And if you think too much, you'll "fail" every question. "fail" the baseline questions, like your name, and they give it to you a few times, then treat it like a pass. They have no other choice. Repeated "inconclusive" is a pass.
They can still ask all sorts of loaded questions. For example, have you ever done something personal during work time?
And they give you the questions ahead of time so you won't be confused/blindsided by them. Have you ever done something personal on work time? Yes. Everyone has. I peed today. Oh, and I stood around the water cooler and talked non-work things to my coworkers. I even took off 2 hours early once when school called to say the 6 year old fell and was in the hospital getting stitches. The manager said to make it up later.
They ask the stupid questions to try to guess if you are lying.
I applied for a minimum wage job at a video store (funny, I've applied to two in my life, didn't get either). They gave a personality profile test. They asked whether I've done drugs. I said no. They asked if I thought drugs should be legal. I said yes. I presume the results (wrongly) indicated I was a lying stoner. The other time, the manager who took my application was a douchebag. I let him know as much. The ironic thing is that I know more about movies than anyone else I know, and I've known quite a few movie buffs.
Even worse, they don't give the failure rate in a useful manner. 100% for pass (zero false negatives) and 0% for fail (100% of fails reported as a false positive) is easy. You just say "he passed" no matter what the results are. Or the reverse as well. But "75% accurate" is mostly meaningless.
Or, if you are a bad liar, be nervous for everything. When you "fail" all the true answers, the test will be rejected as "inconclusive" which isn't a pass, and isn't a fail.
The smarter you are the harder it is to pass. The more sociopathic you are, the easier it is to pass. Why do smarter people fail?
Did you eat pig last night? [thoughts] "Um, I ate a beef hotdog. I wonder if that had secret pork in it."[end thought] "no" The uncertainty in the thought process will trigger a nervous response, even if you tell the truth.
Be bored and aggressive, and you'll never fail. Bored to help you pass, and aggressive to help you be inconclusive.
Yup. That's how it works. You have to get them from the channel directly. I didn't check the terms, but Mythbusters is listed on the Discovery channel as being there. And I stream my local news from the local channel. But for the question "can I get it without ESPN" the answer is "yes", but you don't like those options. So you should pay for ESPN and just not watch it.
It's a commercial problem, not a contractual one. They are allowed to sell them one at a time, by the contract. Thus, the contract doesn't prevent the practice. But the commercial terms (a separate issue, though included in the contract) make it uneconomical to do it.
Also, separate is the rumour (or threats) that if a cable company were to successfully a la carte channels, the content owners would refuse to sell them content on the next contract renewal. Though in practice, that's never been tested.
Al-a-cart is currently illegal due to the structuring content providers talked the FCC into years ago.
A la carte is now and always has been legal. The cable providers don't offer it because they sign contracts with the content owners which make it unprofitable (they can provide channels a la carte, but if someone picks Disney Kids, the cable company must pay Disney for ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN West, ESPN 7, etc. But there's nothing legally or contractually preventing the cable company from selling Disney Kids a la carte. It's a financial model problem, not a legal or contractual one.
You claim it can't work. I claim it can. Since you can't prove it can't, there's nothing to day. You are assuming the worst possible implementation and indicating that wouldn't work. Obviously. Captain Obious called, he wants his uniform back. That you are too dumb to imagine a system that could work doesn't mean it can't. It just means you have no imagination or problem solving skills.
Also, you forget. In the case of the DVD/Blu-Ray, the user didn't want the system to work. For someone getting safe USB, both the manufacturer and user want it to work. That you don't know the difference further proves your incompetence. Since you've said nothing substantive that contradicts anything I've said...
His personal beliefs are irrelevant. His business belief that siding with the conservative extremists will generate the most profit is all you need to be aware of. Much like Rush Limbaugh has recanted, but not renounced his show. When asked about what *he* believes, he stresses that he's an entertainer that's trying to get an audience, not a reporter trying to report the truth.
If you don't see a problem with PRIVATE KEYS being distributed inside mass-produced hardware, I do not even know where to begin criticizing your position.
It's clear you don't know where to begin criticizing it. DVDs do it (very poorly) and Blu-Ray do it (less poorly). A similar system would be trivial. As would be putting the PRIVATE KEYS on the mass produced hardware (encrypted and signed, of course). You do know how PKI works, don't you? You don't send someone your private key for them to authenticate you. You encrypt their public key with your private key and send that encrypted PRIVATE KEY derivative. So, burn that encrypted key into the USB device as part of the driver.
