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Stating his/her best guess as to what is the goal of the board of education is not necessarily advocating the board's position. On the other hand, such a goal is so ridiculous that a simple statement like this implies endorsement of this type of abuse of the political process.
On the gripping hand, most public state curriculum boards are politicized even if it's only at the level of the spoils system. Once again Texas is doing things in the biggest possible way, excessively, with no sense of style.
I especially like the one about ditching Isaac Newton in favor of military technology. Not only did the law of gravity give the first definitive equation for the ballistic trajectory of cannonballs, artillery shells, etc., but Newton switched from being a physicist to being a devout Christian theologian later in his life. I would've thought they'd love Newton, but nooo, they're so ignorant they're chopping out someone who falls right into their key focus areas. Either that, or maybe he was the wrong kind of Christian.
Exactly. In this case, Obama is kind of the blind squirrel that still found the acorn. He doesn't understand a lot of the technology, but any president of the US understands information overload. It's part of the job description.
1) There are so many devices and information sources available to everyone nowadays that information overload is a very easy trap to fall into. 2) People get stressed out by information overload. 3) As a result of the stress, people attempt to cope by letting their brains filter information and by multi-tasking. 4) Some of that filtering and multi-tasking isn't appropriate, For example, letting your political (Kool-Aid drinkers) or technological (fan-bois) preferences blind you to reality, or texting while driving.
Prez was just reminding folks that another way to deal with information overload is to just disconnect from the flow for a while. Doing that will make it easier to look at how you process information, assuming you're that self-analytical.
I thought Sony or someone had made a line of CRTs back in the 1980's or '90s that had quad-color pixels What's the big deal about doing the same thing on a flat panel?
But professional statisticians are such blabbermouths! You'll never be able to keep your results secret until publication. And they get into the flowers and dig them up!
This isn't giving up. It's to force congress to write proper legislation to define the level of authority the FCC has over broadband. Why should the agency foot the bill for endless lawsuits when a law giving them the authority would let them use their budget for more effective purposes.
Of course, the drawback to this technique is that it puts the net neutrality debate into the hands of congress.
"Just let them know what you need. If you're expected to do any work at home, you should expect them to hand you a laptop. It's so common, it's not even worth mentioning really."
Well, if the work can be done through an ordinary SSL browser session, I might deign to use my own HW. Otherwise I concur.
Howvever, the OP mentions that he is bringing his laptop into work, not working from home. That situation sounds even crazier, unless he is carrying the laptop from a private medical office into the hospital, and the computer is the property of the medical office.
I don't think they're logging in from home. Poster says they are bringing their personal machines to work. Scenario I can see here is that these are doctors and other professionals carrying their patient data round with them. If they are hospital staff without an outside practice, the hospital should be providing computers for them.
The problem is that under HIPAA (and even more-so under the new Massachusetts law) you pretty much have to encrypt patient data even to the extent of their name and address. Even if you don't directly copy and store patient info on your machine, odds are that browser caches or other application caches will contain such information when you access the patient data over the network. If your PC is not encrypted and it is lost or stolen, that's in instant breach of HIPAA data protection laws. The same would apply to an external disk or flash drive that you carry between your office or home and the hospital. (Note: IANAL but that's the standard my company enforces for PII and protected information).
The only compromise I can think of is to check if hospital IT will allow you to install your own full-disk encryption software that may be more compatible with your system. Or at least provide a range of choices of encryption software to use on your private machine.
Other than that, I suggest that you stop bringing your personal computer to work and make the hospital provide one. If you must use your own PC, have a little more respect for your patients' privacy and deal with the encryption.
I think it's a safe bet that Rep. Lofgren represents a Northern California district and not anything near LA...If Congress is going to be run by lobbyists, it's really time for them to do a quick check of which industries in the US actually contribute more to the GDP. It isn't the traditional media companies.
What's wrong with satellite television? Any area that can receive a laser beam from a geosynch orbiting satellite can receive the Weather Channel, CNN or their non-corporate equivalents. And if it's not geosynchronous, you'll need a cluster of satellites to cover the appropriate areas like at the poles (Tsunami warnings for the Arctic Ocean?). If the satellite network isn't geosynchronous, you also get the mystery of "which satellite is currently visible, so where do I look"?
isn't the type of PC you connect to the TV, it's your pointing devices. Connect the computer to the PC by wire (HDMI/VGA/DVI...), but you need a wireless pointing device and keyboard whose signal reaches from your couch to the PC. This can be: - a standard or bluetooth RF keyboard and mouse. - a bluetooth receiver coupled with a Wiimote, using appropriate software available online. - a presentation-style pointing device like those used at conferences and so on.
