Therein lies the problem.
Obviously *(see hundreds of posts above) there are a lot of problems with engaging kids in education, and public school systems may not be perfect at standardizing education,
but the odds are that your school teachers from K-12 were at least all paid, degreed professionals.

In most cases (mine too) some are complete idiots, but others are complete geniuses and can provide you with inspiration throughout your whole life.

There are SOME parents that fall into the latter category, raising the next Einsteins and DaVincis.
But a whole gigantic pile of parents that would make incredibly bad teachers, far worse than your worst teacher.

I really don't have a problem with the idea of unschool or homeschool, it just isn't for everybody.

This is probably another step in their battle against Booble!

And if McCain ever felt wanting in executive experience, Sarah Palin alone

Wow. You are defending Palin.

Ok, I actually had a nice big long rebuttal typed up... but you're defending Palin.

Nevermind...

Depending on how far they are from the McMurdo base, they might get some action.

They got a shipment of 16,500 condoms last summer, so odds are something's going on there!

Now, when the most technologically-advanced Presidency â" remember all the endearing stories about his Blackberry, and the ridiculing of McCain's reluctance to use e-mail? â" can't put a web-site together, "having never done this before" is an excuse...

Pretty sure he's still the most technically advanced president.
He didn't put the website together himself obviously, unless you think he spends his afternoons in the basement of the whitehouse installing Linux and playing X-Box?
Odds are not.

It's more of a failure of the "Office of E-Government & Information Technology" than a failure of the man himself.
And I can pretty much guarantee you that since the site hit slashdot's news, he probably knows about it, and somebody at e-gov is going to get smacked.

Seriously though, do you really think McCain would have done better at this?

Seriously??

So if you jailbreak the iPhone you can play playstation games.

If you jailbreak the Aino can you download iPhone apps from the App store? :)

No, not serious.
I was trying to be snarky and apparently failed.

The RSS feed shows they've been having problems since yesterday.
I got a 502 error today, not a huge deal for me, I just use it for personal but if I was paying for it I'd be mad, just like people at work get mad at IT when the Exchange server goes down.

Anybody know what kind of hardware setup they have there?

Maybe they contracted a third party company to store the data in the cloud and their service was interrupted?!

Yeah, sounds like their only "award" was getting some freebie publicity on slashdot.

Apparently they missed the part about "$5,000 for winning the most votes as a startup building its application on Microsoft technologies"

Oops.

Anyways, IF they get approved by Apple, they only have to sell 1,672 times on the App Store to come up even with the team that used MS tech.

That's what I call cloud computing! Beaming a gigawatt of power in microwaves from space... what could go wrong? :)

Seriously though, how is it that Japan is going to spend 21 billion to beam a gigawatt of power from space, but I still can't get wireless power for my laptop?

This slashdot post was deadlocked on resources with another higher priority slashdot post and has been chosen as the deadlock victim

I think that's coming up soon, since Disney will likely buy Archie comics next, and have a Scarlet Witch / Sabrina the Teenage Witch crossover.