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Submission + - free wireless user's laptop seized

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26, 2007 @06:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: "ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A police officer seized the laptop computer of a man using the Palmer Library's wireless Internet connection outside the building after the library had closed." http://ap.alaskajournal.com/stories/state/ak/20070 224/151748280.shtml

Mind boggling.

Submission + - Jakon Nielson on Life-Long Computer Skills

Submitted by

khendron

on Monday February 26, 2007 @05:39PM

khendron writes: "The Jakob Nielson's latest newsletter, he laments the fact that schools appear to be teaching kids how to use specific computer application (he cites Excel in his example). What a waste of time, since these skills will be useless by the time the kids graduate. Instead, he lists a number of "life-long" computer skills that we should be teaching kids: Search Strategies, Information Credibility, Information Overload, Writing for Online Readers, Computerized Presentation Skills, Workspace Ergonomics, Debugging, and User Testing and other Basic Usability Guidelines.

From the article about Debugging: "We shouldn't turn everyone into a programmer, but the basic debugging concept is a fundamental survival skill in the computer era. Most spreadsheets contain formula errors, for example, and unless people know how to find such mistakes, they'll make decisions based on the wrong numbers."

Who thinks his list is accurate? Or complete?"

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