Comment Re:Constitutionality (Score 1) 630
They do this in the town that I went to college. They do it to discourage excess drinking. In a college town nonetheless.
Comment Re: (Score 1) 898
I got one of these darned things once in Davis, Calfornia. It cost me something like $350, and the thing that was sent to me had 4 distinct pictures, one of the front plate, one of the back plate, one of the car overall, and one of the driver (zoomed way in for good detail). When it happened, I read all kinds of articles on it, and apparently it never is successfully appealed, most judges treat it as absolute without even thinking about it twice.
Comment Truth? (Score 1) 1
What did they say when confronted with this truth?
Submission + - Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs? (wikipedia.org) 4
Beetle B. writes: "An argument has arisen over whether Wikipedia should allow pages that provide proofs for mathematical theorems (such as this one).
On the one hand, Wikipedia is a useful source of information and people can benefit from these proofs. On the other hand, how does one choose which proofs to include and which not to? Should Wikipedia just become a textbook that teaches mathematics? Should it just state the bare results of theorems and not provide proofs (except as external links)? Or should they take an intermediate approach and formulate a criterion for which proofs to include and which to exclude?"
On the one hand, Wikipedia is a useful source of information and people can benefit from these proofs. On the other hand, how does one choose which proofs to include and which not to? Should Wikipedia just become a textbook that teaches mathematics? Should it just state the bare results of theorems and not provide proofs (except as external links)? Or should they take an intermediate approach and formulate a criterion for which proofs to include and which to exclude?"
Submission + - $300 PC from Wal-Mart w/ OpenOffice.org + no bloat
An anonymous reader writes: Ars Technica reports that Wal-Mart will soon be offering a $300 PC from Everex for the back-to-school season that has OpenOffice.org preinstalled and little else. From the article:
Cost aside, the two centerpieces of the Everex offering are the inclusion of OpenOffice.org 2.2 and the absence of crapware typically bundled with low-cost PCs. Including OO.org instead of Microsoft Office or even Microsoft Works allowed the PC manufacturer to shave a few additional dollars off of the PC's price, and according to OO.org marketing project lead John McCreesh, the open-source office suite passed all of Everex's tests "with flying colors."
