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  1. The problem with the education system on Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing? · · Score: 1

    The education system is failing because it is designed to educate a student that doesn't exist, the average student. Every child is different and every child needs different instruction at different times in their development. The education system needs to be completely thrown out. We should design a new system from the ground up that adapts to the needs of the student instead of the forcing the student to adapt to the needs of the system. I have no idea how to do that, but if I studied how children learn I'm sure I could come up with something. It isn't impossible, it just takes vision and courage. Ok, that's impossible.

  2. South Carolina Police have nothing to do on South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago · · Score: 1

    This is almost as good as the NY cop who made a blind woman clean up dog poop with her bare hands after her seeing eye dog pooped in the curb, where he's supposed to. People in South Carolina are probably paying these police close to $100,000/year. I wonder if anyone considered giving the complainant $5 and firing an excess police officer to make up the difference?

  3. Why are you buying Dell? on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 1

    That's the question.

  4. Business Down? Sales flat? on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    Attack your customers! Make them pay for daring to choose you for a supplier! Make them sorry they ever heard your name!

  5. Entrenched players buying politicians on Kansas Delays Municipal Broadband Ban · · Score: 1

    It happens so often it's surprising legislators don't put out a price list for laws that favour your business.

  6. Stereo typing helps no one. on The "Triple Package" Explains Why Some Cultural Groups Are More Successful · · Score: 1

    I hope they don't get paid for work like this! There are 'experts' claiming aliens built the pyramids. I don't believe them either.

  7. If he carried it .... on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    They probably would have burned him too, just to be sure.

  8. Americans don't believe in Evolution on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    There must be an American born every minute. Of course it could be that evolution is leaving them out and that's why they can't see it. One third of Americans will go the way of the Neanderthals.

  9. There is no requirement to play on France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook · · Score: 1

    Example: 8 years ago we moved to a small town where no one picked up their dog crap in the park except me. The local ascetic said, "That won't do any good. No one else does that." When people saw me picking up after my dog, they started doing it too. Soon there was no dog crap in the park. There was no requirement to pick up, but people did it because it made a better park for everyone. Just because some people steal, doesn't mean everyone will join them. Most people will do the right thing because it usually makes everyone better off.

  10. Microsoft should off load to open source on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microsoft should transition all those XP users to a linux distro made to look and behave more like Windows. If Windows really is better then those customers will come back when they buy a new machine. In the mean time, Microsoft will have off loaded maintenance onto open source and freed itself to innovate. No doubt they will do something else, that will turn out to be stupid.

  11. They're dead on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Thanks for asking.

  12. Re:Not possible. on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 1

    A person certainly could spy without spying on me. That is what's at issue.

  13. Who could possibly believe they have any privacy? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control? · · Score: 1

    The NSA scrubs every phone call made anywhere, yours, mine, everyones. Privacy is a luxury of the past.

  14. With Elop's record on Stephen Elop Would Pull a Nokia On Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wouldn't trust Elop to keep a popsicle frozen. He'd sell off the freezer to save on energy and make his only product, a popsicle, more profitable.

  15. Stupidity is alive and living in BC Schools! on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 1

    Don't let your kids catch stupidity! It's spread by touching!

  16. Google should just drop France on French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley · · Score: 0

    Who would miss France if it never showed up in any google search?

  17. Another Republican Attack on Science on Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency · · Score: -1, Troll

    Republicans hate science because knowledge is power and they want to keep people as powerless as possible.

  18. Good thing software patents are no good! on Microsoft, Apple and Others Launch Huge Patent Strike at Android · · Score: 2

    Google just has to say 'ineligible subject matter'. Google will also lose it's own patents, but the competition can't outdo them so Google's own patents don't matter.

  19. I vote fewer secrets, more freedom on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 2

    Of course, it depends on who is counting the votes.

  20. Where would we be ... on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    Where would we be without idiots like this to make us feel smart? The same place but feeling less smart.

  21. Why does Japan's constitution prevent surveillance on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The American constitution is also supposed to prevent unlawful searches, so why does the Japanese constitution succeed and the American constitution fails to stop illegal capture of electronic communication? Do the Americans just not care?

  22. The land of the free on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    no longer is.

  23. Aren't HPS lights more efficient than LED? on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that LED's were about 93% efficient at converting energy to light and that High Pressure Sodium bulbs used in street lights were about 95% efficient.

  24. Laws prevent lawlessness on Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required For GPS Trackers · · Score: 1

    Including that committed by law enforcement.

  25. Too many cooks on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 1

    burns the code.