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Comment How about coping? (Score 2) 804

Profs:
If you want to ban laptops, then you need to go after cell phones, pagers, and everything else a student can bring in. I don't care about the result, as long as its uniform.
You may be required to change your teaching methods, to engage more students.

Students:
If you can't pay attention in class, it could be that's your problem. You may need to focus on the class and not care what screensavers are running on laptops, since you'll have to do the same thing when you are done with school.
Or gang up on the Facebook students and ask them to be more polite.

Music

Submission + - Composer Argues With Teenage Girl Over Copyright (jasonrobertbrown.com) 2

bonch writes: As an experiment, composer Jason Robert Brown logged onto a site illegally offering his sheet music for download and contacted hundreds of users politely asking them to stop listing the material. Most complied, some were confused, and a few fought back. Brown chronicles a lengthy exchange he had with a teenage girl named Brenna which provides an interesting insight into the artists' perspective of the copyright debate. He also responds to several points raised in comments to the article and says, 'I don't wish to be the enemy; I'm just a guy trying to make a living.'

Comment Re:Not the same thing at all... (Score 1) 182

I guess the flaw is only important enough for submitter to complain about, not to actually do something about. Most likely bad phrasing/understanding by submitter or developer.

When in IT, weekly I'd get a "My document won't print", when it sometimes gets traced back to "Actually, you can't open your document".

I've had problems with some open source projects, and between my explanation or the developer understanding, it was "can't reproduce". Then I submit a test case that repeats it all the time, and developer goes "Oh, that way. Yup, broken", and the fix comes in soon.

Comment Re:What constitutes "fake" hardware? (Score 2, Interesting) 161

Not really the cheap you intend, but USA military often removes the RoHS solder for the old fashioned lead solder. They do this because there is a LOT of data to back up the lead solder, and lead-free solder hasn't been studied enough. Their putting trusting something they know (good and bad on lead) instead of an unknown (lead-free).

Comment 30 for 500? (Score 1) 837

....."approximately 500 employees. There are 30 people on the IT staff".....
That's a LOT of IT people, from what I've been told. For 120 employees, we did well with 2 IT staff (1.5 on help desk and 0.5 on development).
By that ratio, you'd need a total of 12.

Anyone else think this number is a bit high?

Comment Re:Maybe it IS you. (Score 1) 8

This is about a week late, but I should've said that differently.

You sell software. Maybe your distribution computer has a virus and is putting that on the software you send out on CD's. Customers would be annoyed and call your support/service department.

Comment Maybe it IS you. (Score 1) 8

"describes all kinds of offenses that don't apply to us"
You don't think it applies to you. Maybe it does. For each complaint, ask yourself "could this one item actually be true?"

Download the site and compare against your archive and see if there are unauthorized changes to your web site.
If you've been in good standing for a while, put one of the old "good standing" pages back up, because maybe a recent change was on the no-no list.
Browse your site with anti-virus on, but remove ad-block, proxy, and all the other things that protect your connection. Maybe your site links to malware sites.

Comment The article seems to focus just on light (Score 1) 201

from TFA : "...but a cloak that perfectly hides objects at all wavelengths of radiation — including AM radio waves, visible light and X-rays — would be extremely difficult to create..."

How about ultrasonic sensors? Or rain, like another message says. Ground pressure or vibration.

I think something with enough sensitivity (like a cloaked object going past a stationary LIDAR gun beam) could see some disturbance that wasn't there before. If the light is bending around an object, it may be invisible but the light would be taking longer to make the trip.
A properly tuned laser beam frequency with matching receiver could probably detect cloaked objects too.

So much of this is by "cloaked to a person" and not to sensors.

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