That would be reminiscent of Aereo TV's argument. That they were not retransmitting the broadcast, because every viewer got their own private performance.
Of course they are recording their telecasts.
Typically, they are even saving their live stream to a buffer and the broadcast is playing the buffer, resulting in a N seconds delay before what is picked up by the camera appears on viewers' screens.
By the time a performance is appearing on viewers' screens, the live content was already in fixed form seconds before it was shown to viewers.
And yet there are stem cells in the body that can naturally express telomerase, so overcome the limit.
But it sure does seem to not be a defect or problem that there is a limit.
Easy to see how messing with this in healthy people would be likely to cause more harm than good,
especially if they can't be extremely selective about which cells they apply this to.
Over time cell division inherently degrades the genetic material, because the error correction in the copying mechanism used in Mitosis is not good enough. Cancer, uncontrolled division, disease, new cells conveying inappropriate signals or not responding appropriately, or cells releasing harmfully warped versions of proteins, enzymes, catalysts, or other substrates or substances are just some of the bad things that can result.
What we would ideally need to achieve elimination of cellular aging is the ability to sequence a person's entire DNA when they are young. And later digitally replicate an exact copy of the originals and print
new undifferentiated cells to replace old ones, so the telomeres are longer, and also.... there are no mutations.
When you are hanging "No Tresspassing" signs on your private property, or a "KEEP OUT" sign, do you also include in big print the exception "EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY LAW" ?
The NFL totally has a right to inform you of the copyrighted nature of the content and their policies (if any) about what use of the work they are inviting, such as 'All Rights Reserved'.
They also need to keep the spoken language at a 1st grade reading level, so their audience will understand it: "Except as permitted as fair use" is strictly out.
I would question where the evidence is that there is any intentional deception.
Copyright law does not permit fair use. It is a valid defense against liability in court against a claim of infringement; in such a case, the user admits infringement but claims no liability due to fair use.
The copyright owner does not have an obligation to inform you that in some cases, you might have a legal exclusion that allows you to infringe upon their protected rights.
Now we just need to pass a law stating that a duty is to be collected on all such in-person transactions
with random strangers organized over the internet in order to help fund law enforcement protection.
If law enforcement is present, they should collect a percentage of the transaction with a minimum $5 transaction fee, before goods or money are allowed to change hands.
If law enforcement is not present and the transaction is done on the seller's property,
the tax should be a minimum of $30 transaction fee and twice as many percentage points,
with craigslist required to collect and report on information about the accepted offer and parties to each transaction.
When NFL says "Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game"
They are not referring to you talking to your friends about the game
or even you authoring an original description and publishing it.
They are essentially saying any descriptions or accounts given in the telecast or personal accounts
written by staff under contract to create them are protected, which they are.
You are not allowed to copy a description or account from the telecast and reuse their description or account
beyond what fair use allows, as it is subject to copyright just like the images, video, and live audio.
How common are datacenter fires? The last time I heard about a computer catching fire was more than 20 years ago, and the fire was minor and didn't spread to adjacent equipment.
I suspect the battery stacks, generator fuel, or high current wiring for delivering electricity would be some points of greatest risk.
Theft is not that common in above ground datacenters, either; the facilities are serious about physical security.
It is probably due to the same reason the facility is underground in the first place and why people would like to colocate something underground --- higher security, lower risk tolerance compared to applications for traditional datacenters.
Protection against fire is just another physical security issue being addressed.
Without the low-O2.... the risk of damage to equipment by fire would be perceived to be higher in an underground
facility with closed and confined spaces than an aboveground facility; less freedom of air to move = potentially greater risk over time of wearing out electrical systems that malfunction and overheat at risk of causing a flame to ignite.
Also, being underground, there would be no easy firefighter access.
The company that makes all the gas was concerned about people stealing gas, so to buy any gas from them, they make you install a specialized tamper-resistant fuel tank in your vehicle. They also install a paired radio-controlled device in your vehicle. And both devices are tied to the VIN of your car, so they cannot be removed or reused in a different car. If you buy a new car, you will need new equipment.
