Don't come to Australia. It's also in major decline. We're generally just behind the US and aspire to the stupidity.
* We have a lapdog for PM who aspires to be friendly with your Mr Dubbya. We also have one political party controlling both houses of parliament at the moment. Very bad. At one stage we had an entire political party gaining seats that based its policy on racist views. (I use to think on the who our multiculturalism was wonderful, but recent incidents like the Bondi "race riot" seem to have proven me very wrong).
*We have had a ridiculous decline in the sciences in the last few years, but we never had the population or funds to do major research on the scale you see in the US. (We have no space program to speak of for instance so we're intensely proud of our one current shuttle astronaut who of course has moved to the US).
* Our public health is not what it use to be (give it 5-10 years and I suspect it'll be as bad as the US).
* We've never had fair use laws. Technically its illegal to even time shift here (though it's rarely policed, you wouldn't want to annoy anyone in power if you taped TV shows).
* Our industrial relationtions laws have just gone to shit. We've actually removed a lot of the protection people enjoyed in the last century. Now if you work for a small company you can be sacked without reason, but then rehired at below the old minimum wage.
* We've got a police force actively campaigning against their own oversight. Law enforcement here is terrible. Just looking at policing our raods: In NSW at least most people speed most of the time despite zero tolerance (technically you can lose half your license if you're going 1km over the limit when "double demerits" are in effect - which is every major public holiday and surrounding days).
In fact I suspect you need to do your homework before you move to any country. The way things are at the moment I think all you'll be doing is swaping one kind of awful for another, only you get to lose any friends and contacts and have to start again.
Geek 1: I heard you were in hospital. What happened? Geek 2: My computer froze then fried my penis. Geek 1: Oh well at least it wasn't anything vital Geek 2: Normally yeah, but I'd just signed up for 2 years of penthouse.com
God forbid the police should actually have to do some work before charging someone with an offence! Any information that could be collected at that point should be easy to collect later. To say we have "nothing" to do this now is just plain incorrect. The question is whether the records should be kept. You don't think there will be many fake reports? Are you serious. A bunch of kids who still think the net is anonymous are going to have the maturity to only report pedos and not their neighbour who they've got a beef with? You live in a strange alternate universe my friend.
So your technical solution to searching logs is not to search them when someone makes a complaint but rather to flag suspicious behaviour? If your logs are well organised they're not that hard to search. The question is whether the information should be kept at all.
As for your faith in juries I find that laughable. Anyone so much as being accussed of pedophelia publicly becomes a social outcast with zero job prospects, particularly if it receives any media attention. You're naive if you think the police with the powers they are entrusted with are unable to ruin a life.
Filter yourself. Take some responsibility for your own actions. If your productivity is affect, not only does your company suffer but so does your own career. Some of us can handle internet access and still get our jobs done. I don't see why every other employee you work with should be filtered just because you have no self control.
We already have ways of reporting pedophiles. You can pick up the phone, you can write a letter, or you can walk into a police station. It doesn't need to be made any easier. Why don't people do this? Because their confidence in the police is low. They think the police either won't act for lack of evidence(in which case it can be a waste of time or worse the police might acuse them of making the situation up), or the police may over-react to information given and you could ruin someone's life based on a vague suspicion.
What you need to do is increase confidence in the police by making sure they always respond appropriately to legitimate complaints. Adding a "report a pedo" form is just plain silly.
Thanks for your resume. I don't know why you gave me your resume. I don't have a job to offer you. (I'll admit some of the stuff you're saying you've worked on sounds very cool, particularly the Surveryor, but I don't know you well enough and don't have enough detail to judge any of your work - neither work for prominent organisations nor failed startups).
Look, it's this simple. The original poster is a paid professional. He should know better than to take on something beyond his abilities and field of expertise. He shouldn't be looking for advice on/. - he should be doing due dilligence. He should be finding out who has done similar (and not on the message board). Anything short of that is negligent. If you want to become a mechanic, you might ask around. But if you've taken on a job or are about to take on paid professional work without being qualified that is incredibly wrong. Asking here doesn't negate that. I wasn't trolling, and it wasn't flame bait. This guy needs someone to tell him to wake up rather than giving him advice on what to use besides virtualisation.
