There are plenty of good arguments to be made for moving the math curiculum to statistics, combinatorics and other areas, but "making more people pass the exam" isn't one of them.
You're right. I meant to reference the codes of conduct for students and the statements for the faculty. They are different animals but still will result in students typically not being able to say whatever they want without repercussion.
Offering the choice between conflict and non-conflict minerals to the consumer is like pushing on a rope. The conflict in Congo should be solved by the people there, not by cell phone consumers. Even if the demand for conflict minerals for cell phones dries up, other people will be more than happy to buy the cheaper minerals, and use them for other purposes, or find a way to resell them as non-conflict minerals.
It's not about making a difference, it's about selling the illusion of making a difference.
From his time as Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates was all about removing choice, and making computer users use Windows software by making deals with PC OEMs.
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It comes as no surprise that Bill Gates gives privacy so little weight, with less privacy users have less choice and control.
I'm shocked, shocked to find someone on Slashdot that taking the chance to dump on Bill Gates.
I don't really care who comes out on what side here. I'm more interested in how Apple and Google move forward with their OSes to prevent this from even being a question next time.
Google "MEAN stack." Express is ubiquitous in Node installations. I am not trying to be snarky, but it would be like reading a jQuery story and implying that it meant there was "another" JS framework.
Besides, whatever your objection to JS frameworks, Node frameworks and client side frameworks are completely different.
Please tell me, because I have a lot to learn in *nix, how would I figure out to use chmod to change permissions if I was previously unaware of the command name?
For example, if I want information about the CPU, that's a WMI object.
That's a perfect example of were MS dropped the ball. WMI is very powerful, very inconsistent, and very slow. You use Get-WMIObject because there is no PS native command to get that information like there should be. It's duct tape for your duct tape.
It is verbose so you can find new commands on your own, and so you know the general function of something by its name. If someone learns the help system (get-help) and command discovery (get-command), it is usually easy to find a command. All information retrieval commands start with Get. All commands that change settings start with Set.
Please tell me, because I have a lot to learn in *nix, how would I figure out to use chmod to change permissions if I was previously unaware of the command name? How do I discover the correct commands without asking someone online or offline? By the way, the command to change file permissions (or other system object permissions) in PS, set-acl, is really unwieldy. If I were having to use it a lot on the fly in the command line, I would probably end up writing a helper function to make it simpler to supply the user and permissions level.
The basic toolset; cat, sh, mv, rm, and so forth are mnemonics.
Funny you used those examples. Three out of the four of those work out of the box in PowerShell because MS included them as aliases. You can be as sleek and incomprehensible as you would like in PS. Nobody is stopping you.
For me Powershell's absurdly verbose naming scheme is as good a sign as any that Microsoft has never really understood CLI work.
Again... see comment re: aliases. New-Alias [alias] [cmdlet].
Having both the long name when you are trying to discover commands and shorter aliases for day to day work is convenient. I use PowerShell day in and day out at work, and there are lots of problems with it. The uniform naming convention is a strength, not handicap.
It's also very hard to figure out how to do something you might not have done before, or have done very rarely, because the command names are so long that they're difficult to remember. There are shorter aliases, but they don't have any consistent naming
How can you complain that PS cmdlets are both too long to type and difficult to discover? They for the most part follow a very straightforward convention of [approved verb]-[specific noun]. Like Get-childitem, add-content, export-csv, etc. There is no rhyme or reason to the naming on Unix commands. Good luck discovering the utility you're looking for the first time without Google. And you really can set aliases quickly in PS so I see that method as being the best of both worlds. Complain all you want about ps performance or lateness on ssh or whatever, but it is incredibly easy when it comes to discovery.
Nothing typically fails in my phones before replacement. My phone and most phones are replaced because we are enticed with a newer shinier phone and amortized or waived costs with a contract.
I think the most common point of failure for the typical phone nowadays is the grip of the person holding it over a hard surface.
It takes guts to stand up to government, especially the U.S government.
I think you're mistaken about who usually needs more courage to stand up to whom in the Huge Corporation/US Government relationship. This time it was the corporation whose interests aligned with the average Joe.
He's probably using Kippo, which has an emulated shell sandbox. It will give fake output for common commands, and even allow file download (so you can collect samples). When they try to execute anything they'll eventually realize they can't really do anything and give up. You can even replay the entire shell session to watch what was attempted.
I used to run Kippo too until the SD crapped out on my raspberry pi. I speculated some of the more popular passwords were ones the malware had successfully used in the past, or possibly passwords the malware or competing malware set to make access easy when calling back. Do you allow interactive login?
Well, at least he has a reasonable expectation that it won't be completely full of security holes and that he can easily update it when a vulnerability does turn up.
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There are plenty of good arguments to be made for moving the math curiculum to statistics, combinatorics and other areas, but "making more people pass the exam" isn't one of them.
It is if your job is to "improve education."
is not "holographic"... But hey, asking Microsoft to stop abusing something is a lost fight, right?
I have a hard time getting worked up over Microsoft's marketing hyperbole. Did they call it "magic?" Yawn.
You're right. I meant to reference the codes of conduct for students and the statements for the faculty. They are different animals but still will result in students typically not being able to say whatever they want without repercussion.
Religious universities have doctrinal statements you sign when you enroll. If that offends you, don't go there.
