Which is fine if you have the personality to make it work, in my opinion. I had some incredibly invigorating lectures, and give lectures in a similar way. Engage, question, request counter points, etc... I'm not trying to claim that people should teach in monotone voices and attempt to dull students to death or perhaps to chase them away.
I'm pointing out that this fantasy we keep trying to cram down people's throats is delusional and wrong. Lectures are required, and there is nothing wrong with giving a lecture based class. Good communicators can give more knowledge to people during lectures, bad communicators not so much. To claim that lectures should be abandoned is idiocy, and to claim that all learning should be "fun" is worse.
The point is that the world is not a game, and life is not a game. It's not about winning or losing, it's about being human. Sometimes it's fun and things are a blast (raises and promotions), but other times things are not so fun (paying taxes, losing a job). If people are not taught or shown how to cope with the bad in life, we end up with a whole lot of messed up people.
As an example, if you have ever done a project with wood you have probably smacked yourself with a hammer. It's _NORMAL_ and fine that you do so. We don't automatically have the dexterity to hammer a nail into wood, but we learn by trial and error. The bit of pain from smacking your thumb is a good lesson to your body and mind as to "I should get better at this!"
That of course does not mean that gamification can not happen, but rather it should not be the only focal point in learning. We learn in numerous ways, and most things we learn are not possible to answer with true/false. For another example, learning that open heart surgery is a fun game is a poor lesson for a doctor that may lose a patient performing the surgery. Making a game of dexterity exercises would get good results. Learning about the psychological impact is a lecture, as is the theory of why a patient may be lost even when the doctors do everything correctly.
The psychology of learning has been studied for centuries, we know that negative reinforcement can have more impact at times than positive. I really don't get why people want to disrupt and distort what is a naturally evolved set of mechanisms for learning.
The article is not discussing something like theoretical physics, it's discussing things like Calculus 1 and English Comp. These are prerequisite for learning other subjects. Actually it's pretty generalized and claims "STEM", nothing is mentioned about master or doctorate level classes.
So lets go in two different directions here. First, requirements are not necessarily exiting because they require work to learn. In a culture that equates a web searched answer for wisdom and celebrates idiocy (watch some normal TV programming) it's not hard to see why! Learning basic concepts is done by lecture and dialogue. Trig is not going to be "fun" when it comes down to memorizing. You won't be teaching the "fun" stuff without the basic knowledge. Lectures explain the concepts so that people can use the knowledge they are getting "now" later in education. That is what Wisdom built from.
The other direction to go to consider why everything has to be fun, exciting, or a game. It does not, life is full of good and bad things. Want to set yourself up to fail, imagine a world full of rainbows where the turds taste like candy and everything always works the first time. Again, this is a culture issue where people are not shown the real world. As with above, look at our entertainment industry. When academia attempts to pander the same thought processes as "entertainment" does, we end up with a whole lot of disappointed/depressed people. We could be teaching people that failures happen, and are how we get better. Learning from mistakes is normal and we should be happy when we learn from a failure. Instead we reward everyone all the time, even the people that quit the race or get answers wrong (not so much a college issue with that, but that is the foundation laid out for students in K-12).
Basically this is a cultural issue no matter how it's sliced. Not meant as an attack, but you seem to be fitting right in to the culture (I could have misinterpreted). Who cares if you don't like in the real world? Nobody makes you take a college class. Society is, and needs to be, made up of people with specialized knowledge in many subjects. Nobody can master everything.
A final point is that I have had boring lectures, but that has nothing to do with the class being lecture based. It would be because the the professor was not a good communicator, or that I was either bored or overwhelmed with the knowledge. In either case, I was always provided additional resources if I needed them so I learned.
Sure, illegal acts, or perceived as illegals, can motivate some people in doing what Snowden did
I based my comment on that statement. Also read what whistle blowers themselves state, which is usually along the lines of "there was no choice because leadership is complicit"
More of a correction that it's not a matter of just being motivated by something illegal. It isalso a belief that the only way to make corrections is to be a whistle blower.
Exactly! This is what we don't do most of the time in education, and can't usually because we focus on taking tests. Algebra introduces the basics of variables, and Algebra based Physics should be introduced at the same time as Algebra. Trig is visualized by Music, but kids are not required to take any type of music and when they do, it's to learn an instrument and not musical theory. Calculus is visualized by Calculus based Physics. Logic is introduced in Rhetoric, as is Debate. Programming logic is not very different from Philosophical Logic, so could be learned at the same time.
