Just like the USA distanced itself from eugenics (such as the mandatory sterilization of people with mental disabilities) when it got popular with the Nazis, maybe China demanding encryption keys will get some American politicians to back off of the idea.
I get so antsy if I sit all day. I only lasted about two weeks at my current job before I MacGyvered my sitting desk into a standing desk. It's got a built-in hutch. So I put my keyboard inside the hutch and the monitor on top of the hutch. Huge improvement. It took about a month for my legs and feet to get used to it, but I knew after the first day I couldn't go back. I definitely think a proper adjustable standing desk would be better, though. I *have* to stand in my setup. Occasionally it would be nice to be able to sit down for a specific task.
The Cleveland Museum of Art has these once or twice a month. They have a bar, a DJ/band and some little DIY art based on the exhibits. It was super classy. I'd highly recommend it.
Perhaps the most supportive case you have is Mapp v. Ohio: http://www.law.cornell.edu/sup...... and that says that the government can't invade your SECURED residence to collect evidence. If you leave the information or the evidence in the open (as you're doing when you broadcast your cell phone conversations), you aren't protected by that decision.
I'm not sure how the encryption used by cell phones doesn't count as "secured." So, what, the Government's definition of "secured" means mathematically/physically impossible to bypass? A lock pick can bypass a deadbolt in under a minute, but that's not allowed without a warrant. How is breaking (or subpoenaing from companies) an encryption key any different than picking a lock? The problem here is that no part of the cloud is considered my residence, even though I view my dropbox space as the digital equivalent of a drawer in my bedroom. I'd input a password into my phone to make or receive every single call if I had to.
While properly crafted ads are not bothersome at all (Text only, no motion pictures, video ads that don't autoplay or are at least muted, etc). I would play that $230 per month to guarantee that I wasn't being tracked. Now THAT would be a way to make the Do Not Track token work better, because then you can say there was some harm to you as a consumer if you were tracked.
The biggest problem is that we teachers allow the government to set the bar for becoming a teacher, and the government sets it too low. When you mess up as a lawyer, you get disbarred by a committee of lawyers. That is what we need to do. Tenure is a good thing, because it protects, for example, science teachers who want to teach evolution in a conservative district. However, tenure is tarnished by the fact that unions won't police their own. If, for example, the NEA looked at the bottom 1% of its national membership each year for potential ejection, nobody would have any problems.
I really don’t get what that crap above is about, but doing it in my head I just took off 300 and added 2.
So you might think you know how I would do that problem, but you’re wrong.
You're still guilty of using Common Core style math! You understood that 426-298 is the same thing as 426-(300-2) which then simplifies to 426-300+2. You've just used both the associative and distributive properties of arithmetic! That's what the Common Core teaches. The "traditional" algorithm requires the following steps:
1) You "can't" subtract 8 from 6 (yes you can! negative numbers! Already one strike against traditional methods)
2) You need to borrow 1 from 2 and make 6 into 16 (why do we do that? Place value, something the Common Core methods emphasize)
3) 16-8 is 8 (three steps and only one column is done? How is this faster?)
4) You need to remember that the 2 is now a 1 and you "can't" subtract 9 from 1 (Again?!)
5) Borrow 1 from the 4 to make the 2...err 1 into an 11
6) 11-9=2
7) Remember that the 4 is now a 3, 3-2 is 1
8) The answer is 128
That was WAY harder than the either of the Common Core style strategies that have been discussed and actually teaches kids some VERY WRONG concepts about place value and negative numbers.
I had used a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 all through graduate school. It was great for me then because I did all my typing at my home desktop or in one of the university's many computer labs. I did not need a full computer to be mobile, especially when I've lost several laptops to damaged power jacks over the years. Now that I'm in the corporate world and need to be able to work on a report in a hotel or at a client's place of business, I needed something portable. However, I still wanted a tablet for personal use. The Surface Pro 2 filled exactly that niche. It's got honest-to-goodness Microsoft Office for when I need it and a pretty decent keyboard (if you disable the glitchy trackpad) to boot. At home, I disconnect the keyboard and watch Netflix in bed. The pen is even better for drawing than my Wacom tablet, because I can draw right on the screen. I'm a young, technologically-savvy professional. I'm the target audience for the Surface Pro line.
Of course it's already happening. As Commissioner Clyburn stated, there are currently no rules prevent it from happening. Wheeler conveyed that his rush on this matter was to get some protection in place sooner rather than later. He cannot prevent it from happening until rules are in place that the courts won't throw out.
