Once moderation becomes non-anonymous, you'll end up with mod wars. Person X mods down person Y, person Y takes it personally and mods down all of person X's comments. This results in person X retaliating, a fuckload of emails to slashdot with the subject "MOD ABUSE!!", and every single user on slashdot is forced to sift though the comments themselves so see which are good and got modded down due to pissing contests, and which are bad and got left at 1-2 because all the mod points were used by people throwing their shit at each other.
This wouldn't fix the system at all, it would make it worse than useless.
The way I read that story was "Something in your computer may be causing problems for your hard drive". Maybe it's just me, but I don't think this constitutes news.
Electromagnets aren't at all a plausible solution because they would have to be powered on while in flight to the station. The explosive bolts are a HUGE safety risk. We're talking 700 explosions in extremely close proximity to computer equipment, doesn't take a scientist to figure out that's not a good idea. When you add the fact that you're in an enclosed space and furthermore that you're orbiting the earth, mentioning the idea of explosive bolts would probably get you fired had you been on the design team for this. Also, they'd have to clean up the mess after everything explodes anyway, which would probably take as much time as just unfastening all these bolts.
SWAT isn't going to shoot unless they have reason to AT THE SCENE. There is no way in hell anyone could send orders to SWAT to say "kill person XYZ". SWAT doesn't do assassinations, they are called in to prevent deaths if possible.
Even if orders do get sent to SWAT saying "kill person xyz at address abc", they aren't going to do anything because they'll immediately recognize that it's not real. The only reason SWAT members discharge their weapons is if there is an immediate danger to themselves or others (I.E. madman pointing a gun at police or shooting from a window at people below).
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Ahhh, so you're one of those people that doesn't back up your statements and thinks that inserting curse words IN ALL CAPS makes your argument better.
"Instead, the system continues teaching as if these kids belong to the last century, by standing in front of a blackboard" The problem is that the schools are stopping to do that. See, this is how the previous generation was taught because IT FUCKING WORKED. Today, you have schools trying to teach physics with shitty software "games", math with physical objects (cubes, etc.) that poorly demonstrate anything, etc. The only class that hasn't changed is English, damned if I know why.
There is no way you can learn any real subject by playing with a lot of flashy or high-tech junk, you have to sit down, study, read the book, study, take notes, study, do practice problems, study... you get the point. High-tech stuff (computers, Ipods, cell phones) are cool, but they don't help you learn anything and therefore shouldn't be used to teach students. My school recently installed a bunch of "smart boards" (a whiteboard that connects to a computer which projects stuff onto the whiteboard. The whole thing is pressure sensitive so you can draw on it and save the images for later). There's a handful of circumstances under which that might come in handy, but in 90% of the classes that have them they aren't anything more than $5000 whiteboards.
My AP calculus teacher (best teacher ever) uses the two blackboards at the front of the room. He doesn't use any flashy shit or high-tech crap. Just plain, white chalk, on a plain, black chalkboard. I have learned more in that class from that teacher than I have from any other class with any other teacher, ever.
My Econ. teacher had a "smart board" installed in his room (the teachers didn't actually choose these, the administration just picked random rooms to install them in). He tried to use it a couple times, found it to be a much larger pain in the ass than it's worth, and now just uses it like a standard whiteboard. I've learned a lot from this teacher too.
There are a lot of teachers that actually "use" the "smart boards" and from what I've heard, no one learns anything in their classes because 50% of the time is spent teaching, 25% fixing the board when it doesn't work, 15% trying to figure out how to save the images to the computer, and 10% just having the class look at all the 'cool' and flashy colored lines.
I hope that demonstrates why these new "teaching strategies and tools" are really nothing more than a load of shit.
Now, there's something to be said about cell phones, Ipods, etc. distracting students. My calculus teacher has figured out the proper procedure for handling these devices. 1) All cellphones must be sent to silent so they don't distract anyone. 2) Use of cellphones is not allowed during class. Ipods are allowed when the class is just working on problems. 3) If someone is using a cellphone during the lecture but not distracting anyone else, then don't do anything. This is AP calculus, if they want to fuck themselves over for the test, it's their own damn fault.
