Why can't kids just render their work in PDF format [and same for the prof], then let the creator worry about what tool they'll use. For science type classes, all you really need is to make sure the student includes all the calculations/observations to prove that they did the work.
How about because PDF is difficult to annotate or correct with free tools?
If you submit in a word processor format that the teacher can edit, it's easy to show a student where they went wrong or mark their work.
If the student submits a hard copy it's easy to scribble on it to point out what they got wrong.
If they present a PDF, what does a teacher do? Buy the full version acrobat so annotations can be added (if the document has been set up correctly to allow them by whatever printer driver the kid used)? Perhaps print it out and mark it?
On reason PDF is actually popular is because it's difficult to edit PDF documents and the tools to do so aren't widely available. Note that I'm not saying they don't exist. They're just expensive.
Well truly I don't care that you resent the response. Your profession is full of some very shonky people.
As a patient I've received some extremely bad treatment from doctors, and so have my loved ones. Some examples:
- A loved one repeatedly got seizure causing medication increased despite seizures clearly being listed as a contra-indication. This is by a neurologist as well as GPs. In the end she was having a seizure every day or 2. I looked it up and brought this to their attention at which point he said yeah okay stop taking it. Luckily I had looked up the fact that stopping this med cold turkey causes suicidal depression so when I suggested she be weaned off he said "uh okay". I honestly think she would be dead now if I didn't intervene.
- Repeated misdiagnosed posterior dislocated shoulder. I've had to personally troll through pubmed to get them to believe a loved one's dislocates and that she's not a mallingerer because the idiots in the ER don't know the difference between posterior and anterior dislocations and that a posterior dislocation requires an auxillary view to diganose on an X-ray. Oh you can SEE the damn shoulderblade protruding but since the (wrong) x-rays show nothing they insist she must be making it up. Her shoulder is very bad because the diagnosis was originally missed and the shoulder stayed dislocated literally for months.
- I once had to get a medical for a job (one of the first professional jobs I'd applied for. I was in my early 20s) I used the opportunity of being in the city to meet up with my mother for lunch. She waited outside as I was examined. The doctor, who had a larger stomach than me, proceeded to tell me that I looked pregnant and should not be eating mummy's cooking. Almost exact words. He said he'd pass me this time but he'd have to write me up as a heart disease risk.
- I'm currently dealing with an arthritic ankle that's going to require a mid-fusion. One specialist suggested an arthroscopy and when I agreed quickly palmed me off to his secretary to arrange it and as a primary contact. When I'd ask medical questions she started fielding them (knowing nothing about the specifics of the case) instead of passing them on to the specialist. I got a second opinion from a better known specialist. He says the arthroscopy is a waste of time and that I should come back for the mid-fusion later this year. However he's very focused on a flatfoot deformity I've always had and that can't be fixed and he then started giving me some very unscientific dieting advice (don't eat carbs after 4pm) - knowing i have an arthritic ankle he still wants me to somehow magically lose weight because "it'll work wonders". Oh these diagnoses - a cat scan, an MRI and 3 consultations lasting less than an hour cost me about $1000 and that's with government assistance.
Realistically any formal complaints made about these doctors will leave me or those I care about with a black mark against our names and leave us unable to get medical care. Anything informal that identifies the doctors is an invitation to a defamation suit.
So I've resorted to double checking every diagnosis and every prescription. I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a Masters in Astronomy so I have some idea how to do research and take my time learning new terms etc, but I shouldn't need to double check everything like this. Medicine isn't my speciality. This is bullshit.
So you know what you can do with your resentful self don't you?
Most doctors won't even use computers to help them make diagnoses because they feel they should always be able to do better. What tends to happen is that if a rare condition presents they can miss it quite easily. I'm no doctor but I believe it has to do with the medical profession's heritage, culture and the politics of their licensing institutions. Doctors are taught that every diagnosis can be life or death. Using an aid like a computer to make the decision therefore is seen as a sign of weakness.
When you think about it that's insane. There's no way any doctor can know every medical condition that presents, even the rarer ones. What's needed is a system whereby the doctor can check his diagnosis against what comes up with a computer search against the same symptoms. There needs to be no stigma in doing this. If something comes up that's rare but could fit the doctor then needs to have a think about whether it's worth addressing. Systems like this have been rejected by the medical profession time and again which is unfortunate because to get good at diagnosis they'd need to be honed with a lot of feedback, particularly where multiple conditions present. However they have the potential to help pick up serious conditions earlier than what even the best doctor might without them.
