That is deceiftful and doesn't tell the whole picture.
The malware is not developed here. It is just America has lots and lots of old servers running unpatched wordpress, apache, and linux software full of vulnerabilities. Many slashdotters are under the impression most malware is still installed by a user clicking something and the problem is always between the monitor and keyboard and also that Linux is 100% safe and only IIS gets infected etc.
Most bad sites are legit and just get hacked and crackers insert an infected ad, javascript, or flash.
It is just not true as crackers target wordpress and other sites and then use SQL injections and php exploits to host bad ads with flash or javascript exploits. I had one piece of malware install right from slashdot 2 months ago! It was a bad and I emailed ThinkGeek to let them know.
If you used Windows without AV software guess what? You are owned if you visited slashdot in late february or early march.
Not that I am pro making that much as I just argued against minimum wage, I have to ask if you would be willing to pay $14 for a box of chocolates?
I think not every job should pay that little, but in this case $8/hr sounds reasonable as a teenager could do that job or a bored house wife who needs just a little income. There is a limited amount of resources available and if everyone was a millionaire you can make a bet that the particular porche you are eyeing would still be only available to the top 2% of the population as a result. Inflation..
Right now huge debt with student loans, housing, and credit cards are crippling demand which is why employers are rushing to pay everyone minimum wage as no one wants to pay anything since they owe the banks money.
I had to get a degree before I could get anything above that and worried about getting fired for being 3 minutes late for work 3 times, plus had to sell commission just not to get fired.
It was a miserable existence and a great motivator to finish school... now I am unemployed again I am looking for these jobs. In an employers market everyone is devalued into minimum wage because it is so profitable. Only in an economic expansion or for those who have a heavily interested skillset can break out of it.
It you did that today that loan would be $60,000 and not $2,000.
No, that part time job at the book store will not cover your tuition either. You would be fucked if you tried to do it over and this is why the younger people are angry as the older generation does not see the inflation with the economy after graduation picture. The world has changed
The problem is when everyone does it (like now). Then your options frankly suck because those who do price shop know that stupid people outnumber them and will happily go in their place.
Same thing happened 2001 - 2006 in the housing market. Refuse to pay $400,000 for that 1200 sq foot home? Fine the seller will just sell it to someone who will pay with a dumb bank forking the bill instead. Home prices are still 20% over and rents are 30 to 40% over valued today and not coming down. People want that 1 million dollars and will do everything they can to keep prices sky high with a middle finger to everyone else who was not lucky to be born earlier.
Colleges are doing the same, yet they are receiving HUGe cuts from the states as they no longer have the money to fund R&D and student tuition. So colleges are hurting too even if they are charging too much for tuition and it is going to cost the next generation dearly as this can not continue without turning the US into a third world nation as debt forces people not to consume.
Research shows otherwise and how addicts get stuck. You are an adult and know the risks. Students do not understand addiction yet. My father is an alcoholic so it is a touchy subject for me. They can ruin your life if you are not careful and nearly hard if not impossible to quit once your hooked. Heroine especially is bad.
Caught with that and no one will hire you PERIOD. These are the risks and I see nothing wrong with warning students. Do I think someone's life deserves to be trashed because of a few puffs of weed? Of course not, but I do not make the rules and just dictate the consequences. Maybe you live outside the uS?
I am a user and what I stare at is how I use it. Yes, I will dish Linux as in my case I use it as a workstation and do consumer oriented things with it. Most people who know nothing about computers see this and scratch their heads and make a value judgement about the quality of the operating system.
Gnome failed big time and so did KDE. Linux lost and its time to move on with Android and Windows.
I have Linux on a VM for everything else and that is fine for me.
You see, SC comes up with a moderately intelligent article that does seem, in the face of it, to address the points Microsoft addresses.
And yet, virtually anyone who administers a public website can tell you that SC's original figures are complete crap. IE most certainly is the most popular browser right now. And Chome is third place. Not second. Definitely not first.
SC can continue to push this ludicrous crap if they want. But their figures are laughable, and they'd be better off figuring why than writing snippy retorts to anyone who points it out.
According to slashdot, only 10% of users use IE 8 and everyone else uses Chrome/FF.
