Perhaps if you go to a bad school, that's the case. But when I was in college there was a ton of discussion of not just what the facts were, but how we knew them to be true and to what extent they could be trusted. People promoting the view that you are are typically either trolling or went to a bad college. It's very hard to get through college just by rote memorization. I'm sure that a few do, but that's just not how the brain works, you learn facts in a constructivist light and they build connections with other things you've learned. Learning by rote is pretty much the slowest least efficient way of learning and pretty much only happens when you're doing the bare minimum of work and purposefully avoiding any other exposures. Which is hardly the school's fault if you're can't be arsed to expose yourself to other sources of information.
Which is why places like Korea are working to make their educational systems more like ours? And why people from all over the world pay big bucks to go to college here as well?
Noam Chomsky? You mean the same one that said that somewhere in the brain is a Language Acquisition Device, but I won't propose where it is or what specifically it encompasses, that Chomsky?
College is what you make of it, if you don't take advantage of the environment to question authority and find the answers that are bugging you, then you're not going to be educated, ever. College just tends to speed the process up a great deal by requiring study in areas outside your major and providing the catalysts for further study. If you can't continue on your own after graduation then the college has failed miserably at it's job.
The intellectual value of college is hardly the classes, it's spending time with similarly interested people outside of class time debating and discussing various things. Outside of the academic world it's nigh impossible to find that kind of density of intellectually astute individuals.
Personally, I learned far more from my classmates than I ever did from the lectures. And that's not surprising, the banking model of education was never particularly well suited to learning. People generally don't retain facts in isolation, there's a lot more information that needs to be learned in order for the knowledge to be integrated, and that's where the classmates come into things.
The OP specified cross platform compatibility. Linux/BSD is probably not going to be enough. However, I'd imagine that it would be easy enough to get it running under OSX. I'm not sure how easy it would be to get this running on Windows though.
Personally, this looks like something I'm going to have to keep my eye on as my main OSes are Linux and FreeBSD.
That's definitely possible, it's also possible that people are getting the message that flying is dangerous and are not willing to take the risk. That would also result in that sort of result as well. I'm sure there are other possibilities.
Of course there isn't, which is how you know that the TSA and various airport security outfits are effectual. Also, my cell phone keeps tigers away, which is obviously the case because I haven't once been eaten to death by tigers when I've been carrying it.
Yes, but that's because there's no way around that at the moment without drastically reducing the fuel efficiency of planes and increasing the cost of flight. Whereas this is additional radiation for no practical purpose.
I can't imagine Apple killing OSX, I can imagine them removing it from their lower end laptops, but not from their higher end ones or desktops. OTOH I can imagine them replacing it with OSXI
Personally, I'm a bit surprised that Apple hasn't contributed anything similar to the Asus Transformer.
Cancelling it is a bit extreme. My CC company has frozen my CC a few times for small purchases like that. But, cancelling it outright would be extreme.
Does there need to be a point? Aren't plentiful lulz at the expense of a world class set of douches enough justification? Sony, like most other corporations doesn't seem to understand that you can't just fuck with people's shit without hitting a pocket of people that are going to take offense. But worse that than, there's a lot of people that would normally be outraged by the blackhat hackery that's been going on that have a hard time making more than a half assed attempt at pointing out that it's illegal for a reason.
I'm personally having a hard time remembering why I'm supposed to be morally outraged by the haxxoring of the various Sony sites. Ultimately, I wonder how long this goes on before the lulz dry up.
That's the wrong message. The right message is to not go around vandalizing people's fucking property and expecting to hide behind your wall of lawyers. I don't personally know of any reason why this is related to the removal of the OtherOS feature, other than the obvious people getting pissed about Sony vandalizing their gear and paying attention to anybody that's going to take shots at Sony.
The reason is that they don't know how. At this point they can't even feed themselves, and that's relatively straightforward compared with building and maintaining their own national intranet. I'm sure there are plenty of folks in China that are capable of doing it, I just don't think they know how to actually undertake something of that magnitude in the current climate over there.
Which works fine so long as the fare is the same no matter how far you travel. The local link light rail charges differing amounts of money depending upon how far you go, which requires you to swipe when you enter the station and when you leave the destination station. It's a simple enough system then if you want to transfer to a bus you'd have to swipe there again.
Which can be a problem for people with privacy concerns because that information is then available to whomever it is that wants to subpoena it.
