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Comment Re:Is this a special needs thing? (Score 1) 164

I was just guessing, not accusing...

I went to a pretty big school that segregated kids into 3 or 4 tiers depend on the subject. I took one of the bottom tier courses and it was absolutely wild to me compared to what I thought was a disrupted class in the I upper two.

It was a mixed income school, but large enough to segregate to an honestly pretty disturbing level.

I'm class of '99 for timeline.

Comment Re:Is this a special needs thing? (Score 1) 164

You were most likely in an average or above average class though (just guessing based on /. demographics).

The bad classes are so much worse.

Like find a school where a large percentage of the students have little supervision at home due to parents work schedules and then go to the lower level class room. It's dramatically different than an average class, or even a typical bad one.

Comment Re:Disallow commercial use (Score 1) 41

Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works and change it to do what you want. Access to the source code is a prerequisite for this freedom.
Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so that you can help others.
Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. This allows you to give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes.

The proposal for non commercial use, license otherwise violates all for freedoms.

Comment Re:Disallow commercial use (Score 1) 41

If you need a license to use it the way that you want it violates the principals of open source.

The concept is you should be able to receive the source code with the default license and use it as you wish. If you require extra licensing to use it as you wish it cannot be part of the ecosystem and is not open source.

Comment Re: Theory vs practice (Score 1) 63

Quantum encryption is 100% secure (barring new physics). It involves sending a one time pad that is known not to be intercepted.

Traditional encryption requires that P not equal NP, which is not proven. If someone can find a way to reduce no polynomial time algorithms to polynomial time than current encryption is broken. If someone can prove it's impossible than current encryption is secure against non quantum algorithms.

Comment Re:And if you had "smart" light bulbs... (Score 1) 38

Maybe things have changed, but my smart lights run entirely on their own not wifi network. The switches and light bulbs all operate on their own low power network independent of my home wifi.

For me to program new ones or change the settings (which switches control which lights how) I need my home wifi network up, but I do not need Internet, this is all done locally.

Additionally, the lights all have a fallback that if they lose power and then it's restored they operate like regular lightbulbs.

The only thing they require the Internet for is controlling them from outside of home.

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