a provision in the bill was a requirement for ISP's to REDIRECT traffic if the offenders are offshore. Now we all know there are ways around that, but it's not exactly a "we're offshore so you can't touch us" deal.
"“There’s a lot of technology out there now that can disable phones and we’re looking at that. A number of [cell technology innovators] came to our Distracted Driving Summit here in Washington and presented their technology, and that’s one way. "
He said they're "looking at it", as in still considering...present tense. It may be a sloppy sentence and not what he meant, but this was his CLARIFICATION of what he meant and still managed to not say he was against it.
this idea is painfully stupid at face value. The fact that he'd even give it the time of day is scary.
mp3fiesta.com, movieberry.com, etc...all pay sites for pirated material.
And what procedures are in place to make sure this isn't abused? Can/b/tards get google, whitehouse.gov, or some other random website taken down with this? Sure sounds like it.
did you miss the part about "court order"? that's a pretty large check and or balance.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted 19-0 in favor of a bill that would allow the Department of Justice to seek court orders to shut down websites offering materials believed to infringe copyright.
The DOJ needed a senate bill to allow them to "seek court orders"? Getting a court order is usually where the process for this sort of thing STARTS.
Settle down all you knee-jerkers, that's not actually what he said
except that IS what he said, "we're looking at it" means "we're considering it a viable option" rather than "we laughed in the face of the guy who suggested it because it's moronic".
I'm thinking more of an "honor among thieves" sort of thing. Obviously, even shot with a clotting/healing bullet, you're still shot and will be out of commission for quite a while. so it would be great for people you want to be shot, but don't particularly want to die.
and to be honest, don't we all know people like that?
that was my first reaction too, I'd be pissed if I had to do a make up test but was innocent. But thinking back to my college days, other than the annoyance, I don't really see a downside to it. If I knew the material, retaking the test would be a breeze. If I totally blew the test, I get another chance at it. If I cheated...well, now I gotta learn the material. The only people who really get screwed are the ones who cheated because they were going to fail the test, and will likely still fail it.
The thing he, and everyone else, should be worried about is what happens with the statistical analysis of the RESTEST? Talk about your "outside influences", testing on the same material twice is a hell of an influence, not to mention the motivation of being assumed a cheater if you score lower the second time.
He used "statistical analysis and other investigatory techniques"? I gotta say, if I were in this class and the prof said he'd used statistical analysis to identify the cheaters, I'd breathe a sigh of relief and sit back in my chair comfortable in the knowledge that he was bluffing and didn't have shit. I'd be FAR more worried about the "other investigatory techniques" that don't seem to be worth mentioning for some reason.
Listening to him in this video, I am 90% certain he and the school know exactly jack shit about who cheated and who didn't. Everything he says is classic (and cliche) interrogation methodology. "we already know", "limited time offer", "just tell us and no repercussions"...it sounds like they have exactly nothing but bluffs.
Granted, on a risk/reward scale, there's very little reason NOT to take the deal if they're tossing the results anyway. Hell, I might even go to my TA and say "look, I didn't cheat on the test, but I'm requesting to be placed on the list of cheaters because I don't trust you to accurately exonerate me
Honestly, for a guy who was too lazy to write his own tests and used the publishers test banks...jesus christ...he's awfully dramatic about this, when he should have expected it with about 100% certainty. I'm more than a little surprised that there was any statistical difference between semesters, as this kind of cheating had to be going on all along.
When I was in college, every class you took you'd buy the text book, you'd buy class notes, and you'd buy historical exam packs...it wasn't even an underground thing, they sold them at the CAMPUS BOOKSTORE. Profs COULD be lazy and reuse tests semester after semester, some even did, but they knew the tests were out in public circulation...just like EVERY test is once you give it. Hell, even out here in "the real world", you can't keep tests private. There's a huge industry for buying suspiciously accurate "practice exams" for every technical certification test in existence.
This is lazy teaching methodology, lazy to the point that I'm not even sure it qualifies as cheating instead of "additional research".
I want to be in a large, busy area like a crowded mall or a large outdoor event when one of these alerts gets sent out. For some reason, the thought of seeing almost everyone stop and reach for their cell phone at the same time just seems incredibly cool to me.
How about when you're standing in the middle of a large outdoor event and 30,000 people all get a serious warning message all at once? Does panic stampede sounds as cool?
Call me when they can pour this Bacterial pudding into a bullet wound and have it heal up...that's the future I'm waiting for. Then I can finally start my crime-fighting vigilante spree.
Or...you could put this pudding IN the bullet, then as soon as you'd got shot, you'd start healing. Joscelyn Elders would finally be vindicated!
