The phrase "correlation is not causation" doesn't apply here. It's pretty well understood what students are missing out on when they don't take that level of math and what knowing it does for people. If we were talking about calculus or differential equations, I'd say that you've got a point, but a surprising amount of life is made harder by an ignorance of high school level math.
Actually, there's been a push in recent years to gradually phase it in over a few years. Meaning that elementary school students are more likely to see and use some of it with appropriate terminology than in the past. I remember when I was a kid, they would slip a small amount of it into the curriculum surreptitiously without calling it that, hence the shock later one.
It depends where you're at. But I was surprised that it wasn't required, IIRC we were required to have Algebra III, but that might be because we were using integrated math which used a spiral approach, meaning that you'd have to have 3 semesters just to see everything that would be in Alegebra I.
The issue is time, assuming that a student starts Algebra I their freshman year, they'd have to get through Algebra I, II and III before getting to precalc and finally calculus. Meaning that they'd be taking a math course pretty much every semester, assuming they pass in the first place, and if they don't, then there's precious little time to catch up.
Additionally, when I was in high school there were 20 credits or so to graduate around here, Giving 5 of them over to math isn't going to just happen without crowding something else out.
It's not so much a matter of money as it is one of logistics. Maintaining an farm of mail servers for what is a relatively low volume of correspondence doesn't make much sense. You still have to keep them secured, track opt outs and all the other stuff, handing it over to a 3rd party generally makes more sense. Plus, there's no guarantee that they'll manage any better.
If anything this is just evidence that Epsilon screwed up and wasn't adequately separating the data. Without more information it's hard to say what they did, but chances are they were storing the various mailing lists on the same database servers.
Capitalone, spends a lot of money protecting its customers from fraud, I know that because they're regularly on the phone with me when their computers pick up suspicious activities, and typically the account is locked within a minute pending authorization from me. I have a hard time believing that they'd spend all that money on security in that area and then go with a cut cost fly by night vendor for managing their emails. It's possible, but strikes me as odd.
Because if they didn't file them, clearly nobody else would. Which is the problem, patents are both offensive and defensive tools depending upon the situation.
It's not a protection racket. The CAs aren't typically promising that a site is going to be on the up and up, all their promising is that the site is who it says it is. Meaning that they might very well be using your log in information for data mining and whatever illegal activities, but that there isn't a MITM or counterfeit site involved.
You can self sign, but the point of paying is that they're supposed to be doing at least some checking to make sure you are who you claim to be.
It proves no such thing. It proves that they can't migrate, but for the purposes of reaching a tree or flying over a fence. The record being a bit over 300 feet. Chickens are incapable of long distance flight, but things which cannot fly would love to be able to do even that.
Domestic chickens are not capable of long distance flight, although lighter birds are generally capable of flying for short distances, such as over fences or into trees (where they would naturally roost). Chickens may occasionally fly briefly to explore their surroundings, but generally do so only to flee perceived danger.
Getting airborne by their own power is flying. I grew up around chickens as well, and yes they do fly, not for long distances, but they can fly. Which makes them neither lazy nor incapable of flight. I'd love to be able to fly, even if it was only as well as a chicken.
There's a lot of albums I'd like to own, but can't buy without breaking my boycott of the RIAA. It's a shame because a lot of those albums are quite good, but rewarding an industry that rips its own artists off even as it attacks pirates as stealing from the artists is a non-starter.
Personally, I refuse to pay more than $6 for an album by a major label, for indie groups I'll go higher than that, but I rarely if ever hear an album or song by a major label which is worth even $10.
Mind you that's for an actual CD, I'm willing to pay even less than that if it's a download, and definitely not if the download isn't full CD quality.
And if the sheeple wouldn't reward politicians for spreading FUD and deliberately breaking the process we might someday get change. But as long as you've got people punishing the government for acting in their interest it's unrealistic to expect anything different. The President tried change, and was rewarded by the people by taking away his majority in the house and most of the seats necessary to get anything done in the Senate.
