If nobody passes the test, then it seems to me that the problem is with the test, not the people. What are they going to do? Close the university? The test isn't the goal, selecting students for admission is the goal.
We need to drop our standards and make everything in life easier so more people can pass through with out trying?
If you actually read the article, you'd know what they're going to do.
Bullshit, I did around 26 countries (started to lose track) across 4 continents last year alone and the most invasive country I visited was Bosnia, the second most invasive country was the USA, all the others were amazing.
Sure America has freedoms to do some stuff you can't else where (like own an assault rifle) but if owning an assault rifle is actually the most important thing in the world to you, you're doing it wrong.
You realise that a lot of websites require advertising revenue in order to function. Where do you think the hosting fees and journalist salaries come from?
You didn't just 'actually stop drinking' you got pancreatitis, which then motivated you to stop, your 2 step program is missing a couple.
Alcohol abuse is so socially acceptable most people don't even recognise it as abuse and it can take a massive upheaval of your social life to simply "stop drinking", as well as taking time to spot patterns of behaviour and triggers and then change them.
I do dislike the AA though, they say that if you stop drinking, you're just a dry drunk, so in their eyes even of 10 years sobriety you're still branded as an alcoholic, you still have to announce that you're an alcoholic, and that just reinforces the idea that you're weak, that you may slip up and that you need AA meetings to get by.
I got locked out of my flat the other day, in just my dressing gown, with out my keys or my mobile phone. Thanks to 1password the only password I actually know is the one to my Webmail. I was able to go to my neighbours, check Webmail, get the contact number of my friend who has my key out of my contacts, then ring him.
Unfortunately he didn't answer so I had to spend £80 on a locksmith, but hey.. it almost worked!
As someone that runs a website, without CAPTCHAs I'd be fucked.
There are bots that can automatically register on a site, then check the email account for the activation link, in order to start spamming, so that's not a solution.
The newer 'flash games' e.g. 'out of 5 objects, put the drinks in the cooler' are an interesting solution, but that probably still won't work for people with accessibility issues.
Moderation can work on sites like slashdot, but on lower traffic sites not so much, and the signal to noise ratio will be awful.
If Australia pass this and actually clamp down on 'offenders' it will do more harm than good as the only recourse webmasters will have is to not allow people to register/interact with the site as the cost of cleaning up spam will be too high.
From memory Radiohead and NIN have both offered albums, available online where you can pay what you want for them, and both walked away with over $1million.
Unless there's some crazy contract shenanigans going on, I really don't see why some of the bigger artists don't pull a Valve and create their own content delivery platform that is fair for the artist, fair for the consumer and criticism free.
Nearly 90% of the artists who get a cheque for digital play receive less than $5,000 a year
Technically I think that's pretty good, isn't it? Write some songs, receive residual income whilst you do nothing else for the rest of the delivery platforms life. Win win.
What none of these reports seem to show is any perspective on how much the delivery service (Pandora/Spotify) is making. (Raising IPO capital isn't exactly making a profit..)
If (without creative accounting) they're breaking even, then the artists are getting paid too much.
If they're running at a loss, then the artists are definitely getting paid too much.
If they're reaping in huge profits then the artists aren't getting paid enough.
That kind of transparency isn't available (or I haven't seen it).
Either way I'd quite like $5000 for work I did last year.
Thanks Britain! You're unwittingly supporting terrorism, organized crime, software and multimedia piracy, citizens' right to privacy and managing to piss off over half the internet population by messing with their porn.
It's hardly unwittingly.. how do you think the Tories get their funding? All of the above..
making weapons like this which will have the end result being a far bigger encroach on our freedoms are amazing, carry on being douches and winding up the PTB (powers that be/pointy haired bastards) so the rest of us suffer for your amusement, you winners
I do however blame the Washington Post for allowing such drivel to be posted under their name. They should have known better.
Unfortunately many online news papers have started to have 'opinion posts' or 'writer blogs' which completely seem to bypass any kind of editorial guidelines, fact checking etc and allow writers to post their opinions, often unsubstantiated, on anything seemingly as a news item.
It allows for random drivel like this to go viral and increase page views and potentially advert revenue whilst letting them dodge any kind of journalistic Codes of Ethics.
News is business and is not here for the good will of anyone other than shareholders.
I just can't imagine how spending one's time "tweeting" or maintaining a Facebook page has much to do with what kind of employee I want, unless perhaps those "tweets" particularly socially unacceptable.
I keep seeing positions that ask for your github username and list of opensource projects you've committed to.
Which is a bit narrow minded, I've done probably 30 hours worth of coding in my free time last week, but none of it's in github, and never will be.
Not all the opensource stuff I use at work is buggy enough for me to commit a patch unfortunately:/
When we rented videos from Blockbuster did we bitch and moan about having to return it?
One of the main gripes about DRM is lack of transferability or consistency due to everyone using their own incompatible DSM standards. Standardising on this should mean someone with a Netflix account will get to stream videos on not just Windows (hopefully without Silverlight) but also their standards compliant Linux desktop, Mac and possibly phone and tablet all via the browser.
If the DSM is too invasive, there will always be piracy, if that floats your boat. But DRM in the browser creates more choice and more options, choice and options that we otherwise don't have right now.
Slashdot Mirror
ive been playing with owncloud for the last week, it's awful, it loves just deleting all my files or corrupting them :(
quick, lets ban them! think of the children :D
The default root password for every DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) in existance is
*Drumroll*
calvin
fucking american spies
We need to drop our standards and make everything in life easier so more people can pass through with out trying?