The last two would have the advantage that you wouldn't need a surface for the mouse and could just wave the controller in the air.
I tried to use a laptop that would remote desktop onto my HTPC over the network, but it was too laggy to be comfortable. I might have been able to tweak the settings to reduce the lag, but I've found that a regular wireless KB/Mouse work well, and are less bulky.
As far as the PC hardware goes, if you don't plan to play hardcore games, just about any graphics solution will do. I'm running AMD 785GX integrated graphics on my MB and stream HD just fine. You'll want at least a dual-core and preferably 3 or 4 core processor so your videos don't get chopped by AV scans or by browser pages loading. For memory, I'm running 4 GB. 2 GB might work, but would be pretty much impossible for any kind of gaming.
Maybe not, after all the "Commodore USA store" "is set to open June1". Could just be an alpha/prototype of the eventual site.
Still, as others have said, this is just another story of a Chinese manufacturer licensing a well-known brand name to slap onto their product. At least the product vaguely resembles what the original would have been if it were upgraded to modern hardware.
I note that the summary only mentions the need to buy _bound_ textbooks disappears.
Methinks they are subsidizing the cost of the device by continuing to charge exorbitant prices -- only for DRM'ed electronic textbooks that expire, instead of books you can keep.
One thing this is not is legislation from the bench. For one thing it was a jury verdict, not a ruling from the judge. For another thing, there is existing law passed by the legislature, and regulations defined by the executive branch for requiring safety features on various devices (though not necessarily specific to saws).
Where I can see the jury coming from is that the Ryobi saw was measurably less safe than the existing state of the art for such saws. They aren't necessarily requiring Ryobi to buy a license, but they are saying "either license the tech or develop your own that provides a comparable level of safety."
However, I still disagree with the decision because there are plenty of safety features on saws, as well as standard practices to prevent accidents. The fact that most saws available still don't incorporate the patented tech means that while the state of the art is better, the generally accepted standard for safety is lower. Unless the legislature or the CPSC actively steps in to raise the safety standards to include flesh-detection technology, the generally accepted standard of safety should apply. This verdict sets the bar for "callous disregard for safety" way too low.
That would have been great 2-3 years ago. With SSDs, that delay is shrinking very fast.
I suppose if the external verifier runs at the highest system priority it won't be subject to variation in access times as it gets swapped out, which would allow it to increase the sensitivity of the delay measurement. And if the malware is running at the highest available priority it would impact system performance in other ways.
It will be interesting to see the direction the arms race takes from here. Of course the ultimate counter to this is to infect the external verifier. It still comes down to "who do you trust".
Well if you need a decade or two of historical perspective to understand the issues raised by an article, doesn't that pretty much confirm that the article's premise is irrelevant?
More specifically: The BASIC of Djikstra's era isn't the same as the modern BASIC language exemplified by VisualBasic, Cypress Basic or even VBA. So Djikstra's concerns about properly structured programming are no longer relevant -- Basic in Windows is fundamentally different, and open source platforms have abandoned BASIC in favor of other languages.
However, if you abandon the specific references to BASIC and acknowledge the fact that some languages are better at enforcing structured programming habits than others, then Djikstra's concerns are relevant. It's far better to teach beginning programmers in Pascal or Java than it is to use Perl, for example.
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Heck, if they're going to go with an infrequently used OS, go with OLPC laptops and REALLY minimize the cost.
I bet we'll be hearing from Apple's PR dept about a discount program before this business goes much further.
"Corporate whores" isn't just a metaphor either. They were known as the "MMS chicks"...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/09/mms_chicks_drilling_for_dollar.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091001829.html
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# from Facebook pages
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Stating his/her best guess as to what is the goal of the board of education is not necessarily advocating the board's position. On the other hand, such a goal is so ridiculous that a simple statement like this implies endorsement of this type of abuse of the political process.
