No, the majority of corrupt astro-turfing industry groups pretending to be 501c charities are Conservative.

The number of investigations is pretty high in the Liberals -- but where there is smoke, there is fire.

Because Teachers will have to spend all their time dealing with parents, looking over their shoulder, and submitting resumes.

Musical chairs with teachers and the paranoia of the job market is not going to be good for education.

We can come up with a better way of getting rid of bad, lazy teachers -- but I think there needs to be MORE Tenure in other fields -- not less. It's just another "blame unions" garbage that goes around.

The NUMBER one determination of bad education is Zip Code and the economics of the families in that zip code. Families without good jobs and insecure finances end up having broken homes, and bad education results. My neighborhood has mostly one parent not working, and lots of parents in the PTA and it's a public school and one of the best schools in the nation -- bar none.

Bad Parent Situation = Bad Education.

Kind of like the mob;
1) illegal money comes in.
2) complex interaction with banks and insurance policies perhaps, perhaps gum drops and candy.
3) clean money comes out.

With the NSA we know about steps 1 and 3, and they are just waving their hands at step 2 and saying "trust us. We lied every step of the way and only admitted each and every thing after we were caught each and every time, but everything complicated is where we remove the bad and sprinkle sugar and gum drops."

Seriously? It's horrible how unprofessional you consider the NSA. They don't "dump" the data. The inspector calls two weeks ahead, and then they take them to the main office where there is a 486 computer with Windows 95 on it -- then they are allowed to search the entire FoxPro database with no strings attached.

Well the smart people were on Snowden's side because they suspected that the NSA was doing these things and they understand how it can ruin a Democracy.

And the dumb people were against Snowden because he popped their little bubble of plausible deniability.

The world used to be a lot of shades of gray for me, but it's thoughtful that all the morons, evil doers twiddling their mustaches and douche bags are lining up to get on the same team. I'm waiting for one of these guys to do a villain laugh on TV and scream; "Fools!"

Not to mention that it's SUPER STUPID.

The Russians don't need Snowden's data to learn that the NSA is spying on Americans. There is likely nothing useful in his data for Russia. They want to steal technology and wealth for their corporations, perhaps in the same way that might be going on behind the scenes here; picking the winners and losers and people in power scratching each other's back -- we have no way of knowing how this information is abused.

What we DO KNOW from Wikileaks document dumps, is that any spying agency can just buy all the info they need about Americans from the contractors -- they can just buy huge databases of information.

Spying isn't for the interests of the nations anymore -- this is a quaint old story. It's corporations trying to get advantages over other corporations and paying off government to do it. The only "secret" they worry about is that the various people of these countries figure out it's just the haves verses the have nots and Russia really isn't worried about destabilizing our government or we theirs. These militaries are only to procure resources and get cheap labor -- not much else.

I think we can factor in the cost of the Iraq war as an Oil subsidy, and the cost of the Afghanistan war as a subsidy to a gas company. The day after the Production Sharing Agreements were signed in Iraq with the same deal the oil companies had before Saddam kicked them out was the day we agreed to "stand down when they stood up."

If we look at more of our wars of choice as methods of reducing the costs of resources, the subsidy to energy companies would be in the trillions. Nobody is invading nations to steal their sunlight yet.

I rarely praise Microsoft -- and I've even done Flash development. But I have to admit it seems to handle video better and doesn't overheat the machine like Flash. And Netflix has far superior a streaming experience to Hulu. Maybe that's a lot to do with backend architecture. I do remember this being the case before the paid Comcast a ransom NOT to throttle their stream. Also, Hulu makes you eat ads like crazy, even if you paid on many streams, so that's a joy killer right there.

Anyway, moving to HMTL 5 may be just fine. I'm curious to see the performance.

I remember reading a story of an "exodus" of fish from the region around New Orleans 3 days before the Katrina disaster. People said you could almost walk across without getting wet for stepping on all the fish. I figured "uh oh, something bad's gonna happen." And even though the storm wasn't tremendously huge -- it created a lot of choking debris and run off that could have hurt the fish. So it seems some kind of early warning was helping them.

Of course the people and weather specialists were warned with their technology, but we had some leadership that did not have the common sense of fish at the time.

Well it was also about Organized Militias -- not just everyone who wants a lethal weapon.

But really, the 2nd Amendment protects profits for the NRA and the Gun Lobby. No need to look for a RATIONALE reason for why guns have more rights than I do.

OK. So we can have an Arrow Gun -- no problem. In fact, let's do a kickstarted for a home surgery kit, that is attached to a gun. Then you can remove the gun at home -- but don't tell anyone.

As long as something has a gun attached, I can bring it everywhere. Now I don't have to pretend I'm blind to bring my Bijon Frise into the theater attached to a shot gun. Easier to get a weapons permit and just say; "That animal is my fancy holster." OK, and it poops, but that's constitutionally protected poop.

Help Help -- I'm being repressed!

As long as Kickstarter doesn't support my Anthrax deployment system -- I'm going to bitch on Slashdot!!!!!!

And let me add some more !!!!!!

I mean, we can't just assume they stay clear of things that require excessive licensing and oversight. Anyone for a Kickstarter fast breeder reactor? Come on, everyone can't be a baby about this.

A bell curve?

Only if someone gives this person security clearance as a "like-minded" individual.

I wish more companies followed your advice here -- it would mean an end to all the DNS configurations and headaches for the machines in the network to just have a direct connection. You can track the ethernet sig of the machine if you want to catch bad behavior or configurations internally.

Of course, as I become more concerned about the status quo, I'm also heartened that most security at companies is done wrong -- damn wage cutters! ;-)