UK to give schoolkids programming lessons instead of Excel

An excellent plan to make the future generations more than just users of software, but makers of software is being launched in the UK, where schoolkids will make 2D animations, program smartphone apps, etc. Sounds like they’ll have a lot more fun than they do now as well as learning something very very useful. Kids Read more about UK to give schoolkids programming lessons instead of Excel[…]

NL courts rule ISP’s are content filters – great firewall of NL coming up?

Ziggo and XS4ALL, two ISP’s in NL, have been forced by the courts to dissallow users to get to the pirate bay. Of course, users will still be able to get there using VPNs so it’s not very effective, but more worrying is that the Dutch courts seem to think that not only do they Read more about NL courts rule ISP’s are content filters – great firewall of NL coming up?[…]