The school has a responsibility to protect students. Do you think a parent would hesitate to sue a school if their child were groomed online and raped? I know this sounds extreme, but kids don't always know the consequences of their actions. Same for if one kid is bullying another online,. Parents do not always talk full responsibility for their kids actions, and schools have to protect themselves and other students who may be the victim of insensitive kids.
I would also add that kids have to learn that anything that is done on a school network or computer is not private. That is the way it will be when they are an adult and use work or public resources. This will important if we ever get muncipal WiFi, which of course will be monitored by the authorities.
Also, Netflix is increasingly in a position to be a monopolistic provider and I see a day not so far away when they no longer meet customer needs. Already they have not updated the iOS app to include picture in picture. Hulu and Amazon who are simply trying harder do have this feature.
Comcast, or any service, is not inherently bad. It is just that they get to a point where generating profits is more important than serving customers.
He also arguably has more episodes of his show than Sarah Palin. He did not run crying when his job got too hard as did Sarah Palin. He can speak coherently when asked to on TV.
One reason I did not buy a Nest was because Google bought it. Google does not have a good track record of supporting or maintaining consumer products. With software, particularly when they are giving it away, this is no problem. But with hardware that costs money, this is. Just another data point in not trusting Google.
I think the problem we as the taxpayer are having is that places like ITT pretty much only exist to transfer governement money in terms of grants and loans to firms like ITT. The high pressure tactics encourage students to take out loans that they might never be able to repay. The grants of course are lost funds.
With legitimate educational institutions there may be a year of wasted funds. Students who are going to flunk out are allowed to do so. Places like ITT do not have rigorous courses and have incentive to allow students to move to graduation even if no progress is being made. It is like high school.
Tesla does not have the money to make cars for sale. That is why they are asking for $1000 down. They can now borrow money based on expected purchases. It is still risky because is would be easier for a customer in a situation to lose the $1000 rather than pay $30,000 or take that in debt. A simple thing like a change in tax law over the next year could kill the company. I imagine President Trump and Paul Ryan have no love for this giveaway of tax money to support Tesla.
Tesla has not method to grow the brand beyond the initial early adopters. They are going to try to sell as many cars as Mercedes Benz in the US, but without a network of dealers. So far this has worked, but when they have a million cars on the road, when people want a new one? For instance, right now I can trade in my car at any MB dealer for a new one, and know that it will be resold and financed by MB. This keeps the value high.
I think Tesla is making a mistake going in mass market cars. I think they are doing this because they don't want to seem elitist, but to me it one is an elitists, if one can afford to live in Silicon Valley and drive a $100K car, then one should just accept who one is and not try to create a rosy façade.
I never know if I am on a tech site or the old fogeys ranting about how the young uns are making the world go to hell. Do people actually do innovative things, or is everyone those people who are going to leave their company because they no longer get free Red Bull.
Honestly this is kind of silly but no more silly than an app to track where you are going, or an app to get you laid because you are too lazy to leave your house. I am interested in seeing how this works and seeing how this evolves. I would think that many people around here would be interested as well, unless of course most of the people around here work at the buggy whip factory.
Several years ago this happened to the NYT. It was serving malware ads for the entire weekend. That was the point when I went from ambivalent to pro-adblocker.
This is why Forbes is dead to me. Used to link to it a lot.
To take this bit seriously, not secure by default, but the mac use case is not the same for as many MS Window users.
For example, most of my work is continuously backed up to iCloud and Dropbox. iCloud for Apple Apps, and Dropbox for LaTex, Python and other stuff. My computers are backed up by Time Machine, especially my photography machine.
It would seem for most stuff, a simple wipe and restore would fix the problem. I suppose for some enterprise customers it would be a problem, but it people are not making incremental backup of machines, this really is a bigger issue than malware. These people are one disk failure away from oblivion even without malware.
Not really, the implication is that they are trying to generate clicks by mixing ads and results. I suspect soon the ads, clearly marked, will be completely mixed in the results.
The Google page has become messy and much less useful. Recall that one of Google innovations was a clear, transparent, and clean results page. It is now necessary to analyze the page pretty completely before understanding what is relevant.
Also, less ads means that the advertisers have to bid higher amounts to get on the page. I can see this as simple attempt to combat the claim that most ads generate no real results for the advertiser. Now the advertiser might have more of a chance of being seen, but a much higher price that may not be commensurate with the increased visibility.
It is not so much CPU intensive, as much as animated ads are very distracting, often has an undesired audio component, etc.
Pretty much Flash is going away because most web browsers have the ability to block flash. We don't have the ability to block HTM5 animation.
