My parents let me have unsupervised access when online when I was 14 because there aren't men pointing guns at me there and they apparently didn't believe I should be "protected" from unpleasant information and humanity behavior, but I think what matters is raising your children to understand the dangers and making their kids understand that going out to meet strangers for the first time in a vulnerable position is something they don't want you to do for your own good.
What's MySpace supposed to do in all this? The only I saw was verifying identities. OK, so you have met a guy called Philip Eisenhart and he's 17. Now what do you do? Sure, this would protect against a 50 year old saying he's 16, but come on, you weren't honestly going to put yourself in a situation to be all alone with someone from the web on your first date in the first place? A 14 year old can just take him to her home and parents, or arrange something with her friends and not make the very first date too "close" and serious, just to get to know him.
"MySpace is more concerned about making money than protecting children online"
The children are protected online. Their problem is protection offline beyond the realms of a website. MySpace is not revealing personal data at another member's request through their website. The children are protected online to the best of MySpace's abilities. This girl wasn't abused on the web in a session of cybersex where MySpace provided a button to electrochute her.
How concerned her parents is on protecting her offline is a better question.
Obviously, they can do the basics as verifying personal data, and we have a similar site in Sweden that does exactly that, but abuse still happens, because believe it or not, there still exist plenty of jerks who don't mind providing their real information. Most probably get away with it too, by threatening the girl to not speak. In the end, your own mind is your most powerful weapon against "online predators".
"We feel that 1 percent of that is the bare minimum that they should compensate the girl for their failure to protect her online when they knew sexual predators were on that site," he said.
The major flaw in their argument is that she was fully protected online, as MySpace does not allow members to get actual address and user information at request. Their problem is that she was not protected offline, and who's to deal with that if not her friends and/or parents. Have your first date at your parents home and have a talk in your room to get to know each other better for christ sake, not his apartment or something. Get some friends and go to the movies and have a good time while you get to know him. It doesn't have to be all "OMG, let's go to your apartment on our first date and have sex". Especially if you're just 14.
Of course it's GPL, so have fun and spread it around!
Ha, just to piss of those open source zealots once and for all like no man has done before, I'm going to finally put my evil plan into effect and send some shivers through the OSS community by downloading this sucker and keep it all to myself ! How about that!
"Complexity kills.. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."
Hmm, is this quote from Microsoft after the development of Windows 2000 concluded, or when in the finishing touches of Vista.
Windows 2000 Beta 3 was delayed one week on April 15 until the 28th. On April 16th, Jim Allchin said that Windows 2000 had hit the home stretch: "We have a set of ship criteria that's incredibly complicated," Allchin said.
"While Windows 2000 is a great product, its development time and complexity is just too much to ask of customers. In the future, Microsoft will need to work off of a stable base, adding features on a yearly basis. For example, Microsoft should have developed Active Directory and IntelliMirror separately, releasing these products when they were ready. Asking customers to wrap their minds around all of the new features and changes in Windows 2000 is simply too much to ask."
So... Microsoft learnt from their mistakes in Longhorn? No, wait a minute!
The next OS shouldn't be as monolithic with things breaking in their own products, or even worse, OS, as soon as they apply a patch.
So now you know what you can expect in Vista -- more of the same?
A funny thing in all this, and a constructive suggestion instead of just whining, is a request for Microsoft to offer install-time choices. Sure, there should be a "novice installer mode" like Vista (and XP) currently features where at the very start, one can say "I'm an idiot, install the OS" in prettier wording. But what about advanced users? Shouldn't they be able to exclude stuff they don't need. Maybe then, *gasp* they won't be subject to security exploits in these non-installed components either.
I agree; it's hard to design a software that aid them in e.g the many individual challenges against the Brazil players. Soccer games also often turns in ways the opponents didn't expect, and that of course goes for Australia as well, and not just Brazil when Australia wish to use a particular strategy.
There's no soccer team that belong to the top that don't have a ton of imagination, individual skill, and versatility in their team to be able to efficiently play many sorts of different tactics. If a computer software would decide some tactic would be particularly efficient, a team like Brazil could just try changing tactic in half time. It happens all the time in soccer games that players are assigned slightly different roles to cover weak spots. And of all things this software isn't, is adapting in real-time.
Current Wikipedia works like this: - Any article not being heavily vanadalized can be edited by anyone. - Any article being heavily vanadalized may be semi-protected against newly registered users, i.e. anyone having been registered for a while.
The semi-protection was deliberately designed so not even that will lock out anyone particular, since even new registrations become old enough soon enough. That's the intelligent part about it; being open (as long as you accept a delay after registration among a few select pages) while protecting against vandals.