Unfortunately, too many teachers try to confiscate cell phones, or worse, tell students to "put that away" repeatedly without actually doing anything. There's several problems with this: 1) It wastes class time for the teacher to deal with confiscating cell phones and it interrupts the lecture to say "put that away". 2) Students don't need a cell phone to distract themselves if they don't want to pay attention to the lecture. They'll just move onto something that distracts more than themselves. Either talking to other people, or something that involves making noise (I.E. making squeaky noises with their chair). 3) By the time you're in high school, teachers need to stop babysitting you. College professors simply let you text message and if you don't take notes, then you're fucked. End of story. High school needs to prepare you for this when it isn't as big a problem as it will be when you're in college.
All this talk of high school preparing you for college/"the real world", and yet, it's doing nothing of the sort.
I have no information on the whereabouts of your pencil sharpener. However, I believe you have my stapler. It's a red swingline, I kept it because it doesn't bind up as much as the new ones.
Although the "spirit of the law" may apply in sports and a huge number of other games and events, court is a place where the letter of the law is more important than anything else. It would be quite illegal for a judge to say "Well, you obeyed the law as it was written but your actions were against the spirit of the law, therefore, you're guilty of committing XYZ".
Those carpool lanes might not be meant for people carrying children in infant seats, but until the law actually states that, on paper, that's how they can (and will) be used.
"Ultimately, there is typically only one connection to the net that is provided by the school, and if it is all being used up fine, but it should at least be something that is academically related or general net use."
Yeah, how dare college students try to use the network for gaming.
Seriously though, this is something that A LOT of people miss. College students are living at the college 24/7 for at least 4, more if they go to grad school, years. It's fine to say something like "No porn, games, file sharing, etc." at work or at a high school where business and education are the only things that should be happening. Why? Because the employees/students should go home and do those things on their own Internet connection.
But that doesn't work in a college. The students can't just go home to their own Internet connection, they're stuck at the university with the network available in the dorms. The universities need to buy more bandwidth instead of throttling the speed down to levels non-suitable for gaming. There will be a time in the near future where Internet bandwidth available to each user will be a large portion of the decision process for students applying to college. Right now I'm applying to about 5 different colleges that are 99% identical, if I'm accepted into all of them then I'm going to have to decide between them based on which one has the greenest trees, is closest to a bar, has the best cell phone coverage, and which one has the least amount of throttling on the Internet connections in the dorms.
Go in again but don't turn the laptop on. How would they know which operating system was installed? Discharge the laptop completely or remove the battery so they don't "accidentally" turn it on.
In a truly free market the words "employee rights", "unions", "overtime" don't exist either. The government had to write laws to mandate all of those things because companies were screwing over everyone.
The loss generated from customers following broken links on your website will be greater than the cost of having IT do their job.
IT doesn't want to deal with problems, really who does? But not replacing poor technology is not a solution. Anywhere else in the company, it's not acceptable to say "I don't want to deal with problems that might arise from this, so I'm not going to sell our product". Or "I'm not going to write any more code because it might cause problems that I have to fix".
I do remember reading something on wikipedia about shoplifting. It said that people can be detained by store security if the store security has probably cause to suspect the person is shoplifting. This isn't the same as probable cause for the police though. The store security actually has to see the person take and conceal the merchandise. However, regardless of probable cause, receipt checks are not something that the store security can enforce. If a customer refuses a receipt check, then they cannot be legally prevented from leaving the store.
And I hope that police officer gets fired. How the hell is he allowed to have a badge if he doesn't even know the law in the first place? It's his fucking job to memorize a lot of boring, tedious, lengthy laws.
This way you don't need a consumer protection group or an undercover journalist. Anyone will just have to jot down the cab number and then call the company when you get home. The company will pull the records of the trip, see that the cabbie overcharged you, and subject him to disciplinary action.
