Why shouldn't the teachers be responsible? Because the children are hard to control? It's a school for crying out loud. And it's not a problem that will be solved by installing filtering software which will need to be constantly maintained and re-configured to thwart the continuing efforts of students to get around it.
Don't bother with the filters, stick all the computers in a supervised area and kick out any students who break the rules. Speaking as someone who is personally sick to death of being managed by dumb computer programs (time management and performance evaluating software), why not have a responsible adult present to help guide the students? An old fashioned notion I know, but they are at school after all.
...shows the private addresses of all politicians with a range of little icons over their houses showing what kind of scandals they have been involved with and what organisations they have been members of.
And I admire you for your ability to take personal offence at fairly mundane observations. Hopefully someday I will see the error of my ways and come down from my pedestal to join you common folk.
For simple documents, it's good. But for serious stuff it is slow, flaky and unreliable. It has excellent integration between other MS stuff like excel, project etc. I have seriously tried to use OpenOffice as a replacement and I'm sorry to say that it just doesn't quite cut it yet.
Try living in Zimbabwe or North Korea for a day and then see if you think you live in a democracy or not. The system you are citing is utterly untenable in the complexity of the modern world. We would do *nothing* else all day long except vote on issues we would barely understand.
You're right. I'm sorry, now back to work everyone! These are serious times. Linux is the best operating system that has every existed and nothing will ever be better than it. It is perfect and nobody should ever laugh at it. You know why? Because it's not funny! That's why. In fact, nothing is funny. Somebody told me a joke once back in 1972 and frankly I just didn't see the point. It distracted me from being serious.
Your logic is fundamentally flawed. Why on earth would you assume that people who are seeking an HIV test are already spreading it around?!? The other (far more likely) scenario is that they are concerned they may have contracted HIV and are looking for confirmation one way or the other *before* engaging in activities that may spread it further. Prior to the existence of this test you could go to the doctor and find out *for sure* if you had it or not. Now with this test people may miss that very important step. Follow this:
Scenario 1
A person is worried they have HIV. They go and purchase a home test kit. The test turns up negative. Then they release there is a chance the test is not right and go to the doctor to find out for certain.
Scenario 2
A person is worried they have HIV. They go and purchase a home test kit. The test turns up positive. Then they release there is a chance the test is not right and go to the doctor to find out for certain.
Whatever happens, the patient has to go to the doctor at some point. The test is worse than useless because of the potential that people will not make that final step and go to the doctor!
1 in 12 failure rate is absolutely *far* too high. It's marginally better than rolling a die to see if you have HIV. People (as a group), who have proven themselves to be not the best logicians time and time again, will take this as proof they are in the clear and start spreading it around. It is a very irresponsible product. If you think you have HIV then go to a doctor and find out for sure.
There is no direct link to the study, but you are 100% right. Ensuring that correlations were made between study participants who were consistent in aspects such as age and lifestyle would be critical to this study having any meaning.
I still remember the sense of pride I got when I figured out the Space Invaders strategy of shooting through my own shield to create a one bullet wide gap which could be used to pick off the invaders while staying relatively protected.
Welcome to the enraged dickhead club. My point was that it is not the fault of the ISP for following what they were instructed to do by the courts. Why should they deliberately fly in the face of a court order just to satisfy your particular world view? My post had nothing to do with the legitimacy of TPB, nor was it a broad social comment on censorship in general. I simply took an issue with the fact that the OP had blamed the ISP for the decision.
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Or maybe you could consider the benefit of removing shitloads of crap from the ocean.
the product only works if the product isn't very widely known - lol.
Why shouldn't the teachers be responsible? Because the children are hard to control? It's a school for crying out loud. And it's not a problem that will be solved by installing filtering software which will need to be constantly maintained and re-configured to thwart the continuing efforts of students to get around it.
