Why would Obama care about lobbyist money? As of two weeks ago, he's been freed of all political consequences to any of his actions. He can finally do what he thinks is right.
He has a point. Every story about women in STEM is plagued with posts trying to disrupt any effort to improve things. Typical arguments include:
- There is no problem
- Girls just don't like computers ...
Is it possible that either of these are true, even in a general sense? There are gender disparities in several fields. The median salary for nurses is $65,470, whereas the median salary for IT Technicians is $42,992, but you don't hear a whole bunch of FUD over the fact that 90% of nurses are females. And when it comes right down to it, nurses are far more valuable to society than IT techs. Meanwhile, oil rig workers, about 95% male, make on average $99,175. Why no big push for women in that field?
I know! I know! Ask her about her implication on the future best seller "Barbie: I, against all odds, can be a computer engineer for Amazon in Seattle"!
So, because he is exercising his rights as a foreign citizen living in another country and going through the legally established international process for determining extradition, he is a 'fugitive' and thus his assets are fair game?
This is theft, plain and simple, just like "civil" asset forfeiture.
Bill Foster, Congressman from Illinois, can program in assembly language, among others.
FTA:
What this actually means to tech policy remains unclear. Computer programming skills do not automatically lead to sound logic or wise positions on important issues. A quick read through Slashdot user comments easily demonstrates this.
Thomas Massie is a tech guy with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering & a master's in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and founded SensAble. I'm sure he had to do quite a bit of coding in his time in school, and probably a bit while he was building his company as well.
He used the chicken shit excuse that "It didn't go far enough", as if a fantasy bill that went even farther was a realistic alternative.
According to your link:
Paul said he voted against the bill because it would have extended the Patriot Act provision that allows the NSA to search Americans' phone records. He has consistently opposed the Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
It curtailed some domestic spying, but extended it in other areas, and also extended the PATRIOT Act. My guess is you would have criticized him if he voted in favor of it as well.
Faces change, but the policies continue to get worse. They'll get worse than they are now when the next Democrat or Republican takes over the White House. It might be worse in slightly different ways, but it will still be worse.
Make a game with only female lead roles who are portrayed in a very positive manner and have all the men in the game be bumbling idiots who are constantly causing problems.
Here we are on a site where strangers can rate what we say, potentially burying it where others won't get the chance to read it, and we're complaining that governments are vaguely coming around to the same idea?
Usually, buried comments are garbage, but you're always able to change your comment threshold. Not so if a site you want to see is on your ISP's blocked list.
Industry officials say they want to assure their customers that the information that their cars stream back to automakers or that is downloaded from the vehicle's computers won't be handed over to authorities without a court order, sold to insurance companies or used to bombard them with ads for pizza parlors, gas stations or other businesses they drive past, without their permission.
I'm sure they'll assume your permission or have a clause in the sales contract which will turn this into "opt-out" instead of "opt-in".
That is exactly because our government keeps deciding to let the market solve it even though our so-called markets don't have enough independent sellers for competition to have any effect. Each 'competitor' can easily match the very few others sleaze for sleaze so nobody goes out of business.
Fraud isn't a part of a free market, and is a legitimate time for using courts to settle the dispute.
That, and they want people in the stores to get sold protection plans and overpriced accessories.
Could be the case. The guy asked me if I wanted to get accessories with it, and I told him to just put it on my account. AT&T is the last place I'd buy accessories from, I noticed they still had cases for the iPhone 4 for $50 on the rack!
If you can get fined millions of dollars for stealing a 5 cent mp3, then certainly overcharging someone in the range of ~$100 is bound to bring in Billions of dollars in damages.
I don't know why big companies just can't do what they say they're going to do. I just bought an iPhone 6 Plus from AT&T, and they promised a $200 buyback for the iPhone 4 if the purchase was made by Sept. 30. After they sent me the phone, they sent me a follow-up e-mail with a code for the iPhone 4, but the buyback value was only $100 with that code. So I had to call customer service, and they told me I had to go to the nearest AT&T store to get it straightened out. The nearest store is 30 miles from my house. Thankfully it's between my work & home IF I take an alternate, longer route. The guy at the store knew exactly what I was talking about when I got there and they were able to get me squared away without too much problem. I'm guessing they wanted to see how many people would just shrug and take a $100 hit.
