More realistically, it would probably help a great deal to have contractual security requirements in the standard contracts that upstream providers, in the same way that they currently have anti-spam clauses. If the little guys can't afford to employ people knowledgeable about security - big deal - they should just rent secure boxes or virtual hosts from their upstream provider instead! Sure it will raise initial costs, but it's in the companies' own interests because it makes them less likely to be bankrupted by getting rooted!
Can you give a reference for this please? Or is it just one of those myths that have sprung up around him - due to the fact that establishment commentators are fond of disparaging him (those who mention him or his work at all)?
I tried that but couldn't get it to work - it kept breaking off the connection as soon as I tried to connect. I have a work box directly connected to the net (pretty much), but at home I'm behind a lame-o NAT firewall thingy which only seems to allow through HTTP (via a proxy at wwwcache.lancs.ac.uk , which appears to be running squid), and ssh/telnet to the campus central server. It would be really useful to get HTTPTunnel to work - I could run filesharing, for one thing!
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Affirmative action based on race for example affirms the validity on generalizing about a person's circumstances and abilities
Not necessarily. Some 'liberal' philosophers justify affirmative action on the basis that at a collective level, it goes some way towards redressing injustices - even though - and they actually admit this - it is unfair to some/many individuals. This sounds bogus to me.
I saw one of the ladies on Television telling a story of how she was told she would never move up in the company. That story did not sound like her boss was being racist, just sounded like he was trying to motivate her.
That doesn't sound like a very good way to motivate someone! Are you sure you didn't mean demotivate?
Java the fully working and transparent VM
behind the scenes of every real Winblows/Linux/BSD/BeOS/Solaris is a figment of Java developers' imaginations.
What are you getting at? So it has bugs - so does every other platform! Never mind cross-platform, even Windows doesn't run consistently on all hardware configurations! So your point is what? Details please.
[You can remedy such failures so easily with VM defaults but
you don't. Why? --- A question to the Java community.]
What the hell are you talking about? As for CLASSPATH issues, for example, I think you'll find Java Web Start is one way of solving that problem. It certainly isn't an inherent limitation of Java, so what's your point?
Do adolescents get into computers because they don't get along and don't understand why, so turn to computers (books, D&D, whatever) as something they can understand/master? Or do adolescents who get into computers/whatever use up so much brain capacity with intellectually challenging tasks they can't learn how to interact with others?
In my own case, I'd say neither. I've been pretty antisocial since as long as I can remember (since I was 5) - got a bit less weird at 16 or so, but still often prefer my own company. I only got serious about computers when I was 7 or 8 (not due to lack of enthusiasm but due to parent's and school's lack of money). So clearly computing interests didn't cause antisocial tendencies in my case.
On the other hand, I'm almost as sure I didn't "turn to computers" as an alternative to what I "failed at" - socialising. What makes me think this is, as I became significantly more socially-integrated as I got older, I didn't start losing interest in computers - quite the contrary! Took a degree in it and now doing a PhD.
I'd suggest a common cause as an explanation for the observed correlation (which is not a perfect correlation, by any means, of course) - something like a gene (or environmental stimulus) leading to greater development in "logical", "intellectual" aspects of the mind and simultaneously lesser development in other aspects, like social skills. But that's just pure speculation, of course. I put it forward merely because people often tend to fall into ruts in thinking and miss certain possibilities worth considering, like common causes instead of either "A causes B" or "B causes A".
You obviously have a problem with inferiority, like many people. I read this comment and I admired him. It was relevant, on-topic, inspiring and said something (when taken together with lots of other homeschooling experiences) rather interesting about prevailing education dogmas.
And yes I am a socialist. I am against only unjustified forms of superiority.
In order to succeed in life you need to know everything about everything.
Uhhhhh.... Do I need to know the precise mass of the Milky Way to succeed in life? I think not.
This kid still has 6 years before he can get a job at Dairy Queen. Who cares about programming?
The kid does, the parents do, the tutor does, and the potential employers do care about getting very gifted students started early. So, I think pretty much everyone involved cares about it. Did you even read the question?
Guess what, EVERY kid has that potential.
What, even mentally retarded children? It's a serious question.
This is just like the far-right-wing bullshit that says everyone has the potential to become independently wealthy (and those who don't are just lazy).
