What part of "telecommute" did you not understand? I doubt he gets his money for entertaining himself (otherwise I'd like to know where to get such a job;-))
However I'm pretty sure there have been a couple people over the history of mankind who have sailed around the world without internet access.
Yes, for example Columbus. Since he had no internet access, he could not just look up his coordinates in Google Earth to find out where he was, and therefore he thought he were in India when he wasn't. Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians.
So you see, having internet access is quite important when sailing.
I would consider broadband to be more important than the digital tv switch over.
The broadband program costs the government money. The digital TV switch brings the government money, by selling now-free frequencies from previous analog TV. Now what is more important to the government, to pay money, or to get money?
Being required to have information "in your head" for math tests is stupid anyway.
Not all tests are math tests. Nor are all tests where calculators are useful. Indeed, I've rarely used my calculator in math. I used it a lot in physics.
But also in math there are things you are supposed to remember. Not single steps, mind you. But theorems, for example, like the one of Pythagoras. Or basic definitions, like vector spaces. Or basic formulas, like how to form the scalar product of two vectors, or what is the area of a circle.
Having a good memory is increasingly becoming useless, as memory aids are now almost ubiquitous.
From my own experience, I strongly disagree. Information in your head is far more flexible than information you have to look up. Your brain constantly matches the information in your head against things you work with, and you are able to detect something which you would not have detected if you didn't have that knowledge in your head. It doesn't help you that you could look it up even in seconds if you don't have the slightest idea that it's even relevant to your current problem.
Not to mention the fact that in my experience the best ideas usually come at times when you don't have the possibility to immediately look things up.
Or, as you mentioned, we could have the schools give students calculators. This would require a change to the education budget, since schools would become responsible for buying and maintaining calculators; in some areas, such as the city where I grew up, that would be a major expense and a difficult thing to do (politically).
Well, when I was in school, we got calculators through the school which we had to pay for ourselves. They were not graphing, they just could calculate numbers. They did have things like trigonometric functions and logarithms, and even some statistics functionality. They did not have permanent storage. They were certainly sufficient for calculating answers e.g. in physics.
In elementary school I wasn't allowed to count on my fingers because the teacher thought it was more important to know addition tables by rote instead of relying on other learning methods.
Of course. After all, you could lose your fingers in an accident, and if rely on your fingers to count, you'll be lost.:-)
Well, I also use apps to write apps for me. Those apps are usually known as compilers. I give them a description of the program I want to have, in a language they understand (usually known as programming language), and then they write the program I described for me.
This problem can not be solved. I recommend reading "Reflections on trusting trust." Eventually you need to trust a person, somewhere, and if they are trusted and really clever they can hide what they are doing in a large system.
Yes (and I've already read that text a long time ago). However, the main point I wanted to get across is that just because you are on Linux, you shouldn't be too sure you don't get targeted, because Firefox extensions are often cross-platform, and offer great opportunities for malware.
And while you cannot ever have complete trust, you can certainly minimize the number of parties you need to trust, especially for sensitive stuff. Therefore my separate banking Firefox profile: There I only have to trust Firefox and libraries used (plus the compilers etc., of course), and the maker of the Linux distribution (I trust them to not create malware themselves, but I also trust them to actively care for the security of the packages, which adds another level of trust to those — of course, there can be mistakes at that level, too, see Debian ssh).
That's not the point. The point is that if you actively download and run random stuff from the web, it doesn't tell much about the security of the OS if you get lots of malware.
However, I can imagine that the first sort of widespread malware on Linux will be cross-platform Firefox extensions. It shouldn't be too hard to write an extension that does something users want, but also contain some malicious code. That code would have full access to anything you browse, including your banking site and all passwords to various web sites, and it could silently send that data to an arbitrary place, or silently manipulate it. If the extension is otherwise useful, people may install it. For example, how many people have inspected the source of NoScript before they installed it? And of every update as well? I haven't. I installed it because it has functionality I want, I've read lots of recommendations, it has lots of users, and it is on the official Mozilla add-on site. Also the fact that this add-on is quite complex and very actively maintained and developed is IMHO a indication that it's not just a way to introduce malware. However, what if someone would manage hack the web site and push a slightly modified version as update? Note that this would hit exactly those people who are least likely to get other malware.
There's a reason why I created a second profile in Firefox where absolutely no extensions are installed. That's what I use for online banking.
Some more strangeness to add (all conforming to the C standard, some of them violate Posix, though): Pointers have different sizes, depending on type. Function pointers and data pointers cannot be cast to each other. Pointers with different representations can actually point to the same memory address, but still have p1<p2 (this happened in 16 bit real mode).
BTW, does the C standard demand that all integer types use the same representation? If not, one could imagine that e.g. char uses signed magnitude, short uses ones complement, and long uses twos complement.
And of course, the storage would contain some transparent type tagging mechanism, so that certain type punning operations which are undefined in C are guaranteed to fail at run time.
Indeed, even lethal weapons are rather harmless, except for people in certain pre-existing medical conditions. Those conditions are commonly referred to as "being alive."
I understand: They migrated the thermosphere control servers to Linux. However the thermosphere control device is on USB, and there are no appropriate drivers. Those drivers are missing because of the flaws in GPL. This wouldn't have been a problem if the device would not have entered a special high temperature mode, because the standard low temperature mode is well supported by Linux drivers. This high temperature mode was of course entered because of global warming. Moreover, a backup server still running Windows, which could have been used to drive the thermosphere control device, was destroyed in Barack Obamas personal war. And it wasn't put up again because the people responsible for it were too busy complaining about the terrible new changes to Slashdot.
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Thinking up your own solutions doesn't help if about every font out there uses the patented one.
But are there any providers for IPoAC?
What part of "telecommute" did you not understand? ;-))
I doubt he gets his money for entertaining himself (otherwise I'd like to know where to get such a job
Yes, for example Columbus. Since he had no internet access, he could not just look up his coordinates in Google Earth to find out where he was, and therefore he thought he were in India when he wasn't. Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians.
So you see, having internet access is quite important when sailing.
Yes, but no news is good news.
The broadband program costs the government money. The digital TV switch brings the government money, by selling now-free frequencies from previous analog TV. Now what is more important to the government, to pay money, or to get money?
Why? C is extremely terse, and therefore ideally suited to dial-up.
Now if you were a COBOL programmer, you'd have a point.
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Not all tests are math tests. Nor are all tests where calculators are useful. Indeed, I've rarely used my calculator in math. I used it a lot in physics.
But also in math there are things you are supposed to remember. Not single steps, mind you. But theorems, for example, like the one of Pythagoras. Or basic definitions, like vector spaces. Or basic formulas, like how to form the scalar product of two vectors, or what is the area of a circle.
From my own experience, I strongly disagree. Information in your head is far more flexible than information you have to look up. Your brain constantly matches the information in your head against things you work with, and you are able to detect something which you would not have detected if you didn't have that knowledge in your head. It doesn't help you that you could look it up even in seconds if you don't have the slightest idea that it's even relevant to your current problem.
Not to mention the fact that in my experience the best ideas usually come at times when you don't have the possibility to immediately look things up.
Three Yorkshiremen? Luxury! We only had sketches which didn't have any Yorkshiremen at all!
Well, when I was in school, we got calculators through the school which we had to pay for ourselves. They were not graphing, they just could calculate numbers. They did have things like trigonometric functions and logarithms, and even some statistics functionality. They did not have permanent storage. They were certainly sufficient for calculating answers e.g. in physics.
Of course. After all, you could lose your fingers in an accident, and if rely on your fingers to count, you'll be lost. :-)
To start with, you could store information on them which you were supposed to have in your head.
Didn't they get the message that computer games are harmful? Just wait until we have the first case of balanced meal amok!
Well, I also use apps to write apps for me. Those apps are usually known as compilers. I give them a description of the program I want to have, in a language they understand (usually known as programming language), and then they write the program I described for me.
Yes (and I've already read that text a long time ago). However, the main point I wanted to get across is that just because you are on Linux, you shouldn't be too sure you don't get targeted, because Firefox extensions are often cross-platform, and offer great opportunities for malware.
And while you cannot ever have complete trust, you can certainly minimize the number of parties you need to trust, especially for sensitive stuff. Therefore my separate banking Firefox profile: There I only have to trust Firefox and libraries used (plus the compilers etc., of course), and the maker of the Linux distribution (I trust them to not create malware themselves, but I also trust them to actively care for the security of the packages, which adds another level of trust to those — of course, there can be mistakes at that level, too, see Debian ssh).
That's not the point. The point is that if you actively download and run random stuff from the web, it doesn't tell much about the security of the OS if you get lots of malware.
However, I can imagine that the first sort of widespread malware on Linux will be cross-platform Firefox extensions. It shouldn't be too hard to write an extension that does something users want, but also contain some malicious code. That code would have full access to anything you browse, including your banking site and all passwords to various web sites, and it could silently send that data to an arbitrary place, or silently manipulate it. If the extension is otherwise useful, people may install it. For example, how many people have inspected the source of NoScript before they installed it? And of every update as well? I haven't. I installed it because it has functionality I want, I've read lots of recommendations, it has lots of users, and it is on the official Mozilla add-on site. Also the fact that this add-on is quite complex and very actively maintained and developed is IMHO a indication that it's not just a way to introduce malware. However, what if someone would manage hack the web site and push a slightly modified version as update? Note that this would hit exactly those people who are least likely to get other malware.
There's a reason why I created a second profile in Firefox where absolutely no extensions are installed. That's what I use for online banking.
To be fair, if you download run random stuff from the web, your Linux computer isn't too secure either.
Some more strangeness to add (all conforming to the C standard, some of them violate Posix, though):
Pointers have different sizes, depending on type. Function pointers and data pointers cannot be cast to each other. Pointers with different representations can actually point to the same memory address, but still have p1<p2 (this happened in 16 bit real mode).
BTW, does the C standard demand that all integer types use the same representation? If not, one could imagine that e.g. char uses signed magnitude, short uses ones complement, and long uses twos complement.
And of course, the storage would contain some transparent type tagging mechanism, so that certain type punning operations which are undefined in C are guaranteed to fail at run time.
Indeed, even lethal weapons are rather harmless, except for people in certain pre-existing medical conditions. Those conditions are commonly referred to as "being alive."
I understand: They migrated the thermosphere control servers to Linux. However the thermosphere control device is on USB, and there are no appropriate drivers. Those drivers are missing because of the flaws in GPL. This wouldn't have been a problem if the device would not have entered a special high temperature mode, because the standard low temperature mode is well supported by Linux drivers. This high temperature mode was of course entered because of global warming. Moreover, a backup server still running Windows, which could have been used to drive the thermosphere control device, was destroyed in Barack Obamas personal war. And it wasn't put up again because the people responsible for it were too busy complaining about the terrible new changes to Slashdot.
They use role playing game rounds against American soldiers?
Does a whining dog sound more pleasurable to you?
Well, maybe they increase the sound level, in order to fight back.
While the non-lethality to people has been tested, I don't know if they also tested the non-lethality to the lawn. :-)
Don't. They make the grues more hungry.
What if I use it as body paint? :-)
In other words, the ADS would still reach its aim: Make you experience a burning sensation.