That you are too dumb to understand an idea doesn't mean the idea is dumb.
There is nothing automatically wrong in what Bush did, as you describe it.
Quote where I said there was.
If you can't do that, you are a lying troll.
Please, don't hate. Thank you.
Then stop lying. I never said anything about any of the tangents you are going off on. You are guessing my personal opinon based on public statments, then attacking me as a person, and ignoring what I said. That makes you wrong, even if you guessed right.
And then you'll still need to substantiate your earlier claim, that this — profiting from taxpayer-funded projects — is an especially Republican "style". Put up or shut up...
Sounds like my experiences. When I was in the 2nd grade (at John J. Pershing Elementary, DISD), I was told to draw a man with two orange heads for a display for the parents to see on a conference day. I drew a man who held an orange head in each hand. Everyone else drew a man with two jack o' lanterns instead of a normal head. So I was sent to the principal's office and beat for insubordination. I was locked in a closet over lunch. The irony is that my mother lied about our address to get me in. She heard that teacher was very good. And my older sister was doing quite poorly at Dealey Elementary school (since closed, now George Bannerman Dealey Montessori Vanguard and International Academy). So she got me into another school (the next closest, with high recommendations). Where I was treated poorly and scarred for life. I then went to private school for 4 years, before going back into the public system, capable of handling the idiot teachers (which I still had a few of).
Home schooling isn't the answer until a single income can raise a family. WWII ruined the family structure. The hilarious thing is that it's been blamed on gays. When both parents must work to afford a reasonable standard of living, that requires daycare. Whether actual daycare or school doesn't matter to the economics.
The journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest did a literature review a few years back (Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence) that identified all the methodologically sound studies into teaching to learning styles and found that they showed no evidence for anyone knowing how to teach to learning styles.
So because nobody currently teaches to different learning styles, learning styles must not matter at all?
As a professional tutor, I have tutored people in subjects I didn't know. Seriously. Not like Cameron in "10 Things I Hate about You" where he tutored someone in French by learning the day's lesson ahead of time. I'd sit there and ask them to teach me how to do it. In explaining it to someone else, they learned more than by reading the book and copying the examples. Sure, as a good tutor, I'd ask them to repeat the parts they seemed unsure of, and practice showing me in different ways. But it's the presentation style that made all the difference. The person understood the lesson, but didn't "get it" until they were engaged while doing it.
Their conclusion was that the studies showed that the difference between courses wasn't learning styles at all, but simply that one was better than the other.
And they repeated this across al levels of math, languages, history and other courses? I've read studies similar to what you describe, and there's always another that contradicts it. The details of the setup are more important than the conclusion.
Meanwhile, we have clear and obvious evidence that students that are considered "slow" relative to their peers are suffering from poor prior knowledge, and that this problem is compounded over time as they are rushed through each stage without fully understanding it in order to keep up with the class.
What would you have them do? The Bart Simpson quote comes to mind. "Let me get this straight: we're behind the rest of our class and we're going to catch up to them by going slower than they are?"
Are you going to agree with the Libertarians, that no stadiums should be (re)built at taxpayer expense? Or are you going to claim, some stadiums are more equal than others?
Can I just point out that your strawman is a false dichotomy?
I've seen Common Core explained to parents. We had the same thing 30+ years ago. It was just called "pre-algebra" then.
And the last parent night at school (ask any questions you want, including having the teacher demonstrate math), less than 10% of the parents showed up.
parent's don't care because they don't speak English and work 3 jobs.
No. The PTO is a last-ditch effort to pretend that you've engaged us . . . total bullshit.
So the school should hire translators for all languages to stalk the parents for 20 minutes between shifts? How do you engage people who don't want to be engaged?
Looks like a secret. What I've found is that 90% of parents complain that they can't get involved. Then get the notice for the PTA meeting, and refuse to come. Then show up at a school board meeting to complain about the school. The parents don't want to be involved. Every effort to involve them is a waste of time. I've seen it happen as a student and a parent. Have you actually tried engaging parents? Or just complained that the parents weren't trying to get involved, and blamed the school?
But if we are going to hand off teaching to computers, why pay for anything more than a human babysitter - or is that what we are doing already?
In most places that's what they are. The children are banned by law from doing anything else, and the schools are banned by law from letting (or forcing) them to do anything else.
But on the computers, the best thing about them is that they let children go much more self-paced. Except, I usually find they block the 3rd graders from doing 4th grade work, even if their ability and time allows. As someone who never fit in the school time schedule, I would have loved something that let me progress as fast or slow as I wanted.
