cue 1 |kyoo| [Mac OS X's Dictionary.app] noun 1. a thing said or done that serves as a signal to an actor or other performer to enter or to begin their speech or performance. 2. a signal for action: any conversational lull was my cue for asking a question. 3. a piece of information or circumstance that aids the memory in retrieving details not recalled spontaneously.
As in: Bigots, it's time to do your thing. This is your cue.
This isn't a matter of trying to gather evidence to establish guilt. My understanding of the case is that there's no shortage of physical evidence and testimony to find him guilty. Any information gathered through this process would be used to determine if the defendant was legally culpable, not whether he actually committed the offense. The intent is to determine mens rea, and whether he was mentally capable of understanding what he was doing. That he committed the act is considered a given (and something he's separately admitting to through his lawyer without any drugs administered or interrogation carried out).
Personally, I think insanity defenses are.. well.. crazy, both from the perspective of the accused who plays this rather dangerous gambit and from that of The People who accept such a rationalization. For the accused, in order to attempt an insanity defense, you must first admit that you committed the crime, QED if you're found to be sane, you're toast. From The People's perspective, if you killed a bunch of people, I don't care if you were crazy or just stone cold sane & evil. Either way, I want you removed from society until you're too feeble to be able to try it again.
Seems silly to split hairs over *why* you did it. If you are or have ever been capable of shooting up a theater full of innocent people just for the lulz, I'd rather you be kept in a small box indefinitely.
As if the US has never unilaterally ignored provisions of a treaty when it suits us? Not seeing why this should stop the POTUS, assuming he really gave a damn about the rights of anyone making less than $1mil a year.
Perfectly valid argument when we're talking about Oracle or DB/2, but we're talking about a consumer level operating system here. OSX is and has always been perpetually licensed. New major versions cost a little ($10-$20 recently), but you can keep using the old version as long as you like. So nice straw man you have there...
Microsoft on the other hand seems like they'd like to move towards annual licensing about as soon as they can. I'm sure they would have loved to get yearly $$ from everyone who decided XP was good enough and decided to stay with it...
If DNS is your only gripe (hard to believe, as this is Time Warner we're talking about), just use another DNS server. Google, OpenDNS, or fire up a copy of djbdns somewhere, and forget that Time Warner's crappy servers even exist. Set your router to serve it out to your internal network, and you're done.
I am a Time Warner customer (not by choice). I hereby demand gigabit Internet at prices competitive with Google's fiber networks and those of the rest of the developed world.
DNS over SSH tunnel is surprisingly difficult. The default is UDP, not TCP. It's doable, but it's a PITA. Much simpler to just VPN the entire connection.
Hmmm... My DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Can't imagine getting any Comcastic interference through there... (And I'm a TimeWarner customer which makes it especially unlikely I'd be harassed by Comcast, but any who...)
That and the SSL Everywhere plugin are a good start anyways...
I moderate several Yahoo Groups (please, save the taunts, it's enough punishment in itself without half of/. picking on me too). I've seen a pretty big uptick in the number of obviously bot-driven spam posts by members to the lists in the last two weeks. Something's definitely targeting Yahoo users.
So far, they've all been Yahoo email users (as opposed to someone using a non-Yahoo email account to subscribe to the list), and they've all CC'd several lists and/or individuals that I would presume to be on the account owner's address books. I'm assuming it's an XSS attack somewhere, but light on details.
Find me a monkey that can look at a problem and determine the correct formula to plug into their magical black box and know which numbers should replace which variables. Explain to me how understanding (or not) the algebra/calculus/etc. behind an equation influences the correctness of the calculator's answer? Understanding how to frame the problem is the important part. Given the ability to do that, technology can do the math for you, and you'll get the right answer. Absent that human ability, it doesn't matter if you can do math like Rain Main, you're not going to be solving any real problems.
It's quite likely that a student who's, "Bad at math," could learn to identify applications of certain solving techniques, punch them into a suitably advanced calculator, and arrive at the correct answer. They might not have the first clue about how to actually work the numbers that the machine is doing for them, but I have a hard time seeing how there's value per-se in knowing how to crunch the numbers. The value is in solving the problem. If the middle part of the process is "magic," that's surely not optimal, but it's better than being stuck on step one and having no solution at all.
