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  1. Re:No kidding! on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    So when I'm driving in the boonies, with no traffic, on a straight road with no houses nearby, and the speed limit is 40, I'm exempt from it?

  2. Re:This is a great idea on Sun To Include SSDs On Server Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Ah yes. You're perfectly right. There's no possible way those idiots at Sun made a component that was likely to fail replaceable.

  3. Labs on A High School Programming Curriculum For All Students? · · Score: 1

    I would create a list of labs, and spend significant time on each one. On Monday introduce the problem of the lab, and maybe one new programming concept that can be used to help solve it. Then from Tuesday to Thursday give students time in class to work on it, and help students that are confused, finished students should help the ones who are really far behind. Collect the programs at the beginning of class on friday, and go over the example of a correct program, answering questions along the way.

    I think you'd find the best success with a program like this spending as much hands on time as possible.

  4. Re:PHP? on Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately chances are the first language they will learn is java. I however think that C++ might be a good start.

  5. Re:Oh wonderful on Buckypaper — Out of the Lab, Into the Market · · Score: 1

    But you probably do need a license to burn that stump sitting in your yard.

  6. Re:I can't imagine schools will be too happy on The Tell-All Campus Tour · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are already sites that host reviews of colleges from students, and most of them are negative, because the whiners are the ones who bother to write up a review. One such site is: StudentsReview And, no I don't work for them.

  7. Re:Creative Commons Attribution on Open Source Licenses For Academic Work? · · Score: 2, Informative

    He wants them to attribute when they use the results of the code, not when they use the code.

  8. Re:Not by air? on New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because its a convenient and commonplace ID, that is usually issued by every state in a form that also allows nondrivers to get one too.

  9. Re:Open Source? on Development, Privacy, and Standards for Chrome · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Open source mojo on Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome · · Score: 4, Informative

    They explicitly said they used code from the mozilla project.

  11. Re:No awesomebar? Good. on Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome · · Score: 3, Informative

    Chrome has an Omni Bar which is very similar to the awesome bar.

  12. Re:Garbage on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 1

    The people who want to win the most usually win. Therefore, among the top people in any sport, most of them value winning above anything else.

  13. Re:Calling older slashdotters on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    I believe there a few schools that teach DiffEq but very few high schools offer courses beyond the AP level, and the BC Calculus test only has separable differential equation and basic slope-field questions on it.

  14. Re:Still no Reveal codes feature? on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because I'm not that committed to it. $10 is less of an investment than actually writing it (assuming I value my time).

  15. Re:Still no Reveal codes feature? on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe a bunch of users should get together and form a bounty on it. I'd gladly throw in $10 to have reveal codes.

  16. Re:There is a winner already! on Early Contenders for the Automotive X-Prize · · Score: 1

    I hope you can do better than 20mpg.

    By my calculations, you can go almost 100mpg with a human engine on a road bike, on flat ground, burning chocolate milk as fuel.

  17. Re:A Service... on Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations · · Score: 1

    and if there is a buffer overflow in the routines reading HTTP headers?

    It doesn't make sense to have an HTTP server running with full administrative privileges.

  18. Re:Genoism... on Bill Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    People in certain communities definitely do take it seriously. Right now, there is a penalty (future discrimination) for proactive genetic testing if you believe you may have a gene (say one that caused a late onset heart defect in your brother).

    Many different groups advocating for patients for various genetic disorders and diseases are very interested in the progress of this bill.

  19. Re:someone mod parent up please on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 1

    A Hardware Keylogger can't do this, so it is protection against those, which is good if you are using a LiveCD or similar. Many (most) software keyloggers wouldn't record enough information to get your password using drag + drop, and the clipboard to enter a password.

  20. Re:"out of anything that grows" ... on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1

    There are already plans to sequester gaseous CO2 generated by coal plants.

  21. Re:Still around? on AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network · · Score: 1

    AIM does have this, but pidgin (and probably others) don't support sending them yet. Pidgin makes up for it with a plug in though.

  22. Re:The Internet as a Mesh Network on Google Interested in Wireless Bandwidth Balloons · · Score: 1
  23. Re:This coward is correct! on Open Source DRM Solutions? · · Score: 1
    Public Key Cryptography, with a central server to hand out permission solves part of the problem. However, if it is truly open source, it will be impossible to not have unauthorized client software use it, allowing free copying of the media and use in however the user intends.

    I can only see two ways around this:
    1. Obfuscate the code, and sprinkle pieces of the DRM routines everywhere, with calls being made to start the DRM process everywhere, essentially making the code unusable to any coder.
    2. Only give permission to view files to trusted users, and impress upon them the importance of using the correct clients, that have been signed by you.

    Neither one is a perfect solution.
  24. Re:Address format? on AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe they haven't actually set up Server-to-Server connections yet, so this won't work yet. You have to use your own aol account to login to their server.

  25. Re:Sounds like like Lunix, OSX on 95 Of Every 100 Windows PCs Miss Security Updates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please look up gtksudo.