I'm not sure that is a great idea. Some people are great at teaching, others are not. Someone with no teaching experience has a good probability of being on the "not" side. Even people WITH teaching experience are often poor teachers.
My concern with this is that you'll get someone with no experience that is also a poor teacher, and that person will turn the kids off to what could be an interesting field of study.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but... 8 pixels? That's incredibly small on any modern display. If you're stuck in a low-resolution environment I can see that as being a benefit, but...
I'm alright with commands that have longer names. It's harder to mis-type and execute the wrong thing, and it's easier to know what is going on at a glance.
Same thing when reading code. I'd much rather work with code that has a method named getUserByGuid(), for example, than gubg().
Besides, nothing prevents you from aliasing the longer commands to something shorter if you so choose.
There's a lot of things about systemd that turn me off, but commands with longer, more verbose names is not one of those things.
The government is, by its very nature, a political animal and has recent events have shown, the People In Power will use the government to target dissenters. The IRS is a perfect example of this (and the use of the IRS as a weapon goes far beyond the targeting of conservative groups from a few years ago). Combined with the extensive data mining and collection the Alphabet Soup is allowed to do (or does anyway, even if it isn't technically allowed to do so), the government is in an amazing position to attack its own citizens.
I know that people say, "Oh, it will never happen," but it already has. Woodrow Wilson signed the Sedition Act of 1918, which forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government. Let us also not forget the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, executed by FDR.
Complete violations of the First and Fourth amendments - but they happened anyway.
The next time these things happen the result will be far worse because of the collection capabilities.
It only has impact if the politicians decide that it should have impact. Since they don't care, it is a waste of time. There is zero consequence for them when they ignore high profile petitions. This is great for them, because they can simply ignore anything inconvenient or uncomfortable, and then pounce on something that will give them some easy PR points.
The only tool that we have that politicians respond to is the election process. That, aside from the rare criminal investigation, is the only way we can provide politicians with a consequence for their decisions. We can write our representatives, we can call them, we can protest them, we can decide to donate, or not donate, to their campaigns, but none of that actually matters. Only the voting booth matters.
Of course, it doesn't help that the people using the site submit and upvote ridiculous petitions like building the Death Star. If YOU can't take the system seriously, why would THEY take it seriously?
Then you're wrong, unfortunately. Information is classified by the contents of the information. If something is top secret information, for example, then it is top secret simply by the virtue of what the information is, not because someone has marked a specific document as such.
Source: Buck Sexton, a former CIA operative.
If things worked the way you described, then I could take a copy of the nuclear launch codes and print them in the NY Times. Then I could say, "But the NY Times doesn't say TOP SECRET on it, so the information isn't classified!"
That is, in effect, the defense Hillary is trying to use. It defies all logic and is factually incorrect.
That isn't the only problem, of course. Providing these USB drives to her lawyer, who is not allowed to access that information, is also a crime.
Then there's the "I only used that mail server for personal use, not for official business" lie.
And there's more on top of it all.
You can love Hillary and her policies as much as you want, that's totally up to you, but you cannot defend her in this instance and be intellectually honest at the same time. It has been proven that she has lied, repeatedly.
That doesn't make me feel better either. So instead of matching on exactly the same image, it is going to flag "yeah, it's kind of like that"? Not a fan.
If you hate the way the Republican party panders to corporations, you may want to consider looking into Ted Cruz. He is running a strong anti-corruption platform. Many of the other candidates will bring us "more of the same," but Ted, if nothing else, wants to clean up the corruption and I believe he would. He's already made tons of enemies in his own party which means he must be doing something right.
Based on his choices for Vice President alone, he's completely lost any curiosity I might have had.
Socialist policy is one of the things that has been screwing things up in this country, and I don't want more people pushing it. Also, we currently have a leftist law professor in the presidency. That hasn't worked out so well.
Not to mention that if they're just storing hashes, that a tiny change will generate a completely different hash. Change one pixel, by a single bit, and you have a different hash. Change the resolution, change meta-data, crop out a row or column, etc., etc., a service that serves up the images could do this automatically every time it displays an image.
There's lots of ways around this, including only sharing content with trusted people via sneakernet if it comes to that.
It sounds spiffy to the average person, I'm sure, but when you get into the ability to enforce this kind of a thing, the target will adapt and adapt quickly.
Then there's issues of false positives. The keyspace of hashes is not infinite. There will be collisions. The probability of a collision may be small but it is not zero. Even GUIDs are not unique.
This is also a pretty small sample size. I would be hesitant to draw any conclusions.
They took data from just 3 towns - 2 with fracking and 1 without.
