If we just throw more money at the problem we can fix it. Giving an iPad 2 to every student is just that kind of a "solution". Until our culture and our parenting change, we will continue to produce kids who aren't interested in school and learning.
Successful immigrants show us what is really important. I can think of 2 Chinese women who I know very well. They came to New York City at age 7 and age 12. Parents were dirt poor, didn't speak English, could only afford the rent in the worst part of town or a housing project. Never had a computer or a fancy graphing calculator. Parents worked upwards of 100 hours a week to put food on the table. But what these parents did was fairly simple, they actually looked at their children's homework every night and made them correct their mistakes. And if the essay had sloppy penmanship, it was torn up and they had to re-write it. The parents kept track of when tests were and made sure their kids studied for them. They were involved, they cared, and their kids both made it into the Ivy League and eventually graduate school.
I know this is a bit of rambling post, but I hope you get my point. No magic gadget is going to fix the problems our culture faces. No bag of money is either.
How secure is the BlackBerry? So secure, the world's leading police states have forbidden its use within their borders. If you need to keep your communications confidential, only BlackBerry can guarantee it.
For my last job, I had to interview about 15-20 candidates offshore. I found the most effective technique was to give each of them a 5 question take home test for them to return with answers in 24 hours. If all the answers looked good, followup with a 30 minute phone interview to make sure they didn't just get a friend to do the work. Almost all of the candidates failed the test miserably and thus I didn't have to waste much time with them. Finally, the right guy showed up, did great in the 30 minute followup phone interview and had an offer within a day. When I finally met him in person, he struck me as a humble quiet kinda guy. He probably wouldn't have done well in a traditional phone interview where he had to just sell himself (i.e. oversell himself). But with the take home test, he could objectively prove that he knew what he was doing.
Abstract -------- In a computer system, the integrity of lower layers is treated as axiomatic by higher layers. Under the presumption that the hardware comprising the machine (the lowest layer) is valid, integrity of a layer can be guaranteed if and only if: (1) the integrity of the lower layers is checked, and (2) transitions to higher layers occur only after integrity checks on them are complete. The resulting integrity ``chain'' inductively guarantees system integrity.
When these conditions are not met, as they typically are not in the bootstrapping (initialization) of a computer system, no integrity guarantees can be made. Yet, these guarantees are increasingly important to diverse applications such as Internet commerce, intrusion detection systems, and ``active networks.'' In this paper, we describe the AEGIS architecture for initializing a computer system. It validates integrity at each layer transition in the bootstrap process. AEGIS also includes a recovery process for integrity check failures, and we show how this results in robust systems. We discuss our prototype implementation for the IBM personal computer (PC) architecture, and show that the cost of such system protection is surprisingly small.
Our company's product, Anki, available at http://www.anki.com makes learning Chinese on Palm OS handhelds pretty darn easy. You just type the flashcards into a Windows based editor and then HotSync it onto your Palm. You can then study wherever you are instead of being forced to sit in front of a PC. If you have 5 minutes to kill waiting for someone, just study some flashcards. If your doctor is 30 minutes late , just study some flashcards. It really is an easy way to pick up new vocabulary. It is not limited to Chinese, but many Chinese learners find it particularly helpful.
Having seen this film it was obvious that Moore was implying that public policy sending the single mother to work and public policy making firearms readily available were the cause of or significant contributing factors to the shooting. People who disagree with Moore point to other contributing environmental factors, like running an illegal-drugs business and poor parenting. It is likely that a more thorough analysis could show several troubling factors in this kid's life that all contributed to him shooting another child. I don't see any evidence that a single change in welfare laws, gun laws, drug laws, or parenting laws could have guaranteed that this shooting never would have occurred. Many of us seem to suffer from the fallacy that we can prevent every tragedy with a new law or government program. Whether these laws or programs are conservative or liberal in nature, it doesn't seem to matter. Not every social problem can be solved with law. Some have to be solved by society.
Thomas Monaghan does NOT own Domino's pizza anymore. He sold it to Bain Capital Inc. for $1 billion in 1998. Please mod the parent post down, it is certainly not informative.
