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Submission + - Police called over 11-year-old's science project (boingboing.net) 2

Submitted by garg0yle on Saturday January 16, 2010 @09:57AM

garg0yle writes: Police in San Diego were called to investigate an 11-year-old's science project, consisting of "a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics", after the vice-principal came to the conclusion that it was a bomb. Charges aren't being laid against the youth, but it's being recommended that he and his family "get counseling". Apparently, the student violated school policies — I'm assuming these are policies against having any kind of independent thought?

Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop 929

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @06:37AM from the no-less-no-more dept.

zerothink writes "American student Lily Sussman, 21, upon entry into Israel from Taba (Egypt, Sinai) caught Israeli border police in grumpy mood — after two hours of questions and searching through her belongings they decided to put three bullets through her laptop. Explanation? 'I'm sorry but we had to blow up your laptop.' Haaretz also covered the story." All three bullets missed the hard disk.

Submission + - Australian Government backing down on censorship (news.com.au) 2

Submitted by

Combat Wombat

on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @12:17PM

Combat Wombat writes: "THE Rudd Government has indicated that it may back away from its mandatory internet filtering plan. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today told a Senate estimates committee that the filtering scheme could be implemented by a voluntary industry code. Senator Conroy's statement is a departure from the internet filtering policy Labor took into the October 2007 election to make it mandatory for ISPs to block offensive and illegal content."

World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP 502

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 25, 2009 @01:21PM from the more-tools-in-the-tool-belt dept.

Cougem writes "John Fremlin has released what he believes to be the worlds fastest webserver for small dynamic content, teepeedee2. It is written entirely in LISP, the world's second oldest high-level programming language. He gave a talk at the Tokyo Linux Users Group last year, with benchmarks, which he says demonstrate that 'functional programming languages can beat C.' Imagine a small alternative to Ruby on rails, supporting the development of any web application, but much faster."

Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? 497

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 25, 2009 @10:16AM from the well-technically-but dept.

Jamie found an amusing bit this morning on Scientific American where the author proposes that dog breeds are different species. Now some of you might recoil when you hear this suggestion, but if you read the article to see why he makes this suggestion I suspect you'll crack a smile and appreciate the elegance of the solution.

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