I think he meant to say that the F/A-18 can't attack Americans' freedoms with quite as many copies of the PATRIOT Act and the DMCA as can more special-purpose aircraft. But, I might be reading a bit too much into that one.
Thus far, the most startling difference has been that people here appear to try to sell open source software, rather than making it available for free.
I read previously that the reason why they don't do this is that it significantly cuts down on the number of bets they're able to take in and also makes the game not very exciting. The thrill for some people is seeing that ball going around and having a hunch that they just *know* where it's going to land. And if it takes 30 seconds from that time that the ball's released until it drops, that's 30 seconds of money the casino is not making. For a casino, that's a lot of money lost. They'd rather put up with a bit of cheating because, in the end, they still come out ahead.
While it's true that you might be using altered software if you get it pirated, if you simply borrow a friend's CD that he got directly from Microsoft, you'll be installing genuine software. However, if you install it using one of those hacked corporate keys then Microsoft would say that your copy of Windows is not genuine. Like the movie ticket analogy, this is a licensing issue, not whether or not the software itself is genuine. I think that's the point the linguist is trying to make with all this. You may not have a genuine software license (or movie ticket) but the software (movie) can very well be 100% genuine even so.
Yes, the law does have some harsh penalties for hit and run incidents and we should let the law mete out its punishment. The part I was disagreeing with is the forming of a vigilante justice lynch mob like they still do in some backwards parts of the world... sometimes even when the person is innocent.
If you buy a movie ticket to see a particular movie and I join you but do so by sneaking in through the back exit without paying, did only one of us see a genuine movie?
I hope the police are, so they can arrest you. What's missing in all of this are the details. Maybe Rob went down an embankment that was too steep and his brakes failed, causing him to veer into oncoming traffic causing an unavoidable accident for the unfortunate motorist who happened to be there. Perhaps Rob wasn't wearing a bicycle helmet, further complicating any head trauma. Maybe he was wearing dark clothing and cycling at night without any lights or reflective gear.
It's amazing that we live in an age where we have access to computers and, through that, to some of the world's best accumulated wisdom and knowledge. And yet there are still some shits like you who want to pick up the pitchforks and torches to arrange a lynch mob even when you likely don't possess any detailed information on the circumstances. But even if you were there and know everything firsthand, I still find your reaction a little too stuck in the dark ages.
So we don't have e-mail? Like SMTP and MAP/POP got zapped overnight? No sweat, we still have Web-based services such as gmail.
Well, email is delivered to your gmail account via SMTP. Granted, this could be replaced with something else... eg: RSS feeds which contain messages signed to your public key or something to which you could subscribe, but as it stands your gmail account would grind to a halt without SMTP.
One thing I do is have mailing lists tagged with the name of the list and then archived so that it doesn't clutter up my inbox. To read the mailing list, I click on the tag name. What I'd love to do is, once I've read something, be able to archive it from there. But I can't. It's already archived and I have to skip back and forth through various pages looking for a handful of unread messages.
Well let us do some math here. At $1 per lecture in his pocket, and let us say 25 people grab a copy of the lecture, that is $25 for what probably takes 2-3 hours to prepare. This assuming he doesn't have to cover some equipment costs, in which case he might even be losing money. Personally I think $2.50 for a lecture is cheap, and I paid for my own schooling. Why should his time be free?
Great idea. Next time my boss asks me for a report, I'm going to charge him $2.50 for it. Why should my time be free?
If by "best" your measuring stick is sheer volume, then sure -- he's rather prolific. But in terms of quality, surely you can think of a couple of authors whose writing is a bit better than his? My reading selection tends to be fairly narrow and I can think of quite a few authors whose writing surpasses King's.
Only on slashdot can such a post get a +5 Insightful. I could extrapolate about the political leanings of the average moderator, which is really just a representative slice of slashdot itself, but... nah.
But are they learning if they are not part of the interaction between the teacher and the class?
If attendance is so important, just implant an RFID tag in their forehead and install scanners in the doorways which record entry and exit time. If they're not there for more than 75% of the class, dock some marks off their final grade. You can also institute TSA-style searches just to make sure other students aren't carrying anothers' RFID tag with them. Maybe do profiling of the students to identity which ones are more likely to help others cheat out of attendance. Or, if RFID is out of the question perhaps a good old fashioned prison-style lineup where you call out student numbers is in order.