Long ago, we called this the "Classical Education System" and it was overturned for the Prussian Industrial Education system. Welcome to American Politics!
Depends on the topic. For the most part Al is just one of the few good ones, but on occasion I scratch my head. He voted on some extension to the Patriot act, but then later voted against them.
Obama has been to Silicon Valley 14 times since he has been President, and the only time he ever made a public appearance was at Wallmart on Friday. Every other visit has been only for fund raising for the Democratic Party, not his reelection campaign. Of course when he was running he got a portion of that money since he is obviously _in_ the Democratic Party.
A few of the local talk radio station call us "Obama's Piggy Bank" because that's what he uses the area for. I personally find his behavior appalling. The least he could do is hold a few town hall meetings for the area that gets blockaded while he collects millions of dollars from various CEOs. Yeah, traffic in this area is already horrible and blocking roads for him makes things much worse. I'd enjoy being able to ask him a few questions myself, like "What about Transparency?" and "Why is TPP being classified?".
The majority of people I talk to in this area don't think highly of him either.
Considering that the US Government hid Operation Mockingbird and COINTELPRO for decades (and is still hiding information on those programs), many people see no choice but to leak when the situation seems dire. In these situations it's not the whistle blower that's to blame. Those are just 2 of thousands of examples.
All I ever hear ah-boot from Canada these days is how the Crack Smokin Mayor manages to surpass a former Washington DC mayor for being able to overcome his disabilities. Eh!
FTFY! Living in Detroit made me fluent in Canadian!!
Try approximately 1% of the population. The wiki here shows 3.8% average but when you look at how they estimate numbers their estimates are grossly incorrect. For example people that express "curiosity" are counted, as are those that may have experimented at some point in time. Here is a quote to show the inaccuracy clearly.
According to the Williams Institute review conducted in April 2011, approximately 3.80 % of American adults identify themselves being in the LBGT community; wherein, (1.70%) identify as lesbian or gay, bisexual (1.80%), and/or transgender (0.30%);
The way they get the 3.8% number is to tally up all of the results, yet there is no control preventing people from answering to multiple categories. Depending on who is running the study, bisexuals may automatically be counted as lesbian or gay. Other studies may ask the questions separately, but a bisexual person would normally respond that they have same sex relationships so are also lesbian or gay. People identifying themselves as transgender are bisexual, gay, or lesbian (don't make the mistake of jumping to circular reasoning on that one) almost all of the time.
PR for who and what though? I don't know this game, but seriously doubt large differences with other Nintendo games. Characters are usually displayed as asexual, or at least you can make the male characters look very feminine. Since this is imagination based, I really don't see a huge LGBT issue. Can't someone make character look feminine and name the character "Rie" or something so that their imagination can make it appear to be a same sex marriage?
The comparison to "The Sims" is telling. Sims may be able to have same sex relationships, but don't get the same perks as straight couples which is why there are thousands of hacks for the game. Wanting realism from computer characters who will talk on the phone until they pee themselves, or starve to death with a fridge full of food, shows a pretty strong level of delusion. Good grief, it may take an hour in game time for 2 Sims to figure out how to walk through the same door and one of them may give up trying to move and you want "realism"? That is absurd.
As to the s/LGBT/Black/ really? That is an argument that does not exist. The bright orange skinned female can marry the purple skinned male, and neither of those people exist in the real world. As with above, demanding a realistic society aggregate when the game is not reality is absurd.
I'm with the person you responded to. I agree that there are real issues of discrimination, and I'm all for free will (do the Liberty chant). PR like this diminishes the real issues of discrimination. For posterity, liberty is not forcing your belief on to other people but letting you choose your own path (some in the LGBT organization forget this).
This same exact article and topic comes up every year, I sure do hope that Microsoft pays Netcraft enough money to lose all of the credibility they have to rebuild each year posting this drivel.
Last year was the same thing. I really hate to drive up their page hits just to refute their claims and I'm guessing that's why they say this shit. "Market share of active sites" this year is identical to last year and a true indicator. Somehow though, Netcraft claims Microsoft is gaining ground because pages that are never hosted are being developed for servers that do not exist. It has boggled the mind for several years, but now it's obvious. Do not go look at their garbage to give them a spike in page views.
