If you spent the time reading the submission on digg.com, you would see that the lack of a change isn't caused by laziness; they have a valid, if somewhat controversial, reason to not implement disable-output-escaping.
Opera doesn't use KDE, it uses QT. Statically linked binaries just have the QT library compiled straight into Opera, instead of using dynamic libraries. Just because they use the same GUI toolkit doesn't mean there is any connection. KDE ranks somewhere in the bottom of my list of suspicions, right above evil memory leak fairies.
Something tells me that Alesis wouldn't have trouble finding the person who found that information out. That is, unless they have no idea what Slashdot or a search engine is.
The SANS post about Professor 'Packetslinger', which was linked to in a Slashdot article yesterday, had a link to the SANS post that is linked in this Slashdot article. Old news.
Teachers having feeble knowledge? Definitely not. You apparently forget that teachers must get a Master's. I do know of one type of student that thinks that way, though. He/she comes to class and sits in the back of the room. They think that they know everything, so the teacher has nothing to teach them. The only reason they're taking this class is they have to.
They're wrong.
For one thing, the teacher has to teach everyone, not just the most intelligent people in the room. (S)he has to lower the level of their instruction, but that doesn't mean that they're stupid. If you're one of the upper people, you should put out the extra effort to get transferred to an honors class.
It goes beyond that, though. Many people have had some sort of experience outside of school that has given them some information on a subject. That was the case in a couple of my science and computer classes. However, there was some basic stuff that I had missed. Never assume that the lessons are worthless.
Your criticism has the mark of someone who has never had experience teaching a class, but has decided that they are an expert on the subject and can solve all problems if people just do want you want. Until you spend a year teaching children, you have no right to claim that. Period Full stop!
By the way, you missed two apostrophes. Apparently you didn't listen during the grammar lessons in English class.
So sad to see Disney's profits suffering. The Incredibles and Toy Story were such flops, really just me-toos of other movies. Disneyland seems to really be suffering, too.
Really? I never heard of this precipitate drop in desktop sales. People need word processors, spreadsheets, a place to buy the music they put on their iPod-ish device, programming, downloading their Linux ISO's & burning them to CD's, having a calendar, and many other things that I can't think of right now. And that "some device for video/e-mail"? Desktop computer. Laptops are expensive (I'm typing on a 2,000 dollar one right now) without the same amount of value. The desktop computer isn't going away any time soon.
No, teachers will always be underpaid because the schools won't (and can't) pay them as much as their counterparts in other fields. The pay ceiling for a teacher in my local school district is about $60,000 for a teacher that has teaching for decades. Beginning teachers make a lot less. They have to really love teaching to be willing to take a lower salary.
And please don't start on the shit about "performance." Usually when people say performance, they want more tests to be run on the students. Guess what? A good teacher doesn't gear their curriculum to a test. There are many, many other things that students need to learn, most of which can't be quantified. The principals of accountability in the business world simply don't apply.
The most important thing that a teacher needs to be able to do is teach. In high school, there were a few areas - not many, but some - in which I knew more than a specific teacher. I was definitely in the upper 10% (I got a 1490 on my SAT, which is about 98 percentile). I assure you that fewer than 50% of my teachers knew less than I did. But the main difference between me and my teachers was that they were continually giving their knowledge to their students. You try keeping 30 kids under control, learning in a wide variety of areas, and having all of their papers graded. "Worthless chaff" soon becomes "Oh my God, these people are amazing."
Obviously you have a little bit of a skewed sense of reality. A minimum wage worker in Oregon (my home state) makes $7.50 an hour starting wage.
$7.50 per hour x 40 hours a week x 52 weeks in a year
That comes out to be $15,600. Pitiful. Oregon has the second highest minimum wage in the country (thirteen cents per hour less than Washington), so other states pay even less. These workers usually get pay raises every once in a while, but not much. I agree that lawyers, business executives, etc. are generally grossly overpaid, but that doesn't mean that S&E workers are underpaid. The next time you sit down to eat with another engineer at a local restaurant to talk about how much more business majors make than S&E majors, remember this: There's someone washing dishes in the back who wouldn't mind having even just half of your salary.
