You know. I can read the arrogance in your statement, and I think that's exactly how the school would respond, with exactly that tone. I think that was your point.
It's terrible that we would respond in such a way, rather than fixing our ways and feeding children a healthy lunch when they get the assisted lunch plan (this is often given to kids that honestly cannot afford other food, and may be their only real meal of the day).
You nailed it. Of course all usual caveats apply. I won't be surprised to find a few excellent schools out there; but, I expect them to be the exception, not the rule. Education in this country is a national disgrace. Have kids? Get yourself on the local school board.
The case for a progressive tax scheme is that it, may reduce one incentive for the most financially successful monkeys to plunder the less financially successful monkeys, including those monkeys who may be just as smart; but, maybe got started later.
To those of you who are pretending that you've done it all on your own without nobody's help and get your hands off of mine it's all mine mine mine! You're deluding yourself.
I can understand why TED don't want to touch his talk. It would be interesting to note how consistent TED are in this respect.
RMS: The only way I could justify this is if I began developing a free replacement for that very program. It is ok to use a nonfree program for the purpose of developing its free replacement.
Developing a free replacement software for a pacemaker is kinda pointless without the ability for the consumer to reprogram it.
Whilst Richard Stallman and his GPLv3 would like it to be so, you're correct that this isn't the point. It's not supposed to be reprogrammable by the consumer, but the consumer should be able to know what code is running on it.
"Am I reading this correctly that then these 20 people have their info in the public record after this trial closes?"
Allow me to venture a guess. At some time in the future the county will auction off its surplus assets (old computers). The computer with hard drive, data & all else will be sold to the highest/only bidder for about three bucks.
It is also possible that the county has data retention/destruction policy, in which case the county commissioner's brother-in-law will be paid on a contract basis to have his children / some migrant workers remove the drives and feed them into a tree shredder, and then sell the bits for scrap.
Adafruit, Sparkfun, Pololu, Seeed Studios, Leaf Labs
Also see Mouser, Digikey, Allied, et al
http://leaflabs.com/distributors/
Radio Shack carries Arduino now, some do anyway.
My personal favorite is Adafruit because this one time, I whined to her about her webform not accepting my name+spamtagger@emailaddress.com and she fixed it and wrote me back in like five minutes, no joke. I do not know her personally and that was the first time I had ordered anything from her.
tl;dr Limor Fried is a bad ass, buy things from her store.
2. Do you really want to try and optimize for cost on sub 30 dollar items in quantities of approximately 1?
3. ADH8066 GSM Modules are approximately fifty bucks. Serial port, AT commands, etc. Who knows where you can get a data carrier for reasonable cost in this country.