My blogsite (not linked) is tiny and dumb but shows only 5% use IE 8 too. It varies on your website's market. Consumer sites will back up SC and if your employer is SAP or something corporate guess what? 90% use IE which is no surprise. It doesn't mean SC is crap at all as they test consumer sites and pro sites. Most people at work do not browse the web as they are not getting paid too and only occasionally do it when the boss is not looking. So you forget about that factor too.
My issue with NetMarketshare is they only look at 40k websites and they have a tiny amount in China. They weigh it to try to makeup but the number in China is so small that variations are included in the data.
For example, Arstechnica said IE 6 usage is up by 15%! Then it mysteriously goes back down by an equal amount. Then goes back up next month by 11%. Most IE 6 users are in China and not in the US (contrary to popular belief on slashdot that corps make it up). So if you have such a tiny sampling size in China who owns most of all IE 6 users you will see strange statistics.
Now if you make an English website that means the statistics are useless as your boss might thing this means American websites and a surge in IE 6 usage means you need to work 70 hour work weeks for the next month downgrading your site to work with such a small marketshare of users.
Statcounter admitted they screwed up and fixed Chrome pre-rendering if you look at their site starting last month it takes this effect into account and Chrome lowered a little bit.
I certainly believe statCounter as it it logical and things with NetMarket do not make sense like IE 6 going up 15% usage last January?? The statCounter shows smooth graphs with less variation and I agree that no one outside of slashdot runs linux.
I stopped using Linux in March 2011 after Gnome shell, Unity, and all the new browsers hit 6 week release cycles for security and bug fixes. Linux lost out for me and millions of users.
However, it kicks ass on the server. NetMarketshare does not even show Linux either.
I do not understand the obsession of Linux beating MS. I used to be in that crowd when Windows 98 was so problematic but those days are LONG gone. Linux never does just work if you do updates as the lack of ABIs with drivers and config files changing becomes a nightmare when you have 3k apps installed. I am seriously not trolling but just stating my experience as someone will say it works fine for me etc. Ubuntu is not kind with my laptop and older desktop.
Android and IOS are more consumer oriented and people running Linux servers should not be browsing websites on them.
I am working on a site and trying to learn web development for a corporate and business oriented market.
IE 6 != Chrome/FF and it has radical implications on how to develop resources. It is not oh, IE does this a little different, I will just add this to a.css then the problem will go away etc. Rather I have to redesign the site from scratch, I have to worry about support calls if the javascript is too slow.
It may mean I can't use JQuery to write once run everywhere as IE 6,7, and 8 will run like molasses and the most recent versions are not compatible with IE 6.
As an IT support professional it means more malware when people run obsolete platforms like IE 7 and XP with an increase in help desk malware tickets by 200%!
If you can point out to the PHBs and beancounters that no one is using their crappy locked down solutions anyway they will be in a tough spot with corporate sites no longer rendering properly. Most webmasters and IT support pros pray for statistics that show IE dying! As soon as people stop bending over backwards to users such as yourself who think IE 6 is the same as Chrome we can finally get rid of that terrible monstrosity and move on to something modern.
No parents are assholes who do not respect their teachers or the teaching profession after being bombarded with how bad the US scores.
I had seen one teacher threatened to be sued because they told their parents that their child was retarded! How do you insult my kid!!! She is soo smart you are stupid etc?
The teacher gave an IQ test and show has an IQ of 71. Yes, by definition that child is retarded in mental abilities so why does the teacher take in the heat? Parents today like most Americans feel entittled and are aggresive to get ahead and feed their egos. Maybe the bad kids get it from their parents where they are told they are smart and teachers are stupid so they exhibit these behaviors in the classroom and these same parents also vote politicians in to hold their teachers responsible too.
It is not language per say, but simply some students should not be mainstreamed. An aggresive student needs to be held in a special school with lots of staff memebers who are trained to restrain such students.
Drugs are truly terrible. I am talking about the hard core stuff that one hit will rewire your brain and make you permanently after that high, and not some weed.
Teenagers have a mindset close to an adult but are not fully there yet. They think they are invincible and have not went through the pain of making a truly poor decision negatively effecting their life yet. They do not understand the power of addiction and what a chemical high can do to you?
