If there's really child abuse involved, most sane commentators want the situation dealt with as soon as possible.
I'm sane and I don't think that. Personally, I'm sick of hearing people moan on and on about child porn. If some guy has CP on his computer, I honestly couldn't care less at this point. I'm jaded of the hysteria past the point of cynicism.
I think people need to adopt this attitude if we are ever to get back the (relatively) sane and sober society of the 1990's where people's rights actually meant something.
He showed that, by nature, inner city hispanic kids were just as capable at advanced studies as anyone else -- it simply required a mixture of blasting the old nurture ("You'll never be good enough to be something like an engineer, so why don't you just open a restaurant, work construction, or run a shop?") with discipline, attention, expectation, and teaching.
It also required actually providing the programs to begin with. Let's face it; if your school does not provide the more advanced levels of study in a field, then what is the point for the stuents in studying the lower level ones? If I told you your school would never provide Science classes in the senior cycle, would you spend as much time studying in in the Junior cycle? Or would you invest in a topic you knew you had further opportunity in.
Interest and passion are all very well, but practicalities come into it too. Teenagers are by no means stupid and even the ones that spend only a few minutes choosing their subjects will be weighing the pros and cons of each.
Well sir, I'mna just a honest memb'r o'da jury and I can't rightly say I followed all yer fancy legal logics. But what I did follow was that pro'secutor man an' how he showed how that young man was a stealing music and a downloadn' por-no-graph-y on the computer.
https is very easy to MITM if you can inject bogus signed certificates.
Ah yes. The Myth in the Middle. That great urban legend of cryptography.
Out of curiosity, could someone actually provide a concrete example of a MITM attack ever being successfully carried out? Bonus points for anyone who can further provide reasons for why this means Firefox no longer likes self signed certs.
If it was implemented anywhere in "the west" then most citizens would find ways around it, or bypass it completely....
Until the Daily Mail "named and shamed" people bypassing the filters and sandwiched their picture between a known paedophile and Jon Venables. Then you'll find the consequences for dissent are every bit as unpleasant as those available to the Communist Party.
IIRC, there are still something like six particles, which the math says MUST exist, but have never been observed.
Also don't forget that some other maths says that just about every quantum particle shouldn't exist-- or at least that the maths used to describe them is not consistent. One of the LHCs goals is ultimately to move beyond the Standard model on which it is based.
Regardless, one way or another, the harsh realities of the world will set in. Certainly some children could certainly benefit from 'protection' (say, so their confidence improves, which changes everything). However, other children will never fit in, and no amount of love, caring, or giving a damn about them will change that.
I take it you also approve of death by exposure for the physically deformed as well?
While certainly it is a tragedy that this girl has killed herself, and certainly any criminal activity related should be punished, is it really appropriate to hold others responsible for her choice to kill herself?
They're not being charged with her death. They're being charged with the harassment that came before that. I'm sure that the fact this girl killed herself won't work in their favour, but they should have considered the--highly conceivable--consequences of what they were doing.
These people are twisted sadists and at least one person is dead. How many others have had their lives affected or ruined by these people? This is why we have laws; to deal with this kind of behaviour.
Had a similar instance will bullying with my son.... When I spoke to the school about it, I was told there was nothing they could do other than mention it to the bus driver and possibly say something to the kids. Months later it was still going on.
Taco and Co. are trying to encourage posters like yourself that think "Slashdot is Serious Business" to consider leaving. Sorry, but you tend to write the most awfully boring posts.
1) When are ISP's going to get off their Fat backsides and implement IPV6? Most in my part of the world have no plans to do this for 1-2 years.
Stop blaming the ISPs. The current implementation of IPv6 is for all intents and purposes useless. An IPv6 capable computer cannot talk to an IPv4 capable one. This simple, trivial problem was left totally and utterly unaddressed by the IPv6 designers and as a result, IPv6 is and always will be a downgrade from IPv4 in its current form.
The current "method" of deploying IPv6 is to make the network support two protocols, IPv4 and IPv6, simultaneously. It's complete and utter nonsense, and ISPs are right not to implement it. Poor as it is, even running NAT through multiple layers makes more sense than the travesty that is the current IPv6.