Will you please stop using your stupid analogies. Most of them have nothing to do with the situation at hand and by comparing whatever situation you come up with to the one mentioned in the article, you change the basic facts of the case, thus making the entire conversation meaningless.
No, you have it all wrong. See, by cutting taxes, we can put more money into the economy. And that will pay for the IDs. (Also the war, health care, anti-drug initiatives, homeland security, proper equipment for people in the military, etc.) It makes perfect sense.
That analogy made exactly zero sense. A wiki is an online medium that contains information that anyone can edit. A wall is a surface people are generally not supposed to write on regardless of the correctness of the information. I don't have any idea how spray paint got into this, spray paint is permanent, editing text is not.
"I gave Vista too much free pass". I have to ask, "Well why the hell did you do that?"
You shouldn't give a good review to something that isn't working well simply because you THINK or HOPE it will be fixed in the future. Doing so is selling yourself out and isn't responsible journalism.
"Some people really do believe a bus traveling 70 mph can clear a 50-foot gap in a freeway, as depicted in the movie Speed."
I saw a TV special on the making of SPEED. They DID actually have the bus jump that gap. They cleared it of all people and the stunt driver is actually driving from a rollcage-type thing on top of the roof. (That's how the bus was driven the entire movie actually, not from the inside).
I don't know if the bus was going 70 MPH or if the gap was really 50', but it did jump something.
"Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing the operating system, and has a good track record in fending off competition"
Those are the two of the things Microsoft is most often ridiculed for. This isn't anything more than "stop making fun of microsoft because it hurts their feelings". It's the same solution that I would expect to see in elementary school. ("Alright kids, don't hurt anyone's feelings").
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Once moderation becomes non-anonymous, you'll end up with mod wars. Person X mods down person Y, person Y takes it personally and mods down all of person X's comments. This results in person X retaliating, a fuckload of emails to slashdot with the subject "MOD ABUSE!!", and every single user on slashdot is forced to sift though the comments themselves so see which are good and got modded down due to pissing contests, and which are bad and got left at 1-2 because all the mod points were used by people throwing their shit at each other.
This wouldn't fix the system at all, it would make it worse than useless.
The way I read that story was "Something in your computer may be causing problems for your hard drive". Maybe it's just me, but I don't think this constitutes news.
You misread it, dumbass. It's spelled "flaimbait" in my signature, always has.
Electromagnets aren't at all a plausible solution because they would have to be powered on while in flight to the station. The explosive bolts are a HUGE safety risk. We're talking 700 explosions in extremely close proximity to computer equipment, doesn't take a scientist to figure out that's not a good idea. When you add the fact that you're in an enclosed space and furthermore that you're orbiting the earth, mentioning the idea of explosive bolts would probably get you fired had you been on the design team for this. Also, they'd have to clean up the mess after everything explodes anyway, which would probably take as much time as just unfastening all these bolts.
Yes, yes it would. It would also be correct to say that 0% of the sky isn't blue, that the speed limit isn't 500 m/hr, and that PI isn't exactly 3.
I'm afraid I don't see your point.
SWAT isn't going to shoot unless they have reason to AT THE SCENE. There is no way in hell anyone could send orders to SWAT to say "kill person XYZ". SWAT doesn't do assassinations, they are called in to prevent deaths if possible.
Even if orders do get sent to SWAT saying "kill person xyz at address abc", they aren't going to do anything because they'll immediately recognize that it's not real. The only reason SWAT members discharge their weapons is if there is an immediate danger to themselves or others (I.E. madman pointing a gun at police or shooting from a window at people below).
Ahhh, so you're one of those people that doesn't back up your statements and thinks that inserting curse words IN ALL CAPS makes your argument better.
Nice to meet you.
"Instead, the system continues teaching as if these kids belong to the last century, by standing in front of a blackboard"
The problem is that the schools are stopping to do that. See, this is how the previous generation was taught because IT FUCKING WORKED.
Today, you have schools trying to teach physics with shitty software "games", math with physical objects (cubes, etc.) that poorly demonstrate anything, etc. The only class that hasn't changed is English, damned if I know why.
