Seriously... history is hard enough to keep track of what with the country names changing and walls falling and whatnot. Then again, I suppose if some folks move to a WoW history class from a real-world history class, they might find it easier to graduate. Dumbing down America to match our fearless leader FTW!
As I was scanning submitter's prose in my feedreader on my MacBook Pro, I was seriously gasping aloud. Apple! Messing with my apps! Until I read the giggle about hobbling Firefox in favor of Safari.
I use Safari for one thing and one thing only: Pogo games, mainly because EA's developers can't figure out how to execute Java apps in FF for Mac and appear to have never heard of Camino. Aside from that, even Firefox 2's huge memory leaks pale in comparison to the RAM hog and crashtastic Safari, which has been known to bring down OS X in its entirety here. In my circle, only the most diehard Mac fanboys open Safari as anything but an accidental click (it does look a lot like the NeoOffice icon in the dock).
I can assure you if "older brother" gave "7-year-old sister" a laptop all set up and locked me out with passwords? I'd be sure to take the thing outside in front of both of them and drive over it repeatedly with my soccer mom van. Just to prove a point.
Way to set up a lifelong family schism before she's even 10. They are the parents, older brother. You aren't. And no 7-year-old should have unfettered web access. Are you also going to take the time to explain the fisting video she stumbles upon when she misspells a URL and ends up at the wrong web site?
Of course, I think parents who rely on nanny software instead of their own parenting skills are lazy and clueless. But since older brother obviously feels that he will be a far better parent than his sister currently has, maybe his time would be better off spent actually having a kid of his own and re-evaluating that policy with his own kid.
... of, say, the rate that a cheapy 15" Toshiba back-to-school special vs. a pretty 17" MacBook running Leopard? I'm just wondering what sort of laptop the TSA is shopping for these days.
I try to talk to my friends about what the hell their kids are doing online, but you get the "I don't know nothin' 'bout them thar fancy doohickies" discussion.
I follow the same thing as the PP said, and my oldest has had her own PC from the time she was 5. She can only use it in the same room with the screen visible from where I am. And when the laptop leaves my sight? I take her right off the network.
You talk to parents whose kids have PCs in their room or unlimited net access and they rely on a NetNanny software package as protection. And those are the same parents who end up weeping on the news because Johnny or Suzie ran off with some 45-year-old pedophile they met on MySpace. The problem isn't the sites; it's the keep-the-kids-happy style of parenting. I'm a hard@ss and proud of it.
I take it that no one actually reads anything about Slashdot. See the idle up there in the URL? They added stuff that isn't tech. For those who do have other interests.
I'd also like to ask where the heck is the EDS herding cats ad? That one was awesome. And I have no recollection of salesgenie's from last year. This year's was forgettable already.
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Seriously... history is hard enough to keep track of what with the country names changing and walls falling and whatnot. Then again, I suppose if some folks move to a WoW history class from a real-world history class, they might find it easier to graduate. Dumbing down America to match our fearless leader FTW!
As I was scanning submitter's prose in my feedreader on my MacBook Pro, I was seriously gasping aloud. Apple! Messing with my apps! Until I read the giggle about hobbling Firefox in favor of Safari.
I use Safari for one thing and one thing only: Pogo games, mainly because EA's developers can't figure out how to execute Java apps in FF for Mac and appear to have never heard of Camino. Aside from that, even Firefox 2's huge memory leaks pale in comparison to the RAM hog and crashtastic Safari, which has been known to bring down OS X in its entirety here. In my circle, only the most diehard Mac fanboys open Safari as anything but an accidental click (it does look a lot like the NeoOffice icon in the dock).
Pull the other one. It has bells on it.
I can assure you if "older brother" gave "7-year-old sister" a laptop all set up and locked me out with passwords? I'd be sure to take the thing outside in front of both of them and drive over it repeatedly with my soccer mom van. Just to prove a point.
Way to set up a lifelong family schism before she's even 10. They are the parents, older brother. You aren't. And no 7-year-old should have unfettered web access. Are you also going to take the time to explain the fisting video she stumbles upon when she misspells a URL and ends up at the wrong web site?
Of course, I think parents who rely on nanny software instead of their own parenting skills are lazy and clueless. But since older brother obviously feels that he will be a far better parent than his sister currently has, maybe his time would be better off spent actually having a kid of his own and re-evaluating that policy with his own kid.
... of, say, the rate that a cheapy 15" Toshiba back-to-school special vs. a pretty 17" MacBook running Leopard? I'm just wondering what sort of laptop the TSA is shopping for these days.
I try to talk to my friends about what the hell their kids are doing online, but you get the "I don't know nothin' 'bout them thar fancy doohickies" discussion.
I follow the same thing as the PP said, and my oldest has had her own PC from the time she was 5. She can only use it in the same room with the screen visible from where I am. And when the laptop leaves my sight? I take her right off the network.
You talk to parents whose kids have PCs in their room or unlimited net access and they rely on a NetNanny software package as protection. And those are the same parents who end up weeping on the news because Johnny or Suzie ran off with some 45-year-old pedophile they met on MySpace. The problem isn't the sites; it's the keep-the-kids-happy style of parenting. I'm a hard@ss and proud of it.
I take it that no one actually reads anything about Slashdot. See the idle up there in the URL? They added stuff that isn't tech. For those who do have other interests.
I'd also like to ask where the heck is the EDS herding cats ad? That one was awesome. And I have no recollection of salesgenie's from last year. This year's was forgettable already.