She obtained a high-visibility job that put her in a the position to affect the lives of thousands of applicants by intentionally and significantly lying to get her job - and now she and others want to call it an itty-bitty mistake - but only after she was caught of course. A lie is something far greater than a mistake. There are military officers who have committed suicide over less - but hey, this is the high-integrety acadmic world - blatant lies here are just - have a nice day - simple little mistakes. Poor little thing - there's got to be a way to blame this on the vast right wing consipiracy.
Maybe they could just require the station to broadcast at a really low quality. That would discourage most from recording and burning it on a CD or transferring it to their mp3 players.
Reliability is inversely proportional to competition. As competition increases, reliability decreases.
Your astute economic analysis explains why after 70 years that Toyota, the horrendously unreliable competition to ultra-reliable GM, is now the world's top selling car manufacturer...
And the only reason I suggest it was that they had already been disarmed by society in general and the school specifically. Even then, they'd probably been conditioned by previous training not to resist
a bum rush with six or so students from close range
Ah yes - just the sort of thing they teach in Sociology 101... no need for all that hu-rah training professionals go through - just grab 5 buds and rush the man firing the automatic weapon.
It's the sort of thing the military gives medals out for.
Maybe because even there it's not an easy thing to do. Ever faced down a man with a loaded weapon who's demonstrated he's quite competent with it and is using it effectively? Think five young people armed with iPods are going to "rush" such a guy?
You're talking about a single observation on a small segment of the overall population, and somehow extrapolating this into a commentary about the status of the entire species.
Sounds like the same scientific insight as all the climate science I read about lately...
The problem is that we have 655 million or so users of the Internet right now. Deploying security enhancements to that many users at once is a non-trivial matter.
there's no reason light cars can't be safe - people regularly walk away from 150mph crashes in F1 cars.
We can't even get people to wear seat belts and observe traffic laws - what are the odds we can get them to spend years developing high speed driving skills, to wear nomex garmets, full-face helmets, neck braces, undergarmet cooling systems, four point harnesses - and not have head-on collisions - and be willing to spend the several hundred thousand dollars for the carbon fiber bodies that F1 cars are using?
Once you have a lawsuit filed, you pretty much have to shut up.
You only have to shut up if a presiding judge tells you to shut up - not because some gun-for-hire in the SCO legal team filed papers against you. And if you don't like the gag order, which would only be issued with great care against such an established journalist, you can keep taking it higher until you talk to the Supremes - and I sincerely doubt they'd respect a lower court's gag order against a journalist for anything less than national security - if that.
advertising actually help bring down the price on many of the products
Not really - it merely shifts the costs, and costs more because of implementation expense. Advertising requires significant expenditure in the people who work in the field. That expense is borne out by the customer - as all expenses eventually are. Advertising is overhead. Overhead should always be minimized.
it wouldn't be the 'good fight' if we didn't subject everyone to criticism equally.
On Slashdot? You haven't seen the continuous over-the-top in-your-face guess-what-makes-the-accepted-submissions agenda here on the "news for nerds" site?
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If it combines the chainsaw and shower scene from Scarface along with Jar Jar, I'm buying the HiDef version ...
What makes you say that? Look at all the traffic Yahoo and it's sub-sites get.
If all that traffic was generating sufficient revenue and not trending strongly down post-Google then Yahoo wouldn't be for sale.
as the NYT reports this morning (sorry, lost the link), everywhere that the US is at war has led to an increase in terrorist attacks.
no increase observed in the part the US cares about - the US.
She made a mistake
She obtained a high-visibility job that put her in a the position to affect the lives of thousands of applicants by intentionally and significantly lying to get her job - and now she and others want to call it an itty-bitty mistake - but only after she was caught of course. A lie is something far greater than a mistake. There are military officers who have committed suicide over less - but hey, this is the high-integrety acadmic world - blatant lies here are just - have a nice day - simple little mistakes. Poor little thing - there's got to be a way to blame this on the vast right wing consipiracy.
