It isn't just Kindergarten, is is throughout all of school, K-12.
They also neglect soft education like Music and Art (often replacing with Social Conformity Drills).
The problem is, we have people in far away cities, who don't have any real interest in the education of any student, making all sorts of Rules and Regulations (see Common Core) about not only how, but what kids ought to learn by when. All, often without any clue how long it takes to teach a room full of kids who just want to play.
We don't live in an industrial world, we shouldn't be treating our education system like a factory.
Unfortunately when the politicians and education bureaucrats realize this, they will mandate an equally stifling "soft education" regiment.
He has lots of money, some good ideas, and a knack for hiring smart people. Keep in mind that *they're* really the ones who build the rockets and cars.
Gifted engineers are pumped out of top schools all the time. Nobody is pumping out entrepreneurs to attract them and harness their talents for far fetched ideas like Mars rockets, or even reusable orbital rockets. There is more than one kind of smarts.
I as well as many other slashdotters have legitimate substantiated grievances with the business practices and technical decisions made by Microsoft.
Quit trying to marginalize dissent in the ranks of your advertising audience.
So wait, are you the Judean People's Front or the People's Front of Judea?
If I were the Edge team, I'd be watching my back and not crowing so loudly.
If I were the Edge team, I'd focus on general improvements to my browser and leave extremely marginal performance increases for later. A few more UI options, a few more options under the hood. Last time I tried you couldn't allow pop up exceptions. I suppose they're trying to be Apple and force people to write better websites. In the Enterprise, though, you have to deal with a range of crummy nonstandard sites and software.
Battery life isn't the be all and end all browser test. For me - on mutliple systems - Edge just stalls and stops randomly at the most annoying times - even if I've only got 2 or 3 tabs open. Chrome pretty much never does this.
What good is extra battery life if I spend 20-50% more time in the browser waiting on it to do something?
I don't like Edge a whole lot, but recently Vimeo has decided to crash in Chrome on but not in Edge. So for some training I've been doing, I've been running it in Edge. I use Chrome for everything else.
Very few people who are not a small business get Prime for the shipping. Prime Instant Video is a much bigger deal, as it's like a mini (in both terms of content and price) version of Netflix. The free shipping, originally the whole point, is more of a perk now.
massive pollution of the planet on an absurd scale
The automobile causes this. Cities cause this. Cows cause this. Spaceflight, due to its infrequency, has a relatively insignificant impact on pollution, unless you count all the knowledge we have gained from earth observing satellites. A massive increase in launch frequency would still not make much difference versus these other pollution sources.
" real-world problems "
Uhhh, amusement park rides for the bored class aren't exactly a real-world problem. Building the upcoming leisure society with drastically reduced work requirements and free basic healthcare and living conditions for all are a real problem that needs addressing NOW.
Metal tubes full of kerosene are really nothing interesting or important.
Why are you tech geeks such loathsome misanthropic sociopaths?
We do not know how many of what meet your definition of "real world problems" are solvable by easy and affordable access to space because we do not yet have easy and affordable access to space.
Perhaps fifty years ago you would be complaining that integrated circuits will never solve real world problems.
This rocket seems a bit more complicated than the Falcon 9/Heavy, quite a bit larger, and not any more reusable.
More complicated how? The engine design is somewhat more complicated (staged combustion vs gas-generator) but a single rocket core is less complicated than the three-core Falcon Heavy arrangement. Perhaps you mean the optional third stage? I still think that's less complicated than the Falcon arrangement. It's potentially a lot more efficient, too.
If they've got the USB working properly now then it's awesome. If they don't then it's useless to me. Have they got the USB working properly now?
It is what it is. I'm trying to think of the very limited set of applications you must have in mind that it would be "useless" when there are so many successful projects people use them for.
Because of that I've always been in awe of professional engineers and boeing in particular. While I might acheieve really cool basic science discoveries as a PI and even lead modest teams of scientists, Nothing I do really works as well as a boeing plane and is not even close to the complexity.
