...type 2 diabetes is caused by genetics and lifestyle factors.
Anonymous Coward is correctly pointing out that while it's linked, the actual relationship is more complicated than that, and that is why "Eating too much sugar causes diabetes" is a myth. Rubycodez was making a joke and hence his comments shouldn't be taken that seriously, however the joke did rely upon the myth that consuming too much sugar causes diabetes, otherwise his joke wouldn't make sense. That is why Anonymous Coward's link was relevant.
I know this is a casual forum, and we're mostly making light of this article, however there is a valid reason that schools have adopted this idea.
The idea is that you're rewarding the child for putting in effort, which has been shown to produce better results for complex cognitive tasks. In fact, there's been a fair few articles which have been either directly related or tangentially related to this, linked on Slashdot.
In addition to this, the student which is rewarded for their innate ability or luck, does not necessarily learn to continue to put in enough effort. This is particularly prevalent later on in life, when study for almost everyone becomes quite a lot harder, and persistence pays off.
Lastly, there is more of an appreciation for the random/luck component of the outcome, which probably makes up more than 99% of the probability of a successful outcome. I was a huge nerd at university, I put in a lot of time and effort, and I'm blessed with a reasonable innate ability to learn easily, and got grades that were quite good. However, I like almost all of the other nerds I knew, had a lot of courses that I did not achieve good grades for, when my competency in that course was amazing. Similarly I had some courses that I did achieve amazing grades for, when my competency in those courses was far below that suggested by the grade.
As always, a caveat, the topic of motivation and what drives people, is hotly debated and researched. Most of the research hasn't been that great into this, but some of it has, and those ones suggest that on average, this is a better method for raising our children.
"No it doesn't. There'll be one guy left with one eye. Hows the last blind guy gonna take out the eye of the last guy left, who's still got one eye! All that guy has to do is run away and hide behind a bush. Gandhi was wrong, it's just that nobody's got the balls to come right out and say it." - Seven Psychopaths
Thanks for the review. Everything you've written makes MIT sound like an excellent school. One where you go to do some serious learnings, instead of just fuck around.
What other universities are like this?
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As my console friends remind me. There's a much greater simplicity and ease of use of the consoles versus the PCs in their eyes.
They will still buy consoles, for the same reason that your parents don't run virtualized environments to emulate other operating systems, and the same reason that most people I've met haven't cracked their Wii... it's all too complicated and frustrating for them. This doesn't preclude other people setting it up for them, but they often don't feel comfortable with it.
If what you say eventuated, I could see PS4's becoming the dominant player in the market.
Allowing PC's to play as well, and likely pirate, will dramatically increase the demand for their console, and the amount of people who would even consider buying one.
I don't know the US legal system nor it's taxation, however I do know the Australian system.
For comparison, if you were doing that in Australia, particularly if you described it the way you have, you would easily fall under the Income Tax Assessment Act of 1936 Part IVA--Schemes to reduce income tax. At which point they would use section 177F to remove the affects of any benefit you're creating for yourself, tax you on the new amount, and depending on the severity of the situation, there could be fines and even jail time.
The difficulty in Australia is that to figure out this can take quite a lot of time and money, however the ATO has special divisions that target the ones they will get the most gain from. One of my lecturers at university was one of the people who worked at the ATO on high net worth individuals to try and figure out if they were dodging tax. He had a lot of insight on methods used to find people who were living off of loans from corporations which they themselves controlled or owned, such that they were re-classifying their income as expenses. It's actually really interesting how they go about it.
While I know the US is very different in this regards, I'd be somewhat surprised if something like this didn't exist in the US.
That price wasn't very specific, here's a better run down of prices Holden Commodores on CarSales.com.au. The *'s mean they're not sure if it's "on road" (meaning it's inclusive of all taxes) or not. I don't think it is. There was a similar ambiguity when I was looking up the US prices.
The cost of living here is a fair bit more expensive, property is often quite a lot more expensive unless you live quite rurally. Here's a better write up on that on the "Australian forum". Almost every American I've met has complained about the price of things here though.
Apparently the median household income in the US is $52,762 and in Australia it is $68,640. Though it should be noted this is without considering purchasing power, both are probably measured quite differently, and each is quoted in their local currencies... but it's the best I could find, without going into this more seriously.
Canada and the US share a boarder, so it is somewhat ridiculous for them to charge more in Canada than in Hawaii, that's a fair complaint. However, what I think is even more ridiculous is a car that's made in South Australia, the Pontiac G8 is cheaper to buy in the US than in South Australia. The average price in South Australia is around $50,000 the average price in the US is around $30,000. Remembering that the dollar was at parity or close to parity. This means it was $20,000 cheaper to purchase a car that had been shipped to the US. GM has consistently done this to us, and just about every large company does this to us.
