One does wonder why the carrier didn't reply to the police by saying, "We have the data you want and we're making sure it's not being deleted. But, for all of our sakes, please go get a warrant. That way we're all assured that this is being handled in the proper way."
I imagine that once we understood the visual cortex well enough to be injecting images directly into our optic nerve, we might be able to figure out more nefarious memetic hazards.
This would give new meaning to "Once seen, you can never unsee it."
I have lost 50lbs and kept it off for over 3 years myself but it is hard, very hard to do. It was akin to getting my masters degree while working full time hard..
Would love to talk to you off line about this. Since I'm currently doing a masters (just my capstone left) while working full time, your analogy is not lost on me. Your other points match my experience very closely.
The goal of programming is to do entertaining and/or useful things. Alice is a wonderful teaching tool because it allows the programmer to do entertaining and/or useful things without fretting too much about syntax and semantics. In the process, the student is exposed to objects, methods, variables, control structures, functions, events, etc..
For many school-aged kids, those entertaining and/or useful things may be creating a moderately complex game or just telling a story (essentially a small animated movie). Keeping kids engaged and quickly making visible progress toward the goal, while exposing them to strong programming principles, certainly makes Alice a good teaching platform.
Computer architectures have existed since at least the early 60s which strictly segregate data from authorized instructions. The original Burroughs B5000 systems, and its modern descendants, the Unisys Clearpath MCP Libra Series, are immune to this kind of attack. It's a shame that the world has adopted the far inferior x86 architecture.
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Airlines will now be able to offer flights with positive air traffic control as a premium upgrade.
*cha-ching*
One does wonder why the carrier didn't reply to the police by saying, "We have the data you want and we're making sure it's not being deleted. But, for all of our sakes, please go get a warrant. That way we're all assured that this is being handled in the proper way."
At one level, Harvard certainly should not reward people who behave in such a puerile manner.
One another level, keeping them out helps to keep ignorant people more ignoranter.
I imagine that once we understood the visual cortex well enough to be injecting images directly into our optic nerve, we might be able to figure out more nefarious memetic hazards.
This would give new meaning to "Once seen, you can never unsee it."
I have lost 50lbs and kept it off for over 3 years myself but it is hard, very hard to do. It was akin to getting my masters degree while working full time hard. .
Would love to talk to you off line about this. Since I'm currently doing a masters (just my capstone left) while working full time, your analogy is not lost on me. Your other points match my experience very closely.
The goal of programming is to do entertaining and/or useful things. Alice is a wonderful teaching tool because it allows the programmer to do entertaining and/or useful things without fretting too much about syntax and semantics. In the process, the student is exposed to objects, methods, variables, control structures, functions, events, etc.. For many school-aged kids, those entertaining and/or useful things may be creating a moderately complex game or just telling a story (essentially a small animated movie). Keeping kids engaged and quickly making visible progress toward the goal, while exposing them to strong programming principles, certainly makes Alice a good teaching platform.
Computer architectures have existed since at least the early 60s which strictly segregate data from authorized instructions. The original Burroughs B5000 systems, and its modern descendants, the Unisys Clearpath MCP Libra Series, are immune to this kind of attack. It's a shame that the world has adopted the far inferior x86 architecture.