"Facebook has to allow people to access their relationships however they want through other businesses or tools that are not controlled by Facebook," Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, said. "Having them control and mediate the structure of those relationships -- that's not right."

Why and why? If we're going to decry the existence of monocultures, the agriculture industry is a much better place to look first. There are serious potential consequences to limiting bio-diversity unlike the consequences to limiting diversity in playgrounds.

I can't tell if it works or not. The first question you have to ask is, "What's it supposed to do?"

I lost my key once when I was a student and called the campus police. They sent someone out the same day to cut through the lock.

It's not quite that simple. I've been teaching math for years and I see this happen all the time with classes that use products like MyMathLab. Students use all of the "help" tools, get the right result and think they know what they're doing. In reality, they didn't solve the problem - the computer did. Many of the students who do this stumble badly when they're presented with a problem that they have to solve without any support. That sounds like what's happening here. There's a very big cliff between drag and drop and looking at a blank page.

If the software is only accessing publicly available information as advertised then what specific laws do you think are being broken?

If this were a high school class, you'd have a point. In an elementary school class, I'd say it's more about teaching them basics skills and concepts.

The efficient use of limited funding. How big a tax increase would you be willing to support to fully fund their operation?

The summary makes the naive assumption that a financial accounting is the only way to evaluate the benefits of the transaction. If Sterling didn't want to sell the team and give up the profits and benefits of ownership then the sale could be a net loss for him even if he turns a profit on the sale. This position is particularly surprising given that the summary identifies the players as losers even though I don't believe they're going to suffer any financial loss form the transaction.

References, please? When my business students make an assertion like that it negatively impacts their grade. There's no denying that there have been multiple, high profile cases of corruption and greed in the news but a handful of cases can't be taken as an indictment of the entire system.

You may be a great researcher but can you teach worth a damn? One doesn't automatically imply the other. I've had plenty of professors who were well respected in their fields but had no business being in a classroom. I can see how being a good researcher could be beneficial to teaching but it shouldn't be the end of the conversation in a University job interview.

My biggest issue with Amazon is delivery. It seems like most of the time when I need something, I need it now. For example, the other day I broke the microphone/headset that I use to record video presentations and make Skype calls with my students. I drove down to Best Buy, picked one off the shelf and was back home at work in less than an hour. Waiting two or three days for Amazon to get it to my door really wasn't an option.

I'll admit up front that I haven't read the article but, based just on,

"'involves a graphical user interface on a computer that includes a graphic of an athletic playing field or a portion thereof, and a plurality of player positions on the athletic field. At least some of the player positions contain thumbnail images selected by a first user."

isn't this Madden NFL?

I think we can be pretty confident that he won't be posting the security camera video on YouTube. I don't think you can say the same for video taken by patrons.

I'm a college professor, and my students seem to follow a relatively normal distribution. I have a few who can write well, a few who would have a hard time making a grocery list and a large majority that do okay. The ones who do poorly often do very *very* poorly and I think their relative impact may cause outside observers to overstate the situation. I've also noticed that, predictably, full length papers tend to be more problematic than individual discussion posts. Students who do okay in the discussion often start to go down hill when they have to put together a multi-page argument.

I would be very reluctant to use almost any kind of technology at the elementary school level. In my experience, computers are a great tool for expressing your imagination but they're not so great for helping to develop one which is what students should be doing at that age.