Here in Washington they print Teachers so that they can do background checks. I have no doubt that they hold on to those prints in case we commit a crime.
I disagree that there's no reason for a high school student to have a cell phone. In my part of the US, at least, the schools won't let students have access to telephones via the school except by pay phone. When I was in high school I would frequently go places with my friends after school, and my parents' ability to keep tabs on me was what let me do this. I agree that they're annoying as all hell when a ringtone is unleashed upon a class full of unsuspecting students, but they should be turned off in class, not banned from the school. FYI, people sometimes have cell phones ringing in college classes.
Students should be treated as semi-adult in schools, and shouldn't have much of anything banned. Rather, if they use something to damage school property or disrupt class they should be punished for the disruption. The attitude of "one person used it to do bad things so it must be bad" is a terrible attitude to have since it relegates all priveledges to the control of the least common denominator. If the worst kid in school does something bad with their cell phone, then suddenly nobody is allowed to have them lest they turn into the same kind of disciplinary problem.
I agree. This is crap. They couldn't find any women scientists so they put up a fictional character and a random gameplaying celebrity? Even if we constrained the list to actual geeks instead of women scientists and geeks, we could still populate it with 10 real women who aren't utter trash.
Putting all those women who made real contributions to science and society on the same list as a trollop and a fictional character is demeaning to women everywhere, and especially demeaning to women professionals. They have listed women who made real achievements. Then, they have Lisa Simpson who doesn't exist. They also have {celebrity.random(2)} up there as if being female and playing video games or acting in geeky movies is a major achievement, right up there with being the first woman in space, stealing lecture notes to study mathematics, and generally being fascinated by a field no matter what social norms are.
As an aside, I think this may have been submitted because it was controversial.
Why does it have to be something the average user will want in order for it to be implemented? That's a backwards attitude to take, when you consider all the people like me who would love to play around with something like symlinks but can't. Or all the people who would like to be able to edit video or pictures on their PC and not have to spend $600 or more on software for that... wait, I guess I could just go get a Mac.
I could set up symlinks from my music and other media on a seperate partition to portions of the start menu. That's another thing that pisses me off about Windows, that 90% of the features they have in it are completely hidden and all of them default to situations which do not apply to me or actually make it harder for me to use my computer. Like the My Music and My Pictures and My Documents folders are all linked to a folder on my C drive, which is not the storage drive on my computer and default to a directory structure which I do not like. I can move the reference to the documents folder elsewhere, but the Music and Pictures folders stay right where they are, nested inside the documents folder. I've had to hack the registry to get the references changed.
It's that kind of half-assed implementation that drives people nuts. Why do they keep releasing new versions of Media Player and Internet Explorer when they can't even make an OS that's consistently useful for everyone and includes more than the run of the mill feature set?
Application directory package, sort of like Java's JARs? It's a good idea to make all of that stuff completely seamless unless the user genuinely needs to interact with it. One thing I hate about Windows is that it's obnoxious in all the places it should be unobtrusive. I'll be playing a game or writing a paper and a bunch of popups will appear, knock me out of fullscreen, or distracting me while I'm forming my thoughts. Using Windows is frustrating because you never know what will happen next, or whether something will pop up to nag you while you're in the middle of something. I'd really like a button I can use to turn all the "Treat me like I'm functionally retarded" features off. When I get out of school, maybe I'll sink money into getting a Mac.
Yeah, but my major objection to TCP is that you don't actually have any control over what's going on in your computer other than turning the module off. I'm not even sure you can turn it off, either. So now you have a chip in your computer that can take control of all the processes in that computer, or at least deny you access. Couple that with the backdoor that I'm sure has been installed and nobody owns their computer anymore. I wouldn't feel as bad about it if there were a jumper on the motherboard that could be used to turn the TCP module completely off.
