Programming is a multifaceted activity. Most of these teachers are probably not even qualified to teach programming and you end up getting this hard reliance on a textbook. Not knocking them or their skills, but it's just the nature of what goes into good programming.
Anytime I read of a "targeted" network bot infestation it just reeks of some spook involvement (a la stuxnet).
A real criminal bot net wouldn't benefit as much from infecting such a narrow group of people and organizations. If anything, it sounds more like a fishing expedition for either industrial espionage or national secrets.
I'll put my money on either the Chinese, Russian, Israelis, or the classic US alphabet agencies.
Maybe science has the diet and fitness stuff mostly right by now. I hope so. But I thought the same thing twenty years ago and I was wrong.
I used to think fatty food made you fat. Now it seems the opposite is true. Eating lots of peanuts, avocados, and cheese, for example, probably decreases your appetite and keeps you thin.
I used to think vitamins had been thoroughly studied for their health trade-offs. They haven’t. The reason you take one multivitamin pill a day is marketing, not science.
I used to think the U.S. food pyramid was good science. In the past it was not, and I assume it is not now.
I used to think drinking one glass of alcohol a day is good for health, but now I think that idea is probably just a correlation found in studies.
I used to think I needed to drink a crazy-large amount of water each day, because smart people said so, but that wasn’t science either.
I could go on for an hour.
You might be tempted to say my real issue is with a lack of science, not with science. In some of the cases I mentioned there was a general belief that science had studied stuff when in fact it had not. So one could argue that the media and the government (schools in particular) are to blame for allowing so much non-science to taint the field of real science. And we all agree that science is not intended to be foolproof. Science is about crawling toward the truth over time.
Perhaps my expectations were too high. I expected science to tell me the best ways to eat and to exercise. Science did the opposite, sometimes because of misleading studies and sometimes by being silent when bad science morphed into popular misconceptions. And science was pretty damned cocky about being right during this period in which it was so wrong.
So you have the direct problem of science collectively steering my entire generation toward obesity, diabetes, and coronary problems. But the indirect problem might be worse: It is hard to trust science.
Today I saw a link to an article in Mother Jones bemoaning the fact that the general public is out of step with the consensus of science on important issues. The implication is that science is right and the general public are idiots. But my take is different.
I think science has earned its lack of credibility with the public. If you kick me in the balls for 20-years, how do you expect me to close my eyes and trust you?
If a person doesn’t believe climate change is real, despite all the evidence to the contrary, is that a case of a dumb human or a science that has not earned credibility? We humans operate on pattern recognition. The pattern science serves up, thanks to its winged monkeys in the media, is something like this:
Step One: We are totally sure the answer is X.
Step Two: Oops. X is wrong. But Y is totally right. Trust us this time.
Science isn’t about being right every time, or even most of the time. It is about being more right over time and fixing what it got wrong. So how is a common citizen supposed to know when science is “done” and when it is halfway to done which is the same as being wrong?
You can’t tell. And if any scientist says you should be able to tell when science is “done” on a topic, please show me the data indicating that people have psychic powers.
So maybe we should stop scoffing at people who don’t trust science and ask ourselves why. Ignorance might be part of the problem. But I think the bigger issue is that science is a “mostly wrong” situation by design that is intended to become more right over time. How do you make people trust a system that is designed to get wrong answers more often than right answers? And should we?
I’m pro-science because the alternatives are worse. (Example: ISIS.) I’m
We know from experiments here on Earth that if you put water into a low pressure / near vacuum environment that it will boil off. No $hit temperature isn't a factor when the environment is so remarkably light on any sort of air pressure.
This sounds like a bunch of researchers made up some convincing grant to pay their bills for a few months already answering a question we could have easily extrapolated from observable phenomena here on this planet.
I love the challenge to the environmentalists here. Lower MPG and lower emissions (NOx) or Raise MPG and raise NOx? It's the perfect catch 22. Diesel cars and trucks are some of the best vehicles out there. The engines are built to last longer due to the compression/ignition needs and there's more energy per liter stored than gasoline. Accept the NOx and build more fuel variety vehicles. Why don't we have more Natgas vehicles?
Where in the world are you getting that diesel engines are more complex? All you need for the ignition cycle is fuel and compressed air. Bam that is it. A turbo in a diesel engine Diesel engines only became complicated because of BS emissions requirements levied by do nothing eurocrats.
Diesel cars/trucks are light years better than gasoline on the sheer basis the engines last longer. NOx means nothing when you're gas car dies at 125k and you need to buy a new one. The level of emissions that go into making a car outweigh the small amount of NOx outputted anyday.
My entire newsfeed is stuffed with clickbait from places like the Huffpost, New York Times, and the Washington Post. The WaPo just put out an article about an evangelical couple having black triplets. You're telling me that isn't click bait? This sounds like a weak attempt to drown out lesser outlets for established ones.
I like Jackson and the ironic history he brought along with it being on a Federal Reserve bank note and all. They should have brought back the two dollar bill and just had it be an artistic bill where they swap famous figures and landscapes every now and then. Give me my Jackson back!
Lets put this awkward question to rest and do a paternity test on children immediately after they're born. If the mother lies on the birth certificate saying that the father is so and so and the test says otherwise then the husband is free to leave the wife. While taking the majority of the resources (and house) if he so desires
The crime of paternity fraud is on the same level as violent rape and should be prosecuted as such. There is no greater shame than knowing that the child you've been raising isn't yours.
Who cares what the CIA does when each bloody branch of government can run its own intelligence services essentially duplicating the other. You don't think that mercenaries, branches of the military, or even off the books intelligences agencies won't continue to water board?
