Of course, if we would let everything and everyone fail outright in a horrific manner, maybe just maybe everyone would learn deep lessons.
Y'arr, I see ye lookin' at me golden leg. Lost the real one in the great storm of '08. Me first peg leg were made o' the femur of Long John McGillicutty who didn't survive at all. Had me this fine one made when weather got better and credit were easy. 'Course if I ever go overboard I'll sink like a stone, so I'm hopin' for fair seas forevermore.
"You should never hit your kids. It is harmful and ultimately makes life worse."
Corporal punishment can be effective in behaviour modification if it is swift and consistent. Actual force applied should be low, because higher force doesn't lead to greater efficacy. If swift and certain isn't an option, then it shouldn't be applied, since it does have a down side in learning from example. Telling a child that they shouldn't hit while you're hitting them sends a mixed message.
I'm truly impressed that people can come up with security warnings about Windows that are not true... after all, is there anything as insecure as Windows?
Question of probablity. They might have had a chance if their warning had said "Your computer is probably infected", but it is conceivable that there exist Windows boxes recently installed from behind a firewall which are not infected at all, so they can't say "Your computer is infected".
Sure boycotts work. I don't buy EA games, and as a result I am a happier gamer.
Yup. If anyone were doing it solely as a strategy to get the evil EA to change their ways, they might be disappointed. But there's something to be said for behaving consistently with one's values. People who support companies like EA, Disney, Microsoft, Sony, RIAA labels, etc. deserve what they get. They make it all possible with their dollars. Then they turn around whine about it as though it was all the fault of the evil corporations and they're just innocent victims.
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Just write the code like it is YOU that has to debug it at 4am.
It's likely it will be me who has to debug it at 4 am. Writing clear code with helpful comments where necessary makes me appreciate my past self, since if the code is more than a few weeks old, I've already forgotten a whole lot. If it's more than a year old, it might as well have been written by someone else. This is, in fact, how I learned the value of clear coding. It wasn't for others, but for myself. The early shit I wrote in perl looks like something that might originally have been scrawled in feces on the padded cell of someone totally deranged.
Its not as simple as that, according to the article.
BlockShopper used pictures of Jones Day lawyers grabbed from the Jones Day web site, and it linked to the site, but Jones Day doesn't seem worried about this. Instead, our review of the Jones Day complaint shows that the issue cited is "confusion"â"the claim is that people visiting BlockShopper and seeing the pages in question might assume that it was somehow officially related to Jones Day. This is... unlikely (see our example from the site).
Customer confusion is a classic trademark issue. I would hope that the author is correct in being doubtful, though back when the web was relatively new I would get complaints from visitors regarding sites I'd linked to as though I was responsible for the linked site. Hopefully by now people have it figured out. Now I just get complaints about my choice of sites to link to where I made no such choice, but google ads did.
Revenue is what they bring in total. Profit is what's left after expenses. In other words, they want 10.5% off the top, regardless. And the RIAA doesn't have a history of sympathy for the argument "But I wasn't making any money off of the music I was sharing," so while it would be nice if they'd give non-profits a break, it would be out of character.
Get rid of the system all together. It is just a tool of coercion and has nothing to do with education. Replace the whole shitty thing with prereq exams at the beginning of the semester. If you don't pass the prereq exam, you don't get to take the course it's for until you can pass it. Nothing to do with gold stars and shit, just whether or not you're prepared. With this model there's also no allowing knowledge to evaporate off your brain end of semester, because you're going to need it going forward. And of course if Johnny screws the pooch through the first third of semester, he's not screwed for the rest of it.
Wish I had mod points for you. A better study would be one that duplicated techniques of the bad guys at faking dialogues on the user's computer, then have participants do the experiment using their own laptops.
I suspect the results would be similar, but this problem with the design of the experiment essentially invalidates it.
It sounds as those this system is based on behavioral stereotyping, something humans have been doing for as long as there have been humans. There could be a cost advantage in having machines do it if the alternative were well paid, well trained workers, but if a high false positive rate is acceptable, then why not use rummies willing to work for cheap rum?
Does this sound idiotic to anyone else? Of course it's going to work for people who are told how to act in order to get the device to flag them.
So if you want to distract security you send in a team of middle eastern looking actors... I wonder if the system filters out over-acting? Perhaps as they refine the system, it could be used to assign the Oscars for acting -- less biased than the human Academy.
I can totally relate, esp. to the signaling thing. It's like people think the only reason they have to do it is that it's required by law, with no appreciation that it's actually to communicate to other drivers, preferably in a timely manner.
Testing everyone regularly would be a good idea, the only catch would be cost. With seniors I think it's especially justified, because it's not fair to tell someone who is perfectly capable of driving that they can't because of their age, but fact is that while it occurs at different rates for different people, our abilities do diminish with age, and beyond a certain point impaired ability means we shouldn't be on the road.
Is anyone worried about maintaining the quality of life of the unfortunate pedestrians in the crosswalk in front of grandpa when he gets the brake and gas pedals confused?
