Why don't you try applying your genius chart-making skills BEFORE you learn the topic rather than afterward. He said Time Spent vs. Amount Learned. Spent/Learned - past tense. It should be Amount of Time Available vs. Amount of Training Needed. So if you have a lot to learn and not a lot of time to learn it, it is a steep learning curve. Steep = Difficult
First, the scare tactic spin. While I despise the current administration in nearly every way possible and consider it blatantly obvious that they use scare tactics to force the mindless into accepting whatever despotic piece of legislation they choose to pass-by-proxy, I actually do have a problem with N. Korea - and not due to anything that the administration has been saying. Even the IAEA has noted that N. Korea is a major exporter of missile/weapons tech. I'm not worried about N. Korea using a nuke so much as I am worried about it being used by someone who isn't afraid to die. Thus far, most nuclear tech remains in the hands of governments. Those government want to stay in power, which is a little hard to do when you've been fried to a crisp. But the broader the proliferation, the greater the chance of an organization who values martyrs getting ahold of it. That is what I'm afraid of.
Bush should have pulled his head out of his....hat a long time ago. I mean, I know Saddam thumbed his nose at your daddy and they've got a lot of oil, but couldn't you have paid a little more attention to the tiny man with the funny glasses and a nuke? haha...so wooonwy. I'm so wonwy. Team America cracks me up.
Oh, and on the FDR comment. While I tend to side with FDR on most things, you need to remember that the man who made that comment is the same man who locked over 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps because of fear that some of them might be working for the Japanese. No real evidence necessary. Just a racist view that they were all apes - not my view, check out the WWII propaganda posters.
So to sum it up: While I agree with you about the administration, I don't agree with you about the N. Korea situation. As for my comments on FDR, it jsut bothers me that so many presidents get a nice pretty glaze once they're gone. Then again, FDR could have been worse. He could have been Woodrow Wilson.
Everyone knows you can't possibly surf a website while conducting business on the phone.
Also, how do they know you're on the site for 30-60 minutes? If I open a website, then minimize it or leave it up with my screen locked, is it clocking that time? Hell, I could be "surfing the web for 8 hours a day".
4,000 -7,000 entries sounds like a lot, but lets break that down. I got to site A, which pulls adds for sites B and C. Is their system going to log that as 1 site or 3? I would need to know all of the details before I even thought about giving this study any credibility.
I think you missed the point of Freespire/Linspire. The word they're going for is "simplicity". While I may agree with you on the menus, I don't really want to try to teach my grandmother how to do that. It's far easier to say "look at the top left of your screen where it says 'launch'. Now click there and look for...". People who are looking for something like Freespire want simplicity and consistency. It's in no way, shape, or form, geared toward power users.
Did you hear that? That was the sound of the point going over your head. It's not a privacy issue. The problem is that the school is punishing kids for things that they say WHEN THEY'RE NOT ON SCHOOL GROUNDS!!! As soon as that kid steps off of their property, it's none of their damned business what the kids say. And I don't give a crap whether it's just talking about extra-curricular activities or not. They are using this to coerce kids into keeping their mouths shut. Kids are learning about blackmail at an early age. What would you think if your work made you sign a pledge stating that they will watch out for anything you post online and if they don't like it, you will lose your bonus and/or raise for the year along with some of your benefits?
And before anyone else starts rambling on about kids who post death threats, etc. I believe those and other truly harmful language are already illegal, requiring no action whatsoever on the part of the school.
Neither had my father until a few years ago. He still doesn't own one, but occasionally has to use one at work, but rarely and he only knows how to do EXACTLY what he is shown.
Did you just offer me a cluestick while simply rewording what I said? You didn't even address the point of my post. I am returning your stick "postage due"
I would like to point out a significant detail. It is far easier to deflect blame away from Linux than it is from Windows because, unlike Windows, Linux doesn't "automatically install" anything. Linux is just a kernel. A linux distro is just a Linux kernel with hundreds of "3rd party apps" tacked on. I'm not knocking Linux at all. I love Linux. But it's not a fair comparison when you're playing the "installed by default" game. The Linux kernel is 100% secure because it can't do anything by itself.
