FBI chief: 'unacceptable' that Guardian has better data on police violence
James Comey tells crime summit that ‘it’s ridiculous’ Guardian and Washington Post have more information on civilians’ deaths at hands of US police than FBI
So your claim of "superficial is total BS. Even the FBI admits they have worse records. And no, it's not mandatory to report police shootings to the FBI.
The data is far better than what the government has. Even the government admits it. Go read the series. And yes, death stats have been falsified. Even among the poor, white people are under-represented.
Sure, they eventually caved - but this was only after chip yields rose. The prospect of a class action forcing them to pay out the full price of every chip sold during the low-yield period at the cost originally paid would have been a LOT more (it would have also been based on chips sold, not just people who actually filed a claim).
another free break for corps and the rich. Thanks. Anyone else notice how everytime you go through a checkout they hit you up for some charity or another? Charities are all well and good but having my donation be some company's tax dodge really pisses me off...
That's not how it works. The company has to enter the money collected as revenue, and then give it to the charity - which is tax neutral, or they set up a separate account where all the money goes directly to charities - again, tax neutral.
The real problem with the FDIV bug is in how Intel handled it - they refused to replace an admittedly defective part unless you could show that you specifically were affected. Betting for a repeat here.
Bull crap Even the FBI admitted that the Guardian had better statistics on police killings by race than they did., because reporting to the FBI is entirely voluntary.
The US government does not currently keep a comprehensive record of people killed by police. Instead the FBI runs a voluntary program for law enforcement agencies to submit numbers of “justified homicides” if they choose.
and
Of the 547 people found by the Guardian to have been killed by law enforcement so far this year, 49.7% were white, 28.3% were black and 15.5% were Hispanic/Latino. According to US census data, 62.6% of the population is white, 13.2% is black and 17.1% is Hispanic/Latino.
More than one in of five those killed so far in 2015 - 119 people in all - were unarmed. While 31.6% of black people killed were found to be carrying no weapon, that was true for only 16.5% of white people. This stark disparity has stayed roughly constant since The Counted began publishing at the beginning of June.
On a per capita basis, you're several times more likely to be killed by cops if you're black.
This has been the case for video cards pretty much since the beginning. You could even write batch files into video ram and then have a program execute after a warm boot and then run the code. Did this as a proof of concept on a VGA/Hercules combo (two separate cards). So, it's a feature, if you decide to see it that way.
True - probably because every time you revisit it, YOU have changed. It's like a Rorschach test. I remember the Rorschach I had as a kid after the murder, and when I had one a couple of years ago when I finally gave in and sought help for PTSD, I remember what I had seen in the blots at that time, but I really couldn't SEE what I saw in them any more. We really do project based on our perceptions. Let's hope we're a little bit better than the three men in a cave trying to describe an elephant by touch.:-)
Clinton had a push to get females in as well. Let's hope it doesn't get under qualified people killed. Kara Hultgren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You mean that there are qualifications to getting killed??? Does having black skin make you more qualified to get killed, like in Vietnam and today's urban US centers?
It's not directed as ISIS, but at their potential recruits. You want to stop the flow of people joining, not affect those whose minds are already made up.
Duck and cover still works. For those who don't know it:
1. Duck under a table, a desk, or something else to help protect against falling debris.
2. Cover yourself with a blanket to shield you from dust and flying glass
3. Tuck your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye/
The destruction of the GNOME project thanks to the horribly failed GNOME 3 debacle.
* The destruction of the Firefox web browser thanks to numerous fucking idiotic changes being forced on its users by Mozilla.
Nobody cares any more because realize that Mozilla is so f'ed up that it has to get worse before it gets better.
* The destruction of Linux as a viable OS, especially when used on servers, all thanks to systemd being forced by all of the major distros.
FreeBSD FTW. If it's good enough for Sony and Apple,...
* The fall of the GPL thanks to people wanting to use truly free licenses like the BSD and MIT licenses.
You say that like it's a bad thing to replace a restrictive license like the GPL with a freer license.
* The fall of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
That was an easy one to figure out pretty much right from the get-go. Only the n00b language-of-the-month people got sucked into that.
* The Rust and Perl 6 programming language disasters.
