Your logic is a bit flawed here. The news story was an effect of a badly planned assignment; had the assignment been planned, say, as I mentioned above, the outcry--the cause leading to the article--would have been small or not present at all, which would leave the administrators of the school nothing to act on.
In this day and age, something like this is going to draw news attention, but that's not the aim of parents complaining or schools taking action on something; the parents/administrators are the ones making the mountain out of the proverbial molehill; the news are just doing what they're there to do.
That being said, As a teacher, I would definitely write a carefully worded curriculum plan and be ready to defend it. It wouldn't hurt to have the department head on my side either.
That, to me, is essentially what this boils down to, is how the assignment was introduced to the class. The same goal here could have been achieved with a scenario along the lines of, 'You're in charge of a city (instead of a terrorist cell); where is it vulnerable, where would be most likely to be attacked if the goal is maximum casualties, (and add) what steps could be taken to mitigate such an event?'
The end result, that way, is almost the same; the students have to think critically, and ultimately would be charged with the same thing--think like an attacker--but with the exact opposite spin. Presented that way, there likely would have been some resistance, but continuing the assignment would be much more justifiable.
My school district took a similar tack with things like this. It wasn't so much endorsing our poking around and finding what could go wrong, they more turned a blind eye to it until something went haywire.
That promptly stopped the day someone used one of the unguarded Administrative accounts and net send over the domain, scaring the hell out of people; luckily, the domain included only our school and the district's administrative building (not the whole district of 20 or so schools); nevertheless, the dean and the local IT guy came to our room first trying to figure out who had done it (ignoring the fact that the originating system's name popped up, and it wasn't in our room), and realizing it wasn't any of us, recruited us to track down the perp.
Before they locked it all down, I was able to modify the default wallpaper on the Freshman class' users (they divided it all up in Active Directory) to have a fake error message dead center (created using VBScript for the purpose), that 'wouldn't go away'. Never got to watch hilarity ensue.
Well, if they start drug-testing professional gamers, they might want to do the same for professional eaters--we all know what a good toke does for the appetite.
Cue green hysterics and indignant congress folk. Some negligent company will be singled out for public outrage. Some clutch of lawyers in a government agency will be found snoozing and be given a pass.
This sounds familiar...a little company called BP, and a government agency called the Minerals Management Agency, if I recall. It's how all these things go, even though there usually are others to blame aside from the negligent company, and the government agency given a pass might just end up reorganized or renamed.
because the CO2 is just a white cloud that kills everyone, but Methane is explosive. The lake would literally explode in a fireball.
While the CO2 would be dangerous, the methane would need to be heated or sparked to ignition. A volcanic eruption could cause such an event, but that isn't the only thing that could trigger a Limnic eruption. In essence, it's not a certainty that the lake would 'explode in a fireball'.
The party to the third part, in reference to the third party's part in the second part, which in part parts with the whole of the first part but not the second part, involves only the first party's involvement with the second and third parts, which are parts of an overarching first part that may partly be to blame for part or the whole of the issue at hand, the first part.
It would actually seem a wiser move, for a Civil case; the burden of proof is much lower, all Oracle must make them see is that 'The company we bought made this, and those guys stole it, based on X, Y, Z (without getting exceedingly technical), where everyone else has had to pay to use it.' Google are the ones who have to get technical, and will likely lose the jury in trying to split hairs to make it seem like they really didn't 'steal' their implementation. It basically comes down to good guy vs bad guy, and Oracle are pretty confident that, should this reach trial, they can play a pretty decent good guy.
I've found myself using those face-to-face...among others (O RLY, variations of LOLcat speak, WTF)...it's rather scary how much these little routine things we use, more or less to save time, can permeate the corporeal world.
It really depended on how clumsy you were, and how quickly the enemy closed on you...the slow to fire bit actually added a bit to its propensity to kill the user...enemy far away, hit Ctrl (maybe still heading forward a bit), it comes in a bit, BAM it's too close for your 35% health to handle, and the map restarts.
Lesson learned? Hit the down arrow when thinking about firing the BFG, no matter what.
but I think it's going to be a while before driving AI is reliable enough to trust to deal with the idiotic driving habits of people without paying it any mind.
On the flip-side, if this develops quickly to become a standard, then the idiots are reduced to nothing; if everything is controlled by a computer somewhere, without direct human involvement (abrupt lane changes, illegal left turns, and whatnot), then it's just...jumping in a pod and going. Granted, there's a better chance of winning the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots, and picking the winners of the World Series, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, Wimbledon, Tour de France, NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments, and the NBA Championship team--all before the season, and all in the same season.