Anecdote : I know one guy, at my local gun club, who lost his job to 2 people in India and 1 in Mexico. It was literally cheaper to hire 3 people than to keep paying him to do this particular IT job. He had a life long interest in automotive electrical systems and decided to pursue a 2 year degree from a local community college. His reasoning : 1) You can't outsource car repair to India, 2) There is high demand for a person with skills in this area, 3) He really loves doing it. I also read another article recently about demand for automotive technicians being quite high and supply being quite low. The article suggested that this situation was the result of a generation of parents not wanting their kids to grow up to become "grease monkeys". These parents did not realize that automotive technicians are really computer technicians (as most modern vehicles are computer controlled) and can earn a comparable salary to an I/T person.
There are many great good paying careers outside of I/T. If you think that your days as an I/T person are over then it would be worth it to look around.
Bear in mind, however... there was no permanent federal income tax until 1913. Country did just fine for almost 140 years with no income tax except in dire situations (read: when war broke out). Then, they said "oh, this is for your own good - you need to pay for the war in Europe to protect freedom and blah blah blah".
Man I am sick of this kind of horseshit about cheap ass whiners who hate paying their taxes.
Know what else the country didn't have in 1913? National highways to maintain, huge publicly funded transit systems, security agencies like the NSA and CIA to keep you safe, social security, medicare, the largest military in the universe....
We have no "National Highways". All highways are built and maintained by the individual states. The federal government collects taxes and then hands them out to the states to build and maintain roads. The federal government uses this power to tax and spend to control and manipulate state issues regarding roads and other matters.
The NSA, CIA, and military are supposed to keep me safe. What a joke. We invade several countries and interfere with several more. People get pissed and terrorists have an easy time recruiting them to come and blow us up. Great!
Social security and medicare are crap. If you took that money stolen from each paycheck and put it in a pathetic bank savings account you would get more money. They are just lousy pyramid schemes.
Our country has thrived despite the gigantic federal government not because of it.
So let's ditch the income tax and see if our country really does come to an end. Somehow I doubt it.
Mark/Space, the makers of the Missing Sync for Mac OS, will
fill the void. Check out their website to read all about it:
http://www.markspace.com/cobalt.html
can wait a bit longer. The kind of stability they need right now isn't in a computer operating system, it's in a governing system. They also need stability in what we consider basic utilities -- electricity, running water, etc. It also helps not to have to worry about car bombs, suicide bombers, and other daily attacks.
Computers are tools, just like guns and gavels. Governments use tools to carry out their designated functions. Good computers and computer operating systems can be used to establish a stable government.
Read all about their "Week of action against small arms". I can't help seeing these things as related. Most countries in the world have less respect for the right to free speech and the right to keep and bear arms than the United States. Why not go after the entire Bill of Rights?
Certainly there are large groups of parents who would like to block out all websites related to guns and gun rights. I would imagine there is also a large group of parents who would like to do the exact opposite. This is lazy parenting.
If you really are pro gun-control you should be able to educate your children as to why you believe what you believe and respond to their questions. If your kid reads a pro gun site and has questions about the 2nd amendment that is the perfect opportunity for you to explain your views.
If you really are pro gun-rights you should be able to educate your children as to why you believe what you believe and respond to their questions. If your kid reads a pro gun control site and has questions about the 2nd amendment that is the perfect opportunity for you to explain your views.
The availibility of information (or misinformation) and viewpoints on the web is supposed to make us think about and challenge our beliefs. If you don't want your children to challenge your beliefs and think for themselves what kind of parents are you?
I read the article and while it seemed to be all happy happy it was really just a cover for promoting socialism. Look at their goals : national health care, mandatory 4 week vacation, no mandatory overtime. This is just socialism. If you want to "take back your time" then spend less and live below your means. Being socialists of course they did not want to touch the number one reason that people work more hours and that families have to be dual income : taxes!. Most people work several months a year just to pay for bloated government.
And not for the tinfoil hat security reasons, but because it undermines the ideals of equal justice under the law for all. Rich people should NOT be able to buy preferential security treatment. If the law is "everyone gets their anus searched for bombs", then we all get in the same line and have the same kind of search. Simply having the money to buy an ID card that "proves" you've got a clean anus isn't equal protection under the law, it's preferential treatment for sale.