There is no way you can learn any real subject by playing with a lot of flashy or high-tech junk, you have to sit down, study, read the book, study, take notes, study, do practice problems, study... you get the point. High-tech stuff (computers, Ipods, cell phones) are cool, but they don't help you learn anything and therefore shouldn't be used to teach students. My school recently installed a bunch of "smart boards" (a whiteboard that connects to a computer which projects stuff onto the whiteboard. The whole thing is pressure sensitive so you can draw on it and save the images for later). There's a handful of circumstances under which that might come in handy, but in 90% of the classes that have them they aren't anything more than $5000 whiteboards.
My AP calculus teacher (best teacher ever) uses the two blackboards at the front of the room. He doesn't use any flashy shit or high-tech crap. Just plain, white chalk, on a plain, black chalkboard. I have learned more in that class from that teacher than I have from any other class with any other teacher, ever.
My Econ. teacher had a "smart board" installed in his room (the teachers didn't actually choose these, the administration just picked random rooms to install them in). He tried to use it a couple times, found it to be a much larger pain in the ass than it's worth, and now just uses it like a standard whiteboard. I've learned a lot from this teacher too.
There are a lot of teachers that actually "use" the "smart boards" and from what I've heard, no one learns anything in their classes because 50% of the time is spent teaching, 25% fixing the board when it doesn't work, 15% trying to figure out how to save the images to the computer, and 10% just having the class look at all the 'cool' and flashy colored lines.
I hope that demonstrates why these new "teaching strategies and tools" are really nothing more than a load of shit.
Now, there's something to be said about cell phones, Ipods, etc. distracting students. My calculus teacher has figured out the proper procedure for handling these devices.
1) All cellphones must be sent to silent so they don't distract anyone.
2) Use of cellphones is not allowed during class. Ipods are allowed when the class is just working on problems.
3) If someone is using a cellphone during the lecture but not distracting anyone else, then don't do anything. This is AP calculus, if they want to fuck themselves over for the test, it's their own damn fault.
Unfortunately, too many teachers try to confiscate cell phones, or worse, tell students to "put that away" repeatedly without actually doing anything. There's several problems with this:
1) It wastes class time for the teacher to deal with confiscating cell phones and it interrupts the lecture to say "put that away".
2) Students don't need a cell phone to distract themselves if they don't want to pay attention to the lecture. They'll just move onto something that distracts more than themselves. Either talking to other people, or something that involves making noise (I.E. making squeaky noises with their chair).
3) By the time you're in high school, teachers need to stop babysitting you. College professors simply let you text message and if you don't take notes, then you're fucked. End of story. High school needs to prepare you for this when it isn't as big a problem as it will be when you're in college.
All this talk of high school preparing you for college/"the real world", and yet, it's doing nothing of the sort.
I have no information on the whereabouts of your pencil sharpener. However, I believe you have my stapler. It's a red swingline, I kept it because it doesn't bind up as much as the new ones.
Not if you quickly administer a pain killer as in the example? (joke).
Seriously though, I'm pretty sure there's something more too it. Probably something that would warrant reading the article. Just a guess.
Although the "spirit of the law" may apply in sports and a huge number of other games and events, court is a place where the letter of the law is more important than anything else. It would be quite illegal for a judge to say "Well, you obeyed the law as it was written but your actions were against the spirit of the law, therefore, you're guilty of committing XYZ".
Those carpool lanes might not be meant for people carrying children in infant seats, but until the law actually states that, on paper, that's how they can (and will) be used.
"Ultimately, there is typically only one connection to the net that is provided by the school, and if it is all being used up fine, but it should at least be something that is academically related or general net use."
Yeah, how dare college students try to use the network for gaming.
Seriously though, this is something that A LOT of people miss. College students are living at the college 24/7 for at least 4, more if they go to grad school, years.
It's fine to say something like "No porn, games, file sharing, etc." at work or at a high school where business and education are the only things that should be happening. Why? Because the employees/students should go home and do those things on their own Internet connection.
