If you think Mr. Freeman's question was "retarded", then I humbly suggest you study some history.
It was clearly a rhetorical question, but his point is entirely valid: when you put people in a position of unchecked power, they WILL abuse it. Always. However, the system we currently have at airports where "We the People" have no recourse but to submit to whatever the TSA wants or face arrest, prosecution and potentially a $10,000 fine is a real problem, and putting "only human"'s in such a position of power is unbelievably stupid. Seriously, any reasonably bright high school freshman civics student could explain what that's a Really Bad Idea.
Actually people do have a choice. To not travel via airplanes.
People need to stop acting like they don't have a choice, and start exercising it. I keep saying this, maybe someone will finally grok it.
Corporations only understand money. Don't give them any, let them know why. They'll get the problems changed quickly, once they realize peeps are serious.
I understand some business is necessary, and having to fly is necessary, i'm not saying to stop that. But peeps can't skip seeing their family one year? Can't take a train? Can't skip a vacation? But you can bitch about it, can't you?
In Eugene Oregon where I grew up, we had the "lighting of the big joint", but a few years back they updated the technology to the "torching of the big bowl" with a giant 10 foot tall water bong. It's an Oregon thing...
Naw, your fellow stoners, er, peeps up in Seattle do that same thing.
Those of us who were kids in the 80s and grew up playing on microcomputers with BASIC have a very distinct property:
We grew up together with computers.
When we were kids, computers were simple, single-tasking, small memories, and it was easy for a youngster to understand the entire system. As we got older, systems got more complicated, and so did our ability to understand them.
Today's kids start with computers that are already large systems with complex operating systems, millions of times more memory than we have *disk* when we started, that are difficult to understand at a low level. I think this puts them at a loss. Every child should be able to play with and learn on an Apple II, C64, or similar small system. Of course realistically that won't happen. So emulated "systems" with simple programming languages may indeed be a good idea for today's kids.
word.
While I know some assembly, I've wanted to learn it better. So I have been on my Apple IIe. Some peeps I know think i'm crazy, and I should learn in on an x86 system. But I don't know. I'm not learning it to program modern stuff, and you don't hit the metal on PC's today like you did in the 80's. Not to mention Apple II's have a built in monitor (assembly monitor, not crt type monitor), and as the above pointed out, it has little ram and single tasking. Plus I did most my programming in basic on C64's & TRS-80's, so I find it a treat to program stuff on the Apple II.
despite their limitations and age, procedural languages are a better way to teach kids (or anyone)how to think logically about the steps required to make a computer do something they want it to do.
It worked for me in 1971 on a teletype at Cory School in SJ connected to a Stanford mainframe -which I had to feed my 'saved' paper tapes to
and it will work just as well today on whatever BASIC emulators (or even VB.NET god forbid) that are available today on PCs, pads or whatever.
Although Java is probably better for middle/high school, I do believe that Basic or Logo are better for those younger who have not yet learned how to deconstruct a desired outcome into a bunch of logical steps.
-I'm just sayin'
It's funny, but I remember my math class teaching us flowcharting, and while most the peeps didn't do any computer programming (this was the early 80's), I realized it was a way to setup a program before getting dirty with the nitty gritty. Which I'm sure is what it was for, but most the class would always complain when we did them ( and story problems) but I rathered enjoyed them.
I'm not a math dude though, when I discovered I had the teachers edition in math (geometry) that was the end of me learning math. Soon I was so far behind the others, I had to cheat off the rocker in parachute pants next to me. Funny thing is, for him being so smart ('cept maybe for his taste in clothes), I used to see him panhandling for crack during the early 2000's.
Personally, I say teach the kids basic. It's not the best language, but it's a good starter language.
Are our super computers even capable of doing the calculations for, well, everything on earth?
I'm going to say, no.
You'd have to do too many shortcuts to get accurate results, let alone we don't know how most the crap works in this world anyways. Sure, we know some, and learn more, but enough to simulate it?
I'm going to put this up there with Duke Nuke'm coming out before 2010 is over.
If people start to buy this kind of "locked" graphic cards and unlock them then the manufacturers will start to cripple the cards for good. Or simply make truly weaker graphic cards instead of limited ones with the same chipset.
