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  1. Re:Answer: Money on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 1

    While paying all the teachers more would work great, schools aren't a profit industry, which means there's no cash reserves to do that with, nor can you simply raise prices. Education reform needs to work with what is available, not what you wish you had.

  2. Re:Answer: Money on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pay the Teachers enough to make more Science and Math majors WANT to be teachers (in other words support the union).

    The Union wouldn't allow that. Part of supporting all members is that history and english teachers (which there are too many applicants for) make the same as math and science teachers (who there are usually not enough of). The seniority based pay scale the teachers unions insist on hurts as well, a teacher makes decent money in most states if they stick with it long enough, but how many people who just graduated college (and probably have major debt) are going to want to take a job that doesn't pay anything in the short term? A flatter wage will get you more teachers, even if there's more churn. (not necessarily a better situation).

  3. Re:Not news on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't overclock your case? You're missing out.

  4. Re:eh on Linux Rescues Battery Life On Vista Notebooks From Dell · · Score: 1

    Nope, ugly and buggy as hell, can't even make a DHCP connection, windows does that for it

    Hopefully the real thing is bertter than the beta I used.

  5. Re:I have a challenge for the DoD: on The 23 Toughest Math Questions · · Score: 1

    I hate adblock personally. If I blocked ads I'd never have found things like penisreductionpills.com, or half the webcomics and stories I read.

  6. Re:Two years in the first line? on The Stigma of a Tech Support Background · · Score: 1

    Or it could demonstrate that there are no promotion opportunities outside of management at that company, any call center that acts as an outsource probably doesn't have many internal promotion opportunities without leaving the field, or if it does, has them as downgrade positions (I'd have to take a pay cut to get promoted to internal support). Obviously this doesn't apply with tiered support, but if you're last line as well as front line you might want to stress that.

  7. Re:So Do nVidias last 3 months, or ATIs 30-300 yea on AMD Graphics Chips Could Last 10X To 100X Longer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can confirm the putting pressure on the warranty part. Dell just ran out of replacement Nvidia cards for the D620. 15 day wait list if yours fails.

  8. Re:no need to 'store' electricity. on New Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record · · Score: 1

    Or just use them to power your air conditioner. Being able to come home, guilt free, to a nice cold house in the summer months might be worth the upfront payment.

  9. Re:Ingenious on IBM Wants Patent On Finding Areas Lacking Patents · · Score: 1

    And a judge will be able to tell the difference because of what? Suing people for things your patents doesn't actually cover is standard practice.

  10. Re:"But it's just my opinion, I could be wrong" on Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How exactly can an EULA be enforced against someone who doesn't own the software though? The makers of Zotero have no need to own Thompson Rueter's software. Nor is it necessary to have ever used the proprietary software in order to need to open the files. Even if you did once own TR's software, I don't know of any precedent that says you can be held to an EULA of a product you once used but no longer do (A non disclosure agreement type clause might be enforceable this way). And I somehow doubt TR can make a case that a significant portion of Zotero's users use both the TR software and Zotero, the reason to get Zotero is to stop using something else. (This differs from the BNETD case, where a user of BNETD must also have Blizzard software). In this specific case, the EULA seems unenforceable top to bottom.

  11. Re:The Same thing... on Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support · · Score: 1

    I know somebody, somewhere, is thinking 'that will never happen' about the parents post. But please keep in mind that 'never' is a very long time, and Spore has a shot at being a new classic (at least assuming they drop the reinstall limit).

    Can you really say you expect them to keep it all the way until ~2100+ when the copyright expires?

  12. Re:Electromagnetism on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Uh... No, not really, electric fields and magnetic fields are related, but don't effect each other when static.

    Also, this device appears to actually give a charge to the fuel, which is a completely different concept than exerting a field on it. Should work to improve efficiency if the cgarge imparted is significant. Of course, that might be an extra tenth of a mile per gallon, will have to wait for third party testing.

  13. Re:This is a great example of why PC gaming is dea on Review: Crysis Warhead · · Score: 1

    For custom rigs maybe. For prebuilt rigs from an OEM, you'll pay 2-3 times the component cost (and get crappier components in the bargain).

