A big part of good parenting that gets overlooked is allowing your kids to play with the children of parents who believe in the same parenting values as you do.
When I was growing up, my parents didn't let me play or spend the night with kids who's parents were not as conscientious as they were about things like appropriate play, snacks, behavior, etc. But it seems to me nowadays that people just let their kids do whatever.
Recently, my sister-in-law told of a story where a girl was coming to spend the night with her daughter, and the mom dropped this girl off at my in-law's place without even getting out of the car. My sister-in-law could've been a serial killer for all this lady knew. Shit, at least get off your ass to say hello and make sure the adult you're leaving your child with overnight has half a brain...
The parent poster has a great point about going to another kid's house to view questionable online content. You just have to remember, good parenting doesn't stop at your doorstep.
I strongly recommend that everyone here read State of Fear by Michael Crichton. Yes, it's fiction, but strewn throughout the novel are links to factual data about global warming. The story's protagonist is convinced that although the Earth is warming, it has nothing to do with humans.
The references prompted me to read more about the matter. I'll let you draw your own conclusions. Very interesting stuff.
I'm sure that you're a super security guru, but the fact is, the computer you're using probably isn't yours. It belongs to your company. Your statement that pissed me off the most was:
"I'll install my personal choice of AV software that can actually run on development machines and otherwise make sure my system is doing fine. I'll take full responsibility."
That sounds great, but to be frank, you don't have the authority to 'take full responsibility' for the entire network. It only takes 1 Code Red, 1 Nimda, 1 SQL-Slammer propagating from your system to wreak havoc on your companies network. If I were you, I'd let you go and find someone less indignant.
I was going to post the same thing. However, I have heard that Microsoft's revenue stream from Microsoft Office products far outweighs the money they make from Windows. I don't have any link to information on this, but I seem to remember it. We can certainly say that Microsoft won't work against their own interests, sure. But we've seen them act arrogantly before; I wonder if they'd consider a Linux version of Office because they believe internally that it won't facilitate a faster switch away from Vista? Just wondering out loud.
When I began reading your post, I was initially in violent disagreement. But as a parent, I can't argue with your rationale on the safety point. I think, however, that most folks would agree that having a cell phone is more of a chic status symbol than anything else.
Your little girl is probably too young to understand this concept and I hope she (and my boy) stay that way for as long as possible. I think the (sad) fact is most American kids want a mobile phone to fit in. Personal safety is an afterthought at best.
Pretty myopic view there, muftak. Red Hat was popular because it was so widely available. By widely available, I mean to users who might've otherwise not heard of Linux (or Slackware, or Debian, or whatever). Red Hat makes money on corporate support, so it stands to reason that corporate users are interested in not only what they get in the box, but the support they receive from the vendor.
...that security risk only exists within the corequisite realm of possibility. I agree, you can disassemble this thing and boot a nonverified image. But the chances of someone successfully doing this in a voting booth without drawing attention (hint: how much time do you normally get to vote?)(hint: how many tools and how much hardware are you normally allowed to take to the polls?) are slim.
Sometimes sarcasm isn't well translated via e-mail. But assuming you are serious about your statement above, all I can say is 'welcome to the 1990s'. And I hope you have a stellar antivirus program.
This sounds like an awful aggressive schedule for Microsoft. Do we really think that this product will really be ready before the 4Q2006 shopping season?
I have not followed the 'battle' for the creation of a *.xxx top level domain, but dindi's post seems to be highly logical. I guess that's why the it was overlooked as a solution.
...for late breaking virus information. These clowns just replicate everything Symantec, F-Secure, McAfee, and others do anyway. ZERO innovation, ZERO leadership, ZERO initiative. Screw you, CA.
What do they teach in relativity class these days?
Not enough, apparently. Which is a great pity, since relativity deals with the basic structure of time and space and the very nature of reality itself. It's utterly fascinating stuff, completely different from endlessly memorizing formulas and using them to calculate how much tension some wire has - that's fine for engineers, but relativity is the "actually, you can build a time machine [wikipedia.org] and warp drive [wikipedia.org]" theory and quantum mechanics are the dreams stuff is made of [physics.ubc.ca]; that is where physics education should start, to give the student the motivation to go through the grind, knowing where the basics will lead.
Well said. I am personally fascinated by physics, but like many others I was turned off by the banality and tediousness of the 'basics' while wading through a required 4 semesters. I think if I had at least an idea of the exciting stuff to come after mastering these basics, I would have been compelled to study physics more.
Sorry, submitter. You've shared with us a link to RC3, not Beta 1. Beta 1 is in fact not released at this point. Note that 2 of the 3 release candidates were posted within the last 24 hours. That ain't the same as Beta 1 being available.
