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  1. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    They actually take to it very well. When the person you have taught to fish enjoys the meal they have caught the thrill of it keeps them moving forward.

    "Critical thinking" isn't what I am talking about. It is about showing linear thinkers how to be able to take the solutions and processes they know and to be able to associate that with what might seem to them to be things that are totally unrelated -- how to free associate, determine what applies, and to draw relationships. For those on the other end of the spectrum it is about how to limit the association and be able to draw lines to things that directly relate to the problem so that concrete relationships can be formed and a solution can be arrived at. In this way, a solid two dimensional thought pattern can be attained.

    Next, it is about how to concurrently solve multiple problems along multiple paths of related constructs and to explore the limits of what they can associate in order to gain a three dimensional thought process. Not everyone will be capable of doing that. Some will go further to fourth dimensional thought and genius can blossom.

    By necessity, this is done with an individual focus, though it can be accomplished in a group as long as your level of management can support it. The time it takes is offset by the reduction in time that the "subject" matter can be processed. In the end, instead of merely remembering what you have taught them, they can truly understand it.

  2. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Education isn't about challenging the students or paying teachers more. It is about imparting the ability to acquire and process information in order to understand and create knowledge.

    Few teachers are taught how to think much less how to teach that ability so all they can pass on is WHAT to think.

    When students do not have the thought processing skills to understand what they are being told they get frustrated or bored and the transfer of knowledge fails.

  3. Re:prison reform? on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 1

    The judge has no direct say in where he will be housed.

  4. Re:TFA very light on details on Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Windows passwords are simple to break if you have physical access.

  5. Re:Interfering with police investigations? on FBI Renews Push for ISP Data Retention Laws · · Score: 1

    You still haven't connected the dots. I would be making it more expensive for an ISP to maintain their logs. In no way am I preventing them from keeping those logs.
    If you are going to maintain that masking my activity is somehow actionable, then heaven help anyone who uses a VPN with far-end routing.

  6. Re:Interfering with police investigations? on FBI Renews Push for ISP Data Retention Laws · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right. Your dots don't connect.

  7. Clog those logs on FBI Renews Push for ISP Data Retention Laws · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If web page requests are added to logging I'll start running an idle process on my router that crawls the web. I might just do that anyway.

  8. Re:Well, piracy hurts real people. on EMI Says Online File Storage Is Illegal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They are going elsewhere.

    The only point at which piracy would go away is when the original product is 100% free of any cost to the consumer.

    And your point is what?

    The record store owner and the content owners also seem to have a sense of entitlement. There are those that disagree with that notion, too.
  9. Re:Which do you believe? on Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity · · Score: 1

    Bueller? Bueller? Yeah right. Credibility.

  10. Re:Which do you believe? on Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity · · Score: 1

    Please supply this group of scientists with a proto-world and a few billion years in order to complete the experiment. Okay, and where did this higher power come from? If you do not have all the answers, then you can not expect someone else to have them. You sound like a five year old asking why the sky is blue.

  11. Re:Responses on TiVo Patent Victory Over Dish Network Upheld · · Score: 1

    They want to appeal because they don't want to shell out the bucks.

  12. Re:new software was pushed out 6 months .. on TiVo Patent Victory Over Dish Network Upheld · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can look up the press releases from Dish that say that they have updated their software. They are appealing because they don't want to have to shell out the bucks for past transgressions.

  13. Re:This is about CONTRACTS not COPYRIGHT on Universal Attacks First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read the documents. You are advancing hypotheticals that do not apply to the facts of the case. The CDs were delivered primarily through the mail and UPS. That makes them gifts. It does not matter if there was a preexisting relationship. Even if you discount that they were gifts, it was abandoned property. Even if you get past that... Read the article and filings...

  14. Re:This is about CONTRACTS not COPYRIGHT on Universal Attacks First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    There was no preexisting contract. Clearly.

  15. Re:How does it get in? Duh! on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    Privilege elevation under Windows XP and 2000 is too easy. You started by saying that normal people can't be expected to setup a web server. I said they don't have to. Blocking attachments prevents the less intelligent from running stuff that they shouldn't. It does not prevent people with any kind of neural activity from getting their job done. Is it the "solution"? No. I didn't say it was. It is an ounce of prevention.

  16. Re:How does it get in? Duh! on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    It prevents single click activation of an executable by brain-dead users. If the user isn't smart enough to save the attachment and rename the file then they aren't smart enough to decide whether it should be installed or not. If you are talking about a public email service, then sure, leave it up to the users. In a corporate environment - no way, strip executables and scripts.

  17. Re:How does it get in? Duh! on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    Sure it does. It requires user interaction on both ends.

  18. Re:How does it get in? Duh! on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    If you are not smart enough to rename the file to *.ex_ and then rename it on the other end then I can see why you can't see why it is valid.

  19. Re:Scary on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    You're not much of a wizard if you installed a fake spyware cleaner.

  20. Re:Let's Clarify. on Newspapers Are Dying, Blog At 11 · · Score: 1

    Most people care very little about what is happening locally and are increasingly migratory. They want a homogeneous society. You are dealing with business owners who tend to be stationary. They are nowhere near the majority and their viewpoint is divergent from the norm. You, yourself, are a business-person and as such have a large investment in your locality. Again, that is not the norm.

  21. Re:Wow that's almost 6000 biblical years! on Astronomers Find Oldest Known Asteroids · · Score: 1

    What was there before god and who made hem?

  22. Or... on Blue Lights To Reset Internal Clocks · · Score: 1

    How about red lights flashing at about 4Hz for exercise?

  23. Re:Everyone's still waiting for SP1 to go to Vista on Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places · · Score: 1

    Sort of like the Winnt 3.x and 4.0 days. You never rolled out the new version before the 2nd service pack.

  24. Re:Andersen and Landley - You don't have copyright on Settlement Reached in Verizon GPL Violation Suit · · Score: 1

    Only if the settlement covers any code covered by another's copyright.

  25. Re:Andersen and Landley - You don't have copyright on Settlement Reached in Verizon GPL Violation Suit · · Score: 1

    He only has to have some copyright to sue. Without seeing the settlement you do not know if they sued for the entire package or just for those items that the two gentlemen had copyright on. If you have copyright for part of what Verizon distributed and you have not signed away your rights, then SUE Verizon yourself.