Here's the problem -- when President Bush or your Governor Bush talks about "holding schools to a higher standard" the standard they're talking about is based on test scores. Then, they give more money to the schools that "succeed" (i.e. have higher standardized test scores). If the only thing you evaluate schools on is how high test scores are, the inevitable result is... exactly what you described. An insane overemphasis on scoring as high as possible on some test.
Bush tends to see everything from the perspective of a businessman, and education is no exception. In a business, success or failure can be boiled down to one number -- how much profit you make. Bush wants to believe that success in running a school can also be boiled down to a single number, in this case FCAT (or Iowa test, TAAS, etc.) scores. Of course, success/failure of a school is more complicated than that, but Bush and his ilk aren't capable of such complex thought, so we're stuck with stupid standardized tests.
Mike Tyson will be the president of NOW, David Duke will be president of the NAACP, P&G/Gillette have hired the Slashdot editorial staff as consultants to help them eliminate redundancies, and after his term in office is up, George W. Bush will become president of Mensa.
Roland, like other submitters, has a Slashdot account. There should be an option to "hide stories submitted by Foes." That way those of us who don't want to see Roland's stories anymore could add him to our foes list, and his stories would go away.
In this issue of THE JOURNAL, Yeargin-Allsopp et al1 report the findings of a survey, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that found a rate of 34 per 10 000 for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) among 3- to 10-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta.
If that had happened 10 light years away, it would have taken out anyone living on Mars as well as Earth. Some of those other worlds need to be hundreds of light years away for it to do us any good against this type of thing.
As long as you're happy with Netfilx (i.e. you don't cancel or something) they would rather you keep movies out longer. Otherwise they end up signing over all their profits to the USPS.
...we put it back in the ground. Fundamentally, that's the same as oil.
My car's about due for an oil change. I take it you wouldn't mind me dumping out the old oil into the ground? After all, it came from the ground, so I can put it back there, right?
No? How about if I wait until next time I go to Nevada and dump it out there, in the middle of nowhere where no one (and nothing) lives? What if everyone did this?
If we're using a lot of the stuff, we need a good place to put the waste, or a way to recycle it. Not saying it can't be done, but there aren't too many good places to put spent nuclear fuel rods.
And 99% of those employees probably aren't doing anything all that complicated with their word processor anyway. Offer a half day training session on OpenOffice, give everyone a quick reference card or something on "how to do common MS Office tasks in OpenOffice", and you're done. Then offer more advanced training to the 1% that need it.
Doesn't it work the other way around too? How many times have I browsed Slashdot and seen "you think you're so great and all going to MIT, but that jock from high school with the D- average is getting laid and you're not. Loser." It seems like most men feel a need for "validation" from women. Different KIND of validation, but validation nonetheless.
Not only are they still around, but their market cap is one point four two billion dollars. That's over twice the market value of Netflix.
It's also over 10 times as much market value as VA Software. Which do you think is more likely to still be around in, say, 2015 -- Slashdot, or Ask Jeeves?
Magma is burny hot stuff. So are you saying that if the Moon crashed into the Earth, it would become a star? At least for a while until all the exposed magma had a chance to cool down?
All right, that does it. As a service to the Linux community, and in an effort to get Linux to be seen as a "higher class" option for an operating system, I'm going to start my own Linux distribution and charge $500 for it. I'll tell people it's better than Windows because Windows is cheap.
Hi ever yone.I am sick& tired of r eading/. an d seeing apple pyramid schemes constantly spammed all the time. Stupid scams are 4 losers and but I guess this is okay .since slashdot is a site 4 trolls and losers anyway thx
I think that's more just a reflection of the opinions (knowledge?) of the people on the internet, unless you also want to claim that Google decided "on its own" that Bush is a miserable failure.
Why go to such extremes? If they just limit you to one attempt every 1/10th of a second, it would take about 3 years to go through all the combinations. Considering a professional car thief can hot wire a car in what, 30 seconds or something like that, I'd say that's pretty good security right there.
Remember -- it's impossible to make a car impossible to steal. I've never heard of a car security system that can't be defeated with the help of a flatbed tow truck. All you need to do is make it hard enough that the thieves won't bother trying. Which is a lot like computer security, come to think of it.
I don't mind that at all, as long as I can make $500 an hour, like many lawyers do.
Imagine... if you had just 9,000 billable hours a year, you could make an annual salary of $4,500,000! And many lawyers make a lot more than that!
I think you're on to something -- we need to find a way to redefine software engineers as a type of lawyer. You've never heard of lawyer jobs being outsourced to India have you? Didn't think so.