When (and if) Beta 1 is released today, it'll be here:
The points made in this post are quite valid. Lotus Notes is more stable than most appreciate. And like most things, the good 'ole 80/20 rule applies here in terms of who is using the majority of the features.
I'll also say this; the collective clamoring for a 'native' Notes client for Linux has finally risen to a loud enough point that this product release is imminent. I've been using Notes running on wine for about 2 years now, and this will blow that setup out of the water.
Also, I found an IBM PDF article about the 7.0.2 code release, if anyone is interested.
You have to remember that the networks believe that when users skip advertisements, it cuts into their revenue stream. Remember that the networks make money when sponsors want to advertise during the most popular shows. If the most popular shows no longer generate revenue for the sponsors, then those sponsors will pull out. The networks then have no incentive to broadcast the show.
Now, personally I'd challenge any sponsor to show a direct correlation of revenue to specific advertisement views... But what do I know.
Are they fuckwits? Of course. I'm just saying that what they're trying to do makes perfect sense to them.
"You know what's a waste of time? Gardening. You spend all this time and energy just to raise a few tomatoes that could have been bought at the store for cheap.... People should stop gardening and focus their time and energy on solving global warming, but I don't presume to tell anyone what they should be doing with their time."
Now this cat's a brain surgeon... Instead of growing your own food using plant material, water, and sunlight, we should buy them at the grocery store? Doesn't this dood realize that one cause of global working is the processing of food that we could otherwise (and did for thousands of years) grow ourselves? Dumbass.
Yeah, you've seen examples of this before. If you're a Linux or Mac user, I'm sure you've seen pop-up windows or advertisements that feature the default Microsoft XP blue window manager colors with the red X for 'closing' the Window (which is just like a window.close statement)...
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Well, I'm going to give Opera a try for a week to see if I can get used to it. I will say that the ad blocking features aren't as good as the Firefox Adblock plug-in (so far as I can tell). I could block IFRAME elements with that, but seemingly cannot in Opera. I'll keep trying...
Perhaps I'm just cynical, but isn't this thing just a game? What is the purpose, exactly? OK, neat, I can map the places I've been in the world and do a flyover. Wow. Are there supposed to be any real purpose for Google Earth? Please enlighten me!
Yes. I'm actually having a tough time understanding why anyone would rely on a Web 2.0 application. When you don't control the processor being used to manage data, how can you be sure it's safe and secure?
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A big part of good parenting that gets overlooked is allowing your kids to play with the children of parents who believe in the same parenting values as you do.
When I was growing up, my parents didn't let me play or spend the night with kids who's parents were not as conscientious as they were about things like appropriate play, snacks, behavior, etc. But it seems to me nowadays that people just let their kids do whatever.
Recently, my sister-in-law told of a story where a girl was coming to spend the night with her daughter, and the mom dropped this girl off at my in-law's place without even getting out of the car. My sister-in-law could've been a serial killer for all this lady knew. Shit, at least get off your ass to say hello and make sure the adult you're leaving your child with overnight has half a brain...
The parent poster has a great point about going to another kid's house to view questionable online content. You just have to remember, good parenting doesn't stop at your doorstep.
I strongly recommend that everyone here read State of Fear by Michael Crichton. Yes, it's fiction, but strewn throughout the novel are links to factual data about global warming. The story's protagonist is convinced that although the Earth is warming, it has nothing to do with humans.
The references prompted me to read more about the matter. I'll let you draw your own conclusions. Very interesting stuff.
Maybe they could make AIX open source? That'd be nice.
I'm sure that you're a super security guru, but the fact is, the computer you're using probably isn't yours. It belongs to your company. Your statement that pissed me off the most was:
"I'll install my personal choice of AV software that can actually run on development machines and otherwise make sure my system is doing fine. I'll take full responsibility."
That sounds great, but to be frank, you don't have the authority to 'take full responsibility' for the entire network. It only takes 1 Code Red, 1 Nimda, 1 SQL-Slammer propagating from your system to wreak havoc on your companies network. If I were you, I'd let you go and find someone less indignant.
I was going to post the same thing. However, I have heard that Microsoft's revenue stream from Microsoft Office products far outweighs the money they make from Windows. I don't have any link to information on this, but I seem to remember it. We can certainly say that Microsoft won't work against their own interests, sure. But we've seen them act arrogantly before; I wonder if they'd consider a Linux version of Office because they believe internally that it won't facilitate a faster switch away from Vista? Just wondering out loud.
When I began reading your post, I was initially in violent disagreement. But as a parent, I can't argue with your rationale on the safety point. I think, however, that most folks would agree that having a cell phone is more of a chic status symbol than anything else.
