How about fining people that have malware/viruses on their computer and spread it to others?
This is easy enough to track via ISP and IP addresses. How about fining companies that create these vulnerabilities in the first place that detriment all of us? How about fining companies that install rootkits and other undesirable DRM that breaks computer functionality in the name of "Security"?
Toyota gets a penalty for unsafe accelerators, MS should get a penalty for insecure web browsers and OSes.
Am I the only one that used both methods to take notes?
I had a notebook for writing diagrams in, and used my computer. Whenever a diagram came up I'd switch to the notebook, and write in my computer "See Diagram 4b" or something like that.
Semmed to work well enough.
Which is discrete math.
Vector math is highly specialized. If you're not good with math by now, you're never really truely going to excel at it. This isn't a terrible thing, just have no illusions of becoming a John Nash. The fact is if you plan on going into Vector programming you're going to be using math ALL THE DAMN TIME.
The fact that you even asked this question tells me that you probably don't want to do calculus for the rest of your life. That's fine. Be a happy person and take discrete math only and get on with your life.
You probably won't be programming the latest and greatest 3d Engine vectoring programs ever, but programming basic graphics and the like and the fundamentals of programming will always be within your reach. In terms of game programming, you might not be contributing directly to the graphic/arts department, but you will have a solid shot at overall game logic, dialogue trees, game mechanics and pretty much everything else that isn't 3d modeling.
Quite frankly 3d modeling is all done by artists with fancy packages these days, Vector programming is mostly useful for writing those packages, rendering apps, and hardware stuff. Very niche, probably not something that's too exciting unless you were into it at an early age.
As far as I'm aware, public school teachers keep their lesson plans when they retire/transfer. If a school teacher retires or changes jobs, her lesson plans stay with her. It's not like schools have backlogs and files of retired/fired/transferred teachers lesson plans.
I don't see why they can't sell them. Schools have never owned/took possession of these lesson plans anyway- why should they start now?
If that was the case, why would every teacher have to make them? Wouldn't it just be the case that the school kept the lesson plans of their best performing teachers and redistributed them to any newbs they hire?
People that equate lesson plans with a day's coding are delusional. I am a programmer myself. Quit being so self-centered and anti-social; not every job is like IT.
Kids are getting shot and fighting in parking lots. Physical assault happens a lot more in school, with kids getting punched/kicked/pushed all the time in the hallways. If harassing online deserves jail time, why isn't locking a nerd in a locker a federal offense? You're doing a lot more psychological damage/etc.
Kids act like vicious little bastards towards each other because they don't get the same protections adults do. If a 40 year old grabs a 80 year old man and shoves his head into a toilet and flushes, that's serious assault and jail time. If 12 year old does it to a 10 year old, most school teachers just look the other way.
What I don't think is productive is this new 'cyber bullying' bull. That's just unfairly targeting computer bullying just because we don't understand it. There needs to be a universal effort to stop harassment of all kinds among children.
Verizon guy was a bully. plain and simple. He should go to jail and the victim should get monetary compensation. 50k sounds about right. Unless the perpetrator is punished and the victim is rewarded, we're just perpetuating a society that allows bigger and stronger people to get away with violence just because they can. If the victim was a woman, this would have been shocking, since it was a man, there are some people that are on the assaulter's side!
Well, technically, the kid could be victim of murder in the 2nd degree, or at least manslaughter. It's wrong that children don't get the same protections as adults do against physical harm. A lot of corporal punishment handed out by these 'camps' is technically assault, far beyond it.
If you beat a rude man to death in a bar in a fit of drunken anger it's murder...if you beat a rude child to death in a fit of power-mad anger, who's safety you were entrusted to, isn't that much worse?
Posts here seem to have some kind of assanine over-reaching international agenda. Kid here was beat by overzealous camp counselours that abused their authority and deceived parents for financial gain. They screwed up and now they're covering it up. I believe this issue was covered in America some time ago..anyone remember the Camp Krusty episodes of the Simpsons?
