That only applied while they were busy working out the details for the embrace, extend and extinguish strategy they will use towards competing mobile operating systems
Do you really think that private school is the only alternative to public school?
No. But I know that whenever you have more than 1 child spending significant part of their time together bullying will occur. A lot can be done to limit the extent and severity of it but beyond keeping kids completely separated from other kids until they reach adulthood (as complete social disasters) nothing can be done to completely eliminate bullying. Even then there is no guarantee as there are cases of adult bullying kids, something I experienced between the ages of 9-12 when my teacher had me singled out as outlet for his personal failures.
Please tell us what is done at that school to successfully stop/prevent the bullying that seem to occur everywhere else where there's more than a handful of kids or teens spending most of their time together outside of their from home. Just because you are positive that your kid isn't bullied doesn't mean he isn't, hopefully you are right, but if so how can you be certain that with him being a smart kid with plenty of equally smart and nerdy friends he isn't bullying one of the less bright ones?
And a very strong reason why we won't be sending our child to public schools.
Do you really think that just because a school is private bullying automagically will cease to happen? Allow me to burst that bubble for you.
A private school for children of Sweden's wealthy elite has been shut down following accusations that boys were burned with hot irons by older pupils.
The latest allegations about severe bullying at Lundsberg boarding school emerged at the weekend after one of the boys was taken to hospital and the police were informed. Nine boys were involved in the assault, police said.
Following a visit to the school in rural Värmland, in south-west Sweden, inspectors announced its immediate closure until measures are taken to prevent abuse.
No that is not what oligarchy means, it simply mean that the power of rule lie with a small group of people which can be judges but it can also be the wealthy, military, corporate. If campaign spending is a deciding factor decide on who the next policy makers will be and they are put into power by funding from the wealthy the likelihood of policies favoring this small minority greatly increase.
I hope they like the Vogon poetry I leave on repeat when not around my computer.
"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"
If they do which I doubt it will be a gigantic failure, EU citizens in difference from US citizens tend to travel a lot outside of the borders of their home country as doing so for many often is just a few hours car ride or at the most a 1 hour flight. That combined with many (most?) EU citizens having 3-4 weeks of paid vacation a year is the reason you find many Scandinavians going to the south of Europe for their vacation, Belgians going to the Alps for skiing in the winter and then Italy or France in the summer, Dutch and Germans going to Scandinavia and so on. Nearly every single person I know tend to go to another country several times a year and that is including low income earners. Last year alone I visited 4 EU countries for vacation another for work and 1 non-EU country for a wedding. While that might be a bit more than the average EU citizen it certainly is not something unusual and no-one here even raise an eyebrow if told about it.
With that level of cross-border mobility only the most ignorant PHB would believe such a crippled mobile plan ever having a chance of gaining any traction.
Not very long ago that comment would have made me chuckle at the sheer absurdity of tossing a 5 year old hacker into prison, with recent cases such as the one of Aaron Swartz in mind it only bring a disillusioned smile to my lips.
On a side note, seriously Microsoft! that was one fucking cheap ass reward you came up with there, couple of games and a one year subscription. Do you actually want people to report bugs to you or do you want to encourage them to find a higher bidder, in this case an Indian street urchin could have outbid you.
I am not familiar with this particular case to comment on the specifics, but I do not agree with:
Seriously, don't you think that a judge knows the law better than you, a random bloke posting on the internet?
It is one thing to know the letter of the law in verbatim, it is another thing to interpret and apply the letters of law into something that resemble a fair and just ruling.
Agreed. A judge isn't supposed to decide what's right or wrong, but rather what's legal or illegal. Judges are just supposed to interpret the laws as written. If there's no law against something, then a judge has no recourse but to deem that thing legal.
My thought exactly. To me up-skirt photography and filming is a practice which if legislated in detail as illegal either will become far too broad in interpretation, creating too much of a slippery slope situation, or too narrow to have any effect beyond a politician being able to win votes for "thinking about the children."
There are times were simple acts of active social disapproval are far more effective and deterring than written laws ever can be. Up-skirt is one of them. Next time you see some one doing an up-skirt don't look away, look right at the person and make it clear you see him (or her) and do not approve. Social stigma often is a far better deterrent than any legislation, death penalty included.
is a lot better than "I think that the movement of planets influences my destiny".
Which is just as bad as "God created humans pretty much in the present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so" Which is the belief of 48% of the respondents in a 2007 Newsweek poll. http://www.pollingreport.com/s...
Supporting exponential population growth is illogical. Short clip with David Suzuki discussing the very real threat overpopulation pose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
On a sidenote AK Mark. Your shilling is as painful to my brains as your site are to my eyes. Now, please excuse me while I run frantically in circles screaming "Geocities go awaaay!" while clawing my eyes i panic.
