I think this entire issue needs to be looked at by the Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission. The SecureBoot UEFI is nothing more than a form of vendor lock-in, cleverly (or not so much) disguised as a security innovation. Please sign my petition and spread the word: http://wh.gov/wHLq
Bradley Manning is the victim of scapegoating and political posturing. I should think that one of the highest forms of patriotism and love for one's own country is to blow the whistle when bad things are happening. Manning cared so much for his country and was obviously so troubled by what it was doing that he felt the need to speak out. Manning is one brave soldier because he fought the enemy within.
Computers will not magically make a poor teacher a better teacher. They are a tool to augment teaching but will not make a poor teacher gifted. To improve teaching, we need to start with teacher education without the bells and whistles. Once the teacher learns and becomes proficient, he or she will understand how to use technology to reinforce the material. I had a very poor chemistry teacher that made frequent use of computers because he was unable to explain much of the material to a high school level. He had a masters degree in Chemical Engineering and was brilliant but knowing how to teach is a skill to be learned. It does not necessarily come innately.
The problem, as I see it, is not in the fact that they used Cisco but that it looks like it was a no-bid contract. There are other companies out there with routing equipment that compare favorably with Cisco products. I've found Cisco fanboism to be as annoying as Apple fanboism.
My friend works for an insurance company that moved all of the senior claims adjusters to work from home positions. Only the junior level ones work out of the office and it is just so they can become experienced. My friend has no plans whatsoever to leave the company unless forced to. That's pretty telling....
Only the most anachronistic, self-absorbed, border-line sociopathic managers are against working remotely. Marissa Mayer, hint hint. It is a win, win for companies. Companies save money on expensive office space and employes have more job satisfaction resulting in less turnover further saving money for the company. Those managers concerned with "face time" are micromanaging, control freaks.
Communists, "gun violence", video games, SARS, terrorists, jesus fucking christ. I can't believe people are actually stupid enough to fall into line for the scare of the day anymore.
Why don't we just ban everything!? Let's just ban everything till the we get to the point of having no joy in our lives whatsoever.... oh wait, we're already there.
The French live longer, healthier, and lower stress lives than Americans. Americans are so caught up in squeezing blood from a stone, moving at unrealistic paces, and absolutely abusing each other that no one benefits. Even the wealthy in America live a poorer quality of life than their brethren in other countries around the world. So this CEO can feel free to simply go to China or India or wherever.
So the anti-privacy king, Mark Zuckerberg, is trying to clean-up his reputation a bit? Too bad not one thing that man does is altruistic. I do dislike Mark Zuckerberg because he believes people should bow to him because of his wealth. Zuckerberg is not some Nobel Prize winning intellectual but someone who found a way to capitalize on blogging. He hasn't created anything new or novel. I don't automatically hold the wealthy on a pedestal simply due to social status.
Why even do that? Simply set up a list of accepted MAC addresses and give them assigned IPs. Don't provide any service to a MAC address not matching known. Unfortunately, that only stops your router/AP from handing out IPs. They can still eavesdrop and work on listening in on traffic.
It is also trivial to simply clone one of the valid MAC addresses garnered from the evesdropping.
Yes, I said it, "Fuck Facebook!" Here is my off-topic rant: It is a giant waste of time contributing to the dumbing down of America and the loss of meaningful communication skills. And now, Facebook contributes nothing back by not paying any taxes!? I wish people would leave that site en masse and send it crashing down. Okay, rant over.
TFA is riddled with retarded assumptions. Too many times have I seen things like "I think 30% of all people would buy it", based on muddy facts or even no facts at all. GAAAH!
Not only that, but the article positively reeks of Apple fanboism. That said, yes, I do have Apple hardware but it is strictly utilitarian. I don't believe any one technology is superior to the other. Surface, Android, and iPad have upsides and downsides. For me, the decision came down to the accuracy of the on-screen keyboard and Apple won that battle. The trade off for having a keyboard well suited to my fingers is a locked down, walled garden. For others, this is not as important.
