I don't know about anyone else's family, but a quarter hasn't been good enough in my family since I was a kid in the 1980s. These days, the usual price for one tooth is $2. The tooth fairy usually gives it in the form of a $2 bill, depending on whether or not she had time to go to the bank and get a $2 bill before the tooth fell out.
Even if you wanted to go after the model for a frivolous lawsuit, it would be difficult to prove she had no intention of following through. It seems just as likely that she outed the person, found out the person was a penniless student with no hope of paying any judgment, and elected not to go forward based on that.
Some of the Internet-addicted may be porn addicts, but I'd wager a significant percentage of them are MMORPG addicts (most notably WoW). There are plenty of stories out there of people so addicted to that game, and others like it, that they suffer many of the same consequences (loss of family, job, etc) that hardcode substance abusers do.
Rather than focus on pornography, or even the Internet, I would focus more on addictive behaviors in general. Some people are simply more prone to addiction than others, and will become addicted to any number of things. Organizations like AA claim to beat addiction, but what they really do is redirect the addiction to less harmful (in theory) pursuits. So, many recovering addicts become heavy coffee drinkers, or heavy smokers, or get really big into religion (God addiction?).
A particular "XYZ Addiction" program may be useful to XYZ addicts because it puts them in with a group of people suffering from the same addiction, and maybe they can draw some support from each other. The ultimate goal of any of them, though, is simply to try and redirect the addictive tendencies toward less harmful addictions.
The demand for healthier options in low-income areas is low because healthier options are too expensive for them to afford. The highly processed nutrition-poor food is FAR cheaper than the whole-grain fresh-vegetable healthy stuff.
C-3PO is a protocol droid designed to serve humans, and boasts that he is fluent "in over six million forms of communication."
3PO is there for comic relief primarily, so his cowardice doesn't bother me. What really bothered me about him is the origin story in Episode 1. I mean seriously, are you trying to tell me that an 8 year old, bored out of his mind on a desert planet, with access to enough parts and knowledge to build a basically sentient robot is going to build a PROTOCOL DROID? I mean, he could have built a mindless killing machine, or a machine capable of fixing his speeder for him, or stealing shit from the marketplace, or raiding moisture farms for water, or SOMETHING. But no, he builds a droid designed to communicate politely in 6 million languages and that's about it. What the hell does a kid whose primary interest is podracing need with a protocol droid that can speak 6,000,000 languages, 5,999,999 of which he can't understand, and 5,999,983 of which he's unlikely to ever need to know? This kid had to be the biggest dork in 3 galaxies.
According to my copy of the CorpSpeak to English dictionary "challenge" and "opportunity" both say "See 'problem'."
Yes, but there are subtle differences. For example, when they speak of challenges, your corporate overlords are telling you there will be massive layoffs soon. However, when they speak to you of opportunities, it means you personally will be laid off immediately.
If they're private, they shouldn't be on the Internet. At the very least, they should be password protected. Depending on URL-shortening services to provide privacy when they were never designed nor intended to do that is simply foolish.
I can already get the destination URL of any TinyURL identifier using their "preview" feature. Getting that data in list form just saves a little time. If you're concerned about privacy, you can either a.) not use URL-shortening services, or b.) keep private information off the Internet.
This is why I love cloud computing but hate "the cloud".
Cloud computing can be useful if used as a way to simplify IT tasks within your own IT organization. Having a cloud of easily movable virtual servers simplifies capacity planning and availability management. It can, if implemented properly, greatly reduce IT costs.
However, storing data on an external cloud is just as dangerous as outsourcing data storage and processing has always been. Companies have been well aware of the risks they take when outsourcing IT for many years. Sometimes, they feel the risk is worth it, or the data is not particularly confidential, and they go ahead and do it. Other times, they decide the risk is too high and keep the data in-house. Either way, the risk of data theft was always part of the equation. However, once you add a fancy new buzzword like "cloud" to what remains essentially IT outsourcing, executives' brains fall out of their skulls and they forget about risk management.
The risks involved in outsourcing to an external cloud are not appreciably different from the risks involved in outsourcing IT in general, but since we have a new buzzword for it now, we can rehash all of our old stories again and act as if all of these things are new and alarming.
Probably, but the optimist in me hopes it will go in a different direction. Maybe the ubiquity of embarrassing photos of people during spring break or whatever will make such things less shocking and less worthy of note in the future, and people will finally learn to lighten up a bit. After all, you can't very well use your opponent's topless photos against her if she can just counter with photos of you doing keg stands in college. Maybe it will force politicians to move beyond these petty personal attacks and actually start debating the issues again.
But seriously, your scenario is probably a lot more likely.
PS2 compatibility means nothing to me, but then I don't have a huge library of PS2 games, and games from that era now look so terribly dated by today's standards that they're hardly worth buying even at used prices.
I do, however, really dig the idea that the XBox 360 can be used to play Netflix instant play movies on the TV (although it requires an XBox Live account). If PS3 had that as well, I'd buy the PS3 over the 360 in a heartbeat now that they're basically price compatible. As it is, though, I'm torn. Although, since I'm also looking at possibly getting an HDTV in the near future, the BluRay player in the PS3 could become a big deal as well (they still have those, right?).
