The exact opposite of what? Are you saying that kids aren't slapped down enough, or that they're slapped down too much?
In my experience, and from all that I've read, I have to say that our method of teaching to standardized tests out of standardized books produces standardized kids who have no problem solving abilities.
I'm not sure how visiting a website that the school doesn't approve of is failing to respect their property, and frankly, I'm not into kids being taught to blindly follow rules dealing with what they are and are not allowed to read/know...Curiosity is not a crime.
Hey, if you think being suspended for three months for visiting MySpace on the sly is fair, that's your choice, but it's sure as hell not something I support.
There is constant pressure in all organizations that make money from advertising to curry favor with your advertisers by being nice to them. If you've ever worked in media, you know there is like a demilitiarized zone between the editorial and the advertising department, and both sides deeply resent the other side for what they perceive as the others failure to understand their company mission.
It is a testament to how evil the ad people are that they really see it that way. The time when ads were a necessary evil and and the actual content was the important part is long gone, and we're trending more and more toward the content being nothing more than a lure for ads.
I never thought much of PC World, but I have to respect an Executive Editor who is willing to put his principles ahead of his job. Of course, now I think less of PC World because their damn executive editor had to quit because they put their whoring for ads ahead of the needs of their readers.
Well, clearly they were smarter than whoever set the system up in the first place.
And it's a stupid policy; completely arbitrary, and in no way worthy of a THREE MONTH suspension...that's so beyond the pale there aren't even words. What do they get for fighting at that school? Death penalty? Isn't the point to provide kids with more information? I've dealt with enough crappy filter software to know it catches as many good sites as bad ones.
If you provide internet access, you have to accept that people are going to use it for evil as well as good. Either you need to accept that you're not going to be able to stop a percentage of people, or you need to not provide access.
Bah, that's crap. Kids who are smart enough to figure that stuff out need to be nurtured, not beat down. They displayed initiative, imagination, and creative problem solving, and they didn't cause any actual harm, just broke an arbitrary rule.
It's no different than having a teacher slap you down in class for a correct answer that isn't the answer out of the book. The point of schools should be to help you grow, not to force you into a mold so you can graduate and do some meaningless work that could be done better by a machine.
Given the insulating properties of epoxy, I'd have to say no. Definitely would make it easier to roast marshmallows over one after the resin catches on fire though.
Constraining physical access to circuit boards would be easy if airflow wasn't such a big issue.
Considering that it wouldn't be unlikely that a single app would want to do all of those things, and that most mac users work at a level where a beep, a little bomb, or an unhappy face is the amount of machine feedback they are used to processing, I think that would be a singularly bad idea.
Mind you, I'd love to see macs come with an "advanced" mode, where they display all those errors that they normally suppress.
That was one of the few Mac/PC commercials that annoyed me, the one where the PC is "spouting cryptic error messages", and the Mac says, "Oh hey, I'm a Mac, we don't do that."
Grrrrrr, like the "Bomb" or the "Unhappy face" aren't the most cryptic error messages of all? What's wrong? Someone set me up the bomb! Well THAT'S fricking helpful. If I google "bomb" I'm going to get a bunch of guys in suits with no sense of humor at my door in an hour or less, whereas if I google "DLL Error 12af2342fa4" there will probably be a page telling me what DLL is screwed up, and where to get it to reinstall.
Your page rank has practically nothing to do with the sites you link to; this is obvious or we'd never be able to find anything on google except parked domains.
With these crappy link exchange programs, you have to hope you don't get involved with a crook, because if he's linking everything he can find to everything else, that stuff is going to show up, and they're going to get smacked.
Well, technically I can't see it from my house, just the massive plumes of crap it puts out.
If you follow the train tracks in the satellite image you can see a train pulling away from the literal mountain 'o coal...Those trains come by every day. Care to speculate on how many lightbulbs worth of mercury is in one of those 100+ car trains?
I'd probably use a blimp or some such. The government can afford to put together a handful of them for just this sort of emergency, and you could get more by offering companies that manage blimps for advertising, etc, tax incentives to make their blimps capable of supporting the mobile tower infrastructure...Talk about some people who'd be happy to see the Goodyear blimp.
