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Comment Re:Too long, didn't read. (Score 1) 162

I think often it is a desire to help by someone who misjudges the ability, desire to learn, and time someone is prepared

And perception.

Example: A friend of mine was still using MS Office 2003 because he hated MS Office 2007. Then, one day, he received an Office 2007 document that Office 2003 could not handle. I asked him to give me a copy of the file, then opened it in Open Office. He happily did what he needed to do, saved his changes, copied the file back to his PC and emailed it to whomever needed it. Then he asked me what version of Office I was running. When I showed him, he said "That's not acceptable. No one will be able to use the document I just sent." Even after everyone he sent the updated document to had no problem, he still didn't believe Open Office an acceptable alternative. He still hates the "new" MS Office, but is using it because "there is no alternative."

Comment Re:Address exhaustion (Score 1) 223

As long as you don't hide it from your customers I don't see a problem with providing IPv6 addresses to your customers and perform NAT for accessing IPv4 hosts.

For that matter, could NAT IPv4 to IPv4. Many businesses, including huge multi nationals, do this for their internal networks. In some cases they even NAT between major segments of their networks, so are not limited to just 16 million addresses (Not claiming any of them have that many, but a merger between 2 large companies can result in address collisions. One of my former clients, a multi national, merged with another multi national. Within a few hours of the closing, the respective IT departments had the 2 networks linked together. Client PCs were able to access shared (non-Microsoft based) services through NAT. The few cases where peer-to-peer connectivity was required were also handled very quickly. All without modifying the existing DHCP configurations, and only a very few changes to the internal DNS.

Comment Re:Customers may benefit... maybe (Score 1) 455

Plus Walmart beating up Visa on price is almost certainly going to benefit consumers in the long run and Walmart is big enough to actually succeed. The cost of credit card swipe fees gets rolled into the prices we pay for products so if they get lowered at least some of that money will flow through to us as end customers. Not all of course but definitely some.

More likely that Visa (and others) will make up the difference by raising rates on smaller retailers. They will be forced to raise their prices, which will make WalMart's prices look better.

Comment There are still similar names and copies of lists (Score 4, Interesting) 286

Besides the possibility of a match to a similar name, even if only "official" copies of the the no-fly list are consulted, I would not be surprised if copies of her entry linger in the various copies of that list.

(A friend of mine who has a name similar to someone on a sex offenders' list was mistakenly added as a variant spelling of the original listing. Even after getting a court order to remove his listing, it had propagated to other copies and was eventually merged back in to the original as updates were passed around the various government agencies. He then got an order to amend his listing to state it was invalid, but (A) that merely added a new entry, with no guarantee which entry would show first, and (B), most checkers don't look beyond seeing of there is a match.)

Comment Re:This is just getting stupid. (Score 1) 342

Stupid, yes.

How much of an obstacle?

The most difficult requirement is the franchise agreement. Maybe if Tesla split itself in to 2 companies, one for manufacturing, the other for retail and service operations, they could satisfy this requirement.

A 1000 sq ft "show room" in a mall is possible. Every Apple store I have been in has had at least 1000 sq ft of sales floor, plus back room space.

On site servicing could be possible depending on how strict the definition of "on site" is. Example, when Circuit City still had stores, the one near me had a store in the mall with an installation facility in a corner of the mall's parking lot. ("Anchor stores" like Sears often have attached auto service facilities, but I seriously doubt any mall would allow Tesla to do that.)

Comment Re:I'm confused (Score 1) 246

English I and II are almost certainly required by any accredited school. Most accredited schools also have a humanities requirement, so Government and Anthropology are not unreasonable.

I would consider Algebra I a remedial course, so I agreed, replace it.

I also agree the programming tools class can be covered in other classes, including Project Management (Software).

Move Intro to Unix to the first semester. Or maybe second, if Intro to Computers is needed. This will give them a foundation for the suggested web server admin class.

Intro to Programming Logic should include a programming language. One very different from Javascript, so the students get a broader perspective. (I started programming at a very early age, so I don't know what would be good for some one starting post high school, or even in high school.)

And I agree with others that a fifth course per semester should be added. Include a third programming language.

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