An 18-wheeler is a gross underestimation of the amount of damage kids can do. To really test if a tablet is kid resistant you need to run over it with a train.
I think the biggest thing is that we need to focus on how to make the students learn rather than trying to initiate them into a bunch of subjects they may or may not be interested in. I know students who will never love math, English, history, or science, but if we can pique their curiosity in such a way that they begin to dig for information outside of school, then we have done more for a student than shoving a curriculum down their throat ever will. This is fundamentally what good teachers are for. They take an existing curriculum and try to drive the student to find information out rather than provide the students with answers to questions on a test.
Hacking is a great skill to have. Is it a life skill? Not really. Having the desire to hack is far more important because the students will seek the knowledge.
Well first you'll have to figure out how to teach teachers to enjoy seeking out information rather than just sliding by to get a degree in babysitting. You're going to have an uphill battle with that one.
That the Boeing phone will give the NSA and Law enforcement the keys to the kingdom. There is no way they made a secure phone, the US government will not allow it.
...unless they only sell the phone to NSA approved government employees.
Their next goal is to create a set of parallel electrodes that cause the metal to form into an undulating worm-shape that can propel itself along.".... and somewhere, porn of this does exist.
I care. I'm actually pretty excited in both the phone (HW) as well as the OS. Personally I really like the idea of being able to ditch Android for another, possibly better software platform which doesn't have all the google hooks.
I'm ready to switch to a platform that isn't any better so long as it doesn't have the google hooks.
Mark Shuttleworth notes "The mobile industry has long been looking for a viable alternative to those that reign today.
This explains the vast numbers trashing their iOs and Android devices and switching over to Windows 8 phones. Good thing we'll have another trusted team like Canonical added to the equation./sarc
Has anyone EVER been charged with perjury for issuing a DMCA notice even in situations where there was absolutely no doubt no copyright infringement occurred and it was readily obvious the DMCA was being abused in order to silence people who the sender disagreed with?
There is actually a woman with a youtube channel and blog, girlwriteswhat, who speaks about men's issues (many slashdotters would like her, she's good). The same type of radical feminazis who tore town posters advertising places where she went to speak also abused the DMCA in order to attempt to dox her because according to youtube's policy in order to file a counter-claim you must reveal your real identity to your accuser. Obviously this was an attempt to harass her in her personal life in order to silence her.
Until abusers of DMCA notices start going to prison for false claims, free speech is severely hampered.
"Radack claims that the officer told her that she was questioned because she is on an "inhibited persons list", a term coined by the US Department of Homeland Security. It means the US Transportation Security Administration has officially instructed an airport operator or aircraft operator not to provide the individual with access to an area or with a boarding pass to the destination."
Steam isn't a subscription service, you pay full price (ok or wait for sales) for games and they can only be run through Steam. So uninstalling Steam means losing access to the games you've bought through the service unless you pirate them back. This does make me want to delete Steam and cease using the service though.
I wonder if there are enough irritated users to delete and redownload their entire Steam library enough times to send Valve a high-bandwidth wake-up protest message.
"It'd be really stupid to expect people to have any degree of knowledge of physics just to deal with healthcare issues."
I don't know about that, I kind of hope the guys that design and operate the positron emission tomography scanners at least took a basic physics class in school.
Yeah, I was wondering why he was being targeted for harassment. Then that line made it all clear.
Things are getting better, but damned if asshole bigots aren't going to be dragged out of the last century kicking and screaming.
I thought that for a moment as well but this makes a lot more sense:
"His flight home had included a fuel stop in Colorado before the stop in Iowa City. Mr. Silverstein said the Colorado stop seemed to be of particular interest to the agents because that state has recently liberalized its marijuana laws. "
It's kind of bigoted to assume Iowa is full of people looking for an excuse to harass gay people. This was the first state to legalize gay marriage and Iowa city is a surprisingly progressive college town. I'd recommend seeing it if it wasn't in the middle of, you know, nowhere.
This wasn't a case of redneck cops trying to harass a gay couple, it was a case of greedy cops trying to use forfeiture laws to steal a nice aircraft for themselves.
"fraud or other civil, not criminal, claims, which have a lower burden of proof and do not lead to jail time." "For example Phillips 66 paid Utah $2 million to resolve allegations that the oil company defrauded a state fund to the tune of $25 million"
Pretty sure if I defrauded the state out of $25 million from it would be a criminal, not civil claim and would lead to jail time and a fine of more than 8% of the original fraud amount.