Valve actually doesn't do it that much, though some game producers that use Steam do.
Sometimes I need to pretend I am a rambling mad man as a joke amongst friends. The problem is I can never quite pull of something which is coherent enough to actually be said by someone, yet insane enough to actually stand out as this guy is obviously a rambling mad man.
My go to response used to be some mish-mash of an Allen Ginsberg poem, something like... "I passed through universities with radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, if I was expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull..."
It's good, but it's hard to memorise. Like myself, most of my friends have at least some university level economics/finance education, so from now on, I'm just going to memorise your comment, as my go to rambling mad man impersonation.
I do what I said above all the time (note that I only need to remember 2 passwords though), and the bad grammar and punctuation makes little to no difference, because in my mind the badness still follows a pattern which is predictable, as if someone who doesn't know English well was writing this. These make it predictable for you.
Lies. I used to do this too, when I was in primary and high school, on my Cyrix 200. It used to take me about a week to crack 95-98% of the passwords, you never got to 100% unless everyone there had really weak passwords. There were always _some_ passwords which I couldn't crack in a reasonable amount of time. They were often the passwords of my friends who were doing similar things.
Over the years I had figured out a lot of different ways to break into machines. But the best way I got the hashes was by bringing along a bootable linux diskette (or CD in the later years), booting in off of that (sometimes had to get around BIOS protections first), then we could grab the sam file (or the sam.bak file). I also found some code which we compiled to a DLL, which pretended to be a Novell logon manager, and would simply dump the login and password to a text file when someone logged in. They didn't realize for a long time, and it seems even Symantec didn't become aware of this till 2002. Which was many many many years later. This ensured that if we lost an admin password, we'd just have to wait for them to log back in, and we'd have it again.
Eventually I got wise and figured out how to terminal into the domain server with one of the admin passwords, at which point I created a very official sounding domain admin account, which had permissions for just about everything. At which point I'd then brag and show my friends that I could access network shares which were off limits and print to fancy colour printers reserved only for teachers... like a gangsta.
Even if the master database is stolen, they'd need a keylogger or similar to get your password so they can unlock it. Most of the password managers like KeePass or LastPass aren't crackable, if you use a good password.
Why is everyone limiting themselves so much with possibilities for correct horse battery staple?
Add some spaces in there first of all, then throw in some punctuation, preferably bad punctuation and grammar.
Correct! That be Horse battery staple.
Throw in some slang and perhaps some more obscure words.
Correct! That be Hoshizzles li-ion battery staple.
Throw in some random junk for fun, I recommend a mathematical formula. Also, don't place it on the end, as this is the most common place for random junk. Instead put it at the start, or somewhere random in the middle.
Correct! a^2+b^2=c^2. That be Hoshizzles li-ion battery staple.
I have 2 passwords that follow this pattern which are used in password managers and similar, which also use 2 factor authentication. It takes a day or so for you to memorize this pattern, and then typing it in is easy. Using a password manager allows you to use other unique passwords for every other website, without compromising your password manager password.
Ridiculous levels of security, with very little levels of inconvenience.
Password managers are a VERY GOOD idea, as they allow you to easily maintain complex passwords for each website/application/etc, separately. Especially when those managers are like KeePass, LastPass, or similar, such that the data is encrypted to a ridiculous extent. If you take an application like KeePass or LastPass, and try to guess the hash, it is going to be slow due to the usage of secure hash functions like SHA512, Whirlpool, and similar. They also salt properly, can use 2 factor authentication, and use PBKDF2, which will eliminate the ability to use rainbow tables and slow down each and every guess such that a machine which can usually do "350 billion password attempts a second" can now only do "350 thousand attempts per second".
Then if you use a pass phrase like "correct horse battery staple" with some added bad grammar numbers and symbols, you'll have 1 easily rememberable password, that will not be broken in a reasonable amount of time.
Instead, if you don't use a password manager, you'll likely use the same or a limited number of passwords for different websites, and when one goes down, they all go down. With a password manager you limit the attack to breaking into your password manager, and breaking into a single site.
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When in Rome.
Do you guys even bother reading your own links?
Anonymous Coward is correctly pointing out that while it's linked, the actual relationship is more complicated than that, and that is why "Eating too much sugar causes diabetes" is a myth. Rubycodez was making a joke and hence his comments shouldn't be taken that seriously, however the joke did rely upon the myth that consuming too much sugar causes diabetes, otherwise his joke wouldn't make sense. That is why Anonymous Coward's link was relevant.