I'm not saying understanding of the math is a bad thing, but crunching the numbers is something that's significantly difficult for many students and causes significant amounts of stress about math class or, "Math is hard," sentiments. Many of these students have approximately zero chance of ever needing to perform differential calculus in their future lives, but they might just find some use in being able to find solutions to some of the types of problems than these math techniques can answer. If you get them past what is to them essentially black magic in the math itself, you can enable them to actually get some benefit in their life. You may also prevent the total shutdown to learning that often occurs when you give a student something that they're completely unequipped to solve and then rub their face in it like a naughty puppy for being too dumb to do it.
Given that my TI-85 used to run an entire school year on maybe 2-3 sets of four AAA batteries, having to charge the thing weekly (and realistically probably more like every couple of days with any real use) is insane. I'd have nightmares about the thing dying in the middle of a test!
Because teachers are paranoid the chill'ins will cheat in class. Anything with a radio is verboten as a matter of course, and likewise anything "too powerful" isn't allowed. Finagle forbid they actually spend braincycles on solving a problem and leave the arithmetic to something that's designed to crunch numbers quickly and correctly. Far better to keep them busy doing busy work.
Of course any smart phone today could run Derive in a DOS emulator and probably still have enough cycles left over to play Angry Birds, but that would make math "too easy." Can't have that...
Funny story: Talked to a physics teacher (high school level) ages ago in a school where they standardized on HP's line rather than TI's. HP's did infrared communications whereas TI typically requires a physical cable to "network" between devices. The teacher said one day he looked up from his desk during a test and noticed a bunch of mirrors and prisms strewn about the room with students carefully aiming their calculators. Being an extremely cool teacher, he said something to the effect of, "I know what you're doing, but you had to use physics to make it work, so I'll let it slide once. Get ride of the glass and don't do it again."
Most likely video drivers. I've had screen flicker, things scrolling forward, jumping back, then forward again. Granted, I'm running on a heavily modified "unsupported" MacPro1,1, so not especially surprising in my case.
You will not get me to use the plural pronouns to make gender neutral references. There are perfectly acceptable made-up words for gender neutral pronouns. If we're going to abandon traditional English, we might as well do it with new words rather than abuse the accepted meaning of existing ones.
Mr. Gordon Sumner may feel free to die in one of the aforementioned brush files. If I love someone, I will set her free. Or perhaps hir if I'm feeling especially androgynous at the time.
It's different because significantly more of the processing and display logic is distributed to the clients. Additionally clients have local storage and processing capacity which if programmed correctly may continue to operate in some fashion in the face of network failure.
Also, it's not freaking COBOL, not that I find Ruby or Python much preferable (Aaaaand there goes my good karma)
In such a case, the burden of proof would undoubtedly be on you. Unless you're in the habit of routinely dumping and replacing your cell phone, it's tough to claim it was stolen if it's still in your pocket when they arrest^Wclassify you as a person of interest in a crime that occurred in the vicinity.
The CP virus stuff has happened and nearly ruined at least one person's life. Unfortunately can't cite my source at the moment.
The fundamental difference though is that people generally don't *choose* to get infected with viruses. The CP virus hits, some people get scared, but most of them wouldn't know how to clean their PC nor keep it clean if their life depended on it. (And let's face it, given how CP is treated legally, your life kind of does depend on it... )
CP hits a shared wireless connection like this, and most people are able to see the solution quite clearly: Throw out that little router box they gave you or don't sign up for it in the first place. Easy fix that even your most dedicated luddite can figure out.
Why in Finagle's name wouldn't you just convert to digital and keep the originals warehoused in dry storage, sans the robot overlords? Much easier to search, more quickly available, less likelihood of unsuspecting librarians being selected for "testing"
Oh right Copyright law is 40+ years behind technology. How silly of me
Wasn't Microsoft *required* by a court judgement or two to provide documentation and interoperability for several of their protocols? I don't think this was entirely out of the goodness of their hearts
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cue 1 |kyoo| [Mac OS X's Dictionary.app]
noun
1. a thing said or done that serves as a signal to an actor or other performer to enter or to begin their speech or performance.
2. a signal for action: any conversational lull was my cue for asking a question.
