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Comment Re:Looking in the wrong places (Score 3, Insightful) 479

3. Teach kids to stand up when a teacher enters and leaves a room, and teach them, no, put them to clean their own class rooms as part of their daily school day.

Sorry, but if you honestly believe this one, you are quite out of touch with how "bad seeds" behave. Having kids stand up just gives a very easy way for them to disrespect their teachers. Those who don't want to stand up won't. As a result, they will either 1) be reprimanded, which many will just rebel against even more or 2) you do nothing about it, and further distinguish and separate the "good" from the "bad". This is not how you encourage respect between student and teacher. All teachers I liked and got along well with, from early elementary to late college, were ones who treated me as just another person. They didn't force me to do stuff for the sake of "that is what you are supposed to do", and they didn't make me treat them like my superior. Because I liked those teachers and respected them for the way they treated me, I actually felt bad not doing my class work in those classes.

Comment Re:Revolutionary? Yeh right. (Score 1) 220

And those 95% are not the target consumers. It is that other 5% - the ones who spend money on cameras like many here do on computers. Also, just because you think the picture is worthless, that doesn't mean it is. I don't take pictures often, but the ones I do are to help me remember something worth remembering. You may see "just some building", but the one who took it may see "where I first saw the woman who is now my wife".

Comment Mnemosyne / Super Memo (Score 3, Informative) 329

I have had sub-par memory for as long as I can remember. I'm only 23 and things will probably only get worse in the future, so I spend a few minutes every day doing some memorization using Mnemosyne (free), which uses the SuperMemo algorithm, which seems to be similar to the concepts mention in TFA. It is quite amazing for remembering flash-card style items long-term, and a great memory exercise. Anyone interested in improving their own memory, I recommend checking this out.

Comment Re:Geothermal is better (Score 1) 62

There are a lot of different ideas going around on how this works since TFA isn't very clear. My guess is that feeding the water into the pipes once, not always. It is just your average heat transfer system done through water, though this seems to get closer to the heat-generating components (the supercomputer) rather than just cooling the room itself.

Comment Energy efficiency (Score 1) 227

I didn't see anything about energy efficiency - or how well this "window" compares to modern windows with holding in heat. There are also other issues like trapped moisture (and the resulting mold), which would be far worse to see in this kind of window. Wouldn't think it would be too hard to lay it on top of your existing windows, to get the best of both worlds, but then you're still dealing with the cost of both (and good windows are not cheap).

Comment Re:well done apple (Score 1) 422

In this day and age where information is so freely available, does anyone still think this works? What's more, the term "shell company" has bad enough connotations that it's like admitting guilt of some sort of wrongdoing to most people. Odds are there's more important strategy behind it than just PR.

"Think" it still works? I know it still works. It works wonders on the highly-opinionated individuals that do not look deep into the story before making up their mind. In this case, it also works very well with those who know little about business. That is a very large chunk of the population. "X does Y" is directly tied to X, and it is hard to deny the facts. "Z, a shell company of X, does Y" lets plenty of room for deniability in there.

Comment Re:Encryption (Score 1) 196

They are also useful for cheap offline storage. Once or twice a year, I export my KeePass (password manager) database as XML on a thumb drive, put that in an ecrypted archive, then store the USB in a safe somewhere. That way I know I can always get to it even if something ugly goes down, like my main KeePass db gets corrupted and I don't notice until after I do my regular offline backups. Can never to be too cautious when dealing with thousands of distinct passwords.

Comment Re:Asking people to pay for what they use?!? OMG! (Score 1) 397

In all fairness, its not a completely free resource. Every network message puts extra strain on every system it hits before it reaches its destination. The more bandwidth being used, the more throughput data centers need to be able to handle, increasing the cost of hardware, electricity, and maintenance staff.

Of course, that doesn't justify the huge fees ISPs dish out.

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