Yes, they need to know. By highschool level they should be taught how endorphines work too and just what will happen when you are caught. Many figure ok, I will smoke some weed and will get community service and a spanking if I get caught right? Big deal? What they do not understand is how it will ruin your life for the next 7 years. Congrats to your new job!... oh wait you were accused of what!? Sorry buddy we can't hire you. Why don't you interview at McDonalds down the street?
I did substitute teach for awhile in between jobs and my ex was a teacher who kept getting fired and rehired and was treated like dirt because of stupid metrics. She was special ed and would get penalized for her retarded kids not scoring grade level. To make the governor happy they had to fire her and rehire her every year. It became so stressful we moved out of state and divorced over money issues as we freaked out about being homeless every year. I realize the my grammar was poor but I typed that on a phone but that is why I am so strongly opinion oriented on this subject.
Anyway, I am just giving you another perspective from the teacher's point of view. I looked at the tests for 8th grade and saw actual quadratic formulas on it! Are you aware that was 12th grade stuff when I went to school?
There are good and bad points to NCLB and I hated highschool too when I was in it as teachers treated me poorly but I realize now that is it just a few bad apples who do not htink like adults yet force teachers to treat everyone like children. The teachers are trying to protect their jobs unless of course you say it is cheating and on the real tests told you to change their answers.
The ones who cared about you will never have to worry about being homeless because you wanted to challenge the system. It is a sucky job to do and I strongly believe in tests but they should not be the only metric. Critical thinking is more important as well as teaching anything besides just reading, writing, and math all day long. My step kids have not had a single history course yet and they are in 7th grade. Why? How does that help boast the NCLB scores?... aka how does that raise the share price in the private sector?
If it was the actual test itself and if time were up yes that is bad. If it were typical coursework where they are pretest or ask similiar questions then yes the teachers need to do this.
NCLB has risen academic students greatly. For example students in 6th grade now can graph and so simply pre-algebra. When I was your age in 6th grade all we did was multiple, divide, and subtract and use new cutting edge things like carrying over numbers. If you were very smart and had a knack for math you can do advanced placement into doing the things you did in 6th grade by 7th grade and learning what X is etc.
As a result the US was a joke compared to other countries and something had to be done to force these teachers to teach rather than not leaving the slowest 3 kids in the class behind. There was no special ed back in those days except if you were severely retarded or had bad issues so teachers had these students and didn't want to piss off their parents.
Do not be mad at your former teachers. If they are untenured you could end up firing them and they have everyright not be fired because some kid sees through the BS and refuses to go along. The ones who do not give a shit are tenured and untouchable. It is an ugly mess as principles tend to fire and rehire the same teachers now year after year and put undue stress on them just because they have a right to refire like the private sector. It is an ugly mess and with the TEA party obessed with paying them minimium wage and taking away their collective bargaining rights they are under extreme pressure by the governors in their respective states to put the pressure on them.
Everyone hear on slashdot probably worked for an employer who utilized these and quality went down everytime where job performance was measured. Every MBA and even undergrad taking business management courses knows that quality always sufers when metrics are used inappropriately as game theory dictates that everyone's goal is to keep ones' job. Not help the company out. So if someone figures out a way to reduce inventory to save costs the VP of manufactoring has a hissy fit as his metrics suffer on amount of units he stores and he gets a write up etc.
Worse, studies show in business management courses like "Good to Great" that when companies do this it is because their employees suck. Putting in new management metrics makes it suck more, not make bad employees turn into good employees.
Some moron thought it was a great idea since the private sector uses these and included it in education. There are so many reasons why these tests should not used as metrics. It is insulting to the teachers too (my ex was a teacher) as they do not even set the cirriculumn used. Basically they are handed down a copy of the test in points and decimals increments how they test per objective. 12.3 "Student shows adaquite code switching in communication, by utilizing a,b, and c etc". So on October 19th at percisely 10am - 10:53 they are handed worksheets and drilled over and over again.
Code switching is a fancy teaching term in comprehending a concept through verbal steps given and those terms are in by academic elitist in the teaching system (yes they are in teaching too and not just in computer science).
