Revolving door. Enough said. Honestly, I'm tired of caring about it. Action will only happen when people begin to truly feel the effects. Logic is lost on the masses.
Fee the effects ? Here's a choice quotefrom Ms. Baker:
“I am privileged to have had the opportunity to serve the country at a time of critical transformation in the telecommunications industry,” Ms. Baker said in a statement. “The continued deployment of our broadband infrastructures will meaningfully impact the lives of all Americans. I am happy to have played a small part in the success.”
You keep bills from the past so that when something changes unexpectedly in the future, you have them for reference. Granted they need not be paper, an electronic copy will suffice, but invariably you will find yourself getting cheated unless you compare your statements month to month. Every utility I ever had for more than a year has made at least one mistake, but there are some that seem to do it routinely as an extra source of income from the "trash everything that comes in crowd".
Also, periodically there are notices bills which declare terms you need to know and may need to remind your bill collector of because they seem to have forgotten. It rarely works to tell them "I saw such and such" but having the document always works. You can order a copy but in most cases that will take more time and cost more money than it's worth. While I am at it, always check your receipt at the grocery store. I have found that greater than half the time I go, there's at least one mistake. Most stores have scan guarantees. I've had 25 bucks knocked of a $100 grocery bill due to their blunders before.
Subject says it all. It's expensive to get a signed SSL certificate. If I'm not doing commerce through the website, and it's just a blog of some sort, I'm not going to pay extra money for a certificate when I'm not making any money off it
And to make matters worse, if everyone used their own certs, average user would get in the habit of clicking straight through the browser warnings, making it easier to slip bad ones by for "commercial" sites too. I don't see why CA's can't offer a free, non-commercial version for just this reason. It's to their benefit to keep self-signed certs off the web and it's not like they don't know who's getting their certs and that they can't easily audit them to make sure they are being used non-commercially, at least for the ones actually used on the Internet.
Pro-USA propaganda is already planted in Iraqi news papers, this is a logical step. It's also despicable. Especially when the same government denounces these tactics when used by "the enemy".
Not with my taxes, please. Dishonourable shits.
Ever heard of Voice of America ? Same thing, different media. These aren't subliminal messages, it's propaganda created to directly counter propaganda of those who would seek to continue doing harm in any form, not necessarily just against the United States but also against the interest of humanity - think Gadhaffi for a current example. Having a problem with this is just Naiveté on your part.
Myhrvold's academic tech credentials are supreme. He's earned degrees in mathematics, geophysics, and space physics from UCLA, and PhDs in mathematical economics and theoretical physics from Princeton University. In his post-doctoral work at Cambridge University, Myhrvold worked on quantum theories of gravity with cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
Myhrvold worked for two years as a stagier at Rover's, a top French restaurant in Seattle, and he trained at the Ecole De La Varenne. Myhrvold's culinary adventures also include a stint as Chief Gastronomic Officer for Zagat Survey, which publishes the Zagat restaurant guides.
After leaving Microsoft in 1999, Myhrvold went on to become CEO of Intellectual Ventures, a patent company he founded (along with three others) to shepherd inventions and commercialize intellectual property.
First off, how the hell does one do all this ? Second, with all his knowledge, why become a patent troll ?
Called someone a "pedophile" in this age of crazy parents, vigilantism, and indefinite search engine indexing they deserve at least to be expelled. Such accusations could very easily result in that teacher losing their job or worse having some moron fire bombing their home. It is exactly this kind of thing which is driving male teachers out of education in droves.
Also, this story has nothing to do with Facebook and really doesn't belong on/.
I disagree. It does belong on Slashdot and your post clearly points out why. When I was 13 many years ago and well before ready access to the Internet, we would not have ever thought to call our teachers bipolar, rapist pedophiles. At that age and time, few would have been familiar with the terms let alone think to use them as a way to slander a teacher at whom we were mad. We did stupid things like put dissected frogs in their desk or glue on their chair. These were as or more wrong in one sense, but at least they didn't carry the permanence and destructibility of being called a pedophile by children on the Internet.