I think Commissioner Wheeler's final comments provide hope. "It's not about whether the internet will be open, it's about how and when rules protecting openness will be in place." He also specifically namedropped Netflix and commented that ISPs should not be double-dipping.
You know how the US Postal Service is basically going bankrupt? The White House basically blames this on the shift to email. So, in an effort to continue its basic mission of enabling citizens to communicate quickly and reliably with each other, how about we make the USPS a nationalized internet common carrier at the Federal minimum definition of broadband? This will allow existing ISPs to continue to remain unregulated by the common carrier rules, but will provide a meaningful alternative to the (literally) entrenched monopolies? Comcast will be unable to reasonably argue that a 4/1 connection is unfair competition when their top tier services are more than 10 times that speed.
When the Internet first became popular, I had to connect to it over a phone line which meant my data was protected by common carrier laws. Why should I be less protected now that I connect to it over cable wires rather that telephone wires?
Affirmative Action, in general, is a good concept. However, Affirmative Action based on race is not for these two important reasons:
1) Race is not well-defined casually or biologically.
2) While people of minority races are statistically more likely to get the short end of the stick, educationally, it is not race that causes it.
What we really need is Affirmative Action based on socio-economic status or household income. This will be "color-blind" while still generally helping African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans more often than Caucasian-Americans. Being Black doesn't make it harder to succeed in school, being poor and hungry does. Sure, there is a correlation to race, but the root cause is poverty. Moreover, this helps (the often forgotten minority of) rural Appalachian White people just as much as urban Detroit Black people.
I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying that it's an overinflated claim to say that the ability to subitize is "doing math." Pigs can subitize better than humans, for example. Likewise, you haven't really understood addition just because you can tell that 3+1 is the same quantity as 4.
I agree that I should not have to, but the nice thing about being a regular/. reader is that I will be able to do so. We've survived DRM, we can survive this. However, I do hope it goes down the drain without passing.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. The open source community will have a high incentive to resolve this problem. The next version of ClockworkMod will come standard with a kill-switch disabler or there will be a step by step soldering guide posted to Instructables.
While there is some reason to be concerned about whether the government would commit summary execution of Snowden, I'd like to think that he would be able to return home and live, if not normally, then at least reasonably. Moreover, I think such an "accident" would raise a whole lot of red flags for watchdog groups. Let's be honest, if he dies of anything other than old age, people will reasonably suspect the government.
I believe fully believe that Snowden should be classified as a whistle-blower with respect to domestic spying. Those revelations were absolutely vital to the continued integrity of our democratic mechanism. However, I do believe he released some documents regarding foreign spying that he should not have. Given the size of the cache of leaked documents, it was, perhaps, inevitable that there would be some documents not directly applicable to the domestic spying issue. I suspect, though, that he knowingly released some of those foreign spying documents to apply pressure to the US government. This crossed the line, but it is understandable. He needs to not be held as completely blameless. As a result, I believe Snowden deserves:
1) Immediate repatriation to the US
2) Complete amnesty for all release of documents to journalistic sources, particularly with respect to domestic spying
3) A due process trial, preferably managed by a third-party watchdog, to confirm/disprove allegations of foreign funding behind Snowden.
4) Assuming an innocent ruling from 3, a minimal slap-on-the-wrist punishment for the release of classified documents not related to domestic spying. Maybe a couple years of house arrest?
I can sum up why Khan Academy is so popular in two words: mandatory attendance. To use the age old comparison, broccoli sucks when you are force fed it as a kid, but it can be quite good when you try it voluntarily as an adult. I haven't seen the recent vids, but when it was Khan by himself it was the same old chalk-and-talk you see in so many traditional classrooms, only with less precise terminology and no admitting you don't know the answer in front of the class. There's something to be said for what Khan is doing. It's rather like peer tutoring. It's a great supplement to teachers, but its no replacement. Much like Harry Potter is a great gateway to Lord of the Rings but not a replacement thereof.
1) It's "liberating" in the same sense that being chemically castrated and color-blinded is "liberating" in Lois Lowry's The Giver. You are "liberated" from the onerous chore of responsibility for your own actions.
2) Oh, you know what, even though you've spent $100 bucks on every album by Blah Artist, he's now a bad influence on society. We, the corporations, will benevolently "liberate" you from such unwholesome thoughts. *287 files deleted*
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Just like the USA distanced itself from eugenics (such as the mandatory sterilization of people with mental disabilities) when it got popular with the Nazis, maybe China demanding encryption keys will get some American politicians to back off of the idea.
