Demonstrating to the public in general that there is little or no anonymity is much more important than any political agenda. Why leave things 'up' so that specialists can fish around?
Except for diehards, sysops, even for commie boards, ran their BBSes on cheap XT clones. One of the first BBSes I spent any time on was a C-net, which ran on a C64 with two 1541 drives, but that thing was painful, and the hardware really strained to keep a 1200 baud modem busy.
I would prefer the medium-old computers, minicomputers with core memory. So your rogue program would write things into core that could be a surprise the next time the machine booted, because they'd still be there.
Junior High School teachers have what they refer to as 'tenure' these days. It's become a form of seniority, and part of the Trade Unionization of academia, so to speak. (if you consider Junior High School [oops, I meant 'Middle School,' didn't mean to say anything that might crush the students' self esteem] part of academia.)
Or, it's just piling another layer of arbitrary bull-shit on top of the existing layers of arbitrary bull-shit.
I mean, those lazy-fuck white people have been piling it on and living high in Academia for generations. Why shouldn't there be special programs to make sure people of color get some, too?
You've covered a lot of ground in your hand-waving paragraph that tries to explain Global Warming. Also 'ultimately he was right' isn't a penetrating review of Malthusian-ism, which is still an unsettled theory. Really.
I with your last paragraph about 'common sense' but not in the sense that you want, because common sense isn't science.
Well, in our modern industrial society, 'doing what you are told' is an important part of what 'the system' wants teachers to assess. And a lot of people who are 'in charge' want all Educational programs to become more vocationally oriented.
When I went to Tech School, about half the grade was based on attendance, the other half on the dots you shaded in on the same 100-blank multiple choice test blank each Friday for each course. It doesn't mean I wasn't allowed to ask penetrating detailed questions during the lecture, but it did mean a portion of the other students would groan every time I raised my hand, because it was going to be a question about electronics and not something that would 'be on the test.' People would often actually ask that as a follow up question to mine.
Wanting to know too much brands you as a troublemaker, and employers like to know stuff like that. Fortunately they didn't keep a negative score regarding that issue in Tech School.
The coders of the 40's were women because the men were mostly at war. The people who 'wove' together the magnetic cores for core memory arrays were drudge workers. Precision drudge workers, but still just doing the same thing consistently over and over and over. The people who wrote the patterns that were then written into those magnetic core arrays were an entirely different group.
Yes, but the KJV was the translation into English that was made at perhaps a high point in English culture, so to speak. Which makes it sort of a standard.
Because it is so much more efficient and humane to fight fires in the emergency room than to get people the treatement they need before there's a crisis.
Citation needed.
Really. Badly needed. Real empirical evidence, please. Not hand waving.
In, say, 1970 when the people who chose the name AC/DC were growing up, it was stuff printed on the back of their vacuum tube table radios. It refers to the radio being operable with 117 volts of either AC or DC without a need for conversion. That's the literal meaning, I am sure the band AC/DC had some sort of metal/industrial meaning in mind. Not the gay-culture jargon the term has shifted into today.
A place that I worked at back at the very beginning of the USB standard made muscle-stim devices. Basically high voltage pulse generators to stimulate muscles through skin electrodes.
We were a smallish company and connector development is expensive. At the time we were out looking for new connector ideas to replace the 2.5 mm jack. One engineer actually proposed adopting the USB connector for the high voltage outputs for the patient electrode leads. I'm pretty sure nobody ever asked anybody outside the company associated with the USB standard about it, and it obviously would have been prohibited.
I have an ancient flash drive that has a sliding write-protect switch.
And really, I wish I had a bunch more with that feature. I imagine it turned into what a modern company refers to as a 'customer support nightmare' though.
Apple's first 'laptop' was a horrible turd, though.
I think they came out with the Macintosh Portable back when Jobs was still with the company, and only came out with the PowerBook after they'd thrown him out. (could be wrong on the history, and zealots can do the homework if they want- they will)
And it didn't take long at all for the cables to commodify, to the point now where there are bins of very inexpensive cable/charger components near the cash register at Walgreens, and ridiculously cheap bulk-purchase options on eBay.
Apple made sure to step away from that possibility for THEIR cables. There's always a bin of the older iPod/iPhone chargers with the others at the Walgreens counter, but never for the new Apple charging scheme.
So the authentication chip provides no value whatsoever to the customer, only negative value for cost-conscious customers who cannot purchase third party 'straight pieces of wire' that indeed should perform the function of a cable perfectly.
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Demonstrating to the public in general that there is little or no anonymity is much more important than any political agenda. Why leave things 'up' so that specialists can fish around?
I'd rather play Minecraft, because there's more depth of gameplay. An Open World is better than any Velvet Rope out there.
It's refreshing to see an "I got over the Amiga quick enough to not be permanently mired in it" post here on Slashdot.
