On the other hand, some of those who were home schooled might know a lot of stuffs, but unfortunately they lack many of the skills to successfully interact with others, particularly strangers, and often fall pray to scams because they are not aware of the darker side of humanity
You are absolutely right about this. I myself was home schooled and had/have troubles with trusting people to much just because they are in a position of authority or because they seem like they know what they are talking about. Any parent of a home schooled kid must teach the child to be a bit wary of people, because they don't all have your best interests in mind.
That said however I would not have traded my home schooling for anything. On the way in to work today I listened to my MP3 CD with song ranging from hard rock, to rap, to three songs from My Little Pony FIM. I am who I am today because the outlining parts of my personality were not ground down by a life of conforming to other kids expectations. In home school I was allowed to be the person I am not who I "should" be.
I also have a BS in Psychology with a minor in history. My 4 sisters and brother were also home schooled (and no we were not religious nuts) and have all turned out fairly well and are reasonably successful.
Think of all the possibilities this opens up in terms of remote support. We can already control someone mouse and keyboard but now we can do remote hardware changes, machine building, we might even be able to punch someone in the face remotely when they post something stupid. Other ides: Twitch plays this guy, remote skilled labor (woodworking, hair styling, artwork, etc...). Find a bomb that needs defusing? Download the bomb squid app and have the worlds best bomb defuses help you not have a bad day. The possibility here are endless, and a bit scary in some cases (hay look, I just defined the internet!)
Next time I murder a dude I am total using this as my defense.
"But your honor its science, you can't argue with science otherwise you would have to toss all the blood evidence"
Yeah, they don't let me talk in court anymore...
I'm not sure if I'm more impressed that your CDROM can shoot fireballs or that you somehow put 1.7TB of information on something, anything, that fits into your CDROM.:)
Same here, voted about a week and a half ago. Pros: don't have to stand in long lines, Cons: Don't get a little sticker saying I voted. I was also debating telling my boss that I got a notice that my mail in ballot got lost or something and taking the two hours given by CO state law to go "vote" (aka sitting at home for a few hours).
Asterisk may not solve all your problems, but if you are using VoIP phones and know Linux this might be an option. Plus it is open and fully customizable. Might be worth a look. http://www.asterisk.org/
Here's my idea. Buy some white labels and write numbers on them, then list these same numbers on a spreadsheet and print it out. When people come over put one sticker on each expensive piece of equipment (computer, monitor). Then have the person write down on the sheet what the equipment is and sign their name. Tell everyone that noting can be taken home without a sticker on it and it being signed out.
This method is not completely foolproof but should be good enough to prevent most theft. The only downside I can see is it would require a door guard the whole night.
I looked at the link and that got me thinking (which is never a good thing). Maybe Cuil is just so good at searching the web it has somehow sees into your true nature. This search engine will find things the way they really are. It all seems very mystic now. When I searched my name it came up with a broken picture link. This means I am a blank slate or (more likely) soon to be dead with nothing left to contribute. Except this post, lucky you Slashdot readers.
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On the other hand, some of those who were home schooled might know a lot of stuffs, but unfortunately they lack many of the skills to successfully interact with others, particularly strangers, and often fall pray to scams because they are not aware of the darker side of humanity
You are absolutely right about this. I myself was home schooled and had/have troubles with trusting people to much just because they are in a position of authority or because they seem like they know what they are talking about. Any parent of a home schooled kid must teach the child to be a bit wary of people, because they don't all have your best interests in mind.
That said however I would not have traded my home schooling for anything. On the way in to work today I listened to my MP3 CD with song ranging from hard rock, to rap, to three songs from My Little Pony FIM. I am who I am today because the outlining parts of my personality were not ground down by a life of conforming to other kids expectations. In home school I was allowed to be the person I am not who I "should" be.
I also have a BS in Psychology with a minor in history. My 4 sisters and brother were also home schooled (and no we were not religious nuts) and have all turned out fairly well and are reasonably successful.
Think of all the possibilities this opens up in terms of remote support. We can already control someone mouse and keyboard but now we can do remote hardware changes, machine building, we might even be able to punch someone in the face remotely when they post something stupid. Other ides: Twitch plays this guy, remote skilled labor (woodworking, hair styling, artwork, etc...). Find a bomb that needs defusing? Download the bomb squid app and have the worlds best bomb defuses help you not have a bad day. The possibility here are endless, and a bit scary in some cases (hay look, I just defined the internet!)
Next time I murder a dude I am total using this as my defense. "But your honor its science, you can't argue with science otherwise you would have to toss all the blood evidence" Yeah, they don't let me talk in court anymore...
I'm not sure if I'm more impressed that your CDROM can shoot fireballs or that you somehow put 1.7TB of information on something, anything, that fits into your CDROM. :)
Has someone downloaded this and tried the password "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, select, start"?
Same here, voted about a week and a half ago. Pros: don't have to stand in long lines, Cons: Don't get a little sticker saying I voted. I was also debating telling my boss that I got a notice that my mail in ballot got lost or something and taking the two hours given by CO state law to go "vote" (aka sitting at home for a few hours).
Asterisk may not solve all your problems, but if you are using VoIP phones and know Linux this might be an option. Plus it is open and fully customizable. Might be worth a look. http://www.asterisk.org/
Here's my idea. Buy some white labels and write numbers on them, then list these same numbers on a spreadsheet and print it out. When people come over put one sticker on each expensive piece of equipment (computer, monitor). Then have the person write down on the sheet what the equipment is and sign their name. Tell everyone that noting can be taken home without a sticker on it and it being signed out. This method is not completely foolproof but should be good enough to prevent most theft. The only downside I can see is it would require a door guard the whole night.
I looked at the link and that got me thinking (which is never a good thing). Maybe Cuil is just so good at searching the web it has somehow sees into your true nature. This search engine will find things the way they really are. It all seems very mystic now. When I searched my name it came up with a broken picture link. This means I am a blank slate or (more likely) soon to be dead with nothing left to contribute. Except this post, lucky you Slashdot readers.
Or you could try something like this