Just out of curiosity are there any professional programmers out there who don't regularly copy functions from the Internet?
The whole point of the course is to try & figure out how data structures and algorithms are implemented. It's as much about problem solving as it is coding. Sure, you could always just use std::vector in your C++ programs for vectors, but do you really understand how they work? What about binary trees and linked lists? That's the type of stuff they're teaching in these classes. Copying code & modifying it for your own purposes is fine for production, but if these students don't understand how the underlying code works, then their chances of successfully using it greatly diminishes.
I see it all the time in my courses. I emphasize to the students that they should only use methods currently covered, so they get a 0 if they go out on stackoverflow and find solutions that give them shortcuts. They fail to use critical thinking skills and gain a deep understanding of how programming works. Most of the time, their ham-fisted copy/paste code doesn't even do what the assignment requires.
Since the book(s) have all the action in the background, and the big reveal in the post crisis recap, I am sure the movie will suck.
First, it's a series, not a movie.
Second, HBO usually does a great job with these types of series. Game of Thrones doesn't have every battle that's in the books, but they often-times refer to the battles and the aftermath in dialog. No reason to think this would be any different.
I can't think of any impediments I have to uploading more video to Facebook right now.
Except when Facebook blocks your video because of alleged "copyright issues". My wife shot a video of a spider building a web on her iPod Touch, edited it in iMovie with one of their templates, and then Facebook continuously blocked her saying she was violating copyright. It was a real shame, because it was a very cool video that a lot of friends and family probably would have enjoyed.
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Why would Obama care about lobbyist money? As of two weeks ago, he's been freed of all political consequences to any of his actions. He can finally do what he thinks is right.
Apparently, he's can finally do what he thinks is wrong, too.
It's bringing back suppressed memories of Highlander 2!
He has a point. Every story about women in STEM is plagued with posts trying to disrupt any effort to improve things. Typical arguments include:
...
- There is no problem
- Girls just don't like computers
Is it possible that either of these are true, even in a general sense? There are gender disparities in several fields. The median salary for nurses is $65,470, whereas the median salary for IT Technicians is $42,992, but you don't hear a whole bunch of FUD over the fact that 90% of nurses are females. And when it comes right down to it, nurses are far more valuable to society than IT techs. Meanwhile, oil rig workers, about 95% male, make on average $99,175. Why no big push for women in that field?
I know! I know! Ask her about her implication on the future best seller "Barbie: I, against all odds, can be a computer engineer for Amazon in Seattle"!
You've won Slashdot for the day. Congratulations!
This Barbie actually does sound like some computer "engineers" I've known.
So, because he is exercising his rights as a foreign citizen living in another country and going through the legally established international process for determining extradition, he is a 'fugitive' and thus his assets are fair game?
This is theft, plain and simple, just like "civil" asset forfeiture.
Bill Foster, Congressman from Illinois, can program in assembly language, among others.
FTA:
What this actually means to tech policy remains unclear. Computer programming skills do not automatically lead to sound logic or wise positions on important issues. A quick read through Slashdot user comments easily demonstrates this.
Ouch!
Thomas Massie is a tech guy with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering & a master's in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and founded SensAble. I'm sure he had to do quite a bit of coding in his time in school, and probably a bit while he was building his company as well.
He used the chicken shit excuse that "It didn't go far enough", as if a fantasy bill that went even farther was a realistic alternative.
According to your link:
Paul said he voted against the bill because it would have extended the Patriot Act provision that allows the NSA to search Americans' phone records. He has consistently opposed the Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
It curtailed some domestic spying, but extended it in other areas, and also extended the PATRIOT Act. My guess is you would have criticized him if he voted in favor of it as well.
Faces change, policy doesn't.
Faces change, but the policies continue to get worse. They'll get worse than they are now when the next Democrat or Republican takes over the White House. It might be worse in slightly different ways, but it will still be worse.
