I am 55. Ever since first-grade, I have noticed how the Republicans have been consistently trying to destroy the public education system. Reducing funding to the point where teachers were forced to spend their own money for classroom supplies. Then reducing effective salaries for teachers (but not administrators) to the point where the teachers couldn't afford to buy the supplies at all. Then imposing testing requirements that cover material that is NOT a good measure of educational achievement. Then vilifying those teachers from whom all freedom to teach has been stripped. All the while, bitching and moaning about how kids in other countries are doing better on standardised tests, but then sending jobs to the countries where the education is far, FAR worse than ours....

All in an attempt to create an electorate ignorant enough to believe any and every fallacious, emotion-based argument they use to cover for the fact that all they are really doing is helping big business and the filthy-rich take even more money at the expense of the people and the environment.

Now, the Repulicans have created an electorate so assininely stupid that they are voting, in droves, for someone who is so mind-bogglingly, insane, ignorant, and assinine that even the GOP can't stand him.

So, yes, the Republicans have created a Frankenstein's monster of an electorate, composed of all the worst parts of society and now they will have to deal with the destruction said monster will visit upon them.

In some ways, I hope we do end up with King Trump. After he shows himself to be such a meglomaniacle jackass that even France is ready to go to war with us. After the 1% get reduced to the .001% and the top 1 to .001 % end up having to take service jobs, cleaning the toe-nails of the top .001%. After Kim Jong Ill buys the last Trump Tower. And after both parties unanimously vote to impeach the fucker but the ignorant and radicalized military refuse to unseat their "One True Leader" (I was in the military, so I have seen both how ignorant most of them are and how little respect they have for the population they are supposedly there to serve. Most of them would happily follow the most criminal of orders if given by someone like Trump.) Only then will this country wake up and realize that promoting assinine ignorance is maybe not such a good thing.

This reminds me of what my mother (an otherwise sweet and kind woman) used to say, every time the conversation turned to the greedy people at the top:

"Lock them all in one room with ONE KNIFE."

The point being that their greed and lust for power will cause them to constantly fight over that one KNIFE till there is only one of them left. And hopefully he will die from his injuries.

Many more "articles" like this and the ones pandering to feminists and I will just stop reading /. altogether.

I logged in, just to add my name to this statement.

Pay will go down, but not because women are coming into the field. (Although, I would take a cut in pay to get to work next to a smart woman instead of yet another egotistical techno-jock.) Pay will come down because it will be even easier to round up a bunch of resumes that almost but don't quite meet a set of precicely overinflated requirements. Then they will hire an H1-B-er.

I am now convinced that all those Indian "recruiters" are actually H1-B candidates, and their first task is to gather up a bunch of resumes of Americans that don't quite meet the requirements. Once they have enough to satisfy the labor dept. (or whoever) then the employer can justify hiring them. This is why I won't even reply to or talk to any recruiters with Indian names or accents any more. Sorry if that smacks of racism. It's just the little bit that I can do to throw a wrench in the H1-B grist mill.

Came here to say exactly the same thing. I would buy it in a heartbeat if it was color. Even crappy 4096 colors color. And I am definitely NOT one of those fat-wallet early adopters. I have just been waiting for exactly this, in color, for years.

I don't read paperbacks. I read scientific papers. So the large screen would be a godsend. Also, a lot of technical books have many diagrams that you really need at least some color, a large screen, and decent resolution to interpret correctly. It would be such a luxury to be able to look at a diagram and read the accompanying text AT THE SAME TIME.

Resistance is futile.

FTFY

However, consistency trumps that first rule. Therefore, "four in ten" is more correct. If the larger number is cumbersome to spell out, then it is OK to use decimals for numbers under 10. For instance: "4 in 14,765" would be correct.

However, this is /. so no one cares. Besides, ad hominem much?

Composting is an aerobic decomposition process that generates enough heat to kill all pathogenic bacteria. Read any good book about composting (or even a decent pamphlet) and that is the most important thing you will learn. So, by definition, composting human remains leaves no viable pathogens. Bodies dug up in cemeteries are unsanitary because they decomposed anaerobically, at low temperatures. It is almost as if cemeteries were designed to be unsafe.

It never ceases to amaze me, just how well-rounded Slashdotters, in general, are not. Push back from your computers and go do something outside every once in a while. Grow a garden. Build a shed. Clean a stream. Something.

This!

Of course, this is why it is so hard to argue against SJWs. Their cause may be just, so they can always accuse one of not supporting a just cause when one really just doesn't support the solutions or tactics.

The EPUB3 format is just HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, some metadata, and a couple other things I can't remember right now, all packaged up in a .ZIP file with a different file name extension. The spec literally allows ANYTHING you can do on a web site.

Except, no current EPUB readers will handle anything much more than just displaying the text, let alone any kind of persistence. You can do all that you want, and much more. But no one will see it. It's as if the HTML5 standard had been released but the only browser available was the first version of Mozilla. Why no one has updated their EPUB readers is beyond me.

So, given that, your only options right now seem to be what others have suggested: build an app or a website. {Well, you could also release the HTLM, etc. as a downloadable collection of files, in a .ZIP file. But, sadly, very few people would bother to or have the wherewithal to actually download that and put it on their machine correctly.} Perhaps you could build the website with all your interractivity, use almost the same code to build the EPUB3 document, let people read the EPUB3 while offline and then go to the web site for the interactive bits. Then wait for EPUB3 readers to catch up.

One big, supposedly hard target, or millions of definitely soft targets?

A) The hard target only has to be breached once for the concept to be abandoned.

B) So Lessig is shilling for the NSA now? Putting ALL of EVERYONE'S info on one system is NOT a wise move, if we have any hope of protecting our privacy.

What we need is a business model for law firms to profit from suing insecure sites just as the music industry has law firms that support themselves entirely from suing copyright infringers. Said law firms would solicit for "expert witnesses" to provide information as to which sites may be insecure. The law firm then does research (through legal means) to find enough people, who have information on the site, to constitute a class action lawsuit. They file the suit and pay their expert witnesses a fee for their testimony. No one can retaliate against the expert witness because that would be witness tampering. The expert witness would be working on behalf of the plaintiffs rather than working independently.

Well, the point doesn't "speak to me" because I won't be using an enterprise license or logging into AD.

SWEET!!! This is exactly the kind of reference I was hoping to receive. All the trolls were worth this one reference. This site, and the project members themselves, will be a vast goldmine of information and potential collaboration. I don't know if I ever would have come across this on my own.

Thank you so much.
Grant

Good point. Thanks.

I guess where I am really going is a two level system. A reputation engine to rate the reliability and trustworthiness of contributers. Then a voting system for the content where the votes are weighted based on the reputation of the voter.