Damn. With the 24-hour constant activation and this, it seems like MS is machine gunning itself in the foot with the XBox One. Who do they expect to buy this thing? Are they trying to sink their gaming unit?
Excuse me, but there is a big difference between a sentence "received," and a sentence "faced." The maximum penalty for a rape of this sort (via incapacitation) is 15 years. More violent rape can get you life. There is no story here of any interest except to women's studies majors.
It occurred to me that complete idiots now play video games too, and they will probably eat this shit up. I guess I need to find a new hobby. They've screwed computer gaming too.
Yes. Mods, this is flamebait. Sorry. It's also factual and possibly prescient.
Click the non-flashy download link labeled "Click here to start download from sendspace." There are a million other buttons trying to get you to click on crap.
I wouldn't presume that today's high school student can handle much more, but point taken. There needs to be something in between. When I was in HS, it was Pascal. I think previous suggestions of doing javascript pages was a good intermediary.
My local college used Scratch to introduce programming to high school students, and it went quite well, btw. To avoid attrition, you need to appeal to someone other than the ubergeek, who should be learning to program bare metal machine code, AFAIC. The consummate geek is not the person you need to worry about losing in a high school computer club, is my point. You need to appeal to the novice as well. Scratch would fill in that gap.
Let's see: Overly credentialed and fallacious lie of a "meritocracy" society finds out that it is an unacceptable policy to virtually require a credential of a B.S./A. to be in the equivalent of the steno pool at their think tank, or most "mail room" entry level jobs for that matter, fails to see the consequences of such idiocy combined with and driving ridiculous tuition inflation (because everyone has a gun to their head to get a B.S./A.), and how it, in fact, destroys both social mobility and the prestige and rigorous standards of the baccalaureate. Rather than deal with the plank in their own eye, they turn to the mote in the eye of the "undeserving" rich out of reflex. The crime of the wealthy: They love their kids and want to see them get ahead, and will use every legal means to help them. What terrible system can allow them to do that? And why are they undeserving? Because it suits the politics of the meritocracy. You see, politically speaking, the "meritocracy" keep score with tests, while the rich do so with bank balances. This is unpalatable to the "meritocracy" who think those being brought up in wealth need to be hamstrung to make things more "equal." At least when it comes to the numerical test scores, if not the bank balance.
My prescription is to instead try lowering tuition to the value of the education provided and repairing the status of a high school degree to be above that of "toilet paper." If necessary, shoot prejudiced liberals with 500 ccs of Haldol to deal with the schizophrenia. Merit is not a degree. Merit is proportional to the task at hand, and is demonstrated when you do the task at hand well. That's what used to happen in the "mail room." Now the "meritocracy" wants to replace that with performance on tests. Where, seriously speaking, your politics come into play more than they would on the job, where what you do is more important than whether you agree. What is especially galling is you do not actually need a bachelor's degree to do anything other than get past some lazy HR department's paper shedder in far too many of the employment scenarios that now "require" a bachelor's. It's not meritocracy, it's insanity, and the necessity for four-year degrees has dumbed down the four-year degrees to the point where employers can no longer rely upon them at all.
Sure it's anecdote, but I have spoken with a number of employers who have told me that the quality of even engineering baccalaureates has gone south these days. I don't know how that's even possible unless standards are in utter free fall to accommodate all the money universities are making from this "requirement."
And I hope that stat was a 700 sectional, which is setting the bar too damned high, IMHO. We do not live in a world where only near-geniuses are deserving of merit scholarships to a necessary education, and this particular political slant (and their baiting cut-off point) aims to ruin that for everyone but those that are favored by a far-more-arbitrary-than-we-are-lead-to-believe score. Sorry all you non-test taking geniuses, your particular form of genius is not needed. Maybe you're a genius composer? Well, fuck you buddy. We can't score that. Believe me or not, I scored a 1420, 710/710 two sections, on my SAT and it doesn't mean shit. It measured my testing skill, and that's about all. There were lots of people I knew closely and in passing who scored in the 600-700 range on one section (not necessarily both), who were smarter than me, and some who had a fair amount of money too, come to think of it, who deserved a scholarship as much or more than I did. I did get merit scholarships, but no one exactly knocked down my door because I had a bad day at the PSAT a year before. That's how silly this stuff gets, and I'm sure most people on Slashdot get it. One bad day shouldn't rule you out of a merit based scholarship. Test scores bear too much, not too little, weight.
So enough numerical analysis. Let's go qualitative on society's future. Let's start by returning the value of t
There have been extensions for this, on various browsers, for years. I don't see how this is sticking anything to Google when any idiot user can install a few extensions to his browser and get the same result.
And that, my friends, is what we call a honeypot. Don't trust anyone with your data if you're about to do something stupid/illegal with your computing device.
