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Comment Re: So its ok for the first couple years at school (Score 0) 66

Oh wow. This is basic parenting. Don't let your kids play with a tablet or smartphone. Don't let them braindrain in front of a TV. Let them read books. Let you read books to them, tell them stories, play games with them, talk and discuss various subjects. Let them play outside.

Comment Won't happen soon (Score 1) 39

Unlike Apple here we have two giants (Samsung & Microsoft) fighting to control the user's data - and you can add Google into the mix. Of course all of them are using proprietary protocols to erect walls around their data silos. That's why you'll always have an unstable mess with end-users lost between those "solutions".

Comment Re: Massachusetts tried this (Score 1) 24

That's exactly the huge problem with "modern" voting technology: nearly nobody understands it all, from software downto hardware, so nobody will verify that the vote happened correctly. The transparent ballot box system can and will be verified by anybody who wants to do it, from the ballot insertion to the votes counting. That verifiability is a marvellous property that shouldn't be lost. Electronic vote can't keep it.

Comment Been there done that already (Score 1) 293

Same thing happened to Internet. At first it was some sort of free-for-all space, then money and corporations came in, and now it's being regulated at full speed. Mars (or anywhere else there's a colony) won't be different. If some powerful government decides it has authority over a tiny place, it will have authority.

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