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Day 723 Educational Material for Children

An educational Program for Kids: either TV, Movie, Video, or computer program or both. Covering EVERYTHING: Do you want to learn about Electrical Engineering Click here! What is Electricity? Voltage? How to build a generator? What are the parts? Where does energy come from? How does the human body work? What are calories? What is the nature of everything? How does an engine work? How does insulation work? What is heat? How do the muscles of the body work? How does memory work? How does air work? How does X-ray works? How do microwave works? How does color work? How does the brain work? How does the sun work? How do plants work? how does water work? How does uranium work? How does cooking work? How does flavor work? How to make the best tasting foods work? What is fat? How come in schools its not mandatory to learn about Everything how the World works, and how things exist? Especially that which is right here, and immediate in our lives.

Voting with Open-source Computer Programs

Every computer program has a source code. The source code is the instructions and building blocks of the computer program. A computer program (including its source code) that is open-source means that anyone can freely use it, so everyone is like the owner of it. The advantages of open-source include that no one can keep the source code secret, hidden or sell the code. This can be particularly useful to prevent manipulation or lying, since the source code is openly exposed. For example, when people vote using computers, the votes can be manipulated. One way to check for manipulation is to look at the source code. If the source code is private then you can be denied permission to see the source code. However if the source code is open source, then any person at any time anywhere is able to check the source code to look for any manipulation of the votes. Not only that, but people can actually contribute to make the code cleaner, organized, faster and simpler. For example, if you ha...