Lots of research was done in the past, when political correctness did not exist, about IQ. Sure, society was different and the IQ was measured in different ways, but those results cannot be all that irrelevant. That research is not discussed today because it was not politically correct and raised politically incorrect questions (demonstrated politically incorrect correlations) between IQ and ethnic groups and, to a lesser extend, gender. For example, today we hardly ever hear about Sir Francis Galton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton), who in the 19th century essentially invented statistics to aid his sociological research, much of which could be characterized as politically incorrect today. A lot of research was done the first quarter of the twentieth century about the correlation between IQ and success in life. The results were startling: Once IQ reaches beyond 130 (genius territory), it may actually act as an impediment to one's success, because society-at-large cannot handle such high intelligence. Another surprising finding was that leaders have IQ of around 110-120 and tend to act as a bridge between the more intelligent geniuses and the rest of society. http://polymatharchives.blogsp...

No! Sorry to burst your bubble, but no, Hedy Lamarr did not invent frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS); that was invented before World War I. Hedy LaMarr and George Antheil invented a method to coordinate the frequency hopping scheme between transmitter and receiver. And no, frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) is not a fundamental underpinning of bluetooth, wifi, etc., as you claim. That role is reserved for direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS). Don't confuse these two entirely different methods of spread spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Just because education in Europe is "free," that does not mean that somebody is not paying for it! Society-at-large does through forceful taxation. You say that such a rip off cannot be pulled off in Europe, then? Tell that to the masses of unemployed youth in the EU's southern flank (the so-called "PIGS" nations; I don't know much about the situation in Germany). And I am not talking about women's studies majors; I am talking about graduates of hard-core STEM subjects. When a student's education is wasted, somebody always loses, be it the student himself and/or society-at-large in the case of Europe's public education. Unfortunately, it seems that the situation in the US, too, is getting bad, even for honorable STEM graduates, thanks to outsourcing. Virtually all colleges, not just of the ITT and DeVry milieu, inflate their post-graduation employability statistics by counting graduates who got any odd job, even if that job requires no diploma, as "success" stories. That's fraud! (And if academia is not supposed to necessarily provide employment but, rather, some sort of intellectual enrichment and teach the student how to think, etc., etc., why bother with post-graduation employment statistics in the first place?) Professor Doom's blog (example link below) details how college admins rake in the cash, while much of the real teaching is done by adjunct profs who are underpaid and may be disposed of easily. (I don't always fully agree with him because his blogs tend to lump all professors together, while, e.g., a professor of medicine usually earns a lot more than an English professor, but his blogs are full of facts and statistics detailing the rotten state of the so-called higher education in the US.) Overstaffed and overpaid college administrations, useless glitzy buildings, athletics... —everything but real education and all fueled by student loans. A bubble waiting to burst! http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2015/12/higher-ed-as-speculative-bubble.html

So, the Ancient Macedonians spoke Greek then? The dialect Spartans spoke (Doric?) was slightly different than the one Athenians spoke (Attic), yet Spartans were no less Greek than Athenians. How were Macedonians different than the rest of the Greeks then? Not too long ago, "Macedonians" considered themselves Bulgarians. From wikipedia,

It was Yugoslavia's Tito the one who came up with the Macedonian identity, in order to gain access to the Aegian Sea. He was not the only one, for that matter. Bulgarians tried to do the same. In fact, when Greece finally fell in World War II, the Bulgarians came to Salonika and had their patriarch run services there. Similarly, Romanian governments used their gypsies to claim rights to Greece's territory and Romania never had any common border with Greece. And yes, /. should modernize itself and handle UTF-8 properly!

I am shocked at the ignorance of so many slashdotters. Amateur radio is NOT just HF! Amateur radio has had an impressive presence in space since day one. The VERY FIRST communications satellite, which actively relayed signals between two points on Earth (as opposed to being a dumb reflector), was an amateur radio satellite, OSCAR 3 in 1965 ("OSCAR" stands for "Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio"). Do you call this backwardness? Radio amateurs were able to enjoy "phone patches" in their VHF/UHF bands decades before the deployment of cellphones. For the latest in space activities of radio amateurs take a look at the official web site of AMSAT, www.amsat.org. Amateur satellites are not placed in geosynchronous orbits (those precious spots are reserved for commercial ones). That creates a host of problems unknown to operators/users of commercial satellites: Doppler shift, antenna aiming, and wildly varying polarization, just to name a few (the typical "satellite dish" user never experiences these problems because his antenna aims at a geosynchronous satellite, which stays at the same point in the sky with respect to his dish). Yet, radio amateurs successfully use these satellites every day. Do you call this backwardness (or not current technology)? I think you are very ignorant. Where do you think the numerically-controlled oscillator came from? (A radio amateur invented it). Or other exotic demodulation schemes, such as the Costas loop? Or many different kinds of antennas used today? (John D. Kraus, W8JK, is credited with the invention of the helical antenna and the so-called supergain array, just to name a couple of examples. He also built the first radiotelescope.) You may want to know that this path to innovation is still followed today. Today's amateurs are experimenting with new modulation schemes, are trying to push the envelope of usable frequencies well into the millimeter waves, and are also very active in free-space optical links. These are but a few examples. So, ham radio has been AHEAD of current technology! Exotic amateur communications techniques of yesterday are mainstream today after the commercial interests took a look at them in action and realized their potential. So, if you think that amateur radio is technology of the past, you are dead wrong! As an aside on the importance of the HF spectrum, what would provide long-range communication if today's satellites were destroyed, say in a case of war? Have you, pro-BPL slashdotters, ever thought of that?