Building emergency towers on the ground is hugely foolish. You would never be able to guarantee power, never be able to guarantee that your switching infrastructure is not going to be submerged, and never be able to guarantee that some rich bastards yacht isn't going to get storm surged 12 miles inland, and knock over your "secure" tower.
Anyway, it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper to build a few mobile ones, if only because you'd only need a handful, and they could be anywhere. Otherwise, you'd have to put 'em up everywhere, because you'd never know in advance where you were going to need 'em.
Oh I know they do...I saw a photo of one where it had bluescreened, then rebooted to a windows desktop. Some joker had started Windows Media Player, and had left it playing whatever track was included with the OS.
In my mind, that's just obscene. When I talk about old, I mean super simple code, plain text on a black background, push this for your money, the end. Very simple. Practically unhackable. But build it on Windows, even tossing aside all the known problems with Windows, is HUGELY stupid. You're adding layers and layers of unnecessary code.
When I put together a Unix server that's going to be in a risky environment, I build it very carefully. It has the services it's going to need, and that's it. Nothing extra. NOTHING. Because every piece of code that's not being used is a possible vulnerability. Every single one. Building an ATM on Windows is taking all the possible flaws in your code, and then ADDING all the flaws of code you can't even check.
With complexity comes insecurity. Nothing makes me happier than an old atm with a limited feature set...You know it's not running windows in the background, you know it doesn't have code interpretation vulnerabilities...It's simple, clean, and elegant.
Likewise the web presence. Whenever I see data change without a page load it creeps me out. It may be sexy looking, but for every piece of flashy 2.0 Ajax, there is a cost in terms of security.
Sad to say though, there are people out there who are so conditioned to the "new is better" mentality that applies to consumer goods, that they think the same applies to computer code. They view a flashy "new" site as being more secure, rather than less secure, because newer is better, right?
Holy crap that was messed up! I sat there watching that with my jaw dropped open, thinking, "Who the hell needs horror movies, when you've got the rainforest? Stop it before it kills again!"
I like that the ants had developed a response, which was basically to pick up the sick guy, and dump him as far away from the hive as possible. That's a pretty sophisticated response. If the bees picked up on that one, this bee problem wouldn't be a problem any more (assuming that it really is the fungus).
Yea, that's me, luddite to the core, nevermind my tech job, and my tech degree, and the basic pro-techness of almost every aspect of my life.
Technology causes problems; it's foolish to think otherwise. It also solves problems, which should evident to anyone who isn't hopelessly biased. Bit of a rat race, unfortunately. But fortunately our techno-rat is still in the lead, and hopefully he'll stay that way for a long time to come.
Yes, so if they had asked her "Did he harass you?", that would have been both proper and relevant. Also asking him is he had harassed her would have been pointless (who would ever say yes?), but within the realm of reason.
Asking him if he had had sex with her, when they damn well knew he had, was a perjury trap.
Eh. Phones are such a good target. I mean, you set your phone on your desk, and you get speaker feedback every time it does discovery on a tower, and you think how often that happens when the damn thing is in your pants, and so it seems plausible whenever some group freaks out about this or that thing and blames it on cellphones, until it turns out that they have no fricking evidence, but by that point the idea of dangerous cellphones is even more firmly ingrained in peoples minds, thus making them more likely to believe the NEXT crazy thing that gets blamed on cellphones.
Admittedly the bee thing was a hilarious stretch. I mean, people would have noticed if, whenever you put up a cellphone tower, all bees in a 20 mile radius started crashing into things and dying, especially because towers are so often put up on or around farm land (because it's cheap), and a farmer would probably notice a massive decreased yield of whatever their crop was, and be super quick to blame it on cellphone towers, for the reasons stated above.//Is there an award for two longest run-on sentences in one post?
It probably is technologies fault, in that the fungus is likely one that has been brought into an area filled with vulnerable bees from another area...Just another invasive species. Also, we've been encouraging a bit of a bee monoculture, and trucking hives all over the country, spreading the fungus.
Just a hazard of the modern world. Hopefully now that we've isolated the problem, we can go ahead and solve it with the application of still more technology! (Thereby creating strains of fungus resistant to whatever it was that we used to kill the fungus, yadda yadda yadda).
