suicide is sad just by itself, but killing yourself because of scientology... well, if there has ever been a more pointless death, i'd like to hear about it.
One solution is to get a good, programmable phone (a good nokia phone such as the n95, or any android phone) with a data plan and program it yourself. getting the gps data from the phone API would probably be trivial, but I'm not sure how to post this data somewhere where you can access it remotely. However, this would probably be an expensive solution for you, both in terms of CA$H, work, and convenience for your daughter (the n95 isn't exactly a child-friendly phone, and probably neither are most of the phones with open API's for GPS and data capabilities). Or, instead of a data plan, you could send periodical TXT messages from the phone to your email address. I'm pretty sure I've seen methods for this in the python API for SymbianOS (Nokia's platform). The latter might be easier and cheaper to pull off.
That being said, I have to agree with 99% of the other posts here, that lecture you on how you're overreacting. Kids get lost sometimes. Life isn't safe. They have to get used to it, and so do you. I'm sure your parents didn't have you tagged with GPS when you were a kid, and you seem to have survived (at least long enough to procreate)...
The problem is that such a line doesn't exist. The reason why we can neatly call something human or non-human today is that there's not much in terms of middle ground, and we don't have to be "scientific" in our definition of what is human - simple intuition is good enough. But when the day comes that such middle ground is created, we'll be forced to either come up with some arbitrary guidelines for classifying living beings as human/non-human, or to finally acknowledge the truth - at the end of the day, there's no such thing as "human", or even "living being". Unfortunately, the latter isn't really much of an option, since it's hard to imagine a functional society that doesn't believe that people are somehow special (or that people are, period). So I think sooner or later legislators will be forced to start bullshitting their way out of this problem by making up methods of deciding if something is "human enough" to have human rights, etc.
you know, if the media and politicians stopped making such a big deal of everything north korea ever does, i kind of think they'd stop... it's like angelina jolie adopting babies, or britney spears showing her sexual organs - it's all about attention.
retracting accidental pun: "*no body*" meant no message body (slashdot wouldn't let me submit with nothing in the message). it wasn't meant as an answer to the question in the subject. but it did answer it pretty accurately...
Are you kidding? When I think back to all the times that I felt like I was literally going to suffocate under the weight of my own guilt... Oh, memories.
I was never punished physically. My parents didn't see the point in that, even when it's "mock beating", aka spanking, which doesn't really cause any significant physical pain. Guilt, disapproving and disgusted looks, cold attitude - these were their tools. And yes, for a kid these things can hurt more than any physical punishment. But there's another side to it - the feeling of relief you get once you finally do the "right" thing. As I said, they never spanked me as punishment (only for fun... I've said too much), so I don't have anything to compare to, but I'll never forget the relief and joy I felt when I made the choice to do what I knew was the right thing to do, and felt their approval and acceptance. The point I'm trying to make is that while spanking works simply through negative reinforcement, the "passive-aggressive" methods actually force the victim to acknowledge what the right course of action was, and what their mistake was, and what they needed to do to fix it.
Ultimately, I don't know which is better. I guess the guilt stuff is riskier, because if you screw it up, you end up with a nervous, fucked up little loser. But that's kind of true in any case - they say one of the biggest factors in the development of an incredibly large range of psychological disorders is unpredictability and inconsistency of one's environment, and more specifically a feeling of unpredictability of the reactions of parents/other adults.
My doomsday device, sitting quietly in orbit above your precious little planet and patiently awaiting activation, runs linux! Celebrate, puny humans, for soon thou shalt be destroyed by the Great Old Penguin.
pfft. Microsoft is already working with Toshiba to develop a new drive for the xbox that uses gamma rays to read/write from the disk. Of course that means that the new xbox will destroy all organic lifeforms within 2-5 miles when it's turned on, but they don't really care...
"The simple fact is, if you don't like something, the natural human tendency is to stop looking at it."