That's more likely to happen with a new driver. After 50 years of driving experience, gramps long ago ceased to have to think about it.
I don't think this technology is for the 90 year old woman. But for the 60 year old person who is starting to feel his age.
There are 90 year olds who can drive just fine. And there are others who are vegetables. The differences in abilities amongst the elderly can be huge. What makes sense beyond a certain age is annual tests. Grandpa passes, he can continue to drive, otherwise not. Actually assessing the ability of the individual makes a more sense than arbitrary rules. And if you need GPS to know a stop sign is coming, you shouldn't be driving. Unless kids, animals, and idiot pedestrians are chipped and show up on the display as well.
It wasn't saying that PC users are overweight, balding old farts in suits, but that PC's themselves are that boring.
Not directly, perhaps, but the implication was there, if only in the characterization of the PC (always assumed to be running Windows, of course) as the computer of business people. What is the stereotype of business nerds? Suits. Versus how they characterized the Mac as the computer of people who are really hip and creative. Consciously or unconsciously, PC Guy and Mac Boy reflect users. And which would you rather be?
As far as I'm concerned both PC Guy and Mac Boy are brain dead consumers of DRM infested crap, so I guess I'm Angry Linux Zealot Guy.
Don't you think a name like Jesus at least deserves a moon? An asteroid would be Baby Jesus.
Perhaps that's where people go when they rapture. Like that episode of Voyager where the inhabitants of a planet thought they went to a higher plane when they died, but turned they actually wound up as mummies on a rock in space somewhere.
Since when is it 'hacking' to guess that her email password is her zip code?
And she could be president one day? Polls show its a close race and McCain is an old guy with a history of cancer.
I suppose this is a side effect of trying to hide things through unofficial channels -- official channels might have NSA IT security protocols that have to be followed or something, but stuff going through personal email accounts avoids security rigour and could potentially be much more vulnerable, if only because of user stupidity.
With a few exceptions such as archaeology and paleoanthropology, perhaps there could be a private charity for the advancement of the pseudosciences. I'm not sure it's appropriate to spend taxpayer money on those things.
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Of course, if we would let everything and everyone fail outright in a horrific manner, maybe just maybe everyone would learn deep lessons.
Y'arr, I see ye lookin' at me golden leg. Lost the real one in the great storm of '08. Me first peg leg were made o' the femur of Long John McGillicutty who didn't survive at all. Had me this fine one made when weather got better and credit were easy. 'Course if I ever go overboard I'll sink like a stone, so I'm hopin' for fair seas forevermore.
"You should never hit your kids. It is harmful and ultimately makes life worse."
Corporal punishment can be effective in behaviour modification if it is swift and consistent. Actual force applied should be low, because higher force doesn't lead to greater efficacy. If swift and certain isn't an option, then it shouldn't be applied, since it does have a down side in learning from example. Telling a child that they shouldn't hit while you're hitting them sends a mixed message.
I'm truly impressed that people can come up with security warnings about Windows that are not true... after all, is there anything as insecure as Windows?
Question of probablity. They might have had a chance if their warning had said "Your computer is probably infected", but it is conceivable that there exist Windows boxes recently installed from behind a firewall which are not infected at all, so they can't say "Your computer is infected".
Ah, but maybe someone perverted enough to have sex with an infected monkey only comes around every 10,000 years or so.
Ah, but how do you know the monkey is infected? Always have your monkey checked out by a vet prior to initiating intimacy.
So fork and rename it to something decent, like 'Respectable Creator Application'
If you can't see the tsunami, the tsunami can't see you.
Modern tsunami's use GPS. That's why they're more devastating than the old ones which could only strike during daylight.
The three bear security system had proven inadequate.
Sure boycotts work. I don't buy EA games, and as a result I am a happier gamer.
Yup. If anyone were doing it solely as a strategy to get the evil EA to change their ways, they might be disappointed. But there's something to be said for behaving consistently with one's values. People who support companies like EA, Disney, Microsoft, Sony, RIAA labels, etc. deserve what they get. They make it all possible with their dollars. Then they turn around whine about it as though it was all the fault of the evil corporations and they're just innocent victims.
Just write the code like it is YOU that has to debug it at 4am.
It's likely it will be me who has to debug it at 4 am. Writing clear code with helpful comments where necessary makes me appreciate my past self, since if the code is more than a few weeks old, I've already forgotten a whole lot. If it's more than a year old, it might as well have been written by someone else. This is, in fact, how I learned the value of clear coding. It wasn't for others, but for myself. The early shit I wrote in perl looks like something that might originally have been scrawled in feces on the padded cell of someone totally deranged.
Its not as simple as that, according to the article.
BlockShopper used pictures of Jones Day lawyers grabbed from the Jones Day web site, and it linked to the site, but Jones Day doesn't seem worried about this. Instead, our review of the Jones Day complaint shows that the issue cited is "confusion"â"the claim is that people visiting BlockShopper and seeing the pages in question might assume that it was somehow officially related to Jones Day. This is... unlikely (see our example from the site).
