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+ - SPAM: Boarding school learning disabilities

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Gary Schneider
Gary Schneider writes "For students with learning disabilities, the current public school system cannot provide the individualized attention they need to understand the concepts that their peers have more success with in the classroom. The situation is more dire for male students who both have higher rates of learning disabilities as well as lower overall rates of academic achievement in the public school system. While specialty programs designed for students with learning disabilities exist in some school districts, an even better option would be to enroll your son in a private boys school."
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+ - SPAM: Electricity Bill

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Electricity Bill is a way to represent your total estimated power usage through household appliances. Per unit increase that have occurred in Power supply at certain States are going to get discussed here. To capture latest hicks and change in unit ratio one can able to go through the entire content. Efficient and quality power supply is the key to inclusive socio economical development. With increase in population, a well defined policies and rules are laid down for the improvement of electricity power in State.
If you are thinking to adopt certain measures to reduce you electricity bill in coming months then you need to identify the sources of its generation. Like most of the average bills are attributed through the usage of Air conditioner and heating systems. The wide range of usage at home is done over fans, bulbs and tube light etc. Hence proper utilization methods will help to consume more power which will result into cost effective solutions. One of the easiest ways to reduce electricity use in home is to use florescent lights rather than incandescent lights. Although they are quite expensive then incandescent light but provide 8 times better consumption and utilise less power. This small change will save you 50% on your annual electricity bills.
Scenarios have been changing quite frequently over the electricity cost and utilization. People of Delhi are already disturbed with high inflation and petroleum rates, another issue which has made them to think was due to fourth time increase in Electricity price. The average hike was took over on commercial people is 20.47 percent including the surcharges. The electricity regulatory commission has given their rates over the new power supply include-
Customers will be charged Rs.3.70 per unit for 200 units instead of Rs.3.
Customers will be charged Rs.4.80 per unit for 400 unit monthly instead
Customers those who consume a power supply above 400 units will be charged Rs. 5.70 respectively.
In the State of Maharashtra the electricity supply is offered by four disciplines like Tata Power, Reliance, MSES and BSET. Charges of Tata Power differ for residential and industrial areas and they do not provide power supply to those who use less than 1MW per day. As a comparison the least rates offered to the customers over 100-300 and above 300 units are by Reliance and BEST. Besides this, a fixed price is applicable to all customers that vary with Rs.3 to Rs.150 per month based upon the category of customers."
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Comment: Re:Apple and their lawyers were lucky (Score 5, Informative) 217

by thebjorn (#41942703) Attached to: UK Court Sanctions Apple For Non-Compliance
According to the judge, what they added was false, misleading, and did not convey the intent of the order -- and he analyzes each added statement in depth. In addition they used too much time to comply when it came to newspapers, where the judge expected "earliest possible time" to mean the next couple of days and not a month. As a punishment they now have to pay _all_ of Samsung's legal expenses (i.e. not only legal fees), they have to keep the notice up for much longer, and they have to put on their home page that they lied in their previous attempt. You don't have to agree with a judge's order, but you do have to follow it. Judges tend to get pissed off if you try to worm yourself around an order -- not something that should be news for Apple's capable legal team.

Comment: Re:No problem (Score 1) 369

by thebjorn (#40280181) Attached to: An HTTP Status Code For Censorship?

As far as I know, there is nowhere left in the world that is as free as the United States [...]

I think I'm far more free in Australia than you are in the United States, and Norway has us both beaten. But perhaps we both have an unrealistic idea of what "free" means.

Norway is great in many (most?) ways, but I do believe the US has us beat when it comes to real and/or legislative freedoms... I've lived in the US for 15+ years but only visited Australia, so perhaps you had something specific in mind? .. or perhaps I have an unrealistic idea of what "free" means ?-)

Comment: Re:anti-customer decision? (Score 1) 166

by thebjorn (#39613555) Attached to: Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap

Perhaps now they feel they've captured a significant enough portion of the market and decided to start capitalizing on it? That would be my (admittedly uninformed) guess[...]

Google Maps API is still free to use as long as you don't charge for access to your website: https://developers.google.com/maps/licensing

Privacy

Startup Wants To Peek Through Your Home's Wired Cameras 186

Posted by Soulskill
from the nope-nope-nope dept.
alphadogg writes "The little cameras in your home are multiplying. There are the ones you bought, perhaps your SLR or digital camera, but also those that just kind of show up in your current phone, your old phone, your laptop, your game console, and soon your TV and set-top box. Varun Arora, founder of startup GotoCamera in Singapore, wants you to turn them all on and let his company's algorithms analyze what they show, then sell the results as marketing data, in a sort of visual version of what Google and other firms do with search results and free email services."

Comment: Re:Sorry, but this is bull (Score 5, Informative) 286

by thebjorn (#38572482) Attached to: Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS

have access to a great deal of actual and current mobile usage data, and this is just completely at odds with reality.

That is my experience too. Statcounter is more representative of what I'm seeing: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-US-monthly-201012-201112

Security

+ - Massive DNS Cache Poisoning Hits Brazil-> 1

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes "A massive DNS cache poisoning attack attempting to infect users trying to access popular websites is currently under way in Brazil, according to Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini. Brazil has some big ISPs. Official statistics suggest the country has 73 million computers connected to the Internet, and the major ISPs average 3 or 4 million customers each. If a cybercriminal can change the DNS cache in just one server, the number of potential victims is huge. And that is exactly what has been happening during last week. Users trying to reach Google, YouTube, Facebook and other popular global and local sites were being faced with pop-up windows telling them to install "Google Defence" and similar thematic software or Java applet in order to be able to access the wanted site."
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Programming

+ - Coding Guidelines: Finding the Art in the Science->

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CowboyRobot
CowboyRobot writes "An article at Queue tries to identify the qualities of code that makes it easiest to update and maintain. "...when it comes time for implementation, there is a combination of artistic flare, nuanced style, and technical prowess that separates good code from great code." Their recommendations include treating the program as a table, and relying on simple English, white space, and context.
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DRM

+ - Bell Labs System Enables 3D Rendering on DisplayLi->

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billakay
billakay writes ""A recently open-sourced experimental Linux infrastructure created by Bell Labs researchers allows 3D rendering to be performed on a GPU and displayed on other devices, including DisplayLink dongles. The system accomplishes this by essentially creating "Virtual CRTCs", or virtual display output controllers, and allowing arbitrary devices to appear as extra ports on a graphics card.

Story can be found at Phoronix. The code and instructions to get the system running can be found here at GitHub.""
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WHERE CAN THE MATTER BE Oh, dear, where can the matter be When it's converted to energy? There is a slight loss of parity. Johnny's so long at the fair.

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