Not really, our political landscape in the past couple of decades has gotten more diverse, with the introduction of the Reform party (though admittedly they no longer exist as they merged with the PC party to become the Conservatives) The introduction of the Green party, and The introduction of the Bloc Quebecois. All 3 of which have elected members of parliament, and 2 of which have at one time or other formed the official opposition. Even among the 3 main political parties (Conservative, Liberal, and NDP) the balance of power is constantly shifting (though admittedly the NDP have never gotten quite as far as forming a government, but they are currently the official opposition)
First Past the Post hurts democracy, there isn't much question of that, and it is the biggest thing holding back the Green party, (for an example, in the 2008 election, the Greens had 6.78% of the popular vote, but failed to win any seats, meanwhile the bloc Quebecois who had 9.98% of the popular vote won 49 seats due to their regional nature)
I just don't see why your congress should be that different from our parliament in this regard.
A few reasons. First of all it would be a big violation of company policy, and could get me fired. Passive options like registering the user's Android phone before their windows desktop are one thing, but dragging in another device specifically to counteract company policy? That sounds like a recipe for getting fired. Beyond that, I don't believe I should have to use any personal equipment at work, any tools needed for my job are supplied by the company, I'd like to keep it that way.
I don't always agree with company decisions, but they are my employer, there is only so much I can do to bypass their decisions without risking my job.
Yeah, a Wall Street executive who is homeless and hungry is sure going to attract lots of mates. (/sarcasm) Simply because our decisions now are different from what they were 3000 years ago, does not mean the intelligence required is any less so. Or any more, for that matter.
Things aren't quite the same though, as a society we prop up the lowest classes of people through various initiatives, from welfare, to homeless shelters, etc. The result is that the poorest people are still "rich" by the standards of cavemen. This leads to an interesting problem in society though, the poorest people, those with the least education, tend to breed far more than the richest people who are usually more career focused and have few, if any, children. Intelligence is still required, and you are right that it is different things we must think about than thousands of years ago, but the consequences of both failure, and success are also quite different. Evolution is no longer picking the top tier of civilization to procreate the most, but instead we are concentrating more of the reproduction of the population in to lower economic groups.
The failover part where it warns you and then lets you continue to a working connection is the one part that's done right. The alternative would be that it insists you somehow find a windows machine to install on when you don't want it.
Of course I still think a better option would be allowing a connection from the start without forcing the software on anyone... but I don't get to make those decisions.
The stated problem was how to stop people from copying the example file and handing it in as their own work. The suggested solution solves that problem perfectly. (unless you think it's easy to de-watermark a png and then separate it out in to believable layers in a psd file? (or at least easier than just doing the assignment))
How to stop students from cheating by copying each other is a completely different problem, and luckily, not what the submitter asked. (because there really isn't a "good" way in that case...)
Just because it was posted as part of the question doesn't mean it's not a good answer. It certainly seems to be the easiest, and most effective way to detect the problem quoted.
I should clarify, only one device in the house needs to go through this process before everything has full internet access. so use your android phone first, and then your widows PC won't have to get the software.
On our system, it's not just downloading it, you can't get online until it installs successfully and reports back that it did so. Or you can simply not run Windows (which is my preferred option anyway) On a side note, Android phones are a good way around this too (iphones and ipads can't even get far enough to "fail" though so you can't get online that way)
On a mildly related note, I had quite the argument with a social studies teacher when I was in junior high. He asked us all to identify what nationality we came from. I stated "Canadian" and he refused to accept the answer, stating that as I was obviously not one of the Aboriginal peoples I couldn't claim to be Canadian. The most recent Ancestor of mine to move to North America was my great great grandfather, at that level I have 16 relatives, most of whom had already been in North America for a couple of generations, and tracing back further they all eventually came over from all sorts of different places, and sometimes they had only been in those other countries for a couple of generations anyway before you can trace them to some other country further back. I don't identify as being from any one of those places, because it would be somewhat dishonest to pick one over all the others. Am I Irish? English? Swiss? Swede? German? American? Scottish? Prussian? Some other place I haven't managed to trace?
People are far too hung up on race and historical nationality. Most of humanity is a mix of various nationalities, the only thing we can truly say is that we're all human, and that's good enough for me.
I was thinking more or less the same thing, there have been studies showing a difference in abilities in some subjects by members of different races. However none of them have been on the scale proposed here.
But what does that help? when you get out of school you have to get a job in the real world. Bosses don't care what your IQ was, or what your test scores were, they care what work you can do for them. It's the end result that matters in the real world, not what handicap you overcame, or what excuse you make for your inabilities.
