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Lorna and her classmates, who range in age from 4 to 7, are taking part in a pilot study here at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, to see how young children respond to ScratchJr, a spin-off of the Scratch programming language. Scratch was invented to teach students as young as 8 how to program using graphical blocks instead of text. Now even children who haven't yet learned to read or write are getting in on the act. They also have strong feelings about variable naming, indentation and yummy snacks.
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I saw the title and I thought to myself, "the same kindergarten coders whose code with which I am struggling are still around...????"
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Here’s AnandTech’s reported price list of the Xeon E5-2600 V2 CPUs that the new Mac Pro will use. What’s interesting about the high-end models is that Intel is clearly hitting huge thermal-efficiency walls. As the number of cores goes up, the highest clock speed goes down to keep within a usable TDP. But it's so pretty it must be better, right?
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Customers of Silent Circle’s encrypted mail service got an unfortunate surprise on Friday: all their messages had been deleted. The management of Silent Circle, an encryption firm that specializes in smartphone communication, abruptly shut down their e-mail service yesterday, saying they were pre-empting the U.S. government from forcing them to hand over customer data. While they were confident they could protect text messages, voice calls and video calls, e-mail had always been less secure because it relied on standard Internet protocols. Silent Circle’s mail server was in Canada. Think about that for a minute...
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I forget who, if I saw his name I would recall it immediately (CP'er). There was a rant going on about "internet control" and he made some comment I found offensive. After watching the last few years, I sincerely apologize. He basically made the comment that there were some people in the world that had reservations about the US controlling the internet....
This is so in your face that it defies comprehension...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You'll love this: Jennifer Hoelzer's Insider's View Of The Administration's Response To NSA Surveillance Leaks[^]
Jennifer Hoelzer is "former deputy chief of staff for Ron Wyden," the same Senator Wyden who's been saying stuff like this for a few years now:
Quote: As members of the Senate Intelligence Committee we have been provided with the executive branch's classified interpretation of those provisions and can tell you that we believe there is a significant discrepancy between what most people -- including many Members of Congress -- think the Patriot Act allows the government to do and what government officials secretly believe the Patriot Act allows them to do.
Whatever you think of the policies in play, the sausage making is fascinating to watch.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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While it has become de rigueur to ascribe all sorts of supernatural powers to Big Data, one of the world's most celebrated statisticians, Nate Silver, is far more circumspect about it. If anything, according to Silver in his book The Signal and the Noise, Big Data carries the potential to cloud our decisions by introducing far more noise than it does signal. It's an interesting position for someone who makes a living predicting the future, and one that directly counters other expert opinion. Got a big data problem? Gather more data... now you've got terabytes of problems.
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IBM on Thursday announced a new computer programming framework that draws inspiration from the way the human brain receives data, processes it, and instructs the body to act upon it while requiring relatively tiny amounts of energy to do so. Unfortunately, they can't get the new computer to stop watching reality TV
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Hello, Dave.[^]
(and geez, it amazes me how much money the gov't via us taxpayers throws at things like this. Seriously, does it really take $53 million???)
Marc
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With it being IBM, I should have made that connection.
Well, couldn't you do it for $53 million? Expenses always rise to meet the budget, don't they?
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TTFN - Kent
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Want to do your own space experiment? From next week, you will be able to run science projects on the world's first open-source satellites. And it won't break the bank. You too could be a rocket scientist
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YouTube lets you get your retro game on with a fun Easter egg that anyone can do. Here's how to play. Roll of quarters not required
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Here's my own Q&A about Azure Websites and Pricing. Folks are always emailing me with confusion so I'm writing it up. How much silver does it take to line that cloud?
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Bill Gates has questioned whether Google's Project Loon, an effort to bring giant internet-giving balloons to less-developed countries, is really that good of an idea. What if they give them a ride in the balloons?
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Give them a ride on a balloon to the US.
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By the time Java 8 comes out, it'll be another two to five years behind .Net -- and Microsoft's coordinated front That's some fine linkbait you've got there
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We can not forget that the roots of .NET are still in Java.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
BRAINWAVE/1.0
Status-Code: 404
Status-Text: The requested brain could not be found. It may have been deleted or never installed. --Brisingr Aerowing
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That's a reason for them to be leading, not falling behind.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
BRAINWAVE/1.0
Status-Code: 404
Status-Text: The requested brain could not be found. It may have been deleted or never installed. --Brisingr Aerowing
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Agreed, but one horse ran, the other stumbled.
A lot.
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TTFN - Kent
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The one who run will win
Ranjan.D
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Agree with you. However .NET is a running horse , there's a lot Java has to learn from it.
Ranjan.D
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In this gallery we present to you the silliest of the silly scientific theories, some of which you’ll no doubt recognize because for whatever reason people refuse to give up on them. So remember, there are no dumb theories, just dumb reasons to keep believing in long-discredited theories. There are no stupid ideas (only stupid people)
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A Microsoft Research effort called 'Cloud Build' spawned work to increase cloud-based software and services development inside the company. Mmmm. That's tasty dogfood
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