This is not some kind of symptom of an elusive and corrupt communist state, it's simple greedy bastards taking advantage of lax regulations of other people taking care of their kids. Sure, China's head government is an soulless autocracy..but quite frankly that has nothing to do with it. You may as well blame GW Bush's Invasion of Iraq for...increased divorce rates and proponents of teaching ID in schools. Not really related..
Here is the crux of the situation- it's not illegal to be stupid, in fact you can willingly forego any notion of higher education if you wanted to. Sorry, but as a person in the world, you need to deal with this. What IS illegal, is if you take advantage of them to perform illegal acts. It's the same situation if you 'tricked them' into shooting someone. The person who GIVES orders is just as responsible, or even more responsible, then the one who follows them.
Reagan's just one man, and it wasn't just one man. However, he was a very important man and deserves -some- credit.
The truth stands that Reagan...and whoever the major players during the communist era were, didn't need to infringe on constitutional rights to take down networks of spies and an evil empire, they did it with military spending. These days we spend WAY more on military spending then we did then and still lose our constitutional rights.
It's just a symptom of lawmakers flailing around uselessly trying to find a legislative solution to an executive problem. The solution is spending more money on CIA and FBI agents and training, and NOT uselessly flailing about the civilian population. Homeland security laws pretty much do nothing, terrorists are going to break them anyway. I've never really heard of terrorists being being caught because of our 'new security measures', it's pretty much the tried and true way of relying on skilled intelligence operatives who have modern investigative tools.
If China ever had a state religion, (and it did back in the Imperial days) it would be ancestor worship. The Chinese have a strong belief in the power of the dead. A skeleton shows disrespect of the dead as obviously this body was unburied and now the spirit is angry and in the world. It's sort of like consigning the person to an eternal hell. Proper burials are a big thing. It is indeed a cultural taboo, maybe like how witchcraft and wicca is taboo in large portions of America. The Chinese government, up to the Last Emperor in the early 1900's, seriously believed in the Mandate of Heaven and superstition. Supernatural evidence such as ominous dreams and the testimony of ghosts was used in court cases as late as the 1890's. The Dowager Empress' support of the Boxers during the Boxer rebellion, was based on her belief that they literally posessed magical kung fu powers- that they could deflect bullets, and defeat the colonial powers in the country.
The government may have rejected superstition, but as we in America know, just because the government rejects religion, doesn't mean the whole country is not tainted by it. Replace ALL of our Christian influenced stuff with Ancestor Worship/Taoist/Buddhist synchrotism influenced stuff, and you get China.
The Chinese government has long been the protector of cultural sensibilities, it's one role that the Chinese government takes on today. Cultural control is a key part of Confuscian society, not just government. Even Democratic Asian countries such as Japan, Taiwan and South Korea promote 'social repression and lack of individual expression' as it were, through strict educational regimes based on memorization, and encouraging a highly disciplined and hierarchal family structure.
To the CCP's credit, they've done much more for women's rights and the equal rights of minority in China (societally) than the above mentioned Asian democratic countries. The above countries harshly disapprove of things like interracial marriage and women acting outside of or neglecting 'the traditional role', and never had anything like the Civil Rights movement to change old perceptions on race/eugenics.
That doesn't justify censorship of course. If they could just get with the program and institute some kind of genuine elections and government respect for human rights, then mainland China would be one of the most open and free countries in Asia.
Uhmmm...to the trolls saying it's possible that Ahmedinejad's win was possibly legitimate, did you not see all those people in the streets? You know, the ones getting shot in the face and tear gassed? This is the biggest protest in Iranian history since the 1979 revolution. Just because you're all fired up with white liberal guilt doesn't mean the rest of us don't see what's going on.
These liberals lost the 2004 elections fair and square to Ahmedinejad, and were he to have won fairly, they wouldn't be out on the streets risking DEATH. Snarky mathematical countermands aren't going to silence them anymore than gunfire. Comparisons to Bush's wins in 2004 only highlight your white liberal guilt...just because the US fairly elected someone unpopular, doesn't mean that things are alright in Iran. Let's not forget that Bush neither had the Basij intimidating voters, and that there was no direct, explicit power structure in charge of him and counting the votes.
