Kids with a disability or mental illness generally get an IEP (individual education plan) in school that instructs teachers to make accommodations based on their condition. An IEP is generally partially based on input from medical or psychological evaluations. It takes non-trivial parent effort and involvement to get an IEP but it generally follows the child through grade levels. An IEP can specify that a child be exempted from public speaking.
So why not use an IEP to differentiate the kids who cannot just "try harder" from the snowflakes who are merely trying to avoid anything uncomfortable.
Neither I nor my spouse have ever been a no-show. But my spouse was recently contacted by a recruiter who set up a phone interview. It was cancelled AT THE LAST MINUTE because the interviewer was traveling. The next one was cancelled because the interviewer was sick. If true, I guess I understand being sick, but traveling during a recently arranged interview is pretty weak. All this is coming from the recruiter and its been 3 WEEKS now, yet the recruiter wants to try again. Recruiters and hiring managers are often guilty of delaying tactics and some pretty bad behavior. Perhaps they are getting what they deserve.
Don't tell me you bring Chinese employees to the US for your company outings? There are so many more extravagant travel opportunities in Asia for equal or less cost.
And after returning to the US, your first three meals out will set you back as much as three months of meals out in China. Well, I'm exaggerating a bit, but the effect may be less than you predict due to different costs of travel and your sales coming from the US in dollars. (Of course if all your US employees start travelling instead, and stay at high end foreigner hotels and eat at foreigner restaurants, you will have a cost problem.) Further, if you aren't already using telemeetings with rank and file China employees, your expenses are too high in the first place.
It might be a better idea to wait and see if visitors from China actually have any more problem obtaining visas than they used to. It was always an involved process because Chinese typically want to LIVE in the US -- rather the opposite of terrorizing the US. Further, Chinese employees typically get fairly long term duration visas once vetted. Last I looked, China was not on the list of banned countries and the risk of dangerous items being brought over from China is pretty small due to EXTENSIVE departure screening at the airports.
I could go on about how the effect of the travel ban on China may be different that what you expect, perhaps irrelevant. Think carefully about why your China employees are working for your US company. (They may be overpaid to begin with, they may be expecting travel to the US as a benefit, etc.)
Then it's usually back to business rules for further examination/treatment though. More AI = more software work, not less.
By which, of course, you mean more software work to replace traditional software with AI like Big Blue, which as in this article, figured out exactly which cancer a woman had AFTER they knew she had cancer.
"Watson was trained on cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City—reviewing research, test results, even doctors’ and nurses’ notes to discover patterns in how the diseases develop and what treatments work best."
In the last week I've accidentally dropped my Huawei Hero 6X off my 1st story roof and off a 6 ft porch. One barely visible dent in the rear of the case. If you want a difficult to break mobile (and aren't worried about Chinese software) get a Hero 6X for $249. (I think they've got a $50 coupon out for mother's day so it's $199 and they are in the process of updating to 7.0. Only drawback for me is lack of NFC.)
$20K to $34K over 10 years averages 5.4% per year. According to College Board data on public 2yr, public 4yr, and private 4 yr colleges, tuition and fees increased from 2006-7 to 2016-17, on average, 4.5%, 5.2%, and 4.1%, respectively. (These are all compounded rates and the tuition/ fees are enrollment weighted)
So the extra debt is likely, due mostly to tuition increases, with public 4 yr colleges being the worst offenders.
FYI - Using simple averages debt went up 7% and tuition/fees 5.5%, 6.6%, and 5.0%. Still close, but compounding is more accurate, since this year's tuition increase is always based on last year's tuition.
Source for college board data is below, but you need to look at the current dollar tuition/fees from Table 4 in the excel data. The PDF and presentation are all corrected for general inflation while the original Fed presentation on student debt, that this article is based on, appears to use nominal dollars, i.e. dollars uncorrected for inflation.
If I were in Russia trying to hide my identity I would first not use Russian computers and second not use a Russian VPN. I would have plenty of bot machines and IPs I could use instead. If I was part of a government propaganda section, I am sure I would also have no problem finding a partner who could speak Romanian. Could this be a reverse con by a pro-Hillary actor trying to create anti-Trump propaganda?