How about paying something to get into a high speed security check line? Same security check, less people, less wait. You could vary the price with demand so that the line always moved quickly. If you are a big enough airport perhaps you could have three lines. This way everyone is having their privacy invaded and is paying what their time is worth.
The judge wasn't constrained by laws such as the DMCA and other nonsense that favors business over innovation.
Do laws such as the DMCA really favor business? They certainly do not favor free trade, free enterprise, and entrepreneurialism. Laws such as the DMCA favor established businesses that wish to be protected from new competitors.
So if someone is pissing through our letterbox, the libertarian response is "Get a bucket", rather than stop the person pissing through the letterbox. My that's brilliant!
No the libertarian response to someone urinating in your physical mailbox in front of your house is to call the police so they can come and arrest the individual. Libertarians would also argue that as part of this individual's punishment he must make restitution to the owner of the letterbox. (i.e. he needs to come out and either clean it or replace it with a new one, or pay for someone to do the same). The libertarian response is not to wait for your neighbor to do something about it or to ask a politician to make a new specific law about urinating on letterboxes, it is take responsibility for your own problem and call the police yourself.
The point is that the law and politicians cannot solve all of life's annonyances and problems. Even if you vehemently disagree with the libertarian philosophy you would still be better off figuring out how to deal with spam on your own.
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I don't understand why Americans are so afraid of national ID cards. Where I live we have standardized national ID cards that are used in most situations, and I can't say how it has made me any less free.
In the modern world, we are counted and registered with our government. What is wrong with having a standardized card to show who we are?
It is the counting and registering that bothers many Americans, not the card. Americans have good reason to be distrustful of the federal government's attempts to catalog every aspect of our lives. In the history of our country we have seen continued abuse of our constitutional rights by the government (laws against speaking out against the government, prohibitions on firearm ownership, illegal searches and seizures whenever someone says "drugs", having to prove our innonence (IRS audit), etc.). The threats to our freedom have increased over time and we don't want to make it even easier for the government to control us.
The real benefit of this recession is that more and more people are starting to realize the difference between company and family. Your family members love you and will remain loyal to you in good times and bad. They have a vested interest in your success and happiness. They want to see you succeed at work and enjoy the fruits of your labor. The company you work for does not love you and is not loyal to you. That does not mean that individuals at your company are not compassionate and loving. However, they are not your family members.
I suggest that you look at your company in a different manner. The company can provide you and your family with opportunity. The opportunity to earn a paycheck and possibly learn something. When the company has no need for the job that you do or can find someone to do it better or cheaper you will not have a job with that company. On the flip side when the company is no longer offering you a good paycheck or opportunity you will quit. The relationship is really no more than that. The company is not a family, clan, or tribe, just an opportunity.
I'm fairly libertarianish, but you need to realize where this is coming from.
Newspapers and magazines can do essentially anything they want, in the US. Broadcast bandwidth is a scarce resource, though, and needs to be regulated or it would be worthless. For that reason, broadcast rights are strictly limited by the FCC, and there are regulations that limit how people with broadcast rights can act, including how much commercial content they can run.
Spectrum is just as much a natural resource as land. It is utterly useless until humans come along and make something of it. Like land it should be treated as private property. The government should just auction off the spectrum used for TV broadcasts and be done with it. The FCC's regulations and censorship are flat out unconstitutional.
Some Russian company built a circumvention device for Adobe's (arguably laughable) eBook encryption, yes. They sold it in the US. They got called on it. They were acquited. They stopped making it. If I were to catch someone using my copyrighted works in improper/illegal ways I'm pretty certain that I would pursue the matter to the extent of my abilities. Stealing is stealing. The DMCA, as written, gave Adobe the powers they used. Are the circumvention and reverse engineer portions of the DMCA wrong? Probably. Is that Adobe's fault? no. Your anger should be directed at the lawmakers that passed the DMCA and yourself for not asserting yourself to your representatives and ensuring that they understood that you didn't want it passed.
Actually by putting direct pressure on Adobe (by protesting outside of their offices) we were able to get them to back down from aiding the federal government in prosecuting the case. I did not see any reason to boycott Adobe products because of this.
