What's up with Easter coming before Passover? I know that the RCC has a nice little formula...but, really, shouldn't Easter ALWAYS come after Passover, regardless of the formula?
It sounds like you can't make a definitive statement on your parents snooping either. IF you as you claim, didn't do anything wrong, how would you know that Dad was looking at your browsing history or cookies? He wouldn't tell you because you did nothing he objected to. He could have been reading your email and all and you just turned out to be a good kid regardless. Again, you wouldn't know unless you did something wrong that he felt like dealing with. And even then, he might have dealt with it in an unrelated way so you wouldn't put two and two together. After all, why expose the ways he found out about what you were doing that was "bad" and lose that ability in the future? Because, despite popular belief, parent's don't know everything. Some kids actually do protect their computers to a point that their parents really just can't get in (or find anything, because everything I had was cleaned nightly and/or password protected). Amazing!
By your logic, parents should walk behind bikes until their kids are 18 years old just to be sure they don't do something stupid and get hit by a car. There's a certain point at which you need to cut the cord.
Agreed. If you've raised your children correctly, they won't be doing anything that you *need* to look at. If you're doing a bad job, then well...all the cracking and snooping in the world isn't going to save your child. I had my own computer from the age of 8, and never had any problems with browsing the interwebz. Early on, my father would sit with me while I was on it, just to be sure I got the hang of it and to point out "problem" websites on the early webz. Once I knew what to stay away from and why, I was left to my own devices. My parents never snooped or prodded into what I was doing, because they knew if I ran across something potentially creepy, I'd either close it right away or ask them what it was.
If you post it on the 'net, it's public information, no matter how secure or private the application is. One must treat his or her information on social networks this way, no exceptions.
Well put. We must run under the assumptions that whatever information we provide to websites will not remain confidential, privileged, private or otherwise secure. Sites have privacy policies for a reason, yet some users seem to get upset when something clearly outlined in the policy comes to light. I, on my part, read the FaceBook applications privacy policy and never had any hopes that my information would be secure.
I'm not so sure Iran is really offline now either. Last report I heard Iran was running at 27% capacity. And that was when only 4 cables were cut. Now we have five.
This is great Sesame Street fodder. 5 cables cut, hahaha.
Huckabee - Caters to the religious nuts - no way. I prefer The Huck/Chuck show to McCain. Something about McCain rubs me the wrong way. I don't think he's got the experience to be president. I 3 Ron Paul, but he just wouldn't cut it either - he should stick to political commentary and advising. Unfortunately, Huckster has the best chance of being a quasi-successful president, but all our options (on both sides) suck hard.
I like to think people in tech are, on average, smart and rational.
Are religious people stupid and irrational? Yar...us religious folks be f'in loons...
Is it so hard to believe that a Christian can vote with their head and not their Bible? O_o
I don't want the responsibility of my children's education going to the lowest bidder.
I think it already does. Maybe you should take a look at your local district's budget. Srsly. They're frighteningly inefficient.
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What's up with Easter coming before Passover? I know that the RCC has a nice little formula...but, really, shouldn't Easter ALWAYS come after Passover, regardless of the formula?
By your logic, parents should walk behind bikes until their kids are 18 years old just to be sure they don't do something stupid and get hit by a car. There's a certain point at which you need to cut the cord.
Agreed. If you've raised your children correctly, they won't be doing anything that you *need* to look at. If you're doing a bad job, then well...all the cracking and snooping in the world isn't going to save your child. I had my own computer from the age of 8, and never had any problems with browsing the interwebz. Early on, my father would sit with me while I was on it, just to be sure I got the hang of it and to point out "problem" websites on the early webz. Once I knew what to stay away from and why, I was left to my own devices. My parents never snooped or prodded into what I was doing, because they knew if I ran across something potentially creepy, I'd either close it right away or ask them what it was.
Well put. We must run under the assumptions that whatever information we provide to websites will not remain confidential, privileged, private or otherwise secure. Sites have privacy policies for a reason, yet some users seem to get upset when something clearly outlined in the policy comes to light. I, on my part, read the FaceBook applications privacy policy and never had any hopes that my information would be secure.
http://developers.facebook.com/user_terms.php(i) any information provided by you and visible to you on the Facebook Site, excluding any of your Contact Information, and
(ii) the user ID associated with your Facebook Site profile.
If you're concerned about how your information will be shared, read the policies and simply don't sign up for sites that don't meet your criteria.This is great Sesame Street fodder. 5 cables cut, hahaha.
I like to think people in tech are, on average, smart and rational.
Are religious people stupid and irrational? Yar...us religious folks be f'in loons... Is it so hard to believe that a Christian can vote with their head and not their Bible? O_oI don't want the responsibility of my children's education going to the lowest bidder.
I think it already does. Maybe you should take a look at your local district's budget. Srsly. They're frighteningly inefficient.