Read/study anything of use in criminiology and you will quickly learn that deterence (by example of punishment) has only a low and temporary effect on the prevalence of crime.
Yes, many will argue that the concept of incapacitation is in effect pure dterence and that death is the greatest of all incapacitation tactics, but killing someone is expensive, getting the death penalty to stick is arduous, and if it ever does stick, then it's years upon years later when the crime is no longer associated with the crime.
Solution? Strong, relative penalties, that juries will quickly agree to (in most cases, the judge determines the penalty, but his decision bottlenecks at the measurement of severity of crime by the jusry-- thus, the jury decides the penalty).
Crime: Hack a system and steal info that does $$ damage?
Penalty: Pay back the $$ and actual damages. Go to prison for 1 year to begin to work off the $$ and learn a little deterence. Leave prison, enter probation, have a lean put on all income to continue to pay off damages.
Smart people helping to build curious kids.
on
Improving Education?
·
· Score: 1
I work for a University outreach department and it's my job to go into low-performing communities to teach subject matter in the areas their teachers fall short. I interact and build relationships with both student and teacher.
I've seen people of all walks of life teach. Rich, poor, smart, blatently stupid, respected, feared, etc. and THE MOST effective teacher I've ever seen has been the younger one who knows the humor, music, fashion, and entertainment of the culture they are trying to educate.
When someone like this gets to teach, the kids don't see him/her as an oppositional force that's there to criticize. Instead, they begin to see such a teacher as one of their peers... but the coolest of them all. The untouchable one. They often have students develop crushes on them because they seem attainable. And because these teachers are so revered, the students actually
1) want to emulate the teacher through the teacher's education
and
2) respect the teacher enough to feel guilty when they don't do their homework.
Yea, the curriculum needs to change to a subject matter that isn't so 1950s (you know, no more super-patriot double speak and maybe give the kids some truth.. it's more interesting anyway) and maximum classroom occupancy has a grand influence on the appeal of a teacher's teachings, but a charasmatic person whose goal is to engage students on THEIR level and in THEIR culture ALWAYS wins.
How do we solve this problem? Stop lying to college students about the big money that is to be made in industry en masse. The kids graduating with BAs right now were told they'd be making 60k out of college. Yeah, right. They wish. Some make that much within 5 years.
Start advertising the truth about the future of the US economy in that the future is no longer in production or R&D for most pf us, but instead - the service sector. If we start preparing kids to become teachers EN MASSE, then maybe we won't have such ogd-awful people "fall-back" into teaching when their hopes and dreams of being a high-power stock-trader fall through.
I've really gotta agree with this comment. Not taking into account the most modern in case-design technology (read: Another box, but with brighter lights and holes in differnt places) and water-cooled systems, the ONLY realistic and cheap way to lower the heat in an over-heated system is to pop the case open.
I live in Southern California and can't necessarily afford to run the A/C at peak hours (who can anymore?). Thus, to run my Athlon with an ambient air temperature of 88f and up, I just deal with the noise of my fans and slide off the side of my case until the sun goes down.
By the way, anyone notice the magic fan they displayed on page 3? It faces one way, but blows at an angle! Where do I get one of those? I could REALLY profit from one of those in MY system being that my intake fan is about a FOOT lower than my CPU.
Summary NO AMOUNT OF FANS can cool your closed-case to a preferred temperature when it's already 90 degrees outside the case.
You know, I should really be used to the jaded tech-support answers of Slashdot, but this is a case where it's just not useful.
OF COURSE the guy has already thought of simply disconnecting or banning virus spreaders IF he has the power to do so. So why not try to put the repulsive amount of intellect here at Slashdot to use and try to find a realistic and different solution?
Couple things must be stated already. This guy VOLUNTEERED for the job. This means that this guy is more likely than not kind-hearted enough to NOT want to cut a student/many students off from their main form of communication/entertainment/research.
Knowing THIS, what are some solutions?
