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  1. Re:Ever notice the drug commercials... on The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched · · Score: 1

    Drug dealers (illegal kind) are even better maximizing profit! Is this a good thing? No.

    This is corruption by the drug companies. Also suing people instead of innovating is maximizing profit too as it costs more money for R&D rather than lawyers to patent a look and feel of a website and sue everyone. Is this a good thing too?

    People forget something. Profit is the reward for providing a service. FOr work. It is a noble think to get rich by working and serving better than anyone else. Serve billions fo the awesome IPhone like Steve Jobs did and you get 100s of billions.

    However, this is forced and not provided by working but by lobbying. This is in effect a tax and should be discouraged.

  2. Re:Schools don't get the best and brightest nurses on The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. Many take it because of the days off. Mothers love it as they get the same days off as their children so they can watch htem or vacation with them in the summers.

    It doesn't pay as much but the hours are half of what they are in a hospital. Someone people would prefer to work less for less money and they are fine with that. Not incompetent.

  3. Re:"The War on Kids" Documentary on The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched · · Score: 1

    An educators opinion. Have you set foot inside a classroom before? All it takes is 1 kid to disrupt the whole class. I can't teach unless I have firm control over EVERYONE.

    I hated highschool when I was a student. They treated me like a criminal and child when I was a young man who just wanted the nightmare to go away so I could go home. ... now i see the other side. Here is a realistic time from one pre-algebra middle school class. I have 48 minutes to teach 2 lessons on factoring binomials and another trinomials. Kids will come into the classroom shouting all LOUD with their iphones and yacking about stupid kid stuff. Meanwhile with 29 kids in the room I am expected to retain control and teach a lesson. I have to go over homework, answer questions on the previous lessons that some students still do not get, have students write in journals what they learned, discuss the lessons, put up with students sharpening their pencils and asking to use the restroom, and before you know it I only have 25 MINUTES TO DO THE LESSONS.

    So how do I accomplish this? Easy I become a d*ck. Discipline students who act up loud coming in, force them to do bellwork (warm ups) to cut down on distractions, go over homework, and then the lesson. FYI 50% of the students do not even know ORDER OF OPERATIONS! Yet I have to teach factoring tri-nomials due to No Child LEft Behind State Standards.

    If I go over this the principal will freak out and ask me why am I not teaching to the curriculum and the parents will be pissed off at me for not teaching their kid the material to pass the state tests.

    I am not saying its right to put in an authoritian system but I have too. All it takes is 2 kids in the class of 30 and all the 28 children suffer and can't learn. Maintaining control is the most important factor in education. Without it I can talk and kids will talk over me and ignore me. Kids then give up and I fail as an educator.

  4. Re:Let's see if I have this right on The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched · · Score: 1

    It wont work. If you do not want to learn and hate school you will not do well with or without psychotic medication.

    I know from personal experience. I sucked in higschool. However, I got straight As in college. OR at least close to that in every semester. Why? Damnit I wanted that degree and to succeed!

  5. Re:Mod UP@! on The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched · · Score: 1

    If you do not want to do something it frankly wont get done.

    People have to want to do something for anything to succeed that requires work. I assume you are a teacher as this is the number one issue. You have to motivate children but at the same time you have to rush through no child left behind state standards garbage and rush content as fast as possible. A very difficult job.

  6. Re:Just one for me, thanks on Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? · · Score: 1

    Drama galore. Get married to one wife and your opinion will change. FYI women do not understand the concept of day off. When the weekend finally comes they are relieved so you can work all weekend.

  7. Re:Just one for me, thanks on Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? · · Score: 1

    Until they all start demanding that ypu clean the house and spend money. Now of you fuck up you get to hear the argument several times and it gets worse if you dont listen.

    No Thank You.

  8. Re:Still? on Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Personal preference wise (security issues ignored) I would rather poke my eye out with a carrot than use FF 3.6 again.

    On my el cheapo laptop FF 3.6/4 was so sluggish, so slow, and bloated I temporary ran IE 9 instead!

    Try it again Lucko? It just got patched and I have to say it is vastly improved over 3.6. Add-ons have a new api like Chrome that do not break, ram is 1/3 what it was on low ram systems, it is fast again, and my old laptop runs it fine now.

    Yes the UI has changed. There is waterfox and there is a way to turn on the menus back on too. Sandboxie is annoying and I remember using that which was the last straw before going to IE 9 which was sand-boxed and in 2011 was ok standards wise.

  9. Re: We are downgrading to IE already on Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Too bad my office is downgrading back to IE.

    It is too little too late and releases like this should scare any organization who uses a non IE browser. Asa really did ruin a beautiful thing as many were just warming up to FF 3.6. But this release cycle? Hell no, and hte intranet developers are now de-certifying it for their apps. Only IE is supported now. Maybe in 2019 with IE 8 is EOL we will move to HTML 5.

    What a shame.

  10. Re:Sad but expected on Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Webkit doesn't follow the W3C standards. They follow whatg and their own. My fear is W3C which is about to finalize HTML 5 will be incompatible with webkit and Google will do a microsoft and try to make it like IE 6 in order to corner the mobile web market.