The good side of this is that more and more cyber criminals will flock to Japan and Japanese gov websites for one stop shopping: credit card and personal data for vacationing owners all in one place. So our data elsewhere in the world will be safer.
In case Microsoftee's read slashdot, they are missing an opportunity. I love my Windows 7 machine but am VERY uncomfortable with the idea of upgrading to Windows 10. But... I still run a copy of XP and Vista on Windows 10 compatible hardware which I would gladly upgrade to test it out. (When Vista goes unsupported I currently plan to migrate both to Linux.) But give me a free upgrade on XP and Vista (which you dont want around any more either) and maybe someday I'll say yes to the upgrade nagware on 7.
Older model Prii also. There used to be a way to override in a Prius, but no more. It should really detect a passenger and allow it to be enabled. Ideally, perhaps, it would only allow unrestricted access to functions when it detects the movement comes toward the screen from the passenger seat. This wouldn't take a lot of granularity I suspect -- perhaps a simple ultrasonic sensor, plus seat sensor. Or a good application for force sensitivity in displays -- detect which direction the force against the screen is coming from. It should be doable. But anyone with custom firmware for a Prius please let us know!!!
That would be two-factor, genius. Something you know and something you have.
Then make sure that the "something you have" stays at home. That way accessing their social media accounts would require a search warrant.
This would require cooperation from the kids not to create other accounts, etc, but for well behaved kids with a good relationship with parents, it might work until some time in High School, at which point you would hope they would have developed enough common sense and self control to avoid unintended inflammatory postings.
If I download email regularly to my personal storage device in my home, there will be nothing 180 days or older on an ISP server. (Webmail BAD.) Of course I'm assuming that they do not keep caches of all email received around for 6 mo, which may be a bad assumption. Once in my home, any agency should need a warrant.
This looks to me like a preview of good things to come after Masayoshi Son and Softbank acquire a controlling stake in Sprint, which will also buy out Clearwire. T-Mobile better grab some market share before Softbank arrives. (Son was the upstart in Japan in the early 2000's who make things there very competitive.)
A per mile tax is very likely to have unintended negative environmental consequences. Drivers of low mileage vehicles that would otherwise pay a lot of gas tax will certainly opt for the per mileage tax instead. The lower their gas mileage, the more incentive a driver will have to pay per mile rather than per gallon. So this tax will make it cheaper to drive inefficient cars. The driver can then afford to buy more gas and drive more miles than they could with a per gallon gas tax, with the concomitant negative effects on the environment, green house gasses, etc. Oregon will blaze a new trail in anti-environmental tax policy.
It will take time, but if the trend continues, the children of the the vaccine refusers will be in the majority when the disease reappears. They will eventually be left with a choice of risking the disease or "risking" the vaccine. As long as we keep our own children vaccinated, the vaccine refusers are the ones who will suffer in the end. A sad but highly likely result.
If my kids were allergic to vaccinations I would be forming groups with parents of other similar kids to investigate lawsuits against the vaccine refusers. A few of these, reported widely, might help turn the tide.
Pediatricians fed up with parents who refuse to vaccinate their children out of concern it can cause autism or other problems increasingly are "firing" such families from their practices, raising questions about a doctor's responsibility to these patients. Medical associations don't recommend such patient bans, but the practice appears to be growing, according to vaccine researchers.....
Driving will essentially become free time where I can read, study, listen to music, surf the internet or for those so inclined, even watch movies or television. We wont care so much about speed limits anymore.
Network Computing Magazine Asia (www.ncasia.com) did a reader survey in November this year that had several Open Source and Linux related questions. One of them asked about whether the SCO suit had effected their deployment strategy for Linux. The survey had nearly 300 respondants.
The article describing the results wont appear until the Jan/Feb issue, but will be available online for those of you not living in Asia who cant get the printed magazine. I apologize that I cant go into the detailed results right now, since Im the author. But I will confirm that it had similar results to this story about the effect of the SCO suit. Some, but not too much effect.
Honestly, the results of the OSS/Linux parts of the survey were fairly interesting, and a couple surprised even me. Ill try to remember to suggest a slashdot story on it when it comes out.
