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Comment Then all the data should be public (Score 2) 258

I'd say go for it... With the following two caveats: Since the city council is claiming you get no privacy on a public street, then all scans should be uploaded immediately to a public facing, searchable web site and No scrubbing of data is allowed. That means, city council, that your plate scans are available for everyone to see (including date/time and place). I'll bet once they discover that anyone can see their car parked outside of Mistress Gretta's Rub N' Tug every day at lunchtime, they may not think it is such a great idea...
But we all know that would never happen 'cuz they are better than us mere mortals...

Comment Re:A first: We should follow Germany's lead (Score 1) 700

I think you've completely missed the important facts. Scientology is still a religion in Germany, but they don't qualify to be state recognized religious organization because they don't do anything to benefit he community. You can be believe Jimmy Buffet is your only ticket to paradise, but he's not gonna get a tax break unless he tells you to give back to the community. Likewise, you can call whatever you want "a company" but it's not going to be a company--and entitled to the benefits therein--unless it gets a business license. You can call yourself a cop all you want, but unless you pass the requirements to become a LEO, you're not a cop. That's the difference. Meanwhile, the other major religions you listed are all giving back to the community in great numbers. So they do qualify to be a state approved religion. So this is an entirely apples to oranges, reasonable contrast between major religions and Scientology. If Scientology wants to get tax breaks all they have to do (GASP) is start giving a shit about people and trying to help them. If that burden is too high for you to become a religion, I don't think I want you anywhere near a legislative job.

Jimmy Buffett can give you a cheeseburger after you get there, but Eddie Money is the only one with the tickets (only two, though...)

Submission + - The X-Files To Return (foxflash.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Fox announced today that The X-Files will return with six new episodes. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will both reprise their roles as Mulder and Scully, repsectively, and show creator Chris Carter will return as well. Production begins this summer, but airdates are not yet known. The X-Files originally started in 1993 and ran for 9 seasons, spawning two feature films and a short-lived spinoff called The Lone Gunmen. It won 16 Emmy awards and 5 Golden Globe awards before critical reception soured over the last few seasons. Carter said, "I think of it as a 13-year commercial break. The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories."

Comment Re:The other side of the story (Score 1) 292

The FAA nor the FCC has ever proven conclusively that consumer grade GPS, phones, PDAs, tablets, laptop, etc. have ever interfered with flight systems. As a matter of fact, the Air Force recently awarded a contract to procure iPads to replace paper flight manuals for the Air Mobility Command. These iPads will be used in the cockpit, mere inches from these same flight systems, so somehow I doubt that my smartphone that is many feet from the cockpit will interfere with the instruments. And before you go there, I know that much of the wiring going to and from the sensors, instruments, and flight controls run down the fuselage, in some cases, just a few inches from the passenger's seats, but that wiring is shielded and sometimes in its own conduit.

Comment Team Foundation Server (TFS) (Score 1) 200

We used to use spreadsheets and the like, then we tried CaliberRM for a year or so, but now it appears that we settled on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server. We have several teams around the world and are finding TFS to be very useful in keeping track of requirements, test cases, strategy documents, etc. We also use Rally for our development tracking. Good luck!
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Submission + - Big Brother in the school cafeteria? (foxnews.com)

AustinSlacker writes: An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria — prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of "Big Brother." An over reaction by parents or an unnecessary invasion of privacy? Discuss...

Comment Re:well... (Score 1) 428

One more thing...
I was working full time while I went to UoP. It was hard and there were some times that I though about quitting, but luckily, my family was very supportive and I made it through. BTW, my final GPA was 3.90. So it can be done...

Comment Re:well... (Score 1) 428

Sorry you had such a bad experience with UoP. I too, went to UoP, but I have a completely different take on the experience. Yes, the pace is fast, but they are compressing a normal semester's worth of material into 5 weeks. Did you honestly think that going to school full time and working full time that you were going to have time for much else?
As to the instructors, more than 50% of mine held PhD(s) in their relevant subject area, hell, one of my math teachers was a double PhD from the former Soviet equivalent of our MIT, and work in their space program. So yes, he was a rocket scientist. All in all, I only had one instructor in my 3 years that I had a major complaint about and evidently, others also had complaints, because he was not there very long.
Anyway, as to the learning teams, because of the variety of scholastic backgrounds that people have, you will have folks that are not up to par and that presents some challenges. You chose to be the final editor out of fear of a bad grade. On my learning teams, each person was delegated that duty in turn and we only had one problem in a critical thinking class. In that case, we talked to the person and got nowhere, so we elevated to the instructor. In the end, we each turned in our section of the paper individually and were graded on our individual contributions. We all received fair grades and the problem child received a failure for his part. Because we were all mostly on the same schedule, many of us had the same classes and ended up being on the same learning teams. We were all mostly successful in our classes because of this.
I have been in the computer industry for many years, and yes there were some classes that I could have taught, but rather than getting an attitude, I aced them and improved my GPA. I don't know what degree program you were in, but in my Computer Science\Information Systems degree, I NEVER had 900 pages of reading EVERY week, that seems like an unusually high load and maybe you should have voiced your concerns to the administrative staff. So, like anything, there will be good experiences and bad experiences and I am sorry that you had such a bad experience, but not all UoP campuses are like yours.

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