If this were in the U.S., I'd say dust off the RICO act, because someone's transgressed. Anything similar in Finland? It would be fun to see organized copyright lobbyists put on the same page of the law books as Al Capone.
DRM protects the rights of content creators (aka, artists) and helps to prevent people freely distributing their works and with no compensation.
Wrong. The artist's agency and lawyer(s) protect the rights of the content creator, which are worth very little without access to a mass market, which is guarded by DRM structures. What DRM does is protect the exclusivity rights of a mass media publisher, who defines the mass market to their advantage only. You said it yourself, "freely distributing." If you're trying to stop the distribution of a work, it's because you're protecting the distributor's rights through artificial scarcity in a world where it no longer requires massive publications facilities and real capital investment to mass produce media. The publications industry is in dire need of justifying itself, and does so as a only as a rights manager and promotional mechanism, and forces the rest by using cartel agreements to corner, and limit, the mass market potentials that exist. The physical publishing and distribution itself has long since lapsed into obsolescence. Let alone encumbering cheap reproductions with digital locks to approximate the scarcity that used to exist in the days of yore, to justify their continued business practices.
In short: Artists have been getting screwed for decades, and are probably, in the long run, screwed out of their fair share by DRM. DRM's purpose is to enforce who gets to do the screwing. That is all.
sign an agreement that makes them responsible for the full cost of their handsets should they cancel service prematurely
Hmm, sign an agreement, for the consideration of a subsidy in the purchase of your phone. What do we call that in contracts 501?
contract 1) n. an agreement with specific terms between two or more persons or entities in which there is a promise to do something in return for a valuable benefit known as consideration.
It's a freaking contract. At best it's just technically not a term of the official "service contract." It's a term of a "purchasing contract." Wow. Hope T-Mobile gets fined for this. They are bald faced liars.
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-Talahasee
Damn. With the 24-hour constant activation and this, it seems like MS is machine gunning itself in the foot with the XBox One. Who do they expect to buy this thing? Are they trying to sink their gaming unit?
This article feels a little trollish to me. Sorry.
The Duke Nukem Forever story just keeps. Getting. Better.
(*snorting-milk-out-nose*)
...then you win. You know the rest.
Incorrect. The rapists faced up to 15 years in prison. More than the hacker.
We can debate the relative maximums, but we shouldn't be debating an outright falsehood. Get your facts straight.
Excuse me, but there is a big difference between a sentence "received," and a sentence "faced." The maximum penalty for a rape of this sort (via incapacitation) is 15 years. More violent rape can get you life. There is no story here of any interest except to women's studies majors.
It occurred to me that complete idiots now play video games too, and they will probably eat this shit up. I guess I need to find a new hobby. They've screwed computer gaming too.
Yes. Mods, this is flamebait. Sorry. It's also factual and possibly prescient.
I finally got this link to work.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gpof0m
Click the non-flashy download link labeled "Click here to start download from sendspace." There are a million other buttons trying to get you to click on crap.
This link leads to a maze of adware and shit. What the hell?
Like string theory. Mods, do your worst.
Man we could use those brains elsewhere.
I wouldn't presume that today's high school student can handle much more, but point taken. There needs to be something in between. When I was in HS, it was Pascal. I think previous suggestions of doing javascript pages was a good intermediary.
My local college used Scratch to introduce programming to high school students, and it went quite well, btw. To avoid attrition, you need to appeal to someone other than the ubergeek, who should be learning to program bare metal machine code, AFAIC. The consummate geek is not the person you need to worry about losing in a high school computer club, is my point. You need to appeal to the novice as well. Scratch would fill in that gap.
MIT's scratch is pretty fun:
http://scratch.mit.edu/
PETA is attempting to discover the true identities of the supressive persons so that it can sue them for defamation.
FTFY. Like Scientologists, these people and free speech don't get along.
Let's see: Overly credentialed and fallacious lie of a "meritocracy" society finds out that it is an unacceptable policy to virtually require a credential of a B.S./A. to be in the equivalent of the steno pool at their think tank, or most "mail room" entry level jobs for that matter, fails to see the consequences of such idiocy combined with and driving ridiculous tuition inflation (because everyone has a gun to their head to get a B.S./A.), and how it, in fact, destroys both social mobility and the prestige and rigorous standards of the baccalaureate. Rather than deal with the plank in their own eye, they turn to the mote in the eye of the "undeserving" rich out of reflex. The crime of the wealthy: They love their kids and want to see them get ahead, and will use every legal means to help them. What terrible system can allow them to do that? And why are they undeserving? Because it suits the politics of the meritocracy. You see, politically speaking, the "meritocracy" keep score with tests, while the rich do so with bank balances. This is unpalatable to the "meritocracy" who think those being brought up in wealth need to be hamstrung to make things more "equal." At least when it comes to the numerical test scores, if not the bank balance.
