It seems likes kids only do what you tell them not to do, so this advice may seem wise. However, this is a form of confirmation bias; adults notice when kids don't listen because mainly because they usually do. If you tell someone a student some skill is difficult, they will believe you. You have set them up to expect failure. This expectation is easy to meet, and most students will give up early. If you tell a student something is easy, they are likely to believe you. Believing a subject is easy, they are more likely to follow through to mastery because they have been set up to expect success. Reverse psychology is a trick. Tricking students is a way to alienate them; it may work on the few, but the many will respond better to affirmative attitudes.
Its both. Its a double-entendre. They inflate themselves by implying that they only accept bigwigs, but also, that these people are beneath them. These guys totally disrespect their clients: c-level surely means in their minds means average, at sea-level, ie dipshit.
They have 3 programs. The one that makes the news is the graduate student program with 30 students total. But if you are 'interested' you can send them your CV over internet. Is this because they are actually going to accept random applications from internet to fill 30 spots? Of course not. They are going to deny you the big prize by implying that you are not good enough, and then offer you the 10 or 3 day 'executive' programs. Yup, you are going to learn how to achieve the singularity in a 3 day 'c-level' executive seminar. [The hubris of calling your potential clients 'c-level' boggles my mind]
Promises about improvement in education by federal politicians are pure pandering. See this chart.
See how small a percent of education is actually funded by the federal government. It should be obvious that even significant changes to federal spending will have an insignificant effect. They spend in a whole year what they spend in Iraq in less than 3 months.
Notice the arcs of SOE's products. This company is washed out. And no wonder; the way they jerk their players around is unbelievable. This company is run by sociopaths.
I was having problems with my wrt54g when iphones were connected to it. I upgraded the firmware (by downloading it from the net), and the problem went away.
airmen have a chance to see and avoid it This is not a problem. Pilots already have many many hazards they can't see already. These are marked on the charts as no-go zones.
In reality, most flights are done essentially 'blind' using IFR flight rules that require zero visibility. So this issue is a non-problem.
The difference between a tech school and a liberal arts school is vast. Tech school will teach you a lot of hands on skills that will be useful immediately in the job market. However, those skills will be flavor-of-the-month, possibly even tied to specific brands, and your possible career paths will be very narrow. The liberal arts school will teach you a bunch of apparently useless abstractions and hands on programming will be considered an annoying little detail. You'll also learn a lot about long dead societies, peoples and languages. And other, less tangible things. 20 years out, the tech graduate will be working in a cubicle at a dead end job. The liberal arts student will be doing whatever he wants.
Our simulations did something very much like this, except instead of a coin, we used random numbers generated by a computer. It is not mathematically sound to do statistics with a random number generator. Computers do not actually generate random numbers, but instead, they can only make pseudo-random numbers that have a certain distribution. Any 'simulation' done in this way will always have a bias. In order to get correct statistics, you must actually compute the statistics.
I used to own a bookstore and had the exact same idea. Since I am a competent programmer I build my own scanning system. It worked fine. But. I wasted a lot of time on that system, and should have just bought an off-the shelf product. But. In actual point of fact, the data mined by using the scanner was useless. The reason for this is simple: the manager of a small store who spends a good part of their lives inside will already know what needs to be done, whats selling and whats not. There is little insight gained from the data you gather. And. It degrades the customer experience in subtle ways. First off, it makes the transaction just a little bit slower. This irritates customers. Next, it adds a level of distraction to the employees whey they have to pay attention to so fine a level of technical detail; the added 'cognitive load' of using and keeping the system up to date fatigues them and makes them more system oriented and less customer oriented. In short: this sort of fine level of tracking is net negative to a small retail business.
This submission is a ridiculous shill. Put in my anonymous hmm? Could our theoretical traveller with vague needs be..oh I don't know..an editor of CNET?
I've been saying this for years now: antivirus and firewalls cannot protect from sophisticated attacks.
There is only one solution: executable code must be embedded in hardware read-only media and must be reloaded after every session. [today reloading a virtual machine is a good approximation, but this method will succumb under sufficiently sophisticated attack; it really needs to be built into nonflashable rom]
Nobody wants to hear this. I'm not exacty sure why; a little thought should lead anyone with some knowledge of operating systems and hacking to the same conclusion.
