An enterprising hacker might a) seek out and duplicate the keys of other customers' installations and/or b) put in zillions of keys to be invalidated all at once, until all possible combos have been covered.
a) is nearly infinitely easier and more immediately devastating. Lots of high profile customers become enraged.
"My major is transitioning to new fields, particularly bioengineering"
Biotech is already moving offshore, even research work is moving offshore. Nanotech is the perfect example of infinite production capacity with a minimal human workforce. Most work in that field will be temporary - as in constructing the facilities.
I support a no compromise policy on the 2nd Amendment, PARTICULARLY because of things like Ruby Ridge. Those ATF agents should have been tried and executed for the murder of that unarmed woman.
The Government HAS to be kept in check by an armed citizenry that follows the rule of the four boxes: soap box, jury box, ballot box, and finally, if necessary, the ammo box.
A big goateed Texas punk, in Plano, who ran and hid behind a Waffle House after I tracked him down all the way from California. I was obsessed enough to take 3 months to find him.
He was too embarrassed to call the cops and have everyone find out he got the h to the e to the double hockey sticks kicked out of him by a California blue stater.
He went and spammed again but this time some Russian teen rape spam came through his conduit. You can imagine what happened next, sadly I wasn't there to see it.
In America, kids rebel too much. In 3rd world countries, they just as often get killed for rebelling, even as adults, and they immigrate here to experience individual freedoms.
I'd like to see evidence that "Very rarely is the teacher at fault, I can easily say based on reports I see via NEA and NJEA newsletters nearly half the time the teacher is punished despite 9/10 times the student provoking the teacher."
I'll agree that death threats and violence by students upon teachers are on the rise compared to 50 years ago. But that's a direct reverse from 50 years ago when violence by teachers AND parents upon students were the accepted norm. The only difference between yester year and modern times is the direction of the violence.
I'll also agree that we punish kids too lightly, and that counseling is not always the best solution. But we need to find a middle ground - we certainly cannot go back to the day when kids got the hell beat out of them (remember, folks, violence only begets violence), and we can't have the ultra permissive situation we have today. Kids need to be treated with respect and taught that it goes both ways.
That having been said, banning student cameras won't stop the abuse that they're sometimes used to record. There's no LEGITIMATE reason to deny students that freedom because of a few abusers... that is, unless you desire them not to be in competition with the Government, which is moving toward monitoring everyone 24/7 (currently even moreso in the UK than the US).
Pranks like this get caught and lead to kids being punished, but whenever a teacher loses control, that damages their credibility and that of the school's. In this case, both the teacher and students need to be suspended; and they all need counseling. The kids need to be taught not to play pranks and the teacher needs to learn how to maintain control.
We need those student cameras in place in case teachers start shit with the students (i.e., beatings, molestation, etc).
Banning student cameras in this case is like banning cars because someone went on a rampage across a playground.
"Why get rid of cubicles? It's worked so far and the programmers in India don't complain about it. If you don't like it then I can have 500 resumes for your replacement in an hour. Get back to work!"
I believe there are aliens. The alternative is that the best the universe has to offer is Britney Spears & Country music. If that's the case then by all means bring on the asteroid...
b) Atheists running the Government are just as capable of creating personality cults as Fundies or Muzzies or (put your designated target religion here).
c) Atheists have the same level of arrogance and bigotry as everyone else. Enlightenment inevitably leads to self righteousness and arrogance. Atheist rants about how evil (put your designated target religion here) is, makes them no better than anyone else; like everyone else, they're only tolerable in a country where they're countered by a lot of opposing opinions and, of course, by an active democracy. There's no way in hell I want to be locked in a room with all Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, or Atheists. You're all crazy when running in packs. Except maybe Pagans, they just sex ya to death. (And boy howdy, I can imagine far worse ways to go.)
d) Atheism is as much a denial of human nature as any other religion, and atheism is certainly a faith (faith that there is no God), and in many cases also a religion (organized or semi-organized, such as Secular Humanism).
Whenever you hear someone saying "we need an Atheist leader" or "we need a Christian leader", etc., think of this phrase: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". Seeing as atheism is just more of the same, frankly speaking I think I'll remain a nondenominational Christian with lots of pagan friends and a strong distrust for Christian "leadership", and stick to my old rule: never trust a person who says there is no God, nor one who claims to speak for one.
We don't need any of the above. We need a stronger and more participative democracy.
Democracy frees people, not capitalism, not religion, and not atheism (since they're so bent upon calling themselves a non-religion).
People talk all day long about American IT workers "adapting to the market" and "creating more value" than their counterparts create overseas, but there's nothing in the universe that an American IT worker can do that someone else overseas can't do, for cheaper.
There is no adaptation that a US IT worker can aspire to, that can't be matched or exceeded or even pre-emptively achieved by workers elsewhere. Not even one.
That's exactly why Toyota, Nissan and Honda are eating the US auto industry alive: we offshored our technology to them and now they're using it against us after having turned the proverbial transistor into the transistor radio except this time in a much bigger way.
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an option to include the hand holding, and a reward system that encourages avoiding that option.
Perfect scalability.
Or they will run out of keys to revoke.
An enterprising hacker might
a) seek out and duplicate the keys of other customers' installations
and/or
b) put in zillions of keys to be invalidated all at once, until all possible combos have been covered.
a) is nearly infinitely easier and more immediately devastating. Lots of high profile customers become enraged.
b) will make Vista completely unusable.
in India, where the FBI has no jurisdiction and said programmer/designer can be bribed for pennies on the US dollar.
"My major is transitioning to new fields, particularly bioengineering"
Biotech is already moving offshore, even research work is moving offshore. Nanotech is the perfect example of infinite production capacity with a minimal human workforce. Most work in that field will be temporary - as in constructing the facilities.
