So all the students then had ready access to Facebook, Solitaire, and Pron?
No wonder most showed declines.
Other than basic computer and research skills I don't see how computers can directly improve learning in other core areas, and could actually hurt in subjects like mathematics where you really need to know the concepts/theory. Just having a computer capable of solving the problems for you just isn't going to help there.
Also...90 for 1.5 days comes to 60/day or just under $50,000/year. How many phone operators make 50k/year?
Your math is off somewhere. $60/day x 260 work days = $15,600 per year.
So 1.2 million for calling is pretty fair. If they don't stop doing it the next judge can make it 10 million (cumulative penalties), and the judge after that can make it 50, and so forth until they get the message.
Do the penalties actually increase on further offenses in reality? Looks to me like it's $11,000 per complaint so they may just decide to take their chances and continue to eat that cost.
If you don't think 1.2 mil isn't big dollars to a SINGLE business, as opposed to an INDUSTRY, then you are mistaken. If it was a multi-billion dollar company sure - but someone is gonna feel some heat on this.
Westgate Resorts http://www.westgateresorts.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=about_us.show_about_us was fined $900,000. They claim that they have "Over 10,000" employees, which means that the fine is less than $90 per employee (about a day and a half's pay at minimum wage). Just a small slap on the wrist for a company that size IMO.
Another nifty thing you can do with gmail is add a "+string" to your account and filter those to other places, i.e. you can use obama+spam@gmail.com for "registrations" and just send whatever goes there right to a spam folder or delete it, obama+secretgirlfriend@gmail.com can be forwarded to your Blackberry, etc.
For the typical Govt Joe it can take about 2 or 3 weeks.
It takes upwards of a week after you start to get a badge... you are not allowed to get it before the start of your service and you are not allowed to do anything else until you get the badge.
Only after you get the badge, can you request your domain account / email account, and that can take another week or so with paperwork and approvals and such.
And only after the domain account has been established can you request a desktop or whatever your equipment will be, and only after that has been installed can you start requesting any special software you might need.
So it doesn't surprise me one bit that it wasn't ready at 12:01.
If you claim that actions and their justifications can not be subjected to scrutiny because they were performed by politicians, you are everything that is wrong with Americans.
Scrutiny... absolutely. But you just dismissed it completely as a sack of bullshit and it is not. There were very good reasons for dropping the bomb. There are also good reasons, many in hindsight, for not doing so. Which leads us to:
Ultimately though it was Truman who decided whether to drop the bomb or not, not the US military, so again I say calling the military "cowardly" for using the bomb is completely misplaced.
How convenient it should be to place all responsibility onto one, unpopular person who was last to sign the paper. I am sure, soon there will be plenty of this in regard to Bush, as people who wrote his "decisions" will try to absolve themselves.
Absolutely it was Truman. The President has control of the US military. He issued a legal order in a time of war to drop the bomb and the US military carried out the order. Do you seriously expect me to believe that anyone in the US military did that unilaterally?
As far as Bush is concerned, yes he is receiving a lot of blame for what has happened over the past 8 years, some is deserved, much is not. Unfortunately that comes with the job.
We had been at war for almost 4 years by that point and a land invasion of Japan was imminent, with the potential of losing millions of lives on both sides.
As was shown above, that was a load of bullshit.
Yes, the millions of lives is debated but it is certainly a fact that the US was planning a massive land invasion, and that Japan was not planning on just letting the US do that. You can play a whole lot of what-if after the fact, but that doesn't mean it would have actually turned out one way or another in reality.
*President Truman* decided to try to end the war quickly with the nukes... the US military did not make that decision so calling them cowardly is quite misplaced.
Commander in chief is not exactly a civilian position, and he is obviously did not make this (or any other war-related) decision without discussing it with the military.
The President of the United States is in fact a civilian position. Consitution 101...
Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States
Certainly Truman discussed the nukes with the military. Certainly the military told him how many they could make, how much damage they thought they could cause, and what targets could do the most damage to Japan in both military and psychological terms.
Ultimately though it was Truman who decided whether to drop the bomb or not, not the US military, so again I say calling the military "cowardly" for using the bomb is completely misplaced.
Nothing says "We are going to let you keep your stupid Emperor" like dropping two nukes on cities with no direct military value.
No, the two cities were specifically chosen for their military value. Both had large military industrial complexes, Nagasaki was an important sea port. Otherwise they would have just nuked Tokyo and there would have been perhaps tens of millions of casualties instead.
Being forced into the war does not make US military any less cowardly. Not latching onto each and every opportunity, real or imaginary, necessary or pointless, to kill with impunity, would.