I have a personal idea that can HELP REDUCE the severity of the problem:
1)Create a website with: A)A link-list with the most common offending viruses being tracked on the network. Have each link refer directly to the symantec/mcafee per-virus fix tools. B)A very LARGE link to the free online virus scan HouseCall by Trend Micro. Include instructions under the link how to use the virus scan. Make the instructions FOOL PROOF (better fool comments aside). C)Standard temp file removal instructions (again, FOOLPROOF) for all Windows OSs from 98-XP including Documents and Settings\NAME\Recent & Documents and Settings\NAME\Local Settings etc. You know the drill if you've ever cleaned a computer. D)A list of the common virus processes so that those with Task Manager OSs can kill those processes. E)A Standard disclaimer like "you really need a full software virus protector blah blah blah... Anything you do is at your own risk blah blah blah"
2) Require this webpage as a homepage.
3) Require that the people on the network go through the the scan, etc. or THEN risk being disconnected from the network for a time that you see as fit and reasonable.
4) One week after this is implemented disemenate a simple and obvious.exe virus whose only purpose is to send you an email from the inbox of the idiotic inbox-owner who executed a random exe he/she found in her email.
As I stated earlier, this is not an end-all solution. But it is a contructive beginning of an idea. And dear Slashdot, try to remember what it was like to be tech illiterate (old fogey coders forgiven). Some people just don't "get it" yet. You don't teach your kids/dogs to behave by punching them, do you?
Like all the other respondants, it's all about finding a game that you will both enjoy. My gf was Battlefield 1942 BONKERS for about half a year and more so with the expansion packs. Then we played Syberia 1 and 2 together. It was great going through the interactive story...
like visiting the movie theater and not getting yelled at for saying "NO! Don't go in there!!"
Oh... silly you.
Where you from? Britain? France. Figures.
Here in the good U S of A we don't give a dag nab about what them "know it all" smarties think. We have gut instinct here and that's good enough for me.
Well the problem here in Orange County is that if you "hit the red button" on accident before you were done completing your ballot, the machine would send it off then and there anyway.
Not to mention that our Orange County Diebold machines are contoled by a wheel, not the intuitional arrow keys.
Remember that when you say "Well I can do it just fine!" you are most likely a curve breaker as you have a better understanding of technology (as most Slashdot users do) than about 95% of all voters.
Then again, your "I can't see how people can't figure out how to use the voting machines around here." comment shows you have a lesser understanding of society as a whole.
I am an undergrad with 3 years in the recently cut (thanks Gov. Scharz...) UC Outreach programs and from my experience, the only differences in our education system and "their" education systems is that 1) We attempt to allow EVERYONE to progress to higher learning and 2) The home culture of education for most families are almost non-existant.
UC Outreach is an umbrella name for the University of California's attempt to level out the education field by sending professionals and undergrads to lesser priveleged schools and pick up the slack of the green-yet-already-jaded teachers.
Sounds great right? Well, it needs to be noted that we're one the only countries that attempt such programs. Even socialsist France creates a cast-system in its education process. So don't be surprised if their or Japan's top 1% is a couple points smarter than ours.
Second, though funding is a severe problem, the more pertinent problem is that the media tells kids that it's best to attempt to get rich quick while parents a) put more emphasis on chores than homework and b) degrade teachers at home. "Don't listen to them, they don't know what they're talking about."
(About 30% of asian kids graduating from high school are UC eligible. About 1-12% of everyone else is. Why? Because their parents told them that education was the only way to succeed.)
I hear this all the time from the students and that is where the problem lies. If we can actually change the culture of education at home, there's actually be a change. Funding is important, but the change has to be made by the parents.
Ya, I go to UCI here in Orange County and I know that only 3 (myself, my gf, and my roomie) of the 20 people I know who even care to register, voted.
My friends and I saw some scandalous result like this coming a mile away what with other "success" like this having occured in tests and other area around the nation.
How could we not see this coming?
Just think about it:
1)Needless, expensive upgrade to a faulty, lesser secure technology
2)OLD poll-workers who still believe computers are the internet teaching younger and older voters alike how to use he polls if the voters are to lazy to watch the video.
3)The majority of active voters are people of the same demographic.
4)The interface is user-UNfriendly. Watch the video.
Access codes, wheels instead of arrows, and a physical end-all-and-submit-ballot-whether-or-not-your-actu ally-done button. It was either doomed from the beginning or planned to fail.
Slashdot Mirror
Read/study anything of use in criminiology and you will quickly learn that deterence (by example of punishment) has only a low and temporary effect on the prevalence of crime.
