How can an article like that have so few details? What does their permit say? What was the application process? Were the citizens intentionally misled about what was going in, or were they ignorant?
...provide inmates with a liberal arts education so that when the students leave prison they are able to find meaningful work.
Do they also teach them how to cook? That seems like it will be useful when they apply their degree to their McDonalds' job.
Joking aside, I think this is amazing. Actually trying to meaningfully rehabilitate offenders so they can re-integrate into society and actually do something productive. I would also hope that they would offer more specialized or in-depth programs for individuals that show the initiative and promise.
Maybe it's here just so YOU can click on the post, read the article, scroll 2/3 of the way through the comments, then post a comment asking "This is Slashdot news why?"
Why did you click on the article? You knew what the post was about. There are hundreds of other news sites you could have gone to, why did you come here?
Probably for the same reason I did: You frequent Slashdot. You enjoy the comments that are moderately more intelligent than the average drivel in the "general" news site comments. The discussion is peer-moderated. Then again, maybe you just came here so you could bitch about non-technical articles posted on a "nerd news" site.
Yes. Happily. There are small number of websites I visit numerous times in a day. I would most certainly pay them a couple bucks a month to have no ads, but it has to be reasonable.
Yeah, I just saw the picture on a Yahoo News article. pic Exactly as described. Standard clock guts+big LED display crammed into a small suitcase. No way to tell if it was the display that came with the clock guts or not.
Pretty low-level "experiment", but he is 14, so I'll cut him some slack. At least he's tinkering with something instead sitting on his ass on Snapchat. Definitely not worthy of all the attention it's getting..
Where the hell is the picture of the "bomb clock"? I see a picture of the kid next to circuit board. If that is the "bomb clock" then a lot of adults need to get slapped upside the head.
The point being, what he is sitting next to could not conceivably be considered a bomb by anybody with a brain between their ears. Now, if the "clock" was a display protruding from a small box, where you can't see what is going on inside the box (as the story implies), then maybe (just maybe) there was a tiny shred of justification for their actions. However, maybe a more appropriate response (assuming the thing actually resembled a bomb) would have been to say "hey son, could you please show me what's inside the box?" If you were TRULY worried about it being a bomb, maybe evacuating the school and calling in the bomb squad would have been appropriate. I would expect any of those responses by the teachers if the kid was white, black, brown, purple, or green. But no, these backwards mother fuckers see a brown kid with a "muslim sounding" name and all hell breaks loose.
If the second teacher TRULY thought this was a bomb, why the fuck would you put it in your desk and leave it there for hours? They need to be fired, immediately, for failing to act responsibly in a "dangerous" situation. If the police were TRULY worried that this device was a bomb they all need to be fired, immediately, for failing to properly handle a suspected explosive device.
Oh, reading the story again, nobody ever thought it was ACTUALLY a bomb, they just thought it kinda looked like one. First teacher probably should be talked to, if he thought the device could be perceived as a threat (saying "you probably shouldn't show that to any one else") he should have confiscated it on the spot. Second teacher acted appropriately. Knew it wasn't actually a bomb, just thought it looked like one, so she confiscated it and reported it to the principle. I would expect the same thing to happen to someone that brought in something that could be perceived as a bomb, gun, knife, whatever. Principal? Yeah, he needs to be fired. Threatening to expel a student for not providing a written statement? Yeah, not cool. Intimidating a 14 year old by forcing a written statement without a parent present? I'd be pissed if they did that to my kids. The police involved, definitely reprimanded. Interrogating a minor without a parent present, big no-no. Arresting him without charging him with a crime? Also a no-no.
It was half arse-pulling and half knowing how to type into google.
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+average+broadband+speed&oq=us+average+broadband+speed&aqs=chrome..69i57.6984j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=0&ie=UTF-8
https://www.google.com/search?...
Both of those come up with around 10Mb (using nice round numbers). My original comment was related to someone saying 50Mb was becoming pretty much useless, so I went with that.
I tend to agree with you that the ISPs could be doing better, but I think you and I have different definitions of trivial. A 5X increase to the average US broadband speed doesn't seem like something that can be done trivially.
anything less than 50Mbps is starting to become pretty worthless
It would take a family of 10 simultaneously watching different HD Netflix streams to saturate a 50Mbps connection. At a certain point (according to the article, that point is around 10Mb) it becomes "impossible" to actually consume that much bandwidth. A 10-20 Mb service with proper QoS to account for gaming and other latency sensitive activities and a well thought out update regime to cover game updates should take care of 99% of the average user's internet needs.
I realize that 10Mb doesn't fit with consumers' "I want this, and I want it now" mentality, but calling less than 50Mb "worthless" for your average consumer is a bit of a stretch.
