Its true, they've basically de-valued A-levels (which will surely bite them in the arse when universities and businesses start upping their standards).
If I remember right the problem with school is distractions and discipline - you're either talking to your mates in class or day-dreaming about fucking the girl in the front row (kids need to loose their virginity at 16 period) and homework is something you 'do later'. Schools need to scrap this idea that teachers are somehow responsible for making kids behave - let the teachers concentrate on teaching and hire security to deal with the rest - if someone is disrupting the class give them one warning and then call security to have them removed. If people don't do their homework, don't shout at them, just write the zero and eventually they will understand - childhood is about making the mistakes that would get you fired in adulthood.
Doing this will take so much stress of teachers, imagine the teacher not shouting for a whole year! - they will be better at teaching and the kids will respect them more.
Coursework is about the only time you actually get to think for yourself and be creative but if parents do the work then thats that one out of the window. Its amazing how some people can get great marks but if you ask them a simple question they don't know - thats called 'memorising the facts'.
Do you think anyone's told him its not going to work and that breathalysers are already here and are harder to trick? Maybe if it added fingerprint scanning and electrical resistance testing to make sure you were really putting your hands on it.
At the end of the day, its totally your fault because you're the one who parks the car sober and walks into the bar.
Totally agree, especially save points, and tedious tasks - if i wan't to do boring and repetitive work i'll get a boring and repetitive job. I don't want to earn virtual money, unlock virtual levels or do any sort of 'work' unless it involves blowing things up, shooting stuff or moving at high speed. If a game has a story it should keep me on the edge of my seat at every second wondering what will happen next, if it makes me kick my console in rage because i have to repeat 20 minutes or drive to some obscure location 10 miles away that i already drove to 20 times then its failed.
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damn, i knew it was too good to be true, thats what comes from not RTFA. but my point remains valid..
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This technology is going to be abused so much by parents. Especially from more draconian cultures (*cough* Saudi Arabia *cough*). Even if laws give people the right not to be tracked it won't be enough to stop this. However its likely that many workarounds will be found, and once that happens the technology will become useless again. The evil part of me would have loved to set up a company producing this for the world-wide market (you only need to bother with the womens line), id have the added feature that the device would give an increasing electric shock the closer the wearer got to a police station. Wow exploitation is profitable!
I'm assuming that students knew they would have to wait for the results, reasonable expectation of privacy would be expected and if you figured out that you could change the URL to get this information which was not otherwise posted or linked then you would be snooping. But this isn't a legal issue, if you snooped around someone's desk you probably wouldn't be breaking the law, but you could expect them to be pissed off and its the same in this case - they certainly weren't breaking the law, but they should have given it a few seconds thought. Even the people who looked after the URL was posted knew that this was a mistake and shouldn't be available to them.
The problem is that on the Internet your desk is basically a reception desk that anyone can walk past. If you leave something on the counter you can't expect privacy, but if you leave it under the counter or in a draw, you have reasonable expectation that no-one will lean over the counter while you're away. However if someone does, then you are both in trouble because it's your incompetence for not locking it away. If you have a private office you can expect the people you invite in to be more trust worthy, but the principle still applies if someone leans over your desk - if you don't want people to see it, keep it secure.
The issue is that Stanford regards this as the equivalent of being asked to wait at an office while someone is away and quickly taking a peek at the list of results lying on their desk. They clearly expected reasonable privacy and you knowingly violated that privacy, now imagine if that list was turned over face-down, or if it it was in a folder or a draw, the violation would be even clearer. Translating this to the Internet is hard and debatable: the user was 'logged in' (aka invited into the admissions office), the information should have been secured, but then the piece of paper should at least have been turned face down or put in a draw. If they hadn't been logged on it would have made a slight difference, at the end of the day, both parties are in the wrong - Stanford failed to use basic security and the students took advantage of that failure. Typing a URL should never be illegal, but the actions you choose to make in front of people who will decide your admission to a university will obviously affect their decision, if you told them to fuck themselves would you expect to be accepted?
They had weather radar before that showed this just as clearly and there's no reason why any extra patches couldn't be added to the old map. Also they can localise forecasts to different regions like they do with news. UK development would be nice considering its my area of work and most people want to keep jobs from going overseas.
Because the the lowest common denominator can't understand anything thats not in 3D, I think they should have 2 separate forecasts, one would be the classic decent forecast and the other would be the totally dumbed down forecast with bikini weather girls and the 3D map would be on the virtual floor so they would have to bend over to point, the 3D rain would be replaced by real rain from carefully controlled nozels so that if it was going to rain you would still have the consolation of seeing the weather girl get wet.
