Those policies exist for a number of reasons, and cover a variety of electronic devices:
1) Schools don't want to be held accountable for lost, stolen, or broken devices. And yes, parents blame the school when that happens.
A teacher confiscated my daughters mobile once.
At the end of the school day she went to see the teacher to get it back. Suprise suprise - it had been stolen from the teachers bag.
When I reported the theft to the police they asked me whether I thought the teacher had stolen it. I had to tell them I'd rather not go there - would have led to endless shit. The police were of the same opinion.
When I was at school the bans were pogs, conkers, yoyos, card games (First individually - pokemon, digimon, yugioh - and then just a blanket ban to have keeping track of them) and chess. The latter due to a series of games turning violent in accusations of cheating.
They banned conkers? We'd have burned the school to the ground if they banned conkers.
Our school banned holding mass riots with the kids of other nearby schools. Didn't stop us though.
Now, Austria, that's a totaly normal place. (And all Austrian kids should have mobes, comes in handy when dad locks you in the basement for a few years).
This is different. Unlike global warming, for which there has been no recorded rise in global temperature since 1998, this actually has observation backing it.
To put it in perspective, if it's true, neutrinos move at 0.0025 percent faster than the speed of light, so it's not exactly warp speed. But it DOES mean a lot of math needs to be redone!
It doesn't need "a lot of math to be redone". It needs a whole fucking new theory.
And yes, it takes a while to paw through it to figure out what is and isn't available, how it seemed to be collected, and what gaps, if any, there are and what they might mean.
Getting raw data from climatologists or researchers is impossible. In some infamous cases, the raw data was destroyed. In virtually every other case the requests for data are ignore or refused.
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... 2012 will be the year of ARM in the desktop!
No, that was 1987.
This article is amazingly il-informed.
I'm employed at one of those schools that confiscates mobile phones on sight. We have to, because those things are incredibly distracting.
Do you confiscate them in the playground? While the kid is trying to turn it off?
Never underestimate the petty dictator.
Those policies exist for a number of reasons, and cover a variety of electronic devices:
1) Schools don't want to be held accountable for lost, stolen, or broken devices. And yes, parents blame the school when that happens.
A teacher confiscated my daughters mobile once.
At the end of the school day she went to see the teacher to get it back. Suprise suprise - it had been stolen from the teachers bag.
When I reported the theft to the police they asked me whether I thought the teacher had stolen it. I had to tell them I'd rather not go there - would have led to endless shit. The police were of the same opinion.
When I was at school the bans were pogs, conkers, yoyos, card games (First individually - pokemon, digimon, yugioh - and then just a blanket ban to have keeping track of them) and chess. The latter due to a series of games turning violent in accusations of cheating.
They banned conkers? We'd have burned the school to the ground if they banned conkers.
Our school banned holding mass riots with the kids of other nearby schools. Didn't stop us though.
You mean they don't have Kangaroos in Austria?
Must learn to read.
Now, Austria, that's a totaly normal place. (And all Austrian kids should have mobes, comes in handy when dad locks you in the basement for a few years).
Yes, but Australia isn't exactly "normal" either.
I mean, seriously, kangaroos?
It's a very strange place.
Denmark is completely normal.
No got much experience with l'Education Nationale eh.
So we can nag them at any time of day.
There is no escape!
Bwahahahahahha.
If only my kids idiot school would stop confiscating the damn things they might be useful.
This is different. Unlike global warming, for which there has been no recorded rise in global temperature since 1998, this actually has observation backing it.
You are an idiot.
You mean these observations?
Or are you picking your cherries from somewhere else?
To put it in perspective, if it's true, neutrinos move at 0.0025 percent faster than the speed of light, so it's not exactly warp speed. But it DOES mean a lot of math needs to be redone!
It doesn't need "a lot of math to be redone". It needs a whole fucking new theory.
Duh, that's the point.
FTL is time travel.
The source was (and still is) only open to licensees.
Sory, I forgot the other copy of the Unix source that is now open - Solaris. Sun bought the rights to it. (From SCO? Novell? I can't remember).
If Unix wasn't (originally) open source, then how did Berkeley get access to it? You can open up your source while still retaining copyright.
It wasn't open source.
The source was (and still is) only open to licensees.
That was quite a common model.
(Actualy some people have access to the source of Windows. I doubt you'd count that as open source).
And yes, it takes a while to paw through it to figure out what is and isn't available, how it seemed to be collected, and what gaps, if any, there are and what they might mean.
That's what raw means.
You think Harry was having fun?
Pretty much every OS throughout history apart from Unix has been closed source.
Unix is closed source. The AT&T case prevented AT&T from selling Unix, it didn't force it to open the source.
The currently available Unix sources are BSD (where all the AT&T code has been removed) and "ancient Unix", released by SCO.
The story is about whether Android is free software. The obvious answer is it isn't. You think that's ok. I don't.
So you seriously think that 0K is a reasonable temperature for the surface of the Earth?
Last winter was the 9th coldest on record.
No it wasn't.
Oh you mean where you are?
Not having much luck with that "global" concept are you?
I'm not realy talking about the quality of the software.
I'm just remarking that your "free enough" means "as free as windows".
I don't find windows "free enough".
(No straw was injured in the preparation of this message).
I mentioned that very thing in another slashdot article. It's totally baffling to me.
It's hard to conflate "I spent too much" with "Our side is teh winnar", but the Apple fanbois seem to manage it.
I guess you never bought a large computer back in the day.
We were always being bombarded by press releases from our suppliers (Tandem for example) telling us how great their profits were.
I called our account rep one day and asked him "Why do you keep tellng us how badly you're screwing us?"
Didn't stop the press releases.
Android is "free enough" for me. The API is open for programmers to use, and you can install what software you want.
So, being just like windows is good enough.
Bleurgh.
Getting raw data from climatologists or researchers is impossible. In some infamous cases, the raw data was destroyed. In virtually every other case the requests for data are ignore or refused.
That argument is singularly disingenuous.
This is a lie.
Type "raw climate data" into google.
The first link is http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/
Have an apropriate amount of fun.
"global temperatures haven't risen since 1998"
There is no point in making this claim. The scientists will refute it with copious data, and the deniers will bring out their own.
Half right.
The deniers will not bring any data, because they don't have any.
Concern troll is concerned.