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  1. Re:"can send text messages"/ban enforcement method on Schools Are Giving Up on Smartphone Bans (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would he ONLY teach the material included in the books and written exercises? That stuff can be mass produced. His job is to teach, not to churn out photocopies.

    Yes, I was one of the people in the lecture hall who was actually interested in the topic. I would often ask extended questions about the topic to further my learning. Often enough the next person to raise their hand would ask 'will that be on the test?'

  2. Re:Next up, vape bans on Schools Are Giving Up on Smartphone Bans (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't see it tagged as 'wah wah life is so shitty now that I need to cast shade on you.'

  3. Re:Next up, vape bans on Schools Are Giving Up on Smartphone Bans (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I grew up in the 70's. During the summer all I could do was dial up the timesharing (MECC/MERITS) phone number and whistle into it strange. Sometimes I could get the modem on the other end to engage and warble strange stuff back. Other than that, the teletypes were locked up in the school's math classroom and inaccessible.

  4. I still have that dark brown piece of paper with the strange symbols printed in black on it that came with my copy of Sim City for MS-DOS.

    (even back then you could tweak the settings on your scanner and get a good readable copy)

  5. Re:Who cares? Never happen. on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If Everything On the Internet Was DRM Protected? · · Score: 1

    I'd have to again drive across town to buy Infomagic CD-ROM boxed sets to get the new distro of Slackware.

  6. All through the late 80's I watched and rewatched 'The Prisoner' on VHS tape that my father recorded for me. In fact, he recorded it for me before I had a VHS Deck, and I then bought one so I could watch my tapes.

  7. Re:Most people wouldn't notice on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If Everything On the Internet Was DRM Protected? · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't really be their problem. You could teach them how to save a jpeg image in a few minutes. Teaching them how to figure out where it went and how to view the file again would be the challenge.

  8. Re:reminds me of another question on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If Everything On the Internet Was DRM Protected? · · Score: 1

    One of our cats really likes the dog. He likes to lick that nummy little salt pat out of the corner of her eye.

  9. Re:back to books, to hell with the Internet on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If Everything On the Internet Was DRM Protected? · · Score: 1

    It would take me until I die to read through all the ebooks in that torrent I downloaded eight years ago.

    But I have a lotta books on my reading list, too.

  10. Re:The government and business wins? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If Everything On the Internet Was DRM Protected? · · Score: 1

    Why would a VPN change anything? The money gathered would be thrown into a common pool, the way the $$ that the music mafia collects from bars and restaurants is. It wouldn't matter what you did with your bandwidth, you would pay a metered amount for it.

    Part of the counter to 'too cheap to meter' is how cheap the technology to meter with has become.

  11. Re:The government and business wins? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If Everything On the Internet Was DRM Protected? · · Score: 1

    Sales of loose leaf notebooks and ballpoint pens would skyrocket.

  12. Re:They use PHP... on Facebook Blames a 'Bug' For Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    PHP stands for Personal Home Page and it's a set of toys.

  13. "We appreciate New York Magazine for bringing the issue to our attention."

  14. Better yet, we should start referring to it as 'virtual lottery tickets.'

  15. is a fraud.

    This was at a crypto-currency conference. They are all frauds. They're probably about to be sued by Baskin-Robbins, because of the 31 flavors of fraud.

  16. Re:The irony is richer than a serving of panna cot on Ethereum Founder Confronts Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright, Calls Him a Fraud (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    Next door, in a smaller exhibition hall at the convention center, the tulip bulb growers are meeting.

  17. Make sure you're talking about the right brother, not the wrong one.

  18. Lattice ICE40 chips are being made now in Maker Spaces?

    No, I think they are still produced in highly proprietary closed facilities.

  19. Re:How far does the biology analogy really go? on Is It Illegal to Trick a Robot? (ssrn.com) · · Score: 1

    My swiss army knife is directed through state borders under my control.

    Sometimes I might also have a box of oranges in the back of my car as I travel across a state border.

    I can't recall ever traveling to another state without being on a road, though I do remember in my youth that we hiked into Canada once.

  20. Re:Liberal position on Trump Says He Wants Skilled Migrants But Creates New Hurdles (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The Democrats want to continue with their own flavor of Benghazi ('Impeachment') so need no big issues resolved before November.

  21. Didn't Do Any Damage??? on Russia Debuts Postal Drone, Which Immediately Crashes Into Wall (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    What happened to the small package??

  22. Re:Of course on Trump Says He Wants Skilled Migrants But Creates New Hurdles (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone who wanted bright, energetic people who wanted to better themselves and their community must be stopped.

    The countries those people come to the US from need them, too. We need to stop the brain drain of the most talented people from the rest of the world to the US. It's only fair to the economies of the rest of the world.

  23. Re:Liberal position on Trump Says He Wants Skilled Migrants But Creates New Hurdles (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    citation needed

  24. Re:Year of the crapbook on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Android phones have quad core processors and GPUs. My $120 Virgin Mobile one does.

  25. Re:How far does the biology analogy really go? on Is It Illegal to Trick a Robot? (ssrn.com) · · Score: 1

    My swiss army knife 'engages in interstate travel' if I carry it in my pocket into another state.