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  1. will kids pass left behind, Common Core tests? on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 1

    The cyncial trend in education has been a NARROWING of offered courses to foucus on all those silly tests kids have to take so school system get more government money and teachers get performance bonuses.

  2. remember Udacity "rescuing" San Jose State? on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 1

    Tech MOOCs was supposed to be a cost-efficient way of remedial education for the half of freshmen who needed it. But it not work. MOOCs are generally for self-disciplined and motivated students, the opposite ot those who never reached 8th grade proficiency levels and need remedial work. Sometimes more tech is not the answer.

  3. best developers generally not taught on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 2

    Many of the creative geniuses in know, including myself, educated ourselves in technology and other subjects. Either the teaching system couldnt handle use, or was concernerned mosty with average students.

  4. article skipped the elepahnat: C# on Why Apple and Google Made Their Own Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    MicroSoft liked a Java-like languge, but found it too slow or rebuffed in suggesting changes to Sun. So htye basically made a hJava-like language themselves. For most of its history its only run in the MicroSoft ecosystem, although there are feeble attempts to make it multiplatform.

  5. ethopian link to old israel interesting on Jewels From an Ethiopian Grave Reveal 2,000-Year-Old Link To Rome · · Score: 1

    The Bible doesnt mention such. And somepeole in Ethiopiia remember it. And there are genetic markers fo Choen genes in some Ethiopians. One city calims to have the Ark of the Convenant.

  6. few poeple start college indending to default on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Paying back is something far in the future of teenagers mind. Maybe you dont get the job you planned or find a finishing is not for you. There are probably a million people or more in the sme boat ast this author and they have to rationalize their life's choices.

  7. US Iraq/Afghan projects similar streak on How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti and Built 6 Homes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tens of billions trying to create a army in both places.
    New power stations, roads that decay quickly, if actually built at all.

  8. many experiments store the maximum feasible on LHC Restarts High-Energy Quest For Exotic Physics · · Score: 1

    Astronomy surveys, particle detectors, seismic surveys. The technology grows a factor of thousand every decade.

  9. only record 1 in million "events" on LHC Restarts High-Energy Quest For Exotic Physics · · Score: 2

    The make a quick assessment whether a particle shower is interesting, then store it for future analysis. The four detector complexes have up to 10K subdetectors each, different directions and energies. Then you propose what a certain decay sequence might look like and sift the trillion recorded explosions.

    For exeample there were several dozen possible decay paths for the Higgs, but only a handful were detectable in this setup. It took longer to analyze the data than run the machine.

  10. Margaret Brown (Titanic) House in Denver on Ask Slashdot: If You Were Building a New Home, What Cool New Tech Would You Put In? · · Score: 1

    Preserved those old sevant bell-ringers, original wires, now circuits. Had the back servant and front guest staircases. First floor entertaining, 2nd floor bed and bath, 3rd floor jids and servants. Only about 3,000 square feet.

  11. Those 720p plasma HDTVs all over Bill Gate home looked tacking then and would look that way now. You might finally get some reasonable imagery on 4K OLEDs.

  12. "Five Ages of the Universe" physics book on There Is a Finite Limit On How Long Intelligence Can Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    This 1990s book comes to a similar conclusion, but illustrates it with how life and intelligence might work. Baryons decay after 10^40 years. Black holes of every size evaporate by 10^100 years. There would be a near absolute sea of leptons remaining in the universe, some that might form positronium atoms the size of a current galaxy. A single bit of computation might take eons to effect in this scenario. (There may be a revision for new physics since the 1990s say the authors.)

  13. Re: Why is it worth that much? on Mystery Woman Recycles $200,000 Apple I Computer · · Score: 1

    They also sold them at Stanford Linear Accelerator (home brew) computer meetup. I used to see the two Steves demoing it there.

  14. mean lifespan 1000 years from trauma, murders on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    If you were to eliminate all medical causes of death in current society. I counted 100 deaths per 100,000 per year from Wikipeadia death rate entry.
    Would society become more cautious to lengthen life? Would society become more reckless beacuse life is so abundant then? I think it would stay right in the middle as now.

  15. bacteria less infectious than weaponized spores on Live Anthrax Shipped Accidentally To S Korea and US Labs · · Score: 1

    They still require mucus surface or wound. And they may have been partially weakened by the ineffective sterialization procedure.
    On the other hand spores, enhanced by a combined aerosol are mire effective infecting people. Apparantly fromthe 2001 incident, it takes a certain skill to do this.

  16. plenty US test cheating scandals on Chinese Nationals Accused of Taking SATs For Others · · Score: 1

    Teachers and administrators in Atlanta were sentanced to jail for altering test sheets on a massive scale. Rare that they have court cases.
    A few years back a New York guy took tests for fellow students for a fee. paid his way through college before get causght. I forget his sentence.

  17. they also invented meriotocracy on Chinese Nationals Accused of Taking SATs For Others · · Score: 1

    Middle class Chinese could become comfortable civil servants if they did well on tests. This was the original aim of the SAT, as a gateway for the middle class into prestigious colleges. (Rural Chinese couldnt afford te time for the heavy memorization to take the tests.)

  18. once you start, can you stop? on Chinese Nationals Accused of Taking SATs For Others · · Score: 2

    A paper was retracted in the prestigious Science Journal yesterday because a grad student had faked the data for it. This was discovered by others analyzing the data and trying to reproduce it. Cheating endemic in school, but you cant fake your way in the real world.

  19. more of a negative indicator on Chinese Nationals Accused of Taking SATs For Others · · Score: 2

    If you dont get at least 650 on the Quatitative, then you wont do well in STEM. That test is pretty basic.

  20. you are young adult in peak condition on Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India · · Score: 1

    The body is inefficient at dealing with heat very young or old.

  21. Mars sent us our ancestors 3B years ago on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    mars likely geologically stablized hundreds of millions of years before Earth. Life may have evolved there first, then "infected" Earth by meteors.

  22. drones are planned in 2020s missions on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    Must be specially designed for thin air

  23. 1st Total Recall movie terraformed Mars with CO2 on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    Mars is below water freezing point most of the time. But a substantial greenhouse gas atmosphere could change that.

  24. most upper-middle parents abhor change on Elon Musk Establishes a Grade School · · Score: 1

    They would be uncertain about gaming th college application system then. An example is that Disney tried implement an "innovative" school in their ECPOT Celebration town. But parents forced them to change back to a traditional school. These were better to do parents who could afford to live there.

  25. efiling asks for last years AGI as passwd on IRS: Personal Info of 100,000 Taxpayers Accessed Illegally · · Score: 1

    They probably acessed the transcript to obtain this number. The AGI would not be in other identity leaks like SSN, DOB and address.