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Comment Re:cant we already get free and support with cento (Score 2, Informative) 165

by Wakk013 on Friday March 20, 2009 @08:30PM (#27275859) Attached to: Oracle's Take On Red Hat Linux

There is a free version of Oracle available. Its not licensed in any way. However if you go over their max data limit, then you have to purchase a version of Oracle.
Also, RedHat and CentOS are the same product. They are the same source code: RedHat compiled by RedHat, and CentOS compiled by open source community. This allows RedHat to get more exposure and most of the bugs found in CentOS can be patched back into RedHat.

Comment Its going to be tough... (Score 1) 314

by Wakk013 on Thursday March 19, 2009 @08:08PM (#27263513) Attached to: How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science?

I think the biggest problems teachers of the current generation students have is that these students are constantly multitasking. They grew up in an environment where so much is constantly going on in their normal habitat (home, friends house's and so on) that attempting to teach in a normal classroom setting will drive them to utter boredom. These students need to be active on many levels, not just one particular focus. You'll lose them.

Having text ongoing while presenting videos with active listening to get them involved maybe your best bet.

Comment Re:Violation of free speech (Score 1) 849

by Wakk013 on Thursday January 15, 2009 @12:16PM (#26466861) Attached to: South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity

Agreed, its illegal to pass this law. Even if it does pass, it will be dismissed at a latter time, lost of wasted money going out to pay off the people affected by it and so on.

IMHO, its a political maneuver trying to get votes.

Census Bureau To Scrap Handhelds — Cost $3 Billion 264

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 03, 2008 @12:49PM from the one-two-three-many dept.

GovTechGuy writes "The Census Bureau will tell a House panel today that it will drop plans to use handheld computers to help count Americans for the 2010 census, increasing the cost for the decennial census by as much as $3 billion, according to testimony the Commerce Department secretary plans to give this afternoon."

Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment 703

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 03, 2008 @08:32AM from the unreasonable-searches-and-seizures dept.

mrogers writes "The EFF has uncovered a troubling footnote in a newly declassified Bush Administration memo, which asserts that 'our Office recently [in 2001] concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.' This could mean that the Administration believes the NSA's warrantless wiretapping and data mining programs are not governed by the Constitution, which would cast Administration claims that the programs did not violate the Fourth Amendment in a whole new light — after all, you can't violate a law that doesn't apply. The claimed immunity would also cover other DoD agencies, such as CIFA, which carry out offline surveillance of political groups within the United States."

Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on License Fee 282

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 03, 2008 @12:20AM from the we-do-whatever-is-cheaper dept.

MissingRainbow writes "To avoid paying taxes in India, Microsoft wanted a court to believe that it is selling its product and that there are no royalty payments involved. Their own EULA worked against them in this particular case however as it states, "the product is licensed, not sold". The court ruled against them."

Tsunami Spotted on the Surface of the Sun 164

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 02, 2008 @10:16PM from the mother-of-all-disaster-movies dept.

BigBadBus writes "The BBC is reporting that NASA's twin spacecraft designed to obtain stereo images of the Sun have recorded a Solar Tsunami. The feature includes a fascinating movie of the images captured."

Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo 674

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @08:02AM from the sugar-pills-are-cheaper dept.

Matthew Whalley writes "Researchers got hold of published and unpublished data from drug companies regarding the effectiveness of the most common antidepressant drugs. Previously, when meta-analyses have been conducted on only the published data, the drugs were shown to have a clinically significant effect. However, when the unpublished data is taken into account the difference between the effects of drug and placebo becomes clinically meaningless — just a 1 or 2 point difference on a 30-point depression rating scale — except for the most severely depressed patients. Doctors do not recommend that patients come off antidepressant drugs without support, but this study is likely to lead to a rethink regarding how the drugs are licensed and prescribed."

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