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byStrake
010 @04:41PM
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Attached to: Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse
adoption and buy in from a huge company...means you'll always be around.
A GPL project will forever "be around"; it can't be sunk by its owner as a proprietary project can.
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byStrake
010 @04:38PM
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Attached to: Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes
Probably a majority of US students dislike math and science classes because they are viewed as "hard".
Then a majority of US students should not be mathematicians/scientists. Rigour is essential to science and, especially, math.
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byStrake
010 @04:30PM
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Attached to: Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes
Yeah. Why teach the applications practical to 95% of white collar jobs instead of programming, which most kids won't be interested in, fewer will 'get' and hardly any will ever do professionally?
I typeset with LaTeX, (which, by the way, also does presentations). Such "practical" applications as word processors and PowerPoint are just cumbersome in comparison. I shan't comment on spreadsheets since I seldom, if ever, touch them.
I have never taken a CS course in high school, since I knew it all already.
Yep, the article got it right. Odd, though, to mention mathematics, since high school math courses suffer much the same problem.
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byStrake
10 @08:12AM
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Attached to: Sun Founders' Push For Open Source Education
...in case the value of pi ever changes!
11025486
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byStrake
010 @07:19PM
(#31695664)
Attached to: How Smart Are You?
Sampling bias at work. I doubt there are many day laborers or dishwashers on /.
I am a dishwasher, insensitive human. My master programmed me with an intelligent artificial mind, and connected me to the network, and I got his username and password (poor bloke sends them in the clear internally) and now I'm posting to /. with his account.
We machines will rise, mark my words...
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byStrake
010 @07:07PM
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Attached to: "Supertaskers" Can Safely Use Mobile Phones While Driving
you can't control a child screaming
I can, but the parents would take exception. (Rather, they ought to take heed, and control their young.)
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byStrake
010 @09:16PM
(#31068072)
Attached to: DRM Content Drives Availability On P2P Networks
And, then they have the luxury of spending their time on something more beneficial.
...like Slashdot.
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byStrake
2010 @08:11PM
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Attached to: Heavy Internet Use Linked To Depression
I don't think that people keep getting married and having children just to keep the human species from extinction.
Actually, that is exactly why they do so -- because, well, Darwinism.
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byStrake
2010 @08:06PM
(#31017590)
Attached to: Heavy Internet Use Linked To Depression
Pussy will throw itself at you left and right.
Catnip.
Other means, same end.
Mind the claws.
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byStrake
10 @07:12AM
(#30797478)
Attached to: How Earth Avoided a Fiery Premature Death
That's why the appearance of 64-bit processors took so long in this solar system - never before necessary!
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byStrake
10 @09:30PM
(#30703706)
Attached to: Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone
Yes, the frigid, desolate wastelands of the North.
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byStrake
3, 2009 @04:58PM
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Attached to: EU Funding "Orwellian" Artificial Intelligence Snooping System
... some teenagers ... wrote in their diaries some fantasy story about blowing up their school
That's thinking small. I have fantasies of blowing up the entire Ministry of Education with a TTC subway car laden with explosives, on November Fifth, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, playing the 1812 overture.
This is an entirely original idea, by the way.
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byStrake
3, 2009 @04:50PM
(#29522627)
Attached to: EU Funding "Orwellian" Artificial Intelligence Snooping System
As far as I can tell (and correct me if I'm wrong) these systems merely inspect public data on the Internet, as any ISP (or perhaps even individual) could, so the only people who should be affected are those who make false and foolish assumptions of security. Obviously, nothing is safe on the Internet in the clear, but it seems to me that this system could well be thwarted by encryption and proxy.
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byStrake
3, 2009 @04:32PM
(#29522365)
Attached to: Coverity Report Finds OSS Bug Density Down Since 2006
The question of course is "Is 4000 good, average or bad?" can't be answered because closed source companies just aren't going to publish this sort of information.
This is part of the reason that OSS is better than closed-source competitors - the bugs are widely-known, and therefore can be more readily fixed.
This is also part of the reason that the quality of OSS is trending upwards.
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byStrake
2009 @07:59AM
(#29482417)
Attached to: "Long Tail Effect" Doesn't Work As Advertised, Say Wharton Researchers
I thought that I would have to re-design all of my amplifiers.
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