"We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside," Rich said. "He took a hammer to the windshield."
Who finds out about that and then thinks its a video game issue.
Seems to me the parents suck ass.
Although, video games to have an impact on people, and to thing there is no effect, especially to a developing mind, would be foolish.
But this? this is bad parenting. Should have had his system removed from him a lot sooner.
Give him so old laptop that can't run it.
"Assume it's the parents" is no better than just assuming it's the video game.
I can assure you that once the kid is too big for you to pick up and put where you want, there are some pretty severe limits to what you can do. Sure, you can react, withhold privileges. But that works better on some kids than others.
My off the cuff guess on this one (without reading the fine article) would be mental illness, next would be general thuggery. Neither of which can be just blamed on the parents without more information.
Which western countries are these? In all of Europe you can't be held responsible for someone else's child, although if you did contribute to their upbringing and only found out later you often can't recover that money either.
Unless something has changed, in pretty much all of the US, the husband is the "putative father", and even if paternity is later established to be someone else the court can leave child support orders in place if in the "best interests of the child" (e.g. if the neighborhood hood who was the genetic donor has a lower income )
And in my (European) country, you can bet your ass you will pay through the nose for a child that you didn't choose.
This is true in the States as well.
Enforcement has been automated (and getting more automated) for decades, and there are all sorts of fun things like imputed income (you could be making more, so we'll assess you on that basis, etc.)
There are whole huge states where the stores have handy disposable bags at the ready. Some of these states are even contiguous.
It would indeed feel quite weird to suddenly encounter stores demanding that you bring your own bags.
Nobody "demands" you bring your own bags, but if you want bags at the cashier, you have to purchase them, they are not free. Hence, people buy sturdy reusable bags and sacs and bring them with them when they shop, in order to avoid having to purchase new (often flimsy and easily breakable) bags each time. It's quite normal.
Whatever man.
Around here (and by that I mean "probably for a thousand miles in any direction") the stores give you free bags that work well enough. And you reuse them at home for lots of things (most people do, anyway).
Yes, there are a few cranks who bring their own bags. You do your best not to get in line behind them.
Here at Microsoft, we have BioWare. Apparently it's not just the name of a game, it's all the name of biodegradable "plastic" utensils, which we're told to dispose of in the compost bin. Other places are using a corn-derived plastic substitute that is biodegradable.
Splutter... splutter... you can't just go and make plastic that isn't bad!
Microsoft doesn't decide how Amazon operates. If Amazon looks bad, it's down to Amazon alone.
You are being played.
This is common business stuff. Usually it's large businesses getting in bed with government, because they have the heft to comply but small competitors don't.
In this case it's a bit more nuanced, they are leveraging this against a large competitor.
It's hardly virtuous. In fact, pouring money into computer science education is just a ploy to drive down wages of their own employees. It's a twofer.
It's only Facebook. If their service censors stuff you want to read just use a different one. Twitter, Gab and 4/8chan all allow this kind of content. Twitter does as long as you don't call for violence or harass people, the others don't even care about that.
What is it about Facebook that makes it so special?
Yeah, I mean it's not like all the major platforms and payment processors will get together and... oh wait.
Honestly, these eggheads deserve more than just an award for having passed Turing Test. Scientists are real people too (and they have the Turing Awards to prove it)!;)
To be fair, we don't know if they passed it, just their creations;)
It's done at least as much good as harm. Instead of endless "click here!" there is an incentive to have your link text actually say something about what it links to.
No, but Christianity has the dangerous narrative built in that you can basically crap on the world because it's YOURS and when you're done with it, the end of the world is coming anyway and you go to a blissful place.
Basically it's suicide terrorism on a global scale.
Um.. no. You are commanded to love others as yourself, to put others needs ahead of your own.
Static emails don't go out of date, they contain exactly what they contained when I was sent them, which is what they are supposed to do.
It's server driven dynamic emails that would go dead, or replace what they told me then with whatever they want to tell me now. No thanks.
So, I'm told all the time now that aptitude doesn't exist for humans, that anyone can learn anything, that genetics doesn't determine (or maybe even influence) who will come out on top for a skill.
But it exists for dogs?