What they need to do is track per student tests year after year (OMG high tax payer costs!!)so teachers who teach inner city schools or those who teach all Mexicans (common where my wife taught in Southern California) do not become penalized. Also special ed teachers are getting a bad rap for poor test scores and many are being showed the door before tenure. The bad teachers who are tenured are unfirable in contrast to the good teachers. They also need to bust the teacher unions so they can fire bad teachers but teachers are not judged whether on language scores where they have only 2 native speaking english students per classroom like in Texas, Arizona, and California. Also kicking out the bad bottom 10% of students and forcing them to work minimium wage jobs would be a great thing too! They do not want to be there and they just irritate and disrespect teachers and hurt other students who want to learn. In China if you act like that and yell in class, make fun of the teacher, and cut class they will take you out in 8th grade and make you work in a factory. That is why their test scores are so damn high.
Compulsive education, no per student test scores, and test metrics as the only measurement sound like very poor management techniques.
They wont do that. Microsoft is no longer the leader. IE is a great example as IE 6 lockin lost. As a result it no longer sucks as IE 9 is ok, and IE 10 is quite competitive with Goole, Apple, and Mozilla as one of the most standard compliant browsers ever.
Therefore they are the good guys now just like Apple used to be before owning hte smartphone market and tablet and turning more evil than MS ever was.
If MS keeps losing they will have to compete with product quality and supporting standards and be friendly towards users. I hope to see MS do some more marketshare just so we have more competition. If Google decides that Andriod is too much of a patent liability and decides to let Apple use Google's services in exchange they leave the market we ARE FUCKED. IOS would be the next Dos/Windows for the next few decades. Would we want that?
I know we have issues with trust but to be honest how can I trust anyone else? Corporations supposed to follow the users needs and wants and when it is a free market this happens and they must correct themselves or die.
I would rather watch 2 girls 1 cup than to have my holy computer ever subjected to such torture to that malware. I would have to rewipe it or do a restore and carefully go through the registry.
No the SEO is paying him to link to his site in reference to MyCleanPC for the actual url. The url is the key ingredient to get a top Google page rank without paying for it which this scam artist is trying to do.
What will happen is if someone does a search for the key terms My clean pc, sucks, worst product ever, do not buy this, and then mcpc the link to the girls eating shit will show up.
Obviously no slashdotter is going to click that so his audience is for Google readerbots. Also Google does rank things higher with the rel=no follow as scam artistis have caught on about the penalty of over doing SEO.
So since I randomly picked that one lets keep it up! Or have whoever is in charge of slashdot since Timothy and CMD Taco left to simply ban all posts with that url. If what I read is true and it is scareware then these assholes should be in jail. How is MyCleanPC different than something evil like Anti Virus 2010 or MacDefender? The comments I read on youtube is it is impossible to uninstall or at least very hard making a rewipe the most viable solution for just casual PC users.
Lets fuck up this SEO troll's game? If another slashdotters respond back to this troll with the following cut and pasted back all his potential customers will see 2 women eating shit and vomiting in each other's mouths. You all have my permission to cute and paste this. Obviously not work safe...
MyCleanPC is a shitty product! There is no crappier product than MyCleanPC.
In actuality this will fuck up the SEO from this scam artist who wrote MYCleanPC.com and counters his slimy spamming advertising MyCleanPC .
If everyone here on slashdot points to other disgusting sites for MyCleanPC, then people searching for malware virus removal with MyCleanPC will have an awful surprise!:-)
If goatse was still around I would have used that sigh.
Well would you and everyones' brother be willing to pay $5 a month to use Facebook?
The answer would be hell no. People just are so used to annoying ads they do not care. Look at slashdot as an example? You can pay a tiny monthly fee to browser slashdot ad free. It is not that Cmd Taco (I believe he quit) is evil. It is that is costs money to host this site and have the people who work on it fulltime feed. The internet is not as free as it once was with telecom giants buying all the last mile wires and someone has to pay the bills.
People do put value and prefer ads otherwise 80% of us would actually pay to browse in which we choose not too. Facebook does make money from its ads. About 1 billion in revenue every year! It sure as hell not worth $100 billion. Advertising is a very lucrative market and industries like automotive are willing to include 1/3 the price of your car just towards advertising alone!
Slashdot Mirror
That is deceiftful and doesn't tell the whole picture.