Guess your new to the internet, this has been going on for at least 5 years if not more.
It's easy to develop mental blind-spots when you are receiving your primary programming. Try teaching belief systems to someone who has been raised without myths and given reason and critical thinking skills. In that fully formed individual, they usually tear the mythos to shreds and do not accept it. When you are a child you do not have the thinking skills to reject fantastical ideas. Those basic thinking patterns are then used to "hang" your later learning off of. I'd be ashamed to handicap my children with such outmoded ideas. Religion fulfills a societal function only which is diminishing rapidly, at least in first-world nations.
Well, as a kid I was required to go to church. But what they taught never sat right with me. As I got older, I started to realize what it was. Hypocrisy. The adults, or leaders in church would say 1 thing, and act another. My religous ex stepcunt, er, stepmom, would have a church face and a home face.
While I was questioning my beliefs, I noticed a few things that made me make a choice.
1. Our church (Christian Faith Center, Pastor Casey Treat, he's on tv) had a thing where someone would speak out in tongues and then someone would interpret it. this one day, someone did an interpretation, but I could see the look on casey treats face that something was wrong. Then he made the biggest mistake you could. he said, "God is telling me that isn't the interpretation that he's looking for" and a deacon of the church then spouted off some nonsense.
2. The Holy Ghost. Speaking in tongues. See, I've always been a little slow socially, so when I was getting "filled" with the holy ghost, everyone else was speaking in tongues, but me. I wasn't geting filled with it, so since it as like an hour since the last person did, I started making up words. Granted, it took me to the thing in #1 to realize what was going on.
So, at the age of 15, I decided I didn't believe in god, jesus, or any religons for that matter, since they are man made and used to manipulate people. Of course, the church wigged out about it, since i was popular with all the kids (used to have to help in the daycare during the summers there), and they couldn't tell the kids to avoid me without looking bad. I of course, made it easy on everyone by leaving home a few months later (when I was 16).
What I think is, if people are smart enough to question crap and not accept it as truth, they should be able to see thru the bullshit. But based on how most people on this earth act, i don't see that happening. people flock to religon because they want to believe that life isn't pointless and there's something for them afterwards. And because peeps tend to do that, there is always other peeps who will take advantage of them because of it.
thing is, politics are the same way, same mentality, same sheeple.
If someone wanted to murder and rob me I would rather a policeman standing where the camera is rather than the camera recording me getting murdered.
You know, I would think that true if this didn't happen to me:
Was at a McDonalds by some methadone clinic. They have a cop there because of all the druggies. (ya, i was on methadone at the time).
This chick convinced some dude that I had hit her (I didn't, i kicked her out of my apartment because she was a loud violent chick that I didn't want around), and he comes and hits me right in front of the cop.
What did the cop do? Nothing. I looked at the prick (the cop) and asked him if he was done with his fucking donut and wanted to do his job, or should I call news stations and tell them about the cop who watches crimes happen but is too fucking lazy to do anything about it.
That got his fat ass moving and arresting the dude. Honestly, i'd rather have it on video so i could sue the city for their crappy police. But then, where i live, the police get away with murder (seriously, no cop has ever gotten in trouble for accidently killing someone. like when they kicked the door in on some dude and killed him, because he had a remote control in his hand. of course, they had the wrong address, so it wasn't the person they were looking for, but that's okay, because he was black, and the cops can do no wrong.) (I'd like to point out, it's not okay because he's black, or any other color, that was sarcasm)
Botting in WoW? That's more pointless than anything I've heard before. I spent my last half a year in that game ruining the server's economy in a True Capitalistic manner.
you were playing a Wall Street Executive? Wow has that class?
I used to listen to Limbaugh (2002) until I heard him comparing the then-new Prius and Honda Insight hybrids to yugos, and claiming they can't run faster than 55. Well I owned an insight and knew that was a flat lie (its top speed was 120).
