this situation is more like, this guy made sure there was only one key to the entire government IT, then took it with him when he left. he shouldn't be surprised that he sits in jail.
It's kind of like working for a trucking company and taking the truck keys with you when you quit, except that it sounds like this was a pretty big ass truck (thinking in $$).
it basically shut down the city of san francisco for at least two weeks. they held the guy in jail, but he refused to divulge. the mayor even went to the jail to ask him personally. he deserves prison.
a) The question was both obvious for myself and someone of the targeted age group. How exactly is something both objectively obvious and tortuous?
I found the question quite confusing and laughably complicated. Like bad instructions that come with a japanese tv. it was a poorly written question, and did not test kids on their subtraction knowledge.
b) That people educated in a particular way will respond to a question posed in that way more readily than those who weren't.
you're confusing being educated on mathematical concepts and being educated on how to answer test questions. from the descriptions it sounds like the classroom education is tricks for taking the test, not how to do math. you don't see something wrong with this?
Actually, I think you give a good example here of how your math education failed you.
the only way my math education "failed me" is it did not prepare me to take stupid tests mandated by the federal government. and yet I can still get by as an engineer! it's amazing those cars don't fall apart while driving on the freeway.
1) "This is probably even more obvious to a child which has been trained using these specific terms." This is the exact point! We should be teaching children to do subtraction, not to respond to tortuous question formats!
2) you must admit that this question format is a little weird, even if you see it as solvable. There must be 100 questions that would test the same concept and be easier to understand. The point of a test should be to test the concept - the simplest question type should be used! This question is way suboptimal. And plenty of kids probably got this wrong, even if they understand the concept.
so the question is a fail, regardless of how you feel about equating pennies to teacups.
I would use carbon copy cloner for the mac. as long as the remote drive appears mounted on your computer every once and a while, it will do the backup. You can configure it to automatically fire when the drive is mounted (also after the designated time period), so the not-always-on thing isn't an issue.
Also not sure about the low-bandwidth restore. maybe you walk over for that one instance. Hopefully it's rare!
did you even look at the test question? theres a link in the summary. on the left you have five pennies, and on the right you have a teacup marked with the number six. the teacup is apparently full of liquid. tea, perhaps? you know that this is a puzzle, and you need to decipher it for some clue. has the riddler been here? where's batman!
c'mon, man, i'm not gonna argue about the importance of solving word problems as a skill. all of life is word problems! but there's nothing wrong with writing a clear word problem so kids can focus on the math question, instead of trying to puzzle out the question itself. it's like giving someone a word problem, but it's in french!
I would have no problem with a word problem or pictogram on the test. "Johnny had five cookies, but ate one for lunch. How many does he have left?"
But that question was absurd. It failed as a word problem. There were no complete sentences or even grammatical structure, so you couldn't interpret anything. as a pictogram it was illogical. five pennies on the left, and a teacup on the right? and it still had words in it, not to mention the responses were in words not pictures, which spoils the whole point of a pictogram being good for kids with poor reading comprehension.
overall, stupid stupid government interference into how parents should raise their kids.
If you've listened to the instruction that goes along with the test, it would be clear what to do. My first grader has no problem with these problems. He's told me that the teacher has explained the technique and he recognizes it from the questions that are asked.... Without understanding the context in which things are taugh, you can't judge the tests that are used. This test is not ridiculous when you look at it in proper context.
when you ask a simple question in a simple way, you test a child's ability to understand concepts. When you ask a simple question in an overly convoluted and distorted way, you test a child'a ability to follow directions. The school district makes clear which kind of test this is supposed to be.
honestly people, a test for first graders that is hard to understand for many slashdot readers, including myself??? "you can't take it out of context, there are accompanying teaching segments, etc". I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you should be able to isolate a math question of "6 - 5 = ?" and be able to understand it outside of context.
The YRO crowd isn't against both sides of a party mutually agreeing to enter an agreement. They're against one side doing something not disclosed in the agreement, or changing it without the consent of the other party. They're not against you willingly giving up your personal info, they're against the other party giving it away without your consent or knowledge.
you mean when google used html tricks to circumvent my safari privacy settings? illegal and yet another settlement with FTC. For a company that is "do no evil", how many violations have they been cited for from FTC? I personally hate them for abusing my privacy without my consent.
I have a lot of friends. they all have iphones. that's in US though
You're right in many markets the I products are way expensive compared to others, but here in US, I can pay $300 for an iphone or $0 for an el crappo? Note that both of these are on top of a $2000 contract for two years of cell phone service ($80/mo), so I don't understand why people place so much emphasis on the subsidized prices.
