It strikes me that the turnaround time for patches to Firefox is significantly quicker than many other options. After these little bugs were found, they had patches out in short order. While it may not be impregnable, at least they are plugging the holes faster.
Educators and psychologists often categorize people by the method of learning/analyzing that is most effective for each person. [visual, kinesthetic, and aural are the three common options] And unlike the vast majority of people, visual cues are not my primary method. In fact, visual reasoning is dead last for me. A few examples: word searches are incredibly challenging for me, if I drop anything in tall grass I have a difficult time finding it, I'm terrible at visually estimating volume, etc.
However, in most regards I would be considered to have above-average intelligence. Fantastic memory, strong lateral thinking, keen reasoning, etc. So I am continually aware that puzzles, IQ tests, and brain teasers always have a strong visual bias. Perhaps it is just a matter of convenience that visual puzzles are easier to represent on paper. But I wish that puzzles like this could incorporate more aural, kinesthetic, or narrative reasoning skills.
As a public school teacher, I have noticed that high school students have a particular affinity for technological gadgets. Not just any gadget, but gadgets that are useful to a high-school-aged person. "Useful" often is socially favorable, entertaining, and/or convenient (note that "useful" to an adult isn't at all different from these categories, just slightly different criteria) Hence the popularity of iPods, handheld gaming, ubiquitous cell phones, and the occasional PDA.
What does this mean for someone interested in a high school computing/technology fair? Let students brainstorm and design personal technology! They think more outside the box than any adult is capable. Let them consider real world problems, and you will be amazed at the solutions they invent. For example, several major cities are currently considering WiMax implementations. Many of them are stuck figuring out how to make it meet social infastructure ends and still not put them in gigantic debt. What benefits could be added to this technology to make it favorable for both society and the individual? How about GPS coordinated with yellow pages information so you can see a restaurant's menu on your pda when you walk past it. And what gadgets would be needed to implement these ideas? More powerful cellphones? A wristwatch that surfs the internet?
Let the students consider solutions to these problems, and then take their ideas very seriously. Tell them that you will file a patent in their name for whatever solutions they create (not that I'm crazy about the patent system, but to most students it sounds very mature and important to patent an idea). You could advertise the idea to some of those WiMax cities. You could submit ideas to technology companies. You could even have a second-tier fair with more highly motivated students to attempt an actual implementation of their idea (in Rhode Island perhaps?).
Whatever computing/techonoly problem you throw at the students, their solutions will be far more creative than my paltry examples. If you take them seriously, you will be amazed at what they create. High school students already amaze me on a daily basis.
This is advice coming from a college senior who will graduate in Dec. Take full advantage of the opportunities school can offer you to try out new fields of interest. If that class on post-Ottoman Hungarian literature seems interesting, audit it. If you find yourself strangely drawn to the curling club, join it. College is the time to have new experiences and discover talents you didn't know you had. Don't worry about whether it fits into your career plans. Just develop your talents and someone will eventually pay you to use them (at least in my experience).
Exactly - I weighed my options of paying the 19.99$ per account for the archive and 2gb features but when I came across fetchyahoo I was very much impressed about the features and ease with which you can download mails from yahoo.
It might be worth noting that a good friend of mine (also a/.er who likely won't post about this) had his Y! accounts taken away from him for "checking his mail without accessing the website" when he used fetchyahoo.
Just a word of caution. Although it is a rather cool script.
But security requires bright lines of demarcation between your local machine, its peripherals, the LAN it may be on, and servers owned by others. It's on those distant servers that these applications will live, but this paradigm means granting any one of them as much access to the local computer as any locally installed program.
This is coming from a linux newbie, but isn't one of the main security differences between Windows and *nix, the way *nix operating systems control security through strong enforcement of user and group privleges? What if a new user/group were to be created to work with these web applications, widgets, whatever you want to call them. How 'bout user "wig"?
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It strikes me that the turnaround time for patches to Firefox is significantly quicker than many other options. After these little bugs were found, they had patches out in short order. While it may not be impregnable, at least they are plugging the holes faster.
