Confusingly, the committee also voted out two other bills, one of which "all but declares the warrantless wiretapping illegal," according to Wired.
Big brother wants warrantless wiretapping. Obviously, big brother will then shut down any attempt at making warrantless wiretapping illegal. Who's confused?
I woke up this morning and read the news. But not by my wife. My wife is completely divorced from pop culture. It took her 6 years to hear about the survivor television show. When I told her this morning that Steve Irwin was dead, she said "Who?" That wasn't surprising, I mean, most people know him as the crocodile hunter. So I responded, "You know, the Crocodile Hunter."
This reminds me of the study that was done regarding chess. A lot of people got the idea that chess taught students "critical thinking". The conclusion of the study was that students who were taught chess learned... chess. That's it.
I'll see your one study and raise you 45. With sources. I'm not saying you're wrong, but... um, you're wrong.
In a 1973-74 Zaire study conducted by Dr. Albert Frank, employing 92 students, age 16-18, the chess-playing experimental group showed a significant advancement in spatial, numerical and administrative-directional abilities, along with verbal aptitudes, compared to the control group. The improvements held true regardless of the final chess skill level attained.
In a 1974-1976 Belgium study, a chess-playing experimental group of fifth graders experienced a statistically significant gain in cognitive development over a control group, using Piaget's tests for cognitive development. Perhaps more noteworthy, they also did significantly better in their regular school testing, as well as in standardized testing administered by an outside agency which did not know the identity of the two groups. Quoting Dr. Adriaan de Groot:...``In addition, the Belgium study appears to demonstrate that the treatment of the elementary, clear-cut and playful subject matter can have a positive effect on motivation and school achievement generally...'
In a 1977-1979 study at the Chinese University in Hong Kong by Dr. Yee Wang Fung, chess players showed a 15% improvement in math and science test scores.
A four-year study (1979-1983) in Pennsylvania found that the chess-playing experimental group consistently outperformed the control groups engaged in other thinking development programs, using measurements from the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal and the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
The 1979-1983 Venezuela ``Learning to Think Project,'' which trained 100,000 teachers to teach thinking skills and involved a sample of 4,266 second grade students, reached a general conclusion that chess, methodologically taught, is an incentive system sufficient to accelerate the increase of IQ in elementary age children of both sexes at all socio-economic levels.
During the 1987-88 ``Development of Reasoning and Memory through Chess,'' all students in a rural Pennsylvania sixth grade self-contained classroom were required to participate in chess lessons and play games. None of the pupils had previously played chess. The pupils significantly improved in both memory and verbal reasoning. The effect of the magnitude of the results is strong (eta 2 is.715 for the Memory test gain compared to the Norm). These results suggest that transfer of the skills fostered through the chess curriculum did occur.
A 1989-92 New Brunswick, Canada study, using 437 fifth graders split into three groups, experimenting with the addition of chess to the math curriculum, found increased gains in math problem-solving and comprehension proportionate to the amount of chess in the curriculum.
A 1990-92 study using a sub-set of the New York City Schools Chess Program produced statistically significant results concluding that chess participation enhances reading performance.
In a 1994-97 Texas study, regular (non-honors) elementary students who participated in a school chess club showed twice the improvement of non-chess players in Reading and Mathematics between third and fifth grades on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills.
Instructional gaming is one of the most motivational tools in the good teacher's repertoire. Children love games. Chess motivates them to become willing problem solvers and spend hours quietly immersed in logical thinking. These same young people often cannot sit still for fifteen minutes in the traditional classroom. 7) Chess supplies a variety and quality of problems. As Langen (1992) states: ``The problems that arise in the 70-90 positions of the average chess game are, moreover, new. Contexts are familiar, themes repeat, but game positions never do. This makes chess good grist for the problem-solving mill.''