Most of us work in situations where data is either privileged from a business perspective or legally protected. Even if actual private data is not being collected, patterns and routines can steal lead to actionable leaks. In as much as we expect to remain competitive and work within the law, potentially this does effect functionality.
The reason one uses iPhone is that you use the Apple stack of services. The reason one uses Android is that one uses the Google stack of services. Apple you pay for storage. Google scans your email to sell ads. Google has not updated the office application in years. On an iOS you have office applications from Apple, from MS, from several vendors. Not to mention a pretty good exchange client.
You can buy music from anywhere to play on either device. If you are dumb enough to buy copy protected music, that is a personal problem. Video is still locked in, but again, if you buy video that is locked into a device, that again is a personal problem.
There is no real reason, other than the preferred supplier of services, to choose one type of phone over the other. However, we do remember that the Nexus One was a failure and those who bought one were left in the lurch, which is one thing Google does. It really has not competency at end user support. In fact, most people don't buy an Android phone, they buy a Samsung, if they can afford one. In fact Apple and Samsung are the only firms making money off phones, and have 40% of the market.
Most of the 60% of the market is buying an Android phone because it is free or nearly free, and don't really care who makes it because the don't have the money to pay for a phone or services. Which can work for Google because they are an advertising and marketing company, and the should be able to monetize end user data. Which is to say if they make a Nexus which is free, they could knock out most of the competition. But if they want to pay real money for a phone that is simply going to be used to mine my data, then they can go screw themselves.
The tolerance on Legos are really good. I have done activities where kids have practice mechanical drawing by measuring and modeling Legos, and I could often could not measure a difference between block using a really good caliper. This tolerance is very believable.
From what I can tell, a normal $5,000 3d printer has a resolution of 100 to 1000 times this. I would think that a 3d printer with a 50 micron resolution would provide acceptable parts, but that may be getting to $10k. I know there are some sub 1 micron printers, which is what is needed, but that is 100K.
Legos are awesome, and I just am annoyed that they mostly come in pre packaged promotional units and 500 pieces to play with are not so common.
I did learn to program around 10 or 11, but i really needed a physical model until I was around 13, and did not do any independent programming until I was 14.
The thing with math and programming is that it is algorithmic, and rules that are enforced must more loosely in life are enforced rather more precisely. This is difficult to get across to a kid who is still focused on testing boundaries rather than accepting limits. For example recently I had a kid tell me that the computer was broken because he could not set a password when in fact the problem was that he was testing limits and refusing to comply with the clearly stated password policy. He had not yet learned that computers are algorithmic.
I think for most ten years old learning to do math and code is the goal. Just remember that doing math is not necessarily symbols manipulation and coding is not necessarily typing on a computer. This was a benefit of my education. Computer time was expensive enough that we had to have an algorithm before we coded.
So buy toys where math happens. For instance a scale where equations are balanced. A robot where things have to be specified and calculated, where the right wheel is held still for a left turn.
I know that this tracking and data analysis is only used to verify customer complaints, but I wonder why a complaint against a contract worker needs to be verified? If I am an employee, then there the firm that employs me not only has real costs associated with me but also has laws they need to comply with before terminating me. However, with a contract worker there are fewer costs and no laws preventing with termination. If we believe in the Uber model, driver should be terminated as quickly as possible so that the driving pool is as constantly good as possible. After all, one cited issue with the traditional cab industry is that it encourages bad drivers because incumbent practices protect bad drivers. That Uber now seems to think of drivers as employees to be protected shows a fast evolution to the cab model.
As an employee, there is strict time enforcement, there are rules on paperwork, and even behavior. As a contract worker, I was never micromanaged. No one every bugged my computer, or demanded detailed records. If I was not getting work done then the contract was terminated. It was that simple. If I am a contract worker being treated as an employee would not seem to be very fair and counterproductive.
As soon as it hits cell phones. As much as we want to advocate the open source nature of Android, it has not really lead to open source phones. While there are many benefits of open source, and Android has many of them, when the software hits the hardware, it tends to fall apart. That is because most of us are not going to take the time to manually apply patches and fix source code even if we have the skill, even if we have the access.
For phones it is often a matter of insuring that the airwaves are used in accordance to regulations. In the case of large machinery and the like,it is safety. Now, the safety argument is going to be overused by the manufacturers who want to maximize profits, but that does not mean they become irrelevant.
