She is a whining because Whites (and Asians.. but we won't mention that) actually do homework and prep before taking the exams and makes it out like it is cheating. Families are actually using strategy!!! God forbid.
The article didn't even try to explain this but actual gifted education programs don't look at your SAT scores or your third grade report card. What they should be doing is looking at scores from WISC (or WPPSI for younger students), Stanford-Binet or something similar. These are basically IQ tests which cover a variety of cognitive functions, but they must be given individually and can take several hours to administer and analyze. While it is possible to "cram" for an intelligence test, and it can skew the final results, it is difficult to cheat your way to a higher score. As the test is given one-on-one, a competent examiner should be able to spot that anyway.
From what I can tell most US school boards prefer to use CogAT, which is a simpler and cheaper test which can be given to an entire class at once and then automatically graded by feeding the answer sheets into a Roomba. Okay, I made up that last part but it's a multiple choice test, with all of the budgetary benefits that entails. There are a number ethically questionable test-prep services who will happily slip you a copy of the latest CogAT in exchange for a few portraits of Andrew Jackson so yes, it is comparatively easy to cheat at this test if you have the connections to know what is coming up and the cash to buy the answers. Poorer or more naive students, who may actually believe that this is a test of cognitive abilities or that admission into a "gifted" program is based only on ability, would be left behind.
A large part of the cost of housing in the US these days is due to codes. Yes, that is a big drain on the economy and a big obstacle to housing affordability.
>tax evasion
I don't mind paying taxes, because it is for common good and supports the really poor.
But when the traitor government starts giving welfare to everyone, starts brining immigrants here and gives them more than poor local people have,... then I say: screw government.
I'm pretty sure that marinating immigrants in salt water would be a serious problem.
Do you have any evidence to support your allegations of brining?
If you're going to be pedantic, at least be accurate. The Atari VCS was released in September of 1977. It was renamed the Atari 2600 in 1982 to distinguish it from the newly released Atari 5200.
So, to answer your question, yes, that date is within the decade known as "The 80s".
You mean that someone will actually have to _think_ before initiating legal action? And that we have some kind of duty to actually be right before laying down the law-hammer? What are we supposed to do with these fleets of autonomous sentry drones armed with fire-and-forget rocket dockets?
Next you'll be telling me that we have to make sure we have the right address before we start foreclosing on homes. This isn't the America I grew up in.
I forget just what it's called, but I would really like to see that software that samples ambient sounds from the microphone, records keystrokes and queries the location service for my current position, then sends everything it finds off to a server in a foreign country where it can be used to "improve my experience".
Without that, obviously my experience will be unimproved, and that sounds bad.
Many Windows 8 systems shipped with a "Get Office" application which, if you run it, offers you a trial version and exhorts you to buy the full service. Windows 10 integrates previously functional applications like the video player with XBox-branded apps which show you more logos than ever before and tries to direct you to the Microsoft store to purchase additional licenses which are naturally far superior to whatever it is that you were originally trying to do. The Store app is placed prominently on the desktop or taskbar, inviting unsuspecting users to buy the latest version of MineCandyCrushBirds and pushing the installation of others apps such as Skype. The default browser and home page are used to push the puzzling "Bing" service, which appears to be some kind of combination of search engine and multi-level marketing business. I haven't quite figured that one out yet.
So all of the bullshit described does exist, and can reasonably be expected to be present on a newly purchased computer with Windows 10. That doesn't mean that Satya Nadella is going to sneak into your living room and force you to watch all of the advertising, much of it is hidden away waiting for you to start looking for something else before it pops up, but it is all there.
Unless the drone had a gun attached to it. Then you would be able to walk right out of the corner store with a hunting drone under one arm and a case of beer under the other.
Because otherwise the evil British would be able to take over the country and quarter soldiers in private homes or whatever it is that you're supposed to be protecting against.
"The general aim of these science fiction writers is to frighten the people into a state of paralysis or psychological incompetence bordering on hysteria,"
"...and believe me, you're talking to a man with a _lot_ of experience with psychological incompetence bordering on hysteria."
- Donald Trump has been sending all of his email to a server in Mexico because it's cheaper than handling it in the USA.
- Chris Christie is still using Hotmail, and last week he had the entire service shut down for four days to spite everyone who hasn't endorsed him in the primaries.
- Ted Cruz was using the email address "tcruz@bell.ca" up until 2014. He insists he had no way of knowing it was Canadian.
- Jeb Bush has technically never received an email in his life. He has an intern print each item in his inbox and read it out loud to him. Sometimes he asks for pictures to go with it.
- Carly Fiorina also had her email printed for her, but she removed all of the printers from her office in 2004 as a cost-cutting measure.