And the teachers become tutors. When a student can't figure out something, it's often because the initial instructions were wrong for the learning style of the student. The teacher should be able to repeat the lesson in many different ways to enable the student to understand the lesson.
we already don't teach proper handwriting anymore.
As someone who has unreadable handwriting, I'm glad. When I went through the system, I had to work with all my teachers to get special treatment. It was "obviously" a learning disability, but that costs the school money, and wastes the time of the student, so better to "unofficially" deal with it. I still can't write cursive, and my left hand is better than my right for printing (because having to think about every movement makes it more deliberate). I did manage to pass drafting in college (where there's a whole test on printing), but that was printing, and was less timed. Writing a essay for a test was miserable for me and the teachers grading it. Some students simply can't do it. So in a world of computers, what does it matter? I'm either printing (poorly) or typing. Though for some reason, I do OK at Chinese writing.
Yes, part of the point is that the makers make them hard to repair. Cost of upkeep hurting resale value isn't nearly as important as keeping a strong dealership through repeated expensive repairs. Then lament how the lazy children these days don't know how to keep their car running.
Yup, "I don't value what you do, get off my lawn." You didn't have anything valid to say. "Software isn't real, and fixing software isn't useful." I don't believe that to be a true statement. And the assertion by old people that the young generation can't fix anything is unsupported. They can't fix what you can, maybe, but there are things they can do you can't. You just don't value them.
As far as I'm aware USB does not have any kind of strong authentication built into it. It can announce itself as an HID, and label itself as whatever it wants to.
No, it doesn't. But if the US government announced the standard it would accept, and it was backward compatible, it would become the de facto standard. If the Government OS required auth, and the auth present on the device in no way stopped it from working with any previous USB controller, then auth would be pervasive in a few years. Then it's a question of market, for whether the consumers would demand it.
Even if they did authenticate, the necessary private keys would be in every logitech USB keyboard out there, to use my example.
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They can still ask all sorts of loaded questions. For example, have you ever done something personal during work time?
And they give you the questions ahead of time so you won't be confused/blindsided by them. Have you ever done something personal on work time? Yes. Everyone has. I peed today. Oh, and I stood around the water cooler and talked non-work things to my coworkers. I even took off 2 hours early once when school called to say the 6 year old fell and was in the hospital getting stitches. The manager said to make it up later.
They ask the stupid questions to try to guess if you are lying.
I applied for a minimum wage job at a video store (funny, I've applied to two in my life, didn't get either). They gave a personality profile test. They asked whether I've done drugs. I said no. They asked if I thought drugs should be legal. I said yes. I presume the results (wrongly) indicated I was a lying stoner. The other time, the manager who took my application was a douchebag. I let him know as much. The ironic thing is that I know more about movies than anyone else I know, and I've known quite a few movie buffs.
Variability between people and expense. And they can still be beaten, just as the EEG (or other brain scan) is beaten.
Even worse, they don't give the failure rate in a useful manner. 100% for pass (zero false negatives) and 0% for fail (100% of fails reported as a false positive) is easy. You just say "he passed" no matter what the results are. Or the reverse as well. But "75% accurate" is mostly meaningless.
Or, if you are a bad liar, be nervous for everything. When you "fail" all the true answers, the test will be rejected as "inconclusive" which isn't a pass, and isn't a fail.
The smarter you are the harder it is to pass. The more sociopathic you are, the easier it is to pass. Why do smarter people fail?
Did you eat pig last night? [thoughts] "Um, I ate a beef hotdog. I wonder if that had secret pork in it."[end thought] "no"
The uncertainty in the thought process will trigger a nervous response, even if you tell the truth.
Be bored and aggressive, and you'll never fail. Bored to help you pass, and aggressive to help you be inconclusive.
Yup. That's how it works. You have to get them from the channel directly. I didn't check the terms, but Mythbusters is listed on the Discovery channel as being there. And I stream my local news from the local channel. But for the question "can I get it without ESPN" the answer is "yes", but you don't like those options. So you should pay for ESPN and just not watch it.
It's a commercial problem, not a contractual one. They are allowed to sell them one at a time, by the contract. Thus, the contract doesn't prevent the practice. But the commercial terms (a separate issue, though included in the contract) make it uneconomical to do it.
Also, separate is the rumour (or threats) that if a cable company were to successfully a la carte channels, the content owners would refuse to sell them content on the next contract renewal. Though in practice, that's never been tested.