I have 500 (full duplex)
What do you you ACTUALLY do with that much bandwidth? I mean yeah, being able to download a full HD movie in minutes is nice, but seriously...
It is [Right-Wing Rag], beloved of the Right. You don't need to question them, it is unseemly and icky. Everything they print is true, because it agrees with the Right's pre-existing ideas. Anything contradictory is simply not printed in the first place. This is one of the big reasons the Right has gone off the rails into obsessed hate in the past 20 years, they live in an echo chamber and think that dissident opinions have no place in political speech.
I was happy to give up my boat-anchor of a laptop at work. Comment submitted from my triple screen [2 external + built in], external keyboard and mouse operated Surface Pro 3 tablet. If I could have a "do-over" I would have requested the i7 version with 8GB of RAM instead of the i5+4GB combo I have.
There are very few things I have asked it to do that it hasn't been able to do well.
With 2.5 Billion Dollars? I'm too lazy to do the real math, but im guessing you could pick one random person and give them $100,000 every day for the rest of your life and still have enough money to live comfortably.
OR you could hire enough people to completely buy out the next iDevice release on opening day, and light the whole batch on fire, just to watch the hipsters cry about it. 453 retail Apple stores, 100 people per store, 20 devices per person, $700 average retail would cost you just over $634M. You wouldn't completely buy them out, but it'd be enough to make a pretty little dent. (This seems to be an XKCD "What if" submission waiting to happen... "What would it take to buy every iPhone available on release day? And what could I do with them once I bought them")
I think he was referring to Microsoft Office being a non-physical media, and thereby reducing the number of un-patched copies of Office out there. Unless "Microsoft Office" was put in the "Anyone buy Microsoft Office lately" title by accident.
because she was in charge of the people who were managing this
I find very hard to believe that she was directly in charge of the people who were managing this. I'm willing to bet there was a layer in between her and the server admins doing the executive level "translating". I picture it like the CIO and CEO role. I'm willing to bet my CEO wouldn't know what a "server wipe" is, much less care what it is. That's not his job, he has smart people hired to handle stuff like that. I imagine the conversation went something like this: Clinton:I need to make sure my e-mails are secured. IT:Sure ma'am, we'll do perform a DoD level wipe on the hard drives. Clinton:Um, ok, that sounds good. I guess. Whatever, just make sure it's secured.
Is it just me, or when they say "private e-mail server" does any body else mentally picture an old Dell desktop PC sitting in a broom closet somewhere?
I have plenty of friends who have stories of doing it when they were growing up.
Aaaah, the "My buddies did it, and I'm not aware of anything bad happening" defense. How many of those 10th graders got pregnant? I'm sure there weren't any, none that you and your buddies are aware of anyway. And you're right, it didn't cause your world to collapse. How about the girls' worlds? Oh, that's right, not that you're aware of.
Thump your bible harder/
I don't need a book to tell me what is right and wrong. I'd love to see a compelling argument as to how a bunch of frat boys telling 16 year olds "I love you" to get into their pants has not caused harm to anybody.
Maybe someone who actually cares will hear.
Maybe something bad happened, maybe you all got lucky and nothing ever came of it. That doesn't change the fact that you're a selfish prick.
I'm curious of your definition "casual adultery", and how that is any less damaging than a more formal adultery.
And your implication that 20 year olds having sex with teenagers isn't harmful to society strictly because it hasn't been discovered yet is a little more than slightly disturbing.
Yup, the internet was paid for by paying for the internet itself
Yeah, the network is supposed to be paid for by your internet subscription. The "problem" is that the Internet isn't like a Cable subscription. Part of your Internet payment doesn't go to the content providers. Without content the Internet would be pretty useless, and you have to pay for the content somehow. Sorry, ads are a necessary thing.
My problem with them is that they have become overly aggressive. Pop-ups, ads with sound, ads you can't close, paging through 12 pages to read on paragraph of text, etc. If they wouldn't have abused that, most people wouldn't have installed an ad blocker.
“There’s a message here for TrackingPoint and other companieswhen you put technology on items that haven’t had it before, you run into security challenges you haven’t thought about before.”
They waited till the end of the article to put the most important part? "If you ware going to hook something up to any network you might want to at least think about security"
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How can an article like that have so few details? What does their permit say? What was the application process? Were the citizens intentionally misled about what was going in, or were they ignorant?
Was referring to the education program as amazing, not them beating some Harvard weenies.
...provide inmates with a liberal arts education so that when the students leave prison they are able to find meaningful work.