Now as to the AC post. I feel that/. is anonymous enough that if you feel the need to criticise someone the least you can do is give them the courtesy of being able to identify you. The irony and hypocrisy of him criticising me for...wait for it...criticising someone is just amazing.
Sometimes/. is amazing but increasingly I see this. My posts are initially modded up then after some time modded down. At this point the story is getting old so no one is reading it let alone increasingly low rated comments. I quite simply have never trolled or posted just to annoy someone yet I get some of my posts rated flamebait or redundant or overrated...but that's an aside...What really irks me is AC posting. AC has a purpose. If you think you're going to have someone retaliate in some way it pays to post as AC. Anonymity is an important tool for journalism and maintaining freedom. It's not meant to be used for just cheap cowardly shots when the other person cannot and will not retaliate.
Trademarks are evil when used like this. You should have to come up with a name for your product that's hard to mistake for common everyday language before you can apply for a trademark. When you do get a trademark it should simply be there to protect some other loser from making an inferior product and trying to pawn it off as your won.
Oh, and stop quoting from that essay. The analogy wasn't that good back in the.com boom, and its even less relevant now. The antique shop and the hippy commune would have been just as good an analogy (ie. it isn't good).
Is destroying this device considered tampering with evidence... do I have a right to smash up my own car (computer, books, diary, etc.)? If not, I think this intrudes on my property rights
What about your license plate? Do you think you have the right to rip it off your car, smash it to bits, then drive around? I think you'd find yourself in a holding cell and your car impounded the first time a cop drove by. Try explaining your property rights to him. Fact is you give up some of those rights in exchange for use of the road. You're suppose to be doing this in the interest of public safety but it's identifying technology that most people don't argue with the need for. Give it 15 years of having these black boxes in your car and it'll be the same story.
(Aside: I actually installed a "Car Chip" in my car for personal monitoring. Most notably I was surprised at the frequency of "hard accelerations" -- far more than I'd have guessed. The data was charted against distance, and I was able to "see" where I was "hard accelerating". Interestingly after knowing this, and paying more attention to accelerating I self-modified my habits and the mileage for my car (Civic) increased almost 6%.)
I wonder how much you'd like it if insurance companies insisted on having your data, and raised your insurance rate as a result, since they would now have evidence you're an unsafe driver.
If I could have that data stored encrypted and my right not to reveal the data unless I chose to (a signature could ensure authenticity) I might be interested. The trouble with data is that it's only good if you're trying to be objective about what's going on. If you have an agenda like the insurance companies (raising premiums) or the police (issueing fines, demonstrating they're doing their job) and you don't have control over your own data, you'll end up being screwed.
Honestly when I was a kid I very rarely had to use a phone. I always had a time agreed upon with my parents that they would pick me up or I was within walking/biking distance from home. Needing to call to be picked up was a very rare event. I think I only had to call home on a cell phone around 2-3 times.
If cell phones were around when you were young, it's reasonable to assume you still are. Honestly wouldn't you want your kid to be able to call for help if they broke their arm or someone was threatening them etc?
Yes public phones are getting more rare but they should still be in most public places that a teenager would have to call from.
You're basing your views on the way the world SHOULD be????? WHAT THE???? Good luck with that. Good luck when you suffer the consequences and whine about the phone that should've been there for your kid.
The mall, school, movies, there should still be a public phone at those, and even if there is not one available, if they need a ride, there should be a set up time to pick them up from there anyway
Try convincing the phone companies who keep removing phones because most people don't use them...because most people have cell phones. Anyway why should they subsidise your kid when you won't pay for a phone for him?
I have no problem with a kid getting a cell phone for themselves if they wish to and they can pay for it themselves. That is not the issue. I just don't think kids Have to be provided with a cell phone, it is not a necessity, it's a privilege.
