Is it lazy parenting if both parents are working 2 jobs to try to provide a decent life for their children and do not have the time or energy left to nurture the children's minds? Most people seem fixated on material things and maintaining a standard of living, not on making time for their children. Lets not even get into single parent families (due to deadbeats or deaths, etc)
If I was making an embedded system I would LOVE to have it DRMed/encrypted out the wazo. Most embedded devices should be hard to modify. It would add security to the system and make it more reliable. I want it to be next to impossible for any type of security breach including an unauthorized person reflashing the device. That is from a device owner/developer point of view.
As an end user of more mainstream devices... Not on your life. I want to write code and add features. Would it be great if I could get my mother a PC that has the OS in ROM and stores just datafiles on mass storage. Well yes I can see the value in it. It would be immune from viruses, Trojans, and other flavors of malware. Would I want it? Nope. So like many things in life the answer depends on your point of view. Is it cool that I can re flash my motherboards bios? Yes. Is it just a little scary to know that I can brick a motherboard???
I found it terribly amusing that you just describe my perception of the PSP vs the Wii (the PSP being the modifiable, parent co. does not give a fuck device.)
As a sys-admin, I was given a laptop to use that was my predecessor's. While doing a search of the laptop, I found A LOT of porn in the internet cache. My predecessor had used the firewall/lan bypass device we reserve for site visitors to surf for porn on company time. I did not report him, I simply contacted him and said "I seem to have found some adult material on your laptop, all time and user stamped for you. I think I will re-image this machine, do you have any objections?" He seemed pretty thankful that I was doing so and has been very helpful towards me ever since (8+ months).
I would like to think that as a sysadmin, I have the duty to protect both the company and the users under my watch. I was not harming the company by giving this guy an out(especially since he had just got a big promotion and an expensive move to corporate HQ).
Do you think I did wrong in not reporting the guy? (It was obviously deliberate browsing, but no kiddie stuffs)
"I mean, where are the true believers now? Does anyone seriously think that western governments have any kind of moral credibility"
Talk to the average north american, and you'll find out that there are many that would rank you with steretype of the crzzy-type 'conspiracy theorists'.
This is just more example of fascism plain and simple, when business tools government for it's own interests.
I have been skimming the PDF, it is scarily like what they are doing in the US. while skimming, I found this gem:
"The average peasant is not normally willing to fight to his death for his national government. His national government may have been a succession of corrupt dictators and inefficient bureaucrats."
Invest in an RJ-45 cable crimper and a box of RJ-45 plugs. They are pretty cheap, you could recap those cables for less than $.35 each once you factor the cost of the crimper and 50-count plugs.
Just make sure both ends are ordered white-orange>orange>white-green>blue>white-blue>green>white-brown>brown. (unless it is a crossover cable.) The best part is if you mess up, it only costs an inch of cable and a $.10 plug.
You can use it to describe [...] even the counter-Earth ideas from waay back I didn't know you could describe third-rate SciFi-as-an-excuse-for-BDSM hrough mathematics. Were Norman's publisations peer-reviewed? (Given their literary qualities I doubt it.)
SciFi with BDSM AND Mathematics? I find myself intrigued with your ideas, Sir, and would like to subscribe to your publications.
That's the problem with young geeks these days. No respect for their elders. What with their "pwned" and their "kthxbye" and their fancy-dan slidey-outie phones, why some of them barely have guts! And their beards! Little whispy things... Makes me want to bust the keyboard off my Kaypro and come out swingin'! Just be glad papaw had his adderall this morning
Ooooh, tell us another story, Grandpa! Maybe about walking to school or making electricity from lemons, then making lemonade cause wasting is a sin.
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Is it lazy parenting if both parents are working 2 jobs to try to provide a decent life for their children and do not have the time or energy left to nurture the children's minds? Most people seem fixated on material things and maintaining a standard of living, not on making time for their children.
Lets not even get into single parent families (due to deadbeats or deaths, etc)
Who wants to be top egghead in the next has-been, banana republic?
ZOMG!! We are growing banannas now?? The Bananna species will be saved!!
wait!!!
ZOMG!1!!one!!! We are a Republic now??? Long live the death of Facism!!!!
If I was making an embedded system I would LOVE to have it DRMed/encrypted out the wazo. Most embedded devices should be hard to modify. It would add security to the system and make it more reliable.
I want it to be next to impossible for any type of security breach including an unauthorized person reflashing the device. That is from a device owner/developer point of view.
As an end user of more mainstream devices... Not on your life. I want to write code and add features.
Would it be great if I could get my mother a PC that has the OS in ROM and stores just datafiles on mass storage. Well yes I can see the value in it. It would be immune from viruses, Trojans, and other flavors of malware.
Would I want it? Nope.
So like many things in life the answer depends on your point of view.
