Well...I do know of a couple of former companies where software was being used in violation of the license agreement. But I don't think turning them in will get me into the consulting business on a good foot.
I think schools should be the place to challenge students. It might not be in class, but it could definitely be after school.
If you teach math, and you've identified a few students who are on the cusp of realizing they are gifted in math, form a math club or math team and encourage those kids to join. Offer extra credit if you have to.
When I was a kid, I wasn't in a sports team. What should I care what kids in sports teams do? But there they are in the city's paper, not the school's paper to parents with kids in sports teams.
Just because you weren't on a team and could hardly care less doesn't mean that it shouldn't be in the paper. You have the freedom to not read the sports section or the Preps Sports section if you live in a community that is large enough to have one.
The local paper in the area I grew up in had a sports section that covered all high school sports, and a neighbor section that covered activities in the neighborhood, including the schools. If there was something particularly interesting going on in the school, be it good or bad, it might even make the front section.
The point I've been trying to make is that society needs to revalue what it thinks is important or else it won't be a society for much longer.
How do you figure a society's interest in sports, at various professional and amatuer levels, will lead it to being something other than a society?
Still, it's a good point. A streamed education system has a number of very desirable properties, so long as it is designed well. Why teach grade-12 literature to the guy who'll be spending the rest of his life welding? Why teach welding to the girl who'll be spending the rest of her life solving differential equations to optomize the flow of reagents in some chemical plant?
Why not? Just cause a guy is going to be doing welding for the rest of his life doesn't mean he's dumb. Nor does it mean that he isn't interested in literature. And if that girl wants to learn how to weld, more power to her. Having an extra skill to fall back on is great if you want to do things yourself.
Slashdot is a good example of this. How many slashdotters have a breadth of skills that they recieved because they were in school and happened to take a class because they had the extra space, needed a credit, or were genuinely interested in a topic?? Isn't it funny how those skills later pay off?
Intellectual elitism is just as bad as athletic elitism. While I'm not opposed to tracked school systems where people are seperated by their abilities, I am opposed to people saying that those kids in the tracks shouldn't have similar opportunities.
Except for the one key factor...I knew the school bully through the school. This is not joe-random guy i met on the street - this is a kid who goes to my school and only knew me because of the school. So yea it is the schools responsibility to intervene. Especially when you are talking about 8 and 10 year olds where the most will happen is the cops ask the bullies parents to dicipline their kid...and then the bully will pursue vengeance.
It doesn't matter where you met him. You could have met him through school, church, the local sports league, or the YMCA. The minute you step out of their jurisdiction, its not their responsibility.
If the bully continues, and there is documentation of him victimizing a person or persons repeatedly, he will be arrested and put into juvie.
Say you only knew the guy through church, and he beats you up Saturday nights at the bowling alley. The church has no authority to intervene in the situation or to enforce a punishment. The same applies to a school.
Yes that is the answer, fight violence with violence. Yea there we go. I would rather my future children not know or need to fight - especially at the age of 8 years old.
And why not? Is defending yourself reall that bad of a thing? Or would you rather allow yourself to be victimized until someone with authority can deal with it?? And what do you do if that authority decides that the bully isn't doing anything wrong? Run to a different authority?
If you don't fight back, you allow yourself to be a victim, and you open yourself up to more victimization. If you show that you're going to be a challenge and won't let them push you around, they will leave you alone.
I wholely disagree with your last part also. When in school there was this bully. I met him through school. He would not beat me up before during or after school. He would wait until he saw me at the bowling ally on saturday night and beat me up. It is the schools business to help protect me, and I am glad they did.
I wholely disagree with this. A school isn't there to protect me, from myself or others, when I am not engaged in school related activities. If the bully attacked me on school grounds, it would be their job to intervene and punish this kid before handing him over to the police. But since he attacked you at non-school functions off of school district property, they have no business being involved.
Responsibility for your safety rests squarely in your hands. If the bully was attacking you at the bowling alley, drive in, or McDonalds, you need to report it to the responsible authorities - the management of the establishment and the police. You also need to learn how to defend yourself by taking martial arts or some other form of self-defense.
Software backdoors? Or Hardware backdoors? If the IT department does their job properly, I find it hard to believe that software backdoors would survive being introduced into the environment, especially in a sensative environment like the State Department.
I could find a hardware backdoor believable, but that would require physical access to the system and knowing which computers had the backdoors installed. Unless there was an agent inside the DOS's IT staff, the only way that a bugged computer would get to the right people would be through random chance.
An organization as large as the State Department is likely to have their own in-house support that can diagnose and repair problems with the hardware without having to speak to Lenovo support. If anything, they would only need to order parts and be done with it.
BTW, Lenovo's support is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
After giving them my GamerTag, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers and Xbox360 Serial number they gave me a reference number for the call and I am to "expect a return call from them within the next week with the prepaid code" that I need to enter to enable to download from xbox live.... THAT WAS 5 WEEKS AGO!!!
It wouldn't hurt to call up Grisoft and explain that you're a non-profit looking for a good AV solution. You might get a pretty sweet deal if you talk to them.