- Rand Paul supports the abolition of mail servers entirely, and believes that each individual email should make its own decision as to how it is going to be delivered.
- Rick Santorum last received email in 2003 when his last name started being blocked by profanity filters.
What was it that William Blackstone said? "It is better that ten innocent persons suffer than that one guilty person escape".
So, yeah, go ahead. Give up some essential liberty in exchange for temporary safety. Everyone throughout history has always said that that is a good idea.
Don't want to know any of your own history? That's okay. Like some guy on TV said, "Those who cannot learn from history are just too awesome for it, so that's okay."
Doesn't the hashtag of a picture change by editing one pixel? Or by removing one line of pixels?
I'm pretty sure that posting an image with the comment "#thisischildporn" is going to raise some eyebrows no matter what how much you change the image.
The cryptographic hash of a file, on the other hand, is usually a little more sensitive.
When dealing with image recognition you really want to account for things like the image being resized, colours adjusted, or borders being added and removed. In this case you would want to do something like take the image, rescale it to a fixed size, reduce the colour palette and then create a hash of the resulting image. This allows you to spot matches even if the image has been scaled down, blurred or watermarked, or, in some rare cases, replaced with a photograph of a giant watermelon.
We're still working on that last part and Her Majesty regrets the unfortunate incident involving the torch bearing mob at the farmers' market.
And I'm sure that every affected device has already been updated, in accordance with HTC's proactive support policies.
Since it has been patched, I'm also sure that there will never be any kind of mysterious regression where a future build exhibits the same issue. That could never happen.
Really, why is it so hard for everybody in the world to just take one day out of the year to shut down all of their systems, wipe the hard drives and re-install everything from the installation media?
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On the plus side, Samsung TVs still meet mandated limits for NOx emissions no matter what mode they are in.
She is a whining because Whites (and Asians .. but we won't mention that) actually do homework and prep before taking the exams and makes it out like it is cheating. Families are actually using strategy!!! God forbid.
The article didn't even try to explain this but actual gifted education programs don't look at your SAT scores or your third grade report card. What they should be doing is looking at scores from WISC (or WPPSI for younger students), Stanford-Binet or something similar. These are basically IQ tests which cover a variety of cognitive functions, but they must be given individually and can take several hours to administer and analyze. While it is possible to "cram" for an intelligence test, and it can skew the final results, it is difficult to cheat your way to a higher score. As the test is given one-on-one, a competent examiner should be able to spot that anyway.
From what I can tell most US school boards prefer to use CogAT, which is a simpler and cheaper test which can be given to an entire class at once and then automatically graded by feeding the answer sheets into a Roomba. Okay, I made up that last part but it's a multiple choice test, with all of the budgetary benefits that entails. There are a number ethically questionable test-prep services who will happily slip you a copy of the latest CogAT in exchange for a few portraits of Andrew Jackson so yes, it is comparatively easy to cheat at this test if you have the connections to know what is coming up and the cash to buy the answers. Poorer or more naive students, who may actually believe that this is a test of cognitive abilities or that admission into a "gifted" program is based only on ability, would be left behind.
A large part of the cost of housing in the US these days is due to codes. Yes, that is a big drain on the economy and a big obstacle to housing affordability.
You said it. If only big government would let people who clearly know what they are doing take care of hooking up their own gas lines, stop having so-called inspectors shut down private homes because they "smell funny", not harass honest builders over which materials they use in construction, and allow small busineses to take care of maintenance on their own, then life would be much better.
Think of all the money that could be saved!
>tax evasion I don't mind paying taxes, because it is for common good and supports the really poor. But when the traitor government starts giving welfare to everyone, starts brining immigrants here and gives them more than poor local people have, ... then I say: screw government.
I'm pretty sure that marinating immigrants in salt water would be a serious problem.
Do you have any evidence to support your allegations of brining?
And to wear loose-fitting underwear for easy security access.
Any resemblance to an armed gang of looters would be purely coincidental.
The Atari 2600 was released in 1977.
If you're going to be pedantic, at least be accurate. The Atari VCS was released in September of 1977. It was renamed the Atari 2600 in 1982 to distinguish it from the newly released Atari 5200.
So, to answer your question, yes, that date is within the decade known as "The 80s".
I'm sure that the final design will come with a single nail-shaped button on the ankle, complete with a warning label saying "Do Not Remove".
I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
You mean that someone will actually have to _think_ before initiating legal action? And that we have some kind of duty to actually be right before laying down the law-hammer? What are we supposed to do with these fleets of autonomous sentry drones armed with fire-and-forget rocket dockets?
Next you'll be telling me that we have to make sure we have the right address before we start foreclosing on homes. This isn't the America I grew up in.
