The "one-third" you quote is the number willing to take a pay cut to telecommute, not the total number interested in telecommuting. Another 35% was interested in telecommuting at the same pay.
So it's only another 30% that don't matter.
BTW, thank you, network world, for doing that math for me. I was about to break out the slide rule to figure out 10% of my salary.
Mostly they refer to the combination of grades & course selection. My own personal biased unscientific interpretation of these results is, kids who take easy classes to get good grades in high school continue to take easy classes in college. Kids whose grades aren't as good because they push themselves with harder classes in high school continue to take harder classes in college.
Also, with regards to college admission: http://www.usnews.com/mobile/blogs/the-college-admissions-insider/2011/3/14/qa-on-high-school-course-selections.html "The answer depends on the level of selectivity at the colleges to which your son is applying. Most selective institutions—and all of the most highly selective colleges—expect students to move to the next logical level of rigor each year and to perform well in those courses. At less selective schools, his course selection will be less consequential to the admissions outcome."
I would argue that the payment mechanism can also form a significant barrier. Having to create a paypal or other account or enter a credit card number is a barrier. The entering of the information is a barrier, trust of the system accepting the information is also a barrier.
My B.S. detector just exploded.
If your justification for stealing is, too much work to reach for my wallet, you may just be a thief.
Yes, putting a credit card number in to a form is a (very low) barrier. But downloading and installing LimeWire or a Bit Torrent client is also a barrier. Searching warez sites is a barrier. Running something from an unknown source is a barrier. Plenty of folks make it over those barriers. But PayPal is a "significant barrier"? I doubt it.
Speaking for myself, it is just as easy, if not easier, for me to find and download music from iTunes than from Pirate Bay or some other torrent site. But I still get most of my music from torrents.
For newer/mostly independent acts, I buy the music--although usually from Amazon, not iTunes. (I like the physical disk. I'm old fashioned like that.) For the big record corporation stuff, I torrent.
But I'm not going to B.S. like that stuff is hard to find on CD. Or somehow since I bought the cassette 20 years ago I can transfer that license to a modern digital copy. I'm just an a-hole who likes to get stuff for free.
The second one is a fair and accurate credit for the courses taken and the work performed in them. GPA seems all wonderful and good until you realize--which nearly every student does--that an A in home economics is worth the same as an A in political-science or an A in Algebra I is equal to an A in Calculus II. There are absolutely no motivating incentives for pursuing a rigorous and comprehensive education from the perspective of a student. If Joe Slackoff can get a 3.8 GPA by taking slider courses and be looked upon favorably by colleges and perspective employers while Mia Workshard gets a 3.2 GPA taking every advanced course she can get her hands on and is looked down upon for the low GPA what is to encourage poor Mia? GPA should be thrown in the dustbin in favor of a system that highlights the general level of difficulty of the course while at the same time applies the traditional notion of progress within it. For instance, a "C" in Advanced Calculus I would be worth more than an "A" in Algebra II. A "B" in Music Composition II worth more than an "A" in P.E., etc.. The present system is little different than being given a choice between $100K/year to sit on your butt all day watching TV or $20K/year laying bricks.
1) Colleges do look beyond GPA on transcripts. High school course selection is a better predictor of college success than GPA or SAT scores.
2) The kids who sail through high school getting As by taking the easiest available course at every turn don't suddenly become motivated in college. They turn their 4.0 or 3.8 in college prep courses in to a scholarship to State U. They don't even apply to the top tier schools (or get turned down if they do).
I barely finished in the top 10% of my graduating class. I got in to one very competitive college (& wait listed at another). The folks above me who were smarter/more studious also went to tier colleges. The folks with higher GPAs but poorer overall transcripts did not.
I felt like I won the internet when I heard from the RFC Editor, now I feel like I won the bonus stage!
Something I've been extremely nervous about is people pointing out the mistakes - I've currently realized two of them, both of them in the shower this morning. No one so far has pointed them out, but if anyone will find them, I imagine it will be/.
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You visit site, the server checks your DNT flag before sending a cookie...and then what?
I'm guess the server records GameBoyRMH visited site xyz.com, but no cookie was set. And whenever you visit one of those 800 sites, they know it's you, because they have to check for your DNT flag.