Well, that probably would be more effective than creating a panic state. The more we "try" to do, the more bin Laden wins.
The idea behind terrorism is to use violence to change your victim's way of life. If we surrender our civil rights to stop the "terrorist threat," then we let the Terrorists win.
Which makes teenagers very good as covert operatives. They're always making calls to each other, and disposable cell phones (ie prepaid) were designed for them in mind. It would make traffic analysis very difficult when you have kids who routinely "lose" their phones and have to buy a new one.
A sufficiently paranoid terrorist cell will already think this way and avoid easily tapped methods of communications. They'll use 1-time pads, encrypted emails, direct communications, and well-crafted front businesses to hide their resources.
No, its not effective. Slowing down an attack isn't the same as stopping one.
The problem with all of this is that a sufficiently dedicated group will find a way to pull of their objective, regardless of the means arrayed to stop them. If they know, or suspect, that their email, phones, or camels, are tapped, then they will find a new, more secure method of communication.
When its all said and done, the terrorists will have a nice little network that the US can't crack while we suffer under constant spying because of the threat of a terrorist attack.
Either you say that humans evolved culture for a reason and then I retort "why did no one else on the planet in all of history do the same?"
How do we know that other species didn't evolve culture, though? How do we know that the ants, with their highly structured society, don't have some sort of culture, or that chimps, dolphins, or other species don't have it either. Early explorers overlooked the culture of the Native Americans as savagery. What's to say that we're not doing it with other species of life?
Nor do we know what other species came before us. How do we know that there wasn't an intelligent species during the time of the dinosaurs?
Klingons - black skin, brutish, unintelligent, hyper-aggressive, extremely athletic and possessed of a mystical earthy wisdom that's a direct rip of the "magic negro" phenomenon. They're a condensed version of every stereotype about Africans.
Actually, the Klingons were meant to represent the Soviets with a Mongolian twist to them. Later incarnations included elements of Japanese Samurai.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon
Well, if that's true, I guess that clinches what everyone has assumed so far: key people who were architects of the 9/11 attacks, and who are in the custody of the U.S. "somewhere" (such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) are never going to be put on trial.
Well, if the government did that, then they would risk one of the defendants making a compelling case that Al Qaeda wasn't behind the 9/11 attacks and drawing even more attention to the Bush administration.
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Well...I do know of a couple of former companies where software was being used in violation of the license agreement. But I don't think turning them in will get me into the consulting business on a good foot.
Or #6: User wants to buy said software, but until he can afford to buy it, they will have to pirate it.
I think schools should be the place to challenge students. It might not be in class, but it could definitely be after school.
If you teach math, and you've identified a few students who are on the cusp of realizing they are gifted in math, form a math club or math team and encourage those kids to join. Offer extra credit if you have to.
Relax. He's only 6. He's in what? 1st Grade?
Just because you weren't on a team and could hardly care less doesn't mean that it shouldn't be in the paper. You have the freedom to not read the sports section or the Preps Sports section if you live in a community that is large enough to have one.
The local paper in the area I grew up in had a sports section that covered all high school sports, and a neighbor section that covered activities in the neighborhood, including the schools. If there was something particularly interesting going on in the school, be it good or bad, it might even make the front section.
How do you figure a society's interest in sports, at various professional and amatuer levels, will lead it to being something other than a society?Still, it's a good point. A streamed education system has a number of very desirable properties, so long as it is designed well. Why teach grade-12 literature to the guy who'll be spending the rest of his life welding? Why teach welding to the girl who'll be spending the rest of her life solving differential equations to optomize the flow of reagents in some chemical plant?
Why not? Just cause a guy is going to be doing welding for the rest of his life doesn't mean he's dumb. Nor does it mean that he isn't interested in literature. And if that girl wants to learn how to weld, more power to her. Having an extra skill to fall back on is great if you want to do things yourself.
Slashdot is a good example of this. How many slashdotters have a breadth of skills that they recieved because they were in school and happened to take a class because they had the extra space, needed a credit, or were genuinely interested in a topic?? Isn't it funny how those skills later pay off?
Intellectual elitism is just as bad as athletic elitism. While I'm not opposed to tracked school systems where people are seperated by their abilities, I am opposed to people saying that those kids in the tracks shouldn't have similar opportunities.
Except for the one key factor...I knew the school bully through the school. This is not joe-random guy i met on the street - this is a kid who goes to my school and only knew me because of the school. So yea it is the schools responsibility to intervene. Especially when you are talking about 8 and 10 year olds where the most will happen is the cops ask the bullies parents to dicipline their kid...and then the bully will pursue vengeance.
It doesn't matter where you met him. You could have met him through school, church, the local sports league, or the YMCA. The minute you step out of their jurisdiction, its not their responsibility.
If the bully continues, and there is documentation of him victimizing a person or persons repeatedly, he will be arrested and put into juvie.
Say you only knew the guy through church, and he beats you up Saturday nights at the bowling alley. The church has no authority to intervene in the situation or to enforce a punishment. The same applies to a school.