Yes I think they need a big overhaul on it. You shouldn't dumb down TV just because you think the masses would understand it more - fuck the masses, if they can't handle seeing isobars on screen for 10 seconds then they need to be put down. TV should be at a higher level to encourage people to learn.
Old map: -Already paid for -No complaints -Lots of information/not dumbed down -World famous
New map -£1 million -No-one can understand it -Scotland feels left out -Obviously dumbed down, less information -World suddenly turns off BBC -Has no style, doesn't fit BBC graphics style -Linux rules -Not even developed in the UK!
Like other people said, everyone hates it. Those old weather icons were classics - they could have used those in the new system, and what's with the captions at the bottom - they look nothing like the rest of the channel style its as if a fucking 8 year old was given the task of customising this system. The brown/green colour of the map is totally wrong, use the same green as before! (that was a proper map green), the rain looks cool but just doesn't work, use little rain icons so people can understand what's land and what isn't. It just pisses me off that they wasted several million on this piece of shit, Linux or not, it sucks and is a total waste of money replacing something that didn't even look out-dated (because it was so well designed). Now ITV looks better! Seriously you don't mess with an Englishman's weather map...
Pah the 'constitution' that things 200 years old, does it have any relevance in today's world? do laws about wearing hats on a Sunday have any relevance in today's world? no. Terrorism changed the rules when it was invented on 9/11, you have to loose your freedoms if we are to catch them and the leader can't do that if he has to listen to stupid human rights hippies. We have to round up anyone who looks like a traitor or a terrorist or a commie and put them in the intensive interrogation camp to find out what they are planning.
Dividing government into executive, legislative and judicial is a bureaucracy that helps only the terrorists. The president should have the power to do absolutely anything and anyone who disagrees is a traitor.
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Its true, they've basically de-valued A-levels (which will surely bite them in the arse when universities and businesses start upping their standards).
If I remember right the problem with school is distractions and discipline - you're either talking to your mates in class or day-dreaming about fucking the girl in the front row (kids need to loose their virginity at 16 period) and homework is something you 'do later'. Schools need to scrap this idea that teachers are somehow responsible for making kids behave - let the teachers concentrate on teaching and hire security to deal with the rest - if someone is disrupting the class give them one warning and then call security to have them removed. If people don't do their homework, don't shout at them, just write the zero and eventually they will understand - childhood is about making the mistakes that would get you fired in adulthood.
Doing this will take so much stress of teachers, imagine the teacher not shouting for a whole year! - they will be better at teaching and the kids will respect them more.
Coursework is about the only time you actually get to think for yourself and be creative but if parents do the work then thats that one out of the window. Its amazing how some people can get great marks but if you ask them a simple question they don't know - thats called 'memorising the facts'.
Yeah, uhuh, really looks like they've come up with something solid this time!
Damn I need to get into this DRM developing scam, theres hot profits to be had..
The US is so democratic its democratised itself into a dictatorship...
Well yeah but you have to remember that all this is about fighting terrorism.
If they hate our freedom the only way we can stop them is buy taking away our freedom.
I would have loved to have seen his face when he realised this after 3 years of R&D.
Do you think anyone's told him its not going to work and that breathalysers are already here and are harder to trick? Maybe if it added fingerprint scanning and electrical resistance testing to make sure you were really putting your hands on it.
At the end of the day, its totally your fault because you're the one who parks the car sober and walks into the bar.
Totally agree, especially save points, and tedious tasks - if i wan't to do boring and repetitive work i'll get a boring and repetitive job. I don't want to earn virtual money, unlock virtual levels or do any sort of 'work' unless it involves blowing things up, shooting stuff or moving at high speed. If a game has a story it should keep me on the edge of my seat at every second wondering what will happen next, if it makes me kick my console in rage because i have to repeat 20 minutes or drive to some obscure location 10 miles away that i already drove to 20 times then its failed.
good point..
damn, i knew it was too good to be true, thats what comes from not RTFA. but my point remains valid..
This technology is going to be abused so much by parents. Especially from more draconian cultures (*cough* Saudi Arabia *cough*). Even if laws give people the right not to be tracked it won't be enough to stop this. However its likely that many workarounds will be found, and once that happens the technology will become useless again. The evil part of me would have loved to set up a company producing this for the world-wide market (you only need to bother with the womens line), id have the added feature that the device would give an increasing electric shock the closer the wearer got to a police station. Wow exploitation is profitable!
