i've had the same problem, i don't think you should be allowed to lock administrator out of anything, just like you can't lock root out of anything. and the "system" user that runs most of the services is not something you can log into the machine as.
and the same goes for a windows machine. sure, windows users generally run as administrator, but the malware that goes around now doesn't do any phyiscal damage to the machine. like i said, it just propogates. it spreads and spreads and spreads doing nothing more than that. the latest worm/virus to go around was the sasser virus. what did that do? what harm did that cause? nothing. some PERSON found a security hole in windows and used it to run code, which could have been run by a normal user on the machine (the shutdown -r command, which just restarts the computer). this can easily be aborted by running shutdown -a.
in the same way that a PERSON found this hole, PEOPLE find holes in linux. now say you have a kid who's extremely good with linux and programming and finds this wide open hole. this kid, rather than thinking "let me post a fix or report this hole" decides to go and make use of the whole to gain root on several (or even just 1) linux box. or worse writes something to bounce through several linux boxes and use these linux boxes to cause damage to a network or another computer and then self-destruct after the big damage has been done. let's say this kid is so good, he can hide it completely. it starts off and does all the damage, maybe not causing as much "big" damage as he hoped, but ending with the self-destruction of several linux boxes, much to their owner/administrator's surprise. how is this different than windows? you have no idea how many holes exist in linux. you won't know unless (1) you look at the code yourself or (2) someone else finds them. while i admit that there is a much better chance of someone finding the hole and patching it in linux than there is with windows, the fact remains that there are still hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands or millions of these unpatched linux boxes out there. this can cause jsut as much damage as any hole that exists in windows.
i want to know how you figure that linux and apple (or any other non-MS OS) requires human engineering to exploit a vulnerability, but the windows vulnerabilities do not require this. even if it can't gain root access to the machine, most linux users have access to the internet, have access to run stuff. so the virus runs itself, it sends itself to any unpatched machines it finds. how is this different than sasser or blaster? they infect unpatched machines as soon as they're found.
and how can you say that a fresh install of mandrake, red hat, or debian does not have to worry about being immediately rooted? say you install from CD. you are plugged into the network but don't have time to download the patches that were released since the time the CD was created (or the distribution was bought, doesn't apply to debian). i would think that if a vulnerability was found since the time the CD was created, you do have to worry. the only thing that saves you is the fact that there are fewer users and people are less likely to write linux viruses. you have just as good a chance at being infected as someone installing windows xp from scratch while being plugged into the internet.
and the common software i mentioned is pretty common software. i know it's all optional, but they've all had major vulerabilities in recent years, especially ssh. telnet is also (at least last time i checked which was a while ago) automatically turned on in many distros, especially red hat, one of the more common ones.
and for the record, i am by no means a windows advocate. but i do work in a windows environment, i am a primarily windows user, and i do not fear getting viruses on my own machines. i do, however, work in a college where students bring their own machines from home. so i deal with the viruses. do i worry about it? no. does it make me feel that people shoudl stop using windows because linux is superior? not in the least. i don't consider linux superior by any means. maybe as a server, but on the desktop for non-savvy users, never in a million year
in windows 2000 and windows xp, logging in as administrator is not the same as logging in as root. you cannot kill certain processes, you cannot delete certain files, you cannot do certain things. the main issue with most viruses that exist for windows is not that they have admin access, but that they propogate. the majority of "viruses" do not even fit the classic definition of "virus" in that they don't harm a computer. they're worms, they're designed to spread fast, causing only harm to the network because of all the traffic, not the computer itself. also, the security issues that microsoft tends to address are those that allow a remote attacker to gain admin access. this is the same issue that many popular pieces of software for linux have dealt with (ssh is a good example). no matter how you look at it, you have to keep a linux box patched and up-to-date or else you'll eventually run into some sort of issue, unless you're behind a good firewall. see my example in my last post for reasons. i'm not saying windows is better, but i'm definitely not about to say linux is better either. the fact remains that in order to have a truly secure system, you need to keep up-to-date with patches. i'm sure more holes exist in linux than we know about because there are far fewer people using linux than use windows. as an operating system itself, windows is no less secure than linux.