Same goes for this system except we're talking treatment choice not diagnosis. One hurdle is getting other doctors to accept it. Another is making sure the control and final say remains with the doctor and patient not some machine. There'd be great temptation for the medical insurers to use such a system to avoid providing treatment that a doctor believes is necessary.
No one is making excuses. They're making observations.
The study, or at least the media reporting of it is implying causality and a risk of gaining weight if you hang around certain people.
There's also the case of overweight people helping each other lose weight (though loses like that tend to be temporary because no matter how much people try to deny it people do have pre-dispositions when it comes to weight).
I walk around hungry constantly. Seriously 20 minutes after a big meal I'm famished again and stay that way till I eat next. That can't be "normal". I've got a lot more self control than some of the people I see around me and I can only assume that if they were constantly hungry they'd do worse than me. Also I don't get to choose not to eat, the way say an alocholic with cravings might choose to give up alcohol.
Also I have a couple of medical conditions that aren't helping. (An ankle that's going to need to be fused is a big hindrance to excercise. I use to get off the train a station early and walk the rest of the way to work. If I try that these days I'm in agony). I've lost weight twice in my life and each time required extreme diets (we're talking salad and lean meat/chicken only) and 2hrs/day excercise. I could do that in my teens but now I'm at work 12 hours a day 5 days a week, and have other responsibilities.
So yeah I'm overweight. I don't feel the need to apologise for it or for a drain on health resources (which I pay for dearly). I don't feel the need to join the guilt culture that promotes crash dieting competitions as healthy and tries to sell voodoo dieting products for a huge profit. I alternate between anger and disgust at people who think eating is just a case of being glutonous.
I'm aware of the registry modification (which as you've pointed out is easy in the UI). It causes other problems - some specific to other software, others just windows being windows. Why can't it multi-thread cleanly instead of requiring whole separate processes? That's like having a web browser that requires one instance per window!
My point is that the file manager is buggy garbage, without even the relatively simple ability to resume interupted transfers, and which blocks for a connection when it should not. There's no excuse whatsoever for this.
I could only choose Vista on my latest laptop (now dual booting XP SP2, though Vista rarely gets started. Why use something dog slow and buggy?)
I'd settle for an OS where a network share that wasn't there didn't freeze up the damned file manager - sometimes not just that instance either but all instances. Why is this still a goddamn bug in 2007? Why am I still using goddamn robocopy in 2007? (In XP I've tried the SyncToy but it's just not reliable enough where robocopy is rock solid stable). Why is there no goddamn file transfer resume in explorer anyway? Why do I have to work out what I have or haven't installed (or press Yes to all 60 times, or start from scratch) to transfer a directory?
Who gives a flying monkey about how pretty the 3D desktop looks like when I can't reliably move files. An OS is suppose to provide facilities including basic functionality and basic management yet Windows Explorer looks like something out of an OS2 alpha release!
I wish this were the only problem left with Windows that should have been fixed in about 1995 but it's far from...
Does that include every user created using those $2 trial disks that in reality you can get for free?...Because if so I've got 9 million bridges to sell you.
How about next time little Johnny steals a candy bar he's forced to apologise to the ower, pay him back in full and perhaps do some punishment like a few hours of community service learning that others aren't as fortunate as himself. Beats the hell out of just rustling his head and saying "off you go you young whipper snapper". Most crims start small.
As for your bullshit about using Linux, I simply wouldn't tell anyone to use Linux unless I first let them know what they could and couldn't run, and taught them some command line admin. You call me extreme for wanting to punish a kid who's doing the wrong thing but you're happy to abuse someone for using a mainstream OS unless they can afford expensive support. Your entire approach is out of whack. Good luck living in your deluded friendless reality.
Have you ever written to your representative? If you have has it ever made a difference? What chance do you think you have against someone that's donating money to his or her next campaign ?
Add to that most of the deaths just didn't make sense. Except for Mad-Eye (and possibly Dobby), basically all the other major deaths were random, they had no purpose in the story and didn't advance the plot in any major way.
Kinda like death in real life isn't it? I think what you're saying is that there was too much realism in your fiction.
The thing is a new OS use to add a missing capability.
Win 3.1 added a GUI, multi-tasking Win 95 added USB support, improved video and audio support Win 98 USB2, improved stability. Windows 2000 improved stability. WinXP added better support from gaming and a good upgrade path from 98 for gamers.
