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Comment Re:Sorry, but we education spending has increased (Score 1) 496

by ekidder on Monday July 25, 2011 @01:58PM (#36873404) Attached to: Gates: Not Much To Show For $5B Spent On Education

Quite a few are going to hide behind their union (and the union is going to help those who are innocent - which apparently is most of them). All of it comes down to the same thing, the school systems cater to the teachers and administrators. They are not accountable to students or parents. Those are somewhere on the list below the copiers I think.

Georgia doesn't have an teachers' union. It has several professional organizations, but none of them have bargaining power. The teacher contracts are almost completely the product of the government and administration. And some of them are pretty farked up. As I'm in the metro, I've been following the APS stuff since the AJC broke it a few years ago. The commentary I've seen in the AJC about the resignations is that the teachers are going to take the district to court for protection, likely to discourage APS from spending the money on court cases.

/lives in Gwinnett County (Parkview school district)
//wife is a former teacher
///dear god, slashdot comment system is awful

Comment Re:C & C glitches (Score 1) 282

by ekidder on Monday April 06, 2009 @01:35PM (#27478399) Attached to: Strange Glitches In Games

C&C 1 was filled of all kinds of neat glitches.

I remember that when selling filled tiberium silo, you'd get money for the tiberium inside in addition to the building, so you'd essentially get double the money for all of the tiberium you collected. And you could use sandbags to connect your buildings and the computer wouldn't attack them, so I'd run a line of sandbags to their base and build advanced guard towers right in the middle of it.

Comment Re:Why does this "break" anything? (Score 2, Informative) 264

by ekidder on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @11:45AM (#26902391) Attached to: Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl

Well, 1.3 would be going backwards. 22 > 3 after all. Perl module versions can be a bit confusing. You'll find there are a lot of modules that break older versions.

Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs? 301

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 05, 2009 @12:36PM from the sure-why-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Twitter's been hit by a big phishing scam. Culture Crash blogger Dan Tynan says this is the end of Twitter's innocence. Will tweets become like email, with two out of every three just worthless spam?"

Comment Re:Coming soon... (Score 2, Interesting) 213

by ekidder on Monday December 29, 2008 @02:10PM (#26259805) Attached to: Storm Causes AT&T Outage Across Midwest

I worked during the last strike. I was doing repair line duty. And then we had those massive storms in the midwest and my life was very miserable for four days. It was really really depressing talking to all of those people.

China Defines Internet Addiction 201

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 10, 2008 @05:45PM from the one-more-addiction-to-the-list dept.

narramissic writes "Three years after the first clinic dedicated to Internet addiction opened in Beijing, Chinese doctors have now officially defined it as an ailment. Those afflicted with this ailment spend six or more hours a day online and exhibit at least one of the following symptoms: difficulty sleeping or concentrating, yearning to be online, irritation, and mental or physical distress. Do you meet the criteria? You're in good company: About 10 percent of China's 253 million Internet users exhibit some form of addiction to the medium, and 70 percent of those people are young men, an official Xinhua News Agency report said."

Comment VBA for Outlook (Score 1) 156

by ekidder on Tuesday July 19, 2005 @09:55PM (#13109835) Attached to: Play Random Sounds for E-Mail Notifications?

One way is to use VBA. I don't have much experience with it. All I've ever done is make a quick thing that would page me when the 15-minute notification for meetings came up. If you go to Tools -> Macros -> Visual Basic Editor, the help file in that is very useful, specifically the information on the NewMail event. It won't explain exactly how to do it (and I don't know enougrh to explain how here), but it should go a long way to helping out.

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