Then you allow them to only go to the school, and not let them wander off to a strip club. (ie, password-protected account with access restrictions)
I've been wading through Porn since I was 9 years old, back on BBSs. (albiet, back then images did not pop up on the screen. Heck back on BBSs nothing popped up much of anywheres.) But let me tell you something, I never let the porn distract me from my true goal.
I'm not sure why so many people say it's hard to learn. I learned it at the age around the age of 8, along with everyone else of my generation (I'm 30). If you can teach a 2nd or 3rd grader to do it, it's not difficult.
Now that is a nice absolute statement with no proof behind it.
My teachers never WHERE able to teach me cursive, despite my having a personal hand moving thingy therapist person!
I found that in a lot of college stuff, simply churning out loads of crapola netted a decent mark. As long as I was close to the topic of the question (for multi-mark questions) and hit a few key points, then I got some of the marks. I think it's a fallability of teachers... with so many tests to mark, they just don't/can't take the time to entirely read every answer fully, so they skim for key points or common mistakes. Don't really screw up, and you get the marks. I remmeber at one time smart students were embedding "easter egg" comments and still getting super-high grades, simply because the teacher felt secure in briefly skimming their answers (my 150+ page final coding project was nice for this).
Ah, on the flip side, do not try this with really anal teachers.
On a essay style history test, I once put down in the middle of a sentence, "...and do to those damn fucking republicans..."
I got knocked off three points and a comment to the side asking me to please not swear one exams.
(The Professor was a die hard Democrat or else I may have been knocked down a few more points, heh)
Freaky to think that AOL is actually, you know, aiding freedom of speech, rather than restricting it through their idiotic TOS.
(I left AOL a looong long time ago when they started censoring their joke sites, bleck!)
Hmm, next thing you know, Time Warner will be offering streaming movies up online with a pay-per-view system in place!
Actually not all that unbelievable, with the cost of computers being so low, maybe the "net convergence" of TV and the Internet COULD come true, daring technology for once being created AND pushed by a big media corporation.
Hmm, video on demand would be nice as well, I know that there have been times that I would be willing to pay a few extra dollars to watch a TV show when ever and not have to wait for it to come on TV at its normally scheduled time.:)
I mean sure there is TV, but then there is "oh yah here is that one really good episode of The Simpsons that you wanted, a $1.50 has been deducted from your account."
But, ah, until then, I'll just enjoy encryption my IMs for, err, whatever reason. And using third party tools to encrypt my AIM logs as well, heh.
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OCD is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, it is basicaly a mental health disorder associated with doing things repeatedly beyond any reasonable level. It is when small habits like bitting fingernails go to far and a person feels that they need to bite their fingernails.
It ranges from the mundane cases of people who have to do such and such action before they go to work every day, to the most extreme cases of people who literally scrub their skin raw.
See the movie As Good As It Gets for an excellent depiction of a character with OCD.
As a side note, OCD is very prevalent amongst the Asian population, just as various other disorders are prevalent amongst other world populations. It also occurs with surprisingly high tendency amongst ADD and ADHD patients, as well as being a nice accompaniment disorder along with many other disorders.
Different people manifest OCD in different ways, though the general distinguisher between OCD and a habit is that a person with OCD has that feeling of "needing" to do something. They may not even realize this need until they try to stop their actions, sometimes they feel like something bad will habit if they do not take those actions (OCD is not superstition though).
Mild to moderate cases of OCD can be treated very successfully though traditional sit down and talk it over therapy, medicine also works wonders on it, with Prozac being the most often prescribed helper. Of course medicine alone is rarely the best answer and therapy of some sort should most likely accompany any medicinal treatments.
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Check sig line.:)
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expecting ATI to even still make bug fixes for such an old card is a little much.
Matrox is still updating their G200 drivers, the last release was on March 14th 2003.
One advantage of having a unified driver set.:)
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Mac OS and Windows: Using ATI video drivers will lead to random crashes on many sites.
How the heck are RANDOM CRASHES an acceptable release time bug? Especialy with the many MANY users out there who have integrated ATI chips?
ah yes, and here is another good one. ..
Double right clicking on a page can disable the keyboard.