Customer confusion is a classic trademark issue. I would hope that the author is correct in being doubtful, though back when the web was relatively new I would get complaints from visitors regarding sites I'd linked to as though I was responsible for the linked site. Hopefully by now people have it figured out. Now I just get complaints about my choice of sites to link to where I made no such choice, but google ads did.
What about the radios that don't make any profit?
Revenue is what they bring in total. Profit is what's left after expenses. In other words, they want 10.5% off the top, regardless. And the RIAA doesn't have a history of sympathy for the argument "But I wasn't making any money off of the music I was sharing," so while it would be nice if they'd give non-profits a break, it would be out of character.
Get rid of the system all together. It is just a tool of coercion and has nothing to do with education. Replace the whole shitty thing with prereq exams at the beginning of the semester. If you don't pass the prereq exam, you don't get to take the course it's for until you can pass it. Nothing to do with gold stars and shit, just whether or not you're prepared. With this model there's also no allowing knowledge to evaporate off your brain end of semester, because you're going to need it going forward. And of course if Johnny screws the pooch through the first third of semester, he's not screwed for the rest of it.
Wish I had mod points for you. A better study would be one that duplicated techniques of the bad guys at faking dialogues on the user's computer, then have participants do the experiment using their own laptops.
I suspect the results would be similar, but this problem with the design of the experiment essentially invalidates it.
It sounds as those this system is based on behavioral stereotyping, something humans have been doing for as long as there have been humans. There could be a cost advantage in having machines do it if the alternative were well paid, well trained workers, but if a high false positive rate is acceptable, then why not use rummies willing to work for cheap rum?
Does this sound idiotic to anyone else? Of course it's going to work for people who are told how to act in order to get the device to flag them.
So if you want to distract security you send in a team of middle eastern looking actors... I wonder if the system filters out over-acting? Perhaps as they refine the system, it could be used to assign the Oscars for acting -- less biased than the human Academy.
Particularly since space elevators have to be on the equator...
Though pork barrel politics being what it is, Alaska will get one anyway.
I can totally relate, esp. to the signaling thing. It's like people think the only reason they have to do it is that it's required by law, with no appreciation that it's actually to communicate to other drivers, preferably in a timely manner.
Testing everyone regularly would be a good idea, the only catch would be cost. With seniors I think it's especially justified, because it's not fair to tell someone who is perfectly capable of driving that they can't because of their age, but fact is that while it occurs at different rates for different people, our abilities do diminish with age, and beyond a certain point impaired ability means we shouldn't be on the road.
Is anyone worried about maintaining the quality of life of the unfortunate pedestrians in the crosswalk in front of grandpa when he gets the brake and gas pedals confused?
That's more likely to happen with a new driver. After 50 years of driving experience, gramps long ago ceased to have to think about it.
I don't think this technology is for the 90 year old woman. But for the 60 year old person who is starting to feel his age.
There are 90 year olds who can drive just fine. And there are others who are vegetables. The differences in abilities amongst the elderly can be huge. What makes sense beyond a certain age is annual tests. Grandpa passes, he can continue to drive, otherwise not. Actually assessing the ability of the individual makes a more sense than arbitrary rules. And if you need GPS to know a stop sign is coming, you shouldn't be driving. Unless kids, animals, and idiot pedestrians are chipped and show up on the display as well.
It wasn't saying that PC users are overweight, balding old farts in suits, but that PC's themselves are that boring.
Not directly, perhaps, but the implication was there, if only in the characterization of the PC (always assumed to be running Windows, of course) as the computer of business people. What is the stereotype of business nerds? Suits. Versus how they characterized the Mac as the computer of people who are really hip and creative. Consciously or unconsciously, PC Guy and Mac Boy reflect users. And which would you rather be?
As far as I'm concerned both PC Guy and Mac Boy are brain dead consumers of DRM infested crap, so I guess I'm Angry Linux Zealot Guy.
I think it was Gary Seven saving our butts once more.
Don't you think a name like Jesus at least deserves a moon? An asteroid would be Baby Jesus.
Perhaps that's where people go when they rapture. Like that episode of Voyager where the inhabitants of a planet thought they went to a higher plane when they died, but turned they actually wound up as mummies on a rock in space somewhere.
Since when is it 'hacking' to guess that her email password is her zip code?
And she could be president one day? Polls show its a close race and McCain is an old guy with a history of cancer.
I suppose this is a side effect of trying to hide things through unofficial channels -- official channels might have NSA IT security protocols that have to be followed or something, but stuff going through personal email accounts avoids security rigour and could potentially be much more vulnerable, if only because of user stupidity.
It's beyond unreasonable, they are dogmatic evolutionists to the point where it is a religious point of view of opposing the IDers.
They're fundamentalist atheists, and yes, they pose at least as great a threat to science as fundamentalist Christians.
Who else would support social science research?
With a few exceptions such as archaeology and paleoanthropology, perhaps there could be a private charity for the advancement of the pseudosciences. I'm not sure it's appropriate to spend taxpayer money on those things.