Sorry, can't agree with this. In my city, religious organizations feed the hungry, shelter the poor, hold the hands of the dying lonely and help make children smile.
I don't see any secular humanist orgs stepping up to that.
I'm an atheist, but I still give money to the Salvation Army.
Religions do not do this altruistically. They do it with conscious efforts toward recruiting members to join their faith. I would be curious to see if a homeless person declared himself as atheist, would he or she be treated the same as one claiming to be a believer. Furthermore, I'm no fan of charity. Charity only serves a person's immediate needs while not empowering them to self-sufficient. The old axiom, "Give a man an apple and he'll eat for a day, teach him how to plant a tree and he'll eat for life." holds true.
I know this is off-topic but I can't resist an anti-religion rant. Religion in all of its forms is bad. I love to point out two particular flaws in religion: namely that devout Christians espouse pro-life ideals whilst supporting the death penalty and the prophet Muhammad's absolute hatred of women that manifests itself in today's Islamic society. I don't need a religion dictating to me how to lead my life. I don't need some archaic, anachronism like the Bible or the Quran to know what is right or wrong. Religion was a way of explaining the inexplicable in less enlightened times. Furthermore, I absolutely pity those that pray to God or Jesus Christ to ask to be shown the way or told the answer. It is blind, misplaced faith because more often than not, the deity does not answer the prayer. This is why I am atheist and proud of it!
I honestly think that you should go with a MacBook Pro because Windows runs very well in a virtual machine on it. You have the best of both worlds at your finger tips. I really like my MacBook! I have a VHD with Windows 7 installed and I use VirtualBox to run it. No problems and very fast.
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If you want to have more privacy, pay for your email account and services or host them yourself. I use my own email server so no scroogling.
Let the meteor come!
I think this entire issue needs to be looked at by the Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission. The SecureBoot UEFI is nothing more than a form of vendor lock-in, cleverly (or not so much) disguised as a security innovation. Please sign my petition and spread the word: http://wh.gov/wHLq
People aren't scrambling to get Windows 8. Shall we chalk Windows 8 up to another Microsoft failure (much like Vista and ME)?
Bradley Manning is the victim of scapegoating and political posturing. I should think that one of the highest forms of patriotism and love for one's own country is to blow the whistle when bad things are happening. Manning cared so much for his country and was obviously so troubled by what it was doing that he felt the need to speak out. Manning is one brave soldier because he fought the enemy within.
That and Time Warner doesn't want to offer those speeds to residential customers because they don't want to commoditize those speeds.
Computers will not magically make a poor teacher a better teacher. They are a tool to augment teaching but will not make a poor teacher gifted. To improve teaching, we need to start with teacher education without the bells and whistles. Once the teacher learns and becomes proficient, he or she will understand how to use technology to reinforce the material. I had a very poor chemistry teacher that made frequent use of computers because he was unable to explain much of the material to a high school level. He had a masters degree in Chemical Engineering and was brilliant but knowing how to teach is a skill to be learned. It does not necessarily come innately.
The problem, as I see it, is not in the fact that they used Cisco but that it looks like it was a no-bid contract. There are other companies out there with routing equipment that compare favorably with Cisco products. I've found Cisco fanboism to be as annoying as Apple fanboism.
You, sir, are a fascist for your comment about remote camera observation. There are far less intrusive ways...like keystroke counting.
My friend works for an insurance company that moved all of the senior claims adjusters to work from home positions. Only the junior level ones work out of the office and it is just so they can become experienced. My friend has no plans whatsoever to leave the company unless forced to. That's pretty telling....
Only the most anachronistic, self-absorbed, border-line sociopathic managers are against working remotely. Marissa Mayer, hint hint. It is a win, win for companies. Companies save money on expensive office space and employes have more job satisfaction resulting in less turnover further saving money for the company. Those managers concerned with "face time" are micromanaging, control freaks.
Another example of monumental stupidity! I mean, really, a monument should be dedicated to this one ....
