Stop screwing prisoners who try to use the prison phone to contact loved ones.
Prisons have been seeing their phones as a profit center lately, charging a dollar per minute or more to contact loved ones. And loved ones can't call the prisoner -- the prisoner has to make the call. And often they can't call cell phones, only land lines -- but not everybody has a land line any more.
Make the prices more reasonable, drop the "no cell phones" thing, and have some way for people to call the prisoners (or at least tell them to call home beyond sending them a letter) and the demand for cell phones will drop.
This is quite true. But having some experience in this particular business -- albeit a while back -- I should add that the jail phone companies are not actually screwing the prisoners themselves, but rather the people they call. This usually means their Moms, wives, girlfriends and kids. The calls go through as collect calls billed at the highest allowable rate. Fifteen years ago it wasn't uncommon to see someone billed hundreds of dollars for an hour or two of conversation with her husband in jail.
I actually take particular note of well-thought-out warning labels. . ..
That's the thing, isn't it? One well-thought warning is worth thousands of CYAs. But the ratio of CYAs to useless warnings is too high. My problem is I become so inured by the useless warnings or some products, I sometimes miss the important ones on others . . .
It still isn't advertised much (hey, it would be bad advertising...) / such screens are apparently easy to ignore.
So many things come with disclaimers like that, they're easy to blow off. You just figure it's there as a CYA, and you think "damn frivolous lawsuits" -- if you ponder it at all -- and proceed to use it.
Heck, you buy a screwdriver and it says to wear eye protection at all times when using it. So I'm not surprised that users routinely ignore both important and unimportant warnings alike. We might actually be safer with fewer of them.
Sony did not force you to connect your PS3 to the internet, to use PSN, or to update your firmware.
By way of a car analogy, Ford doesn't force me to drive my car. But it's just not that useful sitting in the garage -- but it is mostly safe from being wrecked.
However I see a problem with the ebook, and that is that if you break your reader or run out of battery (either will happen eventually) then the books you have will be unreadable. Breaking a paper book doesn't make it unreadable, and at worst you have to re-glue the pages but usually a piece of tape is sufficient.
I find e-readers really useful for stuff like magazines that I would recycle in a week or a month, or for my wife's trashy romance novels that only merit one reading (by her calculation -- zero by mine). These things aren't so much heirlooms to me as "clutter."
I'd like to see my Mom adopt this technology for these reasons. Especially as I'll be responsible for cleaning out her basement after she's gone.
You don't have to believe in an imaginary friend in the sky who hates teh gheys and the eating of shellfish and of beef on fridays to be religious about something. I've seen people with religious zeal over everything from their diet (See, for example, vegans and the low-carb people.) to their particular environmental cause to their hobby or sport (triathletes) to their politics to their choice of computer operating system. Even some atheists are so fanatical about being anti-religion that they could well be describes as being religious about it.
I think you're describing "zeal," rather than "religion," per se. While a religious person can be zealous, it's not the only aspect of being religious. A person can be zealous without being religious. Religion implies other features like mysticism, which is mostly or wholly absent in the other "groups" you've suggested.
I realize that one of the definitions of "religious" is "zealous". However, it doesn't seem that any of TFAs are using that definition of "religious". In fact, the 3rd article specifically characterizes religion as: "belief in the supernatural, obedience to authority or susceptibility to ceremony and ritual . . . "
First, you need to stop drinking the coolaid. You are paying the sys-admin to keep your systems up and running. They do have "the keys to the kingdom", because you are paying that person to hold them. If you don't trust that person to hold the keys, then you shouldn't have hired them in the first place.
This discussion has got me wondering just what kind of person is always expecting everyone to stab him in the back. I understand caution and reasonable preparation for calamities human and otherwise, but the PHB crowd really fixates on the paranoia.
.. doesn't 'friend' you on Facebook in the first place.
Not in my experience -- my father-in-law friended me, and he's not that fond of me. Maybe not hate . . . I can see why someone would like to keep track of someone they dislike, especially family or other propinquity.
You know you can block specific apps from posting to your news feed and/or wall, right?
It only took me a week or so of blocking all the farmville/horoscope/superpoke crap to get to the point where it wasn't a constant distraction.
Some "friends" seem to be trying to outsmart me by finding new fishmobfarmgodland's every freakin' day. Where do they find the time? Oh, yeah, they're not on slashdot . . .
Details about who doens't want to friend you and why should remain private.