We are engaged in a huge debate, not over the fact that the control of our nation's ports has been turned over to foreign governments in the first place, but rather over the fact that it may be racist to suggest that a nation that funded Bin Ladin, passed sensitive information to him, had top level meetings with him, recognized the Taliban, and was home to two of the 9/11 hijackers might not be trustworthy
You make it sound like Saudi Arabia is an evil breeding ground for terrorism. That's simply not true. I have a couple of Saudi friends that have come to the same university as me to take courses that they cannot get in Saudi Arabia. They're not evil, untrustworty people.
Also, it's Osama Bin Laden. The Bin Ladens are a respected family, as well as being insanely rich. Osama was just a crazy cousin who was using some of the family fortune to fund Islamic extremist groups. So he was born in Saudi Arabia to the Bin Laden family. Whoopty frigen doo. Make sure not to lump him and his family together.
At some point, a government must hand trust and power to its employees. In this case, there was a safeguard; the Trading Standards person called up a member of the Mozilla Foundation and got things straightened out. It all turned out well in the end. The Trading Standards officer learned a valuable lesson that she will probably convey to the rest of her department and Gervase Markham (and most of Slashdot) had the fun of getting mad about the whole thing.
Maybe they're still being careful to avoid offending people after the incident with revealing the name of a Chinese dissident reporter. A little screen name censoring isn't exactly a violation of free speech. F*** is offensive, it's a common part of American speech, and it's censored. Yahoo merely wants to step softly.
In both cases, fanatics are killing people over their opinions. Do you honestly think that women wanting an abortion couldn't just go elsewhere? Both cases are simply fanatics who ignore the basic teachings of their religion, and instead using their own interpretations as justifications to commit murder and acts of senseless violence. The Crusades were long ago. It is no longer acceptable to commit these crimes in the name of a opinion.
I wouldn't exactly call doing an informal DDOS on a school web site a terrorist attack on national infrastructure, and I doubt Sony's right to make money comes from God.
Oh, no, the web site of a small school in rural Arkansas is down! Raise the national terrorist alert level!
God shall strike down the heathens of Slashdot for impeding Sony's right to make a profit!
Quantity over quality also applies to the tactics of the people who are ruthlessly pushing intelligent design. If they repeat their arguments enough and get enough media attention, the general public starts thinking that there is a debate about intelligent design versus evolution in the scientific world. Anyone who knows anything about biology knows that there is no "debate"; the basic framework of evolution has withstood the test of time and challenges. But if the intelligent design nuts blabber about it enough, the scientifically challenged can be swayed. In China, same thing; blabber about porno enough and people start thinking they might be ernest.
No, humans and the rest of the Homininae subfamily share a common ancestor. We didn't evolve from modern apes anymore than we evolved from a sitka spruce. Take a look at the Wikipedia article on apes for more information. Frankly, I find it hard to believe that a person who does not seem to understand this basic fact has expertise in the area of evolutionary theory.
Please don't take this as a personal attack; misunderstanding of the concept of common ancestors is just a pet pieve of mine.
Just a note: The legal drinking age is 21. Many of my friends my age or younger (I'm 18) drink alcohol beverages. Sometimes I wonder why the government even bothers. I don't drink, partially because of interactions with a medication I take, and partially because I don't have an urge too. Okay, maybe some of the sips of alcoholic beverages I've had were a little tasty, but it hasn't gone beyond that.
I think I would vote for this guy for president, just based on this alone.
That would be foolish. For one thing, the President of the United States has to have a huge amount of skills related to government and management. Despite Bush sometimes making stupid, uninformed decisions or messing up on words, he has the skills needed to be president.
Always remember: A politician is not merely a bundle of "positions" on issues.
One last thing. The phrase "special interest" has unnecessarily become taboo. I have a very close friend who is the head lobbyist for a special interest group in Oregon. The special interest? Mental health care. His daughter is schizophrenic. He tries to give senators the information they need to make decisions because the senators can not possibly find all of the information, even with the help of their staff. That, of course, helps him get the laws he wants passed. All of this is completely an unpaid volunteer effort on his part.
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So there's nothing wrong with, say, loan sharks then?
Wait, did I just read someone equating loan sharks with anyone making money?
Pingveno shakes head sadly.
If you spent the time reading the submission on digg.com, you would see that the lack of a change isn't caused by laziness; they have a valid, if somewhat controversial, reason to not implement disable-output-escaping.
