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  1. Re: degrees are theory loaded with limited real us on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What he/she implies is not "theories are wrong", but it's only theories. literally, you learn mostly just theories.

    Let's say we teach a kid about a tomato. We teach them that it's a fruit, it's part of the family Solanaceae, and it's called Solanum [I can't read] lycopersicum.

    The kid learned a lot, but none of those directly lead to practical use. The kid more or less wouldn't know how to prepare the tomato for the salad.

    College degrees are exactly like that. We learned everything about the tomato except the practical stuff. That's why it's only theories.

  2. Want to know the future? Look at what college kids are doing.

    Getting STDs, doing it with minorities and wearing some cloths sometimes.

    FTFY

  3. Re:just take the PC on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Better pack my 65" TV with me them.

  4. Re:Do it the old fashioned way... on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, at least you're a doctor that can decrypt your encrypted writing.

    I couldn't even get mine to decrypt after I encrypted them.

  5. Real people with any education, a normal work history and a normal life should have no issues with any of the questions.

    I can't recall a lot of stuff from the list. Maybe I'm one of those Fake people.

  6. Officer: Ticket please.
    Me: [Put my face down on the table]
    Officer:[stamps my face]
    Officer: You're good to go. Next Please!

  7. well, as long as you didn't say that you're a registered and licensed professionally qualified state of the art philosophiae doctor, we can still assume that you're a guy who almost not even close to being registered and completely not recognized or known by anyone doctor.

  8. This is surely a triumph for sanitation engineers everywhere!

    They are actually programmers.

  9. Re:IN APP PURCHASE - WORSE SCAM EVER on Amazon Is Refunding Up To $70 Million In-App Purchases Made By Kids (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's kind of like selling a potato for $0.99 vs a bag with 10 potatoes for $4.99.

    There are a lot of people that thinks the $0.99 potato is better. All because they are in a mix of ignorant, stupid and bad at foreseeing future cost. They also think that $0.99 is better than $1, even when it becomes $1 after sells tax rounding numbers.

    So these free apps are just the result of those people earning them profits, including ignorant parents letting their kids buy in-apps items.

  10. You mean Free Getting Hacked Service! on US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is /. and on the tech section. How can no one think of people adding in keyloggers in software and/or hardware to the rented laptop to get more money?

  11. Anyway, the bottom line is that there are good (to hardware engineers) reasons to lose the [insert phone feature], and I suspect that you're going to find it increasingly hard to find phones that have one. Not right away, but in a few years.

    A few potential examples:
    -Camera (too big, too hard to fit better lens, remove it and replace with adopter camera)
    -Fingerprint reader (too big, wasting space, use the touch monitor as fingerprint reader)
    -Speaker (too big, too hard to put in high quality speaker, remove it and replace with Bluetooth speaker)
    -Buttons (wasting space, buttons like power & vol up and down take space, use the touch monitor virtual buttons)
    -Phone Cover (too thick, it takes away hardware space, replace with thin paper)
    -Battery (too big, it takes 1/2 the size of the phone, directly cut it in half)

    Your argument might as well proves removing plenty of other features reasonable.

  12. It Didn't Matter on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The AI grading machine will still give you a D- regardless of your effort unless you've managed to exploit a zero-day on the program to change the grade.

  13. Re:People Don't Demand Better on For Video Soundtracks, Computers Are the New Composers (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    He is right and wrong at the same time. People don't care about the music, but they do care about the feel from a music. This is why a well placed mistake that changed the music didn't matter, because it didn't change the feel.

    Search for "epic drummer" on youtube or something and listen to it. It should be quick to realize what we human actually look for in music.

    It is unfortunate but computer can at one point compose for us. It's just a matter of time, and I hope it lasts a bit longer before the whole music industry comes crashing down.

  14. You Can Already Do That on Intel's Super Portable Compute Card Could Be Your Real Pocket PC (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    For Windows - Search for "Windows to go" and get Windows Enterprise 8/8.1/10 along with a high speed usb device / hard drive. Just plug in and boot up, all your portable programs will be on it.

    For Mac - Search "Installing OS X on an external volume" and get a high speed usb device / hard drive. This only works on mac device but select usb device and it will boot up with all your programs.

    For Linux - Search for "linux usb persistent" and create a usb for that.

  15. "Hey IT, can you fix my outlook? It's not working."
    "Sure"

    "Hey IT, can you fix my chair? It's not working."
    "sure"

    "Hey IT, can you fix my fridge? It's not working."
    "err...sure"

    "Hey IT, can you fix my A/C? It's not working."
    "Just to say, I'm not the guy that fixes A/C."
    "Can you also fix my fan? It's not working."
    "...sure"

  16. Damn kids, stop using my "password" as your password.

    It's my "password" not your "password".

  17. Snowball Effect Paused on China Censored Google's AlphaGo Match Against World's Best Go Player (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    While it is to an extent censorship, it is also their temporary measure to stop a potentially deadly snowball effect.

    Surely there aren't any Professional Go players on slashdot, but do imagine what happen if you've putted in 30 years for a job and found out today it is irrelevant? You will be in despair and so will your colleagues.