As for smartphones, I think the telcos should focus on making typical users happy, and not go to extreme lengths just to satisfy a few Slashdot purists.
Making Facebook, Twitr apps and the like deletable can hardly be said to be going to extreme lengths, it's not like it involves any extra work to accomplish that goal, if anything it would mean less work, and there can be Facebook and other bloat pre-installed for those that want it and those of us that do not can remove it without having to void the warranty by rooting/jailbreaking. This benefits a larger amount of owners than the current prevalent model and might possibly have a minor negative effect on the telcos.
I believe that the estate of author Harry Harrison will have a good case against Rhinehart over the use of the name Soylent. For those not in the know, Harrison was the author of the book which Soylent Green is loosely based on, Make Room! Make Room!
Whether there should be grounds for such a case based on a work that's 48 years old is of course highly debatable.
1. Own rights to Make Room! Make Room!
2. Wait for Soylent to become a huge commercial success.
3. Call in army of Lawyers.
4. Profit!
Indeed the situation in Europe can be quite horrific, some years ago I would often find myself working on Swiss (qwertz), UK (qwerty), Belgian (azerty) and Scandinavian (qwerty) keyboards during my average day. To make matters worse I were working on the machines remotely so glancing down on the keys to find that "misplaced" comma, period, forward slash, parenthesis and so forth were not an option. My favorite layout to hate is the Belgian/French azerty where digits and period require use of shift as the keyboard design work from the assumption that semi colon is more frequently used than period and section sign () more than the digit six and so on. Seriously! What insane person came up with this?
"A government-approved mobile operating system, especially in China of all places, reeks of its own backdoor exploits for governmental spying"
As opposed to the reek of the daily NSA exploits published by Bruce Schneier?
In difference from for example the RSA back door this is open source , so the code is there to review for potential back doors for anyone with the necessary knowledge. I can imagine quite a few will do so only to be able and point fingers and say "see, see! they do it too!" and would be little surprised if there is a government sponsored team doing just that as I write with the hope there will be findings to detract attention from scandals closer to home.
Slashdot Mirror
That only applied while they were busy working out the details for the embrace, extend and extinguish strategy they will use towards competing mobile operating systems
Do you really think that private school is the only alternative to public school?
No. But I know that whenever you have more than 1 child spending significant part of their time together bullying will occur. A lot can be done to limit the extent and severity of it but beyond keeping kids completely separated from other kids until they reach adulthood (as complete social disasters) nothing can be done to completely eliminate bullying. Even then there is no guarantee as there are cases of adult bullying kids, something I experienced between the ages of 9-12 when my teacher had me singled out as outlet for his personal failures.
Please tell us what is done at that school to successfully stop/prevent the bullying that seem to occur everywhere else where there's more than a handful of kids or teens spending most of their time together outside of their from home.
Just because you are positive that your kid isn't bullied doesn't mean he isn't, hopefully you are right, but if so how can you be certain that with him being a smart kid with plenty of equally smart and nerdy friends he isn't bullying one of the less bright ones?
And a very strong reason why we won't be sending our child to public schools.
Do you really think that just because a school is private bullying automagically will cease to happen? Allow me to burst that bubble for you.
A private school for children of Sweden's wealthy elite has been shut down following accusations that boys were burned with hot irons by older pupils.
The latest allegations about severe bullying at Lundsberg boarding school emerged at the weekend after one of the boys was taken to hospital and the police were informed. Nine boys were involved in the assault, police said.
Following a visit to the school in rural Värmland, in south-west Sweden, inspectors announced its immediate closure until measures are taken to prevent abuse.
No that is not what oligarchy means, it simply mean that the power of rule lie with a small group of people which can be judges but it can also be the wealthy, military, corporate. If campaign spending is a deciding factor decide on who the next policy makers will be and they are put into power by funding from the wealthy the likelihood of policies favoring this small minority greatly increase.
I hope they like the Vogon poetry I leave on repeat when not around my computer.
"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"
They'll just offer discounted no-roaming plans.
If they do which I doubt it will be a gigantic failure, EU citizens in difference from US citizens tend to travel a lot outside of the borders of their home country as doing so for many often is just a few hours car ride or at the most a 1 hour flight. That combined with many (most?) EU citizens having 3-4 weeks of paid vacation a year is the reason you find many Scandinavians going to the south of Europe for their vacation, Belgians going to the Alps for skiing in the winter and then Italy or France in the summer, Dutch and Germans going to Scandinavia and so on. Nearly every single person I know tend to go to another country several times a year and that is including low income earners. Last year alone I visited 4 EU countries for vacation another for work and 1 non-EU country for a wedding. While that might be a bit more than the average EU citizen it certainly is not something unusual and no-one here even raise an eyebrow if told about it.
With that level of cross-border mobility only the most ignorant PHB would believe such a crippled mobile plan ever having a chance of gaining any traction.
