Teens have immense power over other teens. There is some sort of herd instinct that can be turned to your advantage. Get your son involved with other teens who are learning to program, hack etc.. There might be a formal teen computing club in your area but if not there may be a way to find avid teens who are computer junkies. Perhaps adults you know have teens active in computing. The garage band type of model for teens learning computing is hard to beat. His schools guidance councilor may be aware of teens involved in computing. Sadly a lot of Windows exposure will be hard to avoid.
Does the public have any clue at all of the potential financial costs of trying to spy on Usenet? We already are drowning in criminals that we have no way of dealing with even after they are caught and convicted. Nobody that is sane is for child porn but in this mixed up world there are people who look very young who are not under age churning out porn every day. Trying to resolve the source, hunt down the involved parties, and provide arrests, trials and prison sentences is a really bad idea. We don't need a few million more convicts.
I suspect that in the world of modern physics there is plenty of room for people who concentrate on an almost exclusively mathematical approach. Let others conjure up the suppositions and apply mathematics in the search for proofs.
Actually the American legal system has always contained provisions that allow suspension of our usual rights. Martial Law is a great example.
It breaks down like this : The first duty of the government is to persist (stay alive). Only by persisting can the government deliver to you your rights. Therefore all actions needed for the government to continue are essentially legal. Oddly this was at the crux of the Civil War. If states were allowed to secede then the Union could not persist. Therefore all actions deemed needed to maintain the Union were supposedly legal.
Paranoia is serious. I lost a best friend of many years to paranoia when he became so convinced that the government was out to get him that he hung himself. This very week my brother in law attempted suicide due to his hallucinations that involve his believing that the FBI is invading his mind. He is now being held under the Baker Act for 72 hours. Just maybe a different prescription might quiet his hallucinations. Paranoia can and does frequently cause murders where the sufferer becomes so convinced that someone is out to do him harm that he strikes first as a desperate act of supposed self defense.
Believe it or not mental illness means nothing in Florida. If you are so crazy that you think Santa Clause is an FBI agent out to kill you and you strike out that does not meet the standard for legal insanity here. The idea that you feel it is right to preserve your own life will be taken as proof that you have a knowledge of right and wrong, Society is sick.
Perhaps we can beam an entire education into the minds of young people. Think about it. Roughly half of America's young people reach the age of 18 at being virtually retarded these days. Beaming voices into peoples' heads might be a highly useful tool.
It also might be used to teach people what Islam really is in places like Iraq where an entire religion has been subverted and perverted into a really nasty mess. Teaching real Islam to the public might cure this problem.
There is much confusion among musicians as to what causes tone qualities in various instruments. Violins may well be locked to resonance more than other instruments. But for brass and woodwinds the hardness of the material is overwhelming as an influence. What is not clear in any instrument is to what degree the hardness of the surface coatings are vital as opposed to the hardness of the material underneath the coatings. Dr. Adolf Sax from whom the saxophone gets its name was the genius who discovered the importance of surface coatings.
What fraction of people that send you spam wind up in prison? Deliberate privacy violations are probably showing an even worse record. Until we are willing to put people of the white collar and upper executive class in prison for long periods of time we will have no control over violations at all.
Although I am not a privacy advocate I do advocate for truth. If companies are sharing data while deceiving customers then prison is the place for these executives.
I am convinced that our justice system has become little more than a racial and social system that is clearly devoted to crushing the lower classes. That is why we are bombarded with white collar crime and these people rarely are punished.
I think it is time to fight back and to get nasty about it. Maybe we need to start deliberately doing every thing we can to crash these creeps into the junk pile. Perhaps we need to violate the heck out of the most sensitive and valuable software to a point where the entire industry is rocked to its core. Sometimes people can get really reasonable after they are mashed to a pulp.