It's not a necessity. Neither is health insurance. Neither is an education since you can still get a manual labour job without one. You're going to give your kids just the necessities are you?
Here's an idea. The privellege should be pre-paid phone credit, not the damned phone which should be a tool for you to keep your kid safe.
When the start driving and the car can break down in the middle of nowhere, and when you start letting the kid have more freedom to go places without you knowing their every move then yeah a cell phone is a good thing.
So the only reason you need a cell phone is if your car brakes down. Anyway you're making no sense. One minute you say the kid shouldn't be out on their own, the next you should have a pre-arranged time to meet them when they are. Have you considered how the kid gets to school? Not every kid is dropped off and picked up. There are lots and lots of instances where your kid won't be at home or glued to your side. Breaking down is not the only instance in which a phone is handy for non-social reasons.
It's not treating them like a second class citizen; it's treating them like normal person. It is not an ineffable right of a human being to have a cell phone. They don't have to have their own cell phone to call a friend. There is a phone at home that they can use to call their friends.
!@#!@#$!@#$ calling their friends. I'm not saying it's the kids right to call their friends and run up a $300 phone bill so stop imply that I am. If they want to use the phone for that pre-paid is the way to go and you can say no or make them do chores for that money, or give up other toys/treats/outings. Phones have other uses and since public phones are being removed leaving your kid without a way to call for help when the cost is so small is irresponsible and stupid. Not using the phone as a tool to teach them responsibility is also stupid.
I'm not that old, I only moved out of my parent's house 6 years ago, but I didn't get a cell phone until just earlier this years, and the only reason I did that is because it ended up being cheaper then getting a lan line for the house. Having a cell phone just isn't all the important in the great scheme of things.
Thanks for confirming your age.
This is what's wrong with the world. People only consider their own situation and their own needs and are happy to make value judgements and decisions for the whole world. There are kids
He should also ask how to become an Astronaut, since we all want to be astronauts.
Seriously, it's completely unprofessional and dangerous. He explicitly mentioned a large number of users and shrugged off concerns about bandwidth downloading large files because he's using gigabyte ethernet. He clearly doesn't know what he's on about and will only get the vaguest most varied ideas on/. - he should be putting together a plan with the help of professionals who know what they're doing. This in contrast is half arsed.
I never once said he should let the company stagnate. I said he should get real professional help instead of asking on a message board.
If you want to reply do me the courtesy of using your ID instead of posting AC. Otherwise I'm not going to bother with another post.
Thank you for posting as AC. Shows you can back up what you say.
You do NOT experiment on this stuff with a large corporate user base. This is not a Uni lab.
The equivalent question in an automotive board would be to say: "I've done a lot of work with my car's electrical system but I've never replaced an engine. Has anyone else done it?".
You're asking for advice on/. suggests you're not qualified.
Several ways to fix this and get qualified: 1) Trial it on a small number of less important users. Get feedback. Make sure you listen to that feedback. Allow a decent period of time for the trial so initial teething problems can be sorted. Allocate sufficient resources to deal with early issues. This is the hard way to learn...through experience.
2) Hire expertise - someone that's done this before, to implement and advise. Make sure it's not a vendor since you won't know if you're being screwed till its too late.
3) Get some training.
DO NOT try to implement this for a large number of users in one hit. You're a fool if you do.
Math is just a specialised and more abstract form of science. To a large degree the distinction between math and science is artificial. Math is really the study of numbers. You still make assumptions (eg. a number is always equal to itself, relationship of a circle's radius to diameter is Pi*r^2). If you ever disproved something so fundamental you'd be back to square one on a lot of things that follow.
Science takes the abstracts and relates them to observed and measured quantities. Eg. law of gravity. Yes there may be a circumstance where the observatrions and a theory don't agree and you find a limit of the theory (or discard it). Yes from there you'd be back to square one with a lot of things. How would that be different to finding a circle where the radius and circumference we're related by Pi*r^2?
