Not sure which is funnier... your comment which saw me with MCON (milk coming out nose) or the first guy posting in reply to you (on slashdot, of all places) that doesn't see the networking pun. Both are very funny!
They've been giving their response for years and it is what many others have been posting...it is the parents and families that need more emphasis...not government and what they provide.
We need more campaigns encouraging the parents to be daily encouraging their kids to push hard and strive, not sit back and watch as my Obama-money comes pouring in while watching Oprah. We need the government to be doing less and making it CRITICAL that we do more. If we don't make the cut, so be it. This is the land for pursuit of happiness not the guarantee of happiness. This is the land of opportunity, not the land of hand-outs for not trying.
In most of the world, they are passing us up because their lives depend on them doing well and getting a job to earn money. Without it, they starve. With more and more fallback in America, we slowly reduce the incentive to do anything. Ultimately, the government (via taxing the rich) will give me everything I ever want whether I try or not. That is what is being passed on to the youth here in America. That is what the 'conservatives' have been saying for years.
Educating in what? Your view or mine? Your worldview or my worldview?
Science is not the solution to all problems in the world. What if Muslims didn't hate people for having a faith other than their own? What if they were not daily deciding that the only way they could get their view across was to blow people up? I don't see this in any other religion in the world, and I don't see science or educations changing their fundamental views. If you build schools for them, they will indoctrinate their youth even more!
I've been to different parts of the world where kids have much less to learn with and yet reach very high in education. They have a value in their home that causes them to strive for the most. Here in America, there is much less emphasis placed on how hard we must try, because ultimately, if you drop out and do nothing, the government will still give you a home, food, and soon all the health care you may need. In other places in the world, if you don't try hard the government will give you nothing and watch you starve.
Let be honest with ourselves, we're not going to be really striving hard until it is essential for survival...like it is in most of the rest of the world. We're our own worst enemy in making life easier and easier and requiring less and less effort. It seems that we ultimately desire to just sit back and let the world feed us while we just monitor the computer screen and get paid lots of money.
Throw all the money you want at school, but ultimately I'm for looking the parents straight in the eye and asking them what they're doing.
Blind Person: "Where's that dang little camera thing?"
(feels around until they find it)
Blind Person: "Where's that paper?"
(find the paper and unfolds some pages)
(Takes a picture of the paper upside down)
Reader: "Blah duh mup plump fluget..."
I was living in SA until last year. I skipped the landlines and went with Vodacom for my internet. IT WAS CHEAPER AND FASTER.
This is not a joke. If they are testing a typical DSL landline (which costs a person about $100/month), the pigeon will win.
BTW...Telkom charges you for the phone line, then an internet connection fee, and then you must purchase a "data bundle" which is all you are allowed to use before your internet is cut-off for the month. Most people stay around 1G or 2G of data. The 4G is pricey.
Spoken like someone who has never actually touched one of the 4 billion people on our planet that have no bank account, credit card, or anything other than a cell phone and cash. You can travel in a lot of the world and find no land phones or banks, but a cell phone tower and everyone with a cheap phones. Developing this technology helps most of the world, but may not impact you at all. You're in the minority of people who may not benefit from this.
If any of you have lived in countries that are less developed, you will notice that most people will have a cell phone, but not a bank account, credit card or anything other than cash. The good news about these types of services is that they are begining to provide the majority of the world with the opportunity to have money "on account" and can actually be used more and more like a credit card. If you need something or want to buy something from someone, you can transfer money from your account to someone else. I saw this happening already in countries like Botswana, believe it or not!
Applaud the development of technology that may have very little impact on you but could stand to help billions of people in the world.
I was actually shooting for funny, not insightful. As you know, Quantum physics, especially as it relates to computers and electronics (ie./.), is about making use of not just the on/off but all of the variation inbetween. It is difficult for most to think about let alone try to develop in. That is why my statement is somewhat humorous (and perhaps a little insightful).