Err, I am NOT using 1.4 RC1 any time soon, I have OCD and I compulsivly click on white space on a website while reading it. (no, seriously. . ..)
Dialog Boxes and Windows
If Mozilla is locked up but doesn't seem to have crashed, make sure there are no dialog boxes still open.
Ah, oh well, IE still has this one (thanks to Acrobat Reader "checking" for updates, which can be hard to spot behind ten gazzilion different IE windows open!)
The attachments will not all be shown or you
may experience a crash when attempting to display them.
Noooo comment. . ..
Seriously, people, say it with me, s-t-a-b-i-l-i-t-y.
Oh well, it is RC1 for a reason. . . . hopefuly the final RC doesn't have any KNOWN crash bugs. . . . heh. . . . hopefuly. . . . (I really hate it when a software's suggested fix for a crash is "not to do that". Excuse me, but unless I hit the computer with a hammer, I expect it to WORK.....)
Why should computer game servers be exempt from the usual laws about hacking into peoples' systems? Those who break into banks are prosecuted, if caught.
Yah, but this is like hacking into Chucky Cheese and making the big mouse head start singing the Barney Song.
I mean come on, so freaking what!!!
Isn't there an old story in the Jargon File some place (or some other Sacred Text) about some players who hacked into a text based MUD many years back and went flying around in the Star Ship Enterprise?
Maybe the problem is that I don't have admin privs on the machine,
You are on a Windows box, how hard can Admin be to get? *G*
It does check for SOME permissions, but not all of the ones that it should.
Err, hey wait a minute, where exactly are you at that you are installing p2p applications but don't have admin privileges? Naughty naughty boy.:-P (or if it is your own computer, log on as admin, duh!)
But don't blame BT that the box is locked down too tight.
When I was a kiddo, the first time I did something it was funny. The second time I did it, my parents told me to stop. The third time, I'd get a spanking. I've seen this post over 5 times word for word in previous topics.... get it?
Yeesh, where have you been? They've been posting this one for literaly years now. . ..
No, it isn't. Running a high-traffic private ftp costs a fortune, but with BitTorrent you can have more people downloading and more bandwidth per-user... with little to no cost.
True true, but BitTorrent is not designed and does not work well for large volume archives. Finding older material on Bit Torrent is reliant upon there being somebody out there who feels like "seeding" it.
On the flip side, I have had, in the past, private FTP access to sites with over 80GB of shows on them, with entire series arranged and ordered available for download 24/7.
The key is just finding somebody with the funds.:)
Apart from the usual software armor that gets put in place, how about something like another (smallish) boot partition that holds a compressed image of the filesystem as originally installed? When you boot to that partition, all it does is dd (via bzip) a copy to your other partition and reboot. Use a bootloader menu of "Re-Install System" or something, and a few dire warnings and a password before it begins of course..
Ok, this is scary, but in the Wonderful World of Windows this is actualy a not to uncommon way to setup systems. Upon every boot, the entire system is reimaged, with personal files being stored on a central server to avoid the wipe.
You seperate that number into coins using the greedy algorithm they tought you in kindergarden.
I'm finishing up calc3 I had NEVER heard of that algorithm until this discussion.
Turns out I had been USING it, but I hadn't heard it formalized before.:-P
On the flip side, my elementary school DID teach darn nearly every algorithm for multiplication, and (a fair bit later in life:-P ) I was able to calculate logarithms to two decimal place accuracy in my head.
(no clue how I was pulling that last one off, heh)
One of the issues is that Windows computers degrade, if not gracefully, at least in a somewhat nice manner. Sure towards the end of the "install, use, reinstall" cycle they may crash every half an hour (or more often!), at least they boot into a GUI and you can load up (most of? some of?) your programs.
A *nix machine can have X die hard and not boot into a GUI at all. Sure it may be easy for somebody who KNOWS what they are doing to fix, but, err, this is a school, students are there to learn basic life skills first and foremost, not fart around with config files. (or, if they are farting around with config files, that is an elective, heh)
Also, it is far harder to FUBAR a Windows box just from regular day to day use. Windows may eat itself up, but at least little of that it due to user intervention.:-D
By comparison, I have managed to get X to fail to start up in under 10 minutes of a new install without ever touching a single config file (with a text editor at least, obviously something was changed!!)
