I have zero sympathy, especially given the amount of warning these people have had.
Agreed. I was fairly warned that Bitcoins were overpriced when they reached $1, again at $100, again at $1000, and finally when they recently crossed the $5000 mark. I have no problem with your lack of sympathy for my predicament.
Hardly anyone will notice, since they only have 12~14 cars per 100 people in Singapore
People will notice, specifically because they are rare. This makes them powerful status symbols. This change will make car ownership even more exclusive. Singapore chicks will definitely notice if you drive a nice car (that likely cost $120k or more after taxes and import duties).
They all have the same flaws since they all use the same software, and therefore have the same risk.
Not true. If I commute everyday on the highway, and you drive twisty icy mountain roads, or if you live in a bad neighborhood with lots of uninsured drivers, the risks will not be the same. With conventional insurance, your zipcode can often affect your premiums as much as your driving record.
Legal differences also matter, especially in how medical expenses are covered. Some states allow hospitals to bill auto insurance companies directly, while others require the hospitals to bill the patients medical insurance company, which is then reimbursed by the auto insurance company. The former leads to much higher costs than the latter.
it is incredibly bad strategy to displace the workers who maintain it.
Working people are being pushed out by zoning laws and restrictions on the construction of affordable housing. Blaming that on Amazon is idiotic. If Seattle wants to be affordable to working people, they should approve a lot more building permits.
How is Java, of all languages, a reasonable choice?
Why not? What do you suggest as an alternative?
C++ is too complicated for most high schoolers. Python does not have explicit types. Javascript is weakly typed, has a goofy object system, and many design flaws. Rust is still too niche.
Java is strongly and explicitly typed, has a clean object system, and is widely used, with plenty of demand from employers.
Disclaimer: I haven't used Java in years. I use C++ for projects that are big or need to be fast. I use Perl for one-liners and small throw-away scripts. I use Python for larger scripts. I use JavaScript for web programming. But none of these are right for college bound CS students.
I thought biometrics also serves a different purpose - identification, rather than authentication.
My laptop uses it for both. My fingerprint authenticates me and gives me access. It also identifies me, so it opens the right account. If my wife puts her fingerprint on the scanner instead, it opens her account.
My bank uses it only for identification. I still need to show an ID or enter a PIN for most transactions.
The problem is passwords (or hashes) are stored at the places you authenticate.
You say that like storing the password and storing the hash are somehow equivalent. They are completely different. Passwords should never be stored. But storing salted hashes is standard practice, and is secure for modern hashes, especially when combined with limited attempts and credential verification.
How is knowledge of Java relevant to computer science? Not at all.
Java, specifically, is not necessary for computer science. But a programming language is needed for the course and test, and Java is a reasonable choice.
The test is based on Java, and you need to know Java fairly well to pass the test. The questions are reasonably challenging. A score of 5 is impressive, and should help a kid get into a good college, and maybe land an internship.
The tests need to be proctored by someone unaffiliated with the school receiving the incentives. The tests are kept secured until passed out, so about the only way for a student to cheat is if they can communicate with another student or with someone outside the testing room. Internet connected devices are banned, but the proctor needs to enforce that.
The cost of living is way better, but I don't see any other attraction. When I moved to California, I assumed I would never again be able to hunt razorbacks (wild hogs), but it turns out that they are surprisingly common in California. They come down from the hills above San Jose to tear up my neighbors' yards. I just leave some rotten apples on the ground, and hide in a tree with my crossbow and a night vision scope.
Wild turkeys and possums are also way more common in California than anyplace I lived back east. If you see a fresh road-killed possum in Arkansas, you have to run to get it before anyone else. But in California, you can take your time, because the natives (mostly vegans apparently) just ignore it. Good eat'n.
No, the law is clear here. While you have the right to speak, the first amendment doesn't give you the right to speak anonymously.
The law is indeed clear: The Constitution says "no law", and you can't get clearer than that. The federal government has NO authority to ban anonymous speech.
The example first year law students all learn is that you can't shout "fire" in a crowded theater, because that poses a clear and present danger to the public.
Perhaps you should read up on the history of that phrase. The example of "shouting fire in a theater" was first used by Oliver Wendell Holmes when he voted to have outspoken opponents of the 1st World War imprisoned. His logic was that since the government could arrest people for shouting fire, then they should also be able to arrest people for expressing political opinions, since, hey, free speech has limits.
Is anyone surprised that a student tried this? Got caught? Got expelled?
Not totally surprised, but he got caught because he got greedy, and in my experience most cheaters are not greedy, they just want a passing grade. When I was in college I earned money by writing programs for other students, and when I would ask them what grade they wanted on the assignment, the most common request was for a "B", and even "C" was more requested than "A". They may be dumb, but they are smart enough to know they are dumb, and an "A" will bring suspicion.
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I have zero sympathy, especially given the amount of warning these people have had.
Agreed. I was fairly warned that Bitcoins were overpriced when they reached $1, again at $100, again at $1000, and finally when they recently crossed the $5000 mark. I have no problem with your lack of sympathy for my predicament.
As an analogy it is very flawed
I think it is a pretty good analogy. America is the gun-waver, right?
Hardly anyone will notice, since they only have 12~14 cars per 100 people in Singapore
People will notice, specifically because they are rare. This makes them powerful status symbols. This change will make car ownership even more exclusive. Singapore chicks will definitely notice if you drive a nice car (that likely cost $120k or more after taxes and import duties).
It is prepping the data that is hard.
The users do that. FB just asks them to "tag" their friends in photos.
Finland pays them over 100K a year
Teachers in Finland are paid $37,500 on average, which is considerable less than most American teachers make.
You need a masters degree too
There is no evidence that advanced degrees improve teaching ability in any objectively measurable way.
ignore the failures of the parents of the students in failing schools....