Your little girl is probably too young to understand this concept and I hope she (and my boy) stay that way for as long as possible. I think the (sad) fact is most American kids want a mobile phone to fit in. Personal safety is an afterthought at best.
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
Concur.
Pretty myopic view there, muftak. Red Hat was popular because it was so widely available. By widely available, I mean to users who might've otherwise not heard of Linux (or Slackware, or Debian, or whatever). Red Hat makes money on corporate support, so it stands to reason that corporate users are interested in not only what they get in the box, but the support they receive from the vendor.
...that security risk only exists within the corequisite realm of possibility. I agree, you can disassemble this thing and boot a nonverified image. But the chances of someone successfully doing this in a voting booth without drawing attention (hint: how much time do you normally get to vote?)(hint: how many tools and how much hardware are you normally allowed to take to the polls?) are slim.
Sometimes sarcasm isn't well translated via e-mail. But assuming you are serious about your statement above, all I can say is 'welcome to the 1990s'. And I hope you have a stellar antivirus program.
This is the kind of good use of technology that I like to see. I hope that they can figure out how to make it work the way the article advertises it.
This sounds like an awful aggressive schedule for Microsoft. Do we really think that this product will really be ready before the 4Q2006 shopping season?
I have not followed the 'battle' for the creation of a *.xxx top level domain, but dindi's post seems to be highly logical. I guess that's why the it was overlooked as a solution.
...for late breaking virus information. These clowns just replicate everything Symantec, F-Secure, McAfee, and others do anyway. ZERO innovation, ZERO leadership, ZERO initiative. Screw you, CA.
Well said. I am personally fascinated by physics, but like many others I was turned off by the banality and tediousness of the 'basics' while wading through a required 4 semesters. I think if I had at least an idea of the exciting stuff to come after mastering these basics, I would have been compelled to study physics more.
Sorry, submitter. You've shared with us a link to RC3, not Beta 1. Beta 1 is in fact not released at this point. Note that 2 of the 3 release candidates were posted within the last 24 hours. That ain't the same as Beta 1 being available.
When (and if) Beta 1 is released today, it'll be here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/bonecho/
The points made in this post are quite valid. Lotus Notes is more stable than most appreciate. And like most things, the good 'ole 80/20 rule applies here in terms of who is using the majority of the features.
I'll also say this; the collective clamoring for a 'native' Notes client for Linux has finally risen to a loud enough point that this product release is imminent. I've been using Notes running on wine for about 2 years now, and this will blow that setup out of the water.
Also, I found an IBM PDF article about the 7.0.2 code release, if anyone is interested.
You have to remember that the networks believe that when users skip advertisements, it cuts into their revenue stream. Remember that the networks make money when sponsors want to advertise during the most popular shows. If the most popular shows no longer generate revenue for the sponsors, then those sponsors will pull out. The networks then have no incentive to broadcast the show.
Now, personally I'd challenge any sponsor to show a direct correlation of revenue to specific advertisement views... But what do I know.
Are they fuckwits? Of course. I'm just saying that what they're trying to do makes perfect sense to them.
"You know what's a waste of time? Gardening. You spend all this time and energy just to raise a few tomatoes that could have been bought at the store for cheap. ... People should stop gardening and focus their time and energy on solving global warming, but I don't presume to tell anyone what they should be doing with their time."
Now this cat's a brain surgeon... Instead of growing your own food using plant material, water, and sunlight, we should buy them at the grocery store? Doesn't this dood realize that one cause of global working is the processing of food that we could otherwise (and did for thousands of years) grow ourselves? Dumbass.
Yeah, you've seen examples of this before. If you're a Linux or Mac user, I'm sure you've seen pop-up windows or advertisements that feature the default Microsoft XP blue window manager colors with the red X for 'closing' the Window (which is just like a window.close statement)...
Well, I'm going to give Opera a try for a week to see if I can get used to it. I will say that the ad blocking features aren't as good as the Firefox Adblock plug-in (so far as I can tell). I could block IFRAME elements with that, but seemingly cannot in Opera. I'll keep trying...
What industry, the Toy industry? For the love of God, spare me.
Perhaps I'm just cynical, but isn't this thing just a game? What is the purpose, exactly? OK, neat, I can map the places I've been in the world and do a flyover. Wow. Are there supposed to be any real purpose for Google Earth? Please enlighten me!
Yes. I'm actually having a tough time understanding why anyone would rely on a Web 2.0 application. When you don't control the processor being used to manage data, how can you be sure it's safe and secure?
I hate to hear this. I think beer will rise again, though!