Look, retard, if we'all didn't feed your stupid texas ass
What makes you think I'm a retard, or from Texas? I have, I'll admit, been in Texas once, almost forty years ago. Once was enough. As for the "retard," is that your sooper kewell way of insulting everybody who doesn't agree with you? People like you are a great argument for ex post facto birth control.
People on the left side of the bell curve are unlikely to succeed at college or be able to use what they learn properly. What they need is skills training, not academics. You don't need a college education to be a good citizen, because you should know everything you need for that by the time you're out of high school.
The purpose of education os to install knowledge about the world to society at large. Local school districts don't live in different realities, each with their own specifics.
They don't? You think that the realities of education in an inner-city school where the children come from poor families and, often, broken homes is the same as one in an upper-middle-class neighborhood? I don't. One needs emphasis on the fundamentals so that the children learn what they need to improve themselves, with emphasis on shop classes for the boys (so that they can learn job skills) and home economics for the girls so that they can learn what they'll need to raise their own children better and the other needs (or at least wants) college prep classes.
A local school board can do more to see that each school's students get what they really need than a faceless bureaucrat in DC who's trying to shoehorn every district into the same mold.
I'd rather ditch this idiotic tendency to think that locals do everything better. Efforts to ditch the DoE are primarily funded by one of two group of nutters - libertarians and creationists
Ah, I see: you're an elitist, and think that you know more about what children in a school district you've never visited need than their parents do. I do hope you don't live or work inside the Beltway because there's too much of that kind of thinking going on their already. Mind you, it was probably just as bad a year ago because that type of attitude is completely non-partisan.
That is precisely the ideology that I was referring to
If so, it wasn't clear from what you wrote that you were referring to a corporate state. I find it hard to believe that school boards in general are interested in teaching children that the three maxims of government are, "Everything for the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state." And yes, I've read the article in question.
Its been my observation that local school boards are the breeding ground of fascist police statists
Judging from context, I don't think that the word fascist means what you think it does. Before complaining about how school boards act, I'd suggest that you fill this hole in your own education.
Ditch zero tolerance and standardized tests and the problem will solve itself.
Even better, ditch the Department of Education with its centralized planning, heavy handed bureaucracy and one-size-fits-nobody policies and return the control of education to local school boards. Let them decide for themselves what's right for their district and what isn't because no two school districts are alike, and what works for one fails for another.
Because its email that wasn't slated for public release?
My point isn't that the writer was careless, but that it's hard to see why he picked the word "hide" if that's not what he meant. Yes, people do tend to use the first word that comes to mind, especially in private email, but even so, it's hard to see why that word came to mind first. I find the word choice suggestive, but I'm trying to keep as much of an open mind on this as I do on AGW/Human Climate Change or whatever they're calling it today. (For the record, I don't think it's proven, I don't think there's as much of a consensus as some people claim, but I don't think it's been disproven either. Like most people, I have an opinion, but as I'm not qualified in the subject, I understand it's only an opinion.)
So, either you're right and they're lying, or the RC article is right and it was a stupid choice of words.
If the RC article is right, why would whoever wrote that email pick such an unclear phrasing? I find it hard to believe that the writer would have used "hide" when "correct" would have been the normal way to express the thought. Occam's Razor suggests that the author really did mean "hide," but of course, that's not proof.
As far as your point one goes, the warming of the last 150 years is the Earth's recovery from The Little Ice Age. And, warming of this magnitude is not, by any means unprecedented. For the most recent example (aside from what's happening now) see The Early Medieval Warm for details. There was a similar example between about 200 BCE and 150 CE or so, followed by colder weather, giving us lots of examples of the climate getting warmer and colder. Alas, from what I can see, AGW zealots tend to ignore this, or "explain" it with handwaving.
This wasn't bad in and of itself, but they jumped before nVidia supported it, and my X was hosed.
Are you still using nVidia's.run file and re-installing it after every kernel update, and if so, why? Add the RPMfusion repo and get both kmod-nvidia-whatever and akmod, plus the kernel-headers and Bob's your uncle. Just be sure to uninstall the binary blob before you reboot so that there's no conflict. Mostly, kmod's updated with the kernel, but if it isn't, akmod will rebuild it at boot and you'll never notice the difference.
A friend of mine with a PhD in PolySci tells me that BO ran for office as a Centerist Democrat, but is running the country as a far-left Socialist. This may explain quite a bit, including why his numbers have plummeted so quickly. What it doesn't explain is why the members of his party aren't objecting to the way he misled them.
The problem is that enough caffeine can keep you up and mobile well past the point when you should have passed out from alcohol, resulting in you doing really, REALLY retarded things.
