The Raspberry Pi hardware doesn't do the same things as the OLPC does. The Raspberry doesn't include an form of input or output as part of the reference hardware. So, at that point we are basically selling a computing core, ram, and some storage for $25. If the students need monitors, mice & keyboards at each location, they may as well just carry around a USB thumb stick with a custom LiveOS and put the Pi or other processing core at the work station. That sounds a LOT like my son's middle school.

shed its high cost assets

I think you mean its high cost liabilities, not assets. And ironically, one of the largest liabilities it shed was healthcare & pensions for union workers.

I wish I had mod points. You did a fine job of expressing my thoughts on the parent. The free-market isn't at risk of defaulting on its debt. When you really break it down, only 1/3 of our Government is at risk for defaulting on its debt, the Executive branch (yes, the Obama Administration). Whether or not the debt problem was created or inherited is an entirely separate discussion, but the point still remains that in an entirely free-market society (Libertarian Utopia) there would be so many fewer issues with a smallish Government defaulting. The problem is caused by, and amplified by the size of our Federal government.

I would appreciate an invitation. jamesbradleyharris(at)gmail(dot)com

Thanks, J. Brad Harris

The USPTO is a self-funded entity. http://www.inventorsdigest.com/archives/5543

Previously the Treasury was taking some of the money from fees collected by the USPTO to pay for other things, but this year it stopped.

Restorative justice systems are becoming more and more common in American schools, especially charter schools where the ultimate goal is a fully-capable, well-educated adult. http://www.realjustice.org/articles.html?articleId=441 While this isn't necessarily representative of an entire society, I would say that some urban school districts suffer from many of the same conditions that you see in society that result in incarceration. Just my .02. J. Brad Harris

I'd say that trying to blame Anonymous for a "carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated" attack is at best a stretch with no evidence, and at worst a purposeful misdirection for shoddy security mechanisms.

If I was a betting man, I'd say that this spin will result in more of Anonymous' attention being directed at Sony.

Sony, if you wanna feel what its like when 3,400,000 anonymous users really want to hurt you at the same time.....just keep poking the bear.

Get a Windows Mobile smartphone on Verizon, and download the application called WMWifiRouter. The latest version comes with a one time flat fee, but the older versions where free as in beer, and can still be found on various forums by searching for WMWifiRouter. This turns your WM phone into a WiFi hotpot (sort of) and you can easily connect through that. Verizon has no idea if the data requests are originating from your phone or from some other device, they shouldn't care anyway. One caveat to mention, the Hotspot is an Ad-Hoc network, which shouldn't be an issue for a laptop or netbook, but may not work for an iPhone, I'm not sure. I've been doing this for 3+ years on Verizon and I've never had a problem. Also, just FYI, Windows Mobile phone have an application called Internet Connection Sharing that will share the 3G over USB or Bluetooth, and that is built in to the O/S. Verizon will hide the icon in the start menu on phones they sell, but the application is still there, you just need to look for it on the phone.


Brad

Most people are suggesting you run notepad as administrator, which works fine. Another alternative is to save the edited file to your desktop, then drag it back into the proper folder (%sysroot%\system32\drivers\etc\). Then explorer will invoke the UAC prompt and do the update (overwrite) for you.

There is obviously a race condition in the throttle system.


da-dum-dum-tsh.
Try the veal.

Politely.

not that it matters too much, but I'm 24, no kids.

I can't really understand the hard-line distinction between "adult" activities and "child" activities. I understand the examples you gave (Bar vs playground, etc..) but the theatre is more or less an in-between place. It isn't just for adults or just for kids. Does a 4 yr old need to be in the 4 hour opening night for "Dances with Wolves"? Hell no. But can a parent take their child to see Wall-E (or whatever it was) in the movies on opening night, which just happens to be the same movie that you wanted to take your girlfriend (or wife) who loves Disney movies (my wife loves them)? What about Fantastic 4, or another movie that appeals to younger and older audiences alike (Star Wars comes to mind also).

Respectfully, I think the graduation between child & adult is much smoother than you describe, and often in society these two "worlds" will overlap. I'm only asking that people not get up in arms when they see a child that is misbehaving (or what you consider misbehaving), and parents seemingly not doing anything about it.

Brad

I completely agree.

Parents have become, in general, glorified caregivers and society has attempted to remove discipline for intolerable actions and replace it with encouragement to do better. This is the beginning of people that don't understand work-place discipline (written up, fired, etc..), and sue their employer for discrimination or other trumped up charges. Or they think the corrections system should give all criminals shrinks instead of hard-time.

My original argument still stands, however. Some parents are just trying to enjoy a movie with their young family, and instead of making a scene in the theatre by smacking the child (right or wrong it will make a scene) they'd rather just let smaller things slide, just that once. Keep in mind I said some parents. Other parents just don't care. And those are the same ones that talk to people on the cell phone during the movie. And like Shepard Book said, there is a special place in hell for those people.

I respectfully disagree. Children should be tolerated in theaters as they must learn proper social skills. They can't be kept at home all the time in the fear that they'll disturb other people...they'd never develop socially.

Please be patient with parents that are attempting to enjoy a good time with their families.

While some parents deserve to be shot for ignoring the child screaming or talking or otherwise causing an extended raucous, some parents are doing what needs to be done (i.e. completely ignoring certain behavior if the purpose of said behavior is for attention).

I certainly understand your point, but would encourage you to be patient with children and parents. If you consider your enjoyment of a movie more important than helping a given child's social development....well maybe you were kept at home too much as a child. :-)

Brad