Maybe we could measure what we are going for here... we could call it DQ (Dog Quotient).
Free speech is fine if it is non-anonymous so the author can suffer the consequences of their speech (which in many cases on 8-chan may involve a SWAT team knocking their door down at 4am). Cowardly posting hate speech anonymously is not what the constitution protects.
Um, actually, anonymous pamphlets were a thing when the Constitution was written.
"so the author can suffer the consequences of their speech" is literally what the Left used to call "chilling effect"
However, this is a significant contingent of humanity that is unstable and/or impressionable. With this segment of the population, free and anonymous connectivity can be weaponized to amplify their misinformation/disinformation. It can be used to rally people to focus their feelings of living an unfulfilling life on to a scapegoat.
True. But when I point this out to leftists, that they are demonizing "Trump supporters" as a way of dealing with their own psychological problems, they don't seem to listen...
Just illustrating the problem here. Who gets to decide what is "misinformation/disinformation"?
"Not to worry; we'll only censor bad stuff" is not reassuring...
But when we're dealing with humans, we have to be extra careful, especially when the implications of whether someone's lying could lead to conviction, censorship, the loss of a job,
We already hit people with all that stuff just for typing stuff online that we don't like, to say nothing of whether it's true or not!
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"We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside," Rich said. "He took a hammer to the windshield."
Who finds out about that and then thinks its a video game issue.
Seems to me the parents suck ass.
Although, video games to have an impact on people, and to thing there is no effect, especially to a developing mind, would be foolish.
But this? this is bad parenting. Should have had his system removed from him a lot sooner.
Give him so old laptop that can't run it.
"Assume it's the parents" is no better than just assuming it's the video game.
I can assure you that once the kid is too big for you to pick up and put where you want, there are some pretty severe limits to what you can do. Sure, you can react, withhold privileges. But that works better on some kids than others.
My off the cuff guess on this one (without reading the fine article) would be mental illness, next would be general thuggery. Neither of which can be just blamed on the parents without more information.
$30/month for a glorified spell check that steals all of your contacts and stalks your physical location in order to check your spelling.
The tech industry has completely lost its mind. Enjoy your third "happy time" while it lasts.
Meh. I wouldn't use it, but if it works, there are people I know who should ...
(They give away all that stuff for every app anyway. They may as well get something useful in return.)
Which western countries are these? In all of Europe you can't be held responsible for someone else's child, although if you did contribute to their upbringing and only found out later you often can't recover that money either.
Unless something has changed, in pretty much all of the US, the husband is the "putative father", and even if paternity is later established to be someone else the court can leave child support orders in place if in the "best interests of the child" (e.g. if the neighborhood hood who was the genetic donor has a lower income )
And in my (European) country, you can bet your ass you will pay through the nose for a child that you didn't choose.
This is true in the States as well.
Enforcement has been automated (and getting more automated) for decades, and there are all sorts of fun things like imputed income (you could be making more, so we'll assess you on that basis, etc.)
There are whole huge states where the stores have handy disposable bags at the ready. Some of these states are even contiguous.
It would indeed feel quite weird to suddenly encounter stores demanding that you bring your own bags.
Nobody "demands" you bring your own bags, but if you want bags at the cashier, you have to purchase them, they are not free. Hence, people buy sturdy reusable bags and sacs and bring them with them when they shop, in order to avoid having to purchase new (often flimsy and easily breakable) bags each time. It's quite normal.
Whatever man.
Around here (and by that I mean "probably for a thousand miles in any direction") the stores give you free bags that work well enough. And you reuse them at home for lots of things (most people do, anyway).
Yes, there are a few cranks who bring their own bags. You do your best not to get in line behind them.
... is more efficient.
Yep. Kinda hard to staff a helpdesk by "gig", for example.
And the highest tier helpdesk are the programmers who actually know the system. Good luck providing that to your customers via "gig".
If they know who the robocallers are, why should we have to pay to block them? Why are they even allowing their calls to connect at all?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you've really never travelled more than 500 km from your place of residence.
There are whole huge states where the stores have handy disposable bags at the ready. Some of these states are even contiguous.
It would indeed feel quite weird to suddenly encounter stores demanding that you bring your own bags.
