Comment Re:And so... (Score 2, Informative) 102
Or gained...
Comment Re:OO to the rescue? (Score 1) 64
Well, that, or not opening unexpected spreadsheets emailed to you by random strangers.
Or not have friends who do the same thing.
And they'll tell two friends... and they'll tell two friends..
Comment Re:On colors of sound (Score 2, Funny) 125
And are those kept near the nuclear wessels?
Sorry, could not resist.
Submission + - Math, Science, and Teachers Unions
Coryoth writes: "Following up a previous story, it seems that the Kentucky effort to provide increased pay to teachers with qualifications in mathematics, physics, and chemistry has been gutted. Teachers objected to differential pay, and that portion of the bill was removed. At the same time California has just put forward a similar measure, with differential pay for teachers qualified in mathematics and science. Shockingly 40% of mathematics teachers in California are not fully qualified in the subject — a higher percentage of unqualified teachers than any other subject. Is the Californian effort any more likely to succeed, or is it destined to be similarly gutted? Is there a solution to the woeful lack of qualified mathematics teachers that the Teachers' Union will find acceptable?"
Submission + - Tech Talent on the Cheap?
An anonymous reader writes: Eric Chabrow of CIO Insight agrees with Bill Gates, who told the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that it makes no sense to open our universities to smart foreign nationals, educate them, and then keep them from working in our country. Says Chabrow: "The technology skills shortage here exists now, and we must act swiftly. To help meet that shortage, U.S. businesses find themselves either importing foreign talent — which is restricted by limits on the number of skilled professionals who can immigrate — or sending the work overseas in the form of offshore outsourcing. Where better to start alleviating the skills shortage than to allow foreign-born, U.S. educated I.T. pros to stay here and work to grow our economy? Better here than there."
His readers don't agree with him.
His readers don't agree with him.
Submission + - Why doesn't lab dark matter behave as it should?
Matthew Sparkes writes: "Experimental results suggest that scientists have succeeded in creating dark matter in a lab. Although this is the stuff that is thought to make up about one-fifth of the mass of the universe, no one has ever managed to see a single particle of it before. But there's something about his team's results that makes no sense. Their dark matter particles — called axions — aren't behaving as they should. They seem to be endowed with a property that means they should have sucked the life out of the sun billions of years ago. Plainly this has not happened, so what is going on?"
Copyright Law Used to Shut Down Site 206
driptray writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that an Australian mining industry group has used copyright laws to close a website that parodied a coal industry ad campaign. A group known as Rising Tide created the website using the slogan "Rising sea levels: brought to you by mining" in response to the mining industry's slogan of "Life: brought to you by mining". The mining industry claimed that the "content and layout" of the parody site infringed copyright, but when Rising Tide removed the copyrighted photos and changed the layout, the mining industry still lodged a complaint. Is this a misuse of copyright law in order to stifle dissent?"
Submission + - The Wisdom of Scientific Crowds
Matthew Sparkes writes: "ProMed Mail, an online bulletin board for emerging diseases, is attempting to use the Wisdom of Crowds to predict the final outcome of H5N1, aided by a $245,000 grant. You get notional money — Avian$ — and you buy predictions relating to the likelihood that H5N1 bird flu will turn into a human pandemic. Will the number of human cases have exceeded 300 by July? You buy a "contract" saying yes or no, based on your insider knowledge. Contract prices rise or fall accordingly, reflecting the consensus."
Submission + - Vista Activation crack uses Royalty OEM info.
Panaqqa writes: "Well, the keygen for Vista a few days ago turned out to be a hoax, but the Paradox Vista activator posted at keznews.com appears more legitimate. It is a full WGA crack which also allows access to Microsoft Windows updates. Enjoy — for a month or two until the big OEMs respond."