So you've preserved the 100-or-so bytes the cookie would take on your drive, but how is that not tracking?
It seems to me a real DNT track system would be client-side only, and the setting would instruct the browser to accept and instantly (or after the session) delete the cookie, without giving any indication of the activity to the server.
If you can't friggin' make do with $174k/yr (and maybe even, God forbid, SAVE money....) then perhaps you should re-evaluate your lifestyle within that budget.
Maybe you should look up the cost of living (food, utilities, transport, etc...) in the D.C. area (like many metro areas, it isn't cheap) and then consider a Congressman has to maintain a residence both in D.C. *and* in his home district.
It's easy to be all populist and get pissed because he makes more money than you. It's harder to be honest and get the facts.
The median household income in Washington DC for 2010 was $85k. This was the highest for any major US city. So let's assume this guy's home state capital was a close #2. 2 x $85k = $170k. So he makes more than the medium household income in both places of residence COMBINED. And this is without considering the superior benefits members of congress get.
I'm not pissed because he makes more money than I do. (And I'm guessing a far number of folks here have a household income over $174k.)
I'm pissed because he makes his $174k by taking money from people who make about 1/3 that amount AND he complaint it's not enough AND he complains the folks making less are paid too much.
It occurred to me that this University was one of the first to stand up for the ideals of free speech, press and religion --- within a mile of where I stood, people had been imprisoned and shot defending these ideals. You would think that a place with such a storied history would understand that the massive/benefits/ of open (even anonymous) communication and that these benefits would trump whatever minimal edge-case risks there are due to copyright infringement, malware, etc.
(At least, these principles should trump the actual benefits of locking down everyone's Wifi network, a policy that seems to have a negligible effect on copyright infringement, malware, and the occurrence of bad things on the Internet.)
But that's not the society we live in, and this is certainly not the University it once was. More to the point, once you start saying things like 'unsecured Wifi access points are terrible' you need to start giving reasons.
Because that WiFi is a natural resource which just grows out of the earth without water or fertilizer.
Oh wait, no it doesn't.
Do you also complain the same university doesn't have someone on every corner handing out free printing presses? How about cell phone service? Do you expect free service (to go along with the free phones available everywhere) on campus?
Securing Wifi access points is not a free speech issue.
It's not just that the saw his post and decided to write an article about the same thing, it's that they used specific facts that he had worked to uncover in their story.
Really? He uncovered the fact that the tiny giraffe isn't real? He also uncovered the fact that a site claiming to sell tiny giraffes is part of the same marketing campaign?
If I set up a blog and write that water is wet, can I claim anyone else referring to the wetness of water is using specific facts I worked to uncover?
The facts this guy is claiming to uncover are so bleeding obvious. Does it really take "work to uncover" that any web site dealing with tiny giraffes is related to the DirectTV marketing?
If there's some verbatim use of his words, that's something. Restating the obvious, that's nothing.
I know youre not defending the commerce clause, but I cant imagine even a supporter of this idea would try to pull THAT; under that justification "commerce clause" quite literally applies to everything. I know its pulled out to justify a lot of things, but "that road connects to another road" is so incredibly weak... after all, sidewalks go over gas lines which are connected to national gas companies, but the fed would have an awfully hard time convincing people that THAT falls under "commerce clause".
Well, the current argument is that not buying health insurance is a form of interstate commerce covered by the commerce clause.
Not that it matters. They always pull the old drinking age trick--do this or we'll pull all your transportation funding. Nice bridge you got there. Shame if anything happened to it.
It sounds like they have no way to test the message other than it sending it out to every address in the alert list.
Let's say in this case after updating the message templates, the person hit 'save' rather than 'submit'. On the bright side, then no message would have been sent. On the not-so-bright side, no message would have been sent!
Don't you want to know before there's an actual emergency that your emergency message is working? Not that this incident was an intentional test, but shouldn't they have a test after updating the message template?
