I do believe that any school building project has to be approved by the city, which then promptly posts the building plans for PUBLIC debate before the permit is granted. ( at least they do here )
You forgot to mention where "here" is. If you are discussing the US then state and federal education institutions do NOT need approval; however, they tend to seek it anyway so as to absolve themselves from potential liability.
If USB3 is faster than SATAII, then why not just use that for drives? Not that anyone ever really maxes out SATAII to begin with. So it's all kind of useless in the end.
So the user load a bunch of crap onto the system and blame the operating system for the operator's fault? ...
How do you propose the operating system should defend against this?
1) Windows does this without operator intervention (except Vista)
2) Linux will likely eventually run into the same problem, but I imagine it will combat the problem with community blacklists. Being that these lists already exist and are integrated into critical applications like Firefox I doubt it will be much of a hurdle.
Since piracy statistics are being used to help with marketing and increase profits, is this a measureable reduction to the actual cost piracy has on the industry?
Losses due to piracy is up by $3 billion, but our marketing costs are down $10 billion. We better sue the pirates before it's too late!
Its hard to say whether or not the bans were unfair when the rational for doing them are done on secret mailing lists. Thats the problem here.
Just take a second and look at some of the edits described in the article. I don't have time to go through everything but a quick look at the reference to "70.23.85.112" shows a battle between him and "67.164.193.128" where he continually removes inappropriate editing by (according to the article) the "victim".
The town of Harrison, NY is known to be home to several individuals either directly or indirectly involved in the practice of illegal naked shorting. To paraphrase Shakespeare: "Methinks they doth protest too much."
[... URL... Regulators Cite Little Evidence of Naked Shorting]
After:
[... URL... As Exected, Corrupt Regulators Cite Little Evidence of Naked Shorting]
Looks to me like the guy was trying to run a smear campaign and the editors came down on him, just like they should. These edits don't require an explanation, a little kid could tell that they're not appropriate.
You may note that I wasn't telling anyone what to do with their time; rather it was being suggested to me that because I prefer Photoshop and dislike GIMP's UI, I should redesign it myself.
Yes, but that's not the way the developers take it. It can be hard to take criticism/suggestions appropriately, especially if you hear them over and over, sometimes you can interpret something like
I prefer Photoshop and dislike GIMP's UI
as
You've been wasting your time on GIMP, it sucks, everyone hates it, and you should spend your time making it more like photoshop rather than on feature X that you want.
Now, I don't work on the GIMP but I can tell you from my own experience that that's the way it feels sometimes. It's that feeling of being unappreciated for the hard work you've done that leads to responses of "do it yourself."
I have noticed also that the people who treat OSS as "fix it or shut up" software usually haven't written a line of free code in their lives. I guess OSS isn't hard to understand from within; it's outsiders to the process who have trouble.
Not true, "fit it or shut up" is very much a developer mindset. I know that I write open source software because of my itch, not someone else's. When people tell me what I should be doing with my free time I have a tendency to get a bit pissy with them. Also, you could use "gimpshop" if you want a photoshop-like version of The GIMP.
I remember not being able to use a calculator even in college Calculus classes as the professor thought it made people lazy and dependent on them.
I had a Physics class where we were able to use Mathematica on some of our exams. Another school of thought says "your brain is only so big: use it for things that matter."
... saying that freenode is the "largest FOSS network"...
They're not talking about Freenode as being FOSS, they're talking about how the community on Freenode is mostly composed of FOSS projects. Many FOSS projects hold their meetings or make their developers available on Freenode, I know when I'm looking for help with a particular project that Freenode is the first place I go.
And I still want all cellphone usage by drivers treated exactly like DUI, since the accident stats are the same for drunks and cellphone users.
Actually, that's not true. In tests where they had people go through an obstacle course where they were 1) drunk, 2) on the phone, or 3) sober the groups #1 and #2 performed about as poorly (much worse than #3). However, when complaints were raised about this method of testing a more appropriate test was devised - a real-world driving scenario (not an obstacle course) where group #2 was allowed to stop using the phone whenever necessary. The results of this testing show that people on the phone will stop using the phone when they need to and that their performance rates are just a little less than group #3 (on par with people driving with the radio on or with other people in the vehicle). These studies just don't generate news headlines, so good luck finding them in the appropriate journal and paying the fee to get past the abstract.