The whole prettier GUI thing just annoys me. Stop moving the damned icons around.
As far as I'm concerned 2000/XP were good enough for an OS. What I really want they don't want to provide. Why does explorer crash taking out all explorer windows? Why can't I resume a network file transfer? Why is it still possible to get a hardware blue screen with no decent diagnostics unless you're a software engineer?
I'll only continue to upgrade because the hardware and software vendors give me no option with new equipment.
The thing that should be constantly improving is the applications, and even then there's a limit to useful features before you start branching out and making too general a product to be useful at specialized tasks (eg. you don't want to build a word processor that slowly evolves its abilities to compete with a spreadsheet).
People don't understand this. They're so drunk on marketing hype that they don't realize that the OS should stay out of your way most of the time, and provide you with decent tools diagnostics the rest of the time. The more you have to know about the OS the less time you spend actually using the applications you want to use.
no form of mass communication ever dies, it just moves out of the limelight. and then it's called "dead" by people wishing to make a melodrama out of the evolution of media
So when's the last time you sent a telegram? How about a telex?
Yeah they still exist but I'd call them pretty much dead. Telex is still used by some businesses I believe for legal or other reasons but its no longer mainstream.
Re:Not if today's kids are like I was.
on
Kids Say Email is Dead
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
My employer blocks webmail. Justification is they're scared of virii getting through (even though they have web filtering). When this came in I did fight it but not very hard because I knew I'd get nowhere. My main agrument was do you really want people asking for help on web forums and usenet using real mail addresses. (We still can use Google groups so usenet is not such a problem anyway). It's damned inconvenient though.
Every employer is different and it's not your top priority when deciding whether to take a job or when you're deciding if you want to stay at one when a new policy comes in.
J.R.R. Tolkien more or less invented high fantasy as we know it
I understand that you like Tolkien but I suggest you take a look at literary history before you make such a claim.
Epic fantasy/mythology - take a look at the ancient greeks for early work. Ever heard of Homer's Odyssey? C.S. Lewis also often gets compared to Tolkien though I'd call his books lighter reading and the Christian metaphors are a little bit annoying.
By the way I love neither the Harry Potter books nor Lord of the Rings nor Homer's works. All eventually put me to sleep with the rich detail. (I don't enjoy multi-page descriptions of things I'm afraid).
Note the words "anticipate", and "expect". You don't have to cause harm.
You can't simply admit you were wrong, you just have to keep digging your hole. Do you have any fucking idea how stupid and childish you just made yourself look?
So if your semester finishes early, or your grandfather dies it's cool that you're thrown off the network?
In any case what university did you go to. Some classes start and finish earlier or later for various reasons. Other advanced classes may require people to go for long trips (think of a geology student).
What you're saying is it doesn't affect you so you don't care. To say the least that's not nice. It's also bone headed because one day it may affect you or someone you care about.
"Assault is a crime of violence against another person. In some jurisdictions, including Australia and New Zealand assault refers to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, while in other jurisdictions, such as the United States, assault refers only to the threat of violence caused by an immediate show of force."
It's not an attempted assault if you hit someone, it's assault. There's no set standard for the amount of damage you have to do before it's termed an assault. Attempted assault would be where you try to hit someone and miss.
You should be warned that trying to step beyond the boundaries of your knowledge and getting things wrong makes you look like a complete and utter twit to anyone with solid knowledge on the matter.
If you're saying that stupid people should be afforded no protection in society you're a fucking fool. What you're proposing is the law of the jungle. Perhaps people like you should be left in the middle of a jungle to survive since you're so intelligent and superior. You make me sick.
For the umpteenth time, if you haven't got a lot of tech knowledge a reboot script is not a trivial thing to remove. Or are you proposing that to use a computer you should have to be a proficient coder.
Slashdot Mirror
Why can't kids just render their work in PDF format [and same for the prof], then let the creator worry about what tool they'll use. For science type classes, all you really need is to make sure the student includes all the calculations/observations to prove that they did the work.
How about because PDF is difficult to annotate or correct with free tools?
If you submit in a word processor format that the teacher can edit, it's easy to show a student where they went wrong or mark their work.
If the student submits a hard copy it's easy to scribble on it to point out what they got wrong.
If they present a PDF, what does a teacher do?
