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  1. paper and pencil on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Americans and Russians put people in space with the above. School education was no different. Why do people think a gadget is necessary.

    And the usual defense is, "kids need to be ready for the technological working world." They'll have many, many years to become experts with technology, just through their normal use of it. And if they need to know Excel, they'll take a boring business administration course track like the rest of us.

    Watch us continue going down in international match scores.

  2. Re:That's not news on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    That's not how it would work. You'd have a budget of 70k per teacher, and you'd fill those roles, likely with the same quality of teacher.

    The biggest problem in large city schools is overpopulation. You'd be better of adding teachers, like the AC above said.

  3. Re:This is why... on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    Why are drivers so butt-hurt over bikes running a red light? It is not much different than jaywalking, and we all agree that jaywalking shouldn't be a ticketable offense, barring really egregious offenses of people just strolling across, normal traffic be damned. Most bikes that ran lights that I've seen did so in preservation of their own life. IE: staying out of the way of cars.

  4. Re:Similar issues on Sent To Jail Because of a Software Bug · · Score: 1

    You should either change jobs, or make some sort of an official statement about the issues. I wouldn't want to be on the hook for a serious health mixup, with some strangers deciding your fate and having the technicality of the law behind them.

  5. Re:Sigh on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they would avoid using monitors that give them headaches, but like the OP said, that very info is difficult to get in the first place.

  6. Re:Yeah on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    You overestimate the amount of attention anyone pays to you and your goings on.

  7. Re:Sigh on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    So because it might affect a few people, no one should bother. I'm sure the few thousand people with rare diseases are glad pharmaceuticals didn't follow your type of thinking.

    All that the OP is saying, seems to me, is to at the very least list the frequency of the panel, or address an issue that could easily be changed, but isn't because people like you are the shrug-and-put-up-with-it types. And yeah, would hate to have LED prices go up. They're so expensive right now.

  8. Re:yes because of course labor is free on Helicopter Parts Make For Amazing DIY Camera Stabilization · · Score: 1

    Wish I had some mod points.

  9. Re:If 51% want it blocked on ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014 · · Score: 2

    Has that ever worked? You'll get to elections 3 years after the fact, and people will either have forgotten, or the opponent will have even fewer things in common with you, that you end up voting for the lesser of two evils, though it might be the one that instituted censorship. Multiply this process by everyone that votes, district shenanigans, etc, and that theory is so diluted, that it might as well be a fallacy.

  10. Re:well, the man's penis goes in the lady's vagina on ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014 · · Score: 1

    Next time you go to an escort, carry a fancy looking camera and claim you're making a film if cops bust in.

    Our rules are so stupid...

  11. Re:so much for environmentally friendly on Volvo's Electric Roads Concept Points To Battery-Free EV Future · · Score: 1

    Have you compared your alleged loss due to transport to the weight savings in not lugging hundreds of pounds of batteries with you?

    You shouldn't be so dismissive of an idea and pointing out the challenges as insurmountable. You should instead keep an open mind to the possibilities. Many people in the past faced almost insurmountable obstacles, but they pushed ahead and now you get to live in the great world that's around you.

    I mean, who is going to run a cable from California to the UK, so that you could watch the BBC on your iPad in 720p? Think of the men that could die on that ship making the crossing.

    Why are we burning all that fuel making rockets go up into space so that we have the GPS system, advanced atmospheric monitoring, and others? Someone might get hurt and a rocket might fall on someone's house. Use a map, and stick your head out the window.

  12. Re:Expensive, impractical on Volvo's Electric Roads Concept Points To Battery-Free EV Future · · Score: 1

    This isn't going to happen overnight. It would take decades. It would start as a pilot on some stretches of a main/busy route, with truck/bus traffic, and branch off from there.

    Batteries have many disadvantages. They still have a limited range (some people can't stop for hours at a time to recharge on a long trip) and they weigh a lot. If you have an in-road system like this, you're shedding hundreds of pounds off the vehicle weight. Not only would that lower the amount of materials you'd need to make batteries, but it would decrease power usage exponentially.

  13. Re:Who Pays? on Volvo's Electric Roads Concept Points To Battery-Free EV Future · · Score: 1

    Fuel surcharges for goods? Aren't transportation costs covered by tolls, vehicle registration, car taxes, taxes on gasoline, and other transport related things?

  14. Re:Pointless on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Most summaries are riddled with links. Was also expecting one there, and clicked on the topic assuming someone would link in the comments.

  15. Real world use? on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    Sure, ideally you'd never look at the screen. But are we sure most people wouldn't proofread messages and manually press send once happy? Maybe the study looked at what most people would consider voice-to-text, and how this form of VTT would affect driving.

  16. Re:Nothing New on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 1

    Who knows?

    The US on Thursday flew a B2 bomber from Missouri all the way to South Korea and dropped an unarmed 2,000lb warhead on a bombing range there, in broad daylight, in a show of force towards NK. The new Kim Jung might be the type of megalomaniac that would overreact to something like that.

  17. Re:Why a data center for the building on World's Largest High-Rise Data Center Opens In New York · · Score: 1

    Because no one wants office space downtown, and they've been changing over many existing buildings into residential ones. People are either moving uptown or across the river to NJ.

  18. Re:Hilarious on GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review · · Score: 1

    GoPro had it taken down using DMCA for infringement against their right to gain someone's business.

  19. Stop making excuses on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    Go running for 20 minutes per day and quit eating processed crap. You'll lose plenty of weight, your breathing will improve, you'll sleep better, etc, etc. Your health should be just as important to you as your career, and you could easily make time for it.

  20. Re:About time. on China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Defense also looks like trying to get your own data to see what the other side found out from their hacks of you. Satellite photos of the other side arming? Decrypting their communication? Would those not count as steps towards your own defense? Or would you just close your eyes and plug your ears, build the biggest wall you can, and call that defense?

    Besides, China's hacking has been very much in the news lately. How do you know this isn't just China's PR push? How do you know China isn't simply counting a hacked home box sitting on a cable connection as a governmental hack? Don't you think the US would be a bit better about hiding their source?

  21. Re:Huh on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 1

    With all the nzb indexers being taken down every day, even that is being hit and becoming a bit of a pain to use.

  22. Re:It WAS a revolution on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 1

    I remember rockin' my Walkmans long before mp3s started being posted online. So not like there weren't options for personal listening.

  23. Re:Napster was not “very good” on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you comparing a simple app written by a high school kid where people are the ones ripping the music, to one from the largest US corporation set up with cooperation of record labels?

  24. Was I the only one on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 1

    that was more reliant on Usenet at that time? I only used Napster for stuff that was hard to find that some bloke in the UK might have, like a Crass album. For me, I suppose, Napster was the preamble to nzb indexing.

  25. Re:IF..... on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 1

    And did you have to walk uphill both ways to and from your friend's house to borrow said tapes/records?