I started researching thinking that the system perhaps was stolen but instead I accidentally uncovered a CIA operation.
Not to burst your bubble, but it's illegal for the CIA to do research on people within the US. If you ran across an FBI operation then that'd be OK, but the CIA has no jurisdiction within the US. (Hint: this is one of the major reasons why the government is trying to do a better job of sharing information between our different police forces)
People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.
-- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
Wizard's Second Rule:
It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough. [...] Violation can cause anything from discomfort, to disaster, to death.
-- Nathan Rahl
Wizard's Tenth Rule:
People who for whatever reason don't want to see the truth can be acutely hostile to it and shrill in their denunciation of it. They frequently turn their venomous antagonism on whoever dares to point out that truth... To those seeking the truth, it's a matter of simple, rational, self interest to always keep reality in view. Truth is rooted in reality, after all, not the imagination.
-- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
Since looking them up in the books themselves would be a pain, here you go.
GOLDEN, Colorado -- Architectural and engineering teams have begun shaping the look and feel of New Mexico's Spaceport America, taking the wraps off new images today that showcase the curb appeal of the sprawling main terminal and hangar at the futuristic facility.
What does this have to do with Golden? Granted, the Colorado School of Mines has the Center for Space Resources - but the article doesn't reference them or say anything about their involvement in the project. Does anyone know?
kexec is a set of systems call that allows you to load another kernel
from the currently executing Linux kernel. The current implementation
has only been tested, and had the kinks worked out on x86, but the
generic code should work on any architecture.
What this does bring up, though, is the unfilled need currently of having an auto-upgrader software package where new kernel packages can be auto-upgraded and then migrated too on the fly without requiring a reboot.
DKMS stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support. It is designed to create a framework where kernel dependent module source can reside so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This will allow Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels.
Public or university teaching requires that you either get a Masters in Education or a PhD in your field.
So, teaching right out of undergrad is a non-starter, unless you teach at private schools.
In the United States this is not true at the university level (K-12 you need a "teaching certificate"). I go to a public institution and many of the instructors are from industry, and have nothing past a masters and no degree in education (or even a teaching certificate). On the other hand, the physics department won't allow you to teach unless you have a PhD or you have been a teaching assistant for a REALLY long time - but that's just their policy.
You can't have "fair and balanced" reporting unless there's a conflict!!
I thought "fair and balanced reporting" was giving the same amount of face time to the person with the logical and well thought out arguments as to the crazy wack-job who bases all decisions on truthiness and faith.
Although the article does not say so, I'd bet that creatures don't live for very long. All of high-resolution imaging systems that I'm familiar with concentrate so much light on the subject matter that the creature dies within minutes.
Yup, their method doesn't seem to have a very high resolution either (judging from the poor description). I work with a special Two-Photon Excitation Microscope for making 3D images of samples, we avoid bleaching/killing samples by only having a high enough concentration of light at the focal point of the beam and hit the sample with discrete pulses. Granted, you need to raster the beam around in order to form an image - but you get a much better resolution than this (poorly described) microscope and your samples stay alive a lot longer. From the description this microscope is also useless for looking at live tissue of large animals because the images gets "foggy" if the sample is very big - two-photon excitation microscopes do not have this problem. However, using a strong enough beam to penetrate deeply will kill the sample if the exposure time is too long.
Don't you dare straw man my argument like that. You are either ignoring or intentionally removing an important part of that quote:
For device drivers and other kernel-mode software, drivers signed as part of the Windows Logo program increase end-user confidence in the quality of the software and improve the user experience, because a Windows Logo belonging to a driver indicates that the driver was tested and the digital signature that accompanies the Windows Logo confirms has not been altered since testing.
Microsoft does audit the drivers - it tests and certifies all signed drivers. My position is not that all blame lies at MS's hands; however, they do deserve some of the blame for certifying a driver with a potential security problem.
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2) Linux will likely eventually run into the same problem, but I imagine it will combat the problem with community blacklists. Being that these lists already exist and are integrated into critical applications like Firefox I doubt it will be much of a hurdle.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Before: After: Looks to me like the guy was trying to run a smear campaign and the editors came down on him, just like they should. These edits don't require an explanation, a little kid could tell that they're not appropriate.
US != North America != America
We can be pedantic too.
Wizard's Second Rule:
Wizard's Tenth Rule:
Since looking them up in the books themselves would be a pain, here you go.