My new Ford Maverick collects driving habit and information to be used to "help" them in the maintenance of the truck. After the news about GM sending that info to insurance companies I was worried they would do the same. They do, but in the menus of the truck you can disable that information from being shared with insurance (not the default) and supposedly other parties. I wanted the truck, so I will have to trust that are honoring my settings not to share. Do I trust them? Not really.

REDEEMED!

I recently dug out my Calculus and Linear Algebra books out for my 16 year old who is just starting Calculus this semester with hopes of doing well enough to take Linear Algebra in a year. I looked over the books before I gave them to him and I realize that other than moral support I will be of no help to him in any of his future math. The difference with my experience is an additional 19 years of math memory loss. Glad to have a son who is academically much smarter than the old man, we just need to work on the common sense part of it all.

Sounds like me, though I am down a tooth. :) One thing you left off your list of resources was codeproject. I guess it is a given though because we are all here, aren't we?

Perhaps you might take this as an opportunity to develop a translation tool and either use a computer language you already love or one that you have been wanting to learn.

You are not 50, you are only 0x32 years old.

Back in the mid 80's I had a professor that checked for cheating by running the student's programs through lexical analyzer that he wrote. Everything that was left after white space and comments would be considered a token. He would then compare the number of tokens and which ones were used. Any close matches in these numbers warranted a closer look and usually proved that a couple students were sharing code. The last two classes I had with this guy was “Compiler Design” and that is where he revealed how he did this while teaching us to write the front end of our own compilers.