You should take a look at Grattan primary school in the San Francisco school district. The link is good, and googling will turn up more. It's outrageously good. The kids love it. Yes, those are live plants and live bugs. Yes, several of the computers are in a tree house and several are in a huge canoe.
Many of the ideas could apply to a high school computer lab, though probably not every detail is appropriate.
Yes. Which is exactly why sweeping generalizations like "don't use stored procedures" are idiotic. There are a wealth of cases where stored procedures are best practice.
I agree. All sweeping generalizations are always wrong.
According to a Carl Sagan interview, the Dalai Lama says Buddism wouldn't contradict established science: "And the Dalai Lama said to me, "If science can disprove reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism would abandon reincarnation." And then he said, "But it's going to be mighty hard to disprove reincarnation.""
I've just read 50 posts saying that limiting export strength encryption won't stop any non-US people from using higher encryption. I agree that this makes perfect sense. It's completely logical.
But everyone seems to conveniently ignore the fact that this group DID rely on the export strength encryption that they had available. They DIDN'T use PGP or any one of the myriad of other options for better encryption. Perhaps the premise that a slashdot reader is familiar with other encryption techniques isn't equivalent to the premise that an Al-Qaida member will be familiar with other encryption techniques.
Any reasonable and complete argument against limiting export strength encryption at least needs to address this fact. One could argue that it is an unusual case, that it won't be repeated, that you don't care if non-US folks have default access to better encryption, etc.
But arguing that it will never stop anyone from using better techniques seems silly when presented with this case of a group using exactly the default abilities that they were given in Win2k.
Good ice cream sinks, but it's not because of the fat content. It's due to the air content.
In some places there's a limit on how much air can be in ice cream: 50%. There's no lower limit, but at 0% you've just got a block of ice. So there's a de facto lower limit.
Something like Ben and Jerry's has much less air. That's why it's less dense, and that's why sinking ice cream can be a measure of quality.
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You should take a look at Grattan primary school in the San Francisco school district. The link is good, and googling will turn up more. It's outrageously good. The kids love it. Yes, those are live plants and live bugs. Yes, several of the computers are in a tree house and several are in a huge canoe.
Many of the ideas could apply to a high school computer lab, though probably not every detail is appropriate.
Yes. Which is exactly why sweeping generalizations like "don't use stored procedures" are idiotic. There are a wealth of cases where stored procedures are best practice.
I agree. All sweeping generalizations are always wrong.
For anyone to stand up and pronounce this as either 100% good or 100% bad is laughable.
Clarification: by saying it's "laughable" he means that it's 100% bad.
According to a Carl Sagan interview, the Dalai Lama says Buddism wouldn't contradict established science: "And the Dalai Lama said to me, "If science can disprove reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism would abandon reincarnation." And then he said, "But it's going to be mighty hard to disprove reincarnation.""
My favorite quote from the article:
I ask all these rhetorical questions for a reason: I want to know what you think.
er... you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Forgive my ignorance, but can anyone explain the difference between a novella and a novelette? I must not have been awake that day in English class.
I've just read 50 posts saying that limiting export strength encryption won't stop any non-US people from using higher encryption. I agree that this makes perfect sense. It's completely logical.
But everyone seems to conveniently ignore the fact that this group DID rely on the export strength encryption that they had available. They DIDN'T use PGP or any one of the myriad of other options for better encryption. Perhaps the premise that a slashdot reader is familiar with other encryption techniques isn't equivalent to the premise that an Al-Qaida member will be familiar with other encryption techniques.
Any reasonable and complete argument against limiting export strength encryption at least needs to address this fact. One could argue that it is an unusual case, that it won't be repeated, that you don't care if non-US folks have default access to better encryption, etc.
But arguing that it will never stop anyone from using better techniques seems silly when presented with this case of a group using exactly the default abilities that they were given in Win2k.
Good ice cream sinks, but it's not because of the fat content. It's due to the air content.
In some places there's a limit on how much air can be in ice cream: 50%. There's no lower limit, but at 0% you've just got a block of ice. So there's a de facto lower limit.
Something like Ben and Jerry's has much less air. That's why it's less dense, and that's why sinking ice cream can be a measure of quality.
On a related note: it seems that there was a major problem with all Dutch land telephone lines yesterday.
Mobiles could call other mobiles, but land lines were down all over the country. I haven't found an article explaining it yet.