As it is today, children do have access to more information than they are mature enough to handle. Combined with ready access to social media and the general irresponsibility of their age, things like this will continue to happen. That begs the question what if anything should be done to address it ? Most of us are free speech advocates here and we also tend to agree the advent of the Internet has been a great boon to mankind, something we talk a lot about here, but events like this point out some the sticky issues on both counts.
As for me, I think what the kids did was terribly bad, but expelling them at this point is unfair. Such things might be covered in the school rules to which they are required to adhere, but I doubt any of them have been educated about the dangers of these sorts of comments nor understood the real consequences of their actions. Until they are given that, expulsion is plain wrong.
I disagree. In the workplace, you're not the owner of your machine. I've never worked in an office that allowed me to do whatever I wanted with a computer.
If ever a shop could get by without giving regular users admin privileges. Because they can't, just reset the admin password, take away all domain admin rights, especially on the registry or use perl to overwrite those pesky forced GPO's. Set up an ssh server at home on port 443 running squid to bypass their firewall and you're in business. Of course, I never ask the helpdesk to fix my machine, or at least if I do, I conveniently wipe the hard drive and say "I dunna know - it wouldn't turn on".
No, what they are doing is not legal. They are taking non-free images and using it on their own site while claiming it is their own. There's nothing wrong with someone taking Blender, remaking it, licensing it under the GPL and creating a website and selling it. But that isn't what these people are doing, they are trying to deceive others and not crediting the images they use to promote their product.
Legal or not, they are only civil violations and not something he's likely to go to jail for unless he ignores a court order to stop. Unfortunately this guy is no different than so many people today who are willing to stoop to any level to make a buck so long as they can avoid prison. This guy just came up with a way that doesn't require an Ivy League MBA to perpetrate.
While perhaps not as invasive and technical as a chip implant that gives the blind the ability to see, I think the day of artificial technological implants of this type are just around the corner.
I doubt we have enough knowledge of human physiology to start doing ad hoc implants where not medically necessary. We still don't know why some people reject implants and others don't or even what causes rejection completely. This guy may be in for a lifetime of horrible medical consequences for what he did. Taking the camera out may only partially mitigate it. Even for common implants today like lap bands or pacemakers, the complications are numerous. To consider an implant simply to enhance your abilities is akin to taking steroids and hoping you balls don't fall off or you don't grow man boobs.
Or maybe some people know the computer wont be fixed by yelling at it. A kick is usually more effective.
I thought swearing was about fixing us. I will do it from time to time and when I am usually in a hurry and under stress from other things. Add to that, our help desk seems to have run some sort of analysis on the least effective and most intrusive times to run av scans and updates and scheduled them accordingly so as to render your machine completely unusable at the most critical moments. I would give a hat's off to them for the creative pain they cause but I doubt it's intentional, just stupid since we also run Mcafee and every time I see that fucking banner I want to run downstairs and gouge somebody's eye's out. Thank God I work from home most days.
a 1 in 400 chance of a being sued is enough to avoid negative behavior is for most people, at least for a life altering event. I believe most people would consider being sued in a case where they well could be wrong and well could end up spending lots and lots of money and time a life altering event. I would not for a minute say the two are comparable but for your understanding, the risk of getting AIDS from unprotected vaginal intercourse are 1 in 5,000,000 and you don't hear of many people doing that outside a committed relationship, do you ?
Granted the two aren't comparable and my intent wasn't to dredge up something akin to an odious Hitler analogy, but if you get sued it could well become a lifetime of financial ruin for you. No house, no credit cards, high insurance and many job rejections. It could well be the end of your financial life.
Seriously, if you want the content then pay for it
Mod parent up.
It's time to face facts - Torrenting copywritten videos and audio files is eventually going to get you bitten - And you can make all the academic arguements you want about 'data wanting to be free' and blah blah blah but the fact remains that as things sit today the law isn't on your side. Do I rip my DVDs and put them on my iPod? Absolutely. Do I share those rips online? No damn way.