Do you mean that you shouldn't tell the rest of the world who "unfriended" you? I guess that's a good idea. But who's your friend isn't really a secret, they're not on your list. You may not remember who was and who you asked, but there's nothing really sneaky about noting who's there (and who left) every so often. I suppose it might be unhappy to dwell on it . . .
Christians around the world give thumbs up for evolution. What went wrong in the U.S.? Come on now, you're an embarrassment to the world.
All US Christians favor teaching creationism as science in exactly the same way as all Muslims are terrorists. Please, please, read that twice before bashing or modding.
So, if you want your kids to be taught about your mythological version of creation so desperately, run your own little class, and stop expecting science teaches to seriously consider your religious beliefs as anything even remotely approaching valid science.
The GP is not endorsing creationism, just shying away from the argument with its proponents. This may sound like a cop out to anyone not familiar with fundamentalists in the US. It is kind of a cop out, but not everyone wants to fight tooth and nail over high school curriculum, even though we'd be better off if someone did.
I guess we do cave too much to the fundie fringe, but just try arguing with those people. Give it a try, face-to-face with these folks and you'll see what I mean -- arguing with them on the internet is only a sample.
If even the teachers aren't educated enough to understand this - what hope is there for the rest.
That's not what TFA really says. TFS is somewhat misleading. Teachers aren't unprepared, they're uncomfortable. And while it doesn't say exactly why they're uncomfortable, I'd wager they're more afraid of one set of parents than the other.
TFA and even TFS states the study was done at Penn State. TFA even more clearly states that the study was conducted in the US. I know, this is Slashdot, no need to read TFA, just insert some redundant US-bashing -- redundant because the article itself is rather convicting.
Could someone explain?
What are the state requirements for someone to become a licensed biology teacher in the U.S.?
TFA says they're "[not] comfortable," not necessarily because they're unfamiliar with the subject.
But the crux of the study is what the authors call the "cautious 60 percent" who neither advocate for the science of evolution nor push creationism, but simply avoid the issue altogether. Teachers may want to avoid controversy . . .
The part about not being prepared, contrary to what the summary seems to say, refers to the students in the classes:
Not having biology taught properly, Berkman says, makes it harder for students to understand science later on. A sound science education is important, he adds, given that science and technology are so important in everyday life.
You (generally) need a teaching degree to teach in the US. You may or may not need another degree in your particular field of education. (But I don't know why you wouldn't want one). This is one barrier to someone who has a degree in a particular field leaving practice to become a teacher: they usually need an MS in education to get a certificate. I've heard of some places making temporary provisions in cases of dire need of educators or with the understanding the teacher was on track to receive the degree and get his/her certificate.
And everything I just wrote is state-by-state and even district-to-district, so YMMV. What I've seen may be entirely different from others' experiences.
I'd suspect that the teachers are more concerned with the creationist parents coming and complaining to them than they are about the evolutionist parents. I have a theory (well, it's really a hypothesis) as to why, and I'm sure others do, too.
So now, all our great works will be reduced to 140 characters with no caps, no punctuation, and hacked up spelling. ee cummings was way ahead of his time.
I'd say if something allows communication between two or more individuals, it's a language. Or are you referring to the language/dialect distinction?
fwiw, I would never, EVER put the bulk of
my photos online for hackers to plunder at
the next onset of vulnerabilities that just
happen to plague whatever site is hosting
your website.
For me, and probably most of us here, the primary concern about our personal photos is their loss, not their potential exploitation by the hacker community. I realize this sounds like the "nothing to hide" argument, and I guess it is. Most of my pictures really are interesting only to my family, friends and me. I may lack imagination, but I can't see what kind of "plunder" a hacker could get out of my wife at the beach with my daughter trying to hold in the tide -- that's the kind of stuff that I don't want to lose.
If I had pictures that theft and misuse was a concern for, I'd certainly opt for a different solution -- specifically for those.
Why do you think the fire dept has anything to do with the water system? there just a user, like you.
If there is a pot hole, would you call the police about repairing it? because, they use it to?
Just to be clear:
The fire Dept. was right. YOU were wrong.
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That's not a "fix", it's a "workaround".
Depends if it's a bug or a feature . . .
Stop screwing prisoners who try to use the prison phone to contact loved ones.
Prisons have been seeing their phones as a profit center lately, charging a dollar per minute or more to contact loved ones. And loved ones can't call the prisoner -- the prisoner has to make the call. And often they can't call cell phones, only land lines -- but not everybody has a land line any more.
Make the prices more reasonable, drop the "no cell phones" thing, and have some way for people to call the prisoners (or at least tell them to call home beyond sending them a letter) and the demand for cell phones will drop.