Is it cool that I can re flash my motherboards bios? Yes. Is it just a little scary to know that I can brick a motherboard???
I found it terribly amusing that you just describe my perception of the PSP vs the Wii (the PSP being the modifiable, parent co. does not give a fuck device.)
Dude your patches seem a little out of date, I could do that a month ago.
As a sys-admin, I was given a laptop to use that was my predecessor's. While doing a search of the laptop, I found A LOT of porn in the internet cache. My predecessor had used the firewall/lan bypass device we reserve for site visitors to surf for porn on company time. I did not report him, I simply contacted him and said "I seem to have found some adult material on your laptop, all time and user stamped for you. I think I will re-image this machine, do you have any objections?" He seemed pretty thankful that I was doing so and has been very helpful towards me ever since (8+ months).
I would like to think that as a sysadmin, I have the duty to protect both the company and the users under my watch. I was not harming the company by giving this guy an out(especially since he had just got a big promotion and an expensive move to corporate HQ).
Do you think I did wrong in not reporting the guy? (It was obviously deliberate browsing, but no kiddie stuffs)
Mod parent up, this is about as insightful as it gets.
"I mean, where are the true believers now? Does anyone seriously think that western governments have any kind of moral credibility"
Talk to the average north american, and you'll find out that there are many that would rank you with steretype of the crzzy-type 'conspiracy theorists'.
This is just more example of fascism plain and simple, when business tools government for it's own interests.
I have been skimming the PDF, it is scarily like what they are doing in the US. while skimming, I found this gem:
"The average peasant is not normally willing to fight to his death for his national government. His national government may have been a succession of corrupt dictators and inefficient bureaucrats."
That sounds about right for us Americans.
Actually dated one of them. Well one and a half of them, kind of...
Working on projects late into the evening over takeout chinese does not count as dating.
Even if you shared that single awkward sleep-deprived kiss.
or did you mean the one you dated was 400Lbs?
Invest in an RJ-45 cable crimper and a box of RJ-45 plugs. They are pretty cheap, you could recap those cables for less than $.35 each once you factor the cost of the crimper and 50-count plugs.
Just make sure both ends are ordered
white-orange>orange>white-green>blue>white-blue>green>white-brown>brown.
(unless it is a crossover cable.)
The best part is if you mess up, it only costs an inch of cable and a $.10 plug.
I was jumped by a pie once, late at night. I felt so violated.
Was it like warm apple pie??
MMMMMMM.....
"We'll just tell your mother we ate it."
You can use it to describe [...] even the counter-Earth ideas from waay back
I didn't know you could describe third-rate SciFi-as-an-excuse-for-BDSM hrough mathematics. Were Norman's publisations peer-reviewed? (Given their literary qualities I doubt it.)
SciFi with BDSM AND Mathematics? I find myself intrigued with your ideas, Sir, and would like to subscribe to your publications.
I'd also love to know that in light of the recent earthquake what is the disaster recovery plan and site look like?
Head for the closest un-glassed window opening.
Nice, I just realized a hidden pun in the pictures... The Chinese are refusing to use Windows.
yada yada development tools yada yada a 15yo yada yada crazy with it yada yada girls in DN3D
You mean like reskinning the girls to be topless?
That it Microsoft's wet dream right there. Just look at the Zune and it's security model on the rockbox forums.
If that was an attempt at first post, you failed.
(I know, I know, don't feed the trolls, don't respond to ACs)
That was easy. You would not happen to be French, would you?
The pictured unit from TFA looks to be just small enough to fit in the trunk of that "1 liter car"(which btw, does look good. I want one.)
That's the problem with young geeks these days. No respect for their elders. What with their "pwned" and their "kthxbye" and their fancy-dan slidey-outie phones, why some of them barely have guts! And their beards! Little whispy things ... Makes me want to bust the keyboard off my Kaypro and come out swingin'! Just be glad papaw had his adderall this morning
Ooooh, tell us another story, Grandpa! Maybe about walking to school or making electricity from lemons, then making lemonade cause wasting is a sin.
I'm suprised you are not all "gooshing" in excitement. Its like Google portable.
Perhaps the payload was simply a mostly empty large cylinder?
If they were smart, they would have filled that empty space with supplies and plumbing parts!
Sounds pretty lonely. Stay with the real-life chat. It tends to work better in random encounters like the +8 Hot Babe in the coffee shop!
Implementing a jingle is easy, just play it over and over until it is stuck in the subjects' heads.
Yes, in that once you start dancing with it, you're F**ked.
Nevermind Quake3, This sounds like it could run World of Warcraft(a special Arm version, of course). Combine this with an EVDO card and I'm set!!
I worked as a contractor for the FCC and was issued a Blackberry, I think they come with most (Federal)goverment jobs.