Show me data across, day, 100 towns or so, including rates before and after the fracking started, and you will have something interesting to talk about - especially if the increases all relate to very specific kinds of illnesses.
That bias shows up in recruiting, with companies drawing from the same top universities, where black and Hispanic graduates are still lagging behind other groups.
If I were running a business, then I would also want to hire people from the top universities. They're probably better educated and prepared. If I want to hire the best people that's where I would go. I don't run the universities, and I don't decide who applies to them. How is this in any way a bias problem from the companies in SV?
These SJW articles are getting weaker and more desperate by the minute.
The funny thing is that what she calls a "Gig Economy" is what America has been doing since its founding.
You, a person, learn skills. You make things. You do things. You serve. People give you money, goods, or services in exchange. This country was built on the concept of the lone inventor making it on his own, the person who bought a horse and carriage to ferry people around, the family that built a boat to move cargo up and down the river as they pleased.
What she is calling "new" is what we have been doing all along.
What regulated activity is without exploits, abuse, and scamming?
If you're trying to make a point, that's a poor way to do it.
I don't think there is anything wrong with a service like (the ever-so-popular example) Uber, or renting our a room, or renting out time on something you own, or providing a service on an on-demand basis. Is some regulation necessary? Probably. I imagine that some kind of insurance coverage would be a good idea, for example.
I just happen to know where Hillary comes from politically: Heavy handed government control and cronyism. I don't trust her, and I don't understand how anyone else can (except the insane who support her only because of her genitalia).
And one might want to look at how the nastiness of Internet forums contributes to this as well. What happens when an entire society is constantly bombarded with the kind of crap we see every day?
So next time you decide to post some trolling bullcrap, remember that your behavior does, indeed, have a real effect on the other people involved.
Don't be a dick. It's not that hard and we're all better off.
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I'm not sure that is a great idea. Some people are great at teaching, others are not. Someone with no teaching experience has a good probability of being on the "not" side. Even people WITH teaching experience are often poor teachers.
My concern with this is that you'll get someone with no experience that is also a poor teacher, and that person will turn the kids off to what could be an interesting field of study.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but... 8 pixels? That's incredibly small on any modern display. If you're stuck in a low-resolution environment I can see that as being a benefit, but...
I don't find them scary at all. I find them absolutely fascinating. Biology Gone Wild, basically. Really neat stuff going on there.
I'm alright with commands that have longer names. It's harder to mis-type and execute the wrong thing, and it's easier to know what is going on at a glance.
Same thing when reading code. I'd much rather work with code that has a method named getUserByGuid(), for example, than gubg().
Besides, nothing prevents you from aliasing the longer commands to something shorter if you so choose.
There's a lot of things about systemd that turn me off, but commands with longer, more verbose names is not one of those things.
This is a serious concern as well.
The government is, by its very nature, a political animal and has recent events have shown, the People In Power will use the government to target dissenters. The IRS is a perfect example of this (and the use of the IRS as a weapon goes far beyond the targeting of conservative groups from a few years ago). Combined with the extensive data mining and collection the Alphabet Soup is allowed to do (or does anyway, even if it isn't technically allowed to do so), the government is in an amazing position to attack its own citizens.
I know that people say, "Oh, it will never happen," but it already has. Woodrow Wilson signed the Sedition Act of 1918, which forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government. Let us also not forget the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, executed by FDR.
Complete violations of the First and Fourth amendments - but they happened anyway.
The next time these things happen the result will be far worse because of the collection capabilities.
It only has impact if the politicians decide that it should have impact. Since they don't care, it is a waste of time. There is zero consequence for them when they ignore high profile petitions. This is great for them, because they can simply ignore anything inconvenient or uncomfortable, and then pounce on something that will give them some easy PR points.
The only tool that we have that politicians respond to is the election process. That, aside from the rare criminal investigation, is the only way we can provide politicians with a consequence for their decisions. We can write our representatives, we can call them, we can protest them, we can decide to donate, or not donate, to their campaigns, but none of that actually matters. Only the voting booth matters.
Of course, it doesn't help that the people using the site submit and upvote ridiculous petitions like building the Death Star. If YOU can't take the system seriously, why would THEY take it seriously?
If you want a very deep, feature rich, subscription MMO, you may want to consider looking into Eve Online.
It is already supported. You can even buy glasses at a rather low price for this exact feature.
Then you're wrong, unfortunately. Information is classified by the contents of the information. If something is top secret information, for example, then it is top secret simply by the virtue of what the information is, not because someone has marked a specific document as such.
Source: Buck Sexton, a former CIA operative.
If things worked the way you described, then I could take a copy of the nuclear launch codes and print them in the NY Times. Then I could say, "But the NY Times doesn't say TOP SECRET on it, so the information isn't classified!"
