Monthly Archives: December 2008

Schools: more sexist and more stupid

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This experiment took the top science students of this year and gave them 1965 exams. They all failed miserably, showing the dumbing down of education quite graphically. An interesting side effect was that the girls did worse than the boys did, even though other research puts girls ahead in current exams. This clearly shows something that is quite taboo in today’s society to put into words, but has been shown again and again: current education is built up to favour girls and make boys do badly.

NHS loses patient data

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Yes, these fantastic guys in the UK keep on building huge centralised databases: The NHS has had data of around 10,000 patients compromised in around 135 seperate incidents – last year alone!

In the Netherlands, they’ll be starting a system like this in 2009. Fortunately you can opt out here

If you live in NL, then you might want to remove yourself from the Vecozo database, which lists centralizes all insurance data on people in NL. There is no direct way to remove yourself from this, but you can try the contact page

Linux on the iPhone

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It’s only a matter of time 🙂

What we have:

– Framebuffer driver
– Serial driver
– Serial over USB driver
– Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc.

What we have in openiboot (but hasn’t been ported yet):

– Read-only support for the NAND

What we don’t have (yet!):

– Write support for the NAND
– Wireless networking
– Touchscreen
– Sound
– Accelerometer
– Baseband support