Do they also teach them how to cook? That seems like it will be useful when they apply their degree to their McDonalds' job.
Joking aside, I think this is amazing. Actually trying to meaningfully rehabilitate offenders so they can re-integrate into society and actually do something productive. I would also hope that they would offer more specialized or in-depth programs for individuals that show the initiative and promise.
This is Slashdot news why?
Maybe it's here just so YOU can click on the post, read the article, scroll 2/3 of the way through the comments, then post a comment asking "This is Slashdot news why?"
Why did you click on the article? You knew what the post was about. There are hundreds of other news sites you could have gone to, why did you come here?
Probably for the same reason I did: You frequent Slashdot. You enjoy the comments that are moderately more intelligent than the average drivel in the "general" news site comments. The discussion is peer-moderated. Then again, maybe you just came here so you could bitch about non-technical articles posted on a "nerd news" site.
Yes. Happily. There are small number of websites I visit numerous times in a day. I would most certainly pay them a couple bucks a month to have no ads, but it has to be reasonable.
Yeah, I just saw the picture on a Yahoo News article. pic Exactly as described. Standard clock guts+big LED display crammed into a small suitcase. No way to tell if it was the display that came with the clock guts or not.
Pretty low-level "experiment", but he is 14, so I'll cut him some slack. At least he's tinkering with something instead sitting on his ass on Snapchat. Definitely not worthy of all the attention it's getting..
Where the hell is the picture of the "bomb clock"? I see a picture of the kid next to circuit board. If that is the "bomb clock" then a lot of adults need to get slapped upside the head.
The point being, what he is sitting next to could not conceivably be considered a bomb by anybody with a brain between their ears. Now, if the "clock" was a display protruding from a small box, where you can't see what is going on inside the box (as the story implies), then maybe (just maybe) there was a tiny shred of justification for their actions. However, maybe a more appropriate response (assuming the thing actually resembled a bomb) would have been to say "hey son, could you please show me what's inside the box?" If you were TRULY worried about it being a bomb, maybe evacuating the school and calling in the bomb squad would have been appropriate. I would expect any of those responses by the teachers if the kid was white, black, brown, purple, or green. But no, these backwards mother fuckers see a brown kid with a "muslim sounding" name and all hell breaks loose.
If the second teacher TRULY thought this was a bomb, why the fuck would you put it in your desk and leave it there for hours? They need to be fired, immediately, for failing to act responsibly in a "dangerous" situation. If the police were TRULY worried that this device was a bomb they all need to be fired, immediately, for failing to properly handle a suspected explosive device.
Oh, reading the story again, nobody ever thought it was ACTUALLY a bomb, they just thought it kinda looked like one. First teacher probably should be talked to, if he thought the device could be perceived as a threat (saying "you probably shouldn't show that to any one else") he should have confiscated it on the spot. Second teacher acted appropriately. Knew it wasn't actually a bomb, just thought it looked like one, so she confiscated it and reported it to the principle. I would expect the same thing to happen to someone that brought in something that could be perceived as a bomb, gun, knife, whatever. Principal? Yeah, he needs to be fired. Threatening to expel a student for not providing a written statement? Yeah, not cool. Intimidating a 14 year old by forcing a written statement without a parent present? I'd be pissed if they did that to my kids. The police involved, definitely reprimanded. Interrogating a minor without a parent present, big no-no. Arresting him without charging him with a crime? Also a no-no.
dagnbbit, my first link got eaten. https://www.google.com/search?...
It was half arse-pulling and half knowing how to type into google.
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+average+broadband+speed&oq=us+average+broadband+speed&aqs=chrome..69i57.6984j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=0&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?... Both of those come up with around 10Mb (using nice round numbers). My original comment was related to someone saying 50Mb was becoming pretty much useless, so I went with that.
I tend to agree with you that the ISPs could be doing better, but I think you and I have different definitions of trivial. A 5X increase to the average US broadband speed doesn't seem like something that can be done trivially.
anything less than 50Mbps is starting to become pretty worthless
It would take a family of 10 simultaneously watching different HD Netflix streams to saturate a 50Mbps connection. At a certain point (according to the article, that point is around 10Mb) it becomes "impossible" to actually consume that much bandwidth. A 10-20 Mb service with proper QoS to account for gaming and other latency sensitive activities and a well thought out update regime to cover game updates should take care of 99% of the average user's internet needs.
I realize that 10Mb doesn't fit with consumers' "I want this, and I want it now" mentality, but calling less than 50Mb "worthless" for your average consumer is a bit of a stretch.
I have 500 (full duplex)
What do you you ACTUALLY do with that much bandwidth? I mean yeah, being able to download a full HD movie in minutes is nice, but seriously...
