Wow. Sounds like you've just abandoned your parental responsibilities altogether. Are you ever in for a rude surprise. Mutual respect or not, teenagers do stupid things. Period. Turning a blind eye to it in the name of "respect" is just enabling the behavior. Juvenile court is filled with the shocked parents of "my precious snowflake would never do that" children.
And if your children NEVER did anything wrong... that's an even scarier thought.
Seriously - has anyone ever worked for a company where the MBAs aren't behind every fraudulent, misguided, or just plain stupid act that has run a company into the ground? I haven't. Looks like they're still trying to blame the last bubble on the decisions they made about technology. "New Economy" my butt.
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TeX is not a word processor. That's like saying you write your reports "with" PostScript.
I just got my first car with OBD2 (yes, it's been a while) and it says right in the manual that it records about 60 seconds of driving information that can be used against me in the case of an accident whether I give permission or not. I want a hack that automatically erases that information in the event of a button push or airbag deployment. That's complete crap if you ask me...
there are thousands of folks out there who are using Vista on a day-to-day basis, and are not having problems. I find that difficult if not impossible to believe. I had my second experience with Vista this weekend, attempting some maintenance on an out-of-the-box Vista install on a computer my in-laws had purchased several months back. Turns out they hadn't used it since I installed it because it kept telling them things were broken, incompatible, or they didn't have permission to use them.
I wanted to download PuTTY so I could SSH into my machine from their house. Simple enough. It doesn't get any simpler than PuTTY - it doesn't even have an installer, you just unzip the files and run them. I'm not exaggerating when I say the whole thing took 10 minutes. For a 2M file.
It went something like this:
Windows: I see you're trying to access the Internet. Would you like to allow this? Me: yes. [navigate to the PuTTY site and click the zip file download] Windows: I see you're trying to download a file. Would you like to allow this? Me: yes. [file downloads. Fine. That's about 1 minute right there.] Me: [Navigate to the file and drag it to Program Files with the intention of extracting it there.] Windows: I see you're trying to extract this file. Would you like to allow this? Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks. 30 seconds later.] Windows: I can't allow you to do this. Me: WTF? [Try it again. Same result]. Me: Fine. [I navigate to Program Files and create a directory named PuTTY]. Windows: I see you're trying to create a directory. Are you an administrator? Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.] Windows: This action will require administrative privileges to run. Would you like to allow this? Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.] Windows: You are attempting to create a directory. Would you like to allow this? Me: Fuck yes. [Windows sits. And thinks. And suddenly there's a new directory! Yeah. I rename it. 5 minutes has gone by.] Me: [I drag the zip file and attempt to extract it to the folder I just created.] Windows: I see you're trying to extract a file. This file is unsigned by Windows and may be hazardous to your health. Would you like to allow this? Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.] Windows: This action will require administrative privileges to run. Are you an administrator? Me: yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.] Windows: [Starts extracting the first file.] Windows: This file is unsigned. Would you like to allow it to be extracted? Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks. And finally extracts the file.] Windows: [Starts extracting the second file.] This file is unsigned. Would you like to allow it to be extracted? Me: WTF? Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.] Windows: Would you like to apply these privileges to the remaining files? Me: WTF? Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.] Windows: [Starts extracting the 2.2M zip file. AT 2K PER SECOND. FOR A FILE EXTRACTION!!!] Me: WTFZOMGBBQ?!?...
Me: [Click on the PuTTY icon.] Finally... Windows: I see you're trying to use an application. Me: BANG!
"The winner will be whoever the porn industry sides with!!" Ignoring the fact that the porn industry played only a part in that war - it was NOT the deciding factor Seriously. And if you've ever watched porn in high def, you'd understand why their influence is going to be considerably less in this particular battle.
Well only if you don't count the black death, which killed 30-60% of the population of Europe, or the Small Pox pandemic which possibly killed upwards of 70% of Native Americans and advanced faster and was more ruthless than the conquering European armies. Sorry pal. More people died from the 1918 Influenza pandemic than the entire population of Native Americans at their PEAK before the arrival of Europeans on the continent (50 - 100 million dead vs. 2 - 18 million Native Americans living above the current Mexico border). Not to mention the fact that the 1918 pandemic hit Native Americans as a group harder than did even the Small Pox infections, causing 100% mortality or related/affected deaths in some Inuit tribes.
