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  1. Re:wow. on Ditching Microsoft Could Save Education Millions · · Score: 1

    The article is about British teachers, who do not get tenure, and have only to take a further 1 year of postgraduate training in order to learn how to teach (about half of which is spent actualy teaching lessons in a school).

    We have privatised schools here (called, confusingly for Americans, Public Schools) as well as the state-run State Schools, and most pupils cannot attend them because, shockingly, they charge fees which the vast majority of parents cannot possibly afford.

  2. Re:Tell me this... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the creator is not sufficiently complicated?

  3. Abuse of the English Language on Sun Developers Refute OpenSolaris Vaporware Claims · · Score: 1

    To refute a claim is show it to be untrue. These guys have merely claimed that it is untrue.

  4. Re:Robin Hood on CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda · · Score: 1
    And in further news, two wrongs do make a right.

    They don't, but three lefts do.

  5. Re:Robin Hood on CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda · · Score: 1

    The statistics don't seem to agree with you though, in general far more accidents occur when people are driving above the speed-limit than below. (In Britain, where we have slightly higher limits than in the US, I have no idea what the figures in America are like)

  6. Re:Robin Hood on CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Driving too fast is illegal, yet everybody does it, and nobody cares. Not everybody does it, and some people do care. You're right that this has become "acceptable" in society due to some misconception that driving is a right rather than a privilege. Revoking a few more licenses for life would help correct people of that error - and here in the UK at least this does look like it might be beginning to happen.

  7. Re:Communism on Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme · · Score: 1

    Possibly, or it may be better to say that Marxism is *a* form of communism, and that soviet communism is a (misread) revolutionary form of Marxism, since the term was used prior to Marx by some of the groups in Revolutionary france. It all gets rather murky when you try to determine what words realy mean.

  8. Re:Slim chance of winning? on Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme · · Score: 1

    http://www.h2cars.biz/artman/publish/article_279.s html

    Already happing in Iceland (where they have cheep enough electricity to make vast amounts of hydrogen). We could do it here in Britain too - if we'd build a few more nuclear power-plants.

  9. Re:Missing towel? on BBC Reviews Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure that towels are mentioned in the first book, though the thumb is definatelky the means for hitchhiking

  10. Re: regenerations used up on David Tennant Cast as New Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    I believe that official line is that the ones we see in that episode (there are three of them actualy, making Baker the seventh doctor, and Tennant the last) are actualy Moerbius' previous regenerations. (yes obviously the writers of that episode intended them to be the Doctor, but as Retcon goes it's not bad)

  11. Re:Stick Around! on David Tennant Cast as New Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    when are the Time Lords dead - in 50 billion ad? Go back in time to when they're still around. Clearly something must have happened to wipe them out before they even became timelords. If I recall correctly several people have told me that this happend in one of the novels about the eighth doctor, in which the doctor himself has to prevent Gallifrey from ever having existed in order to prevent the destruction of vast numbers of inteligent species. Which is of course how he survived - because he was the one that changed it.

  12. Re:Typecast?!??!?!? on David Tennant Cast as New Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    As of the second episode of the new series we've been told that he's the sole surviving one. I would be utterly shocked if no other timelord turns out to have survived - but at the moment he seems to think he's the only one still around.

  13. At Last on IBM to Help UAE Track Drivers on the Road · · Score: 1

    Thank god someone has finaly done this. Now how long until we can have it connected up to a speed limiter that prevents the car from breaking the limit? (Before anyone says it, yes you have to have an emergenecy override button for emergenecy situations - but that can be linked up to a GPRS system to inform the police immediately) News Flash to people: Driving is a privelege, not a right - it is not a violation of privacy to ensure that people keep within the speed limit (which exists for safety reasons), nor would it be a violation of privacy to link cars up to a traffic control system - afterall, if you don't want to be monitored you don't have to drive.

  14. Re:Bibles on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1

    As if they'll pay any more attention to these gospels than they do to the many pre-existing non-cannonical gospels (such as Thomas, Mary, etc ...)

    Now if they found a copy of the Gospel of St. Judas then I'd be amused.

  15. Re:The best math is always elegant. on The End of Mathematical Proofs by Humans? · · Score: 3, Informative

    In fact Ramanujan thought he had a proof, which would have been doable using only things known in Fermat's day and was short elegant and pretty.

    Unfortunately, as Hardy pointed out, that proof assumed that all Quadratic extensions of the rational numbers are Unique Factorisation domains - which isn't true ;-/

    It seems very likely that Fermat's proof was probably of a very similar sort.