So much for my $200 calculator.
"Hydrogen conversion has its own inefficiency,"
Unlike, of course, gasoline-powered engines.
(satire off)
and the sites all shut down and we go back to reading and writing books and using our own imagina-
WTF IS HOMELAND SECURITY DOING AT MY DOOR!!111!#2!!@@!33!!
Java makes OpenOffice incredibly slow.
These Nazis cost themselves Congress; now they're going to cost themselves the rest of the country! LOL!
Some other jerk ass big wig brokerage whipped my boss's company for the right to do their stock plans. Argh. :(
We might be 100-1000 years ahead of ourselves technologically by now...
*looks outside* Darn, still no flying cars!
Allow me to say AMEN to your post.
I support a no compromise policy on the 2nd Amendment, PARTICULARLY because of things like Ruby Ridge. Those ATF agents should have been tried and executed for the murder of that unarmed woman.
The Government HAS to be kept in check by an armed citizenry that follows the rule of the four boxes: soap box, jury box, ballot box, and finally, if necessary, the ammo box.
[Sylvester Stallone voice]
"I am the law!"
But EA is hit and miss when it comes to quality.
Your deadline for getting that law signed, passed on November the 7th.
*writes letter to Congresswoman Matsui JUST IN CASE*
A big goateed Texas punk, in Plano, who ran and hid behind a Waffle House after I tracked him down all the way from California. I was obsessed enough to take 3 months to find him.
He was too embarrassed to call the cops and have everyone find out he got the h to the e to the double hockey sticks kicked out of him by a California blue stater.
He went and spammed again but this time some Russian teen rape spam came through his conduit. You can imagine what happened next, sadly I wasn't there to see it.
You're giving them ideas!
In America, kids rebel too much. In 3rd world countries, they just as often get killed for rebelling, even as adults, and they immigrate here to experience individual freedoms.
Like I said, there ought to be a balance.
I'd like to see evidence that "Very rarely is the teacher at fault, I can easily say based on reports I see via NEA and NJEA newsletters nearly half the time the teacher is punished despite 9/10 times the student provoking the teacher."
I'll agree that death threats and violence by students upon teachers are on the rise compared to 50 years ago. But that's a direct reverse from 50 years ago when violence by teachers AND parents upon students were the accepted norm. The only difference between yester year and modern times is the direction of the violence.
I'll also agree that we punish kids too lightly, and that counseling is not always the best solution. But we need to find a middle ground - we certainly cannot go back to the day when kids got the hell beat out of them (remember, folks, violence only begets violence), and we can't have the ultra permissive situation we have today. Kids need to be treated with respect and taught that it goes both ways.
That having been said, banning student cameras won't stop the abuse that they're sometimes used to record. There's no LEGITIMATE reason to deny students that freedom because of a few abusers... that is, unless you desire them not to be in competition with the Government, which is moving toward monitoring everyone 24/7 (currently even moreso in the UK than the US).
When a teacher loses control, there's no excuse.
Pranks like this get caught and lead to kids being punished, but whenever a teacher loses control, that damages their credibility and that of the school's. In this case, both the teacher and students need to be suspended; and they all need counseling. The kids need to be taught not to play pranks and the teacher needs to learn how to maintain control.
We need those student cameras in place in case teachers start shit with the students (i.e., beatings, molestation, etc).
Banning student cameras in this case is like banning cars because someone went on a rampage across a playground.
"Why get rid of cubicles? It's worked so far and the programmers in India don't complain about it. If you don't like it then I can have 500 resumes for your replacement in an hour. Get back to work!"
And thus, nothing changes.
I believe there are aliens. The alternative is that the best the universe has to offer is Britney Spears & Country music. If that's the case then by all means bring on the asteroid...
a) Anything run amok is bad.
b) Atheists running the Government are just as capable of creating personality cults as Fundies or Muzzies or (put your designated target religion here).
c) Atheists have the same level of arrogance and bigotry as everyone else. Enlightenment inevitably leads to self righteousness and arrogance. Atheist rants about how evil (put your designated target religion here) is, makes them no better than anyone else; like everyone else, they're only tolerable in a country where they're countered by a lot of opposing opinions and, of course, by an active democracy. There's no way in hell I want to be locked in a room with all Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, or Atheists. You're all crazy when running in packs. Except maybe Pagans, they just sex ya to death. (And boy howdy, I can imagine far worse ways to go.)
d) Atheism is as much a denial of human nature as any other religion, and atheism is certainly a faith (faith that there is no God), and in many cases also a religion (organized or semi-organized, such as Secular Humanism).
Whenever you hear someone saying "we need an Atheist leader" or "we need a Christian leader", etc., think of this phrase: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". Seeing as atheism is just more of the same, frankly speaking I think I'll remain a nondenominational Christian with lots of pagan friends and a strong distrust for Christian "leadership", and stick to my old rule: never trust a person who says there is no God, nor one who claims to speak for one.
We don't need any of the above. We need a stronger and more participative democracy.
Democracy frees people, not capitalism, not religion, and not atheism (since they're so bent upon calling themselves a non-religion).
Just as all the people who lived in the USSR and who live in Communist China right now.
People talk all day long about American IT workers "adapting to the market" and "creating more value" than their counterparts create overseas, but there's nothing in the universe that an American IT worker can do that someone else overseas can't do, for cheaper.
There is no adaptation that a US IT worker can aspire to, that can't be matched or exceeded or even pre-emptively achieved by workers elsewhere. Not even one.
That's exactly why Toyota, Nissan and Honda are eating the US auto industry alive: we offshored our technology to them and now they're using it against us after having turned the proverbial transistor into the transistor radio except this time in a much bigger way.