Ever tried to access the air-bag controller on your car? Ever flashed your ECU and then expect the manufacturer to cover the consequences? Ever bought software that was reliant on a hardware dongle? Ever bought a large dedicated device (like a specialist microscope) that comes with some ancient MacOS version on the controller PC that you can never touch or upgrade without voiding the whole setup? What about trying to make a replacement RF car door opener for your car? Or tap into the security systems to code your own keys? Or break the radio's security code so you can install it in a car other than your own?
With the exception of the software/dongle, those are all parts. If I buy a device, I expect full control over the device's main functionality. The purpose of a car is to drive somewhere; I can drive my car anywhere. The purpose of a microscope is to look at things; I can look at whatever I want. The purpose of a smartphone is to make calls and run software; I can only do one of those freely.
How pathetic is it that we need to bring discussions of the fucking speed of light into stock exchange? Is there any reason why these people can't participate at a normal speed like everyone else? Normally I have a fairly libertarian slant to my views, but when something this big and important is only being made fully available to a select few super-rich, there's a problem...
Oh come on. How do you go from "criminally liable for not vaccinating kids" to "death penalty for allowing cross-racial dating"? It's a slippery slope, but it's not frictionless...
I can go the other way, too. You spanked your child? 5 years jail. You decided your child was bad, and beat him harshly? How dare you! What do you mean you sexually abused your child?
Oh wait. Those things are already illegal. And I doubt you're upset with that, either. Last I checked, it's the parents' job to protect the child too. Obviously there's a limit to that, but vaccines? How can you not hold the parent liable when the child dies due to the parents' gullibility?
Sure. Everything has bugs now and then. Adobe Reader has so many that they added a sandbox. We're just starting to do that with web browsers, and they're supposed to run "programs" of a sort. We're always reading about some new PDF code execution problem. You're not seriously claiming PNG and MP3 have as many exploits as PDF...?
A Document Format that needs a sandbox. I don't have a sandbox around my text editor, nor my PNG viewer, nor my MP3 player... Tell me again, why do we need our document formats to be little programming languages?
You really ought to stop with your "pseudonym" bullshit. Do you really think you're better than everyone else for using your real name? Nobody knows who the hell Michael Kristopeit is - using your name doesn't really take away any anonymity unless people know who you are.
I'm at RIT (Rochester [NY] Institute of Technology), and at least on the wireless network, everyone has to log in with a student account via WPA2/PEAP. Not sure what they do with wired, since I haven't bothered to buy an Ethernet cable, but those with devices that don't support WPA2 "Enterprise" are screwed. Haven't heard anyone complain about it yet.
Holy crap. You take the cake for jumping to conclusions - somehow I think it was a joke. I'm assuming he's one of those people you mention for whom "Java is not everyone's cup of tea".
...but the very simple result of there not existing an 'R' sound in the chinese language, so they simply can't hear it...
Either you used a very unfortunate choice of words or you have no clue what you're talking about. Pretty sure I can hear my car run and my dog bark, even though my language doesn't include engine sounds and barking.
I meant that kids with and kids without mental disabilities are separate. Kids without disabilities do not need individualized education. They can figure things out on their own.
If they can't learn anything that's not applicable, they either have mental problems, or were raised to value ignorance. If they have mental problems they need additional help - and you can't fix the parents. Many of them are idiots. The education system does need many changes, but being individually tailored to each student is not how. One important thing for them to learn is that not everybody teaches the same way. They can change.
Some kids are interested in that shit. Teaching a wide range of everything ensures that they're well rounded and have a base to decide on a career on. Also, since when is knowledge in general a bad thing? We're nerds. We know all kinds of stuff that doesn't matter. The kids who care will remember. The kids who don't will forget all about it. Remember that while each kid will take away about 10%, it's not the same 10% all around. And these numbers are 99.2% made up.
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Ever tried to access the air-bag controller on your car? Ever flashed your ECU and then expect the manufacturer to cover the consequences? Ever bought software that was reliant on a hardware dongle? Ever bought a large dedicated device (like a specialist microscope) that comes with some ancient MacOS version on the controller PC that you can never touch or upgrade without voiding the whole setup? What about trying to make a replacement RF car door opener for your car? Or tap into the security systems to code your own keys? Or break the radio's security code so you can install it in a car other than your own?
