There's many more such social/white page/life/people tracking websites that are started by leeches and sell information to others. Posting people's information without their consent is a violation of privacy and all of these websites should be challenged and laws should be passed to protect the consumer.
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Just because a statement is in an EULA doesn't mean that it's legally binding, especially if there are already laws governing the use of collected data.
Back in the day, Tucker prototyped a car that had a headlight that aimed with the steering. Citroen had headlights on the DS that would steer with the car, to help the driver look around corners. More recently and most commonly in the seventies, many cars had cornering lamps that illuminated a bright flood to the side when the turn signal indicator was partially pulled or was fully engaged; my buddy's '72 Dodge Monaco has them and my '78 Chrysler Cordoba has them.
Sounds to me like they need to just design fog lamps that can follow the steering and whose light is emitted at visible wavelengths best suited to less refraction when in contact with water. Do that and the car can possibly still have a user-serviceable bulb. Worst case, have some way for the car to detect the horizon or the road height/angle at the distance that the headlights are shining, so that the lights shine on the road ahead instead of at the sky or at the ground too close to the car when the road is hilly or undulating. That's a function of the headlamp bucket more than the illumination system though.
It's not a horrible contract if both parties agreed to it. It's not good for the customer, but no one is forced to sign up for cable. I understand why ESPN would want that language in there because if I were interested only in football, I could subscribe for those five months and not the others. What ESPN wants is my money year-round, and it sounds like Verizon agreed to promise ESPN just that by signing the contract. Maybe it says something different as Verizon claims, but ultimately I fear there will just be some settlement and we'll go back to the status quo.
This is actually why I don't have cable TV. I do not want to pay for a hundred channels when I want to watch five, and given how so many of the channels that I used to enjoy like Discovery, History, Learning, Scifi, have all gone lowest-common-denominator for their programming, I don't have a lot of reason to watch those channels either anymore.
I was about ten years too late when I was free to make my own television choices; I would have loved C-band satellite where one could subscribe to the channels one wanted and only those channels, as opposed to being stuck with packages. If ESPN's business model collapses when consumers are not forced to pay for their service whether they use it or not, then their business model is flawed and deserves to collapse.
There will always be gradation in society. Some people will achieve more than others. Thing of it is, while it's not necessarily fair that family involvement will, on average, allow a student to succeed more than a student without family involvement, it does seem to bear-out as a fact, and it doesn't seem to matter how much the school helps, if the school is putting all in to helping kids, the kids with parental involvement will still, on average, outperform the kids without parental involvement.
This is why I ask about greed. We are all competing with each other. It should be the responsibility of the parent to help their children succeed, but it's also good for all of us as a society if achievement is high across the board. For the context of the family or the individual, competition (which can be interepreted as greed) is good, but for everyone, cooperation is also good. If that competition is widely participated in by children and their families then it actually contributes to cooperation in a sense that the whole is improved.
We have forgotten that as parents we are the primary custodians of our children, that the chief job we as parents are to train our children
This is just about the only truly accurate statement in your post. Quite simply, the body of students in highly performing schools do well because their parents expect them to do well and help them to do well. The parents take time to help their kids learn, and they do not make excuses for poor results.
Unfortunately there's no way to compel the parent to do the right thing. If we want that right thing done, we pay for before-school and after-school programs, and we attempt to steer the kids in the right direction. Unfortunately that is difficult because schools are hampered in the discipline that they're allowed to use, and teachers get disillusioned working in underperforming schools.
I think the solution is to reduce class sizes and to essentially tie teacher pay to a combination of number of free-and-reduced kids in their classes and at the school and performance relative to the pupils' previous years. Basically if you're at a school in a very wealthy neighborhood, you aren't going to make as much money as those schools are no challenge by comparison, but if you're in a school with lots of Title 1 kids, you make more. This encourages veteran teachers to take on the harder schools, but ties incentive pay to the improvements they can make.
You know, even if he's trolling about switching to Bing, I really don't like the new Google maps either. I don't like how the information section in the upper left takes up so much map space that one wants to close it to view the maps properly, but closing it removes any of the destination information that one sought the map out for in the first place. They also don't print well anymore, and it's both safer and much less illegal to look at a piece of paper when trying to find a destination than to deal with a cell phone where distracted driving laws apply.