I mean, for a while companies were talking about how great it would be if they could get the TCP module to communicate with servers over the internet without your knowledge and WITHOUT YOUR CONTROL. Imagine you're driving along in your new car when suddenly the wheel starts to wrestle with you because the car has been informed that it needs to go somewhere else. Or imagine that it was designed to prevent you from breaking the speed limit at all times, even when you needed to to be safe.
Imagine that there is someone, out there, that would desperately like to prevent you from truly owning anything and imagine that TCP is their logical first step.
No, they named algorithms after an Arabic mathematician named Al-Khwarizmi(Algorismus). He translated a lot of greek works too. Check him out. Some of his translations and original work form the basis of what has become algebra, which is another etymological contribution from him.
Yeah. I'm the great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandson of someone who got paid to look at moodily lit tubes of toothpaste on a distant planet. We're still waiting for arks "A" and "C" though.
Whatever happened to 411 Directory Assistance? I've used that to get addresses and phone numbers when I've gotten lost. Granted, it's about $.50/call, but it's well worth it when you've lost your mapquest directions. Screw the web interface, just make a call next time.
Comrade! The peoples of Oceania are, in fact, better off than they have been since the beginning of civilization! We far outstrip the production capacities of Eastasia, our perpetual enemy in the battle for the rights of the people! We live in plenty, where under our former masters we fed like dogs begging for scraps at the master's table. Glory to Oceania! Glory to Ingsoc! Glory to Big Brother!
Yep. That about sums it up.
America is nowhere near as close to 1984 as North Korea is.
Some of my best-moderated stuff comes from me talking out my ass. It works every time! It's funny, but when I actually do know what the hell I'm talking about I don't get anything.
Thanks. The Do Not Call registry is another way to get around this problem too. Asking to be removed from a telemarketer's list reduces the number of calls as well. It's just aggravating when it's a machine, because you can't even cut them off or tell them that you'd like to be removed. You have to listen to the whole message before you can get to information on unsubscribing. It's a good method of reducing the number of people interested in your product.
I was mostly ranting, and I hope the guy I attached it to understood who "you" was.
Please. As if communication were required for junk mail. I'd just moved into my apartment and already I had started recieving unsolicited bulk mail from businesses in the area. Gone are the good old Burmashave days. As for telephone numbers, all you have to do is get a phone number. It doesn't even have to be listed for someone to call you at random. Nowadays, they use automated systems. As if I bought a fucking telephone so that I could listen to your spam. And you companies have the gall to automate your spamming? Show some fucking respect for once.
I got on the do not call list after the first half week because it was getting unbearable.
It's my understanding that a good CS graduate should be able to pick up whatever language you want in a couple of weeks provided you let him/her know ahead of time what areas you develop in. The purpose of a computer science degree is to give the graduate a diverse background in the constructs and procedures underlying programming. The CS graduate who can't figure out how to solve a simple problem is deficient in critical thinking. It's a failing of the program he went through, and sometimes of his work ethic, but certainly not of the degree as a whole.
Essentially, you're right that CS teaches algorithms, but what you should be looking for isn't dependant on degree. You should be looking for a portfolio of projects that the student has completed throughout his schooling, possibly even before he got into college. You should be looking for competence, and proof that the student is interested in solving problems and not just in the CS degree as a certificate of employability.
The degree is usually just the icing on the cake for a good computer scientist. For the crappy ones, the degree is everything.
That sucks way worse than my problem. I have tiny ear canals that always fill up with wax. I had to go to the campus doctor just this quarter to have an impaction removed, and she said that I really shouldn't have been able to hear out of either ear because there was so much crap in them. Being able to look up search results didn't help me diagnose it, because I've had the problem many times. It did, however, give me enough information to listen to the doctor and make a few treatment suggestions. At one point she was trying to dig the chunk of wax out with the end of a q-tip, so I asked her if she had a curette. I wouldn't have known to make the suggestion if I hadn't done a little research on the problem.
Research is good, but only in that it expedites the informed consent/treatment process.