And? There weren't that many people using Rust, and Perl 5x still works fine.
* The Go and Swift programming language success stories.
Nobody who's not using it cares. Replacing a set of tools with another because "NEW" has been done too many times.
* The rise of FreeBSD and OpenBSD, thanks to systemd ruining Linux.
Again, what's so bad about a system with no licensing restrictions, as opposed to the GPL?
* Microsoft porting.NET to OS X and Linux.
They're free to do whatever they want. That's not suddenly going to make someone who didn't use it before suddenly want to use it.
* Firefox OS failing worse than nearly any software project has failed in a very long time.
How is this not a GOOD thing? Maybe it will force them to concentrate more effort on core products, like fixing the memory leaks and other bugs in Firefox.
See, there's always a silver lining around every cloud.
Unfortunately, that won't work when everyone is walking around with a video camera and a way to distribute those videos to the whole world in their pocket or purse. It's hard to "p0wn" the news.
Everyone likes contests with prizes. Simply have awards for the best parodies, photoshopped terrorist photos, and terrorist videos that make ISIS look stupid. Recruits that find out the reality is 72 virgin sheep (after all, that's where virgin wool comes from), stuff like "Achmed, the 'Stop! I kill you!' dead terrorist", etc. Translate the best into as many languages as possible.
Who said anything about standardized tests. Teachers are supposed to be professionals, they should be able to grade where each student is at without a standardized text, just based on their interactions and whatever tests the teacher devises. This will help identify the teachers who came before them and didn't do a good job.
And some people hide behind anonymity to hide their lack of humor and their concomitant insistence to inject THEIR politics into the discussion, while claiming not to... Besides which, Fox News has already admitted in court that their "News" is entertainment, and can be as biased and fact-free as it wants to be. Hence the moniker "Faux News." It caters to the same people who read "The National Enquirer."
Google is your friend. Of course, this was already in the newspapers before google ever existed. However, if you google for computers in school a failure, you'll see plenty of stuff, such as:
The history of electronic technologies in schools is fraught with failures.
Computers are no exception, and rigorous studies show that it is incredibly difficult to have positive educational impact with computers. Technology at best only amplifies the pedagogical capacity of educational systems; it can make good schools better, but it makes bad schools worse.
Technology has a huge opportunity cost in the form of more effective non-technology interventions.
Many good school systems excel without much technology.
The inescapable conclusion is that significant investments in computers, mobile phones, and other electronic gadgets in education are neither necessary nor warranted for most school systems. In particular, the attempt to use technology to fix underperforming classrooms (or to replace non-existent ones) is futile. And, for all but wealthy, well-run schools, one-to-one computer programs cannot be recommended in good conscience.
How many schools can even afford one-on-one computer classes, even in the industrialized nations? Because it doesn't work when you try to do it in bulk, as if the kids were computers to be programmed.
A search for "double-blind experiment computer use in schools" doesn't produce anything apparently relevant. Why are there no hard data available on something that's gobbling up $10 billion a year out of school budgets? The simplest answer is, as always, follow the money.
The school environment is certainly important for education, no matter what the subject. So is the home environment. Ask any teacher. So no, it's not irrelevant to a discussion of CS education in schools. The money wasted on "computers in schools" would be better directed towards programs that would actually make a difference in the students ability to learn. This is why there are school lunch programs, for example, but in some cases these programs are not enough, and there are no extra funds to beef them up because "GOTTA TEACH KIDS TO CODE OR..." - without ever answering what the "or" is.
A hungry kid isn't going to learn, not CS, not anything, except that they must be inferior to those around them who are well fed. Same as the kids who are bullied. And the ones in "pair programming" who let one person do it all while the other coasts, the "coaster" is going to end up learning that being a coaster is easy and pays off.
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FBI chief: 'unacceptable' that Guardian has better data on police violence
James Comey tells crime summit that ‘it’s ridiculous’ Guardian and Washington Post have more information on civilians’ deaths at hands of US police than FBI
So your claim of "superficial is total BS. Even the FBI admits they have worse records. And no, it's not mandatory to report police shootings to the FBI.