It was a grand jury deposition. I'll assume that you're not aware that the person being so deposed has no right to council...Either that, or you've watched too much Perry Mason. There is no "objection" in that case.
The question was completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, as it dealt with someone who was completely unrelated to the complaint being investigated. They basically got him on stand and asked him a lot of pointed questions about his sex life dealing with people who hadn't brought complaints.
If he'd done what the Bush administration seems to always do, and claim that he couldn't remember for every question, I suppose you'd have had no problem with that.
If we found some way to suck carbon straight out of the air and into diamonds, we'd have to burn down forests just to keep the rest of the plants from asphixiating.
Funny how in common law, most people don't apply charges of perjury to questions about an individuals sex life, because most people lie about that stuff, even under oath, especially in America. It sure as hell wasn't a relevant question based on the damn topic at hand.
The whole thing was practically the definition of a "perjury trap", following from a grand jury fishing expedition that lasted two terms and turned up not one single illegality aside from one it manufactured itself. Vintage republican dirty tricks.
They won't vote to impeach. Kucinich is so far off to the left that most democrats don't agree with him...Frankly, an act of god wouldn't get him elected...In my mind, he's the liberal equivalent of Jessie Helms, or Rick Santorum, and the jokers in Ohio who keep electing him should be ashamed of themselves.//disclaimer. I've voted democrat in the last 4 elections.
I live in timber land, and while there are a few who cut responsibly, hardly any corporation does. They do it quick with a bulldozer, and they move on to the next lot. They don't pay attention to stream buffers, they don't pay attention to tree species, and they don't replant in a timely manner.
And while we're at it, where does the illusion that farmers are models of ecology come from? Erosion, topsoil problems, fertilizer and pesticides. They're out to make a buck, just like the damn timber companies.
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The exact opposite of what? Are you saying that kids aren't slapped down enough, or that they're slapped down too much?
In my experience, and from all that I've read, I have to say that our method of teaching to standardized tests out of standardized books produces standardized kids who have no problem solving abilities.
I'm not sure how visiting a website that the school doesn't approve of is failing to respect their property, and frankly, I'm not into kids being taught to blindly follow rules dealing with what they are and are not allowed to read/know...Curiosity is not a crime.
Hey, if you think being suspended for three months for visiting MySpace on the sly is fair, that's your choice, but it's sure as hell not something I support.
There is constant pressure in all organizations that make money from advertising to curry favor with your advertisers by being nice to them. If you've ever worked in media, you know there is like a demilitiarized zone between the editorial and the advertising department, and both sides deeply resent the other side for what they perceive as the others failure to understand their company mission.
It is a testament to how evil the ad people are that they really see it that way. The time when ads were a necessary evil and and the actual content was the important part is long gone, and we're trending more and more toward the content being nothing more than a lure for ads.
I never thought much of PC World, but I have to respect an Executive Editor who is willing to put his principles ahead of his job. Of course, now I think less of PC World because their damn executive editor had to quit because they put their whoring for ads ahead of the needs of their readers.
Well, clearly they were smarter than whoever set the system up in the first place.
And it's a stupid policy; completely arbitrary, and in no way worthy of a THREE MONTH suspension...that's so beyond the pale there aren't even words. What do they get for fighting at that school? Death penalty? Isn't the point to provide kids with more information? I've dealt with enough crappy filter software to know it catches as many good sites as bad ones.
If you provide internet access, you have to accept that people are going to use it for evil as well as good. Either you need to accept that you're not going to be able to stop a percentage of people, or you need to not provide access.
Bah, that's crap. Kids who are smart enough to figure that stuff out need to be nurtured, not beat down. They displayed initiative, imagination, and creative problem solving, and they didn't cause any actual harm, just broke an arbitrary rule.
It's no different than having a teacher slap you down in class for a correct answer that isn't the answer out of the book. The point of schools should be to help you grow, not to force you into a mold so you can graduate and do some meaningless work that could be done better by a machine.
Given the insulating properties of epoxy, I'd have to say no. Definitely would make it easier to roast marshmallows over one after the resin catches on fire though.