This is in no way an apology, it's a plea for sympathy for consequences suffered at the hands of an unreasonable party...at least that's how she sees herself.
This is childish beyond belief. She responded to Monica's email with condescending sarcasm, and an attitude of "what are you gonna do about it". Then after she found out there WAS something to be done about it, she set about trying to spin everything as "I was GOING to be penitent, she just didn't give me a chance".
Doesn't this sound a bit like every shoplifter who ever got caught..."I was going to pay for it, you just didn't give me a chance?"
AFAIK the "press release" was just a banner ad on the front page of the iTunes Music Store. It was the tech blogs who pumped it up to "Apple about to launch cold-fusion powered holographic iPod with direct-to-brain playback" fever pitch.
It wasn't the tech blogs who said "Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget", that was apple. THAT was overhyped. THAT was worthy of being placed beside Dean Kamens claim that the Segway would "change the way we build cities" in the "drinking our own kool-aid" marketing hall of shame.
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..but it turns out it's just another overhyped Apple marketing press release.
If Apple truly thinks that adding 40 year old music to their store is, music that has already been freely available in every conceivable format, is revolutionary...then Apple is truly out of ideas.
Seriously, is there ANY Beatles fan out there who didn't already own exactly as much Beatles music as they wanted to own? This is just a new way to pay more than you had to pay yesterday, for lower quality and DRM you didn't want.
It seems like this guy is a serial offender of jackassery.
I guess that's what you get from someone who is a professor of photography, and likely is constantly ridiculed and bullied by the "real art" professors.
There's so much fail surrounding this idea that it's not even worthy of commenting on what all is wrong with it.
"She didn't decide what security questions Yahoo is going to use."
No, but she didn't have to use such an obvious answer. She could have made it simply impossible to answer by using unintelligible garbage. At least that way no random person could answer it.
True, you CAN answer security questions with irrelevant answers, even a cryptic alpha-numeric sequence. In fact, that would be a great security idea...we could call it a "password".
Anyone musing on this will be given to imagine the original owner's entire experience being one of the pioneers of computing at home.
I think you are overly optimistic on the monetary value of "musing". People who are sufficiently wealthy to afford spending $100K+ on an old computer are old enough to have around during these "pioneer" years. This is a big price tag to put on nostalgia.
$160k is the low end of Christie's estimate. The high end is quite low, too.
So what do you think it's going to sell for? I'm honestly curious what you think it's worth, and why.
I think the auction house HOPES it will sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars...expecting it is an exercise in wishful thinking. The art of predicting auction prices on rare items is based on historical sales of similar items, this is a pretty unusual and unique circumstance.
Part of me wants to trust them as experts, but part of me also feels that old (albeit rare) computer parts don't have the value they think it does. I guess we'll find out.
The real joke is that this kid wasn't some computer genius on the contrary it was Sarah Palin's stupidity that should be sentenced to a year.
Her password question: What high school did you attend?
Answer: Wascilla High.
Palin is an idiot.
How does that equate to Palin being an idiot? She didn't decide what security questions Yahoo is going to use.
The problem is the people who implement "security policies" all to frequently forget what their goal is in favor of satisfying bullet point requirements. I have to use an application at work that has an utterly ridiculous password AND account name policy, so strict that you have to write down both the username and password because you'll never remember it. And then their idea of "security questions" are things like "what country do you most want to visit but haven't been to yet", and the answer has a minimum character length of 8. So never mind that you might VISIT the country an nullify it, or the fact that you might discover a NEW place you really want to go, but the minimum length will disqualify countries you want to go to.
I swear having the word "security" attached to your title gives people free license to go full retard.
If we stopped reporting drivel, then Taco wouldn't be able to sling zippy one liners like "Do you know anyone with a one of these phones? Me either."
I can tell you for a fact that there isn't a T-mobile HD7 in stock anywhere in the greater Seattle area, because I had to listen to my office mate calling every damn store looking for one. They may or may not be selling overwhelming numbers, but if they're selling all they can get their hands on that's not exactly a failure.
And I guess my response for CmdrTaco is "no, I don't know anyone with one of these phones, but I know a couple of people who are on waiting lists to get one"
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I don't think you read the article.
a provision in the bill was a requirement for ISP's to REDIRECT traffic if the offenders are offshore. Now we all know there are ways around that, but it's not exactly a "we're offshore so you can't touch us" deal.
"“There’s a lot of technology out there now that can disable phones and we’re looking at that. A number of [cell technology innovators] came to our Distracted Driving Summit here in Washington and presented their technology, and that’s one way. "
He said they're "looking at it", as in still considering...present tense. It may be a sloppy sentence and not what he meant, but this was his CLARIFICATION of what he meant and still managed to not say he was against it.
this idea is painfully stupid at face value. The fact that he'd even give it the time of day is scary.