Care to tell us how many letters & phone calls you made to your senators and representatives against the DMCA?
A few and more importantly I recently attended a townhall meeting with my representative in the house to let her know we wanted DMCA reform.
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If we just throw more money at the problem we can fix it. Giving an iPad 2 to every student is just that kind of a "solution". Until our culture and our parenting change, we will continue to produce kids who aren't interested in school and learning.
Successful immigrants show us what is really important. I can think of 2 Chinese women who I know very well. They came to New York City at age 7 and age 12. Parents were dirt poor, didn't speak English, could only afford the rent in the worst part of town or a housing project. Never had a computer or a fancy graphing calculator. Parents worked upwards of 100 hours a week to put food on the table. But what these parents did was fairly simple, they actually looked at their children's homework every night and made them correct their mistakes. And if the essay had sloppy penmanship, it was torn up and they had to re-write it. The parents kept track of when tests were and made sure their kids studied for them. They were involved, they cared, and their kids both made it into the Ivy League and eventually graduate school.
I know this is a bit of rambling post, but I hope you get my point. No magic gadget is going to fix the problems our culture faces. No bag of money is either.
How secure is the BlackBerry? So secure, the world's leading police states have forbidden its use within their borders. If you need to keep your communications confidential, only BlackBerry can guarantee it.
Makes you wonder about iPhone, Android, etc.
For my last job, I had to interview about 15-20 candidates offshore. I found the most effective technique was to give each of them a 5 question take home test for them to return with answers in 24 hours. If all the answers looked good, followup with a 30 minute phone interview to make sure they didn't just get a friend to do the work. Almost all of the candidates failed the test miserably and thus I didn't have to waste much time with them. Finally, the right guy showed up, did great in the 30 minute followup phone interview and had an offer within a day. When I finally met him in person, he struck me as a humble quiet kinda guy. He probably wouldn't have done well in a traditional phone interview where he had to just sell himself (i.e. oversell himself). But with the take home test, he could objectively prove that he knew what he was doing.
I have pretty regularly cleared my viewing history on YouTube. (Go to QuickList->Viewing History->Clear Viewing History on the YouTube interface).
Did YouTube keep a copy of it anyway? Are they turning that over to Viacom?
If so, I'd like to file a bug against the Clear Viewing History feature as it obviously did not clear the viewing history.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~waa/96-35/aegis.html
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In a computer system, the integrity of lower layers is treated as axiomatic by higher layers. Under the presumption that the hardware comprising the machine (the lowest layer) is valid, integrity of a layer can be guaranteed if and only if: (1) the integrity of the lower layers is checked, and (2) transitions to higher layers occur only after integrity checks on them are complete. The resulting integrity ``chain'' inductively guarantees system integrity.
When these conditions are not met, as they typically are not in the bootstrapping (initialization) of a computer system, no integrity guarantees can be made. Yet, these guarantees are increasingly important to diverse applications such as Internet commerce, intrusion detection systems, and ``active networks.'' In this paper, we describe the AEGIS architecture for initializing a computer system. It validates integrity at each layer transition in the bootstrap process. AEGIS also includes a recovery process for integrity check failures, and we show how this results in robust systems. We discuss our prototype implementation for the IBM personal computer (PC) architecture, and show that the cost of such system protection is surprisingly small.
Check it out
Having seen this film it was obvious that Moore was implying that public policy sending the single mother to work and public policy making firearms readily available were the cause of or significant contributing factors to the shooting. People who disagree with Moore point to other contributing environmental factors, like running an illegal-drugs business and poor parenting. It is likely that a more thorough analysis could show several troubling factors in this kid's life that all contributed to him shooting another child. I don't see any evidence that a single change in welfare laws, gun laws, drug laws, or parenting laws could have guaranteed that this shooting never would have occurred. Many of us seem to suffer from the fallacy that we can prevent every tragedy with a new law or government program. Whether these laws or programs are conservative or liberal in nature, it doesn't seem to matter. Not every social problem can be solved with law. Some have to be solved by society.
