Ha! Like any hidden service has enough bandwidth to stream anything.
Tor is used by many people who want anonymity. The fact that CP enthusiasts and other criminals use it is testament to the robustness of the anonymity it provides.
1. Malicious exit nodes can correlate your BT streams to your Tor web browsing, and learn your real IP. 2. The high bandwidth used by BT cripples the Tor network for everyone else 3. Most popular BT clients send the tracker your IP anyway.
Using Tor or being an intermediate relay poses no such risk.
Correct. Running an exit node is for the brave or those who live in countries with sensible laws. The rest of us can contribute by running relay nodes, and not allowing exit traffic.
But if everybody's TV was a Tor relay node, then it would be way fast. This is why Tor-on-TV (or Tor-on-toaster) is a Good Thing. These relays don't need to be exit nodes.
... and a new law in 2010 *excludes* members of the Church of Jediism in the UK from protection against racial discrimination and hatred.
No it doesn't. There is no such law. Wikipedia is wrong (I shall be editing that article in a minute).
The source for the wiki statement is a debate in a House of Commons Standing Committee which was scrutinising the bill. As a means to stir debate, an MP tabled an amendment defining religion by means of inclusive lists and exclusive lists. The two lists were likely to be incompatible. Jediists and Scientologists were mentioned in the exclusive list, not because the MP wished to exclude these groups from protection against religious hatred but because he wished to incite a debate about the definition of religion in the context of such a law. The amendment was not incorporated into the final Act, thus there is no law excluding Jediists from such protection.
Yeah, too bad none of that is documented in a place which is easily discoverable by reading the release notes, or using google. It's a shame people have to brute force everything about the learning curve instead of reading a manual or something like this:
Also because several people high in the SA government, including the president, Thabo Mbeki, promoted "vitamin cures" over the genuine medicine offered by doctors, and even denied that HIV caused AIDS. There was no shortage of NGOs willing to subsidise provision of ARVs to AIDS sufferers, but they found that obstruction and misinformation made it difficult for their programmes to function effectively. At least a third of a million people died unnecessarily because of the nonsense peddled by quacks in South Africa in the early part of the last decade.
That would make sense, unfortunately I do not see many human who strive to improve anything.
Except for the millions of medical researchers, epidemiologists, charitable organisations, their donors, social workers, support staff etc etc around the world, who spend a vast amount of time and money doing just that. In fact, all of the bloggers criticising Byrzinski are striving to improve things, by pointing out a sub-optimal "treatment" and hopefully directing people in need of help to more effective (and cheaper) therapies.
Because testing requires manpower and money, both of which, sadly, are in short supply in medical research (or any research, for that matter). Wasting money on the claims of a quack means that some legitimate avenue of research either gets deprived or cut off.
If you want to pay to have his claims tested, you go right ahead.
His patients are definitely paying for the research though: tens of thousands of dollars each. After 30 years, and millions of dollars, he really ought to have produced better results than a couple of conference presentations and a few papers in poor journals.
Cranberry juice salespeople are very certain of it, though. They have done very well at spreading the meme to medical professionals. Vitamin pill salespeople still do very well from Vit C sales, despite Vit C supplementation being shown to have no effect on the incidence or duration of colds.
..., and drinking 8 cups of water per day is generally considered to be enough to avoid stressing your body unnecessarily (and thus enough to avoid increasing your cancer risk).
Every time I see "8 cups a day", I think "why that number? Why not 4, or 26.3?" How much is a cup, anyway? Is it 33cl? 50cl? 20cl?
"8 cups a day"? Citation needed.
Also note that the amount of water that people need varies according to your build, your level of exercise, the temperature of your environment, etc. The whole eight cups thing is just a first approximation, not a hard and fast rule. What matters is not the amount, but rather whether the amount you drink is enough to avoid chronic dehydration.
"Just like any profession, there are people who are underperforming and even incompetent, but there are certainly procedures in place to deal with them. The GTC and GTCS bar several people each year for various professional misconducts, including not being bothered to do the work properly."