Dammit Sony, stop screwing around and start supporting Netflix on the PS3 and I'd buy one tomorrow!
Volkswagen is trying to change that with their Jetta TDI. They ran a bunch of basically infomercials with the Mythbusters guys after each episode for a while trying to "bust the myths" surrounding diesel engines. Time will tell if their marketing campaign is successful, but I would love to see a diesel engine car make some headway here. Personally, I figure I'll be in the market for a new car in 1 or 2 years, and if the Jetta TDI is as good as they want us to think it is, I'm leaning pretty heavily toward it at this point.
If it blocks transmission, none of the students will use it for its intended purpose, because they want to text their friends in the middle of the day regardless of the rules. They'll just keep their cell phones in another pocket.
No we can't, because sci fi fans are their own worst enemies. We clamor for new sci fi and decry all the retreads that get churned out and wish Hollywood would come up with something new. Then, on the rare occasion Hollywood DOES come up with something new, we rip it apart and complain about every little thing that's wrong with it. Meanwhile, every time an old established franchise comes out with yet another sequel, we fall all over ourselves to give them our money.
Speaking from personal experience, it's that yu dnt knead as much sleap...for exmpl, I don't need as much sleep ass othres dew...I meen, Ive been up for almstr 3 dys straight, and i;m stll operatig at peak form,,,my mind is stll sharp, and safdgege ewMONKEYS!!#@! Sorry about that, I thnk I blcked out for a secnd...what was I talking abt...oh right, ppl who say yu need to sleep EVERY DAY r full of sht.
I expect Palin will be going around telling everyone about the new amendment to the health care plan that involves using these space taxis to shoot old people into the Sun so we don't have to pay for their health care.
No, they would just add more features to emacs to take advantage of it.
"(light press)Meta-(hard press)Ctrl-(medium press)Shift-(hard press)C" automatically spell and grammar checks your document while giving you a light foot massage, but "(hard press)Meta-(medium press)Ctrl-(light press)Shift-(medium press)C" launches the missiles. That sort of thing.
Dude, this is Slashdot. You can still get upmodded for jokes about hot grits or Jon Katz here. This place is the HOME of old and tired. Without our old and worn-out memes, what are we?
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I don't know about anyone else's family, but a quarter hasn't been good enough in my family since I was a kid in the 1980s. These days, the usual price for one tooth is $2. The tooth fairy usually gives it in the form of a $2 bill, depending on whether or not she had time to go to the bank and get a $2 bill before the tooth fell out.
Even if you wanted to go after the model for a frivolous lawsuit, it would be difficult to prove she had no intention of following through. It seems just as likely that she outed the person, found out the person was a penniless student with no hope of paying any judgment, and elected not to go forward based on that.
Yah, I've seen those images...there's not enough bleach on Earth to remove that image from my brain.
Yeah! And some sort of wireless repelling device to keep those damn kids off my lawn!
I have so many more friends, and I find that things come more easily to me
Obviously, she broke his WoW addiction by getting him addicted to Facebook!
Some of the Internet-addicted may be porn addicts, but I'd wager a significant percentage of them are MMORPG addicts (most notably WoW). There are plenty of stories out there of people so addicted to that game, and others like it, that they suffer many of the same consequences (loss of family, job, etc) that hardcode substance abusers do.
Rather than focus on pornography, or even the Internet, I would focus more on addictive behaviors in general. Some people are simply more prone to addiction than others, and will become addicted to any number of things. Organizations like AA claim to beat addiction, but what they really do is redirect the addiction to less harmful (in theory) pursuits. So, many recovering addicts become heavy coffee drinkers, or heavy smokers, or get really big into religion (God addiction?).
A particular "XYZ Addiction" program may be useful to XYZ addicts because it puts them in with a group of people suffering from the same addiction, and maybe they can draw some support from each other. The ultimate goal of any of them, though, is simply to try and redirect the addictive tendencies toward less harmful addictions.
The demand for healthier options in low-income areas is low because healthier options are too expensive for them to afford. The highly processed nutrition-poor food is FAR cheaper than the whole-grain fresh-vegetable healthy stuff.
You need to calm down before you give yourself a heart attack and drag the average down even more.
C-3PO is a protocol droid designed to serve humans, and boasts that he is fluent "in over six million forms of communication."
3PO is there for comic relief primarily, so his cowardice doesn't bother me. What really bothered me about him is the origin story in Episode 1. I mean seriously, are you trying to tell me that an 8 year old, bored out of his mind on a desert planet, with access to enough parts and knowledge to build a basically sentient robot is going to build a PROTOCOL DROID? I mean, he could have built a mindless killing machine, or a machine capable of fixing his speeder for him, or stealing shit from the marketplace, or raiding moisture farms for water, or SOMETHING. But no, he builds a droid designed to communicate politely in 6 million languages and that's about it. What the hell does a kid whose primary interest is podracing need with a protocol droid that can speak 6,000,000 languages, 5,999,999 of which he can't understand, and 5,999,983 of which he's unlikely to ever need to know? This kid had to be the biggest dork in 3 galaxies.