Buy the full version acrobat so annotations can be added (if the document has been set up correctly to allow them by whatever printer driver the kid used)?
Perhaps print it out and mark it?
On reason PDF is actually popular is because it's difficult to edit PDF documents and the tools to do so aren't widely available. Note that I'm not saying they don't exist. They're just expensive.
In other words open source that REQUIRES closed source to use is not open source at all.
Well truly I don't care that you resent the response. Your profession is full of some very shonky people.
As a patient I've received some extremely bad treatment from doctors, and so have my loved ones. Some examples:
- A loved one repeatedly got seizure causing medication increased despite seizures clearly being listed as a contra-indication. This is by a neurologist as well as GPs. In the end she was having a seizure every day or 2. I looked it up and brought this to their attention at which point he said yeah okay stop taking it. Luckily I had looked up the fact that stopping this med cold turkey causes suicidal depression so when I suggested she be weaned off he said "uh okay". I honestly think she would be dead now if I didn't intervene.
- Repeated misdiagnosed posterior dislocated shoulder. I've had to personally troll through pubmed to get them to believe a loved one's dislocates and that she's not a mallingerer because the idiots in the ER don't know the difference between posterior and anterior dislocations and that a posterior dislocation requires an auxillary view to diganose on an X-ray. Oh you can SEE the damn shoulderblade protruding but since the (wrong) x-rays show nothing they insist she must be making it up. Her shoulder is very bad because the diagnosis was originally missed and the shoulder stayed dislocated literally for months.
- I once had to get a medical for a job (one of the first professional jobs I'd applied for. I was in my early 20s) I used the opportunity of being in the city to meet up with my mother for lunch. She waited outside as I was examined. The doctor, who had a larger stomach than me, proceeded to tell me that I looked pregnant and should not be eating mummy's cooking. Almost exact words. He said he'd pass me this time but he'd have to write me up as a heart disease risk.
- I'm currently dealing with an arthritic ankle that's going to require a mid-fusion. One specialist suggested an arthroscopy and when I agreed quickly palmed me off to his secretary to arrange it and as a primary contact. When I'd ask medical questions she started fielding them (knowing nothing about the specifics of the case) instead of passing them on to the specialist. I got a second opinion from a better known specialist. He says the arthroscopy is a waste of time and that I should come back for the mid-fusion later this year. However he's very focused on a flatfoot deformity I've always had and that can't be fixed and he then started giving me some very unscientific dieting advice (don't eat carbs after 4pm) - knowing i have an arthritic ankle he still wants me to somehow magically lose weight because "it'll work wonders". Oh these diagnoses - a cat scan, an MRI and 3 consultations lasting less than an hour cost me about $1000 and that's with government assistance.
Realistically any formal complaints made about these doctors will leave me or those I care about with a black mark against our names and leave us unable to get medical care. Anything informal that identifies the doctors is an invitation to a defamation suit.
So I've resorted to double checking every diagnosis and every prescription. I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a Masters in Astronomy so I have some idea how to do research and take my time learning new terms etc, but I shouldn't need to double check everything like this. Medicine isn't my speciality. This is bullshit.
So you know what you can do with your resentful self don't you?
Most doctors won't even use computers to help them make diagnoses because they feel they should always be able to do better. What tends to happen is that if a rare condition presents they can miss it quite easily. I'm no doctor but I believe it has to do with the medical profession's heritage, culture and the politics of their licensing institutions. Doctors are taught that every diagnosis can be life or death. Using an aid like a computer to make the decision therefore is seen as a sign of weakness.
When you think about it that's insane. There's no way any doctor can know every medical condition that presents, even the rarer ones. What's needed is a system whereby the doctor can check his diagnosis against what comes up with a computer search against the same symptoms. There needs to be no stigma in doing this. If something comes up that's rare but could fit the doctor then needs to have a think about whether it's worth addressing. Systems like this have been rejected by the medical profession time and again which is unfortunate because to get good at diagnosis they'd need to be honed with a lot of feedback, particularly where multiple conditions present. However they have the potential to help pick up serious conditions earlier than what even the best doctor might without them.
Same goes for this system except we're talking treatment choice not diagnosis. One hurdle is getting other doctors to accept it. Another is making sure the control and final say remains with the doctor and patient not some machine. There'd be great temptation for the medical insurers to use such a system to avoid providing treatment that a doctor believes is necessary.
No one is making excuses. They're making observations.