Opera doesn't use KDE, it uses QT. Statically linked binaries just have the QT library compiled straight into Opera, instead of using dynamic libraries. Just because they use the same GUI toolkit doesn't mean there is any connection. KDE ranks somewhere in the bottom of my list of suspicions, right above evil memory leak fairies.
Something tells me that Alesis wouldn't have trouble finding the person who found that information out. That is, unless they have no idea what Slashdot or a search engine is.
The SANS post about Professor 'Packetslinger', which was linked to in a Slashdot article yesterday, had a link to the SANS post that is linked in this Slashdot article. Old news.
And we thought choosing a particular preferred laptop company was hard...
Slashdot: Indiana State University chooses Mandrake Linux
An anonymous reader......Indiana State University....Mandrake
Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu people flaming
Teachers having feeble knowledge? Definitely not. You apparently forget that teachers must get a Master's. I do know of one type of student that thinks that way, though. He/she comes to class and sits in the back of the room. They think that they know everything, so the teacher has nothing to teach them. The only reason they're taking this class is they have to.
They're wrong.
For one thing, the teacher has to teach everyone, not just the most intelligent people in the room. (S)he has to lower the level of their instruction, but that doesn't mean that they're stupid. If you're one of the upper people, you should put out the extra effort to get transferred to an honors class.
It goes beyond that, though. Many people have had some sort of experience outside of school that has given them some information on a subject. That was the case in a couple of my science and computer classes. However, there was some basic stuff that I had missed. Never assume that the lessons are worthless.
Your criticism has the mark of someone who has never had experience teaching a class, but has decided that they are an expert on the subject and can solve all problems if people just do want you want. Until you spend a year teaching children, you have no right to claim that. Period Full stop!
By the way, you missed two apostrophes. Apparently you didn't listen during the grammar lessons in English class.
So sad to see Disney's profits suffering. The Incredibles and Toy Story were such flops, really just me-toos of other movies. Disneyland seems to really be suffering, too.
Really? I never heard of this precipitate drop in desktop sales. People need word processors, spreadsheets, a place to buy the music they put on their iPod-ish device, programming, downloading their Linux ISO's & burning them to CD's, having a calendar, and many other things that I can't think of right now. And that "some device for video/e-mail"? Desktop computer. Laptops are expensive (I'm typing on a 2,000 dollar one right now) without the same amount of value. The desktop computer isn't going away any time soon.
No, teachers will always be underpaid because the schools won't (and can't) pay them as much as their counterparts in other fields. The pay ceiling for a teacher in my local school district is about $60,000 for a teacher that has teaching for decades. Beginning teachers make a lot less. They have to really love teaching to be willing to take a lower salary.
And please don't start on the shit about "performance." Usually when people say performance, they want more tests to be run on the students. Guess what? A good teacher doesn't gear their curriculum to a test. There are many, many other things that students need to learn, most of which can't be quantified. The principals of accountability in the business world simply don't apply.
The most important thing that a teacher needs to be able to do is teach. In high school, there were a few areas - not many, but some - in which I knew more than a specific teacher. I was definitely in the upper 10% (I got a 1490 on my SAT, which is about 98 percentile). I assure you that fewer than 50% of my teachers knew less than I did. But the main difference between me and my teachers was that they were continually giving their knowledge to their students. You try keeping 30 kids under control, learning in a wide variety of areas, and having all of their papers graded. "Worthless chaff" soon becomes "Oh my God, these people are amazing."
Disclaimer: I'm the son of two teachers.
Obviously you have a little bit of a skewed sense of reality. A minimum wage worker in Oregon (my home state) makes $7.50 an hour starting wage.
$7.50 per hour x 40 hours a week x 52 weeks in a year
That comes out to be $15,600. Pitiful. Oregon has the second highest minimum wage in the country (thirteen cents per hour less than Washington), so other states pay even less. These workers usually get pay raises every once in a while, but not much. I agree that lawyers, business executives, etc. are generally grossly overpaid, but that doesn't mean that S&E workers are underpaid. The next time you sit down to eat with another engineer at a local restaurant to talk about how much more business majors make than S&E majors, remember this: There's someone washing dishes in the back who wouldn't mind having even just half of your salary.
