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Of course, from the link:
There is, though, one big caveat to this study: Cech did not survey a control group of undergraduates in other subjects. So while her results are intriguing, it’s not clear whether engineers in particular come out of their studies with a dulled sense of social responsibility, or it’s just something that happens to all graduates when they start having to fend for themselves in a harshly competitive economy.
Which contradicts the title. The study doesn't suggest anything unique about engineering because of the above.
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While the FAA has cleared the use of electronics on US passenger airplanes at all stages of flight, there's still one major restriction in place: you have to shut off all cellular access. That rule may not exist for much longer if the FCC has its way, according to sources for the Wall Street Journal. But I thought that would cause the plane to automatically crash?
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Imagine up to 300 people chatting for eight hours in an already cramped airline.
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Quick! Buy all the shares you can in "Noise-Cancelling Headphones" manufacturers.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Since revelations of the NSA's widespread data collection and monitoring earlier this year, Google has staunchly denied working with the government agency and has taken it to task on a number of occasions. After calling the NSA surveillance "outrageous" earlier this month, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has come out against the agency again in an interview with Bloomberg News. "The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything," Schmidt said in a speed at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. "We can end government censorship in a decade." Strangely enough, that's also the solution to Google's surveillance
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Strangely enough, that's also the solution to Google's surveillance
Not if Google provides the encryption - They will sooner or later, since they started encrypting their whole internal data traffic. 
Veni, vidi, caecus
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Yeah. I meant encrypt it locally, then use their stuff (mostly gmail). Just like the bad old PGP days 
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TTFN - Kent
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That copes with the content of the message, unfortunately not with the metadata.
Maybe we should all go to the dark web side.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Maybe we should all go to the dark web side.
I'll make an entire new internet before going to that place.
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Blackberry did this for ages. But they are not social. Ha.
Nuclear launch detected
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Are you a competent JavaScript developer but have yet to hit Jedi-level secrets? No worries -- these steps will take you to the next level. "There is no try, only do" (Thank you, snydeq)
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Extremely high energy particles originated from outside the Solar System. This is huge news! It means... uhm.... well... something!
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Wolfram wants to make it easier for would-be programmers everywhere to start learning how to code, and it's announced a new partnership today that'll have every Raspberry Pi include at no extra cost a copy of Mathematica and an early version of Wolfram Language, its easy to use computing language. Great news for those who want to embed a graphing engine in their coffee maker
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From what I remember about how Mathmatica performed on the relics in my college math depts computer lab back in 99, I'm skeptical about being able to do much more than hello world level computation with it. If Wolfram's developers followed moores law in adding bloat even that may be beyond the rPi.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That syncs with my decades-old memory of mathematica as well, but who knows, maybe it's been rewritten in binary or with some magical Wolfram pixie dust? I'd be interested in seeing something real done with this.
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Nothing lasts forever. Office may be a huge money-spinner for Microsoft, but what's next? "The result would inevitably be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws."
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Is there a reason to believe that Office will die in a near future (5, 10 years)?
Are there real viable options?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Is there a reason to believe facts or reasonable belief has anything to do with what passes for journalism these days?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, like a lot of things, "It depends". I think there are a lot of alternatives for simple documents: GDocs, Libre Office, whatever Apple calls their stuff, heck even WordPad is good enough for the way most people use Word.
For specialized text, and even more so spreadsheets, the only real alternative to Office is an older version of Office. Which is Office's main competitor these days. Why upgrade when '97 has everything you want/need, and isn't as irritating?
I do have to admit though, I included that as comedy because of his choice. Skype?!?! I'd believe in Groove or "here's a chisel and stone" before Skype was a viable option to replace just about anything.
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They killed Office with Office 2007.
I'm still using Office 2003.
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Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond, today they are introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio! Just like the cool kids use, but in a real IDE!
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We are a group of .NET developers who are sick and tired of starting Visual Studio, creating a new project and running it, just to test simple code or try out samples from other developers. And as to sharing code and samples, don't even get me started. Sometimes, you just need a little jig
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Nice site, but I suspect they haven't heard of LinqPad[^] if they were starting VS to test simple code. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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True. One of the nice features they have here that LinqPad doesn't is the "Collaborate" feature, for those times when you don't want to (or can't) gather around a monitor.
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Has anyone played with it enough to compare it to http://ideone.com/[^]?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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