Laws depend on inducing terror in the people charged with following those laws. That means the explicit tangible threat of massive prison sentences. We are keeping too many things illegal that shouldn't be illegal. Is it fair to have such massive prison sentences covering things that shouldn't be illegal in the first place?
Congratulations, you've just described every mandatory sentencing law in the world.
Let me ask - if you got a $10000 check in the mail - say you won a small lotto prize - that would make a significant difference in what you could buy in entertainment over the next year, yes? More meals out, more movies, more shows - probably a 2-5 fold increase over normal? And yet, that's probably only 15-25% of your salary.
Same thing with food. 1600-2200 calories a day for a full grown male would be a low-moderate activity bench mark rate. Add just 500 calories average of exercise a day and you go from counting every goddamned cornflake to draining a Big Gulp at lunch, or doubling your primary meal size a couple times a week.
Put me on 1800 calories a day and I'll start looking for ways to cheat. Put me on 2300 calories a day and I don't even have to count.
That 500 calories a day? 45 minutes running or swimming or cycling will burn that off. I get more than that walking 9 holes of golf. Heck, I probably burn more than that just working around the house on the weekends - no organized exercise required.
Water is a poison, as is oxygen. Actually, glucose is also a poison by these standards. When you take a common food staple and label is as a poison at the beginning of your argument you lose all credibility.
I want to see a new law, named after him, which protects everyone's rights in the UK against such detention. That way everyone in the UK will be a beneficiary of this new "Miranda Rights" law. Of course, it should differ from the Miranda Rights in the US in fundamental ways so as to cause the most confusion possible. Especially in internet discussions.
That example *is* a 529 plan from my state. I could "lock in" to a state school today for just 125% of the cost of tuition for a student entering this fall. Insanity.
40 years ago you could reasonably go to school and pay for your tuition and fees by working a manual summer job. There are no jobs out there which pay a year's tuition in 3 months for untrained labor, or anything close to it today. Heck, the average starting ANNUAL salary is less than tuition/room/board for a year at practically any private university today.
Only if you charge it back to the universities. I'm sure as hell not going to foot the "forgiveness" bill that let all those colleges gorge on money over the past decade.
I had a solid 6 years worth of state school tuition/costs in the bank by the time my daughter was 6. Now that I've still got 7 years to go, we're hovering between 4 and 5 years worth. I feel like there should be some way to invest in colleges, 'cause I'm certainly not getting that kind of ROI in the market!
*Yes - you can pre-pay for college in some states. As crazy as all get out - if you want to pre-buy 4 years of State school in Virginia for a 12 year old it will cost you MORE than if you buy it for a 16 year old. Even they know that the system is fucked.
While correlation does not always show causality, a sufficiently large study will tend to flatten all of the other variables. To say the study is flawed implies that you can demonstrate how a bias exists (writing-based learners were more likely to get computers). In fact, having a computer - for you - is clearly a hindrance, by your own admission. It sounds like you should have an audio or AV recorder for the lecture and then transcribe notes at your leisure afterwards.
I'm much like you, but for most engineering coursework a keyboard is horrible for note taking. The interesting stuff is in equations and diagrams. I find that pencil and paper allow me to verify that I understand the material real-time, provided it is delivered slowly enough to transcribe. Handouts of the professors notes are nice, but I don't get nearly the retention as if I do the work myself.
I'm in private practice now, and I find I take very, very few notes when on sites. Mostly I listen and watch, building an engineering model of the situation in my head to evaluate the gross physics, then write my initial findings down immediately following a review of a structure. Others are different - they measure everything and make sense of it later.
It took me two years of college, and a stint working in the real work, to realize that if you're not sitting in the front row, you're not getting your money's worth*. Partly, for me, was a slight decrease in my visual acuity (I went from 20:15 in HS to 20:40 at the end of college before I finally got glasses), but mostly it's a matter of focus. This would be true if people are surfing on laptops around you - being in the front row means not having a screen in your line of sight. It also means that the teacher or professor is seeing your reaction and more heavily gauging material absorption based on your speed.
It's funny (and not in a humorous way) how we denigrate students who voluntarily sit in the front and participate in class through all of our "free" education, and then once we start paying several thousand dollars out of our own pocket realize that the front row really is the "value" proposition in education.