Wishing it, doesn't make it so. Neither does pissing your money away on a domain name.
Domain names are (generally) quite cheap. $10 or $15 / year to have some fun and/or make a point is no big deal.
Big business loves regulation. They can afford whole departments to comply with it, but small upstart competitors can't.
I'm an old nerd and I always said hard g gif.
That said, I really don't give a rip. Use PNGs (pings BTW, not puhnugs) and be done with it.
Here at Microsoft, we have BioWare. Apparently it's not just the name of a game, it's all the name of biodegradable "plastic" utensils, which we're told to dispose of in the compost bin. Other places are using a corn-derived plastic substitute that is biodegradable.
Splutter ... splutter ... you can't just go and make plastic that isn't bad!
Where would we get our moral superiority then????
Microsoft doesn't decide how Amazon operates. If Amazon looks bad, it's down to Amazon alone.
You are being played.
This is common business stuff. Usually it's large businesses getting in bed with government, because they have the heft to comply but small competitors don't.
In this case it's a bit more nuanced, they are leveraging this against a large competitor.
It's hardly virtuous. In fact, pouring money into computer science education is just a ploy to drive down wages of their own employees. It's a twofer.
It's only Facebook. If their service censors stuff you want to read just use a different one. Twitter, Gab and 4/8chan all allow this kind of content. Twitter does as long as you don't call for violence or harass people, the others don't even care about that.
What is it about Facebook that makes it so special?
Yeah, I mean it's not like all the major platforms and payment processors will get together and ... oh wait.
Honestly, these eggheads deserve more than just an award for having passed Turing Test. Scientists are real people too (and they have the Turing Awards to prove it)! ;)
To be fair, we don't know if they passed it, just their creations ;)
It's done at least as much good as harm. Instead of endless "click here!" there is an incentive to have your link text actually say something about what it links to.
Because "the first all female space walk" is stupid. If we're equal, then who cares?
But I'm sure this will be spun as being horribly unfair, how dare we not have enough woman-sized suits around, etc.
No, but Christianity has the dangerous narrative built in that you can basically crap on the world because it's YOURS and when you're done with it, the end of the world is coming anyway and you go to a blissful place.
Basically it's suicide terrorism on a global scale.
Um .. no. You are commanded to love others as yourself, to put others needs ahead of your own.
Static emails don't go out of date, they contain exactly what they contained when I was sent them, which is what they are supposed to do. It's server driven dynamic emails that would go dead, or replace what they told me then with whatever they want to tell me now. No thanks.
Infidel beheadings, of course, will continue to be broadcast unimpeded ...
So, I'm told all the time now that aptitude doesn't exist for humans, that anyone can learn anything, that genetics doesn't determine (or maybe even influence) who will come out on top for a skill.
But it exists for dogs?
Maybe we could measure what we are going for here ... we could call it DQ (Dog Quotient).
Free speech is fine if it is non-anonymous so the author can suffer the consequences of their speech (which in many cases on 8-chan may involve a SWAT team knocking their door down at 4am). Cowardly posting hate speech anonymously is not what the constitution protects.
Um, actually, anonymous pamphlets were a thing when the Constitution was written.
"so the author can suffer the consequences of their speech" is literally what the Left used to call "chilling effect"
However, this is a significant contingent of humanity that is unstable and/or impressionable. With this segment of the population, free and anonymous connectivity can be weaponized to amplify their misinformation/disinformation. It can be used to rally people to focus their feelings of living an unfulfilling life on to a scapegoat.
True. But when I point this out to leftists, that they are demonizing "Trump supporters" as a way of dealing with their own psychological problems, they don't seem to listen ...
Just illustrating the problem here. Who gets to decide what is "misinformation/disinformation"?
"Not to worry; we'll only censor bad stuff" is not reassuring ...
They want to create Superbugs.
You mean like when the federal government wanted to bring people in with horrible wasting diseases, a few years back? And deliberately did so?
But when we're dealing with humans, we have to be extra careful, especially when the implications of whether someone's lying could lead to conviction, censorship, the loss of a job,
We already hit people with all that stuff just for typing stuff online that we don't like, to say nothing of whether it's true or not!