I've known a handful of Boeing engineers and I don't think any of them had nice things to say about the workplace and management in particular. Don't get me wrong, I agree that there probably is no way to manage massive engineering projects and make everyone happy. But I think the happiest engineers I've known have always worked for smaller companies or at least smaller shops. This is down in Socal, so maybe culture is different in Seattle or elsewhere.
When people realize their only hope is to train to be a successful obedient slave they have a tendency to seek measures that will help deaden the pain, and deceive themselves into thinking they really are having a great time.
So you think that athletic and frat/sorority parties are a thing because of anxiety over student debt and earning prospects? Does that really hit most students prior to graduation? I can accept that academic (and extracurricular) pressures are a factor, but if one is convinced that the system is stacked against him or her, why go to college in the first place?
Snowden, for instance, would not have done what he did if he thought the NSA was going to go after his family after he fled.
Should have noted that yes I know he did not leak to Wikileaks but directly to journalists. I used him as an example of someone who knew the cost of his actions and went ahead anyway.
The sheer transparency of the attempt to discredit Wikileaks for its role in exposing the inner workings of the US ruling class is hilarious.
I think the valid criticism though, is that Wikileaks only works against entities that won't shoot your kids in front of you if they suspect you're leaking their private business. Snowden, for instance, would not have done what he did if he thought the NSA was going to go after his family after he fled.
Astronaut rating, unfortunately, has historically been something like "we will only lose one crew in 90". Rockets blow up (although we don't yet know that this started with the Falcon rather than pad infrastructure or AMOS) and astronauts know that better than anyone else. Early reports are that this started at the top of the rocket, not the part that was firing, and it will take some time to determine what actually happened.
You're thinking of the Shuttle program, which didn't have viable abort procedures for most scenarios. All current and proposed manned launchers would give the crew a really good chance of surviving failures on the ground and during launch. There are many good reasons to put the crew vehicle on top of the stack.
It may be a great app, but they shouldn't intentionally restrict the mobile web interface just to shoehorn you into using it. I don't really want more apps on my phone.
Does that include apps that simply involve invoking a browser and opening the website of the application in question? A tactic popular w/ Microsoft in Windows Phone/Mobile
I prefer that to websites that want me to download an app. Looking at you, Yelp.
I must have been thinking by anonymity? Then does a honeypot rely on security through obscurity because it is less effective if attackers are aware of it?
This has been played out in the media in a way that a "high" Kardashev (no relation to the Kardashians I believe) is exciting, in that it points to a very advanced civilization. In reality it is the opposite, a signal requiring a civilization to have fully harnessed a star means that it is less likely to be an actual ET signal.
That's if the signal were sent isotropically (all directions simultaneously). If the signal were targeted at our planet, it only requires the advancement scale we're at. And assuming they're better than we are at detecting planets on distant stars, they could be sweeping through the neighborhood, targeting interesting solar systems. In fact, it's difficult to imagine that a civilization that advanced would waste their energy sending radio signals out into the void rather than targeting their efforts.
Full disclosure: I'm skeptical of extraterrestrial life in general, but find it odd how the civilization advancement was highlighted.
"There are some additional things I do," Spafford added, telling the reporter that "I'm not going to give details of all of them, because that doesn't help me."
Bruce Schneier had a similar answer. When the reporter asked how he protected his data, Schneier wouldn't tell them, adding "I'm kind of a target..."
So... security by obscurity is apparently highly regarded by the pros. Good to know.
That's not so-called "security through obscurity." Typically, that term refers to taking the same (ineffective) measures as everyone else so that you don't stick out. On the contrary, he's saying that he does take special measures but chooses not to disclose them.
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It isn't just Kindergarten, is is throughout all of school, K-12.
They also neglect soft education like Music and Art (often replacing with Social Conformity Drills).
The problem is, we have people in far away cities, who don't have any real interest in the education of any student, making all sorts of Rules and Regulations (see Common Core) about not only how, but what kids ought to learn by when. All, often without any clue how long it takes to teach a room full of kids who just want to play.