Maybe they could just require the station to broadcast at a really low quality. That would discourage most from recording and burning it on a CD or transferring it to their mp3 players.
... or listening.
Reliability is inversely proportional to competition. As competition increases, reliability decreases.
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Your astute economic analysis explains why after 70 years that Toyota, the horrendously unreliable competition to ultra-reliable GM, is now the world's top selling car manufacturer
oh wait
Occam's Razor only lets you choose between two hypotheses which both adequately account for the data.
and the quantum version lets both be right.
deal with the fact that- 1) People will abuse it 2) Ultimately you are responsible for what happens
So we're each responsible for the irresponsibility of others now?
And the only reason I suggest it was that they had already been disarmed by society in general and the school specifically. Even then, they'd probably been conditioned by previous training not to resist
Agreed. An armed society is a polite society.
a bum rush with six or so students from close range
... no need for all that hu-rah training professionals go through - just grab 5 buds and rush the man firing the automatic weapon.
Ah yes - just the sort of thing they teach in Sociology 101
It's the sort of thing the military gives medals out for.
Maybe because even there it's not an easy thing to do. Ever faced down a man with a loaded weapon who's demonstrated he's quite competent with it and is using it effectively? Think five young people armed with iPods are going to "rush" such a guy?
My main thought is 'couldn't somebody have stopped him?
with what?
Victims of crimes who possessed guns/weapons during the incident had a good chance (40%) of having their own weapon used against them.
And unarmed vicitms came out ahead how often?
You're talking about a single observation on a small segment of the overall population, and somehow extrapolating this into a commentary about the status of the entire species.
...
Sounds like the same scientific insight as all the climate science I read about lately
The problem is that we have 655 million or so users of the Internet right now. Deploying security enhancements to that many users at once is a non-trivial matter.
I recommend bittorrent.
there's no reason light cars can't be safe - people regularly walk away from 150mph crashes in F1 cars.
We can't even get people to wear seat belts and observe traffic laws - what are the odds we can get them to spend years developing high speed driving skills, to wear nomex garmets, full-face helmets, neck braces, undergarmet cooling systems, four point harnesses - and not have head-on collisions - and be willing to spend the several hundred thousand dollars for the carbon fiber bodies that F1 cars are using?
Yes this is moronic. They should spend the money on teachers and texts.
How about this? They don't take the money from the taxpayers in the first place and allow the taxpayers to decide how best to spend their own money?
... a new word ... googlemetric
Once you have a lawsuit filed, you pretty much have to shut up.
You only have to shut up if a presiding judge tells you to shut up - not because some gun-for-hire in the SCO legal team filed papers against you. And if you don't like the gag order, which would only be issued with great care against such an established journalist, you can keep taking it higher until you talk to the Supremes - and I sincerely doubt they'd respect a lower court's gag order against a journalist for anything less than national security - if that.
advertising actually help bring down the price on many of the products
Not really - it merely shifts the costs, and costs more because of implementation expense. Advertising requires significant expenditure in the people who work in the field. That expense is borne out by the customer - as all expenses eventually are. Advertising is overhead. Overhead should always be minimized.
So long as the bombs drop on the countries they don't like and industries (like gambling) they're not interested in are outlawed, they're happy.
So the US should bomb their friends and shut down the industries they support, instead? Great, who should we start with?
it wouldn't be the 'good fight' if we didn't subject everyone to criticism equally. On Slashdot? You haven't seen the continuous over-the-top in-your-face guess-what-makes-the-accepted-submissions agenda here on the "news for nerds" site?
unless they see it as a source of revenue to help making Linux a viable desktop alternative, do you really think they will do it
The less money that Microsoft earns, the more there is for everyone else.
Is it transparent?
That would make a whale of an impact.
Quite so, but you have to start somewhere...;-)
It's all relative.
This was a problem in the first few days of Windows Vista at the airport, but now we just click "Allow" for everything and it seems to work fine.
You work in Homeland Security?