On the gripping hand, most public state curriculum boards are politicized even if it's only at the level of the spoils system. Once again Texas is doing things in the biggest possible way, excessively, with no sense of style.
"Don't Mess With Texas?" Give me a break. Sometimes Texas deserves to be messed with.
A case in point: http://www.khou.com/news/Candy-Gets-Third-Grader-A-Weeks-Detention-93033319.html
I especially like the one about ditching Isaac Newton in favor of military technology. Not only did the law of gravity give the first definitive equation for the ballistic trajectory of cannonballs, artillery shells, etc., but Newton switched from being a physicist to being a devout Christian theologian later in his life. I would've thought they'd love Newton, but nooo, they're so ignorant they're chopping out someone who falls right into their key focus areas. Either that, or maybe he was the wrong kind of Christian.
Exactly. In this case, Obama is kind of the blind squirrel that still found the acorn. He doesn't understand a lot of the technology, but any president of the US understands information overload. It's part of the job description.
1) There are so many devices and information sources available to everyone nowadays that information overload is a very easy trap to fall into.
2) People get stressed out by information overload.
3) As a result of the stress, people attempt to cope by letting their brains filter information and by multi-tasking.
4) Some of that filtering and multi-tasking isn't appropriate, For example, letting your political (Kool-Aid drinkers) or technological (fan-bois) preferences blind you to reality, or texting while driving.
Prez was just reminding folks that another way to deal with information overload is to just disconnect from the flow for a while. Doing that will make it easier to look at how you process information, assuming you're that self-analytical.
I thought Sony or someone had made a line of CRTs back in the 1980's or '90s that had quad-color pixels What's the big deal about doing the same thing on a flat panel?
Alberta has a big brown beaver...dam! Eh?
...and all the conspiracy theorists will be convinced this evaluation is just a whitewash by the liberal, ivory tower academic community.
But professional statisticians are such blabbermouths! You'll never be able to keep your results secret until publication. And they get into the flowers and dig them up!
This isn't giving up. It's to force congress to write proper legislation to define the level of authority the FCC has over broadband. Why should the agency foot the bill for endless lawsuits when a law giving them the authority would let them use their budget for more effective purposes.
Of course, the drawback to this technique is that it puts the net neutrality debate into the hands of congress.
"Just let them know what you need. If you're expected to do any work at home, you should expect them to hand you a laptop. It's so common, it's not even worth mentioning really."
Well, if the work can be done through an ordinary SSL browser session, I might deign to use my own HW. Otherwise I concur.
Howvever, the OP mentions that he is bringing his laptop into work, not working from home. That situation sounds even crazier, unless he is carrying the laptop from a private medical office into the hospital, and the computer is the property of the medical office.
I don't think they're logging in from home. Poster says they are bringing their personal machines to work. Scenario I can see here is that these are doctors and other professionals carrying their patient data round with them. If they are hospital staff without an outside practice, the hospital should be providing computers for them.
The problem is that under HIPAA (and even more-so under the new Massachusetts law) you pretty much have to encrypt patient data even to the extent of their name and address. Even if you don't directly copy and store patient info on your machine, odds are that browser caches or other application caches will contain such information when you access the patient data over the network. If your PC is not encrypted and it is lost or stolen, that's in instant breach of HIPAA data protection laws. The same would apply to an external disk or flash drive that you carry between your office or home and the hospital. (Note: IANAL but that's the standard my company enforces for PII and protected information).
The only compromise I can think of is to check if hospital IT will allow you to install your own full-disk encryption software that may be more compatible with your system. Or at least provide a range of choices of encryption software to use on your private machine.
Other than that, I suggest that you stop bringing your personal computer to work and make the hospital provide one. If you must use your own PC, have a little more respect for your patients' privacy and deal with the encryption.
I think it's a safe bet that Rep. Lofgren represents a Northern California district and not anything near LA...If Congress is going to be run by lobbyists, it's really time for them to do a quick check of which industries in the US actually contribute more to the GDP. It isn't the traditional media companies.