If you actually read the article, you'd know what they're going to do.
Bullshit, I did around 26 countries (started to lose track) across 4 continents last year alone and the most invasive country I visited was Bosnia, the second most invasive country was the USA, all the others were amazing.
Sure America has freedoms to do some stuff you can't else where (like own an assault rifle) but if owning an assault rifle is actually the most important thing in the world to you, you're doing it wrong.
Note. Australian drinking laws are pretty shit
You realise that a lot of websites require advertising revenue in order to function. Where do you think the hosting fees and journalist salaries come from?
You didn't just 'actually stop drinking' you got pancreatitis, which then motivated you to stop, your 2 step program is missing a couple.
Alcohol abuse is so socially acceptable most people don't even recognise it as abuse and it can take a massive upheaval of your social life to simply "stop drinking", as well as taking time to spot patterns of behaviour and triggers and then change them.
I do dislike the AA though, they say that if you stop drinking, you're just a dry drunk, so in their eyes even of 10 years sobriety you're still branded as an alcoholic, you still have to announce that you're an alcoholic, and that just reinforces the idea that you're weak, that you may slip up and that you need AA meetings to get by.
I got locked out of my flat the other day, in just my dressing gown, with out my keys or my mobile phone. Thanks to 1password the only password I actually know is the one to my Webmail. I was able to go to my neighbours, check Webmail, get the contact number of my friend who has my key out of my contacts, then ring him.
Unfortunately he didn't answer so I had to spend £80 on a locksmith, but hey.. it almost worked!
As someone that runs a website, without CAPTCHAs I'd be fucked.
There are bots that can automatically register on a site, then check the email account for the activation link, in order to start spamming, so that's not a solution.
The newer 'flash games' e.g. 'out of 5 objects, put the drinks in the cooler' are an interesting solution, but that probably still won't work for people with accessibility issues.
Moderation can work on sites like slashdot, but on lower traffic sites not so much, and the signal to noise ratio will be awful.
If Australia pass this and actually clamp down on 'offenders' it will do more harm than good as the only recourse webmasters will have is to not allow people to register/interact with the site as the cost of cleaning up spam will be too high.
From memory Radiohead and NIN have both offered albums, available online where you can pay what you want for them, and both walked away with over $1million.
Unless there's some crazy contract shenanigans going on, I really don't see why some of the bigger artists don't pull a Valve and create their own content delivery platform that is fair for the artist, fair for the consumer and criticism free.
Technically I think that's pretty good, isn't it? Write some songs, receive residual income whilst you do nothing else for the rest of the delivery platforms life. Win win.
What none of these reports seem to show is any perspective on how much the delivery service (Pandora/Spotify) is making. (Raising IPO capital isn't exactly making a profit..)
If (without creative accounting) they're breaking even, then the artists are getting paid too much.
If they're running at a loss, then the artists are definitely getting paid too much.
If they're reaping in huge profits then the artists aren't getting paid enough.
That kind of transparency isn't available (or I haven't seen it).
Either way I'd quite like $5000 for work I did last year.
too much choice
?
It's hardly unwittingly.. how do you think the Tories get their funding? All of the above ..
http://killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm
unbelievably easy
making weapons like this which will have the end result being a far bigger encroach on our freedoms are amazing, carry on being douches and winding up the PTB (powers that be/pointy haired bastards) so the rest of us suffer for your amusement, you winners
Unfortunately many online news papers have started to have 'opinion posts' or 'writer blogs' which completely seem to bypass any kind of editorial guidelines, fact checking etc and allow writers to post their opinions, often unsubstantiated, on anything seemingly as a news item.
It allows for random drivel like this to go viral and increase page views and potentially advert revenue whilst letting them dodge any kind of journalistic Codes of Ethics.
News is business and is not here for the good will of anyone other than shareholders.
I keep seeing positions that ask for your github username and list of opensource projects you've committed to.
Which is a bit narrow minded, I've done probably 30 hours worth of coding in my free time last week, but none of it's in github, and never will be.
Not all the opensource stuff I use at work is buggy enough for me to commit a patch unfortunately :/
May be we should have a trial and find out?
i will definitely be opting out david cameron at the next election
echo "i am here";
or print or console.log or printf or ...
Dude, you know what they say about sand? It gets everywhere ...
Strange, my Mac can do all those things and that's not loaded with malware and crapware ...
I want to be able to choose Chrome as my browser instead of Safari.
I want 1password to be able to hook in to it.
I want apps to open new links in Chrome instead of their own embedded browser.
WebRTC support
Save MP3s in to iTunes
what he said!
When we rented videos from Blockbuster did we bitch and moan about having to return it?
One of the main gripes about DRM is lack of transferability or consistency due to everyone using their own incompatible DSM standards. Standardising on this should mean someone with a Netflix account will get to stream videos on not just Windows (hopefully without Silverlight) but also their standards compliant Linux desktop, Mac and possibly phone and tablet all via the browser.
If the DSM is too invasive, there will always be piracy, if that floats your boat. But DRM in the browser creates more choice and more options, choice and options that we otherwise don't have right now.
Searching for terms like mastercard now shows google's own mastercard comparison site at the start as a sponsored link.
I've seen this on several other search terms too, they're starting to become a content provider rather than a search engine