Google and Apple have never played in the Enterprise OS market. The closest either has come have been through tablet entries, and most of those went to education and bombed due to a lack of applications, so there haven't been a lot of test cases where a corporate user base has been left high and dry.
If I wanted a social media account, I would have signed up for a social media account. Youtube's comments section, bad as they were, got even worse with Google+ because now they post the "share this with other people" comments to the Youtube video comments page, so what had been discussion on youtube, as bad as it admittedly got at times, now wasn't even discussion anymore, just peoples' notes when sharing videos to third parties.
Google+ failed in part because the people that could have championed it for Google, ie, all of us geeks that signed up for Gmail back when you had to be invited to join, were repulsed by Google's choice to push it on us, and everyone else was probably already using another social networking site and didn't want to add another one to the stable.
I have plenty of places to be narcissistic, I don't need Google+ on top of it.
Thanks to Bayer and Shell, good luck finding untainted samples...
So your knee-jerk response is to blame flawed science on "BIG EVIL KORPARASHUNS!!!!"
Tell us, what color is the sky on your world?
No, I'm well aware of how agribusiness works, and how commissioned salesmen actually do a lot of work to sell as much product as possible. Much of my extended family is in farming, either as farmers, or as those who sell products or services to farmers.
Farmers want the best yields possible. They assume that the products advertised to them are acceptable, and they use those products widely if they seem to solve the ill that the farmer was fighting against. As such, it's very likely that Bayer and Shell have managed to sell this product to loads and loads of farmers.
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I wear my watch all the time, including in the shower. I like it because it does one thing well, tell me the time and date.
Because if there's one activity in my life that I cannot do without knowing the time and date while doing it, it's showering!
I actually fall more into his camp than yours, and have been using Slashdot in some capacity or another for more than fifteen years.
Learn all that you want about computers and other electronics-based technology. That knowledge will go obsolete very quickly, and those that come after you won't value that you knew it. It's profitable as a job, but for long-term gratification being able to admire one's body of work it's sorely lacking.
Unless Comcast acquired NBC/Universal's property, but not the company itself (like a bankruptcy asset purchase) then I don't see them getting out of the NBC obligations. When a company purchases another company outright it keeps those obligations. One of the big banks that absorbed one of the big mortgage lenders still had to deal with billions of dollars in fines from that mortgage lender if I'm remembering correctly, and if the bankers couldn't get out of it, a few media moguls sure as hell aren't going to.
That part kind of got me too, shouldn't all deals subject to regulatory approval be structured where they could walk away? Wouldn't anything else be outright flaunting in the face of regulation?
That's computing's secret, it's all derived from commodity parts now, which is why even the big computers are somewhat affordable. Most of the commercial/industrial processor lines are dead.
Stow-n-go is one of the best vehicle inventions of all time. It allows for one vehicle to work as a seven passenger around-town vehicle, a four or five passenger road trip vehicle with room everyones' stuff, or a two person cargo van. If you don't need to go off-road and don't need to tow a second vehicle on a trailer behind it then those Mopar minivans are just about perfect for families.
A lot of people can't accept this, they think it's some affront to their machismo to drive a minivan.
There are TONS of truck-based SUVs being sold around here, along with Class-1 trucks.
Don't assume that your region is indicative of the rest of the country. I'm well aware that Boston, MA vehicle sales are not the same as Houston, TX vehicle sales.
If people want local recycling, there needs to be a local market for the recycled product. As an example, in my area, even though households are encouraged to put glass into their recycle bins, at the sorting centers the glass is extracted and sent to the landfill, as there's no local demand for used glass. A friend of ours used to manage one of the local landfills, and this came straight from the horses' mouth.
This African site might not be what was hyped, but all kinds of things are sent away or dumped into a landfill if there's no demand. If you want recycling, there has to be a use for the material being recycled.
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There's many more such social/white page/life/people tracking websites that are started by leeches and sell information to others. Posting people's information without their consent is a violation of privacy and all of these websites should be challenged and laws should be passed to protect the consumer.
We'll give you ten free transactions in Farmville if you "Like" us and allow us to go through your contacts list to see who else you know that likes us!