No kidding... that was my first impression upon reading the summary. Why would any university want to babysit its students? When you're a child they take your attendance. In high school, they generally expect you to be there but don't make too huge of a fuss if you're not. And in university, you're the one paying the bills so if you choose not to take advantage of the lectures and you still learn the material enough to meet the course requirements, then why babysit your customers?
Part of the university experience is learning the balance between freedom (not going to class and doing what you want) and responsibility (attending class because you'll usually learn more that way). Remove that freedom and you're just preparing a generation of mindless workers who will be unable to cope unless some manager is watching them punching in and out with their timecards.
It's probably not all that difficult to figure out these various factors if you start collecting statistics. It's the old "one of these things is not like the other" game, but with multiple variables. Get enough people to participate in a website which asks you questions on whether or not you were profiled and you can fill out checkboxes according to who you are, what you were carrying, how you dressed: jeans & t-shirt or business suit, MP3 player, laptop, portable gaming system, ethnicity, hair color, etc. Get a few thousand participating and you can probably figure a good deal of their criteria. Then publish it for the world to see and maybe these totally not random searches will become random and more effective.
I've never been married and have never had kids, but I just wanted to take the time and say thank you. I've heard about stories like this before and glad that there's someone out there of the fairer sex who is actually interested in fairness.
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Windows XP has proved to be worthy of the title Greatest Operating System of All Time.
I think you meant to say that Windows is worthy of being called Greatest Operating All Time System Executive.
That's a really bitching Notepad icon.
Which means it'll get cloned and used for KDE Knotepad in 3... 2... 1...
I think he meant to say that the F/A-18 can't attack Americans' freedoms with quite as many copies of the PATRIOT Act and the DMCA as can more special-purpose aircraft. But, I might be reading a bit too much into that one.
Thus far, the most startling difference has been that people here appear to try to sell open source software, rather than making it available for free.
Are you really that surprised?
https://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/
https://shop.mysql.com/
http://www.novell.com/linux/
http://www.cafepress.com/officialgentoo/1227454
etc...
And if you prefer the free approach:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/
I read previously that the reason why they don't do this is that it significantly cuts down on the number of bets they're able to take in and also makes the game not very exciting. The thrill for some people is seeing that ball going around and having a hunch that they just *know* where it's going to land. And if it takes 30 seconds from that time that the ball's released until it drops, that's 30 seconds of money the casino is not making. For a casino, that's a lot of money lost. They'd rather put up with a bit of cheating because, in the end, they still come out ahead.
While it's true that you might be using altered software if you get it pirated, if you simply borrow a friend's CD that he got directly from Microsoft, you'll be installing genuine software. However, if you install it using one of those hacked corporate keys then Microsoft would say that your copy of Windows is not genuine. Like the movie ticket analogy, this is a licensing issue, not whether or not the software itself is genuine. I think that's the point the linguist is trying to make with all this. You may not have a genuine software license (or movie ticket) but the software (movie) can very well be 100% genuine even so.
Yes, the law does have some harsh penalties for hit and run incidents and we should let the law mete out its punishment. The part I was disagreeing with is the forming of a vigilante justice lynch mob like they still do in some backwards parts of the world... sometimes even when the person is innocent.
If you buy a movie ticket to see a particular movie and I join you but do so by sneaking in through the back exit without paying, did only one of us see a genuine movie?
Who's with me?
I hope the police are, so they can arrest you. What's missing in all of this are the details. Maybe Rob went down an embankment that was too steep and his brakes failed, causing him to veer into oncoming traffic causing an unavoidable accident for the unfortunate motorist who happened to be there. Perhaps Rob wasn't wearing a bicycle helmet, further complicating any head trauma. Maybe he was wearing dark clothing and cycling at night without any lights or reflective gear.
It's amazing that we live in an age where we have access to computers and, through that, to some of the world's best accumulated wisdom and knowledge. And yet there are still some shits like you who want to pick up the pitchforks and torches to arrange a lynch mob even when you likely don't possess any detailed information on the circumstances. But even if you were there and know everything firsthand, I still find your reaction a little too stuck in the dark ages.
