modern schools are designed to condition kids to work hard on less sleep.
Work, not think. Naps are good for your brains.
get farm kids used to the kind of regimented life factory work requires
No thinking required. In fact, its discouraged.
I'll add one more thought to this thread: Its not the schools that condition kids to sleep less. Its their peer group. Stay up late, hanging around on the corner, smoking or whatever. I don't recall that being a homework assignment at any school I ever attended.
It keeps the little shits in the basement, playing video games and out of mom and dad's hair. Not buying them the game will result in whining, crying and kids otherwise moping around the house. That's an irritation that must be dealt with at all costs.
Besides, there's less than a 5% chance that these kids will be driven to rob, rape and murder in real life. And so long as they don't involve the parents, what better way to have them dragged out of the basement and put in lifetime state care when they become adults.
And in a Libertarian system, the MPAA and RIAA and their dark overlords would be on their own to defend their IP. There would be no specific anti-copying legislation (DMCA) and they'd have to stand in line behind the guy reporting the stolen bicycle to file every suit.
Metadata or not, here's the way I figure surveillance, espionage, wiretapping, etc.: If I can collect the data on some government officials and sell it to the Russians, Chinese, or North Koreans, its OK for them to collect it on me.
The vast majority of people could care less. They are living paycheck to paycheck.
You want to be kept down that way? Fine. But the people who want to accomplish something beyond that aren't going to put up with a rigged system. And these are the people who build the businesses that provide you with your paycheck. Do you really think they are going to invest intellectual capital in businesses when they learn that their work is being taken and handed to people within the 'good old boy' network?
Someone has some legacy Fortran code and a task of modifying it. There are two approaches: Port it or work on the existing source. Porting it allows for hiring from a very large (but shallow*) pool of programmers familiar with 'current' languages like C++. Working with the existing code means having to locate resources in a much smaller market. The former are cheap. The latter much more expensive. What to do?
*Good programmers can probably pick up a book and teach themselves Fortran pretty easily. But even in the C++ world, these people are more highly paid. There exists a large supply of people who know one language, but not the concepts of programming in general and are not cross trainable. These people work cheap**.
**Putting this class of people on such a project probably signals disaster.
In some ways, this is Texas' greatest strength - that its citizens are willing to stake everything on the team they support, win, lose, or draw. In other ways, the stubborn unwillingness to give up, even in the face of overwhelming strength or indisputable argument can lead to, well I think we all remember the Alamo.
Well that's the story they've been telling themselves. Texas was one of several Mexican territories that broke away and declared itself an independent Republic. That lasted for about ten years until the Mexican army started taking territory back. So Texans asked the United States to adopt the republic as a state so as to obtain the support of the US Army.
And Texas history has continued along those lines to this day. Fiercely independent, just as long as federal subsidies continue to flow in.
People tend to think of the idea of "teaching the controversy" as an insidious effort to get religion's foot in the door. In fact, it's one of the most amazing things that Team Texas Religion has ever done- offer a compromise.
The Supreme court ruled against teaching religious based doctrine in public schools. So its not so much Texas "offering a compromise". They are still weaseling around, trying to engineer a loophole in Federal law. They should take a page from their beloved football and accept the fact that the referee has made the call and that's all there is to it.
With this sort of attitude toward the US legal and judiciary process, I say we give them back to Mexico.
This doesn't necessarily invalidate Feynman's approach. His problem was that he assumed a limitless supply of graduate students to calculate the various reaction path probabilities.
The NSA, because it doesn't have backdoors everywhere, have to buy 0 day exploits
VUPEN sells exploit implementations? I thought they did security/vulnerability research and sold maintenance services, patches and related stuff.
If you want to buy the actual exploit, you have to go onto the blacknet, warez boards or whatever you kids are calling them these days. Its a seperate market and no software security firm would risk their reputation by letting it be known that they sold exploits to the other side as well. Who would trust them to report the presence of their own exploit product on customers' systems?
we'd pay European style (higher) prices on the hardware.
Or maybe not. There is nothing stopping a carrier from subsidizing an unlocked phone by offering a one or two year service contract. Drop the contract early and pay the balance of the phone subsidy.
One thing that would happen: IMEI blacklisting of stolen phones would suddenly become standard practice. Contract language would almost certainly be included to allow for this should someone try to skip out of a subsidy obligation. This can only be a good thing.
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modern schools are designed to condition kids to work hard on less sleep.
Work, not think. Naps are good for your brains.
get farm kids used to the kind of regimented life factory work requires
No thinking required. In fact, its discouraged.
I'll add one more thought to this thread: Its not the schools that condition kids to sleep less. Its their peer group. Stay up late, hanging around on the corner, smoking or whatever. I don't recall that being a homework assignment at any school I ever attended.
It keeps the little shits in the basement, playing video games and out of mom and dad's hair. Not buying them the game will result in whining, crying and kids otherwise moping around the house. That's an irritation that must be dealt with at all costs.
Besides, there's less than a 5% chance that these kids will be driven to rob, rape and murder in real life. And so long as they don't involve the parents, what better way to have them dragged out of the basement and put in lifetime state care when they become adults.
