Actually, I had the exact opposite thoughts.

Finally a geeky article on /. about mathematics which is not too esoteric to only be understood by PHDs. Very interesting and definitely something that many (non-math) geeks can find relevant when they read about statistics elsewhere.

For the price you can get instant messaging software for the teacher and she can pull up a cue on her tablet computer, if they're too afraid to raise their hands.

Those who think that images of women in lingerie are degrading need to visit a therapist. Female sexuality is not degrading.

The shirt is unprofessional. Sexuality is an awkward subject, and bringing it up in the workplace is delicate. Not a subject for t-shirts.

But holy crap I love the response shirt: https://twitter.com/SMLXist/status/532928903778934784/photo/1

"How hard would it have been to install a bright LED on the top that Rosetta could see from a few km away?"

If you were to drop the LED frequency into the radio spectrum you could reduce the power requirement further.

I think the most important piece of news of this story is that Wikipedia is no better than Google or Facebook, and exploits/sells search data too.

They made the assumption that if a disease is spreading somewhere, there people start looking for information about the disease on wikipedia

Imagine the potential: if a lot of search logs contain "EBOL-AAAARGH", they'll know a particularly fast-acting variant of the virus has emerged.

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A downside of having internet service be a public utility may be NO ONE wants to spend more than the absolute minimum to get into the business. It would be kind of like agreeing to buy a rent-controlled apartment, as an investment, to rent it out.

The government will have to figure some way to reward contribution of infrastructure so there are still some inducements for capitalist investors to create exciting new things.

Agree 200%. From our (the consumers') standpoint, having internet service as a public utility, and regulated as one, is the bees knees. I guess my comment was meant to express surprise that Big Cable says net neutrality is the reason for "pausing" gigabit rollout when their being ruled a public utility is vastly worse (for them).

It's the Public Utility issue. Their profits become whatever the government will allow.

I was in an AP Calculus course in high school taught by my school principal. The day after parent-teacher conference, he mentioned that he told a mother that her son was caught cheating in a class and was essentially getting a slap on the wrist (this was a couple decades ago).

The teacher then gave us an anonymous ballot. He wanted to know how many of us cheated on a test or homework assignment in the last year (this was pre-WWW so cheating at home was basically collaborating on homework with others in the same class).

Every single one of us said we did.

FYI: 25 years later I'm doing fine at work and home and sleep soundly at night with the sleep of the just.

Except I plug the car in every night and I'm generally good for the day. Range anxiety almost evaporated a couple weeks after owning the car. It totally evaporated once the NJ superchargers went online this summer.

I live in eastern PA and go to south Jersey and Long Island on a regular basis. Between the superchargers in NJ and Long Island, I'm perfectly good. I've even done trips to Washington D.C. and had no problem with range, even after some spontaneous detours to Annapolis and such.

Seems Mozilla has sold out. Which makes their choice of DuckDuckGo as default search engine interesting: have they sold out too?

The thing with DDG is, I'd be happy to believe their no-tracking pitch, but I can't quite understand how they're gonna make money out of a free search engine without it...

I actually like the idea behind iMessage: If you have internet access, sending a message via internet is potentially much cheaper than via SMS (unless you have an unlimited SMS plan). Even Apple's implementation of iMessage isn't too bad.

The problem is that it's lock-in to Apple devices, of course. If Apple could get their head out of the sand and create a unified protocol with Google and whoever is left in the smartphone OS field (BlackBerry?, Mozilla?), it would be fantastic. Especially if the protocol was expanded a bit. Imagine being able to share files like via dropbox, but seemlessly through an SMS app?

How can we ever be sure Tor has not morphed into an eviscerated TrueCrypt and that at some point, after achieving their means of compromise, the NSA won't force a version they can easily backdoor on the public?

They like to compromise software and then put it back, so it becomes an intelligence asset. In my understanding only a legal technicality allowed TrueCrypt to issue a cryptic public announcement which effectively let the public know TrueCrypt was potentially compromised. I wonder whether the NSA will even allow Tor to recommend a transparently ineffective alternative.

How can strategies be drawn so if Tor is easily, possibly undetectably breached, the public will have some inkling of it?

The top 3 super pac disbursements this cycle were from the left: NextGen Climate, Senate Majority, House Majority. They spent over $160 Million combined The next 3 were from the right: American Crossroads, Freedom Partners, Ending Spending Action. They spent less than half of what the left spent at $76 million combined Rounding out the top 10 we have: NEA Advocacy (left leaning) $18 Milllion Congressional Leadership Fund (right leaning) $16 Million Americans for Responsible Solutions (left leaning) $16 Million Independence USA (left leaning) $15 Million Which totals another $49 Million on the left, and $16 Million on the right The grand total for the top 10 equals $209 Million for the left and $92 Million for the right.

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