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Submission + - Dr. J.T. Kirk. Shatner Accepts D.Litt Degree (google.com)

theshowmecanuck writes: William Shatner was granted a Doctor of Letters Degree at his alma mater, McGill University in Montreal. One of the more interesting parts of his speech involved his high school principal's car which was set on fire. An other interesting tidbit is that he doesn't really like the idea of going into space himself. An interesting short read on what made and continues to make one of our favourite former 'star ship captains' tick.
Education

Submission + - Prof Questions Sink-or-Swim Intro to CS Courses 2

theodp writes: 'After having taught introductory programming (CS 1) for the past six years,' writes GVSU's Zack Kurmas, 'and having watched many students struggle through this course and the subsequent course (CS 2), I have come to the conclusion that it is absurd to expect students who don't have any prior programming experience to be well prepared to study Computer Science after a single 15-week course (i.e., CS 1). I believe that expecting a student to learn to program well enough to study Computer Science in a single 15-week course is almost as absurd as expecting a student with no instrumental musical experience to be ready to join the university orchestra after 15 weeks.' Kurmas' frustrations are not unlike those voiced by Physics prof Dr. Yung Tae Kim, who argues the up-or-out, one-size-fits-all rigid pace approach to learning set by teachers and administrators is as absurd as telling a toddler, 'You have ten weeks to walk, and if you can't, you get an F and you're not allowed to try to walk anymore.'
Android

Submission + - WhatsApp verfication check flaw (tweakers.net)

rvw writes: Using a prepaid phone without credit, you can take over another WhatsApp account. During installation WhatsApp asks you to enter your mobile phone number and sends out an SMS to verify the number. Because the SMS is not sent, but is accessible, you can send the SMS via a mobile service, using another phone number. The account is then linked to your phone, and will be disabled on the other phone.
NASA

Submission + - Flying Saucers are coming, the unmanned kind (suasnews.com)

garymortimer writes: "An autonomous flying saucer for all, get ready for an increase in UFO sightings.

Aerobat Aviation Inc and Attopilot International have teamed up to add for the first time an autopilot to the innovate circular flying wing design. The circular winged craft promises flight performance increases across a wide speed range."

Submission + - TSA: Nailclippers are more dangerous than guns. (redstate.com) 1

HungryHobo writes: When faced with hundreds of soldiers on a military charter carrying assault rifles,pistols and machine guns the TSA personnel decided that while all the guns weren't dangerous the nail clippers one soldier was carrying needed to be confiscated in case he used them to take over the plane.

"approximately 233 people re-boarded that plane with assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns–but nothing that could have been used as a weapon."

Linux

Submission + - ClearFoundation soon to release RHEL clone (clearfoundation.com)

pr0f3550r writes: "ClearFoundation is '...Announc[ing] that in conjunction to the release of ClearOS Enterprise 6.0 that [they] will also be releasing a new distribution, ClearOS Core 6.1. This new distribution strives to maintain 100% package compatibility with upstream sources. 100% compatibility means ClearOS Core will also contain all upstream issues and bugs. The only changes from upstream sources will be to remove branding as required.'

ClearOS has previously been based on CentOS."

Comment Bad news day, I'm guessing (Score 1) 294

There are quite a few windows bugs out there. This one makes changes to the registry and moves files and folders around. Most of the other bugs do that anyway. I didn't read the whole article, of course, but it seems like this isn't really all that news-worthy. The only difference that I can see is that it moves more stuff around than the other bugs. Or perhaps there was a point and I missed it.

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