Nice try there. Copyright infringement isn't theft, never has been and hopefully never will be. You cannot steal a non-rivalrous good. Secondly, the reason why the *AA so loves the statutory damages is because it's impossible for them to prove that they've been harmed, consequently the conclusion that it's not a victimless crime is just as flawed as concluding that it is.
You do realize that chickens can fly, right? Unless you clip their wings or lock them in a small cage they are able to fly, if not elegantly over long distances.
Back during the 2.x era there was a substantial memory leak which caused serious trouble under normal circumstances. But that has long since been fixed, anybody saying that at this point is probably either a troll or blaming it on an extension with a memory leak.
I disagree, I used to do some acting, and it could take an enormous amount of time to get a short segment filmed. It's not uncommon for a 5 minute piece to take an entire day to film, or at least several hours. And if you're inside or on a sound stage it's not that big of a deal, but if you're having to restrict yourself to the portions of the day that have light, you're in a much less predictable situation. Even the sun going behind the clouds can make shooting a cohesive scene impossible until it returns.
Most of the rest of it is going to be pretty easy to determine and should largely be settled by the time this goes to trial. If Tesla's employees gave them the estimate that will quickly be determined. And Tesla did eventually admit that the breaks had failed, at least in the way that a consumer would call broken.
It's a matter of incompetent engineering. Placing it where it was located was a really bad idea, and it should have turned up during the design phase when they were brainstorming all the worst case scenarios to plan for. Additionally, I was shocked that they didn't have any spare backup generators that were available in case the backup went down. Especially given its role in preventing a lot of the mess that they've gotten into.
And the lack of robots hardened against radiation, this is Japan, they can do robots, and they haven't got any to work in this environment? Have they not seen Godzilla?
Google bought Android years before Apple releasing the iPhone, which kind of shoots that hypothesis down. And Android Inc., was specifically founded to work on making mobile devices smarter, which kind of shoot down that idea.
It's definitely possible that manufacturers wouldn't have jumped on board without the iPhone, but the rest of your suggestions are definitely incorrect.
To be honest, the Catholic Church has been hemorrhaging members in the US for a long time, and this sort of nonsense is a large part of why. You'd have to be an idiot not to see that the Pope is off his rocker on many issues, and as the head of the organization, that's bad.
Considering the amount of blame that's being heaped on the people that have been sexually abused by other Catholics, it's no wonder that the exodus isn't restricted to those that have themselves been abused. It's just really hard to take a religion seriously that uses its moral authority to use a sex abuse scandal to further its own homophobic agenda.
I get bitten by incompetent validation fairly often. A password should not be accepted which is too long without throwing an error, and yet often times I set a 20 character password only to find out later that the maximum length is 16 and that they ignored those last 4 characters.
That's probably because it's cheaper to pay out whatever gets stolen and the government doesn't tell them they have to. I'm not sure how much the tokens cost, but last I heard, using chip and pin for credit cards costs somewhere around $40-50 each time they issue a card.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. Android inc., was founded in 2003 and Google bought it in 2005. The first Apple iPhone wasn't released until 2007. So, perhaps Apple did open it up a bit for Google and everybody else, but the door was coming down, it was mostly just a question of who was going to do it first.
The irony being that they used to try to cover up their spy balloons by pretending they were UFOs. Jokes on them because now nobody believes it when they really are basically weather balloons with cameras.
True, but there's way too much money in the Android market for the products to dry up that much. I'd be surprised if it ever drops below 10 or so handsets without Google deliberately burning down the OS or hiring a soft drink exec to run the project.
That came to bite some people when the computer advertised as IBM Compatible wasn't 100% compatible. Anybody that's tried to install a SoundBlaster into a Leading Edge knows exactly what I mean.
Also, I'd like to apologize for bringing up the bad memories from that hunk of crap maker.
