The same people that can't calculate sales tax generally don't understand income tax either. They think they pay one tax throughout the year, and that at the end of the year, in a completely unrelated action, the government decides to to either give them money, or demand a payment.
This is the kind of thing I was thinking. The details could be tweaked, but a teacher should absolutely be able to remove a disruptive student on the classroom level. If the student is disruptive on a school level, then the student needs to be removed from the school. The 'in school suspension' is a nice touch as it still solves the problem of removing disruptive students from the classroom in the short run while creating enough friction in the process of expulsion to keep it from being a first level of discipline.
At this point, we are warehousing huge numbers of kids anyways. Putting them in solitary isn't any worse educationally than what is happening now.
Their parents would have to find another school to enroll them in to meet the state's mandatory education laws. If the parent needs to start driving their kid across town, or into the next town, they might think twice about abdicating parenting to the state.
If the student is such a problem that no school within 50 miles will take them, then you are likely dealing with a kid that is far enough out of control that forcing any school to take them would be abusive to every other kid that had to sit in a class with them.
I'm not saying that some tweaking shouldn't be made to the idea, but the current system of requiring every school to take every kid no matter how disruptive, clearly doesn't work.
What do we do with all the kids that have been expelled? Would they be roaming the streets during school hours? Shoplifting / mugging seniors? (Most of the expelled kids wouldn't be from the maths / chess clubs.)
At worst, they would be doing the same things they do when they are not in school now. Your question implies that schools are being used a prisons that every minor is sentenced to.
Do we conscript them? Lock 'em up in detention?
Maybe that would be best. We already lock them up. The only problem is that the kids who do want an education are locked up with them. If the kids are not going to learn anyway, segregating them out to other facilities that are not bothering to try to teach them isn't going to do any worse.
Tough... very tough. It'd take a government with an iron will to fix this problem.
No doubt. Unfortunately, sometimes not making a decision IS making a decision, and the decision our governments (education is state level) have taken is clearly broken.
I've got no horse in the public education race, as my two kids go to a very exclusive private school with a teacher to student ratio of 1:1 and a total student body of two. That being said, I think the single best thing that public schools could do is give teachers the right to expel students from their classroom and schools to expel students from the school. The bar for this should be extremely low.
Teachers would be happier. Students that wanted to learn would be able to, and parents would be forced to take a more active roll in raising their own children.
I would use them. I used GameFly for a lot of years, but every month I would look at the $40 price, consider how badly they throttle their mailings, and the price of just buying games outright. They only barely a better choice than just buying games. When they started their shutdown of supporting Wii games, they dipped below the value point that they made sense to me.
No, there was never a class action suit against Netflix for throttling. There was a class action suit against Netflix for the manner that they prioritized who got disks first. Everyone always got disks sent out right away as long as they had movies on their list. The media, and some users incorrectly used the word throttling when it had nothing to do throttling.
Gamefly on the other hand. They definitely throttle. If your a heavy users, they will just sit on disks and not send you anything for up to a week.
Therapists will only make that kind of a problem worse. The goal of most therapists is to make people feel better. Even if that is feeling better about being cruel destructive sociopaths.
Google most certainly does read your email. That is how they target ads. Do they store the data? Who knows. It neither matters whether I can prove they do it, nor whether they even do it at this time. It is a vector for abuse, and if someone can make a buck off it, the probability is high that someone will.
White lists don't work. Companies are too inconsistent with where their emails come from. They might work most of the time, but having bills not show up because the biller decides to change their domain, you have problems.
You are fooling yourself if you think that all phishing emails are pretty easy to spot. I have received plenty that were literally an exact copy of the real email with only one important link changed. A single character difference between the real domain and a fake one is all it takes to slip a bad link through.
I don't support a move to community boxes, but to be fair, preperly set up community boxes will have 2 or 3 large shared delivery boxes. When the postal carrier has a package, they put it in the large box. They pull out the key for the large box and put it in your small personal box. When you use the key to open the large box, the key stick in the lock so that it is available for the next postal delivery. It works much like the lockers at amusement parks.
Emailed bills have several problems. Three big ones are that, as you point out, are sending your shopping habits to a third party that you likely don't want having that much information about you. Then there is that email can easily get caught in spam filters. And finally there is the problem that spam is frequently well disguised as legitimate bills.
I would love to see a push to get electronic billing to be changed from a push to email service to a pull from email service. The company should just set up an email server with an account for each user. They are already setting web accounts up for these users. This way, I can set my email client to pull from all the companies that I have electronic billing with. There wouldn't be any spam since the billing company could set up the email system to have only their own billing server white listed. From a user perspective, I would know that the bill came from the legitimate source, since my email client contacted them.
