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Submission + - SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: SCO Group announced Thursday that it plans to auction off most of its Unix assets, including 'certain UNIX system V software products and related services,' ITworld reports. 'This asset sale is an important step forward in ensuring business continuity for our customers around the world,' said Ken Nielsen, SCO chief financial officer, in a statement. 'Our goal is to ensure continued viability for SCO, its customers, employees and the Unix technology.' Interested parties must submit a bid for the assets by Oct. 5.
United States

Submission + - Public Clearinghouse Proposed for Evoting Failures (fcw.com)

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Alice Lipowicz writes in Federal Computer Week that Lawrence Norden, senior counsel to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, has reviewed hundreds of reports of problems with electronic voting systems during the last eight years and is recommending a new regulatory system with a national database, accessible by election officials and others, that identifies voting system malfunctions reported by vendors or election officials and that new legislation require vendors report evoting failures to the clearinghouse. "We need a new and better regulatory structure to ensure that voting system defects are caught early, officials in affected jurisdictions are notified immediately, and action is taken to make certain that they will be corrected for all such systems, wherever they are used in the United States," writes Norden adding that election officials rely on vendors to keep them aware of potential problems with voting machines, which is often done voluntarily and that voting system failures in one jurisdiction tend to be repeated in other areas, resulting in reduced public confidence and lost votes."
Linux

Submission + - Adobe releases new 64-bit Flash plugin for Linux (adobe.com) 1

Submitted by TheDarkener
TheDarkener writes: Adobe seems to have made an about face regarding their support for native 64-bit Linux support for Flash today, and released a new preview Flash plugin named "Square". This includes a native 64-bit version for Linux, which I have verified works on my Debian Lenny LTSP server by simply copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins — with sound (which I was never able to figure out with running the 32-bit version with nspluginwrapper and pulseaudio).

Comment Re:But will it work after the virus evolves? (Score 1, Offtopic) 71

by jhouserizer (#31066984) Attached to: Virus-Detecting "Lab On a Chip" Developed At BYU
Maybe this was a troll, but I'll respond anyway. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons) do believe that God created the Earth. Which is "creationism". However most LDS folks also believe in evolution (e.g. as part of God's creation) and BYU was one of the very first schools to teach evolution. Last year BYU had a big, well-publicized week-long celebration of Darwin's birthday that included many lectures on the importance of the discovery of evolution.

Comment Re:I do it (Score 2, Insightful) 1324

by jhouserizer (#30937722) Attached to: US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum
what do you do for your children's social development?

All sorts of things.

Weekly co-operative learning with groups of other homeschooling families. Sports teams. Singing groups. Piano lessons and recitals. Scouting. Church meetings and activities. Playing with friends. ... it's not like they're trapped in the house!

Comment Re:Good (Score 2, Insightful) 1324

by jhouserizer (#30937464) Attached to: US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum

Maybe there are a lot of "ultra fanatic religious" nuts who homeschool their children.

But there are also a LOT of homeschoolers that are doing it simply to help their children get real educations.

We associate with many other homeshooling families in our area and they range across a good spectrum of religious beliefs: protestant, catholic, mormon, buddhist, agnostic and atheist. Once a week the families get together for some social time and larger group learning. The adults and kids get along great, and have a great time doing fun, active learning. If anything it is the atheists that are the most fervent in bringing up religion during the co-op learning activities.

Comment Re:Home schooling vs. school duty (Score 4, Insightful) 1324

by jhouserizer (#30937232) Attached to: US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum
There are a lot of us who home-school for non-religious reasons... Please quit perpetuating a bad stereotype. Some of us simply care about the the pace our children are learning things, and about the quality and content of the education. We (my wife and I) are not doing anything "special" or worthy of bragging about in terms of spectacular teaching - yet our kids test well beyond other kids their age in math and reading, and they can tell you all sorts of things about classic literature, history, logic/reasoning, and geography, that very few other kids under 10 years old have even heard of. Reducing the student/teacher ratio, and cutting out the crap makes a big, big difference.

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