so you are in favor of security through obsurity? that's exactly what you mentioned. your reasoning suggests that the only reason linux and apple machines are more secure is that less people use them. while this is true, it's not a good form of security. i know someone who installed a red hat box and within a couple days, it was rooted and used to run ddos attacks on several major machines. the fbi contact the university about this box. that's because they did a standard install of red hat. it might have changed since then, but the fact remains that you can do a standard install of any linux distro and end up with an insecure machine unless you (1) install patches or (2) be sure to install only updated versions. seems to me that either option is similar to a windows install. and once your linux box is installed, you have to be sure you install any patches because there have been many very serious flaws in linux or the common software people run (apache, ssh, telnet, etc) that allow an attacker to gain root.
and i don't neurotically install patches, i have them automatically installed. i also don't fear attachments as i just delete the ones that look suspicious. there is no microsoft mentality at work here aside from the security through obscurity that you used as your reasoning for linux's and apple's lack of viruses.
if burning access is disabled it wouldn't be, but it'd still be a very grey area, probably closer to infringement since the owner of the computer doesn't own the CD's. it'd be less of a sharing thing i think. and when the kids leave the church, do they have to delete the songs they added?
i had issues with my cable connection when i first got it (found out i couldn't just release and renew the ip address to get it reconnected, i had to actually restart the computer). i told the guy on the phone that i do tech support when he started treating me like the average dumb computer user and we got into a little conversation. basically it came down to him saying "so you actually fix real problems". thought that was funny. he admitted to me that he wasn't taht bright, just followed the book.
you can do pretty good jobs at hiding them... make it look like part of a tree or rock. it's an issue, but it will also show up that someone blocked it so you can always go and take care of it...
$30 is very reasonable considering what you pay for drinks and plane tickets anyways...
$10 for 30 minutes is very steep though. if you're on a 6 hour flight, that would be $120... the only time paying for half an hour is if you're on a short flight (that's under 90 min), but they might not even offer it on those flights. Also, they will probably restrict use during take-off and landing the same way the restrict cd player use. and how does it work with layovers and switching planes?
i guess it all depends on how much you need the internet.
the article says nothing about helping set your pace. the comfort of a shoe does not help one set their pace. i used to set my pace through my breathing, my shoes, no matter how worn out, had nothing to do with my pace. i don't see how a continuously changing shoe will help you.
when it comes down to it, the shoe is not going to make the difference between teh winner and the loser. in fact, these shoes would probably be more of a hinderance in a race than anything else. with a motor and all that other stuff, they're gonna weigh more. it won't be all that much more, but enough to make a difference. plus peopel generally have specific shoes for training and shoes for racing. these would be more of a training thing than a racing thing since training can be harder on your feet/body than the actual race. they don't actively improve your performance like other sporting equipment, they actively improve your comfort. yes i realize comfort can improve your performance, but you're gonna want something very lightweight for the race itself.
even if they can't hear the difference, they can't trade it once they put it on cd. that's the whole point. the purpose of using the lossless compression at places like etree is so that you can preserve the best quality possible and not have the degradation by generation that you had with trading analog cassettes. also, most concerts by bands like the dead and phish and other large bands that allow taping can last longer than 2.5 hours, so even the 128/44 mp3 isn't small enough to fit the whole who in 128 megs.
not anymore, too many logistical problems with that. plus a lot of those bands are reserving soundboard recordings for themselves now. this way they can make a few bucks off of selling the soundboards.
smaller bands that play smaller venues sometimes allow it, but that also depends on the venue as well.
there are other stories of a great flood in that area, not just the story of noah's ark. it's very possible that the ark does exist and that there was a flood.
as for your daughter... well, i feel bad for her. you gonna tell her that santa is also a hoax? ruin her childhood? now nice...
there are theories that the ark could really be there. there's aerial photographs of the mountain that show something that could possibly the ark. so yes, there is a good reason for this and it's something highly debated, so of course it makes it to slashdot...
the status symbol brigade falls under the average user since they use the computer for the average thing. you can't consider average as just what they might have for a budget, average here is the average user of a computer, which includes those with higher budgets. now while those with less money won't go and spend a ton of money on the absolute most top of the line machine, you can find them buying something that is much "bigger and better" than they could ever want/need (even in 5 years time it will be at the very least just enough for what they need, probably more than enough). this is of course not true if things greatly change in the next 5 years, but considering the last 5 years, things haven't changed enough to warrant a need to upgrade (i still have the same comptuer i had almost 7 years ago, with less than $500 worth of upgrades).
most technologically less-savvy/un-savvy users (which would be teh average computer consumer regardless of income) would want the most "power" they can get. even those with the lower budget will almost always get more than they need in a computer.
