The whole incident would have been over had the school, without calling the cops, just said "this is an inappropriate toy, some people think it looks bomb like, I'll keep it in the desk and you can pick it up after school". Once the cops were called, the incident would have been over had the cops said "why are you wasting our time on this?"
It *should* have been a non-story. But people wanted to send a message to this kid ("don't mess with Texas punk"). What happened is that a different message got out.
He did explain what it was. He said it was a clock. The police present assumed he was guilty of something and refused to accept that answer. They were trying to police technique of wearing down the suspect on a kid in a school and hoping a confession pops out. Not appropriate behavior for the police to engage in.
Half a bomb is a stupid way to phrase things. The clock before it was taken apart was therefore also half a bomb. Radio Shack before it went bankrupt could be classified as a Do-It-Yourself half-a-bomb factory. It's not even a trigger yet, it's just a clock with minimal changes to put it into a pencil box (looks cooler, like something maybe from a really bad spy movie where you have to cut the red wire, no the green one).
Did he intend it to look like a bomb? I don't know. It does not look like one to me. It did NOT look like a bomb to the police or teachers either or they would panicked, maybe have an evacuation drill, and they would not have kept a possible-bomb around. What they thought was that the kid intended it to be a hoax bomb, which the kid denied, and they arrested him and against Texas law did not have his parents present. The school wanted him to sign a "confession" without his parents present.
It sounds like a big case of the police and school assuming the kid did something wrong, not having any solid proof of any of it, then just wanting to send a big message with the hand cuffs and perp walk. The kid is supposed to learn the lesson to not stand out, keep curiosity in check, go play football when the urge to study strikes. All hail zero tolerance, keeping our kids safe and stupid for a decade.
He did exactly what most of us slashdotters did as kids; take stuff apart to see how they work and put them back together in different ways. Of course it wasn't an invention, he said it only took him a few moments.
How is it anti Jewish or anti Christian to point out that all witches must be killed? Anything anti semetic in pointing out that every living thing in Jericho was commanded to be killed, man, woman, child, animals. Or the law in Deuteronomy that if you're caught raping a virgin you must pay her father and marry her? And also in Deuteronomy, if someone convinces one of your family to follow another god, you should kill them? If everyone followed the letter of their religious texts, I'd be pretty afraid of Jews and Christians also.
As far as Europeans go, they're not nearly the liberal hippie types that Americans like to think they are. There are plenty of people we'd classify as rednecks over there, there's a very racist and homophobic segment all over, etc. Generally Europe has seen to not have had a big race problem in the past because the countries were very homogenous for a very long time (but always an underlying anti-semetic and anti Roma nastiness).
BBC news service I would subscribe to. They don't have such an option though as it's funded from fees in the UK and I'm in America. American news is in a shambles, but I never visit them anyway. If someone comes along and says I have to pay or not visit any of the fluffy web sites out there then I'll move on. The important sites don't have third party ads anyway.
Industry should take a look around and notice now many people cut the cord. The old rule that because customers have nowhere to go the companies can keep screwing them with impunity no longer applies. If we cut the cord on cable, we can cut the cord on all those pointless web sites too.
So the app author was in a quandary. Make money from selling the app, or make money from serving up undesirable malware (aka, advertisements). Serving up ads takes much less work so that's the choice he made.
C# only runs on Windows though, except for Mono which is only used by people anxious to prove that C# is available outside of Windows. I'm not saying this because of the culture of C# users, but because Microsoft created C# when they were thwarted at their attempts to embrace/extend/extinguish Java. If Mono ever took off and became popular, Microsoft would change C#.
Being a wiz at C# under Visual Studio is absolutely useless except for Windows application development. That's a relatively small fraction of all programming activity in the world, yet they act like it's the entire world.
I interviewed a couple recent layoffs from Qualcomm from a particular group. It seems like both were pigeon holed to work on one particular small part of a design, and neither understood anything outside of their small part. In other words, zero knowledge about the system. They get data from A, massage it, and send it to B, if there's any confusion they let some other group figure it out.
Not really. People keep coming up with new management fads which then fade away and get replaced, but eventually they all come back to MMM and realize it had it right. If you can't understand the concepts in the Idiot's Guide to the Volkswagen Beetle, you will be utterly unable to understand a modern car. Understanding the older stuff is an absolute prerequisite to becoming an expert, even for software, and it's a shame so many incompetent programmers refuse to believe this.
It's not even just for programming that's dysfunctional, everything gets screwed up with management. I see software people whine that it should be done like other engineering, except that other engineering is dysfunctional as well. Seriously, picking pre-built and well tested components, applying the math, and creating a circuit is a myth too. Most places just cobble things together, they'll argue forever about saving two cents on a board but then go and add a component that's never used. If the boss designs part of it then everyone's too afraid to correct it, or politics gets involved. When it's done, it's tossed over the brick wall to software who are told to work around any defects.
Helps to define what "efficient" is also. Times have changed since MMM. People still think that efficient means writing the most cost. But I test things at least preliminary before checking it in, so I find myself slower than others over all, but I also spend less time going back and fixing it later while spending more time fixing other people's hastily checked in code.
