Yeah, they could use all that dam power which they have to just waste right now because there isn't enough demand for all the hydro or wind energy that we're creating.

Or people, people are the most useful hacking tool. A lot of hacks are done with no more than either a telephone call or a friendly conversation. We should just ban people, get it over with, lock everyone up and be done with it all.

Might bring a new meaning to Blue Screen of Death.

It is those uncommon uses which gives power to one who wishes to abuse. What may happen is that people get used to nobody doing anything about breaking it, then suddenly they "crack down" on it.
How about a car analogy. Let's say there is a law outlawing making left turns on Thursday.
        Some people object saying it is ridiculous, that there are justifiable reasons to make left turns on Thursday.
        The lawmakers say they only want this law for a particular case where there are certain intersections where there are a lot of accidents that occurred on Thursday involving people making left turns. The law gets passed.
        In the interim it is hardly enforced, nobody gets arrested for making left turns on Thursday. After a few years there is a political activists wanting to hold a protest on Thursday at a particular destination in which have to make a left turn to get to ( I'm not a civil engineer but let's say for some reason there was no way to make a right turn into it ). In order to stifle this movement the mayor orders the police officers to wait at that intersection and to arrest everyone for making a left turn there, thus getting rid of any protest there may have been.
        There is a large danger in having many laws that are obscure or not largely enforced, they can be forgotten by the masses and then used as a legal weapon by those who know the laws and have an agenda.

I know everybody just has those times they wish that they could either just "Acknowledge" that they've read the comment and care, such as a friend getting sick or being dumped or getting into a car crash, or wish that they could state that they do not like a comment, maybe they could introduce a "Wrong" button also.

My test in Taiwan was on a closed course, and during the 45 days of schooling we don't have a driving permit to go out with a licensed driver. I grew up in Washington state and my test there was fairly good.
1) Parallel parking at the DMV (hard to find a dynamic place to parallel park, so it makes sense)
2) Right turn out of DMV
3) Change lanes to the left, go through lighted intersection obeying traffic signals.
4) Change lanes back to the right, right turn into an (forgive my English, been out of states for too long) uncontrolled neighborhood (no stop signs or other traffic stuff)
5) Left and right turns, slowing down while approaching uncontrolled intersections
6) Parking on a hill with/out a curb.
7) Backing around a corner
8) Going back to the DMV
9) Reviewing how you did on the test and where you could improve EVEN if you passed the test

I guess it really depends on where you live. Comparing my two experiences were like night and day. The Washington test had points where each section was a maximum of four and tested you on various aspects such as proper signaling and looking with your head to lane travel and car control. The Taiwan test, in contrast, had 30 point penalties for rolling backwards while starting on a steep hill, or 15 point penalties for hitting a sensor that is on the inside of the white/yellow line while driving forward/backward.

Although I did hear from my instructor that Taiwan was going to be switching to a similar method as they do in the states where they drive in traffic for the test. Needless to say the instructors were non too happy because this means that it would be much harder for them to keep up their 100% pass advertisement while not actually teaching much about driving.

I know that they have a different government and education system, although the education system I would assume is like it is in Taiwan and Japan, going off other peoples experiences that I know in Taiwan who have lived in China, including a professor at one of their universities, and what I've seen through television and what not.

You may also note that I qualified my statement in the first line by saying

that way you may know this is from my experience in Taiwan.

But I would say that the culture is still shared between China and Taiwan, and it is this culture that seems to encourage this cookie cutter approach to education and innovation. Reading forums it seems that this is also evidenced in Japan also where they care about where the degree is from and that the person got top of class and not so much as to whether or not they know how to apply the knowledge that they have supposedly obtained during these 16 years of schooling.

Thanks for trying to tear apart my argument without showing any evidence to the contrary.

