They just learned about guards from outside staffing agencies "looking the other way" before certain incidents after taking bribes from competitors?

Dude..... you just hosed production. You're getting written up, and also, nobody is going home until everything is back up, and the Myisamchk --safe-recover on the 5.6 TB mission-critical can NEVER go down or we lose $50000 an hour database you just broke is finished, oh, and by the way, you'll be getting the bill.

If the kid goes to junior college, gets good grades and proves to be capable and to actually give a damn, then they should be considered viable for further admissions.

I would say yes... if the kid goes to an associate or vocational school and is successful there, AND then the kid goes on to pass the admissions exam, they should be considered viable.

They should also be considered viable if they add some work experience and then pass an admissions exam.

Or for that matter, if they pass an admissions exam with high marks, write a good essay, and they secure 3 or 4 glowing letters of recommendation from people other than their family, friends, or high school staff, who have worked with them in a professional or academic capacity and can vouch for their suitability and abilities.

The point is the "admissions process" needs to weed out applicants who are most likely not driven or most likely not going to succeed.

There probably *are* kids who did poorly in high school, who would do well in college, but who can't get into college.

Because they'd change their ways and work a lot harder, and then make up for all the basic materials they didn't learn sufficiently, at the same time as taking College Algebra, Rhetoric/Composition, Psych, or College Biology, which builds on topics and abilities they were expected to have learned in high school?

The job of the admissions board is to fill the admission quota with the students most likely to succeed if they start right now, not students with performance record indicating low probability of success who might in theory have a shot at excelling in college, if they only take a couple worth of years of remedial work a semester before or at the same time as taking classes that the remedial work is meant to help them understand and survive, and they still do all the work necessarily to succeed with current course load, increased much further due to their disadvantage from inadequate preparation.

If your high school GPA was both 2.0 and you didn't excel at the entrance exams.... that could either mean you got Cs in all classes... or more likely: you got A in Art, and Physical education and Ds in a bunch of classes that really matter.

No doubt. I've seen the results of Windows time bombing.

Aiee! Kind of nasty.... oops... did I forget to mention, Windows installations sometimes tends to "time bomb" on the full release version as well; it just happens differently in a less predictable way; usually accompanied with gradually decreasing performance over time, until eventually some driver upgrade from Windows update breaks things, and there's a blue screen every day.

One of them being, frankly, that high school really can be inane, stupid, and soul-crushing.

I don't blame kids who check out and lose interest. You're taking a bunch of people during what may be some of the most difficult years of their lives, and asking them to spend their time performing some of the most boring work possible, where nobody actually cares about the product of their work.

Did you not fully understand what I meant when I said college admission is not a "your value as a person" question.

It's an: 'Are YOU ready for this program?' question

I understand why some students' high-school experience they can feel may be soul-crushing, and my deepest sympathies, but the kids must understand that "Checking out and losing interest" has consequences regarding your ability to perform at the college level.

If you got all Cs in high school and your ACT composite score is below the 60th percentile, then you are not really ready..... come back when you have done some self study and can take the admission tests again, including standardized tests and any college-specific tests, or taken associate-level degree work, and can demonstrate performance in a manner that shows you are prepared for college workload.

Because as long as there are too many students who are prepared to pass selective admissions; you shouldn't get priority over the students more likely to succeed, just because you have creative talent, perhaps like George Lucas.

There are plenty of potential non-college or non-bachelor degree programs or other opportunities suitable for sharing and fostering your creativity, however.

overlooking talented C students. Those with less than perfect grades might go on to dream up blockbuster films like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg or become entrepreneurs like Steve Job"

They may be talented, but college admissions is supposed to measure students' likelihood of success at tasks they will be graded on.

It's not hard to earn at least Bs on basic high-school materials; having all Cs shows a lack of ability to do the hard work or a difficulty with or lack of commitment to basic academics.

The things in College should be much more advanced, so "Artistic talent" can't really be an excuse for poor high school grades; sorry, but your latent potential talents in one tiny sliver should not get you admitted to a degree program you aren't ready for yet.

Nobody would buy such a computer. They already tried to float that boat, and it sank.

I think Microsoft is about ready to announce Office 365 a complete success and possibly on the verge of discontinuing the boxed product in a few years ----- I'm sure, they will be trying really hard to find a way of making the model work for Windows as well.

Even if it turns out that they'll take a sneakier door, where your FPP purchase or OEM purchase will include 1, 2, or 3 years of updates, and then you need to pay, or what.

It also won't pass muster with OEMs, who will have to explain to customers that while they're buying a computer, they have to pay a monthly fee for the OS.

First 12 months Windows Basic subscription included.

"Starter" subscription / Windows "Free" edition - free for life ---- limit of two application Windows, Internet Explorer included, and Metro App Store, no ability to install 3rd party classical desktop software.

On the other hand... seeing as Windows is reportedly moving away from a major release model.....

Perhaps in the near future they will announce a Windows 365 subscription. For say $15 a month, you get an Operating system, and some basic productivity applications such as Notepad, Calculator, Wordpad, and Microsoft Word.

For $5 extra a month, you get Windows 365 PLUS edition which might include Outlook and Powerpoint.

Next for another $10 a month.... the above plus Publisher and Visio

Next for an added $15 a month.... the above plus MS Access.

Finally, for $40 more a month.... Visual Studio and basic developer tools.

Quite the contrary - they want to get it into as many hands as possible, since the preview is also a marketing tool.

Yes, but you can be feel pretty confident the release will probably timebomb on a certain date and not be usable or upgradable to the official release without a clean install; or at least, that has been the case with previous technical previews.

That easy. Perhaps one of the valid reasons to keep C++ out of the kernel right now is purely that Linus would be unable to review such patches with authority.

Sounds like someone needs to send Linus some free C++ training <EG>

If the FCC doesn't have the authority under current law, what agency should regulate situations like this

The IEEE. They invented the Wifi protocol with the "feature" that AP disjoin messages don't have to be authenticated.

Whether a client can use an AP is a system management feature provided by the Wifi protocol.

The Hotel as property owner is simply using the rules of the protocol to enforce their desired AP containment.

Now... what happens when a Hotel guest brings in a portable device and starts shutting down the official Cameras, Printers, and Wireless APs?

No it hasn't. The price is included in your room fee. Don't think that if it isn't itemized it is free. There is no such thing as a free lunch as the saying goes.

It's free if you are not charged extra to get it. For example: if you don't NEED the Wifi, you can't get a cheaper room price.

In that case, the WiFi is free.... perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it is "included" if you are a guest ---- it is free for you, if you are a non-paying visitor.

THEY DID NOT USE A JAMMING DEVICE

Jamming would have made a range of frequencies unusable to one device.

Instead, they merely sent normal WiFi messages to any clients connecting to the AP saying "Hey, Get off that AP.

So all radios still had full operational use of the spectrum, it's just that, there was a process preventing any clients from connecting to the unapproved APs.

The Mariott owns the property, and they have a right to dictate the use of their property, so they have a right to control what WiFi equipment can be brought into and used within their premises.