Except for diehards, sysops, even for commie boards, ran their BBSes on cheap XT clones. One of the first BBSes I spent any time on was a C-net, which ran on a C64 with two 1541 drives, but that thing was painful, and the hardware really strained to keep a 1200 baud modem busy.
I would prefer the medium-old computers, minicomputers with core memory. So your rogue program would write things into core that could be a surprise the next time the machine booted, because they'd still be there.
Every pupil will be required to take the Keyboarding course.
The computer labs will fill with students who hate being there.
What they want is to never have to leave Campus, and to continue to get paid while never having to leave Campus.
Junior High School teachers have what they refer to as 'tenure' these days. It's become a form of seniority, and part of the Trade Unionization of academia, so to speak. (if you consider Junior High School [oops, I meant 'Middle School,' didn't mean to say anything that might crush the students' self esteem] part of academia.)
Or, it's just piling another layer of arbitrary bull-shit on top of the existing layers of arbitrary bull-shit.
I mean, those lazy-fuck white people have been piling it on and living high in Academia for generations. Why shouldn't there be special programs to make sure people of color get some, too?
You've covered a lot of ground in your hand-waving paragraph that tries to explain Global Warming. Also 'ultimately he was right' isn't a penetrating review of Malthusian-ism, which is still an unsettled theory. Really.
I with your last paragraph about 'common sense' but not in the sense that you want, because common sense isn't science.
Well, in our modern industrial society, 'doing what you are told' is an important part of what 'the system' wants teachers to assess. And a lot of people who are 'in charge' want all Educational programs to become more vocationally oriented.
When I went to Tech School, about half the grade was based on attendance, the other half on the dots you shaded in on the same 100-blank multiple choice test blank each Friday for each course. It doesn't mean I wasn't allowed to ask penetrating detailed questions during the lecture, but it did mean a portion of the other students would groan every time I raised my hand, because it was going to be a question about electronics and not something that would 'be on the test.' People would often actually ask that as a follow up question to mine.
Wanting to know too much brands you as a troublemaker, and employers like to know stuff like that. Fortunately they didn't keep a negative score regarding that issue in Tech School.
Unfortunately, they're not worthless employers. They're the mechanism that dispenses the pellet after you press the bar.
Even an intelligent lab rat knows that.
The whole system is broken, which is Higgs' point.
The coders of the 40's were women because the men were mostly at war. The people who 'wove' together the magnetic cores for core memory arrays were drudge workers. Precision drudge workers, but still just doing the same thing consistently over and over and over. The people who wrote the patterns that were then written into those magnetic core arrays were an entirely different group.
Yes, but the KJV was the translation into English that was made at perhaps a high point in English culture, so to speak. Which makes it sort of a standard.
The SubGenius must have slack. (ware)
Citation needed.
Really. Badly needed. Real empirical evidence, please. Not hand waving.
In, say, 1970 when the people who chose the name AC/DC were growing up, it was stuff printed on the back of their vacuum tube table radios. It refers to the radio being operable with 117 volts of either AC or DC without a need for conversion. That's the literal meaning, I am sure the band AC/DC had some sort of metal/industrial meaning in mind. Not the gay-culture jargon the term has shifted into today.
Ah, right. The 'Communism hasn't REALLY ever been tried. Give us another chaaaaance!' gambit.
Nice try, dude.
That's a very doctrinaire Marxist point of view.
Hint: Economists in the 21st century don't really consider Marx a good economist.
A place that I worked at back at the very beginning of the USB standard made muscle-stim devices. Basically high voltage pulse generators to stimulate muscles through skin electrodes.
We were a smallish company and connector development is expensive. At the time we were out looking for new connector ideas to replace the 2.5 mm jack. One engineer actually proposed adopting the USB connector for the high voltage outputs for the patient electrode leads. I'm pretty sure nobody ever asked anybody outside the company associated with the USB standard about it, and it obviously would have been prohibited.
I have an ancient flash drive that has a sliding write-protect switch.
And really, I wish I had a bunch more with that feature. I imagine it turned into what a modern company refers to as a 'customer support nightmare' though.
Normal Ethernet cables are wired exactly the same way at both ends.
That's handy, too. Because there's no need to have a separate bin for the crossover cables anymore.
Apple's first 'laptop' was a horrible turd, though.
I think they came out with the Macintosh Portable back when Jobs was still with the company, and only came out with the PowerBook after they'd thrown him out. (could be wrong on the history, and zealots can do the homework if they want- they will)
And it didn't take long at all for the cables to commodify, to the point now where there are bins of very inexpensive cable/charger components near the cash register at Walgreens, and ridiculously cheap bulk-purchase options on eBay.
Apple made sure to step away from that possibility for THEIR cables. There's always a bin of the older iPod/iPhone chargers with the others at the Walgreens counter, but never for the new Apple charging scheme.
So the authentication chip provides no value whatsoever to the customer, only negative value for cost-conscious customers who cannot purchase third party 'straight pieces of wire' that indeed should perform the function of a cable perfectly.