Next year I refuse to look, and hope you do to. Piece of shit companies making blatantly false claims should simply die by the road side. Netcraft has continually made themselves nothing but a giant Microsoft sock puppet.
If you need a reason not to look this is what they state right after a false claim that MS is hosting 11 million new sites. All may not be as it seems, however, as the web server is still sending an X-Powered-By: Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) header. The web server is also reporting X-Powered-By: ARR/2.5, indicating the use of IIS's load-balancing features. It is likely that Apache Lounge is powered by multiple Apache instances which are hidden behind a Microsoft IIS load balancer. So they don't even trust their numbers, but fuck it.. they can turn a quick buck trying to turn you into a sucker.
Like systemd, SMF can do things similar to INIT, still reads INIT directories, and has a set purpose. One of the reasons I didn't mind SMF was that it's hackable. You have to know where to hack things, but outside of locations for scripts it's not that different.
Remember why Sun implemented SMF? The primary driver was that init runs once, and something was needed to actually manage and monitor daemons. I have used various monitoring tools and cron hacks to do similar things over the years, but SMF made this much easier to manage. SMF took away the need for external monitoring and maintenance tasks. (Obviously not completely because things still break, but normal errors or hang ups were easy to resolve.)
Since SMF could still run legacy scripts just like the old init including reading and processing inittab, I honestly fail to see how anyone can claim it's an abomination from a position of knowledge. I have seen plenty of ignorant people make such a claim, nothing new there.
Since systemd is still supporting init scripts and methods I'm not sure why this has become such big deal either. Now if there is no legacy mode, there is a different issue. If you don't want systemd to start your apache, write an init that does and disable the systemd start for the OS released boot script.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that old init is just fine. I worked fine with init for decades, and don't necessarily need a change to be happy. At the same time, I am aware of "why" people want better features than init provided. As long as legacy is supported why would I complain? I can still run boot scripts I wrote in the 80s without any modifications.
Oligarchies have no incentive to listen. My question still is how do we take an Oligarchy and transform it into a Technocracy because this is exactly what would solve the problem. How is it possible without all hell breaking loose?
Technically we are not a true oligarchy, or at least we have no proof that the Republic is completely dead. There are people that are not career politicians getting into offices, so at least a portion of the Republic is still working.
Transformation is always painful, and a bit of chaos may be needed to restore the full Republic. That is much less frightening than doing nothing and watching us transform into a much worse form of Government. How far away is dictatorship if we do nothing? Not very far.
Because the materials are supposed to be somewhat disposable you make the whole thing easy to compromise? Come now AC, that does not make any sense. At all!.
Sure, every board should have a white phosphorus cartridge hanging next to it that when a button is pushed the whole thing cooks. Iran showed that even if this was built in, they could jam the codes. So it's not just one vector we have to consider. I'm guessing that not too many Iranian hackers have access to debugging Sparc code on a Sparc chip, unlike everyone and their brother with the ability to debug Intel code.
If they can debug the small drones they can debug the larger drones too, we don't run different codes on different drones. The same companies are making drones for all 4 branches of service and the private sector to boot. That "cost saving" was put in place decades ago.
I agree, but the "Open" system is a proposal for a cure instead of requesting maintenance of the status quot. As someone mentions below, the issues we currently have are only partially related to an clique of self appointed 'elites' running politics. The bigger problem is that information is excluded and muddied so that people have no sense of reality.
In an "Open" forum I would happily debate Obama, or Biden, or anyone else on foreign Policy for example. I'm not the best or only example either, I can think of many that would do just as well. Stefan Molyneux (even though he's Canadian) and Ron Paul immediately come to mind. If people debated in a controlled forum and saw two sides of a debate, they would automatically be more educated. Currently they only get one side of a debate on nearly all issues of importance.
For example, how many people would vote for Common Core knowing the complete issue? I have yet to hear any media station talk about the copyright issues, lack of educators on the boards controlling content, lack of ability for educators to influence change in content or curriculum, and how the majority of that information is trademarked and can not be changed. If people knew the rational arguments against, it would not be taken so lightly. What they have today is nothing from media on why it's bad, just that "some [insert ad hominem] is against it".