I think someone may have misunderstood. (or not read the article...) Read the following from the article. Of all the blocked servers, 90 are from Taiwan of China, 29 from outside China and 8 from China's mainland, including the popular Internet service provider Shanghai Online (www.online.sh.cn).
As they could not have blocked transmission from 8 from Taiwan or 29 from outside China, it seems like they have blocked these servers from sending anything TO China rather than out of China. So it wont help most people on slashdot who are hoping they willl see less spam because of it.
Isn't this a contradiction? Black without is where it's at if you're really interested in the flavor of the coffee.
Actually, fats enhance flavor. One reason we like high fat foods. So although I agree about the sugar related component of this comment, try black coffee with real cream, i.e. lots of fat, rather than a silly cream-like substance or milk. Cream dilutes the flavor much less than milk, and brings out more real coffee flavor, IMHO.
Mozilla is great and its my main browser because of the unique features it provides. But it is clunkier in some aspects than IE. So perhaps the developers should complain about access to hidden API's.:-)
The loss of browser users will benefit us all because it will encourage site developers to support other browsers like Moz.
Nah, NAT will solve the problem - about a zillion times less expensive to implement.
Oddly, my ISP here in Beijing recently switched from NAT based IP addresses to global IP addresses. Which of course was fine with me and I now run a high traffic e-commerce site on it.:-)
One issue, esp in China may be with the government's desire to monitor users. If everyone has their own number, then no matter where I go, the powers that be can tell who I was. Still possible with NAT, but requires somewhat more backtracing tracing effort.
Global IP address would also make it easier to block individual users from certain services. Or in my case, I wish they would use it to allow me individualized access to project.sourceforge.net sites. (Which sourceforge aids by making it easy to do despite requests for help in preventing it..... sigh...)
So my bet is on China adopting IPv6 for better traceability of users. On the plus side, 1.3 billion potential users may help push the rest of the world in that direction also.
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Kids with a disability or mental illness generally get an IEP (individual education plan) in school that instructs teachers to make accommodations based on their condition. An IEP is generally partially based on input from medical or psychological evaluations. It takes non-trivial parent effort and involvement to get an IEP but it generally follows the child through grade levels. An IEP can specify that a child be exempted from public speaking.
So why not use an IEP to differentiate the kids who cannot just "try harder" from the snowflakes who are merely trying to avoid anything uncomfortable.
Neither I nor my spouse have ever been a no-show. But my spouse was recently contacted by a recruiter who set up a phone interview. It was cancelled AT THE LAST MINUTE because the interviewer was traveling. The next one was cancelled because the interviewer was sick. If true, I guess I understand being sick, but traveling during a recently arranged interview is pretty weak. All this is coming from the recruiter and its been 3 WEEKS now, yet the recruiter wants to try again. Recruiters and hiring managers are often guilty of delaying tactics and some pretty bad behavior. Perhaps they are getting what they deserve.
Seems like this could run afoul of state and/or federal wiretapping laws.
Don't tell me you bring Chinese employees to the US for your company outings? There are so many more extravagant travel opportunities in Asia for equal or less cost.
And after returning to the US, your first three meals out will set you back as much as three months of meals out in China. Well, I'm exaggerating a bit, but the effect may be less than you predict due to different costs of travel and your sales coming from the US in dollars. (Of course if all your US employees start travelling instead, and stay at high end foreigner hotels and eat at foreigner restaurants, you will have a cost problem.) Further, if you aren't already using telemeetings with rank and file China employees, your expenses are too high in the first place.
It might be a better idea to wait and see if visitors from China actually have any more problem obtaining visas than they used to. It was always an involved process because Chinese typically want to LIVE in the US -- rather the opposite of terrorizing the US. Further, Chinese employees typically get fairly long term duration visas once vetted. Last I looked, China was not on the list of banned countries and the risk of dangerous items being brought over from China is pretty small due to EXTENSIVE departure screening at the airports.
I could go on about how the effect of the travel ban on China may be different that what you expect, perhaps irrelevant. Think carefully about why your China employees are working for your US company. (They may be overpaid to begin with, they may be expecting travel to the US as a benefit, etc.)
Then it's usually back to business rules for further examination/treatment though. More AI = more software work, not less.