If I lived in Arkansas, and I only drive on local roads in state, and I do 3-4000 miles a year doing so,... why would this be justified by either Constitution or 10th amendment? I dont mean to troll or attack, but I cannot conceive of why this should be federally managed. I am not against seatbelt laws or think that all regulation or social programs are evil, but honestly, shouldnt there be a limit to what the Fed deals with?
Commerce clause. Even though you only drive in state, that road connects to another road, which connects to a highway, which crosses in to another state. So now all driving falls under interstate commerce.
Doesn't make any more sense than the federal government deciding what plants you can grow on your own property, even if there will be no commerce of the plant, interstate or otherwise.
Yes, it absolutely, objectively, undeniably, and directly goes 100% against the Constitution. It is also the reality of the US of A.
That's rather unfair. I'm a volunteer myself and often give. I usually do it directly, which is the best way to see it gets where it's needed.
Whenever I donate to the local single mothers and young women working their way through college, I always do so directly. I usually place the dollar right in her g-string, which is the best way to see it gets where it's needed.
My grandfather always used to tell me that he would die before he ever gave to the Red Cross. When he was in Korea, the Red Cross used to show up and sell soldiers coffee and donuts (at a profit, no less). No money meant no coffee and donuts for you, G.I.
My grandfather was in WWII and had the same feelings for the Red Cross for the reason. Never heard anyone else mention it.
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What's wrong with the math?
300 million (roughly) citizens of the USA. 100 million hours means an average of 1/3 an hour of TV per citizen.
Do you really have trouble believing US citizens average 20 minutes of TV for a weekend?
The "one-third" you quote is the number willing to take a pay cut to telecommute, not the total number interested in telecommuting. Another 35% was interested in telecommuting at the same pay.
So it's only another 30% that don't matter.
BTW, thank you, network world, for doing that math for me. I was about to break out the slide rule to figure out 10% of my salary.
The best I could find quickly were articles/summaries like this:
http://www.higheredmorning.com/and-the-best-predictor-of-college-success-is
http://fairtest.org/sat-i-faulty-instrument-predicting-college-success
Mostly they refer to the combination of grades & course selection. My own personal biased unscientific interpretation of these results is, kids who take easy classes to get good grades in high school continue to take easy classes in college. Kids whose grades aren't as good because they push themselves with harder classes in high school continue to take harder classes in college.
Also, with regards to college admission:
http://www.usnews.com/mobile/blogs/the-college-admissions-insider/2011/3/14/qa-on-high-school-course-selections.html
"The answer depends on the level of selectivity at the colleges to which your son is applying. Most selective institutions—and all of the most highly selective colleges—expect students to move to the next logical level of rigor each year and to perform well in those courses. At less selective schools, his course selection will be less consequential to the admissions outcome."
Do they assume Apple users only have one eye?
I would argue that the payment mechanism can also form a significant barrier. Having to create a paypal or other account or enter a credit card number is a barrier. The entering of the information is a barrier, trust of the system accepting the information is also a barrier.
My B.S. detector just exploded.
If your justification for stealing is, too much work to reach for my wallet, you may just be a thief.
Yes, putting a credit card number in to a form is a (very low) barrier. But downloading and installing LimeWire or a Bit Torrent client is also a barrier. Searching warez sites is a barrier. Running something from an unknown source is a barrier. Plenty of folks make it over those barriers. But PayPal is a "significant barrier"? I doubt it.
Speaking for myself, it is just as easy, if not easier, for me to find and download music from iTunes than from Pirate Bay or some other torrent site. But I still get most of my music from torrents.
For newer/mostly independent acts, I buy the music--although usually from Amazon, not iTunes. (I like the physical disk. I'm old fashioned like that.) For the big record corporation stuff, I torrent.
But I'm not going to B.S. like that stuff is hard to find on CD. Or somehow since I bought the cassette 20 years ago I can transfer that license to a modern digital copy. I'm just an a-hole who likes to get stuff for free.