yes, average consumers do care about the speed of a computer. those with the money wnat to fork it out for the biggest, the best, the fastest, the most powerful, the [fill in superlative here]. most consumers do not look at the cost adn what they can do with the computer. if they can afford the top of the line machine to do their instant messaging, that's what they'll get. it's a status thing. the same reason people buy over-priced german cars when you can get a car that will last just as long (if not longer) and have all the features you could need for a lot cheaper if you bought a toyota or honda.
i'm annoyed with all the stupid questions it asks before you can choose your transaction... press here for english, press here to accept the $1.75 charge in addition to your own bank's charges, press this, press this... it's all annoying!!!!
that's what makes something that so "convenient" not so convenient. make them all english and force the non-english speakers to learn the damn language. if you're gonna live in the united states speak the damn language.
when was the last time you used a modern windows server os? in win2k, you can change network settings and not have to reboot, and this is what this guy was talking about. if it's a server, why do you need to update video card drivers? once you have some sort of video, isn't that really all it needs? i've never heard of a server needing high quality video since generally they aren't even connected to a monitor.
the problem i have with linux is the mounting/unmounting of drives. the process is so much easier in windows than linux/unix.
there's psychological issues that happen in kids who never spend time with people their own age. if he can't socialize with those poeple, he will have problems in college and later in life as well. he will learn to be an intelligent, mature adult, but he'll become one at 15 when he should be having fun and doing stupid high school shit. instead, you're teaching them to become more introverted when they're older. i never said he should be an immature jerk, just have fun and not hang around being all geeky and a complete loser all the time.
part of the thign is to be able to socialize with anyone. if you're the one always getting made fun of, you're not gonna help yourself if you can't socialize with your peers. it happened to me in high school, you learn to go with the punches, throw a few more, enjoy it, laugh it off, eventually getting the real losers to realize "hey, this isn't bothering this kid, he's not as bad as we thought".
i dont' give a crap how smart the kid is, only hanging out with phd grad students isn't going to help him socialize, it's gonna show him that he has to be always surrounded by highly intelligent people in order to socialize. i'm not saying take him out and get him drunk, but talk to him, be a friend, make him realize that math, science, and computers aren't all there is to life. make him raelize that socialization is probably far more important than all that other crap, but you gotta do so without making him feel like a dork. get him to come out and say that he wishes he could socialize better. work towards that. once he admits it, he'll realize a whole lot, and want to improve those skills. hanging out with other highly intelligent people, while being fun for him, doesn't help him much. ever phd student i've met only hung out with other superbly intelligent people (other grad students and profs and the like) and weren't that fun to be around for long periods of time, always making stupid jokes regarding whatever subject they studied (like the old "hey baby, wanna see my hard drive?" joke or something like "they f@$K like a bunch of lagamorphs (scientific term for bunnies)"). gets boring after a while and they, too, don't know all that much about socializing since grad school and research becomes your life when you're a phd student. take him out with you and your friends (not to the bar or out drinking, because although you might socialize more while drinking, you dont' want the kid to become an alcoholic). just let him observe, get the other guys to talk with him and joke with him (not make jokes at him). and make sure afterwards, you talk to him about the little observation. this will be better for him than hanging out with older grad students and highly intelligent people. that'll help him through high school (no one should ever go to college early as far as i'm concerned since your body and mind just aren't ready no matter how intelligent or mature you are or think you are) and once he goes to college, he'll make a whole new set of friends and there'll be more people. teach him the valueable lesson about a mid-large sized college, one that offers a whole variety of stuff (like a state school) because that'll give him the opportunity to meet and hang out with people from an extremely varied number of majors and backgrounds, while if he goes somewhere like MIT, they're mostly just as bad as him.
scrolling their complaints seems almost to me that it would be unlawful. they're abusing their power in this case and the broadcast is not being viewed the way it was meant to be. i was ready to call my cable company about the scroll bar (i didn't ahve the black bar, i saw the message). i have seen similar issues that were broadcast as commercials, why aren't they required to do that?
i'm not on dishnetwork and seeing the damn messages. i was gonna call my cable company about it, but apparently (after reading this), it's being overlaid by viacom
using the phrasal verb "set up" is slang, but it's been in the english language (at least for americans) for so long it's not considered slang anymore. i don't think there's any english language class that will teach you what that means, it's something you learn on your own. so while this would make sense, it's still considered slang.
the real problem with just eliminating slang is other things like the way we order our words. in english, the adjective usually comes first, in romantic languages, it comes second. gets hard to understand, and as you do more, it's worse.
this is why human translators are used for important stuff.
