... And which takes web hosting services that currently offer Python 2 far longer to adopt....
Most components of Python-based websites still haven't been ported to Python3. It's not surprising that shared hosting providers don't offer something that doesn't exist.
Also, teachers (at all levels) are forced to pass kids. They are told that they MUST pass their kids. No child left behind! So, the result is that teachers grade the homework and attendance as a higher percentage of their grade, and the tests become less important. This seems to be spreading. This does help the struggling kids pass, but it also turns the creative and insightful students into dull worker-bees.
It does sort of make sense because some kids have trouble spewing memorized things in a test environment. The problem is that these people don't seem to realize you can have it both ways. I'd rather see some sort of system where people who don't do well on tests could do something else to demonstrate their knowledge of the subject, but the way it ends up now is that everyone has to do both, so everyone suffers. It would take more work, but it seems like it would be worth it.
Specifically, I would like to see science education revert back to what it was when I was in school. We were given critical thinking challenges and exercises; now I see mostly worksheets and temporary memorization of terms.
What's worse is how math is taught: "Here's some stuff that would be obvious if it was written in English. Now memorize this new notation so you can read it."
The crappy pay of teachers doesn't help.... and we act surprised when our kids teacher isn't the cream of the crop.
I don't think teacher's pay is really that bad. The problem is more the huge amount of effort required to become a teacher, and then merely average pay for doing it. And that huge amount of effort is mostly taking classes on how to teach people using the current, terrible system. That, and teachers are given way too much work, since they generally do everything (write lesson plans, teach lessons, write homework, grade homework, write tests, grade tests). Pretty much all of those things could be done by a different person, and some of them (writing homework, tests, and general frameworks for lesson plans) could be done by one person for an entire district (or multiple if their schedules were similar enough).
If you haven't realized it yet, you aren't average.
I'll go along with allowing your kid to skip whenever he wants if you agree that his teachers don't have to spend their time creating makeup assignments, tests and copies of notes from the days he missed. Let's see how that works out.
How about this:
Don't grade homework. Now you can give out the same assignment to students who missed a day (keep extra copies on your desk). You don't have to worry about them cheating, because you're not grading it. Post the solutions online and in the classroom so students can check their answers whenever they want. The students who don't do it will either do badly on the tests, or won't have needed it anyway.
Make your notes in a printable format in the first place and post it online and in the classroom. Let the students read the notes any time they want, and maybe pass them out for anyone who wants one. Now it's no extra work if a student misses a day (keep extra copies on your desk if you do pass them out), AND students won't be distracted by trying to copy down your notes while you talk.
That just leaves tests. I'm inclined to say "who cares if people cheat on tests", but I guess primary schools still think people's grades mean something (yeah right). Requiring kids to show up on test days seems reasonable. That's significantly less of a hassle than requiring attendance every day.
And if you think any of that is "too much work", you should keep in mind that what I just described is how colleges work (of course, colleges don't have a choice -- since they have to keep their students somewhat happy).
I don't like working with people who can't be bothered to show up on time, I can't imagine why anyone would.
Would you wake up early every morning to go to a job that doesn't pay you, where all day you sit in meetings about things you're not interested in, and will likely never work on again, and then they send you home with a bunch of work to do to "prove that you paid attention in the meetings", but you know that they're not actually going to use your results for anything except picking the employee of the month? Also, the only questions you'll be asked in the meetings are to make sure that you were paying attention.
And remember, you can't quit. For your own good, you're forced to work at this job for at least 12 years.
You don't see why people wouldn't see much reason to show up on time? Maybe it annoys the teachers, but it's their own fault for assuming they have the right to demand attendance. They need to realize that they're the employees and the students are the customers. If your customers don't want what you're selling, then maybe you're doing it wrong.
Maybe it's helpful for training the McDonald's employees of the future, but some of us want real jobs, where we do something interesting, and your ability to memorize things doesn't matter at all (in the real world, there are cheat-sheets everywhere).
It only disrupts class because teachers insist on making a big deal of it. "Oh hey John, couldn't get to school on time!? I'm now going to rant about you being late for the next 10 minutes." In my college classes people show up late all the time, they sit down quietly in the back, and the teachers completely ignore them. Same thing with cell phones: Phone goes off, its owner quickly turns it off, people giggle for about 5 seconds, class continues.
If teachers don't want students distracted by stupid things, they should stop allowing themselves to be distracted by those things.
If you need to remind the kids to leave for school, get them free watches with alarms. The whole point of this is so they can watch them at all times (because kids don't deserve any privacy -- especially the kids who dare to ignore the school's authority).
I never pay attention to the marker (since I use sudo), so that was based on a quick glance, which of course leads directly back to my point: It's easier to ignore the one-character symbol than having to type something before a command.
It makes sense in certain environments, like file servers (rebooting the file servers at my school only takes a couple minutes but is guaranteed to make someone angry, no matter when you do it).