You're still thinking binary. In Quantum, there are lots of possibilities in between possible and impossible. Only the extremes of which are possible and impossible.
Thanks for being brave enough to stand up and say that on/. I had to cancel my collo service and give away a linux web server box that I owned after trying to keep up with numerous patches every month and the eventual termination of product lifecycle. Within a couple months, my server was cracked and used to try to break into Stanford's graphic department while racking up an $800 bill over the weekend.
I'd tend to agree with your perspective. My laptop cooling fans make a table or desk irrelevant. It simply hovers about 8" over anything while running. Hmmm. Maybe that takes a little power too.
You haven't been browsing much. 5 years ago (my first embarrassment on the net with my daughter) we were looking up screensavers and desktop displays. I was trying to find one with a Disney movie she liked. We clicked on a site, saw some thumbnails of images that looked great, and then a pop-up came on the screen with a completely naked women on it. I'd call that a lure.
What you are referring to is a well known adage that "correlation does not mean causation." That is correct, BUT the correlation is absurdly high...almost 100%. Does it mean that if you are addicted to porn you will become a rapist. No! But, if you are not addicted to porn, there is an extremely low change you will become a rapist.
Everyone thinks they are immune and nothing applies to them...until they are convicted of a crime.
That's about as easy as protecting children from porn sites.
More directly to your question, it is quite simple, go with an OS that very few people use and crackers don't care about because their virus wouldn't live a single day...just be ready to switch OS's once your less-popular OS becomes mainstream. Then the crackers will be having a field day with that OS and viruses will still be around.
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Not sure which is funnier... your comment which saw me with MCON (milk coming out nose) or the first guy posting in reply to you (on slashdot, of all places) that doesn't see the networking pun. Both are very funny!
I guess we came in with a Big Bang and will go out with a Big Boom. Bummer.
They've been giving their response for years and it is what many others have been posting...it is the parents and families that need more emphasis...not government and what they provide.
We need more campaigns encouraging the parents to be daily encouraging their kids to push hard and strive, not sit back and watch as my Obama-money comes pouring in while watching Oprah. We need the government to be doing less and making it CRITICAL that we do more. If we don't make the cut, so be it. This is the land for pursuit of happiness not the guarantee of happiness. This is the land of opportunity, not the land of hand-outs for not trying.
In most of the world, they are passing us up because their lives depend on them doing well and getting a job to earn money. Without it, they starve. With more and more fallback in America, we slowly reduce the incentive to do anything. Ultimately, the government (via taxing the rich) will give me everything I ever want whether I try or not. That is what is being passed on to the youth here in America. That is what the 'conservatives' have been saying for years.
Educating in what? Your view or mine? Your worldview or my worldview?
Science is not the solution to all problems in the world. What if Muslims didn't hate people for having a faith other than their own? What if they were not daily deciding that the only way they could get their view across was to blow people up? I don't see this in any other religion in the world, and I don't see science or educations changing their fundamental views. If you build schools for them, they will indoctrinate their youth even more!
I've been to different parts of the world where kids have much less to learn with and yet reach very high in education. They have a value in their home that causes them to strive for the most. Here in America, there is much less emphasis placed on how hard we must try, because ultimately, if you drop out and do nothing, the government will still give you a home, food, and soon all the health care you may need. In other places in the world, if you don't try hard the government will give you nothing and watch you starve.
Let be honest with ourselves, we're not going to be really striving hard until it is essential for survival...like it is in most of the rest of the world. We're our own worst enemy in making life easier and easier and requiring less and less effort. It seems that we ultimately desire to just sit back and let the world feed us while we just monitor the computer screen and get paid lots of money.
Throw all the money you want at school, but ultimately I'm for looking the parents straight in the eye and asking them what they're doing.
that they are getting 2000 new subscribers a day...because they are forced to.
I suppose they could also claim that millions are becoming communists too (birth rate, you know).