That's not true. Every time I blow my nose, I have to stop and admire the stuff that came out of there. And trust me, I don't like looking at it... I just can't look away.
Yes, Cantor is the father of set theory, which makes his work important in pretty much any field in mathematics (including computer science; yes, that IS a branch of mathematics. anyone who doesn't agree can go sodomize themselves with the 4 coloring problem). Unfortunately, because he was so ahead of his times, the religious fanatics at the time (i.e. pretty much everyone) drove him insane. He was pretty much fucked over by everyone because they couldn't decouple the idea of infinity from god.
He really deserves to be remembered a lot more than he is.
well, that's kind of the hidden message - if you only do what will make you more popular in the voter's eyes, you won't do any of the things that need to be done because of somewhat complex reasons, since the voters (aka idiots) can't understand these. in other words, if you can't break something down to the level of "they hate america!" or "you won't be able to afford a 25,000 inch tv if we don't do this", then sorry, it ain't happening.
let me get this straight, they're training tens (hundreds?) of thousands of various kinds of soldiers each year, and they're aiming to train only 250 "cyberexperts" a year by 2011? And this after all the "reports" about russia and china bullying the entire world, including the US, with their DoS and other kinds of attacks? I see, if you can't see it explode, then it can't hurt you, right?
oh come on, do you have any idea how many times you come into contact with viruses (or virii... who gives a fuck which) every day? i know it's fun to predict doom, but don't get so serious about it.
so, roaches are more humanitarian than humans? if you did this with people, i'm pretty sure the strongest 40 would end up in one, leaving the weakest 10 in the other...
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off-topic but couldn't resist...
And conservatives want govt like... MS-DOS?
suicide is sad just by itself, but killing yourself because of scientology... well, if there has ever been a more pointless death, i'd like to hear about it.
trade off between safety and security? since when do those two contradict each other? :P
One solution is to get a good, programmable phone (a good nokia phone such as the n95, or any android phone) with a data plan and program it yourself. getting the gps data from the phone API would probably be trivial, but I'm not sure how to post this data somewhere where you can access it remotely. However, this would probably be an expensive solution for you, both in terms of CA$H, work, and convenience for your daughter (the n95 isn't exactly a child-friendly phone, and probably neither are most of the phones with open API's for GPS and data capabilities). Or, instead of a data plan, you could send periodical TXT messages from the phone to your email address. I'm pretty sure I've seen methods for this in the python API for SymbianOS (Nokia's platform). The latter might be easier and cheaper to pull off.
That being said, I have to agree with 99% of the other posts here, that lecture you on how you're overreacting. Kids get lost sometimes. Life isn't safe. They have to get used to it, and so do you. I'm sure your parents didn't have you tagged with GPS when you were a kid, and you seem to have survived (at least long enough to procreate)...
baby's first words - "got cheese, motherfucker?"
The problem is that such a line doesn't exist. The reason why we can neatly call something human or non-human today is that there's not much in terms of middle ground, and we don't have to be "scientific" in our definition of what is human - simple intuition is good enough. But when the day comes that such middle ground is created, we'll be forced to either come up with some arbitrary guidelines for classifying living beings as human/non-human, or to finally acknowledge the truth - at the end of the day, there's no such thing as "human", or even "living being". Unfortunately, the latter isn't really much of an option, since it's hard to imagine a functional society that doesn't believe that people are somehow special (or that people are, period). So I think sooner or later legislators will be forced to start bullshitting their way out of this problem by making up methods of deciding if something is "human enough" to have human rights, etc.
I can. Vista wouldn't run on a machine like that. For MS, it's better if people are stuck with XP than if they get introduced/used to Linux.
Runs on all platforms.
Depends on your definition of "runs". On my 2 year old machine, it does nothing but crawl...
you know, if the media and politicians stopped making such a big deal of everything north korea ever does, i kind of think they'd stop... it's like angelina jolie adopting babies, or britney spears showing her sexual organs - it's all about attention.
retracting accidental pun: "*no body*" meant no message body (slashdot wouldn't let me submit with nothing in the message). it wasn't meant as an answer to the question in the subject. but it did answer it pretty accurately...
