It's too bad that your experience turned you off of the possibility of teaching children. You sound well rounded, realistic, intelligent, and dissatisfied with the way education is approached at such levels--the type of person that our public schools need so very desperately these days.
Damn. I sincerely hope that you are exaggerating just a bit in your description of those classes. During my undergrad work I took a lower/middle level psychology course where the professor assigned a five to seven page paper (pretty much on any topic of our choosing because this was the history of psychology) about half way through the semester. I was shocked that there were people around me actually groaning about a five page minimum.
Whining about five pages is silly, complaining about anything less than a page for any reason in college is absolutely asinine.
Of course it is also a possibility that this is a generic "this page is down" placeholder, and someone just hit a button to remove the offending page as quickly as possible while they contacted someone that could actually do something about it.
"SQL injection is similar: Once you allow embedding user input in SQL statements, some developers will make mistakes. SQL injection. Boom! How to solve it? Don't allow embedding user input."
I really hate web programming so I am not very knowledgeable in this particular area, but it was my understanding that most programming languages have libraries which allow a programmer to sanitize user input that will be used in an SQL statement, such as php's mysql_real_escape_string. I'm not saying that this is all that needs to be done, but it seems that a problem like this could be eliminated with a few extra lines. Am I just way off base here?
If it this was not a current problem we wouldn't be having this discussion. Buffer overflows can be a result of bad programming regardless of what libraries are being used. Choosing vulnerable libraries or functions is just one way of creating such problems.
Grandparent and great-great grandparent (I think) are quite correct. Not all of us suffer your troubles. My house is not all brick (which is quite common in my area). My wireless comes in quite clean from one the from the very farthest end of the house, to virtually all corners and even at some signal in my driveway. I upgraded my antennas and strength is even better for me. For me wireless is not something that I use 24-7 because I have ran wires to the desk I use, but occasionally it is nice to surf or program while sitting on the couch watching TV.
Wireless can be a decent solution, even though it is not ideal for everyone.
The lightboards were anything but, being crude electrically-powered devices of no apparent use or reason for being there. Barring other logical explanation, the authorities were right to treat the devices with suspicion. My point exactly. BTW, I am not a marketer however I couldn't agree more about this style of marketing.
The chances that you'd rather take are irrelevant. Sure you are more skeptical, but can you imagine the shit-storm that would hit everyone involved had this not been a marketing stunt and had one or more been explosive? I'm not saying that there wasn't overreaction involved, but if there is any reason to believe that a bridge or building in a major city may be blown up there is cause for some precaution.
No, it's even worse. At the level the patents are actually describing, it seems that the best bad analogy would be Coca-Cola patenting "Brown liquids meant for consumption".
Ultimately proving once again how very useless software patents are. I am all for protecting your code/algorithms from people simply copying/pasting into their own projects if you desire, but if you are correct in your reading of the patent this is just foolish. I don't know anything about patent law, but I'm sure you are right, and there are probably a wealth of other projects that you haven't seen that predate blackboard that come dangerously close to the patent.
Call of BS seconded.
Anybody who buys a politician's "soundbites" - especially a Clinton (or Bush) soundbite - has to have their head examined for leaks. And that goes for all Republican AND Democratic politicians. I think you are misreading. I completely agree with this statement. So many politicians these days will say anything in order to get votes. More important than what they are willing to say in order to get elected is what they do while they hold office in the past.
I guess WiFi PDA's will be SOL, but I'm sure most execs that need to connect to the internet via their cell phones will probably use their cell phone network's internet connection.
I have not read this particular book, but I agree with you on your first point. Personally, if I'm going to work in a language that I'm not familiar with, I want a good reference book so that I can look up the syntax where necessary. These kids are going to be learning the fundamentals of programming as well as a little bit about a language. A reference book will not suit them because where I would be irritated by constant explanation of simple concepts, they will need them as much as they would need the code examples.
if kids know how to modify the code enough to make it different, but do the same, perhaps they're learning something anyway? I don't think they'd be learning something by copying each other's code. It doesn't take much knowledge to rename variables, change comments, and change simple lines to other simple lines (var++ to var=varp+1). I could easily make a block of code look and function different without having any knowledge of how or if it works.
