Not at all. The complete sum total of understanding of electrical principles are taught as V=IR, and P=IV.
The rest of it is reading and complying with a set of wiring codes. The fundamental understanding is taught in school, the rest is following a very VERY prescriptive set of instructions, and by logical extension many of the electricians I know didn't even finish school, but just followed instructions from someone who has read a manual written to be understandable by a high-school dropout.
That must be why there's no licensing of electricians, because anyone can do it as long as they had "basic high-school physics". And that's why there are no tests for the non-existent electrician's license!
Because there's no real knowledge involved, all ya gotta do is just look at all the purty lines and number-thingys on the schematical doohickey and you too can wire a sky-scraper! Easy peasy, baby!
By your logic, all you need to troubleshoot any electrical device is to know V=IR and P=IV. As someone with 30+ years in the electronics field, I can tell you that your idea is nonsense of the first order.
I knew it had to be a chick raising these objections as soon as I read the reasoning.
BINGO, this was my thought exactly. I wish I could mod you up to a million.
I knew it was a woman making the comments in the article the instant I read them. She wants to ban this sort of thing not because it's wrong, but because she's offended by it. Anything that gives men pleasure is viewed with suspicion, and doubly-so anything that might make guys less dependent on women for sexual gratification.
"She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical."
It was no surprise at all to find that this comes from a female researcher. Anything that gives men pleasure is viewed with suspicion, and doubly-so anything that might make guys less dependent on women for sexual gratification.
She wants to ban this sort of thing not because it's wrong, but because she's offended by it.
Honestly, can you imagine a male researcher making these statements and suggesting we ban vibrators or female-oriented sex toys? Me neither.
"What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code"
This is NEVER going to happen. Stop trying to make it happen. It doesn't NEED to happen. FFS, not everyone needs to know how to "code".
Replace the word "Code" in the title with nearly any activity and you'll immediately see how fucking stupid it is. For example:
What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Wire A House What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Ride A Unicycle What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Crochet What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Mow The Lawn What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Adjust A Carburetor What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Solder What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Read An X-Ray
Enough already. Please stop with this delusion that everyone needs to code or even wants to.
He didn't win shit, he's a pussy. It's sheeple like you who permit and embrace govt intrusion and control upon your life. So use the God damned First Amendment and open your god damned mouth and speak and publish. Quit being a fucking pussy.
...says the Anonymous Coward who is, apparently, to much of a "pussy" to post under his own account or use his real name.
I'd teach them UI design. I'd start by beating into their heads that when you click on a story title you expect to open the story so you can post on it, not toggle the description's visibility.
This doesn't sound like they have any infrastructure, expertise, technology, or a plan... just "hey, let's show these kids computers".
Agree 100%. The submitter might have asked how they'd go about starting a space program.
Teach them sex ed, hygiene, agriculture, and other basic skills that will actually help them survive. Knowing HTML isn't going to be of any bloody value to them at this time.
We do this here in Washington (howdy, neighbor!) but you have to opt-in to it. I opted-in about 25 years ago and I think vote-by-mail should be the default in every state.
Same as you, I get the ballot and the voter guide and then do my research. Although for presidential candidates my mind is usually made up long before the election.
...if voting machines did anything, they'd be illegal.
Between the pre-loaded Diebold machines and the amazing "counting errors" they exhibit, you might as well be playing one of those carnival games where it's stacked a billion to one against you.
At first, I want autonomous driving for when I'm stuck in traffic. It should be able to handle that situation safely.
Agreed...this seems like a situation where many of the out-of-band variables are constrained, especially in bumper-to-bumper type traffic. Cruising "free form" down a widely varying array of roads and intersections with all sorts of random traffic situations seems much more difficult to manage safely and consistently.
Self-driving cars won't happen for quite some time in my estimation. With today's roads there are simply too many factors that the car won't know how to handle.
If roads were retro-fitted with some sort of standardized guide-wire or other tracking/placement beacons then I think it would be more likely to work, but between the many variations in roadways, weird intersections, roundabouts, ramps, etc etc, PLUS factoring in all the out-of-band stuff like pokey drivers, bicyclists, motorcycles, etc etc, I just see too many problematic situations for this to happen anytime soon.
It's possible that freeway driving would be easier to manage since freeways are *somewhat* more uniform, but without some retrofitting of roads I see this as an extremely difficult problem to solve.
But hey, I've been wrong so many times about so many things, my skepticism may actually mean that it's going to happen.:)
The Libertarian paradises of Somalia and Namibia are great candidates, considering they can't keep the lights on for more than a couple hours per day. That should effectively hamper anything that might require electricity to track you. You'll have to look out for warlords and street gangs who'll kill you for sport, but other than that it's a surveillance-free society.
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You forgot "competitors".
For that much money I'd cut some lines and then turn myself in!
Not at all. The complete sum total of understanding of electrical principles are taught as V=IR, and P=IV.
The rest of it is reading and complying with a set of wiring codes. The fundamental understanding is taught in school, the rest is following a very VERY prescriptive set of instructions, and by logical extension many of the electricians I know didn't even finish school, but just followed instructions from someone who has read a manual written to be understandable by a high-school dropout.
That must be why there's no licensing of electricians, because anyone can do it as long as they had "basic high-school physics". And that's why there are no tests for the non-existent electrician's license!
Because there's no real knowledge involved, all ya gotta do is just look at all the purty lines and number-thingys on the schematical doohickey and you too can wire a sky-scraper! Easy peasy, baby!
By your logic, all you need to troubleshoot any electrical device is to know V=IR and P=IV. As someone with 30+ years in the electronics field, I can tell you that your idea is nonsense of the first order.