Just because a statement is in an EULA doesn't mean that it's legally binding, especially if there are already laws governing the use of collected data.
Back in the day, Tucker prototyped a car that had a headlight that aimed with the steering. Citroen had headlights on the DS that would steer with the car, to help the driver look around corners. More recently and most commonly in the seventies, many cars had cornering lamps that illuminated a bright flood to the side when the turn signal indicator was partially pulled or was fully engaged; my buddy's '72 Dodge Monaco has them and my '78 Chrysler Cordoba has them.
Sounds to me like they need to just design fog lamps that can follow the steering and whose light is emitted at visible wavelengths best suited to less refraction when in contact with water. Do that and the car can possibly still have a user-serviceable bulb. Worst case, have some way for the car to detect the horizon or the road height/angle at the distance that the headlights are shining, so that the lights shine on the road ahead instead of at the sky or at the ground too close to the car when the road is hilly or undulating. That's a function of the headlamp bucket more than the illumination system though.
It's not a horrible contract if both parties agreed to it. It's not good for the customer, but no one is forced to sign up for cable. I understand why ESPN would want that language in there because if I were interested only in football, I could subscribe for those five months and not the others. What ESPN wants is my money year-round, and it sounds like Verizon agreed to promise ESPN just that by signing the contract. Maybe it says something different as Verizon claims, but ultimately I fear there will just be some settlement and we'll go back to the status quo.
This is actually why I don't have cable TV. I do not want to pay for a hundred channels when I want to watch five, and given how so many of the channels that I used to enjoy like Discovery, History, Learning, Scifi, have all gone lowest-common-denominator for their programming, I don't have a lot of reason to watch those channels either anymore.
I was about ten years too late when I was free to make my own television choices; I would have loved C-band satellite where one could subscribe to the channels one wanted and only those channels, as opposed to being stuck with packages. If ESPN's business model collapses when consumers are not forced to pay for their service whether they use it or not, then their business model is flawed and deserves to collapse.
Define greed, in the context of education.
There will always be gradation in society. Some people will achieve more than others. Thing of it is, while it's not necessarily fair that family involvement will, on average, allow a student to succeed more than a student without family involvement, it does seem to bear-out as a fact, and it doesn't seem to matter how much the school helps, if the school is putting all in to helping kids, the kids with parental involvement will still, on average, outperform the kids without parental involvement.
This is why I ask about greed. We are all competing with each other. It should be the responsibility of the parent to help their children succeed, but it's also good for all of us as a society if achievement is high across the board. For the context of the family or the individual, competition (which can be interepreted as greed) is good, but for everyone, cooperation is also good. If that competition is widely participated in by children and their families then it actually contributes to cooperation in a sense that the whole is improved.
Parents need to be involved.
This is just about the only truly accurate statement in your post. Quite simply, the body of students in highly performing schools do well because their parents expect them to do well and help them to do well. The parents take time to help their kids learn, and they do not make excuses for poor results.
Unfortunately there's no way to compel the parent to do the right thing. If we want that right thing done, we pay for before-school and after-school programs, and we attempt to steer the kids in the right direction. Unfortunately that is difficult because schools are hampered in the discipline that they're allowed to use, and teachers get disillusioned working in underperforming schools.
I think the solution is to reduce class sizes and to essentially tie teacher pay to a combination of number of free-and-reduced kids in their classes and at the school and performance relative to the pupils' previous years. Basically if you're at a school in a very wealthy neighborhood, you aren't going to make as much money as those schools are no challenge by comparison, but if you're in a school with lots of Title 1 kids, you make more. This encourages veteran teachers to take on the harder schools, but ties incentive pay to the improvements they can make.
You know, even if he's trolling about switching to Bing, I really don't like the new Google maps either. I don't like how the information section in the upper left takes up so much map space that one wants to close it to view the maps properly, but closing it removes any of the destination information that one sought the map out for in the first place. They also don't print well anymore, and it's both safer and much less illegal to look at a piece of paper when trying to find a destination than to deal with a cell phone where distracted driving laws apply.