Is it right to tell someone that they are successful if in fact their "success" isn't enough to keep a job in the real world. I don't want an accountant that did well at math "for his race", I want an accountant that is good at math period. I don't care what skin colour they have, I care that the balance sheet matches at the end of the day.
On the bright side, the teacher immediately got another job at a private school, and the principle has since left... this has caused a huge flap in Alberta, with very few people thinking it's appropriate, and it has largely been quashed at this point I believe.
Certainly there would first have to be scientific evidence that this level of discrepancy in absolute ability existed before any scientist would agree with it. And while it's true that some studies have shown slight differences in abilities based on race, I don't believe any of them have been anywhere near the scale proposed in this article.
Not actually related, but around here, if you hire someone with a severe disability, under certain circumstances, you can actually pay them a lower minimum wage. It's actually a good program as it encourages employers to hire people that would otherwise be completely un-hirable. We're not talking minor handicaps, it's more like severe autism and that sort of thing, people who simply aren't capable of working at the same productivity level as normal people are. Without the program these people would be a severe drain on society, with it they earn a small income, and more importantly they get a feeling of self worth.
Even if this is in fact the case, it's hard not to see a problem with that, because it's not like this makes there suddenly be "more funds" to go around. So either they funnel money away from a school in an Asian area because their pass rates are too low, and direct it to a Black area because their pass rates are higher, or the reverse, they take much needed funds away from the school in the Black area because they obviously aren't struggling to pass getting consistent 50% averages, and give it to the Asian area because they're struggling with averages only in the 70s...
No matter how you look at it this is racism, it's discrimination, and there is simply no possible good outcome from it.
But is it good to mark people of different aptitudes differently?
If I'm hiring an accountant, do I think it's ok that they can't do math because their race isn't good at it? Or do I want the math done right and don't care who does it?
The "real world" after you graduate from school doesn't care at all what handicap you overcame to do something, and it doesn't accept any excuses for an inability to perform. If you want to do something, you will be graded on the end result, not on what your background is.
Telling someone who got less than 50% that they are great at that subject just because their skin is a certain colour doesn't do them any favours in the future.
To judge any political party's success based on a single election is rather foolish. They have in the past formed the official opposition, and even nearly formed a coalition government. Remember that the Conservative party who currently form the government were down to only a small handful of seats not that long ago. I'm not naive enough to think we've seen the last of the Bloc Quebecois.
I'm defending it because all but one of the points you made are either also there in windows, or flat out wrong.
I even admitted you were right on the one issue, and that's the lack of mouse-over support. I'd love that to be added.
I'm not trying to sweep anything under the rug, I too want android to get stronger, but they do that by focusing on real problems, not ones that are made up and don't exist.
As for "Keyboard and mice have been the defacto standard for text entry on Windows since forever" the same could be said for Linux (it is after all what powers Android) and is also completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
That's assuming that there is in fact also a way of passing dangerous information to the device by requesting a specific URL, And that you can even enter the username and password through the URL request as well. Sure, that would turn an almost non-issue in to a moderately bad exploit, but it also seems like a large stretch from what was listed.
That's not how I read the article at all, the way I read it was that if you were already connected to the wireless (or wired) network, you could log in to the router with a default password to be able to change the wireless settings. Which is a much less severe problem.
Of course, as you point out, the article is awful, so there's no real way of telling which one of us is right, or even if we're both wrong and it's something completely different.
I think you misunderstood. It's not mandatory that I run some install CD or something like that, it's that the first time you try to access the internet your browser redirects you to a webpage that forces you to install software before it will let you access the internet. For non-windows machines it simply bypasses the software install because it's windows only software. but on windows machines it won't let you access the net unless the software fully installs. My ratings for installs are based on several factors. To get credit for doing the install I just have to say I'm done and fill out my time sheet, but I also get marked on whether the customer had to call back in within the first 7 days, and on a customer satisfaction survey done by phone the day after I complete the job, I also get one random job a month inspected by one of our quality inspectors.
So no, I'm quite happy if their system doesn't support our software install. It means I'll likely get a better rating on the satisfaction survey, and it saves me time. It's win-win. I just wish I could convince our higher-ups that nobody actually wants that stupid software installed!
Possibly, but not necessarily. I have yet to find any way of doing that for the devices we use (I'm not saying it isn't possible, but the searches I've done so far have come up blank) And if there is in fact no way to link the 2 (say that the SSID and WPA key truly are randomly generated separately) then how is this still a bad practice?
But can this login page be accessed from the WAN side of the device? if so, it's a serious security flaw. If not, it's not that big a deal as you likely already have physical access to the device anyway.