To obtain gas, you go to your retailer of choice, or you call your mail order company up on the phone to order by credit card. Either way, you get a "gas redemption" number.
In order to redeem your gas, you go to the pump, which is equipped with a tamper-resistant spigot.
You insert the spigot in the proprietary tank-fill hole on the secure tank, then you enter in the redemption code you purchased.
Once you have entered the code, the spigot is locked into your tank, and the pump delivers a specified amount of two fluids, then ejects the nozzle, the pump and tank are then secured.
The tank is secured in that it is sealed when not fueling, and there is no way to transfer fluids to another tank: the gas has to be used in that vehicle.
Moreover, the tank will not release any gas to the vehicle or allow you to start the car, until you turn on the radio device, and it authorizes your vehicle to access the tank and start.
To help prevent gas theft, there is a feature where the tank itself measures how much fuel remaining that you are allowed to use. If the fuel level is higher than you are allowed to use, for example: if somehow you illegally added fuel without the use of a proper redemption code, then amounts of the two liquids will be mixed together to poison the fuel, preventing it from being used in a vehicle engine, and it will then be burned and released in a controlled manner
Some retailer was able to obtain a supply of the redemption codes at a lower price.
A group of entrepreneurs pretended to be ordinary customers and purchased the redemption codes at a discount; they then proceeded to take the codes and resell them to customers in an area where gas is more expensive.
The paranoid maker of all gasoline got extremely upset by this, and decided to invalidate the redemption codes.
But they also decided to declare as non-legitimate all gasoline purchased using the codes, so the secure tanks of many customers have declared their entire load legitimate and decided to destroy all their fuel, leaving the motorists stranded.
Ubisoft made the equivalent of a Record Player Juke Box that requires your music player to have a modern equivalent of a telephone line hooked up to it.
When you want to buy some music, you find a retailer, and you buy the product from the store, who issues you a slip of paper with a single use coupon with a code printed on it, or you call up a retailer and order on the phone, then they give you the coupon code to write down after your credit card is charged.
The code allows you to go home, turn on your Juke box. You enter the code, and the Juke box uses your telephone line (modern digital equivalent) to fetch your song.
Because the music recording company is concerned about someone stealing your coupon, or your credit card coming back declined later, Your Juke box is required to make a phone call, every time you want to play a song, just to make sure that the coupon was good and not fraudulently copied or stolen.
One day the Juke box music recording company thought it would be a good idea to pick some preferred "favorite" stores in certain areas that were having a harder time selling the merchandise, so they would offer these stores a discount on the music coupons, and the stores could have a great big sale on their products, as long as they sell enough units directly to ordinary people.
Some other enterprising young chaps caught wind of the sale and ordered a very large amount of music, then brought it to their own stores to sell at a discount.
The music recording companies are very upset, because the discount is hurting their preferred stores in areas where their product can sell at higher prices, so to penalize the young chaps, they have talked with their preferred discount retailers to get a list of the codes purchased and report all their coupons as stolen, so the Juke boxes will not be able to accept them, and all that store's customers will have to bring back the product for a refund.
Do you want to label foods with foreign DNA added from other plants, insects and animals (or even entirely created).
That would make sense. Instead the survey is for food containing any DNA, so Tomatos would always have to be labelled, even if there were no peanut genes........ that is, unless the Tomato were non-biological synthetic and sterile, to avoid having any DNA-containing surface bacteria.
What about the employees breaking the law? Are they permitted to release them? Alter their policy of violating the law?
The new owners will of course appoint a new management, who will have authority to make the changes desired; the old management as a whole retained for a time in advisory capacity only, of course some managers not supervising the sales/marketing/telemarkting departments might be kept for the new management.
Those managers related to the abuse, stripped of all authority and credentials, transferred to a partner company (The McDonalds across the street) and forced to remain on and work full time in the lowest-level job available for 15 years, in order to avoid criminal prosecution.