Science/Math are the persuit of truth through observation and deduction. The fact that you have to make certain assumptions that do always hold true when formulating a theory is neither here nor there. In a science you're asked to observe that facts that hold true from observation will always hold true because we don't have reliable evidence otherwise, and from there you can build on those assumed truths. If you don't believe a fundamental you're always welcome to test it. In religion you're asked to believe a fairy story without any empirical evidence and if you don't believe it you're judged as bad because you have no faith. There really is no comparison here, and the whole argument that science rests on faith in fundamental unprovables is bollox. Science encourages experimentation and gaining knowledge. Religion encourages ignorance and not challenging a belief that other people have relayed to you. I which of the two I'd rather put my "faith" in.
Reading books and becoming more knowledgable are good things, but I don't think we are all incapable of having a discussion based on our current knowledge.
Tell me when you were a kid, assuming it wasn't too long ago, would you have liked it if they'd removed all the payphones? Well they have been removed on the basis that most people have cell phones.
Why on earth would calling a friend require the same level of maturity as driving a car? Or do you think kids should only be provided with the bare necessities?
I see us increasingly treating children as second class citizens and its downright sickening.
Sorry but you have a very narrow view of the world if you honestly believe all our good software is based on Unix. Some of the software I mentioned (NASAs Apollo software for instance) actually pre-dates Unix.
Tell me why exactly I'm a troll again? A troll is just winding people up. I had an opinion that differs with the article. I don't really care about mod points overmuch except that people do read at +4 and +5. Here on/. I've never had something remain moderated high when there's been even the vaguest hint of a critism of Unix but should that be colouring the opinion that I state?
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Simply not true. Watch American Idol for people who've been told they're good at singing but are tone deaf. Someone should have told them they were tone deaf long before they auditioned. Feedback needs to be realistic. I don't understand why people resist the idea that some things are more natural to people than others.
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Don't come to Australia. It's also in major decline. We're generally just behind the US and aspire to the stupidity.
* We have a lapdog for PM who aspires to be friendly with your Mr Dubbya. We also have one political party controlling both houses of parliament at the moment. Very bad. At one stage we had an entire political party gaining seats that based its policy on racist views. (I use to think on the who our multiculturalism was wonderful, but recent incidents like the Bondi "race riot" seem to have proven me very wrong).
*We have had a ridiculous decline in the sciences in the last few years, but we never had the population or funds to do major research on the scale you see in the US. (We have no space program to speak of for instance so we're intensely proud of our one current shuttle astronaut who of course has moved to the US).
* Our public health is not what it use to be (give it 5-10 years and I suspect it'll be as bad as the US).
* We've never had fair use laws. Technically its illegal to even time shift here (though it's rarely policed, you wouldn't want to annoy anyone in power if you taped TV shows).
* Our industrial relationtions laws have just gone to shit. We've actually removed a lot of the protection people enjoyed in the last century. Now if you work for a small company you can be sacked without reason, but then rehired at below the old minimum wage.
* We've got a police force actively campaigning against their own oversight. Law enforcement here is terrible. Just looking at policing our raods: In NSW at least most people speed most of the time despite zero tolerance (technically you can lose half your license if you're going 1km over the limit when "double demerits" are in effect - which is every major public holiday and surrounding days).
In fact I suspect you need to do your homework before you move to any country. The way things are at the moment I think all you'll be doing is swaping one kind of awful for another, only you get to lose any friends and contacts and have to start again.
Geek 1: I heard you were in hospital. What happened?
Geek 2: My computer froze then fried my penis.
Geek 1: Oh well at least it wasn't anything vital
Geek 2: Normally yeah, but I'd just signed up for 2 years of penthouse.com
what kind of cell phone is going to have the power to do video projection
One powered by a Dell laptop battery.
"Think of the children" huh?
God forbid the police should actually have to do some work before charging someone with an offence! Any information that could be collected at that point should be easy to collect later. To say we have "nothing" to do this now is just plain incorrect. The question is whether the records should be kept. You don't think there will be many fake reports? Are you serious. A bunch of kids who still think the net is anonymous are going to have the maturity to only report pedos and not their neighbour who they've got a beef with? You live in a strange alternate universe my friend.