Fuckin' right I wouldn't sign it. 6. Work Product Consultant agrees that (a) all designs, inventions, improvements, discoveries, developments, ideas, and the written or other tangible form of expression of the preceding, that are usable by Company in its business or relate to Company's future business activities and which are either (i) conceived, created, or made, or (ii) reduced to practice or embodied in a tangible form of expression, by the Consultant, individually or jointly with others, on the Consultant's own time and without use of Company facilities and equipment, during the period of Consultant's consulting relationship with the Company and for two (2) years thereafter (referred to collectively as "Intellectual Property"), will belong to the Company for all purposes, including the purposes of copyright, trademark, patent and all other intellectual property law;
In May 1949, six-year-old Fischer learned how to play chess from instructions found in a chess set that his sister bought at a candy store below their Brooklyn apartment. He saw his first chess book a month later. For over a year he played chess on his own. At age 7, he joined the Brooklyn Chess Club and was taught by the club's president, Carmine Nigro. When Fischer was 13, his mother asked John W. Collins to be his chess teacher. Collins had taught several top players, including Robert Byrne and William Lombardy. Fischer spent much time at Collins' house, and some have described Collins as a father figure for Fischer. Fischer attended Erasmus Hall High School together with Barbra Streisand[4], though he later dropped out. Many teachers remembered him as difficult. According to school records, he has an I.Q. of 180 and an incredibly retentive memory.
I don't know how accurate the wiki is, because in every book I've ever read on Fischer he didn't start playing until 9. That said, even if the wiki is right, 6 is significantly less than 10. Fischer was not made into a prodigy, Fischer was a prodigy.
And this is different from believing in God... how, exactly?
Apparently, when you seperate dark matter from normal matter you get an extraordinarily energetic collision, whereas when you seperate a Christian from God you get a rational thinking being.
so defeat their efforts to track you posting anonymously from wireless access points using this mac address changer. Remember kids, when privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have complete privacy.
And a disclaimer: while the link goes to a page asking for donations for a new server farm, in his comment here, it's what he'd rather people donate to.
And there you have it. You can already get this information via the radio in most metropolitan markets, so what's the point?
Just a quick FYI. NYC != most metropolitan markets. I live in a city with 2 million people and don't have this option. I for one welcome our new google traffic on cell phone overlords.
Also, when am I going to get this to interact with dodgeball, so I don't have to worry about losing my friends who are following me in the thick of battle^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htraffic
Get a Coke can, drink the contents, rinse out the can. Carefully cut the lid section off the can. Superglue a small magnet to the inside of the upper lip of the can so that it's flush with the open top of the can. Place the iPod inside and put the lid on the can. If you've cut the can correctly, the magnet should hold the lid tightly shut. Unless your mugger is exceptionally thirsty, they're unlikely to steal your Coke. Anti-mugger rating: 9/10
Unless they see the freakin headphone cables sticking out of the coke can.
I think gambling is a tax on people who are bad at math, and should be 100% legal.
Yeah, that comment is good regarding things like the lottery, where you are statistically never going to win, but in a poker room where there are only 9 different opponents that is not the case. Gambling in a poker room online is only a tax on people who can't do math, but not everyone. There is no set statistical probability of losing money. It's not like Blackjack, or Roulette, or Craps. The house isn't playing against you.
While I do tax those that are bad at statistics, I know my math, and I am the one taxing them. Considering that I have never lost money at a poker table on line (over time), and you most likely have never made a study of poker, at least keep an open mind about the possibility that poker might not be as much of a game of chance as you think it is. There is definate skill involved. Anyone who thinks otherwise is welcome to sit at any table I'm at.
"Illegal commercial gambling across state and international borders is a crime," said U.S Attorney Catherine Hanaway of the Eastern District of Missouri in a press release. "Misuse of the Internet to violate the law can ultimately only serve to harm legitimate businesses.
I'm from Missouri, and I know who those legitimate businesses are. Harrahs, Ameristar, The Casino Queen, and The President. And I bet (pardon the pun) that I know who they donate to. I'm looking at you, Catherine Hanaway.
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Confusingly, the committee also voted out two other bills, one of which "all but declares the warrantless wiretapping illegal," according to Wired.
Big brother wants warrantless wiretapping. Obviously, big brother will then shut down any attempt at making warrantless wiretapping illegal. Who's confused?
Their servers were called fireflies due to both the design and the distinctive glow as they caught fire.
then every other political issue is quite literally irrelevant.
Actually, it makes the right to bear arms very relevant.
