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Comment Great early experience. (Score 2) 632

Honestly the best school/computer experience I had was in Elementary school in the early 80s. It was actually quite early in computer education history for a school to have a computer in every room and computer labs, but our little country school in northern Indiana had them (Apple IIs and Atari 400/800s) and we had a couple sessions each week were we would try different programs and just experience them. They even had us writing short programs as early as 2nd grade. All the computer classes I took after that in high school and at the college level were woefully out of date and had teachers/professors who either didn't know what they were talking about or who were teaching 20 year old technologies. So if you want to compare computer education now to something before, the bar isn't very high as far as I'm concerned.

Comment Re:Is there one? (Score 1) 375

Good point, although ironically none of them charge anywhere near fast food prices.

Well, I will say this about US cell phone carriers I was happy to see how much the price of data plans have gone down in price last time I renewed. I think Verizon charges like $30/month for 2GB, which may seem insane, but compared with what they charged back when the whole ".002 cents fiasco" happened 6 years ago (About $209.71 per GB), $15/GB isn't as bad. Of course, its still quite far from what you might pay for overage at a web hosting company ($1/GB) or what you pay per GB with a OC-192 connection (maybe $0.008/GB).

Comment Re:Who cares (Score 2) 399

You're missing the oppurtunity to use hexidecimal characters in memorable ways in your IPv6 addresses though:

2001::FEED:FACE:DEAD:BEEF (For non-vegans)
2001::C0DA:0B0E:BA55:C1EF (For musicians)
2001::CA11:D011:FACE:BABE (For a good time)
2001::FEE1:DEAD:BABE:B00B (For necrophiliacs)

Comment Re:Unsubstantiated Rubbish (Score 1) 272

That's not actually true. jpg images can contain steganographic data in them just fine. For instance, there is a steganographic message in this image using steghide:

http://www.climagic.org/images/mystery-developer1.jpg

It could be that steganography didn't survive post processing. I just tested the image above by posting it to Facebook and the stego data didn't make the transfer. Maybe Blizzard developed a more hardy watermarking technique.

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