The study, or at least the media reporting of it is implying causality and a risk of gaining weight if you hang around certain people.
There's also the case of overweight people helping each other lose weight (though loses like that tend to be temporary because no matter how much people try to deny it people do have pre-dispositions when it comes to weight).
I hate this sort of BS too.
I walk around hungry constantly. Seriously 20 minutes after a big meal I'm famished again and stay that way till I eat next. That can't be "normal". I've got a lot more self control than some of the people I see around me and I can only assume that if they were constantly hungry they'd do worse than me. Also I don't get to choose not to eat, the way say an alocholic with cravings might choose to give up alcohol.
Also I have a couple of medical conditions that aren't helping. (An ankle that's going to need to be fused is a big hindrance to excercise. I use to get off the train a station early and walk the rest of the way to work. If I try that these days I'm in agony). I've lost weight twice in my life and each time required extreme diets (we're talking salad and lean meat/chicken only) and 2hrs/day excercise. I could do that in my teens but now I'm at work 12 hours a day 5 days a week, and have other responsibilities.
So yeah I'm overweight. I don't feel the need to apologise for it or for a drain on health resources (which I pay for dearly). I don't feel the need to join the guilt culture that promotes crash dieting competitions as healthy and tries to sell voodoo dieting products for a huge profit. I alternate between anger and disgust at people who think eating is just a case of being glutonous.
Icky wicky sicky baby talky walky make you want to pukey wookey, yes it does. Yes it does. Who's a clever computer then?
I'm aware of the registry modification (which as you've pointed out is easy in the UI). It causes other problems - some specific to other software, others just windows being windows. Why can't it multi-thread cleanly instead of requiring whole separate processes? That's like having a web browser that requires one instance per window!
My point is that the file manager is buggy garbage, without even the relatively simple ability to resume interupted transfers, and which blocks for a connection when it should not. There's no excuse whatsoever for this.
I could only choose Vista on my latest laptop (now dual booting XP SP2, though Vista rarely gets started. Why use something dog slow and buggy?)
I'd settle for an OS where a network share that wasn't there didn't freeze up the damned file manager - sometimes not just that instance either but all instances. Why is this still a goddamn bug in 2007? Why am I still using goddamn robocopy in 2007? (In XP I've tried the SyncToy but it's just not reliable enough where robocopy is rock solid stable). Why is there no goddamn file transfer resume in explorer anyway? Why do I have to work out what I have or haven't installed (or press Yes to all 60 times, or start from scratch) to transfer a directory?
Who gives a flying monkey about how pretty the 3D desktop looks like when I can't reliably move files. An OS is suppose to provide facilities including basic functionality and basic management yet Windows Explorer looks like something out of an OS2 alpha release!
I wish this were the only problem left with Windows that should have been fixed in about 1995 but it's far from...
Not trolling. Just didn't bother. Usually I do. Today I didn't. WoW is just so....blah....
Does that include every user created using those $2 trial disks that in reality you can get for free? ...Because if so I've got 9 million bridges to sell you.
Reductio ad absurdum is weak.
How about next time little Johnny steals a candy bar he's forced to apologise to the ower, pay him back in full and perhaps do some punishment like a few hours of community service learning that others aren't as fortunate as himself. Beats the hell out of just rustling his head and saying "off you go you young whipper snapper". Most crims start small.
As for your bullshit about using Linux, I simply wouldn't tell anyone to use Linux unless I first let them know what they could and couldn't run, and taught them some command line admin. You call me extreme for wanting to punish a kid who's doing the wrong thing but you're happy to abuse someone for using a mainstream OS unless they can afford expensive support. Your entire approach is out of whack. Good luck living in your deluded friendless reality.
Have you ever written to your representative? If you have has it ever made a difference? What chance do you think you have against someone that's donating money to his or her next campaign ?
Add to that most of the deaths just didn't make sense. Except for Mad-Eye (and possibly Dobby), basically all the other major deaths were random, they had no purpose in the story and didn't advance the plot in any major way.
Kinda like death in real life isn't it? I think what you're saying is that there was too much realism in your fiction.
The thing is a new OS use to add a missing capability.
Win 3.1 added a GUI, multi-tasking
Win 95 added USB support, improved video and audio support
Win 98 USB2, improved stability.
Windows 2000 improved stability.
WinXP added better support from gaming and a good upgrade path from 98 for gamers.
The whole prettier GUI thing just annoys me. Stop moving the damned icons around.