Good lord. You sound just like my Grandmother who complains about the kids at the cash register being unable to count out change while every digital clock in her house is blinking 12:00.
That argument is old and tired. Give it a rest. My job is to manage an extremely large Linux server environment. I have a Linux desktop as a jumping off point to the rest of the systems. It sits at a command prompt because I have an XP box that does everything the Linux desktop does, only better. And faster. And more reliable.
Don't want your kids filling up your hard drive with crap and slowing down the machine? Don't make them administrators. Don't blame the OS for your inability to manage it.
I see an exciting new opportunity in tools that allow automotive owners to take back control over the information being gathered by their cars for use against them. How about a hot-button that automatically erases the OBD memory in the event of a crash, or just because the driver wants to? Or disables in-coming override controls from OnStar?
Only if you're a pedant. Golden Rule, we should all follow it. Sorry, got to disagree. I don't want people treating me the way they want to be treated. I want people treating me the way I want to be treated. The Golden Rule assumes - and I believe incorrectly - that everyone follows the same moral code. Like my neighbors who think they're doing my kids a favor by not letting them watch their favorite "Land Before Time" videos when they babysit because the whole concept of dinosaurs is just a test of their faith. The Golden Rule as stated places no obligation on either party to actually try and understand the needs of the other person, and places a whole lot prejudice and assumption into the mix. It's a reasonable place to start when you know nothing about the other person at all (e.g., introduction to an entirely new culture), but should be quickly replaced with "Do unto others as they would have done to themselves."
Pre-tell then, what is a crash? If I could pre-tell what caused a crash, I'd avoid doing it in the first place. But I don't think the precogs come online until 2053 or something like that.
Not to completely derail your thread, but at the cusp of the last dot-com explosion, I worked providing infrastructure for a number of startups and got to see the hilarious results of just this sort of thing taking place. The CTO of this particular startup decided that THEY MUST BECOME A WINDOWS SHOP. Never mind the fact he had a staff full of Solaris developers who'd never programmed Windows in their lives. Firing up their system was a joy to behold. You'd power on the system, it would auto-login to the network and then run a single batch script - which proceeded to run literally hundreds of command shells, all running instances of their directly-ported Solaris counterpart. They would then all minimize themselves so you had a screen filled two-thirds of the way with mimimized CMD windows. Troubleshooting was a matter of rebooting and seeing if it happened again.
There's a bigger picture that isn't really being addressed here. Ask your friend this: "If it was me working the register, would you correct my mistake?".
We see ATMs and cashiers as nameless, faceless entities that represent something larger that we have no personal connection with and therefore no stake in or control over. The fact is, the operation of that cash register and the proper functioning of that ATM is someone's job: someone's friend's job, someone's brother or sister, mom or dad's job. If you knew that person, would you act the same way?
The same reasoning applies to my belief that everyone should work a service industry job at some point in their lives.
This was in Texas, so I do not know the righs in other states, but I guess that other states have the same type of laws (I hope). Oh dear god, I hope not.
Those all pale in comparison to the inanity of all inanities: "it is what it is". The only proper response to that is "No it's not. And go away until you have something to say."
You have obviously never been burgled. It's even more obvious that if you have, you weren't home when it happened. The fear and degradation of not being able to protect yourself, your family, or your home will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may never sleep well again.
"Some asshole" who has the balls to walk in your front door and carry out your stereo in front of you is just as likely to tie you up and put a bullet in your head to prevent you from talking about it. You aren't shooting someone to prevent your property from being stolen: you're shooting someone to prevent them from doing something other than just stealing your property. If they have violated the sanctity of your home, the step to violating your right to life is not too far off.
What? I mean, what? The point of sex offender lists is that when I see someone in a black van lurking around the school yard, if it's a repeat offender I have someone to match them up with. And if by vigilantism you mean warning my kids to stay away from the oddly concentrated area where most of the registered sex offenders live in my area, then you may have a point.
I too am guilty of paying too much attention to my High Paid travel companion. She has, in fact, led me several places that are verrry bad, and hence I find myself paying much more attention to her instead of my wife. I too have gone up the incorrect "route" as it were, but rather than warn me ahead of time, she encouraged me vociferously, and to the contrary, I quite enjoyed finding myself up the "wrong lane."