http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/domino.asp
Anecdote : I know one guy, at my local gun club, who lost his job to 2 people in India and 1 in Mexico. It was literally cheaper to hire 3 people than to keep paying him to do this particular IT job. He had a life long interest in automotive electrical systems and decided to pursue a 2 year degree from a local community college. His reasoning : 1) You can't outsource car repair to India, 2) There is high demand for a person with skills in this area, 3) He really loves doing it. I also read another article recently about demand for automotive technicians being quite high and supply being quite low. The article suggested that this situation was the result of a generation of parents not wanting their kids to grow up to become "grease monkeys". These parents did not realize that automotive technicians are really computer technicians (as most modern vehicles are computer controlled) and can earn a comparable salary to an I/T person. There are many great good paying careers outside of I/T. If you think that your days as an I/T person are over then it would be worth it to look around.
Bear in mind, however... there was no permanent federal income tax until 1913. Country did just fine for almost 140 years with no income tax except in dire situations (read: when war broke out). Then, they said "oh, this is for your own good - you need to pay for the war in Europe to protect freedom and blah blah blah". Man I am sick of this kind of horseshit about cheap ass whiners who hate paying their taxes. Know what else the country didn't have in 1913? National highways to maintain, huge publicly funded transit systems, security agencies like the NSA and CIA to keep you safe, social security, medicare, the largest military in the universe....
We have no "National Highways". All highways are built and maintained by the individual states. The federal government collects taxes and then hands them out to the states to build and maintain roads. The federal government uses this power to tax and spend to control and manipulate state issues regarding roads and other matters.
The NSA, CIA, and military are supposed to keep me safe. What a joke. We invade several countries and interfere with several more. People get pissed and terrorists have an easy time recruiting them to come and blow us up. Great!
Social security and medicare are crap. If you took that money stolen from each paycheck and put it in a pathetic bank savings account you would get more money. They are just lousy pyramid schemes.
Our country has thrived despite the gigantic federal government not because of it.
So let's ditch the income tax and see if our country really does come to an end. Somehow I doubt it.
Besides the obvious civil liberties issues, the government does not have a good history of running networks. Just look at Amtrak.
Mark/Space, the makers of the Missing Sync for Mac OS, will fill the void. Check out their website to read all about it: http://www.markspace.com/cobalt.html
can wait a bit longer. The kind of stability they need right now isn't in a computer operating system, it's in a governing system. They also need stability in what we consider basic utilities -- electricity, running water, etc. It also helps not to have to worry about car bombs, suicide bombers, and other daily attacks.
Computers are tools, just like guns and gavels. Governments use tools to carry out their designated functions. Good computers and computer operating systems can be used to establish a stable government.
Read all about their "Week of action against small arms". I can't help seeing these things as related. Most countries in the world have less respect for the right to free speech and the right to keep and bear arms than the United States. Why not go after the entire Bill of Rights?
http://www.cato.org/research/articles/bandow-03101 9.html
http://www.cato.org/events/010402pf.html
If you really are pro gun-control you should be able to educate your children as to why you believe what you believe and respond to their questions. If your kid reads a pro gun site and has questions about the 2nd amendment that is the perfect opportunity for you to explain your views.
If you really are pro gun-rights you should be able to educate your children as to why you believe what you believe and respond to their questions. If your kid reads a pro gun control site and has questions about the 2nd amendment that is the perfect opportunity for you to explain your views.
The availibility of information (or misinformation) and viewpoints on the web is supposed to make us think about and challenge our beliefs. If you don't want your children to challenge your beliefs and think for themselves what kind of parents are you?
Dell sells a lot computers to all levels of government. I would imagine they have offices in nearly all 50 states.
I read the article and while it seemed to be all happy happy it was really just a cover for promoting socialism. Look at their goals : national health care, mandatory 4 week vacation, no mandatory overtime. This is just socialism. If you want to "take back your time" then spend less and live below your means. Being socialists of course they did not want to touch the number one reason that people work more hours and that families have to be dual income : taxes!. Most people work several months a year just to pay for bloated government.
And not for the tinfoil hat security reasons, but because it undermines the ideals of equal justice under the law for all. Rich people should NOT be able to buy preferential security treatment. If the law is "everyone gets their anus searched for bombs", then we all get in the same line and have the same kind of search. Simply having the money to buy an ID card that "proves" you've got a clean anus isn't equal protection under the law, it's preferential treatment for sale.
