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You nailed it. Of course all usual caveats apply. I won't be surprised to find a few excellent schools out there; but, I expect them to be the exception, not the rule. Education in this country is a national disgrace. Have kids? Get yourself on the local school board.
Beat me to it. Agreed. There's no way we'd put up with that kind of insolence over here.
Sigh... This thread, again?
The case for a progressive tax scheme is that it, may reduce one incentive for the most financially successful monkeys to plunder the less financially successful monkeys, including those monkeys who may be just as smart; but, maybe got started later.
To those of you who are pretending that you've done it all on your own without nobody's help and get your hands off of mine it's all mine mine mine! You're deluding yourself.
I can understand why TED don't want to touch his talk. It would be interesting to note how consistent TED are in this respect.
Oh dear, my freshmen are in a heap of trouble.
Oracle is claiming infringement and damages for something they (Sun) didn't even pay for? That's a lot of gall.
An open-source life-support device need not necessarily be reprogrammable by the consumer.
Am I a lazy for making a machine wash my dishes while I browse HN?
I agree with Laat, sounds like he should make it into a business/product.
"Am I reading this correctly that then these 20 people have their info in the public record after this trial closes?"
It is also possible that the county has data retention/destruction policy, in which case the county commissioner's brother-in-law will be paid on a contract basis to have his children / some migrant workers remove the drives and feed them into a tree shredder, and then sell the bits for scrap.
Here's hoping for option two.
Adafruit, Sparkfun, Pololu, Seeed Studios, Leaf Labs Also see Mouser, Digikey, Allied, et al http://leaflabs.com/distributors/ Radio Shack carries Arduino now, some do anyway. My personal favorite is Adafruit because this one time, I whined to her about her webform not accepting my name+spamtagger@emailaddress.com and she fixed it and wrote me back in like five minutes, no joke. I do not know her personally and that was the first time I had ordered anything from her.
tl;dr Limor Fried is a bad ass, buy things from her store.
1. You can get your hands on a Raspberry Pi?
2. Do you really want to try and optimize for cost on sub 30 dollar items in quantities of approximately 1?
3. ADH8066 GSM Modules are approximately fifty bucks. Serial port, AT commands, etc. Who knows where you can get a data carrier for reasonable cost in this country.