Don't bother with the filters, stick all the computers in a supervised area and kick out any students who break the rules. Speaking as someone who is personally sick to death of being managed by dumb computer programs (time management and performance evaluating software), why not have a responsible adult present to help guide the students? An old fashioned notion I know, but they are at school after all.
Ms Macklin? Is that you?
I wrote a short story in 3rd grade about being transformed into a sultana. My teacher said my handwriting was too messy. I never wrote again.
...shows the private addresses of all politicians with a range of little icons over their houses showing what kind of scandals they have been involved with and what organisations they have been members of.
I don't know, your wit is already razor sharp. I don't think I could handle another 'burn' like that.
And I admire you for your ability to take personal offence at fairly mundane observations. Hopefully someday I will see the error of my ways and come down from my pedestal to join you common folk.
I'm sorry, I can only see half of your reply. I can't see the bit where you suggest an alternative?
For simple documents, it's good. But for serious stuff it is slow, flaky and unreliable. It has excellent integration between other MS stuff like excel, project etc. I have seriously tried to use OpenOffice as a replacement and I'm sorry to say that it just doesn't quite cut it yet.
Try living in Zimbabwe or North Korea for a day and then see if you think you live in a democracy or not. The system you are citing is utterly untenable in the complexity of the modern world. We would do *nothing* else all day long except vote on issues we would barely understand.
See you in prison.
I know, I am totally agreeing with you.
You're right. I'm sorry, now back to work everyone! These are serious times. Linux is the best operating system that has every existed and nothing will ever be better than it. It is perfect and nobody should ever laugh at it. You know why? Because it's not funny! That's why. In fact, nothing is funny. Somebody told me a joke once back in 1972 and frankly I just didn't see the point. It distracted me from being serious.
Oh come on whoever modded this down. Get a sense of humour!
Ha ha ha. the inevitable intersection of technology and religion. Lol.
Your logic is fundamentally flawed. Why on earth would you assume that people who are seeking an HIV test are already spreading it around?!? The other (far more likely) scenario is that they are concerned they may have contracted HIV and are looking for confirmation one way or the other *before* engaging in activities that may spread it further. Prior to the existence of this test you could go to the doctor and find out *for sure* if you had it or not. Now with this test people may miss that very important step. Follow this:
Scenario 1
A person is worried they have HIV. They go and purchase a home test kit. The test turns up negative. Then they release there is a chance the test is not right and go to the doctor to find out for certain.
Scenario 2
A person is worried they have HIV. They go and purchase a home test kit. The test turns up positive. Then they release there is a chance the test is not right and go to the doctor to find out for certain.
Whatever happens, the patient has to go to the doctor at some point. The test is worse than useless because of the potential that people will not make that final step and go to the doctor!
1 in 12 failure rate is absolutely *far* too high. It's marginally better than rolling a die to see if you have HIV. People (as a group), who have proven themselves to be not the best logicians time and time again, will take this as proof they are in the clear and start spreading it around. It is a very irresponsible product. If you think you have HIV then go to a doctor and find out for sure.
They have a Sigma 5 confidence level which is equivalent to one chance in a million that they're mistaken.
There is no direct link to the study, but you are 100% right. Ensuring that correlations were made between study participants who were consistent in aspects such as age and lifestyle would be critical to this study having any meaning.
I'm sorry, but do you actually have a virgin mobile advertisement as your sig?
I still remember the sense of pride I got when I figured out the Space Invaders strategy of shooting through my own shield to create a one bullet wide gap which could be used to pick off the invaders while staying relatively protected.
Welcome to the enraged dickhead club. My point was that it is not the fault of the ISP for following what they were instructed to do by the courts. Why should they deliberately fly in the face of a court order just to satisfy your particular world view? My post had nothing to do with the legitimacy of TPB, nor was it a broad social comment on censorship in general. I simply took an issue with the fact that the OP had blamed the ISP for the decision.
I was replying to a post, not the article. Maybe you should learn how to use the slashdot interface before posting garbage.