3. a piece of information or circumstance that aids the memory in retrieving details not recalled spontaneously.
As in: Bigots, it's time to do your thing. This is your cue.
This isn't a matter of trying to gather evidence to establish guilt. My understanding of the case is that there's no shortage of physical evidence and testimony to find him guilty. Any information gathered through this process would be used to determine if the defendant was legally culpable, not whether he actually committed the offense. The intent is to determine mens rea, and whether he was mentally capable of understanding what he was doing. That he committed the act is considered a given (and something he's separately admitting to through his lawyer without any drugs administered or interrogation carried out).
Personally, I think insanity defenses are .. well.. crazy, both from the perspective of the accused who plays this rather dangerous gambit and from that of The People who accept such a rationalization. For the accused, in order to attempt an insanity defense, you must first admit that you committed the crime, QED if you're found to be sane, you're toast. From The People's perspective, if you killed a bunch of people, I don't care if you were crazy or just stone cold sane & evil. Either way, I want you removed from society until you're too feeble to be able to try it again.
Seems silly to split hairs over *why* you did it. If you are or have ever been capable of shooting up a theater full of innocent people just for the lulz, I'd rather you be kept in a small box indefinitely.
As if the US has never unilaterally ignored provisions of a treaty when it suits us? Not seeing why this should stop the POTUS, assuming he really gave a damn about the rights of anyone making less than $1mil a year.
No, but EA seems to make some tasty mutton...
Perfectly valid argument when we're talking about Oracle or DB/2, but we're talking about a consumer level operating system here. OSX is and has always been perpetually licensed. New major versions cost a little ($10-$20 recently), but you can keep using the old version as long as you like. So nice straw man you have there...
Microsoft on the other hand seems like they'd like to move towards annual licensing about as soon as they can. I'm sure they would have loved to get yearly $$ from everyone who decided XP was good enough and decided to stay with it...
So you're suggesting we run some sort of DNA biometric test based on the vomit that hits the keyboard?
If DNS is your only gripe (hard to believe, as this is Time Warner we're talking about), just use another DNS server. Google, OpenDNS, or fire up a copy of djbdns somewhere, and forget that Time Warner's crappy servers even exist. Set your router to serve it out to your internal network, and you're done.
I am a Time Warner customer (not by choice). I hereby demand gigabit Internet at prices competitive with Google's fiber networks and those of the rest of the developed world.
DNS over SSH tunnel is surprisingly difficult. The default is UDP, not TCP. It's doable, but it's a PITA. Much simpler to just VPN the entire connection.
Hmmm... My DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Can't imagine getting any Comcastic interference through there... (And I'm a TimeWarner customer which makes it especially unlikely I'd be harassed by Comcast, but any who...)
That and the SSL Everywhere plugin are a good start anyways...
I moderate several Yahoo Groups (please, save the taunts, it's enough punishment in itself without half of /. picking on me too). I've seen a pretty big uptick in the number of obviously bot-driven spam posts by members to the lists in the last two weeks. Something's definitely targeting Yahoo users.
So far, they've all been Yahoo email users (as opposed to someone using a non-Yahoo email account to subscribe to the list), and they've all CC'd several lists and/or individuals that I would presume to be on the account owner's address books. I'm assuming it's an XSS attack somewhere, but light on details.
Find me a monkey that can look at a problem and determine the correct formula to plug into their magical black box and know which numbers should replace which variables. Explain to me how understanding (or not) the algebra/calculus/etc. behind an equation influences the correctness of the calculator's answer? Understanding how to frame the problem is the important part. Given the ability to do that, technology can do the math for you, and you'll get the right answer. Absent that human ability, it doesn't matter if you can do math like Rain Main, you're not going to be solving any real problems.
It's quite likely that a student who's, "Bad at math," could learn to identify applications of certain solving techniques, punch them into a suitably advanced calculator, and arrive at the correct answer. They might not have the first clue about how to actually work the numbers that the machine is doing for them, but I have a hard time seeing how there's value per-se in knowing how to crunch the numbers. The value is in solving the problem. If the middle part of the process is "magic," that's surely not optimal, but it's better than being stuck on step one and having no solution at all.