Educators and psychologists often categorize people by the method of learning/analyzing that is most effective for each person. [visual, kinesthetic, and aural are the three common options] And unlike the vast majority of people, visual cues are not my primary method. In fact, visual reasoning is dead last for me. A few examples: word searches are incredibly challenging for me, if I drop anything in tall grass I have a difficult time finding it, I'm terrible at visually estimating volume, etc.
However, in most regards I would be considered to have above-average intelligence. Fantastic memory, strong lateral thinking, keen reasoning, etc. So I am continually aware that puzzles, IQ tests, and brain teasers always have a strong visual bias. Perhaps it is just a matter of convenience that visual puzzles are easier to represent on paper. But I wish that puzzles like this could incorporate more aural, kinesthetic, or narrative reasoning skills.
As a public school teacher, I have noticed that high school students have a particular affinity for technological gadgets. Not just any gadget, but gadgets that are useful to a high-school-aged person. "Useful" often is socially favorable, entertaining, and/or convenient (note that "useful" to an adult isn't at all different from these categories, just slightly different criteria) Hence the popularity of iPods, handheld gaming, ubiquitous cell phones, and the occasional PDA.
What does this mean for someone interested in a high school computing/technology fair? Let students brainstorm and design personal technology! They think more outside the box than any adult is capable. Let them consider real world problems, and you will be amazed at the solutions they invent. For example, several major cities are currently considering WiMax implementations. Many of them are stuck figuring out how to make it meet social infastructure ends and still not put them in gigantic debt. What benefits could be added to this technology to make it favorable for both society and the individual? How about GPS coordinated with yellow pages information so you can see a restaurant's menu on your pda when you walk past it. And what gadgets would be needed to implement these ideas? More powerful cellphones? A wristwatch that surfs the internet?
Let the students consider solutions to these problems, and then take their ideas very seriously. Tell them that you will file a patent in their name for whatever solutions they create (not that I'm crazy about the patent system, but to most students it sounds very mature and important to patent an idea). You could advertise the idea to some of those WiMax cities. You could submit ideas to technology companies. You could even have a second-tier fair with more highly motivated students to attempt an actual implementation of their idea (in Rhode Island perhaps?).
Whatever computing/techonoly problem you throw at the students, their solutions will be far more creative than my paltry examples. If you take them seriously, you will be amazed at what they create. High school students already amaze me on a daily basis.
Taking matter off the moon seems like dangerous business to me. We rely on her mass for myriad geo-physical phenomena which support our ecology.
Tides, anyone? Or how about stabilizing the earth's rotation and orbit?
This is advice coming from a college senior who will graduate in Dec. Take full advantage of the opportunities school can offer you to try out new fields of interest. If that class on post-Ottoman Hungarian literature seems interesting, audit it. If you find yourself strangely drawn to the curling club, join it. College is the time to have new experiences and discover talents you didn't know you had. Don't worry about whether it fits into your career plans. Just develop your talents and someone will eventually pay you to use them (at least in my experience).
Exactly - I weighed my options of paying the 19.99$ per account for the archive and 2gb features but when I came across fetchyahoo I was very much impressed about the features and ease with which you can download mails from yahoo.
/.er who likely won't post about this) had his Y! accounts taken away from him for "checking his mail without accessing the website" when he used fetchyahoo.
It might be worth noting that a good friend of mine (also a
Just a word of caution. Although it is a rather cool script.
But security requires bright lines of demarcation between your local machine, its peripherals, the LAN it may be on, and servers owned by others. It's on those distant servers that these applications will live, but this paradigm means granting any one of them as much access to the local computer as any locally installed program.
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This is coming from a linux newbie, but isn't one of the main security differences between Windows and *nix, the way *nix operating systems control security through strong enforcement of user and group privleges? What if a new user/group were to be created to work with these web applications, widgets, whatever you want to call them. How 'bout user "wig"?
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