What an excellent new way to make money:
1. Lure parents into putting kids in these schools.
2. impose easily breakable rules on the kids and charge them for breaking the rules. Complaints or no payment? Out!
3. PROFIT!!!

"education entrepreneurs.." = vultures
"who are transforming public education" ... into private profit centers. What do you want to bet the schools contain advertising and junk-food laden cafeterias and pricy vending machines.

Probable future rules and fines:
1. Downloading. Action handed off to RIAA.
2. Questioning the establishment: expulsion
3. Not buying Microsoft or Koch Bros products: death or worse.

What kind of school conditions kids to become fearful of making mistakes, by attaching monetary punishment to errors? This is conditioning to obey authority. That doesn't properly belong in legitimate academia. Unless these are schools for truants or reform schools, this is egregious. And even then.

Their intended product interferes with GPS, and they intend to sue the victim and the government. I hope these SOBs get crushed in court. GPS is critical these days for so many things in the infrastructure, as well as being needed by the military. Lightspeed's network would interfere with GPS used by commercial and military aerial navigation. If these clowns think they have priority over that, they deserve to lose all their investment.

Well, this ia a good argument for encrypted communications.

I went to a science and technology school that had an honor system, and not a ghetto university. We respected each other, whether graduate or undergraduate. Perhaps you should go back to Digg or 4chan where your background and level of intelligence are more appropriate?

Seems like a douche move rather than a fair one. A university is a place of somewhat more trust in others than the outside, because in academia you share knowledge with others, the spirit is a bit different, you don't take others' tools.

Taking advantage of that to run a test of whether it's easy to steal laptops is not entirely ethical.

Not to say that people shouldn't be careful, but exploiting them isn't cool either.

When I was in school, someone hacked my student account and framed me for downloading and piracy. I didn't have to go to court, but if I ever found out who did it, I'd gladly have caused them serious injury.

I tried silicone hydrogels and they were worse for my eyes than normal ones. I wore Focus lenses (loved them) for 7 years until they discontinued the brand; my opto then tried me on various modern silicon types and they all dried my eyes out and felt like Saran Wrap. Felt like my eyes were not getting enough oxygen, too.

Sleeping in any extended wear lenses cuts O2 to the cornea and puts the deeper lens tissue at risk. Even if you feel very comfortable, it has longterm effects apparently.

Cataracts from microbial action may relate to side effects that reduce moisture on the surface of the eye and that might affect internal fluid balance, I'm not sure. But anything that reduces chance of microbial infection is good. Many people have terrible ocular hygiene practice and no concept of bacteriology or viruses. They do unsafe things quite a lot. Always washing hands before handling lenses does good. I see people moistening lenses with saliva which is one of the worst things one can do bacterially.

Nutrition, anything with lutein, zeaxanthin, anti-oxidants is supposed to be good. One can get them either from drugstore supplements or dietary intake. I eat dark green vegs.

It was a mistake to tell the RIAA the microwaves are carrying pirated music. Now they're suing the galaxy to make them stop.

-- my IP address is ANDROMEDA, good luck, lawyers.

I've found that a cataract is easily visible with a UV LED flashlight because the cataract fluoresces bright green. I do not recommend looking at the light very long however, because the UV will accelerate the protein cross-linking and worsen the cataract. And the glow will freak out some people; it looks unearthly.

I got my cataracts, by the way, from working 12 to 16 hour deathmarches and staring at screens then going home and collapsing into bed without removing my extended-wear contact lenses. Too long a period of this abuse (at a start-up) cut oxygen to my corneas, this then affected the electrolyte balance in the lens cells, and triggered damage to the colloids that constitute the contents of these cells. This caused the crystalin protein molecules to begin cross-linking to form cataracts. Normally, these molecules are held apart by delicate electrostatic forces, but various factors will disrupt those and begin the spiral into dysfunction.

I urge people who wear contact lenses and work long hours for weeks on end to make sure they do not sleep in their lenses, and that they take proper eye nutrition supplements. The problem is easy to avoid, and hell to pay once it happens.

I tried doing this electric shock thing to boost memory, a couple weeks ago, Or was it last year. Wait, might have been 10 years ago.

I watched the Superbowl halftime show. I've SEEN the oldest living thing on earth, and it was DANCING.

If I were paranoid, I might say somebody doesn't want landings on Mars. But I'm not paranoid. Why are you looking at me like that?

Do you want fries with that?
Do you want fries with that?
Do you want fries with that?
Do you want fries with that?
Do you want fries with that?
How many fucking times do I have to say that, sir?
Until you die, son. Now do it again.

So. what if a pedo watches child porn in the library? Free speech? What's the line? This is not political free speech. It is an activity of consumption but not expression. it is not an expression of artwork performance. It is not research for supporting a political cause. He does not have a Constitutional right to use the computer, he is a patron of the library at their discretion. He cannot demand to be allowed to use their computer for piracy, either. In short, there are cases where unrestricted use of the machine is deniable. In a way, this is like someone with unbelievable body odor coming in and demanding he be allowed to use the library. Where can one draw the line?

Yes, some inspection systems use a radioactive source in a lead container, with a shutter. You cannot drive through on of these. You have to move the source and detector array past the vehicle to scan it. But this means a moving gamma source is run the length of the vehicle and the users must take special precautions no one is anywhere in the path of the beam. Without lead or concrete shields this is dangerous to anyone nearby. I was concerned about what you noted about the car, but if you examine the video you will see the car is actually unoccupied and parked as the scanner moves past it. I am frankly amazed they dare use the gamma source without a radiation shield on the other side. That is incredibly sleazy and potentially dangerous.