I know this is a casual forum, and we're mostly making light of this article, however there is a valid reason that schools have adopted this idea.
The idea is that you're rewarding the child for putting in effort, which has been shown to produce better results for complex cognitive tasks. In fact, there's been a fair few articles which have been either directly related or tangentially related to this, linked on Slashdot.
In addition to this, the student which is rewarded for their innate ability or luck, does not necessarily learn to continue to put in enough effort. This is particularly prevalent later on in life, when study for almost everyone becomes quite a lot harder, and persistence pays off.
Lastly, there is more of an appreciation for the random/luck component of the outcome, which probably makes up more than 99% of the probability of a successful outcome. I was a huge nerd at university, I put in a lot of time and effort, and I'm blessed with a reasonable innate ability to learn easily, and got grades that were quite good. However, I like almost all of the other nerds I knew, had a lot of courses that I did not achieve good grades for, when my competency in that course was amazing. Similarly I had some courses that I did achieve amazing grades for, when my competency in those courses was far below that suggested by the grade.
As always, a caveat, the topic of motivation and what drives people, is hotly debated and researched. Most of the research hasn't been that great into this, but some of it has, and those ones suggest that on average, this is a better method for raising our children.
self pithy
If they don't feel self [concise and forcefully expressive]...?
Did you even read the GP? The one I was responding to. Your criticism of my post, is actually you agreeing with me, that the GP's argument is absurd.
The value of one bitcoin is exactly one bitcoin. The value doesn't change, how much you can buy with it however, does change.
I'd rather...
dd if=/dev/rand of=/dev/sda bs=1024 &
"No it doesn't. There'll be one guy left with one eye. Hows the last blind guy gonna take out the eye of the last guy left, who's still got one eye! All that guy has to do is run away and hide behind a bush. Gandhi was wrong, it's just that nobody's got the balls to come right out and say it."
- Seven Psychopaths
Thanks for the review. Everything you've written makes MIT sound like an excellent school. One where you go to do some serious learnings, instead of just fuck around.
What other universities are like this?
As my console friends remind me. There's a much greater simplicity and ease of use of the consoles versus the PCs in their eyes.
They will still buy consoles, for the same reason that your parents don't run virtualized environments to emulate other operating systems, and the same reason that most people I've met haven't cracked their Wii... it's all too complicated and frustrating for them. This doesn't preclude other people setting it up for them, but they often don't feel comfortable with it.
If what you say eventuated, I could see PS4's becoming the dominant player in the market.
Allowing PC's to play as well, and likely pirate, will dramatically increase the demand for their console, and the amount of people who would even consider buying one.
I don't know the US legal system nor it's taxation, however I do know the Australian system.
For comparison, if you were doing that in Australia, particularly if you described it the way you have, you would easily fall under the Income Tax Assessment Act of 1936 Part IVA--Schemes to reduce income tax. At which point they would use section 177F to remove the affects of any benefit you're creating for yourself, tax you on the new amount, and depending on the severity of the situation, there could be fines and even jail time.
The difficulty in Australia is that to figure out this can take quite a lot of time and money, however the ATO has special divisions that target the ones they will get the most gain from. One of my lecturers at university was one of the people who worked at the ATO on high net worth individuals to try and figure out if they were dodging tax. He had a lot of insight on methods used to find people who were living off of loans from corporations which they themselves controlled or owned, such that they were re-classifying their income as expenses. It's actually really interesting how they go about it.
While I know the US is very different in this regards, I'd be somewhat surprised if something like this didn't exist in the US.
WHOAH! NO WAY! Come on Coopers, what the fuck?
That price wasn't very specific, here's a better run down of prices Holden Commodores on CarSales.com.au. The *'s mean they're not sure if it's "on road" (meaning it's inclusive of all taxes) or not. I don't think it is. There was a similar ambiguity when I was looking up the US prices.
The cost of living here is a fair bit more expensive, property is often quite a lot more expensive unless you live quite rurally. Here's a better write up on that on the "Australian forum". Almost every American I've met has complained about the price of things here though.
Apparently the median household income in the US is $52,762 and in Australia it is $68,640. Though it should be noted this is without considering purchasing power, both are probably measured quite differently, and each is quoted in their local currencies... but it's the best I could find, without going into this more seriously.
I used the wrong tenses, should have been "was" cheaper to buy. Google, and my facts still stand.
This year, or next year, the exact same car is supposed to be released as a Chevrolet SS.
Touche.
Hi there, I've got a degree in economics, you're wrong. That shit's retarded.