If every ad supported site fails, then so what? The world existed long before the ad supported web did. The internet also worked and was functionally useful long before ad support web sites. We learned to live without Twinkies, we can learn to live without blogs from narcisists.
Of 100 sites that require javascript for basic operation (not just tracking or advertising), 95 of them are not worth visiting anyway and society will not miss anything if they vanish, and the remaining 5 you can get away with by selectively unblocking some common third party javascript sites. Out of 10,000 sites that require javascript, only one of those will be nice to their visitors and use only their own hosted scripts rather than rely on third party.
That's bullshit. I am visiting the site to see their updates for the day, I am not visiting the site for them to shove a crapload of ads at me. I expect it to return in less than a second as there are no pictures involved, it's a text only blog. Instead it takes many seconds, the loading button keeps circling and circling.
Compare to newspapers. They have ads, great. However the front page I can read immediately and see 90% of it is news of some sort. I don't wait for ads to load, I don't have to throw away half the paper before I can find the first headline. But on the web, even if I am a paid subscriber, I have to deal with advertising malware. Yes I call it malware because it is slowing my computer down more than any virus ever did.
If the owner of the site complains and says "wah, I can't make any money if you don't see ads before reading my daily whine" then I will not visit that site again. Problem solved. If a site is polite with actual news and is not inundated with obnoxious animated ads or ads unrelated to the site, then sometimes I will unblock it.
It's a school sports team, it's not an honor to have your name used by them. So the Sioux stand along side the Grizzlies, Bulldogs, Sharks, Hornets, Gators, Wildcats, Buccaneers, etc. Yes, there are more mild football team names, but I never see those as honorific names. Almost inevitably they are animals or a group with a dangerous reputation. Having a name that's actually an honor to a person or group is extremely rare.
It's purely revisionist and anti-PC reactionism to claim that these are names to honor native American tribes.
Because it's not a sign of respect. They used that name because football teams tended to represent themselves as vicious and mean in the early days of the sport. Thus being named after savages was common, which is why those tribes with a more barbaric stereotype had their names borrowed. If we were trying to honor the Sioux, we'd name school libraries after them, not some stupid school sports teams for stupid drunks to watch.
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The whole incident would have been over had the school, without calling the cops, just said "this is an inappropriate toy, some people think it looks bomb like, I'll keep it in the desk and you can pick it up after school". Once the cops were called, the incident would have been over had the cops said "why are you wasting our time on this?"
It *should* have been a non-story. But people wanted to send a message to this kid ("don't mess with Texas punk"). What happened is that a different message got out.
Yup, if you're in Texas, keep your head down, don't make eye contact, try to get through the state as quickly as possible before you're noticed.
He did explain what it was. He said it was a clock. The police present assumed he was guilty of something and refused to accept that answer. They were trying to police technique of wearing down the suspect on a kid in a school and hoping a confession pops out. Not appropriate behavior for the police to engage in.
Half a bomb is a stupid way to phrase things. The clock before it was taken apart was therefore also half a bomb. Radio Shack before it went bankrupt could be classified as a Do-It-Yourself half-a-bomb factory. It's not even a trigger yet, it's just a clock with minimal changes to put it into a pencil box (looks cooler, like something maybe from a really bad spy movie where you have to cut the red wire, no the green one).
Did he intend it to look like a bomb? I don't know. It does not look like one to me. It did NOT look like a bomb to the police or teachers either or they would panicked, maybe have an evacuation drill, and they would not have kept a possible-bomb around. What they thought was that the kid intended it to be a hoax bomb, which the kid denied, and they arrested him and against Texas law did not have his parents present. The school wanted him to sign a "confession" without his parents present.
It sounds like a big case of the police and school assuming the kid did something wrong, not having any solid proof of any of it, then just wanting to send a big message with the hand cuffs and perp walk. The kid is supposed to learn the lesson to not stand out, keep curiosity in check, go play football when the urge to study strikes. All hail zero tolerance, keeping our kids safe and stupid for a decade.
I meant "minutes", sorry.
He did exactly what most of us slashdotters did as kids; take stuff apart to see how they work and put them back together in different ways. Of course it wasn't an invention, he said it only took him a few moments.
How is it anti Jewish or anti Christian to point out that all witches must be killed? Anything anti semetic in pointing out that every living thing in Jericho was commanded to be killed, man, woman, child, animals. Or the law in Deuteronomy that if you're caught raping a virgin you must pay her father and marry her? And also in Deuteronomy, if someone convinces one of your family to follow another god, you should kill them? If everyone followed the letter of their religious texts, I'd be pretty afraid of Jews and Christians also.
As far as Europeans go, they're not nearly the liberal hippie types that Americans like to think they are. There are plenty of people we'd classify as rednecks over there, there's a very racist and homophobic segment all over, etc. Generally Europe has seen to not have had a big race problem in the past because the countries were very homogenous for a very long time (but always an underlying anti-semetic and anti Roma nastiness).