The first task of government is to persist. I know how stupid that sounds but none of the tasks that government is required to do can be done unless the government exists. What tends to happen is that governments take that prime motivation and add to it coming up with the idea that they are somehow required to do absolutely everything and anything to insure that they keep on keeping on. That becomes first law to them and they take it as a mandate to over ride all other laws. In the end it becomes the tool by which freedom is stolen away from the people.
There is a certain importance in making clear to the world that any nation or party that attacks the US will receive a very painful and disproportionate response. Or plainly said if you punch me in the nose I will rip off your legs and beat you and maybe even your entire family into a pulp. It's called war.
Isn't it nice that the enemy has invested in electronics. One good ebomb and everything electronic will come to a screeching, permanent halt. Let's all hope that they invest their last penny in electronics. There is no easier military target. Ebombs won't kill people and will not hurt buildings and the like.
Did you make note of the red herring the supreme court just issued. Our constitution never mentions the right to own fire arms at all. What it covers is the right to bear (carry) arms.
Issues are not directly confronted these days. And as far as ownership is concerned if a bank pays for your car and you are making payments the fact is that that bank owns the car. What you get is the illusion of owning a new car.
In my state if you have a clean record you need to get caught about five times stealing cars before you see any prison time at all. And if you do go to prison it won't usually be for very long. The short story is that getting caught does not stop people from stealing cars. Frankly we need a twenty year, absolute sentence for the first instance of car theft. At least during that twenty years we can be fairly certain they won't be stealing cars.
In South Florida police chasing cars is rampant.There is a very real public hazard and lives and property are lost. Some sort of rocket mounted in the nose of squad cars is about the only way other than a kill switch that would stop this nonsense. What's worse is that a few of the people involved in creating high speed pursuits are fairly normal and not criminals at all. They just get a mood and decide to run through three counties at well over 100 mph until their car gives out. I am in favor of using lethal force to stop these people.
The catch is that your life might be better because the cops spied as you report. If the cops prevent a meth lab from operating next to my home my health and safety increase accordingly. Or perhaps they prevent a bank robbery that I might have stumbled into. Frankly my own life was protected by such an incident years ago. It seems that certain bad guys had a habit of using a certain table at a diner when planing their crimes. The cops had a bug hidden in one of those little juke boxes that are in every booth in the diner. They planed to rob the theater that I ran at the time. When they got out of their car, while heavily armed, in my theater parking lot the cops suddenly swarmed all over them. They went to prison and I was not robbed, beaten or killed. That was way back in 1970. I imagine they use a lot more bugs these days.
If they really intend to teach critical thinking this is fine. Obviously that is quite unlikely. One also wonders if the kids in public schools in Louisiana are anywhere near the point that critical thinking could be learned.
However this thing going to SCOTUS is like sending it to a cabal of witches. Look at their magical thinking on the right to bear arms. They just decided that people had the right to own guns.Ownership is not what our Constitution assures. What we are supposed to be guaranteed is the right to bear arms. That means carry them, not own them. SCOTUS left untouched the true issue which is every citizens right to be armed as they go about their daily chores.
I once had an English professor that hammered the point that there is rarely a time when two literate men are alive at the same time. Obviously he defined literacy quite differently than most of us. Yet one wonders if we can afford to lose one Shakespeare or one Einstein. Take a peek at Steven Hawking. Our leading genius in astro-physics theory probably has a gene or two seriously out of whack that allowed his tragic disabilities. Then again perhaps he would have had worldly distractions that limited his wonderful mind if not for his painful condition. We really are in trouble on these genetic issues.
Frequently people have special abilities because of negatives. For example Lord Byron, with a club foot and serious life long depression, is one of our greatest poets as well as being responsible for the birth of a young woman who invented the theory of computing.
I'm not against intelligent use of this modern form of eugenics but we really are messing with things that we have no tools with which we can have meaningful understanding.
I wonder if they take into account the many years that these personality types end up behind bars. I doubt that they get many girls while locked down. Then again they may get some forms of sex that they really hate delivered by people even more psychopathic than they are.
