You can also take DVDs out from the library for free. Well, you pay for it in your taxes but you're going to pay for it anyway and of all the things taxes pay for, libraries are one of my favorites. If a library doesn't have what you're looking for, they might be partnered with a library that does and might be able to request it for you. Some libraries even have game discs for rental. (My oldest is playing The Lego Movie on our WiiU thanks to the local library.)
I wouldn't have a problem if this was a method they used for a week or two to teach the concept and then moved onto real numbers, but this is THE method that they are using for solving actual math problems - long after the kids are comfortable with the concept of subtraction (or addition, multiplication, or division). If kids use the traditional method, they are marked as wrong even if they show their work and get the right answer.
And then there are the people I see who take care of their business and then exit the restroom without so much as glancing at the sinks. I keep being reminded of that Far Side comic of the giant sign (complete with alarms) blaring for the guy who didn't wash his hands after using the restroom. I wish that were a real thing - especially if you're about to shake someone's hand.
That's exactly the method my son was taught for subtraction. For division, they draw lines, circle groups of the lines, and then count the groups. Much of Common Core math is removing the whole "working with numbers" out of math. I'm not sure if the creators (who weren't educators, by the way) thought "numbers are too hard for kids to understand so let's go with lines and boxes", but that's the end result.
In most markets, consumers have at best two choices...
Actually, at least five methods in most markets for general access, and at least four if you don't count dial-up: Cable, DSL, 3/4G tether/dedicated, and Satellite. Fiber/FiOS is also available in many markets still.
Dial-up would be unsuitable for streaming video (something that most people do nowadays as evidenced by the huge amount of Netflix traffic). DSL is an older technology, much slower, and phone companies are actively trying to ditch it as soon as possible. 3/4G comes with very low caps unless you want to spend a ton of cash. This is suitable for checking e-mail and Facebook on the go, not for regularly streaming videos. Satellite is very expensive and much slower than cable. Fiber/FIOS isn't available in many markets.
I get 15/1 Internet access from Time Warner Cable. I could get 3Mbps DSL access for MORE than what I'm paying for 15Mbps so that's not an option. Satellite would be even more expensive than that. I do have 4G Internet access but our caps would be blown to bits if we watched Netflix via that regularly. FIOS isn't in our area despite being one town over. Verizon wants to focus on getting more money from wireless instead of expanding fiber.
This leaves me with TWC as my ONLY real option. If TWC decided to throttle Netflix to punish anyone who dared to cut cable, I wouldn't have any recourse. I could threaten to leave, but they'd know this was an empty threat. My only option would be to complain to the government - the only entity powerful enough to keep them in line.
Do I want the government involved? No. Ideally, there would be healthy competition in the marketplace. I'd have four or five real choices and their competition to get my business would keep prices low, speeds high, and customer service excellent. If one ISP gave me slow speeds and horrid customer service, I could ditch them and have a nice choice of alternatives. Until that happens, though, the market won't fix this situation that we're in.
Do you think Netflix gets their bandwidth for free? They pay to send their bits out just like customers pay to pull those bits in. The only difference is that Netflix is making money and impacting cable companies' TV revenues. Those cable companies want to use their ISP monopolies (or duopolies in some markets) to charge extra for streaming video (caps/overages) and to promote their own services (bundling pricing schemes/degrading streaming video connections). These companies don't like that the FCC is standing in their way instead of taking their bribes and stepping aside like government usually does.
Then there are also the power-mad people. These people might understand how encryption works, but they don't care because they see something that isn't under their control. They can't tolerate this so they come up with a reason why having this not under their control is bad ("terrorism") and then hammer the American public and politicians with this reason. It doesn't matter if the reason isn't true (terrorists have been using clear text communication) or if their reason wouldn't be fixed by passing US laws (terrorists would use strong encryption that's already available). The thing that matters to them is getting this thing under their control - even by a little bit. Then, they can expand their control until all non-backdoored strong encryption is banned.
Just carve out a shallow bowl section of the moon and place the giant laser there. Then, you have eight separate lasers that merge into one giant planet destroying... I mean spaceship propelling beam. Here are some plans.
I started college as a physics major and quickly decided that I enjoyed computer science a lot more. (Hitting Quantum Mechanics like a brick wall was a big factor.) I switched majors but was one small class away from a physics minor. So I did a lab course involving powerful lasers. The only problem was that the lab was extremely early in the morning so I was perpetually tired. When you're tired, you aren't as careful as you could be and make mistakes. How I didn't wind up with an eye put out, I don't know.