I'm really only going to beat this dead horse once more, but a lot of us already have this functionality in other devices in our homes. So the only thing we really get is backwards compatibility, the ability to buy cheap PS2 and PSX games, and possibly the dev kit. The rest of it is something most people won't take advantage of until they also shell out or have shelled out a thousand dollars or so for a new television. I do appreciate that they're building in an ethernet jack instead of forcing me to buy a dongle instead.
Wow. Instead of explaining to me, the guillible idiot as you so "politely" implied, why the earth is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, you instead go on to mock my stupidity. I'm detecting a bit of arrogance in your response. I'll buy that the earth is not in thermodynamic equilibrium just as soon as you explain why. Until then, I'm going to continue on being a gullible fool since you certainly do not care to enlighten me.
Surely there are better ways to argue your point then to mock someone's fallacious reasoning? I mean, it's no wonder that there are still people turned off to the entire idea of a debate when all they get are responses detailing the inadequacies in their mental faculty instead of the inadequacies of the argument itself. Maybe, just maybe, you should start your debunking with *why* the earth is not in thermal equilibrium. And please, pretend like I do have some understanding of thermodynamics. In essence, explain your refutation in such a way as not to dumb it down to my level of intelligence. Would you so oblige?
It's kind of arrogant to refute someone's argument and then call them an idiot for even making the argument in the first place.
Rio Chiba doesn't use the jukebox, or any other sort of music purchasing service. It only comes with software that enables me to put MP3s on it. It came out before online music stores and the iPod were really big. And anyway, I was talking about the player's use of a thumbstick as opposed to a wheel or set of buttons, and how I can use it one-handed without reaching with my thumb. The only downside is that it's built for right-handed people, but it doesn't bother me as much as I let on.
Well, if what the article submitter says is all factually correct, then there has been a large conspiracy to misinform and lie to the public about what is actually happening. Even if some of his numbers are unattributed or just plain wrong, there is a lot of evidence to support this. Hell, even if the "hockey stick" model combined with the omission of the warm period of the middle ages were taken as sole evidence, it would serve to suggest that there are greater forces at work.
I, for one, would not dismiss the article out of hand. We simply do not know enough about what is going on to make an informed assertion. On the other hand, when the UN report suggested that lambda was.5c/W, while Stephen and Boltzmann calculated the constant to be.3c/W is pretty damning. If something is calculated and used in other instances, and is a significant part of everyday physics, why does it suddenly cease to be applicable when talking about global phenomena? If it is based on a physical law, and the article writer is as informed as he attempts to be, then the UN has been fudging data.
There's something seriously wrong with the international community when a worldwide organization permits its scientists to fudge data.
If, in the end, our only two choices are the iPod and the Zune, then we, as consumers, have all lost. Sure, the iPod *looks* slick, but the 4 year old Rio player that I have has a better interface. Granted it isn't a smooth, flat card, but I actually like the way it looks. It would really suck for me if I couldn't get anything other than an iPod, as I don't particularly care for them.
In short, I would like the opportunity to be different even if I never get to take advantage of it.
My signatures usually randomly omit letters from my name. Also, I don't actually look at the signature as I'm signing it. Sometimes I'll get interrupted while I'm signing something, and then I just start from the point where I was interrupted. Really, the only thing preventing someone from "forging" my signature is that their handwriting has to be just as sloppy as mine, and I doubt anyone but a doctor or an engineer would have handwriting that bad. That forgery of signatures bit would only work so long as they had my checkbook, as there really is no other way for them to have access to my money. If they stole my debit card, I could report it that day and dispute any charges that arise. And since that's really the only piece of plastic I have, it's the only real vector into my account. My checkbook stays at home, and if I need to buy something with a check I write the check out completely and then bring it in. Thus, I'm in the clear.
Have you ever actually tried forging a signature? Even with a sample, it's very hard to get the same lines as the original signer had.