  11. Re:Still? on Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Smart move. There are +40 security vulnerabilties in FF 3.6. Infact, I would use another browser at this point if you do anything important like pay bills or do banking omn your computer. Hackers target it and website operators will treat it like IE 8 and give it downgraded content and leave the HTML 5 stuff for modern browsers.

    FF 3.6 is turning into the next IE 6 fast.

  12. Re:Firefox *16*!? on Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    So, either you've been offline for longer than usual, or are trolling mozilla.

    If he were trolling Mozilla he would have said "here's the patch!" and linked the IE download page. Um, did the IE vuln get fixed yet? Opera is looking better and better!

    Yep within in 24 hours. IE may have a much slower release schedule and be behind in some area's but it is not IE 6 anymore. It is an ok browser and certainly usable after IE 9 and IE 10 is very competitive to Chrome and FF believe it or not. Since MS takes security seriously they have improved it and have a security response team similiar to Google's and Symantecs.

    You can hate Windows still but I do give them an applause they have been very actice shutting down malware networks.

  13. ?? So what happens when an update comes along and breaks your intranets? Are you prepared to handle that? Who do you call for support? What if you go back and instill ADMX tools for deployment yet a critical security hole is discovered? Do you have time to test all your applications and websites before updating?

    With IE you install it and use it for 8 years and run occasional security updates. That is it.

  14. Re:What about Java? on In Under 10 Hours, Google Patches Chrome To Plug Hole Found At Its Pwnium Event · · Score: 1

    Worse I taught a year or two ago. A favorite malware serving site is www.coolflashgames.com or www.coolgames.com (One of the sites). There are few that are great and a few malware ones slip in.

    The school administrator had to impose rules on goign to that site for security reasons. Some were for edutainment so we tracked them down and they were legit. Thank God we used Macs!

    The rest of the wintel districts still use IE 6 and have not been patched in many many years sadly.

  15. IE is here to stay in the office!

    Firefox was just starting to get some traction with 3.6 before all hell broke loose with the rapid release. Business needs something that is the same year after year after year that can be locked down at the admin level and just go away out of sight and out of mind. App vendors need to certify it and right now only IE offers that. I read here about intranet developers furious at Mozilla for they hate writing IE 6 code in 2011 but now are permanently stuck as they wont no if the next version of FF wont break something and hold them liable.

    When the developers can be sued for what the browser makers update it puts huge pressure to have a common standard that does not change. That standard is IE 6 and in this decade it will be IE 8. After all that money spend upgrading they sure as hell will fight HTML 5 tooth and nail to keep things the way they are now. Sorry but Chrome aint going near any enterprise soon.

  16. Re:What about Java? on In Under 10 Hours, Google Patches Chrome To Plug Hole Found At Its Pwnium Event · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Java is HUGE at the office and wont go away anytime soon. People still think of Netscape java 1.2 applets running in all gray glory from last century when think of Java. What they do not see is how Bank of America, Chase, ManPower, Seibel, Kronos, and many and I mean many corporate portals use it

    It gets worse. They use Java to manipulate +Com objects through security exploits in the RMI. So a patched Java is not acceptable as it would close the hole HR needs to do the payroll so the app can talk to excel with full administrator privileges. Yes I did say admin which is why it cant' run on Windows 7 and requires XP and java 1.4.1. Not 1.4.0, not 1.4.2, just just 1.4.1 with its plus +30 security holes.

    As a consultant or IT shop like Harry the best you can do is please to finance who say there is no compelling business case to be secure as they also use these IE 7 apps and are afraid of change too and like things fine just the way they are thank you very much!! ... aren't you a cost center anyway? ... thats what I thought we are a real business and have important things to go do go away etc.

    Java 8 is almost out and I wonder what is going to happen? I only have java 6 on this desktop (plugins DISABLED!).

  17. Re:Are these guys kidding? on Will the Desktop PC Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    The XT had graphics. They were just green. You can do bar charts, play Xaxzon (spelling), tetris, and even run some mouse drive things in ugly monochrome. A mainframe can only output text. Not even a barchart. That is what brought the PC in as well as cheap software development tools.

  18. Re:60K vs. median annual wage/income on In Under 10 Hours, Google Patches Chrome To Plug Hole Found At Its Pwnium Event · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Those statistics really show a disturbing trend. The death of the middle class and the very rich who bring up that average so high. They are already buying houses in cash in an effort to raise rent prices and also use their wealth to collect rents on food and oil prices on those who do not have anything.

    I can't see how anyone besides a single person living a very humble and low end lifestyle can survive at $26k a year! I would have to live with my parents if I earned that just to pay off my student loans. I would go hungry fast every car, insurance, rent, and student loans came in. Like maybe $10 a day max!

  19. Re:Second time is very good for him. on In Under 10 Hours, Google Patches Chrome To Plug Hole Found At Its Pwnium Event · · Score: 2

    Oh please and a spoiled American. You want to talk about how much 60k a year is? How about make $10 a day working 12 hours as fast as body can do at Foxxcon in China sound? To them $30,000 is A TON OF MONEY.

