If his illegal activity draws any heat, they will seize every computer in the house while they try to figure out whodunnit. Do you have anything on your computer that could incriminate you in any way? Are you sure? If not, and you do manage to avoid federal prosecution, you still might not ever get your stuff back.
From an article I read some years ago about the 6 real societal functions of modern education:
1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.
2) The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force.
3) The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role. This is done by logging evidence mathematically and anecdotally on cumulative records. As in "your permanent record." Yes, you do have one.
4) The differentiating function. Once their social role has been "diagnosed," children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best.
5) The selective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races." In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments - clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.
6) The propaedeutic function. The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers. To that end, a small fraction of the kids will quietly be taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.
After Blaster happened, I wanted to find out who was responsible for the buffer overflow that was exploited and hold the individual accountable.
How about not generating an organizational culture of fear? Anyone who has taken an introductory psychology/behavioral theory course knows that while the threat of punishment works as a deterrent to deviant behavior (like letting bugs slip through the cracks out of laziness/apathy) some of the time, the promise of a reward for doing things right is much more effective.
If I were a Microsoft executive charged with the task of elevating security standards, I would institute some kind of incentive system for secure code. None of your team's applications required a Tuesday patch this month? Here's a check. You found a vulnerability of which we were previously unaware? Here's a bigger check. Keep up the good work, valued one!
The object of this sentence is "more than I," which is short for "more than I do." "More than me do," however, does sound more like something likely to come out of your mouth. Don't even get me started on "for I have enough of repeating this."
Braggadocios is the plural form of braggadocio, a noun. Per Webster, the adjective form is braggadocious. Per most other dictionaries, there is no adjective form; the word derives from an alteration of Braggadocchio, the personification of vainglory in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser and should only be used as a noun if at all.
You spelled "braggadocious" incorrectly. Also, arrogance is defined as boastfulness where braggadocio is defined as excessive arrogance, so I guess that means you are braggadocious - not because you are right, but rather because you use the word without knowing what it means. I hope you intended your sig to be as ironically funny as it is!
I'd like to see what they could come up in terms of a free OS. Based on what I've seen from them so far, I'd give it a try, assuming they made the inevitable sponsor-ads as easy to disregard as they do elsewhere in their various endeavors.
I wonder which definition of "introverted" this article is using.
The pop pyshology definition relies heavily upon whether a person is outgoing or seems more inward, while the classic psychology-academe concept is used to describe from where a person's motivations derive. Someone who is self-motivated (and self-constrained) is an introvert while an extrovert is typically more easily set in action by direction from another and will rely more on societal constraints in determining acceptable behavior. Knowing the academic philosophy of the researchers would help me to interpret their findings much more accurately.
It seems to me that any PC old enough to be running with a Pentium 266 MMX proc and 64MB RAM is probably going to soon be plagued with blown capacitors, fried power supplies, noisy bearings, and a host of other "engineered-to-fail-immediateley-upon-warranty-exp iration" type problems. Why spend time and effort configuring and maintaining a PC that will be unreliable and capable of very little in terms of modern computing requirements?
Instead, why not disassemble all of your old PCs, harvest any usable parts, sell them on eBay (with no warranty, of course), and use the money to purchase a copy of VirtualPC or VMWare?
Or, if you're comfortable enough with technology to face the daunting task of configuring Linux to run on bizarre ancient hardware, why not invest your spare time into putting an ad in the paper offering basic PC hardware repair? You'll have the money for a new barebones system in weeks.
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If his illegal activity draws any heat, they will seize every computer in the house while they try to figure out whodunnit. Do you have anything on your computer that could incriminate you in any way? Are you sure? If not, and you do manage to avoid federal prosecution, you still might not ever get your stuff back.
it would almost certainly turn into a supercomputer of sorts by allowing for the growth of a massive botnet.
How about not generating an organizational culture of fear? Anyone who has taken an introductory psychology/behavioral theory course knows that while the threat of punishment works as a deterrent to deviant behavior (like letting bugs slip through the cracks out of laziness/apathy) some of the time, the promise of a reward for doing things right is much more effective.
If I were a Microsoft executive charged with the task of elevating security standards, I would institute some kind of incentive system for secure code. None of your team's applications required a Tuesday patch this month? Here's a check. You found a vulnerability of which we were previously unaware? Here's a bigger check. Keep up the good work, valued one!
Alyx Vance is OK, but she's got nothing on Princess Toadstool. How I long for my own portal to Dreamland. Sigh.
The object of this sentence is "more than I," which is short for "more than I do." "More than me do," however, does sound more like something likely to come out of your mouth. Don't even get me started on "for I have enough of repeating this."
Kill your spell checker. Buy a real dictionary!
You spelled "braggadocious" incorrectly. Also, arrogance is defined as boastfulness where braggadocio is defined as excessive arrogance, so I guess that means you are braggadocious - not because you are right, but rather because you use the word without knowing what it means. I hope you intended your sig to be as ironically funny as it is!
I'd like to see what they could come up in terms of a free OS. Based on what I've seen from them so far, I'd give it a try, assuming they made the inevitable sponsor-ads as easy to disregard as they do elsewhere in their various endeavors.
The pop pyshology definition relies heavily upon whether a person is outgoing or seems more inward, while the classic psychology-academe concept is used to describe from where a person's motivations derive. Someone who is self-motivated (and self-constrained) is an introvert while an extrovert is typically more easily set in action by direction from another and will rely more on societal constraints in determining acceptable behavior. Knowing the academic philosophy of the researchers would help me to interpret their findings much more accurately.
Instead, why not disassemble all of your old PCs, harvest any usable parts, sell them on eBay (with no warranty, of course), and use the money to purchase a copy of VirtualPC or VMWare?
Or, if you're comfortable enough with technology to face the daunting task of configuring Linux to run on bizarre ancient hardware, why not invest your spare time into putting an ad in the paper offering basic PC hardware repair? You'll have the money for a new barebones system in weeks.