Yes, many will argue that the concept of incapacitation is in effect pure dterence and that death is the greatest of all incapacitation tactics, but killing someone is expensive, getting the death penalty to stick is arduous, and if it ever does stick, then it's years upon years later when the crime is no longer associated with the crime.
Solution? Strong, relative penalties, that juries will quickly agree to (in most cases, the judge determines the penalty, but his decision bottlenecks at the measurement of severity of crime by the jusry-- thus, the jury decides the penalty).
Crime: Hack a system and steal info that does $$ damage?
Penalty: Pay back the $$ and actual damages. Go to prison for 1 year to begin to work off the $$ and learn a little deterence. Leave prison, enter probation, have a lean put on all income to continue to pay off damages.
I work for a University outreach department and it's my job to go into low-performing communities to teach subject matter in the areas their teachers fall short. I interact and build relationships with both student and teacher.
I've seen people of all walks of life teach. Rich, poor, smart, blatently stupid, respected, feared, etc. and THE MOST effective teacher I've ever seen has been the younger one who knows the humor, music, fashion, and entertainment of the culture they are trying to educate.
When someone like this gets to teach, the kids don't see him/her as an oppositional force that's there to criticize. Instead, they begin to see such a teacher as one of their peers... but the coolest of them all. The untouchable one. They often have students develop crushes on them because they seem attainable. And because these teachers are so revered, the students actually
1) want to emulate the teacher through the teacher's education
and
2) respect the teacher enough to feel guilty when they don't do their homework.
Yea, the curriculum needs to change to a subject matter that isn't so 1950s (you know, no more super-patriot double speak and maybe give the kids some truth.. it's more interesting anyway) and maximum classroom occupancy has a grand influence on the appeal of a teacher's teachings, but a charasmatic person whose goal is to engage students on THEIR level and in THEIR culture ALWAYS wins.
How do we solve this problem? Stop lying to college students about the big money that is to be made in industry en masse. The kids graduating with BAs right now were told they'd be making 60k out of college. Yeah, right. They wish. Some make that much within 5 years.
Start advertising the truth about the future of the US economy in that the future is no longer in production or R&D for most pf us, but instead - the service sector. If we start preparing kids to become teachers EN MASSE, then maybe we won't have such ogd-awful people "fall-back" into teaching when their hopes and dreams of being a high-power stock-trader fall through.
*cough* Not THAT kind of cool. *uncough*
I've really gotta agree with this comment. Not taking into account the most modern in case-design technology (read: Another box, but with brighter lights and holes in differnt places) and water-cooled systems, the ONLY realistic and cheap way to lower the heat in an over-heated system is to pop the case open.
I live in Southern California and can't necessarily afford to run the A/C at peak hours (who can anymore?). Thus, to run my Athlon with an ambient air temperature of 88f and up, I just deal with the noise of my fans and slide off the side of my case until the sun goes down.
By the way, anyone notice the magic fan they displayed on page 3? It faces one way, but blows at an angle! Where do I get one of those? I could REALLY profit from one of those in MY system being that my intake fan is about a FOOT lower than my CPU.
Summary NO AMOUNT OF FANS can cool your closed-case to a preferred temperature when it's already 90 degrees outside the case.
Actually sounds oddly reasonable. Can I hear an advertisement from TurnItIn.com coming around the corner?
You know, I should really be used to the jaded tech-support answers of Slashdot, but this is a case where it's just not useful.
.exe virus whose only purpose is to send you an email from the inbox of the idiotic inbox-owner who executed a random exe he/she found in her email.
OF COURSE the guy has already thought of simply disconnecting or banning virus spreaders IF he has the power to do so. So why not try to put the repulsive amount of intellect here at Slashdot to use and try to find a realistic and different solution?
Couple things must be stated already. This guy VOLUNTEERED for the job. This means that this guy is more likely than not kind-hearted enough to NOT want to cut a student/many students off from their main form of communication/entertainment/research.
Knowing THIS, what are some solutions?
I have a personal idea that can HELP REDUCE the severity of the problem:
1)Create a website with:
A)A link-list with the most common offending viruses being tracked on the network. Have each link refer directly to the symantec/mcafee per-virus fix tools.