I'd like to point out that, while a school may be able to tell you what you can and can't say while on its property, it is not allowed to tell you what you can and can't say when you're ont on school grounds
So there is roughly a 50% chance that this John Ioannidis guy's paper is wrong over 50% of papers are not incorrect. I guess he likes to play the odds.
On a side note, I would like to report that 85% of all Slashdot posts are wrong and that 71.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
I would like to take this opportunity to extend my deepest sympathy to truck drivers everywhere. Watch for this to become mandatory as a way to decrease accidents with current driving hours, then slowly but surely they will increase the driving hours.
Nope. They shouldn't be able to do it at all. The moment you give them the ability to do it even under heavy oversight, you're screwed. Because the next terrorist attack will let them cut out most of the oversight because it's a "hinderance" (kind of like the walls between foreign and domestic law enforcement). It's a typical slippery slope. You agree to give them an inch and you wind up losing a mile. Take a look at the Patriot Act. Sunset clauses my ass.
I find it interesting that in this case, religion is being defined by a single belief - the belief taht abortions are wrong. That's a very myopic view of religion
My last job was for a bank and I was surprised to find out that OS/2 runs most ATM machines (oh yeah, that's right, I said ATM "machine". WTF you gonna do about it?). It rarely crashes and does everything that is needed. I'm damn glad I'm out of the banking IT business. I feel sorry for the poor bastards who will have to support the machines one they run some form of embedded Windows. My understanding what that ATMs were moving over to MS already. Poor, poor bastards. I don't think there was much of a push in the banking industry to move them to Linux unfortunately. I would still prefer OS/2 over Windows, Linux, BSD, etc. any day. It's the good kind of "security through obscurity"
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Why don't you try applying your genius chart-making skills BEFORE you learn the topic rather than afterward. He said Time Spent vs. Amount Learned. Spent/Learned - past tense. It should be Amount of Time Available vs. Amount of Training Needed. So if you have a lot to learn and not a lot of time to learn it, it is a steep learning curve. Steep = Difficult
P.S. I'm autistic you insensitive clod!
First, the scare tactic spin. While I despise the current administration in nearly every way possible and consider it blatantly obvious that they use scare tactics to force the mindless into accepting whatever despotic piece of legislation they choose to pass-by-proxy, I actually do have a problem with N. Korea - and not due to anything that the administration has been saying. Even the IAEA has noted that N. Korea is a major exporter of missile/weapons tech. I'm not worried about N. Korea using a nuke so much as I am worried about it being used by someone who isn't afraid to die. Thus far, most nuclear tech remains in the hands of governments. Those government want to stay in power, which is a little hard to do when you've been fried to a crisp. But the broader the proliferation, the greater the chance of an organization who values martyrs getting ahold of it. That is what I'm afraid of.
Bush should have pulled his head out of his....hat a long time ago. I mean, I know Saddam thumbed his nose at your daddy and they've got a lot of oil, but couldn't you have paid a little more attention to the tiny man with the funny glasses and a nuke? haha...so wooonwy. I'm so wonwy. Team America cracks me up.
Oh, and on the FDR comment. While I tend to side with FDR on most things, you need to remember that the man who made that comment is the same man who locked over 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps because of fear that some of them might be working for the Japanese. No real evidence necessary. Just a racist view that they were all apes - not my view, check out the WWII propaganda posters.
So to sum it up: While I agree with you about the administration, I don't agree with you about the N. Korea situation. As for my comments on FDR, it jsut bothers me that so many presidents get a nice pretty glaze once they're gone. Then again, FDR could have been worse. He could have been Woodrow Wilson.
Everyone knows you can't possibly surf a website while conducting business on the phone.
Also, how do they know you're on the site for 30-60 minutes? If I open a website, then minimize it or leave it up with my screen locked, is it clocking that time? Hell, I could be "surfing the web for 8 hours a day".
4,000 -7,000 entries sounds like a lot, but lets break that down. I got to site A, which pulls adds for sites B and C. Is their system going to log that as 1 site or 3? I would need to know all of the details before I even thought about giving this study any credibility.
Anyone else remember the CIA's MK Ultra tests?