I'm assuming that students knew they would have to wait for the results, reasonable expectation of privacy would be expected and if you figured out that you could change the URL to get this information which was not otherwise posted or linked then you would be snooping. But this isn't a legal issue, if you snooped around someone's desk you probably wouldn't be breaking the law, but you could expect them to be pissed off and its the same in this case - they certainly weren't breaking the law, but they should have given it a few seconds thought. Even the people who looked after the URL was posted knew that this was a mistake and shouldn't be available to them.
The problem is that on the Internet your desk is basically a reception desk that anyone can walk past. If you leave something on the counter you can't expect privacy, but if you leave it under the counter or in a draw, you have reasonable expectation that no-one will lean over the counter while you're away. However if someone does, then you are both in trouble because it's your incompetence for not locking it away. If you have a private office you can expect the people you invite in to be more trust worthy, but the principle still applies if someone leans over your desk - if you don't want people to see it, keep it secure.
Well ive never gained privileged financial and technical data from that? Am I missing something?
everything, this is a local island for local people..
In the US you don't have that right.
The issue is that Stanford regards this as the equivalent of being asked to wait at an office while someone is away and quickly taking a peek at the list of results lying on their desk. They clearly expected reasonable privacy and you knowingly violated that privacy, now imagine if that list was turned over face-down, or if it it was in a folder or a draw, the violation would be even clearer. Translating this to the Internet is hard and debatable: the user was 'logged in' (aka invited into the admissions office), the information should have been secured, but then the piece of paper should at least have been turned face down or put in a draw. If they hadn't been logged on it would have made a slight difference, at the end of the day, both parties are in the wrong - Stanford failed to use basic security and the students took advantage of that failure. Typing a URL should never be illegal, but the actions you choose to make in front of people who will decide your admission to a university will obviously affect their decision, if you told them to fuck themselves would you expect to be accepted?
They had weather radar before that showed this just as clearly and there's no reason why any extra patches couldn't be added to the old map. Also they can localise forecasts to different regions like they do with news. UK development would be nice considering its my area of work and most people want to keep jobs from going overseas.
Why not just transmit different weather forecasts for different areas so they can show that region zoomed in? They do it for news...
Because the the lowest common denominator can't understand anything thats not in 3D, I think they should have 2 separate forecasts, one would be the classic decent forecast and the other would be the totally dumbed down forecast with bikini weather girls and the 3D map would be on the virtual floor so they would have to bend over to point, the 3D rain would be replaced by real rain from carefully controlled nozels so that if it was going to rain you would still have the consolation of seeing the weather girl get wet.
Yes I think they need a big overhaul on it. You shouldn't dumb down TV just because you think the masses would understand it more - fuck the masses, if they can't handle seeing isobars on screen for 10 seconds then they need to be put down. TV should be at a higher level to encourage people to learn.
I love the BBC's cost analysis:
Old map:
-Already paid for
-No complaints
-Lots of information/not dumbed down
-World famous
New map
-£1 million
-No-one can understand it
-Scotland feels left out
-Obviously dumbed down, less information
-World suddenly turns off BBC
-Has no style, doesn't fit BBC graphics style
-Linux rules
-Not even developed in the UK!
Like other people said, everyone hates it. Those old weather icons were classics - they could have used those in the new system, and what's with the captions at the bottom - they look nothing like the rest of the channel style its as if a fucking 8 year old was given the task of customising this system. The brown/green colour of the map is totally wrong, use the same green as before! (that was a proper map green), the rain looks cool but just doesn't work, use little rain icons so people can understand what's land and what isn't. It just pisses me off that they wasted several million on this piece of shit, Linux or not, it sucks and is a total waste of money replacing something that didn't even look out-dated (because it was so well designed). Now ITV looks better! Seriously you don't mess with an Englishman's weather map...
Now imagine embedding this RFID tag in a real mouse and putting your mouse-mat in the cage... useful for key generation maybe?
Pah the 'constitution' that things 200 years old, does it have any relevance in today's world? do laws about wearing hats on a Sunday have any relevance in today's world? no. Terrorism changed the rules when it was invented on 9/11, you have to loose your freedoms if we are to catch them and the leader can't do that if he has to listen to stupid human rights hippies. We have to round up anyone who looks like a traitor or a terrorist or a commie and put them in the intensive interrogation camp to find out what they are planning.
Because they have a monopoly and because theres probably something in it for them from the entertainment industry..
Dividing government into executive, legislative and judicial is a bureaucracy that helps only the terrorists. The president should have the power to do absolutely anything and anyone who disagrees is a traitor.