Slashdot Mirror
Here in Washington they print Teachers so that they can do background checks. I have no doubt that they hold on to those prints in case we commit a crime.
I disagree that there's no reason for a high school student to have a cell phone. In my part of the US, at least, the schools won't let students have access to telephones via the school except by pay phone. When I was in high school I would frequently go places with my friends after school, and my parents' ability to keep tabs on me was what let me do this. I agree that they're annoying as all hell when a ringtone is unleashed upon a class full of unsuspecting students, but they should be turned off in class, not banned from the school. FYI, people sometimes have cell phones ringing in college classes.
Students should be treated as semi-adult in schools, and shouldn't have much of anything banned. Rather, if they use something to damage school property or disrupt class they should be punished for the disruption. The attitude of "one person used it to do bad things so it must be bad" is a terrible attitude to have since it relegates all priveledges to the control of the least common denominator. If the worst kid in school does something bad with their cell phone, then suddenly nobody is allowed to have them lest they turn into the same kind of disciplinary problem.
I agree. This is crap. They couldn't find any women scientists so they put up a fictional character and a random gameplaying celebrity? Even if we constrained the list to actual geeks instead of women scientists and geeks, we could still populate it with 10 real women who aren't utter trash.
Putting all those women who made real contributions to science and society on the same list as a trollop and a fictional character is demeaning to women everywhere, and especially demeaning to women professionals. They have listed women who made real achievements. Then, they have Lisa Simpson who doesn't exist. They also have {celebrity.random(2)} up there as if being female and playing video games or acting in geeky movies is a major achievement, right up there with being the first woman in space, stealing lecture notes to study mathematics, and generally being fascinated by a field no matter what social norms are.
As an aside, I think this may have been submitted because it was controversial.
Why does it have to be something the average user will want in order for it to be implemented? That's a backwards attitude to take, when you consider all the people like me who would love to play around with something like symlinks but can't. Or all the people who would like to be able to edit video or pictures on their PC and not have to spend $600 or more on software for that... wait, I guess I could just go get a Mac.
I could set up symlinks from my music and other media on a seperate partition to portions of the start menu. That's another thing that pisses me off about Windows, that 90% of the features they have in it are completely hidden and all of them default to situations which do not apply to me or actually make it harder for me to use my computer. Like the My Music and My Pictures and My Documents folders are all linked to a folder on my C drive, which is not the storage drive on my computer and default to a directory structure which I do not like. I can move the reference to the documents folder elsewhere, but the Music and Pictures folders stay right where they are, nested inside the documents folder. I've had to hack the registry to get the references changed.
It's that kind of half-assed implementation that drives people nuts. Why do they keep releasing new versions of Media Player and Internet Explorer when they can't even make an OS that's consistently useful for everyone and includes more than the run of the mill feature set?
Application directory package, sort of like Java's JARs? It's a good idea to make all of that stuff completely seamless unless the user genuinely needs to interact with it. One thing I hate about Windows is that it's obnoxious in all the places it should be unobtrusive. I'll be playing a game or writing a paper and a bunch of popups will appear, knock me out of fullscreen, or distracting me while I'm forming my thoughts. Using Windows is frustrating because you never know what will happen next, or whether something will pop up to nag you while you're in the middle of something. I'd really like a button I can use to turn all the "Treat me like I'm functionally retarded" features off. When I get out of school, maybe I'll sink money into getting a Mac.
Yeah, but my major objection to TCP is that you don't actually have any control over what's going on in your computer other than turning the module off. I'm not even sure you can turn it off, either. So now you have a chip in your computer that can take control of all the processes in that computer, or at least deny you access. Couple that with the backdoor that I'm sure has been installed and nobody owns their computer anymore. I wouldn't feel as bad about it if there were a jumper on the motherboard that could be used to turn the TCP module completely off.