I choose to wear nice clothes and drive a nice car because it makes me feel good about myself. also, i'm union, so all the people at my work have them, and I have to keep up. not bad for sanitation workers!
the weirdest part is?/. is such a YRO crowd that you think they would be outraged at all the privacy invasion stuff that google does, but instead there is this love and forgiveness. I think mostly because it sounds like a cool place to work and gives free stuff like gmail (hint: it's not free). oh and they support "open source" (but not really).
say what you will about apple, but at least your relationship with them is clear. you buy a product from them, and you own a product. no selling of your info. no things that can be taken away (igoogle, reader). it's regular old business. I prefer that.
They all make phone OSes. Google make an arguably better (or at the very least, more popular) phone OS. So they're trying to destroy Google's core market of search, to stop them making such a nice phone OS.
the only thing that can be argued is that goog makes a cheaper OS that sells on POS android phones sold overseas and running 2.3. if you split the market into POS phones and premium phones, goog owns the POS and apple dominates the premium. so, your preference for either says a lot about how you think of your self. myself, i am not pos, i am premium.
yeah but GG does much more than mapping. who's to say she was using it for mapping? Maybe she was watching youtubez? that's why the garmin things are ok, because you know they don't play pron.
From the same AAA website as above. Thanks for not bothering with the link:
GPS navigation systems that are mountable on the windshield or the dashboard are permitted, as are systems designed to prevent the driver from viewing them. There is also an exemption for video event recorders that have the capability of monitoring driver performance, if mounted in specific locations.
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I got 30k results. not as common as you suggest. did you use the quotes? that would explain it.
About 29,900 results (0.27 seconds)
When you lose your job as a bus driver, you have to return the ignition keys to the vehicle. Duh.
Another sensationalist headline which suggests a far different story than the one in the actual story.
except that nobody ever loses their job as a bus driver. public unions ftw!
this situation is more like, this guy made sure there was only one key to the entire government IT, then took it with him when he left. he shouldn't be surprised that he sits in jail.
It's kind of like working for a trucking company and taking the truck keys with you when you quit, except that it sounds like this was a pretty big ass truck (thinking in $$).
it basically shut down the city of san francisco for at least two weeks. they held the guy in jail, but he refused to divulge. the mayor even went to the jail to ask him personally. he deserves prison.
Although the bby headline on the front page of nytimes uses a semicolon so what do I know.
Thinking about it more, I think a semicolon would be correct if it were a sentence, but a comma would be more commonly used in the headline context.
semicolons are awesome! especially in headlines. The Onion does it well.
you're an idiot. stop being an idiot!
a) The question was both obvious for myself and someone of the targeted age group. How exactly is something both objectively obvious and tortuous?
I found the question quite confusing and laughably complicated. Like bad instructions that come with a japanese tv. it was a poorly written question, and did not test kids on their subtraction knowledge.
b) That people educated in a particular way will respond to a question posed in that way more readily than those who weren't.
you're confusing being educated on mathematical concepts and being educated on how to answer test questions. from the descriptions it sounds like the classroom education is tricks for taking the test, not how to do math. you don't see something wrong with this?
Actually, I think you give a good example here of how your math education failed you.
the only way my math education "failed me" is it did not prepare me to take stupid tests mandated by the federal government. and yet I can still get by as an engineer! it's amazing those cars don't fall apart while driving on the freeway.
a couple things -
1) "This is probably even more obvious to a child which has been trained using these specific terms."
This is the exact point! We should be teaching children to do subtraction, not to respond to tortuous question formats!
2) you must admit that this question format is a little weird, even if you see it as solvable. There must be 100 questions that would test the same concept and be easier to understand. The point of a test should be to test the concept - the simplest question type should be used! This question is way suboptimal. And plenty of kids probably got this wrong, even if they understand the concept.
so the question is a fail, regardless of how you feel about equating pennies to teacups.
I would use carbon copy cloner for the mac. as long as the remote drive appears mounted on your computer every once and a while, it will do the backup. You can configure it to automatically fire when the drive is mounted (also after the designated time period), so the not-always-on thing isn't an issue.