If you want classical mp3s Classic Cat has a large selection of recordings of many composers' works. I believe it is all free and legal. Lot of good stuff.
When has it been promised that these drugs would give relief with no side effects? Surely not recently. At the very least they are all highly addictive.
Not necessarily. I don't think the article said anything about its method of action, but if this toxin is an agonist on pain receptors it will target pain receptors by binding selectively to them. I suppose that this as well as other mechanisms of action could be thought of as blocking, but targeting may be an apt description for what is going on.
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And they laughed at me when I lined the crotch of my jeans with lead. Who's laughing now?
And that same tactic couldn't defeat random checks as well?
It's too bad that your experience turned you off of the possibility of teaching children. You sound well rounded, realistic, intelligent, and dissatisfied with the way education is approached at such levels--the type of person that our public schools need so very desperately these days.
Damn. I sincerely hope that you are exaggerating just a bit in your description of those classes. During my undergrad work I took a lower/middle level psychology course where the professor assigned a five to seven page paper (pretty much on any topic of our choosing because this was the history of psychology) about half way through the semester. I was shocked that there were people around me actually groaning about a five page minimum. Whining about five pages is silly, complaining about anything less than a page for any reason in college is absolutely asinine.
Of course it is also a possibility that this is a generic "this page is down" placeholder, and someone just hit a button to remove the offending page as quickly as possible while they contacted someone that could actually do something about it.
If it this was not a current problem we wouldn't be having this discussion. Buffer overflows can be a result of bad programming regardless of what libraries are being used. Choosing vulnerable libraries or functions is just one way of creating such problems.
I believe that this is the most convincing analogy I've ever seen here.
Grandparent and great-great grandparent (I think) are quite correct. Not all of us suffer your troubles. My house is not all brick (which is quite common in my area). My wireless comes in quite clean from one the from the very farthest end of the house, to virtually all corners and even at some signal in my driveway. I upgraded my antennas and strength is even better for me. For me wireless is not something that I use 24-7 because I have ran wires to the desk I use, but occasionally it is nice to surf or program while sitting on the couch watching TV. Wireless can be a decent solution, even though it is not ideal for everyone.
The chances that you'd rather take are irrelevant. Sure you are more skeptical, but can you imagine the shit-storm that would hit everyone involved had this not been a marketing stunt and had one or more been explosive? I'm not saying that there wasn't overreaction involved, but if there is any reason to believe that a bridge or building in a major city may be blown up there is cause for some precaution.
Or to send only girls..... and a webcam.
No, it's even worse. At the level the patents are actually describing, it seems that the best bad analogy would be Coca-Cola patenting "Brown liquids meant for consumption".
Ultimately proving once again how very useless software patents are. I am all for protecting your code/algorithms from people simply copying/pasting into their own projects if you desire, but if you are correct in your reading of the patent this is just foolish. I don't know anything about patent law, but I'm sure you are right, and there are probably a wealth of other projects that you haven't seen that predate blackboard that come dangerously close to the patent. Call of BS seconded.
Vote based on what they have done in the past, not on what they claim they will do upon getting elected.
Haven't they been talking about relaxing those rules in the near future?
I guess WiFi PDA's will be SOL, but I'm sure most execs that need to connect to the internet via their cell phones will probably use their cell phone network's internet connection.
I have not read this particular book, but I agree with you on your first point. Personally, if I'm going to work in a language that I'm not familiar with, I want a good reference book so that I can look up the syntax where necessary. These kids are going to be learning the fundamentals of programming as well as a little bit about a language. A reference book will not suit them because where I would be irritated by constant explanation of simple concepts, they will need them as much as they would need the code examples.
If it were possible to remix the scores, I would imagine that they would be all for it.
If you want classical mp3s Classic Cat has a large selection of recordings of many composers' works. I believe it is all free and legal. Lot of good stuff.
When has it been promised that these drugs would give relief with no side effects? Surely not recently. At the very least they are all highly addictive.
Not necessarily. I don't think the article said anything about its method of action, but if this toxin is an agonist on pain receptors it will target pain receptors by binding selectively to them. I suppose that this as well as other mechanisms of action could be thought of as blocking, but targeting may be an apt description for what is going on.