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i've had the same problem, i don't think you should be allowed to lock administrator out of anything, just like you can't lock root out of anything. and the "system" user that runs most of the services is not something you can log into the machine as.
and the same goes for a windows machine. sure, windows users generally run as administrator, but the malware that goes around now doesn't do any phyiscal damage to the machine. like i said, it just propogates. it spreads and spreads and spreads doing nothing more than that. the latest worm/virus to go around was the sasser virus. what did that do? what harm did that cause? nothing. some PERSON found a security hole in windows and used it to run code, which could have been run by a normal user on the machine (the shutdown -r command, which just restarts the computer). this can easily be aborted by running shutdown -a.
in the same way that a PERSON found this hole, PEOPLE find holes in linux. now say you have a kid who's extremely good with linux and programming and finds this wide open hole. this kid, rather than thinking "let me post a fix or report this hole" decides to go and make use of the whole to gain root on several (or even just 1) linux box. or worse writes something to bounce through several linux boxes and use these linux boxes to cause damage to a network or another computer and then self-destruct after the big damage has been done. let's say this kid is so good, he can hide it completely. it starts off and does all the damage, maybe not causing as much "big" damage as he hoped, but ending with the self-destruction of several linux boxes, much to their owner/administrator's surprise. how is this different than windows? you have no idea how many holes exist in linux. you won't know unless (1) you look at the code yourself or (2) someone else finds them. while i admit that there is a much better chance of someone finding the hole and patching it in linux than there is with windows, the fact remains that there are still hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands or millions of these unpatched linux boxes out there. this can cause jsut as much damage as any hole that exists in windows.
i want to know how you figure that linux and apple (or any other non-MS OS) requires human engineering to exploit a vulnerability, but the windows vulnerabilities do not require this. even if it can't gain root access to the machine, most linux users have access to the internet, have access to run stuff. so the virus runs itself, it sends itself to any unpatched machines it finds. how is this different than sasser or blaster? they infect unpatched machines as soon as they're found.
and how can you say that a fresh install of mandrake, red hat, or debian does not have to worry about being immediately rooted? say you install from CD. you are plugged into the network but don't have time to download the patches that were released since the time the CD was created (or the distribution was bought, doesn't apply to debian). i would think that if a vulnerability was found since the time the CD was created, you do have to worry. the only thing that saves you is the fact that there are fewer users and people are less likely to write linux viruses. you have just as good a chance at being infected as someone installing windows xp from scratch while being plugged into the internet.
and the common software i mentioned is pretty common software. i know it's all optional, but they've all had major vulerabilities in recent years, especially ssh. telnet is also (at least last time i checked which was a while ago) automatically turned on in many distros, especially red hat, one of the more common ones.
and for the record, i am by no means a windows advocate. but i do work in a windows environment, i am a primarily windows user, and i do not fear getting viruses on my own machines. i do, however, work in a college where students bring their own machines from home. so i deal with the viruses. do i worry about it? no. does it make me feel that people shoudl stop using windows because linux is superior? not in the least. i don't consider linux superior by any means. maybe as a server, but on the desktop for non-savvy users, never in a million year
in windows 2000 and windows xp, logging in as administrator is not the same as logging in as root. you cannot kill certain processes, you cannot delete certain files, you cannot do certain things. the main issue with most viruses that exist for windows is not that they have admin access, but that they propogate. the majority of "viruses" do not even fit the classic definition of "virus" in that they don't harm a computer. they're worms, they're designed to spread fast, causing only harm to the network because of all the traffic, not the computer itself. also, the security issues that microsoft tends to address are those that allow a remote attacker to gain admin access. this is the same issue that many popular pieces of software for linux have dealt with (ssh is a good example). no matter how you look at it, you have to keep a linux box patched and up-to-date or else you'll eventually run into some sort of issue, unless you're behind a good firewall. see my example in my last post for reasons. i'm not saying windows is better, but i'm definitely not about to say linux is better either. the fact remains that in order to have a truly secure system, you need to keep up-to-date with patches. i'm sure more holes exist in linux than we know about because there are far fewer people using linux than use windows. as an operating system itself, windows is no less secure than linux.
so you are in favor of security through obsurity? that's exactly what you mentioned. your reasoning suggests that the only reason linux and apple machines are more secure is that less people use them. while this is true, it's not a good form of security. i know someone who installed a red hat box and within a couple days, it was rooted and used to run ddos attacks on several major machines. the fbi contact the university about this box. that's because they did a standard install of red hat. it might have changed since then, but the fact remains that you can do a standard install of any linux distro and end up with an insecure machine unless you (1) install patches or (2) be sure to install only updated versions. seems to me that either option is similar to a windows install. and once your linux box is installed, you have to be sure you install any patches because there have been many very serious flaws in linux or the common software people run (apache, ssh, telnet, etc) that allow an attacker to gain root.