What's wrong with satellite television? Any area that can receive a laser beam from a geosynch orbiting satellite can receive the Weather Channel, CNN or their non-corporate equivalents. And if it's not geosynchronous, you'll need a cluster of satellites to cover the appropriate areas like at the poles (Tsunami warnings for the Arctic Ocean?). If the satellite network isn't geosynchronous, you also get the mystery of "which satellite is currently visible, so where do I look"?
isn't the type of PC you connect to the TV, it's your pointing devices. Connect the computer to the PC by wire (HDMI/VGA/DVI...), but you need a wireless pointing device and keyboard whose signal reaches from your couch to the PC. This can be:
- a standard or bluetooth RF keyboard and mouse.
- a bluetooth receiver coupled with a Wiimote, using appropriate software available online.
- a presentation-style pointing device like those used at conferences and so on.
The last two would have the advantage that you wouldn't need a surface for the mouse and could just wave the controller in the air.
I tried to use a laptop that would remote desktop onto my HTPC over the network, but it was too laggy to be comfortable. I might have been able to tweak the settings to reduce the lag, but I've found that a regular wireless KB/Mouse work well, and are less bulky.
As far as the PC hardware goes, if you don't plan to play hardcore games, just about any graphics solution will do. I'm running AMD 785GX integrated graphics on my MB and stream HD just fine. You'll want at least a dual-core and preferably 3 or 4 core processor so your videos don't get chopped by AV scans or by browser pages loading. For memory, I'm running 4 GB. 2 GB might work, but would be pretty much impossible for any kind of gaming.
Maybe not, after all the "Commodore USA store" "is set to open June1". Could just be an alpha/prototype of the eventual site.
Still, as others have said, this is just another story of a Chinese manufacturer licensing a well-known brand name to slap onto their product. At least the product vaguely resembles what the original would have been if it were upgraded to modern hardware.
I note that the summary only mentions the need to buy _bound_ textbooks disappears.
Methinks they are subsidizing the cost of the device by continuing to charge exorbitant prices -- only for DRM'ed electronic textbooks that expire, instead of books you can keep.
One thing this is not is legislation from the bench. For one thing it was a jury verdict, not a ruling from the judge. For another thing, there is existing law passed by the legislature, and regulations defined by the executive branch for requiring safety features on various devices (though not necessarily specific to saws).
Where I can see the jury coming from is that the Ryobi saw was measurably less safe than the existing state of the art for such saws. They aren't necessarily requiring Ryobi to buy a license, but they are saying "either license the tech or develop your own that provides a comparable level of safety."
However, I still disagree with the decision because there are plenty of safety features on saws, as well as standard practices to prevent accidents. The fact that most saws available still don't incorporate the patented tech means that while the state of the art is better, the generally accepted standard for safety is lower. Unless the legislature or the CPSC actively steps in to raise the safety standards to include flesh-detection technology, the generally accepted standard of safety should apply. This verdict sets the bar for "callous disregard for safety" way too low.
And Malwarebytes free for that extra on-demand scan when something acts a little funny and you want to make sure.
Yeah, the real issue is how do you keep the "external verifier" from being infected, which would circumvent the whole scheme.
That would have been great 2-3 years ago. With SSDs, that delay is shrinking very fast.
I suppose if the external verifier runs at the highest system priority it won't be subject to variation in access times as it gets swapped out, which would allow it to increase the sensitivity of the delay measurement. And if the malware is running at the highest available priority it would impact system performance in other ways.
It will be interesting to see the direction the arms race takes from here. Of course the ultimate counter to this is to infect the external verifier. It still comes down to "who do you trust".
Well if you need a decade or two of historical perspective to understand the issues raised by an article, doesn't that pretty much confirm that the article's premise is irrelevant? More specifically: The BASIC of Djikstra's era isn't the same as the modern BASIC language exemplified by VisualBasic, Cypress Basic or even VBA. So Djikstra's concerns about properly structured programming are no longer relevant -- Basic in Windows is fundamentally different, and open source platforms have abandoned BASIC in favor of other languages. However, if you abandon the specific references to BASIC and acknowledge the fact that some languages are better at enforcing structured programming habits than others, then Djikstra's concerns are relevant. It's far better to teach beginning programmers in Pascal or Java than it is to use Perl, for example.
FTFA: There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won't hurt a site financially. This is wrong. Most sites, at least sites the size of ours, are paid on a per view basis.
I pay for bandwidth and connection time, so your ad directly costs me money, and it should be illegal for that reason.
And how much have you paid the authors and editors of the sites you visit lately? TANSTAAFL.