The malware is not developed here. It is just America has lots and lots of old servers running unpatched wordpress, apache, and linux software full of vulnerabilities. Many slashdotters are under the impression most malware is still installed by a user clicking something and the problem is always between the monitor and keyboard and also that Linux is 100% safe and only IIS gets infected etc.
Most bad sites are legit and just get hacked and crackers insert an infected ad, javascript, or flash.
It is just not true as crackers target wordpress and other sites and then use SQL injections and php exploits to host bad ads with flash or javascript exploits. I had one piece of malware install right from slashdot 2 months ago! It was a bad and I emailed ThinkGeek to let them know.
If you used Windows without AV software guess what? You are owned if you visited slashdot in late february or early march.
After digging around a little I did not find much useful knowledge about the accuracy and how it works.
Well according to one user named AnonymousCoward it has to use MyCleanCP(spelling). He went on saying it was the only one that would work.
Not that I am pro making that much as I just argued against minimum wage, I have to ask if you would be willing to pay $14 for a box of chocolates?
I think not every job should pay that little, but in this case $8/hr sounds reasonable as a teenager could do that job or a bored house wife who needs just a little income. There is a limited amount of resources available and if everyone was a millionaire you can make a bet that the particular porche you are eyeing would still be only available to the top 2% of the population as a result. Inflation ..
Right now huge debt with student loans, housing, and credit cards are crippling demand which is why employers are rushing to pay everyone minimum wage as no one wants to pay anything since they owe the banks money.
What job is that?
I had to get a degree before I could get anything above that and worried about getting fired for being 3 minutes late for work 3 times, plus had to sell commission just not to get fired.
It was a miserable existence and a great motivator to finish school ... now I am unemployed again I am looking for these jobs. In an employers market everyone is devalued into minimum wage because it is so profitable. Only in an economic expansion or for those who have a heavily interested skillset can break out of it.
It you did that today that loan would be $60,000 and not $2,000.
No, that part time job at the book store will not cover your tuition either. You would be fucked if you tried to do it over and this is why the younger people are angry as the older generation does not see the inflation with the economy after graduation picture. The world has changed
The problem is when everyone does it (like now). Then your options frankly suck because those who do price shop know that stupid people outnumber them and will happily go in their place.
Same thing happened 2001 - 2006 in the housing market. Refuse to pay $400,000 for that 1200 sq foot home? Fine the seller will just sell it to someone who will pay with a dumb bank forking the bill instead. Home prices are still 20% over and rents are 30 to 40% over valued today and not coming down. People want that 1 million dollars and will do everything they can to keep prices sky high with a middle finger to everyone else who was not lucky to be born earlier.
Colleges are doing the same, yet they are receiving HUGe cuts from the states as they no longer have the money to fund R&D and student tuition. So colleges are hurting too even if they are charging too much for tuition and it is going to cost the next generation dearly as this can not continue without turning the US into a third world nation as debt forces people not to consume.
Research shows otherwise and how addicts get stuck. You are an adult and know the risks. Students do not understand addiction yet. My father is an alcoholic so it is a touchy subject for me. They can ruin your life if you are not careful and nearly hard if not impossible to quit once your hooked. Heroine especially is bad.
Caught with that and no one will hire you PERIOD. These are the risks and I see nothing wrong with warning students. Do I think someone's life deserves to be trashed because of a few puffs of weed? Of course not, but I do not make the rules and just dictate the consequences. Maybe you live outside the uS?
I am a user and what I stare at is how I use it. Yes, I will dish Linux as in my case I use it as a workstation and do consumer oriented things with it. Most people who know nothing about computers see this and scratch their heads and make a value judgement about the quality of the operating system.
Gnome failed big time and so did KDE. Linux lost and its time to move on with Android and Windows.
I have Linux on a VM for everything else and that is fine for me.
What's the actual truth?
You see, SC comes up with a moderately intelligent article that does seem, in the face of it, to address the points Microsoft addresses.
And yet, virtually anyone who administers a public website can tell you that SC's original figures are complete crap. IE most certainly is the most popular browser right now. And Chome is third place. Not second. Definitely not first.
SC can continue to push this ludicrous crap if they want. But their figures are laughable, and they'd be better off figuring why than writing snippy retorts to anyone who points it out.
According to slashdot, only 10% of users use IE 8 and everyone else uses Chrome/FF.