    It's not healthy to cause a chain reaction that result in no more new Go players being encouraged to join the competition.

    In fact, I highly doubt even google's researchers have any idea what they have done. They've made an AI great at winning, they've already proved AI potential. Now what? Winning all the world's game and destroying the Go's market? Go players play to win, everyone else supports them to see a competitive game. Google's AI encourages neither. It wins all of them (no player gets to win), and wins too much (3-0 again, boring).

    If Google wants AI to be in Go's competition, it needs AI vs AI competition. At the current state, even China knew AI vs Player could potentially destroy their markets, so for them to do something to pause against the effect is somewhat expected.

  18. I knew it! on Tech-Savvy Workers Increasingly Common in Non-IT Roles (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Every walking grannies in a suit and Facebook loving officers are really secret IT's.

    They install Linux, use encryption, browse through security channel and most of all backup their files all the time!

  19. Racing Against Time, not really on French Researchers Find Last-ditch Cure To Unlock WannaCry Files (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The victims might be watching the timer, but the researchers can change the BIOS clock and create backups for their research.

  20. Re:Kodi boxes on Netflix Says No To Unlocked Android Smartphones (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    The average user wouldn't be rooting their phone, so the average user wouldn't need to verify any signature.

    Back to topic, if a user needs to verify that the app isn't malware, all they need to do is
    a. officially install it on another phone, backup the apk and install it on the rooted phone
    b. unroot the phone, install the app and re-root the phone

  21. Re:Personal Experience on 'The Traditional Lecture Is Dead' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to say readable content isn't great, but there are contents that do have the benefit of learned from video.

    This included contents that requires information processing. For example, like matrix calculation and mathematical proves where you can't just pull out the same equation and call it a day. You need logic analysis and study the results. Video learning can provide some space for the logic analysis as the professor often has to express simply and verbally.

  22. The most optimized way to create a UI that works on all the different input devices is by using an always random well placed UI.

    It'll ensure that the users will always be highly interactive as they literally have to search the right buttons everywhere every time and avoid muscle memories.

    Also, remember to switch the "OK" and "Cancel" UI every other times. This will greatly stimulate the user's emotion.

    For the best results, swap the UI functions opposite to the UI, like "Cancel" is actually "Submit" and "Close" means "Restart and Upgrade". Oh wait...

  23. Microsoft for once get one good job on Windows 10 On ARM Will Support x86 Apps From Outside the Store (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    I give you half a clap, for being too late at adding this in Windows RT and basically everything Microsoft did to chase Google/Apple in the mobile ecosystem.

    Part of the reason Windows 7 became the successor to windows xp and windows vista is the "xp mode". A VM designed to be well integrated lay for previous software compatibility.

    This ARM emulator layer might not be prefect or even fully feasible, but it should be good enough to actually put consumers on ARM windows. It will also retain some windows developers from leaving windows as the market shift to mobile. Not that I encourage any of that because Microsoft been a d**k pushing people to Windows 10.

    Unfortunately at the current stage, it's only making windows on mobile semi-relevant as a lot of consumers and developers have already left windows.

  24. Re:think of the children ! on The FBI Defends Deploying Malware From A Tor Child Porn Site (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't for say you must save the child but there is incentive in both emotional and general logic reasons to save the child first.

    Emotional reason is obvious. You've cared for Y for X amount of time, you receive emotional happiness being with Y and pain if you haven't saved Y in a life-death case. As a result to feel better, you end up saving Y. In most cases, Y is a child from the parent, a sibling from a sister, an elder from a loyal adult, a wife from the husband and could also be non-living creatures. In short, child and elderly (sometimes woman) became priorities to be saved due to emotional investment.

    General logic reason is based on the life span of animal groups. We haven't created something that could extend life to infinite, so we need new generation of humans to take our place. The longer we live the shorter the remaining life span we have. For adults, that usually mean shorter remaining life span. For child, that mean longer potential remaining life span. As a result, it is better to save the child than the adult to increase life span of the group.

    Another general logic reason is based on the animal group survival. We could let the weak die (child and elder) and keep the strong (adults), but what if you 'could' save both? Based on survival, the more members of your group you can save, the more likely your group can survive with more available resources. As a result, protecting the weak for a potential to save both became better than leaving the weak to surely die and saving only the strong (even though natural selection still remove the weakest in the end).

    To look at the counter argument, we could look at your reason, a detailed logic reason. If for a case that you can only save a professor in medical or a child with no benefits, it became a calculated decision. If Z is better than Y in value, then save Z. Else if Y is better than Z in value, then save Y. This is still a valid reason. However unlike the previous general logical reasons, you need to know ahead that the person was of value, while the general logic is based without specific knowledge of the person.

    There you have it, the reasons why the child is often saved first.

    Personally, if there is a rock and a kid on my lawn, I'll pick the rock first. Then I can throw the rock to the kid to get him off my lawn.

  25. For the First Time in Forever on WhatsApp Users Are Reporting Outages Worldwide (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    People walked outside to say "What's up" to other people.