After Nash invents modern cryptography, explains it quite eloquently in a few pages of hand written notes, and designs and builds an electronic machine that automatically encrypts / decrypts the messages. He is then sent form letter rejection by the government: "It has been found that cryptographic principles involved in your system, although ingenous, do not meet the necessary requirements for official application."

Faster internet woo-hooo!!!!

Hired.

If you didn't notice Microsoft doesn't own Skype yet. Skype dropped Asterisk support all by itself.

I have long thought that "sink or swim" classes were the only classes worth attending. The possibly to "sink" comes from the classes actually trying to teach something hard. They cover material that requires time and practice to learn. This is a great thing. Algebra is one such class. CS 101 is another. This isn't to say you need to just smite everyone who can't understand what a function is right away, but the reason these classes seem so hard is because they actually ARE hard. How awesome.

This is the kind of asshole response that causes people to abandon slashdot's community in favor of reddit's. Do you realize that we need new users or this site will become irrelevant? There are clear trends (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org+reddit.com+digg.com) that that is already happening. Try being nice for once.

While you are correct that you don't need calculus or differential equations in most programming / technology sector jobs, it is also important to note that to get the jobs in the first place many of us had to get BS degrees in programs that did require those classes. We really do know calculus, and it is likely that because of that we are smarter and better able to do our jobs.

Ask your programmer friends. I bet they would agree...