Can you cite any evidence that parents at bad schools are different from parents at good schools?
why would anyone buy a crazy expensive piece of land and then build something "affordable" on it.
You don't buy expensive land and build a small house. You build a tall apartment building.
So why aren't builders building affordable high density vertical housing?
Answer: Zoning.
But the driver does not have control how they drive on those twisty mountain roads.
But they do have a choice of where to live.
If you choose to live in the mountains, don't expect others to subsidize your lifestyle.
Only for those companies that reciprocate and make all of their patents free to use for Tesla.
Obvious solution: Start up a shadow subsidiary that doesn't have any patents.
This is easy to do in China, which has weak laws on corporate disclosure.
They all have the same flaws since they all use the same software, and therefore have the same risk.
Not true. If I commute everyday on the highway, and you drive twisty icy mountain roads, or if you live in a bad neighborhood with lots of uninsured drivers, the risks will not be the same. With conventional insurance, your zipcode can often affect your premiums as much as your driving record.
Legal differences also matter, especially in how medical expenses are covered. Some states allow hospitals to bill auto insurance companies directly, while others require the hospitals to bill the patients medical insurance company, which is then reimbursed by the auto insurance company. The former leads to much higher costs than the latter.
I blame the MBA.
What does basketball have to do with it?
His videos make specific allegations against specific people. Why don't you refute the allegations instead of attacking him personally?
That he may have been corrupt himself makes his allegations more credible, not less, since it means he knows how the system works.
The dude’s a billionaire. He’s obviously not exactly suffering
Restrictions on free speech harm listeners as well as speakers.
it is incredibly bad strategy to displace the workers who maintain it.
Working people are being pushed out by zoning laws and restrictions on the construction of affordable housing. Blaming that on Amazon is idiotic. If Seattle wants to be affordable to working people, they should approve a lot more building permits.
Yes, housing prices tend to rise, but that's a single negative amongst a huge number of positive effects.
Indeed. I hated it when my house doubled in value.
How is Java, of all languages, a reasonable choice?
Why not?
What do you suggest as an alternative?
C++ is too complicated for most high schoolers.
Python does not have explicit types.
Javascript is weakly typed, has a goofy object system, and many design flaws.
Rust is still too niche.
Java is strongly and explicitly typed, has a clean object system, and is widely used, with plenty of demand from employers.
Disclaimer: I haven't used Java in years. I use C++ for projects that are big or need to be fast. I use Perl for one-liners and small throw-away scripts. I use Python for larger scripts. I use JavaScript for web programming. But none of these are right for college bound CS students.
I thought biometrics also serves a different purpose - identification, rather than authentication.
My laptop uses it for both. My fingerprint authenticates me and gives me access. It also identifies me, so it opens the right account. If my wife puts her fingerprint on the scanner instead, it opens her account.
My bank uses it only for identification. I still need to show an ID or enter a PIN for most transactions.
A fingerprint is more convenient until the moment you get a blister (or some other damage) on your finger(s), then you're locked out.
Every biometric system I use has a password fallback. The biometric is only for convenience.
The problem is passwords (or hashes) are stored at the places you authenticate.
You say that like storing the password and storing the hash are somehow equivalent. They are completely different. Passwords should never be stored. But storing salted hashes is standard practice, and is secure for modern hashes, especially when combined with limited attempts and credential verification.
How is knowledge of Java relevant to computer science? Not at all.
Java, specifically, is not necessary for computer science. But a programming language is needed for the course and test, and Java is a reasonable choice.
Here is an example of some of the questions.
The test is based on Java, and you need to know Java fairly well to pass the test. The questions are reasonably challenging. A score of 5 is impressive, and should help a kid get into a good college, and maybe land an internship.
for both students, and schools. #wcpgw
The tests need to be proctored by someone unaffiliated with the school receiving the incentives. The tests are kept secured until passed out, so about the only way for a student to cheat is if they can communicate with another student or with someone outside the testing room. Internet connected devices are banned, but the proctor needs to enforce that.
I would pick Arkansas over California.
The cost of living is way better, but I don't see any other attraction. When I moved to California, I assumed I would never again be able to hunt razorbacks (wild hogs), but it turns out that they are surprisingly common in California. They come down from the hills above San Jose to tear up my neighbors' yards. I just leave some rotten apples on the ground, and hide in a tree with my crossbow and a night vision scope.
Wild turkeys and possums are also way more common in California than anyplace I lived back east. If you see a fresh road-killed possum in Arkansas, you have to run to get it before anyone else. But in California, you can take your time, because the natives (mostly vegans apparently) just ignore it. Good eat'n.
No, the law is clear here. While you have the right to speak, the first amendment doesn't give you the right to speak anonymously.
The law is indeed clear: The Constitution says "no law", and you can't get clearer than that. The federal government has NO authority to ban anonymous speech.
The example first year law students all learn is that you can't shout "fire" in a crowded theater, because that poses a clear and present danger to the public.
Perhaps you should read up on the history of that phrase. The example of "shouting fire in a theater" was first used by Oliver Wendell Holmes when he voted to have outspoken opponents of the 1st World War imprisoned. His logic was that since the government could arrest people for shouting fire, then they should also be able to arrest people for expressing political opinions, since, hey, free speech has limits.
Is anyone surprised that a student tried this? Got caught? Got expelled?
Not totally surprised, but he got caught because he got greedy, and in my experience most cheaters are not greedy, they just want a passing grade. When I was in college I earned money by writing programs for other students, and when I would ask them what grade they wanted on the assignment, the most common request was for a "B", and even "C" was more requested than "A". They may be dumb, but they are smart enough to know they are dumb, and an "A" will bring suspicion.