This is a classic conflict in public education. Who is the target student such that the level of difficulty can be set?
If a teacher tries to keep the slower students up to speed it always hurts the better students.
And then there is the real mode of teaching from which our concept of "High School" flows. Instead of being concerned with individuals the school decides to consider society. Therefore the trick is to teach at a level of difficulty such that a few of the brighter students, who have no difficulties, can not, after making great effort pass the courses.
What was done in Europe years ago at about the end of the sixth grade there was a sorting out. People of normal abilities were assigned to industrial arts such as cooking. Those courses were not a joke as they usually are in the US. For example a cook might receive training from seventh grade on up to about two fulls years of college and then after all the years he has already been trained be assigned as an apprentice and finally declared a chef.
More academically able students were then assigned to college type paths which were rigorous to the extreme. The one flaw in that mode is what do you do with the youngster who finds he has reached his level at the end of the "High School" when his path was academic. They ended up in the military as common soldiers or in the mines.
It could be summed up that one could almost judge the quality of the university by the number of student suicides each semester. If the kids are being pushed hard enough and they are all the A student types then the proof of the university is the number of students that crack like an egg.
Perhaps they should not be saved from themselves. Being wiped out financially just might alter their value systems in such a way as they now VALUE UNDERSTANDING instead of shallowness.
To me the danger exists when one entity or several entities have more power to collect data than all other people. It is fine if everyone in the world spies on me with great intensity. And I am sure that some things could be found that could do me some harm.
But as long as I am free to totally collect data on all governments, businesses and individuals then I'm sure that they also might have some dings in their history as well. All in all I think I would come out better than most people if everything in my life could be compared with everything in their lives.
I suppose what i fear is allowing government or businesses to spy on me while cloaking their own activities in any way.
Most of the things that people fear in regard to privacy are actually fairness in action. For example a tape of a traveling businessman trying to pick up a girl in a bar only exposes his true nature. We are supposed to value truth. Privacy and truth are in opposition. I'll go with truth.
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Teens have immense power over other teens. There is some sort of herd instinct that can be turned to your advantage. Get your son involved with other teens who are learning to program, hack etc.. There might be a formal teen computing club in your area but if not there may be a way to find avid teens who are computer junkies. Perhaps adults you know have teens active in computing. The garage band type of model for teens learning computing is hard to beat. His schools guidance councilor may be aware of teens involved in computing. Sadly a lot of Windows exposure will be hard to avoid.
Does the public have any clue at all of the potential financial costs of trying to spy on Usenet? We already are drowning in criminals that we have no way of dealing with even after they are caught and convicted. Nobody that is sane is for child porn but in this mixed up world there are people who look very young who are not under age churning out porn every day. Trying to resolve the source, hunt down the involved parties, and provide arrests, trials and prison sentences is a really bad idea. We don't need a few million more convicts.
I suspect that in the world of modern physics there is plenty of room for people who concentrate on an almost exclusively mathematical approach. Let others conjure up the suppositions and apply mathematics in the search for proofs.
Actually the American legal system has always contained provisions that allow suspension of our usual rights. Martial Law is a great example.
It breaks down like this : The first duty of the government is to persist (stay alive). Only by persisting can the government deliver to you your rights. Therefore all actions needed for the government to continue are essentially legal. Oddly this was at the crux of the Civil War. If states were allowed to secede then the Union could not persist. Therefore all actions deemed needed to maintain the Union were supposedly legal.
If you like DSL you will probably like Puppy better.
Paranoia is serious. I lost a best friend of many years to paranoia when he became so convinced that the government was out to get him that he hung himself. This very week my brother in law attempted suicide due to his hallucinations that involve his believing that the FBI is invading his mind. He is now being held under the Baker Act for 72 hours. Just maybe a different prescription might quiet his hallucinations. Paranoia can and does frequently cause murders where the sufferer becomes so convinced that someone is out to do him harm that he strikes first as a desperate act of supposed self defense.
