Most teachers suck. Whether that's because of poor training is unclear.
However, most teachers never get past the "presenting information" stage of teaching. For them, it's just a job. That's fine, but they should do their job more effectively.
How do you get low performers to do better? That's the real secret behind making education more effective. Finding inspiring people is hard. Making bad teachers better is just process improvement, and shouldn't be as hard. After all, you have to work with what you have.
As a note, why should these people hop in front of all the other people that are legally trying to get into the US? Are we going to penalize those who followed the laws?
The FTC has jurisdiction over this stuff. In general the FTC hasn't been as aggressive in pursuing this sort of thing. Maybe the false advertising part of the FTC could be broken out and made into its own agency?
It could be the equivalent of Britain's ASA, but run by the government and with actual power to levy fines etc.
You sound like those idiots that say "MAC addresses are unique, let's use them as an identifier."
Neither your MAC address nor your SSN is a unique identifier.
In fact, identity confirmation is quite difficult, and as an AC I can say that you are totally clueless when it comes to the various issues of identity.
Maybe you should let the adults talk and keep your head down.
It's been a long time since the Red Cross has done anything useful.
Ideally the RC should hire the public works department of Burning Man to do their disaster logistics...and should have plans for how to handle the various disasters that strike. They don't.
But looking for HAMs is a good first step towards a new, more effective Red Cross.
Is there some way to arrest people who make false statements when justifying unpopular actions? The dude is so obviously full of shit that you can smell him down the hall...but he'll just keep spouting bullshit forever.
Is there some way to penalize him so he won't do it again?
OMG, this door thing is creepy. There's a window where someone can look at me but I can't look at them, and they need to actually let me in! I can't just walk into a cave anymore! WTF!
Why does the EFF feel that personal property rights of users (privacy) are more important than the persona property rights of people participating in the commercial sphere (copyright holders)?
Is it because there are big "evil" corporations on the other side? Is it because anyone that makes money off of property rights is evil?
If you need third-party access to your SCADA system, use a site-to-site VPN with a whitelist. Plug lock down and at least whitelist access to the SCADA system.
Your answer is exactly why security is fucked up. There are vulnerabilities that you may not know about. Do you really want to put that online? Only if you're a retard.
If your SCADA system is under attack from the Internet side, the way you mitigate it is by disconnecting the Internet. Why is your SCADA system connected to the Internet in the first place?
In real life companies single source, because (1) in real life they single source stuff anyway, (2) they're buying a solution not a technology, and (3) single sourcing is a guarantee that everything works together.
The fact is, the vendor is choosing the underlying hardware, which is probably white label that's factory-direct. Target chose the vendor for its end-to-end solution. Target doesn't really give a shit what hardware the vendor is using, as long as it fulfills the requirements.
"This is one of the problems: sloppy commenters like to read ideas into statements that contradict those ideas."
No.
"Creating documentation is sharply distinct from design and implementation"
Uh, no. We can agree to disagree, but documentation on your code in my company is a deliverable. Code with no associated documentation is rejected. Developers who refuse to write documentation aren't hired.
"Something that works poorly will not work any better just because it comes with great documentation"
No, but it will allow someone else to figure out how you fucked up because your thinking is wrong. It will help the next person change the code because they will understand what you were trying to do so they can take your design and run with it.
Code only tells you what, but for any code that's useful the "why" is more important than "what."
"If you're spending more time on documentation than on design or implementation "
This is one of the problems: engineers see documentation as "something else." Documentation is part of your deliverable, not something extra that you're forced to write because some moron in another department can't figure it out.
Your documentation allows other people to (1) understand what your code was supposed to be doing, and (2) how what you were doing fits (or doesn't fit) in with the overall project's requirements, and (3) how they're supposed to use your code. That's at a minimum. Ideally it should explain why you did what you did.
Not providing documentation wastes other people's time. If you don't understand your stuff well enough to document it, you shouldn't be writing the code.
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Most teachers suck. Whether that's because of poor training is unclear.
However, most teachers never get past the "presenting information" stage of teaching. For them, it's just a job. That's fine, but they should do their job more effectively.
How do you get low performers to do better? That's the real secret behind making education more effective. Finding inspiring people is hard. Making bad teachers better is just process improvement, and shouldn't be as hard. After all, you have to work with what you have.
Twitter is the ultimate source for lazy reporters. Need an opinion? Find it on twitter. They can find anyone saying anything and use them as a source.
Twitter should be banned from reportage, period.
As a note, why should these people hop in front of all the other people that are legally trying to get into the US? Are we going to penalize those who followed the laws?