On the other hand, most things now can use load balancing so users will never notice..
That's what I was thinking. Maybe this is just setup for their next story: When you create a profile on a site, that site can tell when you're logged in or not:-o
Even if you could build the 4 EB rainbow table, it wouldn't be worth it unless you have billions of passwords you need to crack. If you build your password + salt rainbow table for all 32-bit hashes, and then break a million hashes, 99.97% of your insanely expensive rainbow table wasn't used at all. Rainbow tables become worthless long before they become impossible.
Well, technically, you could have a rainbow table including different random salts. It'd be so enormous that most systems wouldn't actually be able to use it. Talk about space/time trade offs, though. If you had a big enough system with enough time to pre-compute the tables beforehand and enough storage to make them usable, then you'd really save loads of time in cracking passwords. The average high schooler isn't going to have such a system at his disposal, though. Neither would the average nation-state intelligence agency.
Every bit in the salt doubles the size of a rainbow table. Assuming an unrealistically tiny 1 GB for a normal rainbow table, a rainbow table for the same passwords + a 32 bit salt is 4 Exabytes. With a 64-bit salt you're talking "so unbelievable large that we might never be able to store that amount of data".
Not to mention that even a small salt makes it faster to just try each password individually than precompute all possible passwords.
Why SHOULD I be forced to license IP that I created, let alone provide technical details to allow others to use it? It's my idea! If I decide to protect it, then I should be protected. I can decide to license it, but if I don't, nobody else should be able to profit from it.
If there is protected IP that you want to use, then you might actually be forced to come up with your own idea. Would you want to be forced to share that new idea and help your competition drive you out of business? Not likely!
If you remove the incentive for the creation of new ideas, i.e. money, then you will get less of that. This is another case of people not thinking things through to the end.
Why should you get patent protection from the government? The idea that you have some sort of right to stop other people from doing anything that you thought of first is just plain stupid.
The point of a patent is that you get protection in exchange for sharing your idea, and the argument against it is that that protection is frequently more valuable than sharing the idea (so it's a bad trade for the government to make).
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... And which takes web hosting services that currently offer Python 2 far longer to adopt....
Most components of Python-based websites still haven't been ported to Python3. It's not surprising that shared hosting providers don't offer something that doesn't exist.
Also, teachers (at all levels) are forced to pass kids. They are told that they MUST pass their kids. No child left behind! So, the result is that teachers grade the homework and attendance as a higher percentage of their grade, and the tests become less important. This seems to be spreading. This does help the struggling kids pass, but it also turns the creative and insightful students into dull worker-bees.
It does sort of make sense because some kids have trouble spewing memorized things in a test environment. The problem is that these people don't seem to realize you can have it both ways. I'd rather see some sort of system where people who don't do well on tests could do something else to demonstrate their knowledge of the subject, but the way it ends up now is that everyone has to do both, so everyone suffers. It would take more work, but it seems like it would be worth it.
Specifically, I would like to see science education revert back to what it was when I was in school. We were given critical thinking challenges and exercises; now I see mostly worksheets and temporary memorization of terms.
What's worse is how math is taught: "Here's some stuff that would be obvious if it was written in English. Now memorize this new notation so you can read it."
The crappy pay of teachers doesn't help.... and we act surprised when our kids teacher isn't the cream of the crop.
I don't think teacher's pay is really that bad. The problem is more the huge amount of effort required to become a teacher, and then merely average pay for doing it. And that huge amount of effort is mostly taking classes on how to teach people using the current, terrible system. That, and teachers are given way too much work, since they generally do everything (write lesson plans, teach lessons, write homework, grade homework, write tests, grade tests). Pretty much all of those things could be done by a different person, and some of them (writing homework, tests, and general frameworks for lesson plans) could be done by one person for an entire district (or multiple if their schedules were similar enough).
If you haven't realized it yet, you aren't average.
I'll go along with allowing your kid to skip whenever he wants if you agree that his teachers don't have to spend their time creating makeup assignments, tests and copies of notes from the days he missed. Let's see how that works out.
How about this:
That just leaves tests. I'm inclined to say "who cares if people cheat on tests", but I guess primary schools still think people's grades mean something (yeah right). Requiring kids to show up on test days seems reasonable. That's significantly less of a hassle than requiring attendance every day.
And if you think any of that is "too much work", you should keep in mind that what I just described is how colleges work (of course, colleges don't have a choice -- since they have to keep their students somewhat happy).
I don't like working with people who can't be bothered to show up on time, I can't imagine why anyone would.
Would you wake up early every morning to go to a job that doesn't pay you, where all day you sit in meetings about things you're not interested in, and will likely never work on again, and then they send you home with a bunch of work to do to "prove that you paid attention in the meetings", but you know that they're not actually going to use your results for anything except picking the employee of the month? Also, the only questions you'll be asked in the meetings are to make sure that you were paying attention.