So your technical solution to searching logs is not to search them when someone makes a complaint but rather to flag suspicious behaviour? If your logs are well organised they're not that hard to search. The question is whether the information should be kept at all.
As for your faith in juries I find that laughable. Anyone so much as being accussed of pedophelia publicly becomes a social outcast with zero job prospects, particularly if it receives any media attention. You're naive if you think the police with the powers they are entrusted with are unable to ruin a life.
I saw Sin City and I can honestly say I really don't want to see any more images of Bruce Willis kissing a girl roughly half his age. Icky.
Filter yourself. Take some responsibility for your own actions. If your productivity is affect, not only does your company suffer but so does your own career. Some of us can handle internet access and still get our jobs done. I don't see why every other employee you work with should be filtered just because you have no self control.
I think this kid's parents must be the insurance industry. That's who'll want to use this device.
We already have ways of reporting pedophiles. You can pick up the phone, you can write a letter, or you can walk into a police station. It doesn't need to be made any easier. Why don't people do this? Because their confidence in the police is low. They think the police either won't act for lack of evidence(in which case it can be a waste of time or worse the police might acuse them of making the situation up), or the police may over-react to information given and you could ruin someone's life based on a vague suspicion.
What you need to do is increase confidence in the police by making sure they always respond appropriately to legitimate complaints. Adding a "report a pedo" form is just plain silly.
Thanks for your resume. I don't know why you gave me your resume. I don't have a job to offer you. (I'll admit some of the stuff you're saying you've worked on sounds very cool, particularly the Surveryor, but I don't know you well enough and don't have enough detail to judge any of your work - neither work for prominent organisations nor failed startups).
/. - he should be doing due dilligence. He should be finding out who has done similar (and not on the message board). Anything short of that is negligent. If you want to become a mechanic, you might ask around. But if you've taken on a job or are about to take on paid professional work without being qualified that is incredibly wrong. Asking here doesn't negate that. I wasn't trolling, and it wasn't flame bait. This guy needs someone to tell him to wake up rather than giving him advice on what to use besides virtualisation.
/. is anonymous enough that if you feel the need to criticise someone the least you can do is give them the courtesy of being able to identify you. The irony and hypocrisy of him criticising me for...wait for it...criticising someone is just amazing.
/. is amazing but increasingly I see this. My posts are initially modded up then after some time modded down. At this point the story is getting old so no one is reading it let alone increasingly low rated comments. I quite simply have never trolled or posted just to annoy someone yet I get some of my posts rated flamebait or redundant or overrated...but that's an aside...What really irks me is AC posting. AC has a purpose. If you think you're going to have someone retaliate in some way it pays to post as AC. Anonymity is an important tool for journalism and maintaining freedom. It's not meant to be used for just cheap cowardly shots when the other person cannot and will not retaliate.
Look, it's this simple. The original poster is a paid professional. He should know better than to take on something beyond his abilities and field of expertise. He shouldn't be looking for advice on
Now as to the AC post. I feel that
Sometimes
*sarcasm* Clearly the solution is to not allow hand luggage^H^H^Hbags into Theatres because otherwise the terrorists win.
Trademarks are evil when used like this. You should have to come up with a name for your product that's hard to mistake for common everyday language before you can apply for a trademark. When you do get a trademark it should simply be there to protect some other loser from making an inferior product and trying to pawn it off as your won.
.com boom, and its even less relevant now. The antique shop and the hippy commune would have been just as good an analogy (ie. it isn't good).
Oh, and stop quoting from that essay. The analogy wasn't that good back in the
Is destroying this device considered tampering with evidence... do I have a right to smash up my own car (computer, books, diary, etc.)? If not, I think this intrudes on my property rights
What about your license plate? Do you think you have the right to rip it off your car, smash it to bits, then drive around? I think you'd find yourself in a holding cell and your car impounded the first time a cop drove by. Try explaining your property rights to him. Fact is you give up some of those rights in exchange for use of the road. You're suppose to be doing this in the interest of public safety but it's identifying technology that most people don't argue with the need for. Give it 15 years of having these black boxes in your car and it'll be the same story.