A properly setup *nix box MAY last forever, but this is a school environment, remember, kids are kids, and they will find endless pleasure in typing in random crap until the system goes tits up.:)
My experience has been that even if a paper is submitted to a teacher or professor (I played this game five years ago in high school), the teacher immediately prints it and pulls out a red pen rather than grading it electronically.
For a damn good reason. Do you realize how hard it is to correct a paper digitally? Even the best digital pen systems out there are no match for a good old ball point pen.
Also, the way the human eye scans documents when reading them off of a computer screen (scrolling et all) encourages far more mistakes and necessitates multiple readings to catch the same number of mistakes as one read through of a hard copy.
notes scribbled on paper also have automatic "version / draft" management. Just select the word that you like best from all those jotted down. . .
Lets say a library saves you a week. Now, lets say that like more people you use at least 4 libraries. Now, you've saved a month. A *month*, at which point you say you'll start to "consider" using external libraries.
And lets say I, as a user, lose one single HOURS worth of work because your damn application crashed while saving a file.
I am going to want to come and strangle you no matter WHOSE library you use.
Lesson: THE USER DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL PROGRAMMING PHILOSOPHY, JUST STOP RELEASING BUGWARE PLEASE/end
As for bloat, the Microsoft volume control with windows 2000 takes up around 3 megs. Ouch.
I can tell you with absolute certainty (no, I don't work for Gator) that you have to actually agree to install Gator or OfferCompanion. People who download it on their system and then blame it to be covert is just dumb. Most people click next. Most people don't read the clause that states, "This is ad supported software, OfferCompanion or Gator will be installed
That include that damned weather pop up ad? Or the ten thousand OTHER versions of gater that are NOT labled as such?
What viruses would that leave? Every major virus wants to be around after a reboot...
Code Red did a ton of damage without needing rebooting, and once Administrative Privileges are gained on a system, the virus scanner is toasted UNLESS it is CONSTANTLY monitoring the system's memory to make sure something shifty isn't going on.
The registry is not some mystical, mythical thing... A program can easilly watch the dozen or so keys in the registry where startup programs are launched.
Plenty of havoc can be wrecked on the registry WITHOUT needing to alter the startup programs.
Heck, even excluding the registry, viruses have propagated long before Windows9x and Windows NTx were around.
I don't think asking permission from the user for those select keys would be a problem.
Your right, the user would just call up the local "computer person" and ask him / her what to do for each individual case, until the user got so used to hearing "click ok" that they accepted anything.
Doh.
You obviously didn't understand my post. The antivirus program needs to watch the programs that run at startup, and prevent them from being written to.
Oh yah, that works GREAT for auto-updating programs. Or do you want the user to have to manually OK that to? What about a virus that masquerades as an autoupdater?
Hell, what about a virus that just plain old fashion wipes out the MBR? The partition table? Or (ick) corrupts the BIOS?
What about a virus that goes around corrupting Word documents adding or deleting random segments from them? Viruses that send out tons of random e-mails? Viruses that do anything else in the world but sit there and stay resident?
How about viruses that infect executable files and then each time the file is run wreck random havoc on the user's computer? Are those "acceptable" viruses that do not have to be detected and cleaned?
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Ick, that is fucked up. The rule SHOULD be;
carry a cell phone, get kicked out.
I've been wading through Porn since I was 9 years old, back on BBSs. (albiet, back then images did not pop up on the screen. Heck back on BBSs nothing popped up much of anywheres.) But let me tell you something, I never let the porn distract me from my true goal.
The warez!
Now that is a nice absolute statement with no proof behind it.
My teachers never WHERE able to teach me cursive, despite my having a personal hand moving thingy therapist person!
Ah, on the flip side, do not try this with really anal teachers.
On a essay style history test, I once put down in the middle of a sentence, "...and do to those damn fucking republicans..."
I got knocked off three points and a comment to the side asking me to please not swear one exams.
(The Professor was a die hard Democrat or else I may have been knocked down a few more points, heh)
My main problem with Cursive is that it is far to hard to remember.