When you are unable to provide an intelligent response or interesting interpretation of a post without resorting to an accusation of trolling, you become that of which you accuse the parent of being..
I accept this truism, and fully expect this comment to end up -1, Troll, -1, Flamebait, or -1, Offtopic. The score of your comment, however, will determine if the masses agree with my point of view.
"Not only the vehicles are unmanned, but they run on electrical power and the whole electronic pilot is powered by solar energy, making this trip unique in history: goods packed in Italy will be brought to Shanghai on an intercontinental route with no human intervention and without using traditional fuel for the first time in history."
FTFS:
...and need a person behind the wheel to take over at a moment's notice.
Now, the person behind the wheel might not ever NEED to, but if ever they do, that nixes the 'without human intervention' bit straightaway. And given that the folks in charge of this had the forethought to think, 'Hey, maybe we might want to put people in these things, JIC' means the confidence in this technology remains fairly low--hardly earthshaking.
I would assume they go for a more contemporary meaning; this would exclude beast-drawn transport along the roads that certainly did exist, and indicate more those deaths attributed to machine-driven transport.
While I acknowledge that it did happen, I find it hard to fathom people getting killed by a horse-drawn carriage without some sort of severe mental impairment, with any regularity; and those rates would almost certainly be a fraction of injuries and deaths attributed to modern automobile accidents.
You would think this strategy would be employed when the wind wasn't gusting, to give the blades the deserved respect that they deserve for their hard work in maintaining the Roman Empire...
Oh, wait, they're not Caesar...they're giant fans.
I got caught off-guard enough that I had an improperly-chewed bit of a Slim Jim that I was about to swallow try to traverse my nostril. It happens, and it can SERIOUSLY hurt.
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Your logic is a bit flawed here. The news story was an effect of a badly planned assignment; had the assignment been planned, say, as I mentioned above, the outcry--the cause leading to the article--would have been small or not present at all, which would leave the administrators of the school nothing to act on.
In this day and age, something like this is going to draw news attention, but that's not the aim of parents complaining or schools taking action on something; the parents/administrators are the ones making the mountain out of the proverbial molehill; the news are just doing what they're there to do.
That being said, As a teacher, I would definitely write a carefully worded curriculum plan and be ready to defend it. It wouldn't hurt to have the department head on my side either.
That, to me, is essentially what this boils down to, is how the assignment was introduced to the class. The same goal here could have been achieved with a scenario along the lines of, 'You're in charge of a city (instead of a terrorist cell); where is it vulnerable, where would be most likely to be attacked if the goal is maximum casualties, (and add) what steps could be taken to mitigate such an event?'
The end result, that way, is almost the same; the students have to think critically, and ultimately would be charged with the same thing--think like an attacker--but with the exact opposite spin. Presented that way, there likely would have been some resistance, but continuing the assignment would be much more justifiable.
My school district took a similar tack with things like this. It wasn't so much endorsing our poking around and finding what could go wrong, they more turned a blind eye to it until something went haywire.
That promptly stopped the day someone used one of the unguarded Administrative accounts and net send over the domain, scaring the hell out of people; luckily, the domain included only our school and the district's administrative building (not the whole district of 20 or so schools); nevertheless, the dean and the local IT guy came to our room first trying to figure out who had done it (ignoring the fact that the originating system's name popped up, and it wasn't in our room), and realizing it wasn't any of us, recruited us to track down the perp.
Before they locked it all down, I was able to modify the default wallpaper on the Freshman class' users (they divided it all up in Active Directory) to have a fake error message dead center (created using VBScript for the purpose), that 'wouldn't go away'. Never got to watch hilarity ensue.
If it's not on ESPN, or otherwise newsworthy, it's not a 'sport'...drug testing ceases to be an issue.
On an aside, if 'Major League Wanking' ever appears on ESPN (the normal ones; if it were on 'The Ocho', I might not care), I might shoot myself.
Well, if they start drug-testing professional gamers, they might want to do the same for professional eaters--we all know what a good toke does for the appetite.
Cue green hysterics and indignant congress folk. Some negligent company will be singled out for public outrage. Some clutch of lawyers in a government agency will be found snoozing and be given a pass.
This sounds familiar...a little company called BP, and a government agency called the Minerals Management Agency, if I recall. It's how all these things go, even though there usually are others to blame aside from the negligent company, and the government agency given a pass might just end up reorganized or renamed.
because the CO2 is just a white cloud that kills everyone, but Methane is explosive. The lake would literally explode in a fireball.