We had been at war for almost 4 years by that point and a land invasion of Japan was imminent, with the potential of losing millions of lives on both sides. *President Truman* decided to try to end the war quickly with the nukes... the US military did not make that decision so calling them cowardly is quite misplaced.
"Homeowner Associations" are another phrase for "Fascism" and "Nazis". Seriously. Who agrees to be a part of this crap?
Actually a lot of HOAs are established as a condition of granting permission to subdivide land by city/county governments, and the HOAs themselves have very little power over what the rules end up being.
Mine is one example... the city wanted restrictions on fencing in the water retention area (i.e. none). Before the subdivision was allowed to be created a HOA was required to be created and the fencing restriction was required to be in the governing documents so that the HOA could enforce the restriction.
Strangely enough it didn't stop the city from issuing a building permit for one a few years later. That of course ended up with the city council having to pass a resolution to amend our HOA documents to allow certain types of fencing so that the mistake could be papered over.
My issue with them was that several times when I would go to their store to buy their advertised loss leader... they wouldn't have it. Then I would go across the street to BB and pricematch, and BB almost never seemed to have a problem with having something in stock.
At some point I just stopped going to CC completely... I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did.
So, if that's the case...why do we keep the break? It certainly isn't an incentive to have kids. And yet, it DOES still have the effect of those who have none, or less kids....are subsidizing those that do have more kids. That just doens't seem fair to me.
It's a giant ponzi scheme. People without kids do not contribute as much to the future tax base.
Its interesting to think of how much money Research in Motion would spend developing a unit specifically for him, that met all of the security criteria, just so he would be seen with it. I imagine some type of self destruct feature would be necessary, in addition to insane encryption.
Don't think so. Just because you are envisioning/imagining a terrorist action or a plane blowing up doesn't mean you are planning to do so. Context matters... you could just be afraid of such a thing happening, which would be all too common these days.
And if nothing else, saying that having three projects in development at once means they will all suck is ridiculous. Blizzard is working on at least that many projects right now.
Blizzard has $100M to $150M revenue coming in every month, which is a ton more potential development funding than a company that is worth only $26M is capable of.
IMO the Iraq war was not pointless, it has served to be a magnet for terrorists. Terrorists attacking the US Military over there are not terrorists destroying skyscrapers here.
2. no oversight of wall street resulting in a horrible crash
I think there is enough blame on this one to share with everyone in D.C. and Wall Street. Clinton is the one who got the ball rolling with these sub-prime mortgages, Bush did nothing to fix it.
3. fumbling hurricane karina to the point of looking like they cared less about american citizens than iraqis
Yes, that was definitely not one of Bush's finer moments.
4. massive new deficit
No argument there. But I don't see Obama doing much about it... he can't extract enough cash out of $250K+ people to make up for the tax cuts to the under $250K people _and_ reduce the deficit.
5. going full retard on basic science (supporting creationism, denying stem cell research, etc.)
The only difference in server is different initial default settings, some additional modules (such as Active Directory), and a half-dozen tuning parameters, most which are set through the registry anyway.
I tried Server 2003 on my desktop a while back and there was enough difference there that I could never get my ATI All-In-Wonder card to function correctly. I'm not sure if it was some setting or if the drivers needed to be updated from the XP version.
It sounds to me like the data was just wide open for anyone who could login to the system to just copy. e.g. 0644 permissions on a unix file. While the kid sounds like he had an authorized login on that system, it says he used someone else's login to copy the files to cover his tracks... this is why he is being charged. I imagine if he used his own login to do it the story might be different.
Well, since we know the TSA won't be implementing cameras anytime soon someone needs to rig up a camera in their luggage that can record the searches.
IMO that is an exceedingly bad idea. They would probably frown upon someone covertly recording their internal security procedures and might be a quick way to end up on the "no-fly" list.
Except that I've seen this particular tactic mentioned here on multiple occasions now. Do you really think they will never catch on and it will continue to be overlooked?
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So all the students then had ready access to Facebook, Solitaire, and Pron? No wonder most showed declines.
Other than basic computer and research skills I don't see how computers can directly improve learning in other core areas, and could actually hurt in subjects like mathematics where you really need to know the concepts/theory. Just having a computer capable of solving the problems for you just isn't going to help there.
Also...90 for 1.5 days comes to 60/day or just under $50,000/year. How many phone operators make 50k/year?
Your math is off somewhere. $60/day x 260 work days = $15,600 per year.
So 1.2 million for calling is pretty fair. If they don't stop doing it the next judge can make it 10 million (cumulative penalties), and the judge after that can make it 50, and so forth until they get the message.
