Specifically: if someone, US citizen or not, comes over the border with a laptop, can the border goons compel someone to boot the machine (supplying whatever passwords are necessary to do so) to enter?
If Christie is dumb enough to believe that it's a traffic study and repeat it without verifying, then he is guilty of incompetence at a level that warrants the same sort of condemnation as corruption does.
Somewhat new to the DC area: what *is* with these toll roads? Gas and vehicle taxes are ridiculous around here, you'd think they could afford some damned public, free roads like civilized places have.
At least in Chicago someone fixes a pothole occasionally. This doesn't happen in Washington DC; here people admire the federal government because next to the local government it looks like the model of efficiency and honor.
Didn't Christie directly say it was a traffic study? Regardless of whether he ordered it or not (abuse of power), he's now engaged in lying and obstruction of justice.
Given that the governments in New York and New Jersey don't even give lip service to actually having the best interests of the people at heart, shouldn't the ownership of critical infrastructure, held in trust for the people, be in the hands of someone else?
Edward Snowden played a chessmasters game in his defection and for it our government is left to do nothing more but ensure negative propaganda against him is dissemenated appropriately to all media outlets and further steps taken to mitigate a repeat performance. The only difference between a soviet system, the one we feared for 20 years, and our system, is that every 4 years we're burdened with the task of shuffling off to a school or church to apply our endorsement for a party. there are normally only ever two however.
You're naive if you believe this.
I live in Washington DC. There are city buses with "Thank you Edward Snowden!" advertisements on the sides, so big you can read it from a city block away, paid for by his supporters. There's an advertisement in the Pentagon subway station that says "Snowden honored his oath -- honor yours. Report unethical actions." with a URL.
Compare this to what happened in the Soviet Union -- you'd never see this in Moscow in the 1960's. Yes, there are things that aren't perfect in the US. Yes, our government does some scary, scummy, tyrannical things. But just because things aren't perfect doesn't mean that we're living in a totalitarian hell.
I volunteered at a charter school (BASIS Tucson North) in Tucson, spoke with some of the teachers, and later one of my friends worked there. It's a wonderful place; the teachers are given a great deal of freedom to teach effectively, since they were hired as professionals who can figure out what the students need on their own, rather than being micromanaged by policies and administrators. This fellow taught physics, and was encouraged to do things like make the senior class a special projects course, teach quantum mechanics in high school, etc. The same's true for a friend who teaches Latin at the Basis school in Flagstaff. These are public charter schools: anyone who wants to attend is on equal footing with anyone else who wants to attend (unless they have a sibling who already goes there), and may attend for free.
Now I'm in Washington DC, where 40% of students go to charters. They do that because the schoolboard-run public schools here are in many cases awful, and the charters give kids in the projects another option. Test results (if you put any stock in them) show that children at charter schools do somewhat better than children at the schoolboard schools (they're all "public schools"), but there's a hidden variable there. In Northwest DC (the wealthier, low-crime, white area), there aren't that many charter schools, since the schoolboard schools here are actually somewhat decent; in Southeast and Northeast (the black areas), the schoolboard schools are bad and there are more charters. So, despite a less favorable demographic, the charter schools have higher test results overall.
Are all of them good? Of course not; the ones that are bad wind up becoming known as bad, and attendance goes down. But they at least give parents and children an option to get out of awful schoolboard schools if they can't pay for a private school. A first-grader doesn't have time for all sorts of excuses about schoolboard politics or administrative red tape or curriculum standards; she just needs to be taught to read and write. If her neighborhood schoolboard school isn't doing that, charters give her a second shot at getting what her parents are paying for when they pay taxes.
If the schoolboard-school advocates want charter schools to go away, then they can sort their own house out first.
I think ultimately it's about unionization: in places where teachers are heavily pressured (or forced) into joining the teachers' union, charter schools represent a crack in the monopoly the union has on teachers' labor. The unions hate charter schools for that reason, and I think a lot of the anti-charter rhetoric comes from the unions' dislike for non-union teaching going on.
Just because thing A used to be better doesn't mean that thing B used to be better too. Can't we look at the past and say "This was good, but that was bad"?
This isn't intended for you if you can't think of what to do with all those cores.
This is for the high performance physics folks to whom the difference between 16 cores, 256 cores, and maybe even 8192 cores is a line in a config file.
It's also for the folks developing 24 megapixel RAW files (which Nikon's cheapest SLR spits out these days), where splitting the image into 64 sectors is no more difficult than splitting it into four, or for the folks doing video encoding which is pretty trivially parallelizable.
Most of the times that I can think of where I'm truly waiting on my computer to do something that's limited by the number of flops that can be brought to bear, more cores is just as good as more speed.
"It will take years, if not decades, for us to return to the position that we had prior to his disclosures."
Yes, and the hope is that the US will have a very public conversation about whether that position is something we want to allow you to return to in the meantime.