Intel's own compiler in many cases generated code that runs 15%-20% faster than code compiled under GCC.
The data is far better than what the government has. Even the government admits it. Go read the series. And yes, death stats have been falsified. Even among the poor, white people are under-represented.
All the nickel near the surface of this planet comes from meteorites. This is a non-story to generate hype. There is NOTHING to see here.
Sure, they eventually caved - but this was only after chip yields rose. The prospect of a class action forcing them to pay out the full price of every chip sold during the low-yield period at the cost originally paid would have been a LOT more (it would have also been based on chips sold, not just people who actually filed a claim).
another free break for corps and the rich. Thanks. Anyone else notice how everytime you go through a checkout they hit you up for some charity or another? Charities are all well and good but having my donation be some company's tax dodge really pisses me off...
That's not how it works. The company has to enter the money collected as revenue, and then give it to the charity - which is tax neutral, or they set up a separate account where all the money goes directly to charities - again, tax neutral.
The real problem with the FDIV bug is in how Intel handled it - they refused to replace an admittedly defective part unless you could show that you specifically were affected. Betting for a repeat here.
The US government does not currently keep a comprehensive record of people killed by police. Instead the FBI runs a voluntary program for law enforcement agencies to submit numbers of “justified homicides” if they choose.
and
Of the 547 people found by the Guardian to have been killed by law enforcement so far this year, 49.7% were white, 28.3% were black and 15.5% were Hispanic/Latino. According to US census data, 62.6% of the population is white, 13.2% is black and 17.1% is Hispanic/Latino.
More than one in of five those killed so far in 2015 - 119 people in all - were unarmed. While 31.6% of black people killed were found to be carrying no weapon, that was true for only 16.5% of white people. This stark disparity has stayed roughly constant since The Counted began publishing at the beginning of June.
On a per capita basis, you're several times more likely to be killed by cops if you're black.
Then how come the white poor aren't proportionately represented in police killings? It's about race.
No, all that would do is further anger potential recruits, as well as all muslims, for desecration of a dead body.
This has been the case for video cards pretty much since the beginning. You could even write batch files into video ram and then have a program execute after a warm boot and then run the code. Did this as a proof of concept on a VGA/Hercules combo (two separate cards). So, it's a feature, if you decide to see it that way.
True - probably because every time you revisit it, YOU have changed. It's like a Rorschach test. I remember the Rorschach I had as a kid after the murder, and when I had one a couple of years ago when I finally gave in and sought help for PTSD, I remember what I had seen in the blots at that time, but I really couldn't SEE what I saw in them any more. We really do project based on our perceptions. Let's hope we're a little bit better than the three men in a cave trying to describe an elephant by touch. :-)
Clinton had a push to get females in as well. Let's hope it doesn't get under qualified people killed. Kara Hultgren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You mean that there are qualifications to getting killed??? Does having black skin make you more qualified to get killed, like in Vietnam and today's urban US centers?
It's not directed as ISIS, but at their potential recruits. You want to stop the flow of people joining, not affect those whose minds are already made up.
Duck and cover still works. For those who don't know it:
1. Duck under a table, a desk, or something else to help protect against falling debris.
2. Cover yourself with a blanket to shield you from dust and flying glass
3. Tuck your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye/
The destruction of the GNOME project thanks to the horribly failed GNOME 3 debacle. * The destruction of the Firefox web browser thanks to numerous fucking idiotic changes being forced on its users by Mozilla.
Nobody cares any more because realize that Mozilla is so f'ed up that it has to get worse before it gets better.
* The destruction of Linux as a viable OS, especially when used on servers, all thanks to systemd being forced by all of the major distros.
FreeBSD FTW. If it's good enough for Sony and Apple, ...
* The fall of the GPL thanks to people wanting to use truly free licenses like the BSD and MIT licenses.
You say that like it's a bad thing to replace a restrictive license like the GPL with a freer license.
* The fall of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
That was an easy one to figure out pretty much right from the get-go. Only the n00b language-of-the-month people got sucked into that.
* The Rust and Perl 6 programming language disasters.
And? There weren't that many people using Rust, and Perl 5x still works fine.
* The Go and Swift programming language success stories.