By which, of course, you mean more software work to replace traditional software with AI like Big Blue, which as in this article, figured out exactly which cancer a woman had AFTER they knew she had cancer.
https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/sto...
"Watson was trained on cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City—reviewing research, test results, even doctors’ and nurses’ notes to discover patterns in how the diseases develop and what treatments work best."
https://www.fastcompany.com/30...
If you're not programming AI, watch out!
In the last week I've accidentally dropped my Huawei Hero 6X off my 1st story roof and off a 6 ft porch. One barely visible dent in the rear of the case. If you want a difficult to break mobile (and aren't worried about Chinese software) get a Hero 6X for $249. (I think they've got a $50 coupon out for mother's day so it's $199 and they are in the process of updating to 7.0. Only drawback for me is lack of NFC.)
$20K to $34K over 10 years averages 5.4% per year. According to College Board data on public 2yr, public 4yr, and private 4 yr colleges, tuition and fees increased from 2006-7 to 2016-17, on average, 4.5%, 5.2%, and 4.1%, respectively. (These are all compounded rates and the tuition/ fees are enrollment weighted)
So the extra debt is likely, due mostly to tuition increases, with public 4 yr colleges being the worst offenders.
FYI - Using simple averages debt went up 7% and tuition/fees 5.5%, 6.6%, and 5.0%. Still close, but compounding is more accurate, since this year's tuition increase is always based on last year's tuition.
Source for college board data is below, but you need to look at the current dollar tuition/fees from Table 4 in the excel data. The PDF and presentation are all corrected for general inflation while the original Fed presentation on student debt, that this article is based on, appears to use nominal dollars, i.e. dollars uncorrected for inflation.
https://trends.collegeboard.or... (See download box in upper right.)
If I were in Russia trying to hide my identity I would first not use Russian computers and second not use a Russian VPN. I would have plenty of bot machines and IPs I could use instead. If I was part of a government propaganda section, I am sure I would also have no problem finding a partner who could speak Romanian. Could this be a reverse con by a pro-Hillary actor trying to create anti-Trump propaganda?
The good side of this is that more and more cyber criminals will flock to Japan and Japanese gov websites for one stop shopping: credit card and personal data for vacationing owners all in one place. So our data elsewhere in the world will be safer.
In case Microsoftee's read slashdot, they are missing an opportunity. I love my Windows 7 machine but am VERY uncomfortable with the idea of upgrading to Windows 10. But... I still run a copy of XP and Vista on Windows 10 compatible hardware which I would gladly upgrade to test it out. (When Vista goes unsupported I currently plan to migrate both to Linux.) But give me a free upgrade on XP and Vista (which you dont want around any more either) and maybe someday I'll say yes to the upgrade nagware on 7.
Older model Prii also. There used to be a way to override in a Prius, but no more. It should really detect a passenger and allow it to be enabled. Ideally, perhaps, it would only allow unrestricted access to functions when it detects the movement comes toward the screen from the passenger seat. This wouldn't take a lot of granularity I suspect -- perhaps a simple ultrasonic sensor, plus seat sensor. Or a good application for force sensitivity in displays -- detect which direction the force against the screen is coming from. It should be doable. But anyone with custom firmware for a Prius please let us know!!!
That would be two-factor, genius. Something you know and something you have.
Then make sure that the "something you have" stays at home. That way accessing their social media accounts would require a search warrant.
This would require cooperation from the kids not to create other accounts, etc, but for well behaved kids with a good relationship with parents, it might work until some time in High School, at which point you would hope they would have developed enough common sense and self control to avoid unintended inflammatory postings.
If I download email regularly to my personal storage device in my home, there will be nothing 180 days or older on an ISP server. (Webmail BAD.) Of course I'm assuming that they do not keep caches of all email received around for 6 mo, which may be a bad assumption. Once in my home, any agency should need a warrant.
This looks to me like a preview of good things to come after Masayoshi Son and Softbank acquire a controlling stake in Sprint, which will also buy out Clearwire. T-Mobile better grab some market share before Softbank arrives. (Son was the upstart in Japan in the early 2000's who make things there very competitive.)