Actually you're wrong, but have touched on yet another problem at the core of what is wrong with the teaching profession:
I'm actually shocked that the number is that low. I may have been affected by recall bias as I remember seeing several stories in the teaching press about GTCE professional misconduct hearings while I was a teacher. That was the best part of a decade ago, though.
As to your suggestion of cutting pay because tightening up on standards would cause strikes, I think the teaching unions would be far more likely to strike over pay cuts (as indeed they did, yesterday) than a properly implemented programme of professional standards reform. I doubt any of the current government would have the sensitive touch that would be necessary to get something done without screaming tabloid headlines pissing the teachers off and making them unwilling to work towards reform.
There is a shortage of willing, able graduates wanting to go into teaching, though - cutting pay would mean that you would continue to disincentivise these people to teach rather than working in say, engineering or law.
Interesting. You could have the option in your app for users to opt-in to a survey, collecting data which could be used to validate your hypothesis. You'd need people's contact details (from google checkout?) in order to follow up after 9 months. Maybe you'd need two versions of the app - one data-collecting, one not. Users would have to be able to log the days they had intercourse, and the date of delivery if full-term.
You'd need a fair number of users to opt in to get a big enough set to draw meaningful conclusions, especially as I suspect the data will suffer from noise and bias due to drop-outs.
I honestly think you're misrepresenting the majority of teachers. Just like any profession, there are people who are underperforming and even incompetent, but there are certainly procedures in place to deal with them. The GTC and GTCS bar several people each year for various professional misconducts, including not being bothered to do the work properly.
By reducing the wage of teachers, you reduce the incentive for talented people to enter the profession, given that people with better classes of degree can earn more in the private sector. You then enter a downward spiral, where the losers are the children whose education is damaged.
A better solution would be to tighten up on entry requirements, encourage employers to take more action against underperforming staff (the procedures are certainly there, if managers are willing to use them), and make teaching an attractive profession to go into, rather than one which is blamed for all of society's ills (at least until the bankers fucked up so spectacularly) and which people unfairly deride as being easy or full of lazy chancers who are only in it for the holidays.
Given that sex is down to whether the sperm carries an X or a Y chromosome, how does conceiving on a particular day affect the sex of the child? Ovulation is clearly periodical, sperm production not so.
... but again, as I say, it should come from reduced primary school pay which is more or less just glorified baby sitting - the teaching material mostly involves games and is less than taxing for an adult, the hours are short, and homework is negligible/non-existent. There is something very wrong with people being paid £30k a year to read stories, hand out pre-written tests, do art and craft style exercises, and play games whilst getting 13 weeks leave a year, a final salary pension, and only around a 33hr - 35hr week. Even worse again now that much of it involves just sticking the kids in front of e-learning games. This should be no more than a £25k a year job at the peak of a career in it and the fact there is no distinction between this type of easy teaching and the much harder secondary teaching absolutely stinks.
Do you honestly believe that primary school teaching is "glorified baby sitting"? Have you actually worked in any primary schools? If anything, the teaching is more demanding than secondary schools, where pupils are usually streamed by ability. Primary teachers have to differentiate work for a single class with a much wider range of academic and social ability than in a typical secondary subject class, often with higher class sizes and fewer resources. Primary school is where fundamental literacy and numeracy skills are learnt, where social development is at its most crucial. If teachers are not effective during this stage of a child's life, that child will have its prospects permanently damaged. Don't forget, a typical 7-year old finds learning the Year 4 curriculum just as demanding as a 14-year old finds the Year 9 curriculum. Teaching is less about subject knowledge than actual teaching ability - why else would people with a degree still need to undergo postgraduate training in order to become teachers? Good pay for primary teachers is essential. And I say this as a former secondary teacher who now works with children and adults of all ages - the younger ones are much harder to teach.
You seriously call somebody an idiot for expressing a view contrarian to your own, without offering any argument or evidence in support of your own position, nor making any attempt to explain why they might be wrong? Rude.
It is incredible that Google are willing to give away the source code for free, and it may actually kill Android in the tablet arena if Amazon's devices gain ground. The Kindle Fire is going to get a lot better and Amazon are releasing bigger Kindle tablets next year.
