Posting on FB is for everyone I think while texting is for a specific person so I think even if the judge had ruled otherwise it would not have applied to FB stuff.
That said, it was the responsibility of the driver to not text while driving, unless he got a text message saying " I know you are driving lets sext chat"
I would say this one is still an okay story to put on Slashdot compared to some of the other constantly anti-Apple stories ( really, have we all come to a consensus Apple is evil and others are not? and I am not an Apple fan either ) and the anti-TSA stuff (how many stories do we need of that? We all are in agreement about that one for sure).
Why is this particular story interesting? IMHO , how bad is faking your identity online ? I mean did she solicit students for sex ? or was it just to know the current vibe among? Did she just wanna be a cool principal by knowing what goes on among her students ? I briefly read the above article about the whole PE teacher thing.
I dont know. Has no one used a fake name in real life ever? Does Facebook have a policy that you cannot lie about your age to underage kids ?
I think it raises some interesting questions about online identities. I mean what if she was friends with some kid in the school and she got that kid to give her the username/password of their fb account (hypothetically speaking) and just looked at all her friends profiles and walls etc. Wouldn't that be similar to this?
Lets talk about the US here :
1) Dictatorial style governance - check
2) Huge stockpile of nukes - check
3) Regularly goes to war with other nations - check
4) Corruption high - check
Still the US gets to comment on other nations when they test nukes?
The URL hierarchy is not destroyed as much as it is decentralized. If I am not missing anything, there is really not much difference except earlier it used to be pepsi.com and now it will be.pepsi.
It is cold here in the winter time so kids cannot go out much. There are only that many other things around the house that you can get them engaged in. Besides, the computer has some cool paint software that kids can play with. There is also one app on the Ipad (among the many) that teaches how to play piano.
As long as you don't let them spend too much time on the computer and you can properly monitor their usage, it is fine for kids to be on the computer to get familiar with it.
My nephews and niece did this when they used to visit my parents place. Within days of their visit my dad, who is not much of a computer person, will call me asking why windows has stopped working. I got a lot of software installed on their computer to monitor these things, yet somehow the kids always managed to install some crap.
One good thing that happened was when they turned their attention to Ipads. It has apps on it that are kid friendly but haven't seen Viruses Trojans etc in Ipad apps yet.
Has automated driving reached a point where if there was an accident the fault would be on the driver and not the carmaker? Until then no one is going to sell these cars. It is a great idea, though, and combined with some other great idea of cheap fuel, I hope it replaces flying ( and getting raped by DHS) altogether.
Google has been experimenting with so many things lately. They are fiddling with self-driven cars, trying to get into home entertainment system , cell phone business etc. I have been a big fan of google, but lately I have been issues with a lot of their products. This is mostly maintainence stuff but it annoys me, especially considering that the products were good and easy to use in the beginning such that I switched to using google stuff for a lot of my day to day activities;
Gmail has become slower and every now and then does something weird which forces me to close/reopen the tab
Chrome memory usage has gone way up in case anyone is noticing. With the approx same number of tabs and plugins/extensions etc , I see all the different chrome processes add up to the same amount as firefox or even more. I could have sworn it was lesser around 6 months back.
Google talk connection quality has gone down
The gmail app on android has a tonne of bugs with respect to syncing and notifications. They keep fixing some and creating some everytime we have a new release. Currently, my android is not showing me notifications from Gmail app. I see them only from the stock email app.
Now, google wallet earlier got pretty bad reviews for security and even this time around their ratings were not good.
I wonder if they can put their weight behind only some of the items and make sure they get out a good product and maintain it properly would that be a better thing to do. I know they recently cancelled some projects, but they still have a lot of projects in a lot of myriad areas.
What they essentially mean is - "It was Turing's fault that he was born in those times apparently and there is nothing we can do about it. May his soul never rest in peace."
Honest police system and enforcement of rules are the best way to counter that kind of terrorism. The problem with India is that it does neither. The fighter jets are needed for China mainly, not pakistan.
India is buying weapons to counter an ever increasing Chinese & Pakistani threats across its borders. However, this particular deal was stupid .
Although, the link below is not the best source of news, it provides some insight as to what happened with this deal.
http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-why-iaf-does-not-need-either-eurofighter-or-rafale/20111111.htm
[warning - slide-show]
Most of the issues regarding this deal exist mainly because Indian govt did not want to wait for the US to complete testing on their latest F35s and wanted some order fast event though the F-35s are much better than the Dassault aircraft. I think this was mostly due to politics given that elections are around the corner next year.
You know you could download life size porn dolls or something. Maybe send a picture out of someone and it would send you a physible to make a look alike!!
