steveking - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Nice idea but... (Score 1) 273

by steveking on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @03:31PM (#38666508) Attached to: British Schoolchildren To Get Programming Lessons

It has in some schools; I teach at a state school in England. My GCSE computing class are about to have to do have to figure out how to do divide and multiplication in the Little Man Computer, and my A level courseworks are all either php/mysql or python/mysql based projects. I have been teaching Scratch to 11 year olds for a few years (Gove's master plan is that we should be doing that... er, I already am), and my year 9 (13/14year olds) can do basic Python programming.
Just don't ask me about my ICT exam classes, they are dull as dishwater.

Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act 212

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 04, 2011 @08:36PM from the clean-up-your-act dept.

Freddybear writes "Along with 90 (and still counting) other Internet law and IP law professors, David Post of the Volokh Conspiracy law blog has drafted and signed a letter in opposition to Senator Leahy's 'PROTECT IP Act.' Quoting: 'The Act would allow the government to break the Internet addressing system. It requires Internet service providers, and operators of Internet name servers, to refuse to recognize Internet domains that a court considers "dedicated to infringing activities." But rather than wait until a Web site is actually judged infringing before imposing the equivalent of an Internet death penalty, the Act would allow courts to order any Internet service provider to stop recognizing the site even on a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction issued the same day the complaint is filed. Courts could issue such an order even if the owner of that domain name was never given notice that a case against it had been filed at all.'"

Digg In the Future 54

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 26, 2010 @03:29AM from the I-thought-there-would-be-more-sparkles dept.

jamie writes "A new site called Digg In The Future - created by 17-year-old high-school student Raj Vir as a research project - says that its algorithm can predict with 63-percent accuracy what shared links are going to make it to the front page of the Digg website. (Does it allow for brigades?)"

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