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  1. Re:Build a game in front of them on How Do You Explain Software Development To 2nd Graders? · · Score: 1

    Being able to pronounce the language should be a requirement ;)

  2. Re:Easy! on How Do You Explain Software Development To 2nd Graders? · · Score: 1

    The bread is also bad for people with glucose allergies, unless you use special bread.

    Why are they eating the sandwich again? Isn't it supposed to be used as a prop? If it's really that big of a deal you could always make cardboard cutout pieces and use those instead of the real food.

  3. Re:Easy! on How Do You Explain Software Development To 2nd Graders? · · Score: 1

    You had the option to drop out when you were in pre-k? When I was that age my parents made those kinds of choices for me...

  4. Re:Uses a TV as a display device on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    This is the first I've heard of this. Why on earth would they prohibit such a thing? That's ridiculous. We're not using the older machines, so why can't they?

  5. Re:OLPC was a readily-usable laptop on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like parent is talking about more modern displays that have been junked in favor of even newer ones. So these might actually have the HDMI input.

  6. Re:OLPC was a readily-usable laptop on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    What an insightful response.

  7. Re:Price of a textbook. on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    Well... no. If the student themselves has to buy the books, that takes an expense away from the school itself. Yes, it puts it on the student, but budget planners in societies that are not well off likely don't get budgets for individual families. They get the budget for the school.

  8. Re:Price of a textbook. on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    PC stands for Personal Computer, and AFAIK isn't tied to any particular instruction set.

  9. Re:Price of a textbook. on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    A few professors at my old UC wrote the textbooks for their classes. They cited the high prices as the reason that they'd done so. The books weren't as colorful, but had all the information we needed. They went for around $50, nowhere near as bad as what we'd have to pay otherwise.

  10. Re:Price of a textbook. on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. First you have to get to the library, which is on campus. When I was in school I lived off campus, and it was a hassle to get there (especially since I worked part-time in addition to classes). Second, there's no guarantee the library will have a copy that isn't checked out already. Often I'd show up to get a book out and both copies (and it was unusual that the class had two) had already been taken out by someone.

    Plus the books make a pretty good set of shelves now...

  11. Re:The cops who wrote those emails should be fired on Anonymous Retaliates, Leaks Texas Police Emails · · Score: 1

    I'm well aware of police brutality. What I have trouble with is someone trying to just throw facts out there assuming everyone else will know and agree. I'm sorry, but I'm an engineer. I don't believe something just because someone says so. I need facts, and if someone comes to me with a story, even if I believe it, I will want something backing it up. I realize the OP was preaching to the choir and I've stepped into the middle of a "police brutality" fanboi convention. I'm sorry that some of us don't just accept what other people say without evidence of the fact.

  12. Re:And Texas had to this with this because...? on Anonymous Retaliates, Leaks Texas Police Emails · · Score: 1

    With a 6 digit UID I kinda doubt parent is new...

  13. Re:The cops who wrote those emails should be fired on Anonymous Retaliates, Leaks Texas Police Emails · · Score: 1

    It's not my argument that's weak here. And I think you know it perfectly well.

    No... No I don't know that. You're the one trying to prove something, aren't you? So it's not up to me to do the work to verify your proof.

  14. Re:The cops who wrote those emails should be fired on Anonymous Retaliates, Leaks Texas Police Emails · · Score: 1

    Parent asks for sources, you don't give them and make up some excuse that "everyone knows this". This makes your argument weak, as it indicates you don't have any basis for it.

  15. Re:Cheesolate on Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers · · Score: 1

    I have to say, that sounds delicious.

  16. Re:FINALLY! on Is Tablet Success Bound To Their Crackability? · · Score: 1

    Well if we're talking about cars, my auto mechanic is right....

  17. Re:Not all bad on NZ Illegal Downloading Crackdown Law In Effect · · Score: 1

    I drive a Fit on a road that hasn't been paved in years. Full of potholes and bumps. It handles amazingly well. Not so great at accelerating over 75 mph, but below that it's very responsive.

  18. Re:And what? on Wikileaks Reveals BitTorrent Lawsuit Background · · Score: 1

    No, it's because they're tea partiers.... /sarcasm

  19. Re:The Truth on Wikileaks Reveals BitTorrent Lawsuit Background · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine why this is modded troll... it's very insightful imo.

  20. Re:And what? on Wikileaks Reveals BitTorrent Lawsuit Background · · Score: 1

    find one who will actually make promises and keep them

    You speak of something that does not exist.

  21. Re:Prey on Swarmanoid 'Bots Rule Air, Land, Bookshelves · · Score: 1

    Yes. Though the word "Swarmanoid" threw me off for a bit.

  22. Re:No, they MAKE very little. on One Final Manufacturing Run of Touchpads · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely correct. Shame on me for not researching that before opening my mouth.

  23. Re:Thank heavens we still have normal code ... on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    At first I thought you were talking about a standard day on a farm.... That's a really good code. Aside from the alligator's thumb, though that could be a "inside joke" type of reference.

  24. Re:Satellites? on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    They don't have to. They can just find you and arrest you. Like during the internet blackout in Egypt when people were using radio signals for internet access. They didn't have to block the signals (though they did), they just had to find who was broadcasting and arrest them.

  25. Re:And the rest? on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    OS passwords and password protected files aren't communicated over the internet generally, at least not in their encrypted hash form.

    eCommerce using SSL might be out of luck though.