and i don't neurotically install patches, i have them automatically installed. i also don't fear attachments as i just delete the ones that look suspicious. there is no microsoft mentality at work here aside from the security through obscurity that you used as your reasoning for linux's and apple's lack of viruses.
if burning access is disabled it wouldn't be, but it'd still be a very grey area, probably closer to infringement since the owner of the computer doesn't own the CD's. it'd be less of a sharing thing i think. and when the kids leave the church, do they have to delete the songs they added?
php, not asp...
i had issues with my cable connection when i first got it (found out i couldn't just release and renew the ip address to get it reconnected, i had to actually restart the computer). i told the guy on the phone that i do tech support when he started treating me like the average dumb computer user and we got into a little conversation. basically it came down to him saying "so you actually fix real problems". thought that was funny. he admitted to me that he wasn't taht bright, just followed the book.
you can do pretty good jobs at hiding them... make it look like part of a tree or rock. it's an issue, but it will also show up that someone blocked it so you can always go and take care of it...
$30 is very reasonable considering what you pay for drinks and plane tickets anyways...
$10 for 30 minutes is very steep though. if you're on a 6 hour flight, that would be $120... the only time paying for half an hour is if you're on a short flight (that's under 90 min), but they might not even offer it on those flights. Also, they will probably restrict use during take-off and landing the same way the restrict cd player use. and how does it work with layovers and switching planes?
i guess it all depends on how much you need the internet.
the article says nothing about helping set your pace. the comfort of a shoe does not help one set their pace. i used to set my pace through my breathing, my shoes, no matter how worn out, had nothing to do with my pace. i don't see how a continuously changing shoe will help you.
when it comes down to it, the shoe is not going to make the difference between teh winner and the loser. in fact, these shoes would probably be more of a hinderance in a race than anything else. with a motor and all that other stuff, they're gonna weigh more. it won't be all that much more, but enough to make a difference. plus peopel generally have specific shoes for training and shoes for racing. these would be more of a training thing than a racing thing since training can be harder on your feet/body than the actual race. they don't actively improve your performance like other sporting equipment, they actively improve your comfort. yes i realize comfort can improve your performance, but you're gonna want something very lightweight for the race itself.
even if they can't hear the difference, they can't trade it once they put it on cd. that's the whole point. the purpose of using the lossless compression at places like etree is so that you can preserve the best quality possible and not have the degradation by generation that you had with trading analog cassettes. also, most concerts by bands like the dead and phish and other large bands that allow taping can last longer than 2.5 hours, so even the 128/44 mp3 isn't small enough to fit the whole who in 128 megs.
not anymore, too many logistical problems with that. plus a lot of those bands are reserving soundboard recordings for themselves now. this way they can make a few bucks off of selling the soundboards.
smaller bands that play smaller venues sometimes allow it, but that also depends on the venue as well.
there are other stories of a great flood in that area, not just the story of noah's ark. it's very possible that the ark does exist and that there was a flood.
as for your daughter... well, i feel bad for her. you gonna tell her that santa is also a hoax? ruin her childhood? now nice...
they actually are gonna make a 4th indiana jones movie...
there are theories that the ark could really be there. there's aerial photographs of the mountain that show something that could possibly the ark. so yes, there is a good reason for this and it's something highly debated, so of course it makes it to slashdot...
the status symbol brigade falls under the average user since they use the computer for the average thing. you can't consider average as just what they might have for a budget, average here is the average user of a computer, which includes those with higher budgets. now while those with less money won't go and spend a ton of money on the absolute most top of the line machine, you can find them buying something that is much "bigger and better" than they could ever want/need (even in 5 years time it will be at the very least just enough for what they need, probably more than enough). this is of course not true if things greatly change in the next 5 years, but considering the last 5 years, things haven't changed enough to warrant a need to upgrade (i still have the same comptuer i had almost 7 years ago, with less than $500 worth of upgrades).
most technologically less-savvy/un-savvy users (which would be teh average computer consumer regardless of income) would want the most "power" they can get. even those with the lower budget will almost always get more than they need in a computer.