Even video games consoles have realised the benefit of backwards compatibility. Yet we can't have it for our fundamental IP protocols because.... . It's incompetence of the highest order and ISPs cannot be expected to put up with it. The moment someone comes up with a backwards compatible IPv6.4 or the like, then ISPs can safely upgrade without damaging or compromising their existing service; and you can be sure they will. Until then, no upgrade is feasible or appropriate.
Maybe for all the physicists, chemists, and engineers; but has kilo never meant 10^3 for computer programmers, computer engineers or computer scientists. Same with mega- giga- and so one. They have all each had a very specific meaning in the base 2 number system, which is ultimately the most important base system for people working with computers.
We don't have 10 hours a day, 10 days a week. We don't have 10 bits in a byte or 100 degrees in a circle. I'm a huge proponent of the SI system but only in areas where it is appropriate to apply it. Lengths, weights, magnetic flux density, all fine. But there are many applications and areas which are not appropriate to shoehorn into the decimal system. Binary computer memory sizes are one such application. It is not appropriate to group base 2 numbers using a base 10 units.
If you ask a teenager, who struggles to deal with people and is quite unhappy about not being normal, if he wants to be made normal- chances are he'll jump at it.
I don't consider myself as having "aspergers" or whatever the modern fad geek fad calls it, but I do know that by many standards I would be considered "odd". I have known that I was odd for quite some time (initially, I simply thought everyone else was odd), and while sometimes I have thought about how it would be nice to be like most people sometimes, I have always been happy with the way I am. If you had asked me--at any time--whether I wanted to be "fixed" to be just like almost everyone else, I'm confident I would have said no. Though sometimes I was envious of aspects of other people, I never wanted to be like them, because I also saw the negatives to their way of living(But never to my conceited own of course).
Of course, if you'd asked my parents at any point whether they'd like me changed, they would have said "Yes Please!". I don't hold it against them, because I can see exactly why they would; everyone wants that set of perfect children, loved by all and sundry. Left to the realm of private industry, all oddball like me would be "fixed" fairly quickly in life.
But I know, and you know, that oddness goes with the territory when it comes to technology, science, and just about any other involved academic discipline. Most normal people will not spend several hours trying to work out a theorem, build a full adder, dissect a frog, read a 14th century ledger, stare at a star chart, etc, etc. These activities are all, as activities go, very odd. But they are also very useful. A normal person with a normal social, work and family life is not going to have the time or the inclination to do any of these things. The world needs oddballs, and for all we know, it may needs colour blind people too.
We don't hear of Chinese complaining about melamine in products from Western countries.
Yeah; They just complain about trivial things like labour exploitation, poor wages, health and safety lapses, pollution, and foreign support for censorship technologies and the communist regime. It's not like the West has done anything wrong here!!!
Your rampant racism not withstanding, that was an idiotic post.
He wasn't being racist. He was being alarmist, or possibly McCarthyist. His is the same mentality that leads to films like "Red Dawn", not "The Birth of a Nation".
grade 1-3 - addition, subtraction, basic shapes (passed off as geometry) grade 4-6 - addition, subtraction, basic shapes, might see a fraction by grade 6 grade 6-8 - all of the above, fractions, simple geometry.
Then in grade 8-9 where they start to introduce simple algebra.
Having read this, it doesn't surprise me that the students who took no mathematics were able to catch up so fast. You hardly did anything at all.
OK, attempting to jury rigging the K-12 system around the one over here (Ireland), this is how I remember things going(My memory is fuzzy and I wasn't keeping a record at the time. But I think this is fairly representative.).
grades -1,0 - naming numbers 1-10, possibly some teens. Very basic addition. Shapes. grades 1-2 - General addition, subtraction. Introduction of base number system, unit, tens, hundreds, etc. (Fractions?) Multiplication. Times table, perhaps basic geometry. grades 3-4 - More times tables. Fractions I presume. Division. Decimals. Long division. More geometry. grades 5-6 - More decimals. More long division. More geometry(Pi gets badly introduced here). (square roots?). Word problems.
grade 7 - Basic algebra. Exponents. Co-ordinate geometry. Set Theory. Euclidean Geometry. Polynomial Long Division. Simultaneous linear equations. grades 8-9 - Functions. Basic Trigonometry. Quadratic equations. Basic Statistics. Logarithms. Even more Euclidean Geometry. (Differentiation?)