If it's anything like my experience in Taiwan then I'm not surprised at all. I went to driving school in Taiwan to get my local license. The school consisted of 5 days a week for 6 weeks we went to school and had a "driving instructor" tell us how to take the test on the course that they have at their school. Their school is also certified to have the test taken there. There are little rocks and other curiously placed items, plus extra large side mirrors and triangular mud flaps, to help aid you along. When taught to back into a parking space I was told to line up a light pole with my passenger door and turn the wheel all the way, when I see the line is parallel with the triangular mudflap then I stop, turn the wheel back to the straight position and back up until the triangular mudflap points at the white line behind me.
Parallel parking was much the same. Line the triangular mudflap up with a rock that happens to have been painted into the fog line on the road, turn the wheel until it can't turn anymore and backup until the other wheels triangular mudflap hits the fog line and then stop. Turn the wheel all the way back in the other direction and then back up, perfectly parallel parked each time.
The "driving instructor" only sat with you the first couple days, then he figured you pretty much got it and then could go off and bs with his buddies. If you got bored of driving around the same track for two hours you could go inside where you get to practice taking the exact same test that you will have to take at the DMV for the written portion.
The real kicker is, although your "driving instructor" may be a "certified tester" he can't test his own students, so another one of the "driving instructors" will probably test you. They'll help you cheat the whole time while taking the driving test. There is a part where you have to stop on a hill and are not allowed to roll backwards. The "certified tester" will actually press the break for you on his side of the car so that you can make it through this part without failing. After the test, even if you did it perfectly, they will at least dock you 4 points on some random line JUST so that the government doesn't get suspicious that everyone is passing with 100%. I have driven a car for 10 years and I did everything right, but he docked me a couple points on the clutch not being steady, or not shifting smoothly, which was complete BS.

There is a huge business for so called "Cram Schools" here. They are schools made to help students "get ahead" of their peers. But everybody goes to them. For some reason people can't accept that their teachers at school are sufficient to teach their children so they ship them of to cram school for 3-4 hours after school, which starts at 7am and gets out around 4-5pm. You can imagine daycare isn't really needed for those mothers who choose not to stay at home but go out and work, they can just send them off to learn what they should have learned in school. Most people I've talked to have explained that what they do in the "Cram Schools" is just teach them how to pass the test that their teacher will give.

Granted it's not as bad as it used to be, where teachers would actually purposefully not teach things in their class and then set up a cram school right across from the school where they did the real teaching.

I can only assume that this goes on in china still. That and their cookie cutter format to school. You literally have the same class through half of elementary, all of middle, and through the last two years of high school. In high school, after one year you decide if you want science and math or social studies and art. You spend your final year pretty much just taking tests and getting ready to take tests.

Once in college, which is determined by how well you did on your tests, and a University is separated into multiple "Colleges", when just applying for college you already have to have predetermined which major you want, because when you apply for "College" it is a "College" within the university, and once in a particularly major it is nearly impossible to switch out without switching to another, less up to par, university. You get to stay with the same class throughout all four years. Your schedules are the same. You have one or two electives that you can choose from, e.g. Physical Education or swimming, all other classes are with your same classmates all four years. If you make it through three years, and near the end of the third YEAR you have a middle condition and cannot come to class they deem that you have missed to much material and force you to retake the entire year, you cannot just start up next quarter with the last quarter you took because they won't have the class then, you have to wait for them to come full circle.

So I'm not surprised at all that they have churned out many more scientists than the United States, but we'll wait and see when china comes out with the first intergalactic space shuttle or some major scientific breakthrough that actually effects our every day lives.

While I'm waiting I have to go and grab my garbage and stand at the curb, the garbage truck is about to come and "I" have to personally throw it into the garbage truck.

My friend flooded his house by blowing his nose and trying to flush the toilet paper down the toilet before jumping in the shower. 3.5 years later and he finally got a new toilet in there.

Those buildings are so dang hard to sneak up on, but they sure let out quit a yelp when you surprise them!

Ironically here is the quote of the day as it appears for me now:

The history behind why it is illegal goes back to the Mormon prosecution and was used as leverage against the early settlers of the Salt Lake Valley. I don't know all the specifics about it but it wasn't a crime until the late 1800's.

I remember beaming my contact info at church about eight years ago. It was always awkward and sort of a hit or miss if it would transfer correctly. We had to point them head to head at each other and ask if the other person was ready, then send it and hope that it sent successfully.
The great thing about business cards is the speed at which you can transfer the information to many people and the ability to have them in places where you aren't. Plus it's not a hassle, you can easily get someones information when they have to rush somewhere else after having chatted with them for 20 minutes. It's probably happened to everyone where you chat with someone for a while and then they get a phone call and have to get running.
Maybe NFC will bring back "beaming" your contact info again, but I doubt even that will replace th classing business card.

Conveniently the API level 11 (in decimal) is also the version number 11 (in binary) :)

Really the title of the /. article is misleading, it is Commit Profanity by Language, which is entirely different.