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  1. Sounds Good To Me on Big Brother In the School Cafeteria? · · Score: 1

    Training kids to eat poorly and to select the wrong foods is a form of child abuse. I do realize that our society has wrecked the idea of mom being at home to instruct children properly and many people simply do not take care of their kids. A school using technology to catch these problems sounds like a great idea to me.
                            Those sniffers that can spot drug use of parents in the home from the child's clothing are also fine with me. Let the light shine in!

  2. The Oops Factor on School Swaps Math Textbooks For iPads · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And who will pay for the lost, drowned or bashed Ipads? Eighth grade kids are rougher than boot camp at Paris Island!

  3. He's Right on Assange Asks For New Lawyer, Denies Blaming CIA · · Score: 1

    It probably is true that it is not the CIA that is messing him up. After all, the US has many covert groups and can also request that foreign powers sink his boat. Julian is in real danger and it has nothing at all to do with rape. The US kills people. Ask JFK.

  4. No Legs or Wings on HP Sues Hurd For Joining Oracle · · Score: 1

    Trying to sue someone for what they might do is a huge stretch. And the idea that anyone can control a former employee is off the wall in some states. Usually one's obligations end when the pay checks stop. It's called freedom.

  5. No Phoenix on Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Pirate Bay will not stay in the ashes for long. They will rise again, stronger and better than ever before. Make no mistake. This is not about file sharing as much as it is about politics. The corporations have had too much power for too long. Up the rebels!!!

  6. Re:Waste on Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots · · Score: 1

    With all of the drone aircraft now flying for the military it just might be possible to install hardware in a plane that can take over if a pilot becomes disabled or dies in flight. Apparently there are about 8,000 drone flights per year over the contiguous US states at this time.

  7. Add A Key Word on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 1

    Although it would involve keeping an index you could add a strange key word to each piece of email within the body of the email. For example all emails from Donna in 2009 could be tagged with donna09. Running a search should yield all emails from Donna in 2009. You could also add the month. jaunuary09donna for example. You can even ask people to install a tag in every email they send to you.

  8. Great Hazards on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In such a situation the greatest hazard will probably be from your own company executives. Establish a great monitoring process and it is carved in granite that some executive will add tasks that take attention away from the primary task. Reports leap to mind.
                        The second hazard will be from employees that man the monitoring station. They can become disgruntled or even be paid to do foul deeds. Good encrypted backups kept off site may help as will a monitor that watches the people that man the station.
                        It may help if you disallow electronic gizmos of all types from being brought to work in that monitoring station. Also tools that could open a computer case and install a USB card make it clear that you need to have absolute control of all items brought into the room.
                        Beyond those factors have you considered Faraday shielding?

  9. Contributions on Dubai's Police Chief Calls BlackBerry a Spy Tool · · Score: 1

    Dubai can have no direct military interests from us as they are essentially an unarmed society. But I would bet money that we do keep tabs to see if governments are supporting terrorist groups in near by states. If the politics of the region cause Dubai to be pumping money to the Taliban then Dubai becomes a legitimate target for our military. We also need to know if Dubai is supporting Iran.

  10. Waste of Talent on Leaders Aren't Being Made At Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    I can think of no faster way to doom a company than using engineers for salesmen, managers etc.. Engineering a product and the packaging that contains it is an endless task when done at its best level. Worse yet, keeping engineers up to date on machinery used in production and fabrication methods, tools, jigs etc. is a crushing burden. What often happens is that engineers get pushed into public relations, sales, and all kinds of nonsense and every tiny bit of that takes away from the job that they could be and should be doing.

  11. Re:oh darn on Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section · · Score: 1

    Short term observations may mislead you. How do these girls end up? Usually rather badly. How many kids do they have and how do they end up? How about the spread of diseases? Prostitution is the greatest factor in the overwhelming AIDS epidemic in Africa. In the US there are serious problems with pimps in some cities that have been unending. A hooker working in Chicago will have a pimp or else whereas other large cities such as Miami tend not to have pimps as a rule. Then you will also find that the girls don't declare much in the way of taxes and have tiny Social Security checks and no retirement plans when they get old. They also are usually not the brightest bulbs when it comes to carrying health and disability policies. In cities where hookers normally work in strip clubs there are also serious organized crime connections as a norm.
                          My point is that it is not religious objections that make many people fear legalization of prostitution. It might be possible to regulate prostitution to a level that would eliminate many of the issues but it would take a lot of invasive laws and a huge governmental effort to regulate it correctly. And if we do regulate it we may create another host of problems. How easy would it be for a regulator to trade blindness for sex or cash?
                          Unfortunately we have an issue that reminds me of the abortion issue. The well off can always travel to get an abortion. So any abortion laws passed in the US will only apply to the poor and near poor. That is exactly like the prostitution issue. Burma, the Philippines or even Jamaica already are places frequently used for sex vacations as forms of prostitution are very common in these places. Sadly this sometimes involves children.

