And probably picked up thousands of new Twitter followers in the process.
Yeah, all the tutu-bass music fans are now following her campaign, anxiously awaiting the next video. They'll be really disappointed to see a link to some stupid political endorsement.
the 'legal system' wants an effort-free way to check up on his activities.
encryption only makes 'law enforcement's job harder. and so to ease their job, they tell the kid he can't communicate in private anymore.
I find this more criminal than ANY theft any kid could do.
as usual, our legal system is broken beyond belief. I know there is a lot of missing data here, but I cannot think of any other reason to inflict this does not jibe with the crime kind of punishment.
What punishment jibes with the crime of failure to capitalize leading letters?
As a matter of public policy, it makes no sense to deprive scum of the ability to legally fend for themselves. All this
does is just intentionally breed more crime.
Well, to be fair, it's not quite intentional. The a-holes who breed more crime always manage to think they're fighting crime and being "tough on crime"; they breed more crime by idiocy, not by intent.
How is forbidding this kid from using an online bank (or anything else with https, or a physical network with a properly secured wireless connection) not excessive bail, or cruel, or unusual?
Well, it's not excessive bail because it's not bail of any sort.
When I was picking it up at the police station, the cop who was filling out the report told me, "Look, we know who stole your bike. It was some homeless woman around town. You can press charges if you want, but personally I don't think it's worth it." Now, maybe it was saving him some paperwork on a misdemeanor larceny, but I tend to agree. I was angry about having the bike stolen, but I don't see the utility in it.
What, you mean you didn't want to deprive her of the ability to use a computer? If I'd been in your shoes, that would've made me feel much better.
And, dude, seriously?... it's a bicycle, and you want to get on with the old-testament wrath, like branding someone's forehead or hacking off appendages?
You have to admit, the punishments were effective. There are no bicycle thefts recorded in the Old Testament or any contemporaneous document.
And, dude, seriously?... it's a bicycle, and you want to get on with the old-testament wrath, like branding someone's forehead or hacking off appendages?
I seem to recall the old testament saying things like "he who sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed" and "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", which seems to suggest, by extension, "a bicycle theft for a bicycle theft." I, for one, speaking as a two-time bicycle-theft victim, would be totally cool with getting to steal my bikes back.
I love how Jobs, and Jobs alone, is the expert on what each and every customer wants. Why don't you come down from your ivory tower and interact with the hoi polloi for a while, Steve? You might learn something...then again, it might not be what you want to hear, and you might get dirt on your shoes.
The real problem is that so many of us are so rich that we can spend four years of our lives "finding ourselves" at university, but we're also so whiney we can't see it as a great triumph of modern civilization but rather complain that the university didn't teach us anything useful in the courses we chose.
I blame the kids that went to college 'cuz their parents paid for it and wanted them to go. I paid my own way through college and found a way to make every class enriching, from Chinese literature to digital computer design, from introductory zoology to freshman compostion. I consider it an honor and a privilege to get to spend my time in a place like that, and I definitely use what I've learned every day, no matter how inapplicable it might seem to the less enterprising.
Just don't apply that to college as a whole - I'm sure that you can learn just as much English Lit online as you can in school. However, there are many fields where that's simply not true.
I find this example quite puzzling. Learning Lit is not at all easy...it's easy to read a great book or play and have 90% of it go over your head without a teacher to act as a guide. A few years back I was in my college dropout phase and was reading a bit of Chaucer and some 19th century plays for kicks. They were very enjoyable but I wished I could understand them on a deeper level, and to that end I can't tell you what I would've given to have an instructor asking probing questions that inch me toward a coherent interpretation, rather than fragments of impressions. Once I got back to college, I got right into 17th-through-18th-century Brit lit and classical Chinese lit as soon as I could, and had a much better, more complete experience.
Next to that, I find learning math or science online to be downright easy. Different strokes, I guess, but I also think you may be taking a simplistic view of what "learning English Lit" means...reading the lit and perhaps some articles about it is not the same as learning it, anymore that watching Karate videos is the same as learning Karate.
Because that would leave tech journalists with nothing to do.
Is that bad? I mean, we would probably all be better off with them idle, right?
I guess a more complete answer on my part would have been, we are certainly free to call it "The rise of the iPad" but tech journalists will still call it "The rise of mainstream tablets" because otherwise they would have nothing to do.
