You know, psychology has shown that "letting it out" doesn't in fact result in your become calmer. It does rather the opposite.
[citation please]
Funny, karate was a great way for me to blow off steam when I was younger. Plus, it taught me how to deal out lethal levels of real-world violence. Amazing I didn't turn out to be a karate-chopping, nunchaku-wielding psycho, huh?
Maybe you can't do a double blind video game study. That's not the parent's point. The author of the study is declaring something definitive based on non-definitive work.
I wonder what the long-term effects of using NOXIOUS AMNESIA GAS on kids are?
Microsoft's strategy is not "Let the free market work, and the strong will win", it is "Win at all costs". So actually, this is consistent with their past behavior.
Actually, you should design 1 website, and repeatedly sell it to each customer you have, wrapping each iteration in a slightly new skin. It doesn't matter what your customer actually wants. When you unveil your "masterpiece", just explain how you modified some of their requirements "to improve the user experience". When the client objects, start throwing rafts of technical babble at him, and wait for him to succumb. ~
In all seriousness, though, it's nice when stuff you've already written comes in handy for a subsequent project.
He was terribly wrong for a number of reasons. Conflict of interest is only one dimension of it. At a certain point, he agreed to become a professional troll, blogging for effect, not for truth. He himself admits that many of the things he wrote were not as he believed them, but he wrote them that way to get views, misinformation and flamewars be damned. To prolong and hide the scheme, he created (resurrected?) a sockpuppet through which he quoted his own "information", to give it greater legitimacy. He was being dishonest on more than one level, and his dishonesty was growing over time.
Now, I know as well as anyone that the blogosphere is full of disingenuous/dishonest crapola, and fanboys and shills are everywhere, even in the mainstream PC tech press. None of that excuses prostituting himself or his views. None of that excuses using his position as a quasi-authority figure to mislead others or abuse their trust.
The problem with that analogy is that physical laws that are fairly well known and understood today for engineering bridges and buildings do not undergo the rapid and radical evolution of software vulnerabilities. As languages like PHP and Java evolve, so do the exploits that are possible/likely. The force of gravity and tensile strength of mild steel are not new concepts, and are not open to new attacks that were not even conceived 10 years ago.
Tragic, yes. And entirely preventable if the people in charge had listened to the engineers and scrubbed the launch. Actually dovetails nicely with timmarhy's comment.
Does lack of IR/UV vision stem from a lack of proper optical reception (cones), or lack of neural ability? My guess is that the brain would try and interpret what it is shown, regardless of what our eyes have evolved to do.
I would expect that the school's sysadmins locked down the systems to a certain degree before they were handed out. No way this capability should have been enabled.
"Inevitable critical mass of stupid" made my day. I'll use that someday, and hopefully remember to credit you.
Sorry if I failed to include the appropriate indication of hyperbole in my closing. Bad idea in reality, although it has a poetic way of solving itself; anyone stupid enough to follow through is probably also too stupid to avoid jail.
Read elsewhere, unattributed, but apropos: "I'm not saying I'm in favor of killing the stupid people, I'm just saying we should remove all the warning labels and let the problem solve itself."
That depends on whether her panties are encrypted or not, but you'd probably get your ass kicked by Lindsey either way. Hell, since the chances of your anonymous nerdy ass getting within 500 yards of her are practically zero, I'd say you're safe.
Spelt (Triticum spelta) is an ancient form of grain related to wheat.
If I were less pedantic, I might note that American english generally goes with "spelled", while I have heard that UK/Aussie writing often uses "spelt".
Doesn't matter if the child is male or female... naked + underage = trouble for whoever made/possesses the image. Of course, there are problems with the puritanical, nanny-state mindset of the zealots who use those laws to jail teens who take pictures of their own bodies, but its use seems strikingly apropos here, given the voyeuristic nature of the complaint.
What I want to know is
a) Who thought it would be a good idea to allow remote control of the camera and mic? Sounds like it would require school administrator and systems administrator knowledge and cooperation.
b) Who thought it would be a good idea to actually use and review the video streams? Having the theoretical ability is one thing, but to actually make use of it is worse.
c) With regard to the student who was spoken to about their "innappropriate behavior", what directed the school's attention to the laptop in question? With all the laptops potentially involved, the sheer numbers make it impossible for a school's admin staff to monitor them all.
d) When was the student's "inappropriate behavior" monitored? Was it after school hours, at home? Was it during school hours? What was the conduct in question?
e) IF YOU ARE A SCHOOL OFFICIAL PEEKING AT KIDS' PRIVATE MOMENTS, HOW MUCH OF A FREAKIN' BONEHEAD DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO CONFRONT THEM WITH EVIDENCE OBTAINED BY SUCH QUESTIONABLE MEANS?