Unless your TV is gigantic, you are probably better off getting a new TV. Besides the fact that an HDMI->Compenent converter is likely going to cost you a significant portion of a new TV's price, new devices, including Chromecast, not only want HDMI, they also support CEC over HDMI. CEC lets your TV pass remote control commands through the HDMI cable to control devices. I currently use it with XBMC on the Raspberry Pi, and it works awesome.
That's OK, I already did that when I set up my Commodore KIM on my dinningroom table. Then again when I would play C64 games at lunch in Jr High. As a young adult, I went even more public with it by letting anyone who happened to be at the mall, see me frequently entering and exiting the software store.
I am WAY past announcing to the work that I am a colossal dork. Don't worry, eventually the cool kids will come around, just like you did with the dork announcement of posting on Slashdot.
I'm hoping that with the Bluetooth improvements, we will start to see small bluetooth devices that allow you to wirelessly mount SD and USB drives the same way you can connect to a Bluetooth keyboard. Realistically, with 32GB devices, the only thing that you would be storing on external media would be large data files like movies or music.
I have found with greater than 16GB I am less concerned with external storage as well, but the situation with the SD card mounting from the device when it is mounted on a computer is a poor excuse for engineering. It would have been trivial for Google to have designed the OS to mount a virtual directory structure for accessing the SD card and thus leaving the SD card mounted to the OS at all times.
It doesn't need a remote. The specs listed on the Google Play Store shows that it supports CEC. That means that the remote control for your TV (assuming you have a modern TV that supports the CEC standard) IS the remote for your ChromeCast. CEC is not like the old 'program' your remote days. CEC passes commands from your TV to your external device, so you don't select different devices on your remote. It just works.
I am currently using CEC for XBMC on the Raspberry Pi. It works seamlessly. One remote controls both the Television and the Raspberry Pi. No setup was required. It just works.
I would go so far as to say that the overlap is near 100%. I have never met a person over the age of about 5 that has not 'pirated' 'intellectual property'. One of the most common cases being those dasterdly pirates that seem to think it is OK to steal the Happy Birthday song.
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Both kids would have little interaction with adults (one only has experiences with a teacher, the other only has experiences with mom and dad)
Not all of us live on a Kansas farm in 1920.
Almost as bad as those flight nutters, thinking that humans could fly.
The same people that can't calculate sales tax generally don't understand income tax either. They think they pay one tax throughout the year, and that at the end of the year, in a completely unrelated action, the government decides to to either give them money, or demand a payment.
This is the kind of thing I was thinking. The details could be tweaked, but a teacher should absolutely be able to remove a disruptive student on the classroom level. If the student is disruptive on a school level, then the student needs to be removed from the school. The 'in school suspension' is a nice touch as it still solves the problem of removing disruptive students from the classroom in the short run while creating enough friction in the process of expulsion to keep it from being a first level of discipline.
At this point, we are warehousing huge numbers of kids anyways. Putting them in solitary isn't any worse educationally than what is happening now.
So, just like it is now but the students that didn't get expelled could get an education.
Their parents would have to find another school to enroll them in to meet the state's mandatory education laws. If the parent needs to start driving their kid across town, or into the next town, they might think twice about abdicating parenting to the state.
If the student is such a problem that no school within 50 miles will take them, then you are likely dealing with a kid that is far enough out of control that forcing any school to take them would be abusive to every other kid that had to sit in a class with them.
I'm not saying that some tweaking shouldn't be made to the idea, but the current system of requiring every school to take every kid no matter how disruptive, clearly doesn't work.
What do we do with all the kids that have been expelled? Would they be roaming the streets during school hours? Shoplifting / mugging seniors? (Most of the expelled kids wouldn't be from the maths / chess clubs.)
At worst, they would be doing the same things they do when they are not in school now. Your question implies that schools are being used a prisons that every minor is sentenced to.
Do we conscript them? Lock 'em up in detention?
Maybe that would be best. We already lock them up. The only problem is that the kids who do want an education are locked up with them. If the kids are not going to learn anyway, segregating them out to other facilities that are not bothering to try to teach them isn't going to do any worse.
Tough ... very tough. It'd take a government with an iron will to fix this problem.
No doubt. Unfortunately, sometimes not making a decision IS making a decision, and the decision our governments (education is state level) have taken is clearly broken.
That is an example of a person who thinks everyone lives on a 1930's Kansas farm.
I've got no horse in the public education race, as my two kids go to a very exclusive private school with a teacher to student ratio of 1:1 and a total student body of two. That being said, I think the single best thing that public schools could do is give teachers the right to expel students from their classroom and schools to expel students from the school. The bar for this should be extremely low.
Teachers would be happier. Students that wanted to learn would be able to, and parents would be forced to take a more active roll in raising their own children.
