Comment Easy detection method #48 (Score 1) 227
Easy detection method #48:
(1) Send out a large electromagnetic pulse
(2) If it falls out of the sky, it was a drone
Easy detection method #48:
(1) Send out a large electromagnetic pulse
(2) If it falls out of the sky, it was a drone
Or Google has been resisting the NSA a little too much.
This.
It's pretty obvious that this is a punishment for adding encryption to Android devices, and for going to SSL for all web transactions, making it much more difficult to spy, despite administrative objections.
The recommendation is clearly punitive because Google has pissed the executive off, and consistently opted on the side of data protection, and has disclosed many of the recently discovered OpenSSL and SSSL protocol flaws which made eavesdropping easier.
I think you might take a look at Afghanistan and what it helped do to the soviets
The Soviet involvement in Afghanistan was more along the lines of:
Boris: "We need something to distract the people at home! They are getting restless!"
Piotr: "How about a war? That's always worked in the past!"
Boris: "Yes, but against who? We have to pick something close enough to be threatening, but far enough away that they won't come here!"
Piotr: "How about Afghanistan?"
Boris: "Perfect! Whoever heard of a Moslem holding a grudge?"
So... would a foundry based on this tech... be a "wood-chipper"?
Aren't there like 40 things called string theory, ranging from merely odd or unlikely all the way up to batshit crazy?
Much more than 40!
For every string theorist, there are two string theories (something to do with pair production....).
Those of you who block ads but still consume the services of sites that run them without paying into any subscription fee, why do you freeload?
I already paid for my internet service. Why should I have to pay again?
You are advocating the Verizon/Netflix model.
I maintain that democracy only works for small city states.
Then thank god we aren't a democracy! We're a republic.
The article seems to indicate that hammering the accelerator bypasses the pedestrian avoidance system.
In case you *want* to run someone over? Brilliant!
Red pens and *gasp* telling children they got the wrong answer! A failing grade inflicts unforgivable trauma on the psyches of our little snowflakes.
if little johnny snowflake cant handle a red mark on his paper, then compiler errors are gonna beat his ass and steal his lunch.
OMFG! The RED mark!
You've solved the gender inequality problem in STEM!
More men than women are red/green color blind!
They didn't have their souls crushed by getting red marks, they thought they were doing well, and so continued on in STEM! By the time they realized that they had actually been screwing up the whole time, they had already been writing Java and
Well, what problem is this making a dent in other than a billionaire setting up a small private school for his kids and some of his employees?
Because if the entire story is "billionaire sets up private school for own kids"
Well, he worked on the Tesla battery technology for years, and then open sourced the patents.
I expect that as soon as he's satisfied it's tweaked to the point it's working as intended, he will open source the curriculum for the school.
I suspect that, should this happen, it's not going to change much about education, since really public education is how to get promoted to the point you are an administrator, and can start raking in the 6 figure salaries, and really has dick-alll to do with teaching kids these days.
Actually, it's closer to Montessori.
There's nine Montessori schools in the Los Angeles County area, so it's not like he couldn't have just paid for the kids to go to one of those.
There's not a lot of public Montessori's, however they are becoming more common (e.g. North Shoreview and ParkSide Elementary in San Mateo), but they tend to be Magnet schools, and there tends to be a lottery to get in because everyone wants their kid to get in. On the plus side, if you have multiple kids, once the older one gets in, there's a bump in the lottery for your remaining kids, and (A) once in, a kid generally gets to stay as long as the parent remains in the area, and (B) they don't totally screw up.
Frankly, if it's a choice between sending the kids to a private school, and building your own, and it's going to pretty much cost your the same for tuition either way, it's a hell of a benefit he's giving his employees (IMO).
The old way had the teacher directly teach the older kids an the age rage, who would then be responsible for teaching the younger kids themselves. This is a great system: you learn better through mentoring, you develop better critical thinking skills when the person teaching you is sometimes wrong, and you likely develop leadership skills along the way.
Having spent part of my time in a system set up like you describe... it's the *ABSOLUTELY WORST* thing you can do to a high achieving kid: take away their opportunity to reach even greater heights, in exchange for keeping them busy by becoming an unpaid teaching assistant.
Thankfully, it really didn't work out (having a 4th grader teach 6th graders math just gets that 4th grader beat up during lunch and after school), and they backed off eventually. Which was fine with me, because I was already working on calculus, organic chemistry, and college level reading that the bookmobile lady snuck me after doubling my number of books checked out quota over everyone elses.
If you want to go back to the "Little House On The Prairie"-style one room schoolhouse, good on you, but please do not drag high achieving kids back there with you, or worse try to "socialize them at their grade level", because I'm telling you, you might as well buy them a T-Shirt with a target on it.
Musk may not being anything new -- and he's really, reading the 3 articles, just describing Montessori with a couple of tweaks, like taking the grade level away -- but at least at his school I don't think you'd be holding back those who are able to vastly outpace the slower learners.
Is it made out of bakelite? I hope it has a dial, none of this DTMF crap either!
It has DTMF, but there's a switch to make it pulse dial instead of using tones.
PS: Do you perhaps live in St. George Utah? I know for a fact they installed an exchange with stepper relays instead of DTMF decoders a while back, and since they amortize equipment over 20 years, the thing's still inservice.
Funny. Dying from asteroid impact (right on my head, to be clear) is my prefered style of death. Just BOOOOM, no pain, and no more IRS forms to fill anymore.
My preferred method is "the heat death of the universe".
"Can you program?" "Well, I'm literate, if that's what you mean!"
