Where are these technical schools that the economists refer to?
The simple fact of the matter is that after decades of short sighted budget cuts, the US education system is geared for college prep, whether you want to go or not. The vocational classes have been slowly cut out of the system, usually perceived as expendable programs. School administrators realized long ago that they can't improve the ranking of their school by having the best automotive class - the only thing that counts is English & Math scores, so why bother fund anything else?
In other countries, you make a choice on whether you choose to learn a trade or go to college, and then spend your high school years towards that goal. The repercussion for the US system is that students who are interested in a trade aren't being educated towards their dreams, and spend their time in school either frustrated or years behind.
The whole concept of "No Child Left Behind" only works when there is an unlimited budget, and it presses everyone to a standardized education that may not actually help serve them towards what they really want to do in life. Instead of trying to get every child the same cookie cutter education, we'd be far better off giving more specialized education (whether it's vocational or college prep) by the high school level, help them take advantage of the skills they have, remove the blue collar stigma of trade work, and stop trying to make every kid be a perfect college graduate that the state wants them to be.
As much as I love RPG games, I am somewhat turned off when I hear that it has a playtime that runs over 60 hours. That's because some of the longer RPGs tend to have nothing "new" other than a whole lot of random encounters and grinding. I didn't mind it as much when I was younger, but now I don't have time or desire to play that long. I'd much rather play a shorter game with some options for replay (so that I can finish and continue should I desire), such as the games with a New+ option after completing the main story line.
The gamer demographic is changing - I'm sure the hardcore want difficult games. Me, I'd like to have fun when I can, without the overwhelming idea that I need to devote my life to the gameplay.
The book makes the case that RMS is the last hacker, and he even says so again in the article. Yet the book never defined hacker as being a pure-non profit hacker, since both Apple & Microsoft are both prominently featured in the book. The book also mentions the LISP wars that emerged between the various companies emerging from MIT. There's been subsequent great companies started from MIT - RSA being one example. There's been other successful projects that emerged from academics, such as Linux and Google.
So where does "the last hacker" designation come from?
before going into production. The screen looks awfully vertical, making it hard to see when it's down at your hands on the tabletop. A little angle on the screen would be nice.
The controls look like it covers up the bottom part of the screen, making you miss a lot of the action.
Maybe after they rework this a bit from the april fools prototype, it might turn out to be a great idea.
and that very same though was what goes through my mind why the space race went so frantically up until the point the american flag was planted in the moon, and since then, no other country bothered to go.
I know that there are covenants that say such territory ownerships do not cover the moon, but they said the same thing about the Arctic Circle and that didn't stop Russia from making a territorial claim. Who knows, maybe they find oil or diamonds under the lunar surface and the US might just one day say "just kidding, we are claiming the moon as the 51st state".
The article implies that 1,000,000 scoville's is nasty stuff compared to the habenero.
Yet when looking at wikipedia's entry on the scoville scale, it says law enforcement pepper spray is rated at 5,000,000 to 5,300,00 million scovilles. In other words, the pepper spray currently on the market is already stronger than the bhut jolokia. So what's the news then, if they are developing a weapon with significantly less strength than what's currently on the market?
The article's idea sounds similar in concept with the rumored Apple iGroups, which seems to be about using the iphone as the place you store your encrypted social media/content and you share it through an Apple hub service.
Apple iGroups Rumor
that everyone's up in a tizzy just because the iPad doesn't support it? Mention iPad, and someone will say "but it doesn't support flash", and for platforms that do support flash, people say they don't want to run it.
What good is it to log a URL without logging what data was at the URL at that point in time. The content at a URL can change dynamically, so it doesn't matter what the URL says unless you actually know what data was actually retrieved at that point in time.
The reason that developers stopped making side scrollers wasn't because that 3d games were better. In some cases (sony) they pushed the 3d gaming capabilities of the PSX so hard that if I remember correctly, they forbid the publication of 2d games on it.
The fact is that 2d games are still fun and can still be fun. Just because a particular console has a feature doesn't mean it's needed, and that goes for wii too, with too many games adding motion sensor to it even though it's not necessary. It's good to see some good old arcade action come back full circle.
From what I've read, the whole reason it was called Final Fantasy in the first place was that the company was planning to close and Final Fantasy was their swan song. They weren't expecting a miracle since they were treading in new waters and just decided to publish their last game. And lo and behold, their final game that was supposed to be the end of the company turned out to be their saving throw.
I thought that the "Open Source Intrusion Detector" spotted intrusions of open source software in the company. I'm sure that Microsoft would have loved to have one of those for the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool.
When you say HP, the first words that comes to mind is innovation and great engineering. However you look at the past 10 years and HP has done surprisingly little in innovation or great engineering, and has not been creating market changing technology. They've gotten stuck building pcs and selling printer ink because that's the safe way to make money.
I don't know whether it was the compaq acquisition or the carly regime that made HP soft,. Maybe the HP name hasn't fallen and it's not tarnished as much as some of the other names on the list, but the company behind the brand isn't what it used to be.