I built a website for my Synagogue, donating my time and effort. Then, they had some staff turnover. I tried to meet with the new administrator to talk about future work on the site and was told "Oh, we're not using that site anymore,I know how to make websites so I'm going to do it." Of course, by "knows how to make websites", he meant he opened up a Webs.com account, used their drag and drop tools to put together a few pages, and gave everyone that address. My skills in custom coding a website to the exact needs of the organization were replaced with "here's a WYSIWYG that lets anyone be a web developer!" (And, yes, I hate those Wix.com ads. You are NOT a web developer if how you "develop websites" is by loading up Wix.com!)
Just like copyright is still considered limited even if it's enforced for a hundred years, all encryption is breakable - you just need to find some top of the line computers and brute force it for a few million years. See? Totally breakable!
A year ago, Time Warner Cable wanted us to go from paying $87 a month to $117 a month. This wasn't for any new services (we'd actually be getting less), but this was their "great deal that'll keep you subscribed." Despite their promises that this was a $157 value, I wasn't biting. We cut cable and went to $35 a month Internet. With the savings, we signed up for Hulu and bought some VOD episodes from Amazon/Google. (We were already Netflix/Amazon Prime subscribers so that was a wash.) We still wound up saving about $65 a month.
Even if Netflix increases their price by $2 every year, they'll still be cheaper than cable.
After cutting cable, we decided that - in addition to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu - we'd buy some full-season shows on Amazon VOD/Google Play that we couldn't get elsewhere. The price of buying a season of a show varies, but it typically costs about $30. $120 a year for Netflix essentially equates to 4 seasons of programming. (4 seasons of 1 show, 1 season each of 4 shows, etc.) So Daredevil and Jessica Jones alone make up half of Netflix's value. We also like Kimmy Schmidt so that's 75% of Netflix for us. Add in the old shows that by boys have discovered (my oldest is on a Pee Wee's Playhouse kick) and past seasons of shows I didn't watch but decided to because they're on Netflix, and it's a much better deal than cable.
I assumed they would be getting up for the buzzer buttons, but you're right. No assumptions. The buzzer's in your room (to get you to wake up) but the buttons are in a different room (or, at least, out of reach of your bed). And the "place the baby down and he/she instantly wakes up" was the reason for my 50-50 chance that pushing the button will just activate another button 10 seconds later. Just enough time for you to think you've silenced it, but not enough to actually head back to sleep.
You know beforehand what's going to happen, but there's a big difference between knowing about something and experiencing it firsthand. You might know (now that I posted about it) that your first child is going to be a lot of work and will involve sleep deprivation. However, you won't know exactly what this is like until you actually HAVE your first child and experience it first hand.
That said, every baby is different. Some babies get on a schedule quicker than others and some are more/less fussy than other ones. Finally, having my boys was totally worth every second of lost sleep, every diaper change, and every second of worry when they got sick.
HOWEVER, there is ZERO consensus that it is caused by human activity.
Actually, 97% of climate scientists say that climate change is driven by human activity. I'd call 97% a pretty good consensus. Could those 97% of climate scientists be wrong? It is within the realm of possibility, but it's not very likely. In any event, all of the raw data and methodology is public so anyone can download it, examine it for themselves, and try to come up with their own theory. If their theory meets the facts better than humans causing climate change, that theory will be accepted by more scientists and the "97%" figure will fall.
Until that happens, though, what do we stand to lose by making changes to slow down climate change. I see four possibilities:
1) If we make the changes and the 97% are right, we slow down climate change and we all win. 2) If we make the changes and the 97% are wrong, we don't lose all that much. We'll have a better environment with less dependence on oil so we'll still be ahead in some areas. 3) If we don't make the changes and the 97% are right, we all lose as the climate shifts causing droughts in some areas, flooding in others, wrecks havoc with agriculture, etc. 4) If we don't make the changes and the 97% are wrong, we don't lose anything but don't win anything either.
In short, if we don't make changes, the best we can hope for is status quo and the worst is horrible shifts in climate. If we do make the changes, the best we can hope for is avoiding horrible climate change impacts, the worst is a slightly better status quo.