Yes that is the answer, fight violence with violence. Yea there we go. I would rather my future children not know or need to fight - especially at the age of 8 years old.
And why not? Is defending yourself reall that bad of a thing? Or would you rather allow yourself to be victimized until someone with authority can deal with it?? And what do you do if that authority decides that the bully isn't doing anything wrong? Run to a different authority?
If you don't fight back, you allow yourself to be a victim, and you open yourself up to more victimization. If you show that you're going to be a challenge and won't let them push you around, they will leave you alone.
I wholely disagree with your last part also. When in school there was this bully. I met him through school. He would not beat me up before during or after school. He would wait until he saw me at the bowling ally on saturday night and beat me up. It is the schools business to help protect me, and I am glad they did.
I wholely disagree with this. A school isn't there to protect me, from myself or others, when I am not engaged in school related activities. If the bully attacked me on school grounds, it would be their job to intervene and punish this kid before handing him over to the police. But since he attacked you at non-school functions off of school district property, they have no business being involved.
Responsibility for your safety rests squarely in your hands. If the bully was attacking you at the bowling alley, drive in, or McDonalds, you need to report it to the responsible authorities - the management of the establishment and the police. You also need to learn how to defend yourself by taking martial arts or some other form of self-defense.
AMD power saving is by powering DOWN what is not used. Intel now only powers UP what is NEEDED.
Isn't that the same thing? Powering down what you don't use is the same as powering up only those things that you need.
Software backdoors? Or Hardware backdoors? If the IT department does their job properly, I find it hard to believe that software backdoors would survive being introduced into the environment, especially in a sensative environment like the State Department.
I could find a hardware backdoor believable, but that would require physical access to the system and knowing which computers had the backdoors installed. Unless there was an agent inside the DOS's IT staff, the only way that a bugged computer would get to the right people would be through random chance.
An organization as large as the State Department is likely to have their own in-house support that can diagnose and repair problems with the hardware without having to speak to Lenovo support. If anything, they would only need to order parts and be done with it.
BTW, Lenovo's support is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
After giving them my GamerTag, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers and Xbox360 Serial number they gave me a reference number for the call and I am to "expect a return call from them within the next week with the prepaid code" that I need to enter to enable to download from xbox live .... THAT WAS 5 WEEKS AGO!!!
Sounds like a lot of jobs I have interviewed for.
It wouldn't hurt to call up Grisoft and explain that you're a non-profit looking for a good AV solution. You might get a pretty sweet deal if you talk to them.
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
Well, that probably would be more effective than creating a panic state. The more we "try" to do, the more bin Laden wins.
The idea behind terrorism is to use violence to change your victim's way of life. If we surrender our civil rights to stop the "terrorist threat," then we let the Terrorists win.
Wasn't that what Colbert's speech to the Press Corp was about??
Which makes teenagers very good as covert operatives. They're always making calls to each other, and disposable cell phones (ie prepaid) were designed for them in mind. It would make traffic analysis very difficult when you have kids who routinely "lose" their phones and have to buy a new one.
A sufficiently paranoid terrorist cell will already think this way and avoid easily tapped methods of communications. They'll use 1-time pads, encrypted emails, direct communications, and well-crafted front businesses to hide their resources.
No, its not effective. Slowing down an attack isn't the same as stopping one.
The problem with all of this is that a sufficiently dedicated group will find a way to pull of their objective, regardless of the means arrayed to stop them. If they know, or suspect, that their email, phones, or camels, are tapped, then they will find a new, more secure method of communication.
When its all said and done, the terrorists will have a nice little network that the US can't crack while we suffer under constant spying because of the threat of a terrorist attack.
Either you say that humans evolved culture for a reason and then I retort "why did no one else on the planet in all of history do the same?"
How do we know that other species didn't evolve culture, though? How do we know that the ants, with their highly structured society, don't have some sort of culture, or that chimps, dolphins, or other species don't have it either. Early explorers overlooked the culture of the Native Americans as savagery. What's to say that we're not doing it with other species of life?
Nor do we know what other species came before us. How do we know that there wasn't an intelligent species during the time of the dinosaurs?
Klingons - black skin, brutish, unintelligent, hyper-aggressive, extremely athletic and possessed of a mystical earthy wisdom that's a direct rip of the "magic negro" phenomenon. They're a condensed version of every stereotype about Africans.
Actually, the Klingons were meant to represent the Soviets with a Mongolian twist to them. Later incarnations included elements of Japanese Samurai. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon
Well, if that's true, I guess that clinches what everyone has assumed so far: key people who were architects of the 9/11 attacks, and who are in the custody of the U.S. "somewhere" (such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) are never going to be put on trial.
Well, if the government did that, then they would risk one of the defendants making a compelling case that Al Qaeda wasn't behind the 9/11 attacks and drawing even more attention to the Bush administration.
You left out Item C...all of the above.
Wanna bet that Microsoft Management would think that patching those "features"....I mean security flaws would be a bad idea?
Damnit!!! Who left the liqour cabinet unlocked??
Just wait until Papa Balmer finds out that Microsoft is marrying Google.