You seem to be insinuating that there was anything even slightly wrong with what Ahmed did (by claiming that he "needs guidance" or that it needed to be "handled," even privately). Let me assure you that there is not. Ahmed is totally and completely innocent of even the appearance of wrongdoing, and having the school officials apply any sort of "handling" or "guidance" (let alone the "threats" and "punishment" that actually happened!) would be wrong on their part.
This is not a situation where a student should be admonished "hey, that's too much like a bomb; don't do it again." This is a situation where a student should be praised that "hey, that's a cool project; keep up the good work!" What we have here is a model student who did everything right, but whose reward for that excellence was to be punished for it by bigoted, paranoid imbeciles. He should not have been arrested. He should not even have been "handled" or "guided!" He should have been celebrated!
The difference is malicious intent. A bug is when the programmer is trying to make the software do what the user wants, but accidentally fails. Malware is when the programmer is trying to make the software do what the programmer wants, user's wishes be damned.
I see no conflict between the two perspectives. Sure, everyone should learn how to design programs... but some people fundamentally just aren't capable of clarifying their ideas and thus are doomed to fail at it.
That goes against everything I've heard anyone say about older vehicles: "They were easier to work with". I brought my newer vehicle in to get a headlight changed and it took 3 mechanics to figure it out.
I'm going to take a wild guess that your car is German. A lot of those cars are almost intentionally designed to be hard to work on. In contrast, the Korean car I used to own had the headlight assembly attached simply by a couple of Phillips-head machine screws.
Of course, in the particular example of headlights older cars were different due to regulation. Until the early '90s cars sold in America were required to use one of only a few varieties of sealed-beam bulbs, which is why all cars from that era used either circular or rectangular headlights, and why pop-up lights were so common. (Designers didn't like the look of the lights they were stuck with, so they hid them.)
But if this had been a bomb and had not been detected or (teh horrorz!) a teacher saw it and didn't react because it's supposedly only a clock, we would not hear the end of it. Teachers would be suspended and parents would want the principal's head.
hence the very logical and actually rational reaction is just what they did. Why? Self interest. Yes, the chance of this being a bomb were close to zero. But the chance of them now having any kind of fallout due to this is also close to zero while it would have been near certain career-death for them if it had blown up.
By exactly the same "logic," I should immediately murder everyone I meet because there's some "close to zero" chance one of them might do me some kind of harm.
In other words, your argument is absurd, disingenuous, and fucking moronic. These were bigoted assholes who were completely devoid of any shred of common sense. There is no excuse for their epic fuck-up!
Go fuck yourself! EVERYWHERE is the place for political protests, especially places that people say "aren't the place for political protests" and 20 feet outside the bullshit "free speech zone!"
The school and the city owe this kid, and his family, a sincere public apology. I'll bet there's a lawsuit in this school's future.
The school and the city owe this kid pink slips for all the bigoted dumbasses involved, and injunctions against them ever working in the educational field again!
Indeed, and they're fucking incompetent AS TEACHERS because when a star student comes on and proudly says "hey, look at my cool clock!" it's not reasonable to assume it's a goddamn bomb! And -- most importantly -- that applies regardless of how racist the teacher is! Let me make this perfectly clear: IF THE STUDENT WERE A WHITE CHRISTIAN, THE TEACHERS WOULD NEVER EVEN HAVE CONSIDERED THE POSSIBILITY OF IT BEING A BOMB. And that's the way they should have treated Ahmed, too!
Nothing about this should ever even started to be an issue. The only problem here is that this school is apparently run by ignorant, racist, paranoid, cowardly shitheads.
That doesn't change the fact that it was off-topic, since this article is about a male student who did well academically (at least until he got arrested for "engineering while Muslim").
You got your SJW wires crossed. This thread is about racism (bigoted white assholes assuming the 14-year-old engineering prodigy is a terrorist just because he's Muslim), not sexism.
Riding AS FAR AS THE RIGHT as possible, not in city traffic riding in the "left" (passing) lane.
You emphasized the wrong words. The important ones are "AS POSSIBLE" (actually, "as practicable" in my state's laws). For example, a cyclist in the left lane is riding as far right as possible, if he's about to make a left turn. The cyclist riding in the middle of the lane is riding as far right as possible, if there's debris on the right side.
If the lane is too narrow for a car and a bike to occupy side-by-side at the same time and the car can't move left into the adjacent lane to pass, then "as far right as possible" means the cyclist should ride in the middle of it to prevent idiot drivers from unsafely trying to make an impossible pass.
I ride on the sidewalk -- but supposedly that's illegal in my area (because they think I'll hit a pedestrian).