What is clear is that copyright and the DMCA are a very clumsy way to make sure that machinery remains in compliance with safety codes. We need another way. But I will add this. If I have a job working on a tractor trying to earn money to feed my family, I want that tractor to be safe, and if it is not, I don't want the reason for my death to be the farmer who thought he could muck around the source code.
from the point of view of epistemology, the answer to your question is something we can, eventually, figure out and agree that the answer is valid within a specific known domain of mathematics. We have well defined words, processes, and can calculate the answer brute force given enough resource, or maybe through some tricks if we are clever enough.
This question is different, and I would say ill posed. It would be like asking an ancient Greek if fire could be taken out of wood so it would not burn, or asking newton if there was a limit to how fast things can travel, or the modern cosmologist why, if we developed quantum mechanics and relativity to avoid infinities, they are so comfortable with infinities in their science.
The question is not if we can get to within 10^{-100}, which we are relatively certain we cannot, I religious terms god has moved from the mountains, to the heavens, to the infinitesimal after the big bang. The question is what will be our next formulation of cosmology that will allow us to know what we now consider unknowable.
Also, at 73% accurate for 'touch log' events, it will only capture an average of 2.92 characters of a four digit pin.
It is absolutely a fascinating technology, and these technologies do improve over time. What is more interesting is the keyboard accuracy. At 59% it might be possible for a user to leak significant information. Language includes a lot of redundant information, and assuming a touch typist you are only dealing with half of the characters which can reduce the error. I assume that knowing the language one could fill in missing data.
It depends who is being survilled. Many will be ok with violating the rights of muslims, but what about the Christians in N and S Carolina who are much more likely to kill cops and be terrorist than the rest of country? Should we bug all the evangelical churches if it meant that a few cops and several civilians will be saved?
I don't know if it is possible to have a MS Windows running on the internet without a anti virus software. So the question is not which AV software has vulnerabilities, as all software has this issue, but which provides significantly more protection than risk. Or if there is better way to protect MS Windows machines than AV software.
The summary mostly seems to talk about collaboration and problems solving skills. There may be some good things here. Having children place blocks in a certain order so a problem is solved is a good thing, as long as it is concrete. For instance places abstracts steps in order so a task is complete would be a waste of time, but placing a track so a truck could get between two points, or places clothes in an order for dressing would really help kids learn the skills they need.
I do find the collaboration aspect troubling, mostly because kids this age are associative in play, and many will not have reached cooperative play. By first grade, many of the students should have cooperative play, but what seems to be required is that each student draw, for example, part of a elephant and then put it together. This might be a task that advanced students can accomplish, but would not be a task that would allow all students to learn the skills needed for 2030.
It did not seem to be a fishing expedition where everyone who passed by was targeted. This seemed to be good police work and shows we don't need to violate civil rights in order to protect the innocent. Creating an account on something like this is pretty much intent to commit a crime.
And is no different than working on any other marginal website. When you go to a web site there are all sorts of crap that can be put onto your computer. It is why we have to run so protected now. Any website can be a vector to take over and destroy a computer. It is so common it hardly seems like it is breaking the law. So the authorities are held up to higher standard than the criminals, which is good.
First, it annoys me to now end to have to read a 'science' book published in a word processor. It looks ugly and unprofessional and incompetent. It is just my opinion, and I am not going to embarrass anyone by showing examples, but suffice it to say 25 years ago when MS Words was cool we did not know any better, but now if you are doing a science book, do it in LaTex. It will make updates easier.
Two, look at the Push Pop press technology which published Al Gore's Incontinent Truth, now called Our Choice. Aside from the politics, the technology in the book is everything the post asked for. I am pretty sure it publishes the book as an APP, but as mentioned an ebook is an extremely limited format, especially on a kindle.
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I would also add that kids have to learn that anything that is done on a school network or computer is not private. That is the way it will be when they are an adult and use work or public resources. This will important if we ever get muncipal WiFi, which of course will be monitored by the authorities.
Also, Netflix is increasingly in a position to be a monopolistic provider and I see a day not so far away when they no longer meet customer needs. Already they have not updated the iOS app to include picture in picture. Hulu and Amazon who are simply trying harder do have this feature. Comcast, or any service, is not inherently bad. It is just that they get to a point where generating profits is more important than serving customers.
He also arguably has more episodes of his show than Sarah Palin. He did not run crying when his job got too hard as did Sarah Palin. He can speak coherently when asked to on TV.
One reason I did not buy a Nest was because Google bought it. Google does not have a good track record of supporting or maintaining consumer products. With software, particularly when they are giving it away, this is no problem. But with hardware that costs money, this is. Just another data point in not trusting Google.
With legitimate educational institutions there may be a year of wasted funds. Students who are going to flunk out are allowed to do so. Places like ITT do not have rigorous courses and have incentive to allow students to move to graduation even if no progress is being made. It is like high school.
