Maybe if the first 5gb were free or something similar. That way it doesn't discriminate specific content but gets a free internet out there. I'm sure the companies have their own reasons for making some sites free vs others but I also believe they may have had some legit worries about high bandwidth content over taxing a bare bones network.

This is the part I found especially strange. I have no idea how Disney expects to argue that they couldn't find the needed skill set domestically then turn around and have the current staff train the H1-Bs. Clearly the skill sets were already available. Hell they didn't even have to open a position, it was already filled.

The optimist in me wants to say this is an open and shut case for the IT workers but the pessimist in me fully expects Mickey Mouse and and his congress critter friends crash them under pallets of cash.

I remember summoning my first daemon. I was young and stupid and forgot to cast my protective firewall circle. Before I knew it some other techomancer had bound my daemon to his will and turned it into a boner pill marketing daemon. Eventually the elder council had to cast a protective ward over my sanctum isolating it from the rest of the other world. I spent the better part of a day banishing the daemon back to the void and scrubbing the negative energies out of my sanctum before the council would release the ward.

I predict a very ironic 1 star review on Yelp.

IN MY OPINION, this company will be up to it's eyeballs in legal debt and would be an extremely poor place to invest in. Oblig disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer or a financial advisory.

For me, I would first not freak out because unless she was sun bathing nude it's really no more exposure than going to the beach. That said the creepy stalker vibe may get to me so I would ask her to go inside while I try to find the operator. If I did find him/her I would calmly express my concerns. I probably wouldn't find the person so if it was still hovering when I got back I would call the police so I could at least have a report on file. If it is already gone shrug my shoulders and move on. Only after filing a report (to prove it was a concern I tried addressing previously) would I take more drastic action, and only if it continually returned. Had he followed these steps none of this would be in the news. The operator would have surveyed his friends house and never came back.

Anyone can try to be a museum curator. They just aren't allowed to push the burden of risk off onto the taxpayers. Is it fair that Richy Rich gets to choose his degree care-free and Joe Six-pack has to tread the water carefully? No, but its not fair to make me responsible for Joe Six-pack's decisions either. Especially if Joe wants to take a moonshot at being a museum curator. We have the freedom to take that chance. We aren't free from the responsibility or consequences.

This is a good point. Without the muscle memory training to match the mind will be 3 steps ahead of the body. They may end up making the right decisions without the actual ability to act on them.

I suspect the Jedi are behind this.

Ever wonder where all that fund raising and grant money is going. Ever wonder why we seem to keep spending more and more in the schools with no results. My wife took up the PTA treasure position last year and the cost of technology is astronomical compared to other expenses. Sure, technology has its place and we need some of it but most of it seems useless. Why do teachers need a supper advanced projector or a smart board? Why do the kids need an iPad? Do those things really help teach the subject matter better? Many people learned math with a pencil and paper and trust me pencil and paper cost way less than an iPad. Plus, I suspect the paper is better because its not distracting kids with animations and digital rewards for every small accomplishment.

Your right the standard itself doesn't fully define the exact method in which the problem should be solved but it leads to that eventual implementation. For example, the standard above states "by using objects, drawings, and equations." Well it's part of the standard so you need to ensure the child can 1) solve a problem with objects, 2) solve the same problems with drawings, and 3) solve with an equation. How do you confirm that? You write a problem on the test and specify that you MUST use drawings in your work to see if they can in fact do it that way. Hence you get questions, all specifying exactly how they want you to solve it, instead of leaving it to the student to pick the best method which works for them. These are the different "methods" I was referring to in my original post. If you have to teach kids how to use pictures then you do eventually end up with a specific process and method to solve problems, which just happens to use pictures.

I would disagree, standards are part of the problem. They don't simply indicate that you need to know addition. They indicate knowing addition via these five different methods. A lot of common core opponents will point out how inefficient/impractical these methods are but if you understand math you will understand why they are presented. They are presented to help children understand place value and how numerical systems actually work. Here's the problem. Instead of making this knowledge part of the implementation, explaining why addition is done the way it is, it is part of the standard. Now the kids have to know each of the addition methods no matter how useless that approach is. A child can perform very well with one method but fail at the others. Often children become confused with the various processes and intermix steps from the various methods. Proponents of common core will argue that children can pick the method which works best for them but that isn't true. Since each method is part of the standard they are tested on each one. So even if they could solve a problem with method X they may get it wrong when tested on method Y. In the mean time they are taught to the standard so they learn the method but not the principles behind it, and the reason those methods were developed in the first place is lost. There are ways to fix this unfortunately I think the hate it has already generated is more likely to get the whole system thrown out the window.

And yet 4 out of 48 does seem like a high number. Maybe there is something about the cars that make people WANT to hit them.

Linux support.

Now there's no excuse. The NSA should definitely have backups of those emails. Crisis averted everyone.