Every book added to a classroom is another nail in the coffin of modern teaching. There is nothing added by adding a book, but much is taken away.
Books ought to remain in "libraries" and perhaps on the desks for specialized "reading classes", but they definitely don't belong anywhere else.
Creative usage of books for teaching is a copout on the kids. By removing the teacher/student relationship and replacing it with an inanimate object, the kids lose out on a great deal of education. This is why home-schooled kids typically do better in college than "book schooled" kids do.
Is it any surprise that the more technology becomes a part of these kids' educations, the more likely it is that the bad apples are going to find ways to exploit the system?
You didn't get a bad grade for thinking, you got a bad grade for being WRONG!
Remember, the Nazis were bad. Thinking they were good is insanity as history clearly points out they were not.
Oh ye of small minds. The world is really only greyscale for you isn't it?
Let's say you were a Christian. Your religious texts tell you, the more you suffer here in persecution, the greater rewards you will see in heaven. Taking that point of view, the Nazis could be seen as misguided angels. That's just one of a million examples of creative thought that can be used to write a paper on this subject.
The real problem is the school is terrified that some kid won't be able to see that "in reality" they were quite a bad lot. That he won't be able to divorce himself from his writing. They are afraid that by writing a paper like I mentioned above, the brain-dead kid will actually believe what he just wrote and grow up to become hitler.
Basically they are saying, "never speculate on anything you do not believe and know to be 100% true or you risk accedentally believing it forever, no takebacks."
On the same note, think about this. Mark Twain, I believe it was, wrote a really witty and interesting "defense" of the devil. If you read it today, no doubt you would think it's quite creative and interesting. But it's wrong. The devil has no defense, he/it is bad, evil. The very definition of evil. I mean, no matter how bad you think the Nazis are, the devil is worse. It doesn't even matter if you believe in him or not, because that is just the pure unadulterated definition of "devil", at least in most religious texts. But it isn't considered to be a horror to write a light hearted account of him, is it? Why not the Holocaust then?
See, this is the kind of attitude that's so pervasive in the psuedo-piracy community (not TECHNICALLY pirates because they're not making money, but they're effectively engaging in "non profit piracy"). "Oh, even though it's not our content and we have no right legally or morally to take somebody else's work and give it away for free, we're just PROMOTING it".
Newsflash: you're not PROMOTING it, you're helping other people STEAL it.
It's not infringement if it isn't for sale *anywhere*...
.My friend wrote a brilliant paper on socialism - analyzing different positive effects on society, economy... Another kid in the class wrote a complete bullshit paper on democracy - just kissing ass on how America is so great and how democracy works for all. My friend ended up getting a lower grade, just because the teacher did not agree witht the paper.
I remember in school we had to write a paper on the book "Night", which is about the holocaust. I remember being told (often) that we should write something creative. I think many kids wrote thier reports as a news report, some in a "diary of anne frank" style, etc. I thought at the time it might be creative to try to take a dissenting view, and try to write a report that pointed out the "good" side of mass genocide. It wasn't like I took a racist slant or even that I really felt that the holocaust was in any way good, I just thought it might broaden my horizons to try to make a defense of the "bad guys" in the book. It was very subtle and nuanced, and I thought it was really well done.
Oh boy was that the "wrong" thing to do... I was forced under the threat of complete failure of English class for the entire year (I was a straight "a" student at that point) and severe psycolological counseling to rewrite the paper from the exact opposite point of view. I rewrote it as a pice of trash, with such likes as, "Nazis are bad bad bad people, bad bad crappy bad." and got an A and everyone was happy.
What I learned as the main rule for kids in school: never think.
I don't think you do, exactly... Firefox in particular, is an excellent example of somone forking the tree for the greater good. That is unless YOUR copy of FireFox includes Chatzilla by default...
When I lived in Japan, I seem to recall a lot of the TV shows not being interrupted by ads, but the ads were in blocks at the beginning and the ends of the shows.
That might be acceptable as well...
But at the same time, in Japan, they start shows at insane times like 7:14 or 3:26 because they want to get the jump on thier competition when they are busy with commercials... Give and take.
Uh, that and an actual trial and conviction, then. Yes.
You're assuming here that the guy would have been found guilty. Which you would think is a big assumption, given that he in fact was innocent.