You can do that with transit passes. It's not so easy with cash, but with the various cards that are in place they can definitely track those. The local transit service rolled theirs out a while back and they had to deal with the backlash. Apparently, the party paying for the card has access to all the information they have about where the cards are being swiped, which meant that people with company sponsored cards would have to depend upon company policy to guide tracking.
But, all in all, it allowed them to more fairly split the money up from fairs amongst the various agencies handling the busing.
That's definitely something to worry about. However some phones do have a secondary microphone for the purposes of noise reduction and that one would be the one which would presumably be used. But either way I'm not so sure I'd trust it not to be eavesdropping on me.
I'm going to have to call bullshit there. Hard currencies are stable precisely because you can't grow them whenever you like. Which means that you don't see things like the current massive inflation in the USD when jack ass millionaires decide that it's fun to print out lots of extra currency and set interest rates near zero.
With a hard currency you can't do that so you tend to see deflation in the currency value with more buying power over time. But at a relatively predictable rate. Whereas with a fiat currency you end up with no guarantee of any sort that you won't see massive inflation, massive deflation or something else completely in a given time period.
Sigh, you do realize that the war on drugs has nothing to do with money laundering and various other shady services, right? At best that would eliminate the portion that goes to pay for drugs, and even that's questionable as it would still be regarded as immoral by a large portion of the populace.
If you add even a single non-alphanumeric key it means that in order to brute force the password, they don't get to stick with the 26 lower case letters, 26 uppercase letters and 10 digits, they also have to deal with the , ; . ! ? @ and probably even more. And they don't know that's the case until they try every combination of alphanumeric characters that is possible within the given length.
I've found that using non-alphanumeric characters in password fields to be problematic. The main reason being that a lot of sites won't let you use them and that it gets to be a real pain in the ass to fill them in at times. On top of which a lot of companies fail miserably at validating the password fields when they're being entered initially.
In other words, if companies weren't so incompetent when it comes to passwords then we could insist that users enter stronger passwords, as it stands now, if you go for really strong passwords, you're just asking for trouble.
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Or better yet, not post them at all on /. the troll hardly deserves the traffic from the few people here that actually RTFA.
Perhaps if you go to a bad school, that's the case. But when I was in college there was a ton of discussion of not just what the facts were, but how we knew them to be true and to what extent they could be trusted. People promoting the view that you are are typically either trolling or went to a bad college. It's very hard to get through college just by rote memorization. I'm sure that a few do, but that's just not how the brain works, you learn facts in a constructivist light and they build connections with other things you've learned. Learning by rote is pretty much the slowest least efficient way of learning and pretty much only happens when you're doing the bare minimum of work and purposefully avoiding any other exposures. Which is hardly the school's fault if you're can't be arsed to expose yourself to other sources of information.
Which is why places like Korea are working to make their educational systems more like ours? And why people from all over the world pay big bucks to go to college here as well?
Noam Chomsky? You mean the same one that said that somewhere in the brain is a Language Acquisition Device, but I won't propose where it is or what specifically it encompasses, that Chomsky?
College is what you make of it, if you don't take advantage of the environment to question authority and find the answers that are bugging you, then you're not going to be educated, ever. College just tends to speed the process up a great deal by requiring study in areas outside your major and providing the catalysts for further study. If you can't continue on your own after graduation then the college has failed miserably at it's job.
The intellectual value of college is hardly the classes, it's spending time with similarly interested people outside of class time debating and discussing various things. Outside of the academic world it's nigh impossible to find that kind of density of intellectually astute individuals.
Personally, I learned far more from my classmates than I ever did from the lectures. And that's not surprising, the banking model of education was never particularly well suited to learning. People generally don't retain facts in isolation, there's a lot more information that needs to be learned in order for the knowledge to be integrated, and that's where the classmates come into things.
The OP specified cross platform compatibility. Linux/BSD is probably not going to be enough. However, I'd imagine that it would be easy enough to get it running under OSX. I'm not sure how easy it would be to get this running on Windows though.
Personally, this looks like something I'm going to have to keep my eye on as my main OSes are Linux and FreeBSD.
That's definitely possible, it's also possible that people are getting the message that flying is dangerous and are not willing to take the risk. That would also result in that sort of result as well. I'm sure there are other possibilities.
Of course there isn't, which is how you know that the TSA and various airport security outfits are effectual. Also, my cell phone keeps tigers away, which is obviously the case because I haven't once been eaten to death by tigers when I've been carrying it.