I'm not saying understanding of the math is a bad thing, but crunching the numbers is something that's significantly difficult for many students and causes significant amounts of stress about math class or, "Math is hard," sentiments. Many of these students have approximately zero chance of ever needing to perform differential calculus in their future lives, but they might just find some use in being able to find solutions to some of the types of problems than these math techniques can answer. If you get them past what is to them essentially black magic in the math itself, you can enable them to actually get some benefit in their life. You may also prevent the total shutdown to learning that often occurs when you give a student something that they're completely unequipped to solve and then rub their face in it like a naughty puppy for being too dumb to do it.
Given that my TI-85 used to run an entire school year on maybe 2-3 sets of four AAA batteries, having to charge the thing weekly (and realistically probably more like every couple of days with any real use) is insane. I'd have nightmares about the thing dying in the middle of a test!
Because teachers are paranoid the chill'ins will cheat in class. Anything with a radio is verboten as a matter of course, and likewise anything "too powerful" isn't allowed. Finagle forbid they actually spend braincycles on solving a problem and leave the arithmetic to something that's designed to crunch numbers quickly and correctly. Far better to keep them busy doing busy work.
Of course any smart phone today could run Derive in a DOS emulator and probably still have enough cycles left over to play Angry Birds, but that would make math "too easy." Can't have that...
Funny story: Talked to a physics teacher (high school level) ages ago in a school where they standardized on HP's line rather than TI's. HP's did infrared communications whereas TI typically requires a physical cable to "network" between devices. The teacher said one day he looked up from his desk during a test and noticed a bunch of mirrors and prisms strewn about the room with students carefully aiming their calculators. Being an extremely cool teacher, he said something to the effect of, "I know what you're doing, but you had to use physics to make it work, so I'll let it slide once. Get ride of the glass and don't do it again."
Most likely video drivers. I've had screen flicker, things scrolling forward, jumping back, then forward again. Granted, I'm running on a heavily modified "unsupported" MacPro1,1, so not especially surprising in my case.
There is *no* penance great enough for the pun at the top of his blog:
You will not get me to use the plural pronouns to make gender neutral references. There are perfectly acceptable made-up words for gender neutral pronouns. If we're going to abandon traditional English, we might as well do it with new words rather than abuse the accepted meaning of existing ones.
Mr. Gordon Sumner may feel free to die in one of the aforementioned brush files. If I love someone, I will set her free. Or perhaps hir if I'm feeling especially androgynous at the time.
AND, there are FOUR lights!
-1 for missing the apostrophe in the contraction for "it is" while engaging in Grammar Natzism.
Maybe they mean "continuous" operation the way ISP's mean "unlimited" bandwidth?
It's different because significantly more of the processing and display logic is distributed to the clients. Additionally clients have local storage and processing capacity which if programmed correctly may continue to operate in some fashion in the face of network failure.
Also, it's not freaking COBOL, not that I find Ruby or Python much preferable (Aaaaand there goes my good karma)
A veteran sees it done OMGWTF were you thinking you fskck343ing moron!???!???
In such a case, the burden of proof would undoubtedly be on you. Unless you're in the habit of routinely dumping and replacing your cell phone, it's tough to claim it was stolen if it's still in your pocket when they arrest^Wclassify you as a person of interest in a crime that occurred in the vicinity.
The CP virus stuff has happened and nearly ruined at least one person's life. Unfortunately can't cite my source at the moment.
The fundamental difference though is that people generally don't *choose* to get infected with viruses. The CP virus hits, some people get scared, but most of them wouldn't know how to clean their PC nor keep it clean if their life depended on it. (And let's face it, given how CP is treated legally, your life kind of does depend on it... )
CP hits a shared wireless connection like this, and most people are able to see the solution quite clearly: Throw out that little router box they gave you or don't sign up for it in the first place. Easy fix that even your most dedicated luddite can figure out.
Why in Finagle's name wouldn't you just convert to digital and keep the originals warehoused in dry storage, sans the robot overlords? Much easier to search, more quickly available, less likelihood of unsuspecting librarians being selected for "testing"
Oh right Copyright law is 40+ years behind technology. How silly of me
Wasn't Microsoft *required* by a court judgement or two to provide documentation and interoperability for several of their protocols? I don't think this was entirely out of the goodness of their hearts
See the heading "February 2008 fine" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation