Oh come on. Haven't you heard of the Tea Party, those wonderful, thoughtful, educated ultra-rightists, led by the ever-so-thoughtful Ms. Palin?
Heck, if a bunch of kooks called the "tea party" can make the republicans pee in their pants, then the "priate party" ought to make the democracts shit in their shorts.
I'm buying pop corn. We may not have thoughtful politics here in the US, but it sure promises to be entertaining. Bring on the Pirate Party! I'll join!
Do your kids learn in school about the history of some place they've never been to, likely never will, and has no relevance to them whatsoever because it's fun or because their teacher tells them to?
I never said "school" was fun; I said "learning" was fun. You have to change the schools until learning is fun. Unfortunately with No Child Left Behind crap kids are taught to "pass the test" rather than "know what they're doing".
My son hated reading. Twice now the teachers have been concerned he would be held back a grade, because he can't "keep up" with the curriculum, which consists in part of those mind-numbing regurgitation exercises to pass NCLB.
The other day he went to the library and got a book on the Monitor and the Merrimac. This is a 200+ page treatise on the construction, seaworthiness, history, and the battle between the two ships. It's a book aimed at adult history buffs, not kids in 4th grade. He's been up until 10PM every night reading this book. He's discovered that learning is fun, and reading is necessary for that fun.
Paying kids to read will not do anything in the long run other than make kids who won't move unless someone pays them. I want employees who are creative, who have incentive, and initiative. I don't want to have to pay them over and above for every little thing. (And, yes, I've heard this already. "I want to get a bonus because I didn't take any sick days this year.")
My kids aren't "forced" to go to school. They love it. They love learning. They take on learning tasks all by themselves, without financial incentives.
They're "productive members of society" already. They're not being forced to do anything; they enjoy life. Part of enjoying life is learning, stretching your mind and your body.
I disagree with paying kids for good grades because it incetivizes cheating, and it removes the main reason for learning: it's fun.
Think about this. Do you learn a new programming language because you are forced to? Because your boss pays you more? Or because it's fun?
Heck, if people expected to get paid for learning, then linux would not exist. It's built by people who love learning new things.
[sarcasm] OK, Now I get it - it's all an evil plot by m$ to kill linux... [/sarcasm]
Actually, I expect the pirates to be at the head of the line. At least, if I was in the business of stealing content, what better way to get to know the enemy?
And, for the icing on the cake, I get a paycheck for it! Yippee! Where do I sign up?
At least in our school district, the school adminstration has always met the problem head on. There was a Russian kid who got bullied, he filed a complaint. The administration took action, called the papers, set up school assemblies and had sessions for the kids. No news on kids who did it, but I guess that they got some serious counselling.
Something similar happened to my daughter; she's a jock and walks like a lumberjack. This kid has bigger arms than most boys her age. So some girls started to make fun of her; she took it to the administration and the behavior stopped immediately.
So not all districts are like that. Only the bad ones make the headlines.
Well, what is the cost of lying? If you're a leader, someone might call you out, but probably not. More likely you get more power, as people follow you because you tell them what they want to hear.
If you're a subordinate, you can get penalized - fired, demoted, reprimanded.
It is a big deal because, timed correctly, you can cascade a failure and shut down a huge chunk of the grid. Maybe your building has a generator for critical systems, and it can run for 72 hours on its propane tank.
But can the next shift show up, if the trains aren't running? Traffic control is down?
How many hours can you last, with no food and possibly limited and no water? So your server room is running; who is there to man it?
Just talk to the people who weathered Andrew, Hugo and such. Having your own power backup does little good if you also don't have all of the people there to put it to use.
Anyway, this is clearly not a threat. It's a vulnerability, and should be addressed.
OTOH, the intelligence community has a different definition of "threat" from most people. A "threat" is what your opponent *could* do, not what they *intend* to do.
So the intelligence people analyze "threats" from Canada, UK, etc. Certainly UK or Canada are "threats" in that they have the location and/or the military might to cause the US significant damage. It has nothing to do with their "intent"; that's for the politicos to decide.
Bah humbug. Most HD stuff is indistinguishable from DVD stuff, at least for normal people at normal viewing distances on normal equipment.
I don't see a movie shown in a "holotank" or whatever Heinlein called it. You'd have to have cameras all around, and then stitch them together.
I abhor the current fixation in Hollywood on big-bang graphics and effects at the expense of any real plots or enticing characters.
Heck, get a copy of Metropolis; shot in 1927 without any fancy technology, it still leaves you deeply disturbed and affected, far more than most of the hi-tech hi-def crap that rolls out of Hollywood today.
Statistical analysis.... Given enough data, you should be able to see a pattern in real data. Then you can filter for anomalies. Either investigate the anomalies or dismiss them. For example, the recent spate of "My Prius drove at 94 MPH" reports are anomalies that don't jive with the reported facts.
You will always have people falsely reporting data, but at least you will have overall patterns and outliers, which is more than you have now.
If you have 10 rape reports a day coming from a gov't owned IP block, all using similar wording, that's a good indicator that may be false. If, OTOH, you have 10 rape reports a day coming from different ISP blocks, diffferent wording, different spelling errors and grammar, those are probably legit.
As someone who toted an M16 for years in the military, I can tell you that if you left a loaded weapon, with the safety off, outside your reach in a public space, and went to sleep, not only you but your entire squad would be on shit detail for a very, very long time. If the squad was in a state of combat readiness, I can see you spending time in the brig, loss of rank, and forfeiture of all pay and benefits for at least a month.
And if that weapon discharged FOR ANY REASON and killed someone, you would be courtmartialed and most likely spend a lot of time in the brig.
They make decisions which profit them greatly in the short term, and end up failing in the long term. Good policy to line the pockets of top management, bad policy for the life of the company.
Compare that with, say, Red Hat, which makes good long term decisions (or has so far), often at the expense of short term profit.
IIRC you can pay cash at the time of service and get a discount, or you can pay the full price. But hte doctor has to bill you the full price if you get billed. I'd really like to know the details of the law. No, I haven't researched it and (shocking for/.) I don't pretend to know it.
It's a quadruple the price and give the insurance company 75% off scam
I thought one of the things that came out in the debate was that there was a federal law prohibiting discounts to cash customers, so the poorest, uninsured *has* to pay the full price. The doctor cannot discount unless it's an insurance company.
That, and create only a single user who can log in, that takes you to the real log in prompt. That way an attacker has to guess the one user+password, and have a legitimate userid+password to gain access.
It's not foolproof, but it foils the vast majority of script attackers.
The anastheseologist will cost you $2,500. So will the OR itself. And the OR doc. And the X-Ray tech. And don't forget the guy who actually applies the cast. Each of whom is a separate entity, and bill you separately.
My kid's broken arm cost $7,500 for the ER visit, and another couple of grand for the cast work.
Almost $10K for something that should cost about $500 - the whole shebang took about an hour, so 5 professionals at $125/hr should work out to about $600.
Most of the rest of the civilzed world has universal health care, and none of the dire things you say have happened..... Maybe we (americans) can lay aside our arrogance for a moment and learn something from another country.
You've never been sick or had a child, have you? Current individual health care premiums approach nearly 50% of the average family income, and one kid with a broken arm can drive you into bankrupcy.
Yup. I had a successful small business that I sold a few years ago. I'd love to start a new business - I hate the current pointless grind I'm in - but I am, for all practical purposes, uninsurable.
My crime is that I am over 50, with numerous "pre-existing conditions" (read: I filed claims) and I have a wife and two small kids.
No insurance company will sell me health insurance for anything like reasonable rates. The last insurance policy I had cost about $15K/year and covered nearly nothing.
So instead of being part of the solution - the compnay I had employed 8 people - I am part of the problem, seeking a job that has good benefits and low demands.
Tell me again how not having universal health care is good for small business?
Oh hell.... the heads are typically political cronies who are given these "safe" posts as a reward for fundraising. Sometimes they'll have a "mission" to "make the agency more efficient"; doublespeak for "hack the hell out of the budget". See "Heck of a job Brownie". Or they're there because they gave the prez a blow job; under Clinton there was a woman who was in charge of the Air Guard who's only qualification is that she was 28, blonde and cute.
None of these "safe" positions are given out because the person is competent or even has a clue about the agency.
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Oh come on. Haven't you heard of the Tea Party, those wonderful, thoughtful, educated ultra-rightists, led by the ever-so-thoughtful Ms. Palin?
Heck, if a bunch of kooks called the "tea party" can make the republicans pee in their pants, then the "priate party" ought to make the democracts shit in their shorts.
I'm buying pop corn. We may not have thoughtful politics here in the US, but it sure promises to be entertaining. Bring on the Pirate Party! I'll join!
Do your kids learn in school about the history of some place they've never been to, likely never will, and has no relevance to them whatsoever because it's fun or because their teacher tells them to?
I never said "school" was fun; I said "learning" was fun. You have to change the schools until learning is fun. Unfortunately with No Child Left Behind crap kids are taught to "pass the test" rather than "know what they're doing".
My son hated reading. Twice now the teachers have been concerned he would be held back a grade, because he can't "keep up" with the curriculum, which consists in part of those mind-numbing regurgitation exercises to pass NCLB.
The other day he went to the library and got a book on the Monitor and the Merrimac. This is a 200+ page treatise on the construction, seaworthiness, history, and the battle between the two ships. It's a book aimed at adult history buffs, not kids in 4th grade. He's been up until 10PM every night reading this book. He's discovered that learning is fun, and reading is necessary for that fun.
Paying kids to read will not do anything in the long run other than make kids who won't move unless someone pays them. I want employees who are creative, who have incentive, and initiative. I don't want to have to pay them over and above for every little thing. (And, yes, I've heard this already. "I want to get a bonus because I didn't take any sick days this year.")
Damn you must have had a shitty childhood.
My kids aren't "forced" to go to school. They love it. They love learning. They take on learning tasks all by themselves, without financial incentives.
They're "productive members of society" already. They're not being forced to do anything; they enjoy life. Part of enjoying life is learning, stretching your mind and your body.
I disagree with paying kids for good grades because it incetivizes cheating, and it removes the main reason for learning: it's fun.
Think about this. Do you learn a new programming language because you are forced to? Because your boss pays you more? Or because it's fun?
Heck, if people expected to get paid for learning, then linux would not exist. It's built by people who love learning new things.
[sarcasm] OK, Now I get it - it's all an evil plot by m$ to kill linux... [/sarcasm]
OK, they're officially call "Deck Prisms".
http://glassian.org/Prism/Deck/index.html
Google Ships Crystal, or its more modern equivalent, manufactured by solatube or velux (and probably a gazillion others.)
Not sure what the news is here, other than they got a big, complex, mechanical thing on top that costs money and needs fixing.
Actually, I expect the pirates to be at the head of the line. At least, if I was in the business of stealing content, what better way to get to know the enemy?
And, for the icing on the cake, I get a paycheck for it! Yippee! Where do I sign up?
At least in our school district, the school adminstration has always met the problem head on. There was a Russian kid who got bullied, he filed a complaint. The administration took action, called the papers, set up school assemblies and had sessions for the kids. No news on kids who did it, but I guess that they got some serious counselling.
Something similar happened to my daughter; she's a jock and walks like a lumberjack. This kid has bigger arms than most boys her age. So some girls started to make fun of her; she took it to the administration and the behavior stopped immediately.
So not all districts are like that. Only the bad ones make the headlines.
Well, what is the cost of lying? If you're a leader, someone might call you out, but probably not. More likely you get more power, as people follow you because you tell them what they want to hear.
If you're a subordinate, you can get penalized - fired, demoted, reprimanded.
So the punishment for lying is different.
It is a big deal because, timed correctly, you can cascade a failure and shut down a huge chunk of the grid. Maybe your building has a generator for critical systems, and it can run for 72 hours on its propane tank.
But can the next shift show up, if the trains aren't running? Traffic control is down?
How many hours can you last, with no food and possibly limited and no water? So your server room is running; who is there to man it?
Just talk to the people who weathered Andrew, Hugo and such. Having your own power backup does little good if you also don't have all of the people there to put it to use.
Anyway, this is clearly not a threat. It's a vulnerability, and should be addressed.
OTOH, the intelligence community has a different definition of "threat" from most people. A "threat" is what your opponent *could* do, not what they *intend* to do.
So the intelligence people analyze "threats" from Canada, UK, etc. Certainly UK or Canada are "threats" in that they have the location and/or the military might to cause the US significant damage. It has nothing to do with their "intent"; that's for the politicos to decide.
Never, ever screw with a company that's in the business of collecting information. Heck, that's Google's *ONLY* business.
The crunching sound you hear is viacom stepping on its own dick.
Bah humbug. Most HD stuff is indistinguishable from DVD stuff, at least for normal people at normal viewing distances on normal equipment.
I don't see a movie shown in a "holotank" or whatever Heinlein called it. You'd have to have cameras all around, and then stitch them together.
I abhor the current fixation in Hollywood on big-bang graphics and effects at the expense of any real plots or enticing characters.
Heck, get a copy of Metropolis; shot in 1927 without any fancy technology, it still leaves you deeply disturbed and affected, far more than most of the hi-tech hi-def crap that rolls out of Hollywood today.
Statistical analysis.... Given enough data, you should be able to see a pattern in real data. Then you can filter for anomalies. Either investigate the anomalies or dismiss them. For example, the recent spate of "My Prius drove at 94 MPH" reports are anomalies that don't jive with the reported facts.
You will always have people falsely reporting data, but at least you will have overall patterns and outliers, which is more than you have now.
If you have 10 rape reports a day coming from a gov't owned IP block, all using similar wording, that's a good indicator that may be false. If, OTOH, you have 10 rape reports a day coming from different ISP blocks, diffferent wording, different spelling errors and grammar, those are probably legit.
As someone who toted an M16 for years in the military, I can tell you that if you left a loaded weapon, with the safety off, outside your reach in a public space, and went to sleep, not only you but your entire squad would be on shit detail for a very, very long time. If the squad was in a state of combat readiness, I can see you spending time in the brig, loss of rank, and forfeiture of all pay and benefits for at least a month.
And if that weapon discharged FOR ANY REASON and killed someone, you would be courtmartialed and most likely spend a lot of time in the brig.
They make decisions which profit them greatly in the short term, and end up failing in the long term. Good policy to line the pockets of top management, bad policy for the life of the company.
Compare that with, say, Red Hat, which makes good long term decisions (or has so far), often at the expense of short term profit.
Novell has a long, long history of making short-sighted decisions that eventually turn out badly.
It failed to see the shift from dedicated, limited network OS to distributed peer-to-peer networking.
It didn't react in time to dump IPX/SPX and got left out of the whole internet thing.
It bought Wordperfect about the time it tanked, then couldn't make a go of it.
Then it bought Suse, and screwed that up too.
Now it's got wads of cash. How much do you want to bet it will make a short-term decision that ends badly?
IIRC you can pay cash at the time of service and get a discount, or you can pay the full price. But hte doctor has to bill you the full price if you get billed. I'd really like to know the details of the law. No, I haven't researched it and (shocking for /.) I don't pretend to know it.
It's a quadruple the price and give the insurance company 75% off scam
I thought one of the things that came out in the debate was that there was a federal law prohibiting discounts to cash customers, so the poorest, uninsured *has* to pay the full price. The doctor cannot discount unless it's an insurance company.
Well, that works as long as you never, ever have to log in to from a random terminal. Which I do.
And if your laptop gets stolen, then your key gets stolen with it. Ditto USB stick, etc.
So pubic key is less vulnerable to brute force attacks, but more vulnerable to physical attacks. Pick which one you want.
Well, that works as long as you never, ever have to log in to from a random terminal. Which I do.
And if your laptop gets stolen, then your key gets stolen with it. Ditto USB stick, etc.
So pubic key is less vulnerable to brute force attacks, but more vulnerable to physical attacks. Pick which one you want.
That, and create only a single user who can log in, that takes you to the real log in prompt. That way an attacker has to guess the one user+password, and have a legitimate userid+password to gain access.
It's not foolproof, but it foils the vast majority of script attackers.
And DISABLE ROOT LOGIN!
The anastheseologist will cost you $2,500. So will the OR itself. And the OR doc. And the X-Ray tech. And don't forget the guy who actually applies the cast. Each of whom is a separate entity, and bill you separately.
My kid's broken arm cost $7,500 for the ER visit, and another couple of grand for the cast work.
Almost $10K for something that should cost about $500 - the whole shebang took about an hour, so 5 professionals at $125/hr should work out to about $600.
Most of the rest of the civilzed world has universal health care, and none of the dire things you say have happened..... Maybe we (americans) can lay aside our arrogance for a moment and learn something from another country.
You've never been sick or had a child, have you? Current individual health care premiums approach nearly 50% of the average family income, and one kid with a broken arm can drive you into bankrupcy.
Yup. I had a successful small business that I sold a few years ago. I'd love to start a new business - I hate the current pointless grind I'm in - but I am, for all practical purposes, uninsurable.
My crime is that I am over 50, with numerous "pre-existing conditions" (read: I filed claims) and I have a wife and two small kids.
No insurance company will sell me health insurance for anything like reasonable rates. The last insurance policy I had cost about $15K/year and covered nearly nothing.
So instead of being part of the solution - the compnay I had employed 8 people - I am part of the problem, seeking a job that has good benefits and low demands.
Tell me again how not having universal health care is good for small business?
Oh hell.... the heads are typically political cronies who are given these "safe" posts as a reward for fundraising. Sometimes they'll have a "mission" to "make the agency more efficient"; doublespeak for "hack the hell out of the budget". See "Heck of a job Brownie". Or they're there because they gave the prez a blow job; under Clinton there was a woman who was in charge of the Air Guard who's only qualification is that she was 28, blonde and cute.
None of these "safe" positions are given out because the person is competent or even has a clue about the agency.