In Jurassic Park, they used frog DNA and produced only males. The frog DNA caused them to spontaneously change sex, letting the mommy velociraptor and daddy velociraptor love each other very much to make the baby velociraptor.

So Slashdot's variation on the solution is... giant mango flavored genetically engineered vampire bat bugs? I for one welcome our new fruity overlords.

You can press the "Many More" button - setting up a script to get all of them is trivial with greasemonkey, and even more trivial if you spend a bit of time clicking. There doesn't appear to be another way of getting at posts, but all of them seem available, and all of them are easy to get at. I suppose you could also deconstruct whatever call is pulling the posts and try to get them all in one go.

slashdot.org/~circletimessquare

Well, crap. You mean life's not fair? Damn it all.

And honestly, if you're dumb enough to send Russians good money to preorder a device made by a startup company based in England, you don't deserve that money anyway.

Their control mechanism is distinctly 'digital' - and the interface is point and click.

Thanks for that - and thanks for keeping up on slashdot :) Nice to see input from the head honcho!

Noooope! Chuck Testa.

I'm advocating the khan academy style of teaching - for most subjects it is a compelling alternative to the standard one-size-fits all approach to public education. A set of videos and materials to teach a subject in a way that can be paced intuitively is better than an impatient live teacher - a student can pause and rewind if needed. The teacher's task becomes one of monitoring progress, filling in the gaps, and directing subjects. Everyone gets the same information, and progress is measurable and structured.

Like Verizon would let a silly little thing like laws get in their way...

The sooner you teach a child discipline, the sooner he will learn. If he knows everything set out in your curriculum because it's all in a book that he read in the first week, you've now got a child who knows everything you planned on regurgitating. With no contingency for the smart ones, then not only will the teacher not teach discipline, but the kid will learn that teachers are blithering idiots like everyone else on the planet.

Most school teachers aren't worth as much as a well written book.

Apparently this teacher hasn't encountered Khan Academy. The style of teaching used there is almost universally applicable. Determine whether a child is an auditory, kinetic, or visual learner, and tailor their education around their abilities, putting the teacher in the role of mentor, instead of babysitter or cop.

Make learning interesting, and kids won't be bored at school. Make school boring, and kids won't learn jack. There is no one-size fits all, and its the smartest kids who get tossed under the bus in favor of the dutiful.

What's a component retailer to do in world without user-serviceable components?

Hmm, probably sell components for desktops.