I think you missed the point of Freespire/Linspire. The word they're going for is "simplicity". While I may agree with you on the menus, I don't really want to try to teach my grandmother how to do that. It's far easier to say "look at the top left of your screen where it says 'launch'. Now click there and look for...". People who are looking for something like Freespire want simplicity and consistency. It's in no way, shape, or form, geared toward power users.
98% of Texas lawyers polled are for the safeguards
100% of sitting Vice Presidents are against it
WHOOSH!!!!
Did you hear that? That was the sound of the point going over your head. It's not a privacy issue. The problem is that the school is punishing kids for things that they say WHEN THEY'RE NOT ON SCHOOL GROUNDS!!! As soon as that kid steps off of their property, it's none of their damned business what the kids say. And I don't give a crap whether it's just talking about extra-curricular activities or not. They are using this to coerce kids into keeping their mouths shut. Kids are learning about blackmail at an early age. What would you think if your work made you sign a pledge stating that they will watch out for anything you post online and if they don't like it, you will lose your bonus and/or raise for the year along with some of your benefits?
And before anyone else starts rambling on about kids who post death threats, etc. I believe those and other truly harmful language are already illegal, requiring no action whatsoever on the part of the school.
Neither had my father until a few years ago. He still doesn't own one, but occasionally has to use one at work, but rarely and he only knows how to do EXACTLY what he is shown.
Did you just offer me a cluestick while simply rewording what I said? You didn't even address the point of my post. I am returning your stick "postage due"
I would like to point out a significant detail. It is far easier to deflect blame away from Linux than it is from Windows because, unlike Windows, Linux doesn't "automatically install" anything. Linux is just a kernel. A linux distro is just a Linux kernel with hundreds of "3rd party apps" tacked on. I'm not knocking Linux at all. I love Linux. But it's not a fair comparison when you're playing the "installed by default" game. The Linux kernel is 100% secure because it can't do anything by itself.
category error? For arguments sake, can you be more specific on what you mean by that?
Would you accept the same excuse for IIS?
I'd like to point out that, while a school may be able to tell you what you can and can't say while on its property, it is not allowed to tell you what you can and can't say when you're ont on school grounds
He's a whiney little hypocrate
Bastard doctors. They've never been able to write a proper review!
So there is roughly a 50% chance that this John Ioannidis guy's paper is wrong over 50% of papers are not incorrect. I guess he likes to play the odds.
On a side note, I would like to report that 85% of all Slashdot posts are wrong and that 71.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
I would like to take this opportunity to extend my deepest sympathy to truck drivers everywhere. Watch for this to become mandatory as a way to decrease accidents with current driving hours, then slowly but surely they will increase the driving hours.
Nope. They shouldn't be able to do it at all. The moment you give them the ability to do it even under heavy oversight, you're screwed. Because the next terrorist attack will let them cut out most of the oversight because it's a "hinderance" (kind of like the walls between foreign and domestic law enforcement). It's a typical slippery slope. You agree to give them an inch and you wind up losing a mile. Take a look at the Patriot Act. Sunset clauses my ass.
I find it interesting that in this case, religion is being defined by a single belief - the belief taht abortions are wrong. That's a very myopic view of religion
Anyone else notice that the PDF's file size is 666 KB?
My last job was for a bank and I was surprised to find out that OS/2 runs most ATM machines (oh yeah, that's right, I said ATM "machine". WTF you gonna do about it?). It rarely crashes and does everything that is needed. I'm damn glad I'm out of the banking IT business. I feel sorry for the poor bastards who will have to support the machines one they run some form of embedded Windows. My understanding what that ATMs were moving over to MS already. Poor, poor bastards. I don't think there was much of a push in the banking industry to move them to Linux unfortunately. I would still prefer OS/2 over Windows, Linux, BSD, etc. any day. It's the good kind of "security through obscurity"
"Others have promised to respond soon."
Just as soon as we're done shred...I mean, we'll get back to you.
"This statistic is clearly pulled from someone's arse, but for some reason you think it's OK because the arseman isn't a well known Mac zealot?"
In short...yes.
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I mean COME ON!!!! Why are you so pro-terrorist?!!!
Imagine if he gave it to them in pennies. The poor bastards...never even saw it coming.