I have a friend sitting next to me who's not the most computer-geeky of folks who likes hers; she's aware that one could wipe ChromeOS and put something more useful on it, but for now it does "everything she needs". She does have another laptop elsewhere (a larger thing).
That's actually a very good idea. And the false alarms could be dealt with by further readings from the accelerometer -- "in guy's pocket while he's seizing" and "dropped on ground" don't look the same.
Okay, I'm a computational physicist, not a CS guy, so my knowledge of programming is limited to what's needed to make the thing work. But isn't this... extremely, painfully trivial? Like, when I taught Baby's First Computational Physics Course For Freshmen, we made them compute the first million prime numbers as part of the week 1 homework, right after Hello World and the Fahrenheit/Celsius converter.
Do people really graduate and not know how to do this?
... but people like Glenn Greenwald might want something like this: a machine that has at least some attempt made to make the software transparent. The target audience is the paranoid.
Sure, it may not be perfect (keyboard firmware, etc.).
Yes, but he still had to stop. If I'm in a hurry to go somewhere, the police don't have the right to confiscate my time without probable cause, just like they don't have the right to confiscate my property.
I once told a student "If instead of computing what you needed on the final to get an A to three significant figures, you put that time into learning physics, you'd be more likely to get an A."
There were options: 1) use discrete GPU all the time, 2) auto-switching.
I don't know if there was third-party software to do this; I rather feel like I shouldn't need third party software to stop the machine from quadrupling the power use and roasting me whenever I watch a Youtube video. My solution was to tell my work that I didn't need the loaner laptop any more, since I would be purchasing a standard one of my own, and installing Kubuntu on it.
A lot of modern ones seem to be more or less interchangeable. My last two laptops are both 19.5V and fit each other, and a friend recently left his charger at home. The voltages match, the plug fit, and he used mine with no problem.
--a nice metal chassis (around the keyboard -- some parts that don't get much wear are tough plastic to save weight) --a touchpad that works just fine, thank you --a keyboard that also works just fine, thank you --an old-style charger but one that is fairly tough --a screen that is admittedly not wonderful, but there are nice replacement screens available for $50 --a very nice laptop GPU (GTX660 M) --6+ hours battery life (GPU off, obviously)
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Is that true also at the border?
Specifically: if someone, US citizen or not, comes over the border with a laptop, can the border goons compel someone to boot the machine (supplying whatever passwords are necessary to do so) to enter?
If Christie is dumb enough to believe that it's a traffic study and repeat it without verifying, then he is guilty of incompetence at a level that warrants the same sort of condemnation as corruption does.
Somewhat new to the DC area: what *is* with these toll roads? Gas and vehicle taxes are ridiculous around here, you'd think they could afford some damned public, free roads like civilized places have.
At least in Chicago someone fixes a pothole occasionally. This doesn't happen in Washington DC; here people admire the federal government because next to the local government it looks like the model of efficiency and honor.
The private sector doesn't get to show up with guns and force me to do something (if they're truly private).
Most egregious abuses of private-sector power usually involve corruption of the public sector...
Didn't Christie directly say it was a traffic study? Regardless of whether he ordered it or not (abuse of power), he's now engaged in lying and obstruction of justice.
Given that the governments in New York and New Jersey don't even give lip service to actually having the best interests of the people at heart, shouldn't the ownership of critical infrastructure, held in trust for the people, be in the hands of someone else?
Edward Snowden played a chessmasters game in his defection and for it our government is left to do nothing more but ensure negative propaganda against him is dissemenated appropriately to all media outlets and further steps taken to mitigate a repeat performance. The only difference between a soviet system, the one we feared for 20 years, and our system, is that every 4 years we're burdened with the task of shuffling off to a school or church to apply our endorsement for a party. there are normally only ever two however.
You're naive if you believe this.
I live in Washington DC. There are city buses with "Thank you Edward Snowden!" advertisements on the sides, so big you can read it from a city block away, paid for by his supporters. There's an advertisement in the Pentagon subway station that says "Snowden honored his oath -- honor yours. Report unethical actions." with a URL.
Compare this to what happened in the Soviet Union -- you'd never see this in Moscow in the 1960's. Yes, there are things that aren't perfect in the US. Yes, our government does some scary, scummy, tyrannical things. But just because things aren't perfect doesn't mean that we're living in a totalitarian hell.
I volunteered at a charter school (BASIS Tucson North) in Tucson, spoke with some of the teachers, and later one of my friends worked there. It's a wonderful place; the teachers are given a great deal of freedom to teach effectively, since they were hired as professionals who can figure out what the students need on their own, rather than being micromanaged by policies and administrators. This fellow taught physics, and was encouraged to do things like make the senior class a special projects course, teach quantum mechanics in high school, etc. The same's true for a friend who teaches Latin at the Basis school in Flagstaff. These are public charter schools: anyone who wants to attend is on equal footing with anyone else who wants to attend (unless they have a sibling who already goes there), and may attend for free.