Its just going to get worse, with botnets, blackmail and scammers gaining more and more power until we remove the ability of malignent code to survive.
Circuit City shoppers are the Slashdot standard?
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This article is ridiculous. Some noob spouting about anecdotal problems he had with a Circuit City computer does not inspire respect. His biggest issue? Facebook doesnt work because facebook's website is broken. But its Vista's fault. Is this some sort of joke?
I've spent a few minutes searching around and I haven't found evidence that Ford has actually taken any action. The site says that Cafepress told them that a "Susette van der Beek" representing Ford told them they were infringing. At this point this is hearsay. Google only finds this name in connection with this story, and Zaba search and other searches haven't found any matches. Does this person exist? What law firm?
The security at the country's airports has a serious flaw that can allow a person with his carry-on's to completely bypass all searches. The heart of the problem is that once inside the security sandbox and any airport, you can enter the security sandbox at another airport without a search by entering it from the tarmac. All it takes is one point of failure at any airport in the country to allow a privilege escalation into any airport in the country. It turns out there are ways to do this with essentially zero risk of detection. If the 9/11 hijackers were around today, they would have almost certainly been exposed to one of these holes during their flight training.
The world does not need more effective ways to kill people. We should be so lucky to have enemies that agree with you.
This is a really stupid position. The 'enemy' will surely copy your technology. America built the bomb, and its 'enemies' had their own in a matter of months.
Moreover, it does not take into account the limitations of human group identificaton (the monkeysphere). Humans have a limited memory so they group people into archetypes. When they do this, they place some in the 'us' category, and some in the 'them' category. Over time, they forget who's who. So, when you use the word 'we', who is it you refer to? Are you sure the guys you gave the guns to consider you part of their version of 'we'? Will they still do so in a decade? Ask the Chechneans or Johnny Reb what happens when 'we' become 'they'.
The world does not need more effective ways to kill people. It is unethical to build automatic tanks; they will be used by psychopaths for selfish purposes. You do not need to help them do this. Its bound to happen anyway you say? You are bound to die someday too; but it doesn't have to be today.
Whether this article is correct or just made up it's impossible to trust it based on the magazine's credibility. Check out the latest Scientfic American: a story on Big Foot with the tagline "Sasquatch is just a legend, right? According to the evidence, maybe not..". Another winner is the dubious title "Are Aliens Among Us?" Looking at their advertisers (paper version), its easy to question the publisher's character. Full pages ads that sell 'valuable collector coins' and these wacky types of stories are the type of thing I expect from the National Enquirer type tabloids not a trustworthy source of science news.
If you actually read the article linked from the parent comment (at this time, as it is a wiki), you can plainly see that there is NO KNOWN METHOD to recover phones that were unlocked with the free SIM unlock.
The fact that the baseband cannot be backdated to previous versions imply that apple intentionally removed the previously existing method for updating the baseband. This intent Jennifer Bowcock's statement that people need to buy a whole new iPhone seems pretty damn evil to me.
The term "parallel universe" is a misnomer because it implies that these other universes do not intersect our 'real' universe. In fact, the "parallel" universes are not parellel at all, and cross one another and the 'real' universe infinitely in a wavelike fashion, cancelling and reinforcing one another.
To say that there are an infinite number of universes branching off is like saying that a waveform is the superposition of an infinite number of small waves, stepfunctions, or what have you, and in fact that is exactly how we deal with them mathematically. But we don't boggle at the idea of a wave having infinite dimensions, we recognize this is an artificial persepective induced by our mathematical tools.
I tried to run this on my iPhone. The sign-in page slows down typing to a crawl, so it took a few minutes to even type in my account and password. Running off wifi, I gave it 5 minutes to load, all I got was an uninteractive start bar and a white screen. Tried again, nothing.
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Eat recycled food!
The service came back up and after a refresh I got the answer: 8807x266036516222956587976539552151. Impressive.
I asked it to factor 2342983598375578670309383835793857
and now the service is dead.
