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Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 537

by ssarasin on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:16AM (#41739751) Attached to: Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old?

Agreed. I don't think it is really a matter of not being able to learn it. It is more along the lines that we don't really want to, or need to. Windows 7 works great for my needs. I'll be sticking with it until it becomes necessary to move to Windows 8. (Or an alternative OS... I have a couple machines running OSX, and a few Linux boxes as well...)

29 Universities Seek High-Speed Networks 68

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 30, 2011 @05:38PM from the streaming-lectures-versus-movie-torrents dept.

An anonymous reader sends this quote from USA Today: "The University of Missouri announced Wednesday it is joining an effort by some of the country's top colleges to build 'ultra' high-speed data networks in their local communities. The project is known as Gig.U: The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project. The 29 participating schools include Arizona State, Duke, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Florida and Wake Forest University. The Aspen Institute, a Colorado-based nonprofit, initiated the effort. The schools and their local partners will solicit proposals from telecommunications companies in their area. They hope to quickly build high-speed broadband networks in communities with low unemployment and heavy demand for such services."

Comment Re:We live in a multimedia word (Score 1) 414

by ssarasin on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @10:15AM (#33137414) Attached to: Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play

If your parents read to you, more chance you'll grow up liking books & reading.

My 3yr old son already has quite a library. We have a full bookcase both upstairs in his room, and downstairs in the family room. He is constantly pulling books off the shelves and bringing them to us to read. Hopefully he'll follow in daddy's footsteps and be a voracious reader well into his adult life. :)

3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession 804

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 10, 2010 @11:10AM from the step-away-from-the-candy dept.

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."

Comment Hmmm... (Score 1) 114

by ssarasin on Thursday April 01, 2010 @11:06AM (#31700442) Attached to: France Bans Use of 2.0

April fools? (I hope...)

Seinfeld's Good Samaritan Law Now Reality? 735

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 29, 2010 @12:48AM from the not-that-there-is-anything-wrong-with-that dept.

e3m4n writes "The fictitious 'good samaritan' law from the final episode of Seinfeld (the one that landed them in jail for a year) appears to be headed toward reality for California residents after the house passed this bill. There are some differences, such as direct action is not required, but the concept of guilt by association for not doing the right thing is still on the face of the bill."

Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop 1365

Posted by timothy on Monday May 18, 2009 @07:58AM from the choose-your-own-misadventure dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Every now and then a new- or old-media journalist tries to explain to everyone why Linux is not yet ready for the desktop. However all those men who graduated from their engineering universities years ago have only superficial knowledge about operating systems and their inner works. An unknown author from Russia has decided to draw up a list of technical reasons and limitations hampering Linux domination on the desktop." Some of the gripes listed here really resonate with me, having just moved to an early version of Ubuntu 9.10 on my main testing-stuff laptop; it's frustrating especially that while many seemingly more esoteric things work perfectly, sound now works only in part, and even that partial success took some fiddling.

Class Action Initiated Against RIAA 315

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 17, 2007 @01:42PM from the bandwagon-starting-to-roll dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Ever since the RIAA's litigation campaign began in 2003, many people have been suggesting a class action against the RIAA. Tanya Andersen, in Oregon, has taken them up on it. The RIAA's case against this disabled single mother, Atlantic v. Andersen, has received attention in the past, for her counterclaims against the RIAA including claims under Oregon's RICO statute, the RIAA's hounding of her young daughter for a face-to-face deposition, the RIAA's eventual dropping of the case 'with prejudice,' and her lawsuit against the RIAA for malicious prosecution, captioned Andersen v. Atlantic. Now she's turned that lawsuit into a class action. The amended complaint seeking class action status (PDF) sues for negligence, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, federal and state RICO, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespass, invasion of privacy, libel and slander, deceptive business practices, misuse of copyright law, and civil conspiracy."

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