More recently he's been saying the Chevy Volt hybrid only goes 40 miles. Limbaugh ought to take a page from Glenn Beck and actually RESEARCH a topic before speaking because while the Volt Electric Mode only goes 40 miles, it also has a gasoline engine that turns-on when the battery is empty. Stupid shithead Rush... I refuse to listen to him anymore because if he can't get that basic tiny fact straight, it makes me wonder what else he's getting wrong.
I never listened to Limbaugh because it was very obvious from the start he's just a loud mouth puppet that doesn't know shit, yet speaks very loud.
Sort of like religious freaks and well, politicians.
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If you think Mr. Freeman's question was "retarded", then I humbly suggest you study some history.
It was clearly a rhetorical question, but his point is entirely valid: when you put people in a position of unchecked power, they WILL abuse it. Always. However, the system we currently have at airports where "We the People" have no recourse but to submit to whatever the TSA wants or face arrest, prosecution and potentially a $10,000 fine is a real problem, and putting "only human"'s in such a position of power is unbelievably stupid. Seriously, any reasonably bright high school freshman civics student could explain what that's a Really Bad Idea.
Actually people do have a choice. To not travel via airplanes.
People need to stop acting like they don't have a choice, and start exercising it. I keep saying this, maybe someone will finally grok it.
Corporations only understand money. Don't give them any, let them know why. They'll get the problems changed quickly, once they realize peeps are serious.
I understand some business is necessary, and having to fly is necessary, i'm not saying to stop that. But peeps can't skip seeing their family one year? Can't take a train? Can't skip a vacation? But you can bitch about it, can't you?
You want change? Start that change with yourself.
Just waiting to batch upload all the names of TSA agents. What will the Feds do then?
Hire another batch of police academy dropouts?
Your insulting Police Academy dropouts.
All the tranmissions from the satellite says: "brains"
Bring it back down to earth to study closer.
I just wake up (ya, it's almost 2pm), getting stoned (wake & bake!) and this is the sort of news I see?
Mr Wang and Porn.
No, I didn't read the article, no need.
Mr. Wang has a problem with porn.
Though maybe his problem would be fixed by a name change, but what do I know?
I'm sure he does good work.
So tell me, ye wiser creatures, how can I make big gains from the growing stupidity of Social Networking?
Ponzi scams?
"dropping of the big spud"
In Eugene Oregon where I grew up, we had the "lighting of the big joint", but a few years back they updated the technology to the "torching of the big bowl" with a giant 10 foot tall water bong. It's an Oregon thing...
Naw, your fellow stoners, er, peeps up in Seattle do that same thing.
End the year like you start the year. =)
Y'know, there's a lot more to movies than Star Wars:
1. Airplane (1980)
2. All the President’s Men (1976)
3. The Bargain (1914)
4. Cry of Jazz (1959)
5. Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
6. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
7. The Exorcist (1973)
8. The Front Page (1931)
9. Grey Gardens (1976)
10. I Am Joaquin (1969)
11. It’s a Gift (1934)
12. Let There Be Light (1946)
13. Lonesome (1928)
14. Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
15. Malcolm X (1992)
16. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
17. Newark Athlete (1891)
18. Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
19. The Pink Panther (1964)
20. Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
21. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
22. Study of a River (1996)
23. Tarantella (1940)
24. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
25. A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
I haven't seen most of those. I guess I'll do the proper thing and download them via torrents.
Wouldn't want the MIAA or whomever to get money they don't deserve.
Those of us who were kids in the 80s and grew up playing on microcomputers with BASIC have a very distinct property:
We grew up together with computers.
When we were kids, computers were simple, single-tasking, small memories, and it was easy for a youngster to understand the entire system. As we got older, systems got more complicated, and so did our ability to understand them.
Today's kids start with computers that are already large systems with complex operating systems, millions of times more memory than we have *disk* when we started, that are difficult to understand at a low level. I think this puts them at a loss. Every child should be able to play with and learn on an Apple II, C64, or similar small system. Of course realistically that won't happen. So emulated "systems" with simple programming languages may indeed be a good idea for today's kids.
word.