I hereby sentence the offending individuals to take whatever Civics/US Government 101 class is mandatory for all students in their school. Anyone with less than an A final grade will be shot. Anyone who gets an A will be forced to write the complete Bill of Rights 10,000 times, before being forever exiled to the set of Big Brother.
Many businesses do not operate on a cost-plus basis. Supply and demand generally dictate that a given business will charge whatever they can for an item. In a monopoly, they can pretty much set the price where they want it. For example, if a piece of software retails for $99.99, and corporate tax rates go up on that revenue by $0.50, the software company will likely keep their retail price at $99.99 instead of raising it to $100.49. They might raise their wholesale distribution price slightly to make up some of it though - they love milking the distribution channel for all they can get.
I'd disagree on the imbalance. Go back to the 80's and look at ABSCAM. 4 Dems convicted, 1 Repub. Only 1 guy I know of reported the illegal activity to the authorities - a Repub. Behind the scenes, congresscritters scrambled to protect their own. Tip O'Neil (Dem) instructed Charlie Wilson (Dem) to help John Murtha (Dem) out of an ethics jam. Murtha had almost taken the money, but smelled a rat at the last minute, and backed out. He saved himself from a conviction, but still got snared in a House ethics investigation. By rights, he should have been in trouble. But his cronies bailed him out, and he went on to continue being a corrupt public official for the next three decades.
More recently, there is that Jefferson guy from Louisiana, Blago from Illinois, and of course that guy Burris that Blago shoehorned into the Senate. Everyone knows that Burris is dirty - I don't know how he escaped the ethics investigation with his political skin intact.
Not picking on Dems, just pointing out that there are lots of dirty ones. The gay hypocrisy thing bothers me, though. Always thought it was ironic that Larry Craig was one of the worst ones persecuting Barney Frank.
Do you equate "disagree" with "violate"? I can disagree all I want and not go to jail. I can protest all I want and not go jail, or at least not for more than a few hours on an iffy disturbing-the-peace charge. I can fight censorship, campaign for office to change the laws, and do a whole boatload of things to oppose censorship without putting myself in any serious danger of loss of life of freedom.
However, if my form of "disagree" or protest is to possess child porn, I'd be in danger regardless of any laws censoring the internet.
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You know, psychology has shown that "letting it out" doesn't in fact result in your become calmer. It does rather the opposite.
[citation please]
Funny, karate was a great way for me to blow off steam when I was younger. Plus, it taught me how to deal out lethal levels of real-world violence. Amazing I didn't turn out to be a karate-chopping, nunchaku-wielding psycho, huh?
Maybe you can't do a double blind video game study. That's not the parent's point. The author of the study is declaring something definitive based on non-definitive work.
I wonder what the long-term effects of using NOXIOUS AMNESIA GAS on kids are?
Microsoft's strategy is not "Let the free market work, and the strong will win", it is "Win at all costs". So actually, this is consistent with their past behavior.
The near-infinite wisdom of Gary Larson.
Actually, you should design 1 website, and repeatedly sell it to each customer you have, wrapping each iteration in a slightly new skin. It doesn't matter what your customer actually wants. When you unveil your "masterpiece", just explain how you modified some of their requirements "to improve the user experience". When the client objects, start throwing rafts of technical babble at him, and wait for him to succumb. ~
In all seriousness, though, it's nice when stuff you've already written comes in handy for a subsequent project.
He was terribly wrong for a number of reasons. Conflict of interest is only one dimension of it. At a certain point, he agreed to become a professional troll, blogging for effect, not for truth. He himself admits that many of the things he wrote were not as he believed them, but he wrote them that way to get views, misinformation and flamewars be damned. To prolong and hide the scheme, he created (resurrected?) a sockpuppet through which he quoted his own "information", to give it greater legitimacy. He was being dishonest on more than one level, and his dishonesty was growing over time.
Now, I know as well as anyone that the blogosphere is full of disingenuous/dishonest crapola, and fanboys and shills are everywhere, even in the mainstream PC tech press. None of that excuses prostituting himself or his views. None of that excuses using his position as a quasi-authority figure to mislead others or abuse their trust.
The problem with that analogy is that physical laws that are fairly well known and understood today for engineering bridges and buildings do not undergo the rapid and radical evolution of software vulnerabilities. As languages like PHP and Java evolve, so do the exploits that are possible/likely. The force of gravity and tensile strength of mild steel are not new concepts, and are not open to new attacks that were not even conceived 10 years ago.
Tragic, yes. And entirely preventable if the people in charge had listened to the engineers and scrubbed the launch. Actually dovetails nicely with timmarhy's comment.
"He came and went at the same time."
Does lack of IR/UV vision stem from a lack of proper optical reception (cones), or lack of neural ability? My guess is that the brain would try and interpret what it is shown, regardless of what our eyes have evolved to do.
What pinheaded, Win-centric neandermod marked this Troll? This guy and Nursie have had good, insightful posts modded down for no reason.