You're a dumbass. Riding on the sidewalk isn't a bad idea because you might hit a pedestrian, it's a bad idea because drivers don't expect you to be on the sidewalk and will t-bone you as they pull out of (or into) a driveway. That actually makes riding on a sidewalk MORE DANGEROUS than riding on the street with traffic, not less!
As a driver, the only times I've come close to hitting cyclists was for exactly that reason. In both cases, I was turning right from one street to another. I checked the on-coming travel lanes for cars and bikes and I checked the crosswalk and sidewalk for pedestrians, but I didn't look WAAAY down the sidewalk for dumbass cyclists careening at me. Sure, the collision would have been their own damn fault for riding illegally, but it still would have inconvenienced me and possibly dented my car.
As a cyclist, I ride in the street -- it's safer that way.
And even that misses the damn point: government communications need to be stored on official servers so that they can be properly supplied in response to FOIA requests. At best, hosting them privately was an attempt to circumvent public oversight, and therefore (IMO) grounds for immediate disqualification for any further public office. That's before even thinking about security issues!
That really ought to read "Down the line, wearables also could help pharmaceutical makers prove to insurance companies that their treatments are effective, thus increasing healthcare profits."
Big Pharma companies don't profit from "health," they profit from "care."
And this, folks, is why Laissez-faire capitalism is a crock of shit. The only way to stop this would be for the government to step in and prohibit companies from stealing your data.
(And I'm *still* wondering how these people find work after such a scandal. "CTO of Ashlet Madison" isn't something that would sell a resume, and the "so... what have you been doing for the past 4 years" has to be an awkward interview question.)
There are plenty of sociopaths on boards of directors who would love to hire someone with the track record of profiteering that the Ashley Madison execs have, and who don't give a flying fuck about the unethical nature of it. As long as the CTO can successfully shift the blame for the incompetent IT, he's golden.
Toyota and Subaru sell the same car. Toyota made the engine and Subaru made the body. Or is it the other way around, I don't recall.
It's the other way around: the car you're referring to is RWD coupe with a flat-four engine. If it had been Toyota engine / Subaru body, it would have been an AWD coupe with an inline-four engine instead.
I'm not ever again going to pay more than maybe $10/month (adjusted for inflation) for "content," no matter how new it is. Studios can either recognize that reality or go fuck themselves. If Netflix prices themselves out of that range (or reduces content to the point of uselessness) then I'll just fire up my OTA DVR again.
The Antec ISK-600 fits a full-size ATX PSU and is a very nice case. (I admit, it's bigger than I wanted, but I got it on sale and for $20 I can't complain much.)
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You seem to be insinuating that there was anything even slightly wrong with what Ahmed did (by claiming that he "needs guidance" or that it needed to be "handled," even privately). Let me assure you that there is not. Ahmed is totally and completely innocent of even the appearance of wrongdoing, and having the school officials apply any sort of "handling" or "guidance" (let alone the "threats" and "punishment" that actually happened!) would be wrong on their part.
This is not a situation where a student should be admonished "hey, that's too much like a bomb; don't do it again." This is a situation where a student should be praised that "hey, that's a cool project; keep up the good work!" What we have here is a model student who did everything right, but whose reward for that excellence was to be punished for it by bigoted, paranoid imbeciles. He should not have been arrested. He should not even have been "handled" or "guided!" He should have been celebrated!
The difference is malicious intent. A bug is when the programmer is trying to make the software do what the user wants, but accidentally fails. Malware is when the programmer is trying to make the software do what the programmer wants, user's wishes be damned.
I see no conflict between the two perspectives. Sure, everyone should learn how to design programs... but some people fundamentally just aren't capable of clarifying their ideas and thus are doomed to fail at it.
I'm going to take a wild guess that your car is German. A lot of those cars are almost intentionally designed to be hard to work on. In contrast, the Korean car I used to own had the headlight assembly attached simply by a couple of Phillips-head machine screws.
Of course, in the particular example of headlights older cars were different due to regulation. Until the early '90s cars sold in America were required to use one of only a few varieties of sealed-beam bulbs, which is why all cars from that era used either circular or rectangular headlights, and why pop-up lights were so common. (Designers didn't like the look of the lights they were stuck with, so they hid them.)
By exactly the same "logic," I should immediately murder everyone I meet because there's some "close to zero" chance one of them might do me some kind of harm.
In other words, your argument is absurd, disingenuous, and fucking moronic. These were bigoted assholes who were completely devoid of any shred of common sense. There is no excuse for their epic fuck-up!