And my understanding is that what I is somewhat less than that done in the English GCSEs, and apparently pales in comparision to the mathematics curricula in Russia and post Soviet states. I honestly don't know how the US expects to maintain an adequate presences in STEM if the basic mathematics curriculum is so deficient. The notion of an able student of 18 completing 12 years of formal education without being able to differentiate seems very odd to me.
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You need to watch some Chuck Jones shorts; and lighten up.
Actually the probability of you being born as you is in fact exactly 1.
He's being prosecuted in a court. Criminals get prosecuted. So he's a criminal; a bad man. It's a basic fact!!
I'm sane and I don't think that. Personally, I'm sick of hearing people moan on and on about child porn. If some guy has CP on his computer, I honestly couldn't care less at this point. I'm jaded of the hysteria past the point of cynicism.
I think people need to adopt this attitude if we are ever to get back the (relatively) sane and sober society of the 1990's where people's rights actually meant something.
Well, according to most government targets on which law enforcement is assessed... that is their job.
Well the process of collection makes it far more likely that the average person will remain in awe, fear and subservience to the state.
It also required actually providing the programs to begin with. Let's face it; if your school does not provide the more advanced levels of study in a field, then what is the point for the stuents in studying the lower level ones? If I told you your school would never provide Science classes in the senior cycle, would you spend as much time studying in in the Junior cycle? Or would you invest in a topic you knew you had further opportunity in.
Interest and passion are all very well, but practicalities come into it too. Teenagers are by no means stupid and even the ones that spend only a few minutes choosing their subjects will be weighing the pros and cons of each.
Well sir, I'mna just a honest memb'r o'da jury and I can't rightly say I followed all yer fancy legal logics. But what I did follow was that pro'secutor man an' how he showed how that young man was a stealing music and a downloadn' por-no-graph-y on the computer.
That says guilty in my book, I tell you what.
Ah yes. The Myth in the Middle. That great urban legend of cryptography.
Out of curiosity, could someone actually provide a concrete example of a MITM attack ever being successfully carried out? Bonus points for anyone who can further provide reasons for why this means Firefox no longer likes self signed certs.
Until the Daily Mail "named and shamed" people bypassing the filters and sandwiched their picture between a known paedophile and Jon Venables. Then you'll find the consequences for dissent are every bit as unpleasant as those available to the Communist Party.
Also don't forget that some other maths says that just about every quantum particle shouldn't exist-- or at least that the maths used to describe them is not consistent. One of the LHCs goals is ultimately to move beyond the Standard model on which it is based.
I take it you also approve of death by exposure for the physically deformed as well?
They're not being charged with her death. They're being charged with the harassment that came before that. I'm sure that the fact this girl killed herself won't work in their favour, but they should have considered the--highly conceivable--consequences of what they were doing.
These people are twisted sadists and at least one person is dead. How many others have had their lives affected or ruined by these people? This is why we have laws; to deal with this kind of behaviour.
Who's really at fault here?
Or just use chroot or something. I don't know.
Taco and Co. are trying to encourage posters like yourself that think "Slashdot is Serious Business" to consider leaving. Sorry, but you tend to write the most awfully boring posts.
Ok. Let me get this straight. Israel, one of the most right wing western countries has explicitly approved internet privacy, while France, one of the most left wing western countries, is actively trying to put the internet genies back in the bottle.
Maybe my political analysis toolset needs to move out of the 20th century....
Stop blaming the ISPs. The current implementation of IPv6 is for all intents and purposes useless . An IPv6 capable computer cannot talk to an IPv4 capable one. This simple, trivial problem was left totally and utterly unaddressed by the IPv6 designers and as a result, IPv6 is and always will be a downgrade from IPv4 in its current form.
The current "method" of deploying IPv6 is to make the network support two protocols, IPv4 and IPv6, simultaneously. It's complete and utter nonsense, and ISPs are right not to implement it. Poor as it is, even running NAT through multiple layers makes more sense than the travesty that is the current IPv6.
Even video games consoles have realised the benefit of backwards compatibility. Yet we can't have it for our fundamental IP protocols because.... . It's incompetence of the highest order and ISPs cannot be expected to put up with it. The moment someone comes up with a backwards compatible IPv6.4 or the like, then ISPs can safely upgrade without damaging or compromising their existing service; and you can be sure they will. Until then, no upgrade is feasible or appropriate.