Communists, "gun violence", video games, SARS, terrorists, jesus fucking christ. I can't believe people are actually stupid enough to fall into line for the scare of the day anymore.
I think you deserve a mod-up. Well said.
Why don't we just ban everything!? Let's just ban everything till the we get to the point of having no joy in our lives whatsoever .... oh wait, we're already there.
The French live longer, healthier, and lower stress lives than Americans. Americans are so caught up in squeezing blood from a stone, moving at unrealistic paces, and absolutely abusing each other that no one benefits. Even the wealthy in America live a poorer quality of life than their brethren in other countries around the world. So this CEO can feel free to simply go to China or India or wherever.
So the anti-privacy king, Mark Zuckerberg, is trying to clean-up his reputation a bit? Too bad not one thing that man does is altruistic. I do dislike Mark Zuckerberg because he believes people should bow to him because of his wealth. Zuckerberg is not some Nobel Prize winning intellectual but someone who found a way to capitalize on blogging. He hasn't created anything new or novel. I don't automatically hold the wealthy on a pedestal simply due to social status.
Why even do that? Simply set up a list of accepted MAC addresses and give them assigned IPs. Don't provide any service to a MAC address not matching known. Unfortunately, that only stops your router/AP from handing out IPs. They can still eavesdrop and work on listening in on traffic.
It is also trivial to simply clone one of the valid MAC addresses garnered from the evesdropping.
The GOP makes money if it comes from the ground.
Yes, I said it, "Fuck Facebook!" Here is my off-topic rant: It is a giant waste of time contributing to the dumbing down of America and the loss of meaningful communication skills. And now, Facebook contributes nothing back by not paying any taxes!? I wish people would leave that site en masse and send it crashing down. Okay, rant over.
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Gotta love the sheeple out there! Baaaaaa!
Let them come! I will welcome our new overlord mineral invaders!
TFA is riddled with retarded assumptions. Too many times have I seen things like "I think 30% of all people would buy it", based on muddy facts or even no facts at all. GAAAH!
Not only that, but the article positively reeks of Apple fanboism. That said, yes, I do have Apple hardware but it is strictly utilitarian. I don't believe any one technology is superior to the other. Surface, Android, and iPad have upsides and downsides. For me, the decision came down to the accuracy of the on-screen keyboard and Apple won that battle. The trade off for having a keyboard well suited to my fingers is a locked down, walled garden. For others, this is not as important.
Religion in all of its forms is bad
Sorry, can't agree with this. In my city, religious organizations feed the hungry, shelter the poor, hold the hands of the dying lonely and help make children smile. I don't see any secular humanist orgs stepping up to that. I'm an atheist, but I still give money to the Salvation Army.
Religions do not do this altruistically. They do it with conscious efforts toward recruiting members to join their faith. I would be curious to see if a homeless person declared himself as atheist, would he or she be treated the same as one claiming to be a believer. Furthermore, I'm no fan of charity. Charity only serves a person's immediate needs while not empowering them to self-sufficient. The old axiom, "Give a man an apple and he'll eat for a day, teach him how to plant a tree and he'll eat for life." holds true.
I know this is off-topic but I can't resist an anti-religion rant. Religion in all of its forms is bad. I love to point out two particular flaws in religion: namely that devout Christians espouse pro-life ideals whilst supporting the death penalty and the prophet Muhammad's absolute hatred of women that manifests itself in today's Islamic society. I don't need a religion dictating to me how to lead my life. I don't need some archaic, anachronism like the Bible or the Quran to know what is right or wrong. Religion was a way of explaining the inexplicable in less enlightened times. Furthermore, I absolutely pity those that pray to God or Jesus Christ to ask to be shown the way or told the answer. It is blind, misplaced faith because more often than not, the deity does not answer the prayer. This is why I am atheist and proud of it!
I honestly think that you should go with a MacBook Pro because Windows runs very well in a virtual machine on it. You have the best of both worlds at your finger tips. I really like my MacBook! I have a VHD with Windows 7 installed and I use VirtualBox to run it. No problems and very fast.