Innocent people are put trial every day. It's not a pleasant thing, but it's the only way the system can work, unless we somehow attain police and procecutors who never make mistakes. ake).
But as I said, this was nowhere near a close call.
If there is so much demand for being able to download movies/tv episodes, then why the hell don't the distribution companies take advantage of it and let poeple downlaod things legally at a fair price?
Because they are smart enough to see the Sword of Damoclese when they see it. Start distributing movies and songs on the web and make some money and see exactly how many times you can blink before one of the boobs out there in consumer land with a iMac, a digital video camera and a worthless theater arts degree thinks, "Hey, I could do this..."
He wouldn't even have to make blockbusters, he could make a small, friendly, funny, *entertaining* cult classic for $10k, sell it on the web for $2 a pop and in three months be a millonaire capable of funding some really fantastic work down the line.
Imagine Kevin Smith doing Clerks over the internet for $3 a download. Or Trey Parker and Matt Stone doing Southpark with 100% downloadable episodes for $0.50 each. It would just take two or theee successes to make the market explode and completely demolish the current recording industry.
It's gonna happen eventually, but as long as there isn't a strong "See, it works, try it yourself, we dare you." message being sent by the major content companies there are MUCH fewer bright eyed kids getting the idea into thier heads that they can do it too than there would otherwise be.
Farmers, don't be idiots: when Monsanto presents you with a lawsuit, YOU present them with a BILL. A bill for $10,000 a day, per sprout, itemized as "Storage and care of pateneted genetic material".
Be sure to first post a sign out front of your farm stating, "Will host patented genetic material, $10,000 a day, per growing life form. Agreement to these terms will be indicated by allowing your patented genetic material to be blown onto this land. If you do not agree, then any growing material here is tresspass."
And it's how you get caught. You do understand the reason why freenet seems so slow TO YOU is that it's being copied from machine to machine as it aproaches you right?
Well, if you started your own freenet, meaning not connecting it with the freenet proper, you'd only have to post it once and pretty soon everyone on your internal network would have a complete, *secure* copy where it could be distributed down to the lower ranks. The hask keys could be passed via mixmaster style remailers to the lower ranks, providing more security. The top rank would be completely invulnerable from legal threat because there would be no way, short of sitting over someone's shoulder, that you'd know for sure that they were aware of what they are doing.
The upper reaches of the network are a "darknet," hidden behind layers of security. The sites use a "bounce" to hide their IP address, and members can log in only from trusted IP addresses already on file. Most transmissions between sites use heavy-duty encryption. Finally, they continually change the usernames and passwords required to log in.
I would think they'd just use freenet, tor or i2p and be done with it?
There is only one way to accurately track the use of a file on BitTorrent, and that is to have a complete block of data sent from your BT client to the intellectual property tracking company's BT client. As you start uploading straight away, there is a high probability that your client could send data to the "wrong person".
Since they're also uploading, they'd have a hard time arguing that you're breaking their copyright - they're helping distribute their copyright material...
Furthermore, since they are the OWNERS of the copyright, giving THEM the data is not illegal... They already own it! They have to prove you didn't upload just to them, and nobody else.
You obviously don't understand Erisian teachings if you think conforming to slashdot groupthink is compatible with Lord Omar's Epistle to the Paranoids.
*Understand* Erisian teachings? My friend, if I even had an *inkling* what the true meaning of Erisian teachings were I wouldn't be remotely qualified in my position of High Priest of Eris.
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The word Sushi, to my understanding, is derived from the words su (vinegar) and meshi (rice).
My hot Japanese girlfriend says you are wrong.
This is the kanji for sushi: here
Every book added to a classroom is another nail in the coffin of modern teaching. There is nothing added by adding a book, but much is taken away.
Books ought to remain in "libraries" and perhaps on the desks for specialized "reading classes", but they definitely don't belong anywhere else.
Creative usage of books for teaching is a copout on the kids. By removing the teacher/student relationship and replacing it with an inanimate object, the kids lose out on a great deal of education. This is why home-schooled kids typically do better in college than "book schooled" kids do.
Is it any surprise that the more technology becomes a part of these kids' educations, the more likely it is that the bad apples are going to find ways to exploit the system?
Is anyone really surprised? I mean, Star Trek has been getting steadily worse.
No no, that's the ironic thing... This season of Enterprise has been the best yet!