Yeah, I'll get right on that....because I really care about what this aging crack addict thinks about foreign policy.
(sigh) Just kill me now. Please.
Did you hear about the guy who forgot to take his homeopathic medicine? He died of an overdose.
shouldn't that be underdose? (neither response makes sense, but underdose sounds funny)
Noooooooooooo. One of the base "principles" of homeopathy is the more you dilute the "medicine", the stronger it becomes.
No, I'm not making this up. It's one of the key tenets of homeopathy and homeopathic 'theory'.
I knew it had to be a chick raising these objections as soon as I read the reasoning.
BINGO, this was my thought exactly. I wish I could mod you up to a million.
I knew it was a woman making the comments in the article the instant I read them. She wants to ban this sort of thing not because it's wrong, but because she's offended by it. Anything that gives men pleasure is viewed with suspicion, and doubly-so anything that might make guys less dependent on women for sexual gratification.
"She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical."
It was no surprise at all to find that this comes from a female researcher. Anything that gives men pleasure is viewed with suspicion, and doubly-so anything that might make guys less dependent on women for sexual gratification.
She wants to ban this sort of thing not because it's wrong, but because she's offended by it.
Honestly, can you imagine a male researcher making these statements and suggesting we ban vibrators or female-oriented sex toys? Me neither.
For the record everyone should in theory be able to wire a house due to their knowledge of basic high-school physics.
This is utter bullshit, and only an imbecile would dare to make such a stupid claim.
Hey, I have a Black & Decker cordless drill! And a can of Spackle . . . I guess that makes me a dentist!
Or a gynecologist.
"What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code"
This is NEVER going to happen. Stop trying to make it happen. It doesn't NEED to happen. FFS, not everyone needs to know how to "code".
Replace the word "Code" in the title with nearly any activity and you'll immediately see how fucking stupid it is. For example:
What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Wire A House
What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Ride A Unicycle
What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Crochet
What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Mow The Lawn
What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Adjust A Carburetor
What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Solder
What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Read An X-Ray
Enough already. Please stop with this delusion that everyone needs to code or even wants to.
He didn't win shit, he's a pussy.
It's sheeple like you who permit and embrace govt intrusion and control upon your life.
So use the God damned First Amendment and open your god damned mouth and speak and publish.
Quit being a fucking pussy.
We put human-readable markings up, and any robot that you could trust to drive would do just fine with those.
Would they work in rain, snow, fog, and at night? Would they work after vandals tear them down or deface them?
I'd teach them UI design. I'd start by beating into their heads that when you click on a story title you expect to open the story so you can post on it, not toggle the description's visibility.
Now that's just crazy talk! ;)
This doesn't sound like they have any infrastructure, expertise, technology, or a plan ... just "hey, let's show these kids computers".
Agree 100%. The submitter might have asked how they'd go about starting a space program.
Teach them sex ed, hygiene, agriculture, and other basic skills that will actually help them survive. Knowing HTML isn't going to be of any bloody value to them at this time.
We do this here in Washington (howdy, neighbor!) but you have to opt-in to it. I opted-in about 25 years ago and I think vote-by-mail should be the default in every state.
Same as you, I get the ballot and the voter guide and then do my research. Although for presidential candidates my mind is usually made up long before the election.
...if voting machines did anything, they'd be illegal.
Between the pre-loaded Diebold machines and the amazing "counting errors" they exhibit, you might as well be playing one of those carnival games where it's stacked a billion to one against you.
What utter bullcrap.
Did you hear about the guy who forgot to take his homeopathic medicine? He died of an overdose.
I'd like to be the first to welcome Alabama to the 20th Century.
It's just a theory....like the Theory of Gravity or Electronic Theory. And we all know how unreliable and far-fetched those kooky theories are!
At first, I want autonomous driving for when I'm stuck in traffic. It should be able to handle that situation safely.
Agreed...this seems like a situation where many of the out-of-band variables are constrained, especially in bumper-to-bumper type traffic. Cruising "free form" down a widely varying array of roads and intersections with all sorts of random traffic situations seems much more difficult to manage safely and consistently.
Self-driving cars won't happen for quite some time in my estimation. With today's roads there are simply too many factors that the car won't know how to handle.
If roads were retro-fitted with some sort of standardized guide-wire or other tracking/placement beacons then I think it would be more likely to work, but between the many variations in roadways, weird intersections, roundabouts, ramps, etc etc, PLUS factoring in all the out-of-band stuff like pokey drivers, bicyclists, motorcycles, etc etc, I just see too many problematic situations for this to happen anytime soon.
It's possible that freeway driving would be easier to manage since freeways are *somewhat* more uniform, but without some retrofitting of roads I see this as an extremely difficult problem to solve.
But hey, I've been wrong so many times about so many things, my skepticism may actually mean that it's going to happen. :)
Ah, the victim was female. Time to fire up the media outrage machine. Let's call it what it really was: a digital rape.
OMG you triggered me with the word 'digital', you heartless CIS-male hetero-normative bastard.
The Libertarian paradises of Somalia and Namibia are great candidates, considering they can't keep the lights on for more than a couple hours per day. That should effectively hamper anything that might require electricity to track you. You'll have to look out for warlords and street gangs who'll kill you for sport, but other than that it's a surveillance-free society.
I think I speak for many of us when I say, "Who gives a shit?"
So they renamed or reshuffled some titles for the goobers at the top, so fucking what?
If they hadn't put out a press release that slashdot promptly regurgitated, I'd have never known anything had happened.
"Stuff that matters" indeed.
Define your fucking acronyms on first use. You been told this a thousand times, for fucks sake!
We have standards, and we expect slashdot editors not to exceed them.