I have had many English teachers who couldn't remember how the cursive lowercase "z" went. . . .
Freaky to think that AOL is actually, you know, aiding freedom of speech, rather than restricting it through their idiotic TOS.
:)
(I left AOL a looong long time ago when they started censoring their joke sites, bleck!)
Hmm, next thing you know, Time Warner will be offering streaming movies up online with a pay-per-view system in place!
Actually not all that unbelievable, with the cost of computers being so low, maybe the "net convergence" of TV and the Internet COULD come true, daring technology for once being created AND pushed by a big media corporation.
Hmm, video on demand would be nice as well, I know that there have been times that I would be willing to pay a few extra dollars to watch a TV show when ever and not have to wait for it to come on TV at its normally scheduled time.
I mean sure there is TV, but then there is "oh yah here is that one really good episode of The Simpsons that you wanted, a $1.50 has been deducted from your account."
But, ah, until then, I'll just enjoy encryption my IMs for, err, whatever reason. And using third party tools to encrypt my AIM logs as well, heh.
OCD is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, it is basicaly a mental health disorder associated with doing things repeatedly beyond any reasonable level. It is when small habits like bitting fingernails go to far and a person feels that they need to bite their fingernails.
It ranges from the mundane cases of people who have to do such and such action before they go to work every day, to the most extreme cases of people who literally scrub their skin raw.
See the movie As Good As It Gets for an excellent depiction of a character with OCD.
As a side note, OCD is very prevalent amongst the Asian population, just as various other disorders are prevalent amongst other world populations. It also occurs with surprisingly high tendency amongst ADD and ADHD patients, as well as being a nice accompaniment disorder along with many other disorders.
Different people manifest OCD in different ways, though the general distinguisher between OCD and a habit is that a person with OCD has that feeling of "needing" to do something. They may not even realize this need until they try to stop their actions, sometimes they feel like something bad will habit if they do not take those actions (OCD is not superstition though).
Mild to moderate cases of OCD can be treated very successfully though traditional sit down and talk it over therapy, medicine also works wonders on it, with Prozac being the most often prescribed helper. Of course medicine alone is rarely the best answer and therapy of some sort should most likely accompany any medicinal treatments.
Check sig line. :)
Matrox is still updating their G200 drivers, the last release was on March 14th 2003.
One advantage of having a unified driver set.
How the heck are RANDOM CRASHES an acceptable release time bug? Especialy with the many MANY users out there who have integrated ATI chips?
ah yes, and here is another good one. .
Err, I am NOT using 1.4 RC1 any time soon, I have OCD and I compulsivly click on white space on a website while reading it. (no, seriously. . .
If Mozilla is locked up but doesn't seem to have crashed, make sure there are no dialog boxes still open.
Ah, oh well, IE still has this one (thanks to Acrobat Reader "checking" for updates, which can be hard to spot behind ten gazzilion different IE windows open!)
Noooo comment. . .
Seriously, people, say it with me, s-t-a-b-i-l-i-t-y.
Oh well, it is RC1 for a reason. . . . hopefuly the final RC doesn't have any KNOWN crash bugs. . . . heh. . . . hopefuly. . . . (I really hate it when a software's suggested fix for a crash is "not to do that". Excuse me, but unless I hit the computer with a hammer, I expect it to WORK.
Yah, but this is like hacking into Chucky Cheese and making the big mouse head start singing the Barney Song.
I mean come on, so freaking what!!!
Isn't there an old story in the Jargon File some place (or some other Sacred Text) about some players who hacked into a text based MUD many years back and went flying around in the Star Ship Enterprise?
You are on a Windows box, how hard can Admin be to get? *G*
It does check for SOME permissions, but not all of the ones that it should.
Err, hey wait a minute, where exactly are you at that you are installing p2p applications but don't have admin privileges? Naughty naughty boy.
But don't blame BT that the box is locked down too tight.
I downloaded the low quality Esoteric release. :-P
Props to whatever group got the HQ copy out, now just to sort that distrobution out from the 50 other LQ copies floating around!
I don't want a cell phone? (I don't)
But I do want a PDA (waiting until they get those foldable screens)
Oh well, I smell a niche market!