That is, in effect, the defense Hillary is trying to use. It defies all logic and is factually incorrect.
That isn't the only problem, of course. Providing these USB drives to her lawyer, who is not allowed to access that information, is also a crime.
Then there's the "I only used that mail server for personal use, not for official business" lie.
And there's more on top of it all.
You can love Hillary and her policies as much as you want, that's totally up to you, but you cannot defend her in this instance and be intellectually honest at the same time. It has been proven that she has lied, repeatedly.
That doesn't make me feel better either. So instead of matching on exactly the same image, it is going to flag "yeah, it's kind of like that"? Not a fan.
"-1, Troll" is not a substitute for "I disagree."
If you disagree with me then post about it. Don't hide behind the moderation system.
You seem to think that because I don't like Obama that I must gush all over Bush.
You couldn't be any further from the truth. You're presenting a false dichotomy.
You should know better.
If you hate the way the Republican party panders to corporations, you may want to consider looking into Ted Cruz. He is running a strong anti-corruption platform. Many of the other candidates will bring us "more of the same," but Ted, if nothing else, wants to clean up the corruption and I believe he would. He's already made tons of enemies in his own party which means he must be doing something right.
Based on his choices for Vice President alone, he's completely lost any curiosity I might have had.
Socialist policy is one of the things that has been screwing things up in this country, and I don't want more people pushing it. Also, we currently have a leftist law professor in the presidency. That hasn't worked out so well.
No sir, I don't want another.
Not to mention that if they're just storing hashes, that a tiny change will generate a completely different hash. Change one pixel, by a single bit, and you have a different hash. Change the resolution, change meta-data, crop out a row or column, etc., etc., a service that serves up the images could do this automatically every time it displays an image.
There's lots of ways around this, including only sharing content with trusted people via sneakernet if it comes to that.
It sounds spiffy to the average person, I'm sure, but when you get into the ability to enforce this kind of a thing, the target will adapt and adapt quickly.
Then there's issues of false positives. The keyspace of hashes is not infinite. There will be collisions. The probability of a collision may be small but it is not zero. Even GUIDs are not unique.
And how, exactly, does one program a robot to be compassionate or empathetic?
Can emotion be reduced to a few simple formulas, some generic algorithms?
I'm not convinced.
Why would a streaming XBox make a steam machine irrelevant?
The $50 streaming device from Valve makes the XBox+App irrelevant: Steam Link Streaming Box
This is also a pretty small sample size. I would be hesitant to draw any conclusions.
They took data from just 3 towns - 2 with fracking and 1 without.
Show me data across, day, 100 towns or so, including rates before and after the fracking started, and you will have something interesting to talk about - especially if the increases all relate to very specific kinds of illnesses.
But just 3? Sorry. Not good enough.
Come on, now:
If I were running a business, then I would also want to hire people from the top universities. They're probably better educated and prepared. If I want to hire the best people that's where I would go. I don't run the universities, and I don't decide who applies to them. How is this in any way a bias problem from the companies in SV?
These SJW articles are getting weaker and more desperate by the minute.
The funny thing is that what she calls a "Gig Economy" is what America has been doing since its founding.
You, a person, learn skills. You make things. You do things. You serve. People give you money, goods, or services in exchange. This country was built on the concept of the lone inventor making it on his own, the person who bought a horse and carriage to ferry people around, the family that built a boat to move cargo up and down the river as they pleased.
What she is calling "new" is what we have been doing all along.
What regulated activity is without exploits, abuse, and scamming?
If you're trying to make a point, that's a poor way to do it.
I don't think there is anything wrong with a service like (the ever-so-popular example) Uber, or renting our a room, or renting out time on something you own, or providing a service on an on-demand basis. Is some regulation necessary? Probably. I imagine that some kind of insurance coverage would be a good idea, for example.
I just happen to know where Hillary comes from politically: Heavy handed government control and cronyism. I don't trust her, and I don't understand how anyone else can (except the insane who support her only because of her genitalia).
All you are thinking about is Uber - and that is where you are making your mistake.
...We need to figure out how to kill it with regulations so that my big corporate donors can sleep soundly at night.
His point still stands.
Advertisers are buying ad impressions for certain demographics. The advertisers are buying more ads for these jobs that target males.
It isn't Google doing this - they're just offering the advertising tools. It's the purchasers of the ads that are causing this to happen.
This is not complex.
And one might want to look at how the nastiness of Internet forums contributes to this as well. What happens when an entire society is constantly bombarded with the kind of crap we see every day?
So next time you decide to post some trolling bullcrap, remember that your behavior does, indeed, have a real effect on the other people involved.
Don't be a dick. It's not that hard and we're all better off.