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Education

3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession 804

theodp writes "A third-grader in a small Texas school district received a week's detention for merely possessing a Jolly Rancher. Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice. But school officials are defending the sentence, saying the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned 'minimal nutrition' foods. 'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis."
OS X

Apple Patches Massive Holes In OS X 246

Trailrunner7 writes with this snippet from ThreatPost: "Apple's first Mac OS X security update for 2010 is out, providing cover for at least 12 serious vulnerabilities. The update, rated critical, plugs security holes that could lead to code execution vulnerabilities if a Mac user is tricked into opening audio files or surfing to a rigged Web site." Hit the link for a list of the highlights among these fixes.
First Person Shooters (Games)

ioquake3 1.36 Goes Gold 176

Time Doctor writes "The de-facto standard in Quake 3 engine technology, ioquake3, has hit version 1.36 recently. It includes a garbage bag full of improvements: in-game VOIP; optional external Mumble (voip); OpenAL; IPV6; anaglyph stereo rendering; Full x86-64 architecture support; Rewritten PowerPC JIT compiler, with ppc64 support; new SPARC JIT compiler, with support for both sparc32 and sparc64; improved console command auto-completion; persistent console command history; improved QVM (Quake Virtual Machine) tools; colored terminal output on POSIX operating systems; multiuser support on Windows systems (user-specific game data is stored in their respective Application Data folders); PNG format support for textures. Of course, there are even more fixes for security holes and other bugs in there. So, if you don't like ads and queues in your Quake 3 experience, get a copy of Quake 3 off Steam and copy your data files and key into your ioquake3 directory."

Comment Re:no, blow it OUT your ass (Score 1) 629

Are you serious? So its okay for you to run through a red light until it is you, your friends or your family get hit or killed by someone with the same ridiculous idea? Lights are not there to generate revenue but to make order from chaos. If everyone thought like it wouldn't be safe for anyone to drive. Laws are there to allow everyone to live together in this jammed up world. There has to be a penalty for breaking the laws. A machine doesn't eat doughnuts and write tickets because it doesn't like you. Everyone gets treated the same way. I will however give you this much. Some communities do skew these devices to generate revenues. But an intelligent person can figure those out and work around them. EOT

Comment Invasion of Privacy My Arse! (Score 1, Flamebait) 629

I am sick and tired of people whining about this. When you are on a public roadway and you break the law by running a light then just own up to it, and pay your fine! As we jam more and more people into our society your individual rights shrink. Your rights to privacy do not extend beyond your person! Too many people run red lights these days and cause millions of dollars in damages and lost lives! We don't have enough funds to police the intersections so using cameras is perfectly acceptable. Get over it!

Comment Platform (Score 1) 622

I would venture a guess that the "Platform" you are referring to is Linux and Apache and you were raised on Microsoft. Keep the platform, hire somebody with the skills as they are a dime a dozen and learn something.

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