I see what you did there.
...we'd hate to have it blow up prematurely.
Sorry, I couldn't help it.
But seriously, Elon, keep doing what you are doing. And let's worry about un-fucking this planet before we start fucking up another one.
It is [Right-Wing Rag], beloved of the Right. You don't need to question them, it is unseemly and icky. Everything they print is true, because it agrees with the Right's pre-existing ideas. Anything contradictory is simply not printed in the first place. This is one of the big reasons the Right has gone off the rails into obsessed hate in the past 20 years, they live in an echo chamber and think that dissident opinions have no place in political speech.
Yup. Still holds true.
I was happy to give up my boat-anchor of a laptop at work. Comment submitted from my triple screen [2 external + built in], external keyboard and mouse operated Surface Pro 3 tablet. If I could have a "do-over" I would have requested the i7 version with 8GB of RAM instead of the i5+4GB combo I have. There are very few things I have asked it to do that it hasn't been able to do well.
With 2.5 Billion Dollars? I'm too lazy to do the real math, but im guessing you could pick one random person and give them $100,000 every day for the rest of your life and still have enough money to live comfortably.
OR you could hire enough people to completely buy out the next iDevice release on opening day, and light the whole batch on fire, just to watch the hipsters cry about it. 453 retail Apple stores, 100 people per store, 20 devices per person, $700 average retail would cost you just over $634M. You wouldn't completely buy them out, but it'd be enough to make a pretty little dent. (This seems to be an XKCD "What if" submission waiting to happen... "What would it take to buy every iPhone available on release day? And what could I do with them once I bought them")
I think he was referring to Microsoft Office being a non-physical media, and thereby reducing the number of un-patched copies of Office out there. Unless "Microsoft Office" was put in the "Anyone buy Microsoft Office lately" title by accident.
What she probably said was "I want a server that isn't subject to legally mandated retention or public records requests"
I'm betting your paraphrasing of the conversation is more accurate, I was trying to keep it as neutral as possible.
because she was in charge of the people who were managing this
I find very hard to believe that she was directly in charge of the people who were managing this. I'm willing to bet there was a layer in between her and the server admins doing the executive level "translating". I picture it like the CIO and CEO role. I'm willing to bet my CEO wouldn't know what a "server wipe" is, much less care what it is. That's not his job, he has smart people hired to handle stuff like that. I imagine the conversation went something like this: Clinton:I need to make sure my e-mails are secured. IT:Sure ma'am, we'll do perform a DoD level wipe on the hard drives. Clinton:Um, ok, that sounds good. I guess. Whatever, just make sure it's secured.
Is it just me, or when they say "private e-mail server" does any body else mentally picture an old Dell desktop PC sitting in a broom closet somewhere?
I have plenty of friends who have stories of doing it when they were growing up.
Aaaah, the "My buddies did it, and I'm not aware of anything bad happening" defense. How many of those 10th graders got pregnant? I'm sure there weren't any, none that you and your buddies are aware of anyway. And you're right, it didn't cause your world to collapse. How about the girls' worlds? Oh, that's right, not that you're aware of.
Thump your bible harder/
I don't need a book to tell me what is right and wrong. I'd love to see a compelling argument as to how a bunch of frat boys telling 16 year olds "I love you" to get into their pants has not caused harm to anybody.
Maybe someone who actually cares will hear.
Maybe something bad happened, maybe you all got lucky and nothing ever came of it. That doesn't change the fact that you're a selfish prick.
I'm curious of your definition "casual adultery", and how that is any less damaging than a more formal adultery.
And your implication that 20 year olds having sex with teenagers isn't harmful to society strictly because it hasn't been discovered yet is a little more than slightly disturbing.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Yup, the internet was paid for by paying for the internet itself
Yeah, the network is supposed to be paid for by your internet subscription. The "problem" is that the Internet isn't like a Cable subscription. Part of your Internet payment doesn't go to the content providers. Without content the Internet would be pretty useless, and you have to pay for the content somehow. Sorry, ads are a necessary thing.
My problem with them is that they have become overly aggressive. Pop-ups, ads with sound, ads you can't close, paging through 12 pages to read on paragraph of text, etc. If they wouldn't have abused that, most people wouldn't have installed an ad blocker.
LibreOffice 5.0, the tenth major release
Version 5 = 10th major release? Were they using excel to calculate their version number?
“There’s a message here for TrackingPoint and other companieswhen you put technology on items that haven’t had it before, you run into security challenges you haven’t thought about before.”
They waited till the end of the article to put the most important part? "If you ware going to hook something up to any network you might want to at least think about security"