Tesla has not method to grow the brand beyond the initial early adopters. They are going to try to sell as many cars as Mercedes Benz in the US, but without a network of dealers. So far this has worked, but when they have a million cars on the road, when people want a new one? For instance, right now I can trade in my car at any MB dealer for a new one, and know that it will be resold and financed by MB. This keeps the value high.
I think Tesla is making a mistake going in mass market cars. I think they are doing this because they don't want to seem elitist, but to me it one is an elitists, if one can afford to live in Silicon Valley and drive a $100K car, then one should just accept who one is and not try to create a rosy façade.
Honestly this is kind of silly but no more silly than an app to track where you are going, or an app to get you laid because you are too lazy to leave your house. I am interested in seeing how this works and seeing how this evolves. I would think that many people around here would be interested as well, unless of course most of the people around here work at the buggy whip factory.
Several years ago this happened to the NYT. It was serving malware ads for the entire weekend. That was the point when I went from ambivalent to pro-adblocker. This is why Forbes is dead to me. Used to link to it a lot.
For example, most of my work is continuously backed up to iCloud and Dropbox. iCloud for Apple Apps, and Dropbox for LaTex, Python and other stuff. My computers are backed up by Time Machine, especially my photography machine.
It would seem for most stuff, a simple wipe and restore would fix the problem. I suppose for some enterprise customers it would be a problem, but it people are not making incremental backup of machines, this really is a bigger issue than malware. These people are one disk failure away from oblivion even without malware.
A surprising number of terrorists in the US have ties to N and S Carolina. That these states keep making the news for oppression is not surprising.
The Google page has become messy and much less useful. Recall that one of Google innovations was a clear, transparent, and clean results page. It is now necessary to analyze the page pretty completely before understanding what is relevant.
Also, less ads means that the advertisers have to bid higher amounts to get on the page. I can see this as simple attempt to combat the claim that most ads generate no real results for the advertiser. Now the advertiser might have more of a chance of being seen, but a much higher price that may not be commensurate with the increased visibility.
It is not so much CPU intensive, as much as animated ads are very distracting, often has an undesired audio component, etc. Pretty much Flash is going away because most web browsers have the ability to block flash. We don't have the ability to block HTM5 animation.
Most of us work in situations where data is either privileged from a business perspective or legally protected. Even if actual private data is not being collected, patterns and routines can steal lead to actionable leaks. In as much as we expect to remain competitive and work within the law, potentially this does effect functionality.
The reason one uses iPhone is that you use the Apple stack of services. The reason one uses Android is that one uses the Google stack of services. Apple you pay for storage. Google scans your email to sell ads. Google has not updated the office application in years. On an iOS you have office applications from Apple, from MS, from several vendors. Not to mention a pretty good exchange client. You can buy music from anywhere to play on either device. If you are dumb enough to buy copy protected music, that is a personal problem. Video is still locked in, but again, if you buy video that is locked into a device, that again is a personal problem. There is no real reason, other than the preferred supplier of services, to choose one type of phone over the other. However, we do remember that the Nexus One was a failure and those who bought one were left in the lurch, which is one thing Google does. It really has not competency at end user support. In fact, most people don't buy an Android phone, they buy a Samsung, if they can afford one. In fact Apple and Samsung are the only firms making money off phones, and have 40% of the market. Most of the 60% of the market is buying an Android phone because it is free or nearly free, and don't really care who makes it because the don't have the money to pay for a phone or services. Which can work for Google because they are an advertising and marketing company, and the should be able to monetize end user data. Which is to say if they make a Nexus which is free, they could knock out most of the competition. But if they want to pay real money for a phone that is simply going to be used to mine my data, then they can go screw themselves.
The tolerance on Legos are really good. I have done activities where kids have practice mechanical drawing by measuring and modeling Legos, and I could often could not measure a difference between block using a really good caliper. This tolerance is very believable. From what I can tell, a normal $5,000 3d printer has a resolution of 100 to 1000 times this. I would think that a 3d printer with a 50 micron resolution would provide acceptable parts, but that may be getting to $10k. I know there are some sub 1 micron printers, which is what is needed, but that is 100K. Legos are awesome, and I just am annoyed that they mostly come in pre packaged promotional units and 500 pieces to play with are not so common.