And remember, you can't quit. For your own good, you're forced to work at this job for at least 12 years.
You don't see why people wouldn't see much reason to show up on time? Maybe it annoys the teachers, but it's their own fault for assuming they have the right to demand attendance. They need to realize that they're the employees and the students are the customers. If your customers don't want what you're selling, then maybe you're doing it wrong.
Maybe it's helpful for training the McDonald's employees of the future, but some of us want real jobs, where we do something interesting, and your ability to memorize things doesn't matter at all (in the real world, there are cheat-sheets everywhere).
It only disrupts class because teachers insist on making a big deal of it. "Oh hey John, couldn't get to school on time!? I'm now going to rant about you being late for the next 10 minutes." In my college classes people show up late all the time, they sit down quietly in the back, and the teachers completely ignore them. Same thing with cell phones: Phone goes off, its owner quickly turns it off, people giggle for about 5 seconds, class continues.
If teachers don't want students distracted by stupid things, they should stop allowing themselves to be distracted by those things.
If you need to remind the kids to leave for school, get them free watches with alarms. The whole point of this is so they can watch them at all times (because kids don't deserve any privacy -- especially the kids who dare to ignore the school's authority).
But that would be hard.
Although the whole concept of getting a permit to protest is bizarre....
So why did you even bring it up? The fact that the law says you need a permit doesn't change the fact that getting a permit for a protest is stupid.
I never pay attention to the marker (since I use sudo), so that was based on a quick glance, which of course leads directly back to my point: It's easier to ignore the one-character symbol than having to type something before a command.
It makes sense in certain environments, like file servers (rebooting the file servers at my school only takes a couple minutes but is guaranteed to make someone angry, no matter when you do it).
On the other hand, most things now can use load balancing so users will never notice..
Somehow I don't see most vi-using folks looking down on those who prefer Emacs.
Clearly you haven't used vi long enough ;)
So a one character difference ("#" vs "~") is a good reminder, but having to type "sudo" isn't?
Solution: Add "stackoverflow" to the end of every programming-related question. It saves a lot of time.
That's what I was thinking. Maybe this is just setup for their next story: When you create a profile on a site, that site can tell when you're logged in or not :-o
Even if you could build the 4 EB rainbow table, it wouldn't be worth it unless you have billions of passwords you need to crack. If you build your password + salt rainbow table for all 32-bit hashes, and then break a million hashes, 99.97% of your insanely expensive rainbow table wasn't used at all. Rainbow tables become worthless long before they become impossible.
Well, technically, you could have a rainbow table including different random salts. It'd be so enormous that most systems wouldn't actually be able to use it. Talk about space/time trade offs, though. If you had a big enough system with enough time to pre-compute the tables beforehand and enough storage to make them usable, then you'd really save loads of time in cracking passwords. The average high schooler isn't going to have such a system at his disposal, though. Neither would the average nation-state intelligence agency.
Every bit in the salt doubles the size of a rainbow table. Assuming an unrealistically tiny 1 GB for a normal rainbow table, a rainbow table for the same passwords + a 32 bit salt is 4 Exabytes. With a 64-bit salt you're talking "so unbelievable large that we might never be able to store that amount of data".
Not to mention that even a small salt makes it faster to just try each password individually than precompute all possible passwords.
Sales people apparently..
I think it's opt-in. I don't know why people agree, but they did.
who is paying these so called "search industry analysts and execs".
Microsoft apparently.. ;)
Hey, looking at the test next to mine isn't cheating. It's not like I could reverse-engineer the other students algorithm by looking at his test!
If your wife trusts a random website over you, then your relationship has more serious problems than this.
I'm so fucking glad we can abandon the libre web platform, and develop for a DRM based platform, and a 3rd party to veto your creation.
Hey, at least you don't have to check if it runs on Internet Explorer anymore ;)
Ha! And they said I should stop using Windows 98!
Why SHOULD I be forced to license IP that I created, let alone provide technical details to allow others to use it? It's my idea! If I decide to protect it, then I should be protected. I can decide to license it, but if I don't, nobody else should be able to profit from it.
If there is protected IP that you want to use, then you might actually be forced to come up with your own idea. Would you want to be forced to share that new idea and help your competition drive you out of business? Not likely!
If you remove the incentive for the creation of new ideas, i.e. money, then you will get less of that. This is another case of people not thinking things through to the end.
Why should you get patent protection from the government? The idea that you have some sort of right to stop other people from doing anything that you thought of first is just plain stupid.
The point of a patent is that you get protection in exchange for sharing your idea, and the argument against it is that that protection is frequently more valuable than sharing the idea (so it's a bad trade for the government to make).
I could argue that the exact same situation holds true in the world of software and mobile devices (especially UI) worlds.
You could argue that the same situation holds true in every situation where patents are used..