    Sure you can't buy yatchs with that but I have made far less money and struggled like millions of other people reading this in the recent economic downtown. I would feel like a king for $60k a year! ... now if you buy 60k cars, $300,000 homes, eat out 5 times a week, put all your expenses on a credit card with 30.5% interest, and take $10,000 vacations each year I would have to say the reason you are broke is not because you make a poor measily 60k a year. The reason is you have a spending problem!

    With a nice $10,000 used car, $190,000 home, eating out twice a week, and only using a credit card in emergencies I have to say that is a TON of money and anyone making that should be greatful just to have a job. Too many are making $15,000 a year who used to make $60,000.

    For a kid without a family, mortgage, and a life in front of him that is A TON of money. You can live rent free for 2 whole years, work another job, or get a degree with that and pull in more. Good for him and thanks Google for being generous.

  20. Re:Does anyone with a clue actually *use* this stu on VMware: Hey, Other Cloud Services Exist · · Score: 1

    Please the first fad were network computers. Same argument was made. The next was intranets. Same argument was made. After that AJAX web 2.0. Same argument was made. Now clouds! ... in reality they are kind of similar. You have a server and you have a client. The truth is I do not have to call it a cloud. An app hosted on a server is just that. Now facebook itself calls itself a cloud and so does amazon. In reality yahoo mail was doing that last century when it was hip to call it a portal.

    Yes it is hype with some truth, but is not a revolutionary new thing.

  21. Re:Yes, in zombie form. on Will the Desktop PC Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    Sadly you are correct as IE 6 and java applets are the 21st century version of COBOL. COBOL is what keeps mainframes still around and IE 6 will run from citrix terminals for many decades running ancient apps with Java 1.4.2.

    Those 2 are the pinnacles of all that is holy in the standards war for PHBs and will never die. IE 8 is in a similar role too

  22. Re:Historical anaolgy on Will the Desktop PC Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    It aint gonna happen. Most college kids today buy Macbooks as well as IPADs. Why? Because they can't write papers or do spreadsheets for their accounting nor statistics classes on a silly phone or tablet.

    PC vendors can't do it. If MS dares to be this retarded with Windows 9, we will just keep using Windows 7 as corproate America ignorantly and defiantly still wipes Windows 7 off pcs and puts XP on 11 years later! With so many of us they wont be able to EOL it!

    PCs will be around for a very long time and MS tried to lock them down and failed every time. They wont become expensive as tablets are toys. No office suite programs, no productivity, or anything of advantage.

    The difference is in the mainframe/Unix/VMS mini days was that those silly toys we call PCs had real software that rivaled the mainframe and you could do things like compile your own programs or make cute bar graphs or doodle in MacPaint while the mainframe could not do that. I see nothing a phone can do that a PC can't yet?

    It is a fad for hipsters making phone calls as you will see WIndows 8 fail. There is so much legacy crap out there that no rightful corporations or individual like you nor I would go along with it. Windows forever baby!! ... or Windows 10 will reverse it and not lock down. If not than maybe Firefox will have a freeware OS and environment that isn't locked? There is still hope out there as the free market will not tolerate it!

  23. Re:Are these guys kidding? on Will the Desktop PC Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    The PC wont die. Until I can type full page papers at 70 WPM in a word processor as good as Word, can multitask in human terms as I can see and easily switch between apps on the screen, have a start menu, and have software that doesn't suck that I will switch.

    The PC won over the mainframe because of one important thing. Graphics! When the mainframe guys laughed at us we showed them a bar graph from Lotus 123 and asked if their 380 could do this? The answer was no.

    What does the tablet do? Nothing ...

    It costs less. That is about it.

    I am nto switching until I have a real keyboard, start menu, and decent software, and a good screen. Other than that it is an expensive toy and not an important asset.

  24. Re:Wealthy people on Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama · · Score: 1

    The difference is that tax cut will help Joe six pack buy a few 12 packs of beer in a years time ... assuming he gets one at all. A single Mom did not get any tax cut at all under Bush. Correct me if I am wrong? I could be but it is hardly anything. ... now if you make 200+ and have a whole bunch of vacation homes and tax shelters you get a new Mercedes! The rich guy gets one hell of a payout more than the single Mom so as a result the Mom might be more inclined to vote for Obama. Lower interest rates on cards, lower student loan rates, and other things would certainly help her out the best.

    The rich guy? Not at all.

    Also a corporate tax cut will raise the share price so the executive then gets a performance bonus on top of his salary! Think the Mom working at CVS will get a bonus? Nope ...

  25. Re:Of course on Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama · · Score: 1

    Movie stars do not gain more money from deregulation. Their executives might but not htem. Union guys vote for democrats because they will help keep them in power and not have someone like Scott, or Walker make states right to work or strip union rights of public employees. It makes more financial sense to vote democrat.

    If you are a corporate tool the republican party offers you no transparency, bribing, no regulation, corporate tax cuts, and personal tax cuts. No matter what your field it is a nice place to be to have a tea party person or afar right wing governor to help you out. Black athletes get none of that. Maybe a tax break and that is it.