Still a safe record. The crash was caused by a DC-10, not the Concord. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... or so says the French courts.
without ESPN?
Yes. Hulu.
Al-a-cart is currently illegal due to the structuring content providers talked the FCC into years ago.
A la carte is now and always has been legal. The cable providers don't offer it because they sign contracts with the content owners which make it unprofitable (they can provide channels a la carte, but if someone picks Disney Kids, the cable company must pay Disney for ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN West, ESPN 7, etc. But there's nothing legally or contractually preventing the cable company from selling Disney Kids a la carte. It's a financial model problem, not a legal or contractual one.
You claim it can't work. I claim it can. Since you can't prove it can't, there's nothing to day. You are assuming the worst possible implementation and indicating that wouldn't work. Obviously. Captain Obious called, he wants his uniform back. That you are too dumb to imagine a system that could work doesn't mean it can't. It just means you have no imagination or problem solving skills.
Also, you forget. In the case of the DVD/Blu-Ray, the user didn't want the system to work. For someone getting safe USB, both the manufacturer and user want it to work. That you don't know the difference further proves your incompetence. Since you've said nothing substantive that contradicts anything I've said...
His personal beliefs are irrelevant. His business belief that siding with the conservative extremists will generate the most profit is all you need to be aware of. Much like Rush Limbaugh has recanted, but not renounced his show. When asked about what *he* believes, he stresses that he's an entertainer that's trying to get an audience, not a reporter trying to report the truth.
If you don't see a problem with PRIVATE KEYS being distributed inside mass-produced hardware, I do not even know where to begin criticizing your position.
It's clear you don't know where to begin criticizing it. DVDs do it (very poorly) and Blu-Ray do it (less poorly). A similar system would be trivial. As would be putting the PRIVATE KEYS on the mass produced hardware (encrypted and signed, of course). You do know how PKI works, don't you? You don't send someone your private key for them to authenticate you. You encrypt their public key with your private key and send that encrypted PRIVATE KEY derivative. So, burn that encrypted key into the USB device as part of the driver.
That you are too dumb to understand an idea doesn't mean the idea is dumb.
There is nothing automatically wrong in what Bush did, as you describe it.
Quote where I said there was.
If you can't do that, you are a lying troll.
Please, don't hate. Thank you.
Then stop lying. I never said anything about any of the tangents you are going off on. You are guessing my personal opinon based on public statments, then attacking me as a person, and ignoring what I said. That makes you wrong, even if you guessed right.
And then you'll still need to substantiate your earlier claim, that this — profiting from taxpayer-funded projects — is an especially Republican "style". Put up or shut up...
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Sounds like my experiences. When I was in the 2nd grade (at John J. Pershing Elementary, DISD), I was told to draw a man with two orange heads for a display for the parents to see on a conference day. I drew a man who held an orange head in each hand. Everyone else drew a man with two jack o' lanterns instead of a normal head. So I was sent to the principal's office and beat for insubordination. I was locked in a closet over lunch. The irony is that my mother lied about our address to get me in. She heard that teacher was very good. And my older sister was doing quite poorly at Dealey Elementary school (since closed, now George Bannerman Dealey Montessori Vanguard and International Academy). So she got me into another school (the next closest, with high recommendations). Where I was treated poorly and scarred for life. I then went to private school for 4 years, before going back into the public system, capable of handling the idiot teachers (which I still had a few of).
Home schooling isn't the answer until a single income can raise a family. WWII ruined the family structure. The hilarious thing is that it's been blamed on gays. When both parents must work to afford a reasonable standard of living, that requires daycare. Whether actual daycare or school doesn't matter to the economics.
The journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest did a literature review a few years back (Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence) that identified all the methodologically sound studies into teaching to learning styles and found that they showed no evidence for anyone knowing how to teach to learning styles.
So because nobody currently teaches to different learning styles, learning styles must not matter at all?
As a professional tutor, I have tutored people in subjects I didn't know. Seriously. Not like Cameron in "10 Things I Hate about You" where he tutored someone in French by learning the day's lesson ahead of time. I'd sit there and ask them to teach me how to do it. In explaining it to someone else, they learned more than by reading the book and copying the examples. Sure, as a good tutor, I'd ask them to repeat the parts they seemed unsure of, and practice showing me in different ways. But it's the presentation style that made all the difference. The person understood the lesson, but didn't "get it" until they were engaged while doing it.
Their conclusion was that the studies showed that the difference between courses wasn't learning styles at all, but simply that one was better than the other.