(Aside: I actually installed a "Car Chip" in my car for personal monitoring. Most notably I was surprised at the frequency of "hard accelerations" -- far more than I'd have guessed. The data was charted against distance, and I was able to "see" where I was "hard accelerating". Interestingly after knowing this, and paying more attention to accelerating I self-modified my habits and the mileage for my car (Civic) increased almost 6%.)
I wonder how much you'd like it if insurance companies insisted on having your data, and raised your insurance rate as a result, since they would now have evidence you're an unsafe driver.
If I could have that data stored encrypted and my right not to reveal the data unless I chose to (a signature could ensure authenticity) I might be interested. The trouble with data is that it's only good if you're trying to be objective about what's going on. If you have an agenda like the insurance companies (raising premiums) or the police (issueing fines, demonstrating they're doing their job) and you don't have control over your own data, you'll end up being screwed.
They're trying to create a quantum tunnel into your pocket.
Honestly when I was a kid I very rarely had to use a phone. I always had a time agreed upon with my parents that they would pick me up or I was within walking/biking distance from home. Needing to call to be picked up was a very rare event. I think I only had to call home on a cell phone around 2-3 times.
If cell phones were around when you were young, it's reasonable to assume you still are. Honestly wouldn't you want your kid to be able to call for help if they broke their arm or someone was threatening them etc?
Yes public phones are getting more rare but they should still be in most public places that a teenager would have to call from.
You're basing your views on the way the world SHOULD be????? WHAT THE???? Good luck with that. Good luck when you suffer the consequences and whine about the phone that should've been there for your kid.
The mall, school, movies, there should still be a public phone at those, and even if there is not one available, if they need a ride, there should be a set up time to pick them up from there anyway
Try convincing the phone companies who keep removing phones because most people don't use them...because most people have cell phones. Anyway why should they subsidise your kid when you won't pay for a phone for him?
I have no problem with a kid getting a cell phone for themselves if they wish to and they can pay for it themselves. That is not the issue. I just don't think kids Have to be provided with a cell phone, it is not a necessity, it's a privilege.
It's not a necessity. Neither is health insurance. Neither is an education since you can still get a manual labour job without one. You're going to give your kids just the necessities are you?
Here's an idea. The privellege should be pre-paid phone credit, not the damned phone which should be a tool for you to keep your kid safe.
When the start driving and the car can break down in the middle of nowhere, and when you start letting the kid have more freedom to go places without you knowing their every move then yeah a cell phone is a good thing.
So the only reason you need a cell phone is if your car brakes down. Anyway you're making no sense. One minute you say the kid shouldn't be out on their own, the next you should have a pre-arranged time to meet them when they are. Have you considered how the kid gets to school? Not every kid is dropped off and picked up. There are lots and lots of instances where your kid won't be at home or glued to your side. Breaking down is not the only instance in which a phone is handy for non-social reasons.
It's not treating them like a second class citizen; it's treating them like normal person. It is not an ineffable right of a human being to have a cell phone. They don't have to have their own cell phone to call a friend. There is a phone at home that they can use to call their friends.
!@#!@#$!@#$ calling their friends. I'm not saying it's the kids right to call their friends and run up a $300 phone bill so stop imply that I am. If they want to use the phone for that pre-paid is the way to go and you can say no or make them do chores for that money, or give up other toys/treats/outings. Phones have other uses and since public phones are being removed leaving your kid without a way to call for help when the cost is so small is irresponsible and stupid. Not using the phone as a tool to teach them responsibility is also stupid.
I'm not that old, I only moved out of my parent's house 6 years ago, but I didn't get a cell phone until just earlier this years, and the only reason I did that is because it ended up being cheaper then getting a lan line for the house. Having a cell phone just isn't all the important in the great scheme of things.
Thanks for confirming your age.
This is what's wrong with the world. People only consider their own situation and their own needs and are happy to make value judgements and decisions for the whole world. There are kids
Still a coward I see...
