In addition: 1. Remove the ability for the passenger compartment to talk to the pilots except for a single emergency button that informs the pilots that we need an immediate emergency landing at the nearest airport. Hijackers can't tell the pilot where to go and they can't even threaten to kill people to achieve that goal.
2. Upon emergency landing the plane is met at the gate by EMTs and police. Hijackers aren't given a chance to negotiate before police are expected to enter the passenger compartment. This makes it impossible for them to use hostages as a buffer against police entry. EMTs, of course, are in the much more likely case that the emergency is medical in nature.
3. Once the plane touches down for an emergency prevent it from starting back up unless initiated from an access panel requiring a physical key held by the airport or local police and a password in the middle of the passenger compartment requiring at least two officers to operate. This means that unless an authorized technician is allowed into the center of the passenger compartment the plane can't just be reloaded with a new pilot and take off after the hijackers have had a chance to talk to the police. They need to allow multiple actual police officers into the compartment to even get off the ground again.
Or, even better, just keep the locked cockpit door and make sure passengers understand that hijackers are more likely to kill you than let you go nowadays. This requires almost no changes to the plane...
I'm shocked, shocked, I say, to learn that your planes around the world haven't been hijacked yet. I'm certain that the only reason they're not being hijacked left, right and center is that the US security screening system is also protecting the rest of the world. In fact, the service the TSA provides is so great that we should go all around the world and demand tribu...payment for our services.
Well, my Macbook can't run anything. I took a sledgehammer to it last week. In its current state it can't do anything except act as a doorstop. (And a poor one at that. The curves and light weight don't help.)
Oh, wait, you weren't actually trying to make a fair comparison.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use.seattle.wa.us and.newyorkcity.ny.us with an equivalent alias of.nyc.ny.us? It would save me a lot of time when I'm looking for the right Springfield if I knew that.springfield.ma.us was nearly guaranteed to point to the Springfield that houses the Basketball Hall of Fame.
You can say that more money yields more advertising and more advertising yields more votes but as far as I've seen there has not yet been one study that showed a causative effect. I understand that it's definitely worth looking into but there are plenty of feasible confounding factors that would easily disrupt the causative effect. The GP succinctly posted the most obvious one:
Wouldn't you expect a better, winning candidate to be able to get more money as well as more votes than the other guy?
Yeah, when I was in high school I had an adviser. We met with the adviser at the beginning of each school year when selecting classes.
Turns out those 'qualified educators' scheduled and taught me classes, but not the ones needed to meet state requirements.
Sounds like an adviser scheduled his classes and scheduled them inadequately.
What makes you think complaining can't change anything? How do you think things got changed to where finger guns are an actionable offense in the first place?
I tried to word all of my assumptions in a manner that makes it obvious what solution I think should be explored if they were wrong. For example, "[W]hy not part-time enroll the child in a local school?... Assuming that's entirely untenable..." -- obviously I think that a possible solution is part-time enrollment in public school for science education, but if that's not possible...
I don't think Slashdot is necessarily the worst site to ask generally geeky questions but I think the submitter could probably get more bang for his buck by finding a good homeschooling community -- I mean, we tend to be in IT not education. I'm making the assumption here that they exist and googling why homeschool seems to give a lot of varied reasons for homeschooling and their associated communities.
He was improperly advised. Not his fault. Or do you believe that all students should read the educational requirements laws for their state and assume their advisers, the professionals doing that job for money, are incorrect? I'm sorry, but I usually assume that professionals know what they're doing in order to save my sanity.
His eight-year-old should be allowed to be an eight-year-old and his school should be chastised for its foolish zero-tolerance policies. The rampant CYA and zero tolerance are more destructive than that which they attempt to prevent.
This sounds like one of those classic cases where the client thinks his knows what he wants but doesn't realize he's wrong.
First, why isn't the child in a regular school system?
Assuming that he's not in public school for some reason, what system is the parents using for education? There exist full homeschooling packages that are intended to give students all the necessary resources to learn.
Assuming he's using one of those and the parents find that the chemistry in it is lacking, why not part-time enroll the child in a local school? From what I understand this isn't all that uncommon for home-schooled kids to get science instruction.
Assuming that's entirely untenable, what about hiring a private tutor for science education? Is there a local university you can contact for resources on this?
Finally, why are you asking Slashdot and not a homeschooling community?
(I'm attempting to avoid any assumptions as to the reason for home schooling.)
That's quite the misunderstanding you've got there.
.. if they're not going to contribute...
Note how it says "contribute" rather than "do R&D"? That might mean something, like Intel doesn't believe its competitors are contributing, not that it believes its competitors aren't doing R&D.
Intel is a public company. They have a fiduciary duty to be profitable.
FTFY. Public companies are allowed to look to the future and recognize how good citizenship can maintain and grow market share. In fact, giving up greater long term profits in exchange for short term gains can very easily be argued to be against their fiduciary duty.
Anyone deemed psychotic is tagged to an automated watch service that silently records their activities. Once a predetermined set of data points is reached, intervention and forced treatment commences during pre-crime stage.
So you're waiting for them to write six lines with their own hand?
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In addition:
1. Remove the ability for the passenger compartment to talk to the pilots except for a single emergency button that informs the pilots that we need an immediate emergency landing at the nearest airport. Hijackers can't tell the pilot where to go and they can't even threaten to kill people to achieve that goal.
2. Upon emergency landing the plane is met at the gate by EMTs and police. Hijackers aren't given a chance to negotiate before police are expected to enter the passenger compartment. This makes it impossible for them to use hostages as a buffer against police entry. EMTs, of course, are in the much more likely case that the emergency is medical in nature.
