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Apps, Tablet PC devices, etc. are not for five-year-olds. They should be playing with real kids on real playgrounds instead of being dumbed down and consumerized from the ground up. There's been an interesting, serious report on German TV a few months ago that outlined the reasons why it's not a good idea for children's mental development to let them interact with all these gadgets.
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I regret that I have but one upvote for you.
TTFN - Kent
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Exactly right, our youth seems to be pulling away from physical social interaction and that's a shame.
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"Be smart and make all purchases require a password."
That's exactly the problem here, having purchased an app there's a half-hour window where any further purchases go through automatically. That's bad design on Google's part, hence they're being sued. All seems fair to me.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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My kid bought $20 on his Kindle, then went on to buy $100 more because he thought it was play money. That's when I enabled security and now require a password for in-app and any purchases.
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Hm... Don't know about security features on "smart phones" as I do not use them. But I know that also many computer-literate people use ONE single account (which is then an administrative one!) on their computers for all members of their family, including their pre-school kids. With passwords stored on the computer for convenience, shopping is such easy, that 30 minutes window mentioned in the article is not required either...
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We've just announced Google Docs and Sheets add-ons — new tools created by developers like you that give Google users even more features in their documents and spreadsheets. Joining the launch are more than 60 add-ons that partners have built using Apps Script. Now, we're opening up the platform in a developer-preview phase. If you have a cool idea for Docs and Sheets users, we'd love to publish your code in the add-on store and get it in front of millions of users. Relive those heady days of VBA programming
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Demand for technical workers lures B.S. candidates in CompSci. Sharpen up your quicksort code, there's about to be a lot of requests for it
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In another news, the number of CSci graduates who are able to solve the FizzBuzz problem dropped by 30%.
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Codementor ought to do well then! 
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Redmond joins Facebook's Open Compute, intends to make servers more efficient.
Together, maybe they can bring servers into the 20th 21st century...
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The code and software interfaces you see in movies and TV shows as just a prop are more complicated—and more fun to make—than they seem.
Looks like Hollywood is starting to care whether the dummy code they throw onscreen actually makes sense.
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I don't appreciate the connotation, Richard.
The story you linked to was originally posted in The Lounge, which I apologized for then as I hadn't been aware of that. This is a separate and far more in-depth story I came across on SD Times that delves into a topic I think is pretty interesting and I haven't seen anyone else continuing to cover. Yes, I read and post stories from SD Times, as I do from many other publications I enjoy and find informative.
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I think you're reading more into Richard's comment than he intended.
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At Pete said, you're reading too much into it.
If you've spent any time in the Lounge, you'll realise that "Leslie Nielsen" is CodeProject for "this (or something very much like this) has been posted before". Not in an angry, "how dare you repost this" sort-of way, but more in a friendly, joking, "hey, why haven't you read and memorized all seventeen squillion posts on this site yet?" sort-of way.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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...It's possible I may have overreacted a bit. 
I'll file away that Lounge lingo...and don't call me Shirley.
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A sneak peek at the annual Computing Research Association's (CRA) report on computer science enrollments at colleges shows that strong demand for technically-savvy workers is luring students in a big way.
After all the hubbub around Hour of Code and the cries for more STEM education, who woulda thunk it.
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Codementor, an open marketplace for one-on-one programming help, is now open to the public after finishing a three-month stint at TechStars Seattle. The site connects users with experts in a wide range of programming languages for situations ranging from emergency debugging to more in-depth tutoring. "If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path, you will become an agent of evil."
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Lazy?, want to get by with the least effort?, join thousands now!
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Is it really worth paying for a service you good get for free on StackOverflow and put in the legwork to actually learn how to do it? Seems like taking the easy way out (that you have to pay for.)
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As BlackBerry fades out, Microsoft's phone is the choice of enterprises to replace it. I knew IBM was slow to change, but you'd have thought a few of them might have heard that they weren't BFF with Microsoft anymore
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In with the new boss, same as the old boss
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I knew IBM was slow to change, but you'd have thought a few of them might have heard that they weren't BFF with Microsoft anymore
Error: Snark-Content Mismatch.
The article is about what IBM saw when they surveyed Corporate IT PHBs about what platform they wished their serfs were using; not what IBM thinks companies should do. In particular the last para of the article:
Quote: The big question now is whether IBM will take up the flag for WP. It has no dog in this fight since it does not sell handsets. IBM is, for all intents and purposes, a services and software company. Hardware sales are now in the single-digits with the x86 server divestiture. Microsoft couldn't ask for a better ally. A seriously ironic one, given their histories, but a major ally none the less.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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