While the CO2 would be dangerous, the methane would need to be heated or sparked to ignition. A volcanic eruption could cause such an event, but that isn't the only thing that could trigger a Limnic eruption. In essence, it's not a certainty that the lake would 'explode in a fireball'.
Smoooooooooke on the waaaaaterrrr....
And fire in the sky-ay...
The party to the third part, in reference to the third party's part in the second part, which in part parts with the whole of the first part but not the second part, involves only the first party's involvement with the second and third parts, which are parts of an overarching first part that may partly be to blame for part or the whole of the issue at hand, the first part.
You forgot the QED.
It would actually seem a wiser move, for a Civil case; the burden of proof is much lower, all Oracle must make them see is that 'The company we bought made this, and those guys stole it, based on X, Y, Z (without getting exceedingly technical), where everyone else has had to pay to use it.' Google are the ones who have to get technical, and will likely lose the jury in trying to split hairs to make it seem like they really didn't 'steal' their implementation. It basically comes down to good guy vs bad guy, and Oracle are pretty confident that, should this reach trial, they can play a pretty decent good guy.
Turned green. Didn't move for a few days.
Did he have a strong desire for brains afterward?
I've found myself using those face-to-face...among others (O RLY, variations of LOLcat speak, WTF)...it's rather scary how much these little routine things we use, more or less to save time, can permeate the corporeal world.
Or a lawnmower; I've heard of that being done, but lack video/photo evidence to back it.
It really depended on how clumsy you were, and how quickly the enemy closed on you...the slow to fire bit actually added a bit to its propensity to kill the user...enemy far away, hit Ctrl (maybe still heading forward a bit), it comes in a bit, BAM it's too close for your 35% health to handle, and the map restarts.
Lesson learned? Hit the down arrow when thinking about firing the BFG, no matter what.
Would unmanned cars still honk their horns obnoxiously when one of their counterparts takes their sweet time escaping a parking spot?
but I think it's going to be a while before driving AI is reliable enough to trust to deal with the idiotic driving habits of people without paying it any mind.
On the flip-side, if this develops quickly to become a standard, then the idiots are reduced to nothing; if everything is controlled by a computer somewhere, without direct human involvement (abrupt lane changes, illegal left turns, and whatnot), then it's just...jumping in a pod and going. Granted, there's a better chance of winning the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots, and picking the winners of the World Series, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, Wimbledon, Tour de France, NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments, and the NBA Championship team--all before the season, and all in the same season.
When you are unable to provide an intelligent response or interesting interpretation of a post without resorting to an accusation of trolling, you become that of which you accuse the parent of being..
I accept this truism, and fully expect this comment to end up -1, Troll, -1, Flamebait, or -1, Offtopic. The score of your comment, however, will determine if the masses agree with my point of view.
Makes you wonder...if the A/C didn't have to run, could these things go longer without a charge?
Also, what the hell do you do with all that idle time? "Uh, yeah, it's driving...over...'*fapfapfap*
"Not only the vehicles are unmanned, but they run on electrical power and the whole electronic pilot is powered by solar energy, making this trip unique in history: goods packed in Italy will be brought to Shanghai on an intercontinental route with no human intervention and without using traditional fuel for the first time in history."
FTFS:
...and need a person behind the wheel to take over at a moment's notice.
Now, the person behind the wheel might not ever NEED to, but if ever they do, that nixes the 'without human intervention' bit straightaway. And given that the folks in charge of this had the forethought to think, 'Hey, maybe we might want to put people in these things, JIC' means the confidence in this technology remains fairly low--hardly earthshaking.
I would assume they go for a more contemporary meaning; this would exclude beast-drawn transport along the roads that certainly did exist, and indicate more those deaths attributed to machine-driven transport.
While I acknowledge that it did happen, I find it hard to fathom people getting killed by a horse-drawn carriage without some sort of severe mental impairment, with any regularity; and those rates would almost certainly be a fraction of injuries and deaths attributed to modern automobile accidents.
You would think this strategy would be employed when the wind wasn't gusting, to give the blades the deserved respect that they deserve for their hard work in maintaining the Roman Empire...
Oh, wait, they're not Caesar...they're giant fans.
I think Hackers rather use being Hackers as birth control. Not much time for getting laid when you're pwning teh intrarwebz.
I got caught off-guard enough that I had an improperly-chewed bit of a Slim Jim that I was about to swallow try to traverse my nostril. It happens, and it can SERIOUSLY hurt.
Serials.
And posting inane bullshit to your wall.