Bruce points out that the no fly list only gets checked when you purchase the ticket, and your ID isn't checked when you actually use it. For example, bad guy steals a credit card and buys a ticket under a fake name. That gets him a valid ticket and avoids the no fly list
Next, the bad guy takes a boarding pass and modifies it in photoshop to show his real name, and uses that fake boarding pass along with his real id to get through airport screening. Security checks if his id matches the name on the boarding pass, but they never check the computer to see if the name is on the no fly list or even if the boarding pass is valid.
Finally, the bad guy can rip up the fake boarding pass and use the real boarding pass purchased with the stolen credit card at the gate and gets on the plane. Notice throughout the whole process, nobody checked if the bad guy's id against the no fly list?
It doesn't matter that everyone will get at least the minimum configuration. What will happen is that people will find out what the other guy got (posting their configs on the net), and then anyone who didn't get as good of a configuration will return it and get another until they get one with similar spec as the best one out.
The way that I thought that it worked was that you sue in civil court when you actuall suffer damages even when the other party was doing something illegal.
For instance, you can't sue a drunk driver for almost hitting your car. You could press that they did something illegal and have him charged in criminal court, but there's no payday in that. Given that these types of cases seem to be this lawyer's modus operandi, I'm thinking that this case is more about the payday and not about building stronger standards for privacy.
It would be an impressive achievement to note the largest picture taken at one time with a camera.
However, stitching together 1655 photos together doesn't exactly seem to be as interesting as a feat.
If that qualifies as a record, then just how many photos does the a global satellite view like Google Maps have in "total resolution"?
I see a lot of comments here stating that if you don't like it, don't use it.
The crux of the problem is that facebook did not tell users that the access controls changed. Information that was previously had a setting to restrict access to your friends just disappeared
The whole problem is that people didn't know about it to decide that they didn't like it.
Would you be fine if this was a firewall product that suddenly chose to ignore your rules to block low ports in an undocumented change to the access controls, even though it says that it is now advertised as stronger protection than it was before? Of course not, and just saying that "if you don't like it, don't use it" won't fix the problem. We need companies to operate at a higher standard than this.
Mozilla at least is honest about the process - the addtional search engines are alphabetical. There's a whole boatload of them to wade through, but at least it's fair.
IE8, on the other hand, chose to show the additional search engines by some unknown process, and put Google (the engine that most people would want to add) on the second page of choices, right next to unkonwn providers such as Freebase Visual Search and Findname.cn.
Having a ballot of the top 5 additional search engines would be a lot better than what either Mozilla or Microsoft has.
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Where are these technical schools that the economists refer to?
The simple fact of the matter is that after decades of short sighted budget cuts, the US education system is geared for college prep, whether you want to go or not. The vocational classes have been slowly cut out of the system, usually perceived as expendable programs. School administrators realized long ago that they can't improve the ranking of their school by having the best automotive class - the only thing that counts is English & Math scores, so why bother fund anything else?
In other countries, you make a choice on whether you choose to learn a trade or go to college, and then spend your high school years towards that goal. The repercussion for the US system is that students who are interested in a trade aren't being educated towards their dreams, and spend their time in school either frustrated or years behind.
The whole concept of "No Child Left Behind" only works when there is an unlimited budget, and it presses everyone to a standardized education that may not actually help serve them towards what they really want to do in life. Instead of trying to get every child the same cookie cutter education, we'd be far better off giving more specialized education (whether it's vocational or college prep) by the high school level, help them take advantage of the skills they have, remove the blue collar stigma of trade work, and stop trying to make every kid be a perfect college graduate that the state wants them to be.
The gamer demographic is changing - I'm sure the hardcore want difficult games. Me, I'd like to have fun when I can, without the overwhelming idea that I need to devote my life to the gameplay.
The book makes the case that RMS is the last hacker, and he even says so again in the article. Yet the book never defined hacker as being a pure-non profit hacker, since both Apple & Microsoft are both prominently featured in the book. The book also mentions the LISP wars that emerged between the various companies emerging from MIT. There's been subsequent great companies started from MIT - RSA being one example. There's been other successful projects that emerged from academics, such as Linux and Google. So where does "the last hacker" designation come from?
so where's the corporate backlash from Adobe threatening lawsuits to get on Microsoft devices?
that he's referring to smartphone data services? At least it would direct the discussion appropriately for the people who didn't read the article
The controls look like it covers up the bottom part of the screen, making you miss a lot of the action.
Maybe after they rework this a bit from the april fools prototype, it might turn out to be a great idea.
and that very same though was what goes through my mind why the space race went so frantically up until the point the american flag was planted in the moon, and since then, no other country bothered to go. I know that there are covenants that say such territory ownerships do not cover the moon, but they said the same thing about the Arctic Circle and that didn't stop Russia from making a territorial claim. Who knows, maybe they find oil or diamonds under the lunar surface and the US might just one day say "just kidding, we are claiming the moon as the 51st state".