Maybe for all the physicists, chemists, and engineers; but has kilo never meant 10^3 for computer programmers, computer engineers or computer scientists. Same with mega- giga- and so one. They have all each had a very specific meaning in the base 2 number system, which is ultimately the most important base system for people working with computers.
We don't have 10 hours a day, 10 days a week. We don't have 10 bits in a byte or 100 degrees in a circle. I'm a huge proponent of the SI system but only in areas where it is appropriate to apply it. Lengths, weights, magnetic flux density, all fine. But there are many applications and areas which are not appropriate to shoehorn into the decimal system. Binary computer memory sizes are one such application. It is not appropriate to group base 2 numbers using a base 10 units.
I don't consider myself as having "aspergers" or whatever the modern fad geek fad calls it, but I do know that by many standards I would be considered "odd". I have known that I was odd for quite some time (initially, I simply thought everyone else was odd), and while sometimes I have thought about how it would be nice to be like most people sometimes, I have always been happy with the way I am. If you had asked me--at any time--whether I wanted to be "fixed" to be just like almost everyone else, I'm confident I would have said no. Though sometimes I was envious of aspects of other people, I never wanted to be like them, because I also saw the negatives to their way of living(But never to my conceited own of course).
Of course, if you'd asked my parents at any point whether they'd like me changed, they would have said "Yes Please!". I don't hold it against them, because I can see exactly why they would; everyone wants that set of perfect children, loved by all and sundry. Left to the realm of private industry, all oddball like me would be "fixed" fairly quickly in life.
But I know, and you know, that oddness goes with the territory when it comes to technology, science, and just about any other involved academic discipline. Most normal people will not spend several hours trying to work out a theorem, build a full adder, dissect a frog, read a 14th century ledger, stare at a star chart, etc, etc. These activities are all, as activities go, very odd. But they are also very useful. A normal person with a normal social, work and family life is not going to have the time or the inclination to do any of these things. The world needs oddballs, and for all we know, it may needs colour blind people too.
And this debate is over. Nothing more to discuss people; move along!
Yeah; They just complain about trivial things like labour exploitation, poor wages, health and safety lapses, pollution, and foreign support for censorship technologies and the communist regime. It's not like the West has done anything wrong here!!!
He wasn't being racist. He was being alarmist, or possibly McCarthyist. His is the same mentality that leads to films like "Red Dawn", not "The Birth of a Nation".
Actually, for a lot of Venezuelans, Chavez was the solution.
Having read this, it doesn't surprise me that the students who took no mathematics were able to catch up so fast. You hardly did anything at all.
OK, attempting to jury rigging the K-12 system around the one over here (Ireland), this is how I remember things going(My memory is fuzzy and I wasn't keeping a record at the time. But I think this is fairly representative.).
grades -1,0 - naming numbers 1-10, possibly some teens. Very basic addition. Shapes.
grades 1-2 - General addition, subtraction. Introduction of base number system, unit, tens, hundreds, etc. (Fractions?) Multiplication. Times table, perhaps basic geometry.
grades 3-4 - More times tables. Fractions I presume. Division. Decimals. Long division. More geometry.
grades 5-6 - More decimals. More long division. More geometry(Pi gets badly introduced here). (square roots?). Word problems.
grade 7 - Basic algebra. Exponents. Co-ordinate geometry. Set Theory. Euclidean Geometry. Polynomial Long Division. Simultaneous linear equations.
grades 8-9 - Functions. Basic Trigonometry. Quadratic equations. Basic Statistics. Logarithms. Even more Euclidean Geometry. (Differentiation?)
grades (10)-11-12 - Complex numbers. Coordinate Trigonometry. Vectors. Differential Calculus. Integration. Binomial Expansions. Probability. More statistics. Matrices.
And my understanding is that what I is somewhat less than that done in the English GCSEs, and apparently pales in comparision to the mathematics curricula in Russia and post Soviet states. I honestly don't know how the US expects to maintain an adequate presences in STEM if the basic mathematics curriculum is so deficient. The notion of an able student of 18 completing 12 years of formal education without being able to differentiate seems very odd to me.