And in a Libertarian system, the MPAA and RIAA and their dark overlords would be on their own to defend their IP. There would be no specific anti-copying legislation (DMCA) and they'd have to stand in line behind the guy reporting the stolen bicycle to file every suit.
"Now stand aside worthy adversary."
"'Tis but a scratch."
"A scratch? Your arm's off."
Metadata or not, here's the way I figure surveillance, espionage, wiretapping, etc.: If I can collect the data on some government officials and sell it to the Russians, Chinese, or North Koreans, its OK for them to collect it on me.
Where I worked a few decades ago. We had a ping pong table. It was great for unrolling blueprints on during working hours.
I know a hot blond babe who is a great ping pong player. She has excellent muscle tone and a nice figure thanks to this game.
The only shortcoming I've seen is that the table is a bit flimsy for having sex on between games compared to a pool table.
"I am not a crook."
The NSA should take a lesson from Nixon. Save face and step down before your ass has to get dragged through court and embarrass us all.
The vast majority of people could care less. They are living paycheck to paycheck.
You want to be kept down that way? Fine. But the people who want to accomplish something beyond that aren't going to put up with a rigged system. And these are the people who build the businesses that provide you with your paycheck. Do you really think they are going to invest intellectual capital in businesses when they learn that their work is being taken and handed to people within the 'good old boy' network?
Someone has some legacy Fortran code and a task of modifying it. There are two approaches: Port it or work on the existing source. Porting it allows for hiring from a very large (but shallow*) pool of programmers familiar with 'current' languages like C++. Working with the existing code means having to locate resources in a much smaller market. The former are cheap. The latter much more expensive. What to do?
*Good programmers can probably pick up a book and teach themselves Fortran pretty easily. But even in the C++ world, these people are more highly paid. There exists a large supply of people who know one language, but not the concepts of programming in general and are not cross trainable. These people work cheap**.
**Putting this class of people on such a project probably signals disaster.
Crooks never heard of Kickstarter?
South Carolina.
Skin color. Its worked for hundreds of years. Why mess with success?
In some ways, this is Texas' greatest strength - that its citizens are willing to stake everything on the team they support, win, lose, or draw. In other ways, the stubborn unwillingness to give up, even in the face of overwhelming strength or indisputable argument can lead to, well I think we all remember the Alamo.
Well that's the story they've been telling themselves. Texas was one of several Mexican territories that broke away and declared itself an independent Republic. That lasted for about ten years until the Mexican army started taking territory back. So Texans asked the United States to adopt the republic as a state so as to obtain the support of the US Army.
And Texas history has continued along those lines to this day. Fiercely independent, just as long as federal subsidies continue to flow in.
People tend to think of the idea of "teaching the controversy" as an insidious effort to get religion's foot in the door. In fact, it's one of the most amazing things that Team Texas Religion has ever done- offer a compromise.
The Supreme court ruled against teaching religious based doctrine in public schools. So its not so much Texas "offering a compromise". They are still weaseling around, trying to engineer a loophole in Federal law. They should take a page from their beloved football and accept the fact that the referee has made the call and that's all there is to it.
With this sort of attitude toward the US legal and judiciary process, I say we give them back to Mexico.
OK. Let the telecoms serve the cities and other population centers. And the PUDs and other public entities serve rural communities.
The howl from the corporate world is deafening.
Thank goodness we've got this little tiff out of the way. And I thank my good fortune that I live, unambiguously, in Washington.
Assuming 98,000 Nokia employees, that's about $255 per scalp.
"I dreamt I was hitting on Victoria Justice, and she was gonna take her pants off,....
That's as far as I got when my wife woke up and slugged me. I'll be dictating tomorrow night's dreams from the sofa in the den.
Easy to tell apart. NASA has big satellite telescopes pointing up. The NSA has bigger ones pointing down.
more concerned with just getting the application off his/her docket.
So, stamp it 'DENIED'.
It allows the patent applicant to try to amend the claims or argue around the prior art.
What this whole game overlooks is that there needs to be a way to send worthless patents away. Permanently.
This doesn't necessarily invalidate Feynman's approach. His problem was that he assumed a limitless supply of graduate students to calculate the various reaction path probabilities.
The spherical cow in a vacuum.
The NSA, because it doesn't have backdoors everywhere, have to buy 0 day exploits
VUPEN sells exploit implementations? I thought they did security/vulnerability research and sold maintenance services, patches and related stuff.
If you want to buy the actual exploit, you have to go onto the blacknet, warez boards or whatever you kids are calling them these days. Its a seperate market and no software security firm would risk their reputation by letting it be known that they sold exploits to the other side as well. Who would trust them to report the presence of their own exploit product on customers' systems?
we'd pay European style (higher) prices on the hardware.
Or maybe not. There is nothing stopping a carrier from subsidizing an unlocked phone by offering a one or two year service contract. Drop the contract early and pay the balance of the phone subsidy.
One thing that would happen: IMEI blacklisting of stolen phones would suddenly become standard practice. Contract language would almost certainly be included to allow for this should someone try to skip out of a subsidy obligation. This can only be a good thing.