I get so antsy if I sit all day. I only lasted about two weeks at my current job before I MacGyvered my sitting desk into a standing desk. It's got a built-in hutch. So I put my keyboard inside the hutch and the monitor on top of the hutch. Huge improvement. It took about a month for my legs and feet to get used to it, but I knew after the first day I couldn't go back. I definitely think a proper adjustable standing desk would be better, though. I *have* to stand in my setup. Occasionally it would be nice to be able to sit down for a specific task.
So of the roughly 300 million people with SSNs, nearly a third of them are nearly compromised? Great.
The Cleveland Museum of Art has these once or twice a month. They have a bar, a DJ/band and some little DIY art based on the exhibits. It was super classy. I'd highly recommend it.
Perhaps the most supportive case you have is Mapp v. Ohio: http://www.law.cornell.edu/sup... ... and that says that the government can't invade your SECURED residence to collect evidence. If you leave the information or the evidence in the open (as you're doing when you broadcast your cell phone conversations), you aren't protected by that decision.
I'm not sure how the encryption used by cell phones doesn't count as "secured." So, what, the Government's definition of "secured" means mathematically/physically impossible to bypass? A lock pick can bypass a deadbolt in under a minute, but that's not allowed without a warrant. How is breaking (or subpoenaing from companies) an encryption key any different than picking a lock? The problem here is that no part of the cloud is considered my residence, even though I view my dropbox space as the digital equivalent of a drawer in my bedroom. I'd input a password into my phone to make or receive every single call if I had to.
Err per year. Not per month.
While properly crafted ads are not bothersome at all (Text only, no motion pictures, video ads that don't autoplay or are at least muted, etc). I would play that $230 per month to guarantee that I wasn't being tracked. Now THAT would be a way to make the Do Not Track token work better, because then you can say there was some harm to you as a consumer if you were tracked.
The biggest problem is that we teachers allow the government to set the bar for becoming a teacher, and the government sets it too low. When you mess up as a lawyer, you get disbarred by a committee of lawyers. That is what we need to do. Tenure is a good thing, because it protects, for example, science teachers who want to teach evolution in a conservative district. However, tenure is tarnished by the fact that unions won't police their own. If, for example, the NEA looked at the bottom 1% of its national membership each year for potential ejection, nobody would have any problems.
Like I'm 5, please.
Oh my god, where are your parents?
Apparently the NSA and CIA don't want us to read that - the link points to how / when to write a kernel module.
It's been fixed now, but it totally pointed to http://www.linuxvoice.com/be-a... originally
I really don’t get what that crap above is about, but doing it in my head I just took off 300 and added 2.
So you might think you know how I would do that problem, but you’re wrong.
You're still guilty of using Common Core style math! You understood that 426-298 is the same thing as 426-(300-2) which then simplifies to 426-300+2. You've just used both the associative and distributive properties of arithmetic! That's what the Common Core teaches. The "traditional" algorithm requires the following steps: 1) You "can't" subtract 8 from 6 (yes you can! negative numbers! Already one strike against traditional methods) 2) You need to borrow 1 from 2 and make 6 into 16 (why do we do that? Place value, something the Common Core methods emphasize) 3) 16-8 is 8 (three steps and only one column is done? How is this faster?) 4) You need to remember that the 2 is now a 1 and you "can't" subtract 9 from 1 (Again?!) 5) Borrow 1 from the 4 to make the 2...err 1 into an 11 6) 11-9=2 7) Remember that the 4 is now a 3, 3-2 is 1 8) The answer is 128 That was WAY harder than the either of the Common Core style strategies that have been discussed and actually teaches kids some VERY WRONG concepts about place value and negative numbers.
I had used a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 all through graduate school. It was great for me then because I did all my typing at my home desktop or in one of the university's many computer labs. I did not need a full computer to be mobile, especially when I've lost several laptops to damaged power jacks over the years. Now that I'm in the corporate world and need to be able to work on a report in a hotel or at a client's place of business, I needed something portable. However, I still wanted a tablet for personal use. The Surface Pro 2 filled exactly that niche. It's got honest-to-goodness Microsoft Office for when I need it and a pretty decent keyboard (if you disable the glitchy trackpad) to boot. At home, I disconnect the keyboard and watch Netflix in bed. The pen is even better for drawing than my Wacom tablet, because I can draw right on the screen. I'm a young, technologically-savvy professional. I'm the target audience for the Surface Pro line.
Of course it's already happening. As Commissioner Clyburn stated, there are currently no rules prevent it from happening. Wheeler conveyed that his rush on this matter was to get some protection in place sooner rather than later. He cannot prevent it from happening until rules are in place that the courts won't throw out.