Although Wikipedia is "open", I think that doesn't mean there can't be controls. The right controls just make something that's open work more efficiently. We have police forces in open societies, and put traffic lights on crossings there may have been overly many accidents at in the past, and when there's these, you're obliged by law to follow rules according to those. You usually don't just check in code in an OSS project without approval. Things simply don't work like there can't be any rules anywhere. Well, it does, if you accept a much heavier repair and maintenance work due to all the problems caused by a complete lack of regulations, but I have to wonder if the people complaining about Wikipedia protection feel like doubling or tripling their efforts in that case.
As long as Wikipedia implements sensible regulations I have no problems with it, especially if these regulations still mean that e.g semi-protected pages can be edited by anyone within time. That doesn't make it elitist or anything either, because no one needs to be granted access to edit or something like that and everyone is treated equally without discriminations.
Am I the only one that thinks the whole aero craze is over the top. Is it really that important to be able to see through some of your windows and have them displayed in "3d"?
Windows Aero is an environment with an additional level of visual sophistication, one that is even more responsive and manageable, providing a further level of clarity and confidence to Windows users. The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it.
Sorry, I just feel the Microsoft meaningless drone speak be too funny to leave out in a discussion like this.:-)
It increases your clarity, dude! The clarity dammit! And you'll feel more confident!
Confident in.. err, using your computer! I mean, exploring the visual sophistication that meets your eyes!
Just wait for the Vista sequel UI... Increases your sexual pleasure and self esteem?
I thought it was just a guide to things useful to run Vista well, but what's the deal with HDMI "not being required until later this year". Required for what exactly? To get a free Microsoft sticker to put on your PC saying "This computer meets the Vista Premium requirements"? To become a personal friend with Steve Ballmer? How can a requirement suddenly change for the exact same operating system?
If you have HDMI support before it's required for Premium, won't it be as useful then? Where's the added benefit for fulfilling the requirements? Or is this just a discussion for fun, of the sort "if you have managed to train a parrot to talk, that's pretty good" with no special point to why it's good?
And how many slashdotters find Google Groups useful?
Being a developer, I use it quite often at work to find info about software issues and help against assorted quirks that can be more of a jungle to find on the world wild web.:-) There's lots and lots of software development stuff there too.
Is this sponsorship a creative way to get women interested in GNOME, or is it merely sexist?
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Sexism: Prejudice or discrimination based on gender. Like other "isms," sexism can be personal, as when someone tells a joke or makes a remark that demeans a woman because of his or her gender, or institutional, as when women are paid less than men doing the same work.
For this to be sexist, you first need to know how sponsoring a group of coders who didn't submit any code is prejudical or discriminating.
What will we do when he dies? We will still make fun of him!
Yeah, nothing like some black humor from geeks disconnected from reality!
I picture some zealots crushing his tomb stone and leaving a note with the words "... and so, at last, Mammon fell, and this final puny sign of his evil rule was shattered!" -- From the Book of Mozilla, 8:12
I know there are coming out more FPS/MMORPG merges now with e.g Tabula Rasa, and maybe a World of Starcraft would be best suited as something like that. I always felt WoW was more appropriate with a mix of pacifist work like tanning and brewing potions and fighting for a more traditional MMORPG, while in Starcraft it's more about the guns and epic battles between the species. Even a medic is usually found in battle, not operating in a Terran Hospital Building. Would many really like to build Vulture Bikes a lot?
This would also as a bonus, besides getting the "feel" right, make World of Starcraft appeal to a slightly different target audience to Blizzard than WoW, as I doubt they'd wish to intentionally step on WoW's toes and compete with themselves too much. Hey, I may be onto something here!:-)
I have nothing against pretty designs, and one reason I like some Apple hardware etc, but I think it's important that you can use the stuff, and many of the pictures linked to here didn't seem to tell me you could. Creating visually appealing stuff only gets a good designer halfway, like creating something that works only gets an engineer halfway. Creating something you can use though, and something that works well and reliably, now that are different matters.
The reason we don't look like the moon is that the atmosphere hides the evidence after the fact. It certainly doesn't protect the Earth from all projectiles.
Isn't it tectonics and an active planet that hides the evidence after the fact? IMHO, the Atmosphere stops the "fact" from happening in the first place.
Particular to Windows programmers, the announcement of MS-Windows Vista's system requirements means that future Windows boxes will laugh at the memory/processor requirements of current interpreted/JIT compiled languages (e.g..NET, Java , Python, and others).
Official "Vista Premium Ready" Requirements: 1 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, DirectX 9 card with Pixel Shader 2.0 and WDDM support, 15 GB free space.
I think either the author or Microsoft is out of touch with reality a bit, but I've running Vista with 1 GB RAM better than expected, and that tend to matter much more than the CPU speed from my experiences.
Hmm... Hues of blue are inbetween those two in the spectrum. The Hooloovoo, super-intelligent shades of the color blue, will sue the ass out of the copyright holder on this one for sure.