This idea is a step in the right direction, but the cottage industry that churns out all these developmental aids need to wake up to the true economics of their prospective customers.
Yeah, shame on them for thinking it was good-hearted to make an app that helps special needs kids, without first upending the entire tech industry and rebuilding it from scratch!
And let me get your story straight - the group that's against more government is FOR more bureaucracy and inefficiency? How's that?
Simple. They can't get their heads out of their asses long enough to evaluate which policy proposals lead to more bureaucracy and which lead to bureaucracy in the real world. They're stuck in a right-wing fantasyland where chanting "law and order, tough on crime" 100 times causes criminals to stop being criminals and where cutting taxes always increases government revenue and reduces deficits. For them, claiming that a measure is anti-bureaucracy makes it so, facts be damned.
True story. I once had one go off on me because I said I liked the Marx Brothers.
Just didn't believe me when I told them I was talking about the comedy group.
It's a common mistake. So many American liberals are big fans of Karl Marx and his brother Johann, it's hard to tell what you mean by "the Marx brothers" these days.
I once asked Richard Stallman how to convince my school to go with FOSS instead of Windows, since most of our CS lab was on Windows.
His reply: "Defenestration! Throw Windows out of the computer, or throw the computer out the window!"
Thus demonstrating why Stallman fails to convince anyone of anything, ever.
Apparently my comment needs clarification, as someone thought it was Flamebait. I 100% agree with Stallman's sentiment. But nobody asked him how he felt about Windows; they asked him how to convince others to ditch Windows. Stallman's reply is purely preaching to the choir; I've seen Stallman make other arguments along the same lines that were just as unconvincing. That's what I was referring to.
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And probably picked up thousands of new Twitter followers in the process.
Yeah, all the tutu-bass music fans are now following her campaign, anxiously awaiting the next video. They'll be really disappointed to see a link to some stupid political endorsement.
Really?
A YouTube video of a cross-dressing Japanese man playing the guitar now has over 950,000 views.
I think people have been reading this one.
I dunno man, the numa numa guy got way more than thought on his own.
Knowing tech company executives, she'll probably sue the bass player and send out DMCA takedown over it.
Fixed that for you.
that doesn't have encryption software on it.
Or a cell phone for that matter.
...
Hopefully they defined computer more carefully than just "computer"...
I have a feeling the judge doesn't even know the definition of "encryption".
the 'legal system' wants an effort-free way to check up on his activities.
encryption only makes 'law enforcement's job harder. and so to ease their job, they tell the kid he can't communicate in private anymore.
I find this more criminal than ANY theft any kid could do.
as usual, our legal system is broken beyond belief. I know there is a lot of missing data here, but I cannot think of any other reason to inflict this does not jibe with the crime kind of punishment.
What punishment jibes with the crime of failure to capitalize leading letters?
I have mod points today and would mod this whole article down... it's a complete waste of time.
Not a complete waste...it's a platform for critiques like yours, as well as some choice +5 Funnies.
As a matter of public policy, it makes no sense to deprive scum of the ability to legally fend for themselves. All this does is just intentionally breed more crime.
Well, to be fair, it's not quite intentional. The a-holes who breed more crime always manage to think they're fighting crime and being "tough on crime"; they breed more crime by idiocy, not by intent.
How is forbidding this kid from using an online bank (or anything else with https, or a physical network with a properly secured wireless connection) not excessive bail, or cruel, or unusual?
Well, it's not excessive bail because it's not bail of any sort.
When I was picking it up at the police station, the cop who was filling out the report told me, "Look, we know who stole your bike. It was some homeless woman around town. You can press charges if you want, but personally I don't think it's worth it." Now, maybe it was saving him some paperwork on a misdemeanor larceny, but I tend to agree. I was angry about having the bike stolen, but I don't see the utility in it.
What, you mean you didn't want to deprive her of the ability to use a computer? If I'd been in your shoes, that would've made me feel much better.
You have to admit, the punishments were effective. There are no bicycle thefts recorded in the Old Testament or any contemporaneous document.
Yes, but what about velocipede thefts?
And, dude, seriously? ... it's a bicycle, and you want to get on with the old-testament wrath, like branding someone's forehead or hacking off appendages?