*Unless the class is easy, you have a friend taking it with you, and you like to heckle the professor...in which case I suggest middle of the audience for best effect. (Grad Statistics, best class ever)
All 500 companies in the Fortune 500 have greater than $1B in revenue per Quarter. Sure, $1B is a big deal, but not devastating for any major corporation.
Windows 8 was pretty lackluster, Vista sucked mightily, Millenium Edition was awful. NT, XP, 7 all turned out to be fabulous, stable OSes. Everybody hates a new paradigm in the GUI when they're used to an older one. iOS7 looks like dog shit with a side of cat puke. But we'll all get over it.
MS is super-late to the mobile app party, and they've got nothing to make their handsets a must-have. Android has customization and a huge base of apps, Apple has the comfiness of their one-shop-and-only-one-shop strategy with a huge base of apps. Microsoft has a small fraction of the apps and a market that's small enough that it has few developers. Look at Blackberry - they only had to fall asleep for 2 years to get turned into an also-ran; Microsoft practically left the handset business for 4 years, and came back with essentially a brand new offering that leveraged nothing. And then tried to make a tablet out of that nothing.
Microsoft has the *potential* for market domination - they just can't seem to get their strategy straight. Here's why - 90% of the business application market is still dominated by Windows applications. You HAVE to have windows to run most offices. The possible Win8 strategy to combine tablet and desktop means that convertible devices (which are getting better with Haswell and advanced display tech) are spiralling towards tablet proportions. If you HAD to have a win machine for some things, and it could double as your tablet device, would you really go out and buy TWO devices to carry with you? MS can make that a single device - something that Apple and the Linux market can't (or can't do easily) because their tablet and computer OSes are different. Will MS fuck this up? Yeah, probably, but my expectation is that everything is merging towards combo devices. It's just a matter of who manages to pull it off seamlessly. MS could be set up to be ahead of the curve, or it could squander the opportunity and just plod along.
I've got bad news for you, hipster. Not only are you watching "TV," but everything you read and hear on the internet is served to you by the companies who control the content which is aired. Quit pretending to be so fucking superior.
If Sickbeard is set up to snag it and record it, it means that it will be waiting for me, on my schedule, properly sorted and tagged in my media center for when I'm available to watch. Of the four shows I track, don't know when any of them are on. Of the four, one is broadcast and two are basic cable that are posted by the content owner, to the web, and without commercials within 12 hours of airing.
If course there is nowhere you can go. That's the ridiculousness of the situation.
Here's why: once you start making any major country (any country) start thinking you are out to attack it, you're not going to have any place to hide. We've never had this freedom in the US. Never. Anonymity and privacy today is just as alive as it was in the best of times. It's just not as anonymous nor as private as we think it was. I would argue that it's even better today than it has ever been due to the sheer number of people and the anonymity that produces (security through obscurity, in one sense).
To find a perfectly anonymous source where you don't control all access points is effectively impossible. To search for it is to live a life of frustration. Just as the US Government, who has control over most of their secret information and installations, and billions of dollars to throw at the problem. And, yet, Mr. Snowden managed to out their secrets, as do spies from other countries every day. The human condition does not lend itself to anonymity.
I presume you meant switch it off, so it doesn't ask to join new networks. Do you know for certain if actually stops looking entirely, or just doesn't ask? I automatically have it off 'cause it's a pain in the ass when you're driving around and wifi invitations start popping up all the time.
If ever there was a bastion of freedom and personal privacy, it's Russia. As far as I know, they don't even have clandestine operations in the government. I heard it was abandoned when the USSR fell. You need look no further than the show of moral fortitude the Vladimir Putin made when offering Edward Snowden a year, knowing full well that the US government could invade at any moment under the slightest provocation. Freedom and Liberty are the founding cornerstones of not just Russian democracy, but the creed by which every Russian lives, from the top of the government and business all the way down to the lowliest citizen. Everyone there is given a fair shake and speaking your mind is rewarded with praise and admiration.
It's time we put our collective money where it is respected and get out of the US into a place that will let us live our lives the way we want. Out of oppression and government intimidation and into a land of openness, fairness, and true liberty: Russia.
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So, if you dig a really deep hole in China, do they say "You're going to dig all the way to the US."
I try to do my part.
Laws depend on inducing terror in the people charged with following those laws. That means the explicit tangible threat of massive prison sentences.
We are keeping too many things illegal that shouldn't be illegal.
Is it fair to have such massive prison sentences covering things that shouldn't be illegal in the first place?