I mean, for a while companies were talking about how great it would be if they could get the TCP module to communicate with servers over the internet without your knowledge and WITHOUT YOUR CONTROL. Imagine you're driving along in your new car when suddenly the wheel starts to wrestle with you because the car has been informed that it needs to go somewhere else. Or imagine that it was designed to prevent you from breaking the speed limit at all times, even when you needed to to be safe.
Imagine that there is someone, out there, that would desperately like to prevent you from truly owning anything and imagine that TCP is their logical first step.
No, seriously. What joke? Oh! Was that a pun about Al Gore? I saw that on the television once.
No, they named algorithms after an Arabic mathematician named Al-Khwarizmi(Algorismus). He translated a lot of greek works too. Check him out. Some of his translations and original work form the basis of what has become algebra, which is another etymological contribution from him.
Yeah. I'm the great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandson of someone who got paid to look at moodily lit tubes of toothpaste on a distant planet. We're still waiting for arks "A" and "C" though.
Whatever happened to 411 Directory Assistance? I've used that to get addresses and phone numbers when I've gotten lost. Granted, it's about $.50/call, but it's well worth it when you've lost your mapquest directions. Screw the web interface, just make a call next time.
Or perhaps one and the same?
Comrade! The peoples of Oceania are, in fact, better off than they have been since the beginning of civilization! We far outstrip the production capacities of Eastasia, our perpetual enemy in the battle for the rights of the people! We live in plenty, where under our former masters we fed like dogs begging for scraps at the master's table. Glory to Oceania! Glory to Ingsoc! Glory to Big Brother!
Yep. That about sums it up.
America is nowhere near as close to 1984 as North Korea is.
Some of my best-moderated stuff comes from me talking out my ass. It works every time! It's funny, but when I actually do know what the hell I'm talking about I don't get anything.
Thanks. The Do Not Call registry is another way to get around this problem too. Asking to be removed from a telemarketer's list reduces the number of calls as well. It's just aggravating when it's a machine, because you can't even cut them off or tell them that you'd like to be removed. You have to listen to the whole message before you can get to information on unsubscribing. It's a good method of reducing the number of people interested in your product.
I was mostly ranting, and I hope the guy I attached it to understood who "you" was.
Please. As if communication were required for junk mail. I'd just moved into my apartment and already I had started recieving unsolicited bulk mail from businesses in the area. Gone are the good old Burmashave days. As for telephone numbers, all you have to do is get a phone number. It doesn't even have to be listed for someone to call you at random. Nowadays, they use automated systems. As if I bought a fucking telephone so that I could listen to your spam. And you companies have the gall to automate your spamming? Show some fucking respect for once.
I got on the do not call list after the first half week because it was getting unbearable.
It's my understanding that a good CS graduate should be able to pick up whatever language you want in a couple of weeks provided you let him/her know ahead of time what areas you develop in. The purpose of a computer science degree is to give the graduate a diverse background in the constructs and procedures underlying programming. The CS graduate who can't figure out how to solve a simple problem is deficient in critical thinking. It's a failing of the program he went through, and sometimes of his work ethic, but certainly not of the degree as a whole.
Essentially, you're right that CS teaches algorithms, but what you should be looking for isn't dependant on degree. You should be looking for a portfolio of projects that the student has completed throughout his schooling, possibly even before he got into college. You should be looking for competence, and proof that the student is interested in solving problems and not just in the CS degree as a certificate of employability.
The degree is usually just the icing on the cake for a good computer scientist. For the crappy ones, the degree is everything.
That sucks way worse than my problem. I have tiny ear canals that always fill up with wax. I had to go to the campus doctor just this quarter to have an impaction removed, and she said that I really shouldn't have been able to hear out of either ear because there was so much crap in them. Being able to look up search results didn't help me diagnose it, because I've had the problem many times. It did, however, give me enough information to listen to the doctor and make a few treatment suggestions. At one point she was trying to dig the chunk of wax out with the end of a q-tip, so I asked her if she had a curette. I wouldn't have known to make the suggestion if I hadn't done a little research on the problem.