Back in the mid-70s, when I was young, I made a great discovery: first, have a shot of tequila, mano a mano and back it up with a glass of Mexican Coffee. (Like Irish, but with tequila instead of Irish whiskey.) When that's empty, get a refill on both. The tequila gets you drunk and the coffee gets you wired, resulting in a weird, wide awake drunk. I won't talk about how I'd feel the next morning, however.
I know Slashdot loves to exaggerate things in headlines, but this is absurd. Microsoft has not patented sudo's behavior. At most, it has applied for a patent who's claims could be twisted to make it look like they're trying to patent sudo. Calm down, everybody, it's just an application, the patent hasn't been awarded and, if it's as ridiculous as the summary claims (and I have my doubts about that, too) it's unlikely to be granted.
I have two questions: first, has what they're doing put a significant dent into the load of spam originating in Australia? Second, is the delay caused by scanning small enough not to be an issue? If the answers to both questions are "yes," I see no problem with it. If not, what problems do you find it causing?
Fair use is a defense when you are guilty of copyright infringement. It's an extenuating circumstance.
Wrong. Fair use is a defense to use when you are accused of copyright infringement. If you prove that what you did is covered by fair use, you are not guilty of infringing because Fair Use is an exception to copyright. An extenuating circumstance is something you invoke either after you are found guilty (in a criminal case) or as part of your defense in a civil case in an attempt to lower or avoid any fines, judgments or other penalties. Your basic idea is right, that Google isn't infringing, but your explanation of Fair Use was wrong and misleading. N.B.: IANAL, but I am a writer, and have had reason to familiarize myself with the concept.
The problem with using robots.txt, from his POV, is that it's purely advisory, and requires the cooperation of the spider in question. Yes, I'm sure that Google's spider is configured to honor it, but as long as it can be ignored, people like Murdoch are sure that it will be because that's what they'd do.
Already, in Ubuntu - the most "user friendly" distro out there - the requirement to go to console and launch an app as root is being replaced by a Windows-esque dialog box which pops up and asks you to enter your password to proceed with the installation. How long before this is merely a click-through as in Windows?
Ubuntu isn't the only one. Fedora (what I use) does the same, but it asks for the root password. Not too much better on a single-user box, but in a corporate environment, regular users don't have (or shouldn't have) the root password, any more than they should have the Administrator password on their Windows boxes And, with Ubuntu, I gather that only the first user set up gets put in the sudouser file by default, so that's easy to control as well.
Seriously, about all that forcing users to enter a password to get software installed does is give them a chance to change their mind, unless it's a password the user doesn't have. If they do have the password and want to be foolish, there's no way to stop them.
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What makes you think I'm a retard, or from Texas? I have, I'll admit, been in Texas once, almost forty years ago. Once was enough. As for the "retard," is that your sooper kewell way of insulting everybody who doesn't agree with you? People like you are a great argument for ex post facto birth control.
People on the left side of the bell curve are unlikely to succeed at college or be able to use what they learn properly. What they need is skills training, not academics. You don't need a college education to be a good citizen, because you should know everything you need for that by the time you're out of high school.
They don't? You think that the realities of education in an inner-city school where the children come from poor families and, often, broken homes is the same as one in an upper-middle-class neighborhood? I don't. One needs emphasis on the fundamentals so that the children learn what they need to improve themselves, with emphasis on shop classes for the boys (so that they can learn job skills) and home economics for the girls so that they can learn what they'll need to raise their own children better and the other needs (or at least wants) college prep classes. A local school board can do more to see that each school's students get what they really need than a faceless bureaucrat in DC who's trying to shoehorn every district into the same mold.
Ah, I see: you're an elitist, and think that you know more about what children in a school district you've never visited need than their parents do. I do hope you don't live or work inside the Beltway because there's too much of that kind of thinking going on their already. Mind you, it was probably just as bad a year ago because that type of attitude is completely non-partisan.
If so, it wasn't clear from what you wrote that you were referring to a corporate state. I find it hard to believe that school boards in general are interested in teaching children that the three maxims of government are, "Everything for the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state." And yes, I've read the article in question.
Judging from context, I don't think that the word fascist means what you think it does. Before complaining about how school boards act, I'd suggest that you fill this hole in your own education.
Even better, ditch the Department of Education with its centralized planning, heavy handed bureaucracy and one-size-fits-nobody policies and return the control of education to local school boards. Let them decide for themselves what's right for their district and what isn't because no two school districts are alike, and what works for one fails for another.