I woke up this morning and read the news. But not by my wife. My wife is completely divorced from pop culture. It took her 6 years to hear about the survivor television show. When I told her this morning that Steve Irwin was dead, she said "Who?" That wasn't surprising, I mean, most people know him as the crocodile hunter. So I responded, "You know, the Crocodile Hunter."
She then asked me if I meant Crocodile Dundee.
This reminds me of the study that was done regarding chess. A lot of people got the idea that chess taught students "critical thinking". The conclusion of the study was that students who were taught chess learned... chess. That's it.
...``In addition, the Belgium study appears to demonstrate that the treatment of the elementary, clear-cut and playful subject matter can have a positive effect on motivation and school achievement generally...'
.715 for the Memory test gain compared to the Norm). These results suggest that transfer of the skills fostered through the chess curriculum did occur.
I'll see your one study and raise you 45. With sources. I'm not saying you're wrong, but... um, you're wrong.
In a 1973-74 Zaire study conducted by Dr. Albert Frank, employing 92 students, age 16-18, the chess-playing experimental group showed a significant advancement in spatial, numerical and administrative-directional abilities, along with verbal aptitudes, compared to the control group. The improvements held true regardless of the final chess skill level attained.
In a 1974-1976 Belgium study, a chess-playing experimental group of fifth graders experienced a statistically significant gain in cognitive development over a control group, using Piaget's tests for cognitive development. Perhaps more noteworthy, they also did significantly better in their regular school testing, as well as in standardized testing administered by an outside agency which did not know the identity of the two groups. Quoting Dr. Adriaan de Groot:
In a 1977-1979 study at the Chinese University in Hong Kong by Dr. Yee Wang Fung, chess players showed a 15% improvement in math and science test scores.
A four-year study (1979-1983) in Pennsylvania found that the chess-playing experimental group consistently outperformed the control groups engaged in other thinking development programs, using measurements from the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal and the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
The 1979-1983 Venezuela ``Learning to Think Project,'' which trained 100,000 teachers to teach thinking skills and involved a sample of 4,266 second grade students, reached a general conclusion that chess, methodologically taught, is an incentive system sufficient to accelerate the increase of IQ in elementary age children of both sexes at all socio-economic levels.
During the 1987-88 ``Development of Reasoning and Memory through Chess,'' all students in a rural Pennsylvania sixth grade self-contained classroom were required to participate in chess lessons and play games. None of the pupils had previously played chess. The pupils significantly improved in both memory and verbal reasoning. The effect of the magnitude of the results is strong (eta 2 is
A 1989-92 New Brunswick, Canada study, using 437 fifth graders split into three groups, experimenting with the addition of chess to the math curriculum, found increased gains in math problem-solving and comprehension proportionate to the amount of chess in the curriculum.
A 1990-92 study using a sub-set of the New York City Schools Chess Program produced statistically significant results concluding that chess participation enhances reading performance.
In a 1994-97 Texas study, regular (non-honors) elementary students who participated in a school chess club showed twice the improvement of non-chess players in Reading and Mathematics between third and fifth grades on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills.
Instructional gaming is one of the most motivational tools in the good teacher's repertoire. Children love games. Chess motivates them to become willing problem solvers and spend hours quietly immersed in logical thinking. These same young people often cannot sit still for fifteen minutes in the traditional classroom. 7) Chess supplies a variety and quality of problems. As Langen (1992) states: ``The problems that arise in the 70-90 positions of the average chess game are, moreover, new. Contexts are familiar, themes repeat, but game positions never do. This makes chess good grist for the problem-solving mill.''
pwdump, lc5, superscan, ethereal,eraser, cain and abel, netstumbler, and I think I'm forgetting something.
Fuckin' right I wouldn't sign it.
