Thus, his parents might not be better that him, and the parents are not necessarilly able to take care of the kid aproprietly.
So for those households, which are very much in the minority with respect to this country's total population, the responsibility automatically falls on the video game companies to contingency-plan for the worst of situations? There are numerous organizations--the Department of Social Services, for one--that exist to rectify such circumstances. (And even they cannot hope for total success; there are entirely closed-in households where unspeakable things happen to the kids that live there, but if word never gets out, the rest of the world is poweless to help.)
The norm is healthy, the norm can handle violent video games. Skeptical about this claim? Why aren't cities absolutely stuffed to the gills with kids running amok with guns, shooting and raping everyone in sight? Because they would readily do so, but law enforcement is fortunately strong enough to keep them at bay? No. The truth is that the most common psyche is the balanced psyche. Whether this is a result of various sociological factors that just luckily happen to balance out, or of a widespread existence of actual decent parenting, is still up for debate, but in a sense it doesn't matter, because the forefront responsibility of parenting holds in either scenario.
but if it was GTA that triggered the shooting then GTA is to be blamed for these killings.
No, it's the parents that allowed the kids' mental imbalance to develop this far, and then allowed them to be bombarded with potentially incendiary stimuli, that are to blame.
"Like some kind of pornographic archeologist your 10 year old boy is probably rummaging through a stack of poorly hidden playboys from the 1970's at his best friends house right now. You cannot watch your kids all the time and you cannot ensure they will never see a boob or a gun before they are ready. What you can do is make sure that what they see and do in your house is appropriate and rely on some good old fashioned parenting skills to make sure that a quick glimpse of some blood in a videogame doesn't send them into a violent rage that ends with a school full of dead kids."
Care to eludicate? I still seem to be able to find what I need.
At this time I can't find anything better than google,
Or to be more precise, anything other than Google. As I said, for me Google is dandy, but competition, as we've said over and over, is always a good thing. Microsoft is preparing to enter the search engine arena, and whatever else may be true about them, they are certainly not a company to be dismissed. Grab your popcorn, folks.
As long as this is merely an assistant and not the end-all be-all, as long as actual qualified instructors review the essay after this program does, I'm all for it.
The English language is so full of subtleties, nuances, combinations, and fantastic structural intracacies that make phenomenal writing in it possible (Faulkner, Bradbury, etc.). There's a reason English is a field of study for graduate degrees: it's absolutely worthy of them. There is no subsitute for the educated, refined judgment of someone who is exceedingly well-versed in the language.
DirecTV is facing growing criticism over the campaign after targeting some innocent techies who had perfectly legal uses for the equipment they purchased.
no linux msblaster worms no linux visual basic for applications cracks no trains, planes or automobiles stopped by linux viruses, worms or trojans no linux DRM media players no linux license fees no linux authorization codes when you change hardware no forced upgrade cycle no having to hunt down 50 cds when trying to rebuild a machine
Fine. Get the masses to understand, and, more importantly, care about all that and then there's a shot.
Yes, and I can't access that review, either!:-) Moreover, a Google search for "Zaurus C-7x0" yielded only three results, only one of which was in English! I'm starving here!
This is valid point; in fact, it's actually oozing validity. If Linux is going to be presented in mass advertising as a device for simplification, it had better damn well live up to that description.
Like as not, many people already consider things plenty simple with Windows, especially XP and Server 2003. If Linux is going to simplify that, there must be some readily demonstrable ways in which it does so. Disillusionment is typically quick to take hold in folks, and once it's settled, it's monolithic to overcome.
Perhaps it's just that I don't have cable (3 channels that I'd watch out of 60 doesn't justify $45/month) but this is the first I've heard of real Linux commercials. Things in print are fine, but everyone knows TV advertising is as kingly effective as it's always been in getting stuff to sell.
Any information on whether there have been mass Linux commercials before this? We may be witnessing the beginning of a new era of Linux advertising. Marketing, marketing, marketing--we make fun of the people that major in it, and even more fun of the people that work in it, but it's certainly one of the biggest factors that helped propel Microsoft to the very top of the software heap. With a someday-equivalent force of marketing behind it, could Linux perhaps finally obtain the financial and spiritual backing it needs?
Windows Server 2003 took longer to release because of the re-written IIS and.NET layers. Security was also a main concern, but not because XP or 2000 were insecure.
They had plenty of vulnerabilities and many exploits that could have been prevented by patching and such... however, with SQL Slammer, Code Red, and others that had come out, Gates decided, this is it, we have to change some process somewhere. So he overhauled their development process one more time to focus around security in EVERY decision. So they halted development for 6 months, sent every single developer to a school in developing secure code, purchased 200 million in books on secure programming for their developers, and then went back to work. That right there delayed things 6 months alone.