Oh please, that's a bunch of crap. There's over a quarter-million subreddits last I heard, and most of *every* site is just mindless garbage, this site included. But with that many subreddits, it's easy to find interesting conversation, and about specialized topics. There's a subreddit about my car, for instance, if I just want to chat with people about that; a lot of posts are fairly useless, but there's some real gems here and there. It's just like anyplace else: "95% of everything is crap." (Sturgeon's Law)
Also, what one person considers a garbage conversation, others might find very interesting. I'd probably be bored if I wandered into a car repair subreddit. It's just not something that sparks my interest. However, I'm sure there are subreddits that I find very interesting that you'd roll your eyes at. Everyone's different and has different interests so that 5% of "actually useful/interesting content" varies from person to person.
It's possible to hold dissenting opinions and to discuss any topic without being offensive. It's possible to have a conversation that remains civil, regardless of the positions held. I know this is true, I do it nearly every single day. In fact, you might say that my current post is contrarian. I have held meaningful, civil, discussions - even debates, with all sorts of people. Some of those people were the least favored folks on the planet. Some of them have held beliefs that are truly ignorant but the conversations remained civil throughout.
Exactly. The block feature wouldn't be for "I disagree with you and here are my reasons why." It would be for "you're an idiot if you believe X and just to reinforce this I'll track down every post of yours and make and insulting reply." There's a small, but vocal, group in pretty much any forum who thinks that the way to win an argument is to make threats and insults until the other side is driven out of the forum. Then they win. The best tactic against these people is to ignore them. This tool simply makes ignoring them easier.
Though it can be abused to block anyone with a different opinion than you, the real purpose of this would be if someone is being abusive or who is entering a forum for the sole purpose of annoying as many people as possible. Someone who is acting abusive won't care about your carefully crafted arguments. He'll hurl insults and vague threats back at you, ignoring all of your points. If an abusive user does it right, they can stay just inside of the site's acceptable use guidelines and be abusive while not getting kicked off.
The person who comes into a forum to intentionally annoy will keep spouting their garbage no matter how many arguments a person puts forth. As an example, there's another forum (not Reddit) I frequent where any conversation about Netflix or cord cutting results in this one user insisting that Netflix will soon start raising prices like cable companies do, that Netflix will flood their streams with ads, that Netflix will ban binge watching, and that cord cutting will make cable companies raise their Internet rates to $200 a month. No matter how much it is pointed out to him that there aren't indications for any of this, he insists it's true. I don't want to avoid these discussions on that forum because of one guy, but his posts have long ago passed the line into annoying. If I could use a tool like this to stop seeing his posts, I would. I wouldn't use it for anyone who insists that cable is great and cord cutters are missing out. (Yes, I've encountered those people too.) It would be used sparingly.
WordPress can be easy, but that doesn't mean that you don't need to know anything about websites/security to run a site. Especially if your site is "protecting" information on huge financial transactions. For most people, not updating their WordPress site just means that some joker puts "Powned By Hakors" on it. Annoying but ultimately not a huge impact. The bigger your site, though, the more you can't just say "we'll use X because it's easy and won't think about anything else." This is true regardless of what platform you use.
You see, those rich people were hiding the money so terrorists wouldn't find it. But now that the terrorists know where the money is, the terrorists might take it and use it for terrorism. Have I said "terrorists/terrorism" enough times now to get you everyone against these hackers? Terrorism. Terrorism. Terrorism. Terrorists. Terrorism. Terrorism. How about how?
I run plenty of WordPress websites and they aren't too difficult to secure if you put a little effort into it. In this case, the big problem was that they didn't run updates. The site was running 4.1 instead of the latest version (4.4.2). It should have been updated long ago. (4.1.1 was released February 2015 and 4.2 was out in April 2015.) The same goes for plugins (which you should use as sparingly as possible since it not only increases security risks but can add to load time.) You can also install plugins to protect against various security holes - such as brute force login attempts. And don't use "admin" or your site's name as your admin username unless you want your site hacked. About 90% of the bad login attempts I see are "admin", "administrator", or the site's name.
A few years ago, my company's WordPress websites were hit by a would-be hacker. He was trying everything to get in, but couldn't because I put thought into the security of the site. He did manage to slow down the web servers when he hit them with 10,000+ attempts in an hour (before we traced his IP address and blocked him), but that was it. This isn't to say that you can make a WordPress site unhackable - no website is unhackable - but you can make it hack-proof enough that most malicious individuals will go elsewhere.
