Comment Re:Will we need a Ralph Nader for aircraft? (Score 1) 223
Yeah it's pretty wild.
Comment Re:Will we need a Ralph Nader for aircraft? (Score 4, Informative) 223
Nader's already gotten involved---his grandniece was killed on one of these.
Comment Re:No, take it from the colleges. (Score 2) 1514
My feeling exactly--take it from the schools. Take 5% annually from all the colleges and require them to not up their tuition to make up for it. Tuition costs have far outpaced inflation for years, and the campuses look like resorts not schools. And yup I am the dad of a recent graduate.
Comment Think of the children (Score 1, Insightful) 279
I can't wait til the anti-bullying crowd lobby for something like this wherever their children might be on the internet. Sounds like it is early days though, 20% false positives is pretty darn high.
Submission + - Squadron of lost WWII Spitfires to be exhumed in Burma (foxnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Like a treasure chest stuffed with priceless booty, as many as 20 World War II-era Spitfire planes are perfectly preserved, buried in crates beneath Burma — and after 67 years underground, they're set to be uncovered. The planes were shipped in standard fashion in 1945 from their manufacturer in England to the Far East country: waxed, wrapped in greased paper and tarred to protect against the elements. They were then buried in the crates they were shipped in, rather than let them fall into enemy hands, said David Cundall, an aviation enthusiast who has spent 15 years and about $200,000 in his efforts to reveal the lost planes.
Comment Re:An open source merit badge would be silly (Score 1) 973
Actually, a couple of years ago I just helped my son with the Computers merit badge--it is definitely one of the more information-intensive merit badges and took quite a while to polish off.
I was glad at the time to see that the older version of the merit badge sheet listed articles from www.linuxjournal.com as resources for adult leaders, including an article called "Bit Prepared: A Missing Link?, Building the case for turning the Boy Scouts into a worldwide advocate of free software" http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7533.
Looks like they were on the right road once.
But, when they recently revised the merit badge worksheet, this stuff was left off and new copyright stuff was added from the RIAA, including asking the scout to explain "the restrictions and limitations of downloading music from the Internet."
In a sense, this was good because it let me explain the issue to my son and explain what copyright is, what fair use is, what DRM is, what a rootkit is, and what legal antics have gone on in the name of the poor penniless recording companies. He now understands these issues without all the hype.
As to all the bigotry comments, I don't see it in my son's troop. Mostly it is about having fun and learning to take responsibility for yourself and as you get more mature, learning to take responsibility for and lead a group (a patrol, or a troop)--not bad goals regardless of your ethical or sexual orientation.
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