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Comment Crippled? (Score 1) 353

by beaulen on Sunday January 24, 2010 @12:43PM (#30879206) Attached to: Rumor — AT&T Losing iPhone Exclusivity Next Week

I had a Motorola phone on Verizon that was crippled when compared to the same phone on other networks. It couldn't play non-Verizon mp3s unless you hacked it, it could use non-Verizon ring tones unless you hacked it, wouldn't sync contacts unless you hacked it. I hate to think what they'd do to the iPhone.

Low-Budget Electronics Projects For High School? 364

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @05:51PM from the does-school-policy-rule-out-ieds? dept.

SciGuy writes "I am a physics teacher for 9th graders. I really want to teach them modern electronics (something beyond the light bulb and battery). My hope is for a project that: 1) Is fun 2) Teaches about circuits that are relevant to their life. 3) Doesn't rely too heavily on a black box microcontroller. Individual components would probably be better. (I realize that #2 and #3 are probably contradictory. They will already be programming in my class but I want them to understand the circuitry behind modern tech.) 4) It must be as cheap as possible. Yay, public school. Unless some of the parts can be scrounged or found at home, I would probably want to keep the project around $5." What would you build?

Comment Re:The whole "taunting" thing pisses me off (Score 1) 713

by beaulen on Friday February 01, 2008 @12:46PM (#22262644) Attached to: Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo

The man's actions should definitely come in to play, fairly or not.

Does someone that doesn't look both ways before crossing the street deserve to get hit by a car? Does a person that doesn't wear a seat belt deserve to smash through windshield if they get into a car accident? It's not so much about deserving or not, but about risk assessment, and it turns out the guy was pretty bad at assessing the risk to which he was subjecting himself.

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