The second one is a fair and accurate credit for the courses taken and the work performed in them. GPA seems all wonderful and good until you realize--which nearly every student does--that an A in home economics is worth the same as an A in political-science or an A in Algebra I is equal to an A in Calculus II. There are absolutely no motivating incentives for pursuing a rigorous and comprehensive education from the perspective of a student. If Joe Slackoff can get a 3.8 GPA by taking slider courses and be looked upon favorably by colleges and perspective employers while Mia Workshard gets a 3.2 GPA taking every advanced course she can get her hands on and is looked down upon for the low GPA what is to encourage poor Mia? GPA should be thrown in the dustbin in favor of a system that highlights the general level of difficulty of the course while at the same time applies the traditional notion of progress within it. For instance, a "C" in Advanced Calculus I would be worth more than an "A" in Algebra II. A "B" in Music Composition II worth more than an "A" in P.E., etc.. The present system is little different than being given a choice between $100K/year to sit on your butt all day watching TV or $20K/year laying bricks.
1) Colleges do look beyond GPA on transcripts. High school course selection is a better predictor of college success than GPA or SAT scores.
2) The kids who sail through high school getting As by taking the easiest available course at every turn don't suddenly become motivated in college. They turn their 4.0 or 3.8 in college prep courses in to a scholarship to State U. They don't even apply to the top tier schools (or get turned down if they do).
I barely finished in the top 10% of my graduating class. I got in to one very competitive college (& wait listed at another). The folks above me who were smarter/more studious also went to tier colleges. The folks with higher GPAs but poorer overall transcripts did not.
I felt like I won the internet when I heard from the RFC Editor, now I feel like I won the bonus stage!
Something I've been extremely nervous about is people pointing out the mistakes - I've currently realized two of them, both of them in the shower this morning. No one so far has pointed them out, but if anyone will find them, I imagine it will be /.
____ _
| __\_\_o____/_|________ Good job! Congrats!
<[___\_\_-----<
| o'
I love it!
Makes me want to break in to the local moving picture house, 'update' the 3-D glasses to be L-L or R-R, and break back out.
I wonder how any people will marvel at the visuals either due to the placebo effect or because they don't want to admit they don't see the '3-D'.
What about the folks who only have one eye?
Will there be a monocle version of the un-3-d-er?
Kinda ruins /. for those who actually enjoy reading real news...
In other words, just like every other day.
Nowhere near as funny as ChatRoulette.
Now with more penises!
Well, how does it work?
You visit site, the server checks your DNT flag before sending a cookie...and then what?
I'm guess the server records GameBoyRMH visited site xyz.com, but no cookie was set. And whenever you visit one of those 800 sites, they know it's you, because they have to check for your DNT flag.
So you've preserved the 100-or-so bytes the cookie would take on your drive, but how is that not tracking?
It seems to me a real DNT track system would be client-side only, and the setting would instruct the browser to accept and instantly (or after the session) delete the cookie, without giving any indication of the activity to the server.
Maybe you should look up the cost of living (food, utilities, transport, etc...) in the D.C. area (like many metro areas, it isn't cheap) and then consider a Congressman has to maintain a residence both in D.C. *and* in his home district.
It's easy to be all populist and get pissed because he makes more money than you. It's harder to be honest and get the facts.
The median household income in Washington DC for 2010 was $85k. This was the highest for any major US city. So let's assume this guy's home state capital was a close #2. 2 x $85k = $170k. So he makes more than the medium household income in both places of residence COMBINED. And this is without considering the superior benefits members of congress get.
[http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/28/pf/household_income_report/index.htm]
I'm not pissed because he makes more money than I do. (And I'm guessing a far number of folks here have a household income over $174k.)
I'm pissed because he makes his $174k by taking money from people who make about 1/3 that amount AND he complaint it's not enough AND he complains the folks making less are paid too much.
So yes, let's get honest.
It occurred to me that this University was one of the first to stand up for the ideals of free speech, press and religion --- within a mile of where I stood, people had been imprisoned and shot defending these ideals. You would think that a place with such a storied history would understand that the massive /benefits/ of open (even anonymous) communication and that these benefits would trump whatever minimal edge-case risks there are due to copyright infringement, malware, etc.
(At least, these principles should trump the actual benefits of locking down everyone's Wifi network, a policy that seems to have a negligible effect on copyright infringement, malware, and the occurrence of bad things on the Internet.)
But that's not the society we live in, and this is certainly not the University it once was. More to the point, once you start saying things like 'unsecured Wifi access points are terrible' you need to start giving reasons.
