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U.S. threatens to take $3.52 billion from California schools in testing dispute Reinforcing its threat to punish California for dumping its old standardized state tests next spring, the U.S. Department of Education said that decision could cost the state at least $3.5 billion. The state could lose $15 million it receives to administer a federal…

Federal complaint spurs change for non-English speakers in Oakland schools OAKLAND — A Vietnamese-speaking parent whose high school-age son was suspended, expelled and denied evaluation for special education because his school didn’t provide adequate interpretation or translation services has won new rules requiring the services as part of a civil-rights complaint brought in 2009. Without…

San Francisco Sues To Block City College Accreditation Sanctions San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the agency that certifies two-year colleges in the western U.S. from revoking the accreditation of City College of San Francisco. In March, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges pulled the accreditation…

The following IP addresses are all from people who tried attacking my computer via SSH. My server has only been up for a couple months but look at how many intrustion attempts there are. I run a utility called DenyHosts which detects the intrusion attempts and bans them. sshd: 85.17.121.231 sshd: 195.88.62.132 sshd: 183.62.57.77 sshd:…

War is closer to erupting between Japan and China.

A new groudbreaking study has come out which shows that there is some kind of cellular memory effect of taking performance-enhancing steriods. This effect was shown to last for a significant time in mice, equivalent to what would be a span of a decade or more in humans. Currently those who are caught taking steriods…

This surveillance leaking has been going on for a long time now. I partly disagree with some of the way its being done. It is being deliberately trickled out to the media and I don’t think that that is necessarily a responsible form of actual whistleblowing. It makes it difficult to get the whole picture…

The Panasonic ES2262A Body Effects™ Wet/Dry Body Trimmer and Shaver is by far the best for shaving the penis and scrotum. The Philips Bodygroom BG2040 is a good shaver for around the genital area but for shaving the actual penis and scrotum the Panasonic above gives the smoothest shave and I personally have never been…

Safely dispose of unused prescription drugs at a local drop-off point this coming Saturday: October 26, 2013 – 10AM to 2PM The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications. usdoj.gov:…

Here’s a really cool, very simple command that will list the IP addresses of all devices on your network. In a console window run: arp -a On Linux that would normally have to be run as the root user, so a regular user could do: sudo arp -a