Keeping multiple WordPress websites up to date has become such a nuisance
I ran into this problem too. I wound up running InfiniteWP. It's free. (Some of the additional features aren't free, but you don't need those.) You just install the InfiniteWP plugin on your WordPress sites and connect them up with the main InfiniteWP install. Then, you use InfiniteWP to install plugin/theme/WordPress updates on all of your servers.
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You can also take DVDs out from the library for free. Well, you pay for it in your taxes but you're going to pay for it anyway and of all the things taxes pay for, libraries are one of my favorites. If a library doesn't have what you're looking for, they might be partnered with a library that does and might be able to request it for you. Some libraries even have game discs for rental. (My oldest is playing The Lego Movie on our WiiU thanks to the local library.)
I wouldn't have a problem if this was a method they used for a week or two to teach the concept and then moved onto real numbers, but this is THE method that they are using for solving actual math problems - long after the kids are comfortable with the concept of subtraction (or addition, multiplication, or division). If kids use the traditional method, they are marked as wrong even if they show their work and get the right answer.
And then there are the people I see who take care of their business and then exit the restroom without so much as glancing at the sinks. I keep being reminded of that Far Side comic of the giant sign (complete with alarms) blaring for the guy who didn't wash his hands after using the restroom. I wish that were a real thing - especially if you're about to shake someone's hand.
That's exactly the method my son was taught for subtraction. For division, they draw lines, circle groups of the lines, and then count the groups. Much of Common Core math is removing the whole "working with numbers" out of math. I'm not sure if the creators (who weren't educators, by the way) thought "numbers are too hard for kids to understand so let's go with lines and boxes", but that's the end result.
Dial-up would be unsuitable for streaming video (something that most people do nowadays as evidenced by the huge amount of Netflix traffic).
DSL is an older technology, much slower, and phone companies are actively trying to ditch it as soon as possible.
3/4G comes with very low caps unless you want to spend a ton of cash. This is suitable for checking e-mail and Facebook on the go, not for regularly streaming videos.
Satellite is very expensive and much slower than cable.
Fiber/FIOS isn't available in many markets.
I get 15/1 Internet access from Time Warner Cable. I could get 3Mbps DSL access for MORE than what I'm paying for 15Mbps so that's not an option. Satellite would be even more expensive than that. I do have 4G Internet access but our caps would be blown to bits if we watched Netflix via that regularly. FIOS isn't in our area despite being one town over. Verizon wants to focus on getting more money from wireless instead of expanding fiber.
This leaves me with TWC as my ONLY real option. If TWC decided to throttle Netflix to punish anyone who dared to cut cable, I wouldn't have any recourse. I could threaten to leave, but they'd know this was an empty threat. My only option would be to complain to the government - the only entity powerful enough to keep them in line.
Do I want the government involved? No. Ideally, there would be healthy competition in the marketplace. I'd have four or five real choices and their competition to get my business would keep prices low, speeds high, and customer service excellent. If one ISP gave me slow speeds and horrid customer service, I could ditch them and have a nice choice of alternatives. Until that happens, though, the market won't fix this situation that we're in.
Do you think Netflix gets their bandwidth for free? They pay to send their bits out just like customers pay to pull those bits in. The only difference is that Netflix is making money and impacting cable companies' TV revenues. Those cable companies want to use their ISP monopolies (or duopolies in some markets) to charge extra for streaming video (caps/overages) and to promote their own services (bundling pricing schemes/degrading streaming video connections). These companies don't like that the FCC is standing in their way instead of taking their bribes and stepping aside like government usually does.
Then there are also the power-mad people. These people might understand how encryption works, but they don't care because they see something that isn't under their control. They can't tolerate this so they come up with a reason why having this not under their control is bad ("terrorism") and then hammer the American public and politicians with this reason. It doesn't matter if the reason isn't true (terrorists have been using clear text communication) or if their reason wouldn't be fixed by passing US laws (terrorists would use strong encryption that's already available). The thing that matters to them is getting this thing under their control - even by a little bit. Then, they can expand their control until all non-backdoored strong encryption is banned.
Either that or:
"We have good news and bad news. The good news is that our nano-craft have sent proof that Alpha Centuri has a planet that supports intelligent life."
"And the bad news?"
"The probe crashed into the planet at relativistic speeds, exploding with such force that it wiped out all life."
