Anyone who thinks Android is not open source has done no real research on the subject at all. If you want to see Open Source android, then download CyanogenMod. Or any one of dozens of other 100% open source roms.

Its not as easy to figure out who the "best teachers" are though.

What do you base it on? Standardized testing? We all know that is garbage. Student surveys? Then the most "popular" teachers would walk and the least "popular" ones would get canned... effectiveness is not always a popularity contest.

It is hard to define what a good teacher is other than someone who really cares about students and puts in genuine effort. You know it when you see it but coming up with a way to measure it objectively would be difficult.

Of course, as someone who does not live in the USA I can tell you right now what your countries biggest problem in education is - teacher salaries and how you fund schools. The amount you pay your teachers in the US is shameful. No wonder you get so many bad teachers - what respectable, educated professional would want to teach and give up their whole future livelihood, it is an awful big ask to say we want the best but are unwilling to pay them for their effort.

Of course bookmakers make money on both sides, but they also rely on odds. HEAVILY. If the odds are not set properly they stand to lose a fortune. If all it was was a 50/50 crapshoot then odds on a sportsbook would not even exist. Get a clue.

Saying that "everybody should learn to code" is like saying "everybody should learn to change the oil in a car".

As much as I would like that to be true, it never will be, and anyone who actually looks at this critically will see that both of these tautologies are stupid.

Now, opportunity is a whole other ball game. Yes most definitely, everyone should be given the OPPORTUNITY to learn to code just like everyone should be given the OPPORTUNITY to learn about auto mechanics. That doesn't mean it should be required of anyone. I can't change the oil in my car and honestly I don't care, I pay someone else to do that. Just like my auto mechanic likely does not know how to write code, he pays someone like me to do that for him.

There are hundreds of millions, nay billions, of dollars at stake every year gambling on the superbowl. Bookmakers in vegas spend literally millions of dollars computing the odds to a much deeper degree than this foolishness in the summary, and even they are not even close to 100% accurate.

If the bookmakers in Vegas can not guarantee their predictions, neither can Wolfram Alpha.

The thing the GP is saying is that not everyone who believes in software freedom think that the freedom implied by the FSF is the best kind of freedom. I much prefer to work with BSD or MIT licensed software than GPL licensed software, because I want the freedom to release MY stuff under whatever license I want. Maybe I want to make it GPL, super. But maybe I want to make it BSD because I want it to be used all over the planet. That's my own prerogative, I wrote the damn thing.

I would like you to show me how this so called dystopian future we are heading towards can in any way be solved by the GPL. The problem we are heading towards has nothing at all to do with software licenses - it is that culture as a whole is moving toward an own-nothing rent-everything paradigm.

You lease your apartment, rent your books, rent your music, rent your software, get a pay as you go cell, you lease your car... if you store all your data in the cloud, you could be renting your whole identity. All of the hottest startups right now are surrounding renting things that could never be rented or shared before economically, things like renting clothing from others, or renting other peoples bedrooms.

Having the underlying software GPL or not GPL does not solve the problem where society as a whole does not want to own anything anymore. No one cares what license the software that GMail.com is running under because they don't run that software, they just pay google to run it for them.

Its and open standard. If you are paranoid about Google knowing you visit Slashdot, then run your own service or use another provider.

Then use OpenID.org. Or run your own. That is why it is called an Open Standard.

You are missing the point. Adobe.com should not be telling me my password is insecure. Adobe.com should not be asking me for passwords in the first place, because the idea that I should need a seperate password for Adobe.com is stupid. Implement OpenID properly and allow people to log in with an already existing identity. The biggest problem with passwords on the internet is every single mom and pop website thinks they need to have their own login and authentication mechanism when in reality all they need is a way to confirm an identity. My nirvana is every single website in existance allows me to log in with my OpenID account, which is nice and secure and has two factor authentication. Then I only have ONE password to remember.

There is absolutely no reason the internet could not work this way if site admins would get their heads out of their asses and stop rolling their own authentication schemes, because between Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, and other 3rd parties, every web user already HAS an OpenID capable login..

A much bigger reason is that no one gives a crap if someone knows their password to Adobe.com

I am a security professional myself. You know what my password is for 1/2 the sites I have accounts on? 1234. Why? Because I don't care.

The solution is identity federation. The whole concept that Adobe.com or Mom & Pop Blog have passwords at all is ridiculous. If they allowed OpenID logins and stuck nice Google / Facebook / Twitter / Yahoo / OpenID buttons on there then no one would need all these crappy passwords, they would just use their already created and secure federated ID.

Works on any platform with chgrome, which is most all. Free, fast, no firewall port forwarding needed, works fine.

The part where you say "most". "Most" cultures actually have no problem killing dogs for food. There are even many western cultures who eat dog. Again, western != "most" far from it.

You should not have let them view your photos without a warrant. They had no right to do that. I realize it is easy for me to talk tough when I was not in the situation, but allowing cops to do this kind of thing is what allows freedoms to be degraded.

There are lots of cultures that kill dogs for food, and I am assuming cats as well.

You try to not view the whole world through a western lens.