With the exception of the software/dongle, those are all parts. If I buy a device, I expect full control over the device's main functionality. The purpose of a car is to drive somewhere; I can drive my car anywhere. The purpose of a microscope is to look at things; I can look at whatever I want. The purpose of a smartphone is to make calls and run software; I can only do one of those freely.
How pathetic is it that we need to bring discussions of the fucking speed of light into stock exchange? Is there any reason why these people can't participate at a normal speed like everyone else? Normally I have a fairly libertarian slant to my views, but when something this big and important is only being made fully available to a select few super-rich, there's a problem...
That's pretty amazing.
"Living language" does not mean that everything that comes out of someone's mouth is correct. It's still possible to be wrong.
Oh come on. How do you go from "criminally liable for not vaccinating kids" to "death penalty for allowing cross-racial dating"? It's a slippery slope, but it's not frictionless...
I can go the other way, too. You spanked your child? 5 years jail. You decided your child was bad, and beat him harshly? How dare you! What do you mean you sexually abused your child?
Oh wait. Those things are already illegal. And I doubt you're upset with that, either. Last I checked, it's the parents' job to protect the child too. Obviously there's a limit to that, but vaccines? How can you not hold the parent liable when the child dies due to the parents' gullibility?
Sure. Everything has bugs now and then. Adobe Reader has so many that they added a sandbox. We're just starting to do that with web browsers, and they're supposed to run "programs" of a sort. We're always reading about some new PDF code execution problem. You're not seriously claiming PNG and MP3 have as many exploits as PDF...?
Well, a PDF is supposed to portably appear exactly as it will print. Pretty sure that's not possible with HTML.
Better question, though off topic - why is Adobe's PDF viewer over 10 MB?
$ du -h /usr/bin/xpdf.bin /usr/bin/xpdf.bin /usr/share/xpdf /usr/share/xpdf
1.3M
$ du -sh
76K
PDF reader... sandbox...
A Document Format that needs a sandbox. I don't have a sandbox around my text editor, nor my PNG viewer, nor my MP3 player... Tell me again, why do we need our document formats to be little programming languages?
Yes, because excessive pedantry contributes something worthwhile to the discussion.
...wait, what?
The physical object cannot get lighter (less massive).
lighter (less massive)
(less massive)
I apologize to everyone here for wasting your time by feeding the troll.
You really ought to stop with your "pseudonym" bullshit. Do you really think you're better than everyone else for using your real name? Nobody knows who the hell Michael Kristopeit is - using your name doesn't really take away any anonymity unless people know who you are.
Yes, because as we all know, the 'black' in 'black hole' is a reference to ignorance, not a reference to its light-capturing property.
Yippie. Yay. How fascinating.
Seriously, Slashdot?
I'm at RIT (Rochester [NY] Institute of Technology), and at least on the wireless network, everyone has to log in with a student account via WPA2/PEAP. Not sure what they do with wired, since I haven't bothered to buy an Ethernet cable, but those with devices that don't support WPA2 "Enterprise" are screwed. Haven't heard anyone complain about it yet.
Holy crap. You take the cake for jumping to conclusions - somehow I think it was a joke. I'm assuming he's one of those people you mention for whom "Java is not everyone's cup of tea".
They'd probably not be happy with it. Libertarian != gun freak. Stop trying to be an ass.
...but the very simple result of there not existing an 'R' sound in the chinese language, so they simply can't hear it...
Either you used a very unfortunate choice of words or you have no clue what you're talking about. Pretty sure I can hear my car run and my dog bark, even though my language doesn't include engine sounds and barking.
Does she read Slashdot? Because that would explain your anonymity...
Wow! What a coincidence - me neither.
I meant that kids with and kids without mental disabilities are separate. Kids without disabilities do not need individualized education. They can figure things out on their own.
If they can't learn anything that's not applicable, they either have mental problems, or were raised to value ignorance. If they have mental problems they need additional help - and you can't fix the parents. Many of them are idiots. The education system does need many changes, but being individually tailored to each student is not how. One important thing for them to learn is that not everybody teaches the same way. They can change.
Some kids are interested in that shit. Teaching a wide range of everything ensures that they're well rounded and have a base to decide on a career on. Also, since when is knowledge in general a bad thing? We're nerds. We know all kinds of stuff that doesn't matter. The kids who care will remember. The kids who don't will forget all about it. Remember that while each kid will take away about 10%, it's not the same 10% all around. And these numbers are 99.2% made up.
You are very good at detecting sarcasm. Really. You are.