Research is good, but only in that it expedites the informed consent/treatment process.
I'm really only going to beat this dead horse once more, but a lot of us already have this functionality in other devices in our homes. So the only thing we really get is backwards compatibility, the ability to buy cheap PS2 and PSX games, and possibly the dev kit. The rest of it is something most people won't take advantage of until they also shell out or have shelled out a thousand dollars or so for a new television. I do appreciate that they're building in an ethernet jack instead of forcing me to buy a dongle instead.
Wow. Instead of explaining to me, the guillible idiot as you so "politely" implied, why the earth is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, you instead go on to mock my stupidity. I'm detecting a bit of arrogance in your response. I'll buy that the earth is not in thermodynamic equilibrium just as soon as you explain why. Until then, I'm going to continue on being a gullible fool since you certainly do not care to enlighten me.
Surely there are better ways to argue your point then to mock someone's fallacious reasoning? I mean, it's no wonder that there are still people turned off to the entire idea of a debate when all they get are responses detailing the inadequacies in their mental faculty instead of the inadequacies of the argument itself. Maybe, just maybe, you should start your debunking with *why* the earth is not in thermal equilibrium. And please, pretend like I do have some understanding of thermodynamics. In essence, explain your refutation in such a way as not to dumb it down to my level of intelligence. Would you so oblige?
It's kind of arrogant to refute someone's argument and then call them an idiot for even making the argument in the first place.
http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Chiba-256-MP3-Player/dp/ B0000AQIFX/sr=8-1/qid=1162872429/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/1 04-7251906-8455143?ie=UTF8&s=electronics
Well, if what the article submitter says is all factually correct, then there has been a large conspiracy to misinform and lie to the public about what is actually happening. Even if some of his numbers are unattributed or just plain wrong, there is a lot of evidence to support this. Hell, even if the "hockey stick" model combined with the omission of the warm period of the middle ages were taken as sole evidence, it would serve to suggest that there are greater forces at work.
.5c/W, while Stephen and Boltzmann calculated the constant to be .3c/W is pretty damning. If something is calculated and used in other instances, and is a significant part of everyday physics, why does it suddenly cease to be applicable when talking about global phenomena? If it is based on a physical law, and the article writer is as informed as he attempts to be, then the UN has been fudging data.
I, for one, would not dismiss the article out of hand. We simply do not know enough about what is going on to make an informed assertion. On the other hand, when the UN report suggested that lambda was
There's something seriously wrong with the international community when a worldwide organization permits its scientists to fudge data.
What would he do if I finished the entire bottle?
If, in the end, our only two choices are the iPod and the Zune, then we, as consumers, have all lost. Sure, the iPod *looks* slick, but the 4 year old Rio player that I have has a better interface. Granted it isn't a smooth, flat card, but I actually like the way it looks. It would really suck for me if I couldn't get anything other than an iPod, as I don't particularly care for them.
In short, I would like the opportunity to be different even if I never get to take advantage of it.
minitrue mark speech doubleplusungood. miniluv make writer unlive plusquick
My signatures usually randomly omit letters from my name. Also, I don't actually look at the signature as I'm signing it. Sometimes I'll get interrupted while I'm signing something, and then I just start from the point where I was interrupted. Really, the only thing preventing someone from "forging" my signature is that their handwriting has to be just as sloppy as mine, and I doubt anyone but a doctor or an engineer would have handwriting that bad. That forgery of signatures bit would only work so long as they had my checkbook, as there really is no other way for them to have access to my money. If they stole my debit card, I could report it that day and dispute any charges that arise. And since that's really the only piece of plastic I have, it's the only real vector into my account. My checkbook stays at home, and if I need to buy something with a check I write the check out completely and then bring it in. Thus, I'm in the clear.
Have you ever actually tried forging a signature? Even with a sample, it's very hard to get the same lines as the original signer had.