Believe it or not mental illness means nothing in Florida. If you are so crazy that you think Santa Clause is an FBI agent out to kill you and you strike out that does not meet the standard for legal insanity here. The idea that you feel it is right to preserve your own life will be taken as proof that you have a knowledge of right and wrong, Society is sick.
Perhaps we can beam an entire education into the minds of young people. Think about it. Roughly half of America's young people reach the age of 18 at being virtually retarded these days. Beaming voices into peoples' heads might be a highly useful tool.
It also might be used to teach people what Islam really is in places like Iraq where an entire religion has been subverted and perverted into a really nasty mess. Teaching real Islam to the public might cure this problem.
There is much confusion among musicians as to what causes tone qualities in various instruments. Violins may well be locked to resonance
more than other instruments. But for brass and woodwinds the hardness of the material is overwhelming as an influence. What is not clear in any instrument is to what degree the hardness of the surface coatings are vital as opposed to the hardness of the material underneath the coatings. Dr. Adolf Sax from whom the saxophone gets its name was the genius who discovered the importance of surface coatings.
What fraction of people that send you spam wind up in prison? Deliberate privacy violations are probably showing an even worse record. Until we are willing to put people of the white collar and upper executive class in prison for long periods of time we will have no control over violations at all.
Although I am not a privacy advocate I do advocate for truth. If companies are sharing data while deceiving customers then prison is the place for these executives.
I am convinced that our justice system has become little more than a racial and social system that is clearly devoted to crushing the lower classes. That is why we are bombarded with white collar crime and these people rarely are punished.
I think it is time to fight back and to get nasty about it. Maybe we need to start deliberately doing every thing we can to crash these creeps into the junk pile. Perhaps we need to violate the heck out of the most sensitive and valuable software to a point where the entire industry is rocked to its core. Sometimes people can get really reasonable after they are mashed to a pulp.
The first task of government is to persist. I know how stupid that sounds but none of the tasks that government is required to do can be done unless the government exists. What tends to happen is that governments take that prime motivation and add to it coming up with the idea that they are somehow required to do absolutely everything and anything to insure that they keep on keeping on. That becomes first law to them and they take it as a mandate to over ride all other laws. In the end it becomes the tool by which freedom is stolen away from the people.
There is a certain importance in making clear to the world that any nation or party that attacks the US will receive a very painful and disproportionate response. Or plainly said if you punch me in the nose I will rip off your legs and beat you and maybe even your entire family into a pulp. It's called war.
Isn't it nice that the enemy has invested in electronics. One good ebomb and everything electronic will come to a screeching, permanent halt. Let's all hope that they invest their last penny in electronics. There is no easier military target. Ebombs won't kill people and will not hurt buildings and the like.
Did you make note of the red herring the supreme court just issued. Our constitution never mentions the right to own fire arms at all. What it covers is the right to bear (carry) arms.
Issues are not directly confronted these days. And as far as ownership is concerned if a bank pays for your car and you are making payments the fact is that that bank owns the car. What you get is the illusion of owning a new car.
In my state if you have a clean record you need to get caught about five times stealing cars before you see any prison time at all. And if you do go to prison it won't usually be for very long. The short story is that getting caught does not stop people from stealing cars. Frankly we need a twenty year, absolute sentence for the first instance of car theft. At least during that twenty years we can be fairly certain they won't be stealing cars.
In South Florida police chasing cars is rampant.There is a very real public hazard and lives and property are lost. Some sort of rocket mounted in the nose of squad cars is about the only way other than a kill switch that would stop this nonsense. What's worse is that a few of the people involved in creating high speed pursuits are fairly normal and not criminals at all. They just get a mood and decide to run through three counties at well over 100 mph until their car gives out. I am in favor of using lethal force to stop these people.
