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Comment Durable Hardware (Score 1) 249

One thing overlooked above, being mainly about skills, is what the effect this will have on hardware. Prisons are known to have people who are upset about being in jail and surely the hardware needs to be durable enough to handle the risk of being handled very rough. There have been devices designed to project a screen onto any surface with smart optical devices to read touches against the image, so I'd imagine such a system boxed into protective transparent window to project and get feedback from any surface inside a cell could be a means to salvation for inmates. There isn't enough options in jail, as people probably think only bad criminals are in jail, which is not true when we include the mass amount of civil jurisdictions and those held merely due to court proceedings and both possibly have never done anything criminal. This could lead to more communication with inmates, which would lead to greater justice. If you ever witnessed how all inmates in the jail process get treated nearly the same, being criminal or non-criminal, I'm sure you agree that my use of "would" is not merely a made-up prediction. Durable hardware is needed in a cell that contains either criminal or non-criminal inmates. It's bad enough there is non-criminal inmates and a better system doesn't exist to give them swift and appropriate justice due to lack of technology and communication available inmates.

Comment Re:Absolutely (Score 0) 609

Mathematics is generally limited to Physics, or at least it's resources. Computations, and computation models, can go beyond physics, and thus advanced arithmetics are more useful the mathematics itself. I agree math knowledge is quite helpful, yet it is arithmetic skills that are essential.

Computers are more based on symbolic functions and their rearrangement rather than on knowledge of methods to balance the numbers in equations.

Comment DRM (Score 0) 207

> any third-party software client that logs into our servers

That is the same as DRM. This is what the GPL wanted to prevent with software that uses any 'media' that tries to enforce rights on the software being used. It doesn't matter if that media is the hardware or a server.

Comment Re:Such a sad story. (Score 0) 360

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is defined as "no known cause" for depression. This would give weight to say that the Internet is a symptom for relief from depression, as stated and attempted "try to distract." It's better then being a zombie or deep in loss of something better to do than suffer in the the pain with nobody else nearby to help or talk to immediately.

Submission + - U.S Soldiers Are Waking Up! (youtube.com)

Dzonatas writes: Mike Prysner, a member of the armed services, speaks out about the reality now known and what was not known in time of their service. "This are people, these are human beings, ..." Plagued by guilt, he claims, "... the enemy is a system that wages war when it is profitable." The message is sponsored by Campaign For Liberty.

Comment Professional background check (Score 0) 4

Either do it yourself or have the new employer do it before there are any questions.

Once I had a employer bring up dirt on me, and I told them it was false. We got to the point where they said they would run a professional background check and if it came up clean they would guarantee me a job. We did that. A week later, they offered a choice of 2 jobs to me.

Comment Re:Is this the closing of Mono? (Score 0) 443

> Does this sign the closing of the Mono project?

No. It's means that instead of once where you had to buy a special license to embed the Mono compiler, you now only need to use the LGPL rights to link to it.

If you are not interested into embedded Mono/.Net platform, then you are probably are not interested in this change.

For businesses like Second Life that use an embedded Mono system to compile their server-side scripts for their simulators, it is a big thing.

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