Television currently comes with the most effective DRM solution ever invented. In fact, it's the ONLY effective DRM solution ever invented. It's called "this shit sucks so bad no one would ever bother copying it."
The reality shows were the first to try out the new technology. Now it seems like all the major networks are using it for all their programming.
For the record, the parent comment along with the next 6 in my comment history (i.e. the ones with score 0, or 1 with a positive modifier) were all modded "overrated" within a very short period of time. This occurred sometime on Sunday, January 16, 2005. As I have explained in this journal entry, it's rather interesting when someone gets hit with a seven-comment modbomb considering that regular (non-admin) users get a maximum of five mod points at a time.
I think you're on to something with the "hit the monkey" model. If you think about it, Google click fraud has a lot in common with crapflooding Slashdot. In both cases, you have a malicious user trying to do something (e.g. post a comment or click on an ad) far more times in a short period of time than any legitimate user ever would. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game. The difference is that with Google ads, the stakes are much higher, and the techniques used (both by the malicious users and the site trying to stop them) are more sophisticated.
An obvious thing to look for is lots of traffic coming from the same IP or subnet. That's why Slashdot has IP bans, makes you wait 2 minutes before posting another comment, etc. Google of course can look for similar patterns. Therefore malicious users need to make their traffic look like it's coming from all over the place instead of just one computer. The GNAA used to crapflood Slashdot by compiling lists of hundreds of open proxies and writing a script to have them post comments all at once (Slashdot no longer allows open proxies to post). We can assume Google filters out ad clicks from anonymous proxies. So now the malicious users need a way to recruit hundreds of computers, preferably from lots of different subnets, and without using open proxies. You can do this by paying people to click ads from their computers, and "hit the monkey" is probably the cheapest known way to do this. If you're making more money on clicks than what you're paying your army of clickers, you'll make a profit.
Now, I suppose you could also write an automated program to do the same thing, but that would be called a "virus" or a "worm," and these things tend to attract a lot of attention from various law enforcement agencies. Better to pay people a couple cents to hit the monkey than go to prison.
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Here's the problem -- when President Bush or your Governor Bush talks about "holding schools to a higher standard" the standard they're talking about is based on test scores. Then, they give more money to the schools that "succeed" (i.e. have higher standardized test scores). If the only thing you evaluate schools on is how high test scores are, the inevitable result is... exactly what you described. An insane overemphasis on scoring as high as possible on some test.
Bush tends to see everything from the perspective of a businessman, and education is no exception. In a business, success or failure can be boiled down to one number -- how much profit you make. Bush wants to believe that success in running a school can also be boiled down to a single number, in this case FCAT (or Iowa test, TAAS, etc.) scores. Of course, success/failure of a school is more complicated than that, but Bush and his ilk aren't capable of such complex thought, so we're stuck with stupid standardized tests.
Mike Tyson will be the president of NOW, David Duke will be president of the NAACP, P&G/Gillette have hired the Slashdot editorial staff as consultants to help them eliminate redundancies, and after his term in office is up, George W. Bush will become president of Mensa.
Roland, like other submitters, has a Slashdot account. There should be an option to "hide stories submitted by Foes." That way those of us who don't want to see Roland's stories anymore could add him to our foes list, and his stories would go away.
I thought 3% seemed a little high. From http://www.autisticsociety.org/article130.html:
In this issue of THE JOURNAL, Yeargin-Allsopp et al1 report the findings of a survey, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that found a rate of 34 per 10 000 for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) among 3- to 10-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta.
That's 0.34%, not 3%. Still a lot though.
If that had happened 10 light years away, it would have taken out anyone living on Mars as well as Earth. Some of those other worlds need to be hundreds of light years away for it to do us any good against this type of thing.
As long as you're happy with Netfilx (i.e. you don't cancel or something) they would rather you keep movies out longer. Otherwise they end up signing over all their profits to the USPS.
...we put it back in the ground. Fundamentally, that's the same as oil.
My car's about due for an oil change. I take it you wouldn't mind me dumping out the old oil into the ground? After all, it came from the ground, so I can put it back there, right?
No? How about if I wait until next time I go to Nevada and dump it out there, in the middle of nowhere where no one (and nothing) lives? What if everyone did this?
If we're using a lot of the stuff, we need a good place to put the waste, or a way to recycle it. Not saying it can't be done, but there aren't too many good places to put spent nuclear fuel rods.
Is there anything Google can't do?