The catch is that your life might be better because the cops spied as you report. If the cops prevent a meth lab from operating next to my home my health and safety increase accordingly. Or perhaps they prevent a bank robbery that I might have stumbled into. Frankly my own life was protected by such an incident years ago. It seems that certain bad guys had a habit of using a certain table at a diner when planing their crimes. The cops had a bug hidden in one of those little juke boxes that are in every booth in the diner. They planed to rob the theater that I ran at the time. When they got out of their car, while heavily armed, in my theater parking lot the cops suddenly swarmed all over them. They went to prison and I was not robbed, beaten or killed. That was way back in 1970. I imagine they use a lot more bugs these days.
If they really intend to teach critical thinking this is fine. Obviously that is quite unlikely. One also wonders if the kids in public schools in Louisiana are anywhere near the point that critical thinking could be learned.
However this thing going to SCOTUS is like sending it to a cabal of witches. Look at their magical thinking on the right to bear arms. They just decided that people had the right to own guns.Ownership is not what our Constitution assures. What we are supposed to be guaranteed is the right to bear arms. That means carry them, not own them. SCOTUS left untouched the true issue which is every citizens right to be armed as they go about their daily chores.
I once had an English professor that hammered the point that there is rarely a time when two literate men are alive at the same time. Obviously he defined literacy quite differently than most of us. Yet one wonders if we can afford to lose one Shakespeare or one Einstein. Take a peek at Steven Hawking. Our leading genius in astro-physics theory probably has a gene or two seriously out of whack that allowed his tragic disabilities. Then again perhaps he would have had worldly distractions that limited his wonderful mind if not for his painful condition. We really are in trouble on these genetic issues.
Frequently people have special abilities because of negatives. For example Lord Byron, with a club foot and serious life long depression, is one of our greatest poets as well as being responsible for the birth of a young woman who invented the theory of computing.
I'm not against intelligent use of this modern form of eugenics but we really are messing with things that we have no tools with which we can have meaningful understanding.
I wonder if they take into account the many years that these personality types end up behind bars. I doubt that they get many girls while locked down. Then again they may get some forms of sex that they really hate delivered by people even more psychopathic than they are.
This is a classic conflict in public education. Who is the target student such that the level of difficulty can be set?
If a teacher tries to keep the slower students up to speed it always hurts the better students.
And then there is the real mode of teaching from which our concept of "High School" flows. Instead of being concerned with individuals the school decides to consider society. Therefore the trick is to teach at a level of difficulty such that a few of the brighter students, who have no difficulties, can not, after making great effort pass the courses.
What was done in Europe years ago at about the end of the sixth grade there was a sorting out. People of normal abilities were assigned to industrial arts such as cooking. Those courses were not a joke as they usually are in the US. For example a cook might receive training from seventh grade on up to about two fulls years of college and then after all the years he has already been trained be assigned as an apprentice and finally declared a chef.
More academically able students were then assigned to college type paths which were rigorous to the extreme. The one flaw in that mode is what do you do with the youngster who finds he has reached his level at the end of the "High School" when his path was academic. They ended up in the military as common soldiers or in the mines.
It could be summed up that one could almost judge the quality of the university by the number of student suicides each semester. If the kids are being pushed hard enough and they are all the A student types then the proof of the university is the number of students that crack like an egg.
Perhaps they should not be saved from themselves. Being wiped out financially just might alter their value systems in such a way as they now VALUE UNDERSTANDING instead of shallowness.
To me the danger exists when one entity or several entities have more power to collect data than all other people. It is fine if everyone in the world spies on me with great intensity. And I am sure that some things could be found that could do me some harm.
But as long as I am free to totally collect data on all governments, businesses and individuals then I'm sure that they also might have some dings in their history as well. All in all I think I would come out better than most people if everything in my life could be compared with everything in their lives.
I suppose what i fear is allowing government or businesses to spy on me while cloaking their own activities in any way.
Most of the things that people fear in regard to privacy are actually fairness in action. For example a tape of a traveling businessman trying to pick up a girl in a bar only exposes his true nature. We are supposed to value truth. Privacy and truth are in opposition. I'll go with truth.