We don't live in an industrial world, we shouldn't be treating our education system like a factory.
Unfortunately when the politicians and education bureaucrats realize this, they will mandate an equally stifling "soft education" regiment.
He has lots of money, some good ideas, and a knack for hiring smart people. Keep in mind that *they're* really the ones who build the rockets and cars.
Gifted engineers are pumped out of top schools all the time. Nobody is pumping out entrepreneurs to attract them and harness their talents for far fetched ideas like Mars rockets, or even reusable orbital rockets. There is more than one kind of smarts.
I as well as many other slashdotters have legitimate substantiated grievances with the business practices and technical decisions made by Microsoft. Quit trying to marginalize dissent in the ranks of your advertising audience.
So wait, are you the Judean People's Front or the People's Front of Judea?
What people say they will do in a situation and what people do in a situation rarely have any correlation.
Bingo. Study can be summarized as "X percent of people with no experience with new technology have strong opinions researchers inexplicably value."
If I were the Edge team, I'd be watching my back and not crowing so loudly.
If I were the Edge team, I'd focus on general improvements to my browser and leave extremely marginal performance increases for later. A few more UI options, a few more options under the hood. Last time I tried you couldn't allow pop up exceptions. I suppose they're trying to be Apple and force people to write better websites. In the Enterprise, though, you have to deal with a range of crummy nonstandard sites and software.
Battery life isn't the be all and end all browser test. For me - on mutliple systems - Edge just stalls and stops randomly at the most annoying times - even if I've only got 2 or 3 tabs open. Chrome pretty much never does this.
What good is extra battery life if I spend 20-50% more time in the browser waiting on it to do something?
I don't like Edge a whole lot, but recently Vimeo has decided to crash in Chrome on but not in Edge. So for some training I've been doing, I've been running it in Edge. I use Chrome for everything else.
He refers to Hillary as "unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home." That didn't bore me at all!
Really? For a candid, off the record appraisal of Hillary Clinton, by a Republican-aligned former official, that doesn't seem tame?
All his comments look relatively restrained and not particularly "juicy," but that never stopped a good news story before.
Very few people who are not a small business get Prime for the shipping. Prime Instant Video is a much bigger deal, as it's like a mini (in both terms of content and price) version of Netflix. The free shipping, originally the whole point, is more of a perk now.
Yes, the news gets its news from twitter. It has its uses.
That is as much a failing of TV news as it is a success of Twitter.
massive pollution of the planet on an absurd scale
The automobile causes this. Cities cause this. Cows cause this. Spaceflight, due to its infrequency, has a relatively insignificant impact on pollution, unless you count all the knowledge we have gained from earth observing satellites. A massive increase in launch frequency would still not make much difference versus these other pollution sources.
" real-world problems " Uhhh, amusement park rides for the bored class aren't exactly a real-world problem. Building the upcoming leisure society with drastically reduced work requirements and free basic healthcare and living conditions for all are a real problem that needs addressing NOW.
Metal tubes full of kerosene are really nothing interesting or important.
Why are you tech geeks such loathsome misanthropic sociopaths?
We do not know how many of what meet your definition of "real world problems" are solvable by easy and affordable access to space because we do not yet have easy and affordable access to space.
Perhaps fifty years ago you would be complaining that integrated circuits will never solve real world problems.
This rocket seems a bit more complicated than the Falcon 9/Heavy, quite a bit larger, and not any more reusable.
More complicated how? The engine design is somewhat more complicated (staged combustion vs gas-generator) but a single rocket core is less complicated than the three-core Falcon Heavy arrangement. Perhaps you mean the optional third stage? I still think that's less complicated than the Falcon arrangement. It's potentially a lot more efficient, too.
If they've got the USB working properly now then it's awesome. If they don't then it's useless to me. Have they got the USB working properly now?
It is what it is. I'm trying to think of the very limited set of applications you must have in mind that it would be "useless" when there are so many successful projects people use them for.
