Comment Re:Long time contributor (Score 1) 68
Quite -- what do you need 5 for?
So, did you lose track of your original log-in or something Luke?
I had somehow assumed that it was you that pointed me at
Quite -- what do you need 5 for?
So, did you lose track of your original log-in or something Luke?
I had somehow assumed that it was you that pointed me at
It strikes me that I'm extremely unlikely to be interested in domains below many (or any) of the listed TLDs (having glanced down the list) so why not teach the silly sods a lesson by blackisting them in bind by default, and thus make ICANN get the blame they deserve for peddling this nonsense.
The last time I had the misfortune to have my brain polluted by a Daily Mail story was when sitting bored in a physio's waiting room.
Flipping the rag open at random, I see a headline something like:
87% of Britons now members of a persecuted minority
this little nugget of wisdom had apparently been assembled by taking the percentages of various "minorities" and adding them all together.
The groups included:
51% Women
*cough* minority?
and then:
12% Single Mothers
[SubEd Are you sure we can simply add that number to the Women?] [Ed: yeah, no problem]
as proven by Sugata Mitra (of Hole in the Wall project fame), if you get rid of the teachers and provide one computer per 4 children, and let the kids collaborate, they teach one another
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
The quote from Arthur C Clark is particularly telling: Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.