My blogsite (not linked) is tiny and dumb but shows only 5% use IE 8 too. It varies on your website's market. Consumer sites will back up SC and if your employer is SAP or something corporate guess what? 90% use IE which is no surprise. It doesn't mean SC is crap at all as they test consumer sites and pro sites. Most people at work do not browse the web as they are not getting paid too and only occasionally do it when the boss is not looking. So you forget about that factor too.
My issue with NetMarketshare is they only look at 40k websites and they have a tiny amount in China. They weigh it to try to makeup but the number in China is so small that variations are included in the data.
For example, Arstechnica said IE 6 usage is up by 15%! Then it mysteriously goes back down by an equal amount. Then goes back up next month by 11%. Most IE 6 users are in China and not in the US (contrary to popular belief on slashdot that corps make it up). So if you have such a tiny sampling size in China who owns most of all IE 6 users you will see strange statistics.
Now if you make an English website that means the statistics are useless as your boss might thing this means American websites and a surge in IE 6 usage means you need to work 70 hour work weeks for the next month downgrading your site to work with such a small marketshare of users.
Statcounter admitted they screwed up and fixed Chrome pre-rendering if you look at their site starting last month it takes this effect into account and Chrome lowered a little bit.
I certainly believe statCounter as it it logical and things with NetMarket do not make sense like IE 6 going up 15% usage last January?? The statCounter shows smooth graphs with less variation and I agree that no one outside of slashdot runs linux.
I stopped using Linux in March 2011 after Gnome shell, Unity, and all the new browsers hit 6 week release cycles for security and bug fixes. Linux lost out for me and millions of users.
However, it kicks ass on the server. NetMarketshare does not even show Linux either.
I do not understand the obsession of Linux beating MS. I used to be in that crowd when Windows 98 was so problematic but those days are LONG gone. Linux never does just work if you do updates as the lack of ABIs with drivers and config files changing becomes a nightmare when you have 3k apps installed. I am seriously not trolling but just stating my experience as someone will say it works fine for me etc. Ubuntu is not kind with my laptop and older desktop.
Android and IOS are more consumer oriented and people running Linux servers should not be browsing websites on them.
I am working on a site and trying to learn web development for a corporate and business oriented market.
IE 6 != Chrome/FF and it has radical implications on how to develop resources. It is not oh, IE does this a little different, I will just add this to a .css then the problem will go away etc. Rather I have to redesign the site from scratch, I have to worry about support calls if the javascript is too slow.
It may mean I can't use JQuery to write once run everywhere as IE 6,7, and 8 will run like molasses and the most recent versions are not compatible with IE 6.
As an IT support professional it means more malware when people run obsolete platforms like IE 7 and XP with an increase in help desk malware tickets by 200%!
If you can point out to the PHBs and beancounters that no one is using their crappy locked down solutions anyway they will be in a tough spot with corporate sites no longer rendering properly. Most webmasters and IT support pros pray for statistics that show IE dying! As soon as people stop bending over backwards to users such as yourself who think IE 6 is the same as Chrome we can finally get rid of that terrible monstrosity and move on to something modern.
No parents are assholes who do not respect their teachers or the teaching profession after being bombarded with how bad the US scores.
I had seen one teacher threatened to be sued because they told their parents that their child was retarded! How do you insult my kid!!! She is soo smart you are stupid etc?
The teacher gave an IQ test and show has an IQ of 71. Yes, by definition that child is retarded in mental abilities so why does the teacher take in the heat? Parents today like most Americans feel entittled and are aggresive to get ahead and feed their egos. Maybe the bad kids get it from their parents where they are told they are smart and teachers are stupid so they exhibit these behaviors in the classroom and these same parents also vote politicians in to hold their teachers responsible too.
It is not language per say, but simply some students should not be mainstreamed. An aggresive student needs to be held in a special school with lots of staff memebers who are trained to restrain such students.
Drugs are truly terrible. I am talking about the hard core stuff that one hit will rewire your brain and make you permanently after that high, and not some weed.
Teenagers have a mindset close to an adult but are not fully there yet. They think they are invincible and have not went through the pain of making a truly poor decision negatively effecting their life yet. They do not understand the power of addiction and what a chemical high can do to you?