I would use them. I used GameFly for a lot of years, but every month I would look at the $40 price, consider how badly they throttle their mailings, and the price of just buying games outright. They only barely a better choice than just buying games. When they started their shutdown of supporting Wii games, they dipped below the value point that they made sense to me.
No, there was never a class action suit against Netflix for throttling. There was a class action suit against Netflix for the manner that they prioritized who got disks first. Everyone always got disks sent out right away as long as they had movies on their list. The media, and some users incorrectly used the word throttling when it had nothing to do throttling.
Gamefly on the other hand. They definitely throttle. If your a heavy users, they will just sit on disks and not send you anything for up to a week.
AOL might disagree.
Therapists will only make that kind of a problem worse. The goal of most therapists is to make people feel better. Even if that is feeling better about being cruel destructive sociopaths.
Google most certainly does read your email. That is how they target ads. Do they store the data? Who knows. It neither matters whether I can prove they do it, nor whether they even do it at this time. It is a vector for abuse, and if someone can make a buck off it, the probability is high that someone will.
White lists don't work. Companies are too inconsistent with where their emails come from. They might work most of the time, but having bills not show up because the biller decides to change their domain, you have problems.
You are fooling yourself if you think that all phishing emails are pretty easy to spot. I have received plenty that were literally an exact copy of the real email with only one important link changed. A single character difference between the real domain and a fake one is all it takes to slip a bad link through.
I don't support a move to community boxes, but to be fair, preperly set up community boxes will have 2 or 3 large shared delivery boxes. When the postal carrier has a package, they put it in the large box. They pull out the key for the large box and put it in your small personal box. When you use the key to open the large box, the key stick in the lock so that it is available for the next postal delivery. It works much like the lockers at amusement parks.
Emailed bills have several problems. Three big ones are that, as you point out, are sending your shopping habits to a third party that you likely don't want having that much information about you. Then there is that email can easily get caught in spam filters. And finally there is the problem that spam is frequently well disguised as legitimate bills.
I would love to see a push to get electronic billing to be changed from a push to email service to a pull from email service. The company should just set up an email server with an account for each user. They are already setting web accounts up for these users. This way, I can set my email client to pull from all the companies that I have electronic billing with. There wouldn't be any spam since the billing company could set up the email system to have only their own billing server white listed. From a user perspective, I would know that the bill came from the legitimate source, since my email client contacted them.
That is going to be a very small number and just hopeful thinking to think that it is affecting the numbers in any statistically significant number.
You don't get much simpler than "Your TV remote just works with it". Chromecast supports CEC.
Unless your TV is gigantic, you are probably better off getting a new TV. Besides the fact that an HDMI->Compenent converter is likely going to cost you a significant portion of a new TV's price, new devices, including Chromecast, not only want HDMI, they also support CEC over HDMI. CEC lets your TV pass remote control commands through the HDMI cable to control devices. I currently use it with XBMC on the Raspberry Pi, and it works awesome.
That's OK, I already did that when I set up my Commodore KIM on my dinningroom table. Then again when I would play C64 games at lunch in Jr High. As a young adult, I went even more public with it by letting anyone who happened to be at the mall, see me frequently entering and exiting the software store.
I am WAY past announcing to the work that I am a colossal dork. Don't worry, eventually the cool kids will come around, just like you did with the dork announcement of posting on Slashdot.
I'm hoping that with the Bluetooth improvements, we will start to see small bluetooth devices that allow you to wirelessly mount SD and USB drives the same way you can connect to a Bluetooth keyboard. Realistically, with 32GB devices, the only thing that you would be storing on external media would be large data files like movies or music.
I have found with greater than 16GB I am less concerned with external storage as well, but the situation with the SD card mounting from the device when it is mounted on a computer is a poor excuse for engineering. It would have been trivial for Google to have designed the OS to mount a virtual directory structure for accessing the SD card and thus leaving the SD card mounted to the OS at all times.
Any kind of movie streaming device is going to be over the head of anyone without the mental capacity to use a tablet.
It doesn't need a remote. The specs listed on the Google Play Store shows that it supports CEC. That means that the remote control for your TV (assuming you have a modern TV that supports the CEC standard) IS the remote for your ChromeCast. CEC is not like the old 'program' your remote days. CEC passes commands from your TV to your external device, so you don't select different devices on your remote. It just works.
I am currently using CEC for XBMC on the Raspberry Pi. It works seamlessly. One remote controls both the Television and the Raspberry Pi. No setup was required. It just works.
I would go so far as to say that the overlap is near 100%. I have never met a person over the age of about 5 that has not 'pirated' 'intellectual property'. One of the most common cases being those dasterdly pirates that seem to think it is OK to steal the Happy Birthday song.