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Not really, our political landscape in the past couple of decades has gotten more diverse, with the introduction of the Reform party (though admittedly they no longer exist as they merged with the PC party to become the Conservatives) The introduction of the Green party, and The introduction of the Bloc Quebecois. All 3 of which have elected members of parliament, and 2 of which have at one time or other formed the official opposition.
Even among the 3 main political parties (Conservative, Liberal, and NDP) the balance of power is constantly shifting (though admittedly the NDP have never gotten quite as far as forming a government, but they are currently the official opposition)
First Past the Post hurts democracy, there isn't much question of that, and it is the biggest thing holding back the Green party, (for an example, in the 2008 election, the Greens had 6.78% of the popular vote, but failed to win any seats, meanwhile the bloc Quebecois who had 9.98% of the popular vote won 49 seats due to their regional nature)
I just don't see why your congress should be that different from our parliament in this regard.
A few reasons. First of all it would be a big violation of company policy, and could get me fired. Passive options like registering the user's Android phone before their windows desktop are one thing, but dragging in another device specifically to counteract company policy? That sounds like a recipe for getting fired.
Beyond that, I don't believe I should have to use any personal equipment at work, any tools needed for my job are supplied by the company, I'd like to keep it that way.
I don't always agree with company decisions, but they are my employer, there is only so much I can do to bypass their decisions without risking my job.
Yeah, a Wall Street executive who is homeless and hungry is sure going to attract lots of mates. (/sarcasm) Simply because our decisions now are different from what they were 3000 years ago, does not mean the intelligence required is any less so. Or any more, for that matter.
Things aren't quite the same though, as a society we prop up the lowest classes of people through various initiatives, from welfare, to homeless shelters, etc. The result is that the poorest people are still "rich" by the standards of cavemen. This leads to an interesting problem in society though, the poorest people, those with the least education, tend to breed far more than the richest people who are usually more career focused and have few, if any, children.
Intelligence is still required, and you are right that it is different things we must think about than thousands of years ago, but the consequences of both failure, and success are also quite different. Evolution is no longer picking the top tier of civilization to procreate the most, but instead we are concentrating more of the reproduction of the population in to lower economic groups.
The failover part where it warns you and then lets you continue to a working connection is the one part that's done right. The alternative would be that it insists you somehow find a windows machine to install on when you don't want it.
Of course I still think a better option would be allowing a connection from the start without forcing the software on anyone... but I don't get to make those decisions.
The stated problem was how to stop people from copying the example file and handing it in as their own work. The suggested solution solves that problem perfectly. (unless you think it's easy to de-watermark a png and then separate it out in to believable layers in a psd file? (or at least easier than just doing the assignment))
How to stop students from cheating by copying each other is a completely different problem, and luckily, not what the submitter asked. (because there really isn't a "good" way in that case...)
Just because it was posted as part of the question doesn't mean it's not a good answer. It certainly seems to be the easiest, and most effective way to detect the problem quoted.
I should clarify, only one device in the house needs to go through this process before everything has full internet access. so use your android phone first, and then your widows PC won't have to get the software.
On our system, it's not just downloading it, you can't get online until it installs successfully and reports back that it did so. Or you can simply not run Windows (which is my preferred option anyway)
On a side note, Android phones are a good way around this too (iphones and ipads can't even get far enough to "fail" though so you can't get online that way)
On a mildly related note, I had quite the argument with a social studies teacher when I was in junior high. He asked us all to identify what nationality we came from. I stated "Canadian" and he refused to accept the answer, stating that as I was obviously not one of the Aboriginal peoples I couldn't claim to be Canadian. The most recent Ancestor of mine to move to North America was my great great grandfather, at that level I have 16 relatives, most of whom had already been in North America for a couple of generations, and tracing back further they all eventually came over from all sorts of different places, and sometimes they had only been in those other countries for a couple of generations anyway before you can trace them to some other country further back. I don't identify as being from any one of those places, because it would be somewhat dishonest to pick one over all the others. Am I Irish? English? Swiss? Swede? German? American? Scottish? Prussian? Some other place I haven't managed to trace?
People are far too hung up on race and historical nationality. Most of humanity is a mix of various nationalities, the only thing we can truly say is that we're all human, and that's good enough for me.
I was thinking more or less the same thing, there have been studies showing a difference in abilities in some subjects by members of different races. However none of them have been on the scale proposed here.
But what does that help? when you get out of school you have to get a job in the real world. Bosses don't care what your IQ was, or what your test scores were, they care what work you can do for them. It's the end result that matters in the real world, not what handicap you overcame, or what excuse you make for your inabilities.
Is it right to tell someone that they are successful if in fact their "success" isn't enough to keep a job in the real world. I don't want an accountant that did well at math "for his race", I want an accountant that is good at math period. I don't care what skin colour they have, I care that the balance sheet matches at the end of the day.
