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Comment Huh? (Score 1) 227

..."We believe that every child should have access to an exceptional, personalized education that enables them to be happy and successful in an ever-changing world," reads AltSchool's mission statement. For $28,750-a-year, your kid can be one of them...

So for more money per year than a significant portion of the US families bring home in a year, a family can send one child to school.

Comment Firefox - the new UI is killing marketshare (Score 4, Insightful) 240

Firefox's market share has been dropping ever since the new UI was introduced.

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One would think that the Mozilla developers would take their heads out of their collective arse and look at the reality --- the new UI is little more than a Chrome clone, and a poor one at that. If people wanted the new UI, they'd move to the better implementation of it, i.e., Chrome.

Oh wait, they are moving to Chrome....

Comment Re:They forgot the best feature.... (Score 4, Insightful) 80

BSD is a major commodity ecosystem for end-consumer products. I'd wager that there are more MacBooks and iPods out there running OSX and iOS flavors of BSD than there are Linux ones. They just suck in the server space, though, and that's where Linux cannot at the moment be questioned, let alone defeated.

My FreeBSD servers run just fine, thank-you. I moved those servers from Linux to FreeBSD a number of years ago, and never had the need to look back.

Comment Money given to the people that screwed up... (Score 3, Insightful) 76

So let's see... from what I've read the OpenSSL project was a mess, poorly managed, with bad code and a very lax attitude towards fixing bugs that were reported.

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So how was the problem with OpenSSL solved?

Well, the same people, with their same ideas, who could not run a successful project in the past were given large amounts of money to run the project in the future. The summary for this thread reads more like a self-congratulatory press release from the OpenSSL people, rubbing in our faces that they managed to get money to continue their poor project management.

Comment "results may vary" (Score 1) 280

Yes, the results may vary.

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Yet the study picked the best of air travel and compared it to the worst of road-based travel.

I wonder how efficient it would be for me to fly from my house to the supermarket (a mile away), or any of the other numerous trips I make via automobile?

Let me see, first I have to drive three miles to the nearest airport. Get in a plane. Take off. Land at the same airport. Then drive four miles to the supermarket.

Yeah, that's more efficient than driving.

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