...Why buy a Eee PC when I can get a Dell cheapie... Because it keeps you from ending up with a Dell laptop. After 90 days the Dell will probably start crapping out on you. Mine started randomly powering off - support just said to buy a new battery even though it did the same thing with the battery removed. Or it might be like the one I use at work that lost it's hard drive last week. Or the one I had before that wouldn't charge a battery any more. My daughter's had a Dell desktop for 3 years with zero problems, but I wouldn't spend another penny on a Dell laptop.
...we (the United States) are losing against insurgents (and have lost against guerrilla warfare in general), is because the manner in which they act and share information is vastly different from the way the US Army operates. And this is supremely ironic when you consider how the US came to be an independent nation. Apparently our military leaders didn't pay much attention in their high school history classes.
...If a child is told not to give out personal info, described what it really means and explained why not to do it, they won't. Even if they are 7. Just as they don't go with strangers if they are explained why not to...
my parents just chose to teach me a little about it and how to act and trusted the rest for me to take care of...
I also started giving out my personal details, meeting with these people, etc. You don't seem to have been around a lot of 7 year olds, and your own experience pretty much contradicts what you claim about them.
There are a few kids who can function the way you describe. There are a lot, like you, who can't. For the same reasons that the girl in question can't remember a complex password, she can't be counted on to sort out all of these rules on her own. At that age most kids are still learning to deal with abstractions that adults take for granted. There are too many stories of kids going off with a person the parent would have categorized as a stranger. To the child he was just a friendly man. You were giving out personal information and meeting strangers even though you say that you had been taught that you shouldn't be.
You're right, this is exactly the behavior parents want to avoid. Millions of kids could do this without getting into trouble, just like you did. Still, most parents consider the risk in this case to be far greater than any potential reward.
I have two grown daughters. I allowed them take risks and make mistakes when a negative outcome wasn't likely to destroy their lives or cause serious injury. The risks that I allowed increased with their age. That's a hard thing for a parent, but most of us know that it has to be done. Now they are pretty much free to make whatever stupid mistakes they want (as long as it doesn't have a major impact on me).
"an anonymous reader" = child stalker "my little sister" = little girl that I've never met who chats with me on the internet "donated my old PC" = told her how to fdisk and install Debian to get rid of parental control "my parents" = her parents and/or the FBI
The Slashdot crowd would like to suggest some mechanisms for the poster identifying himself.
...this is irrefutable proof that our missile defense system is totally awesome, flawless, and deserving of billions of dollars of tax investment, right? Absolutely. If they can put on a show like that every week then it's totally worth the cost. The video was way better than anything that's come out of Hollywood or the NFL lately.
Can He microwave a burrito so hot that He can't eat it? No, because microwave ovens are a result of human evolution. Haven't you read the 12,585,323,235 Slashdot posts explaining how evolution and God are mutually exclusive? You've got to learn to distinguish between religion and philosophy.
RE: Title of parent post. I don't think he could do that, even with miraculous powers. I know, the whole one-in-three business makes it kind of confusing, but I still just don't think it could be done.
If people would just quit having sex there wouldn't be any problems with unruly children. Within about 70 years a lot of other problems would disappear as well.
See? This is why M$ built in all of those insecurities, so they could build viral technology to fix your computer all up for you. Don't you wish all those OSS systems could be infected now?
I'd love to see a Star Wars MMOG where you could slip in and out of perspectives (with some load time of course). Imagine flying as an individual tie fighter, X-Wing, gunner on a battle ship, etc. (with other players or AI). Meanwhile, other players could be controlling the sides of the battle from a Homeworld-type perspective. Above them could be other players who are controlling things at a higher "Master of Orion"-perspective. This way, communication could be facilitated between players on the same team throughout these different perspectives. So, basically, you want a MMOG that plays like Battlestations: Midway - except maybe with one more layer of abstraction.
The first British maglev in Birmingham has a track of about 600 metres and passengers stand in it...
When I first read this I had an image of a bunch of Brits standing between the rails of a train track (yeah, I realize maglevs tend to be monorails, but one's mind just does these things sometimes).
Oops. Misread that the first time by, but I'm sure there's some group out there making plans to rescue all of these zebrafish from the evils of medical research. Then they'll rehabilitate them and release them into the wild where they'll be free and happy.
..author questions the legality of the practice...
While we're at it, somebody should question the legality of mindless editors posting flamebait stories written by clueless authors for the sole purpose of driving hits to a website. How much Crosscut.com stock does Taco own anyway?
My first thought was clearly the same as yours. On the back of whose content? How many songs has this guy performed, written, produced? Band managers are on on the backs of artists like jockeys are on the backs of horses. Except the managers make the jockeys look like kids on a pony ride.
...I'm sure the Mr. Lawrence would have used a helicopter if it had been available... He would have used an airship if he had had the money. On the other hand: I'm sure he would have used a Leica Aviophot RC30 camera if it had been available. I'm sure he would have used digital post processing and multi-spectral analysis if it had been available. I'm sure he would have driven a Saleen S7 to the airport for the shoot - if either the Saleen or the airport had been available.
Weather. Right, that's what they'll be watching with their cameras that can resolve 6pt text from 50k feet. I'm gonna add a wide brim to my foil hat so they can't see any part of me. I'll just be a shiny spot on the landscape.
In the US many employers have adopted the "at will" employment agreement. These say something to the effect that either the employer or the employee may end the employment at any time for any reason or for no reason at all. There is usually some required notification period attached to this which gets translated into you being paid for leaving right away if they fire you, or you paying to leave right away if you quit.