How about the rest of the relevant statistics? Ie. how many of those actually went to court, and in how many of those did the judge actually rule in benefit of the porn company? Just saying that 100,000 people got sued doesn't really tell enough.
I'm not too good with spreadsheets and I can't see such information in the article itself.
The fact this number of people in the U.S. were sued is sufficient enough reason for me to avoid file sharing completely. No disposition of case is easier than not having been sued at all. Regardless of my beliefs on the ethics of file sharing or the dubious length of copyright holder rights, there are far many other causes of greater concern than for me to waste my time or risk significant legal exposure to prove I'm right on a point that could be argued correctly ad infinitum on either side of the coin, especially when it comes to torrents which are trivial to track. You ask for more statistics but given that there are a smaller number of file sharers than the population as a whole, that number is more than enough for me. Yes, I did read the article and yes, that number applies to the United States alone.
Perhaps because http is far less likely to ever be blocked by the victim, either intentionally or because they bought some new network hardware. Also, the main use of twitter would be to inform the bot where to go if its current C&C server was taken out. At that point, it would probably try a variety of protocols to reach it until one worked.
This type of question comes up a lot. How do I store for the long term?
Simple answer. Have it spinning on disk (or flash, or SSD, or...) and live accessable, plus an off-site backup.
Any off-line media will at some point be unreadable. Keep it accessable & live, and migrate it each time you upgrade your system.
Sure, I've got a few 5.25" floppies around, but how to read them? Keep it spinning & live.
Along with what you said, learn to keep all images in the same place beneath the same folder, in some sort of logical structure that doesn't change, date being the most obvious. Agree with yourself and anyone else who has access to never to get lazy and put images somewhere else and if you make changes, do it out of the folder and commit them back if you want to keep them, just like you would with subversion or some other SCM. There's hell to pay reorganizing if you've got them all over the place, especially if you made copies, modified some and deleted others. There's software that helps straighten them out but it's never perfect so it's best to do it right from the beginning or at least start now.
I realize you're replying to the previous post, but most people if they were to use a phone book would use the yellow pages to find $PIZZA_PLACE, not the white pages which is what this story is about. That said, pizza places are a bad example because they, like most other chain restaurants and many independents have gone out of their way to be web-enabled.
That's not true for most businesses. Try looking for a plumber, a mechanic or a lawyer online. You'll find them of course, all over the place. Google is good at local search but is still hit and miss. A more general search returns hundreds of hits, mostly through dubious link aggregators. The Yellow Pages gives you all local business providers all in one easy to find place.
The Boy Wizard is a potent image for the media because tied up in it are our own fears of aging and our hopes for salvation. The idea that the young are smarter than the old, and that the young will somehow save the old from their own problems, makes a wonderful subtext that draws readers in. Who hasn't read a story about a youthful genius and shaken their head and thought: "He's so young!" or "I could never have done that" or even "I wish I had the free time to do that"?
Huh ? I thought we said old people like reading bad stories about the young ?
US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign
The title makes this post sound like a joke. Wouldn't a better title be "Some U.S. Students Mathematically Illiterate". Given that 14% of the U.S. population are practically illiterate, it comes as no surprise.
This has been predicted so many times all throughout the years, it's hard to take it seriously.
All the *aa cartels need now is one favorable court decision to say that usenet providers are at least partially responsible for carrying well known offending usenet groups for things to come to a stop, like alt.binaries.hdtv,x264. If usenet providers are forced to drop groups like this, the real pirates may well switch to others but then the average Joe Pirate who makes up the bulk of Giganews customer base has to go find it. Not easy to do with a million plus spam laden groups and indexing sites like newzbin being sued out of existence. All the cartels need to do is play whack-a-mole for a while. Joe pirate will eventually drop his news service and Giganews business plan goes to hell.