Honestly? It doesn't even matter now. The Iranian people have seen what their government does to its' own citizens. It's not a third world country. Even farmers and merchantmen can see that shooting and beating nonviolent protestors is wrong. Bush may have done a lot of bad things, but he never turned his dogs on American citizens enmasse like this.
Most physicists I know have moved onto C++ code. At least I know they use this at the Brookhaven and Tskuba Particle Accelerators in Long Island,NY and Japan respectively.
Uhmmmmm...this just in, kids in gradeschool/highschool AREN'T allowed to make notes in the margin, resell or keep their text books, whatsoever. What you're talking about is college text books.
And yeah, since you can't do anything like that, an online textbook is indeed, the right solution.
As to writing notes in the margin, I've never done that. I don't understand why people do that. Just write it on a piece of paper like everyone else.
How about a waste of time tax where legislators have to pay 1% of their income for every piece of legislation that they propose that get shot down or struck down in court?
Does France suddenly start regulating wine according to EU standards?
Does any government just give up valuable research apparatuses and functions for some so called 'public good'?
Even participants in the CERN program don't get a free ride.
DNS servers run on US equipment, were made by US citizens, and was paid for by the US government. What would the UN like next? Would you like control over GPS? Satellites? How about you just regulate our economy too, since much of the world relies on US-based companies.
The international community is asking the US to give up a valuable strategic resource FOR FREE. It's true that giving away things to people that need it is morally right-Âbut you don't give away your life savings to free, right? The US already contributes billions of dollars to random foreign aid and the UN. Quite frankly, the day I think we should give up DNS is the day the UN starts subsidizing high-speed internet connections for everybody. Until that happens, you can live with it.
The purpose of a public school isn't to do whatever parents want. It's to educate children in ways that would be useful to the nation.
Sure, it's funded by your tax dollars, and more closely, property taxes. So What? So is the plumbing system. So is the military. You can't decide that house Y gets no water, or that country X doesn't get bombed.
Creating a bubble around children is expensive, and requires a lot of maintenance. The government, and the rest of us tax payers, simply aren't going to help you do this. So if you're going to give up and use public services, then you'd best be prepared for your child to be exposed to ALL of our wishes, desires, opinions and what not, because all of us are putting our money into the public education pot, not just you.
If you want to protect your kid from the rest of the world, the rest of the world isn't going to help you do it.
If constant mocking was a crime against human rights, than John Stewart is Attila the Hun. When you're a powerful political figure, or a former powerful political figure, you don't get a free pass.
I don't see anyone up in arms about the veritable storm of say, anti-Bush insults in the past four years. Would forcing George W. Bush to read slashdot be considered torture?
As for repetitive television program showings, I've been subjected to worse as a child. Hell, probably any parent with a toddler and a favorite video experiences the same thing.
uhmmmmmmm.
Don't -these- toy databases require an install too? I'm fine with integrated enterprise apps, whatever, that's great, but I'm pretty sure these toy DBs will take up the role of the greater SQL DB. They're not designed to be app specific.
Supposedly the benefits to something lightweight and flexible is that..it's that. But really, is it that hard to setup XAmp and dump some info into it with an INSERT statement? NEvermind that stuff like MySQL is free...
I don't get what the fuss is when your standard MySQL DB can probably fit onto a USB Stick.
They should probably just scrap internal IT and create a new service branch to do all the IT operations. Of course, this would never happen, every division has to have it's own little shop.
First singers, now you, writers? How do singers profit from their work? Performers? Software writers?
You're all in the same boat- what do you do now that your works can be consumed in a nonphysical mediums?
You withhold at point at sale. Once your works get into the wild, some script kiddie is free to distribute them. So what do you do? There's support and there's initial release runs of the physical product, plenty of which people are willing to buy.
Eventually we'll probably just revert to a patronage style system where rich people pay for their favorite writers.
It's not like it'll be any different from now, you still won't be able to make a living wage, spend the most of your life at the bottom of society...etcetc..
Exactly who has benefitted from this inane copyright system anyway in it's present form? Bigwig publishers and managers, all of which, are not you. You authors are still poor. Chances are you'll get MORE money with temporary copyright and direct distribution.