The US military isn't giving that real estate up period. Obama said he would close it and failed to do so. The next president will do the same. Where do you think the extremists will go for their rightfully deserved enhanced information gathering sessions?
My favorite place to see fools waste money on solar panels are in locales that traditionally do not have much sunlight for most of the year along with significant amounts of snowfall. Boston in particular is rife with people who invest oodles of money into systems like this and then wait twenty odd years to have their solar investment pay off. Good luck getting any electricity when your panel are buried in snow.
Granted, if you're installing them to game your home's property value you might make that back a lot faster...
Make offending organizations pay $25+ million. Make them hurt. Better yet, jail some of the executive staff. Organizations are people and the board and C level suite are the head. Works for me!
Since when is a test time for a teacher to goof off? Walk around and watch students making sure they're not paying a little too much attention to their wrists. Want to know the easiest way to cheat in math and science classes? They're those TIs!
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Programming is a multifaceted activity. Most of these teachers are probably not even qualified to teach programming and you end up getting this hard reliance on a textbook. Not knocking them or their skills, but it's just the nature of what goes into good programming.
Read the Quran and Hadiths. It's written in plain Arabic (or English if you get a good translation).
That headline was incredibly difficult to read. Sue Google sues Google? I need to slow down.
Anytime I read of a "targeted" network bot infestation it just reeks of some spook involvement (a la stuxnet).
A real criminal bot net wouldn't benefit as much from infecting such a narrow group of people and organizations. If anything, it sounds more like a fishing expedition for either industrial espionage or national secrets.
I'll put my money on either the Chinese, Russian, Israelis, or the classic US alphabet agencies.
Shamelessly stolen from Scott Adam's Blog:
We know from experiments here on Earth that if you put water into a low pressure / near vacuum environment that it will boil off. No $hit temperature isn't a factor when the environment is so remarkably light on any sort of air pressure.
This sounds like a bunch of researchers made up some convincing grant to pay their bills for a few months already answering a question we could have easily extrapolated from observable phenomena here on this planet.
They were wrong about the ice caps melting, pretty sure they're also going to be wrong about this one too.
I'll take my chances on nothing happening.
What are all of those birds then? Don't these pension eaters have any better paper to push?
I love the challenge to the environmentalists here. Lower MPG and lower emissions (NOx) or Raise MPG and raise NOx? It's the perfect catch 22. Diesel cars and trucks are some of the best vehicles out there. The engines are built to last longer due to the compression/ignition needs and there's more energy per liter stored than gasoline. Accept the NOx and build more fuel variety vehicles. Why don't we have more Natgas vehicles?
Where in the world are you getting that diesel engines are more complex? All you need for the ignition cycle is fuel and compressed air. Bam that is it. A turbo in a diesel engine Diesel engines only became complicated because of BS emissions requirements levied by do nothing eurocrats.
Diesel cars/trucks are light years better than gasoline on the sheer basis the engines last longer. NOx means nothing when you're gas car dies at 125k and you need to buy a new one. The level of emissions that go into making a car outweigh the small amount of NOx outputted anyday.
Save the environment and drive your car longer!
My entire newsfeed is stuffed with clickbait from places like the Huffpost, New York Times, and the Washington Post. The WaPo just put out an article about an evangelical couple having black triplets. You're telling me that isn't click bait? This sounds like a weak attempt to drown out lesser outlets for established ones.
I like Jackson and the ironic history he brought along with it being on a Federal Reserve bank note and all. They should have brought back the two dollar bill and just had it be an artistic bill where they swap famous figures and landscapes every now and then. Give me my Jackson back!
Gotta make sure comrade Sanders gets his cut!
https://xkcd.com/678/
Fossil fuels will be here for the foreseeable future and then some.
Hey guys! You need to watch out for SARS, H1N1, H151, mad cow, swine flu, Ebola, Zika, etc! It's really dangerous.
When there is a real dangerous pandemic the idiots who cry wolf at the WHO and media will cause the untold deaths of millions.
Says the poster who hasn't found his wife/gf sleeping with other men. The insult "Cuck" applies to you.
Lets put this awkward question to rest and do a paternity test on children immediately after they're born. If the mother lies on the birth certificate saying that the father is so and so and the test says otherwise then the husband is free to leave the wife. While taking the majority of the resources (and house) if he so desires
The crime of paternity fraud is on the same level as violent rape and should be prosecuted as such. There is no greater shame than knowing that the child you've been raising isn't yours.
Who cares what the CIA does when each bloody branch of government can run its own intelligence services essentially duplicating the other. You don't think that mercenaries, branches of the military, or even off the books intelligences agencies won't continue to water board?
One agency not water boarding, what hilarity.
The US military isn't giving that real estate up period. Obama said he would close it and failed to do so. The next president will do the same. Where do you think the extremists will go for their rightfully deserved enhanced information gathering sessions?
My favorite place to see fools waste money on solar panels are in locales that traditionally do not have much sunlight for most of the year along with significant amounts of snowfall. Boston in particular is rife with people who invest oodles of money into systems like this and then wait twenty odd years to have their solar investment pay off. Good luck getting any electricity when your panel are buried in snow.
Granted, if you're installing them to game your home's property value you might make that back a lot faster...
Make offending organizations pay $25+ million. Make them hurt. Better yet, jail some of the executive staff. Organizations are people and the board and C level suite are the head. Works for me!
Since when is a test time for a teacher to goof off? Walk around and watch students making sure they're not paying a little too much attention to their wrists. Want to know the easiest way to cheat in math and science classes? They're those TIs!