Teachers vs Instructors. I rather find it ironic that veteran teachers of the public school systems are often found lacking in skills to teach when they apply for a job giving continuing education classes to adults in the workplace.
The industry standard is to take someone who is a "subject matter expert" and send them to a few weeks of "train the trainer' instruction.
It comes down to a skill set for instruction or a skill set for indoctrination. An anthropologist friend of mine has the thesis that public schools in the U.S. were designed to turn out good factory workers for 1930s style factories. The schools are designed to turn out people indoctrinated to do what they are told, when they are told, how they are told, and not to question authority. Perfect attendance to all lessons is rewarded regardless of how much was learned. And the public school bureaucracy is so entrenched in this model they disqualify anyone who tries to actually educate.
With the limitations on number of characters on Twitter; there are only a very few things you can actually do with it. 1. Post assertions with no references or data. 2. Post a tinyURL link to who knows what. 3. Post a nasty comment 4. Go "neener, neener, neener" at someone you disagree with with no clue as to what you find wrong with them. 5. Get labeled as "hate speech" for posting verifiable facts. 6. Get summary news story links from news networks without having to tolerate the slow loading advertising bloated web pages of the major networks. --- Beta tested Twitter years ago and still wonder "what good is it, anyway?"
It still is going strong in upper management. "I don't do that tech shit. That's what blue collar workers are for.", is a very prevalent attitude. Witness a certain exec introducing a major new release who didn't realize custom as "blue text" as a customary designation for a hyperlink.
Gender as a social construct, ignoring millions of years of evolution into a bisexual species, is truly a delusion. Gender is a double bell curve function. The majority fall in the one sigma deviation of male and female. There are outlyers that are significantly in the minority with XXY or XYY genes (hyper-male and hyper-female). There is a more significant minority that express mixed gender markers. This is "intersexed" and can run a spectrum from a man with lactating teats, a woman with an exceedingly large clitoris, all the way to having both a penis and vagina.
Now, gender specific customs are a cultural construct. But that is not driven by biology but peer approval. Some gender specific customs are quite benign. Some gender specific customs are quite toxic. Most are just that, customs.
One of the benign ones is how you button a garment. With unisex fashion a lot has fallen by the wayside but you still see it in more formal garments. Men's clothing buttons with the right plaquet on the bottom and women's clothing buttons with the left plaquet on the bottom. Why? I think it is in Leviticus where you find the prohibition against men wearing women's clothing and women wearing men's clothing. This kind of inconsequential crud is what is a social construct. I should rather say it is now inconsequential. In past centuries, sumptuary laws had real teeth. Our modern sumptuary laws seem only to involve how much skin you can show and where and whether the face can be covered in public.
Certainly you answer the phone even if you don't know the caller. It could be someone from work calling from their home number or a friend's. It could be a contract offer. It could be a neighbor telling you your dog got out. It could be the clinic with your test results. It could be an old friend calling to give you their new phone number.
Ignoring the phone is being a git if you aren't busy at the time.
I had over 25 Mbps until AT&T started throttling back in May 2016. And AT&T told us then that we could not have an internet package without a cap unless we committed to a one year contract for television service too..... I had almost forgotten why I dropped Uverse TV a few years ago until I saw the 18 minutes of advertising per half hour of program standard again.
We moved to Uverse from DSL so we could have two people in an MMORPG while a third person watched Netflix. You can't do that since May 2016 with the throttling.
There is software out there that blocks torrents and can even tell if you have a torrent client installed and restrict your access until you remove the torrent client.
The thing is; the distributed push of Microsoft Updates is interpreted as a "torrent". And many game companies, like Blizzard, use torrents to rapidly distribute patches.
The result is that if you are using a network that has one of these "torrent suppressors" active; you can't get Microsoft updates and you can't play real time online games.... I discovered this on a business trip where the place I was renting had such software on their "free wifi" rendering their free wifi only fit for checking email. When I complained; I was told to go to the local Burger King for wifi if I wanted access to illicit activities.
I think that if the Tor Browser and Onion Router were offered by a publicly traded company it would be time to buy stock.
