Daemin - Slashdot User

Comment My wife was usnchooled (Score 1) 1345

by Daemin on Sunday September 06, 2009 @09:10AM (#29330779) Attached to: Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling"

My wife was unschooled.

She got a BA in Philosophy with a 3.97 GPA (she got a C in public health... I still can't figure that one out..), along with a ton of awards. She is currently working on a PHD in Philosophy at a public ivy university on a full scholarship.

Her two siblings were also unschooled, and also graduated with honors, though not nearly as high as she did.

What it comes down to, though, is the people who are going to home or unschool are a self selected lot who are probably going to do a better job than a random idiot off the street, so YMMV.

RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional 281

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @06:05PM from the what-about-ritchie-chaz-and-margot? dept.

dtjohnson writes "A Harvard law school professor has submitted arguments on behalf of Joel Tenenbaum in RIAA v. Tenenbaum in which Professor Charles Nesson claims that the underlying law that the RIAA uses is actually a criminal, rather than civil, statute and is therefore unconstitutional. According to this article, 'Nesson charges that the federal law is essentially a criminal statute in that it seeks to punish violators with minimum statutory penalties far in excess of actual damages. The market value of a song is 99 cents on iTunes; of seven songs, $6.93. Yet the statutory damages are a minimum of $750 per song, escalating to as much as $150,000 per song for infringement "committed willfully."' If the law is a criminal statute, Neeson then claims that it violates the 5th and 8th amendments and is therefore unconstitutional. Litigation will take a while but this may be the end for RIAA litigation, at least until they can persuade Congress to pass a new law."

Comment Re:Bah! (Score 1) 496

by Daemin on Friday August 08, 2008 @12:21PM (#24527073) Attached to: Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress

Its frustrating because what makes go an interesting problem, to me anyway, is that its hard. And whats hard about it is not the lack of a computer big enough to do a mini-max on the game tree, but in written an algorithm that captures the tactics and strategies of the game in a way that a human could read and employ themselves.

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