I agree with most of what you said, but this bit baffles me. How does Amazon releasing an Android tablet (the Kindle Fire) kill Android in the tablet arena? I expect all the forthcoming Kindle tablets will run Android as well. Seems like a good way to get Android using devices into lots of people's hands, meaning the market for Android apps that work well on tablets is bigger (even if the stock Kindle Fire is tied to Amazon's app store, nothing stopping devs releasing on there as well as Google Android Market.)
I'm pretty sure the phrase "the three Rs" started as a joke. Reading, Riting, 'rithmetic. It's been this way since at least the 1920s (according to my history lessons in primary school at least). Until today I'd never heard "Reading, Recording, Reckoning" given. Sounds like the kind of thing a humourless pedant retired colonel would write letters to the Times about.
Oh, believe me, I know how important phrasing is in comedy. "Gives her one" works very well in British English: An attractive young women goes into a bar and asks for a double brandy. So the barman gives her one. An attractive young women goes into a bar and asks for a pint of beer. So the barman gives her one. An attractive young women goes into a bar and asks for a double-entendre. So the barman gives her one.
"I'd give him/her one" is a common way to express the desire for sexual congress in colloquial British English. This is why the joke is funny. Although now I've explained it, it obviously isn't any more.
In terms of working hours, secondary teachers get it harder as they have more lesson planning to do, more homework to mark and so forth but primary teachers would tend to work 8:30am - 4pm with the odd day of longer hours here and there (parents evening, setting up displays etc.).
Wrong again. Most primary teachers work at least a 50 hour week. They are often in school by 8 am and leave between 5pm and 6pm, and most bring marking home to do in the evenings (at least another hour per day at home). Secondary teachers tend to work similar hours. This is one of the reasons why I left teaching after doing it for three years.
You tend to find that in UK public sector in general that the pay is pretty good, and it'll pay more than private sector for most people from the outset of your working life, but if you're career oriented and hard working, then working in private sector starts to pay off in terms of higher salary around 10 years into your working life.
Bullshit. Once you get above the cleaner level, ie for managerial and technical positions, public sector pay is less than the equivalent in the private sector. People accept lower pay in return for a better pension deal. This is why so many are angry now that their pensions are being cut by the current government.
Teaching offers a reasonable (not huge) salary and job security, but teachers on the whole earn less than similarly qualified peers who took up professional jobs in the private sector after graduating.
I consider myself to be a reasonable touch typist - 50wpm without looking down. All of the useful key shortcuts are on the left side of the keyboard, so if you use the mouse with your R hand then you don't need to shift your L hand at all, until you need to type to launch an application. Unless you're doing a lot of graphics work, you don't really need a mouse anyway - lots of people use Ratpoison quite happily. I can switch windows and apps, move windows into different workspaces, switch workspaces, launch new programs, look at my calendar, even log out or shutdown without lifting my hands from the keyboard, just like in Gnome 2.
I find Gnome 3 completely usable on my dual monitor desktop. I had to change certain habits, but I'm not afraid of change. I personally think most of the changes are for the better. Nobody's stopping people who don't like it from using a different DE instead. XFCE is good and old Gnome apps work in in very happily. The great thing about free software is that you have a choice.
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Ha! Like any hidden service has enough bandwidth to stream anything.
Tor is used by many people who want anonymity. The fact that CP enthusiasts and other criminals use it is testament to the robustness of the anonymity it provides.
Running BitTorrent over Tor is stupid:
1. Malicious exit nodes can correlate your BT streams to your Tor web browsing, and learn your real IP.
2. The high bandwidth used by BT cripples the Tor network for everyone else
3. Most popular BT clients send the tracker your IP anyway.
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea
If you want anonymous P2P, then I2P is a much better option.
Using Tor or being an intermediate relay poses no such risk.
Correct. Running an exit node is for the brave or those who live in countries with sensible laws. The rest of us can contribute by running relay nodes, and not allowing exit traffic.