  14. Re:Whatever will we do on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    I don't know, hopefully he'll gt a show on Fox News or something.

    The world is a little less funny today.

  15. Re:A few of these morons and on State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names · · Score: 1

    I'm hesitant to hand these things over to the international community, the US is far from perfect, but there are precious few countries with limits on government seizure and protection of free speech (hell, as far as I know, we're the only ones with the later).

    On the other hand, if the courts are going to keep up with BS like this, maybe we can give someone else a shot.

  16. -1 Redundant. on Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts · · Score: 1

    Seriously, how can I mod the article redundant?

  17. Re:Sure, But Only the Paranoids Survive on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 1

    You confuse the issue even more using the terminology. A 'left wing authoritarian' under the original terminology does *not* mean a liberal authoritarian, it means authoritarians who follow a non traditional leader. If you look at some of the more extreme far right groups you'll find a lot of them. Whole its true that the liberals don't have a lot of either kind of authoritarian right now, that appears to be mostly an oddity of the last 40 years. Prior to the 60s the conventionalist authoritarians we now call the Religious Right voted on the left side of the ballot. And almost anywhere where communism was even a little popular as an idea, radical authoritarians abounded.

  18. Re:Competition is good on Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source · · Score: 1

    The tactics Stanford is suggesting are purely anti-competitive though.

    Embrace and extend, proprietary formats, these things do not provide benefit, and I've seen friends and family burned so often by intentional incompatibilities, that I seriously wonder at the wisdom of letting it be legal at all.

  19. Re:Reminds me of Microsoft on Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source · · Score: 5, Funny

    What makes me laugh is that there is such an "Us Vs Them" tone in all of it. It's like the nice business people think that all the open source guys are just waiting to kill their babies!

    Wait, thats not our ultimate goal? I dedicated my life to a lie!

  20. Re:Cartoon battlefield on US Congress Funds Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    Laser weapons powerful enough to damage any target will permanently damage the eyesight of anyone who looks at as much as a non-specular reflection of the beam./quote

    Citation Needed

  21. Re:But K-12 government relationships are different on Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The on-campus/off-campus distinction might have made clear sense in Tinker (1969), but now that every student has Internet access and a Myspace page makes it a lot more possible to create a serious disruption off-campus that spills into the school.

    So basically, because of the internet, we should suspend freedom of speech? For that matter, how many schools are there that don't block Myspace on the internal network? Mine certainly did (assuming you didn't just turn the filter off, didn't even ened proxies back then)

    Here's a better question, why should the principal get *more* protection simply because of his job? He has the same ability to sue for libel as anyone else, and if the student had been slandering me I wouldn't have had any special ability to suspend them, even if it was just as disruptive to my place of employment. 'Freedom of speech' first and foremost, means that nobody gets special protections from speech.

    Oh, and before you go and use the 'keep order' excuse again, keep in mind that our schooling system has succeeding in convincing half the students that its ok for the government to decide what can and can't be said by a newspaper, and consider just how much order school's should have.

  22. Re:Or, similarly, observer-selection of broken LHC on Second Snag This Week Could Delay LHC for Weeks · · Score: 1

    Observation in the physics sense does not require a mind.

  23. Re:Sure, But Only the Paranoids Survive on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 1

    Liberal authoritarians do exist, though its not nearly as common as conservative ones. However you still have nearly half the population going along with both social liberalism and economic liberalism at the same time. If you didn't have the extreme conformism, you'd expect to see both social liberals/economic conservatives and social conservatives/economic liberals. Instead we have nearly a straight line when you plot political views on a 2D grid, with only a handful of people in the other two corners.

    Oh, and don't use the term RWA, even the guy who came up with it admits it just confuses authoritarians with republicans. 'Authoritarianism' doesn't scan well either, since its not a actual school of thought.

  24. Re:So in other words... on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 1

    Technically, *any* real world example of things the right freaks out at is going to beg the question, there's not really a way around that.

  25. Re:Sure, But Only the Paranoids Survive on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "socially rebellious" and "left wing" do not mix so well.

    The left wing is just as conformist as the right wing.