While I know some assembly, I've wanted to learn it better. So I have been on my Apple IIe. Some peeps I know think i'm crazy, and I should learn in on an x86 system. But I don't know. I'm not learning it to program modern stuff, and you don't hit the metal on PC's today like you did in the 80's. Not to mention Apple II's have a built in monitor (assembly monitor, not crt type monitor), and as the above pointed out, it has little ram and single tasking. Plus I did most my programming in basic on C64's & TRS-80's, so I find it a treat to program stuff on the Apple II.
Or, you know, there's actual emulators such as AppleWin for the ][ series
How did the author of AppleWin get the right to redistribute the Apple IIe's copyrighted ROM?
Who cares?
Modern Apple can screw itself over how they treated the Apple II's.
And those that mod me as a troll don't know the history of Apple.
despite their limitations and age, procedural languages are a better way to teach kids (or anyone)how to think logically about the steps required to make a computer do something they want it to do.
It worked for me in 1971 on a teletype at Cory School in SJ connected to a Stanford mainframe -which I had to feed my 'saved' paper tapes to
and it will work just as well today on whatever BASIC emulators (or even VB.NET god forbid) that are available today on PCs, pads or whatever.
Although Java is probably better for middle/high school, I do believe that Basic or Logo are better for those younger who have not yet learned how to deconstruct a desired outcome into a bunch of logical steps.
-I'm just sayin'
It's funny, but I remember my math class teaching us flowcharting, and while most the peeps didn't do any computer programming (this was the early 80's), I realized it was a way to setup a program before getting dirty with the nitty gritty. Which I'm sure is what it was for, but most the class would always complain when we did them ( and story problems) but I rathered enjoyed them.
I'm not a math dude though, when I discovered I had the teachers edition in math (geometry) that was the end of me learning math. Soon I was so far behind the others, I had to cheat off the rocker in parachute pants next to me. Funny thing is, for him being so smart ('cept maybe for his taste in clothes), I used to see him panhandling for crack during the early 2000's.
Personally, I say teach the kids basic. It's not the best language, but it's a good starter language.
Are our super computers even capable of doing the calculations for, well, everything on earth?
I'm going to say, no.
You'd have to do too many shortcuts to get accurate results, let alone we don't know how most the crap works in this world anyways. Sure, we know some, and learn more, but enough to simulate it?
I'm going to put this up there with Duke Nuke'm coming out before 2010 is over.
I'm sure you, like me, wondered if she is hot.
http://www.google.com/images?q=Hou+Yifan&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=tokaTcjwEIL4sAORt5DOAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CD4QsAQwAg&biw=1351&bih=773
She's not the best looking chick in the world, but I'd do her (after she turned 18, of course)
He's scummy because he doesn't do a damn thing. He sets up honeypots, and then sues the spammers, hoping they settle. ...
So, the IP Troll companies are going to hire him?
If people start to buy this kind of "locked" graphic cards and unlock them then the manufacturers will start to cripple the cards for good. Or simply make truly weaker graphic cards instead of limited ones with the same chipset.
Guess your new to the internet, this has been going on for at least 5 years if not more.
but Wargames made me want to be a hacker.
So did Tron.
Quit taking planes.
Show the airlines you aren't happy with how things are, and refuse to use them until stuff changes.
Remember 911? Remember how shutting air travel down for a week caused airlines to claim they were losing mass money and needed bailouts to continue?
What do you think would happen if for a month, or 2, they got less business? They'd bitch at the government, and TSA would have to get the shaft.
You need to speak the language, which is money.
You are the consumer, quit fucking consuming air flights till they fix it.
It's easy to develop mental blind-spots when you are receiving your primary programming. Try teaching belief systems to someone who has been raised without myths and given reason and critical thinking skills. In that fully formed individual, they usually tear the mythos to shreds and do not accept it. When you are a child you do not have the thinking skills to reject fantastical ideas. Those basic thinking patterns are then used to "hang" your later learning off of. I'd be ashamed to handicap my children with such outmoded ideas. Religion fulfills a societal function only which is diminishing rapidly, at least in first-world nations.
Well, as a kid I was required to go to church. But what they taught never sat right with me. As I got older, I started to realize what it was. Hypocrisy. The adults, or leaders in church would say 1 thing, and act another. My religous ex stepcunt, er, stepmom, would have a church face and a home face.