But if everybody's TV was a Tor relay node, then it would be way fast. This is why Tor-on-TV (or Tor-on-toaster) is a Good Thing. These relays don't need to be exit nodes.
... and a new law in 2010 *excludes* members of the Church of Jediism in the UK from protection against racial discrimination and hatred.
No it doesn't. There is no such law. Wikipedia is wrong (I shall be editing that article in a minute).
The source for the wiki statement is a debate in a House of Commons Standing Committee which was scrutinising the bill. As a means to stir debate, an MP tabled an amendment defining religion by means of inclusive lists and exclusive lists. The two lists were likely to be incompatible. Jediists and Scientologists were mentioned in the exclusive list, not because the MP wished to exclude these groups from protection against religious hatred but because he wished to incite a debate about the definition of religion in the context of such a law. The amendment was not incorporated into the final Act, thus there is no law excluding Jediists from such protection.
The whole debate is a worthwhile read and can be found here: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmstand/e/st050629/pm/50629s01.htm
The shedule of the Act can be found here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/1/schedule
Read what you quoted.
Maybe you have not converted to metrics. Your society has, and it's judging you. Take a look at the writing on the wall...
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
This is the interpretation of the thing:
Why do ACs insist on remaining anonymous while coming up with gems like this? This is good writing, funny and insightful. But anonymous.
Yeah, too bad none of that is documented in a place which is easily discoverable by reading the release notes, or using google. It's a shame people have to brute force everything about the learning curve instead of reading a manual or something like this:
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
Hey thanks.. I don't know about it :)
Gnome should publish this and other features so user know what they are getting.
They did, a long time ago: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
Also because several people high in the SA government, including the president, Thabo Mbeki, promoted "vitamin cures" over the genuine medicine offered by doctors, and even denied that HIV caused AIDS. There was no shortage of NGOs willing to subsidise provision of ARVs to AIDS sufferers, but they found that obstruction and misinformation made it difficult for their programmes to function effectively. At least a third of a million people died unnecessarily because of the nonsense peddled by quacks in South Africa in the early part of the last decade.
This is a worthwhile but very depressing read: http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/
That would make sense, unfortunately I do not see many human who strive to improve anything.
Except for the millions of medical researchers, epidemiologists, charitable organisations, their donors, social workers, support staff etc etc around the world, who spend a vast amount of time and money doing just that. In fact, all of the bloggers criticising Byrzinski are striving to improve things, by pointing out a sub-optimal "treatment" and hopefully directing people in need of help to more effective (and cheaper) therapies.
Because testing requires manpower and money, both of which, sadly, are in short supply in medical research (or any research, for that matter). Wasting money on the claims of a quack means that some legitimate avenue of research either gets deprived or cut off.
If you want to pay to have his claims tested, you go right ahead.
Burzynski's research seems to be unconvincing: http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2011/11/a-look-at-the-burzynski-clinics-publications/
His patients are definitely paying for the research though: tens of thousands of dollars each. After 30 years, and millions of dollars, he really ought to have produced better results than a couple of conference presentations and a few papers in poor journals.
Medical science is not certain at all that drinking cranberry juice helps with UTIs: http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/spotlight/011011.htm
Cranberry juice salespeople are very certain of it, though. They have done very well at spreading the meme to medical professionals. Vitamin pill salespeople still do very well from Vit C sales, despite Vit C supplementation being shown to have no effect on the incidence or duration of colds.
I like this as a representation of the utility of various supplements and other dietary interventions: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/
..., and drinking 8 cups of water per day is generally considered to be enough to avoid stressing your body unnecessarily (and thus enough to avoid increasing your cancer risk).
Every time I see "8 cups a day", I think "why that number? Why not 4, or 26.3?" How much is a cup, anyway? Is it 33cl? 50cl? 20cl?
"8 cups a day"? Citation needed.
Also note that the amount of water that people need varies according to your build, your level of exercise, the temperature of your environment, etc. The whole eight cups thing is just a first approximation, not a hard and fast rule. What matters is not the amount, but rather whether the amount you drink is enough to avoid chronic dehydration.
... for precisely this reason.