When you are required to change passwords often and cannot use the same password ever again; you get passwords like:
[QTR of year][YEAR][name of pet]
After all, you have to use something you can remember. Now, if you only have to set up one, hard to guess or social engineer, password. You can do something like:
[locker combination from high school]+[middle name of the person in Jr. High you had a crush on but never told anyone]
I've always thought that frequent forced password changes were a path to simple easy to guess passwords. Just like the handed out, forced, random passwords were a path to people keeping their password on a post it note taped to their ID badge.
Have you ever seen someone trying to tell a joke and laughing so hard at their joke they can't tell it well enough for anyone else to know what they are talking about?
You have the simplified plot of the Ghostbuster's Reboot.
Add characters written as SJW type sexist and racist stereotypes and you have the overview.
You mean that veracity has something to do with whether libel and slander can be prosecuted?
Why should the truth of a statement have anything to do with the statement being damaging? Yep.. tongue firmly in cheek again,
"The problem was that people were claiming it sucks the moment the movie was announced. They knew nothing about it whatsoever, except for who the leads were. People were not keeping an open mind on it, they declared it bad merely because it was a remake."
Naaa, it was when the trailer was released. A lot of critics were saying, "If the movie is like the trailer it will such big time."
Then the screams of "misogynist" were heard by all. No matter that the first trailer showed scenes that were bloody awful played by characters that were shallow stereotypes.
It sounds like there may be a war on proprietary recovery partitions used by some of the OEM setups and taking out dual boot capability as collateral damage.
Should we be chanting "One OS to rule them all. One OS to bring them all. And in the darkness bind them."
I've been very miffed since I found out the activation for Windows 7 has been broken. If you try to re-load an OEM copy of Windows 7 after changing a hard drive; you get a failed activation. When you wade through the phone activation attempt; you are told to buy a new COA as you obviously have a pirate COA as it was installed previously. You then get transferred to the Microsoft Store to buy a new COA by somone with a musical accent from somewhere in the Indian sub continent. You then spend a half hour to an hour and a half of listening to a recording telling you to go buy Windows 10 from the Microsoft Website before you are disconnected. I'm persistent, I went through the dance three times with the exact same results before I concluded that Microsoft intentionally has broken the ability to re-install Windows 7 on legacy hardware. (A ten year old data collection unit that needs proprietary software that WILL NOT work on Windows 10)
Or, is it the later generation lies about having sex less than the earlier ones? If you believed some of the surveys done in the late 70s; there was an orgy at the disco every weekend. Reality, not so much by a serious margin.
Add in the later generation's propensity to actually make sexual escapades part of social media with the training that if you regret having sex you have been raped. Yeah, I'd expect the numbers to go down as the social repercussions of sexual activity can be socially damning.
It isn't private business as much as it once was. Now it is a community critique holding up points cards for performance.
You are asking the tech to do things it is not designed for. Noise cancelling headphones were never designed to filter out intermittent sounds like a conversation. Try wearing them on an airplane flight to cut out the engine noise. Or, wear them while using a power tool so you can hear your music over the noise of grinding, etc. They work great for cutting out constant droning background noise. BTW, the Sony Fontopia line has better specs and performance at a low middle price range than the expensive high end ones.
Those have been on the market since the 1970s as "reactive hearing protection". The price is down from $300.00 for high end shooter's muffs in the 70s to the $9.95 reactive ear plugs I bought last year.
Interesting that OSHA does not approve noise canceling headphones but they do approve "reactive ear protection" which is the same thing without any music throughput.
I use a reactive headset attached to a hard hat. I love the fact that mid range vocal frequencies are passed through with other frequencies cancelled out.
I'm of a different opinion. I'm not comfortable with someone walking by reading my information. Yes, you can read rfid chips on the fly. Not only credit cards but many driver's licenses and your passport has rfid built in.
I have a shielding pocket portfolio I use when I travel to keep ID and cards in. If you check the statistics; it is during crowded travel and at popular tourist destinations that the majority of identity theft occurs.
Now, if you want to shield on the cheap; make your own shield. Aluminum foil works great. There is a certain cachet of using a duct tape and aluminum foil wallet. (Worry if you want a matching hat as a fashion statement) I have a friend with a paranoia streak that glued aluminum foil inside of his wallet. It does shield the contents from an rfid reader.