They knew the law and they knew how many calls they were making...
They should fine them $1000 per call * 57 million calls = $57 billion.
Prohibited from releasing any employees or managers, altering policies, disposing of any property, or stopping any ongoing business operations in order to pay any portion of the fine. Any amount that cannot be paid in cash within 5 business days, to be settled by constructing a trust and transferring all remaining equity in the company to the trust, with the government assigned secure debt convertible in part or in whole to common shares on demand at any point in time, having value equilvalent to the greater of the number of shares valued at the deficit amount
today and the number of shares valued at the deficit amount on the day of conversion.
I agree. It makes more sense to give all blind people car detectors than to make all cars noisy.
I don't know. In my state, there is a special law for pedestrians who are in a wheelchair or
blind being led by a guide dog or carrying a metallic or white walking stick.
Drivers are required to ensure their safety, and they are guaranteed right of way at all times,
even though not all pedestrians get that priority,
and if you hit a blind person crossing, you are essentially going to jail.
My problem is, always starting from scratch has become too expensive for most customers. I see more and more online adaptive solutions that seem to be more flexible
Obviously, a solution from scratch is more expensive to develop than a templated one.
If you can throw up a cookie-cutter solution that satisfies the customer, it will be to your advantage for
a good percentage of cases.
For customers that need high quality tailored code from scratch, that is just fine,
but it's a different kind of project, and obviously the price to the customer should be much much higher.
And you certainly can afford to do it, if you are being paid properly.
The catch would be customers who want Almas Caviar at canned tuna prices.
Exactly, dont like the political/religious message so flag it false and less people will see it.
If they want to go Slashdot mod style, they should offer a dropdown with multiple different 'false' tags.
As in, multiple different statements you can apply to a post, and your friends should be able to see how many friends applied different labels:
(1) Awesome content
(2) Interesting
(3) Very Funny
(4) Agree 100%
(5) Disagree with this
(6) Inaccurate Information
(7) Partisan political bullshit
(8) False and Dangerous
(9) Clickbait
(10) Scam/Bogus offer or contest
(11) Broken link, or cannot view content
(12) Page says you have to 'like' before you can see content
(13) Links to malicious software, adware, or security attack
(14) Common Misconception
(15) Suspected Hoax
(16) Definite Scam
(17) Fraud or phishing attempt
the average third world drone is most likely of the variety limited to 500 feet and maybe full bicycle groundspeed. The F-35 on the other hand...
So is this really a military need?
What's scary is not necessarily military use of these, but possible terrorist use of these.
Imagine some terrorists launching a large swarm of cheap low-flying drones in NYC with programming to seek out large groups of people and armed with high yield explosives and capable of putting out large amounts of shrapnel relentlessly all throughout the highly populated areas of the country.
I would find that to be my greatest worry.
It may be more of a domestic security need to have some special defenses than a military need.
My plan is to install a 15ft high wire mesh completely surrounding my yard and gate and underneath my roof to block IR, Radar, X-Rays, and other RF signals.
Within my yard, I will generate disruptive signals which the mesh will fully contain but prevent the usage of any kind of drone or bug or other wireless device inside the shielded area.
Surely that should help discourage this kind of privacy invasion?
I understand the desire for students to learn about datatypes and working in a strictly typed language; however,
it is not the essence of computer science.... it is a language convention.
It is not fundamental to programming that you declare these things; it is a special requirement of certain languages that you provide a compile-time declaration.
To meet arbitrary outside requirements to learn about how to work in a static typing system; I would suggest having students learn the basics of another
language such as Go, Objective C, C, or C++. While 95% of their assignments will be done in Python.
Or even Common LISP or Scheme might be a good second language, since it will require variable declaration as well, and it will give a chance to show examples of the functional approach.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Most people don't want to become insurance experts or hope that their circle of friends is clued up enough to protect them.