I think the benefit of such undertakings - creating the lowest costing item - is usually that some of the ideas that come out of it can be used by other companies to bring down the price of the device in general. Ofcourse, if they hit upon a radical way of making tablets cheaper yayy. Otherwise, if at least some of their ideas can incorporated to make things cheaper and more accessible to other parts of the world as well, then thats the biggest victory for them.
Have you never been to San Jose ? You would know the answers to most of these questions yourself otherwise !
Are Indians paid less than Americans as a whole ?
- No
Are Indians exploited more than Americans ?
- Absolutely
You have no idea how correct you are. As someone who has worked in the "core" areas, Cisco leadership now comprises of people who have stayed there due to various reasons like politics, visa issues etc etc. Most of the really smart people responsible for the networking boom in Cisco have left for greener ventures or they got tired of the politics/incompentency that is rampant in Cisco.
Another example that is really close to my heart - The unit I worked for has around 500+ people out of which it is safe to say 450+ are Indians. It is safe to say the situation is the same in other units as well. The culture has become so Indianized that managers often talk in hindi and organize lunches to Indian places even if there is maybe 1 non-indian in the group (what will he do , quit ? ). The situation is so bad that even within Indians there is politics. My group that I worked on comprises of 5 people out of which 4 are from the same part of India. The 2nd level Manager only looks for people that are from the same part of India as he is. This is also visible in other groups across my BU.
No problem against Indians for me, but these people brought with them a highly non-professional and obsolete management style consisting of manager-worship, no questions asked style of leadership and that was suffocating for me as a developer. Any average person like me in Cisco is bound to get frustrated and leave!.
Most people there choose to stay because they have their green cards being processed and they cannot leave. The managers know that well and they try to exploit that in every way possible.
The end result is an extremely mediocre management team that now faces competition from Huawei, Juniper, HP etc and has no clue how to go about it.
Maybe this is the future of scanning? Stop people if they have any ideas of blowing the plane up in their head.
Wonder what kinda privacy issues this will lead to, magneto's helmet anyone ?
Given that the Indian government has a tough time doing what it should be doing, why add stuff to their list ?
I dont think they are ever going to have any one monitoring the way it is supposed to be done. Maybe they use it for illegitimate reasons like against political enemies etc. But in the end nothing ever happens to the bad guys in India and the remaining folks in India just dont care about the government anymore.
So keep piling on those rules!!
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Are they going to use them for watering the crops or something?
Posting on FB is for everyone I think while texting is for a specific person so I think even if the judge had ruled otherwise it would not have applied to FB stuff. That said, it was the responsibility of the driver to not text while driving, unless he got a text message saying " I know you are driving lets sext chat"
I would say this one is still an okay story to put on Slashdot compared to some of the other constantly anti-Apple stories ( really, have we all come to a consensus Apple is evil and others are not? and I am not an Apple fan either ) and the anti-TSA stuff (how many stories do we need of that? We all are in agreement about that one for sure). Why is this particular story interesting? IMHO , how bad is faking your identity online ? I mean did she solicit students for sex ? or was it just to know the current vibe among? Did she just wanna be a cool principal by knowing what goes on among her students ? I briefly read the above article about the whole PE teacher thing. I dont know. Has no one used a fake name in real life ever? Does Facebook have a policy that you cannot lie about your age to underage kids ? I think it raises some interesting questions about online identities. I mean what if she was friends with some kid in the school and she got that kid to give her the username/password of their fb account (hypothetically speaking) and just looked at all her friends profiles and walls etc. Wouldn't that be similar to this?
Lets talk about the US here : 1) Dictatorial style governance - check 2) Huge stockpile of nukes - check 3) Regularly goes to war with other nations - check 4) Corruption high - check Still the US gets to comment on other nations when they test nukes?
I guess the first use of this technology will be that at security checkpoints we will give ourselves a pat down :)
Maybe he is not a native english speaker?
The URL hierarchy is not destroyed as much as it is decentralized. If I am not missing anything, there is really not much difference except earlier it used to be pepsi.com and now it will be .pepsi.
When you say authoritative, do you mean arrogant?
How many women do you have tattoed on your palms??
It is cold here in the winter time so kids cannot go out much. There are only that many other things around the house that you can get them engaged in. Besides, the computer has some cool paint software that kids can play with. There is also one app on the Ipad (among the many) that teaches how to play piano. As long as you don't let them spend too much time on the computer and you can properly monitor their usage, it is fine for kids to be on the computer to get familiar with it.
My nephews and niece did this when they used to visit my parents place. Within days of their visit my dad, who is not much of a computer person, will call me asking why windows has stopped working. I got a lot of software installed on their computer to monitor these things, yet somehow the kids always managed to install some crap. One good thing that happened was when they turned their attention to Ipads. It has apps on it that are kid friendly but haven't seen Viruses Trojans etc in Ipad apps yet.