Captain Kirk would be proud of us!
It seems likes kids only do what you tell them not to do, so this advice may seem wise. However, this is a form of confirmation bias; adults notice when kids don't listen because mainly because they usually do.
If you tell someone a student some skill is difficult, they will believe you. You have set them up to expect failure. This expectation is easy to meet, and most students will give up early.
If you tell a student something is easy, they are likely to believe you. Believing a subject is easy, they are more likely to follow through to mastery because they have been set up to expect success.
Reverse psychology is a trick. Tricking students is a way to alienate them; it may work on the few, but the many will respond better to affirmative attitudes.
Its both. Its a double-entendre. They inflate themselves by implying that they only accept bigwigs, but also, that these people are beneath them. These guys totally disrespect their clients: c-level surely means in their minds means average, at sea-level, ie dipshit.
Take a look at http://singularity-university.org/.
They have 3 programs. The one that makes the news is the graduate student program with 30 students total.
But if you are 'interested' you can send them your CV over internet. Is this because they are actually going to accept random applications from internet to fill 30 spots?
Of course not. They are going to deny you the big prize by implying that you are not good enough, and then offer you the 10 or 3 day 'executive' programs.
Yup, you are going to learn how to achieve the singularity in a 3 day 'c-level' executive seminar.
[The hubris of calling your potential clients 'c-level' boggles my mind]
Promises about improvement in education by federal politicians are pure pandering.
See this chart.
See how small a percent of education is actually funded by the federal government. It should be obvious that even significant changes to federal spending will have an insignificant effect. They spend in a whole year what they spend in Iraq in less than 3 months.
See these charts:
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart1.html
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart2.html
Notice the arcs of SOE's products. This company is washed out. And no wonder; the way they jerk their players around is unbelievable. This company is run by sociopaths.
I was having problems with my wrt54g when iphones were connected to it. I upgraded the firmware (by downloading it from the net), and the problem went away.
airmen have a chance to see and avoid it
This is not a problem. Pilots already have many many hazards they can't see already. These are marked on the charts as no-go zones.
In reality, most flights are done essentially 'blind' using IFR flight rules that require zero visibility. So this issue is a non-problem.
The difference between a tech school and a liberal arts school is vast. Tech school will teach you a lot of hands on skills that will be useful immediately in the job market. However, those skills will be flavor-of-the-month, possibly even tied to specific brands, and your possible career paths will be very narrow.
The liberal arts school will teach you a bunch of apparently useless abstractions and hands on programming will be considered an annoying little detail. You'll also learn a lot about long dead societies, peoples and languages. And other, less tangible things.
20 years out, the tech graduate will be working in a cubicle at a dead end job. The liberal arts student will be doing whatever he wants.
Our simulations did something very much like this, except instead of a coin, we used random numbers generated by a computer.
It is not mathematically sound to do statistics with a random number generator. Computers do not actually generate random numbers, but instead, they can only make pseudo-random numbers that have a certain distribution.
Any 'simulation' done in this way will always have a bias.
In order to get correct statistics, you must actually compute the statistics.
I used to own a bookstore and had the exact same idea. Since I am a competent programmer I build my own scanning system. It worked fine. But.
I wasted a lot of time on that system, and should have just bought an off-the shelf product. But.
In actual point of fact, the data mined by using the scanner was useless. The reason for this is simple: the manager of a small store who spends a good part of their lives inside will already know what needs to be done, whats selling and whats not. There is little insight gained from the data you gather.
And.
It degrades the customer experience in subtle ways. First off, it makes the transaction just a little bit slower. This irritates customers. Next, it adds a level of distraction to the employees whey they have to pay attention to so fine a level of technical detail; the added 'cognitive load' of using and keeping the system up to date fatigues them and makes them more system oriented and less customer oriented.
In short: this sort of fine level of tracking is net negative to a small retail business.
This submission is a ridiculous shill. Put in my anonymous hmm? Could our theoretical traveller with vague needs be..oh I don't know..an editor of CNET?
I've been saying this for years now: antivirus and firewalls cannot protect from sophisticated attacks.
