Did you read the second paragraph of my post where I explained how? It was literally two sentences. (hint: it has nothing to do with people reading articles on slashdot)
Exactly. Making an issue of gender is hurting their objective more than helping it.
Most people who get into computers and programming are naturally introverted. Making a big deal about a specific category of person getting involved in a specific field is a great way to keep the shy introverted people of that category out of that field.
It's a different kind of improvement. It won't make your computer run crysis at 9000 fps, but you'd see it in things such as google maps being able to quickly calculate the most efficient path given that you want to travel from A to F and make stops B, C, D, and E along the way.
Yes, if someone is actively trying to prevent me from talking to my wi-fi base station, they can do that. But what kind of idiot would throw gigawatts of power across gigahertz just so they'd interfere with my signal?
They don't need to continuously jam it, they just need to make it drop out enough to be obnoxious. Sending out a pulse crafted to disconnect people from their wireless access points several times an hour would be enough to annoy the non tech savvy into just buying a 4g connection for everything.
This has been established by long history of mountain, cave and other remote area search and rescue incidents.
Wait what? iirc the path up to the summit of Everest is littered with bodies of climbers who couldn't make it. Including one who was reportedly injured but alive for several hours. Other climbers talked to him as they passed, but there wasn't anything they could do as attempts to help would just result in both of them dead.
Be interested to know how that is accomplished with any slight hope of determining what a real life high stress situation response would be
The same way they do for police training? The main point here is that carry permits are generally taken much more seriously than drivers licenses, so comparing it with drivers is a bit disingenuous.
Wow that makes me feel real good about when the NRA says giving everyone a gun is the best way to prevent shootings. Cause as we all know, 80% of drivers are above average so we can expect gun competency work just as well.
With what's involved in getting a carry permit (in most states at least), I would not be surprised if the kinds of people who carry have more practice shooting in various simulated high stress situations than the average police officer.
This along with simple things like how momentum works in space
Especially that part where they spend 30 minutes bumping up their deltaV towing each other to the station via jetpack, then manage to not get splatted on impact when they obviously didn't reverse thrust (as seen by the fact that the guy doing the towing was always in front) at any point during the entire trip.
3) wait 1-14 days depending on how much you are willing to spend
I'm not willing to spend more than 3x the cost of the components that are going on my board. Know of any "decent" PCB manufacturers that'll make a board for less than that (including shipping) and get it here before I can draw the thing with a sharpie and wipe it off with some etching solution?
Exactly how is telling them it's a clock failure to answer the questions being asked? He literally just stuck the guts of a clock inside a case, there's not really a lot to expand on there.
They really need to do something about bots. There's some blatant cheating in my area on the part of some select few players (portals are mysteriously recharged within seconds of being attacked at all times of day/night). It's really demoralizing to know that you're basically playing a single player game at that point.
Maximum achievable speed there would be ~120mph. To get faster you'd have to come up with new innovations such as packaging the human in an aerodynamic lead shell.
At best, from the picture, the "clock" seems more to be a commercial product hacked up in a different case. Why would he add 2 source of power (9V battery + main) ? Why do this on 2 different boards linked up by ribbon cables ?
You answered your own question with your first sentence. According to analysis in TFA, he took apart an LED clock (a Micronta 63756 to be exact) and transplanted it into a pencil case. I had an old LED alarm clock (since replaced by my phone) that plugged into a 120V source, but also took 2 AA batteries as a backup source so that you wouldn't lose your alarm if the power went out. The oddities of the design are due to whatever engineer came up with it in the 70s.
My argument is that defaults are active because you told the software to install and trust that it's going to do what it says on the tin. If I install a widget that says it'll automatically delete my browsing history when I close my browser, I should be able to reasonably trust that by default it's not going to erase my hdd while leaving my history intact or send the history out to a 3rd party before deleting it.
Obviously there's an element of degree to it, which I think is where the nitpicking comes in. Auto-mounting a USB stick (or not) on a desktop OS isn't necessarily a behavior that has a huge impact. In the context of RHEL (we also use this at work and I couldn't tell you the default behavior without going to the lab to check:P ) it's something that happens in an obvious up-front way, is easily changed, and is something that one might reasonably expect an operating system to do. If it was some other linux distro that stealthily mounted the drive, ghosted the contents to a random folder, then hid the fact that it did so, that action is arguably a lot more nefarious and something that one would not reasonably expect as a default behavior of a desktop operating system.