Considering that Javascript is a scripting language and not a programming language you can't say it is the most popular programming language.
Anyway, I'm an old fart and still don't think C with its pseudo compiler that requires a run time module to function a real programming language either.
With the huge hard drives and cheap memory today; few pay attention to writing tight code and compiling to machine code that takes up minimal space.
I have to wonder how many of those phones "sold" were actually replacements after they bricked themselves and could not be fixed?
I actually wrote off the iPhone after I was told the SIM card was not changeable and you were locked into using it on the provider you purchased it for. This was from the guys at the Apple Store and not internet rumor. The proprietary, money bilking, you don't own your equipment, business model of Apple has rankled since the Apple IIe days. I'm sure the iPhone works nicely as long as you only do things that Apple has approved and don't experiment with your own phone.
Apple hit things spot on with the iPod classic. Nothing else Apple makes has appeared, to me, to be worth the higher price than you can get other tech for.
"As someone who has spent significant time in the Mojave, trust me when I say its not a wasteland. It will become one, once these hipsters finish with their tire tracks, disposable water bottles and condom wrappers."
You mean the kind of people that have had someone helicoptering over them all their lives and go douchebag stupid when not constantly monitored?
A weightless environment causes degradation in of muscular systems that takes a disproportionate amount of time to regain muscle tone. It seems logical that the connecting tissues of the cardiovascular system would show changes as well.
The huge question will be what is the long term effect of reduced gravity as opposed to weightless or micro gravity. Until we have research stations on another planet; it is all hypothesis.
A computer robocall is not being made by a person so it is NOT speech but a synthesized simulacrum of speech. There is no constitutional right to harass a person by automated means.
Without a person on the other end to get upset at being cussed out for disturbing you there is no satisfactory retaliation to garbage calls.
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Teachers vs Instructors. I rather find it ironic that veteran teachers of the public school systems are often found lacking in skills to teach when they apply for a job giving continuing education classes to adults in the workplace.
The industry standard is to take someone who is a "subject matter expert" and send them to a few weeks of "train the trainer' instruction.
It comes down to a skill set for instruction or a skill set for indoctrination. An anthropologist friend of mine has the thesis that public schools in the U.S. were designed to turn out good factory workers for 1930s style factories. The schools are designed to turn out people indoctrinated to do what they are told, when they are told, how they are told, and not to question authority. Perfect attendance to all lessons is rewarded regardless of how much was learned. And the public school bureaucracy is so entrenched in this model they disqualify anyone who tries to actually educate.
With the limitations on number of characters on Twitter; there are only a very few things you can actually do with it.
1. Post assertions with no references or data.
2. Post a tinyURL link to who knows what.
3. Post a nasty comment
4. Go "neener, neener, neener" at someone you disagree with with no clue as to what you find wrong with them.
5. Get labeled as "hate speech" for posting verifiable facts.
6. Get summary news story links from news networks without having to tolerate the slow loading advertising bloated web pages of the major networks.
--- Beta tested Twitter years ago and still wonder "what good is it, anyway?"
It still is going strong in upper management. "I don't do that tech shit. That's what blue collar workers are for.", is a very prevalent attitude. Witness a certain exec introducing a major new release who didn't realize custom as "blue text" as a customary designation for a hyperlink.
Gender as a social construct, ignoring millions of years of evolution into a bisexual species, is truly a delusion. Gender is a double bell curve function. The majority fall in the one sigma deviation of male and female. There are outlyers that are significantly in the minority with XXY or XYY genes (hyper-male and hyper-female). There is a more significant minority that express mixed gender markers. This is "intersexed" and can run a spectrum from a man with lactating teats, a woman with an exceedingly large clitoris, all the way to having both a penis and vagina.
Now, gender specific customs are a cultural construct. But that is not driven by biology but peer approval. Some gender specific customs are quite benign. Some gender specific customs are quite toxic. Most are just that, customs.