How about paying something to get into a high speed security check line? Same security check, less people, less wait. You could vary the price with demand so that the line always moved quickly. If you are a big enough airport perhaps you could have three lines. This way everyone is having their privacy invaded and is paying what their time is worth.
The judge wasn't constrained by laws such as the DMCA and other nonsense that favors business over innovation.
Do laws such as the DMCA really favor business? They certainly do not favor free trade, free enterprise, and entrepreneurialism. Laws such as the DMCA favor established businesses that wish to be protected from new competitors.
So if someone is pissing through our letterbox, the libertarian response is "Get a bucket", rather than stop the person pissing through the letterbox. My that's brilliant!
No the libertarian response to someone urinating in your physical mailbox in front of your house is to call the police so they can come and arrest the individual. Libertarians would also argue that as part of this individual's punishment he must make restitution to the owner of the letterbox. (i.e. he needs to come out and either clean it or replace it with a new one, or pay for someone to do the same). The libertarian response is not to wait for your neighbor to do something about it or to ask a politician to make a new specific law about urinating on letterboxes, it is take responsibility for your own problem and call the police yourself.
The point is that the law and politicians cannot solve all of life's annonyances and problems. Even if you vehemently disagree with the libertarian philosophy you would still be better off figuring out how to deal with spam on your own.
I don't understand why Americans are so afraid of national ID cards. Where I live we have standardized national ID cards that are used in most situations, and I can't say how it has made me any less free.
In the modern world, we are counted and registered with our government. What is wrong with having a standardized card to show who we are?
It is the counting and registering that bothers many Americans, not the card. Americans have good reason to be distrustful of the federal government's attempts to catalog every aspect of our lives. In the history of our country we have seen continued abuse of our constitutional rights by the government (laws against speaking out against the government, prohibitions on firearm ownership, illegal searches and seizures whenever someone says "drugs", having to prove our innonence (IRS audit), etc.). The threats to our freedom have increased over time and we don't want to make it even easier for the government to control us.
I suggest that you look at your company in a different manner. The company can provide you and your family with opportunity. The opportunity to earn a paycheck and possibly learn something. When the company has no need for the job that you do or can find someone to do it better or cheaper you will not have a job with that company. On the flip side when the company is no longer offering you a good paycheck or opportunity you will quit. The relationship is really no more than that. The company is not a family, clan, or tribe, just an opportunity.
I'm fairly libertarianish, but you need to realize where this is coming from.
Newspapers and magazines can do essentially anything they want, in the US. Broadcast bandwidth is a scarce resource, though, and needs to be regulated or it would be worthless. For that reason, broadcast rights are strictly limited by the FCC, and there are regulations that limit how people with broadcast rights can act, including how much commercial content they can run.
Spectrum is just as much a natural resource as land. It is utterly useless until humans come along and make something of it. Like land it should be treated as private property.
The government should just auction off the spectrum used for TV broadcasts and be done with it. The FCC's regulations and censorship are flat out unconstitutional.
Some Russian company built a circumvention device for Adobe's (arguably laughable) eBook encryption, yes. They sold it in the US. They got called on it. They were acquited. They stopped making it. If I were to catch someone using my copyrighted works in improper/illegal ways I'm pretty certain that I would pursue the matter to the extent of my abilities. Stealing is stealing. The DMCA, as written, gave Adobe the powers they used. Are the circumvention and reverse engineer portions of the DMCA wrong? Probably. Is that Adobe's fault? no. Your anger should be directed at the lawmakers that passed the DMCA and yourself for not asserting yourself to your representatives and ensuring that they understood that you didn't want it passed.
Actually by putting direct pressure on Adobe (by protesting outside of their offices) we were able to get them to back down from aiding the federal government in prosecuting the case. I did not see any reason to boycott Adobe products because of this.
Care to tell us how many letters & phone calls you made to your senators and representatives against the DMCA?
A few and more importantly I recently attended a townhall meeting with my representative in the house to let her know we wanted DMCA reform.