As far as I'm concerned 2000/XP were good enough for an OS. What I really want they don't want to provide. Why does explorer crash taking out all explorer windows? Why can't I resume a network file transfer? Why is it still possible to get a hardware blue screen with no decent diagnostics unless you're a software engineer?
I'll only continue to upgrade because the hardware and software vendors give me no option with new equipment.
The thing that should be constantly improving is the applications, and even then there's a limit to useful features before you start branching out and making too general a product to be useful at specialized tasks (eg. you don't want to build a word processor that slowly evolves its abilities to compete with a spreadsheet).
People don't understand this. They're so drunk on marketing hype that they don't realize that the OS should stay out of your way most of the time, and provide you with decent tools diagnostics the rest of the time. The more you have to know about the OS the less time you spend actually using the applications you want to use.
no form of mass communication ever dies, it just moves out of the limelight. and then it's called "dead" by people wishing to make a melodrama out of the evolution of media
So when's the last time you sent a telegram?
How about a telex?
Yeah they still exist but I'd call them pretty much dead. Telex is still used by some businesses I believe for legal or other reasons but its no longer mainstream.
My employer blocks webmail. Justification is they're scared of virii getting through (even though they have web filtering). When this came in I did fight it but not very hard because I knew I'd get nowhere. My main agrument was do you really want people asking for help on web forums and usenet using real mail addresses. (We still can use Google groups so usenet is not such a problem anyway). It's damned inconvenient though.
Every employer is different and it's not your top priority when deciding whether to take a job or when you're deciding if you want to stay at one when a new policy comes in.
J.R.R. Tolkien more or less invented high fantasy as we know it
I understand that you like Tolkien but I suggest you take a look at literary history before you make such a claim.
Epic fantasy/mythology - take a look at the ancient greeks for early work. Ever heard of Homer's Odyssey?
C.S. Lewis also often gets compared to Tolkien though I'd call his books lighter reading and the Christian metaphors are a little bit annoying.
Invented languages? Here's a list
http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/artifph.htm
By the way I love neither the Harry Potter books nor Lord of the Rings nor Homer's works. All eventually put me to sleep with the rich detail. (I don't enjoy multi-page descriptions of things I'm afraid).
So what you're saying is that you don't care that you're wrong and that therefore by definition you're a troll.
Thanks for clearing that up. Have a lovely day.
Do you always swear and name call at someone when you lose an argument?
2 0
You're looking more and more foolish by the second.
You were the one trying to correct my usage of the word, so why should I give a shit where you live?
Do you even know the meaning of the word apprehend?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apprehend%
3. to expect with anxiety, suspicion, or fear; anticipate: apprehending violence.
Note the words "anticipate", and "expect". You don't have to cause harm.
You can't simply admit you were wrong, you just have to keep digging your hole. Do you have any fucking idea how stupid and childish you just made yourself look?
Ah I see,
So if your semester finishes early, or your grandfather dies it's cool that you're thrown off the network?
In any case what university did you go to. Some classes start and finish earlier or later for various reasons. Other advanced classes may require people to go for long trips (think of a geology student).
What you're saying is it doesn't affect you so you don't care. To say the least that's not nice. It's also bone headed because one day it may affect you or someone you care about.
You mean like here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault
"Assault is a crime of violence against another person. In some jurisdictions, including Australia and New Zealand assault refers to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, while in other jurisdictions, such as the United States, assault refers only to the threat of violence caused by an immediate show of force."
You are talking out of your backside.
So you think it's no problem because you have 5 business days to respond?
Have you ever taken a vacation? Have you ever gone away for more than 5 days?
Tool.
Actually you're called a troll.
IANAL but...
It's not an attempted assault if you hit someone, it's assault. There's no set standard for the amount of damage you have to do before it's termed an assault. Attempted assault would be where you try to hit someone and miss.
You should be warned that trying to step beyond the boundaries of your knowledge and getting things wrong makes you look like a complete and utter twit to anyone with solid knowledge on the matter.
If you're saying that stupid people should be afforded no protection in society you're a fucking fool. What you're proposing is the law of the jungle. Perhaps people like you should be left in the middle of a jungle to survive since you're so intelligent and superior. You make me sick.
For the umpteenth time, if you haven't got a lot of tech knowledge a reboot script is not a trivial thing to remove. Or are you proposing that to use a computer you should have to be a proficient coder.