According to my copy of the CorpSpeak to English dictionary "challenge" and "opportunity" both say "See 'problem'."
Yes, but there are subtle differences. For example, when they speak of challenges, your corporate overlords are telling you there will be massive layoffs soon. However, when they speak to you of opportunities, it means you personally will be laid off immediately.
If they're private, they shouldn't be on the Internet. At the very least, they should be password protected. Depending on URL-shortening services to provide privacy when they were never designed nor intended to do that is simply foolish.
You do realize this is 2009, and not 1989, right?
I can already get the destination URL of any TinyURL identifier using their "preview" feature. Getting that data in list form just saves a little time. If you're concerned about privacy, you can either a.) not use URL-shortening services, or b.) keep private information off the Internet.
This is why I love cloud computing but hate "the cloud".
Cloud computing can be useful if used as a way to simplify IT tasks within your own IT organization. Having a cloud of easily movable virtual servers simplifies capacity planning and availability management. It can, if implemented properly, greatly reduce IT costs.
However, storing data on an external cloud is just as dangerous as outsourcing data storage and processing has always been. Companies have been well aware of the risks they take when outsourcing IT for many years. Sometimes, they feel the risk is worth it, or the data is not particularly confidential, and they go ahead and do it. Other times, they decide the risk is too high and keep the data in-house. Either way, the risk of data theft was always part of the equation. However, once you add a fancy new buzzword like "cloud" to what remains essentially IT outsourcing, executives' brains fall out of their skulls and they forget about risk management.
The risks involved in outsourcing to an external cloud are not appreciably different from the risks involved in outsourcing IT in general, but since we have a new buzzword for it now, we can rehash all of our old stories again and act as if all of these things are new and alarming.
Probably, but the optimist in me hopes it will go in a different direction. Maybe the ubiquity of embarrassing photos of people during spring break or whatever will make such things less shocking and less worthy of note in the future, and people will finally learn to lighten up a bit. After all, you can't very well use your opponent's topless photos against her if she can just counter with photos of you doing keg stands in college. Maybe it will force politicians to move beyond these petty personal attacks and actually start debating the issues again. But seriously, your scenario is probably a lot more likely.
PS2 compatibility means nothing to me, but then I don't have a huge library of PS2 games, and games from that era now look so terribly dated by today's standards that they're hardly worth buying even at used prices.
I do, however, really dig the idea that the XBox 360 can be used to play Netflix instant play movies on the TV (although it requires an XBox Live account). If PS3 had that as well, I'd buy the PS3 over the 360 in a heartbeat now that they're basically price compatible. As it is, though, I'm torn. Although, since I'm also looking at possibly getting an HDTV in the near future, the BluRay player in the PS3 could become a big deal as well (they still have those, right?).
Dammit Sony, stop screwing around and start supporting Netflix on the PS3 and I'd buy one tomorrow!
Volkswagen is trying to change that with their Jetta TDI. They ran a bunch of basically infomercials with the Mythbusters guys after each episode for a while trying to "bust the myths" surrounding diesel engines. Time will tell if their marketing campaign is successful, but I would love to see a diesel engine car make some headway here. Personally, I figure I'll be in the market for a new car in 1 or 2 years, and if the Jetta TDI is as good as they want us to think it is, I'm leaning pretty heavily toward it at this point.
If it blocks transmission, none of the students will use it for its intended purpose, because they want to text their friends in the middle of the day regardless of the rules. They'll just keep their cell phones in another pocket.
No we can't, because sci fi fans are their own worst enemies. We clamor for new sci fi and decry all the retreads that get churned out and wish Hollywood would come up with something new. Then, on the rare occasion Hollywood DOES come up with something new, we rip it apart and complain about every little thing that's wrong with it. Meanwhile, every time an old established franchise comes out with yet another sequel, we fall all over ourselves to give them our money.
Speaking from personal experience, it's that yu dnt knead as much sleap...for exmpl, I don't need as much sleep ass othres dew...I meen, Ive been up for almstr 3 dys straight, and i;m stll operatig at peak form,,,my mind is stll sharp, and safdgege ewMONKEYS!!#@! Sorry about that, I thnk I blcked out for a secnd...what was I talking abt...oh right, ppl who say yu need to sleep EVERY DAY r full of sht.
I'm sorry, but any solution that kills Bruce Willis but allows Ben Affleck to live simply cannot be allowed to happen.
I expect Palin will be going around telling everyone about the new amendment to the health care plan that involves using these space taxis to shoot old people into the Sun so we don't have to pay for their health care.
If you invest your 401k heavily in companies building nightclubs in space, this space taxi service will be a major boon for you.
No, they would just add more features to emacs to take advantage of it.
"(light press)Meta-(hard press)Ctrl-(medium press)Shift-(hard press)C" automatically spell and grammar checks your document while giving you a light foot massage, but "(hard press)Meta-(medium press)Ctrl-(light press)Shift-(medium press)C" launches the missiles. That sort of thing.
Dude, this is Slashdot. You can still get upmodded for jokes about hot grits or Jon Katz here. This place is the HOME of old and tired. Without our old and worn-out memes, what are we?