And that being said, I'm having a hard time getting it the old way ever again. (I think I'm getting divorced.)
Dismount your self-righteous high-horse on the right please. Did Valenti think that what he was doing was the right thing? Not if he was as self-serving, greedy, and manipulative as his actions showed. And the world is NOT a better place when bad people die? Tell that to any of the thousands of people being sued by the RIAA should that entire organization happen to be swallowed up in some miraculously tragic sinkhole. If right and righteousness doesn't have the strength or influence to remove people like Valenti before they cause the harm they do, I'll be happy as hell when natural causes do.
And to which account do I send the virtual gold I'm paying with? This is ludicrous, of course, but if it's true, then we'll all be filing refunds for repair bills, pots, training, and weapon and armor upgrades that we needed to get that drop.
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Wow. Sounds like you've just abandoned your parental responsibilities altogether. Are you ever in for a rude surprise. Mutual respect or not, teenagers do stupid things. Period. Turning a blind eye to it in the name of "respect" is just enabling the behavior. Juvenile court is filled with the shocked parents of "my precious snowflake would never do that" children.
And if your children NEVER did anything wrong... that's an even scarier thought.
Seriously - has anyone ever worked for a company where the MBAs aren't behind every fraudulent, misguided, or just plain stupid act that has run a company into the ground? I haven't. Looks like they're still trying to blame the last bubble on the decisions they made about technology. "New Economy" my butt.
TeX is not a word processor. That's like saying you write your reports "with" PostScript.
I just got my first car with OBD2 (yes, it's been a while) and it says right in the manual that it records about 60 seconds of driving information that can be used against me in the case of an accident whether I give permission or not. I want a hack that automatically erases that information in the event of a button push or airbag deployment. That's complete crap if you ask me...
I wanted to download PuTTY so I could SSH into my machine from their house. Simple enough. It doesn't get any simpler than PuTTY - it doesn't even have an installer, you just unzip the files and run them. I'm not exaggerating when I say the whole thing took 10 minutes. For a 2M file.
It went something like this:
Windows: I see you're trying to access the Internet. Would you like to allow this?
Me: yes. [navigate to the PuTTY site and click the zip file download]
Windows: I see you're trying to download a file. Would you like to allow this?
Me: yes. [file downloads. Fine. That's about 1 minute right there.]
Me: [Navigate to the file and drag it to Program Files with the intention of extracting it there.]
Windows: I see you're trying to extract this file. Would you like to allow this?
Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks. 30 seconds later.]
Windows: I can't allow you to do this.
Me: WTF? [Try it again. Same result].
Me: Fine. [I navigate to Program Files and create a directory named PuTTY].
Windows: I see you're trying to create a directory. Are you an administrator?
Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.]
Windows: This action will require administrative privileges to run. Would you like to allow this?
Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.]
Windows: You are attempting to create a directory. Would you like to allow this?
Me: Fuck yes. [Windows sits. And thinks. And suddenly there's a new directory! Yeah. I rename it. 5 minutes has gone by.]
Me: [I drag the zip file and attempt to extract it to the folder I just created.]
Windows: I see you're trying to extract a file. This file is unsigned by Windows and may be hazardous to your health. Would you like to allow this?
Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.]
Windows: This action will require administrative privileges to run. Are you an administrator?
Me: yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.]
Windows: [Starts extracting the first file.]
Windows: This file is unsigned. Would you like to allow it to be extracted?
Me: Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks. And finally extracts the file.]
Windows: [Starts extracting the second file.] This file is unsigned. Would you like to allow it to be extracted?
Me: WTF? Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.]
Windows: Would you like to apply these privileges to the remaining files?
Me: WTF? Yes. [Windows sits. And thinks.]
Windows: [Starts extracting the 2.2M zip file. AT 2K PER SECOND. FOR A FILE EXTRACTION!!!]
Me: WTFZOMGBBQ?!?
Me: [Click on the PuTTY icon.] Finally...
Windows: I see you're trying to use an application.
Me: BANG!
Good lord. You sound just like my Grandmother who complains about the kids at the cash register being unable to count out change while every digital clock in her house is blinking 12:00.