"Just like any profession, there are people who are underperforming and even incompetent, but there are certainly procedures in place to deal with them. The GTC and GTCS bar several people each year for various professional misconducts, including not being bothered to do the work properly."
Actually you're wrong, but have touched on yet another problem at the core of what is wrong with the teaching profession:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10464617
I'm actually shocked that the number is that low. I may have been affected by recall bias as I remember seeing several stories in the teaching press about GTCE professional misconduct hearings while I was a teacher. That was the best part of a decade ago, though.
As to your suggestion of cutting pay because tightening up on standards would cause strikes, I think the teaching unions would be far more likely to strike over pay cuts (as indeed they did, yesterday) than a properly implemented programme of professional standards reform. I doubt any of the current government would have the sensitive touch that would be necessary to get something done without screaming tabloid headlines pissing the teachers off and making them unwilling to work towards reform.
There is a shortage of willing, able graduates wanting to go into teaching, though - cutting pay would mean that you would continue to disincentivise these people to teach rather than working in say, engineering or law.
Interesting. You could have the option in your app for users to opt-in to a survey, collecting data which could be used to validate your hypothesis. You'd need people's contact details (from google checkout?) in order to follow up after 9 months. Maybe you'd need two versions of the app - one data-collecting, one not. Users would have to be able to log the days they had intercourse, and the date of delivery if full-term.
You'd need a fair number of users to opt in to get a big enough set to draw meaningful conclusions, especially as I suspect the data will suffer from noise and bias due to drop-outs.
Could be an interesting project. :)
I honestly think you're misrepresenting the majority of teachers. Just like any profession, there are people who are underperforming and even incompetent, but there are certainly procedures in place to deal with them. The GTC and GTCS bar several people each year for various professional misconducts, including not being bothered to do the work properly.
By reducing the wage of teachers, you reduce the incentive for talented people to enter the profession, given that people with better classes of degree can earn more in the private sector. You then enter a downward spiral, where the losers are the children whose education is damaged.
A better solution would be to tighten up on entry requirements, encourage employers to take more action against underperforming staff (the procedures are certainly there, if managers are willing to use them), and make teaching an attractive profession to go into, rather than one which is blamed for all of society's ills (at least until the bankers fucked up so spectacularly) and which people unfairly deride as being easy or full of lazy chancers who are only in it for the holidays.
Android Sex-Selection Fertility Calendar [amazon.com]
Given that sex is down to whether the sperm carries an X or a Y chromosome, how does conceiving on a particular day affect the sex of the child? Ovulation is clearly periodical, sperm production not so.
Am I missing something?
Thanks for the tip about smashwords.
... but again, as I say, it should come from reduced primary school pay which is more or less just glorified baby sitting - the teaching material mostly involves games and is less than taxing for an adult, the hours are short, and homework is negligible/non-existent. There is something very wrong with people being paid £30k a year to read stories, hand out pre-written tests, do art and craft style exercises, and play games whilst getting 13 weeks leave a year, a final salary pension, and only around a 33hr - 35hr week. Even worse again now that much of it involves just sticking the kids in front of e-learning games. This should be no more than a £25k a year job at the peak of a career in it and the fact there is no distinction between this type of easy teaching and the much harder secondary teaching absolutely stinks.
Do you honestly believe that primary school teaching is "glorified baby sitting"? Have you actually worked in any primary schools? If anything, the teaching is more demanding than secondary schools, where pupils are usually streamed by ability. Primary teachers have to differentiate work for a single class with a much wider range of academic and social ability than in a typical secondary subject class, often with higher class sizes and fewer resources. Primary school is where fundamental literacy and numeracy skills are learnt, where social development is at its most crucial. If teachers are not effective during this stage of a child's life, that child will have its prospects permanently damaged. Don't forget, a typical 7-year old finds learning the Year 4 curriculum just as demanding as a 14-year old finds the Year 9 curriculum. Teaching is less about subject knowledge than actual teaching ability - why else would people with a degree still need to undergo postgraduate training in order to become teachers? Good pay for primary teachers is essential. And I say this as a former secondary teacher who now works with children and adults of all ages - the younger ones are much harder to teach.