Surely I would agree that not every issue would be voted on by every member of the public. It's impossible for everyone to have enough knowledge about every subject to do so, especially when it's not all of our full time jobs to read and process this type of data. It is a politicians job, and look at how many House and Senate members claim ignorance or simply abstain from voting on issues when it's their full time job.
Having enough debate would surely draw interest, and we would have better than we have now which is only an Oligarchy, Fascism, or Despotism depending on how you are grading our current Government.
Either you forgot your password or are having local issues, I can log in just fine (as can many others, easily demonstrated by looking at names in posts).
Pretty much this, but not exactly. How many of the average consumers getting Comcast "Hot Deals!®" realize the penalty for the deal? Not many. Just like with so many other things the only way to fight is by consumer knowledge. Since the same people (I'm tempted to use an ad hominem for them, but won't distract) that own Comcast own all of the Mass Media, consumers are once again either ignorant or lied to.
EFF and others have been warning about this for years, hell we have debated this topic over and over on Slashdot. How do you wake consumers when you don't own any media? I guess we can hope that more of the SOPA type blackouts will occur, but I have doubts. It was effective once, but corporations hated it. Keep mailing those US House and Senate members, but also start tapping people on the shoulder. It's not like NBC is going to warn consumers of the dangers of monopolization.
There are and were many benefits to running military applications on Sparc, RS6000, and PA style chips. Primarily that if your enemy gets the code they can't do shit with it. Not just that, but the chips tended to be higher quality and better shielded from influence. Not that our politicians seem to care any more mind you, but many military people still do.
So now we have Drone code running on cheap commodity chips and an OS that bad guys run too. It may save a few dollars (studies indicate very few mind you, work in defense and you will see) at the expense of giving enemies a chance to rebuild a drone. Before you "but but but.." that comment away, Iran has at least 2 of our most powerful drones in their possession and undamaged.
This is not a problem due to the Internet, it's due to people being ignorant. I'll argue that the dumbing down of people is by design, but that's not even relevant. People don't have a clue about human nature, politics, or how a Republic is supposed to work. How many high school kids have read Plato's "The Republic"? That is the blueprint for our type of Government, including all of the moral lessons required to get there. How many have read and understand the Constitution and Federalist papers? The Republic is 2,500 years old and a marvel, yet most college graduates never read a page.
Instead of people "teaching" today, we have people cramming kids with test answers. Hell, a good number of people here tend to believe that education comes from a Google search, not knowledge. It's staggering!
If the Internet was used for knowledge and eduction the world would surely be a better place. Facebook and Twitter are neither, but that's what gets hyped all over the place.
Knowledge is power, and the people holding the most power know this. Too bad the average person continues to get duped time and time again.
Taking some action is better than your suggestion of doing nothing. The best action would be to petition for people you know and trust, and get them into offices. Barring that, vote for people other than established politicians and change will begin to happen.
If you stop telling everyone they are wrong, and teach them to do _SOMETHING_ then things overall can improve. It's shitbags like you claiming that no action is the answer. How well has that worked out for people over the last 3 decades of shit ass politicians? Yeah, I thought so.
Stop and consider the Henry Ford business model. Pay people well and they buy your products as well as boost the economy around them so that others can buy your products.
Now consider the Wallmart business model. Pay people poorly, but sell products cheap enough where they can still survive (not thrive).
Which is better for our Republic? Obviously the former is better, it was the model that drove us to the top in terms of economy, GDP, innovation, and wealth.
You should really stop and consider Socrate's Allegory of the Artisan and understand that these issues are not new. Allowing a certain class of people unchecked wealth and government strength to back that wealth is as anti-Republican as you can get.
Wallmart does no service to anyone but themselves and the others holding wealth and power currently.
You are missing something huge. Not so long ago, nobles would also die on the battlefield. Nobody would race without a captain to charge an enemy, and those captains all came from wealth houses yielding the best gear money could buy. None of those people today are on the battlefield, meaning that the natural selection is only working on lower class people.
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Which is fine if you have the personality to make it work, in my opinion. I had some incredibly invigorating lectures, and give lectures in a similar way. Engage, question, request counter points, etc... I'm not trying to claim that people should teach in monotone voices and attempt to dull students to death or perhaps to chase them away.
