Actually you can change the monitor layout without restarting X now.
And the Gnome control for moving the monitors around somewhat works, though it is unclear if they are special casing Nvidia or that NVidia is implementing the necessary parts of xrnr. The Nvidia control works somewhat better.
Actually that fits in well with the prevailing black/white dichotomy in most race discussions. If Hispanics and Asians do well with teachers of different races, then we can continue to ignore them.
then logically you could benefit the highest percentage of students by having only white teachers
That would only be true if students were proportionally represented in every classroom, but they're not.
Seriously sounds like they are drifting towards an apartheid education system.
Aside from the negative connotations, there's nothing specifically wrong with that. We do have optionally segregated-by-gender schools and they seem to work out pretty well. As long as the segregation isn't mandated by the state, what's the problem?
Race - biological [...] was only extended into arbitrary human [...] classification purely as a result of rampant prejudice and a specific desire to exclude people from competitive access in capitalist societies
Yeah right, race consciousness never existed in non-capitalist economies. I recall reading about an isolated tribe whose name for themselves basically meant "human" and whose name for other people who didn't look like them (like white anthropologists) meant "non-human."
The person I replied to described him as "likely as a typical internet tough guy."
Terrorists generally operate as parts of a larger group. Your argument is like saying "Well the 9/11 hijackers could not have *individually* hijacked all the those planes, so there was no ability on anyone's part to actually commit the crime, so clearly 9/11 was not a crime!" Obviously that's wrong.
If this guy was going to pull the trigger, and another guy was going to build the bomb, and another guy was going to plant it somewhere, then AS A GROUP they have the means, motive, and opportunity. The FBI was supplying some of that as part of a group, which is normal for terrorists.
So he's past redemption, so clearly the law enforcement can do whatever they hell the want, disregarding the law themselves?
No they can't do *whatever* they want, but testing him by putting him in a situation that he thinks is real that would be illegal for him to do is fine.
They probably only put the sting on him because it looked like an easy +1 score, versus doing the hard leg work needed to actually keep people safe.
This kind of work does keep people safe. Your bar is set too high.. you want the FBI to actually catch terrorists with their thumb on the trigger after having deployed actual live bombs, with no pre-knowledge. You've been watching "24" too much or something -- it's just not realistic.
The FBI has not managed to break up even one terrorist plot, instead they have manufactured their own plots.
These ARE terrorist plots. When you plot to plant bombs somewhere and blow up innocent people, that's a terrorist plot. WTF?
Or is it ok to give up our civil rights and give law enforcement whatever powers they want with no limits, just because someone shouts "terrorist" or "communist"?
No, and you're right that we have to stay vigilant. This is crying wolf though. It's not entrapment, it's not illegal for the FBI to do. They caught someone who was dangerous to our safety.
Phones can get hacked... so? People are already starting to use phones as payment devices with credit card and banking information stored on the phone (e.g. Google Wallet, Apple Pay). They've long used mobile banking apps where you input your username/password. That ship has sailed... phones contain sensitive information.
Anyway what's to say a bracelet with an NFC chip can't be compromised?
Secretive terrorist cells are just one threat vector. What about the guys who openly want to join ISIS? Or the people who may listen to the openly broadcast messages of ISIS/al Qaeda/al Shabaab/etc saying things like "Rise up and attack shopping malls." There's nothing to penetrate there, it's just a matter of finding people likely to do it.
Somebody who was so radicalized and at the tipping point that they went along with a plot like this is a serious public threat, and not because they might have ended up in a super secret terrorist cell that now we'll never know about.
So do you have some kind of knowledge about how this radical resisted the FBI's advances?
Did he at some point call the police and say "Hey this guy is obviously a terrorist, you should arrest him?" and turn in the FBI agent? No? Then he's already past redemption.
Hard to imagine the leap from "internet tough guy" to "Here's a bomb, just arm it and press this button" in real life without plenty of fodder.
I mean there are a million times the guy could have backed out when he realized it was getting serious.
Having someone out there wishing to die as a martyr is a public safety issue for sure and provides more than enough justification for the operation.
If every wannabe martyr is arrested, nothing of value will be lost, don't worry.
The bracelet would work like the NFC chip in current phones
What's the benefit of making it a bracelet rather than a phone app? The phone already has the NFC chip you want.
Then, all email and every other communication can easily be encrypted, securely, and without adding complication.
How do you get the unique identifier from your bracelet to your PC? My PC doesn't have an NFC reader. If it did, again, I'd rather have it tie to my phone than a bracelet. You know what would be cool? A wireless charging pad with the NFC interface, so that you set your phone next to your computer on your desk, and all password requests from the PC are handled by the phone while it's physically there.
What difference does it make where you live if you're talking about making a moral decision about something, and making statements like "we won't tolerate this anywhere in the world?"
This may be what you want. http://web.stanford.edu/class/...
To give you an overview, it's an intro to programming using Javascript and a little image manipulation library. Each page has a series of problems with boilerplate code that you edit and click a button to run.
Head straight to Week 2's lessons (http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/image-3-loops.html) and go through it with him.
Kids find it pretty cool that they can change some numbers and that will have an effect on the picture. I did this with my nieces (8 and 10) just a few weeks ago and they both LOVED it. I was showing it to them to gauge their interest for a totally unrelated reason, and we ended up going over it for about 3 hours in one sitting.
Give your kid little challenges and provide most of the code. They just edit the code. It'll be a while before they add their own lines of code (about 2 hours for my nieces). One of the big points of interest was one of the problems that introduced an "If" statement based on the pixel's X coordinate. We made many changes to that block of code and ended up making stripes of different colors across the image, first vertical, then horizontal, then mixed. They thought it was just the coolest thing.
Then there's code that changes pixel values based on the average color of the pixel. So it's doing stuff like taking a picture with a red stop sign in it, and making the stop sign blue without altering the rest of the image. It's really neat, and it's the kind of stuff they've seen in movie special effects (they'd heard of green screens and I related how similar this is), and it's just a few lines of code.
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