I have kids in grade school right now. Sometimes they get to redo assignments if they did badly on them, sometimes they even get to redo tests. Sometimes homework counts for a lot, sometimes a little. Sometimes extra credit is possible, sometimes it isn't. Some teachers offer more extra help, some less.
There's a lot of room for... what shall we call it, fudge factor? And I'm pretty sure I know what direction the pressure would be in this scenario.
So first things first; we may not "know" what we think we know from this study at all.
Here comes a furious barrage of rationalization so that we don't have to acknowledge any possibility whatsoever of bias in STEM hiring. 3, 2, 1...
What does that even mean?
There's surely a bias in STEM hiring... in favor of hiring women. The big tech companies are falling all over themselves trying to recruit women, teach girls to code, etc. etc.
Are you suggesting that leftist tech CEOs in Silicon valley are actually sexist pigs in disguise? Really?
Seriously? Comparing millennials (born mid-80s to early-90s, currently around 20-30 years old) to boomers (born mid-40s to ~1960, currently in their 60s and 70s)? They're more likely to fall for scams BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNGER AND HAVE LESS EXPERIENCE. There may be more vectors for them to be scammed these days, but I don't think they're any more or less gullible than boomers were *at that same age*.
Also, didn't slashdot used to warn us about (or better yet, not link to) sites with autoplaying video?
It's actually interesting because the current cultural idea is that it's mainly the oldsters falling for scams, and that the youngsters are so much more sophisticated, etc.
Then we'd better get hot (ba dum ching) with some technological solutions.
Trying to shame and badger the hoi polloi (while you jet from resort to resort to do the badgering) into going stone age is NOT ever going to work. It has shown no sign of working. There is no reason to think that it can work.
Turn that energy, money, and intelligence to figuring out technological solutions to this.
Bad passwords are no excuse for hacking. It may be a reason to put blame on the hacked organisation as well, especially if they are supposed to keep stuff safe. But primarily it's the hacker's fault, no matter how easy it was.
Yep.
I've even heard it called "blaming the victim" when easy access is blamed for unwanted entry.
Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?
It benefits Apple because you'll want it so much you'll buy an ipad.
Office 2019 will include a roaming pencil case and ribbon customizations across all Office apps. Microsoft is also bringing focus mode to Word, alongside a new translator, and accessibility improvements. Morph transitions, SVG and 3D model support, play in-click sequence, and 4k video export are all coming to PowerPoint.
And... what is the advantage of all that over LibreOffice again? For 99.9999% of people?
Yes, the network effect, everyone else uses it... surely they can't coast on that forever?
Question: if one went to the store for eggs, do you walk around the entire store "searching" for eggs, or do you go directly to where eggs are located?
I walk to the farthest corner from the entrance, since that's where they put staples like milk and eggs. To make us walk past the upsells.
Stop trying to blur the lines between my local PC and some networked location out there. I want to know where something I am interacting with is. For security if nothing else.
Welcome to the modern law of supply and demand. The suppliers have become the customers of other corporations, and the people who pay and think they are the customers (people buy Windows 10 as part of a new computer) have nothing to say anymore.
Could go either way.
One could argue that the OS is a component of the PC, so of course the PC manufacturer is the customer.
Or, one could argue that the PC manufacturer is a reseller of the OS.
Exactly. A lot of Millenials will be very unhappy in the near future when they discover this truth. What might be PC and "cool" to post now, might fall out out favor later on.
Yep.
Twenty years from now - if that long - suddenly if you don't support a man "marrying" a goat, you'll be a horrible "hater", as bad as a racist, beyond the pale.
If not that, it will be something else equally as ludicrous.
The millenials, now on the wrong side of the equation, will appeal to logic, reason, or failing that, just to the fact that the rules changed like five minutes ago, but it will be all for naught. Their "hateful" position will be there in the social media archives, for all to see.
(Unless they are a politician in the cool party, in which case all will be forgiven.)
Really well made guns are way cheaper and easier than a homebrew, and unfortunately getting them illegally is all too easy here in Chicago from what I can tell.
What am I missing in this debate about 3D printed guns?
The identity of the targets, and how politically popular it is to go after each of them.
A hint: "D'Andre" is only a popular name in one of the two groups.
they won't care about buying a product from an [accused] pedophile
Sex with a sexually mature 16 year old makes you at worst an ephebophile, not a pedophile. Something (while still unsavory) that is far less revolting.
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Nothing in the fine summary sounds aggressive.
I guess "aggressive" now means "things that I don't like to hear".
I have a hard time believing that out of 1.6M students the ends of the bell curve vary so extremely from those in the middle.
Why?
Grades are ... highly elastic things.
I have kids in grade school right now. Sometimes they get to redo assignments if they did badly on them, sometimes they even get to redo tests. Sometimes homework counts for a lot, sometimes a little. Sometimes extra credit is possible, sometimes it isn't. Some teachers offer more extra help, some less.
There's a lot of room for ... what shall we call it, fudge factor? And I'm pretty sure I know what direction the pressure would be in this scenario.
So first things first; we may not "know" what we think we know from this study at all.
Here comes a furious barrage of rationalization so that we don't have to acknowledge any possibility whatsoever of bias in STEM hiring. 3, 2, 1...
What does that even mean?
