Posts by Martin Lindberg
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
I'd struggle to think how you could do that from within the microsoft office open file dialogue box.
No problem. Just drop a file with the same name into the open file dialogue box. Microsoft has effectively turned that dialogue box into a slim file-manager.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Bevan Shortridge,
Keith mentions he could "map any unsecured computer on the network". Which seems (slightly) more than just going to File Open and navigating to network drives?
I guess the point is that it could be done by anyone with slightly above average computer skills. How easy or difficult it is to obtain this access are all varying shades of fail.
It should be impossible to do even for a skilled hacker.
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... an admirable website called Techno Dads
There goes work for the rest of the afternoon. Brought to you by the letter E.
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Hard News: Media3: Standards Showdown, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Oh the reason this data is no good is because it's based on individual teacher assessments so it's not very useful. We should have a national test that all children sit each year...
If we use Finland as a shining example, then no. Teachers set grades based on their own assessments. But that's part of their training, of course.
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Speaker: Music: The Vinyl Frontier, in reply to Islander,
I have lotsnlotsnlots of bookshelves & 27000 plus - books.
I never thought I could bear to part with any of them but -now- I'm looking
I'm certainly not in the same league as you, but I still probably have 1000-odd books. But after my recent move, which was the 8th in about 15 years I'm just over it. My goal now is to drastically prune the collection down to a couple of hundred books that have a value to me beyond content as physical artifacts.
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Sacha,
A high priesthood of data analysis
That's just insecure whinging.
Indeed.
I don't mean to belittle Keith's analysis, but this really is entry-level statistics. (I guess Keith alluded to that by referencing high-school books.)
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to Russell Brown,
I've just realised that Jonathan Milne is actually the author of both the story about the failure of national standards in Britain and the "big class sizes are awesome" news story.
I noticed that yesterday and I thought that was kinda weird.
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Bart Janssen,
So not only is the y axis full of shit but so is the x axis?!?!?
Now it gets really difficult to plot.
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I can't even tell if the HoS is trying to make a meta-joke by channelling Helen Lovejoy from the Simpsons with their editorial Won't someone please think of the children?.
Still, it states:
In fact, buried within the national standards dross is valuable information about how boys are struggling, the decline in writing skills, and Pacific children getting lost at the back of the classroom.
If the idealogues on either side would stop to think, they might realise it is better to intelligently discuss pupils' results than try to hide them.OK, even if we, for the sake of argument, accept that the raw data is ‘correct’, how would the HoS (or any of the main papers) manage to sift through the ‘dross’ to find this ‘valuable information’?
As shown by Keith above, this is high-school statistics and the National Standards shock: Big classes work article completely fails at even this basic level.
I don't expect everyone to have a working knowledge of statistics, but if you actually attempt to do some analysis and then publish your 'findings', I would expect the analysis to be given at least a 5-minute check by someone with that basic knowledge.
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Glenn Greenwald writes in The Guardian that the attack in Benghazi was not at all a protest that turned into a riot, but instead a planned terrorist attack.
"'I would say they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack,' said Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
"It was the first time that a senior administration official had said the attack was not the result of a demonstration over an anti-Islam video that has been cited as the spark for protests in dozens of countries over the past week .'The picture that is emerging is one where a number of different individuals were involved,' Olsen said."