With Giganews et. all out of the way, isp usenet servers gone and many university usenet servers offline, there won't be much left. Perhaps usenet will be reborn the way it was intended at that point, but then given no lack of spam and difficulty of access, who will care ?
I would happily support cameras on each end watching and timing plates. Ticketing anyone who speeds in a school zone during morning and afternoon student/bus/walker travel times.
I submit that the main problem was reckless driving, for ignoring/not seeing the school zone warning lights, weaving in and out of traffic, running a yellow light and going faster than the speed of traffic. Yes, they were speeding too but bad driving is the main culprit and that can happen at any speed.
While a speed camera specific to a school zone may be a good idea, most of the cameras in Arizona are not used for that. Instead, they are put out at random points along the freeways. I have a problem with the fact that they ignore all the other more serious problems, like distracted driving (texting, using cell phones, putting on makeup, eating, etc...), driving slower than traffic while in the outer lanes, weaving, driving to fast for conditions, not signaling lane changes and so on. Those are what lead to accidents. Getting cops of the road in favor of cameras will only make it worse. Further, they create another kind of reckless driver, one who speeds while he can and slams on his breaks at the first sign of a camera.
I had a strange experience that taught me that when I was relatively new to IT. I took a job working for an energy trading company. We had a large team with a lot of different personalities, including those who conformed to the shy, retiring geek type. Of those, there was one mousy little guy not taller than 5'8" working as a programmer on our trading system. He hardly ever spoke to anyone, even in meetings where his presence was required and when he did it was no more than a few words and his voice would always quiver. He seemed always ready to jump out of his skin when you talked to him. He looked like he was just out of his twenties but not much older than that.
He wasn't picked on per say, but he had become the butt of private jokes on occasion because of the way he acted and no one really knew anything about him. About a year after I started, I was working late on a project and so was he. We were the only ones around and dinner had long since past and I convinced him to order a pizza with me. We sat down in the break room to eat, and I figured what the heck, I'll try to find out his story. Come to find out, he was not 30 something like I expected but instead 58. This "career" was one of many in a long list. As a child, his first love had been flying but because of physical reasons, he could not become a pilot when drafted for Vietnam.
Instead, he became what was known at the time as a forward air controller, guys like the ones in the article who are generally drop alone behind enemy lines to call in air support. He wasn't defenseless. Aside from his military training, he held black belts in Judo and Taekwondo from his youth that he would later use to make money while he got his pilot's license. He went on to become a flight trainer for Lufthansa which he was doing up until his wife was killed in a tragic accident. He quit just after that and spent a good bit of time traveling and soul searching. I don't think he had yet found what he was looking for when he arrived at our door step as a programmer.
I was young, stupid and inexperienced and the the old adage "you can't judge a book by it's cover" had still escaped me, especially when it came to people. It seemed to for a lot of people who met him. Here was a guy who could have kicked my tonsils out of my rectum if he chose and he had more life experience in his pinky than I do even after 15 years have passed. I learned that day never to make the same mistake about people again.
If you ban all drug ads, then how do you educate the public that a particular syndrome is treatable?
I thought the way it worked was that a patient develops some sort of disorder or symptoms that causes him to seek out a doctor who can make the actual diagnoses and determine the best course of treatment. Why would a patient necessarily need to know about new treatment options if they have a competent doctor that they see regularly? Shouldn't the doctor be the one to decide if a new treatment is right?
The argument is that drug advertising often causes people to seek out unnecessary, expensive treatments, sometimes for conditions which they don't really have. Why do people to it? We probably all want to fix ourselves in some way, and what would be better than a magic pill or ointment? That's how snake oil salesmen got their start and the drug companies appear all to aware of this, churning out shiny new patented drugs that in only a few years are determined to be ineffective or worse.
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Engadget has a fair description of each of Apple's claims as well as links to each of the patents in question.
Revolving door. Enough said. Honestly, I'm tired of caring about it. Action will only happen when people begin to truly feel the effects. Logic is lost on the masses.