You've gotta admit that a sufficiently huge differrence in intelligence must translate into a difference in potential, given the reality of the world we live in (e.g. we just don't know how to "cure" all forms of "learning difficulties" etc.) So I think you're not just wrong on a technicality, you're very wrong.
And then you've gotta take into account probability. Even if it is "possible" that an "apparently stupid" kid could grow into a whizzkid programmer, you'd probably have better luck with a kid for whom there is some evidence to suggest that they'd do well. Maybe not. But probably.
The computer is a really
powerful tool, but that is all it is--A TOOL. The child must be taught that, before he gets sucked into it
permanently.
I don't get the meaning of this either. Of course the kid knows it's a tool - and not, say, a deity. What more is there to say? Okay, don't get too addicted - but I don't see how saying "it's only a tool" would help, because even now if you said to me "it's only a tool" I would be bemused as to what you were trying to get at.
Rather than being interpreted, as Java applets normally are, Juice always compiles each applet into the native code of the target machine before it begins execution.
Java hasn't been "normally interpreted" for several years now.
I pointed this out, using the example of Society/History/Science
as an example (the category where I started editing), many times over a period of about two years.
I can't really sympathise. If you started editing there, why didn't you clean it up yourself? Why didn't you add sites of good quality? If there aren't any sites of good quality on history of science on the web, that's hardly ODP's fault. If there are, why didn't you add them?
It should be apparent to anyone knowledgeable in the history of science that this category is of very bad quality.
Care to elaborate? I'm not very knowledgeable in the history of science, but it looks okay to me. The main category is full of odds and ends, but you've got to expect that when most sciences fit into neat little boxes - all you're left over with is the obscure things and things that don't fit. Apart from the inclusion of phrenology (hah!) I can't see anything wrong with it (the main category, that is).
The sites I have submitted in the past (several times) seem to
just disappear into the ozone and never make it into the directory.
It's quite normal nowadays for sites to take weeks to be reviewed - we don't have enough active editors in some areas.
The category I was trying to submit to said it needed an editor. I submitted an application and was rejected within an hour...twice.
We don't take just anyone. For instance, you have to have good spelling and grammar, you have to take due care in filling out the form, and you have to demonstrate some sort of familiarity with the subject matter.
Our metas (editor application reviewers) are hand-picked from the ranks of the long-serving editors, so they know what editing's about and they're not stupid. Since the meta has never met you, think about it - it is highly unlikely that they rejected you out of malice. Probably there was something wrong with your application.
What was the category, by the way, and what did you put on your application form (roughly)?
Everything in these two statements is wrong, assuming that you do not mean "simulation" when you refer to them performing.
No, even if he means simulation, he's still lost the plot. A sufficiently accurate simulation of a human brain would pass the Turing Test and would hence possess to all intents and purposes human-level intelligence (if not consciousness). But clearly, nobody is anywhere near creating a sufficiently accurate simulation of the brain, let alone understanding it in sufficient detail.
You don't need PartitionMagic, you just need fdisk (and maybe some floppies or something if you want to backup partitions). Besides, I doubt PartitionMagic would even run on such an ancient machine.
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Come to think of it, it probably isn't.
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That isn't one of them. :-)
Not necessarily. Some 'liberal' philosophers justify affirmative action on the basis that at a collective level, it goes some way towards redressing injustices - even though - and they actually admit this - it is unfair to some/many individuals. This sounds bogus to me.
That doesn't sound like a very good way to motivate someone! Are you sure you didn't mean demotivate?
What are you getting at? So it has bugs - so does every other platform! Never mind cross-platform, even Windows doesn't run consistently on all hardware configurations! So your point is what? Details please.
[You can remedy such failures so easily with VM defaults but you don't. Why? --- A question to the Java community.]
What the hell are you talking about? As for CLASSPATH issues, for example, I think you'll find Java Web Start is one way of solving that problem. It certainly isn't an inherent limitation of Java, so what's your point?
In my own case, I'd say neither. I've been pretty antisocial since as long as I can remember (since I was 5) - got a bit less weird at 16 or so, but still often prefer my own company. I only got serious about computers when I was 7 or 8 (not due to lack of enthusiasm but due to parent's and school's lack of money). So clearly computing interests didn't cause antisocial tendencies in my case.