Get yourself a library card and kill your TV.
No, no... the answer is obvious: apply directly to the forehead.
(I also recommend tagging this story with applydirectlytotheforehead.)
So we don't have e-mail? Like SMTP and MAP/POP got zapped overnight? No sweat, we still have Web-based services such as gmail.
Well, email is delivered to your gmail account via SMTP. Granted, this could be replaced with something else... eg: RSS feeds which contain messages signed to your public key or something to which you could subscribe, but as it stands your gmail account would grind to a halt without SMTP.
Seeing as email is the only way I know how to communicate and express my thoughts...
Thank you for communicating and expressing your thoughts on the web.
If you're not getting paid for your time, there's something inherently wrong with your working situation.
Exactly. Now apply this to the (paid) professor.
Awesome... I'll have to try that out.
One thing I do is have mailing lists tagged with the name of the list and then archived so that it doesn't clutter up my inbox. To read the mailing list, I click on the tag name. What I'd love to do is, once I've read something, be able to archive it from there. But I can't. It's already archived and I have to skip back and forth through various pages looking for a handful of unread messages.
I'd tell you, but it doesn't fit in the comment limits.
Just list the factors... I'm sure we can do the math ourselves.
Well let us do some math here. At $1 per lecture in his pocket, and let us say 25 people grab a copy of the lecture, that is $25 for what probably takes 2-3 hours to prepare. This assuming he doesn't have to cover some equipment costs, in which case he might even be losing money. Personally I think $2.50 for a lecture is cheap, and I paid for my own schooling. Why should his time be free?
Great idea. Next time my boss asks me for a report, I'm going to charge him $2.50 for it. Why should my time be free?
If by "best" your measuring stick is sheer volume, then sure -- he's rather prolific. But in terms of quality, surely you can think of a couple of authors whose writing is a bit better than his? My reading selection tends to be fairly narrow and I can think of quite a few authors whose writing surpasses King's.
You know, I have been wondering this for the longest time. How do you cut and paste from a Web site? I can only ever seem to copy and paste...
That explains why the Wikiquotes site has been getting shorter and shorter...
And your printer only accepts print jobs with a multiple of two pages?
Only on slashdot can such a post get a +5 Insightful. I could extrapolate about the political leanings of the average moderator, which is really just a representative slice of slashdot itself, but... nah.
But are they learning if they are not part of the interaction between the teacher and the class?
If attendance is so important, just implant an RFID tag in their forehead and install scanners in the doorways which record entry and exit time. If they're not there for more than 75% of the class, dock some marks off their final grade. You can also institute TSA-style searches just to make sure other students aren't carrying anothers' RFID tag with them. Maybe do profiling of the students to identity which ones are more likely to help others cheat out of attendance. Or, if RFID is out of the question perhaps a good old fashioned prison-style lineup where you call out student numbers is in order.
No kidding... that was my first impression upon reading the summary. Why would any university want to babysit its students? When you're a child they take your attendance. In high school, they generally expect you to be there but don't make too huge of a fuss if you're not. And in university, you're the one paying the bills so if you choose not to take advantage of the lectures and you still learn the material enough to meet the course requirements, then why babysit your customers?
Part of the university experience is learning the balance between freedom (not going to class and doing what you want) and responsibility (attending class because you'll usually learn more that way). Remove that freedom and you're just preparing a generation of mindless workers who will be unable to cope unless some manager is watching them punching in and out with their timecards.
It's probably not all that difficult to figure out these various factors if you start collecting statistics. It's the old "one of these things is not like the other" game, but with multiple variables. Get enough people to participate in a website which asks you questions on whether or not you were profiled and you can fill out checkboxes according to who you are, what you were carrying, how you dressed: jeans & t-shirt or business suit, MP3 player, laptop, portable gaming system, ethnicity, hair color, etc. Get a few thousand participating and you can probably figure a good deal of their criteria. Then publish it for the world to see and maybe these totally not random searches will become random and more effective.
Also of note is Schneier on profiling.
I've never been married and have never had kids, but I just wanted to take the time and say thank you. I've heard about stories like this before and glad that there's someone out there of the fairer sex who is actually interested in fairness.