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The phrase "correlation is not causation" doesn't apply here. It's pretty well understood what students are missing out on when they don't take that level of math and what knowing it does for people. If we were talking about calculus or differential equations, I'd say that you've got a point, but a surprising amount of life is made harder by an ignorance of high school level math.
Actually, there's been a push in recent years to gradually phase it in over a few years. Meaning that elementary school students are more likely to see and use some of it with appropriate terminology than in the past. I remember when I was a kid, they would slip a small amount of it into the curriculum surreptitiously without calling it that, hence the shock later one.
It depends where you're at. But I was surprised that it wasn't required, IIRC we were required to have Algebra III, but that might be because we were using integrated math which used a spiral approach, meaning that you'd have to have 3 semesters just to see everything that would be in Alegebra I.
The issue is time, assuming that a student starts Algebra I their freshman year, they'd have to get through Algebra I, II and III before getting to precalc and finally calculus. Meaning that they'd be taking a math course pretty much every semester, assuming they pass in the first place, and if they don't, then there's precious little time to catch up.
Additionally, when I was in high school there were 20 credits or so to graduate around here, Giving 5 of them over to math isn't going to just happen without crowding something else out.
It's not so much a matter of money as it is one of logistics. Maintaining an farm of mail servers for what is a relatively low volume of correspondence doesn't make much sense. You still have to keep them secured, track opt outs and all the other stuff, handing it over to a 3rd party generally makes more sense. Plus, there's no guarantee that they'll manage any better.
If anything this is just evidence that Epsilon screwed up and wasn't adequately separating the data. Without more information it's hard to say what they did, but chances are they were storing the various mailing lists on the same database servers.
Capitalone, spends a lot of money protecting its customers from fraud, I know that because they're regularly on the phone with me when their computers pick up suspicious activities, and typically the account is locked within a minute pending authorization from me. I have a hard time believing that they'd spend all that money on security in that area and then go with a cut cost fly by night vendor for managing their emails. It's possible, but strikes me as odd.
I haven't gotten any yet, although I have done business with a few. If anything this is a reminder that services like Sneakemail exist for a reason.
Because if they didn't file them, clearly nobody else would. Which is the problem, patents are both offensive and defensive tools depending upon the situation.
It's not a protection racket. The CAs aren't typically promising that a site is going to be on the up and up, all their promising is that the site is who it says it is. Meaning that they might very well be using your log in information for data mining and whatever illegal activities, but that there isn't a MITM or counterfeit site involved.
You can self sign, but the point of paying is that they're supposed to be doing at least some checking to make sure you are who you claim to be.
It proves no such thing. It proves that they can't migrate, but for the purposes of reaching a tree or flying over a fence. The record being a bit over 300 feet. Chickens are incapable of long distance flight, but things which cannot fly would love to be able to do even that.
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Domestic chickens are not capable of long distance flight, although lighter birds are generally capable of flying for short distances, such as over fences or into trees (where they would naturally roost). Chickens may occasionally fly briefly to explore their surroundings, but generally do so only to flee perceived danger.
Getting airborne by their own power is flying. I grew up around chickens as well, and yes they do fly, not for long distances, but they can fly. Which makes them neither lazy nor incapable of flight. I'd love to be able to fly, even if it was only as well as a chicken.
There's a lot of albums I'd like to own, but can't buy without breaking my boycott of the RIAA. It's a shame because a lot of those albums are quite good, but rewarding an industry that rips its own artists off even as it attacks pirates as stealing from the artists is a non-starter.
Personally, I refuse to pay more than $6 for an album by a major label, for indie groups I'll go higher than that, but I rarely if ever hear an album or song by a major label which is worth even $10.
Mind you that's for an actual CD, I'm willing to pay even less than that if it's a download, and definitely not if the download isn't full CD quality.
And if the sheeple wouldn't reward politicians for spreading FUD and deliberately breaking the process we might someday get change. But as long as you've got people punishing the government for acting in their interest it's unrealistic to expect anything different. The President tried change, and was rewarded by the people by taking away his majority in the house and most of the seats necessary to get anything done in the Senate.
