social issues in all the classes that don't actually prepare them for real jobs. No, they're not grad students, but they're old enough to complete a course that focuses purely on the technical. Previous generations somehow managed it.

The kiddies these days already get enough social engineering in all their other classes. Why not actually teach computer science in a computer science course?

I realize it's an introductory class, but surely you could actually teach them something useful where they end the course with some accomplishment, like enough html to make a simple hand-coded web page, or some other language that will end with a finished program of some sort. Even the old Commodore Basic I was taught gave me a foundation in the structure of programming.

Keep a technical course technical.

So the woman in the example is paying Canada's outrageous data plan fees for the privilege of doing something she could do on, you know, that computer-thingamabob in front of her.

I think that actually started with the article being posted.

I now have to scroll to see all my bookmarks, thanks to the idiotic double-spacing.

Much as I otherwise like Chrome, it's back to Firefox for me. It's a bad decision to sacrifice ergonomics for ... well, whatever it was that motivated this dumb decision.

...and make sure that if higher ups start to ask about these mistakes, you're not made a scapegoat.

Said with 10+ years in a supervisory position, with my own superiors to deal with too, I know it's a careful path you have to walk when documenting someone in a senior position screwing up. And it's got to be stuff that's actually going to affect the bottom line, like missed deadlines or quality control that loses customers. Otherwise, you'll have to just put up and shut up.

If those feature requests and bug reports are encouraged within your company, keep doing them with a degree of discresion (ie - skip the trivial stuff), and keep copies somewhere safe in a CYA file.

No. But feel free to bandy the term about until it becomes meaningless.

As better explained above, the higher price we pay is not solely due to monopolistic practices.

And yet Yamaha isn't an American monopoly, so your point you were trying to make there falls a little flat.

A lot of this stuff comes out in medical reports when the injured person goes to a hospital.

No one would admit to sticking a Barbie doll or beer bottle up their jacksie, either, but the reports - and x-rays - are online for our enjoyment.

The irony here is we're giving lots and lots of view hits to the stolen video.

I watched a few early episodes of Mythbusters and really can't see what the appeal is. It's a show that fights junk science with junk science.

That said, I can definitely see why fans of the show would also be so partisan in their political beliefs: neither involve much rational thought.

No. AppleInsider has reported Apple claims the story is bunk. That's very different. Appleinsider makes no claim one way or the other, they're just reporting the company's press release.

It's good to see the Reality Distortion Field is still working.

I take a possibly more cynical view that like so many other politicians, pundits and activists, their "cause" is nothing but a horse they've hitched their career cart to.

Odd. I didn't see an option that you could play "Reuters Photographer."

Fixed the sentiment for you.