B)A very LARGE link to the free online virus scan HouseCall by Trend Micro. Include instructions under the link how to use the virus scan. Make the instructions FOOL PROOF (better fool comments aside).
C)Standard temp file removal instructions (again, FOOLPROOF) for all Windows OSs from 98-XP including Documents and Settings\NAME\Recent & Documents and Settings\NAME\Local Settings etc. You know the drill if you've ever cleaned a computer.
D)A list of the common virus processes so that those with Task Manager OSs can kill those processes.
E)A Standard disclaimer like "you really need a full software virus protector blah blah blah... Anything you do is at your own risk blah blah blah"
2) Require this webpage as a homepage.
3) Require that the people on the network go through the the scan, etc. or THEN risk being disconnected from the network for a time that you see as fit and reasonable.
4) One week after this is implemented disemenate a simple and obvious
As I stated earlier, this is not an end-all solution. But it is a contructive beginning of an idea. And dear Slashdot, try to remember what it was like to be tech illiterate (old fogey coders forgiven). Some people just don't "get it" yet. You don't teach your kids/dogs to behave by punching them, do you?
Like all the other respondants, it's all about finding a game that you will both enjoy. My gf was Battlefield 1942 BONKERS for about half a year and more so with the expansion packs. Then we played Syberia 1 and 2 together. It was great going through the interactive story...
like visiting the movie theater and not getting yelled at for saying "NO! Don't go in there!!"
Oh... silly you. Where you from? Britain? France. Figures. Here in the good U S of A we don't give a dag nab about what them "know it all" smarties think. We have gut instinct here and that's good enough for me.
Well the problem here in Orange County is that if you "hit the red button" on accident before you were done completing your ballot, the machine would send it off then and there anyway. Not to mention that our Orange County Diebold machines are contoled by a wheel, not the intuitional arrow keys. Remember that when you say "Well I can do it just fine!" you are most likely a curve breaker as you have a better understanding of technology (as most Slashdot users do) than about 95% of all voters. Then again, your "I can't see how people can't figure out how to use the voting machines around here." comment shows you have a lesser understanding of society as a whole.
There is. It's called "incumbant."
I am an undergrad with 3 years in the recently cut (thanks Gov. Scharz...) UC Outreach programs and from my experience, the only differences in our education system and "their" education systems is that 1) We attempt to allow EVERYONE to progress to higher learning and 2) The home culture of education for most families are almost non-existant.
UC Outreach is an umbrella name for the University of California's attempt to level out the education field by sending professionals and undergrads to lesser priveleged schools and pick up the slack of
the green-yet-already-jaded teachers.
Sounds great right? Well, it needs to be noted that we're one the only countries that attempt such programs. Even socialsist France creates a cast-system in its education process. So don't be surprised if their or Japan's top 1% is a couple points smarter than ours.
Second, though funding is a severe problem, the more pertinent problem is that the media tells kids that it's best to attempt to get rich quick while parents a) put more emphasis on chores than homework and b) degrade teachers at home. "Don't listen to them, they don't know what they're talking about."
(About 30% of asian kids graduating from high school are UC eligible. About 1-12% of everyone else is. Why? Because their parents told them that education was the only way to succeed.)
I hear this all the time from the students and that is where the problem lies. If we can actually change the culture of education at home, there's actually be a change. Funding is important, but the change has to be made by the parents.
Ya, I go to UCI here in Orange County and I know that only 3 (myself, my gf, and my roomie) of the 20 people I know who even care to register, voted. My friends and I saw some scandalous result like this coming a mile away what with other "success" like this having occured in tests and other area around the nation. How could we not see this coming? Just think about it: 1)Needless, expensive upgrade to a faulty, lesser secure technology 2)OLD poll-workers who still believe computers are the internet teaching younger and older voters alike how to use he polls if the voters are to lazy to watch the video. 3)The majority of active voters are people of the same demographic. 4)The interface is user-UNfriendly. Watch the video. Access codes, wheels instead of arrows, and a physical end-all-and-submit-ballot-whether-or-not-your-actu ally-done button. It was either doomed from the beginning or planned to fail.
"Just FYI, Christ isn't His last name. Christ in Greek and Messiah in Hebrew both mean "annointed one".
If we wanna get technical, the guy's name wasn't "Jesus" either. That's a Roman name. His true name is Yeshua. =)