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  1. Re:Why not ban mandatory attendence of lectures? on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    Some professors are like this already. They don't take attendance.

  2. Re:Yes, you are right on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they're thinking of people with anxiety disorders. I had one; it was very disabling. But guess what? The only way to beat it is to face your fear.

  3. Re:Dual stack failed? on After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? · · Score: 1

    My last D-Link worked perfectly, this one is the only one that has had issues. I needed gigabit Ethernet, and rather than buy a switch, I bought a new router. Do I really need a heavy duty Cisco box for under 10 hosts? The only Cisco (wired) routers on Newegg with ipv6 are in the mid hundreds to thousands of dollars. I still need a gigabit switch and an AP, so that's more $$ especially with Cisco.

  4. Re:Mobile, home and small office equipment? on After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? · · Score: 1

    Much of that will get private addresses (even phones do; IIRC my iPhone gets something in 172.16/12 through 3G, though otherwise can and will be found). Additionally, DD-WRT has some builds without ipv6 enabled, so be careful there.

  5. Re:Dual stack failed? on After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? · · Score: 1

    Not everything Just Works. My D-Link router can do ipv6 tunneling, but no matter the setting, it refuses to start DHCPv6 or issue router advertisements. From the outside, it is possible to ping the router (when I enabled that for testing), but everything inside needs a static route and static address to work. And then my router will be given a new IP address and things will stop working again.

  6. Re:Grammar test fail on Joel Test Updated · · Score: 1, Informative

    You could add a question mark at the end, and it would be something a Brit would say: Do your team work in good conditions? They seem to consider collections to be plural, while we Americans consider them to be singular.

  7. Re:1024? on Problems With Truncation On the Common Application · · Score: 1

    Being concise is great, but in English class, it can sometimes get you in trouble when your professor requires that a paper be longer than $WORDS. These sorts of limits encourage redundancy, taking larger quotes than necessary, and replacing shorter words and phrases with longer equivalents.

  8. Re:Why have that in colleges at all? on Will Patents Make NCAA Football Playoffs Impossible? · · Score: 2

    Yeah because generating money for the school (directly and indirectly) is so bad. That money isn't locked away in some safe in the athletic department; it can (and is, depending on the school) spent for other things, like education. Just having a team also gives you some advertising.

  9. Re:Y'Know... Nerds Don't HAVE to be Tedious re Spo on Will Patents Make NCAA Football Playoffs Impossible? · · Score: 1

    What do you mean, so? It's a source of money for the school. Are you suggesting that schools should not try to raise money? Money that can be used to pay for non-sports programs?

  10. Re:Why have that in colleges at all? on Will Patents Make NCAA Football Playoffs Impossible? · · Score: 1

    More profit, less funding needed. Plus, not every college is state owned (some may not even see a penny of federal money), so it can be another source of income beyond tuition. Some franchises are pretty popular nationwide, bringing in $$$$.

  11. Re:What's so new about single line queue? on Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line · · Score: 1

    IIRC some US military commissaries use this strategy. I vaguely recall seeing it at Kadena AFB, but then again, that was 10 years ago.

  12. Re:Grown Ups. on Split Screen Co-op Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Right, because playing video games is so less mature than having a few friends over, having some beers, and watching football/baseball/basketball/$sport while trash talking the other team.

    Perhaps you should grow up and stop feeling superior because of how you spend your free time.

  13. Re:Damned shame on Split Screen Co-op Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Having lived in Okinawa for most of my childhood, I can attest to the arcades. They were pretty massive, and they were full of people. Here in the States, every arcade I see is devoid of life.

  14. Re:How long will IPv6 last? on Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Hexadecimal is also more compact. If we did the standard "convert each octet to decimal and put a dot between them" strategy, there would be 16 octets to write in decimal. 255 or ff, you decide. They also gave us shortcuts: How bout ff::1 or 255.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1?

  15. Re:How long will IPv6 last? on Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Use the link-local addresses internally, if you must. (Not sure how good a suggestion that is). MDNS lets you resolve hostnames with little work, IIRC, so use that. Set it up so that your software can use the new prefix from your ISP but retain the host part of the address.

  16. Re:Computer science... on Do High Schools Know What 'Computer Science' Is? · · Score: 1

    My typing/keyboarding class was under business, and I'm an American and went to American schools.

  17. Re:Other Breaking News on FBI Defend Raids On Texas Datacenter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Course not, they'll never catch on...

  18. Re:Insilvent? So what? on A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except in government, your revenue stream does not depend on pleasing the customer, so you can fail as long as you like, and still maintain the same level of income (or greater).

  19. Re:Sexting in the fox hole? on US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier · · Score: 1

    It's even worse if they're both talking and texting.

  20. Re:This doesn't sound like a good idea on US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier · · Score: 1

    There's one consumer device that can survive combat: The original Game Boy. That beast could probably be used for armor plating tanks.

  21. Re:Didn't they just ban on US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier · · Score: 1

    Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

  22. Re:Insilvent? So what? on A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors · · Score: 2

    You screw up the company, it dies, and you no longer get paid. You do poorly, you get fires, you don't get paid. There's all the motivation there.

  23. Re:Contacts and relatioships generally on Is Going To an Elite College Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    As someone who moved around quite a bit as a kid, and consequently has a much smaller social network than someone who's stayed in one place, I wonder if I can sue my parents for lowering my potential income. Hmmmm..... (I jest, of course)

  24. Re:cue the dropouts on Is Going To an Elite College Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    Depending on the field, a degree can be pretty worthless (monetary wise) on average. Some degrees have jobs that pay little more than no degree, with a mountain of debt behind them, and may even pay less overall because of that debt load.

  25. Re:v2 has been giving me crashes. on Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You can buy licenses, once you have more than that. I think it's like $8.60 per host per year.