The US constitution expressly protects a lot of important rights including free speech. Our elected officials just choose to ignore it. Don't be fooled into thinking that piece of paper protects you. Your government might be following the rules now, but there's no guarantee that it won't change in the future.
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That's OK. I read "Feds Sieze $78m of Bogus Chinese Cigars."
...Why buy a Eee PC when I can get a Dell cheapie... Because it keeps you from ending up with a Dell laptop.After 90 days the Dell will probably start crapping out on you. Mine started randomly powering off - support just said to buy a new battery even though it did the same thing with the battery removed. Or it might be like the one I use at work that lost it's hard drive last week. Or the one I had before that wouldn't charge a battery any more.
My daughter's had a Dell desktop for 3 years with zero problems, but I wouldn't spend another penny on a Dell laptop.
I can count way higher than 4, and nobody's writing research papers about me.
Stupid fish.
...we (the United States) are losing against insurgents (and have lost against guerrilla warfare in general), is because the manner in which they act and share information is vastly different from the way the US Army operates. And this is supremely ironic when you consider how the US came to be an independent nation. Apparently our military leaders didn't pay much attention in their high school history classes.
...If a child is told not to give out personal info, described what it really means and explained why not to do it, they won't. Even if they are 7. Just as they don't go with strangers if they are explained why not to... my parents just chose to teach me a little about it and how to act and trusted the rest for me to take care of... I also started giving out my personal details, meeting with these people, etc. You don't seem to have been around a lot of 7 year olds, and your own experience pretty much contradicts what you claim about them.There are a few kids who can function the way you describe. There are a lot, like you, who can't. For the same reasons that the girl in question can't remember a complex password, she can't be counted on to sort out all of these rules on her own. At that age most kids are still learning to deal with abstractions that adults take for granted. There are too many stories of kids going off with a person the parent would have categorized as a stranger. To the child he was just a friendly man. You were giving out personal information and meeting strangers even though you say that you had been taught that you shouldn't be.
You're right, this is exactly the behavior parents want to avoid. Millions of kids could do this without getting into trouble, just like you did. Still, most parents consider the risk in this case to be far greater than any potential reward.
I have two grown daughters. I allowed them take risks and make mistakes when a negative outcome wasn't likely to destroy their lives or cause serious injury. The risks that I allowed increased with their age. That's a hard thing for a parent, but most of us know that it has to be done. Now they are pretty much free to make whatever stupid mistakes they want (as long as it doesn't have a major impact on me).
"an anonymous reader" = child stalker
"my little sister" = little girl that I've never met who chats with me on the internet
"donated my old PC" = told her how to fdisk and install Debian to get rid of parental control
"my parents" = her parents and/or the FBI
The Slashdot crowd would like to suggest some mechanisms for the poster identifying himself.
Umm. That video just looked like they were playing with a string of the synthetic snot that holds the advert cards inside magazines.
I wish I could be famous for claiming to invent something that got sent to me in the mail.
...this is irrefutable proof that our missile defense system is totally awesome, flawless, and deserving of billions of dollars of tax investment, right? Absolutely.If they can put on a show like that every week then it's totally worth the cost. The video was way better than anything that's come out of Hollywood or the NFL lately.
I know that a lot of people here try very hard to convince themselves that it's the same thing, but it's really not.
RE: Title of parent post.
I don't think he could do that, even with miraculous powers. I know, the whole one-in-three business makes it kind of confusing, but I still just don't think it could be done.
Neo 1973 Neo 1973 Neo 1973
If people would just quit having sex there wouldn't be any problems with unruly children. Within about 70 years a lot of other problems would disappear as well.
See? This is why M$ built in all of those insecurities, so they could build viral technology to fix your computer all up for you. Don't you wish all those OSS systems could be infected now?
When I first read this I had an image of a bunch of Brits standing between the rails of a train track (yeah, I realize maglevs tend to be monorails, but one's mind just does these things sometimes).
Oops. Misread that the first time by, but I'm sure there's some group out there making plans to rescue all of these zebrafish from the evils of medical research. Then they'll rehabilitate them and release them into the wild where they'll be free and happy.
While we're at it, somebody should question the legality of mindless editors posting flamebait stories written by clueless authors for the sole purpose of driving hits to a website.
How much Crosscut.com stock does Taco own anyway?
Without pictures, it didn't happen.
My first thought was clearly the same as yours.
On the back of whose content? How many songs has this guy performed, written, produced?
Band managers are on on the backs of artists like jockeys are on the backs of horses. Except the managers make the jockeys look like kids on a pony ride.
...I'm sure the Mr. Lawrence would have used a helicopter if it had been available... He would have used an airship if he had had the money.On the other hand:
I'm sure he would have used a Leica Aviophot RC30 camera if it had been available.
I'm sure he would have used digital post processing and multi-spectral analysis if it had been available.
I'm sure he would have driven a Saleen S7 to the airport for the shoot - if either the Saleen or the airport had been available.
Weather. Right, that's what they'll be watching with their cameras that can resolve 6pt text from 50k feet. I'm gonna add a wide brim to my foil hat so they can't see any part of me. I'll just be a shiny spot on the landscape.
In the US many employers have adopted the "at will" employment agreement. These say something to the effect that either the employer or the employee may end the employment at any time for any reason or for no reason at all. There is usually some required notification period attached to this which gets translated into you being paid for leaving right away if they fire you, or you paying to leave right away if you quit.
The US constitution expressly protects a lot of important rights including free speech. Our elected officials just choose to ignore it.
Don't be fooled into thinking that piece of paper protects you. Your government might be following the rules now, but there's no guarantee that it won't change in the future.
OK, I'm not an expert in biosecurity, but wouldn't the reduced air pressure in the room be accomplished by pumping air out of the room?