Constraining physical access to circuit boards would be easy if airflow wasn't such a big issue.
Considering that it wouldn't be unlikely that a single app would want to do all of those things, and that most mac users work at a level where a beep, a little bomb, or an unhappy face is the amount of machine feedback they are used to processing, I think that would be a singularly bad idea.
Mind you, I'd love to see macs come with an "advanced" mode, where they display all those errors that they normally suppress.
That was one of the few Mac/PC commercials that annoyed me, the one where the PC is "spouting cryptic error messages", and the Mac says, "Oh hey, I'm a Mac, we don't do that."
Grrrrrr, like the "Bomb" or the "Unhappy face" aren't the most cryptic error messages of all? What's wrong? Someone set me up the bomb! Well THAT'S fricking helpful. If I google "bomb" I'm going to get a bunch of guys in suits with no sense of humor at my door in an hour or less, whereas if I google "DLL Error 12af2342fa4" there will probably be a page telling me what DLL is screwed up, and where to get it to reinstall.
Your page rank has practically nothing to do with the sites you link to; this is obvious or we'd never be able to find anything on google except parked domains.
With these crappy link exchange programs, you have to hope you don't get involved with a crook, because if he's linking everything he can find to everything else, that stuff is going to show up, and they're going to get smacked.
Easy to say when you can't see this massive coal power plant from your house.
Well, technically I can't see it from my house, just the massive plumes of crap it puts out.
If you follow the train tracks in the satellite image you can see a train pulling away from the literal mountain 'o coal...Those trains come by every day. Care to speculate on how many lightbulbs worth of mercury is in one of those 100+ car trains?
I'd probably use a blimp or some such. The government can afford to put together a handful of them for just this sort of emergency, and you could get more by offering companies that manage blimps for advertising, etc, tax incentives to make their blimps capable of supporting the mobile tower infrastructure...Talk about some people who'd be happy to see the Goodyear blimp.
Building emergency towers on the ground is hugely foolish. You would never be able to guarantee power, never be able to guarantee that your switching infrastructure is not going to be submerged, and never be able to guarantee that some rich bastards yacht isn't going to get storm surged 12 miles inland, and knock over your "secure" tower.
Anyway, it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper to build a few mobile ones, if only because you'd only need a handful, and they could be anywhere. Otherwise, you'd have to put 'em up everywhere, because you'd never know in advance where you were going to need 'em.
Oh I know they do...I saw a photo of one where it had bluescreened, then rebooted to a windows desktop. Some joker had started Windows Media Player, and had left it playing whatever track was included with the OS.
In my mind, that's just obscene. When I talk about old, I mean super simple code, plain text on a black background, push this for your money, the end. Very simple. Practically unhackable. But build it on Windows, even tossing aside all the known problems with Windows, is HUGELY stupid. You're adding layers and layers of unnecessary code.
When I put together a Unix server that's going to be in a risky environment, I build it very carefully. It has the services it's going to need, and that's it. Nothing extra. NOTHING. Because every piece of code that's not being used is a possible vulnerability. Every single one. Building an ATM on Windows is taking all the possible flaws in your code, and then ADDING all the flaws of code you can't even check.
Seriously. Scary.
With complexity comes insecurity. Nothing makes me happier than an old atm with a limited feature set...You know it's not running windows in the background, you know it doesn't have code interpretation vulnerabilities...It's simple, clean, and elegant.
Likewise the web presence. Whenever I see data change without a page load it creeps me out. It may be sexy looking, but for every piece of flashy 2.0 Ajax, there is a cost in terms of security.
Sad to say though, there are people out there who are so conditioned to the "new is better" mentality that applies to consumer goods, that they think the same applies to computer code. They view a flashy "new" site as being more secure, rather than less secure, because newer is better, right?
Holy crap that was messed up! I sat there watching that with my jaw dropped open, thinking, "Who the hell needs horror movies, when you've got the rainforest? Stop it before it kills again!"
I like that the ants had developed a response, which was basically to pick up the sick guy, and dump him as far away from the hive as possible. That's a pretty sophisticated response. If the bees picked up on that one, this bee problem wouldn't be a problem any more (assuming that it really is the fungus).