We are engaged in a huge debate, not over the fact that the control of our nation's ports has been turned over to foreign governments in the first place, but rather over the fact that it may be racist to suggest that a nation that funded Bin Ladin, passed sensitive information to him, had top level meetings with him, recognized the Taliban, and was home to two of the 9/11 hijackers might not be trustworthy
You make it sound like Saudi Arabia is an evil breeding ground for terrorism. That's simply not true. I have a couple of Saudi friends that have come to the same university as me to take courses that they cannot get in Saudi Arabia. They're not evil, untrustworty people.
Also, it's Osama Bin Laden. The Bin Ladens are a respected family, as well as being insanely rich. Osama was just a crazy cousin who was using some of the family fortune to fund Islamic extremist groups. So he was born in Saudi Arabia to the Bin Laden family. Whoopty frigen doo. Make sure not to lump him and his family together.
At some point, a government must hand trust and power to its employees. In this case, there was a safeguard; the Trading Standards person called up a member of the Mozilla Foundation and got things straightened out. It all turned out well in the end. The Trading Standards officer learned a valuable lesson that she will probably convey to the rest of her department and Gervase Markham (and most of Slashdot) had the fun of getting mad about the whole thing.
Maybe they're still being careful to avoid offending people after the incident with revealing the name of a Chinese dissident reporter. A little screen name censoring isn't exactly a violation of free speech. F*** is offensive, it's a common part of American speech, and it's censored. Yahoo merely wants to step softly.
In both cases, fanatics are killing people over their opinions. Do you honestly think that women wanting an abortion couldn't just go elsewhere? Both cases are simply fanatics who ignore the basic teachings of their religion, and instead using their own interpretations as justifications to commit murder and acts of senseless violence. The Crusades were long ago. It is no longer acceptable to commit these crimes in the name of a opinion.
Thus sayth a mainstream Christian.
Yes, I know that you were just joking.
I wouldn't exactly call doing an informal DDOS on a school web site a terrorist attack on national infrastructure, and I doubt Sony's right to make money comes from God.
Oh, no, the web site of a small school in rural Arkansas is down! Raise the national terrorist alert level!
God shall strike down the heathens of Slashdot for impeding Sony's right to make a profit!
Sorry if I was a little harsh. It's scary how many people think we evolved from orangutans. Hence, the pissed off Pingveno.
Quantity over quality also applies to the tactics of the people who are ruthlessly pushing intelligent design. If they repeat their arguments enough and get enough media attention, the general public starts thinking that there is a debate about intelligent design versus evolution in the scientific world. Anyone who knows anything about biology knows that there is no "debate"; the basic framework of evolution has withstood the test of time and challenges. But if the intelligent design nuts blabber about it enough, the scientifically challenged can be swayed. In China, same thing; blabber about porno enough and people start thinking they might be ernest.
The mere thought of it gives me orgasms! Children should not be subjected to this thin disguised erotic!
"Apes evolved into modern humans"
No, humans and the rest of the Homininae subfamily share a common ancestor. We didn't evolve from modern apes anymore than we evolved from a sitka spruce. Take a look at the Wikipedia article on apes for more information. Frankly, I find it hard to believe that a person who does not seem to understand this basic fact has expertise in the area of evolutionary theory.
Please don't take this as a personal attack; misunderstanding of the concept of common ancestors is just a pet pieve of mine.
3. Upgrading is a hassle for their customers.
Since when has Slashdot been Apple's only iTunes customer?
Just a note: The legal drinking age is 21. Many of my friends my age or younger (I'm 18) drink alcohol beverages. Sometimes I wonder why the government even bothers. I don't drink, partially because of interactions with a medication I take, and partially because I don't have an urge too. Okay, maybe some of the sips of alcoholic beverages I've had were a little tasty, but it hasn't gone beyond that.
I think I would vote for this guy for president, just based on this alone.
That would be foolish. For one thing, the President of the United States has to have a huge amount of skills related to government and management. Despite Bush sometimes making stupid, uninformed decisions or messing up on words, he has the skills needed to be president.
Always remember: A politician is not merely a bundle of "positions" on issues.
One last thing. The phrase "special interest" has unnecessarily become taboo. I have a very close friend who is the head lobbyist for a special interest group in Oregon. The special interest? Mental health care. His daughter is schizophrenic. He tries to give senators the information they need to make decisions because the senators can not possibly find all of the information, even with the help of their staff. That, of course, helps him get the laws he wants passed. All of this is completely an unpaid volunteer effort on his part.