Who PAYS for pirated material?
mp3fiesta.com, movieberry.com, etc...all pay sites for pirated material.
And what procedures are in place to make sure this isn't abused? Can /b/tards get google, whitehouse.gov, or some other random website taken down with this? Sure sounds like it.
did you miss the part about "court order"? that's a pretty large check and or balance.
the majority of the population doesn't want court orders to be required before websites are shutdown?
The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted 19-0 in favor of a bill that would allow the Department of Justice to seek court orders to shut down websites offering materials believed to infringe copyright.
The DOJ needed a senate bill to allow them to "seek court orders"? Getting a court order is usually where the process for this sort of thing STARTS.
Settle down all you knee-jerkers, that's not actually what he said
except that IS what he said, "we're looking at it" means "we're considering it a viable option" rather than "we laughed in the face of the guy who suggested it because it's moronic".
I'm thinking more of an "honor among thieves" sort of thing. Obviously, even shot with a clotting/healing bullet, you're still shot and will be out of commission for quite a while. so it would be great for people you want to be shot, but don't particularly want to die.
and to be honest, don't we all know people like that?
that was my first reaction too, I'd be pissed if I had to do a make up test but was innocent. But thinking back to my college days, other than the annoyance, I don't really see a downside to it. If I knew the material, retaking the test would be a breeze. If I totally blew the test, I get another chance at it. If I cheated...well, now I gotta learn the material. The only people who really get screwed are the ones who cheated because they were going to fail the test, and will likely still fail it.
The thing he, and everyone else, should be worried about is what happens with the statistical analysis of the RESTEST? Talk about your "outside influences", testing on the same material twice is a hell of an influence, not to mention the motivation of being assumed a cheater if you score lower the second time.
He used "statistical analysis and other investigatory techniques"? I gotta say, if I were in this class and the prof said he'd used statistical analysis to identify the cheaters, I'd breathe a sigh of relief and sit back in my chair comfortable in the knowledge that he was bluffing and didn't have shit. I'd be FAR more worried about the "other investigatory techniques" that don't seem to be worth mentioning for some reason.
Listening to him in this video, I am 90% certain he and the school know exactly jack shit about who cheated and who didn't. Everything he says is classic (and cliche) interrogation methodology. "we already know", "limited time offer", "just tell us and no repercussions"...it sounds like they have exactly nothing but bluffs.
Granted, on a risk/reward scale, there's very little reason NOT to take the deal if they're tossing the results anyway. Hell, I might even go to my TA and say "look, I didn't cheat on the test, but I'm requesting to be placed on the list of cheaters because I don't trust you to accurately exonerate me
Honestly, for a guy who was too lazy to write his own tests and used the publishers test banks...jesus christ...he's awfully dramatic about this, when he should have expected it with about 100% certainty. I'm more than a little surprised that there was any statistical difference between semesters, as this kind of cheating had to be going on all along.
When I was in college, every class you took you'd buy the text book, you'd buy class notes, and you'd buy historical exam packs...it wasn't even an underground thing, they sold them at the CAMPUS BOOKSTORE. Profs COULD be lazy and reuse tests semester after semester, some even did, but they knew the tests were out in public circulation...just like EVERY test is once you give it. Hell, even out here in "the real world", you can't keep tests private. There's a huge industry for buying suspiciously accurate "practice exams" for every technical certification test in existence.
This is lazy teaching methodology, lazy to the point that I'm not even sure it qualifies as cheating instead of "additional research".
I want to be in a large, busy area like a crowded mall or a large outdoor event when one of these alerts gets sent out. For some reason, the thought of seeing almost everyone stop and reach for their cell phone at the same time just seems incredibly cool to me.
How about when you're standing in the middle of a large outdoor event and 30,000 people all get a serious warning message all at once? Does panic stampede sounds as cool?
Call me when they can pour this Bacterial pudding into a bullet wound and have it heal up...that's the future I'm waiting for. Then I can finally start my crime-fighting vigilante spree.
Or...you could put this pudding IN the bullet, then as soon as you'd got shot, you'd start healing. Joscelyn Elders would finally be vindicated!
This is in no way an apology, it's a plea for sympathy for consequences suffered at the hands of an unreasonable party...at least that's how she sees herself.
This is childish beyond belief. She responded to Monica's email with condescending sarcasm, and an attitude of "what are you gonna do about it". Then after she found out there WAS something to be done about it, she set about trying to spin everything as "I was GOING to be penitent, she just didn't give me a chance".