The FTC has jurisdiction over this stuff. In general the FTC hasn't been as aggressive in pursuing this sort of thing. Maybe the false advertising part of the FTC could be broken out and made into its own agency?
It could be the equivalent of Britain's ASA, but run by the government and with actual power to levy fines etc.
You sound like those idiots that say "MAC addresses are unique, let's use them as an identifier."
Neither your MAC address nor your SSN is a unique identifier.
In fact, identity confirmation is quite difficult, and as an AC I can say that you are totally clueless when it comes to the various issues of identity.
Maybe you should let the adults talk and keep your head down.
Really, once the data is anonymized it becomes useless to advertisers. So the fears here are pretty overblown.
Welcome to Big Blue, India!
It's been a long time since the Red Cross has done anything useful.
Ideally the RC should hire the public works department of Burning Man to do their disaster logistics...and should have plans for how to handle the various disasters that strike. They don't.
But looking for HAMs is a good first step towards a new, more effective Red Cross.
Is there some way to arrest people who make false statements when justifying unpopular actions? The dude is so obviously full of shit that you can smell him down the hall...but he'll just keep spouting bullshit forever.
Is there some way to penalize him so he won't do it again?
AWS always did accounting by the second, but the minimum charge was by the hour.
This makes AWS cheaper for those who are doing smaller workloads.
OMG, this door thing is creepy. There's a window where someone can look at me but I can't look at them, and they need to actually let me in! I can't just walk into a cave anymore! WTF!
Why does the EFF feel that personal property rights of users (privacy) are more important than the persona property rights of people participating in the commercial sphere (copyright holders)?
Is it because there are big "evil" corporations on the other side? Is it because anyone that makes money off of property rights is evil?
The rules on what's being called "Net neutrality" has never been in force. The internets the way they are today are how they've always been.
No, that is not the right answer.
If you need third-party access to your SCADA system, use a site-to-site VPN with a whitelist. Plug lock down and at least whitelist access to the SCADA system.
Your answer is exactly why security is fucked up. There are vulnerabilities that you may not know about. Do you really want to put that online? Only if you're a retard.
If your SCADA system is under attack from the Internet side, the way you mitigate it is by disconnecting the Internet. Why is your SCADA system connected to the Internet in the first place?
In real life companies single source, because (1) in real life they single source stuff anyway, (2) they're buying a solution not a technology, and (3) single sourcing is a guarantee that everything works together.
The fact is, the vendor is choosing the underlying hardware, which is probably white label that's factory-direct. Target chose the vendor for its end-to-end solution. Target doesn't really give a shit what hardware the vendor is using, as long as it fulfills the requirements.
You can pay in bitcoin, but you still have to pay shipping. How does that work?
I'm still waiting for the Broadcom wifi fix. At this rate it'll be 2100 before this BT bug will be patched.
"This is one of the problems: sloppy commenters like to read ideas into statements that contradict those ideas."
No.
"Creating documentation is sharply distinct from design and implementation"
Uh, no. We can agree to disagree, but documentation on your code in my company is a deliverable. Code with no associated documentation is rejected. Developers who refuse to write documentation aren't hired.
"Something that works poorly will not work any better just because it comes with great documentation"
No, but it will allow someone else to figure out how you fucked up because your thinking is wrong. It will help the next person change the code because they will understand what you were trying to do so they can take your design and run with it.
Code only tells you what, but for any code that's useful the "why" is more important than "what."
"If you're spending more time on documentation than on design or implementation "
This is one of the problems: engineers see documentation as "something else." Documentation is part of your deliverable, not something extra that you're forced to write because some moron in another department can't figure it out.
Your documentation allows other people to (1) understand what your code was supposed to be doing, and (2) how what you were doing fits (or doesn't fit) in with the overall project's requirements, and (3) how they're supposed to use your code. That's at a minimum. Ideally it should explain why you did what you did.
Not providing documentation wastes other people's time. If you don't understand your stuff well enough to document it, you shouldn't be writing the code.
Can I sue my workplaces for being unhealthy? This is just as bad as asbestos or black lung!
In RMS' world, end-users are honest and can support themselves.
In real life end-users lie, cheat, and do stuff to equipment then say to support "I have no idea why it doesn't work, you need to replace this POS."
Unlike RMS, companies live in the Real World, where incompetent people do dumb things then complain when you can't fix it.
Put RMS on level 1 support and see what he thinks afterwards.
What minorities are you talking about? Indians and other Asians?
Three of five sell things. The other two sell access to you.
Data isn't as important as pundits would like to believe.