Yea, that's me, luddite to the core, nevermind my tech job, and my tech degree, and the basic pro-techness of almost every aspect of my life.
Technology causes problems; it's foolish to think otherwise. It also solves problems, which should evident to anyone who isn't hopelessly biased. Bit of a rat race, unfortunately. But fortunately our techno-rat is still in the lead, and hopefully he'll stay that way for a long time to come.
Yes, so if they had asked her "Did he harass you?", that would have been both proper and relevant. Also asking him is he had harassed her would have been pointless (who would ever say yes?), but within the realm of reason.
Asking him if he had had sex with her, when they damn well knew he had, was a perjury trap.
Eh. Phones are such a good target. I mean, you set your phone on your desk, and you get speaker feedback every time it does discovery on a tower, and you think how often that happens when the damn thing is in your pants, and so it seems plausible whenever some group freaks out about this or that thing and blames it on cellphones, until it turns out that they have no fricking evidence, but by that point the idea of dangerous cellphones is even more firmly ingrained in peoples minds, thus making them more likely to believe the NEXT crazy thing that gets blamed on cellphones.
//Is there an award for two longest run-on sentences in one post?
Admittedly the bee thing was a hilarious stretch. I mean, people would have noticed if, whenever you put up a cellphone tower, all bees in a 20 mile radius started crashing into things and dying, especially because towers are so often put up on or around farm land (because it's cheap), and a farmer would probably notice a massive decreased yield of whatever their crop was, and be super quick to blame it on cellphone towers, for the reasons stated above.
It probably is technologies fault, in that the fungus is likely one that has been brought into an area filled with vulnerable bees from another area...Just another invasive species. Also, we've been encouraging a bit of a bee monoculture, and trucking hives all over the country, spreading the fungus.
Just a hazard of the modern world. Hopefully now that we've isolated the problem, we can go ahead and solve it with the application of still more technology! (Thereby creating strains of fungus resistant to whatever it was that we used to kill the fungus, yadda yadda yadda).
It was a grand jury deposition. I'll assume that you're not aware that the person being so deposed has no right to council...Either that, or you've watched too much Perry Mason. There is no "objection" in that case.
The question was completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, as it dealt with someone who was completely unrelated to the complaint being investigated. They basically got him on stand and asked him a lot of pointed questions about his sex life dealing with people who hadn't brought complaints.
If he'd done what the Bush administration seems to always do, and claim that he couldn't remember for every question, I suppose you'd have had no problem with that.
I guess you missed it when they released Starfarers of Catan...(Excellent game, btw).
If we found some way to suck carbon straight out of the air and into diamonds, we'd have to burn down forests just to keep the rest of the plants from asphixiating.
Funny how in common law, most people don't apply charges of perjury to questions about an individuals sex life, because most people lie about that stuff, even under oath, especially in America. It sure as hell wasn't a relevant question based on the damn topic at hand.
The whole thing was practically the definition of a "perjury trap", following from a grand jury fishing expedition that lasted two terms and turned up not one single illegality aside from one it manufactured itself. Vintage republican dirty tricks.
Europe as a whole. But individual countries are still screwing the pooch worse than us.
They won't vote to impeach. Kucinich is so far off to the left that most democrats don't agree with him...Frankly, an act of god wouldn't get him elected...In my mind, he's the liberal equivalent of Jessie Helms, or Rick Santorum, and the jokers in Ohio who keep electing him should be ashamed of themselves. //disclaimer. I've voted democrat in the last 4 elections.
Yea, but when you say it, it sounds like a bad thing. ;)
Bull. Shit.
Do a GIS for clear cut and you get 2,300,000 pictures.
I live in timber land, and while there are a few who cut responsibly, hardly any corporation does. They do it quick with a bulldozer, and they move on to the next lot. They don't pay attention to stream buffers, they don't pay attention to tree species, and they don't replant in a timely manner.
And while we're at it, where does the illusion that farmers are models of ecology come from? Erosion, topsoil problems, fertilizer and pesticides. They're out to make a buck, just like the damn timber companies.