I'm pointing out that this fantasy we keep trying to cram down people's throats is delusional and wrong. Lectures are required, and there is nothing wrong with giving a lecture based class. Good communicators can give more knowledge to people during lectures, bad communicators not so much. To claim that lectures should be abandoned is idiocy, and to claim that all learning should be "fun" is worse.
The point is that the world is not a game, and life is not a game. It's not about winning or losing, it's about being human. Sometimes it's fun and things are a blast (raises and promotions), but other times things are not so fun (paying taxes, losing a job). If people are not taught or shown how to cope with the bad in life, we end up with a whole lot of messed up people.
As an example, if you have ever done a project with wood you have probably smacked yourself with a hammer. It's _NORMAL_ and fine that you do so. We don't automatically have the dexterity to hammer a nail into wood, but we learn by trial and error. The bit of pain from smacking your thumb is a good lesson to your body and mind as to "I should get better at this!"
That of course does not mean that gamification can not happen, but rather it should not be the only focal point in learning. We learn in numerous ways, and most things we learn are not possible to answer with true/false. For another example, learning that open heart surgery is a fun game is a poor lesson for a doctor that may lose a patient performing the surgery. Making a game of dexterity exercises would get good results. Learning about the psychological impact is a lecture, as is the theory of why a patient may be lost even when the doctors do everything correctly.
The psychology of learning has been studied for centuries, we know that negative reinforcement can have more impact at times than positive. I really don't get why people want to disrupt and distort what is a naturally evolved set of mechanisms for learning.
The article is not discussing something like theoretical physics, it's discussing things like Calculus 1 and English Comp. These are prerequisite for learning other subjects. Actually it's pretty generalized and claims "STEM", nothing is mentioned about master or doctorate level classes.
So lets go in two different directions here. First, requirements are not necessarily exiting because they require work to learn. In a culture that equates a web searched answer for wisdom and celebrates idiocy (watch some normal TV programming) it's not hard to see why! Learning basic concepts is done by lecture and dialogue. Trig is not going to be "fun" when it comes down to memorizing. You won't be teaching the "fun" stuff without the basic knowledge. Lectures explain the concepts so that people can use the knowledge they are getting "now" later in education. That is what Wisdom built from.
The other direction to go to consider why everything has to be fun, exciting, or a game. It does not, life is full of good and bad things. Want to set yourself up to fail, imagine a world full of rainbows where the turds taste like candy and everything always works the first time. Again, this is a culture issue where people are not shown the real world. As with above, look at our entertainment industry. When academia attempts to pander the same thought processes as "entertainment" does, we end up with a whole lot of disappointed/depressed people. We could be teaching people that failures happen, and are how we get better. Learning from mistakes is normal and we should be happy when we learn from a failure. Instead we reward everyone all the time, even the people that quit the race or get answers wrong (not so much a college issue with that, but that is the foundation laid out for students in K-12).
Basically this is a cultural issue no matter how it's sliced. Not meant as an attack, but you seem to be fitting right in to the culture (I could have misinterpreted). Who cares if you don't like in the real world? Nobody makes you take a college class. Society is, and needs to be, made up of people with specialized knowledge in many subjects. Nobody can master everything.
A final point is that I have had boring lectures, but that has nothing to do with the class being lecture based. It would be because the the professor was not a good communicator, or that I was either bored or overwhelmed with the knowledge. In either case, I was always provided additional resources if I needed them so I learned.
>As to the s/LGBT/Black/ really? That is an argument that does not exist.
Why not? Imagine if the game didn't allow your light-skinned character to marry a character with dark skin. It's the exact same thing.
You just gave the exact reason I said that the argument does not exist. Your comparison object does not exist, period.
Sure, illegal acts, or perceived as illegals, can motivate some people in doing what Snowden did
I based my comment on that statement. Also read what whistle blowers themselves state, which is usually along the lines of "there was no choice because leadership is complicit"
More of a correction that it's not a matter of just being motivated by something illegal. It isalso a belief that the only way to make corrections is to be a whistle blower.