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How about fining people that have malware/viruses on their computer and spread it to others? This is easy enough to track via ISP and IP addresses. How about fining companies that create these vulnerabilities in the first place that detriment all of us? How about fining companies that install rootkits and other undesirable DRM that breaks computer functionality in the name of "Security"? Toyota gets a penalty for unsafe accelerators, MS should get a penalty for insecure web browsers and OSes.
Am I the only one that used both methods to take notes? I had a notebook for writing diagrams in, and used my computer. Whenever a diagram came up I'd switch to the notebook, and write in my computer "See Diagram 4b" or something like that. Semmed to work well enough.
Which is discrete math. Vector math is highly specialized. If you're not good with math by now, you're never really truely going to excel at it. This isn't a terrible thing, just have no illusions of becoming a John Nash. The fact is if you plan on going into Vector programming you're going to be using math ALL THE DAMN TIME. The fact that you even asked this question tells me that you probably don't want to do calculus for the rest of your life. That's fine. Be a happy person and take discrete math only and get on with your life. You probably won't be programming the latest and greatest 3d Engine vectoring programs ever, but programming basic graphics and the like and the fundamentals of programming will always be within your reach. In terms of game programming, you might not be contributing directly to the graphic/arts department, but you will have a solid shot at overall game logic, dialogue trees, game mechanics and pretty much everything else that isn't 3d modeling. Quite frankly 3d modeling is all done by artists with fancy packages these days, Vector programming is mostly useful for writing those packages, rendering apps, and hardware stuff. Very niche, probably not something that's too exciting unless you were into it at an early age.
As far as I'm aware, public school teachers keep their lesson plans when they retire/transfer. If a school teacher retires or changes jobs, her lesson plans stay with her. It's not like schools have backlogs and files of retired/fired/transferred teachers lesson plans. I don't see why they can't sell them. Schools have never owned/took possession of these lesson plans anyway- why should they start now? If that was the case, why would every teacher have to make them? Wouldn't it just be the case that the school kept the lesson plans of their best performing teachers and redistributed them to any newbs they hire? People that equate lesson plans with a day's coding are delusional. I am a programmer myself. Quit being so self-centered and anti-social; not every job is like IT.
Kids are getting shot and fighting in parking lots. Physical assault happens a lot more in school, with kids getting punched/kicked/pushed all the time in the hallways. If harassing online deserves jail time, why isn't locking a nerd in a locker a federal offense? You're doing a lot more psychological damage/etc. Kids act like vicious little bastards towards each other because they don't get the same protections adults do. If a 40 year old grabs a 80 year old man and shoves his head into a toilet and flushes, that's serious assault and jail time. If 12 year old does it to a 10 year old, most school teachers just look the other way. What I don't think is productive is this new 'cyber bullying' bull. That's just unfairly targeting computer bullying just because we don't understand it. There needs to be a universal effort to stop harassment of all kinds among children.
Verizon guy was a bully. plain and simple. He should go to jail and the victim should get monetary compensation. 50k sounds about right. Unless the perpetrator is punished and the victim is rewarded, we're just perpetuating a society that allows bigger and stronger people to get away with violence just because they can. If the victim was a woman, this would have been shocking, since it was a man, there are some people that are on the assaulter's side!
Is that if you're old enough to be charged as an adult for a crime, you should legally count as an adult for all other purposes as well..
Well, technically, the kid could be victim of murder in the 2nd degree, or at least manslaughter. It's wrong that children don't get the same protections as adults do against physical harm. A lot of corporal punishment handed out by these 'camps' is technically assault, far beyond it. If you beat a rude man to death in a bar in a fit of drunken anger it's murder...if you beat a rude child to death in a fit of power-mad anger, who's safety you were entrusted to, isn't that much worse?