Just carve out a shallow bowl section of the moon and place the giant laser there. Then, you have eight separate lasers that merge into one giant planet destroying... I mean spaceship propelling beam. Here are some plans.
I started college as a physics major and quickly decided that I enjoyed computer science a lot more. (Hitting Quantum Mechanics like a brick wall was a big factor.) I switched majors but was one small class away from a physics minor. So I did a lab course involving powerful lasers. The only problem was that the lab was extremely early in the morning so I was perpetually tired. When you're tired, you aren't as careful as you could be and make mistakes. How I didn't wind up with an eye put out, I don't know.
I built a website for my Synagogue, donating my time and effort. Then, they had some staff turnover. I tried to meet with the new administrator to talk about future work on the site and was told "Oh, we're not using that site anymore,I know how to make websites so I'm going to do it." Of course, by "knows how to make websites", he meant he opened up a Webs.com account, used their drag and drop tools to put together a few pages, and gave everyone that address. My skills in custom coding a website to the exact needs of the organization were replaced with "here's a WYSIWYG that lets anyone be a web developer!" (And, yes, I hate those Wix.com ads. You are NOT a web developer if how you "develop websites" is by loading up Wix.com!)
Now if only they can squash that whole "rhino horn is an aphrodesiac" nonsense, maybe the rhinos can make a comeback too.
Just like copyright is still considered limited even if it's enforced for a hundred years, all encryption is breakable - you just need to find some top of the line computers and brute force it for a few million years. See? Totally breakable!
A year ago, Time Warner Cable wanted us to go from paying $87 a month to $117 a month. This wasn't for any new services (we'd actually be getting less), but this was their "great deal that'll keep you subscribed." Despite their promises that this was a $157 value, I wasn't biting. We cut cable and went to $35 a month Internet. With the savings, we signed up for Hulu and bought some VOD episodes from Amazon/Google. (We were already Netflix/Amazon Prime subscribers so that was a wash.) We still wound up saving about $65 a month.
Even if Netflix increases their price by $2 every year, they'll still be cheaper than cable.
After cutting cable, we decided that - in addition to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu - we'd buy some full-season shows on Amazon VOD/Google Play that we couldn't get elsewhere. The price of buying a season of a show varies, but it typically costs about $30. $120 a year for Netflix essentially equates to 4 seasons of programming. (4 seasons of 1 show, 1 season each of 4 shows, etc.) So Daredevil and Jessica Jones alone make up half of Netflix's value. We also like Kimmy Schmidt so that's 75% of Netflix for us. Add in the old shows that by boys have discovered (my oldest is on a Pee Wee's Playhouse kick) and past seasons of shows I didn't watch but decided to because they're on Netflix, and it's a much better deal than cable.
I assumed they would be getting up for the buzzer buttons, but you're right. No assumptions. The buzzer's in your room (to get you to wake up) but the buttons are in a different room (or, at least, out of reach of your bed). And the "place the baby down and he/she instantly wakes up" was the reason for my 50-50 chance that pushing the button will just activate another button 10 seconds later. Just enough time for you to think you've silenced it, but not enough to actually head back to sleep.
You know beforehand what's going to happen, but there's a big difference between knowing about something and experiencing it firsthand. You might know (now that I posted about it) that your first child is going to be a lot of work and will involve sleep deprivation. However, you won't know exactly what this is like until you actually HAVE your first child and experience it first hand.
That said, every baby is different. Some babies get on a schedule quicker than others and some are more/less fussy than other ones. Finally, having my boys was totally worth every second of lost sleep, every diaper change, and every second of worry when they got sick.
Actually, 97% of climate scientists say that climate change is driven by human activity. I'd call 97% a pretty good consensus. Could those 97% of climate scientists be wrong? It is within the realm of possibility, but it's not very likely. In any event, all of the raw data and methodology is public so anyone can download it, examine it for themselves, and try to come up with their own theory. If their theory meets the facts better than humans causing climate change, that theory will be accepted by more scientists and the "97%" figure will fall.
Until that happens, though, what do we stand to lose by making changes to slow down climate change. I see four possibilities:
1) If we make the changes and the 97% are right, we slow down climate change and we all win.
2) If we make the changes and the 97% are wrong, we don't lose all that much. We'll have a better environment with less dependence on oil so we'll still be ahead in some areas.