Because that WiFi is a natural resource which just grows out of the earth without water or fertilizer.
Oh wait, no it doesn't.
Do you also complain the same university doesn't have someone on every corner handing out free printing presses? How about cell phone service? Do you expect free service (to go along with the free phones available everywhere) on campus?
Securing Wifi access points is not a free speech issue.
It's not just that the saw his post and decided to write an article about the same thing, it's that they used specific facts that he had worked to uncover in their story.
Really? He uncovered the fact that the tiny giraffe isn't real? He also uncovered the fact that a site claiming to sell tiny giraffes is part of the same marketing campaign?
If I set up a blog and write that water is wet, can I claim anyone else referring to the wetness of water is using specific facts I worked to uncover?
The facts this guy is claiming to uncover are so bleeding obvious. Does it really take "work to uncover" that any web site dealing with tiny giraffes is related to the DirectTV marketing?
If there's some verbatim use of his words, that's something. Restating the obvious, that's nothing.
There is no story here.
I know youre not defending the commerce clause, but I cant imagine even a supporter of this idea would try to pull THAT; under that justification "commerce clause" quite literally applies to everything. I know its pulled out to justify a lot of things, but "that road connects to another road" is so incredibly weak... after all, sidewalks go over gas lines which are connected to national gas companies, but the fed would have an awfully hard time convincing people that THAT falls under "commerce clause".
Well, the current argument is that not buying health insurance is a form of interstate commerce covered by the commerce clause.
Not that it matters. They always pull the old drinking age trick--do this or we'll pull all your transportation funding. Nice bridge you got there. Shame if anything happened to it.
"Just imagine a world, where Elvis couldn’t play due to Rock and Roll patent held by a guy called, Jackie Brenston."
So what this guy is saying, patents on music would be a good thing.
I challenge you to tell a single joke that's actually funny that nobody can take offense at.
Pretty much anything by Eddie Izzard.
He said funny
It sounds like they have no way to test the message other than it sending it out to every address in the alert list.
Let's say in this case after updating the message templates, the person hit 'save' rather than 'submit'. On the bright side, then no message would have been sent. On the not-so-bright side, no message would have been sent!
Don't you want to know before there's an actual emergency that your emergency message is working? Not that this incident was an intentional test, but shouldn't they have a test after updating the message template?
Yeah, except those aren't acronyms. Maybe LOL, if you pronounce it lol. But the rest are initialisms.
A tax like this would disproportionally tax people who are already poor.
And that is why it is an almost certainty. The poor need better lobbyists.
If I lived in Arkansas, and I only drive on local roads in state, and I do 3-4000 miles a year doing so,... why would this be justified by either Constitution or 10th amendment? I dont mean to troll or attack, but I cannot conceive of why this should be federally managed. I am not against seatbelt laws or think that all regulation or social programs are evil, but honestly, shouldnt there be a limit to what the Fed deals with?
Commerce clause. Even though you only drive in state, that road connects to another road, which connects to a highway, which crosses in to another state. So now all driving falls under interstate commerce.
Doesn't make any more sense than the federal government deciding what plants you can grow on your own property, even if there will be no commerce of the plant, interstate or otherwise.
Yes, it absolutely, objectively, undeniably, and directly goes 100% against the Constitution. It is also the reality of the US of A.
That's rather unfair. I'm a volunteer myself and often give. I usually do it directly, which is the best way to see it gets where it's needed.
Whenever I donate to the local single mothers and young women working their way through college, I always do so directly. I usually place the dollar right in her g-string, which is the best way to see it gets where it's needed.
My grandfather always used to tell me that he would die before he ever gave to the Red Cross. When he was in Korea, the Red Cross used to show up and sell soldiers coffee and donuts (at a profit, no less). No money meant no coffee and donuts for you, G.I.
My grandfather was in WWII and had the same feelings for the Red Cross for the reason. Never heard anyone else mention it.
How many bees for a cup of coffee?
Editors, can we get a story about the $75 trillion P2P lawsuit soon plz?
No.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/1930238/Limewire-Being-Sued-For-75-Trillion