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Chrome is only starting to provide any real programming tools. So when teachers want to use tools, they will have to use whatever few are supported on Chrome, or use them in the cloud. If I want Java and Netbeans (or IntelliJ, or BlueJ, or...) good luck. Google created this sticky platform as the snare, and the formerly do-no-evil company is now a gigantic spider sucking the blood (and perhaps student brains) out of schools And of course, consider the Digital Gap, which as the New York Times says is note quite what was expected: Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected https://nyti.ms/2JkjOuf

No it's still illegal because it circumvents the FOIA laws. That was the reason Clinton set that server up in the first place - so she could decide which emails would be preserved.

Read the story below, and then fuck right off. Let's stop pretending that anyone really cares if someone in a presidential administration uses personal email.

https://nyti.ms/2yoxME

In case you can't figure out how to bypass the paywall:

"WASHINGTON — At least six of President Trump’s closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday.

The disclosures came a day after news surfaced that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, used a private email account to send or receive about 100 work-related emails during the administration’s first seven months. But Mr. Kushner was not alone. Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief White House strategist, and Reince Priebus, the former chief of staff, also occasionally used private email addresses. Other advisers, including Gary D. Cohn and Stephen Miller, sent or received at least a few emails on personal accounts, officials said.

Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter, who is married to Mr. Kushner, used a private account when she acted as an unpaid adviser in the first months of the administration, Newsweek reported Monday. Administration officials acknowledged that she also occasionally did so when she formally became a White House adviser."

I think he was noting that the article that claimed about a week ago that RT was the cause of bad summer movie sales was wrong.

https://nyti.ms/2xcAtwv

Here is a video of him asking Russia to release emails acquired by hacking Clinton's servers.

http://nyti.ms/2a06kW1

If you can still deny it after that, you're ready to run for office.

We've known since at least the 1700s that first-past-the-post plurality voting is a totally broken system. It's irresponsible to conduct any election with more than two alternatives in this fashion.

In many places, especially early in the election cycle, Trump would have lost any single head-to-head matchup. But his opponents were always split, and plurality voting is tremendously vulnerable to this kind of problem.

Process matters. If our elections were conducted using a Condorcet method like Ranked Pairs, Maximum Majority, or Schulze, we would have had less irrationality and extremism from both parties throughout the years, and the existing parties would not have become so entrenched.

Here's a popular-audience explanation by a couple of Nobel winners.

Trump said he would 'get' Apple to make their products in America, not 'make' Apple.

That may all be said and good, but it seems Apple (and many other electronics manufacturers) might be hard to convince, as Jobs explained to Obama in 2012. An excerpt that captures the gist of the article:

Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

" The speed and flexibility is breathtaking," the executive said. "There’s no American plant that can match that."

Your ideas sound super in a world where US has declared war on a country and all the soldiers where bright uniforms. It sucks when the US just bombs random countries without declaring war and crosses its fingers that hopefully it hits some combatants. Yes, it was in the NYTimes today. http://nyti.ms/1PrJJN5. this doesn't sound like a war, it sounds like brutal occupation.

You know who else does that? fires of random missiles into somebody else's territory? hamas.

Are you saying that King Digital, maker of the wildly popular Candy Crush Crush Saga (tm)(r)(c) isn't worth 7.6 billion dollars? Surely you jest.

Are you saying that the United States Government, in a pathetic and corrupt attempt to ensure the precious value of the dollar remains somewhat stable, simply prints billions more of it, every month? Surely you jest.

"Value" is whatever amount an idiot is willing to pay for it. No more, and usually much less than the bullshit they're slinging. Kind of like the valuation of both of our examples here.

Are you saying that King Digital, maker of the wildly popular Candy Crush Crush Saga (tm)(r)(c) isn't worth 7.6 billion dollars? Surely you jest.

The last OS based on HTML (WebKit to be more specific) was WebOS, and was deemed slow because of that http://nyti.ms/KOMpBx. Wouldnt a HTML5 based OS face the same hurdles?

I liked this article from a few days ago about using AIDS to kill cancer. http://nyti.ms/ouwqci Seemed poetic or something.

Eh, nowadays people just type what they want in the Google Search bar, remember the Facebook login debacle?

On the other hand, URLs are going back to the AOL keyword origins anyway, look at this domains: http://nyti.ms/, http://flic.kr/, http://youtu.be/ . Yes, they're real. And yes, I hate them.

"Guns are for self defence" is pure myth. Actually it's worse than that, it's idiocy.

Says the idiot?

Many, many examples of citizens carrying guns as being a plus
to the overburdened police department.
[ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/nyregion/09wheelchair.html?_r=1 ]
[ http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/25792735-41/combs-barista-braziel-affidavit-dutch.csp ]
[ http://www.8newsnow.com/story/13865042/man-thwarts-robbery-by-shooting-at-suspect ]
[ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/anne-arundel/would-be-dunkin-donuts-robber.html ]

Just do your own googling and draw your own conclusions;
citizen gun shot perpetrator OR robber OR thief [ http://news.google.com/news/search?&q=citizen+gun+shot+perpetrator+OR+robber+OR+thief ]
^ fails hard in bing, no boolean? [ http://www.bing.com/search?q=citizen+gun+shot+perpetrator+OR+robber+OR+thief ]

-AI

"Guns are for self defence" is pure myth. Actually it's worse than that, it's idiocy.

If you don't want your family to live in one of the world's most violent and dangerous societies, why do you create and perpetuate it? The rest of us do just fine not shooting each other and we don't live in a permanent paranoid funk.

You can change it if you want to. Protip: Making guns more available isn't the answer.

Jason Wright, the OpenBSD developer funded by NETSEC to work on IPsec (and allegedly put in backdoors for the FBI) went to work at the DHS cyber security lab that the NYT is saying helped do Stuxnet http://nyti.ms/grd51X http://bit.ly/feB9ZV

SecTor 2008 gives his speaker bio http://www.sector.ca/speakers2008.htm

Jason Wright is a cyber security researcher at the Idaho National Laboratory working with SCADA and Process Control system vendors to secure critical infrastructure assets. He is also a semi-retired OpenBSD developer (also known as a "slacker") responsible for many device drivers and layer 2 pieces of kernel code.

I am not making this up.

I'll have to put it in a blog post this evening. See homepage link.

Those fake heads may be for cellphone radiation tests http://nyti.ms/b0vioZ

http://nyti.ms/d7Aics Interesting that David Pogue runs this story about poor reception indoors and how Line 2 gets around that problem. IPhone App to Sidestep AT&T By DAVID POGUE For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to shake up an entire industry. It can save you money. It can make calls where AT&T’s signal is weak, like indoors. It can turn an iPod Touch into a full-blown cellphone.