Fee the effects ? Here's a choice quotefrom Ms. Baker:
“I am privileged to have had the opportunity to serve the country at a time of critical transformation in the telecommunications industry,” Ms. Baker said in a statement. “The continued deployment of our broadband infrastructures will meaningfully impact the lives of all Americans. I am happy to have played a small part in the success.”
I hope there's lube with that meaningfully impact
Bills get payed and then shredded. Why keep them?
You keep bills from the past so that when something changes unexpectedly in the future, you have them for reference. Granted they need not be paper, an electronic copy will suffice, but invariably you will find yourself getting cheated unless you compare your statements month to month. Every utility I ever had for more than a year has made at least one mistake, but there are some that seem to do it routinely as an extra source of income from the "trash everything that comes in crowd".
Also, periodically there are notices bills which declare terms you need to know and may need to remind your bill collector of because they seem to have forgotten. It rarely works to tell them "I saw such and such" but having the document always works. You can order a copy but in most cases that will take more time and cost more money than it's worth. While I am at it, always check your receipt at the grocery store. I have found that greater than half the time I go, there's at least one mistake. Most stores have scan guarantees. I've had 25 bucks knocked of a $100 grocery bill due to their blunders before.
Subject says it all. It's expensive to get a signed SSL certificate. If I'm not doing commerce through the website, and it's just a blog of some sort, I'm not going to pay extra money for a certificate when I'm not making any money off it
And to make matters worse, if everyone used their own certs, average user would get in the habit of clicking straight through the browser warnings, making it easier to slip bad ones by for "commercial" sites too. I don't see why CA's can't offer a free, non-commercial version for just this reason. It's to their benefit to keep self-signed certs off the web and it's not like they don't know who's getting their certs and that they can't easily audit them to make sure they are being used non-commercially, at least for the ones actually used on the Internet.
Pro-USA propaganda is already planted in Iraqi news papers, this is a logical step. It's also despicable. Especially when the same government denounces these tactics when used by "the enemy".
Not with my taxes, please. Dishonourable shits.
Ever heard of Voice of America ? Same thing, different media. These aren't subliminal messages, it's propaganda created to directly counter propaganda of those who would seek to continue doing harm in any form, not necessarily just against the United States but also against the interest of humanity - think Gadhaffi for a current example. Having a problem with this is just Naiveté on your part.
It's cyb:
Aside from being Microsoft CTO, from the article:
Myhrvold's academic tech credentials are supreme. He's earned degrees in mathematics, geophysics, and space physics from UCLA, and PhDs in mathematical economics and theoretical physics from Princeton University. In his post-doctoral work at Cambridge University, Myhrvold worked on quantum theories of gravity with cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
Myhrvold worked for two years as a stagier at Rover's, a top French restaurant in Seattle, and he trained at the Ecole De La Varenne. Myhrvold's culinary adventures also include a stint as Chief Gastronomic Officer for Zagat Survey, which publishes the Zagat restaurant guides.
After leaving Microsoft in 1999, Myhrvold went on to become CEO of Intellectual Ventures, a patent company he founded (along with three others) to shepherd inventions and commercialize intellectual property.
First off, how the hell does one do all this ? Second, with all his knowledge, why become a patent troll ?
Called someone a "pedophile" in this age of crazy parents, vigilantism, and indefinite search engine indexing they deserve at least to be expelled. Such accusations could very easily result in that teacher losing their job or worse having some moron fire bombing their home. It is exactly this kind of thing which is driving male teachers out of education in droves. Also, this story has nothing to do with Facebook and really doesn't belong on /.
I disagree. It does belong on Slashdot and your post clearly points out why. When I was 13 many years ago and well before ready access to the Internet, we would not have ever thought to call our teachers bipolar, rapist pedophiles. At that age and time, few would have been familiar with the terms let alone think to use them as a way to slander a teacher at whom we were mad. We did stupid things like put dissected frogs in their desk or glue on their chair. These were as or more wrong in one sense, but at least they didn't carry the permanence and destructibility of being called a pedophile by children on the Internet.
