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Comment: That's just luddism. (Score 1) 333

by Lejade (#37810072) Attached to: A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Use Computers

It's really not that hard to imagine how game-inspired software could tremendously help learning in every field.

The only problem is very few people are actually sitting down and doing it properly. There are precious little good exemples for the time being but it will come, eventually. One such good exemple is Chaim Gingold's upcoming interactive primer on geology. I also read that Khan's academy is developing a sort of leveling structure on top of its courses and I would not be surprised if that turned out to be tremendously effective.

I'm not arguing that computers will completely replace a teacher anytime soon (especially for good, one on one teaching) - but in many, many less than ideal cases it seems obvious good software would be very useful.

The Courts

Iptable and busybox to sue major european telco

Submitted by
Lejade
Lejade writes "Harald Welte (of iptable and gpl-violations.org fame) is suing the second biggest French internet operator, with moral support from two Busybox authors, Rob Landley and Erik Andersen, and legal support from the FSF France. The operator, ironically named "Free", is accused of violating these author's rights by infringing the GPLv2 while distributing their homebrewed DSL router boxes, the "freebox".

Free (mother company is Iliad) is well known for bringing major innovations on the french DSL market, thanks to their massive usage of free-as-freedom software in their core-product, the Freebox. This network appliance is a router, a TV decoder, a VoIP phone switch and since recently a wireless PVR and personal storage space.

The French community started talks with the operator several years ago, asking them to advertize and provide the source for the GPL software embedded into their Freebox, distributed in more than 2 millions homes in France. Iliad was granted 30 days to comply with the terms of the GPL before the issue is brought to the court.

In the meantime, a donation campaign has been setup to help covering the legal costs. 12,000 of the 25,000 needed for the first phase have been raised so far."
Censorship

Clinton Prosecutor Now Targeting Free Speech 571

Posted by kdawson
from the whitewater-in-alaska dept.
Virchull tells us about a case the Supreme Court has agreed to hear, in which former special prosecutor Kenneth Starr will take the side of an Alaska school board against a student who displayed a rude banner off school property. The banner read "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" and it got the student suspended. He and his parents sued the school board for violating his First Amendment rights. The case is nuanced: while the student did not display the banner on school property, he did do so during a school function. Starr is said to be arguing the case for free.
Software

Democracy Player is 0.9.2 and Growing Up Fast

Submitted by Dean
Dean writes "Democracy Player, the open source answer for RSS video aggregation/playback, has just made it to 0.9.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux. If you haven't tried Democracy Player for a while, it's time to try it again. The application is more responsive and stable, uses less memory, integrates Bittorrent, and can now play Flash videos (including stuff from YouTube, Google, Yahoo, etc). Democracy takes all the hassle out of finding and watching videos from your favorite sources."
Internet Explorer

IP Browse, bookmark and try when no dns

Submitted by
rick28450
rick28450 writes "http://216.166.86.93/ Bookmark directly the ip. When you get a limited connection to an open wifi (no dns) try this bookmark to browse the internet using it's dns resolution. Sometimes your enterprise log your dns queries. This is the solution if you want anonymous surfing. It's an imperfect browsing, maybe you can make suggestions to improve the service. Clear your DNS servers on your TCPIP config and try your favorites pages through this service."
PlayStation (Games)

First PlayStation 3 Roms Appear

Submitted by
JamieSI
JamieSI writes "There have been many posts made at hacker and Linux communities which reveal the Playstation 3 Blu-Ray disc format has been cracked. There has been several disc dumps appearing on certain peer-to-peer networks and other pirate communities. The discs can't currently be booted by the PlayStation 3 but it probably won't take long to crack it. The PS3 has only been released for a short amount of time so this will cause Sony troubles if they do manage to produce pirate copies of games this early on, which they probably will. More details here."

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