If the quality of education is determined by the number of police incidents then you are absolutely right. But if you actually believe this then please do your child a favour and don't try and home school them.
Understand that (generally speaking) the educational system is tailored towards the greatest common denominator. If you're an average person and manage to not run into any horrible teachers, then you'll probably do ok and have a typical experience. If you're slightly outside of the norm, you'll be ground down by the school system until you fit. The further away from it you are, the worse it will be. There are some cases in which that might be a good thing (I knew some kids who were naturally assholes and required a bit of peer provided consequences until they learned). But then there are cases where it's a very bad thing (I've known some really smart people who ultimately never reached their full potential because they had "being smarter than average is bad" beat into them by the school system)
While I agree it's possible I suggest to you the result pales in comparison to spending 7 hours a day surrounded by peers. Not that the child may not be successful, but they will develop very different social skills as a result. I've met a few home schooled people. Very bright, but complete social outcasts.
At the risk of making an analogy, that's kind of like taking someone who grew up in a middle/upper class family, dropping them in the hood, then saying they're a social outcast because they don't hang with the gangsters very well. I guess technically they would be an outcast, but it's not really a bad thing in this case.
what hard data do you have that you and the home environment is better suited for teaching your child?
I'd be willing to bet that no one in his home has had the police called on them for eating a poptart so that it was gun-shaped, pointing their finger and saying "bang!", or making a digital clock.
Are you a teacher yourself and do you have the qualifications needed to give your child a well rounded education?
I'd just like to point out that the people involved in this story were teachers. There's nothing magic about having a teaching credential that somehow imbues one with the ability to impart knowledge to others. Give a kid access to the required resources and foster the right attitude about learning and they'll pretty much teach themselves.
What about social environment?
Sports, boy scouts/girl scouts (find a troop that actually does real backpacking/canoeing), friends, home school group outings.
How do you teach teamwork?
Sports, boy/girl scouts, homeschool groups (I'd be shocked if there isn't one nearby that does rocketry or robot building or other similar nerdy group projects). Team based online games? Tabletop RPGs with friends? Hell, they can even get involved in an open source project or something.
So, you specifically told every single Linux program what to do? You actually told gdm to start? You told your web browser to cache data? You told vi to automatically make backup files?
The software has a description of what it does. As such, he told them those pieces of software to do those things when he accepted the defaults in good faith during the initial installation.
Without watching the video, I would assume that they're referring to things such as building redstone circuits ingame, rather than breaking down the games source code.
I got my first introduction to programming-like topics through playing garrysmod running the wire addon. I remember starting out with simple circuits with a few logic gates to open and close doors or aim turrets, then moving on to expression gate as that feature was developed. By the time I started programming classes in college I was pretty familiar with everything from control algorithms (I'd sort of come up with the idea of a PID loop on my own when trying to stabilize a spaceship) to binary addition circuits (one of the first things I ever made in the game).
Yep. When I worked in IT, security kept enforcing stricter and stricter password guidelines. Eventually it boiled down to basically every. single. user. picking a password in the format of [Kids name][kids birthdate]![number representing how many times they'd had to change their password]. It got to the point where if I had to fix someones computer but they weren't at their desk I'd just check their hire date and multiply number of years worked by 4 (for the end number) examine whatever family pictures they had framed there and have the password in 3-5 guesses.
This is the same security that disabled ability to use attachments over webmail, took down our secure FTP server, revoked contractor access to our version control system, made it extremely hard to obtain VPN access, and then was completely surprised when users started sending files via personal e-mail and dropbox.
I'd advocate having a "default" password but making it unique to the site or service by adding some string to the end based on the name of the site (or some other easily memorable thing). e.g. your shashdot password might be "DefaultPassword1234Slashdot" whereas your reddit account might be "DefaultPassword1234Reddit". It's basically zero cost to remember yet still gives some protection against someone running a script on a compromised username/password database.
To be fair, he's completely disowned the product that has his name on it and has made slashdot news a few times when he's gone on rants about how terrible of an antivirus it's become.
I always thought "internship" meant "work for experience instead of money" to solve that whole "cant get a job without experience / can't get experience without a job".
That's not at all what it means. I worked my way through college first as a helpdesk intern, then moved over to software and programming. It didn't pay a ton, but it paid enough to graduate debt free by working full time in the summers and part time during the semesters.
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How?
Did you read the second paragraph of my post where I explained how? It was literally two sentences. (hint: it has nothing to do with people reading articles on slashdot)
Everest isn't a good example of normal mountaineering
I suspect that Mars isn't a good example of standard operating procedure for mounting a rescue either.
just stop
Exactly. Making an issue of gender is hurting their objective more than helping it.
