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Comment Re:Crazy Idea (Score -1) 426

by fa_pa on Thursday November 08, 2007 @11:44AM (#21281653) Attached to: YouTube Video Warned About School Shooting

Compare that to a school. What's the value of those kid's lives? Why not have any guards for those? Why not let each school get together with their district and decide whether or not it is appropriate?

Because we are talking about schools and not fucking prisons? Also how good is airport security? There are lots of cases where people got weapons on plains even though there is so much security. So why should school security be any better?

Submission + - Holocaust Dropped From UK Schools

Submitted by

dteichman2

on Thursday May 24, 2007 @03:52AM

dteichman2 writes: "It appears that UK schools are ignoring The Holocaust. A government-backed study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, found that some teachers are reluctant to teach history lessons on The Holocaust for fear of offending Muslim students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. As such, many schools are not covering the subject. Additionally, similar problems are being met with lessons on The Crusades because these lessons contradict teachings from local mosques.

Isn't there a law that requires UK schools to cover these topics? Should there be?"

Submission + - Microsoft "too busy to name Linux patents"

Submitted by bob_dinosaur on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @11:43PM

bob_dinosaur writes: According to The Register, Microsoft's Patent Attorney Jim Markwith told the Open Source Business Conference that the reason they hadn't named the 235 supposedly infringing patents was "The response of that would be administratively impossible to keep up with." The Register is suitably skeptical.

Submission + - Thai company to mass produce rewritable Blu-ray

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @05:46PM

Lucas123 writes: "Ritek Corp. plans to start mass producing BD-RE and HD DVD-RE next quarter, which should significantly impact the pricing of high-def recording discs, which will currently set you back $10 per platter. So what will we all do with 25GB and 20GB discs — four times what current DVD platters hold?"

A Mighty Number Falls 348

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @02:28PM from the time-to-generate-new-keys dept.

space_in_your_face writes "An international team has broken a long-standing record in an impressive feat of calculation. On March 6, computer clusters from three institutions (the EPFL, the University of Bonn, and NTT in Japan) reached the end of eleven months of strenuous calculation, churning out the prime factors of a well-known, hard-to-factor number — 2^1039 - 1 — that is 307 digits long." The lead researcher believes "the writing is on the wall" for 1024-bit encryption. "Last time, it took nine years for us to generalize from a special to a non-special hard-to factor number (155 digits). I won't make predictions, but let's just say it might be a good idea to stay tuned."

Samba Success in the Enterprise? 149

Posted by Cliff on Friday March 09, 2007 @02:30PM from the asking-for-your-experiences dept.

gunnk asks: "We've deployed a Samba server here to replace some aging Novell Netware boxes. It works great: fast, secure, stable. However, we have one VIP that feels that Samba is 'amateur' software and that we should be buying Windows servers. I've been searching with little success for large Samba deployments in Enterprise environments. Anyone out there care to share stories of places that are happily running large Samba installations for their file servers? Or not so happy, for that matter — better to be informed!"

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