Canada and the US share a boarder, so it is somewhat ridiculous for them to charge more in Canada than in Hawaii, that's a fair complaint. However, what I think is even more ridiculous is a car that's made in South Australia, the Pontiac G8 is cheaper to buy in the US than in South Australia. The average price in South Australia is around $50,000 the average price in the US is around $30,000. Remembering that the dollar was at parity or close to parity. This means it was $20,000 cheaper to purchase a car that had been shipped to the US. GM has consistently done this to us, and just about every large company does this to us.
Valve actually doesn't do it that much, though some game producers that use Steam do.
Sometimes I need to pretend I am a rambling mad man as a joke amongst friends. The problem is I can never quite pull of something which is coherent enough to actually be said by someone, yet insane enough to actually stand out as this guy is obviously a rambling mad man.
My go to response used to be some mish-mash of an Allen Ginsberg poem, something like...
"I passed through universities with radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, if I was expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull..."
It's good, but it's hard to memorise. Like myself, most of my friends have at least some university level economics/finance education, so from now on, I'm just going to memorise your comment, as my go to rambling mad man impersonation.
In other words, thanks!
I do what I said above all the time (note that I only need to remember 2 passwords though), and the bad grammar and punctuation makes little to no difference, because in my mind the badness still follows a pattern which is predictable, as if someone who doesn't know English well was writing this. These make it predictable for you.
Lies. I used to do this too, when I was in primary and high school, on my Cyrix 200. It used to take me about a week to crack 95-98% of the passwords, you never got to 100% unless everyone there had really weak passwords. There were always _some_ passwords which I couldn't crack in a reasonable amount of time. They were often the passwords of my friends who were doing similar things.
Over the years I had figured out a lot of different ways to break into machines. But the best way I got the hashes was by bringing along a bootable linux diskette (or CD in the later years), booting in off of that (sometimes had to get around BIOS protections first), then we could grab the sam file (or the sam.bak file). I also found some code which we compiled to a DLL, which pretended to be a Novell logon manager, and would simply dump the login and password to a text file when someone logged in. They didn't realize for a long time, and it seems even Symantec didn't become aware of this till 2002. Which was many many many years later. This ensured that if we lost an admin password, we'd just have to wait for them to log back in, and we'd have it again.
Eventually I got wise and figured out how to terminal into the domain server with one of the admin passwords, at which point I created a very official sounding domain admin account, which had permissions for just about everything. At which point I'd then brag and show my friends that I could access network shares which were off limits and print to fancy colour printers reserved only for teachers... like a gangsta.
Use a password manager then. Problem solved.
Even if the master database is stolen, they'd need a keylogger or similar to get your password so they can unlock it. Most of the password managers like KeePass or LastPass aren't crackable, if you use a good password.
Why is everyone limiting themselves so much with possibilities for correct horse battery staple?
Add some spaces in there first of all, then throw in some punctuation, preferably bad punctuation and grammar.
Correct! That be Horse battery staple.
Throw in some slang and perhaps some more obscure words.
Correct! That be Hoshizzles li-ion battery staple.
Throw in some random junk for fun, I recommend a mathematical formula. Also, don't place it on the end, as this is the most common place for random junk. Instead put it at the start, or somewhere random in the middle.
Correct! a^2+b^2=c^2. That be Hoshizzles li-ion battery staple.
I have 2 passwords that follow this pattern which are used in password managers and similar, which also use 2 factor authentication. It takes a day or so for you to memorize this pattern, and then typing it in is easy. Using a password manager allows you to use other unique passwords for every other website, without compromising your password manager password.
Ridiculous levels of security, with very little levels of inconvenience.
Password managers are a VERY GOOD idea, as they allow you to easily maintain complex passwords for each website/application/etc, separately. Especially when those managers are like KeePass, LastPass, or similar, such that the data is encrypted to a ridiculous extent. If you take an application like KeePass or LastPass, and try to guess the hash, it is going to be slow due to the usage of secure hash functions like SHA512, Whirlpool, and similar. They also salt properly, can use 2 factor authentication, and use PBKDF2, which will eliminate the ability to use rainbow tables and slow down each and every guess such that a machine which can usually do "350 billion password attempts a second" can now only do "350 thousand attempts per second".
Then if you use a pass phrase like "correct horse battery staple" with some added bad grammar numbers and symbols, you'll have 1 easily rememberable password, that will not be broken in a reasonable amount of time.
Instead, if you don't use a password manager, you'll likely use the same or a limited number of passwords for different websites, and when one goes down, they all go down. With a password manager you limit the attack to breaking into your password manager, and breaking into a single site.
No, that's electrolytes.