Google and Apple have never played in the Enterprise OS market. The closest either has come have been through tablet entries, and most of those went to education and bombed due to a lack of applications, so there haven't been a lot of test cases where a corporate user base has been left high and dry.
If I wanted a social media account, I would have signed up for a social media account. Youtube's comments section, bad as they were, got even worse with Google+ because now they post the "share this with other people" comments to the Youtube video comments page, so what had been discussion on youtube, as bad as it admittedly got at times, now wasn't even discussion anymore, just peoples' notes when sharing videos to third parties.
Google+ failed in part because the people that could have championed it for Google, ie, all of us geeks that signed up for Gmail back when you had to be invited to join, were repulsed by Google's choice to push it on us, and everyone else was probably already using another social networking site and didn't want to add another one to the stable.
I have plenty of places to be narcissistic, I don't need Google+ on top of it.
Damn, that sucks. I never checked the site before I posted, so I wonder if I did that...
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Thanks to Bayer and Shell, good luck finding untainted samples...
So your knee-jerk response is to blame flawed science on "BIG EVIL KORPARASHUNS!!!!"
Tell us, what color is the sky on your world?
No, I'm well aware of how agribusiness works, and how commissioned salesmen actually do a lot of work to sell as much product as possible. Much of my extended family is in farming, either as farmers, or as those who sell products or services to farmers.
Farmers want the best yields possible. They assume that the products advertised to them are acceptable, and they use those products widely if they seem to solve the ill that the farmer was fighting against. As such, it's very likely that Bayer and Shell have managed to sell this product to loads and loads of farmers.
I wear my watch all the time, including in the shower. I like it because it does one thing well, tell me the time and date.
Because if there's one activity in my life that I cannot do without knowing the time and date while doing it, it's showering!
I actually fall more into his camp than yours, and have been using Slashdot in some capacity or another for more than fifteen years.
Learn all that you want about computers and other electronics-based technology. That knowledge will go obsolete very quickly, and those that come after you won't value that you knew it. It's profitable as a job, but for long-term gratification being able to admire one's body of work it's sorely lacking.
Thanks to Bayer and Shell, good luck finding untainted samples...
I'm still not entirely clear what the Apple Watch is supposed to do for me, especially when it's still reliant on a cell phone to function.
Requiring a restart is a Windows trait. I was hoping that my Linux installations would be better than that.
I don't see how the summary's, 'don't fix what isn't broken,' statement applies in this case.
Unless Comcast acquired NBC/Universal's property, but not the company itself (like a bankruptcy asset purchase) then I don't see them getting out of the NBC obligations. When a company purchases another company outright it keeps those obligations. One of the big banks that absorbed one of the big mortgage lenders still had to deal with billions of dollars in fines from that mortgage lender if I'm remembering correctly, and if the bankers couldn't get out of it, a few media moguls sure as hell aren't going to.
That part kind of got me too, shouldn't all deals subject to regulatory approval be structured where they could walk away? Wouldn't anything else be outright flaunting in the face of regulation?
That's computing's secret, it's all derived from commodity parts now, which is why even the big computers are somewhat affordable. Most of the commercial/industrial processor lines are dead.
...of Microsoft-free Fridays?
Stow-n-go is one of the best vehicle inventions of all time. It allows for one vehicle to work as a seven passenger around-town vehicle, a four or five passenger road trip vehicle with room everyones' stuff, or a two person cargo van. If you don't need to go off-road and don't need to tow a second vehicle on a trailer behind it then those Mopar minivans are just about perfect for families.
A lot of people can't accept this, they think it's some affront to their machismo to drive a minivan.
There are TONS of truck-based SUVs being sold around here, along with Class-1 trucks.
Don't assume that your region is indicative of the rest of the country. I'm well aware that Boston, MA vehicle sales are not the same as Houston, TX vehicle sales.
If people want local recycling, there needs to be a local market for the recycled product. As an example, in my area, even though households are encouraged to put glass into their recycle bins, at the sorting centers the glass is extracted and sent to the landfill, as there's no local demand for used glass. A friend of ours used to manage one of the local landfills, and this came straight from the horses' mouth.
This African site might not be what was hyped, but all kinds of things are sent away or dumped into a landfill if there's no demand. If you want recycling, there has to be a use for the material being recycled.