One of the benign ones is how you button a garment. With unisex fashion a lot has fallen by the wayside but you still see it in more formal garments. Men's clothing buttons with the right plaquet on the bottom and women's clothing buttons with the left plaquet on the bottom. Why? I think it is in Leviticus where you find the prohibition against men wearing women's clothing and women wearing men's clothing. This kind of inconsequential crud is what is a social construct. I should rather say it is now inconsequential. In past centuries, sumptuary laws had real teeth. Our modern sumptuary laws seem only to involve how much skin you can show and where and whether the face can be covered in public.
Certainly you answer the phone even if you don't know the caller. It could be someone from work calling from their home number or a friend's. It could be a contract offer. It could be a neighbor telling you your dog got out. It could be the clinic with your test results. It could be an old friend calling to give you their new phone number.
Ignoring the phone is being a git if you aren't busy at the time.
I had over 25 Mbps until AT&T started throttling back in May 2016. .... I had almost forgotten why I dropped Uverse TV a few years ago until I saw the 18 minutes of advertising per half hour of program standard again.
And AT&T told us then that we could not have an internet package without a cap unless we committed to a one year contract for television service too.
We moved to Uverse from DSL so we could have two people in an MMORPG while a third person watched Netflix. You can't do that since May 2016 with the throttling.
There is software out there that blocks torrents and can even tell if you have a torrent client installed and restrict your access until you remove the torrent client. ... I discovered this on a business trip where the place I was renting had such software on their "free wifi" rendering their free wifi only fit for checking email. When I complained; I was told to go to the local Burger King for wifi if I wanted access to illicit activities.
The thing is; the distributed push of Microsoft Updates is interpreted as a "torrent". And many game companies, like Blizzard, use torrents to rapidly distribute patches.
The result is that if you are using a network that has one of these "torrent suppressors" active; you can't get Microsoft updates and you can't play real time online games.
I think that if the Tor Browser and Onion Router were offered by a publicly traded company it would be time to buy stock.
When you are required to change passwords often and cannot use the same password ever again; you get passwords like:
[QTR of year][YEAR][name of pet]
After all, you have to use something you can remember. Now, if you only have to set up one, hard to guess or social engineer, password. You can do something like:
[locker combination from high school]+[middle name of the person in Jr. High you had a crush on but never told anyone]
I've always thought that frequent forced password changes were a path to simple easy to guess passwords. Just like the handed out, forced, random passwords were a path to people keeping their password on a post it note taped to their ID badge.
Have you ever seen someone trying to tell a joke and laughing so hard at their joke they can't tell it well enough for anyone else to know what they are talking about?
You have the simplified plot of the Ghostbuster's Reboot.
Add characters written as SJW type sexist and racist stereotypes and you have the overview.
You mean that veracity has something to do with whether libel and slander can be prosecuted?
Why should the truth of a statement have anything to do with the statement being damaging?
Yep.. tongue firmly in cheek again,
"The problem was that people were claiming it sucks the moment the movie was announced. They knew nothing about it whatsoever, except for who the leads were. People were not keeping an open mind on it, they declared it bad merely because it was a remake."
Naaa, it was when the trailer was released. A lot of critics were saying, "If the movie is like the trailer it will such big time."
Then the screams of "misogynist" were heard by all. No matter that the first trailer showed scenes that were bloody awful played by characters that were shallow stereotypes.
It sounds like there may be a war on proprietary recovery partitions used by some of the OEM setups and taking out dual boot capability as collateral damage.
Should we be chanting "One OS to rule them all. One OS to bring them all. And in the darkness bind them."
I've been very miffed since I found out the activation for Windows 7 has been broken. If you try to re-load an OEM copy of Windows 7 after changing a hard drive; you get a failed activation. When you wade through the phone activation attempt; you are told to buy a new COA as you obviously have a pirate COA as it was installed previously. You then get transferred to the Microsoft Store to buy a new COA by somone with a musical accent from somewhere in the Indian sub continent. You then spend a half hour to an hour and a half of listening to a recording telling you to go buy Windows 10 from the Microsoft Website before you are disconnected. I'm persistent, I went through the dance three times with the exact same results before I concluded that Microsoft intentionally has broken the ability to re-install Windows 7 on legacy hardware. (A ten year old data collection unit that needs proprietary software that WILL NOT work on Windows 10)
I thought it was a "Bridge of Trolls" as bottom feeding trolls tend to live in the slime that accumulates where the sun never reaches under a bridge.