I did learn to program around 10 or 11, but i really needed a physical model until I was around 13, and did not do any independent programming until I was 14. The thing with math and programming is that it is algorithmic, and rules that are enforced must more loosely in life are enforced rather more precisely. This is difficult to get across to a kid who is still focused on testing boundaries rather than accepting limits. For example recently I had a kid tell me that the computer was broken because he could not set a password when in fact the problem was that he was testing limits and refusing to comply with the clearly stated password policy. He had not yet learned that computers are algorithmic. I think for most ten years old learning to do math and code is the goal. Just remember that doing math is not necessarily symbols manipulation and coding is not necessarily typing on a computer. This was a benefit of my education. Computer time was expensive enough that we had to have an algorithm before we coded. So buy toys where math happens. For instance a scale where equations are balanced. A robot where things have to be specified and calculated, where the right wheel is held still for a left turn.
As an employee, there is strict time enforcement, there are rules on paperwork, and even behavior. As a contract worker, I was never micromanaged. No one every bugged my computer, or demanded detailed records. If I was not getting work done then the contract was terminated. It was that simple. If I am a contract worker being treated as an employee would not seem to be very fair and counterproductive.
For phones it is often a matter of insuring that the airwaves are used in accordance to regulations. In the case of large machinery and the like,it is safety. Now, the safety argument is going to be overused by the manufacturers who want to maximize profits, but that does not mean they become irrelevant.
What is clear is that copyright and the DMCA are a very clumsy way to make sure that machinery remains in compliance with safety codes. We need another way. But I will add this. If I have a job working on a tractor trying to earn money to feed my family, I want that tractor to be safe, and if it is not, I don't want the reason for my death to be the farmer who thought he could muck around the source code.
from the point of view of epistemology, the answer to your question is something we can, eventually, figure out and agree that the answer is valid within a specific known domain of mathematics. We have well defined words, processes, and can calculate the answer brute force given enough resource, or maybe through some tricks if we are clever enough. This question is different, and I would say ill posed. It would be like asking an ancient Greek if fire could be taken out of wood so it would not burn, or asking newton if there was a limit to how fast things can travel, or the modern cosmologist why, if we developed quantum mechanics and relativity to avoid infinities, they are so comfortable with infinities in their science. The question is not if we can get to within 10^{-100}, which we are relatively certain we cannot, I religious terms god has moved from the mountains, to the heavens, to the infinitesimal after the big bang. The question is what will be our next formulation of cosmology that will allow us to know what we now consider unknowable.
Also, at 73% accurate for 'touch log' events, it will only capture an average of 2.92 characters of a four digit pin. It is absolutely a fascinating technology, and these technologies do improve over time. What is more interesting is the keyboard accuracy. At 59% it might be possible for a user to leak significant information. Language includes a lot of redundant information, and assuming a touch typist you are only dealing with half of the characters which can reduce the error. I assume that knowing the language one could fill in missing data.
It depends who is being survilled. Many will be ok with violating the rights of muslims, but what about the Christians in N and S Carolina who are much more likely to kill cops and be terrorist than the rest of country? Should we bug all the evangelical churches if it meant that a few cops and several civilians will be saved?
I don't know if it is possible to have a MS Windows running on the internet without a anti virus software. So the question is not which AV software has vulnerabilities, as all software has this issue, but which provides significantly more protection than risk. Or if there is better way to protect MS Windows machines than AV software.
The summary mostly seems to talk about collaboration and problems solving skills. There may be some good things here. Having children place blocks in a certain order so a problem is solved is a good thing, as long as it is concrete. For instance places abstracts steps in order so a task is complete would be a waste of time, but placing a track so a truck could get between two points, or places clothes in an order for dressing would really help kids learn the skills they need. I do find the collaboration aspect troubling, mostly because kids this age are associative in play, and many will not have reached cooperative play. By first grade, many of the students should have cooperative play, but what seems to be required is that each student draw, for example, part of a elephant and then put it together. This might be a task that advanced students can accomplish, but would not be a task that would allow all students to learn the skills needed for 2030.
It did not seem to be a fishing expedition where everyone who passed by was targeted. This seemed to be good police work and shows we don't need to violate civil rights in order to protect the innocent. Creating an account on something like this is pretty much intent to commit a crime. And is no different than working on any other marginal website. When you go to a web site there are all sorts of crap that can be put onto your computer. It is why we have to run so protected now. Any website can be a vector to take over and destroy a computer. It is so common it hardly seems like it is breaking the law. So the authorities are held up to higher standard than the criminals, which is good.
Two, look at the Push Pop press technology which published Al Gore's Incontinent Truth, now called Our Choice. Aside from the politics, the technology in the book is everything the post asked for. I am pretty sure it publishes the book as an APP, but as mentioned an ebook is an extremely limited format, especially on a kindle.