I think Commissioner Wheeler's final comments provide hope. "It's not about whether the internet will be open, it's about how and when rules protecting openness will be in place." He also specifically namedropped Netflix and commented that ISPs should not be double-dipping.
You know how the US Postal Service is basically going bankrupt? The White House basically blames this on the shift to email. So, in an effort to continue its basic mission of enabling citizens to communicate quickly and reliably with each other, how about we make the USPS a nationalized internet common carrier at the Federal minimum definition of broadband? This will allow existing ISPs to continue to remain unregulated by the common carrier rules, but will provide a meaningful alternative to the (literally) entrenched monopolies? Comcast will be unable to reasonably argue that a 4/1 connection is unfair competition when their top tier services are more than 10 times that speed.
When the Internet first became popular, I had to connect to it over a phone line which meant my data was protected by common carrier laws. Why should I be less protected now that I connect to it over cable wires rather that telephone wires?
Affirmative Action, in general, is a good concept. However, Affirmative Action based on race is not for these two important reasons:
1) Race is not well-defined casually or biologically.
2) While people of minority races are statistically more likely to get the short end of the stick, educationally, it is not race that causes it.
What we really need is Affirmative Action based on socio-economic status or household income. This will be "color-blind" while still generally helping African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans more often than Caucasian-Americans. Being Black doesn't make it harder to succeed in school, being poor and hungry does. Sure, there is a correlation to race, but the root cause is poverty. Moreover, this helps (the often forgotten minority of) rural Appalachian White people just as much as urban Detroit Black people.
I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying that it's an overinflated claim to say that the ability to subitize is "doing math." Pigs can subitize better than humans, for example. Likewise, you haven't really understood addition just because you can tell that 3+1 is the same quantity as 4.
Let me know when one of them provides a novel proof that the square root of two is irrational.
I agree that I should not have to, but the nice thing about being a regular /. reader is that I will be able to do so. We've survived DRM, we can survive this. However, I do hope it goes down the drain without passing.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. The open source community will have a high incentive to resolve this problem. The next version of ClockworkMod will come standard with a kill-switch disabler or there will be a step by step soldering guide posted to Instructables.
While there is some reason to be concerned about whether the government would commit summary execution of Snowden, I'd like to think that he would be able to return home and live, if not normally, then at least reasonably. Moreover, I think such an "accident" would raise a whole lot of red flags for watchdog groups. Let's be honest, if he dies of anything other than old age, people will reasonably suspect the government.
I believe fully believe that Snowden should be classified as a whistle-blower with respect to domestic spying. Those revelations were absolutely vital to the continued integrity of our democratic mechanism. However, I do believe he released some documents regarding foreign spying that he should not have. Given the size of the cache of leaked documents, it was, perhaps, inevitable that there would be some documents not directly applicable to the domestic spying issue. I suspect, though, that he knowingly released some of those foreign spying documents to apply pressure to the US government. This crossed the line, but it is understandable. He needs to not be held as completely blameless. As a result, I believe Snowden deserves:
1) Immediate repatriation to the US
2) Complete amnesty for all release of documents to journalistic sources, particularly with respect to domestic spying
3) A due process trial, preferably managed by a third-party watchdog, to confirm/disprove allegations of foreign funding behind Snowden.
4) Assuming an innocent ruling from 3, a minimal slap-on-the-wrist punishment for the release of classified documents not related to domestic spying. Maybe a couple years of house arrest?
I can sum up why Khan Academy is so popular in two words: mandatory attendance. To use the age old comparison, broccoli sucks when you are force fed it as a kid, but it can be quite good when you try it voluntarily as an adult. I haven't seen the recent vids, but when it was Khan by himself it was the same old chalk-and-talk you see in so many traditional classrooms, only with less precise terminology and no admitting you don't know the answer in front of the class. There's something to be said for what Khan is doing. It's rather like peer tutoring. It's a great supplement to teachers, but its no replacement. Much like Harry Potter is a great gateway to Lord of the Rings but not a replacement thereof.
Two thoughts come to mind here.
1) It's "liberating" in the same sense that being chemically castrated and color-blinded is "liberating" in Lois Lowry's The Giver. You are "liberated" from the onerous chore of responsibility for your own actions.
2) Oh, you know what, even though you've spent $100 bucks on every album by Blah Artist, he's now a bad influence on society. We, the corporations, will benevolently "liberate" you from such unwholesome thoughts. *287 files deleted*