RobinH - Slashdot User

Submission + - FIRST Robotics Competition Suspends Season, Cancels Championships

Submitted by RobinH on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:57PM

RobinH writes: The FIRST organization suspended their season and cancelled both world championships today amid concern about the COVID-19 pandemic. In the FIRST Robotics Competition, high school teams with the assistance of adult mentors design and build a 125 pound (~57 kg) robot in about 8 weeks and compete it in regional competitions to earn points allowing them to compete in district and eventually world championships. It's common for teams to spend 3 or more late nights a week and all weekend building their robot during the "build season" so teams are understandably disappointed. A few were able to compete in week 1 and week 2 events, but many weren't able to compete at all. It's still unclear if the regional events will be rescheduled.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Should I fight against online voting in our municipality?

Submitted by RobinH on Thursday July 31, 2014 @10:52PM

RobinH writes: Our small-ish municipality (between 10,000 to 15,000 in population) has recently decided to switch to online voting. I should note that they were previously doing voting-by-mail. I have significant reservations about online voting, particularly the possibility of vote-selling and the general lack of voter secrecy, not to mention the possible lack of computer security. However, it's only a municipal election, and apparently a lot of municipalities around here are already doing online voting. I'm not sure if the rank and file citizens care, or if they would listen to my concerns. Should I bother speaking up, or should I ignore it since municipal elections are not that important anyway?

Submission + - StackOverflow For Any Topic (stackexchange.com)

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RobinH

on Sunday September 27, 2009 @04:14PM

RobinH writes: "The successful question and answer website for programmers, StackOverflow, is now over a year old, and the top user, Jon Skeet has just passed 100,000 reputation points. Now it looks like one of the creators of StackOverflow, Joel Spolsky, and his company Fog Creek, are developing a software as a service form of the StackOverflow engine called StackExchange to support any topic you want. The software is currently in private beta, but the first of the beta sites have surfaced. Topics include Business Travel, the Home, Parenthood, the Environment, Finance, and iPhone Game Development."

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