No, that's just the guys downstairs smoking up. The end effect is about the same, so it's an easy mistake to make.
I forget just what it's called, but I would really like to see that software that samples ambient sounds from the microphone, records keystrokes and queries the location service for my current position, then sends everything it finds off to a server in a foreign country where it can be used to "improve my experience".
Without that, obviously my experience will be unimproved, and that sounds bad.
No, you're not getting old. Anyone who thinks their PC is their "friend" is either an idiot or plain crazy.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend. Any suggestion to the contrary is treason.
Many Windows 8 systems shipped with a "Get Office" application which, if you run it, offers you a trial version and exhorts you to buy the full service. Windows 10 integrates previously functional applications like the video player with XBox-branded apps which show you more logos than ever before and tries to direct you to the Microsoft store to purchase additional licenses which are naturally far superior to whatever it is that you were originally trying to do. The Store app is placed prominently on the desktop or taskbar, inviting unsuspecting users to buy the latest version of MineCandyCrushBirds and pushing the installation of others apps such as Skype. The default browser and home page are used to push the puzzling "Bing" service, which appears to be some kind of combination of search engine and multi-level marketing business. I haven't quite figured that one out yet.
So all of the bullshit described does exist, and can reasonably be expected to be present on a newly purchased computer with Windows 10. That doesn't mean that Satya Nadella is going to sneak into your living room and force you to watch all of the advertising, much of it is hidden away waiting for you to start looking for something else before it pops up, but it is all there.
"I'm just an idea guy. I have some really great ideas. I just need someone else to do the easy parts like writing all the code."
Unless the drone had a gun attached to it. Then you would be able to walk right out of the corner store with a hunting drone under one arm and a case of beer under the other.
Because otherwise the evil British would be able to take over the country and quarter soldiers in private homes or whatever it is that you're supposed to be protecting against.
You will also be able to see the battery-saving non-upscaled video described in the summary, which should be about 1" wide at its native resolution.
"The general aim of these science fiction writers is to frighten the people into a state of paralysis or psychological incompetence bordering on hysteria,"
"...and believe me, you're talking to a man with a _lot_ of experience with psychological incompetence bordering on hysteria."
Only because there is no moderation for "Wrong Website For That Kind Of Thing".
Tokamaks work. Their flaw is that they are energy-negative.
"My car works. It just can't get out of the driveway."
In other news:
- Donald Trump has been sending all of his email to a server in Mexico because it's cheaper than handling it in the USA.
- Chris Christie is still using Hotmail, and last week he had the entire service shut down for four days to spite everyone who hasn't endorsed him in the primaries.
- Ted Cruz was using the email address "tcruz@bell.ca" up until 2014. He insists he had no way of knowing it was Canadian.
- Jeb Bush has technically never received an email in his life. He has an intern print each item in his inbox and read it out loud to him. Sometimes he asks for pictures to go with it.
- Carly Fiorina also had her email printed for her, but she removed all of the printers from her office in 2004 as a cost-cutting measure.
- Rand Paul supports the abolition of mail servers entirely, and believes that each individual email should make its own decision as to how it is going to be delivered.
- Rick Santorum last received email in 2003 when his last name started being blocked by profanity filters.
What was it that William Blackstone said? "It is better that ten innocent persons suffer than that one guilty person escape".
So, yeah, go ahead. Give up some essential liberty in exchange for temporary safety. Everyone throughout history has always said that that is a good idea.
Don't want to know any of your own history? That's okay. Like some guy on TV said, "Those who cannot learn from history are just too awesome for it, so that's okay."
Doesn't the hashtag of a picture change by editing one pixel? Or by removing one line of pixels?
I'm pretty sure that posting an image with the comment "#thisischildporn" is going to raise some eyebrows no matter what how much you change the image.
The cryptographic hash of a file, on the other hand, is usually a little more sensitive.
When dealing with image recognition you really want to account for things like the image being resized, colours adjusted, or borders being added and removed. In this case you would want to do something like take the image, rescale it to a fixed size, reduce the colour palette and then create a hash of the resulting image. This allows you to spot matches even if the image has been scaled down, blurred or watermarked, or, in some rare cases, replaced with a photograph of a giant watermelon.
We're still working on that last part and Her Majesty regrets the unfortunate incident involving the torch bearing mob at the farmers' market.
And I'm sure that every affected device has already been updated, in accordance with HTC's proactive support policies.
Since it has been patched, I'm also sure that there will never be any kind of mysterious regression where a future build exhibits the same issue. That could never happen.
Nothing more to see here, just move along.
Isn't this why we have Internet Cleanup Day?
Really, why is it so hard for everybody in the world to just take one day out of the year to shut down all of their systems, wipe the hard drives and re-install everything from the installation media?