As it is today, children do have access to more information than they are mature enough to handle. Combined with ready access to social media and the general irresponsibility of their age, things like this will continue to happen. That begs the question what if anything should be done to address it ? Most of us are free speech advocates here and we also tend to agree the advent of the Internet has been a great boon to mankind, something we talk a lot about here, but events like this point out some the sticky issues on both counts.
As for me, I think what the kids did was terribly bad, but expelling them at this point is unfair. Such things might be covered in the school rules to which they are required to adhere, but I doubt any of them have been educated about the dangers of these sorts of comments nor understood the real consequences of their actions. Until they are given that, expulsion is plain wrong.
I disagree. In the workplace, you're not the owner of your machine. I've never worked in an office that allowed me to do whatever I wanted with a computer.
If ever a shop could get by without giving regular users admin privileges. Because they can't, just reset the admin password, take away all domain admin rights, especially on the registry or use perl to overwrite those pesky forced GPO's. Set up an ssh server at home on port 443 running squid to bypass their firewall and you're in business. Of course, I never ask the helpdesk to fix my machine, or at least if I do, I conveniently wipe the hard drive and say "I dunna know - it wouldn't turn on".
No, what they are doing is not legal. They are taking non-free images and using it on their own site while claiming it is their own. There's nothing wrong with someone taking Blender, remaking it, licensing it under the GPL and creating a website and selling it. But that isn't what these people are doing, they are trying to deceive others and not crediting the images they use to promote their product.
Legal or not, they are only civil violations and not something he's likely to go to jail for unless he ignores a court order to stop. Unfortunately this guy is no different than so many people today who are willing to stoop to any level to make a buck so long as they can avoid prison. This guy just came up with a way that doesn't require an Ivy League MBA to perpetrate.
While perhaps not as invasive and technical as a chip implant that gives the blind the ability to see, I think the day of artificial technological implants of this type are just around the corner.
I doubt we have enough knowledge of human physiology to start doing ad hoc implants where not medically necessary. We still don't know why some people reject implants and others don't or even what causes rejection completely. This guy may be in for a lifetime of horrible medical consequences for what he did. Taking the camera out may only partially mitigate it. Even for common implants today like lap bands or pacemakers, the complications are numerous. To consider an implant simply to enhance your abilities is akin to taking steroids and hoping you balls don't fall off or you don't grow man boobs.
Or maybe some people know the computer wont be fixed by yelling at it. A kick is usually more effective.
I thought swearing was about fixing us. I will do it from time to time and when I am usually in a hurry and under stress from other things. Add to that, our help desk seems to have run some sort of analysis on the least effective and most intrusive times to run av scans and updates and scheduled them accordingly so as to render your machine completely unusable at the most critical moments. I would give a hat's off to them for the creative pain they cause but I doubt it's intentional, just stupid since we also run Mcafee and every time I see that fucking banner I want to run downstairs and gouge somebody's eye's out. Thank God I work from home most days.
a 1 in 400 chance of a being sued is enough to avoid negative behavior is for most people, at least for a life altering event. I believe most people would consider being sued in a case where they well could be wrong and well could end up spending lots and lots of money and time a life altering event. I would not for a minute say the two are comparable but for your understanding, the risk of getting AIDS from unprotected vaginal intercourse are 1 in 5,000,000 and you don't hear of many people doing that outside a committed relationship, do you ?
Granted the two aren't comparable and my intent wasn't to dredge up something akin to an odious Hitler analogy, but if you get sued it could well become a lifetime of financial ruin for you. No house, no credit cards, high insurance and many job rejections. It could well be the end of your financial life.
