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  1. Re:Here's his best defense.. on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure that's the best defense. After all, if someone went through the trouble of encrypting something in the first place, do you think someone will have easily forgot the key?

    Ignoring the constitutional issues at hand, would this be any different than the FBI forcing someone to hand over the key to a storage locker they suspect have illegal goods in it?

  2. Re:So you're using arable land... on 'Energy Beet' Power Is Coming To America · · Score: 2

    I would have thought we would have learned this by now-that growing fuel in such a manner is a bad idea.

  3. Re:This is news? on Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying · · Score: 1

    Let's call bullying for what it is: assault and/or battery. Of course, I'm thinking of physical bullying. There's also verbal abuse, some of which can be ignored and some of which cannot be ignored. Regardless, if it happens on school grounds, the school needs to be responsible and take appropriate action.

    The school needs address both parties. In other words, see why the student is bullying other students. That offender may be a "victim" of something him- or herself.

  4. Re:No even a "we're sorry?" on US DOJ Drops Charges Against Two Seized Websites · · Score: 1

    With logic like that, we might as well switch to an absolute monarchy. We as citizens must care about constitutional abuses even if it has no direct affect on a specific individual. An abuse on one is an abuse on us all. I want to say it's only a matter of time before it hits you or me, but I think it's more practical to say this: How can you feel secure when constitutional abuses are ignored? Unless you're above the law, I don't see how that's possible.

  5. Re:I predict a rash of tweeds.. on Japan Considers '911' Calls From Twitter, Social Networks · · Score: 1

    In other words, how do you enforce that people use hashtags only for what they're intended? It's not going to work. Although, they could filter them appropriately. Also, not everyone has or wants a Twitter account.

  6. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    You'd think journalists having a degree means less misspellings and grammar errors.

  7. To clarify... on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 1

    "Maximum Homerdrive" is the episode to which I am referring. And I meant "Simpsons Did It" to be a joke from "Simpsons Already Did It" from South Park. How or why I was modded down from one to zero points is beyond me. I thought someone would get the joke.

  8. Simpsons did it! on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 0

    Simpsons did it!

  9. Re:I haven't read the article, but on School's In For Summer At Udacity · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's hard to tell since four to five years of college is gradual, but was the you who graduated from college much different than the you who graduated from high school? Maybe not for employment purposes, but did it help make you more wise to the world? Not counting the financial burden of college, of course.

    What I'd like to see in this country (USA) is the following...
    A guarantee that anyone who wants to go to college, can go to college.
    Higher Direct loan caps. Maybe triple them. And I mean both subbed and unsubbed loans.
    A modification of the 10 year repayment plan for Direct loans. How about zero percent interest for those who make on-time payments? Those who miss a few payments can catch up and reapply for zero percent interest.
    First two years of college tuition-free, provided "good standing", for each permanent resident.
    Two year grace period before loan repayment so graduates can get on their feet.
    And as for graduate school, law school, medical school, we probably need student loan reform too. That way, if someone gets in on their merits, they can afford to pay for it, and not drown in interest-based debt.

  10. If this is about cyberwar, on Defense Expert: Hire Hackers and Wage War · · Score: 1

    I say it's awfully childish. Do we really want the Internet to be an unstable place? Because it's going to be so easy for others to retaliate, and the losers will be those who lose their rights.

  11. Re:Ruling doesn't define computer on Judge Rules iDevice Speaker Docks Don't Infringe On Bose Patent · · Score: 1

    If I were able to rewire an iPod to work as a teleportation device, I certainly would count that as an invention.

  12. Why is that ever okay? on 2 Year Data Retention For Australian ISPs · · Score: 2

    If it's not okay for a private citizen to do, why should it ever be okay for the government to do? I haven't read the article, so unless they mean getting a court order in order to break into someone's computer (call it what it is), then I don't see it as being okay. (I'm not Austrlian.)

  13. Yes on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Yes it does. We should strive to have proper grammar no matter how unimportant our written work may be. We don't need a slippery slope into a degradation of our grammar. Okay, so maybe I'm a bit of a grammar snob. And I am far from perfect in terms of my grammar. But if you have time to think about what you're going to write, as opposed to having a live conversation, what's the harm in taking a few minutes to make sure it's better than "okay"? Oh, there's also a need to read what you type before hitting submit. It's easier to catch typos that way.

  14. I haven't read the article, but on School's In For Summer At Udacity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    are they factoring in that the online students may have much, much, much... much more free time than a "brick and mortar" student?

    Seriously consider the possibility that an in-person student may be taking many classes all at once, with attention diversified versus someone online who may only be taking one class.

    As I said, I haven't read the article.