Posts here seem to have some kind of assanine over-reaching international agenda. Kid here was beat by overzealous camp counselours that abused their authority and deceived parents for financial gain. They screwed up and now they're covering it up. I believe this issue was covered in America some time ago..anyone remember the Camp Krusty episodes of the Simpsons? This is not some kind of symptom of an elusive and corrupt communist state, it's simple greedy bastards taking advantage of lax regulations of other people taking care of their kids. Sure, China's head government is an soulless autocracy..but quite frankly that has nothing to do with it. You may as well blame GW Bush's Invasion of Iraq for...increased divorce rates and proponents of teaching ID in schools. Not really related..
Here is the crux of the situation- it's not illegal to be stupid, in fact you can willingly forego any notion of higher education if you wanted to. Sorry, but as a person in the world, you need to deal with this. What IS illegal, is if you take advantage of them to perform illegal acts. It's the same situation if you 'tricked them' into shooting someone. The person who GIVES orders is just as responsible, or even more responsible, then the one who follows them.
Reagan's just one man, and it wasn't just one man. However, he was a very important man and deserves -some- credit. The truth stands that Reagan...and whoever the major players during the communist era were, didn't need to infringe on constitutional rights to take down networks of spies and an evil empire, they did it with military spending. These days we spend WAY more on military spending then we did then and still lose our constitutional rights. It's just a symptom of lawmakers flailing around uselessly trying to find a legislative solution to an executive problem. The solution is spending more money on CIA and FBI agents and training, and NOT uselessly flailing about the civilian population. Homeland security laws pretty much do nothing, terrorists are going to break them anyway. I've never really heard of terrorists being being caught because of our 'new security measures', it's pretty much the tried and true way of relying on skilled intelligence operatives who have modern investigative tools.
If China ever had a state religion, (and it did back in the Imperial days) it would be ancestor worship. The Chinese have a strong belief in the power of the dead. A skeleton shows disrespect of the dead as obviously this body was unburied and now the spirit is angry and in the world. It's sort of like consigning the person to an eternal hell. Proper burials are a big thing. It is indeed a cultural taboo, maybe like how witchcraft and wicca is taboo in large portions of America. The Chinese government, up to the Last Emperor in the early 1900's, seriously believed in the Mandate of Heaven and superstition. Supernatural evidence such as ominous dreams and the testimony of ghosts was used in court cases as late as the 1890's. The Dowager Empress' support of the Boxers during the Boxer rebellion, was based on her belief that they literally posessed magical kung fu powers- that they could deflect bullets, and defeat the colonial powers in the country. The government may have rejected superstition, but as we in America know, just because the government rejects religion, doesn't mean the whole country is not tainted by it. Replace ALL of our Christian influenced stuff with Ancestor Worship/Taoist/Buddhist synchrotism influenced stuff, and you get China. The Chinese government has long been the protector of cultural sensibilities, it's one role that the Chinese government takes on today. Cultural control is a key part of Confuscian society, not just government. Even Democratic Asian countries such as Japan, Taiwan and South Korea promote 'social repression and lack of individual expression' as it were, through strict educational regimes based on memorization, and encouraging a highly disciplined and hierarchal family structure. To the CCP's credit, they've done much more for women's rights and the equal rights of minority in China (societally) than the above mentioned Asian democratic countries. The above countries harshly disapprove of things like interracial marriage and women acting outside of or neglecting 'the traditional role', and never had anything like the Civil Rights movement to change old perceptions on race/eugenics. That doesn't justify censorship of course. If they could just get with the program and institute some kind of genuine elections and government respect for human rights, then mainland China would be one of the most open and free countries in Asia.
These liberals lost the 2004 elections fair and square to Ahmedinejad, and were he to have won fairly, they wouldn't be out on the streets risking DEATH. Snarky mathematical countermands aren't going to silence them anymore than gunfire. Comparisons to Bush's wins in 2004 only highlight your white liberal guilt...just because the US fairly elected someone unpopular, doesn't mean that things are alright in Iran. Let's not forget that Bush neither had the Basij intimidating voters, and that there was no direct, explicit power structure in charge of him and counting the votes.
Honestly? It doesn't even matter now. The Iranian people have seen what their government does to its' own citizens. It's not a third world country. Even farmers and merchantmen can see that shooting and beating nonviolent protestors is wrong. Bush may have done a lot of bad things, but he never turned his dogs on American citizens enmasse like this.