Or, is it the later generation lies about having sex less than the earlier ones? If you believed some of the surveys done in the late 70s; there was an orgy at the disco every weekend. Reality, not so much by a serious margin.
Add in the later generation's propensity to actually make sexual escapades part of social media with the training that if you regret having sex you have been raped. Yeah, I'd expect the numbers to go down as the social repercussions of sexual activity can be socially damning.
It isn't private business as much as it once was. Now it is a community critique holding up points cards for performance.
Thank you for the 5th grader book report explanation of a Faraday cage.
You are asking the tech to do things it is not designed for. Noise cancelling headphones were never designed to filter out intermittent sounds like a conversation. Try wearing them on an airplane flight to cut out the engine noise. Or, wear them while using a power tool so you can hear your music over the noise of grinding, etc. They work great for cutting out constant droning background noise. BTW, the Sony Fontopia line has better specs and performance at a low middle price range than the expensive high end ones.
Those have been on the market since the 1970s as "reactive hearing protection". The price is down from $300.00 for high end shooter's muffs in the 70s to the $9.95 reactive ear plugs I bought last year.
Interesting that OSHA does not approve noise canceling headphones but they do approve "reactive ear protection" which is the same thing without any music throughput.
I use a reactive headset attached to a hard hat. I love the fact that mid range vocal frequencies are passed through with other frequencies cancelled out.
Rubber bands are micro-aggression to those who have latex allergies.
I'm of a different opinion. I'm not comfortable with someone walking by reading my information. Yes, you can read rfid chips on the fly. Not only credit cards but many driver's licenses and your passport has rfid built in.
I have a shielding pocket portfolio I use when I travel to keep ID and cards in. If you check the statistics; it is during crowded travel and at popular tourist destinations that the majority of identity theft occurs.
Now, if you want to shield on the cheap; make your own shield. Aluminum foil works great. There is a certain cachet of using a duct tape and aluminum foil wallet. (Worry if you want a matching hat as a fashion statement) I have a friend with a paranoia streak that glued aluminum foil inside of his wallet. It does shield the contents from an rfid reader.
Considering that Javascript is a scripting language and not a programming language you can't say it is the most popular programming language.
Anyway, I'm an old fart and still don't think C with its pseudo compiler that requires a run time module to function a real programming language either.
With the huge hard drives and cheap memory today; few pay attention to writing tight code and compiling to machine code that takes up minimal space.
I have to wonder how many of those phones "sold" were actually replacements after they bricked themselves and could not be fixed?
I actually wrote off the iPhone after I was told the SIM card was not changeable and you were locked into using it on the provider you purchased it for. This was from the guys at the Apple Store and not internet rumor. The proprietary, money bilking, you don't own your equipment, business model of Apple has rankled since the Apple IIe days. I'm sure the iPhone works nicely as long as you only do things that Apple has approved and don't experiment with your own phone.
Apple hit things spot on with the iPod classic. Nothing else Apple makes has appeared, to me, to be worth the higher price than you can get other tech for.
"As someone who has spent significant time in the Mojave, trust me when I say its not a wasteland.
It will become one, once these hipsters finish with their tire tracks, disposable water bottles and condom wrappers."
You mean the kind of people that have had someone helicoptering over them all their lives and go douchebag stupid when not constantly monitored?
A weightless environment causes degradation in of muscular systems that takes a disproportionate amount of time to regain muscle tone. It seems logical that the connecting tissues of the cardiovascular system would show changes as well.
The huge question will be what is the long term effect of reduced gravity as opposed to weightless or micro gravity. Until we have research stations on another planet; it is all hypothesis.
A computer robocall is not being made by a person so it is NOT speech but a synthesized simulacrum of speech. There is no constitutional right to harass a person by automated means.
Without a person on the other end to get upset at being cussed out for disturbing you there is no satisfactory retaliation to garbage calls.
That judge needs his decision challenged.