Make a game with only female lead roles who are portrayed in a very positive manner and have all the men in the game be bumbling idiots who are constantly causing problems.
So basically, like most American sitcoms.
it's time we tell them to man up and stop complaining about perceived sexism.
Irony? :-D
Here we are on a site where strangers can rate what we say, potentially burying it where others won't get the chance to read it, and we're complaining that governments are vaguely coming around to the same idea?
Usually, buried comments are garbage, but you're always able to change your comment threshold. Not so if a site you want to see is on your ISP's blocked list.
Almost half the summary text is not linking to anything, why does nobody check these things?
Too Many Links!
Industry officials say they want to assure their customers that the information that their cars stream back to automakers or that is downloaded from the vehicle's computers won't be handed over to authorities without a court order, sold to insurance companies or used to bombard them with ads for pizza parlors, gas stations or other businesses they drive past, without their permission.
I'm sure they'll assume your permission or have a clause in the sales contract which will turn this into "opt-out" instead of "opt-in".
That is exactly because our government keeps deciding to let the market solve it even though our so-called markets don't have enough independent sellers for competition to have any effect. Each 'competitor' can easily match the very few others sleaze for sleaze so nobody goes out of business.
Fraud isn't a part of a free market, and is a legitimate time for using courts to settle the dispute.
That, and they want people in the stores to get sold protection plans and overpriced accessories.
Could be the case. The guy asked me if I wanted to get accessories with it, and I told him to just put it on my account. AT&T is the last place I'd buy accessories from, I noticed they still had cases for the iPhone 4 for $50 on the rack!
If you can get fined millions of dollars for stealing a 5 cent mp3, then certainly overcharging someone in the range of ~$100 is bound to bring in Billions of dollars in damages.
When big corporations do it, it's "different".
I don't know why big companies just can't do what they say they're going to do. I just bought an iPhone 6 Plus from AT&T, and they promised a $200 buyback for the iPhone 4 if the purchase was made by Sept. 30. After they sent me the phone, they sent me a follow-up e-mail with a code for the iPhone 4, but the buyback value was only $100 with that code. So I had to call customer service, and they told me I had to go to the nearest AT&T store to get it straightened out. The nearest store is 30 miles from my house. Thankfully it's between my work & home IF I take an alternate, longer route. The guy at the store knew exactly what I was talking about when I got there and they were able to get me squared away without too much problem. I'm guessing they wanted to see how many people would just shrug and take a $100 hit.
Just out of curiosity are there any professional programmers out there who don't regularly copy functions from the Internet?
The whole point of the course is to try & figure out how data structures and algorithms are implemented. It's as much about problem solving as it is coding. Sure, you could always just use std::vector in your C++ programs for vectors, but do you really understand how they work? What about binary trees and linked lists? That's the type of stuff they're teaching in these classes. Copying code & modifying it for your own purposes is fine for production, but if these students don't understand how the underlying code works, then their chances of successfully using it greatly diminishes.
I see it all the time in my courses. I emphasize to the students that they should only use methods currently covered, so they get a 0 if they go out on stackoverflow and find solutions that give them shortcuts. They fail to use critical thinking skills and gain a deep understanding of how programming works. Most of the time, their ham-fisted copy/paste code doesn't even do what the assignment requires.
Since the book(s) have all the action in the background, and the big reveal in the post crisis recap, I am sure the movie will suck.
If my wife hears about this, she's liable to want us to go out and get cable again.
HBO is going to have a standalone service in the near future.
I can't think of any impediments I have to uploading more video to Facebook right now.
Except when Facebook blocks your video because of alleged "copyright issues". My wife shot a video of a spider building a web on her iPod Touch, edited it in iMovie with one of their templates, and then Facebook continuously blocked her saying she was violating copyright. It was a real shame, because it was a very cool video that a lot of friends and family probably would have enjoyed.
And the zombies. Never forget the zombies.
Is undead the same as alive?
Buy a Kindle, get all of your ebooks from Amazon because it doesn't support Epub, which is what all of the other online bookstores are using.
Or, you could always do this.