Comment Really? (Score 1) 301
I think that is not so simple. In fact that sistem was used during years to educated the elites. The public school sistem is an advance that allows popular education.
Submission + - Why Can't We Put a BASIC on the Phone?
theodp writes: In the Sixties, we could put a man on the moon. Nowadays, laments jocastette, America's tech giants can't even put a BASIC on the phone. Woz managed to crank out a BASIC interpreter for the 6502 in the '70s. As did Bill Gates and Paul Allen. So, why — at a time when development has never been easier — can't Google, Apple, and Microsoft manage to support a free BASIC or other programming-for-the-masses development environment on desktops, laptops, tablets and phones?
Submission + - China's Parallel Online Universe (the-diplomat.com)
An anonymous reader writes: China is increasingly operating an online parallel universe where social media clones are satisfying the growing demand of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens for social media tools, reducing incentives for them to circumvent the “Great Firewall,” Freedom House warns. Testing by researchers found that a search for the names of seven prominent Chinese lawyers, activists, and journalists on Sina Weibo returned no results, only an Orwellian notice that “According to related laws and policy, some of the results are not shown here.”
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