Do the penalties actually increase on further offenses in reality? Looks to me like it's $11,000 per complaint so they may just decide to take their chances and continue to eat that cost.
If you don't think 1.2 mil isn't big dollars to a SINGLE business, as opposed to an INDUSTRY, then you are mistaken. If it was a multi-billion dollar company sure - but someone is gonna feel some heat on this.
Westgate Resorts http://www.westgateresorts.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=about_us.show_about_us was fined $900,000. They claim that they have "Over 10,000" employees, which means that the fine is less than $90 per employee (about a day and a half's pay at minimum wage). Just a small slap on the wrist for a company that size IMO.
Another nifty thing you can do with gmail is add a "+string" to your account and filter those to other places, i.e. you can use obama+spam@gmail.com for "registrations" and just send whatever goes there right to a spam folder or delete it, obama+secretgirlfriend@gmail.com can be forwarded to your Blackberry, etc.
For the typical Govt Joe it can take about 2 or 3 weeks.
It takes upwards of a week after you start to get a badge... you are not allowed to get it before the start of your service and you are not allowed to do anything else until you get the badge.
Only after you get the badge, can you request your domain account / email account, and that can take another week or so with paperwork and approvals and such.
And only after the domain account has been established can you request a desktop or whatever your equipment will be, and only after that has been installed can you start requesting any special software you might need.
So it doesn't surprise me one bit that it wasn't ready at 12:01.
If you claim that actions and their justifications can not be subjected to scrutiny because they were performed by politicians, you are everything that is wrong with Americans.
Scrutiny... absolutely. But you just dismissed it completely as a sack of bullshit and it is not. There were very good reasons for dropping the bomb. There are also good reasons, many in hindsight, for not doing so. Which leads us to:
Ultimately though it was Truman who decided whether to drop the bomb or not, not the US military, so again I say calling the military "cowardly" for using the bomb is completely misplaced.
How convenient it should be to place all responsibility onto one, unpopular person who was last to sign the paper. I am sure, soon there will be plenty of this in regard to Bush, as people who wrote his "decisions" will try to absolve themselves.
Absolutely it was Truman. The President has control of the US military. He issued a legal order in a time of war to drop the bomb and the US military carried out the order. Do you seriously expect me to believe that anyone in the US military did that unilaterally?
As far as Bush is concerned, yes he is receiving a lot of blame for what has happened over the past 8 years, some is deserved, much is not. Unfortunately that comes with the job.
We had been at war for almost 4 years by that point and a land invasion of Japan was imminent, with the potential of losing millions of lives on both sides.
As was shown above, that was a load of bullshit.
Yes, the millions of lives is debated but it is certainly a fact that the US was planning a massive land invasion, and that Japan was not planning on just letting the US do that. You can play a whole lot of what-if after the fact, but that doesn't mean it would have actually turned out one way or another in reality.
*President Truman* decided to try to end the war quickly with the nukes... the US military did not make that decision so calling them cowardly is quite misplaced.
Commander in chief is not exactly a civilian position, and he is obviously did not make this (or any other war-related) decision without discussing it with the military.
The President of the United States is in fact a civilian position. Consitution 101...
Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States
Certainly Truman discussed the nukes with the military. Certainly the military told him how many they could make, how much damage they thought they could cause, and what targets could do the most damage to Japan in both military and psychological terms.
Ultimately though it was Truman who decided whether to drop the bomb or not, not the US military, so again I say calling the military "cowardly" for using the bomb is completely misplaced.
Nothing says "We are going to let you keep your stupid Emperor" like dropping two nukes on cities with no direct military value.
No, the two cities were specifically chosen for their military value. Both had large military industrial complexes, Nagasaki was an important sea port. Otherwise they would have just nuked Tokyo and there would have been perhaps tens of millions of casualties instead.
Being forced into the war does not make US military any less cowardly. Not latching onto each and every opportunity, real or imaginary, necessary or pointless, to kill with impunity, would.
We had been at war for almost 4 years by that point and a land invasion of Japan was imminent, with the potential of losing millions of lives on both sides. *President Truman* decided to try to end the war quickly with the nukes... the US military did not make that decision so calling them cowardly is quite misplaced.
"Homeowner Associations" are another phrase for "Fascism" and "Nazis". Seriously. Who agrees to be a part of this crap?
Actually a lot of HOAs are established as a condition of granting permission to subdivide land by city/county governments, and the HOAs themselves have very little power over what the rules end up being.
Mine is one example... the city wanted restrictions on fencing in the water retention area (i.e. none). Before the subdivision was allowed to be created a HOA was required to be created and the fencing restriction was required to be in the governing documents so that the HOA could enforce the restriction.
