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Comment We don't need CS -- We need Tech Literacy (Score 5, Interesting) 300

by WhodoVoodoo on Monday September 28, 2015 @04:24AM (#50611431) Attached to: Jeff Atwood NY Daily News Op-Ed: Learning To Code Is Overrated

We don't need coders -- We need people who know how computers work.

We need classes to teach people what the difference is between the OSes. We need people to know what https is. We need people who know why to VPN, what security is, and how to protect their info on the internet. We need anti-phishing anti-419 courses. Indeed, teaching C/S to the English teacher is wasted, but perhaps they knowing how the internet works is not lost?

Comment Of course, (Score 1) 163

by WhodoVoodoo on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:33PM (#48881433) Attached to: Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing

will it work on a suitcase of drugs?

Accurate Browser Statistics? 137

Posted by Cliff on Monday February 12, 2007 @03:25PM from the determining-browser-share dept.

zyl0x asks: "A co-worker of mine has been made responsible for a large web application for our software product, and he was having a hard time deciding what functionality to implement, and whether or not to sacrifice functionality for a larger user base. With Walmart's harsh stand on browser compatibility, we got to thinking, exactly how many users would we be alienating by using some IE-only functionality on our website? We tried crawling the internet to get some current, accurate browser usage statistics, but we could only find stats for specific websites. I thought I'd try sending Google a request, since we imagine they'd have the lowest-common-denominator in terms of types of users, but I received an email from their press department telling me that they 'don't make that kind of information available.' Where can one get a current, accurate, and un-biased measurement of browser usage? Is it even possible?"

Submission + - Sony Set to Market Blu-ray as Winner of Format War

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12, 2007 @03:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: Seizing on widely reported January sales numbers, a Sony executive says that the studio plans to begin marketing Blu-ray as the winner of the high-def format war. "The message that we're going to put out to the consumer now is, now it is safe to make a choice," said Sony Pictures Home Entertainment worldwide president David Bishop. "No more fence-sitting is needed."

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