That argument is old and tired. Give it a rest. My job is to manage an extremely large Linux server environment. I have a Linux desktop as a jumping off point to the rest of the systems. It sits at a command prompt because I have an XP box that does everything the Linux desktop does, only better. And faster. And more reliable.
Don't want your kids filling up your hard drive with crap and slowing down the machine? Don't make them administrators. Don't blame the OS for your inability to manage it.
I see an exciting new opportunity in tools that allow automotive owners to take back control over the information being gathered by their cars for use against them. How about a hot-button that automatically erases the OBD memory in the event of a crash, or just because the driver wants to? Or disables in-coming override controls from OnStar?
And I'm pretty sure they don't spell 'repel' with an 'a' in the UK either.
Not to completely derail your thread, but at the cusp of the last dot-com explosion, I worked providing infrastructure for a number of startups and got to see the hilarious results of just this sort of thing taking place. The CTO of this particular startup decided that THEY MUST BECOME A WINDOWS SHOP. Never mind the fact he had a staff full of Solaris developers who'd never programmed Windows in their lives. Firing up their system was a joy to behold. You'd power on the system, it would auto-login to the network and then run a single batch script - which proceeded to run literally hundreds of command shells, all running instances of their directly-ported Solaris counterpart. They would then all minimize themselves so you had a screen filled two-thirds of the way with mimimized CMD windows. Troubleshooting was a matter of rebooting and seeing if it happened again.
Needless to say, that company didn't go anywhere.
There's a bigger picture that isn't really being addressed here. Ask your friend this: "If it was me working the register, would you correct my mistake?".
We see ATMs and cashiers as nameless, faceless entities that represent something larger that we have no personal connection with and therefore no stake in or control over. The fact is, the operation of that cash register and the proper functioning of that ATM is someone's job: someone's friend's job, someone's brother or sister, mom or dad's job. If you knew that person, would you act the same way?
The same reasoning applies to my belief that everyone should work a service industry job at some point in their lives.
Those all pale in comparison to the inanity of all inanities: "it is what it is". The only proper response to that is "No it's not. And go away until you have something to say."
You have obviously never been burgled. It's even more obvious that if you have, you weren't home when it happened. The fear and degradation of not being able to protect yourself, your family, or your home will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may never sleep well again.
"Some asshole" who has the balls to walk in your front door and carry out your stereo in front of you is just as likely to tie you up and put a bullet in your head to prevent you from talking about it. You aren't shooting someone to prevent your property from being stolen: you're shooting someone to prevent them from doing something other than just stealing your property. If they have violated the sanctity of your home, the step to violating your right to life is not too far off.
Or better yet, make the CAPTCHA the text of the entire article, thereby forcing people to actually RTFA before being able to post.
What? I mean, what? The point of sex offender lists is that when I see someone in a black van lurking around the school yard, if it's a repeat offender I have someone to match them up with. And if by vigilantism you mean warning my kids to stay away from the oddly concentrated area where most of the registered sex offenders live in my area, then you may have a point.
I too am guilty of paying too much attention to my High Paid travel companion. She has, in fact, led me several places that are verrry bad, and hence I find myself paying much more attention to her instead of my wife. I too have gone up the incorrect "route" as it were, but rather than warn me ahead of time, she encouraged me vociferously, and to the contrary, I quite enjoyed finding myself up the "wrong lane."
And that being said, I'm having a hard time getting it the old way ever again. (I think I'm getting divorced.)
More importantly than emoticons, what the hell does it say about /. moderators that this was rated INFORMATIVE?
Dismount your self-righteous high-horse on the right please. Did Valenti think that what he was doing was the right thing? Not if he was as self-serving, greedy, and manipulative as his actions showed. And the world is NOT a better place when bad people die? Tell that to any of the thousands of people being sued by the RIAA should that entire organization happen to be swallowed up in some miraculously tragic sinkhole. If right and righteousness doesn't have the strength or influence to remove people like Valenti before they cause the harm they do, I'll be happy as hell when natural causes do.
And to which account do I send the virtual gold I'm paying with? This is ludicrous, of course, but if it's true, then we'll all be filing refunds for repair bills, pots, training, and weapon and armor upgrades that we needed to get that drop.