Then, as part of Gates' orders, their next job was a line by line review of every single coded product Microsoft makes. Everything from Windows Server 2003 to the IntelliPoint software. While analyzing that code for common security mistakes, they also founded a new security organization for companies to join to exchange common coding conventions for secure code and publish common mistakes and to allow joint development knowledge to be shared, and hired on 500 people at the company to develop tools that do nothing but scan code. Those tools go out and look at code to find buffer overrun issues (the most common security flaw in existence), and to look for other common security mishaps in code.
After the review, they implemented the changes found therein. Then ran the new tools that by that time were done being developed, then implemented those changes, then got back on track with development and yes, rewrote the IIS layers to be partially built directly into the kernel for substantial performance increase. So with all that happening, the review, the tool development, the changes, the security education and reorganization, there were delays, yes. They got it out and look what it has... Two known vulnerabilities of which BOTH of them are a non-issue out of the box and are in areas that are rarely used.
Common sense says this is a good thing. I'd rather they took more time, and developed a better product (not sarcasm -- what do you think Microsoft, of all companies, is doing all this time?) rather than released something buggy early.
What a coincidence then that one of the finest blends of Earl Grey on the planet in general and in the UK in particular is Harrods' Earl Grey, Blend No.... 42.
This ties right in with the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Stonehenge, the value of pi, crop circles, that weird face on Mars, that strange 1x4x9 thing floating around Jupiter, and the fact that the sun and moon look the same size from the Earth! They're all connected, I tell you!
Perhaps that is why so many exploits are found, because people are targeting it religously, start targeting Mac and Linux as much and see who is insecure!
All of the arguments I've heard against this viewpoint -- which is to say, arguments based on "Windows is fundamentally insecure anyway, it would be much more heavily exploited even if it weren't the dominant desktop OS" -- are entirely theoretical. Well and fine, but as such their soundness is limited. The discovery of exploits is such a chaotic, surprising affair that one cannot hope to accurately predict how it would go for other operating systems without realistic tests of the systems in question. By this, I mean that unless you actually obtain a scenario where Linux or MacOS are indeed dominant, and are given the same exposure as Windows had (we can assume future tense here), running all the risks of being squinted over by troublemakers of all skill levels, and then conduct a "test run," as it were, over a very extended period of time... unless you have that, you are not going to be able to make any claims.
Even a thorough, scientific, hundreds-of-pages review of Windows security structure is no substitute for such a scenario. In computer security of this large a scale, theory is no substitute for experiment.
Here's a modest proposal: Microsoft should use some of its $49 billion hoard to mail an update CD to anybody who wants one.
The sorts of people that would think to order such a CD in the first place are likely already patching their machines. Others will get the CD and misplace it, forget about it entirely, or mistake it for something like an AOL disc and toss it in the trash.
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Thus, his parents might not be better that him, and the parents are not necessarilly able to take care of the kid aproprietly.
So for those households, which are very much in the minority with respect to this country's total population, the responsibility automatically falls on the video game companies to contingency-plan for the worst of situations? There are numerous organizations--the Department of Social Services, for one--that exist to rectify such circumstances. (And even they cannot hope for total success; there are entirely closed-in households where unspeakable things happen to the kids that live there, but if word never gets out, the rest of the world is poweless to help.)
The norm is healthy, the norm can handle violent video games. Skeptical about this claim? Why aren't cities absolutely stuffed to the gills with kids running amok with guns, shooting and raping everyone in sight? Because they would readily do so, but law enforcement is fortunately strong enough to keep them at bay? No. The truth is that the most common psyche is the balanced psyche. Whether this is a result of various sociological factors that just luckily happen to balance out, or of a widespread existence of actual decent parenting, is still up for debate, but in a sense it doesn't matter, because the forefront responsibility of parenting holds in either scenario.
but if it was GTA that triggered the shooting then GTA is to be blamed for these killings.
No, it's the parents that allowed the kids' mental imbalance to develop this far, and then allowed them to be bombarded with potentially incendiary stimuli, that are to blame.
Are Parents the Gatekeepers?
How is this even a question? Yes.
Please allow me to quote Gabe from Penny Arcade:
"Like some kind of pornographic archeologist your 10 year old boy is probably rummaging through a stack of poorly hidden playboys from the 1970's at his best friends house right now. You cannot watch your kids all the time and you cannot ensure they will never see a boob or a gun before they are ready. What you can do is make sure that what they see and do in your house is appropriate and rely on some good old fashioned parenting skills to make sure that a quick glimpse of some blood in a videogame doesn't send them into a violent rage that ends with a school full of dead kids."