Yes, they need to know. By highschool level they should be taught how endorphines work too and just what will happen when you are caught. Many figure ok, I will smoke some weed and will get community service and a spanking if I get caught right? Big deal? What they do not understand is how it will ruin your life for the next 7 years. Congrats to your new job! ... oh wait you were accused of what!? Sorry buddy we can't hire you. Why don't you interview at McDonalds down the street?
I did substitute teach for awhile in between jobs and my ex was a teacher who kept getting fired and rehired and was treated like dirt because of stupid metrics. She was special ed and would get penalized for her retarded kids not scoring grade level. To make the governor happy they had to fire her and rehire her every year. It became so stressful we moved out of state and divorced over money issues as we freaked out about being homeless every year. I realize the my grammar was poor but I typed that on a phone but that is why I am so strongly opinion oriented on this subject.
Anyway, I am just giving you another perspective from the teacher's point of view. I looked at the tests for 8th grade and saw actual quadratic formulas on it! Are you aware that was 12th grade stuff when I went to school?
There are good and bad points to NCLB and I hated highschool too when I was in it as teachers treated me poorly but I realize now that is it just a few bad apples who do not htink like adults yet force teachers to treat everyone like children. The teachers are trying to protect their jobs unless of course you say it is cheating and on the real tests told you to change their answers.
The ones who cared about you will never have to worry about being homeless because you wanted to challenge the system. It is a sucky job to do and I strongly believe in tests but they should not be the only metric. Critical thinking is more important as well as teaching anything besides just reading, writing, and math all day long. My step kids have not had a single history course yet and they are in 7th grade. Why? How does that help boast the NCLB scores? ... aka how does that raise the share price in the private sector?
If it was the actual test itself and if time were up yes that is bad. If it were typical coursework where they are pretest or ask similiar questions then yes the teachers need to do this.
NCLB has risen academic students greatly. For example students in 6th grade now can graph and so simply pre-algebra. When I was your age in 6th grade all we did was multiple, divide, and subtract and use new cutting edge things like carrying over numbers. If you were very smart and had a knack for math you can do advanced placement into doing the things you did in 6th grade by 7th grade and learning what X is etc.
As a result the US was a joke compared to other countries and something had to be done to force these teachers to teach rather than not leaving the slowest 3 kids in the class behind. There was no special ed back in those days except if you were severely retarded or had bad issues so teachers had these students and didn't want to piss off their parents.
Do not be mad at your former teachers. If they are untenured you could end up firing them and they have everyright not be fired because some kid sees through the BS and refuses to go along. The ones who do not give a shit are tenured and untouchable. It is an ugly mess as principles tend to fire and rehire the same teachers now year after year and put undue stress on them just because they have a right to refire like the private sector. It is an ugly mess and with the TEA party obessed with paying them minimium wage and taking away their collective bargaining rights they are under extreme pressure by the governors in their respective states to put the pressure on them.
Everyone hear on slashdot probably worked for an employer who utilized these and quality went down everytime where job performance was measured. Every MBA and even undergrad taking business management courses knows that quality always sufers when metrics are used inappropriately as game theory dictates that everyone's goal is to keep ones' job. Not help the company out. So if someone figures out a way to reduce inventory to save costs the VP of manufactoring has a hissy fit as his metrics suffer on amount of units he stores and he gets a write up etc.
Worse, studies show in business management courses like "Good to Great" that when companies do this it is because their employees suck. Putting in new management metrics makes it suck more, not make bad employees turn into good employees.
Some moron thought it was a great idea since the private sector uses these and included it in education. There are so many reasons why these tests should not used as metrics. It is insulting to the teachers too (my ex was a teacher) as they do not even set the cirriculumn used. Basically they are handed down a copy of the test in points and decimals increments how they test per objective. 12.3 "Student shows adaquite code switching in communication, by utilizing a,b, and c etc". So on October 19th at percisely 10am - 10:53 they are handed worksheets and drilled over and over again.
Code switching is a fancy teaching term in comprehending a concept through verbal steps given and those terms are in by academic elitist in the teaching system (yes they are in teaching too and not just in computer science).