This is quite true. But having some experience in this particular business -- albeit a while back -- I should add that the jail phone companies are not actually screwing the prisoners themselves, but rather the people they call. This usually means their Moms, wives, girlfriends and kids. The calls go through as collect calls billed at the highest allowable rate. Fifteen years ago it wasn't uncommon to see someone billed hundreds of dollars for an hour or two of conversation with her husband in jail.
I actually take particular note of well-thought-out warning labels. . . .
That's the thing, isn't it? One well-thought warning is worth thousands of CYAs. But the ratio of CYAs to useless warnings is too high. My problem is I become so inured by the useless warnings or some products, I sometimes miss the important ones on others . . .
Probably using wi-fi assisted gps.
I had to read this twice to appreciate the humor-gem embedded within
It still isn't advertised much (hey, it would be bad advertising...) / such screens are apparently easy to ignore.
So many things come with disclaimers like that, they're easy to blow off. You just figure it's there as a CYA, and you think "damn frivolous lawsuits" -- if you ponder it at all -- and proceed to use it.
Heck, you buy a screwdriver and it says to wear eye protection at all times when using it. So I'm not surprised that users routinely ignore both important and unimportant warnings alike. We might actually be safer with fewer of them.
Makes you wonder how safe is it really to use these "game console" things, which is really a computer with no local rights to OS control.
Aw, cmon, what could possibly go wrong?
Sony did not force you to connect your PS3 to the internet, to use PSN, or to update your firmware.
By way of a car analogy, Ford doesn't force me to drive my car. But it's just not that useful sitting in the garage -- but it is mostly safe from being wrecked.
However I see a problem with the ebook, and that is that if you break your reader or run out of battery (either will happen eventually) then the books you have will be unreadable. Breaking a paper book doesn't make it unreadable, and at worst you have to re-glue the pages but usually a piece of tape is sufficient.
I find e-readers really useful for stuff like magazines that I would recycle in a week or a month, or for my wife's trashy romance novels that only merit one reading (by her calculation -- zero by mine). These things aren't so much heirlooms to me as "clutter."
I'd like to see my Mom adopt this technology for these reasons. Especially as I'll be responsible for cleaning out her basement after she's gone.
But they won't replace the "coffee table book".
You don't have to believe in an imaginary friend in the sky who hates teh gheys and the eating of shellfish and of beef on fridays to be religious about something. I've seen people with religious zeal over everything from their diet (See, for example, vegans and the low-carb people.) to their particular environmental cause to their hobby or sport (triathletes) to their politics to their choice of computer operating system. Even some atheists are so fanatical about being anti-religion that they could well be describes as being religious about it.
I think you're describing "zeal," rather than "religion," per se. While a religious person can be zealous, it's not the only aspect of being religious. A person can be zealous without being religious. Religion implies other features like mysticism, which is mostly or wholly absent in the other "groups" you've suggested.
I realize that one of the definitions of "religious" is "zealous". However, it doesn't seem that any of TFAs are using that definition of "religious". In fact, the 3rd article specifically characterizes religion as: "belief in the supernatural, obedience to authority or susceptibility to ceremony and ritual . . . "
First, you need to stop drinking the coolaid. You are paying the sys-admin to keep your systems up and running. They do have "the keys to the kingdom", because you are paying that person to hold them. If you don't trust that person to hold the keys, then you shouldn't have hired them in the first place.
This discussion has got me wondering just what kind of person is always expecting everyone to stab him in the back. I understand caution and reasonable preparation for calamities human and otherwise, but the PHB crowd really fixates on the paranoia.
I can't help but think that an NDA++ or NDA# would be more suitable for a sysadmin.
.. doesn't 'friend' you on Facebook in the first place.
Not in my experience -- my father-in-law friended me, and he's not that fond of me. Maybe not hate . . . I can see why someone would like to keep track of someone they dislike, especially family or other propinquity.
You know you can block specific apps from posting to your news feed and/or wall, right?
It only took me a week or so of blocking all the farmville/horoscope/superpoke crap to get to the point where it wasn't a constant distraction.
Some "friends" seem to be trying to outsmart me by finding new fishmobfarmgodland's every freakin' day. Where do they find the time? Oh, yeah, they're not on slashdot . . .
Details about who doens't want to friend you and why should remain private.