Has automated driving reached a point where if there was an accident the fault would be on the driver and not the carmaker? Until then no one is going to sell these cars. It is a great idea, though, and combined with some other great idea of cheap fuel, I hope it replaces flying ( and getting raped by DHS) altogether.
Google has been experimenting with so many things lately. They are fiddling with self-driven cars, trying to get into home entertainment system , cell phone business etc. I have been a big fan of google, but lately I have been issues with a lot of their products. This is mostly maintainence stuff but it annoys me, especially considering that the products were good and easy to use in the beginning such that I switched to using google stuff for a lot of my day to day activities; Gmail has become slower and every now and then does something weird which forces me to close/reopen the tab Chrome memory usage has gone way up in case anyone is noticing. With the approx same number of tabs and plugins/extensions etc , I see all the different chrome processes add up to the same amount as firefox or even more. I could have sworn it was lesser around 6 months back. Google talk connection quality has gone down The gmail app on android has a tonne of bugs with respect to syncing and notifications. They keep fixing some and creating some everytime we have a new release. Currently, my android is not showing me notifications from Gmail app. I see them only from the stock email app. Now, google wallet earlier got pretty bad reviews for security and even this time around their ratings were not good. I wonder if they can put their weight behind only some of the items and make sure they get out a good product and maintain it properly would that be a better thing to do. I know they recently cancelled some projects, but they still have a lot of projects in a lot of myriad areas.
What they essentially mean is - "It was Turing's fault that he was born in those times apparently and there is nothing we can do about it. May his soul never rest in peace."
Honest police system and enforcement of rules are the best way to counter that kind of terrorism. The problem with India is that it does neither. The fighter jets are needed for China mainly, not pakistan.
India is buying weapons to counter an ever increasing Chinese & Pakistani threats across its borders. However, this particular deal was stupid . Although, the link below is not the best source of news, it provides some insight as to what happened with this deal. http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-why-iaf-does-not-need-either-eurofighter-or-rafale/20111111.htm [warning - slide-show] Most of the issues regarding this deal exist mainly because Indian govt did not want to wait for the US to complete testing on their latest F35s and wanted some order fast event though the F-35s are much better than the Dassault aircraft. I think this was mostly due to politics given that elections are around the corner next year.
which half are we talking about?
You know you could download life size porn dolls or something. Maybe send a picture out of someone and it would send you a physible to make a look alike!!
I think the benefit of such undertakings - creating the lowest costing item - is usually that some of the ideas that come out of it can be used by other companies to bring down the price of the device in general. Ofcourse, if they hit upon a radical way of making tablets cheaper yayy. Otherwise, if at least some of their ideas can incorporated to make things cheaper and more accessible to other parts of the world as well, then thats the biggest victory for them.
dicks.com actually takes me to dickssportinggoods.com. I agree with your other points though.
Have you never been to San Jose ? You would know the answers to most of these questions yourself otherwise ! Are Indians paid less than Americans as a whole ? - No Are Indians exploited more than Americans ? - Absolutely
You have no idea how correct you are. As someone who has worked in the "core" areas, Cisco leadership now comprises of people who have stayed there due to various reasons like politics, visa issues etc etc. Most of the really smart people responsible for the networking boom in Cisco have left for greener ventures or they got tired of the politics/incompentency that is rampant in Cisco. Another example that is really close to my heart - The unit I worked for has around 500+ people out of which it is safe to say 450+ are Indians. It is safe to say the situation is the same in other units as well. The culture has become so Indianized that managers often talk in hindi and organize lunches to Indian places even if there is maybe 1 non-indian in the group (what will he do , quit ? ). The situation is so bad that even within Indians there is politics. My group that I worked on comprises of 5 people out of which 4 are from the same part of India. The 2nd level Manager only looks for people that are from the same part of India as he is. This is also visible in other groups across my BU. No problem against Indians for me, but these people brought with them a highly non-professional and obsolete management style consisting of manager-worship, no questions asked style of leadership and that was suffocating for me as a developer. Any average person like me in Cisco is bound to get frustrated and leave!. Most people there choose to stay because they have their green cards being processed and they cannot leave. The managers know that well and they try to exploit that in every way possible. The end result is an extremely mediocre management team that now faces competition from Huawei, Juniper, HP etc and has no clue how to go about it.
I can see this being used as evidence for not paying for treatments/surgeries etc.
Maybe this is the future of scanning? Stop people if they have any ideas of blowing the plane up in their head. Wonder what kinda privacy issues this will lead to, magneto's helmet anyone ?
Given that the Indian government has a tough time doing what it should be doing, why add stuff to their list ? I dont think they are ever going to have any one monitoring the way it is supposed to be done. Maybe they use it for illegitimate reasons like against political enemies etc. But in the end nothing ever happens to the bad guys in India and the remaining folks in India just dont care about the government anymore. So keep piling on those rules!!