If not for government regulation, both explicitly in complicated arcane rules, and implicitly in the form of allowing ludicrous litigation, liability, and protecting unions, then the cost of both replacing the car and providing healthcare would be so low, that a year's worth of auto insurance would cost $100.
Since it would cost about $2500 to buy a brand new SUV, and a week's stay in the hospital with all the medical attention required to address serious injuries from an accident would still be less than $3000.
You could save up 4 years worth of premiums and stop buying any insurance..... thus creating a competitive downward pressure on insurance rates!
In other words, regulations created by the government are indirectly raising costs by a factor of 20000%.
Being close contact with diapers, how this chemical might be effecting babies ?
The chemical is basically a harmless salt not too different from sodium chloride (Unless you were to start eating quantities of it), and there is not a large amount of it in a diaper, so obviously the chemical is specifically used for its beneficial affects.
Use of the chemical improves sanitary conditions and comfort for babies wearing diapers, since it reduces undesirable moisture and wetness in contact with their skin: this is a health and quality-of-life improvement and helps defend against promoting possible rashes or fungal infections of the skin by keeping the skin dryer.
In reality, the baby will be more comfortable, so they will likely be requiring a change less often, which will spare plastic from the landfills.
I think the only real alternatives would be to either use no diapers at all... monitor babies closely and make sure the diaper is changed immediately if they wet themselves in the slightest, or use porous cloth diapers.
The chemical is useful for its ability to hold water. I guess they're just trying to relate the fact that this is a newly-discovered use for a chemical that is already widely used for other purposes, and the availability to apply this commonplace substance to a hard problem was "hiding right under our nose".
It's an inspiring tale that should be encouraging to would-be inventors that there are still new innovative uses waiting to be discovered for simple everyday things.
Slashdot Mirror
That would be reminiscent of Aereo TV's argument. That they were not retransmitting the broadcast, because every viewer got their own private performance.
Of course they are recording their telecasts.
Typically, they are even saving their live stream to a buffer and the broadcast is playing the buffer, resulting in a N seconds delay before what is picked up by the camera appears on viewers' screens.
By the time a performance is appearing on viewers' screens, the live content was already in fixed form seconds before it was shown to viewers.
And yet there are stem cells in the body that can naturally express telomerase, so overcome the limit.
But it sure does seem to not be a defect or problem that there is a limit.
Easy to see how messing with this in healthy people would be likely to cause more harm than good, especially if they can't be extremely selective about which cells they apply this to.
Over time cell division inherently degrades the genetic material, because the error correction in the copying mechanism used in Mitosis is not good enough. Cancer, uncontrolled division, disease, new cells conveying inappropriate signals or not responding appropriately, or cells releasing harmfully warped versions of proteins, enzymes, catalysts, or other substrates or substances are just some of the bad things that can result.
What we would ideally need to achieve elimination of cellular aging is the ability to sequence a person's entire DNA when they are young. And later digitally replicate an exact copy of the originals and print new undifferentiated cells to replace old ones, so the telomeres are longer, and also.... there are no mutations.
Your family will be billed for the bullet (as is the norm in statist utopias).
How about if they don't execute you, then $30/Night will be due for your Prison stay, and $60/Night for Jail; $30 Extra for solitary confinement.
All fees due required to be paid before perm. release, even after sentence expires.
Possible release under probation/house arrest with additional fees, providing you are working to make sufficient $$$ to cover your outstanding debt.
When you are hanging "No Tresspassing" signs on your private property, or a "KEEP OUT" sign, do you also include in big print the exception "EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY LAW" ?
The NFL totally has a right to inform you of the copyrighted nature of the content and their policies (if any) about what use of the work they are inviting, such as 'All Rights Reserved'.
They also need to keep the spoken language at a 1st grade reading level, so their audience will understand it: "Except as permitted as fair use" is strictly out.
I would question where the evidence is that there is any intentional deception.
Copyright law does not permit fair use. It is a valid defense against liability in court against a claim of infringement; in such a case, the user admits infringement but claims no liability due to fair use.