3. Once the plane touches down for an emergency prevent it from starting back up unless initiated from an access panel requiring a physical key held by the airport or local police and a password in the middle of the passenger compartment requiring at least two officers to operate. This means that unless an authorized technician is allowed into the center of the passenger compartment the plane can't just be reloaded with a new pilot and take off after the hijackers have had a chance to talk to the police. They need to allow multiple actual police officers into the compartment to even get off the ground again.
Or, even better, just keep the locked cockpit door and make sure passengers understand that hijackers are more likely to kill you than let you go nowadays. This requires almost no changes to the plane...
It's a little easier to take private screeners and a private screening industry to court if you feel violated.
I'm shocked, shocked, I say, to learn that your planes around the world haven't been hijacked yet. I'm certain that the only reason they're not being hijacked left, right and center is that the US security screening system is also protecting the rest of the world. In fact, the service the TSA provides is so great that we should go all around the world and demand tribu...payment for our services.
Speak for yourself! I'm Kirby, you insensitive clod!
Exactly, just like a Christian government will provide for those who cannot provide for themselves a Muslim government would never spy on anyone.
Hey, if it makes it so that people can't willy-nilly invoke National Security as a defense I think that's a price worth paying.
Well, my Macbook can't run anything. I took a sledgehammer to it last week. In its current state it can't do anything except act as a doorstop. (And a poor one at that. The curves and light weight don't help.)
Oh, wait, you weren't actually trying to make a fair comparison.
Because it will be many years and many millions of dollars before this gets thrown out of court, if it ever does.
I think I have to eat mine.
Shhh. Either Microsoft will buy it or hundreds of different linux distros will have a cage match over how it works...
Wouldn't it make more sense to use .seattle.wa.us and .newyorkcity.ny.us with an equivalent alias of .nyc.ny.us? It would save me a lot of time when I'm looking for the right Springfield if I knew that .springfield.ma.us was nearly guaranteed to point to the Springfield that houses the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Nice. Investment capital into the TLD land grab. This can't go wrong.
Someone needs to mod this insightful. This is a point I genuinely missed.
those 'qualified educators' scheduled
Looks like the advisers are the ones that scheduled his classes.
You can say that more money yields more advertising and more advertising yields more votes but as far as I've seen there has not yet been one study that showed a causative effect. I understand that it's definitely worth looking into but there are plenty of feasible confounding factors that would easily disrupt the causative effect. The GP succinctly posted the most obvious one:
Wouldn't you expect a better, winning candidate to be able to get more money as well as more votes than the other guy?
Yeah, when I was in high school I had an adviser. We met with the adviser at the beginning of each school year when selecting classes.
Turns out those 'qualified educators' scheduled and taught me classes, but not the ones needed to meet state requirements.
Sounds like an adviser scheduled his classes and scheduled them inadequately.
What makes you think complaining can't change anything? How do you think things got changed to where finger guns are an actionable offense in the first place?
I tried to word all of my assumptions in a manner that makes it obvious what solution I think should be explored if they were wrong. For example, "[W]hy not part-time enroll the child in a local school? ... Assuming that's entirely untenable..." -- obviously I think that a possible solution is part-time enrollment in public school for science education, but if that's not possible...
I don't think Slashdot is necessarily the worst site to ask generally geeky questions but I think the submitter could probably get more bang for his buck by finding a good homeschooling community -- I mean, we tend to be in IT not education. I'm making the assumption here that they exist and googling why homeschool seems to give a lot of varied reasons for homeschooling and their associated communities.
He was improperly advised. Not his fault. Or do you believe that all students should read the educational requirements laws for their state and assume their advisers, the professionals doing that job for money, are incorrect? I'm sorry, but I usually assume that professionals know what they're doing in order to save my sanity.
His eight-year-old should be allowed to be an eight-year-old and his school should be chastised for its foolish zero-tolerance policies. The rampant CYA and zero tolerance are more destructive than that which they attempt to prevent.
This sounds like one of those classic cases where the client thinks his knows what he wants but doesn't realize he's wrong.
First, why isn't the child in a regular school system?
Assuming that he's not in public school for some reason, what system is the parents using for education? There exist full homeschooling packages that are intended to give students all the necessary resources to learn.
Assuming he's using one of those and the parents find that the chemistry in it is lacking, why not part-time enroll the child in a local school? From what I understand this isn't all that uncommon for home-schooled kids to get science instruction.
Assuming that's entirely untenable, what about hiring a private tutor for science education? Is there a local university you can contact for resources on this?
Finally, why are you asking Slashdot and not a homeschooling community?
(I'm attempting to avoid any assumptions as to the reason for home schooling.)
He's saying that other don't do R&D.
That's quite the misunderstanding you've got there.
.. if they're not going to contribute ...
Note how it says "contribute" rather than "do R&D"? That might mean something, like Intel doesn't believe its competitors are contributing, not that it believes its competitors aren't doing R&D.
Intel is a public company. They have a fiduciary duty to be profitable.
FTFY. Public companies are allowed to look to the future and recognize how good citizenship can maintain and grow market share. In fact, giving up greater long term profits in exchange for short term gains can very easily be argued to be against their fiduciary duty.
no one would be safe from arrest ever again
And that's exactly what they want.
This isn't google. You want to go to your address bar and type "google.com" into it then try again there.
Anyone deemed psychotic is tagged to an automated watch service that silently records their activities. Once a predetermined set of data points is reached, intervention and forced treatment commences during pre-crime stage.
So you're waiting for them to write six lines with their own hand?
Can you explain why you're never gonna give me up?