Inefficient for a computer, but very efficient for a person, who has significant dedicated hardware for language processing. That's why using combinations of words makes a good password for a human to remember, but hard for a computer program to crack. https://xkcd.com/936/

Oblig xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1102/

Oblig: Chinese Room by Daniel Dennett & Neil Cohn.

A ZX80 was functional without a cassette deck (although you couldn't save your programs to cassette tapes -- no big loss!), completely unlike a Raspberry Pi which is completely unusable out of the box.

Ah, you don't care about it so much that you're bitching about it on Slashdot. I see. Besides, why would you think you're telling someone they cannot make an edit? You're just stating your opinion and he's stating his. If you bowed out of the conflict, it's your own damn fault you lost. Whinging about it here and then turning around and claiming you don't care is just icing on the cake. I bet you're a real go-getter!

I've never understood the hype of the Raspberry Pi because the Pi is only a computer, not a full computer system. After you buy all the other components you need and piece them all together, you've spent way over $25! If you want a cheap, easy to learn computer system, make it a ZX80-type system with everything included but a monitor, then provide a TV connection. It would suck on an old low-definition TV, but on a typical TV these days it could look great.

One of my favorite wiki feebles is when they told Philip Roth he’s not “credible source” on book he wrote

Absolutely correct! People cannot be sources for Wikipedia. Previously published material is the only allowed source for Wikipedia. And you can't just write a web page yourself and use that for your source. Now if Philip Roth wrote an article about his life and published it in a reliable periodical, that article could be used as a source, just as if I wrote an article about Philip Roth and had it published that article could be used as a source, too.

...and then you just gave up. I totally see how it was that other guy's problem.

I've had similar experiences, but I don't give up. If you let asshats walk all over you without putting up a fight, expect asshats to walk all over you. Wikipedia has all sorts of policies for how to deal with this sort of conflict. And I'm sure that in most conflicts both parties think they are in the right. So whomever loses comes here and complains about how bad Wikipedia is because their "good" edit was reverted, so now they refuse to try to edit articles any more.

If you have the misfortune of running a GUI, you can quickly get to a tty with Ctrl-Alt-F1. Who needs emulation?

To me, a mouse click seems far more concrete than the idea of a counter variable. Anyone who uses a computer can tell you what a mouse click is! In what way is an event "highly abstract"?

WARNING: This takes forever.

Ain't nobody got time for that!

I think we should be exposing middle and high school students to some coding. Every student who graduates high school should have the experience of writing a piece of code to perform some simple task and using it in some useful way.

I also think every student should have the experience of playing a simple song on some sort of instrument. It's not about turning everyone into a pianist, but to give everyone the experience of what it is like to play music.

Damn straight, just ask any Native American!

I was excited about Katrina hitting New Orleans because having lived in Baton Rouge I knew New Orleans was very susceptible to hurricanes. My thought was "Cool... I'm going to see it happen!" The next day this turned to shock and horror when I learned that thousands of people had not evacuated and were dead or in serious need of rescue. Soon afterwards I couldn't believe my ears when Bush stated that no one could anticipate this disaster. It was common knowledge that New Orleans would flood if a hurricane hit. If I knew it was going to happen, certainly the president should have!

It would be cheaper just to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. That's why we're trying to do that... it's the less expensive approach. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions also has all sorts of other benefits: ensuring we have plenty of energy while fossil fuel resources dwindle, reducing pollution, reducing ocean acidification, and reducing droughts. I don't understand why so many people are against doing it. I suspect that in their minds in means going back to an agrarian lifestyle. It's the exact opposite -- it's moving to 21st century high technology.