Do you mean that you shouldn't tell the rest of the world who "unfriended" you? I guess that's a good idea. But who's your friend isn't really a secret, they're not on your list. You may not remember who was and who you asked, but there's nothing really sneaky about noting who's there (and who left) every so often. I suppose it might be unhappy to dwell on it . . .
Christians around the world give thumbs up for evolution. What went wrong in the U.S.? Come on now, you're an embarrassment to the world.
All US Christians favor teaching creationism as science in exactly the same way as all Muslims are terrorists. Please, please, read that twice before bashing or modding.
Speak for your own democracy.
You're lucky, you chose your place of birth well -- or you made a wise move. Please send help our way, or at least sponsor us for residency.
So, if you want your kids to be taught about your mythological version of creation so desperately, run your own little class, and stop expecting science teaches to seriously consider your religious beliefs as anything even remotely approaching valid science.
The GP is not endorsing creationism, just shying away from the argument with its proponents. This may sound like a cop out to anyone not familiar with fundamentalists in the US. It is kind of a cop out, but not everyone wants to fight tooth and nail over high school curriculum, even though we'd be better off if someone did.
I guess we do cave too much to the fundie fringe, but just try arguing with those people. Give it a try, face-to-face with these folks and you'll see what I mean -- arguing with them on the internet is only a sample.
If even the teachers aren't educated enough to understand this - what hope is there for the rest.
That's not what TFA really says. TFS is somewhat misleading. Teachers aren't unprepared, they're uncomfortable. And while it doesn't say exactly why they're uncomfortable, I'd wager they're more afraid of one set of parents than the other.
...shows that a lot of American teachers...
Fixed that for you.
TFA and even TFS states the study was done at Penn State. TFA even more clearly states that the study was conducted in the US. I know, this is Slashdot, no need to read TFA, just insert some redundant US-bashing -- redundant because the article itself is rather convicting.
Could someone explain? What are the state requirements for someone to become a licensed biology teacher in the U.S.?
TFA says they're "[not] comfortable," not necessarily because they're unfamiliar with the subject.
But the crux of the study is what the authors call the "cautious 60 percent" who neither advocate for the science of evolution nor push creationism, but simply avoid the issue altogether. Teachers may want to avoid controversy . . .
The part about not being prepared, contrary to what the summary seems to say, refers to the students in the classes:
Not having biology taught properly, Berkman says, makes it harder for students to understand science later on. A sound science education is important, he adds, given that science and technology are so important in everyday life.
You (generally) need a teaching degree to teach in the US. You may or may not need another degree in your particular field of education. (But I don't know why you wouldn't want one). This is one barrier to someone who has a degree in a particular field leaving practice to become a teacher: they usually need an MS in education to get a certificate. I've heard of some places making temporary provisions in cases of dire need of educators or with the understanding the teacher was on track to receive the degree and get his/her certificate.
And everything I just wrote is state-by-state and even district-to-district, so YMMV. What I've seen may be entirely different from others' experiences.
I'd suspect that the teachers are more concerned with the creationist parents coming and complaining to them than they are about the evolutionist parents. I have a theory (well, it's really a hypothesis) as to why, and I'm sure others do, too.
Sorry to be rude, but that isn't actual English either. There are dozens of mistakes in those three lines.
I understood it well enough, and I can only read English.
I also understood it fine, and I can neither read nor write in English.
My spelling must be great, because I lived through the 8.3 DOS filename days.
This is like saying Ebonics is a language.
So now, all our great works will be reduced to 140 characters with no caps, no punctuation, and hacked up spelling. ee cummings was way ahead of his time.
I'd say if something allows communication between two or more individuals, it's a language. Or are you referring to the language/dialect distinction?
fwiw, I would never, EVER put the bulk of my photos online for hackers to plunder at the next onset of vulnerabilities that just happen to plague whatever site is hosting your website.
For me, and probably most of us here, the primary concern about our personal photos is their loss, not their potential exploitation by the hacker community. I realize this sounds like the "nothing to hide" argument, and I guess it is. Most of my pictures really are interesting only to my family, friends and me. I may lack imagination, but I can't see what kind of "plunder" a hacker could get out of my wife at the beach with my daughter trying to hold in the tide -- that's the kind of stuff that I don't want to lose.
If I had pictures that theft and misuse was a concern for, I'd certainly opt for a different solution -- specifically for those.
Why do you think the fire dept has anything to do with the water system? there just a user, like you.
If there is a pot hole, would you call the police about repairing it? because, they use it to? Just to be clear: The fire Dept. was right. YOU were wrong.
You clarity of protocol requirements reminds me of Franz Kafka International Airport.