Comment: Re:Yes (Score 1) 223
How about "letting a company mine my browsing history for a browser that I don't use."
Sounds like $25 for installing something and letting it sit on my HD while I continue to use Firefox.
Comment: Re:It already is (Score 1) 317
The entire point of our education model is to provide identical little consumers who will do what they're told, buy what the marketers want, and live their lives without asking questions.
Comment: Re:You should read that link (Score 3, Insightful) 390
As it is, they're being petty bullies.
Well that's what you get when you let Republicans take office.
Yes, because the current Administration is Republican. Wait a second....
You do realize that it's the Executive branch who would be doing the suing, right? You are also informed that the current Chief Executive is not a Republican, nor is the current Administrator of NASA a Republican Appointee?
Comment: Re:Typical (Score 1) 317
When was the last time you walked into Newegg and asked which aisle the motherboards are in?
Well, seeing that Newegg is an online-only store, that'd be rather difficult.
Comment: We're already in one (Score 4, Informative) 473
We're currently in an interglacial period of the current ice age, so it's not a matter of moving towards another one, but how long the interglacial period will last, and how if we're moving into a glaciation period will humanity be effecting that.
Comment: Re:"No consequences for violence" (Score 2) 343
Yes, it is. But, I just don't see how someone, even a child, could believe that something so obviously fictional is reality.
Who said anything about the kids not understanding that it's not real in order to have an effect on them?
Comment: Re:Slef-paced education is not a panacea (Score 1) 203
self-paced study courses have a major problem. They need a specific type of student. The student must be exactly smart enough to easily learn the material, yet dumb enough not to play the system to "get it over with."
In the system demonstrated, the self-pacing is combined with teacher instruction. Combined with customizable testing that requires mastery that was demonstrated, there's no need to "get over it" - and if it's stumping you, there is a teacher available.
Self-paced learning is absolutely not a solution to a major need in education.It can't replace stand-up training. BG should spend some time and get himself an education degree and then spend a few years teaching before making grand pronouncements. He has no qualifications to speak on this subject.
Exactly the opposite. Spending time at an ed school is about the worst way to learn about things such as: how students really learn, how to change education, and new approaches that will actually work. Ed schools are mostly propaganda with some old ideas peppered in there. They hold education back. As does thinking as you demonstrated. "It won't work because I said so, and teaching programs are the best."
Comment: Re:Nuclear Power! (Score 1) 317
I've often wondered why we have compact portable atomic bombs, but no compact portable atomic generators. Perhaps now some will finally be developed! Besides, I can't imagine that solar panels would be a good idea at an FOB. I mean, big square shiny targets? Not good. And they really work poorly when disguised with that camo netting stuff.
No, I'm thinking that some portable nuke plants are in order here. Even something that has to be mounted on a semi flatbed is going to be more useful than a solar panel. At least the flatbed could be rolled into a large trench and covered with camo netting and guarded by dirt and sandbag berms.
The US Military has many smallish nuclear reactors - in every combat submarine in the fleet, for example. They're still fairly large, complicated, and expensive.
Comment: Re:It should be: 4+3+2=x+2 (Solve for x) (Score 2, Interesting) 1268
So, it's a textbook problem in your opinion. I think that you're right (and that kids shouldn't be using calculators for quite a while into math).
My daughter's math textbook is more old-fashioned, and it has find the missing addend type questions starting in 2nd grade IIRC. They use the notation of an empty box for the child to fill in.
Comment: Re:HDCP (Score 1) 336
But saying the battery "pushed" the current through the bulb is also okay. It's the same way that power plants push water through the city pipes.
You power plants push water? Around here we have power plants provide electricity, and pumping stations push water.