Most physicists I know have moved onto C++ code. At least I know they use this at the Brookhaven and Tskuba Particle Accelerators in Long Island,NY and Japan respectively.
Uhmmmmm...this just in, kids in gradeschool/highschool AREN'T allowed to make notes in the margin, resell or keep their text books, whatsoever. What you're talking about is college text books. And yeah, since you can't do anything like that, an online textbook is indeed, the right solution. As to writing notes in the margin, I've never done that. I don't understand why people do that. Just write it on a piece of paper like everyone else.
How about a waste of time tax where legislators have to pay 1% of their income for every piece of legislation that they propose that get shot down or struck down in court?
Does France suddenly start regulating wine according to EU standards? Does any government just give up valuable research apparatuses and functions for some so called 'public good'? Even participants in the CERN program don't get a free ride. DNS servers run on US equipment, were made by US citizens, and was paid for by the US government. What would the UN like next? Would you like control over GPS? Satellites? How about you just regulate our economy too, since much of the world relies on US-based companies. The international community is asking the US to give up a valuable strategic resource FOR FREE. It's true that giving away things to people that need it is morally right-Âbut you don't give away your life savings to free, right? The US already contributes billions of dollars to random foreign aid and the UN. Quite frankly, the day I think we should give up DNS is the day the UN starts subsidizing high-speed internet connections for everybody. Until that happens, you can live with it.
The purpose of a public school isn't to do whatever parents want. It's to educate children in ways that would be useful to the nation. Sure, it's funded by your tax dollars, and more closely, property taxes. So What? So is the plumbing system. So is the military. You can't decide that house Y gets no water, or that country X doesn't get bombed. Creating a bubble around children is expensive, and requires a lot of maintenance. The government, and the rest of us tax payers, simply aren't going to help you do this. So if you're going to give up and use public services, then you'd best be prepared for your child to be exposed to ALL of our wishes, desires, opinions and what not, because all of us are putting our money into the public education pot, not just you. If you want to protect your kid from the rest of the world, the rest of the world isn't going to help you do it.
If constant mocking was a crime against human rights, than John Stewart is Attila the Hun. When you're a powerful political figure, or a former powerful political figure, you don't get a free pass. I don't see anyone up in arms about the veritable storm of say, anti-Bush insults in the past four years. Would forcing George W. Bush to read slashdot be considered torture? As for repetitive television program showings, I've been subjected to worse as a child. Hell, probably any parent with a toddler and a favorite video experiences the same thing.
uhmmmmmmm. Don't -these- toy databases require an install too? I'm fine with integrated enterprise apps, whatever, that's great, but I'm pretty sure these toy DBs will take up the role of the greater SQL DB. They're not designed to be app specific.
Supposedly the benefits to something lightweight and flexible is that..it's that. But really, is it that hard to setup XAmp and dump some info into it with an INSERT statement? NEvermind that stuff like MySQL is free... I don't get what the fuss is when your standard MySQL DB can probably fit onto a USB Stick.
They should probably just scrap internal IT and create a new service branch to do all the IT operations. Of course, this would never happen, every division has to have it's own little shop.
First singers, now you, writers? How do singers profit from their work? Performers? Software writers? You're all in the same boat- what do you do now that your works can be consumed in a nonphysical mediums? You withhold at point at sale. Once your works get into the wild, some script kiddie is free to distribute them. So what do you do? There's support and there's initial release runs of the physical product, plenty of which people are willing to buy. Eventually we'll probably just revert to a patronage style system where rich people pay for their favorite writers. It's not like it'll be any different from now, you still won't be able to make a living wage, spend the most of your life at the bottom of society...etcetc.. Exactly who has benefitted from this inane copyright system anyway in it's present form? Bigwig publishers and managers, all of which, are not you. You authors are still poor. Chances are you'll get MORE money with temporary copyright and direct distribution.
Is this how we're going to avoid any Eclipse based entanglements? Sounds like a lot of Tibanna Gas.
What does this phone do that my G1 doesn't? It doesn't even have an app market. And development is just crap.