/. - he should be putting together a plan with the help of professionals who know what they're doing. This in contrast is half arsed.
He should also ask how to become an Astronaut, since we all want to be astronauts.
Seriously, it's completely unprofessional and dangerous. He explicitly mentioned a large number of users and shrugged off concerns about bandwidth downloading large files because he's using gigabyte ethernet. He clearly doesn't know what he's on about and will only get the vaguest most varied ideas on
I never once said he should let the company stagnate. I said he should get real professional help instead of asking on a message board.
If you want to reply do me the courtesy of using your ID instead of posting AC. Otherwise I'm not going to bother with another post.
Thank you for posting as AC. Shows you can back up what you say.
You do NOT experiment on this stuff with a large corporate user base. This is not a Uni lab.
The equivalent question in an automotive board would be to say: "I've done a lot of work with my car's electrical system but I've never replaced an engine. Has anyone else done it?".
You're asking for advice on /. suggests you're not qualified.
Several ways to fix this and get qualified:
1) Trial it on a small number of less important users. Get feedback. Make sure you listen to that feedback. Allow a decent period of time for the trial so initial teething problems can be sorted. Allocate sufficient resources to deal with early issues. This is the hard way to learn...through experience.
2) Hire expertise - someone that's done this before, to implement and advise. Make sure it's not a vendor since you won't know if you're being screwed till its too late.
3) Get some training.
DO NOT try to implement this for a large number of users in one hit. You're a fool if you do.
Math is just a specialised and more abstract form of science. To a large degree the distinction between math and science is artificial. Math is really the study of numbers. You still make assumptions (eg. a number is always equal to itself, relationship of a circle's radius to diameter is Pi*r^2). If you ever disproved something so fundamental you'd be back to square one on a lot of things that follow.
Science takes the abstracts and relates them to observed and measured quantities. Eg. law of gravity. Yes there may be a circumstance where the observatrions and a theory don't agree and you find a limit of the theory (or discard it). Yes from there you'd be back to square one with a lot of things. How would that be different to finding a circle where the radius and circumference we're related by Pi*r^2?
Science/Math are the persuit of truth through observation and deduction. The fact that you have to make certain assumptions that do always hold true when formulating a theory is neither here nor there. In a science you're asked to observe that facts that hold true from observation will always hold true because we don't have reliable evidence otherwise, and from there you can build on those assumed truths. If you don't believe a fundamental you're always welcome to test it. In religion you're asked to believe a fairy story without any empirical evidence and if you don't believe it you're judged as bad because you have no faith. There really is no comparison here, and the whole argument that science rests on faith in fundamental unprovables is bollox. Science encourages experimentation and gaining knowledge. Religion encourages ignorance and not challenging a belief that other people have relayed to you. I which of the two I'd rather put my "faith" in.
Reading books and becoming more knowledgable are good things, but I don't think we are all incapable of having a discussion based on our current knowledge.
Tell me when you were a kid, assuming it wasn't too long ago, would you have liked it if they'd removed all the payphones? Well they have been removed on the basis that most people have cell phones.
Why on earth would calling a friend require the same level of maturity as driving a car? Or do you think kids should only be provided with the bare necessities?
I see us increasingly treating children as second class citizens and its downright sickening.
Think about it.
Sorry but you have a very narrow view of the world if you honestly believe all our good software is based on Unix. Some of the software I mentioned (NASAs Apollo software for instance) actually pre-dates Unix.
Tell me why exactly I'm a troll again? A troll is just winding people up. I had an opinion that differs with the article. I don't really care about mod points overmuch except that people do read at +4 and +5. Here on /. I've never had something remain moderated high when there's been even the vaguest hint of a critism of Unix but should that be colouring the opinion that I state?
Simply not true. Watch American Idol for people who've been told they're good at singing but are tone deaf. Someone should have told them they were tone deaf long before they auditioned. Feedback needs to be realistic. I don't understand why people resist the idea that some things are more natural to people than others.