A per mile tax is very likely to have unintended negative environmental consequences. Drivers of low mileage vehicles that would otherwise pay a lot of gas tax will certainly opt for the per mileage tax instead. The lower their gas mileage, the more incentive a driver will have to pay per mile rather than per gallon. So this tax will make it cheaper to drive inefficient cars. The driver can then afford to buy more gas and drive more miles than they could with a per gallon gas tax, with the concomitant negative effects on the environment, green house gasses, etc. Oregon will blaze a new trail in anti-environmental tax policy.
It will take time, but if the trend continues, the children of the the vaccine refusers will be in the majority when the disease reappears. They will eventually be left with a choice of risking the disease or "risking" the vaccine. As long as we keep our own children vaccinated, the vaccine refusers are the ones who will suffer in the end. A sad but highly likely result.
If my kids were allergic to vaccinations I would be forming groups with parents of other similar kids to investigate lawsuits against the vaccine refusers. A few of these, reported widely, might help turn the tide.
I am also heartened by the act that some doctors are refusing to treat patients who do not vaccinate their children. There was a good WSJ article in Feb 2012: "More Doctors 'Fire' Vaccine Refusers" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203315804577209230884246636.html
Pediatricians fed up with parents who refuse to vaccinate their children out of concern it can cause autism or other problems increasingly are "firing" such families from their practices, raising questions about a doctor's responsibility to these patients. Medical associations don't recommend such patient bans, but the practice appears to be growing, according to vaccine researchers.....
Driving will essentially become free time where I can read, study, listen to music, surf the internet or for those so inclined, even watch movies or television. We wont care so much about speed limits anymore.
So its Linux based. Can I write and load my own application programs for it? How about kernel modules?
Im living in China, and if anyone really wants one and is willing to pay in advance, Ill be happy to buy and send them.
Network Computing Magazine Asia (www.ncasia.com)
did a reader survey in November this year that had several Open Source and Linux related questions. One of them asked about whether the SCO suit had effected their deployment strategy for Linux. The survey had nearly 300 respondants.
The article describing the results wont appear until the Jan/Feb issue, but will be available online for those of you not living in Asia who cant get the printed magazine. I apologize that I cant go into the detailed results right now, since Im the author. But I will confirm that it had similar results to this story about the effect of the SCO suit. Some, but not too much effect.
Honestly, the results of the OSS/Linux parts of the survey were fairly interesting, and a couple surprised even me. Ill try to remember to suggest a slashdot story on it when it comes out.
I think someone may have misunderstood. (or not read the article...) Read the following from the article.
Of all the blocked servers, 90 are from Taiwan of China, 29 from outside China and 8 from China's mainland, including the popular Internet service provider Shanghai Online (www.online.sh.cn).
As they could not have blocked transmission from 8 from Taiwan or 29 from outside China, it seems like they have blocked these servers from sending anything TO China rather than out of China. So it wont help most people on slashdot who are hoping they willl see less spam because of it.
Isn't this a contradiction? Black without is where it's at if you're really interested in the flavor of the coffee.
Actually, fats enhance flavor. One reason we like high fat foods. So although I agree about the sugar related component of this comment, try black coffee with real cream, i.e. lots of fat, rather than a silly cream-like substance or milk. Cream dilutes the flavor much less than milk, and brings out more real coffee flavor, IMHO.
Mozilla is great and its my main browser because of the unique features it provides. But it is clunkier in some aspects than IE. So perhaps the developers should complain about access to hidden API's. :-)
The loss of browser users will benefit us all because it will encourage site developers to support other browsers like Moz.
Nah, NAT will solve the problem - about a zillion times less expensive to implement.
Oddly, my ISP here in Beijing recently switched from NAT based IP addresses to global IP addresses. Which of course was fine with me and I now run a high traffic e-commerce site on it.
One issue, esp in China may be with the government's desire to monitor users. If everyone has their own number, then no matter where I go, the powers that be can tell who I was. Still possible with NAT, but requires somewhat more backtracing tracing effort.
Global IP address would also make it easier to block individual users from certain services. Or in my case, I wish they would use it to allow me individualized access to project.sourceforge.net sites. (Which sourceforge aids by making it easy to do despite requests for help in preventing it..... sigh...)
So my bet is on China adopting IPv6 for better traceability of users. On the plus side, 1.3 billion potential users may help push the rest of the world in that direction also.