Exactly! This is what we don't do most of the time in education, and can't usually because we focus on taking tests. Algebra introduces the basics of variables, and Algebra based Physics should be introduced at the same time as Algebra. Trig is visualized by Music, but kids are not required to take any type of music and when they do, it's to learn an instrument and not musical theory. Calculus is visualized by Calculus based Physics. Logic is introduced in Rhetoric, as is Debate. Programming logic is not very different from Philosophical Logic, so could be learned at the same time.
Long ago, we called this the "Classical Education System" and it was overturned for the Prussian Industrial Education system. Welcome to American Politics!
Depends on the topic. For the most part Al is just one of the few good ones, but on occasion I scratch my head. He voted on some extension to the Patriot act, but then later voted against them.
Obama has been to Silicon Valley 14 times since he has been President, and the only time he ever made a public appearance was at Wallmart on Friday. Every other visit has been only for fund raising for the Democratic Party, not his reelection campaign. Of course when he was running he got a portion of that money since he is obviously _in_ the Democratic Party.
A few of the local talk radio station call us "Obama's Piggy Bank" because that's what he uses the area for. I personally find his behavior appalling. The least he could do is hold a few town hall meetings for the area that gets blockaded while he collects millions of dollars from various CEOs. Yeah, traffic in this area is already horrible and blocking roads for him makes things much worse. I'd enjoy being able to ask him a few questions myself, like "What about Transparency?" and "Why is TPP being classified?".
The majority of people I talk to in this area don't think highly of him either.
Considering that the US Government hid Operation Mockingbird and COINTELPRO for decades (and is still hiding information on those programs), many people see no choice but to leak when the situation seems dire. In these situations it's not the whistle blower that's to blame. Those are just 2 of thousands of examples.
All I ever hear ah-boot from Canada these days is how the Crack Smokin Mayor manages to surpass a former Washington DC mayor for being able to overcome his disabilities. Eh!
FTFY! Living in Detroit made me fluent in Canadian!!
Try approximately 1% of the population. The wiki here shows 3.8% average but when you look at how they estimate numbers their estimates are grossly incorrect. For example people that express "curiosity" are counted, as are those that may have experimented at some point in time. Here is a quote to show the inaccuracy clearly.
According to the Williams Institute review conducted in April 2011, approximately 3.80 % of American adults identify themselves being in the LBGT community; wherein, (1.70%) identify as lesbian or gay, bisexual (1.80%), and/or transgender (0.30%);
The way they get the 3.8% number is to tally up all of the results, yet there is no control preventing people from answering to multiple categories. Depending on who is running the study, bisexuals may automatically be counted as lesbian or gay. Other studies may ask the questions separately, but a bisexual person would normally respond that they have same sex relationships so are also lesbian or gay. People identifying themselves as transgender are bisexual, gay, or lesbian (don't make the mistake of jumping to circular reasoning on that one) almost all of the time.
PR for who and what though? I don't know this game, but seriously doubt large differences with other Nintendo games. Characters are usually displayed as asexual, or at least you can make the male characters look very feminine. Since this is imagination based, I really don't see a huge LGBT issue. Can't someone make character look feminine and name the character "Rie" or something so that their imagination can make it appear to be a same sex marriage?
The comparison to "The Sims" is telling. Sims may be able to have same sex relationships, but don't get the same perks as straight couples which is why there are thousands of hacks for the game. Wanting realism from computer characters who will talk on the phone until they pee themselves, or starve to death with a fridge full of food, shows a pretty strong level of delusion. Good grief, it may take an hour in game time for 2 Sims to figure out how to walk through the same door and one of them may give up trying to move and you want "realism"? That is absurd.
As to the s/LGBT/Black/ really? That is an argument that does not exist. The bright orange skinned female can marry the purple skinned male, and neither of those people exist in the real world. As with above, demanding a realistic society aggregate when the game is not reality is absurd.
I'm with the person you responded to. I agree that there are real issues of discrimination, and I'm all for free will (do the Liberty chant). PR like this diminishes the real issues of discrimination. For posterity, liberty is not forcing your belief on to other people but letting you choose your own path (some in the LGBT organization forget this).
This same exact article and topic comes up every year, I sure do hope that Microsoft pays Netcraft enough money to lose all of the credibility they have to rebuild each year posting this drivel.