That's because in the US people are citizens, in the UK they are subjects.
Also it is legal to own and drive tanks both in the United States and the UK, and there is a community of hobbyists in England who purchase old Soviet armored equipment and restore it to drive to meets just as though they were participating in an antique car club. The machine guns/cannon have to be disabled though unless you live in the US and have the proper permits.
Tanks have padded tracks so they actually don't damage roads as much as many tracked construction vehicles would.
"Though if memory serves, didn't Torvalds and Stallman have an argument on Google+? If even Stallman thinks Google+ is acceptable enough, it can't be that undermining to the value of Free systems."
"For personal reasons, he generally does not actively browse the web from his computer; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox, claiming to limit direct access via browsers to a few sites such as his own or those related to his work with GNU and the FSF."
On the plus side, salaries will be going up. (Because they'd have to pay people a whole lot more to put up with that).
Not if all the companies in your field adopt it at the same time. Then you have nowhere to go to to escape it and they don't have to increase salaries.
WTF? Is it no longer PC to say Chinese hackers? And so now we vilify an entire continent instead?
In other news felching all the rage with GCHQ staff.
I'm not sure of usage in Belgium but in England "Asian" typically refers to Arabs/Persians/Turks/Indians (you know, the rest of the Asian continent). It's unclear if this ambiguity is intentional or not.
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An 18-wheeler is a gross underestimation of the amount of damage kids can do. To really test if a tablet is kid resistant you need to run over it with a train.
I hope they got mine! I wonder what the sticky side of electrical tape looks like?
Your aim is impressive sir.
oh.
You meant the back.
I think the biggest thing is that we need to focus on how to make the students learn rather than trying to initiate them into a bunch of subjects they may or may not be interested in. I know students who will never love math, English, history, or science, but if we can pique their curiosity in such a way that they begin to dig for information outside of school, then we have done more for a student than shoving a curriculum down their throat ever will. This is fundamentally what good teachers are for. They take an existing curriculum and try to drive the student to find information out rather than provide the students with answers to questions on a test.
Hacking is a great skill to have. Is it a life skill? Not really. Having the desire to hack is far more important because the students will seek the knowledge.
Well first you'll have to figure out how to teach teachers to enjoy seeking out information rather than just sliding by to get a degree in babysitting. You're going to have an uphill battle with that one.
"the only reason it exists is because we're talking about Boeing the defense contractor, and not Boeing the plane manufacturer."
Well either that or Boeing has decided to produce the first cellphone with retractable wings and turbofan engines. Likely? No but a man can dream.
That the Boeing phone will give the NSA and Law enforcement the keys to the kingdom. There is no way they made a secure phone, the US government will not allow it.
...unless they only sell the phone to NSA approved government employees.
"women are missing out on lucrative careers in computer science."
Is it the computer science they're missing out on or is it the lucrative bit they're missing out on?
Because I know a lot more men who program for enjoyment than women.
Because feminists won't be happy until 100% of high-paying jobs go to women and men are treated as beasts of burden to be used or discarded.
"They say they fear that Zohydro — especially at higher doses — will amplify already-rising overdose numbers."
Then proscribe the correct doses you insensitive clod!
Their next goal is to create a set of parallel electrodes that cause the metal to form into an undulating worm-shape that can propel itself along." .... and somewhere, porn of this does exist.
ftfy
I care. I'm actually pretty excited in both the phone (HW) as well as the OS. Personally I really like the idea of being able to ditch Android for another, possibly better software platform which doesn't have all the google hooks.
I'm ready to switch to a platform that isn't any better so long as it doesn't have the google hooks.
Mark Shuttleworth notes "The mobile industry has long been looking for a viable alternative to those that reign today.
This explains the vast numbers trashing their iOs and Android devices and switching over to Windows 8 phones. Good thing we'll have another trusted team like Canonical added to the equation. /sarc
He said a "viable" alternative.
Has anyone EVER been charged with perjury for issuing a DMCA notice even in situations where there was absolutely no doubt no copyright infringement occurred and it was readily obvious the DMCA was being abused in order to silence people who the sender disagreed with?