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My parents let me have unsupervised access when online when I was 14 because there aren't men pointing guns at me there and they apparently didn't believe I should be "protected" from unpleasant information and humanity behavior, but I think what matters is raising your children to understand the dangers and making their kids understand that going out to meet strangers for the first time in a vulnerable position is something they don't want you to do for your own good.
What's MySpace supposed to do in all this? The only I saw was verifying identities. OK, so you have met a guy called Philip Eisenhart and he's 17. Now what do you do? Sure, this would protect against a 50 year old saying he's 16, but come on, you weren't honestly going to put yourself in a situation to be all alone with someone from the web on your first date in the first place? A 14 year old can just take him to her home and parents, or arrange something with her friends and not make the very first date too "close" and serious, just to get to know him.
The children are protected online. Their problem is protection offline beyond the realms of a website. MySpace is not revealing personal data at another member's request through their website. The children are protected online to the best of MySpace's abilities. This girl wasn't abused on the web in a session of cybersex where MySpace provided a button to electrochute her.
How concerned her parents is on protecting her offline is a better question.
Obviously, they can do the basics as verifying personal data, and we have a similar site in Sweden that does exactly that, but abuse still happens, because believe it or not, there still exist plenty of jerks who don't mind providing their real information. Most probably get away with it too, by threatening the girl to not speak. In the end, your own mind is your most powerful weapon against "online predators".
The major flaw in their argument is that she was fully protected online, as MySpace does not allow members to get actual address and user information at request. Their problem is that she was not protected offline, and who's to deal with that if not her friends and/or parents. Have your first date at your parents home and have a talk in your room to get to know each other better for christ sake, not his apartment or something. Get some friends and go to the movies and have a good time while you get to know him. It doesn't have to be all "OMG, let's go to your apartment on our first date and have sex". Especially if you're just 14.
So if you eat your own poo, you become Superman? :-o
Ha, just to piss of those open source zealots once and for all like no man has done before, I'm going to finally put my evil plan into effect and send some shivers through the OSS community by downloading this sucker and keep it all to myself ! How about that!
Are we suppose to judge the quality from his words and 200x150 pixel thumbnails?
Right...
Hmm, is this quote from Microsoft after the development of Windows 2000 concluded, or when in the finishing touches of Vista.
They're confusingly similar anyway:
So... Microsoft learnt from their mistakes in Longhorn? No, wait a minute!
The next OS shouldn't be as monolithic with things breaking in their own products, or even worse, OS, as soon as they apply a patch.
So now you know what you can expect in Vista -- more of the same?
A funny thing in all this, and a constructive suggestion instead of just whining, is a request for Microsoft to offer install-time choices. Sure, there should be a "novice installer mode" like Vista (and XP) currently features where at the very start, one can say "I'm an idiot, install the OS" in prettier wording. But what about advanced users? Shouldn't they be able to exclude stuff they don't need. Maybe then, *gasp* they won't be subject to security exploits in these non-installed components either.
I agree; it's hard to design a software that aid them in e.g the many individual challenges against the Brazil players. Soccer games also often turns in ways the opponents didn't expect, and that of course goes for Australia as well, and not just Brazil when Australia wish to use a particular strategy.
There's no soccer team that belong to the top that don't have a ton of imagination, individual skill, and versatility in their team to be able to efficiently play many sorts of different tactics. If a computer software would decide some tactic would be particularly efficient, a team like Brazil could just try changing tactic in half time. It happens all the time in soccer games that players are assigned slightly different roles to cover weak spots. And of all things this software isn't, is adapting in real-time.
Current Wikipedia works like this:
- Any article not being heavily vanadalized can be edited by anyone.
- Any article being heavily vanadalized may be semi-protected against newly registered users, i.e. anyone having been registered for a while.
The semi-protection was deliberately designed so not even that will lock out anyone particular, since even new registrations become old enough soon enough. That's the intelligent part about it; being open (as long as you accept a delay after registration among a few select pages) while protecting against vandals.
Although Wikipedia is "open", I think that doesn't mean there can't be controls. The right controls just make something that's open work more efficiently. We have police forces in open societies, and put traffic lights on crossings there may have been overly many accidents at in the past, and when there's these, you're obliged by law to follow rules according to those. You usually don't just check in code in an OSS project without approval. Things simply don't work like there can't be any rules anywhere. Well, it does, if you accept a much heavier repair and maintenance work due to all the problems caused by a complete lack of regulations, but I have to wonder if the people complaining about Wikipedia protection feel like doubling or tripling their efforts in that case.
As long as Wikipedia implements sensible regulations I have no problems with it, especially if these regulations still mean that e.g semi-protected pages can be edited by anyone within time. That doesn't make it elitist or anything either, because no one needs to be granted access to edit or something like that and everyone is treated equally without discriminations.