Strangely enough it didn't stop the city from issuing a building permit for one a few years later. That of course ended up with the city council having to pass a resolution to amend our HOA documents to allow certain types of fencing so that the mistake could be papered over.
So no, it's not necessarily the HOAs fault.
My issue with them was that several times when I would go to their store to buy their advertised loss leader... they wouldn't have it. Then I would go across the street to BB and pricematch, and BB almost never seemed to have a problem with having something in stock. At some point I just stopped going to CC completely... I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did.
So, if that's the case...why do we keep the break? It certainly isn't an incentive to have kids. And yet, it DOES still have the effect of those who have none, or less kids....are subsidizing those that do have more kids. That just doens't seem fair to me.
It's a giant ponzi scheme. People without kids do not contribute as much to the future tax base.
Its interesting to think of how much money Research in Motion would spend developing a unit specifically for him, that met all of the security criteria, just so he would be seen with it. I imagine some type of self destruct feature would be necessary, in addition to insane encryption.
Considering what they do to the presidential limo http://www.parade.com/news/2009/01/they-would-give-their-lives-for-the-president.html I just can't see the Blackberry ever being approved.
"This is a test of the emergency broadcast system."
You're not going to get much media coverage once that particular button is pushed.
Something's wrong with your Vista install. On my system it prompts once, and the directory's name can be changed immediately.
Interesting. My installation is a generic Dell one.
Perhaps this is a difference between base Vista and SP1?
For whatever reason I'm still not allowed to update to SP1, so I'm not able to verify this.
generally speaking UAC prompts appear for the same reasons, and with similar frequency, as sudo prompts on Linux or Windows.
I can't believe it's anywhere near the same frequency.
The equivalent of sudo mkdir "c:\Program Files\MyDir" in Vista is this:
navigate to Program Files
right click, click create new directory
UAC prompt - click allow
UAC prompt - click allow
right click, click rename, enter "MyDir"
UAC prompt - click allow
UAC prompt - click allow
IMO that is three UAC prompts more than it should be.
Kind of like Brainstorm. http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/
Don't think so. Just because you are envisioning/imagining a terrorist action or a plane blowing up doesn't mean you are planning to do so. Context matters... you could just be afraid of such a thing happening, which would be all too common these days.
And if nothing else, saying that having three projects in development at once means they will all suck is ridiculous. Blizzard is working on at least that many projects right now.
Blizzard has $100M to $150M revenue coming in every month, which is a ton more potential development funding than a company that is worth only $26M is capable of.
1. a pointless war in iraq
IMO the Iraq war was not pointless, it has served to be a magnet for terrorists. Terrorists attacking the US Military over there are not terrorists destroying skyscrapers here.
2. no oversight of wall street resulting in a horrible crash
I think there is enough blame on this one to share with everyone in D.C. and Wall Street. Clinton is the one who got the ball rolling with these sub-prime mortgages, Bush did nothing to fix it.
3. fumbling hurricane karina to the point of looking like they cared less about american citizens than iraqis
Yes, that was definitely not one of Bush's finer moments.
4. massive new deficit
No argument there. But I don't see Obama doing much about it... he can't extract enough cash out of $250K+ people to make up for the tax cuts to the under $250K people _and_ reduce the deficit.
5. going full retard on basic science (supporting creationism, denying stem cell research, etc.)
Agreed.
The only difference in server is different initial default settings, some additional modules (such as Active Directory), and a half-dozen tuning parameters, most which are set through the registry anyway.
I tried Server 2003 on my desktop a while back and there was enough difference there that I could never get my ATI All-In-Wonder card to function correctly. I'm not sure if it was some setting or if the drivers needed to be updated from the XP version.
It sounds to me like the data was just wide open for anyone who could login to the system to just copy. e.g. 0644 permissions on a unix file. While the kid sounds like he had an authorized login on that system, it says he used someone else's login to copy the files to cover his tracks... this is why he is being charged. I imagine if he used his own login to do it the story might be different.
Say you don't like people voting for Obama or McCain? Now you can erase certain things to sway people towards voting for you in the election.
Or W can get on national TV and flashy-thing the entire country into believing he still has 3 years left on his term.
From http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4232548.html?page=2 they appear to be saying maglev is about 36% the energy cost of airplanes and about 43% of conventional trains.
Well, since we know the TSA won't be implementing cameras anytime soon someone needs to rig up a camera in their luggage that can record the searches.
IMO that is an exceedingly bad idea. They would probably frown upon someone covertly recording their internal security procedures and might be a quick way to end up on the "no-fly" list.
Except that I've seen this particular tactic mentioned here on multiple occasions now. Do you really think they will never catch on and it will continue to be overlooked?