There's surely a bias in STEM hiring ... in favor of hiring women. The big tech companies are falling all over themselves trying to recruit women, teach girls to code, etc. etc.
Are you suggesting that leftist tech CEOs in Silicon valley are actually sexist pigs in disguise? Really?
Seriously? Comparing millennials (born mid-80s to early-90s, currently around 20-30 years old) to boomers (born mid-40s to ~1960, currently in their 60s and 70s)? They're more likely to fall for scams BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNGER AND HAVE LESS EXPERIENCE. There may be more vectors for them to be scammed these days, but I don't think they're any more or less gullible than boomers were *at that same age*.
Also, didn't slashdot used to warn us about (or better yet, not link to) sites with autoplaying video?
It's actually interesting because the current cultural idea is that it's mainly the oldsters falling for scams, and that the youngsters are so much more sophisticated, etc.
Then we'd better get hot (ba dum ching) with some technological solutions.
Trying to shame and badger the hoi polloi (while you jet from resort to resort to do the badgering) into going stone age is NOT ever going to work. It has shown no sign of working. There is no reason to think that it can work.
Turn that energy, money, and intelligence to figuring out technological solutions to this.
Bad passwords are no excuse for hacking. It may be a reason to put blame on the hacked organisation as well, especially if they are supposed to keep stuff safe. But primarily it's the hacker's fault, no matter how easy it was.
Yep.
I've even heard it called "blaming the victim" when easy access is blamed for unwanted entry.
Can't we just "teach men not to hack"?
Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?
It benefits Apple because you'll want it so much you'll buy an ipad.
That's their theory anyway ...
No jokes for this one, that is wonderful :)
This is totally wrong!
Unless, you know, Zoho was promoting a political opinion I didn't like, or something. In that case de-platforming is totally cool.
... is it "beautiful"?
Over the years, but unless you're a power user, especially in Excel there's no reason to go past 03-07.
There's quite a few things I can do to manipulate data in 2016 that would be much harder or impossible in older versions.
I just wish Libre was on par with those features because I would prefer using that.
Mind expounding on which features those are?
Office 2019 will include a roaming pencil case and ribbon customizations across all Office apps. Microsoft is also bringing focus mode to Word, alongside a new translator, and accessibility improvements. Morph transitions, SVG and 3D model support, play in-click sequence, and 4k video export are all coming to PowerPoint.
And ... what is the advantage of all that over LibreOffice again? For 99.9999% of people?
Yes, the network effect, everyone else uses it ... surely they can't coast on that forever?
Question: if one went to the store for eggs, do you walk around the entire store "searching" for eggs, or do you go directly to where eggs are located?
I walk to the farthest corner from the entrance, since that's where they put staples like milk and eggs. To make us walk past the upsells.
Hey, wait a minute!
Anybody remember "web desktop"?
"Network places"?
Stop trying to blur the lines between my local PC and some networked location out there. I want to know where something I am interacting with is. For security if nothing else.
It's one lever away from an amusement park ride
(Not really. But I couldn't resist.)
Welcome to the modern law of supply and demand. The suppliers have become the customers of other corporations, and the people who pay and think they are the customers (people buy Windows 10 as part of a new computer) have nothing to say anymore.
Could go either way.
One could argue that the OS is a component of the PC, so of course the PC manufacturer is the customer.
Or, one could argue that the PC manufacturer is a reseller of the OS.
Before Windows 10, a clean install of Windows only included the bare essentials a user would need to get started using their PC.
Like a media player with a music video.
And solitaire.
Edgy doesn't require explicit sex and foul language, The 1950s showed that, making all sorts of movies about rape, cheating preachers, incest, etc.
Exactly.
I'd ask "edge of what?" I'd like to watch stuff on the edge of good storytelling.
The golden age of movies was when they had the production code. You had to actually be able to tell a good story, not just activate the limbic system.
On the one hand, yeah, blech.
On the other hand, did you really think Google weren't tracking the #%#%$% out of you whenever you logged into anything?
I know what people mean by it, but I still find it amusing that gratuitous sex and violence in media is called "mature".
Elon Musk apparently reads Slashdot: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s...
Bless his heart. He must have a strong stomach.
Exactly. A lot of Millenials will be very unhappy in the near future when they discover this truth. What might be PC and "cool" to post now, might fall out out favor later on.
Yep.
Twenty years from now - if that long - suddenly if you don't support a man "marrying" a goat, you'll be a horrible "hater", as bad as a racist, beyond the pale.
If not that, it will be something else equally as ludicrous.
The millenials, now on the wrong side of the equation, will appeal to logic, reason, or failing that, just to the fact that the rules changed like five minutes ago, but it will be all for naught. Their "hateful" position will be there in the social media archives, for all to see.
(Unless they are a politician in the cool party, in which case all will be forgiven.)
Really well made guns are way cheaper and easier than a homebrew, and unfortunately getting them illegally is all too easy here in Chicago from what I can tell.
What am I missing in this debate about 3D printed guns?
The identity of the targets, and how politically popular it is to go after each of them.
A hint: "D'Andre" is only a popular name in one of the two groups.
they won't care about buying a product from an [accused] pedophile
Sex with a sexually mature 16 year old makes you at worst an ephebophile, not a pedophile. Something (while still unsavory) that is far less revolting.