On the other hand, I'm almost as sure I didn't "turn to computers" as an alternative to what I "failed at" - socialising. What makes me think this is, as I became significantly more socially-integrated as I got older, I didn't start losing interest in computers - quite the contrary! Took a degree in it and now doing a PhD.
I'd suggest a common cause as an explanation for the observed correlation (which is not a perfect correlation, by any means, of course) - something like a gene (or environmental stimulus) leading to greater development in "logical", "intellectual" aspects of the mind and simultaneously lesser development in other aspects, like social skills. But that's just pure speculation, of course. I put it forward merely because people often tend to fall into ruts in thinking and miss certain possibilities worth considering, like common causes instead of either "A causes B" or "B causes A".
And yes I am a socialist. I am against only unjustified forms of superiority.
Uhhhhh.... Do I need to know the precise mass of the Milky Way to succeed in life? I think not.
This kid still has 6 years before he can get a job at Dairy Queen. Who cares about programming?
The kid does, the parents do, the tutor does, and the potential employers do care about getting very gifted students started early. So, I think pretty much everyone involved cares about it. Did you even read the question?
Guess what, EVERY kid has that potential.
What, even mentally retarded children? It's a serious question.
This is just like the far-right-wing bullshit that says everyone has the potential to become independently wealthy (and those who don't are just lazy).
You've gotta admit that a sufficiently huge differrence in intelligence must translate into a difference in potential, given the reality of the world we live in (e.g. we just don't know how to "cure" all forms of "learning difficulties" etc.) So I think you're not just wrong on a technicality, you're very wrong.
And then you've gotta take into account probability. Even if it is "possible" that an "apparently stupid" kid could grow into a whizzkid programmer, you'd probably have better luck with a kid for whom there is some evidence to suggest that they'd do well. Maybe not. But probably.
The computer is a really powerful tool, but that is all it is--A TOOL. The child must be taught that, before he gets sucked into it permanently.
I don't get the meaning of this either. Of course the kid knows it's a tool - and not, say, a deity. What more is there to say? Okay, don't get too addicted - but I don't see how saying "it's only a tool" would help, because even now if you said to me "it's only a tool" I would be bemused as to what you were trying to get at.
Are you on crack?
Rather than being interpreted, as Java applets normally are, Juice always compiles each applet into the native code of the target machine before it begins execution.
Java hasn't been "normally interpreted" for several years now.
I can't really sympathise. If you started editing there, why didn't you clean it up yourself? Why didn't you add sites of good quality? If there aren't any sites of good quality on history of science on the web, that's hardly ODP's fault. If there are, why didn't you add them?
It should be apparent to anyone knowledgeable in the history of science that this category is of very bad quality.
Care to elaborate? I'm not very knowledgeable in the history of science, but it looks okay to me. The main category is full of odds and ends, but you've got to expect that when most sciences fit into neat little boxes - all you're left over with is the obscure things and things that don't fit. Apart from the inclusion of phrenology (hah!) I can't see anything wrong with it (the main category, that is).
It's quite normal nowadays for sites to take weeks to be reviewed - we don't have enough active editors in some areas.
The category I was trying to submit to said it needed an editor. I submitted an application and was rejected within an hour...twice.
We don't take just anyone. For instance, you have to have good spelling and grammar, you have to take due care in filling out the form, and you have to demonstrate some sort of familiarity with the subject matter.
Our metas (editor application reviewers) are hand-picked from the ranks of the long-serving editors, so they know what editing's about and they're not stupid. Since the meta has never met you, think about it - it is highly unlikely that they rejected you out of malice. Probably there was something wrong with your application.
What was the category, by the way, and what did you put on your application form (roughly)?
--
Robin Green
ODP editall "greenrd"
It was a great idea, but they blew it.
In what ways?
Large parts of the directory sucks badly, and it is not going to improve.
Why not?--
Robin Green
ODP editall "greenrd"
No, even if he means simulation, he's still lost the plot. A sufficiently accurate simulation of a human brain would pass the Turing Test and would hence possess to all intents and purposes human-level intelligence (if not consciousness). But clearly, nobody is anywhere near creating a sufficiently accurate simulation of the brain, let alone understanding it in sufficient detail.
Use Tripwire. It doesn't give you certainty but it helps.
I should have known you were lying when you promised to quit Slashdot forever.