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  1. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    What I meant is get rid of grade levels, i.e. (1st, 2nd, 3rd, ... 12th). I'm all for proficiency testing.

    college is a good example of what I mean. Normally you take a proficiency test before or when you first sign up and your scoring determines what level (100, 200, 300, ...) of classes you are ready to take.

  2. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not just get rid of the whole grade system. It should be clear by now that not everyone learns the same things at the same speed.

    I for example accel at math and science, but I can't spell or form a sentence worth a shit.

    People are different.

  3. Re:Also in the news on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    That's ok, the fat kids don't need it.

  4. Re:How it works on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 1

    You could just store the hydrogen and oxygen in a single tank. The hydrogen is already explosive by itself.

  5. Re:How it works on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 1

    Why do you need to pull oxygen from the air, it's already in the water... just recombine two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen in the combustion chamber and ignite.

  6. Re:Water & Pure Aluminum on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 1

    Not if the aluminium is in molten form. The bigger problem of reacting aluminium with oxygen is that you end up with aluminium oxide (Al2O3). It requires massive amounts of energy to convert aluminium oxide back into aluminium.

  7. Water = H2O on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 1

    Well. If you had some kind of catalyst, or other reaction, that could separate water molecules into it's base elements of hydrogen and oxygen, you'd have loads of combustible gas for later use.

    Good luck with that one though.

  8. Re:Bunches of small drives on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Personally, I melt them down to reclaim the aluminium. If you need guaranteed data destruction, send them to me.

  9. Re:Another limit? on New Superconductor Found "Immune To Magnetism" · · Score: 1

    Fiber optic cables made of glass are made all the time, they're relatively cheap too.

  10. Re:The sad thing... on Private Donor Saves Fermilab · · Score: 1

    After you adjust for inflation and a dollar that isn't worth shit, those teachers are in the poor house... as well as most of the other people in Maine.

  11. Re:It's simple on The Case for Lunar Property Rights · · Score: 1

    The only right is the right of conquest.

  12. Re:Kudos to Google! on Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View · · Score: 2, Informative
  13. Re:Not a big surprise. on FBI Says Military Had Counterfeit Cisco Routers · · Score: 1

    Why call them fakes or counterfeits when they are exactly the same as the name brand stuff? How about labeling them as generic, as in generic drugs vs brand name drugs.

    BTW, where can I get some of this generic equipment?

  14. Re:What's that movie? on NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed · · Score: 1

    Why don't you compile something for real, say KDE or OpenOffice... Just run it at "nice -n 20".

  15. Re:Forrest M. Mims III on Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Forrest Mims book and Art of Electronics are both good books.

    Another good book is "A Practical Introduction to Electronic Circuits" by Martin Hartley Jones. The first chapter starts off with an elegant introduction to transistors.

    I also hear M.G. Scroggie books are good... IIRC most are out of print though.

  16. Re:who cares? on The Continuing War Against Microsoft's "Facts" Campaign · · Score: 2, Funny

    On second thought, Microsoft is more like Hot Pockets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFFTwnYXI20

  17. Re:who cares? on The Continuing War Against Microsoft's "Facts" Campaign · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft is like McDonalds, It sounded like a good idea at the time, but now you've got explosive diarrhea and can't find the bathroom.

  18. Re:Apple in the workplace...again. on The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit · · Score: 1

    Have your CFO look at the long term TCO of macs. The maintenance and administrative costs are much lower then windows... YMMV, at are company the up front costs are offset by reduced administrative costs.

  19. Re:Dear Apple on The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit · · Score: 1

    Bought 9 of the 24inch aluminum iMacs the first day they came out, not a single problem yet... Maybe it's you or your shipper?

  20. Re:Renewable fuel on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Grants? From who and how? Link?

  21. Re:Renewable fuel on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Most corded power tools have was is called a universal motor... They can run on AC, DC (battery), or pulsed DC (rectified AC).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor#Universal_motors

  22. Re:One teeny problem... on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    The reason Active PFC can be used is they can take just about any AC input voltage (80v ~ 300v) and convert it to the correct output voltage. They also don't care too much about the AC input waveform. Most higher end computers have them... If your computer power supply has a 120v/240v switch in the back it is not an Active PFC supply.

  23. Re:One teeny problem... on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    And thats if the power co. lets you tie into there grid! By law they do have to tie you in, but that doesn't mean it's going to be cheap. They'll probably tell you they need to put up a new transformer... guess who gets to pays for that, you.

    Your best bet is to discretely power a water heater, electric stove, lights, or motor... Any device that uses lots of power and doesn't care about the quality of it. Only attempt to power electronics devices that have an switch mode power supplies with active power factor correction.

  24. Great Stuff on Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    Yea man, my girlfriend and I love hardy heroin. xD

  25. Re:For the Future... on Judge Demands Information About Missing White House Emails · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know this has flaws; how do we keep everybody from peeking into the backups, for example. I'm sure the Legislative branch wouldn't want the Executive branch to be flipping through its emails, and vice-vice-versa for the other branches. That's not a flaw, that's accountability. And why not have the GAO do all the backups?