Last year was the same thing. I really hate to drive up their page hits just to refute their claims and I'm guessing that's why they say this shit. "Market share of active sites" this year is identical to last year and a true indicator. Somehow though, Netcraft claims Microsoft is gaining ground because pages that are never hosted are being developed for servers that do not exist. It has boggled the mind for several years, but now it's obvious. Do not go look at their garbage to give them a spike in page views.
Next year I refuse to look, and hope you do to. Piece of shit companies making blatantly false claims should simply die by the road side. Netcraft has continually made themselves nothing but a giant Microsoft sock puppet.
If you need a reason not to look this is what they state right after a false claim that MS is hosting 11 million new sites. All may not be as it seems, however, as the web server is still sending an X-Powered-By: Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) header. The web server is also reporting X-Powered-By: ARR/2.5, indicating the use of IIS's load-balancing features. It is likely that Apache Lounge is powered by multiple Apache instances which are hidden behind a Microsoft IIS load balancer. So they don't even trust their numbers, but fuck it.. they can turn a quick buck trying to turn you into a sucker.
Like systemd, SMF can do things similar to INIT, still reads INIT directories, and has a set purpose. One of the reasons I didn't mind SMF was that it's hackable. You have to know where to hack things, but outside of locations for scripts it's not that different.
Remember why Sun implemented SMF? The primary driver was that init runs once, and something was needed to actually manage and monitor daemons. I have used various monitoring tools and cron hacks to do similar things over the years, but SMF made this much easier to manage. SMF took away the need for external monitoring and maintenance tasks. (Obviously not completely because things still break, but normal errors or hang ups were easy to resolve.)
Since SMF could still run legacy scripts just like the old init including reading and processing inittab, I honestly fail to see how anyone can claim it's an abomination from a position of knowledge. I have seen plenty of ignorant people make such a claim, nothing new there.
Since systemd is still supporting init scripts and methods I'm not sure why this has become such big deal either. Now if there is no legacy mode, there is a different issue. If you don't want systemd to start your apache, write an init that does and disable the systemd start for the OS released boot script.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that old init is just fine. I worked fine with init for decades, and don't necessarily need a change to be happy. At the same time, I am aware of "why" people want better features than init provided. As long as legacy is supported why would I complain? I can still run boot scripts I wrote in the 80s without any modifications.
Oligarchies have no incentive to listen. My question still is how do we take an Oligarchy and transform it into a Technocracy because this is exactly what would solve the problem. How is it possible without all hell breaking loose?
Technically we are not a true oligarchy, or at least we have no proof that the Republic is completely dead. There are people that are not career politicians getting into offices, so at least a portion of the Republic is still working.
Transformation is always painful, and a bit of chaos may be needed to restore the full Republic. That is much less frightening than doing nothing and watching us transform into a much worse form of Government. How far away is dictatorship if we do nothing? Not very far.
Because the materials are supposed to be somewhat disposable you make the whole thing easy to compromise? Come now AC, that does not make any sense. At all!.
Sure, every board should have a white phosphorus cartridge hanging next to it that when a button is pushed the whole thing cooks. Iran showed that even if this was built in, they could jam the codes. So it's not just one vector we have to consider. I'm guessing that not too many Iranian hackers have access to debugging Sparc code on a Sparc chip, unlike everyone and their brother with the ability to debug Intel code.
If they can debug the small drones they can debug the larger drones too, we don't run different codes on different drones. The same companies are making drones for all 4 branches of service and the private sector to boot. That "cost saving" was put in place decades ago.
I agree, but the "Open" system is a proposal for a cure instead of requesting maintenance of the status quot. As someone mentions below, the issues we currently have are only partially related to an clique of self appointed 'elites' running politics. The bigger problem is that information is excluded and muddied so that people have no sense of reality.
In an "Open" forum I would happily debate Obama, or Biden, or anyone else on foreign Policy for example. I'm not the best or only example either, I can think of many that would do just as well. Stefan Molyneux (even though he's Canadian) and Ron Paul immediately come to mind. If people debated in a controlled forum and saw two sides of a debate, they would automatically be more educated. Currently they only get one side of a debate on nearly all issues of importance.
For example, how many people would vote for Common Core knowing the complete issue? I have yet to hear any media station talk about the copyright issues, lack of educators on the boards controlling content, lack of ability for educators to influence change in content or curriculum, and how the majority of that information is trademarked and can not be changed. If people knew the rational arguments against, it would not be taken so lightly. What they have today is nothing from media on why it's bad, just that "some [insert ad hominem] is against it".