I seem to recall the old testament saying things like "he who sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed" and "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", which seems to suggest, by extension, "a bicycle theft for a bicycle theft." I, for one, speaking as a two-time bicycle-theft victim, would be totally cool with getting to steal my bikes back.
Too late.
I love how Jobs, and Jobs alone, is the expert on what each and every customer wants. Why don't you come down from your ivory tower and interact with the hoi polloi for a while, Steve? You might learn something...then again, it might not be what you want to hear, and you might get dirt on your shoes.
This is America. Pushing Judeo-Christian mores on people is our national pastime.
Probably true.
The real problem is that so many of us are so rich that we can spend four years of our lives "finding ourselves" at university, but we're also so whiney we can't see it as a great triumph of modern civilization but rather complain that the university didn't teach us anything useful in the courses we chose.
I blame the kids that went to college 'cuz their parents paid for it and wanted them to go. I paid my own way through college and found a way to make every class enriching, from Chinese literature to digital computer design, from introductory zoology to freshman compostion. I consider it an honor and a privilege to get to spend my time in a place like that, and I definitely use what I've learned every day, no matter how inapplicable it might seem to the less enterprising.
In other words, they're just like minor porn stars.
Just don't apply that to college as a whole - I'm sure that you can learn just as much English Lit online as you can in school. However, there are many fields where that's simply not true.
I find this example quite puzzling. Learning Lit is not at all easy...it's easy to read a great book or play and have 90% of it go over your head without a teacher to act as a guide. A few years back I was in my college dropout phase and was reading a bit of Chaucer and some 19th century plays for kicks. They were very enjoyable but I wished I could understand them on a deeper level, and to that end I can't tell you what I would've given to have an instructor asking probing questions that inch me toward a coherent interpretation, rather than fragments of impressions. Once I got back to college, I got right into 17th-through-18th-century Brit lit and classical Chinese lit as soon as I could, and had a much better, more complete experience.
Next to that, I find learning math or science online to be downright easy. Different strokes, I guess, but I also think you may be taking a simplistic view of what "learning English Lit" means...reading the lit and perhaps some articles about it is not the same as learning it, anymore that watching Karate videos is the same as learning Karate.
Your tone isn't even close to neutral.
Because that would leave tech journalists with nothing to do.
Is that bad? I mean, we would probably all be better off with them idle, right?
I guess a more complete answer on my part would have been, we are certainly free to call it "The rise of the iPad" but tech journalists will still call it "The rise of mainstream tablets" because otherwise they would have nothing to do.
This idea is a step in the right direction, but the cottage industry that churns out all these developmental aids need to wake up to the true economics of their prospective customers.
Yeah, shame on them for thinking it was good-hearted to make an app that helps special needs kids, without first upending the entire tech industry and rebuilding it from scratch!
"The rise of mainstream tablets"
Why can't we call the rise of the iPad "The rise of the iPad" ?
Because that would leave tech journalists with nothing to do.
And let me get your story straight - the group that's against more government is FOR more bureaucracy and inefficiency? How's that?
Simple. They can't get their heads out of their asses long enough to evaluate which policy proposals lead to more bureaucracy and which lead to bureaucracy in the real world. They're stuck in a right-wing fantasyland where chanting "law and order, tough on crime" 100 times causes criminals to stop being criminals and where cutting taxes always increases government revenue and reduces deficits. For them, claiming that a measure is anti-bureaucracy makes it so, facts be damned.
True story. I once had one go off on me because I said I liked the Marx Brothers.
Just didn't believe me when I told them I was talking about the comedy group.
It's a common mistake. So many American liberals are big fans of Karl Marx and his brother Johann, it's hard to tell what you mean by "the Marx brothers" these days.
I once asked Richard Stallman how to convince my school to go with FOSS instead of Windows, since most of our CS lab was on Windows.
His reply: "Defenestration! Throw Windows out of the computer, or throw the computer out the window!"
Thus demonstrating why Stallman fails to convince anyone of anything, ever.
Apparently my comment needs clarification, as someone thought it was Flamebait. I 100% agree with Stallman's sentiment. But nobody asked him how he felt about Windows; they asked him how to convince others to ditch Windows. Stallman's reply is purely preaching to the choir; I've seen Stallman make other arguments along the same lines that were just as unconvincing. That's what I was referring to.