There's a pretty big difference between a 9 year old and an 18 year old, especially when it comes to what they should/should not be doing online.
For example, deleting your search history? The nine year old hasn't really got anything to be doing that for; the 18 year old may be googling about any number of things he/she doesn't want her parent to be aware of: sex education (protection, diseases, etc), boyfriends/girlfriends, etc.. Teenagers are especially protective of their privacy.
Giving out personal information online, i.e, signing up for things, is something 18 year olds may do every day, while a 9 year old shouldn't be doing it at all. Myspace, anyone? (Although the 4% response by parents make me think they don't know what's required to sign up for a lot of these things, or the type of information you post to facebook.)
Meeting with someone you met online is risky business no matter what age you are; a 9-year-old certainly shouldn't be doing at all, but hopefully the 18-year-olds aren't dumb enough to meet a stranger at his/her house, or in a dark alley somewhere. But (take Craigslist for example) there are some reasons why you'd legitimately be meeting someone you only came into contact with on the internet, and it's perfectly safe as long as you do it smart (public place, daylight, etc). 18 year olds are smart enough to do this (hopefully); 9 year olds are not.
So yes, while they are doing a survey of minors (who are the responsibilities of their parents/guardians), the age ranging from 9 prepubescent to 18 (ready to go off to college) is too wide for the figures to be of any real meaning.
(Warning, the following might sound like a troll, but I promise it is just a rant -- against a piece of software I have learned to hate something on the level as myspace. I'll try to make some decent anecdotal arguments)
I know it isn't just me, because whenever I say it, a lot of people give me a "Hell yeah!" - Totem Player is terrible. It's just awful. I dare say it might be the worst media player on the Linux platform. Gnome needs a new default media player.
If I let Totem try to play a DVD, it hangs for almost a minute before it starts playing. It stops playing halfway through my mp4 files, for no reason. Just hey, now would be a good time to crash. Its picture seems inferior to that of other players, for example smplayer. Its control interface is basic, at best. There are other words I would use to describe it, but you can use your imagination.
VLC is a great media player. mplayer is a great player, and smplayer is a GREAT frontend for it, especially in KDE. We've got Xine, too. We have all these great media players, and Gnome sticks us with Totem?!?
I realize it would increase cost (a whole lot), but since it's inevitable that these situations will occur, shouldn't we start putting emergency rockets in satellites that are too large to burn up in orbit? Something that will shoot them out into space, if something like this happens?
It's just a matter of time before one of these things come crashing down into a populated area.
We have drugs that prevent people from getting high on opiates, then we have cocaine vaccines, and now we are going to have a drug for anthrax immunity.
Medical science (and all science) is really taking off, now that we are beginning to understand the minute details of how our bodies work. Of course, there is still loads that we don't know - and there will always be things that we won't know - but I think the advances we're going to see in the next 10-20 years are going to amaze us all.
But I bet anything, anything at all, that we will not, ever, cure the common cold.
Is the government going to subsidize the placement of these things in cellphones? It's the tragedy of the commons, that no one is going to want to pay for a more expensive cell phone because it will detect radiation, if it's in everyone's phone. And if the government pays for it, that means it's paid for by taxes. So one way or another, we're going to be paying for this...
You're failing to take into account the big picture. People worry about the ecosystem because people are a part of the ecosystem. What affects one section of it, affects it all, including us.
It won't do people very good if, because we wipe out one creature, another creature dies out, and then another, and so on. It's called a food-chain, and an eco-system for this very reason.
The biggest advantage to a generic domain name is that you'll get lots of type-ins; for example, freemusic.com* I'm sure gets hundreds of hits a day, just from (unknowing) users typing it in, hoping for something good.
But in the new era, sites become popular because they are viral; flickr didn't become popular because of type-ins, it became popular because it offered a good service that people found useful, and it spread.
--A great name does not a great site make; but a great site can a great name make.-- Heck, just at Google! Verb, noun, and fun to say!
(*Disclaimer: I have no idea what's at freemusic.com, but I'm guessing it's parked by someone)
I've been developing web pages for more years than I can count, and I (like everyone else in the field) know the annoyances of Internet Explorer. Everything from their faulty implementation of the box model to their poor handling of Javascript has done an unimaginable amount of good for the stock prices of the asprin (and beer) industry.
That being said, IE has come a long was since the days of version 6 (those that came before version 6 are unmentionable), and some credit has to be given to Microsoft for finally trying to do something about their browser. Seeing as how it is the de-facto standard, it's good that they're putting at least some effort into making it better.
I love Firefox, and I love that Mozilla is the reason why Microsoft is being forced to update their browser (competition is everything), but we're going to be stuck with Internet Explorer for the foreseeable future, and progress can only be a good thing.
For all those who are saying "open source DRM" is an oxymoron, they should have a look at OpenIPMP, which is an open-source DRM solution for video formats. So there is a precedent for this kind of thing, although it may not be widely adopted.
Passwords can be applied in any number of ways. You can base it on pgp keys, if you want to limit the specific people who have access to the documents; or, you can do a one-size-fits-all solution, just applying a password to a file, and giving that password to those who need access.
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There's a pretty big difference between a 9 year old and an 18 year old, especially when it comes to what they should/should not be doing online.