And 99% of those employees probably aren't doing anything all that complicated with their word processor anyway. Offer a half day training session on OpenOffice, give everyone a quick reference card or something on "how to do common MS Office tasks in OpenOffice", and you're done. Then offer more advanced training to the 1% that need it.
What does a cop make, about 52k/year or so? We need to start fighting fire with fire. Here's the new FUD we can start spreading against Microsoft:
Through its licensing fee structure, Microsoft tried to take 100 police officers off the streets of Los Angeles.
Doesn't it work the other way around too? How many times have I browsed Slashdot and seen "you think you're so great and all going to MIT, but that jock from high school with the D- average is getting laid and you're not. Loser." It seems like most men feel a need for "validation" from women. Different KIND of validation, but validation nonetheless.
/* Set this flag to zero to disable Internet Explorer */
const int INCLUDE_IE = 1;
Not only are they still around, but their market cap is one point four two billion dollars. That's over twice the market value of Netflix.
It's also over 10 times as much market value as VA Software. Which do you think is more likely to still be around in, say, 2015 -- Slashdot, or Ask Jeeves?
Too bad short selling is so risky...
Magma is burny hot stuff. So are you saying that if the Moon crashed into the Earth, it would become a star? At least for a while until all the exposed magma had a chance to cool down?
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I think that's more just a reflection of the opinions (knowledge?) of the people on the internet, unless you also want to claim that Google decided "on its own" that Bush is a miserable failure.
Thanks for checking my comment posting history. Have a nice day!
Why go to such extremes? If they just limit you to one attempt every 1/10th of a second, it would take about 3 years to go through all the combinations. Considering a professional car thief can hot wire a car in what, 30 seconds or something like that, I'd say that's pretty good security right there.
Remember -- it's impossible to make a car impossible to steal. I've never heard of a car security system that can't be defeated with the help of a flatbed tow truck. All you need to do is make it hard enough that the thieves won't bother trying. Which is a lot like computer security, come to think of it.
Ok, silly question...
If a male monkey gets off on looking at pictures of naked (human) women, is that considered bestiality?
I don't mind that at all, as long as I can make $500 an hour, like many lawyers do.
Imagine... if you had just 9,000 billable hours a year, you could make an annual salary of $4,500,000! And many lawyers make a lot more than that!
I think you're on to something -- we need to find a way to redefine software engineers as a type of lawyer. You've never heard of lawyer jobs being outsourced to India have you? Didn't think so.
Television currently comes with the most effective DRM solution ever invented. In fact, it's the ONLY effective DRM solution ever invented. It's called "this shit sucks so bad no one would ever bother copying it."
The reality shows were the first to try out the new technology. Now it seems like all the major networks are using it for all their programming.
For the record, the parent comment along with the next 6 in my comment history (i.e. the ones with score 0, or 1 with a positive modifier) were all modded "overrated" within a very short period of time. This occurred sometime on Sunday, January 16, 2005. As I have explained in this journal entry, it's rather interesting when someone gets hit with a seven-comment modbomb considering that regular (non-admin) users get a maximum of five mod points at a time.
I think you're on to something with the "hit the monkey" model. If you think about it, Google click fraud has a lot in common with crapflooding Slashdot. In both cases, you have a malicious user trying to do something (e.g. post a comment or click on an ad) far more times in a short period of time than any legitimate user ever would. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game. The difference is that with Google ads, the stakes are much higher, and the techniques used (both by the malicious users and the site trying to stop them) are more sophisticated.
An obvious thing to look for is lots of traffic coming from the same IP or subnet. That's why Slashdot has IP bans, makes you wait 2 minutes before posting another comment, etc. Google of course can look for similar patterns. Therefore malicious users need to make their traffic look like it's coming from all over the place instead of just one computer. The GNAA used to crapflood Slashdot by compiling lists of hundreds of open proxies and writing a script to have them post comments all at once (Slashdot no longer allows open proxies to post). We can assume Google filters out ad clicks from anonymous proxies. So now the malicious users need a way to recruit hundreds of computers, preferably from lots of different subnets, and without using open proxies. You can do this by paying people to click ads from their computers, and "hit the monkey" is probably the cheapest known way to do this. If you're making more money on clicks than what you're paying your army of clickers, you'll make a profit.
Now, I suppose you could also write an automated program to do the same thing, but that would be called a "virus" or a "worm," and these things tend to attract a lot of attention from various law enforcement agencies. Better to pay people a couple cents to hit the monkey than go to prison.
If the Bible says gambling is wrong, why is Nevada a red state?