What they need to do is track per student tests year after year (OMG high tax payer costs!!)so teachers who teach inner city schools or those who teach all Mexicans (common where my wife taught in Southern California) do not become penalized. Also special ed teachers are getting a bad rap for poor test scores and many are being showed the door before tenure. The bad teachers who are tenured are unfirable in contrast to the good teachers. They also need to bust the teacher unions so they can fire bad teachers but teachers are not judged whether on language scores where they have only 2 native speaking english students per classroom like in Texas, Arizona, and California. Also kicking out the bad bottom 10% of students and forcing them to work minimium wage jobs would be a great thing too! They do not want to be there and they just irritate and disrespect teachers and hurt other students who want to learn. In China if you act like that and yell in class, make fun of the teacher, and cut class they will take you out in 8th grade and make you work in a factory. That is why their test scores are so damn high.
Compulsive education, no per student test scores, and test metrics as the only measurement sound like very poor management techniques.
You mean Unity finally wont suck on Linux?
They wont do that. Microsoft is no longer the leader. IE is a great example as IE 6 lockin lost. As a result it no longer sucks as IE 9 is ok, and IE 10 is quite competitive with Goole, Apple, and Mozilla as one of the most standard compliant browsers ever.
Therefore they are the good guys now just like Apple used to be before owning hte smartphone market and tablet and turning more evil than MS ever was.
If MS keeps losing they will have to compete with product quality and supporting standards and be friendly towards users. I hope to see MS do some more marketshare just so we have more competition. If Google decides that Andriod is too much of a patent liability and decides to let Apple use Google's services in exchange they leave the market we ARE FUCKED. IOS would be the next Dos/Windows for the next few decades. Would we want that?
I know we have issues with trust but to be honest how can I trust anyone else? Corporations supposed to follow the users needs and wants and when it is a free market this happens and they must correct themselves or die.
I would rather watch 2 girls 1 cup than to have my holy computer ever subjected to such torture to that malware. I would have to rewipe it or do a restore and carefully go through the registry.
No the SEO is paying him to link to his site in reference to MyCleanPC for the actual url. The url is the key ingredient to get a top Google page rank without paying for it which this scam artist is trying to do.
What will happen is if someone does a search for the key terms My clean pc, sucks, worst product ever, do not buy this, and then mcpc the link to the girls eating shit will show up.
Obviously no slashdotter is going to click that so his audience is for Google readerbots. Also Google does rank things higher with the rel=no follow as scam artistis have caught on about the penalty of over doing SEO.
So since I randomly picked that one lets keep it up! Or have whoever is in charge of slashdot since Timothy and CMD Taco left to simply ban all posts with that url. If what I read is true and it is scareware then these assholes should be in jail. How is MyCleanPC different than something evil like Anti Virus 2010 or MacDefender? The comments I read on youtube is it is impossible to uninstall or at least very hard making a rewipe the most viable solution for just casual PC users.
Dude that can't be real! Holy crap!
Do not give the trolls any idea.
Lets fuck up this SEO troll's game? If another slashdotters respond back to this troll with the following cut and pasted back all his potential customers will see 2 women eating shit and vomiting in each other's mouths. You all have my permission to cute and paste this. Obviously not work safe ...
MyCleanPC is a shitty product! There is no crappier product than MyCleanPC.
In actuality this will fuck up the SEO from this scam artist who wrote MYCleanPC.com and counters his slimy spamming advertising MyCleanPC .
If everyone here on slashdot points to other disgusting sites for MyCleanPC, then people searching for malware virus removal with MyCleanPC will have an awful surprise! :-)
If goatse was still around I would have used that sigh.
Well would you and everyones' brother be willing to pay $5 a month to use Facebook?
The answer would be hell no. People just are so used to annoying ads they do not care. Look at slashdot as an example? You can pay a tiny monthly fee to browser slashdot ad free. It is not that Cmd Taco (I believe he quit) is evil. It is that is costs money to host this site and have the people who work on it fulltime feed. The internet is not as free as it once was with telecom giants buying all the last mile wires and someone has to pay the bills.
People do put value and prefer ads otherwise 80% of us would actually pay to browse in which we choose not too. Facebook does make money from its ads. About 1 billion in revenue every year! It sure as hell not worth $100 billion. Advertising is a very lucrative market and industries like automotive are willing to include 1/3 the price of your car just towards advertising alone!