Congratulations, you've just described every mandatory sentencing law in the world.
Don't worry, so it doing a hit of crack cocaine, or breaking into a private computer (what should be a civil case).
It will never change until everyone stops saying, "there should be a law against that." That includes every single person here at /., btw.
It only requires that their adversaries define what crime is.
It's only about diet if you make it about diet.
Let me ask - if you got a $10000 check in the mail - say you won a small lotto prize - that would make a significant difference in what you could buy in entertainment over the next year, yes? More meals out, more movies, more shows - probably a 2-5 fold increase over normal? And yet, that's probably only 15-25% of your salary.
Same thing with food. 1600-2200 calories a day for a full grown male would be a low-moderate activity bench mark rate. Add just 500 calories average of exercise a day and you go from counting every goddamned cornflake to draining a Big Gulp at lunch, or doubling your primary meal size a couple times a week.
Put me on 1800 calories a day and I'll start looking for ways to cheat. Put me on 2300 calories a day and I don't even have to count.
That 500 calories a day? 45 minutes running or swimming or cycling will burn that off. I get more than that walking 9 holes of golf. Heck, I probably burn more than that just working around the house on the weekends - no organized exercise required.
Water is a poison, as is oxygen. Actually, glucose is also a poison by these standards. When you take a common food staple and label is as a poison at the beginning of your argument you lose all credibility.
I want to see a new law, named after him, which protects everyone's rights in the UK against such detention. That way everyone in the UK will be a beneficiary of this new "Miranda Rights" law. Of course, it should differ from the Miranda Rights in the US in fundamental ways so as to cause the most confusion possible. Especially in internet discussions.
Which is still less than losing or recycling a hard drive.
Just a note for those who don't mod frequently and might wonder about the actual utility of this post for /.ers.
That example *is* a 529 plan from my state. I could "lock in" to a state school today for just 125% of the cost of tuition for a student entering this fall. Insanity.
Here's a reality check:
40 years ago you could reasonably go to school and pay for your tuition and fees by working a manual summer job. There are no jobs out there which pay a year's tuition in 3 months for untrained labor, or anything close to it today. Heck, the average starting ANNUAL salary is less than tuition/room/board for a year at practically any private university today.
Only if you charge it back to the universities. I'm sure as hell not going to foot the "forgiveness" bill that let all those colleges gorge on money over the past decade.
I had a solid 6 years worth of state school tuition/costs in the bank by the time my daughter was 6. Now that I've still got 7 years to go, we're hovering between 4 and 5 years worth. I feel like there should be some way to invest in colleges, 'cause I'm certainly not getting that kind of ROI in the market!
*Yes - you can pre-pay for college in some states. As crazy as all get out - if you want to pre-buy 4 years of State school in Virginia for a 12 year old it will cost you MORE than if you buy it for a 16 year old. Even they know that the system is fucked.
Fuck that - life without coffee isn't really life, amiright?
May as well ask me to give up bacon.
While correlation does not always show causality, a sufficiently large study will tend to flatten all of the other variables. To say the study is flawed implies that you can demonstrate how a bias exists (writing-based learners were more likely to get computers). In fact, having a computer - for you - is clearly a hindrance, by your own admission. It sounds like you should have an audio or AV recorder for the lecture and then transcribe notes at your leisure afterwards.
I'm much like you, but for most engineering coursework a keyboard is horrible for note taking. The interesting stuff is in equations and diagrams. I find that pencil and paper allow me to verify that I understand the material real-time, provided it is delivered slowly enough to transcribe. Handouts of the professors notes are nice, but I don't get nearly the retention as if I do the work myself.
I'm in private practice now, and I find I take very, very few notes when on sites. Mostly I listen and watch, building an engineering model of the situation in my head to evaluate the gross physics, then write my initial findings down immediately following a review of a structure. Others are different - they measure everything and make sense of it later.
It took me two years of college, and a stint working in the real work, to realize that if you're not sitting in the front row, you're not getting your money's worth*. Partly, for me, was a slight decrease in my visual acuity (I went from 20:15 in HS to 20:40 at the end of college before I finally got glasses), but mostly it's a matter of focus. This would be true if people are surfing on laptops around you - being in the front row means not having a screen in your line of sight. It also means that the teacher or professor is seeing your reaction and more heavily gauging material absorption based on your speed.
