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  1. Re:The problem with our education system is fundin on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    Private schools can accept their own students. Public schools have to take whoever lives in the district. A lot of money can go into services that private schools don't provide, since they can just reject the students that need them.

  2. Re:Congratulations you invented LOGO! on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    Logic is math. You're good at one part of math, so I wonder why you're not good at other parts. Bad teaching? Lack of applications? Nobody told you that logic is math, so it didn't register as something you can't do until you were already doing it?

  3. Re: Congratulations you invented LOGO! on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a lot of trouble with I = I + ! when I first saw a programming language, and I have a certain amount of talent in the field. ADD 1 TO I. is more readable to someone not already familiar with programming.

  4. Re:Cell phone blocker on Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Some students are using those devices for educational purposes.

  5. Re:Yup! it is the cell phones and smart phones... on Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    The grandparents of this generation grew up in the 60s or so. There wasn't as much stuff around, but there was a lot more hope and certainty. When you got out of school (at whatever level), you found yourself a job or husband, and were pretty much OK for the rest of your life. (That's not what actually happened, of course, but that was the general belief.) Their children would be better off than they were.

    In other words, personal futures were a lot brighter than they are now. That's a big difference.

  6. Re:Alternate formulation on Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    You omitted "Insane freak out alt-right stuff about how everything bad is someone else's fault, probably some non-white's fault." Social media outrage is an equal-opportunity sort of thing.

  7. Re:Causation Is Obvious on Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    To throw in anecdotal evidence, I sought out more screen time when I was seriously depressed. There's now more things I want to do that don't involve screens.

  8. Re:Oversupply of Psychology Majors Makes World Sad on Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Demon-possession rituals? I always wanted to possess a demon.

  9. In other words, reduce battery size so that it fits into different form factors, instead of allowing a battery to take all the useful volume inside the case? I'd rather have the larger battery, please.

  10. Re:You're too stupid to make informed decisions! on Washington Bill Makes It Illegal To Sell Gadgets Without Replaceable Batteries (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I had no reason difficult-to-replace batteries were causing issues that kill people, poison people, or make buildings collapse. I did know about the explosion, though, but the Washington legislation would do nothing to stop that.

  11. Re:Umm, why can't I decide what I want in my phone on Washington Bill Makes It Illegal To Sell Gadgets Without Replaceable Batteries (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    To translate this, "American consumers don't do what I want them to do."

  12. Re:On removeable batteries on Washington Bill Makes It Illegal To Sell Gadgets Without Replaceable Batteries (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. That's why I'm going to get a new battery in my iPhone 5S: so I don't have to buy a new phone.

  13. Re:Umm, why can't I decide what I want in my phone on Washington Bill Makes It Illegal To Sell Gadgets Without Replaceable Batteries (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So, tell us how nonreplaceable batteries burned your hose down, poisoned you, and made you sick. That's got to be a good story.

  14. Re:Everything is made better by Government! on Washington Bill Makes It Illegal To Sell Gadgets Without Replaceable Batteries (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And then the company that still sells the thin phones would apparently win in the marketplace. Engineers should be very careful about designing things without considering the customers and/or users.

  15. Re:Everything is made better by Government! on Washington Bill Makes It Illegal To Sell Gadgets Without Replaceable Batteries (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    You really need to find a new smartphone dealer. You might try the iPhone if that's what you've been finding for sale.

  16. In my state, it's sex with a married woman and someone she isn't married to, which is even stupider. Not that any court would let it stand if any prosecutor was stupid enough to prosecute it.

  17. Last-mile Internet service is something of a natural monopoly, so we need Net Neutrality (which doesn't impose a significant burden on ISPs). Mandating redesign of electronic devices sold internationally by multiple vendors in an open market is not something a government should be doing.

  18. Why would tech companies comply? Companies adjust their products to make California and Texas happy. Nobody's going to do a major redesign to make the state of Washington happy.

  19. The iFixit instructions for replacing my iPhone 5S battery look simple, and the extra tools cost only $5 over the cost of the battery alone. Sounds easy to me. Probably easier than replacing the battery in my car, all told, and certainly cheaper.

    Or did you have some precise definition in mind, that will set into law design considerations that don't belong there?

  20. Re: Unless Starcraft strategy is innovative... on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, so putting a human on a rocket and sending him into orbit isn't as innovative as building a bigger rocket and sending three people further?

  21. Re:They're being honest about one thing.... on NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' From Core Values (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, since you can't provide the single example I asked for, you're going to start talking about all sort of irrelevant crap.

    The FBI report said that she would not be prosecuted, not that she hadn't violated the law. So far, nobody's told me of anyone who was prosecuted for mishandling classified materials without clear indication of intent, and I've been asking. Unless you care to reveal yourself as a lawyer specializing in that field, I'm going to consider your claims to be speculative at best.

  22. Re:They're being honest about one thing.... on NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' From Core Values (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Bryan Nishimura put classified materials on his personal devices deliberately. He received two years' probation, a $7500 fine, forfeiture of media with classified information, and permanent loss of security clearance. Major Brezier deliberately sent classified material on his personal email. He received an unfavorable fitness report. Later on, he was going to be removed from the Marine Corps, but a Federal court ruled that the board of inquiry and discharge were in retaliation and were illegal. He wasn't going to be prosecuted, despite notifying his superiors of what he had done.

    So, thanks for the names, but these are people who deliberately mishandled classified materials, and not what I was asking for.

  23. The features most people want are there. If you don't think the iPhone has the features you want, don't buy one.

  24. Re:The NZ tax payer won't want him here on Kim Dotcom Sues New Zealand For $6.8 Billion In Damages Over Erroneous Arrest (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Both are potentially expensive decisions that I disapproved of. Granted, they're different in size and numbers of people killed and international relations, but the taxpayer-pays part is the same.

  25. Re:Orange Logic on Trump Administration Wants To End NASA Funding For ISS By 2025 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Quit blaming Trump for every god damn thing that happens

    Yeah, that's wrong, but it's the way to bet. It's like the medical researchers who were embarrassed when they found Ebola wasn't transmitted by Microsoft Windows; they'd figured Windows transmitted all sorts of other viruses.