The copyright owner does not have an obligation to inform you that in some cases, you might have a legal exclusion that allows you to infringe upon their protected rights.
Now we just need to pass a law stating that a duty is to be collected on all such in-person transactions with random strangers organized over the internet in order to help fund law enforcement protection.
If law enforcement is present, they should collect a percentage of the transaction with a minimum $5 transaction fee, before goods or money are allowed to change hands.
If law enforcement is not present and the transaction is done on the seller's property, the tax should be a minimum of $30 transaction fee and twice as many percentage points, with craigslist required to collect and report on information about the accepted offer and parties to each transaction.
When NFL says "Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game"
They are not referring to you talking to your friends about the game or even you authoring an original description and publishing it.
They are essentially saying any descriptions or accounts given in the telecast or personal accounts written by staff under contract to create them are protected, which they are.
You are not allowed to copy a description or account from the telecast and reuse their description or account beyond what fair use allows, as it is subject to copyright just like the images, video, and live audio.
Try 3M Novec 7200.
How common are datacenter fires? The last time I heard about a computer catching fire was more than 20 years ago, and the fire was minor and didn't spread to adjacent equipment.
I suspect the battery stacks, generator fuel, or high current wiring for delivering electricity would be some points of greatest risk.
Theft is not that common in above ground datacenters, either; the facilities are serious about physical security. It is probably due to the same reason the facility is underground in the first place and why people would like to colocate something underground --- higher security, lower risk tolerance compared to applications for traditional datacenters.
Protection against fire is just another physical security issue being addressed. Without the low-O2.... the risk of damage to equipment by fire would be perceived to be higher in an underground facility with closed and confined spaces than an aboveground facility; less freedom of air to move = potentially greater risk over time of wearing out electrical systems that malfunction and overheat at risk of causing a flame to ignite.
Also, being underground, there would be no easy firefighter access.
In what way is that a car analogy?
Getting there.
The company that makes all the gas was concerned about people stealing gas, so to buy any gas from them, they make you install a specialized tamper-resistant fuel tank in your vehicle. They also install a paired radio-controlled device in your vehicle. And both devices are tied to the VIN of your car, so they cannot be removed or reused in a different car. If you buy a new car, you will need new equipment.
To obtain gas, you go to your retailer of choice, or you call your mail order company up on the phone to order by credit card. Either way, you get a "gas redemption" number.
In order to redeem your gas, you go to the pump, which is equipped with a tamper-resistant spigot. You insert the spigot in the proprietary tank-fill hole on the secure tank, then you enter in the redemption code you purchased.
Once you have entered the code, the spigot is locked into your tank, and the pump delivers a specified amount of two fluids, then ejects the nozzle, the pump and tank are then secured.
The tank is secured in that it is sealed when not fueling, and there is no way to transfer fluids to another tank: the gas has to be used in that vehicle.
Moreover, the tank will not release any gas to the vehicle or allow you to start the car, until you turn on the radio device, and it authorizes your vehicle to access the tank and start.
To help prevent gas theft, there is a feature where the tank itself measures how much fuel remaining that you are allowed to use. If the fuel level is higher than you are allowed to use, for example: if somehow you illegally added fuel without the use of a proper redemption code, then amounts of the two liquids will be mixed together to poison the fuel, preventing it from being used in a vehicle engine, and it will then be burned and released in a controlled manner
Some retailer was able to obtain a supply of the redemption codes at a lower price. A group of entrepreneurs pretended to be ordinary customers and purchased the redemption codes at a discount; they then proceeded to take the codes and resell them to customers in an area where gas is more expensive.
The paranoid maker of all gasoline got extremely upset by this, and decided to invalidate the redemption codes. But they also decided to declare as non-legitimate all gasoline purchased using the codes, so the secure tanks of many customers have declared their entire load legitimate and decided to destroy all their fuel, leaving the motorists stranded.
Ubisoft made the equivalent of a Record Player Juke Box that requires your music player to have a modern equivalent of a telephone line hooked up to it.