Nobody who's not using it cares. Replacing a set of tools with another because "NEW" has been done too many times.
* The rise of FreeBSD and OpenBSD, thanks to systemd ruining Linux.
Again, what's so bad about a system with no licensing restrictions, as opposed to the GPL?
* Microsoft porting .NET to OS X and Linux.
They're free to do whatever they want. That's not suddenly going to make someone who didn't use it before suddenly want to use it.
* Firefox OS failing worse than nearly any software project has failed in a very long time.
How is this not a GOOD thing? Maybe it will force them to concentrate more effort on core products, like fixing the memory leaks and other bugs in Firefox.
See, there's always a silver lining around every cloud.
Unfortunately, that won't work when everyone is walking around with a video camera and a way to distribute those videos to the whole world in their pocket or purse. It's hard to "p0wn" the news.
Everyone likes contests with prizes. Simply have awards for the best parodies, photoshopped terrorist photos, and terrorist videos that make ISIS look stupid. Recruits that find out the reality is 72 virgin sheep (after all, that's where virgin wool comes from), stuff like "Achmed, the 'Stop! I kill you!' dead terrorist", etc. Translate the best into as many languages as possible.
Who said anything about standardized tests. Teachers are supposed to be professionals, they should be able to grade where each student is at without a standardized text, just based on their interactions and whatever tests the teacher devises. This will help identify the teachers who came before them and didn't do a good job.
It's actually a way to look at the mind, since all we sense is whatever "shadows" our senses pick up from outside our bodies.
And some people hide behind anonymity to hide their lack of humor and their concomitant insistence to inject THEIR politics into the discussion, while claiming not to ... Besides which, Fox News has already admitted in court that their "News" is entertainment, and can be as biased and fact-free as it wants to be. Hence the moniker "Faux News." It caters to the same people who read "The National Enquirer."
Yep - Fake it until you make it. And for some (you know who you are!), the last 4 words are optional.
I remember that story, having read a later version. Here's H.G.Wells original
Computer use at home linked to school failure, increased drug use
Ipad initiative failure
Why the computer is not dominating schools
Why has the computer failed in schools and universities - 20 years later, the "solutions" outlined at the end are still not workable, because, ironically, they need much more individual teacher input than was realized at the time.
There are no technology shortcuts for good education
The history of electronic technologies in schools is fraught with failures.
Computers are no exception, and rigorous studies show that it is incredibly difficult to have positive educational impact with computers. Technology at best only amplifies the pedagogical capacity of educational systems; it can make good schools better, but it makes bad schools worse.
Technology has a huge opportunity cost in the form of more effective non-technology interventions.
Many good school systems excel without much technology.
The inescapable conclusion is that significant investments in computers, mobile phones, and other electronic gadgets in education are neither necessary nor warranted for most school systems. In particular, the attempt to use technology to fix underperforming classrooms (or to replace non-existent ones) is futile. And, for all but wealthy, well-run schools, one-to-one computer programs cannot be recommended in good conscience.
How many schools can even afford one-on-one computer classes, even in the industrialized nations? Because it doesn't work when you try to do it in bulk, as if the kids were computers to be programmed.
Report Finds K-12 Computer Science Education Declining; Most Schools Teach How To Use Computers, But Nothing Deeper
A search for "double-blind experiment computer use in schools" doesn't produce anything apparently relevant. Why are there no hard data available on something that's gobbling up $10 billion a year out of school budgets? The simplest answer is, as always, follow the money.
The school environment is certainly important for education, no matter what the subject. So is the home environment. Ask any teacher. So no, it's not irrelevant to a discussion of CS education in schools. The money wasted on "computers in schools" would be better directed towards programs that would actually make a difference in the students ability to learn. This is why there are school lunch programs, for example, but in some cases these programs are not enough, and there are no extra funds to beef them up because "GOTTA TEACH KIDS TO CODE OR ..." - without ever answering what the "or" is.
A hungry kid isn't going to learn, not CS, not anything, except that they must be inferior to those around them who are well fed. Same as the kids who are bullied. And the ones in "pair programming" who let one person do it all while the other coasts, the "coaster" is going to end up learning that being a coaster is easy and pays off.