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  1. Re:What? on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    sorry, our stripper ribbons only come in $20 and $100 increments.

  2. Re:Why - why $1 billion a year? on FCC Approves Subsidy Plan to Upgrade School and Library Networks · · Score: 1

    Don't let your reality get in the way of his (union?) rant against educators.

  3. Re:Why - why $1 billion a year? on FCC Approves Subsidy Plan to Upgrade School and Library Networks · · Score: 1

    This just in...
    ISP costs vary by location.

  4. Re: Not France vs US on The Least They Could Do: Amazon Charges 1 Cent To Meet French Free Shipping Ban · · Score: 1

    I hate one-click purchase. I can't be alone.

  5. Re:Think of it a slightly different way on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 1

    Sounds awesome. I embraced solutions like that before I ended up in the over segmented large company. Now, not so much. I have to open a ticket to scratch my ass.

  6. Re:Yay big government! on Police Recording Confirms NYPD Flew At a Drone and Never Feared Crashing · · Score: 1

    well said, wish I could give you a mod point.

  7. Re:Yay big government! on Police Recording Confirms NYPD Flew At a Drone and Never Feared Crashing · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen any welcome arms for pro-life in the republican party. You have just decided that pro-gun is more important to you and you drank the kool-aid that democrats want to take your guns, when the fact is Obama is the best thing that ever happened to the 2nd amendment.

  8. Re:engine problems... on The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane To Nowhere · · Score: 1

    Wait, are these schools teaching science or intelligent design... Do these hospitals have death panels!!!??
    more wrrrgrbl...

  9. Re:It's like we've learned nothing in 5000 years on BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones · · Score: 1

    smart phone in shirt pocket = smart phone in toilet (if your lucky it just bounces off that hard bathroom floor)

  10. Re:Since CC defines the purpose of K-12 education on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    Most of my point was that as a consumer it takes time to get educated and it takes time for a market response. You don't have much time for a child's education. You fail to address that, but keep cheering for your side.

  11. Re:Since CC defines the purpose of K-12 education on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    Education is not like gas. I can stop at the station by my house if I forget to fill up after work. You do damage to a kid if you constantly pull them out of one school and put them into another.
    There are community barriers, if your kid goes to a school across town he won't have opportunities to socialize after school and will miss out on alot (voice of experience).
    There are social barriers, kids make friends and uprooting them can be difficult. This inertia can allow bad schools to hold onto kids, it's happening now.
    There are time barriers. How often do you by gas vs. how often do you change schools years. The logical time to change schools is in the summer. It would take at least one semester to evaluate a school. After a semester or school year in a bad school, your kid might be hopelessly behind. There are plenty of charter and public schools that can do alot of damage in one year. You basically have 12 to 24 segments of schooling to "purchase" for your kid. This is a far cry from any other free market commodity.

    and, yes... Super markets and gas stations are blatant cash grabs... Free market is the idea that the worst kind of people will do good for the worst kind of reason.

  12. Re:I hope not. on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    The first step is to remove the ability to monkey with the criteria.

  13. You can (and should) disable that feature.

  14. Re:Since CC defines the purpose of K-12 education on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 2

    Vouchers have turned into a blatant corporate cash grab. The private school system does not have the capacity for a huge influx of students so charter schools are setup and either run by clueless parent groups who are underfunded and end up folding unexpectedly, or they are run by corporate groups whose only interest is that fat voucher cash. Schools are a community resource. The problems we need to fix are community problems. I don't think that strong central oversite is a bad thing, communities need to communicate with other communities or they stagnate.

  15. Re:I hope not. on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    Do some research on how school textbooks get chosen. The whole system is garbage, CC is an attempt to do something about it.

  16. Re:I hope not. on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    It's interesting that all the, "I'm a teacher and CC is ruining things..." are AC, while the real accounts that claim to be teachers are ambivalent or like CC.

    Thanks for educating our future generations.

  17. Re: I hope not. on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    I'll just leave this here;
    https://movetoamend.org/

  18. Re:badass teacher association on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    I think this guy runs the organization. http://troll.me?p=24778

  19. Re: Common core changes history on Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? · · Score: 1

    Probably stupid for replying to an AC, but...

    You can't groom logic without a base education. K-12 is supposed to provide that base education. Public schooling is the best thing to come out of the 20th century. We shouldn't let people burn it down for their own selfish reasons.

  20. Re:I can't think of a better argument... on Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data · · Score: 1

    yes, I agree. Obviously your not my target market.

  21. Re:Repeat after me... on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 1

    Not true, the military acts under strict ROE (in theory).
    https://www.hrw.org/reports/20...

  22. Re:How is that the security industry's fault? on The Security Industry Is Failing Miserably At Fixing Underlying Dangers · · Score: 1

    So that's your recipe for success? Hire cheap replaceable cogs? It's been done do to death and it has it's own set of problems.

  23. Re:I can't think of a better argument... on Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data · · Score: 1

    Do you use any sort of cloud storage for those? My brother does video production and most of the offsite storage products are prohibitively expensive once you get into that territory.

  24. Re:Still file size capped on Microsoft's Cloud Storage Service OneDrive Now Offers 15GB For Free · · Score: 1

    oh no, then you could use what they are advertising.

  25. Re:From 20GB to 1TB for Office 365?? on Microsoft's Cloud Storage Service OneDrive Now Offers 15GB For Free · · Score: 1

    That's true, nobody has the patience to upload large files or file sets and their ISP will dump the connection if it takes a day.