To make a fair assessment, we would need to know what they ran on before. I *can* imagine this being perceived as a better solution than some acient system that hasn't been maintained in ages.
As they will "essentially own the machines", you have no rights to decide what they do with them outside of your network.
Thus, any restrictions that you feel you need to implement, you must do on your network only.
If you dump stuff on the laptops that hamper whatever they want to do when not on your network, they you'll soon find them to have clean installs.
You can of course require some tools on the laptop in order to be allowed on the school network, but at no time should those tools restrict the student's actions outside of the school.
True, but you need to take in the sheer scale of it. If you can double the time it takes to crack a single captcha, then:
a) the price will double, and with it the cost of a given spam campaign;
b) a given farm will see it's capacity halved, and thus only half as much spams will go out in a given period of time;
c) the ROI of a spam campaign, already ridiculously low, will halve as well, thus making it even more expensive
> soon, it will be routine for computers to match or exceed human intelligence.
No. They will (and already do) outperform humans in terms of processing speed applied to given, strictly defined mathematical problems. Intelligence is a wholly different beast.
(I'm open to debate on the specific example you chose, though...)
While those numbers appear quite reasonable to me, I'd still like to see
a) source of those figures
b) comparable figures for other territories, including America
c) sources for those, too.
WikiPedia> During the 19th century, the species went from being one of the most abundant birds in the world to extinction.[5] At the time, passenger pigeons had one of the largest groups or flocks of any animal, second only to the desert locust. They became such a threat to farmers that in 1703 the Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec actually formally excommunicated the species.
I can't imagine the pigeons caring much, really.
Also, where does a mere bishop get the balls to excommunicate an entire species of his master's creation ?
I always find it wonderful when people know exactly what connotations a given word had in some context in a language that hasn't been spoken for over a thousand years.
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> naked with a sheep and a pile of kiwis.
You'll have to make sure the sheep doesn't eat the kiwis before they get discovered.
2**37 = 137438953472 layers
divide by 500 to get packs of paper = 274877906
Approximate thickness of a pack of paper is 6cm, multiply and transform to km = 16.492
Wikipedia puts equator-moon at about 378.000 km
Reversing the calculations yields 58 folds to be a lot closer, at 345.876,45138 km.
To make a fair assessment, we would need to know what they ran on before. I *can* imagine this being perceived as a better solution than some acient system that hasn't been maintained in ages.
As they will "essentially own the machines", you have no rights to decide what they do with them outside of your network.
Thus, any restrictions that you feel you need to implement, you must do on your network only.
If you dump stuff on the laptops that hamper whatever they want to do when not on your network, they you'll soon find them to have clean installs.
You can of course require some tools on the laptop in order to be allowed on the school network, but at no time should those tools restrict the student's actions outside of the school.
> Let's make sure every single story has pointless offtopic threads like this
You must be new here.
(sorry, couldn't help myself)
It's a well-established fact that one-in-a-million chances crop up nine times out of ten.
I believe the correct form is this:
They might be related, but you won't know for sure until you get off your arse and do the numbers.
True, but you need to take in the sheer scale of it. If you can double the time it takes to crack a single captcha, then:
a) the price will double, and with it the cost of a given spam campaign;
b) a given farm will see it's capacity halved, and thus only half as much spams will go out in a given period of time;
c) the ROI of a spam campaign, already ridiculously low, will halve as well, thus making it even more expensive
> soon, it will be routine for computers to match or exceed human intelligence.
No. They will (and already do) outperform humans in terms of processing speed applied to given, strictly defined mathematical problems. Intelligence is a wholly different beast.
(I'm open to debate on the specific example you chose, though...)
Yes, but *this* Is SPARTA !
How about post-natal birth control ?
While those numbers appear quite reasonable to me, I'd still like to see
a) source of those figures
b) comparable figures for other territories, including America
c) sources for those, too.
Cleaning of the gene pool.
"medical street cred", now there's a phrase with interesting visuals.
Live food provisioning for captive predators ?
Lunchmeat is definitely an illusion.
They would never !
WikiPedia> During the 19th century, the species went from being one of the most abundant birds in the world to extinction.[5] At the time, passenger pigeons had one of the largest groups or flocks of any animal, second only to the desert locust. They became such a threat to farmers that in 1703 the Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec actually formally excommunicated the species.
I can't imagine the pigeons caring much, really.
Also, where does a mere bishop get the balls to excommunicate an entire species of his master's creation ?
I always find it wonderful when people know exactly what connotations a given word had in some context in a language that hasn't been spoken for over a thousand years.
I think we left them in the same folder as the guantanamo ones.
Am I the only one who misread that as 'crowdSURFING' ?
11 million sounds way past a reasonable attempt, to me.
Well, Douglas Adams famously enjoyed deadlines... :-)
> I tend to know a bit more than the average idiot
Did you just admit to being an above average idiot?
(sorry, couldn't help myself :-) )