But that doesn't work in a college. The students can't just go home to their own Internet connection, they're stuck at the university with the network available in the dorms. The universities need to buy more bandwidth instead of throttling the speed down to levels non-suitable for gaming. There will be a time in the near future where Internet bandwidth available to each user will be a large portion of the decision process for students applying to college. Right now I'm applying to about 5 different colleges that are 99% identical, if I'm accepted into all of them then I'm going to have to decide between them based on which one has the greenest trees, is closest to a bar, has the best cell phone coverage, and which one has the least amount of throttling on the Internet connections in the dorms.
Why did you tell them you put Gentoo on it?
Go in again but don't turn the laptop on. How would they know which operating system was installed? Discharge the laptop completely or remove the battery so they don't "accidentally" turn it on.
"Look, these sites are being DDosed, let's post them on slashdot". Doesn't exactly seem like the best idea ever.
In a truly free market the words "employee rights", "unions", "overtime" don't exist either. The government had to write laws to mandate all of those things because companies were screwing over everyone.
The loss generated from customers following broken links on your website will be greater than the cost of having IT do their job.
IT doesn't want to deal with problems, really who does? But not replacing poor technology is not a solution. Anywhere else in the company, it's not acceptable to say "I don't want to deal with problems that might arise from this, so I'm not going to sell our product". Or "I'm not going to write any more code because it might cause problems that I have to fix".
I do remember reading something on wikipedia about shoplifting. It said that people can be detained by store security if the store security has probably cause to suspect the person is shoplifting. This isn't the same as probable cause for the police though. The store security actually has to see the person take and conceal the merchandise. However, regardless of probable cause, receipt checks are not something that the store security can enforce. If a customer refuses a receipt check, then they cannot be legally prevented from leaving the store.
And I hope that police officer gets fired. How the hell is he allowed to have a badge if he doesn't even know the law in the first place? It's his fucking job to memorize a lot of boring, tedious, lengthy laws.
This way you don't need a consumer protection group or an undercover journalist. Anyone will just have to jot down the cab number and then call the company when you get home. The company will pull the records of the trip, see that the cabbie overcharged you, and subject him to disciplinary action.
You compared him to a drunk driver and a thief. Comparing him to crimes which don't even begin to resemble what he actually did is ignoring the facts.
Will you please stop using your stupid analogies. Most of them have nothing to do with the situation at hand and by comparing whatever situation you come up with to the one mentioned in the article, you change the basic facts of the case, thus making the entire conversation meaningless.
No, you have it all wrong. See, by cutting taxes, we can put more money into the economy. And that will pay for the IDs. (Also the war, health care, anti-drug initiatives, homeland security, proper equipment for people in the military, etc.) It makes perfect sense.
That analogy made exactly zero sense.
A wiki is an online medium that contains information that anyone can edit. A wall is a surface people are generally not supposed to write on regardless of the correctness of the information. I don't have any idea how spray paint got into this, spray paint is permanent, editing text is not.
"I gave Vista too much free pass".
I have to ask, "Well why the hell did you do that?"
You shouldn't give a good review to something that isn't working well simply because you THINK or HOPE it will be fixed in the future. Doing so is selling yourself out and isn't responsible journalism.
"Some people really do believe a bus traveling 70 mph can clear a 50-foot gap in a freeway, as depicted in the movie Speed."
I saw a TV special on the making of SPEED. They DID actually have the bus jump that gap. They cleared it of all people and the stunt driver is actually driving from a rollcage-type thing on top of the roof. (That's how the bus was driven the entire movie actually, not from the inside).
I don't know if the bus was going 70 MPH or if the gap was really 50', but it did jump something.
"Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing the operating system, and has a good track record in fending off competition"
Those are the two of the things Microsoft is most often ridiculed for. This isn't anything more than "stop making fun of microsoft because it hurts their feelings". It's the same solution that I would expect to see in elementary school. ("Alright kids, don't hurt anyone's feelings").