Yes, but that's because there's no way around that at the moment without drastically reducing the fuel efficiency of planes and increasing the cost of flight. Whereas this is additional radiation for no practical purpose.
I can't imagine Apple killing OSX, I can imagine them removing it from their lower end laptops, but not from their higher end ones or desktops. OTOH I can imagine them replacing it with OSXI
Personally, I'm a bit surprised that Apple hasn't contributed anything similar to the Asus Transformer.
Cancelling it is a bit extreme. My CC company has frozen my CC a few times for small purchases like that. But, cancelling it outright would be extreme.
Does there need to be a point? Aren't plentiful lulz at the expense of a world class set of douches enough justification? Sony, like most other corporations doesn't seem to understand that you can't just fuck with people's shit without hitting a pocket of people that are going to take offense. But worse that than, there's a lot of people that would normally be outraged by the blackhat hackery that's been going on that have a hard time making more than a half assed attempt at pointing out that it's illegal for a reason.
I'm personally having a hard time remembering why I'm supposed to be morally outraged by the haxxoring of the various Sony sites. Ultimately, I wonder how long this goes on before the lulz dry up.
That's the wrong message. The right message is to not go around vandalizing people's fucking property and expecting to hide behind your wall of lawyers. I don't personally know of any reason why this is related to the removal of the OtherOS feature, other than the obvious people getting pissed about Sony vandalizing their gear and paying attention to anybody that's going to take shots at Sony.
I for one kind of liked that game. But that damned inferno level really put me off for quite a while.
The reason is that they don't know how. At this point they can't even feed themselves, and that's relatively straightforward compared with building and maintaining their own national intranet. I'm sure there are plenty of folks in China that are capable of doing it, I just don't think they know how to actually undertake something of that magnitude in the current climate over there.
Which works fine so long as the fare is the same no matter how far you travel. The local link light rail charges differing amounts of money depending upon how far you go, which requires you to swipe when you enter the station and when you leave the destination station. It's a simple enough system then if you want to transfer to a bus you'd have to swipe there again.
Which can be a problem for people with privacy concerns because that information is then available to whomever it is that wants to subpoena it.
You can do that with transit passes. It's not so easy with cash, but with the various cards that are in place they can definitely track those. The local transit service rolled theirs out a while back and they had to deal with the backlash. Apparently, the party paying for the card has access to all the information they have about where the cards are being swiped, which meant that people with company sponsored cards would have to depend upon company policy to guide tracking.
But, all in all, it allowed them to more fairly split the money up from fairs amongst the various agencies handling the busing.
That's definitely something to worry about. However some phones do have a secondary microphone for the purposes of noise reduction and that one would be the one which would presumably be used. But either way I'm not so sure I'd trust it not to be eavesdropping on me.
I'm going to have to call bullshit there. Hard currencies are stable precisely because you can't grow them whenever you like. Which means that you don't see things like the current massive inflation in the USD when jack ass millionaires decide that it's fun to print out lots of extra currency and set interest rates near zero.
With a hard currency you can't do that so you tend to see deflation in the currency value with more buying power over time. But at a relatively predictable rate. Whereas with a fiat currency you end up with no guarantee of any sort that you won't see massive inflation, massive deflation or something else completely in a given time period.
Sigh, you do realize that the war on drugs has nothing to do with money laundering and various other shady services, right? At best that would eliminate the portion that goes to pay for drugs, and even that's questionable as it would still be regarded as immoral by a large portion of the populace.
If you add even a single non-alphanumeric key it means that in order to brute force the password, they don't get to stick with the 26 lower case letters, 26 uppercase letters and 10 digits, they also have to deal with the , ; . ! ? @ and probably even more. And they don't know that's the case until they try every combination of alphanumeric characters that is possible within the given length.
I've found that using non-alphanumeric characters in password fields to be problematic. The main reason being that a lot of sites won't let you use them and that it gets to be a real pain in the ass to fill them in at times. On top of which a lot of companies fail miserably at validating the password fields when they're being entered initially.
In other words, if companies weren't so incompetent when it comes to passwords then we could insist that users enter stronger passwords, as it stands now, if you go for really strong passwords, you're just asking for trouble.
It all started going down hill when AOL effectively folded and they were allowed directly onto the net...
Because they're too busy screwing up W's legacy.