Nice try there. Copyright infringement isn't theft, never has been and hopefully never will be. You cannot steal a non-rivalrous good. Secondly, the reason why the *AA so loves the statutory damages is because it's impossible for them to prove that they've been harmed, consequently the conclusion that it's not a victimless crime is just as flawed as concluding that it is.
You do realize that chickens can fly, right? Unless you clip their wings or lock them in a small cage they are able to fly, if not elegantly over long distances.
Back during the 2.x era there was a substantial memory leak which caused serious trouble under normal circumstances. But that has long since been fixed, anybody saying that at this point is probably either a troll or blaming it on an extension with a memory leak.
I disagree, I used to do some acting, and it could take an enormous amount of time to get a short segment filmed. It's not uncommon for a 5 minute piece to take an entire day to film, or at least several hours. And if you're inside or on a sound stage it's not that big of a deal, but if you're having to restrict yourself to the portions of the day that have light, you're in a much less predictable situation. Even the sun going behind the clouds can make shooting a cohesive scene impossible until it returns.
Most of the rest of it is going to be pretty easy to determine and should largely be settled by the time this goes to trial. If Tesla's employees gave them the estimate that will quickly be determined. And Tesla did eventually admit that the breaks had failed, at least in the way that a consumer would call broken.
It's a matter of incompetent engineering. Placing it where it was located was a really bad idea, and it should have turned up during the design phase when they were brainstorming all the worst case scenarios to plan for. Additionally, I was shocked that they didn't have any spare backup generators that were available in case the backup went down. Especially given its role in preventing a lot of the mess that they've gotten into.
And the lack of robots hardened against radiation, this is Japan, they can do robots, and they haven't got any to work in this environment? Have they not seen Godzilla?
Google bought Android years before Apple releasing the iPhone, which kind of shoots that hypothesis down. And Android Inc., was specifically founded to work on making mobile devices smarter, which kind of shoot down that idea.
It's definitely possible that manufacturers wouldn't have jumped on board without the iPhone, but the rest of your suggestions are definitely incorrect.
To be honest, the Catholic Church has been hemorrhaging members in the US for a long time, and this sort of nonsense is a large part of why. You'd have to be an idiot not to see that the Pope is off his rocker on many issues, and as the head of the organization, that's bad.
Considering the amount of blame that's being heaped on the people that have been sexually abused by other Catholics, it's no wonder that the exodus isn't restricted to those that have themselves been abused. It's just really hard to take a religion seriously that uses its moral authority to use a sex abuse scandal to further its own homophobic agenda.
I get bitten by incompetent validation fairly often. A password should not be accepted which is too long without throwing an error, and yet often times I set a 20 character password only to find out later that the maximum length is 16 and that they ignored those last 4 characters.
That's probably because it's cheaper to pay out whatever gets stolen and the government doesn't tell them they have to. I'm not sure how much the tokens cost, but last I heard, using chip and pin for credit cards costs somewhere around $40-50 each time they issue a card.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. Android inc., was founded in 2003 and Google bought it in 2005. The first Apple iPhone wasn't released until 2007. So, perhaps Apple did open it up a bit for Google and everybody else, but the door was coming down, it was mostly just a question of who was going to do it first.
The irony being that they used to try to cover up their spy balloons by pretending they were UFOs. Jokes on them because now nobody believes it when they really are basically weather balloons with cameras.
True, but there's way too much money in the Android market for the products to dry up that much. I'd be surprised if it ever drops below 10 or so handsets without Google deliberately burning down the OS or hiring a soft drink exec to run the project.
That came to bite some people when the computer advertised as IBM Compatible wasn't 100% compatible. Anybody that's tried to install a SoundBlaster into a Leading Edge knows exactly what I mean.
Also, I'd like to apologize for bringing up the bad memories from that hunk of crap maker.