There is actually a woman with a youtube channel and blog, girlwriteswhat, who speaks about men's issues (many slashdotters would like her, she's good). The same type of radical feminazis who tore town posters advertising places where she went to speak also abused the DMCA in order to attempt to dox her because according to youtube's policy in order to file a counter-claim you must reveal your real identity to your accuser. Obviously this was an attempt to harass her in her personal life in order to silence her.
Until abusers of DMCA notices start going to prison for false claims, free speech is severely hampered.
"Radack claims that the officer told her that she was questioned because she is on an "inhibited persons list", a term coined by the US Department of Homeland Security. It means the US Transportation Security Administration has officially instructed an airport operator or aircraft operator not to provide the individual with access to an area or with a boarding pass to the destination."
Be an ethics lawyer: get on the no fly list?
Steam isn't a subscription service, you pay full price (ok or wait for sales) for games and they can only be run through Steam. So uninstalling Steam means losing access to the games you've bought through the service unless you pirate them back. This does make me want to delete Steam and cease using the service though.
I wonder if there are enough irritated users to delete and redownload their entire Steam library enough times to send Valve a high-bandwidth wake-up protest message.
"It'd be really stupid to expect people to have any degree of knowledge of physics just to deal with healthcare issues."
I don't know about that, I kind of hope the guys that design and operate the positron emission tomography scanners at least took a basic physics class in school.
Mr. Silverstein [...] with his husband
Yeah, I was wondering why he was being targeted for harassment.
Then that line made it all clear.
Things are getting better, but damned if asshole bigots aren't going to be dragged out of the last century kicking and screaming.
I thought that for a moment as well but this makes a lot more sense:
"His flight home had included a fuel stop in Colorado before the stop in Iowa City. Mr. Silverstein said the Colorado stop seemed to be of particular interest to the agents because that state has recently liberalized its marijuana laws. "
It's kind of bigoted to assume Iowa is full of people looking for an excuse to harass gay people. This was the first state to legalize gay marriage and Iowa city is a surprisingly progressive college town. I'd recommend seeing it if it wasn't in the middle of, you know, nowhere.
This wasn't a case of redneck cops trying to harass a gay couple, it was a case of greedy cops trying to use forfeiture laws to steal a nice aircraft for themselves.
"fraud or other civil, not criminal, claims, which have a lower burden of proof and do not lead to jail time."
"For example Phillips 66 paid Utah $2 million to resolve allegations that the oil company defrauded a state fund to the tune of $25 million"
Pretty sure if I defrauded the state out of $25 million from it would be a criminal, not civil claim and would lead to jail time and a fine of more than 8% of the original fraud amount.
if you make use of the NHS at all then you'll be given weights in kg, and you'll be told your weight in kg.
That is interesting considering that kilograms isn't a unit of weight.
That's because in the US people are citizens, in the UK they are subjects.
Also it is legal to own and drive tanks both in the United States and the UK, and there is a community of hobbyists in England who purchase old Soviet armored equipment and restore it to drive to meets just as though they were participating in an antique car club. The machine guns/cannon have to be disabled though unless you live in the US and have the proper permits.
Tanks have padded tracks so they actually don't damage roads as much as many tracked construction vehicles would.
I hear status.net and friendica.com are useful but have not tried either personally.
"that are actually used by a number of people?"
Oh. Not that I'm aware of.
"Though if memory serves, didn't Torvalds and Stallman have an argument on Google+? If even Stallman thinks Google+ is acceptable enough, it can't be that undermining to the value of Free systems."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I kind of doubt Richard Stallman has a Google+ account tough there are probably multiple fake accounts of him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
"For personal reasons, he generally does not actively browse the web from his computer; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox, claiming to limit direct access via browsers to a few sites such as his own or those related to his work with GNU and the FSF."
On the plus side, salaries will be going up. (Because they'd have to pay people a whole lot more to put up with that).
Not if all the companies in your field adopt it at the same time. Then you have nowhere to go to to escape it and they don't have to increase salaries.
It simultaneously is an isn't a quantum computer until you observe it.
WTF? Is it no longer PC to say Chinese hackers? And so now we vilify an entire continent instead?
In other news felching all the rage with GCHQ staff.
I'm not sure of usage in Belgium but in England "Asian" typically refers to Arabs/Persians/Turks/Indians (you know, the rest of the Asian continent). It's unclear if this ambiguity is intentional or not.
They should get Kari Byron to test it to see if they're so loud, they blow women's clothes off!