While I was questioning my beliefs, I noticed a few things that made me make a choice.
1. Our church (Christian Faith Center, Pastor Casey Treat, he's on tv) had a thing where someone would speak out in tongues and then someone would interpret it. this one day, someone did an interpretation, but I could see the look on casey treats face that something was wrong. Then he made the biggest mistake you could. he said, "God is telling me that isn't the interpretation that he's looking for" and a deacon of the church then spouted off some nonsense.
2. The Holy Ghost. Speaking in tongues. See, I've always been a little slow socially, so when I was getting "filled" with the holy ghost, everyone else was speaking in tongues, but me. I wasn't geting filled with it, so since it as like an hour since the last person did, I started making up words. Granted, it took me to the thing in #1 to realize what was going on.
So, at the age of 15, I decided I didn't believe in god, jesus, or any religons for that matter, since they are man made and used to manipulate people. Of course, the church wigged out about it, since i was popular with all the kids (used to have to help in the daycare during the summers there), and they couldn't tell the kids to avoid me without looking bad. I of course, made it easy on everyone by leaving home a few months later (when I was 16).
What I think is, if people are smart enough to question crap and not accept it as truth, they should be able to see thru the bullshit. But based on how most people on this earth act, i don't see that happening. people flock to religon because they want to believe that life isn't pointless and there's something for them afterwards. And because peeps tend to do that, there is always other peeps who will take advantage of them because of it.
thing is, politics are the same way, same mentality, same sheeple.
Dude is funny as all hell on Saturday Night Live (SNL for you non american tv watching peeps)
And don't try to tell me that's not him, that's just more government propaganda.
If someone wanted to murder and rob me I would rather a policeman standing where the camera is rather than the camera recording me getting murdered.
You know, I would think that true if this didn't happen to me:
Was at a McDonalds by some methadone clinic. They have a cop there because of all the druggies. (ya, i was on methadone at the time).
This chick convinced some dude that I had hit her (I didn't, i kicked her out of my apartment because she was a loud violent chick that I didn't want around), and he comes and hits me right in front of the cop.
What did the cop do? Nothing. I looked at the prick (the cop) and asked him if he was done with his fucking donut and wanted to do his job, or should I call news stations and tell them about the cop who watches crimes happen but is too fucking lazy to do anything about it.
That got his fat ass moving and arresting the dude. Honestly, i'd rather have it on video so i could sue the city for their crappy police. But then, where i live, the police get away with murder (seriously, no cop has ever gotten in trouble for accidently killing someone. like when they kicked the door in on some dude and killed him, because he had a remote control in his hand. of course, they had the wrong address, so it wasn't the person they were looking for, but that's okay, because he was black, and the cops can do no wrong.) (I'd like to point out, it's not okay because he's black, or any other color, that was sarcasm)
"... though I'm guessing that the difference isn't just the police program reaching maturity or something like that."
Maybe they are just lying.
Governments lie?
why I never..., er, um, nm.
Botting in WoW? That's more pointless than anything I've heard before. I spent my last half a year in that game ruining the server's economy in a True Capitalistic manner.
you were playing a Wall Street Executive? Wow has that class?
I'd imagine DDOSing 4chan is similiar to poking a sleeping bear with a sharp stick.
I used to listen to Limbaugh (2002) until I heard him comparing the then-new Prius and Honda Insight hybrids to yugos, and claiming they can't run faster than 55. Well I owned an insight and knew that was a flat lie (its top speed was 120).
More recently he's been saying the Chevy Volt hybrid only goes 40 miles. Limbaugh ought to take a page from Glenn Beck and actually RESEARCH a topic before speaking because while the Volt Electric Mode only goes 40 miles, it also has a gasoline engine that turns-on when the battery is empty. Stupid shithead Rush... I refuse to listen to him anymore because if he can't get that basic tiny fact straight, it makes me wonder what else he's getting wrong.
I never listened to Limbaugh because it was very obvious from the start he's just a loud mouth puppet that doesn't know shit, yet speaks very loud.
Sort of like religious freaks and well, politicians.
the more power you draw in?
Calm and measured reactions to rumors?
Admit when apple products are flawed?