Comment: Spampersand (Score 1) 186
Obligatory http://www.buzzfeed.com/scott/spampersandlink.
UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones 283
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Soulskill
from the time-for-some-kid-friendly-encryption-services dept.
from the time-for-some-kid-friendly-encryption-services dept.
An anonymous reader writes "What right to privacy do school pupils have on their mobile phones? UK education officials are considering ways to clamp down on cyber-bullying and classroom disruption by allowing teachers to search and delete content from student handsets if it is deemed unsuitable. However, questions remain whether such a move would give teachers too much power and infringe on student rights."
Comment: Re:Serious issues found with X (Score 1) 123
Doesn't anyone feel sad about this?
IT is not something you do on the side or just start off without getting real training.
IT is serious. If the sector does not 'grow up', business people will have justified nightmares about IT costing too much money and bringing not enough value.
Shake the tree!
Comment: What changes into what...? (Score 1) 451
A year passed. Winter changed into Spring. Spring changed into Summer. Summer changed back into Winter. And Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn.
World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP 502
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ScuttleMonkey
from the more-tools-in-the-tool-belt dept.
from the more-tools-in-the-tool-belt dept.
Cougem writes "John Fremlin has released what he believes to be the worlds fastest webserver for small dynamic content, teepeedee2. It is written entirely in LISP, the world's second oldest high-level programming language. He gave a talk at the Tokyo Linux Users Group last year, with benchmarks, which he says demonstrate that 'functional programming languages can beat C.' Imagine a small alternative to Ruby on rails, supporting the development of any web application, but much faster."
Dormitory Turned Into Huge Color Display 69
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samzenpus
from the color-your-windows dept.
from the color-your-windows dept.
macson_g writes "Students from Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) once again turned one of their dormitories into huge display. The project is called P.I.W.O. (B.E.E.R.). This time they converted a 10-story building into 4-color, 12x10 display. The business was used to display animations, and to play interactive games as well. On the project page (in Polish, Google translation here) you can watch an almost hour-long video, featuring music videos, a Tetris session, a dancing Michael Jackson, Duke Nukem and Mario."
Comment: Re:Available in certain areas in the Netherlands n (Score 1) 119
Because Amsterdam is not in the UK...
The Dutch television distribution system is kind of weird. The BBC does not allow any provider but the old fashioned cable companies to distribute BBC1 and 2. As a kind of compensation the alternatives offered by the digital-over-the-air-TV-providers and these fibre providers is to offer BBC world. Yeah right... that doesn't do it for me.
There is a lawsuit going on at the moment that challenges exactly this 'bbc1 and 2 only on cable' deal.
Comment: Available in certain areas in the Netherlands now (Score 2, Interesting) 119
Some cities in the Netherlands already have broadband fibre options for residential connections. Living in one of the pilot areas in Amsterdam, I am currently enjoying 20 Mbit/s (symmetrical!), but could go up to 100 Mbit/s (also symmetrical) if I'm willing to pay more.
Internet service can be combined with telephone and radio/TV. RTV is converted to old fashioned cable signal in your home, which with good cabling (and proper channel separation (which they did take care of)) gives excellent TV image quality, without slow channel switching, digital artefacts, and one-TV-only downsides typical for other digital TV services.
The good thing is (IMHO) they separated the network itself from the service providers, so you can have your choice of who (and what) you pay for. I'm just getting internet, because the TV package is missing BBC1 and 2 due to stupid monopoly of the old fashioned cable companies.
Comment: Re:$1 per Watt or per kW? (Score 1) 381
Are you sure you want to suggest another wrong unit?
Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday 664
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timothy
from the stay-warm-date-a-swede dept.
from the stay-warm-date-a-swede dept.
Anonymous Pirate writes "Operators of The Pirate Bay stand trial on Monday in Stockholm. The four defendants from the popular file-sharing web site are charged with being accessories to breaking copyright law and may face fines or up to two years in prison if found guilty. The four defendants have run the site since 2004 after it was started in 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån. The Swedish public service television announced that they are going to send a live audio stream from the trial. It will be broadcast without editing or translation."