My prescription is to instead try lowering tuition to the value of the education provided and repairing the status of a high school degree to be above that of "toilet paper." If necessary, shoot prejudiced liberals with 500 ccs of Haldol to deal with the schizophrenia. Merit is not a degree. Merit is proportional to the task at hand, and is demonstrated when you do the task at hand well. That's what used to happen in the "mail room." Now the "meritocracy" wants to replace that with performance on tests. Where, seriously speaking, your politics come into play more than they would on the job, where what you do is more important than whether you agree. What is especially galling is you do not actually need a bachelor's degree to do anything other than get past some lazy HR department's paper shedder in far too many of the employment scenarios that now "require" a bachelor's. It's not meritocracy, it's insanity, and the necessity for four-year degrees has dumbed down the four-year degrees to the point where employers can no longer rely upon them at all.
Sure it's anecdote, but I have spoken with a number of employers who have told me that the quality of even engineering baccalaureates has gone south these days. I don't know how that's even possible unless standards are in utter free fall to accommodate all the money universities are making from this "requirement."
And I hope that stat was a 700 sectional, which is setting the bar too damned high, IMHO. We do not live in a world where only near-geniuses are deserving of merit scholarships to a necessary education, and this particular political slant (and their baiting cut-off point) aims to ruin that for everyone but those that are favored by a far-more-arbitrary-than-we-are-lead-to-believe score. Sorry all you non-test taking geniuses, your particular form of genius is not needed. Maybe you're a genius composer? Well, fuck you buddy. We can't score that. Believe me or not, I scored a 1420, 710/710 two sections, on my SAT and it doesn't mean shit. It measured my testing skill, and that's about all. There were lots of people I knew closely and in passing who scored in the 600-700 range on one section (not necessarily both), who were smarter than me, and some who had a fair amount of money too, come to think of it, who deserved a scholarship as much or more than I did. I did get merit scholarships, but no one exactly knocked down my door because I had a bad day at the PSAT a year before. That's how silly this stuff gets, and I'm sure most people on Slashdot get it. One bad day shouldn't rule you out of a merit based scholarship. Test scores bear too much, not too little, weight.
So enough numerical analysis. Let's go qualitative on society's future. Let's start by returning the value of t
There have been extensions for this, on various browsers, for years. I don't see how this is sticking anything to Google when any idiot user can install a few extensions to his browser and get the same result.
Not news. More like Olds.
And that, my friends, is what we call a honeypot. Don't trust anyone with your data if you're about to do something stupid/illegal with your computing device.
Looks like it's the year of the GIMP... not really.
If this were in the U.S., I'd say dust off the RICO act, because someone's transgressed. Anything similar in Finland? It would be fun to see organized copyright lobbyists put on the same page of the law books as Al Capone.
DRM protects the rights of content creators (aka, artists) and helps to prevent people freely distributing their works and with no compensation.
Wrong. The artist's agency and lawyer(s) protect the rights of the content creator, which are worth very little without access to a mass market, which is guarded by DRM structures. What DRM does is protect the exclusivity rights of a mass media publisher, who defines the mass market to their advantage only. You said it yourself, "freely distributing." If you're trying to stop the distribution of a work, it's because you're protecting the distributor's rights through artificial scarcity in a world where it no longer requires massive publications facilities and real capital investment to mass produce media. The publications industry is in dire need of justifying itself, and does so as a only as a rights manager and promotional mechanism, and forces the rest by using cartel agreements to corner, and limit, the mass market potentials that exist. The physical publishing and distribution itself has long since lapsed into obsolescence. Let alone encumbering cheap reproductions with digital locks to approximate the scarcity that used to exist in the days of yore, to justify their continued business practices.
In short: Artists have been getting screwed for decades, and are probably, in the long run, screwed out of their fair share by DRM. DRM's purpose is to enforce who gets to do the screwing. That is all.
sign an agreement that makes them responsible for the full cost of their handsets should they cancel service prematurely
Hmm, sign an agreement, for the consideration of a subsidy in the purchase of your phone. What do we call that in contracts 501?
contract 1) n. an agreement with specific terms between two or more persons or entities in which there is a promise to do something in return for a valuable benefit known as consideration.
It's a freaking contract. At best it's just technically not a term of the official "service contract." It's a term of a "purchasing contract." Wow. Hope T-Mobile gets fined for this. They are bald faced liars.
Creepy. Dead at 66. Due to "Order 66?" Who knows?
Bring out yer shills! Throw 'em on the cart!
I'm not dead yet.
Shut up Windows, you're dead.
Similar things began to happen just before the big video game crash of 1983. I think it was even Crest proof-of-purchase tags that got you the game.
Wait till they get to the Apoplectic Apologetic Apogean Aardvark, launched alongside with Merely Mir.