BBC news service I would subscribe to. They don't have such an option though as it's funded from fees in the UK and I'm in America. American news is in a shambles, but I never visit them anyway. If someone comes along and says I have to pay or not visit any of the fluffy web sites out there then I'll move on. The important sites don't have third party ads anyway.
Industry should take a look around and notice now many people cut the cord. The old rule that because customers have nowhere to go the companies can keep screwing them with impunity no longer applies. If we cut the cord on cable, we can cut the cord on all those pointless web sites too.
So the app author was in a quandary. Make money from selling the app, or make money from serving up undesirable malware (aka, advertisements). Serving up ads takes much less work so that's the choice he made.
Normally Haiku must mention one of the four seasons. But Klingon has only one season. So awaiting a ruling from the High Haiku Council.
C# only runs on Windows though, except for Mono which is only used by people anxious to prove that C# is available outside of Windows.
I'm not saying this because of the culture of C# users, but because Microsoft created C# when they were thwarted at their attempts to embrace/extend/extinguish Java. If Mono ever took off and became popular, Microsoft would change C#.
Being a wiz at C# under Visual Studio is absolutely useless except for Windows application development. That's a relatively small fraction of all programming activity in the world, yet they act like it's the entire world.
I interviewed a couple recent layoffs from Qualcomm from a particular group. It seems like both were pigeon holed to work on one particular small part of a design, and neither understood anything outside of their small part. In other words, zero knowledge about the system. They get data from A, massage it, and send it to B, if there's any confusion they let some other group figure it out.
Not really. People keep coming up with new management fads which then fade away and get replaced, but eventually they all come back to MMM and realize it had it right. If you can't understand the concepts in the Idiot's Guide to the Volkswagen Beetle, you will be utterly unable to understand a modern car. Understanding the older stuff is an absolute prerequisite to becoming an expert, even for software, and it's a shame so many incompetent programmers refuse to believe this.
It's not even just for programming that's dysfunctional, everything gets screwed up with management. I see software people whine that it should be done like other engineering, except that other engineering is dysfunctional as well. Seriously, picking pre-built and well tested components, applying the math, and creating a circuit is a myth too. Most places just cobble things together, they'll argue forever about saving two cents on a board but then go and add a component that's never used. If the boss designs part of it then everyone's too afraid to correct it, or politics gets involved. When it's done, it's tossed over the brick wall to software who are told to work around any defects.
Helps to define what "efficient" is also. Times have changed since MMM. People still think that efficient means writing the most cost. But I test things at least preliminary before checking it in, so I find myself slower than others over all, but I also spend less time going back and fixing it later while spending more time fixing other people's hastily checked in code.
I was amazed to learn that Twitter had engineers.
Hashtag: great idea!
There, I've done my part to save the world.
All business related questions from executives tend to be nonsense or gibberish.
If every ad supported site fails, then so what? The world existed long before the ad supported web did. The internet also worked and was functionally useful long before ad support web sites. We learned to live without Twinkies, we can learn to live without blogs from narcisists.
Of 100 sites that require javascript for basic operation (not just tracking or advertising), 95 of them are not worth visiting anyway and society will not miss anything if they vanish, and the remaining 5 you can get away with by selectively unblocking some common third party javascript sites. Out of 10,000 sites that require javascript, only one of those will be nice to their visitors and use only their own hosted scripts rather than rely on third party.
That's bullshit. I am visiting the site to see their updates for the day, I am not visiting the site for them to shove a crapload of ads at me. I expect it to return in less than a second as there are no pictures involved, it's a text only blog. Instead it takes many seconds, the loading button keeps circling and circling.
Compare to newspapers. They have ads, great. However the front page I can read immediately and see 90% of it is news of some sort. I don't wait for ads to load, I don't have to throw away half the paper before I can find the first headline. But on the web, even if I am a paid subscriber, I have to deal with advertising malware. Yes I call it malware because it is slowing my computer down more than any virus ever did.
If the owner of the site complains and says "wah, I can't make any money if you don't see ads before reading my daily whine" then I will not visit that site again. Problem solved. If a site is polite with actual news and is not inundated with obnoxious animated ads or ads unrelated to the site, then sometimes I will unblock it.
The internet was built without advertising.
You don't understand. If they're not making money while not producing anything of value, it means somebody must be stealing what is rightfully theirs.
It's a school sports team, it's not an honor to have your name used by them. So the Sioux stand along side the Grizzlies, Bulldogs, Sharks, Hornets, Gators, Wildcats, Buccaneers, etc. Yes, there are more mild football team names, but I never see those as honorific names. Almost inevitably they are animals or a group with a dangerous reputation. Having a name that's actually an honor to a person or group is extremely rare.
It's purely revisionist and anti-PC reactionism to claim that these are names to honor native American tribes.
Because it's not a sign of respect. They used that name because football teams tended to represent themselves as vicious and mean in the early days of the sport. Thus being named after savages was common, which is why those tribes with a more barbaric stereotype had their names borrowed. If we were trying to honor the Sioux, we'd name school libraries after them, not some stupid school sports teams for stupid drunks to watch.