And they repeated this across al levels of math, languages, history and other courses? I've read studies similar to what you describe, and there's always another that contradicts it. The details of the setup are more important than the conclusion.
Meanwhile, we have clear and obvious evidence that students that are considered "slow" relative to their peers are suffering from poor prior knowledge, and that this problem is compounded over time as they are rushed through each stage without fully understanding it in order to keep up with the class.
What would you have them do? The Bart Simpson quote comes to mind. "Let me get this straight: we're behind the rest of our class and we're going to catch up to them by going slower than they are?"
What? USB devices in general, and HIDs in particular, do not authenticate with the OS when plugged in.
I said that. I also said that if the US government required it, then USB devices would authenticate when plugged in.
The device is perfectly capable of lying about what it is and what it does.
Not if the host OS has some means to authenticate it. Or did you get the point and decide to go all Devil's advocate?
Are you going to agree with the Libertarians, that no stadiums should be (re)built at taxpayer expense? Or are you going to claim, some stadiums are more equal than others?
Can I just point out that your strawman is a false dichotomy?
So then apply the same statement 30 years ago. They didn't have that rep in the '60s with the 2002 and Isetta.
So, if your tail light bulb is out, and you replace the incandescent bulb with an LED bulb (not an "assembly") you didn't "repair" the broken light?
And the last parent night at school (ask any questions you want, including having the teacher demonstrate math), less than 10% of the parents showed up.
parent's don't care because they don't speak English and work 3 jobs.
No. The PTO is a last-ditch effort to pretend that you've engaged us . . . total bullshit.
So the school should hire translators for all languages to stalk the parents for 20 minutes between shifts? How do you engage people who don't want to be engaged?
You are stating step 3, without steps 1-2 or 4+.
Looks like a secret. What I've found is that 90% of parents complain that they can't get involved. Then get the notice for the PTA meeting, and refuse to come. Then show up at a school board meeting to complain about the school. The parents don't want to be involved. Every effort to involve them is a waste of time. I've seen it happen as a student and a parent. Have you actually tried engaging parents? Or just complained that the parents weren't trying to get involved, and blamed the school?
But if we are going to hand off teaching to computers, why pay for anything more than a human babysitter - or is that what we are doing already?
In most places that's what they are. The children are banned by law from doing anything else, and the schools are banned by law from letting (or forcing) them to do anything else.
But on the computers, the best thing about them is that they let children go much more self-paced. Except, I usually find they block the 3rd graders from doing 4th grade work, even if their ability and time allows. As someone who never fit in the school time schedule, I would have loved something that let me progress as fast or slow as I wanted.
And the teachers become tutors. When a student can't figure out something, it's often because the initial instructions were wrong for the learning style of the student. The teacher should be able to repeat the lesson in many different ways to enable the student to understand the lesson.
we already don't teach proper handwriting anymore.
As someone who has unreadable handwriting, I'm glad. When I went through the system, I had to work with all my teachers to get special treatment. It was "obviously" a learning disability, but that costs the school money, and wastes the time of the student, so better to "unofficially" deal with it. I still can't write cursive, and my left hand is better than my right for printing (because having to think about every movement makes it more deliberate). I did manage to pass drafting in college (where there's a whole test on printing), but that was printing, and was less timed. Writing a essay for a test was miserable for me and the teachers grading it. Some students simply can't do it. So in a world of computers, what does it matter? I'm either printing (poorly) or typing. Though for some reason, I do OK at Chinese writing.
Yes, part of the point is that the makers make them hard to repair. Cost of upkeep hurting resale value isn't nearly as important as keeping a strong dealership through repeated expensive repairs. Then lament how the lazy children these days don't know how to keep their car running.
Yup, "I don't value what you do, get off my lawn." You didn't have anything valid to say. "Software isn't real, and fixing software isn't useful." I don't believe that to be a true statement. And the assertion by old people that the young generation can't fix anything is unsupported. They can't fix what you can, maybe, but there are things they can do you can't. You just don't value them.
As far as I'm aware USB does not have any kind of strong authentication built into it. It can announce itself as an HID, and label itself as whatever it wants to.
No, it doesn't. But if the US government announced the standard it would accept, and it was backward compatible, it would become the de facto standard. If the Government OS required auth, and the auth present on the device in no way stopped it from working with any previous USB controller, then auth would be pervasive in a few years. Then it's a question of market, for whether the consumers would demand it.
Even if they did authenticate, the necessary private keys would be in every logitech USB keyboard out there, to use my example.
Yes. Is that a problem?