Not very long ago that comment would have made me chuckle at the sheer absurdity of tossing a 5 year old hacker into prison, with recent cases such as the one of Aaron Swartz in mind it only bring a disillusioned smile to my lips.
On a side note, seriously Microsoft! that was one fucking cheap ass reward you came up with there, couple of games and a one year subscription. Do you actually want people to report bugs to you or do you want to encourage them to find a higher bidder, in this case an Indian street urchin could have outbid you.
Seriously, don't you think that a judge knows the law better than you, a random bloke posting on the internet?
It is one thing to know the letter of the law in verbatim, it is another thing to interpret and apply the letters of law into something that resemble a fair and just ruling.
Chuck Norris. Pfft! http://www.schneierfacts.com/f...
Agreed. A judge isn't supposed to decide what's right or wrong, but rather what's legal or illegal. Judges are just supposed to interpret the laws as written. If there's no law against something, then a judge has no recourse but to deem that thing legal.
My thought exactly. To me up-skirt photography and filming is a practice which if legislated in detail as illegal either will become far too broad in interpretation, creating too much of a slippery slope situation, or too narrow to have any effect beyond a politician being able to win votes for "thinking about the children."
There are times were simple acts of active social disapproval are far more effective and deterring than written laws ever can be. Up-skirt is one of them. Next time you see some one doing an up-skirt don't look away, look right at the person and make it clear you see him (or her) and do not approve. Social stigma often is a far better deterrent than any legislation, death penalty included.
or scientology
Not true, South Park have poked fun at Scientology more than once. Example: http://www.southparkstudios.co...
is a lot better than "I think that the movement of planets influences my destiny".
Which is just as bad as "God created humans pretty much in the present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so" Which is the belief of 48% of the respondents in a 2007 Newsweek poll. http://www.pollingreport.com/s...
Supporting exponential population growth is illogical. Short clip with David Suzuki discussing the very real threat overpopulation pose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
We did... the sensor now shows -127C. Big help.
Your tune will change quickly when the fridge stop working and you can chill your mountain dew in an instant.
On a sidenote AK Mark. Your shilling is as painful to my brains as your site are to my eyes. Now, please excuse me while I run frantically in circles screaming "Geocities go awaaay!" while clawing my eyes i panic.
That's the system. Hating the system doesn't make my math wrong.
No. But the experience of nearly everyone living in meat space do prove that your math is disconnected from reality.
Unfortunately there is another country on the same continent that's anything but inoffensive.
+1 Informative
It's like a communist grocery store compared to a US mall.
You say that as if a complete absence of hipster brats and other mall rats is a bad thing.
As for smartphones, I think the telcos should focus on making typical users happy, and not go to extreme lengths just to satisfy a few Slashdot purists .
Making Facebook, Twitr apps and the like deletable can hardly be said to be going to extreme lengths, it's not like it involves any extra work to accomplish that goal, if anything it would mean less work, and there can be Facebook and other bloat pre-installed for those that want it and those of us that do not can remove it without having to void the warranty by rooting/jailbreaking. This benefits a larger amount of owners than the current prevalent model and might possibly have a minor negative effect on the telcos.
I believe that the estate of author Harry Harrison will have a good case against Rhinehart over the use of the name Soylent. For those not in the know, Harrison was the author of the book which Soylent Green is loosely based on, Make Room! Make Room! Whether there should be grounds for such a case based on a work that's 48 years old is of course highly debatable.
1. Own rights to Make Room! Make Room!
2. Wait for Soylent to become a huge commercial success.
3. Call in army of Lawyers.
4. Profit!
I hardly ever use the laptop's built-in keyboard, but even so the control key caps are falling off.
Hmm... is control the default "stroke" key in Japanese adult games?
Indeed the situation in Europe can be quite horrific, some years ago I would often find myself working on Swiss (qwertz), UK (qwerty), Belgian (azerty) and Scandinavian (qwerty) keyboards during my average day. To make matters worse I were working on the machines remotely so glancing down on the keys to find that "misplaced" comma, period, forward slash, parenthesis and so forth were not an option. My favorite layout to hate is the Belgian/French azerty where digits and period require use of shift as the keyboard design work from the assumption that semi colon is more frequently used than period and section sign () more than the digit six and so on. Seriously! What insane person came up with this?
"A government-approved mobile operating system, especially in China of all places, reeks of its own backdoor exploits for governmental spying"
As opposed to the reek of the daily NSA exploits published by Bruce Schneier?
In difference from for example the RSA back door this is open source , so the code is there to review for potential back doors for anyone with the necessary knowledge. I can imagine quite a few will do so only to be able and point fingers and say "see, see! they do it too!" and would be little surprised if there is a government sponsored team doing just that as I write with the hope there will be findings to detract attention from scandals closer to home.