Most people who get into computers and programming are naturally introverted. Making a big deal about a specific category of person getting involved in a specific field is a great way to keep the shy introverted people of that category out of that field.
It's a different kind of improvement. It won't make your computer run crysis at 9000 fps, but you'd see it in things such as google maps being able to quickly calculate the most efficient path given that you want to travel from A to F and make stops B, C, D, and E along the way.
Yes, if someone is actively trying to prevent me from talking to my wi-fi base station, they can do that. But what kind of idiot would throw gigawatts of power across gigahertz just so they'd interfere with my signal?
They don't need to continuously jam it, they just need to make it drop out enough to be obnoxious. Sending out a pulse crafted to disconnect people from their wireless access points several times an hour would be enough to annoy the non tech savvy into just buying a 4g connection for everything.
This has been established by long history of mountain, cave and other remote area search and rescue incidents.
Wait what? iirc the path up to the summit of Everest is littered with bodies of climbers who couldn't make it. Including one who was reportedly injured but alive for several hours. Other climbers talked to him as they passed, but there wasn't anything they could do as attempts to help would just result in both of them dead.
Be interested to know how that is accomplished with any slight hope of determining what a real life high stress situation response would be
The same way they do for police training? The main point here is that carry permits are generally taken much more seriously than drivers licenses, so comparing it with drivers is a bit disingenuous.
Wow that makes me feel real good about when the NRA says giving everyone a gun is the best way to prevent shootings. Cause as we all know, 80% of drivers are above average so we can expect gun competency work just as well.
With what's involved in getting a carry permit (in most states at least), I would not be surprised if the kinds of people who carry have more practice shooting in various simulated high stress situations than the average police officer.
This along with simple things like how momentum works in space
Especially that part where they spend 30 minutes bumping up their deltaV towing each other to the station via jetpack, then manage to not get splatted on impact when they obviously didn't reverse thrust (as seen by the fact that the guy doing the towing was always in front) at any point during the entire trip.
3) wait 1-14 days depending on how much you are willing to spend
I'm not willing to spend more than 3x the cost of the components that are going on my board. Know of any "decent" PCB manufacturers that'll make a board for less than that (including shipping) and get it here before I can draw the thing with a sharpie and wipe it off with some etching solution?
As far as I know, if you are using these SMT components, you need a SMT assembly line and oven to build you design.
Syringe of solder paste and a toaster oven (we didn't even bother with the temperature controls, just leave it in until the last of the paste melts).
Exactly how is telling them it's a clock failure to answer the questions being asked? He literally just stuck the guts of a clock inside a case, there's not really a lot to expand on there.
They really need to do something about bots. There's some blatant cheating in my area on the part of some select few players (portals are mysteriously recharged within seconds of being attacked at all times of day/night). It's really demoralizing to know that you're basically playing a single player game at that point.
Maximum achievable speed there would be ~120mph. To get faster you'd have to come up with new innovations such as packaging the human in an aerodynamic lead shell.
At best, from the picture, the "clock" seems more to be a commercial product hacked up in a different case. Why would he add 2 source of power (9V battery + main) ? Why do this on 2 different boards linked up by ribbon cables ?
You answered your own question with your first sentence. According to analysis in TFA, he took apart an LED clock (a Micronta 63756 to be exact) and transplanted it into a pencil case. I had an old LED alarm clock (since replaced by my phone) that plugged into a 120V source, but also took 2 AA batteries as a backup source so that you wouldn't lose your alarm if the power went out. The oddities of the design are due to whatever engineer came up with it in the 70s.
My argument is that defaults are active because you told the software to install and trust that it's going to do what it says on the tin. If I install a widget that says it'll automatically delete my browsing history when I close my browser, I should be able to reasonably trust that by default it's not going to erase my hdd while leaving my history intact or send the history out to a 3rd party before deleting it.
:P ) it's something that happens in an obvious up-front way, is easily changed, and is something that one might reasonably expect an operating system to do. If it was some other linux distro that stealthily mounted the drive, ghosted the contents to a random folder, then hid the fact that it did so, that action is arguably a lot more nefarious and something that one would not reasonably expect as a default behavior of a desktop operating system.
