Comment So... not a drive's licence (Score 0) 61
It has nothing to do with driving or any kind of expertise needing a license. It's a digital identity card.
Comment Re:If these cases involved guns.... (Score 2) 189
What if the case involved a home owner?
Someone got killed in a backyard, so the owner of the house has to be the one who's guilty. No trial needed.
Comment Re:Re-position the Planet (Score 1) 265
It can worth almost as much as a paid version of Openoffice. Now that's potential!
Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 851
Did they gave you "Kane Madness"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV2eCTRFJbY
Comment Been there, done that. (Score 2) 202
In Portugal it's mandatory since 2009 to equip new buildings with fiber optic cabling from the front door to each apartment, two fibers for every client, and a telecom cabinet housing equipment ready to be connected to the service provider.
Comment Metric all the way (Score 1) 909
Obligatory Oatmeal reference:
http://theoatmeal.com/pl/senior_year/science
Comment Re:This can't be true! (Score 1) 132
Agreed. This would be unthinkable in Europe, and we're getting a rough time to find jobs interviews, worse than America.
Comment Already happening (Score 2) 155
There is nothing (new) to be afraid of.
Many countries in Europe are already establishing their own citizen's online identification framework for state services. This document only defines the need for all the systems to be inter-operative. Enough with the Big Brother mambo-jambo.
Submission + - Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Stanford University is offering the online world more of its undergraduate level CS courses. These free courses consist of You Tube videos with computer-marked quizzes and programming assignments. The ball had been started rolling by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig's free online version of their Stanford AI class, for which they hoped to reach an audience in the order of a hundred thousand, a target which they seem to have achieved.
As well as the previously announced Machine learning course you can now sign up to any of: Computer Science 101, Software as a Service, Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Game Theory, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Cryptography and Design and Analysis of Algorithms.
Almost a complete computer science course and they are adding more. Introductory videos and details are available from each courses website.
As well as the previously announced Machine learning course you can now sign up to any of: Computer Science 101, Software as a Service, Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Game Theory, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Cryptography and Design and Analysis of Algorithms.
Almost a complete computer science course and they are adding more. Introductory videos and details are available from each courses website.
Submission + - Malls track shoppers' cell phones on Black Friday (cnn.com) 2
antdude writes: "CNNMoney report that "... your cell phone may be tracked this year. Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year's Day, two United States/U.S. malls ... will track guests' movements by monitoring the signals from their cell phones.
While the data that's collected is anonymous, it can follow shoppers' paths from store to store.
The goal is for stores to answer questions ...
While U.S. malls have long tracked how crowds move throughout their stores, this is the first time they've used cell phones.
But obtaining that information comes with privacy concerns..."
Seen on Blue's News."
While the data that's collected is anonymous, it can follow shoppers' paths from store to store.
The goal is for stores to answer questions
While U.S. malls have long tracked how crowds move throughout their stores, this is the first time they've used cell phones.
But obtaining that information comes with privacy concerns..."
Seen on Blue's News."
Comment Re:"fall-back .. to be eventually depreacated" (Score 1) 237
I'm using Xubuntu 11.10 right now after switching from Fedora 15 and I couldn't be happier. Or you could just install the Xfce desktop on Fedora.
Submission + - Schools in Portugal Moving to OSS (publico.pt)
thyristor pt writes: In light of massive national budget cuts, the Portuguese government will force public schools to move to free/open source software . Schools with some 50.000 outdated computers won't see their software licenses renewed, the main reason being the cost of hardware upgrade inherent to mostly Microsoft software updates.
Will the Euro debt crisis be a driving force to the spreading of open source software?
Will the Euro debt crisis be a driving force to the spreading of open source software?
Comment I was OK with the URL on the location bar (Score 1) 181
The URL of the hovered link made sense up there, and the implementation was even better because we could see the end of the URL. Now in beta 12 I can't see if I'm clicking a link to a .exe file or to an html page.... when the link url is long enough.
I wish I could have an option to display it back to the location bar. Besides, the new method doesn't show the url in the status bar. Even if I turn it on it still displays in a little popup in the lower screen.
Comment Re:Banned in the UK already (Score 1) 1049
CFL's can be nasty, but try buying a good decent Phillips CFL. It's costs 10 euros or more.... but it will give you quality light for years. I have a couple of those and they turn on instantly without any flickering or humming. Don't trust your eyes to a 10p bulb.
Alternatively you can buy LED's, more expensive but also with a more natural light.
Comment They should! (Score 1) 804
My classroom usually only has 10 students and all of them have their laptop always on and the teacher is talking alone. No one even looks at the teacher or talks during the wole "class".
You can't build a learning environment like this.
