Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Biologists haven't seen it this way for a while (Score 2, Insightful) 337

by Jamamala (#31333294) Attached to: The Role of Human Culture In Natural Selection
Anything thing that removes a selection pressure is going to increase the rate of evolution, not decrease it. By removing that pressure, you have reduced the punishment for a bad mutation. Therefore, any new mutations are more likely to be passed down, increasing the observed rate of genetic change.

Comment Re:Underwater Fiber (Score 1) 406

by Jamamala (#29377235) Attached to: Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net
Perhaps the network is congested with traffic going to other continents travelling across the same networks as used for this experiment. Once the fiber is installed then this international traffic will be routed more efficiently to the outside world, lowering network congestion and allowing higher speeds to transfers between peers in SA.

Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling" 1345

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-from-quake dept.
ciaohound writes "The Baltimore Sun has a story about 'unschooling,' which is like homeschooling except, well, without the schooling. '...unschooling incorporates every facet of a child's life into the education process, allowing a child to follow his passions and learn at his own pace, year-round. And it assumes that an outing at the park — or even hours spent playing a video game — can be just as valuable a teaching resource as Hooked on Phonics.' If you have ever been forced to sit in a classroom where no learning was taking place, you may understand the appeal. A driving force behind the movement is parents' dissatisfaction with regular schools, and presumably with homeschooling as well. Yet few researchers are even aware of unschooling and little research exists on its effectiveness. Any Slashdotters who have experience with 'unschooling?'"

Comment Re:Your problem being? (Score 1) 329

by Jamamala (#29237117) Attached to: FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent to US Governors
Don't forget that the BIOS can act as a vector, and even that fairly exotic CPU rootkit that made the news a few months ago could be used. These are possibly lucrative targets - high enough up to get juicy information, and perhaps the malicious party imagined that they wouldn't be quite high enough up for them not to use the laptops.

Slashdot Top Deals

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers. -- David Parnas

Close