Doesn't this sound a bit like every shoplifter who ever got caught..."I was going to pay for it, you just didn't give me a chance?"
Was her mistake in stealing someone else's work, or in forgetting to wrap herself in some self-righteous "information wants to be free" codswallop?
I don't know what "codswallop" is, do you have a recipe for it? I promise not to reprint it for profit (not a guarantee).
so these blurry, blobby, only vaguely human shaped images are what we're supposed to be worried about violating our nude bodies privacy?
AFAIK the "press release" was just a banner ad on the front page of the iTunes Music Store. It was the tech blogs who pumped it up to "Apple about to launch cold-fusion powered holographic iPod with direct-to-brain playback" fever pitch.
It wasn't the tech blogs who said "Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget", that was apple. THAT was overhyped. THAT was worthy of being placed beside Dean Kamens claim that the Segway would "change the way we build cities" in the "drinking our own kool-aid" marketing hall of shame.
..but it turns out it's just another overhyped Apple marketing press release.
If Apple truly thinks that adding 40 year old music to their store is, music that has already been freely available in every conceivable format, is revolutionary...then Apple is truly out of ideas.
Seriously, is there ANY Beatles fan out there who didn't already own exactly as much Beatles music as they wanted to own? This is just a new way to pay more than you had to pay yesterday, for lower quality and DRM you didn't want.
It seems like this guy is a serial offender of jackassery.
I guess that's what you get from someone who is a professor of photography, and likely is constantly ridiculed and bullied by the "real art" professors.
There's so much fail surrounding this idea that it's not even worthy of commenting on what all is wrong with it.
"She didn't decide what security questions Yahoo is going to use."
No, but she didn't have to use such an obvious answer. She could have made it simply impossible to answer by using unintelligible garbage. At least that way no random person could answer it.
True, you CAN answer security questions with irrelevant answers, even a cryptic alpha-numeric sequence. In fact, that would be a great security idea...we could call it a "password".
Anyone musing on this will be given to imagine the original owner's entire experience being one of the pioneers of computing at home.
I think you are overly optimistic on the monetary value of "musing". People who are sufficiently wealthy to afford spending $100K+ on an old computer are old enough to have around during these "pioneer" years. This is a big price tag to put on nostalgia.
$160k is the low end of Christie's estimate. The high end is quite low, too.
So what do you think it's going to sell for? I'm honestly curious what you think it's worth, and why.
Nobody ever got groped for driving a Ford.
You my friend, have never driven a sweet, tricked out Mustang.
On items with this sort of juice, the auction house usually guesses way low.
this sort of juice? This is an old computer with a good box and receipt, not a Picasso.
That's right. Steve started selling the Apple 1 for the price of the mark of the beast.
-Rick
Not to be overly pedantic, but the "number of the beast" is 666, not a fraction higher than 666.
I think the auction house HOPES it will sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars...expecting it is an exercise in wishful thinking. The art of predicting auction prices on rare items is based on historical sales of similar items, this is a pretty unusual and unique circumstance.
Part of me wants to trust them as experts, but part of me also feels that old (albeit rare) computer parts don't have the value they think it does. I guess we'll find out.
The real joke is that this kid wasn't some computer genius on the contrary it was Sarah Palin's stupidity that should be sentenced to a year. Her password question: What high school did you attend? Answer: Wascilla High. Palin is an idiot.
How does that equate to Palin being an idiot? She didn't decide what security questions Yahoo is going to use.
The problem is the people who implement "security policies" all to frequently forget what their goal is in favor of satisfying bullet point requirements. I have to use an application at work that has an utterly ridiculous password AND account name policy, so strict that you have to write down both the username and password because you'll never remember it. And then their idea of "security questions" are things like "what country do you most want to visit but haven't been to yet", and the answer has a minimum character length of 8. So never mind that you might VISIT the country an nullify it, or the fact that you might discover a NEW place you really want to go, but the minimum length will disqualify countries you want to go to.
I swear having the word "security" attached to your title gives people free license to go full retard.
So stop reporting this drivel!
If we stopped reporting drivel, then Taco wouldn't be able to sling zippy one liners like "Do you know anyone with a one of these phones? Me either."
I can tell you for a fact that there isn't a T-mobile HD7 in stock anywhere in the greater Seattle area, because I had to listen to my office mate calling every damn store looking for one. They may or may not be selling overwhelming numbers, but if they're selling all they can get their hands on that's not exactly a failure.
And I guess my response for CmdrTaco is "no, I don't know anyone with one of these phones, but I know a couple of people who are on waiting lists to get one"