  12. Re:Go Stephen! on The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally · · Score: 1

    It's astounding how some people can define winning. We're lucky they are not crawling over the beaches of California. From day one we had two choices. We could either start out with the big weapons (nukes) or we could not fight in Vietnam. Engaging that enemy the way we did was a waste of human life for all involved as well as for people who were just going about their normal lives and happened to be in the way.

  13. Big Brother on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 1

    Just how was this brought to the judge's attention? Were the lawyers spying on the jurors?

  14. Steps on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the thoughts and beliefs of Hawking are being misunderstood. All one need to if one follows this path of reasoning is to ask just what created gravity. Obviously God would be a likely candidate. It should go without mentioning that human minds will never be able to "see" the mind of God. As the old Buddhist master told his student, "Bring me the ocean in a paper bag.". Even at our collective best we will never have the mental powers to come close to understanding that which surrounds us much less our Creator.

  15. Expensive Failures on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    Some convicts can not be controlled even in maximum security prisons. Others can be controlled some of the time but tend to act out from time to time. Others will find a way to commit crimes while wearing a device. A few will honestly seek to live a better life.
                          What is the financial cost of trying to separate the various types of criminals? How accurate are the predicted behaviors? Who pays the victims after they are crippled, maimed, killed or bankrupted by these criminals. Really, if we can't afford to keep them in prisons a bullet only costs fifty cents or so. A chopping block and an axe are even cheaper.

  16. Mobility Is Better on The Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located · · Score: 1

    I fear for the safety of those at WikiLeaks as well as their gear and data. The best security might be to have quite a bit of their data and personnel in a highly mobile, very covert, posture. Various governments can not be trusted and murder is not an unknown event.

  17. Leaping Logic on NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1

    If I buy a fetus did I in any way cause the abortion? What a leap. The person that performed the abortion is the only person responsible for the abortion. That includes the Almighty Himself as He aborts quite a few Himself.

  18. It Should Not Be on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 1

    Things need to be changing. The same old issues keep creeping up. There are a few A.I. programs out there but automated programming seems to be illusive. At the very least we should have semi-automated programming in play. With the hardware available today it is only a matter of time before almost anyone can write complex programs with point and click and a bit of one's native language.

  19. Crossing Cultures on What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? · · Score: 1

    Kids in India may be more serious about school than in the US. I have no way of knowing. But any class lesson that can be made into a game or contest is more likely to get kids attention. Perhaps setting up small groups and having them compete to complete some sort of task for a reward might get them deeply involved.

  20. Glenn Beck Is a Conspiracy on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 1

    Everyone has to make a living including those spouting poisonous and false doctrines. But Beck is simply a less talented version of Rush Limbaugh. Rush is dangerous but at least he is funnier at times. Now if they can just dumb down the school kids a bit more the next generation might actually believe these monkeys.

  21. Bullshit on State Senator Admits Cable Industry Helped Write Pro-Industry Legislation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cities and counties often give exclusives to cable companies causing death off all competition. Since cities will not allow dozens of companies to be available to every address it is fair enough that cities provide free net services.

  22. Re:2004? No statute of limitations in the UK? on Legal Threat Demands Techdirt Shut Down · · Score: 1

    For one, I do not believe that Morris molests little girls. I see nothing in him to confirm such notions. Now if the rumor had been that he molested male children I would have given it more consideration. ( did I slander him?)

  23. Bad Study on Sit Longer, Die Sooner · · Score: 2, Insightful

    School kids and college kids would be dropping like flies. They sit a lot.
                                  In older folks with medical issues sitting is a forced situation as death and infirmities tighten their grip. Yes, if you go in a nursing home it is hard to find many inmates that walk more than 30 minutes a day. Then again college students, in order to attend classes and do their studies, often sit more than ten hours a day.
                                  One wonders if these studies took age and illness into consideration? As a matter of fact young folks smart enough to go to college are not involved in active military service and spend less time on motorcycles and scuba diving etc.. I'll bet that non college young folks suffer far greater death rates and those who do not go to college probably stand a lot more hours each day. After all ditch digging offers little sitting time.

  24. Worked Until Cracked on Drunken Employee Shoots Server · · Score: 1

    Sometimes companies get so greedy that they pressure workers and over work workers until the ugly jumps out and takes control. Give the man a vacation!

  25. Re:Purity Problems on Viruses Tapped To Create Spray-On Batteries · · Score: 1

    You're right Monica Lewinsky could have been electrocuted.