How can I protect my computer against that?
The best way is to not allow people to plug usb devices into your computer. Physical access trumps all.
Because of that I've always been in awe of professional engineers and boeing in particular. While I might acheieve really cool basic science discoveries as a PI and even lead modest teams of scientists, Nothing I do really works as well as a boeing plane and is not even close to the complexity.
I've known a handful of Boeing engineers and I don't think any of them had nice things to say about the workplace and management in particular. Don't get me wrong, I agree that there probably is no way to manage massive engineering projects and make everyone happy. But I think the happiest engineers I've known have always worked for smaller companies or at least smaller shops. This is down in Socal, so maybe culture is different in Seattle or elsewhere.
When people realize their only hope is to train to be a successful obedient slave they have a tendency to seek measures that will help deaden the pain, and deceive themselves into thinking they really are having a great time.
So you think that athletic and frat/sorority parties are a thing because of anxiety over student debt and earning prospects? Does that really hit most students prior to graduation? I can accept that academic (and extracurricular) pressures are a factor, but if one is convinced that the system is stacked against him or her, why go to college in the first place?
Snowden, for instance, would not have done what he did if he thought the NSA was going to go after his family after he fled.
Should have noted that yes I know he did not leak to Wikileaks but directly to journalists. I used him as an example of someone who knew the cost of his actions and went ahead anyway.
The sheer transparency of the attempt to discredit Wikileaks for its role in exposing the inner workings of the US ruling class is hilarious.
I think the valid criticism though, is that Wikileaks only works against entities that won't shoot your kids in front of you if they suspect you're leaking their private business. Snowden, for instance, would not have done what he did if he thought the NSA was going to go after his family after he fled.
Astronaut rating, unfortunately, has historically been something like "we will only lose one crew in 90". Rockets blow up (although we don't yet know that this started with the Falcon rather than pad infrastructure or AMOS) and astronauts know that better than anyone else. Early reports are that this started at the top of the rocket, not the part that was firing, and it will take some time to determine what actually happened.
You're thinking of the Shuttle program, which didn't have viable abort procedures for most scenarios. All current and proposed manned launchers would give the crew a really good chance of surviving failures on the ground and during launch. There are many good reasons to put the crew vehicle on top of the stack.
It may be a great app, but they shouldn't intentionally restrict the mobile web interface just to shoehorn you into using it. I don't really want more apps on my phone.
Does that include apps that simply involve invoking a browser and opening the website of the application in question? A tactic popular w/ Microsoft in Windows Phone/Mobile
I prefer that to websites that want me to download an app. Looking at you, Yelp.
I must have been thinking by anonymity? Then does a honeypot rely on security through obscurity because it is less effective if attackers are aware of it?
This has been played out in the media in a way that a "high" Kardashev (no relation to the Kardashians I believe) is exciting, in that it points to a very advanced civilization. In reality it is the opposite, a signal requiring a civilization to have fully harnessed a star means that it is less likely to be an actual ET signal.
That's if the signal were sent isotropically (all directions simultaneously). If the signal were targeted at our planet, it only requires the advancement scale we're at. And assuming they're better than we are at detecting planets on distant stars, they could be sweeping through the neighborhood, targeting interesting solar systems. In fact, it's difficult to imagine that a civilization that advanced would waste their energy sending radio signals out into the void rather than targeting their efforts.
Full disclosure: I'm skeptical of extraterrestrial life in general, but find it odd how the civilization advancement was highlighted.
"There are some additional things I do," Spafford added, telling the reporter that "I'm not going to give details of all of them, because that doesn't help me." Bruce Schneier had a similar answer. When the reporter asked how he protected his data, Schneier wouldn't tell them, adding "I'm kind of a target..."
So... security by obscurity is apparently highly regarded by the pros. Good to know.
That's not so-called "security through obscurity." Typically, that term refers to taking the same (ineffective) measures as everyone else so that you don't stick out. On the contrary, he's saying that he does take special measures but chooses not to disclose them.