I guess what I meant was, ethically, there is nothing wrong with it.
You didn't get a bad grade for thinking, you got a bad grade for being WRONG!
Remember, the Nazis were bad. Thinking they were good is insanity as history clearly points out they were not.
Oh ye of small minds. The world is really only greyscale for you isn't it?
Let's say you were a Christian. Your religious texts tell you, the more you suffer here in persecution, the greater rewards you will see in heaven. Taking that point of view, the Nazis could be seen as misguided angels. That's just one of a million examples of creative thought that can be used to write a paper on this subject.
The real problem is the school is terrified that some kid won't be able to see that "in reality" they were quite a bad lot. That he won't be able to divorce himself from his writing. They are afraid that by writing a paper like I mentioned above, the brain-dead kid will actually believe what he just wrote and grow up to become hitler.
Basically they are saying, "never speculate on anything you do not believe and know to be 100% true or you risk accedentally believing it forever, no takebacks."
On the same note, think about this. Mark Twain, I believe it was, wrote a really witty and interesting "defense" of the devil. If you read it today, no doubt you would think it's quite creative and interesting. But it's wrong. The devil has no defense, he/it is bad, evil. The very definition of evil. I mean, no matter how bad you think the Nazis are, the devil is worse. It doesn't even matter if you believe in him or not, because that is just the pure unadulterated definition of "devil", at least in most religious texts. But it isn't considered to be a horror to write a light hearted account of him, is it? Why not the Holocaust then?
See, this is the kind of attitude that's so pervasive in the psuedo-piracy community (not TECHNICALLY pirates because they're not making money, but they're effectively engaging in "non profit piracy"). "Oh, even though it's not our content and we have no right legally or morally to take somebody else's work and give it away for free, we're just PROMOTING it".
Newsflash: you're not PROMOTING it, you're helping other people STEAL it.
It's not infringement if it isn't for sale *anywhere*...
.My friend wrote a brilliant paper on socialism - analyzing different positive effects on society, economy... Another kid in the class wrote a complete bullshit paper on democracy - just kissing ass on how America is so great and how democracy works for all. My friend ended up getting a lower grade, just because the teacher did not agree witht the paper.
I remember in school we had to write a paper on the book "Night", which is about the holocaust. I remember being told (often) that we should write something creative. I think many kids wrote thier reports as a news report, some in a "diary of anne frank" style, etc. I thought at the time it might be creative to try to take a dissenting view, and try to write a report that pointed out the "good" side of mass genocide. It wasn't like I took a racist slant or even that I really felt that the holocaust was in any way good, I just thought it might broaden my horizons to try to make a defense of the "bad guys" in the book. It was very subtle and nuanced, and I thought it was really well done.
Oh boy was that the "wrong" thing to do... I was forced under the threat of complete failure of English class for the entire year (I was a straight "a" student at that point) and severe psycolological counseling to rewrite the paper from the exact opposite point of view. I rewrote it as a pice of trash, with such likes as, "Nazis are bad bad bad people, bad bad crappy bad." and got an A and everyone was happy.
What I learned as the main rule for kids in school: never think.
oh come on.
I know what point you are making but
I don't think you do, exactly... Firefox in particular, is an excellent example of somone forking the tree for the greater good. That is unless YOUR copy of FireFox includes Chatzilla by default...
When I lived in Japan, I seem to recall a lot of the TV shows not being interrupted by ads, but the ads were in blocks at the beginning and the ends of the shows.
That might be acceptable as well...
But at the same time, in Japan, they start shows at insane times like 7:14 or 3:26 because they want to get the jump on thier competition when they are busy with commercials... Give and take.
She just cannot see the difference between left and right mouse buttons.
I hope to God that she isn't allowed to drive!
The sad thing is, most UML I've seen used in IT tends to be unintentionally funny all by itself.
Uh, that and an actual trial and conviction, then. Yes.
You're assuming here that the guy would have been found guilty. Which you would think is a big assumption, given that he in fact was innocent.
Innocent people are put trial every day. It's not a pleasant thing, but it's the only way the system can work, unless we somehow attain police and procecutors who never make mistakes.
ake).
But as I said, this was nowhere near a close call.
Child molester.