Now I'm in Washington DC, where 40% of students go to charters. They do that because the schoolboard-run public schools here are in many cases awful, and the charters give kids in the projects another option. Test results (if you put any stock in them) show that children at charter schools do somewhat better than children at the schoolboard schools (they're all "public schools"), but there's a hidden variable there. In Northwest DC (the wealthier, low-crime, white area), there aren't that many charter schools, since the schoolboard schools here are actually somewhat decent; in Southeast and Northeast (the black areas), the schoolboard schools are bad and there are more charters. So, despite a less favorable demographic, the charter schools have higher test results overall.
Are all of them good? Of course not; the ones that are bad wind up becoming known as bad, and attendance goes down. But they at least give parents and children an option to get out of awful schoolboard schools if they can't pay for a private school. A first-grader doesn't have time for all sorts of excuses about schoolboard politics or administrative red tape or curriculum standards; she just needs to be taught to read and write. If her neighborhood schoolboard school isn't doing that, charters give her a second shot at getting what her parents are paying for when they pay taxes.
If the schoolboard-school advocates want charter schools to go away, then they can sort their own house out first.
I think ultimately it's about unionization: in places where teachers are heavily pressured (or forced) into joining the teachers' union, charter schools represent a crack in the monopoly the union has on teachers' labor. The unions hate charter schools for that reason, and I think a lot of the anti-charter rhetoric comes from the unions' dislike for non-union teaching going on.
Just because thing A used to be better doesn't mean that thing B used to be better too. Can't we look at the past and say "This was good, but that was bad"?
edit: Compiling is one, definitely. Forgot about that.
Are there really that many interactive processes on a single-user computer that are
1) CPU-bound
2) not parallelizable
3) take long enough that waiting on them gets annoying?
I ask out of genuine curiosity; I can't think of many times when I wind up waiting on my computer to do anything that fits.
This isn't intended for you if you can't think of what to do with all those cores.
This is for the high performance physics folks to whom the difference between 16 cores, 256 cores, and maybe even 8192 cores is a line in a config file.
It's also for the folks developing 24 megapixel RAW files (which Nikon's cheapest SLR spits out these days), where splitting the image into 64 sectors is no more difficult than splitting it into four, or for the folks doing video encoding which is pretty trivially parallelizable.
Most of the times that I can think of where I'm truly waiting on my computer to do something that's limited by the number of flops that can be brought to bear, more cores is just as good as more speed.
"It will take years, if not decades, for us to return to the position that we had prior to his disclosures."
Yes, and the hope is that the US will have a very public conversation about whether that position is something we want to allow you to return to in the meantime.
I have a friend sitting next to me who's not the most computer-geeky of folks who likes hers; she's aware that one could wipe ChromeOS and put something more useful on it, but for now it does "everything she needs". She does have another laptop elsewhere (a larger thing).
That's actually a very good idea. And the false alarms could be dealt with by further readings from the accelerometer -- "in guy's pocket while he's seizing" and "dropped on ground" don't look the same.
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Okay, I'm a computational physicist, not a CS guy, so my knowledge of programming is limited to what's needed to make the thing work. But isn't this ... extremely, painfully trivial? Like, when I taught Baby's First Computational Physics Course For Freshmen, we made them compute the first million prime numbers as part of the week 1 homework, right after Hello World and the Fahrenheit/Celsius converter.
Do people really graduate and not know how to do this?
... but people like Glenn Greenwald might want something like this: a machine that has at least some attempt made to make the software transparent. The target audience is the paranoid.
Sure, it may not be perfect (keyboard firmware, etc.).
Yes, but he still had to stop. If I'm in a hurry to go somewhere, the police don't have the right to confiscate my time without probable cause, just like they don't have the right to confiscate my property.
I once told a student "If instead of computing what you needed on the final to get an A to three significant figures, you put that time into learning physics, you'd be more likely to get an A."
There were options: 1) use discrete GPU all the time, 2) auto-switching.
I don't know if there was third-party software to do this; I rather feel like I shouldn't need third party software to stop the machine from quadrupling the power use and roasting me whenever I watch a Youtube video. My solution was to tell my work that I didn't need the loaner laptop any more, since I would be purchasing a standard one of my own, and installing Kubuntu on it.
A lot of modern ones seem to be more or less interchangeable. My last two laptops are both 19.5V and fit each other, and a friend recently left his charger at home. The voltages match, the plug fit, and he used mine with no problem.
I have a $950 laptop with:
--a nice metal chassis (around the keyboard -- some parts that don't get much wear are tough plastic to save weight)
--a touchpad that works just fine, thank you
--a keyboard that also works just fine, thank you
--an old-style charger but one that is fairly tough
--a screen that is admittedly not wonderful, but there are nice replacement screens available for $50
--a very nice laptop GPU (GTX660 M)
--6+ hours battery life (GPU off, obviously)
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