yes, average consumers do care about the speed of a computer. those with the money wnat to fork it out for the biggest, the best, the fastest, the most powerful, the [fill in superlative here]. most consumers do not look at the cost adn what they can do with the computer. if they can afford the top of the line machine to do their instant messaging, that's what they'll get. it's a status thing. the same reason people buy over-priced german cars when you can get a car that will last just as long (if not longer) and have all the features you could need for a lot cheaper if you bought a toyota or honda.
i'm annoyed with all the stupid questions it asks before you can choose your transaction... press here for english, press here to accept the $1.75 charge in addition to your own bank's charges, press this, press this... it's all annoying!!!!
that's what makes something that so "convenient" not so convenient. make them all english and force the non-english speakers to learn the damn language. if you're gonna live in the united states speak the damn language.
when was the last time you used a modern windows server os? in win2k, you can change network settings and not have to reboot, and this is what this guy was talking about. if it's a server, why do you need to update video card drivers? once you have some sort of video, isn't that really all it needs? i've never heard of a server needing high quality video since generally they aren't even connected to a monitor.
the problem i have with linux is the mounting/unmounting of drives. the process is so much easier in windows than linux/unix.
there's psychological issues that happen in kids who never spend time with people their own age. if he can't socialize with those poeple, he will have problems in college and later in life as well. he will learn to be an intelligent, mature adult, but he'll become one at 15 when he should be having fun and doing stupid high school shit. instead, you're teaching them to become more introverted when they're older. i never said he should be an immature jerk, just have fun and not hang around being all geeky and a complete loser all the time.
part of the thign is to be able to socialize with anyone. if you're the one always getting made fun of, you're not gonna help yourself if you can't socialize with your peers. it happened to me in high school, you learn to go with the punches, throw a few more, enjoy it, laugh it off, eventually getting the real losers to realize "hey, this isn't bothering this kid, he's not as bad as we thought".
i dont' give a crap how smart the kid is, only hanging out with phd grad students isn't going to help him socialize, it's gonna show him that he has to be always surrounded by highly intelligent people in order to socialize. i'm not saying take him out and get him drunk, but talk to him, be a friend, make him realize that math, science, and computers aren't all there is to life. make him raelize that socialization is probably far more important than all that other crap, but you gotta do so without making him feel like a dork. get him to come out and say that he wishes he could socialize better. work towards that. once he admits it, he'll realize a whole lot, and want to improve those skills. hanging out with other highly intelligent people, while being fun for him, doesn't help him much. ever phd student i've met only hung out with other superbly intelligent people (other grad students and profs and the like) and weren't that fun to be around for long periods of time, always making stupid jokes regarding whatever subject they studied (like the old "hey baby, wanna see my hard drive?" joke or something like "they f@$K like a bunch of lagamorphs (scientific term for bunnies)"). gets boring after a while and they, too, don't know all that much about socializing since grad school and research becomes your life when you're a phd student. take him out with you and your friends (not to the bar or out drinking, because although you might socialize more while drinking, you dont' want the kid to become an alcoholic). just let him observe, get the other guys to talk with him and joke with him (not make jokes at him). and make sure afterwards, you talk to him about the little observation. this will be better for him than hanging out with older grad students and highly intelligent people. that'll help him through high school (no one should ever go to college early as far as i'm concerned since your body and mind just aren't ready no matter how intelligent or mature you are or think you are) and once he goes to college, he'll make a whole new set of friends and there'll be more people. teach him the valueable lesson about a mid-large sized college, one that offers a whole variety of stuff (like a state school) because that'll give him the opportunity to meet and hang out with people from an extremely varied number of majors and backgrounds, while if he goes somewhere like MIT, they're mostly just as bad as him.
scrolling their complaints seems almost to me that it would be unlawful. they're abusing their power in this case and the broadcast is not being viewed the way it was meant to be. i was ready to call my cable company about the scroll bar (i didn't ahve the black bar, i saw the message). i have seen similar issues that were broadcast as commercials, why aren't they required to do that?
i'm not on dishnetwork and seeing the damn messages. i was gonna call my cable company about it, but apparently (after reading this), it's being overlaid by viacom
using the phrasal verb "set up" is slang, but it's been in the english language (at least for americans) for so long it's not considered slang anymore. i don't think there's any english language class that will teach you what that means, it's something you learn on your own. so while this would make sense, it's still considered slang.
the real problem with just eliminating slang is other things like the way we order our words. in english, the adjective usually comes first, in romantic languages, it comes second. gets hard to understand, and as you do more, it's worse.
this is why human translators are used for important stuff.