When you want to buy some music, you find a retailer, and you buy the product from the store, who issues you a slip of paper with a single use coupon with a code printed on it, or you call up a retailer and order on the phone, then they give you the coupon code to write down after your credit card is charged.
The code allows you to go home, turn on your Juke box. You enter the code, and the Juke box uses your telephone line (modern digital equivalent) to fetch your song.
Because the music recording company is concerned about someone stealing your coupon, or your credit card coming back declined later, Your Juke box is required to make a phone call, every time you want to play a song, just to make sure that the coupon was good and not fraudulently copied or stolen.
One day the Juke box music recording company thought it would be a good idea to pick some preferred "favorite" stores in certain areas that were having a harder time selling the merchandise, so they would offer these stores a discount on the music coupons, and the stores could have a great big sale on their products, as long as they sell enough units directly to ordinary people.
Some other enterprising young chaps caught wind of the sale and ordered a very large amount of music, then brought it to their own stores to sell at a discount.
The music recording companies are very upset, because the discount is hurting their preferred stores in areas where their product can sell at higher prices, so to penalize the young chaps, they have talked with their preferred discount retailers to get a list of the codes purchased and report all their coupons as stolen, so the Juke boxes will not be able to accept them, and all that store's customers will have to bring back the product for a refund.
Do you want to label foods with foreign DNA added from other plants, insects and animals (or even entirely created).
That would make sense. Instead the survey is for food containing any DNA, so Tomatos would always have to be labelled, even if there were no peanut genes........ that is, unless the Tomato were non-biological synthetic and sterile, to avoid having any DNA-containing surface bacteria.
What about the employees breaking the law? Are they permitted to release them? Alter their policy of violating the law?
The new owners will of course appoint a new management, who will have authority to make the changes desired; the old management as a whole retained for a time in advisory capacity only, of course some managers not supervising the sales/marketing/telemarkting departments might be kept for the new management.
Those managers related to the abuse, stripped of all authority and credentials, transferred to a partner company (The McDonalds across the street) and forced to remain on and work full time in the lowest-level job available for 15 years, in order to avoid criminal prosecution.
I remember someone making a video about having some fun with a few hundred 9v batteries in series resulting in ~2000 vDC.
They knew the law and they knew how many calls they were making...
They should fine them $1000 per call * 57 million calls = $57 billion.
Prohibited from releasing any employees or managers, altering policies, disposing of any property, or stopping any ongoing business operations in order to pay any portion of the fine. Any amount that cannot be paid in cash within 5 business days, to be settled by constructing a trust and transferring all remaining equity in the company to the trust, with the government assigned secure debt convertible in part or in whole to common shares on demand at any point in time, having value equilvalent to the greater of the number of shares valued at the deficit amount today and the number of shares valued at the deficit amount on the day of conversion.
I agree. It makes more sense to give all blind people car detectors than to make all cars noisy.
I don't know. In my state, there is a special law for pedestrians who are in a wheelchair or blind being led by a guide dog or carrying a metallic or white walking stick.
Drivers are required to ensure their safety, and they are guaranteed right of way at all times, even though not all pedestrians get that priority, and if you hit a blind person crossing, you are essentially going to jail.
My problem is, always starting from scratch has become too expensive for most customers. I see more and more online adaptive solutions that seem to be more flexible
Obviously, a solution from scratch is more expensive to develop than a templated one.
If you can throw up a cookie-cutter solution that satisfies the customer, it will be to your advantage for a good percentage of cases.
For customers that need high quality tailored code from scratch, that is just fine, but it's a different kind of project, and obviously the price to the customer should be much much higher. And you certainly can afford to do it, if you are being paid properly.
The catch would be customers who want Almas Caviar at canned tuna prices.
Exactly, dont like the political/religious message so flag it false and less people will see it.
If they want to go Slashdot mod style, they should offer a dropdown with multiple different 'false' tags.