Surely I would agree that not every issue would be voted on by every member of the public. It's impossible for everyone to have enough knowledge about every subject to do so, especially when it's not all of our full time jobs to read and process this type of data. It is a politicians job, and look at how many House and Senate members claim ignorance or simply abstain from voting on issues when it's their full time job.
Having enough debate would surely draw interest, and we would have better than we have now which is only an Oligarchy, Fascism, or Despotism depending on how you are grading our current Government.
Either you forgot your password or are having local issues, I can log in just fine (as can many others, easily demonstrated by looking at names in posts).
Pretty much this, but not exactly. How many of the average consumers getting Comcast "Hot Deals!®" realize the penalty for the deal? Not many. Just like with so many other things the only way to fight is by consumer knowledge. Since the same people (I'm tempted to use an ad hominem for them, but won't distract) that own Comcast own all of the Mass Media, consumers are once again either ignorant or lied to.
EFF and others have been warning about this for years, hell we have debated this topic over and over on Slashdot. How do you wake consumers when you don't own any media? I guess we can hope that more of the SOPA type blackouts will occur, but I have doubts. It was effective once, but corporations hated it. Keep mailing those US House and Senate members, but also start tapping people on the shoulder. It's not like NBC is going to warn consumers of the dangers of monopolization.
There are and were many benefits to running military applications on Sparc, RS6000, and PA style chips. Primarily that if your enemy gets the code they can't do shit with it. Not just that, but the chips tended to be higher quality and better shielded from influence. Not that our politicians seem to care any more mind you, but many military people still do.
So now we have Drone code running on cheap commodity chips and an OS that bad guys run too. It may save a few dollars (studies indicate very few mind you, work in defense and you will see) at the expense of giving enemies a chance to rebuild a drone. Before you "but but but.." that comment away, Iran has at least 2 of our most powerful drones in their possession and undamaged.
Sad times we are living in, truly.
This is not a problem due to the Internet, it's due to people being ignorant. I'll argue that the dumbing down of people is by design, but that's not even relevant. People don't have a clue about human nature, politics, or how a Republic is supposed to work. How many high school kids have read Plato's "The Republic"? That is the blueprint for our type of Government, including all of the moral lessons required to get there. How many have read and understand the Constitution and Federalist papers? The Republic is 2,500 years old and a marvel, yet most college graduates never read a page.
Instead of people "teaching" today, we have people cramming kids with test answers. Hell, a good number of people here tend to believe that education comes from a Google search, not knowledge. It's staggering!
If the Internet was used for knowledge and eduction the world would surely be a better place. Facebook and Twitter are neither, but that's what gets hyped all over the place.
Knowledge is power, and the people holding the most power know this. Too bad the average person continues to get duped time and time again.
Taking some action is better than your suggestion of doing nothing. The best action would be to petition for people you know and trust, and get them into offices. Barring that, vote for people other than established politicians and change will begin to happen.
If you stop telling everyone they are wrong, and teach them to do _SOMETHING_ then things overall can improve. It's shitbags like you claiming that no action is the answer. How well has that worked out for people over the last 3 decades of shit ass politicians? Yeah, I thought so.
They still can't do so legally, which is why they now use parallel construction to fabricate information.
Stop and consider the Henry Ford business model. Pay people well and they buy your products as well as boost the economy around them so that others can buy your products.
Now consider the Wallmart business model. Pay people poorly, but sell products cheap enough where they can still survive (not thrive).
Which is better for our Republic? Obviously the former is better, it was the model that drove us to the top in terms of economy, GDP, innovation, and wealth.
You should really stop and consider Socrate's Allegory of the Artisan and understand that these issues are not new. Allowing a certain class of people unchecked wealth and government strength to back that wealth is as anti-Republican as you can get.
Wallmart does no service to anyone but themselves and the others holding wealth and power currently.
You are missing something huge. Not so long ago, nobles would also die on the battlefield. Nobody would race without a captain to charge an enemy, and those captains all came from wealth houses yielding the best gear money could buy. None of those people today are on the battlefield, meaning that the natural selection is only working on lower class people.