Windows Aero is an environment with an additional level of visual sophistication, one that is even more responsive and manageable, providing a further level of clarity and confidence to Windows users. The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it.
Sorry, I just feel the Microsoft meaningless drone speak be too funny to leave out in a discussion like this.
It increases your clarity, dude! The clarity dammit! And you'll feel more confident!
Confident in.. err, using your computer! I mean, exploring the visual sophistication that meets your eyes!
Just wait for the Vista sequel UI... Increases your sexual pleasure and self esteem?
Why should I care about these things?
I thought it was just a guide to things useful to run Vista well, but what's the deal with HDMI "not being required until later this year". Required for what exactly? To get a free Microsoft sticker to put on your PC saying "This computer meets the Vista Premium requirements"? To become a personal friend with Steve Ballmer? How can a requirement suddenly change for the exact same operating system?
If you have HDMI support before it's required for Premium, won't it be as useful then? Where's the added benefit for fulfilling the requirements? Or is this just a discussion for fun, of the sort "if you have managed to train a parrot to talk, that's pretty good" with no special point to why it's good?
Being a developer, I use it quite often at work to find info about software issues and help against assorted quirks that can be more of a jungle to find on the world wild web.
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Sexism: Prejudice or discrimination based on gender. Like other "isms," sexism can be personal, as when someone tells a joke or makes a remark that demeans a woman because of his or her gender, or institutional, as when women are paid less than men doing the same work.
For this to be sexist, you first need to know how sponsoring a group of coders who didn't submit any code is prejudical or discriminating.
*looks at the Da Vinci Code box office*
:-(
:-/
Oooh, it cost $200 million to make, and just made $650 million in worldwide profits so far.
I feel so sorry for them.
You guys must stop downloading that movie right now!
You aid crippling the movie industry! Just look at where we are today!
Yeah, nothing like some black humor from geeks disconnected from reality!
I picture some zealots crushing his tomb stone and leaving a note with the words
"... and so, at last, Mammon fell, and this final puny sign of his evil rule was shattered!" -- From the Book of Mozilla, 8:12
Surely that depends on what file system you're talking about. Many, many filesystems intentionally have case insensitivity.
Finally hell is getting temperature levels closer to my damn apartment. `:-( (sweaty smiley)
I know there are coming out more FPS/MMORPG merges now with e.g Tabula Rasa, and maybe a World of Starcraft would be best suited as something like that. I always felt WoW was more appropriate with a mix of pacifist work like tanning and brewing potions and fighting for a more traditional MMORPG, while in Starcraft it's more about the guns and epic battles between the species. Even a medic is usually found in battle, not operating in a Terran Hospital Building. Would many really like to build Vulture Bikes a lot?
:-)
This would also as a bonus, besides getting the "feel" right, make World of Starcraft appeal to a slightly different target audience to Blizzard than WoW, as I doubt they'd wish to intentionally step on WoW's toes and compete with themselves too much. Hey, I may be onto something here!
I have nothing against pretty designs, and one reason I like some Apple hardware etc, but I think it's important that you can use the stuff, and many of the pictures linked to here didn't seem to tell me you could. Creating visually appealing stuff only gets a good designer halfway, like creating something that works only gets an engineer halfway. Creating something you can use though, and something that works well and reliably, now that are different matters.
There's not much of any usability to be seen here anyway.
And here I thought that was among the most important aspects of design.
Isn't it tectonics and an active planet that hides the evidence after the fact?
IMHO, the Atmosphere stops the "fact" from happening in the first place.
Who's to say we won't try to get the weapons up before the people? :-p
This story doesn't seem to have much to do with the Pirate Bay going up 3 days or so after it was shut down.
Actually, when I think hard, I can't think of any evolutions in the P2P field that connect to this version of RIAA's reality.
Not that I care really. They can fight P2P vigorously, and they can claim it's contained. Regardless what, nothing at all will change.
Official "Vista Capable" Requirements:
800 MHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, DirectX 9 graphics card w/ 32 MB RAM, 15 GB free space.
Official "Vista Premium Ready" Requirements:
1 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, DirectX 9 card with Pixel Shader 2.0 and WDDM support, 15 GB free space.
I think either the author or Microsoft is out of touch with reality a bit, but I've running Vista with 1 GB RAM better than expected, and that tend to matter much more than the CPU speed from my experiences.
1. Because GB is a more well known shorthand for a data amount.
2. Because a difference of 73,741,824 bytes doesn't matter in this article.
Hmm... Hues of blue are inbetween those two in the spectrum.
The Hooloovoo, super-intelligent shades of the color blue, will sue the ass out of the copyright holder on this one for sure.