Go fuck yourself! EVERYWHERE is the place for political protests, especially places that people say "aren't the place for political protests" and 20 feet outside the bullshit "free speech zone!"
The school and the city owe this kid pink slips for all the bigoted dumbasses involved, and injunctions against them ever working in the educational field again!
Indeed, and they're fucking incompetent AS TEACHERS because when a star student comes on and proudly says "hey, look at my cool clock!" it's not reasonable to assume it's a goddamn bomb! And -- most importantly -- that applies regardless of how racist the teacher is! Let me make this perfectly clear: IF THE STUDENT WERE A WHITE CHRISTIAN, THE TEACHERS WOULD NEVER EVEN HAVE CONSIDERED THE POSSIBILITY OF IT BEING A BOMB. And that's the way they should have treated Ahmed, too!
Nothing about this should ever even started to be an issue. The only problem here is that this school is apparently run by ignorant, racist, paranoid, cowardly shitheads.
So what?
That doesn't change the fact that it was off-topic, since this article is about a male student who did well academically (at least until he got arrested for "engineering while Muslim").
You got your SJW wires crossed. This thread is about racism (bigoted white assholes assuming the 14-year-old engineering prodigy is a terrorist just because he's Muslim), not sexism.
You emphasized the wrong words. The important ones are "AS POSSIBLE" (actually, "as practicable" in my state's laws). For example, a cyclist in the left lane is riding as far right as possible, if he's about to make a left turn. The cyclist riding in the middle of the lane is riding as far right as possible, if there's debris on the right side.
If the lane is too narrow for a car and a bike to occupy side-by-side at the same time and the car can't move left into the adjacent lane to pass, then "as far right as possible" means the cyclist should ride in the middle of it to prevent idiot drivers from unsafely trying to make an impossible pass.
Then you DON'T FUCKING PASS THE CYCLIST AT ALL!
You're a dumbass. Riding on the sidewalk isn't a bad idea because you might hit a pedestrian, it's a bad idea because drivers don't expect you to be on the sidewalk and will t-bone you as they pull out of (or into) a driveway. That actually makes riding on a sidewalk MORE DANGEROUS than riding on the street with traffic, not less!
As a driver, the only times I've come close to hitting cyclists was for exactly that reason. In both cases, I was turning right from one street to another. I checked the on-coming travel lanes for cars and bikes and I checked the crosswalk and sidewalk for pedestrians, but I didn't look WAAAY down the sidewalk for dumbass cyclists careening at me. Sure, the collision would have been their own damn fault for riding illegally, but it still would have inconvenienced me and possibly dented my car.
As a cyclist, I ride in the street -- it's safer that way.
And even that misses the damn point: government communications need to be stored on official servers so that they can be properly supplied in response to FOIA requests. At best, hosting them privately was an attempt to circumvent public oversight, and therefore (IMO) grounds for immediate disqualification for any further public office. That's before even thinking about security issues!
That really ought to read "Down the line, wearables also could help pharmaceutical makers prove to insurance companies that their treatments are effective, thus increasing healthcare profits."
Big Pharma companies don't profit from "health," they profit from "care."
And this, folks, is why Laissez-faire capitalism is a crock of shit. The only way to stop this would be for the government to step in and prohibit companies from stealing your data.
There are plenty of sociopaths on boards of directors who would love to hire someone with the track record of profiteering that the Ashley Madison execs have, and who don't give a flying fuck about the unethical nature of it. As long as the CTO can successfully shift the blame for the incompetent IT, he's golden.
It's fucking disgusting, but it's true.
So, did they have any "mixed with oak shavings" whisky aged on Earth as a control?
It's the other way around: the car you're referring to is RWD coupe with a flat-four engine. If it had been Toyota engine / Subaru body, it would have been an AWD coupe with an inline-four engine instead.
Nope, Sanders is centrist. Actual socialists are way farther left than he is.
You only think he's leftist because the mainstream Democrat party is moderate right-wing.
I'm not ever again going to pay more than maybe $10/month (adjusted for inflation) for "content," no matter how new it is. Studios can either recognize that reality or go fuck themselves. If Netflix prices themselves out of that range (or reduces content to the point of uselessness) then I'll just fire up my OTA DVR again.
Bullshit. In the United States, no politician is a "leftist," not even Bernie Sanders. You have to go to Europe to find actual leftists!
I just would like to point out that your example of "amazing" is in one of the oldest, most boring genres of programs.
The Antec ISK-600 fits a full-size ATX PSU and is a very nice case. (I admit, it's bigger than I wanted, but I got it on sale and for $20 I can't complain much.)