As in, multiple different statements you can apply to a post, and your friends should be able to see how many friends applied different labels:
(1) Awesome content
(2) Interesting
(3) Very Funny
(4) Agree 100%
(5) Disagree with this
(6) Inaccurate Information
(7) Partisan political bullshit
(8) False and Dangerous
(9) Clickbait
(10) Scam/Bogus offer or contest
(11) Broken link, or cannot view content
(12) Page says you have to 'like' before you can see content (13) Links to malicious software, adware, or security attack
(14) Common Misconception
(15) Suspected Hoax
(16) Definite Scam
(17) Fraud or phishing attempt
the average third world drone is most likely of the variety limited to 500 feet and maybe full bicycle groundspeed. The F-35 on the other hand...
So is this really a military need?
What's scary is not necessarily military use of these, but possible terrorist use of these.
Imagine some terrorists launching a large swarm of cheap low-flying drones in NYC with programming to seek out large groups of people and armed with high yield explosives and capable of putting out large amounts of shrapnel relentlessly all throughout the highly populated areas of the country.
I would find that to be my greatest worry.
It may be more of a domestic security need to have some special defenses than a military need.
My plan is to install a 15ft high wire mesh completely surrounding my yard and gate and underneath my roof to block IR, Radar, X-Rays, and other RF signals.
Within my yard, I will generate disruptive signals which the mesh will fully contain but prevent the usage of any kind of drone or bug or other wireless device inside the shielded area.
Surely that should help discourage this kind of privacy invasion?
I understand the desire for students to learn about datatypes and working in a strictly typed language; however, it is not the essence of computer science.... it is a language convention. It is not fundamental to programming that you declare these things; it is a special requirement of certain languages that you provide a compile-time declaration.
To meet arbitrary outside requirements to learn about how to work in a static typing system; I would suggest having students learn the basics of another language such as Go, Objective C, C, or C++. While 95% of their assignments will be done in Python.
Or even Common LISP or Scheme might be a good second language, since it will require variable declaration as well, and it will give a chance to show examples of the functional approach.
Most people don't want to become insurance experts or hope that their circle of friends is clued up enough to protect them.
If not for government regulation, both explicitly in complicated arcane rules, and implicitly in the form of allowing ludicrous litigation, liability, and protecting unions, then the cost of both replacing the car and providing healthcare would be so low, that a year's worth of auto insurance would cost $100.
Since it would cost about $2500 to buy a brand new SUV, and a week's stay in the hospital with all the medical attention required to address serious injuries from an accident would still be less than $3000. You could save up 4 years worth of premiums and stop buying any insurance..... thus creating a competitive downward pressure on insurance rates!
In other words, regulations created by the government are indirectly raising costs by a factor of 20000%.
other times it means avoiding using the computing resources.
Or using different resources... such as Dropbox for file sharing, instead of file server and VPN client.
Being close contact with diapers, how this chemical might be effecting babies ?
The chemical is basically a harmless salt not too different from sodium chloride (Unless you were to start eating quantities of it), and there is not a large amount of it in a diaper, so obviously the chemical is specifically used for its beneficial affects.
Use of the chemical improves sanitary conditions and comfort for babies wearing diapers, since it reduces undesirable moisture and wetness in contact with their skin: this is a health and quality-of-life improvement and helps defend against promoting possible rashes or fungal infections of the skin by keeping the skin dryer.
In reality, the baby will be more comfortable, so they will likely be requiring a change less often, which will spare plastic from the landfills.
I think the only real alternatives would be to either use no diapers at all... monitor babies closely and make sure the diaper is changed immediately if they wet themselves in the slightest, or use porous cloth diapers.
The chemical is useful for its ability to hold water. I guess they're just trying to relate the fact that this is a newly-discovered use for a chemical that is already widely used for other purposes, and the availability to apply this commonplace substance to a hard problem was "hiding right under our nose".
It's an inspiring tale that should be encouraging to would-be inventors that there are still new innovative uses waiting to be discovered for simple everyday things.