It's funny (and not in a humorous way) how we denigrate students who voluntarily sit in the front and participate in class through all of our "free" education, and then once we start paying several thousand dollars out of our own pocket realize that the front row really is the "value" proposition in education.
*Unless the class is easy, you have a friend taking it with you, and you like to heckle the professor...in which case I suggest middle of the audience for best effect. (Grad Statistics, best class ever)
Hey, we can't help if if Apple makes their power adapters too small to use on a continuous basis.
All 500 companies in the Fortune 500 have greater than $1B in revenue per Quarter. Sure, $1B is a big deal, but not devastating for any major corporation.
Windows 8 was pretty lackluster, Vista sucked mightily, Millenium Edition was awful. NT, XP, 7 all turned out to be fabulous, stable OSes. Everybody hates a new paradigm in the GUI when they're used to an older one. iOS7 looks like dog shit with a side of cat puke. But we'll all get over it.
MS is super-late to the mobile app party, and they've got nothing to make their handsets a must-have. Android has customization and a huge base of apps, Apple has the comfiness of their one-shop-and-only-one-shop strategy with a huge base of apps. Microsoft has a small fraction of the apps and a market that's small enough that it has few developers. Look at Blackberry - they only had to fall asleep for 2 years to get turned into an also-ran; Microsoft practically left the handset business for 4 years, and came back with essentially a brand new offering that leveraged nothing. And then tried to make a tablet out of that nothing.
Microsoft has the *potential* for market domination - they just can't seem to get their strategy straight. Here's why - 90% of the business application market is still dominated by Windows applications. You HAVE to have windows to run most offices. The possible Win8 strategy to combine tablet and desktop means that convertible devices (which are getting better with Haswell and advanced display tech) are spiralling towards tablet proportions. If you HAD to have a win machine for some things, and it could double as your tablet device, would you really go out and buy TWO devices to carry with you? MS can make that a single device - something that Apple and the Linux market can't (or can't do easily) because their tablet and computer OSes are different. Will MS fuck this up? Yeah, probably, but my expectation is that everything is merging towards combo devices. It's just a matter of who manages to pull it off seamlessly. MS could be set up to be ahead of the curve, or it could squander the opportunity and just plod along.
I've got bad news for you, hipster. Not only are you watching "TV," but everything you read and hear on the internet is served to you by the companies who control the content which is aired. Quit pretending to be so fucking superior.
If Sickbeard is set up to snag it and record it, it means that it will be waiting for me, on my schedule, properly sorted and tagged in my media center for when I'm available to watch. Of the four shows I track, don't know when any of them are on. Of the four, one is broadcast and two are basic cable that are posted by the content owner, to the web, and without commercials within 12 hours of airing.
If course there is nowhere you can go. That's the ridiculousness of the situation.
Here's why: once you start making any major country (any country) start thinking you are out to attack it, you're not going to have any place to hide. We've never had this freedom in the US. Never. Anonymity and privacy today is just as alive as it was in the best of times. It's just not as anonymous nor as private as we think it was. I would argue that it's even better today than it has ever been due to the sheer number of people and the anonymity that produces (security through obscurity, in one sense).
To find a perfectly anonymous source where you don't control all access points is effectively impossible. To search for it is to live a life of frustration. Just as the US Government, who has control over most of their secret information and installations, and billions of dollars to throw at the problem. And, yet, Mr. Snowden managed to out their secrets, as do spies from other countries every day. The human condition does not lend itself to anonymity.
Slysoft doesn't seem to be having any problems.
I presume you meant switch it off, so it doesn't ask to join new networks. Do you know for certain if actually stops looking entirely, or just doesn't ask? I automatically have it off 'cause it's a pain in the ass when you're driving around and wifi invitations start popping up all the time.
If ever there was a bastion of freedom and personal privacy, it's Russia. As far as I know, they don't even have clandestine operations in the government. I heard it was abandoned when the USSR fell. You need look no further than the show of moral fortitude the Vladimir Putin made when offering Edward Snowden a year, knowing full well that the US government could invade at any moment under the slightest provocation. Freedom and Liberty are the founding cornerstones of not just Russian democracy, but the creed by which every Russian lives, from the top of the government and business all the way down to the lowliest citizen. Everyone there is given a fair shake and speaking your mind is rewarded with praise and admiration.
It's time we put our collective money where it is respected and get out of the US into a place that will let us live our lives the way we want. Out of oppression and government intimidation and into a land of openness, fairness, and true liberty: Russia.