Seriously, if you want the content then pay for it
Mod parent up. It's time to face facts - Torrenting copywritten videos and audio files is eventually going to get you bitten - And you can make all the academic arguements you want about 'data wanting to be free' and blah blah blah but the fact remains that as things sit today the law isn't on your side. Do I rip my DVDs and put them on my iPod? Absolutely. Do I share those rips online? No damn way.
and we should mod you up as well
How about the rest of the relevant statistics? Ie. how many of those actually went to court, and in how many of those did the judge actually rule in benefit of the porn company? Just saying that 100,000 people got sued doesn't really tell enough.
I'm not too good with spreadsheets and I can't see such information in the article itself.
The fact this number of people in the U.S. were sued is sufficient enough reason for me to avoid file sharing completely. No disposition of case is easier than not having been sued at all. Regardless of my beliefs on the ethics of file sharing or the dubious length of copyright holder rights, there are far many other causes of greater concern than for me to waste my time or risk significant legal exposure to prove I'm right on a point that could be argued correctly ad infinitum on either side of the coin, especially when it comes to torrents which are trivial to track. You ask for more statistics but given that there are a smaller number of file sharers than the population as a whole, that number is more than enough for me. Yes, I did read the article and yes, that number applies to the United States alone.
Perhaps because http is far less likely to ever be blocked by the victim, either intentionally or because they bought some new network hardware. Also, the main use of twitter would be to inform the bot where to go if its current C&C server was taken out. At that point, it would probably try a variety of protocols to reach it until one worked.
This type of question comes up a lot. How do I store for the long term?
Simple answer. Have it spinning on disk (or flash, or SSD, or...) and live accessable, plus an off-site backup.
Any off-line media will at some point be unreadable. Keep it accessable & live, and migrate it each time you upgrade your system.
Sure, I've got a few 5.25" floppies around, but how to read them? Keep it spinning & live.
Along with what you said, learn to keep all images in the same place beneath the same folder, in some sort of logical structure that doesn't change, date being the most obvious. Agree with yourself and anyone else who has access to never to get lazy and put images somewhere else and if you make changes, do it out of the folder and commit them back if you want to keep them, just like you would with subversion or some other SCM. There's hell to pay reorganizing if you've got them all over the place, especially if you made copies, modified some and deleted others. There's software that helps straighten them out but it's never perfect so it's best to do it right from the beginning or at least start now.
I realize you're replying to the previous post, but most people if they were to use a phone book would use the yellow pages to find $PIZZA_PLACE, not the white pages which is what this story is about. That said, pizza places are a bad example because they, like most other chain restaurants and many independents have gone out of their way to be web-enabled.
That's not true for most businesses. Try looking for a plumber, a mechanic or a lawyer online. You'll find them of course, all over the place. Google is good at local search but is still hit and miss. A more general search returns hundreds of hits, mostly through dubious link aggregators. The Yellow Pages gives you all local business providers all in one easy to find place.
The Boy Wizard is a potent image for the media because tied up in it are our own fears of aging and our hopes for salvation. The idea that the young are smarter than the old, and that the young will somehow save the old from their own problems, makes a wonderful subtext that draws readers in. Who hasn't read a story about a youthful genius and shaken their head and thought: "He's so young!" or "I could never have done that" or even "I wish I had the free time to do that"?
Huh ? I thought we said old people like reading bad stories about the young ?
US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign
The title makes this post sound like a joke. Wouldn't a better title be "Some U.S. Students Mathematically Illiterate". Given that 14% of the U.S. population are practically illiterate, it comes as no surprise.
This has been predicted so many times all throughout the years, it's hard to take it seriously.
All the *aa cartels need now is one favorable court decision to say that usenet providers are at least partially responsible for carrying well known offending usenet groups for things to come to a stop, like alt.binaries.hdtv,x264. If usenet providers are forced to drop groups like this, the real pirates may well switch to others but then the average Joe Pirate who makes up the bulk of Giganews customer base has to go find it. Not easy to do with a million plus spam laden groups and indexing sites like newzbin being sued out of existence. All the cartels need to do is play whack-a-mole for a while. Joe pirate will eventually drop his news service and Giganews business plan goes to hell.