If there is so much demand for being able to download movies/tv episodes, then why the hell don't the distribution companies take advantage of it and let poeple downlaod things legally at a fair price?
Because they are smart enough to see the Sword of Damoclese when they see it. Start distributing movies and songs on the web and make some money and see exactly how many times you can blink before one of the boobs out there in consumer land with a iMac, a digital video camera and a worthless theater arts degree thinks, "Hey, I could do this..."
He wouldn't even have to make blockbusters, he could make a small, friendly, funny, *entertaining* cult classic for $10k, sell it on the web for $2 a pop and in three months be a millonaire capable of funding some really fantastic work down the line.
Imagine Kevin Smith doing Clerks over the internet for $3 a download. Or Trey Parker and Matt Stone doing Southpark with 100% downloadable episodes for $0.50 each. It would just take two or theee successes to make the market explode and completely demolish the current recording industry.
It's gonna happen eventually, but as long as there isn't a strong "See, it works, try it yourself, we dare you." message being sent by the major content companies there are MUCH fewer bright eyed kids getting the idea into thier heads that they can do it too than there would otherwise be.
The nature of BitTorrent means they're also uploading it and therefore taking part in an act of piracy
:)
They own it so, it's not conspiracy..... It's CONSENT.
Farmers, don't be idiots: when Monsanto presents you with a lawsuit, YOU present them with a BILL. A bill for $10,000 a day, per sprout, itemized as "Storage and care of pateneted genetic material".
Be sure to first post a sign out front of your farm stating, "Will host patented genetic material, $10,000 a day, per growing life form. Agreement to these terms will be indicated by allowing your patented genetic material to be blown onto this land. If you do not agree, then any growing material here is tresspass."
that's just how it's done.
And it's how you get caught. You do understand the reason why freenet seems so slow TO YOU is that it's being copied from machine to machine as it aproaches you right?
Well, if you started your own freenet, meaning not connecting it with the freenet proper, you'd only have to post it once and pretty soon everyone on your internal network would have a complete, *secure* copy where it could be distributed down to the lower ranks. The hask keys could be passed via mixmaster style remailers to the lower ranks, providing more security. The top rank would be completely invulnerable from legal threat because there would be no way, short of sitting over someone's shoulder, that you'd know for sure that they were aware of what they are doing.
The upper reaches of the network are a "darknet," hidden behind layers of security. The sites use a "bounce" to hide their IP address, and members can log in only from trusted IP addresses already on file. Most transmissions between sites use heavy-duty encryption. Finally, they continually change the usernames and passwords required to log in.
I would think they'd just use freenet, tor or i2p and be done with it?
I fear that that could only be effective if the computer system were allowed to actually enforce the speed as well.
It's Japan dude, that'll follow the duggested speed because they know it's better to work together than to strike out on your own.
The next step may be an election contest, which could take months
Why should it take months? Isn't it just battle clubs and a cage? Or maybe I mean, shouldn't it be?
There's no such thing as R.O.U.S.es...
3 lines! That's an outrage...
perl -e 'print "hello, world";'
One line of code! That's an outrage!
bash%clambake@hello world#
It's just that I've noticed over the past two years Microsoft has gone from a market leader to an almost purely reactive organization.
I was under the impression that they became the market leader by being purely reactive...
The British Library (www.bl.uk) has 150 million items (but fewer bookshelves) so the claim of "largest" is a bit dubious.
/. readers 1 BL = 1.17 LoC
For
Sorry, I still don't understand... Could you express that in terms of how man shuttle explosions would be required to completely destroy one BL?
There is only one way to accurately track the use of a file on BitTorrent, and that is to have a complete block of data sent from your BT client to the intellectual property tracking company's BT client. As you start uploading straight away, there is a high probability that your client could send data to the "wrong person".
...
Since they're also uploading, they'd have a hard time arguing that you're breaking their copyright - they're helping distribute their copyright material
Furthermore, since they are the OWNERS of the copyright, giving THEM the data is not illegal... They already own it! They have to prove you didn't upload just to them, and nobody else.
You obviously don't understand Erisian teachings if you think conforming to slashdot groupthink is compatible with Lord Omar's Epistle to the Paranoids.
*Understand* Erisian teachings? My friend, if I even had an *inkling* what the true meaning of Erisian teachings were I wouldn't be remotely qualified in my position of High Priest of Eris.