My point isn't that the writer was careless, but that it's hard to see why he picked the word "hide" if that's not what he meant. Yes, people do tend to use the first word that comes to mind, especially in private email, but even so, it's hard to see why that word came to mind first. I find the word choice suggestive, but I'm trying to keep as much of an open mind on this as I do on AGW/Human Climate Change or whatever they're calling it today. (For the record, I don't think it's proven, I don't think there's as much of a consensus as some people claim, but I don't think it's been disproven either. Like most people, I have an opinion, but as I'm not qualified in the subject, I understand it's only an opinion.)
Exactly. This is why I said that it "suggested" and pointed out that it doesn't "prove."
If the RC article is right, why would whoever wrote that email pick such an unclear phrasing? I find it hard to believe that the writer would have used "hide" when "correct" would have been the normal way to express the thought. Occam's Razor suggests that the author really did mean "hide," but of course, that's not proof.
As far as your point one goes, the warming of the last 150 years is the Earth's recovery from The Little Ice Age. And, warming of this magnitude is not, by any means unprecedented. For the most recent example (aside from what's happening now) see The Early Medieval Warm for details. There was a similar example between about 200 BCE and 150 CE or so, followed by colder weather, giving us lots of examples of the climate getting warmer and colder. Alas, from what I can see, AGW zealots tend to ignore this, or "explain" it with handwaving.
Are you still using nVidia's .run file and re-installing it after every kernel update, and if so, why? Add the RPMfusion repo and get both kmod-nvidia-whatever and akmod, plus the kernel-headers and Bob's your uncle. Just be sure to uninstall the binary blob before you reboot so that there's no conflict. Mostly, kmod's updated with the kernel, but if it isn't, akmod will rebuild it at boot and you'll never notice the difference.
A friend of mine with a PhD in PolySci tells me that BO ran for office as a Centerist Democrat, but is running the country as a far-left Socialist. This may explain quite a bit, including why his numbers have plummeted so quickly. What it doesn't explain is why the members of his party aren't objecting to the way he misled them.
Where were you last year during the campaign when a few home truths like this might have actually done some good?
Back in the mid-70s, when I was young, I made a great discovery: first, have a shot of tequila, mano a mano and back it up with a glass of Mexican Coffee. (Like Irish, but with tequila instead of Irish whiskey.) When that's empty, get a refill on both. The tequila gets you drunk and the coffee gets you wired, resulting in a weird, wide awake drunk. I won't talk about how I'd feel the next morning, however.
Remember the first rule of journalism: "It's always better to manipulate than never."
I'm not saying it doesn't. My only complaint is that AFAICT not only is the headline overly alarmist, it's directly contradicted by TFS.
If so, the summary is wrong because it says Microsoft has filed a patent, not been awarded.
No, the title is claiming that Microsoft has patented that behavior, and that's what I'm objecting to.
I know Slashdot loves to exaggerate things in headlines, but this is absurd. Microsoft has not patented sudo's behavior. At most, it has applied for a patent who's claims could be twisted to make it look like they're trying to patent sudo. Calm down, everybody, it's just an application, the patent hasn't been awarded and, if it's as ridiculous as the summary claims (and I have my doubts about that, too) it's unlikely to be granted.
I have two questions: first, has what they're doing put a significant dent into the load of spam originating in Australia? Second, is the delay caused by scanning small enough not to be an issue? If the answers to both questions are "yes," I see no problem with it. If not, what problems do you find it causing?
Wrong. Fair use is a defense to use when you are accused of copyright infringement. If you prove that what you did is covered by fair use, you are not guilty of infringing because Fair Use is an exception to copyright. An extenuating circumstance is something you invoke either after you are found guilty (in a criminal case) or as part of your defense in a civil case in an attempt to lower or avoid any fines, judgments or other penalties. Your basic idea is right, that Google isn't infringing, but your explanation of Fair Use was wrong and misleading. N.B.: IANAL, but I am a writer, and have had reason to familiarize myself with the concept.
The problem with using robots.txt, from his POV, is that it's purely advisory, and requires the cooperation of the spider in question. Yes, I'm sure that Google's spider is configured to honor it, but as long as it can be ignored, people like Murdoch are sure that it will be because that's what they'd do.
Well, what do you expect when you're supposed to assume the existence of a spherical cow of uniform density?
Ubuntu isn't the only one. Fedora (what I use) does the same, but it asks for the root password. Not too much better on a single-user box, but in a corporate environment, regular users don't have (or shouldn't have) the root password, any more than they should have the Administrator password on their Windows boxes And, with Ubuntu, I gather that only the first user set up gets put in the sudouser file by default, so that's easy to control as well.
Seriously, about all that forcing users to enter a password to get software installed does is give them a chance to change their mind, unless it's a password the user doesn't have. If they do have the password and want to be foolish, there's no way to stop them.