  15. How would this affect Tetrinet?

  16. Re:so what is ipv6 good for? on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    Should we just let the problem get worse until we reach the breaking point?

    All mobile devices with the intent of being a phone intended to be sold in America, but manufactured perhaps 18 months after the bill passes, would be required to be IPv6 enabled by default with or without the option for IPv4. Waivers available for companies that would feel an undue hardship.

  17. Re:so what is ipv6 good for? on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    I haven't read all of your post, but I caught the part about mobile phones. I strongly agree. I agree so much I feel Congress should enact a law mandating all cell phones to be IPv6 enabled by default. That's not to say they can't switch to IPv4, but the less phones that rely on IPv4, the more IPv4 numbers we have freed up for those who cannot transition.

    Some legacy devices don't work with IPv6.

    In other news, I found out about IPv6 when www.google.com wouldn't regularly load, and doing a ping in cmd.exe resolved to a weird number. Looks like I'm stuck with IPv4 at least with my browser, and hence my whole machine. Although, I don't know if it's really my computer, or some hardware, or my ISP, down the line.

  18. Re:slash slash slash dot dot dot on Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs · · Score: 1

    I think the holy grail would be to get /. resolve to the website. I'd say modify the hosts file, but I don't think it likes the forward slash. Then there is the browser interpretation of /., such as "http:///." without the quotes.

  19. Re:Hmmm ... on 19-Year-Old Squatted At AOL For 2 Months · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, yes. Waiting for hot water. Have to do this with the sink where I live. What a waste of cold water while waiting for the hot water to arrive. Seriously.

    By the way, anyone know if there has been real-life examples of people living in Wal-Marts?

  20. Goodbye karma, and hello lame joke... on Machine-Guided Learning Matches Teachers In Study · · Score: 1

    How is this any different than having my calculator teach me about sex ed?

  21. Re:Irrefutable fact on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    I'm going to disagree. Try Tesla âEdison. By the way, how do I type that? I had to find a site to copy â and supposedly the UTF-8 or whatever is 8811. I've tried alt+8811; no luck.

    And previewing my post makes it look like a-hat. Oh well, I'm still going to post. I'm not going to potentially spend hours trying to get it to post correctly. Maybe someone can get it to work for me.

  22. Re:looks like pretty low-value accounts on 55,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked, Passwords Leaked · · Score: 1

    Well, looks like people have a list of 55,000 strong passwords to choose from now.

    People who have memorization issues should start with perhaps a weaker password, then make it longer over time. I don't think password aging is a good idea as people will just choose weak passwords slightly modifying them each time.

    A six digit, easy-to-read captcha seems like it should be easy for spammers to crack. Maybe twitter should require account verification using a mobile phone number? With no more than one account created per phone number per week.

  23. Re:Happened to me trying to get hired at Apple on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 1

    That seems hard to believe. Didn't you have your actual diploma as proof? Oh wait, I don't think it mentions major, does it? Just the specific college you graduated from.

    If a university is withholding transcripts based on past-due student loans, they should have some sort of policy where something can be worked out to get you back in good standing. With Direct loans, there's that 25 year repayment plan where I believe if you have under $20k income/year, it's effectively $0. With Perkins loans, there are deferrals that can be done. And as I've heard on TV, private loans are "poison".

    Here are some ideas...
    1. 0% interest on Direct loans if all payments in the 10 year plan are on-time.
    2. Triple the aggregate amount that can be borrowed from Direct subsidized loans and Direct unsubsidized loans. This should result in less need to do private borrowing.
    3. First two years of tuition at accredited not-for-profit colleges paid for by the federal government. Limited to the average tuition rate in the region/state.
    4. A new loan option to pay like 6% of your taxable income over 20 years with no opt-out option if opted in. Can only be opted in within the first two years after graduation. Once opted in, the 20 year countdown begins.
    5. Federal block grants to public universities in order to help lower tuition rates.

    I'd prefer we seek the creative path opposed to the war/neo-imperialism path. So if we could cut "defense" spending, enough said.

    That's only part of the problem. The other part of the problem lies with k-12 schooling. Not just the lack of funding, but the type of schooling. Another commenter in this article mentioned something I'm essentially going to repeat. We need to teach the "why" and "how" rather than "rote memorization". Some history teachers teach history, while others teach us the lessons of history. Some math teachers teach us how to do math, while other teach us why it works.

  24. Or... on Finally, a Shark With a Laser Attached To Its Head · · Score: 1

    a laser with a shark attached.

  25. Too bad... on Most Game Console Power Draw Comes From Time Spent Idling · · Score: 2, Interesting

    we can't do something like this with our gaming consoles, when they are idle.