I would expect that the school's sysadmins locked down the systems to a certain degree before they were handed out. No way this capability should have been enabled.
"Inevitable critical mass of stupid" made my day. I'll use that someday, and hopefully remember to credit you.
Sorry if I failed to include the appropriate indication of hyperbole in my closing. Bad idea in reality, although it has a poetic way of solving itself; anyone stupid enough to follow through is probably also too stupid to avoid jail.
Read elsewhere, unattributed, but apropos: "I'm not saying I'm in favor of killing the stupid people, I'm just saying we should remove all the warning labels and let the problem solve itself."
Blame Canada.
That depends on whether her panties are encrypted or not, but you'd probably get your ass kicked by Lindsey either way. Hell, since the chances of your anonymous nerdy ass getting within 500 yards of her are practically zero, I'd say you're safe.
Spelt (Triticum spelta) is an ancient form of grain related to wheat.
If I were less pedantic, I might note that American english generally goes with "spelled", while I have heard that UK/Aussie writing often uses "spelt".
This would allow those kids in PA to avoid the voyeurs in the school system there.
Doesn't matter if the child is male or female ... naked + underage = trouble for whoever made/possesses the image. Of course, there are problems with the puritanical, nanny-state mindset of the zealots who use those laws to jail teens who take pictures of their own bodies, but its use seems strikingly apropos here, given the voyeuristic nature of the complaint.
What I want to know is
a) Who thought it would be a good idea to allow remote control of the camera and mic? Sounds like it would require school administrator and systems administrator knowledge and cooperation.
b) Who thought it would be a good idea to actually use and review the video streams? Having the theoretical ability is one thing, but to actually make use of it is worse.
c) With regard to the student who was spoken to about their "innappropriate behavior", what directed the school's attention to the laptop in question? With all the laptops potentially involved, the sheer numbers make it impossible for a school's admin staff to monitor them all.
d) When was the student's "inappropriate behavior" monitored? Was it after school hours, at home? Was it during school hours? What was the conduct in question?
e) IF YOU ARE A SCHOOL OFFICIAL PEEKING AT KIDS' PRIVATE MOMENTS, HOW MUCH OF A FREAKIN' BONEHEAD DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO CONFRONT THEM WITH EVIDENCE OBTAINED BY SUCH QUESTIONABLE MEANS?
I hereby sentence the offending individuals to take whatever Civics/US Government 101 class is mandatory for all students in their school. Anyone with less than an A final grade will be shot. Anyone who gets an A will be forced to write the complete Bill of Rights 10,000 times, before being forever exiled to the set of Big Brother.
He hacked his Roomba.
Many businesses do not operate on a cost-plus basis. Supply and demand generally dictate that a given business will charge whatever they can for an item. In a monopoly, they can pretty much set the price where they want it. For example, if a piece of software retails for $99.99, and corporate tax rates go up on that revenue by $0.50, the software company will likely keep their retail price at $99.99 instead of raising it to $100.49. They might raise their wholesale distribution price slightly to make up some of it though - they love milking the distribution channel for all they can get.
Microsoft: too big to tax?
I'd disagree on the imbalance. Go back to the 80's and look at ABSCAM. 4 Dems convicted, 1 Repub. Only 1 guy I know of reported the illegal activity to the authorities - a Repub. Behind the scenes, congresscritters scrambled to protect their own. Tip O'Neil (Dem) instructed Charlie Wilson (Dem) to help John Murtha (Dem) out of an ethics jam. Murtha had almost taken the money, but smelled a rat at the last minute, and backed out. He saved himself from a conviction, but still got snared in a House ethics investigation. By rights, he should have been in trouble. But his cronies bailed him out, and he went on to continue being a corrupt public official for the next three decades.
More recently, there is that Jefferson guy from Louisiana, Blago from Illinois, and of course that guy Burris that Blago shoehorned into the Senate. Everyone knows that Burris is dirty - I don't know how he escaped the ethics investigation with his political skin intact.
Not picking on Dems, just pointing out that there are lots of dirty ones. The gay hypocrisy thing bothers me, though. Always thought it was ironic that Larry Craig was one of the worst ones persecuting Barney Frank.
Really guys, naming your protest after female anatomy does nothing to help the cause.
Why not? What's wrong with tits? They're fabulous.
People opposed to the Republican Party
Actually, the Repubs are only half the story. Dems are just as corrupt and sleazy.
Do you equate "disagree" with "violate"? I can disagree all I want and not go to jail. I can protest all I want and not go jail, or at least not for more than a few hours on an iffy disturbing-the-peace charge. I can fight censorship, campaign for office to change the laws, and do a whole boatload of things to oppose censorship without putting myself in any serious danger of loss of life of freedom.
However, if my form of "disagree" or protest is to possess child porn, I'd be in danger regardless of any laws censoring the internet.