On the bright side, the teacher immediately got another job at a private school, and the principle has since left... this has caused a huge flap in Alberta, with very few people thinking it's appropriate, and it has largely been quashed at this point I believe.
Certainly there would first have to be scientific evidence that this level of discrepancy in absolute ability existed before any scientist would agree with it. And while it's true that some studies have shown slight differences in abilities based on race, I don't believe any of them have been anywhere near the scale proposed in this article.
Not actually related, but around here, if you hire someone with a severe disability, under certain circumstances, you can actually pay them a lower minimum wage. It's actually a good program as it encourages employers to hire people that would otherwise be completely un-hirable. We're not talking minor handicaps, it's more like severe autism and that sort of thing, people who simply aren't capable of working at the same productivity level as normal people are. Without the program these people would be a severe drain on society, with it they earn a small income, and more importantly they get a feeling of self worth.
Even if this is in fact the case, it's hard not to see a problem with that, because it's not like this makes there suddenly be "more funds" to go around. So either they funnel money away from a school in an Asian area because their pass rates are too low, and direct it to a Black area because their pass rates are higher, or the reverse, they take much needed funds away from the school in the Black area because they obviously aren't struggling to pass getting consistent 50% averages, and give it to the Asian area because they're struggling with averages only in the 70s...
No matter how you look at it this is racism, it's discrimination, and there is simply no possible good outcome from it.
But is it good to mark people of different aptitudes differently?
If I'm hiring an accountant, do I think it's ok that they can't do math because their race isn't good at it? Or do I want the math done right and don't care who does it?
The "real world" after you graduate from school doesn't care at all what handicap you overcame to do something, and it doesn't accept any excuses for an inability to perform. If you want to do something, you will be graded on the end result, not on what your background is.
Telling someone who got less than 50% that they are great at that subject just because their skin is a certain colour doesn't do them any favours in the future.
No racism is ok, but racism (or sexism) that promotes visible minorities (without making any claims to the majority) are socially acceptable.
To judge any political party's success based on a single election is rather foolish. They have in the past formed the official opposition, and even nearly formed a coalition government. Remember that the Conservative party who currently form the government were down to only a small handful of seats not that long ago. I'm not naive enough to think we've seen the last of the Bloc Quebecois.
But you think that fining them for speeding after they kill you will help?
I'm defending it because all but one of the points you made are either also there in windows, or flat out wrong.
I even admitted you were right on the one issue, and that's the lack of mouse-over support. I'd love that to be added.
I'm not trying to sweep anything under the rug, I too want android to get stronger, but they do that by focusing on real problems, not ones that are made up and don't exist.
As for "Keyboard and mice have been the defacto standard for text entry on Windows since forever" the same could be said for Linux (it is after all what powers Android) and is also completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
That's assuming that there is in fact also a way of passing dangerous information to the device by requesting a specific URL, And that you can even enter the username and password through the URL request as well. Sure, that would turn an almost non-issue in to a moderately bad exploit, but it also seems like a large stretch from what was listed.
That's not how I read the article at all, the way I read it was that if you were already connected to the wireless (or wired) network, you could log in to the router with a default password to be able to change the wireless settings. Which is a much less severe problem.
Of course, as you point out, the article is awful, so there's no real way of telling which one of us is right, or even if we're both wrong and it's something completely different.
I think you misunderstood. It's not mandatory that I run some install CD or something like that, it's that the first time you try to access the internet your browser redirects you to a webpage that forces you to install software before it will let you access the internet. For non-windows machines it simply bypasses the software install because it's windows only software. but on windows machines it won't let you access the net unless the software fully installs.
My ratings for installs are based on several factors. To get credit for doing the install I just have to say I'm done and fill out my time sheet, but I also get marked on whether the customer had to call back in within the first 7 days, and on a customer satisfaction survey done by phone the day after I complete the job, I also get one random job a month inspected by one of our quality inspectors.
So no, I'm quite happy if their system doesn't support our software install. It means I'll likely get a better rating on the satisfaction survey, and it saves me time. It's win-win. I just wish I could convince our higher-ups that nobody actually wants that stupid software installed!
Possibly, but not necessarily. I have yet to find any way of doing that for the devices we use (I'm not saying it isn't possible, but the searches I've done so far have come up blank)
And if there is in fact no way to link the 2 (say that the SSID and WPA key truly are randomly generated separately) then how is this still a bad practice?
But can this login page be accessed from the WAN side of the device? if so, it's a serious security flaw. If not, it's not that big a deal as you likely already have physical access to the device anyway.