For example, deleting your search history? The nine year old hasn't really got anything to be doing that for; the 18 year old may be googling about any number of things he/she doesn't want her parent to be aware of: sex education (protection, diseases, etc), boyfriends/girlfriends, etc.. Teenagers are especially protective of their privacy.
Giving out personal information online, i.e, signing up for things, is something 18 year olds may do every day, while a 9 year old shouldn't be doing it at all. Myspace, anyone? (Although the 4% response by parents make me think they don't know what's required to sign up for a lot of these things, or the type of information you post to facebook.)
Meeting with someone you met online is risky business no matter what age you are; a 9-year-old certainly shouldn't be doing at all, but hopefully the 18-year-olds aren't dumb enough to meet a stranger at his/her house, or in a dark alley somewhere. But (take Craigslist for example) there are some reasons why you'd legitimately be meeting someone you only came into contact with on the internet, and it's perfectly safe as long as you do it smart (public place, daylight, etc). 18 year olds are smart enough to do this (hopefully); 9 year olds are not.
So yes, while they are doing a survey of minors (who are the responsibilities of their parents/guardians), the age ranging from 9 prepubescent to 18 (ready to go off to college) is too wide for the figures to be of any real meaning.
Pakistan is most likely to be the source of an islamic nuclear bomb,
They are islamic and they do have a bomb already.
Yes... a $90 difference, to be precise.
(Warning, the following might sound like a troll, but I promise it is just a rant -- against a piece of software I have learned to hate something on the level as myspace. I'll try to make some decent anecdotal arguments)
I know it isn't just me, because whenever I say it, a lot of people give me a "Hell yeah!" - Totem Player is terrible. It's just awful. I dare say it might be the worst media player on the Linux platform. Gnome needs a new default media player.
If I let Totem try to play a DVD, it hangs for almost a minute before it starts playing.
It stops playing halfway through my mp4 files, for no reason. Just hey, now would be a good time to crash.
Its picture seems inferior to that of other players, for example smplayer.
Its control interface is basic, at best. There are other words I would use to describe it, but you can use your imagination.
VLC is a great media player. mplayer is a great player, and smplayer is a GREAT frontend for it, especially in KDE. We've got Xine, too. We have all these great media players, and Gnome sticks us with Totem?!?
I realize it would increase cost (a whole lot), but since it's inevitable that these situations will occur, shouldn't we start putting emergency rockets in satellites that are too large to burn up in orbit? Something that will shoot them out into space, if something like this happens?
It's just a matter of time before one of these things come crashing down into a populated area.
Don't forget, Ted Stevens is still a ranking member of the Senate committee on Commerce and Science.. So we've still got some nutso's hanging about.
We have drugs that prevent people from getting high on opiates, then we have cocaine vaccines, and now we are going to have a drug for anthrax immunity.
Medical science (and all science) is really taking off, now that we are beginning to understand the minute details of how our bodies work. Of course, there is still loads that we don't know - and there will always be things that we won't know - but I think the advances we're going to see in the next 10-20 years are going to amaze us all.
But I bet anything, anything at all, that we will not, ever, cure the common cold.
Is the government going to subsidize the placement of these things in cellphones? It's the tragedy of the commons, that no one is going to want to pay for a more expensive cell phone because it will detect radiation, if it's in everyone's phone. And if the government pays for it, that means it's paid for by taxes. So one way or another, we're going to be paying for this...
You're failing to take into account the big picture. People worry about the ecosystem because people are a part of the ecosystem. What affects one section of it, affects it all, including us.
It won't do people very good if, because we wipe out one creature, another creature dies out, and then another, and so on. It's called a food-chain, and an eco-system for this very reason.
The biggest advantage to a generic domain name is that you'll get lots of type-ins; for example, freemusic.com* I'm sure gets hundreds of hits a day, just from (unknowing) users typing it in, hoping for something good.
But in the new era, sites become popular because they are viral; flickr didn't become popular because of type-ins, it became popular because it offered a good service that people found useful, and it spread.
--A great name does not a great site make; but a great site can a great name make.-- Heck, just at Google! Verb, noun, and fun to say!
(*Disclaimer: I have no idea what's at freemusic.com, but I'm guessing it's parked by someone)
xkcd is true art for geeks. And yes, comics are an art. There's drawing involved.
I've been developing web pages for more years than I can count, and I (like everyone else in the field) know the annoyances of Internet Explorer. Everything from their faulty implementation of the box model to their poor handling of Javascript has done an unimaginable amount of good for the stock prices of the asprin (and beer) industry.
That being said, IE has come a long was since the days of version 6 (those that came before version 6 are unmentionable), and some credit has to be given to Microsoft for finally trying to do something about their browser. Seeing as how it is the de-facto standard, it's good that they're putting at least some effort into making it better.
I love Firefox, and I love that Mozilla is the reason why Microsoft is being forced to update their browser (competition is everything), but we're going to be stuck with Internet Explorer for the foreseeable future, and progress can only be a good thing.
For all those who are saying "open source DRM" is an oxymoron, they should have a look at OpenIPMP, which is an open-source DRM solution for video formats. So there is a precedent for this kind of thing, although it may not be widely adopted.
Passwords can be applied in any number of ways. You can base it on pgp keys, if you want to limit the specific people who have access to the documents; or, you can do a one-size-fits-all solution, just applying a password to a file, and giving that password to those who need access.