You seriously call somebody an idiot for expressing a view contrarian to your own, without offering any argument or evidence in support of your own position, nor making any attempt to explain why they might be wrong? Rude.
It is incredible that Google are willing to give away the source code for free, and it may actually kill Android in the tablet arena if Amazon's devices gain ground. The Kindle Fire is going to get a lot better and Amazon are releasing bigger Kindle tablets next year.
I agree with most of what you said, but this bit baffles me. How does Amazon releasing an Android tablet (the Kindle Fire) kill Android in the tablet arena? I expect all the forthcoming Kindle tablets will run Android as well. Seems like a good way to get Android using devices into lots of people's hands, meaning the market for Android apps that work well on tablets is bigger (even if the stock Kindle Fire is tied to Amazon's app store, nothing stopping devs releasing on there as well as Google Android Market.)
I'm pretty sure the phrase "the three Rs" started as a joke. Reading, Riting, 'rithmetic. It's been this way since at least the 1920s (according to my history lessons in primary school at least). Until today I'd never heard "Reading, Recording, Reckoning" given. Sounds like the kind of thing a humourless pedant retired colonel would write letters to the Times about.
Oh, believe me, I know how important phrasing is in comedy. "Gives her one" works very well in British English:
An attractive young women goes into a bar and asks for a double brandy. So the barman gives her one.
An attractive young women goes into a bar and asks for a pint of beer. So the barman gives her one.
An attractive young women goes into a bar and asks for a double-entendre. So the barman gives her one.
"I'd give him/her one" is a common way to express the desire for sexual congress in colloquial British English. This is why the joke is funny. Although now I've explained it, it obviously isn't any more.
Oops, buggered up the quoting in that comment. Apologies. The para starting "In terms of working hours...." should have had quote tags.
It could be a country based thing, here in the UK teachers get around £30k once their training is complete
Wrong. "A newly qualified teacher will earn a minimum of £21,588 (£27,000 in inner London) but could start higher up the scale depending on previous experience."
http://www.tda.gov.uk/get-into-teaching/salary/starting-salary.aspx
In terms of working hours, secondary teachers get it harder as they have more lesson planning to do, more homework to mark and so forth but primary teachers would tend to work 8:30am - 4pm with the odd day of longer hours here and there (parents evening, setting up displays etc.).
Wrong again. Most primary teachers work at least a 50 hour week. They are often in school by 8 am and leave between 5pm and 6pm, and most bring marking home to do in the evenings (at least another hour per day at home). Secondary teachers tend to work similar hours. This is one of the reasons why I left teaching after doing it for three years.
You tend to find that in UK public sector in general that the pay is pretty good, and it'll pay more than private sector for most people from the outset of your working life, but if you're career oriented and hard working, then working in private sector starts to pay off in terms of higher salary around 10 years into your working life.
Bullshit. Once you get above the cleaner level, ie for managerial and technical positions, public sector pay is less than the equivalent in the private sector. People accept lower pay in return for a better pension deal. This is why so many are angry now that their pensions are being cut by the current government.
Teaching offers a reasonable (not huge) salary and job security, but teachers on the whole earn less than similarly qualified peers who took up professional jobs in the private sector after graduating.
I consider myself to be a reasonable touch typist - 50wpm without looking down. All of the useful key shortcuts are on the left side of the keyboard, so if you use the mouse with your R hand then you don't need to shift your L hand at all, until you need to type to launch an application. Unless you're doing a lot of graphics work, you don't really need a mouse anyway - lots of people use Ratpoison quite happily. I can switch windows and apps, move windows into different workspaces, switch workspaces, launch new programs, look at my calendar, even log out or shutdown without lifting my hands from the keyboard, just like in Gnome 2.
I find Gnome 3 completely usable on my dual monitor desktop. I had to change certain habits, but I'm not afraid of change. I personally think most of the changes are for the better. Nobody's stopping people who don't like it from using a different DE instead. XFCE is good and old Gnome apps work in in very happily. The great thing about free software is that you have a choice.