There is only one solution: executable code must be embedded in hardware read-only media and must be reloaded after every session. [today reloading a virtual machine is a good approximation, but this method will succumb under sufficiently sophisticated attack; it really needs to be built into nonflashable rom]
Nobody wants to hear this. I'm not exacty sure why; a little thought should lead anyone with some knowledge of operating systems and hacking to the same conclusion.
Its just going to get worse, with botnets, blackmail and scammers gaining more and more power until we remove the ability of malignent code to survive.
This article is ridiculous. Some noob spouting about anecdotal problems he had with a Circuit City computer does not inspire respect. His biggest issue? Facebook doesnt work because facebook's website is broken. But its Vista's fault. Is this some sort of joke?
Has the slashdot demographic decayed this much?
I've spent a few minutes searching around and I haven't found evidence that Ford has actually taken any action. The site says that Cafepress told them that a "Susette van der Beek" representing Ford told them they were infringing. At this point this is hearsay. Google only finds this name in connection with this story, and Zaba search and other searches haven't found any matches. Does this person exist? What law firm?
The security at the country's airports has a serious flaw that can allow a person with his carry-on's to completely bypass all searches. The heart of the problem is that once inside the security sandbox and any airport, you can enter the security sandbox at another airport without a search by entering it from the tarmac. All it takes is one point of failure at any airport in the country to allow a privilege escalation into any airport in the country.
It turns out there are ways to do this with essentially zero risk of detection. If the 9/11 hijackers were around today, they would have almost certainly been exposed to one of these holes during their flight training.
The world does not need more effective ways to kill people.
We should be so lucky to have enemies that agree with you.
This is a really stupid position. The 'enemy' will surely copy your technology. America built the bomb, and its 'enemies' had their own in a matter of months.
Moreover, it does not take into account the limitations of human group identificaton (the monkeysphere). Humans have a limited memory so they group people into archetypes. When they do this, they place some in the 'us' category, and some in the 'them' category. Over time, they forget who's who. So, when you use the word 'we', who is it you refer to? Are you sure the guys you gave the guns to consider you part of their version of 'we'? Will they still do so in a decade? Ask the Chechneans or Johnny Reb what happens when 'we' become 'they'.
The world does not need more effective ways to kill people. It is unethical to build automatic tanks; they will be used by psychopaths for selfish purposes. You do not need to help them do this.
Its bound to happen anyway you say? You are bound to die someday too; but it doesn't have to be today.
Whether this article is correct or just made up it's impossible to trust it based on the magazine's credibility. Check out the latest Scientfic American: a story on Big Foot with the tagline "Sasquatch is just a legend, right? According to the evidence, maybe not..". Another winner is the dubious title "Are Aliens Among Us?"
Looking at their advertisers (paper version), its easy to question the publisher's character. Full pages ads that sell 'valuable collector coins' and these wacky types of stories are the type of thing I expect from the National Enquirer type tabloids not a trustworthy source of science news.
If you actually read the article linked from the parent comment (at this time, as it is a wiki), you can plainly see that there is NO KNOWN METHOD to recover phones that were unlocked with the free SIM unlock.
The fact that the baseband cannot be backdated to previous versions imply that apple intentionally removed the previously existing method for updating the baseband. This intent Jennifer Bowcock's statement that people need to buy a whole new iPhone seems pretty damn evil to me.
The term "parallel universe" is a misnomer because it implies that these other universes do not intersect our 'real' universe. In fact, the "parallel" universes are not parellel at all, and cross one another and the 'real' universe infinitely in a wavelike fashion, cancelling and reinforcing one another.
To say that there are an infinite number of universes branching off is like saying that a waveform is the superposition of an infinite number of small waves, stepfunctions, or what have you, and in fact that is exactly how we deal with them mathematically. But we don't boggle at the idea of a wave having infinite dimensions, we recognize this is an artificial persepective induced by our mathematical tools.
I tried to run this on my iPhone. The sign-in page slows down typing to a crawl, so it took a few minutes to even type in my account and password. Running off wifi, I gave it 5 minutes to load, all I got was an uninteractive start bar and a white screen. Tried again, nothing.
Yup this did cross my mind.