3) If we don't make the changes and the 97% are right, we all lose as the climate shifts causing droughts in some areas, flooding in others, wrecks havoc with agriculture, etc.
4) If we don't make the changes and the 97% are wrong, we don't lose anything but don't win anything either.
In short, if we don't make changes, the best we can hope for is status quo and the worst is horrible shifts in climate. If we do make the changes, the best we can hope for is avoiding horrible climate change impacts, the worst is a slightly better status quo.
Also, what one person considers a garbage conversation, others might find very interesting. I'd probably be bored if I wandered into a car repair subreddit. It's just not something that sparks my interest. However, I'm sure there are subreddits that I find very interesting that you'd roll your eyes at. Everyone's different and has different interests so that 5% of "actually useful/interesting content" varies from person to person.
Exactly. The block feature wouldn't be for "I disagree with you and here are my reasons why." It would be for "you're an idiot if you believe X and just to reinforce this I'll track down every post of yours and make and insulting reply." There's a small, but vocal, group in pretty much any forum who thinks that the way to win an argument is to make threats and insults until the other side is driven out of the forum. Then they win. The best tactic against these people is to ignore them. This tool simply makes ignoring them easier.
Though it can be abused to block anyone with a different opinion than you, the real purpose of this would be if someone is being abusive or who is entering a forum for the sole purpose of annoying as many people as possible. Someone who is acting abusive won't care about your carefully crafted arguments. He'll hurl insults and vague threats back at you, ignoring all of your points. If an abusive user does it right, they can stay just inside of the site's acceptable use guidelines and be abusive while not getting kicked off.
The person who comes into a forum to intentionally annoy will keep spouting their garbage no matter how many arguments a person puts forth. As an example, there's another forum (not Reddit) I frequent where any conversation about Netflix or cord cutting results in this one user insisting that Netflix will soon start raising prices like cable companies do, that Netflix will flood their streams with ads, that Netflix will ban binge watching, and that cord cutting will make cable companies raise their Internet rates to $200 a month. No matter how much it is pointed out to him that there aren't indications for any of this, he insists it's true. I don't want to avoid these discussions on that forum because of one guy, but his posts have long ago passed the line into annoying. If I could use a tool like this to stop seeing his posts, I would. I wouldn't use it for anyone who insists that cable is great and cord cutters are missing out. (Yes, I've encountered those people too.) It would be used sparingly.
WordPress can be easy, but that doesn't mean that you don't need to know anything about websites/security to run a site. Especially if your site is "protecting" information on huge financial transactions. For most people, not updating their WordPress site just means that some joker puts "Powned By Hakors" on it. Annoying but ultimately not a huge impact. The bigger your site, though, the more you can't just say "we'll use X because it's easy and won't think about anything else." This is true regardless of what platform you use.
You see, those rich people were hiding the money so terrorists wouldn't find it. But now that the terrorists know where the money is, the terrorists might take it and use it for terrorism. Have I said "terrorists/terrorism" enough times now to get you everyone against these hackers? Terrorism. Terrorism. Terrorism. Terrorists. Terrorism. Terrorism. How about how?
I run plenty of WordPress websites and they aren't too difficult to secure if you put a little effort into it. In this case, the big problem was that they didn't run updates. The site was running 4.1 instead of the latest version (4.4.2). It should have been updated long ago. (4.1.1 was released February 2015 and 4.2 was out in April 2015.) The same goes for plugins (which you should use as sparingly as possible since it not only increases security risks but can add to load time.) You can also install plugins to protect against various security holes - such as brute force login attempts. And don't use "admin" or your site's name as your admin username unless you want your site hacked. About 90% of the bad login attempts I see are "admin", "administrator", or the site's name.
A few years ago, my company's WordPress websites were hit by a would-be hacker. He was trying everything to get in, but couldn't because I put thought into the security of the site. He did manage to slow down the web servers when he hit them with 10,000+ attempts in an hour (before we traced his IP address and blocked him), but that was it. This isn't to say that you can make a WordPress site unhackable - no website is unhackable - but you can make it hack-proof enough that most malicious individuals will go elsewhere.
I ran into this problem too. I wound up running InfiniteWP. It's free. (Some of the additional features aren't free, but you don't need those.) You just install the InfiniteWP plugin on your WordPress sites and connect them up with the main InfiniteWP install. Then, you use InfiniteWP to install plugin/theme/WordPress updates on all of your servers.