The article implies that 1,000,000 scoville's is nasty stuff compared to the habenero. Yet when looking at wikipedia's entry on the scoville scale, it says law enforcement pepper spray is rated at 5,000,000 to 5,300,00 million scovilles. In other words, the pepper spray currently on the market is already stronger than the bhut jolokia. So what's the news then, if they are developing a weapon with significantly less strength than what's currently on the market?
The article's idea sounds similar in concept with the rumored Apple iGroups, which seems to be about using the iphone as the place you store your encrypted social media/content and you share it through an Apple hub service. Apple iGroups Rumor
that everyone's up in a tizzy just because the iPad doesn't support it? Mention iPad, and someone will say "but it doesn't support flash", and for platforms that do support flash, people say they don't want to run it.
What good is it to log a URL without logging what data was at the URL at that point in time. The content at a URL can change dynamically, so it doesn't matter what the URL says unless you actually know what data was actually retrieved at that point in time.
The reason that developers stopped making side scrollers wasn't because that 3d games were better. In some cases (sony) they pushed the 3d gaming capabilities of the PSX so hard that if I remember correctly, they forbid the publication of 2d games on it. The fact is that 2d games are still fun and can still be fun. Just because a particular console has a feature doesn't mean it's needed, and that goes for wii too, with too many games adding motion sensor to it even though it's not necessary. It's good to see some good old arcade action come back full circle.
From what I've read, the whole reason it was called Final Fantasy in the first place was that the company was planning to close and Final Fantasy was their swan song. They weren't expecting a miracle since they were treading in new waters and just decided to publish their last game. And lo and behold, their final game that was supposed to be the end of the company turned out to be their saving throw.
I thought that the "Open Source Intrusion Detector" spotted intrusions of open source software in the company. I'm sure that Microsoft would have loved to have one of those for the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool.
I don't know whether it was the compaq acquisition or the carly regime that made HP soft,. Maybe the HP name hasn't fallen and it's not tarnished as much as some of the other names on the list, but the company behind the brand isn't what it used to be.
Bruce points out that the no fly list only gets checked when you purchase the ticket, and your ID isn't checked when you actually use it. For example, bad guy steals a credit card and buys a ticket under a fake name. That gets him a valid ticket and avoids the no fly list
Next, the bad guy takes a boarding pass and modifies it in photoshop to show his real name, and uses that fake boarding pass along with his real id to get through airport screening. Security checks if his id matches the name on the boarding pass, but they never check the computer to see if the name is on the no fly list or even if the boarding pass is valid.
Finally, the bad guy can rip up the fake boarding pass and use the real boarding pass purchased with the stolen credit card at the gate and gets on the plane. Notice throughout the whole process, nobody checked if the bad guy's id against the no fly list?
It doesn't matter that everyone will get at least the minimum configuration. What will happen is that people will find out what the other guy got (posting their configs on the net), and then anyone who didn't get as good of a configuration will return it and get another until they get one with similar spec as the best one out.
The way that I thought that it worked was that you sue in civil court when you actuall suffer damages even when the other party was doing something illegal.
For instance, you can't sue a drunk driver for almost hitting your car. You could press that they did something illegal and have him charged in criminal court, but there's no payday in that. Given that these types of cases seem to be this lawyer's modus operandi, I'm thinking that this case is more about the payday and not about building stronger standards for privacy.
It would be an impressive achievement to note the largest picture taken at one time with a camera. However, stitching together 1655 photos together doesn't exactly seem to be as interesting as a feat. If that qualifies as a record, then just how many photos does the a global satellite view like Google Maps have in "total resolution"?
Moonlight 3.0 users, watch out
I see a lot of comments here stating that if you don't like it, don't use it.
The crux of the problem is that facebook did not tell users that the access controls changed. Information that was previously had a setting to restrict access to your friends just disappeared
The whole problem is that people didn't know about it to decide that they didn't like it.
Would you be fine if this was a firewall product that suddenly chose to ignore your rules to block low ports in an undocumented change to the access controls, even though it says that it is now advertised as stronger protection than it was before? Of course not, and just saying that "if you don't like it, don't use it" won't fix the problem. We need companies to operate at a higher standard than this.
if the hack doesn't actually involve fabricating or soldering, then it's not really a hack worthy of the front page.
Mozilla at least is honest about the process - the addtional search engines are alphabetical. There's a whole boatload of them to wade through, but at least it's fair. IE8, on the other hand, chose to show the additional search engines by some unknown process, and put Google (the engine that most people would want to add) on the second page of choices, right next to unkonwn providers such as Freebase Visual Search and Findname.cn. Having a ballot of the top 5 additional search engines would be a lot better than what either Mozilla or Microsoft has.
I think that the point is that people want to know the facts so they can make their own decision.
because now school administrators only have to install SETI@HOME on 100 48-core computers instead of 5000 standard computers.