6. Work Product Consultant agrees that (a) all designs, inventions, improvements, discoveries, developments, ideas, and the written or other tangible form of expression of the preceding, that are usable by Company in its business or relate to Company's future business activities and which are either (i) conceived, created, or made, or (ii) reduced to practice or embodied in a tangible form of expression, by the Consultant, individually or jointly with others, on the Consultant's own time and without use of Company facilities and equipment, during the period of Consultant's consulting relationship with the Company and for two (2) years thereafter (referred to collectively as "Intellectual Property"), will belong to the Company for all purposes, including the purposes of copyright, trademark, patent and all other intellectual property law;
In May 1949, six-year-old Fischer learned how to play chess from instructions found in a chess set that his sister bought at a candy store below their Brooklyn apartment. He saw his first chess book a month later. For over a year he played chess on his own. At age 7, he joined the Brooklyn Chess Club and was taught by the club's president, Carmine Nigro. When Fischer was 13, his mother asked John W. Collins to be his chess teacher. Collins had taught several top players, including Robert Byrne and William Lombardy. Fischer spent much time at Collins' house, and some have described Collins as a father figure for Fischer. Fischer attended Erasmus Hall High School together with Barbra Streisand[4], though he later dropped out. Many teachers remembered him as difficult. According to school records, he has an I.Q. of 180 and an incredibly retentive memory.
I don't know how accurate the wiki is, because in every book I've ever read on Fischer he didn't start playing until 9. That said, even if the wiki is right, 6 is significantly less than 10. Fischer was not made into a prodigy, Fischer was a prodigy.
And this is different from believing in God... how, exactly?
Apparently, when you seperate dark matter from normal matter you get an extraordinarily energetic collision, whereas when you seperate a Christian from God you get a rational thinking being.
So why not figure it out for yourself? Download LORCON and fuzz your wireless card.
In other words, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
so now us geeks can take a date to the exhibit, demonstrate how "enlightened" we are, and also determine if she's up for some hot lovin'?
so defeat their efforts to track you posting anonymously from wireless access points using this mac address changer. Remember kids, when privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have complete privacy.
I have mod points, but as it turns out there's no +1 hawt mod.
well duh. you were buying bullets. They don't want to fuck with you.
Every link could be tubgirl.
And a disclaimer: while the link goes to a page asking for donations for a new server farm, in his comment here, it's what he'd rather people donate to.
here
When am I going to see my first wetware virus that uses an "escalation of privileges" type attack?
In NYC
And there you have it. You can already get this information via the radio in most metropolitan markets, so what's the point?
Just a quick FYI. NYC != most metropolitan markets. I live in a city with 2 million people and don't have this option. I for one welcome our new google traffic on cell phone overlords.
Also, when am I going to get this to interact with dodgeball, so I don't have to worry about losing my friends who are following me in the thick of battle^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htraffic
Get a Coke can, drink the contents, rinse out the can. Carefully cut the lid section off the can. Superglue a small magnet to the inside of the upper lip of the can so that it's flush with the open top of the can. Place the iPod inside and put the lid on the can. If you've cut the can correctly, the magnet should hold the lid tightly shut. Unless your mugger is exceptionally thirsty, they're unlikely to steal your Coke. Anti-mugger rating: 9/10
Unless they see the freakin headphone cables sticking out of the coke can.
Yeah, I'm sure. That's why they changed their EULA. It was all part of the settlement for that class action lawsuit a while back.
I think gambling is a tax on people who are bad at math, and should be 100% legal.
Yeah, that comment is good regarding things like the lottery, where you are statistically never going to win, but in a poker room where there are only 9 different opponents that is not the case. Gambling in a poker room online is only a tax on people who can't do math, but not everyone. There is no set statistical probability of losing money. It's not like Blackjack, or Roulette, or Craps. The house isn't playing against you.
While I do tax those that are bad at statistics, I know my math, and I am the one taxing them. Considering that I have never lost money at a poker table on line (over time), and you most likely have never made a study of poker, at least keep an open mind about the possibility that poker might not be as much of a game of chance as you think it is.
There is definate skill involved. Anyone who thinks otherwise is welcome to sit at any table I'm at.
"Illegal commercial gambling across state and international borders is a crime," said U.S Attorney Catherine Hanaway of the Eastern District of Missouri in a press release. "Misuse of the Internet to violate the law can ultimately only serve to harm legitimate businesses.
I'm from Missouri, and I know who those legitimate businesses are. Harrahs, Ameristar, The Casino Queen, and The President. And I bet (pardon the pun) that I know who they donate to. I'm looking at you, Catherine Hanaway.
My co-workers wouldn't allow it to happen in a million years. LOL!
Dubbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbd! Speedy Gonzalez!
When did it become ok for anyone to write like this?