Also not sure about the low-bandwidth restore. maybe you walk over for that one instance. Hopefully it's rare!
http://www.thebeaverton.com/chris-hadfield-ejected-from-movie-theatre-for-loudly-heckling-gravity.htm
did you even look at the test question? theres a link in the summary. on the left you have five pennies, and on the right you have a teacup marked with the number six. the teacup is apparently full of liquid. tea, perhaps? you know that this is a puzzle, and you need to decipher it for some clue. has the riddler been here? where's batman!
c'mon, man, i'm not gonna argue about the importance of solving word problems as a skill. all of life is word problems! but there's nothing wrong with writing a clear word problem so kids can focus on the math question, instead of trying to puzzle out the question itself. it's like giving someone a word problem, but it's in french!
I would have no problem with a word problem or pictogram on the test. "Johnny had five cookies, but ate one for lunch. How many does he have left?"
But that question was absurd. It failed as a word problem. There were no complete sentences or even grammatical structure, so you couldn't interpret anything. as a pictogram it was illogical. five pennies on the left, and a teacup on the right? and it still had words in it, not to mention the responses were in words not pictures, which spoils the whole point of a pictogram being good for kids with poor reading comprehension.
overall, stupid stupid government interference into how parents should raise their kids.
If you've listened to the instruction that goes along with the test, it would be clear what to do. My first grader has no problem with these problems. He's told me that the teacher has explained the technique and he recognizes it from the questions that are asked.... Without understanding the context in which things are taugh, you can't judge the tests that are used. This test is not ridiculous when you look at it in proper context.
when you ask a simple question in a simple way, you test a child's ability to understand concepts. When you ask a simple question in an overly convoluted and distorted way, you test a child'a ability to follow directions. The school district makes clear which kind of test this is supposed to be.
honestly people, a test for first graders that is hard to understand for many slashdot readers, including myself??? "you can't take it out of context, there are accompanying teaching segments, etc". I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you should be able to isolate a math question of "6 - 5 = ?" and be able to understand it outside of context.
The YRO crowd isn't against both sides of a party mutually agreeing to enter an agreement. They're against one side doing something not disclosed in the agreement, or changing it without the consent of the other party. They're not against you willingly giving up your personal info, they're against the other party giving it away without your consent or knowledge.
you mean when google used html tricks to circumvent my safari privacy settings? illegal and yet another settlement with FTC. For a company that is "do no evil", how many violations have they been cited for from FTC? I personally hate them for abusing my privacy without my consent.
I have a lot of friends. they all have iphones. that's in US though
You're right in many markets the I products are way expensive compared to others, but here in US, I can pay $300 for an iphone or $0 for an el crappo? Note that both of these are on top of a $2000 contract for two years of cell phone service ($80/mo), so I don't understand why people place so much emphasis on the subsidized prices.
I choose to wear nice clothes and drive a nice car because it makes me feel good about myself. also, i'm union, so all the people at my work have them, and I have to keep up. not bad for sanitation workers!
the weirdest part is? /. is such a YRO crowd that you think they would be outraged at all the privacy invasion stuff that google does, but instead there is this love and forgiveness. I think mostly because it sounds like a cool place to work and gives free stuff like gmail (hint: it's not free). oh and they support "open source" (but not really).
say what you will about apple, but at least your relationship with them is clear. you buy a product from them, and you own a product. no selling of your info. no things that can be taken away (igoogle, reader). it's regular old business. I prefer that.
They all make phone OSes. Google make an arguably better (or at the very least, more popular) phone OS. So they're trying to destroy Google's core market of search, to stop them making such a nice phone OS.
the only thing that can be argued is that goog makes a cheaper OS that sells on POS android phones sold overseas and running 2.3. if you split the market into POS phones and premium phones, goog owns the POS and apple dominates the premium. so, your preference for either says a lot about how you think of your self. myself, i am not pos, i am premium.
amazon double prime.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4395161&cid=45285219
so if a person is driving with a laptop open in her lap, that shouldn't be illegal?
Actually, most states have similar laws. Ignorance is not a defense, btw. See my comment above about book and bookcase.
yeah, i don't get that. is that lawyer humor?
yeah but GG does much more than mapping. who's to say she was using it for mapping? Maybe she was watching youtubez? that's why the garmin things are ok, because you know they don't play pron.
what state do you live in? just asking, so I never go there. asshole.
From the same AAA website as above. Thanks for not bothering with the link:
GPS navigation systems that are mountable on the windshield or the dashboard are permitted, as are systems designed to prevent the driver from viewing them. There is also an exemption for video event recorders that have the capability of monitoring driver performance, if mounted in specific locations.