Yeesh, where have you been? They've been posting this one for literaly years now. . .
Somebody dug into the Troll archives, heh.
True true, but BitTorrent is not designed and does not work well for large volume archives. Finding older material on Bit Torrent is reliant upon there being somebody out there who feels like "seeding" it.
On the flip side, I have had, in the past, private FTP access to sites with over 80GB of shows on them, with entire series arranged and ordered available for download 24/7.
The key is just finding somebody with the funds.
Ok, this is scary, but in the Wonderful World of Windows this is actualy a not to uncommon way to setup systems. Upon every boot, the entire system is reimaged, with personal files being stored on a central server to avoid the wipe.
Actualy, private FTP access was (and still is) the way to go.
I'm finishing up calc3 I had NEVER heard of that algorithm until this discussion.
Turns out I had been USING it, but I hadn't heard it formalized before.
On the flip side, my elementary school DID teach darn nearly every algorithm for multiplication, and (a fair bit later in life
(no clue how I was pulling that last one off, heh)
One of the issues is that Windows computers degrade, if not gracefully, at least in a somewhat nice manner. Sure towards the end of the "install, use, reinstall" cycle they may crash every half an hour (or more often!), at least they boot into a GUI and you can load up (most of? some of?) your programs.
:-D
:)
A *nix machine can have X die hard and not boot into a GUI at all. Sure it may be easy for somebody who KNOWS what they are doing to fix, but, err, this is a school, students are there to learn basic life skills first and foremost, not fart around with config files. (or, if they are farting around with config files, that is an elective, heh)
Also, it is far harder to FUBAR a Windows box just from regular day to day use. Windows may eat itself up, but at least little of that it due to user intervention.
By comparison, I have managed to get X to fail to start up in under 10 minutes of a new install without ever touching a single config file (with a text editor at least, obviously something was changed!!)
A properly setup *nix box MAY last forever, but this is a school environment, remember, kids are kids, and they will find endless pleasure in typing in random crap until the system goes tits up.
No, the license specificaly states that it is in relationship to "object code form of LindowsOS".
For a damn good reason. Do you realize how hard it is to correct a paper digitally? Even the best digital pen systems out there are no match for a good old ball point pen.
Also, the way the human eye scans documents when reading them off of a computer screen (scrolling et all) encourages far more mistakes and necessitates multiple readings to catch the same number of mistakes as one read through of a hard copy.
notes scribbled on paper also have automatic "version / draft" management. Just select the word that you like best from all those jotted down. . .
And lets say I, as a user, lose one single HOURS worth of work because your damn application crashed while saving a file.
I am going to want to come and strangle you no matter WHOSE library you use.
Lesson: THE USER DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL PROGRAMMING PHILOSOPHY, JUST STOP RELEASING BUGWARE PLEASE
As for bloat, the Microsoft volume control with windows 2000 takes up around 3 megs. Ouch.
That include that damned weather pop up ad? Or the ten thousand OTHER versions of gater that are NOT labled as such?
Code Red did a ton of damage without needing rebooting, and once Administrative Privileges are gained on a system, the virus scanner is toasted UNLESS it is CONSTANTLY monitoring the system's memory to make sure something shifty isn't going on.
Plenty of havoc can be wrecked on the registry WITHOUT needing to alter the startup programs.
Heck, even excluding the registry, viruses have propagated long before Windows9x and Windows NTx were around.
Your right, the user would just call up the local "computer person" and ask him / her what to do for each individual case, until the user got so used to hearing "click ok" that they accepted anything.
Doh.
Oh yah, that works GREAT for auto-updating programs. Or do you want the user to have to manually OK that to? What about a virus that masquerades as an autoupdater?
Hell, what about a virus that just plain old fashion wipes out the MBR? The partition table? Or (ick) corrupts the BIOS?
What about a virus that goes around corrupting Word documents adding or deleting random segments from them? Viruses that send out tons of random e-mails? Viruses that do anything else in the world but sit there and stay resident?
How about viruses that infect executable files and then each time the file is run wreck random havoc on the user's computer? Are those "acceptable" viruses that do not have to be detected and cleaned?