Comment Re:Another day (Score 1) 487
If you're really paranoid, make it a wind-up clock so you don't have to worry about losing power.
Oh, that's what you're supposed to do? I just attached a UPS to my alarm clock
If you're really paranoid, make it a wind-up clock so you don't have to worry about losing power.
Oh, that's what you're supposed to do? I just attached a UPS to my alarm clock
> Use his brain. Four year olds can't by any > stretch of the imagination be held accountable.
I think you underestimate the power of imagination.
But the main point is, you're right. We all think it's crazy to pin a woman's death on a toddler riding a bike with training wheels.
We also think it's crazy to blame the victim, an 87 year-old woman who may not have had full situation awareness and may have lacked the agility to evade a collision.
It's also hard to blame the mom - she let her kid ride a bike, which I think our culture considers benign.
The truth is that this was an accident. What's broken here is that somebody has decided to sue unwitting participants for an accident best blamed on happenstance and chaos.
Wait
Yes, it doesn't seem fair that we have to pay for attorneys and have to organize our lives around a lawsuit. However, we're talking about a human life and we're talking about the character of 2 "infants". Personally, in this day and age, I would've expected the mother to be sued, having reached the age of 'adulthood'. Also, I've seen 4-year-olds act smarter and rationalize/analyze better than some adults.
We should teach our children to be more respectful and careful, whether or not their intentions are good or bad. Yes, we've had fun with our grandparents "roughhousing" and stuff, but not all the elderly can withstand the action with age.
... at letting them vacuum my floor
... at letting them play with kids
"Toy Robot 1" and More Toy Robots
But this is the reason I made this post (I tried to find someone doing the robot, but close enough):
... at letting them run for political office
Picture the ability for cars to have the ability to be controlled by a metropolitan area's central computer:
"Sorry I'm late to work, my car blue-screened on me"
I mean this is what, the third 'reverted' security patch we've heard about in the recent past that needed replacement?
In other news, direct from Windows Update: "A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it." x10 "A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it." x5 and other misc. vulnerabilities =)
A year or so ago I came across an article about some protesters who opposed creating garbage dumps in Nevada. They said, "sure, there's nothing here, but how many places are there with nothing??" Apparently not enough.
By the way, garbage dump != nuclear waste (other states').
Link to the article? I've never heard about Nevadans opposing garbage dumps or any new garbage dumps being considered
I say you should be critiquing the teacher's judgments about the mental capacity of the students, not the subject matter. Whether you write an essay deductively or inductively (which seems to be what you're arguing in your 2nd paragraph), your final result should be the same.
It wasn't too long ago (in America's history at least) that children were working rigorously in farms, factories, etc. just for survival. That still happens in third-world countries. I say we shouldn't be afraid to expose mature youth to the violence and terrors today, especially through hypotheticals.
You're saying 'kids'. I wasn't talking about the 'kids' that are at home playing with "Lego's" or just care about their next game of "GTA" or "WoW". I was talking about the 'kids' already out there making a simple game of Tic-Tac-Toe out of C/C++/Java, able to build a computer from scratch, or got Asterisk to compile and work successfully.
Do I think the teacher approached it incorrectly? Yes, though media distorts things. Do I think a different hypothetical would be as effective? Yes. Do I think the subject matter should be completely forbidden? Leaning towards no.
And yes, I RTFA
If we don't get kids thinking realistically about how one could attack, they're never going to be able to anticipate and defend against real threats as adults.
To me, this sounds like a professor asking students to hack a computer.
It's a learning process to learn the safeguards of what to do to provide computer security. There will always be a subset that use the knowledge maliciously.
There are also home-grown hackers (like there are home-schooled children), so I wouldn't blame the schools. I'd blame the person's character.
I think it's all right if the children (year 10
Frankly, I doubt that the popular browsers will even have a reliable implementation of the standard until at least 2013
I doubt IE will ever have a reliable implementation for anything. HTML5 surely aims to simplify web development, but MS aims to use their proprietary BS, tags, and implementations. Just look at their box model. Look at all the extra time we have to take to develop for IE users.
Plus, there are accessibility issues we have to overcome. We also need to develop for that small fraction of the population who use text browsers, those who are blind and have text read to them, those who don't install Flash (for good reason), those that disable JavaScript, etc.
...how they even *found* numbers in the Antarctic. It's not like you can set up a phone line down there, and I can't imagine many people would have occasion to call the Antarctic.
I don't see how you can't imagine phones in Antarctica. It's not like there aren't dozens are hundreds of researchers down there. It doesn't have to be a physical wired connection. It could be a phone connecting to a satellite.
As another example of advanced technology in Antarctica, you can find an ATM down there. It's pretty much a normal ATM which they service every couple years.
Think abstractly my fellow
It's amazing that BP can drill for oil with no provable solution to a catastrophic failure. It's like operating on a patient and going 'Trust me, I'm a doctor'.
It's amazing that ANY corporation can drill for oil since NONE have stepped up to the plate with a viable solution.
If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.