*no body*
This reminds me of Dr. Shay's alternative to Ritalin in South Park ep 403 ("Timmy 2000").
Are you kidding? When I think back to all the times that I felt like I was literally going to suffocate under the weight of my own guilt... Oh, memories.
I was never punished physically. My parents didn't see the point in that, even when it's "mock beating", aka spanking, which doesn't really cause any significant physical pain. Guilt, disapproving and disgusted looks, cold attitude - these were their tools. And yes, for a kid these things can hurt more than any physical punishment. But there's another side to it - the feeling of relief you get once you finally do the "right" thing. As I said, they never spanked me as punishment (only for fun... I've said too much), so I don't have anything to compare to, but I'll never forget the relief and joy I felt when I made the choice to do what I knew was the right thing to do, and felt their approval and acceptance. The point I'm trying to make is that while spanking works simply through negative reinforcement, the "passive-aggressive" methods actually force the victim to acknowledge what the right course of action was, and what their mistake was, and what they needed to do to fix it.
Ultimately, I don't know which is better. I guess the guilt stuff is riskier, because if you screw it up, you end up with a nervous, fucked up little loser. But that's kind of true in any case - they say one of the biggest factors in the development of an incredibly large range of psychological disorders is unpredictability and inconsistency of one's environment, and more specifically a feeling of unpredictability of the reactions of parents/other adults.
My doomsday device, sitting quietly in orbit above your precious little planet and patiently awaiting activation, runs linux! Celebrate, puny humans, for soon thou shalt be destroyed by the Great Old Penguin.
pfft. Microsoft is already working with Toshiba to develop a new drive for the xbox that uses gamma rays to read/write from the disk. Of course that means that the new xbox will destroy all organic lifeforms within 2-5 miles when it's turned on, but they don't really care...
"The simple fact is, if you don't like something, the natural human tendency is to stop looking at it."
That's not true. Every time I blow my nose, I have to stop and admire the stuff that came out of there. And trust me, I don't like looking at it... I just can't look away.
Yes, Cantor is the father of set theory, which makes his work important in pretty much any field in mathematics (including computer science; yes, that IS a branch of mathematics. anyone who doesn't agree can go sodomize themselves with the 4 coloring problem). Unfortunately, because he was so ahead of his times, the religious fanatics at the time (i.e. pretty much everyone) drove him insane. He was pretty much fucked over by everyone because they couldn't decouple the idea of infinity from god.
He really deserves to be remembered a lot more than he is.
steve is god. gods don't die.
well, that's kind of the hidden message - if you only do what will make you more popular in the voter's eyes, you won't do any of the things that need to be done because of somewhat complex reasons, since the voters (aka idiots) can't understand these. in other words, if you can't break something down to the level of "they hate america!" or "you won't be able to afford a 25,000 inch tv if we don't do this", then sorry, it ain't happening.
sudo apt-get install font-snob...
sorry, i've been trying to get latex2html working all night, now everything looks like a package name to me.
btw, resurrect the witch hunts, BURN comic sans USERS!
let me get this straight, they're training tens (hundreds?) of thousands of various kinds of soldiers each year, and they're aiming to train only 250 "cyberexperts" a year by 2011? And this after all the "reports" about russia and china bullying the entire world, including the US, with their DoS and other kinds of attacks? I see, if you can't see it explode, then it can't hurt you, right?
This can't possibly be one size fits all. I wonder if they have to make sizes for different combinations of arm, leg, and back length?
oh come on, do you have any idea how many times you come into contact with viruses (or virii... who gives a fuck which) every day? i know it's fun to predict doom, but don't get so serious about it.
so, roaches are more humanitarian than humans? if you did this with people, i'm pretty sure the strongest 40 would end up in one, leaving the weakest 10 in the other...
it's not quantum, it's just multicore quacking.