Obviously there's an element of degree to it, which I think is where the nitpicking comes in. Auto-mounting a USB stick (or not) on a desktop OS isn't necessarily a behavior that has a huge impact. In the context of RHEL (we also use this at work and I couldn't tell you the default behavior without going to the lab to check
If the quality of education is determined by the number of police incidents then you are absolutely right. But if you actually believe this then please do your child a favour and don't try and home school them.
Understand that (generally speaking) the educational system is tailored towards the greatest common denominator. If you're an average person and manage to not run into any horrible teachers, then you'll probably do ok and have a typical experience. If you're slightly outside of the norm, you'll be ground down by the school system until you fit. The further away from it you are, the worse it will be. There are some cases in which that might be a good thing (I knew some kids who were naturally assholes and required a bit of peer provided consequences until they learned). But then there are cases where it's a very bad thing (I've known some really smart people who ultimately never reached their full potential because they had "being smarter than average is bad" beat into them by the school system)
While I agree it's possible I suggest to you the result pales in comparison to spending 7 hours a day surrounded by peers. Not that the child may not be successful, but they will develop very different social skills as a result. I've met a few home schooled people. Very bright, but complete social outcasts.
At the risk of making an analogy, that's kind of like taking someone who grew up in a middle/upper class family, dropping them in the hood, then saying they're a social outcast because they don't hang with the gangsters very well. I guess technically they would be an outcast, but it's not really a bad thing in this case.
what hard data do you have that you and the home environment is better suited for teaching your child?
I'd be willing to bet that no one in his home has had the police called on them for eating a poptart so that it was gun-shaped, pointing their finger and saying "bang!", or making a digital clock.
Are you a teacher yourself and do you have the qualifications needed to give your child a well rounded education?
I'd just like to point out that the people involved in this story were teachers. There's nothing magic about having a teaching credential that somehow imbues one with the ability to impart knowledge to others. Give a kid access to the required resources and foster the right attitude about learning and they'll pretty much teach themselves.
What about social environment?
Sports, boy scouts/girl scouts (find a troop that actually does real backpacking/canoeing), friends, home school group outings.
How do you teach teamwork?
Sports, boy/girl scouts, homeschool groups (I'd be shocked if there isn't one nearby that does rocketry or robot building or other similar nerdy group projects). Team based online games? Tabletop RPGs with friends? Hell, they can even get involved in an open source project or something.
So, you specifically told every single Linux program what to do? You actually told gdm to start? You told your web browser to cache data? You told vi to automatically make backup files?
The software has a description of what it does. As such, he told them those pieces of software to do those things when he accepted the defaults in good faith during the initial installation.
Without watching the video, I would assume that they're referring to things such as building redstone circuits ingame, rather than breaking down the games source code.
I got my first introduction to programming-like topics through playing garrysmod running the wire addon. I remember starting out with simple circuits with a few logic gates to open and close doors or aim turrets, then moving on to expression gate as that feature was developed. By the time I started programming classes in college I was pretty familiar with everything from control algorithms (I'd sort of come up with the idea of a PID loop on my own when trying to stabilize a spaceship) to binary addition circuits (one of the first things I ever made in the game).
Yep. When I worked in IT, security kept enforcing stricter and stricter password guidelines. Eventually it boiled down to basically every. single. user. picking a password in the format of [Kids name][kids birthdate]![number representing how many times they'd had to change their password]. It got to the point where if I had to fix someones computer but they weren't at their desk I'd just check their hire date and multiply number of years worked by 4 (for the end number) examine whatever family pictures they had framed there and have the password in 3-5 guesses.
This is the same security that disabled ability to use attachments over webmail, took down our secure FTP server, revoked contractor access to our version control system, made it extremely hard to obtain VPN access, and then was completely surprised when users started sending files via personal e-mail and dropbox.
I'd advocate having a "default" password but making it unique to the site or service by adding some string to the end based on the name of the site (or some other easily memorable thing). e.g. your shashdot password might be "DefaultPassword1234Slashdot" whereas your reddit account might be "DefaultPassword1234Reddit". It's basically zero cost to remember yet still gives some protection against someone running a script on a compromised username/password database.
To be fair, he's completely disowned the product that has his name on it and has made slashdot news a few times when he's gone on rants about how terrible of an antivirus it's become.
I always thought "internship" meant "work for experience instead of money" to solve that whole "cant get a job without experience / can't get experience without a job".
That's not at all what it means. I worked my way through college first as a helpdesk intern, then moved over to software and programming. It didn't pay a ton, but it paid enough to graduate debt free by working full time in the summers and part time during the semesters.
Also morse code and touch typing.