Offering the choice between conflict and non-conflict minerals to the consumer is like pushing on a rope. The conflict in Congo should be solved by the people there, not by cell phone consumers. Even if the demand for conflict minerals for cell phones dries up, other people will be more than happy to buy the cheaper minerals, and use them for other purposes, or find a way to resell them as non-conflict minerals.
It's not about making a difference, it's about selling the illusion of making a difference.
From his time as Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates was all about removing choice, and making computer users use Windows software by making deals with PC OEMs.
. It comes as no surprise that Bill Gates gives privacy so little weight, with less privacy users have less choice and control.
I'm shocked, shocked to find someone on Slashdot that taking the chance to dump on Bill Gates.
I don't really care who comes out on what side here. I'm more interested in how Apple and Google move forward with their OSes to prevent this from even being a question next time.
They are lucky we live in a time with rule of law, because if we were living in Roman times, I would go burn down their factory and get away with it.
Yeah good thing they didn't build their self balancing electric scooters in Roman times.
I think you mean the California Highway Patrol
This suggests something about the quality of the source's and the submitter's fact checking ability.
It's new to me. Hence, my point.
Google "MEAN stack." Express is ubiquitous in Node installations. I am not trying to be snarky, but it would be like reading a jQuery story and implying that it meant there was "another" JS framework.
Besides, whatever your objection to JS frameworks, Node frameworks and client side frameworks are completely different.
Yet another JavaScript framework. *sigh*
Yet another framework? Express isn't exactly new on the scene...
Please tell me, because I have a lot to learn in *nix, how would I figure out to use chmod to change permissions if I was previously unaware of the command name?
apropos permission apropos file apropos change
Thank you so much. This is immensely helpful.
For example, if I want information about the CPU, that's a WMI object.
That's a perfect example of were MS dropped the ball. WMI is very powerful, very inconsistent, and very slow. You use Get-WMIObject because there is no PS native command to get that information like there should be. It's duct tape for your duct tape.
It is verbose so you can find new commands on your own, and so you know the general function of something by its name. If someone learns the help system (get-help) and command discovery (get-command), it is usually easy to find a command. All information retrieval commands start with Get. All commands that change settings start with Set.
Please tell me, because I have a lot to learn in *nix, how would I figure out to use chmod to change permissions if I was previously unaware of the command name? How do I discover the correct commands without asking someone online or offline? By the way, the command to change file permissions (or other system object permissions) in PS, set-acl, is really unwieldy. If I were having to use it a lot on the fly in the command line, I would probably end up writing a helper function to make it simpler to supply the user and permissions level.
The basic toolset; cat, sh, mv, rm, and so forth are mnemonics.
Funny you used those examples. Three out of the four of those work out of the box in PowerShell because MS included them as aliases. You can be as sleek and incomprehensible as you would like in PS. Nobody is stopping you.
For me Powershell's absurdly verbose naming scheme is as good a sign as any that Microsoft has never really understood CLI work.
Again... see comment re: aliases. New-Alias [alias] [cmdlet].
Having both the long name when you are trying to discover commands and shorter aliases for day to day work is convenient. I use PowerShell day in and day out at work, and there are lots of problems with it. The uniform naming convention is a strength, not handicap.
It's also very hard to figure out how to do something you might not have done before, or have done very rarely, because the command names are so long that they're difficult to remember. There are shorter aliases, but they don't have any consistent naming
How can you complain that PS cmdlets are both too long to type and difficult to discover? They for the most part follow a very straightforward convention of [approved verb]-[specific noun]. Like Get-childitem, add-content, export-csv, etc. There is no rhyme or reason to the naming on Unix commands. Good luck discovering the utility you're looking for the first time without Google. And you really can set aliases quickly in PS so I see that method as being the best of both worlds. Complain all you want about ps performance or lateness on ssh or whatever, but it is incredibly easy when it comes to discovery.
Amazingly, the coin tosses weren't done intelligently.
I take it you're unfamiliar with the caucusing process. That's the least of the concerns for shenanigans.
Nothing typically fails in my phones before replacement. My phone and most phones are replaced because we are enticed with a newer shinier phone and amortized or waived costs with a contract.
I think the most common point of failure for the typical phone nowadays is the grip of the person holding it over a hard surface.
My tea kettle doesn't have any wires either and also doesn't physically touch the power source.
This is the worst story I've seen on here in years.
Years.
It takes guts to stand up to government, especially the U.S government.
I think you're mistaken about who usually needs more courage to stand up to whom in the Huge Corporation/US Government relationship. This time it was the corporation whose interests aligned with the average Joe.
It's more likely that they'll be developing a VR Operating system, with some "flagship" proof-of-concept hardware to create initial interest
Makes more sense to me that they would be developing the phone-in-goggles like the Samsung Gear.
IIRC Ubuntu does not come with vim, but nano as a text editor for terminals (gedit for graphical). Which is fine.
It's there.
He's probably using Kippo, which has an emulated shell sandbox. It will give fake output for common commands, and even allow file download (so you can collect samples). When they try to execute anything they'll eventually realize they can't really do anything and give up. You can even replay the entire shell session to watch what was attempted.
I used to run Kippo too until the SD crapped out on my raspberry pi. I speculated some of the more popular passwords were ones the malware had successfully used in the past, or possibly passwords the malware or competing malware set to make access easy when calling back. Do you allow interactive login?
Well, at least he has a reasonable expectation that it won't be completely full of security holes and that he can easily update it when a vulnerability does turn up.