With Giganews et. all out of the way, isp usenet servers gone and many university usenet servers offline, there won't be much left. Perhaps usenet will be reborn the way it was intended at that point, but then given no lack of spam and difficulty of access, who will care ?
I would happily support cameras on each end watching and timing plates. Ticketing anyone who speeds in a school zone during morning and afternoon student/bus/walker travel times.
I submit that the main problem was reckless driving, for ignoring/not seeing the school zone warning lights, weaving in and out of traffic, running a yellow light and going faster than the speed of traffic. Yes, they were speeding too but bad driving is the main culprit and that can happen at any speed.
While a speed camera specific to a school zone may be a good idea, most of the cameras in Arizona are not used for that. Instead, they are put out at random points along the freeways. I have a problem with the fact that they ignore all the other more serious problems, like distracted driving (texting, using cell phones, putting on makeup, eating, etc...), driving slower than traffic while in the outer lanes, weaving, driving to fast for conditions, not signaling lane changes and so on. Those are what lead to accidents. Getting cops of the road in favor of cameras will only make it worse. Further, they create another kind of reckless driver, one who speeds while he can and slams on his breaks at the first sign of a camera.
I had a strange experience that taught me that when I was relatively new to IT. I took a job working for an energy trading company. We had a large team with a lot of different personalities, including those who conformed to the shy, retiring geek type. Of those, there was one mousy little guy not taller than 5'8" working as a programmer on our trading system. He hardly ever spoke to anyone, even in meetings where his presence was required and when he did it was no more than a few words and his voice would always quiver. He seemed always ready to jump out of his skin when you talked to him. He looked like he was just out of his twenties but not much older than that.
He wasn't picked on per say, but he had become the butt of private jokes on occasion because of the way he acted and no one really knew anything about him. About a year after I started, I was working late on a project and so was he. We were the only ones around and dinner had long since past and I convinced him to order a pizza with me. We sat down in the break room to eat, and I figured what the heck, I'll try to find out his story. Come to find out, he was not 30 something like I expected but instead 58. This "career" was one of many in a long list. As a child, his first love had been flying but because of physical reasons, he could not become a pilot when drafted for Vietnam.
Instead, he became what was known at the time as a forward air controller, guys like the ones in the article who are generally drop alone behind enemy lines to call in air support. He wasn't defenseless. Aside from his military training, he held black belts in Judo and Taekwondo from his youth that he would later use to make money while he got his pilot's license. He went on to become a flight trainer for Lufthansa which he was doing up until his wife was killed in a tragic accident. He quit just after that and spent a good bit of time traveling and soul searching. I don't think he had yet found what he was looking for when he arrived at our door step as a programmer.
I was young, stupid and inexperienced and the the old adage "you can't judge a book by it's cover" had still escaped me, especially when it came to people. It seemed to for a lot of people who met him. Here was a guy who could have kicked my tonsils out of my rectum if he chose and he had more life experience in his pinky than I do even after 15 years have passed. I learned that day never to make the same mistake about people again.
If you ban all drug ads, then how do you educate the public that a particular syndrome is treatable?
I thought the way it worked was that a patient develops some sort of disorder or symptoms that causes him to seek out a doctor who can make the actual diagnoses and determine the best course of treatment. Why would a patient necessarily need to know about new treatment options if they have a competent doctor that they see regularly? Shouldn't the doctor be the one to decide if a new treatment is right?
The argument is that drug advertising often causes people to seek out unnecessary, expensive treatments, sometimes for conditions which they don't really have. Why do people to it? We probably all want to fix ourselves in some way, and what would be better than a magic pill or ointment? That's how snake oil salesmen got their start and the drug companies appear all to aware of this, churning out shiny new patented drugs that in only a few years are determined to be ineffective or worse.
I've just discovered my own Jovian Moon !!! * slaps naked butt in mirror after three chili dogs with beans and sauerkraut *