Blind Person: "Where's that dang little camera thing?"
(feels around until they find it)
Blind Person: "Where's that paper?"
(find the paper and unfolds some pages)
(Takes a picture of the paper upside down)
Reader: "Blah duh mup plump fluget..."
I was living in SA until last year. I skipped the landlines and went with Vodacom for my internet. IT WAS CHEAPER AND FASTER.
This is not a joke. If they are testing a typical DSL landline (which costs a person about $100/month), the pigeon will win.
BTW...Telkom charges you for the phone line, then an internet connection fee, and then you must purchase a "data bundle" which is all you are allowed to use before your internet is cut-off for the month. Most people stay around 1G or 2G of data. The 4G is pricey.
See! We'd have much better pictures of stars all over the planet if we just got rid of the ozone like is happening over Antarctica.
Spoken like someone who has never actually touched one of the 4 billion people on our planet that have no bank account, credit card, or anything other than a cell phone and cash. You can travel in a lot of the world and find no land phones or banks, but a cell phone tower and everyone with a cheap phones. Developing this technology helps most of the world, but may not impact you at all. You're in the minority of people who may not benefit from this.
If any of you have lived in countries that are less developed, you will notice that most people will have a cell phone, but not a bank account, credit card or anything other than cash. The good news about these types of services is that they are begining to provide the majority of the world with the opportunity to have money "on account" and can actually be used more and more like a credit card. If you need something or want to buy something from someone, you can transfer money from your account to someone else. I saw this happening already in countries like Botswana, believe it or not! Applaud the development of technology that may have very little impact on you but could stand to help billions of people in the world.
It's actually an oxymoron... completed a "most complete" map? Aren't you complete when you have completed it?
to image the earth you must have a cloudless day...they're still waiting.
Sounds like the last election too. I hope you didn't end up voting in such a way that causes you to be the kind of person you generally hate.
I was actually shooting for funny, not insightful. As you know, Quantum physics, especially as it relates to computers and electronics (ie. /.), is about making use of not just the on/off but all of the variation inbetween. It is difficult for most to think about let alone try to develop in. That is why my statement is somewhat humorous (and perhaps a little insightful).
You're still thinking binary. In Quantum, there are lots of possibilities in between possible and impossible. Only the extremes of which are possible and impossible.
The Brits are always negative.
'Happened earlier than expected' Duh! This star died about 200 million years ago.
is all the worm pops on the screen and does. Now how much money did you spend trying to ward off this script? That will be the real joke.
Thanks for being brave enough to stand up and say that on /. I had to cancel my collo service and give away a linux web server box that I owned after trying to keep up with numerous patches every month and the eventual termination of product lifecycle. Within a couple months, my server was cracked and used to try to break into Stanford's graphic department while racking up an $800 bill over the weekend.
fits all...now goes electronic!
I'd tend to agree with your perspective. My laptop cooling fans make a table or desk irrelevant. It simply hovers about 8" over anything while running. Hmmm. Maybe that takes a little power too.
You haven't been browsing much. 5 years ago (my first embarrassment on the net with my daughter) we were looking up screensavers and desktop displays. I was trying to find one with a Disney movie she liked. We clicked on a site, saw some thumbnails of images that looked great, and then a pop-up came on the screen with a completely naked women on it. I'd call that a lure.
What you are referring to is a well known adage that "correlation does not mean causation." That is correct, BUT the correlation is absurdly high...almost 100%. Does it mean that if you are addicted to porn you will become a rapist. No! But, if you are not addicted to porn, there is an extremely low change you will become a rapist.
Everyone thinks they are immune and nothing applies to them...until they are convicted of a crime.
That's about as easy as protecting children from porn sites.
More directly to your question, it is quite simple, go with an OS that very few people use and crackers don't care about because their virus wouldn't live a single day...just be ready to switch OS's once your less-popular OS becomes mainstream. Then the crackers will be having a field day with that OS and viruses will still be around.