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Any kids that went out and did stuff like that had problems before they ever got ahold of GTA.
eludicate
:P
Yeah, I'll just pounce on that typo now. before someone else does.
Now it has all sorts of filters and junk.
Care to eludicate? I still seem to be able to find what I need.
At this time I can't find anything better than google,
Or to be more precise, anything other than Google. As I said, for me Google is dandy, but competition, as we've said over and over, is always a good thing. Microsoft is preparing to enter the search engine arena, and whatever else may be true about them, they are certainly not a company to be dismissed. Grab your popcorn, folks.
the article states 200 million queries a day, not 200,000 million (200 billion)
C'mon, this is Slashdot. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to...
So far more than 83,000 people have put their names to an online petition that they're planning on sending to Star Wars director George Lucas.
Yes, and how many people do you think petitioned Lucas to put the original versions of the trilogy on DVD?
I think we all agree that Lucas should put the kid with the lightsabre into Star Wars III.
As what? Anakin's metabolically-challenged clone?
As long as this is merely an assistant and not the end-all be-all, as long as actual qualified instructors review the essay after this program does, I'm all for it.
The English language is so full of subtleties, nuances, combinations, and fantastic structural intracacies that make phenomenal writing in it possible (Faulkner, Bradbury, etc.). There's a reason English is a field of study for graduate degrees: it's absolutely worthy of them. There is no subsitute for the educated, refined judgment of someone who is exceedingly well-versed in the language.
DirecTV is facing growing criticism over the campaign after targeting some innocent techies who had perfectly legal uses for the equipment they purchased.
:-)
Well, at least it's an unbiased article.
no linux msblaster worms
no linux visual basic for applications cracks
no trains, planes or automobiles stopped by linux viruses, worms or trojans
no linux DRM media players
no linux license fees
no linux authorization codes when you change hardware
no forced upgrade cycle
no having to hunt down 50 cds when trying to rebuild a machine
Fine. Get the masses to understand, and, more importantly, care about all that and then there's a shot.
Dude, did you, like, convert the article into a telegram before you posted it or something?
We've covered this PDA in the past
:-) Moreover, a Google search for "Zaurus C-7x0" yielded only three results, only one of which was in English! I'm starving here!
Yes, and I can't access that review, either!
1. no linux msblaster worms
Any competent sysadmin already had their systems patched against that one.
2. no linux visual basic for applications cracks
When was the last new threat that was directly a result of Visual Basic scripting? By "new" I mean within the last three months or so.
4. no linux DRM media players
Who says you have to use WMP if you use Windows?
8. no having to hunt down 50 cds when trying to rebuild a machine
Gross exaggeration, obviously. And like in #1, any competent sysadmin should always know where their original discs are.
"Makes life simpler". Right.
This is valid point; in fact, it's actually oozing validity. If Linux is going to be presented in mass advertising as a device for simplification, it had better damn well live up to that description.
Like as not, many people already consider things plenty simple with Windows, especially XP and Server 2003. If Linux is going to simplify that, there must be some readily demonstrable ways in which it does so. Disillusionment is typically quick to take hold in folks, and once it's settled, it's monolithic to overcome.
Perhaps it's just that I don't have cable (3 channels that I'd watch out of 60 doesn't justify $45/month) but this is the first I've heard of real Linux commercials. Things in print are fine, but everyone knows TV advertising is as kingly effective as it's always been in getting stuff to sell.
Any information on whether there have been mass Linux commercials before this? We may be witnessing the beginning of a new era of Linux advertising. Marketing, marketing, marketing--we make fun of the people that major in it, and even more fun of the people that work in it, but it's certainly one of the biggest factors that helped propel Microsoft to the very top of the software heap. With a someday-equivalent force of marketing behind it, could Linux perhaps finally obtain the financial and spiritual backing it needs?
Windows Server 2003 took longer to release because of the re-written IIS and .NET layers. Security was also a main concern, but not because XP or 2000 were insecure.
They had plenty of vulnerabilities and many exploits that could have been prevented by patching and such... however, with SQL Slammer, Code Red, and others that had come out, Gates decided, this is it, we have to change some process somewhere. So he overhauled their development process one more time to focus around security in EVERY decision. So they halted development for 6 months, sent every single developer to a school in developing secure code, purchased 200 million in books on secure programming for their developers, and then went back to work. That right there delayed things 6 months alone.
Then, as part of Gates' orders, their next job was a line by line review of every single coded product Microsoft makes. Everything from Windows Server 2003 to the IntelliPoint software. While analyzing that code for common security mistakes, they also founded a new security organization for companies to join to exchange common coding conventions for secure code and publish common mistakes and to allow joint development knowledge to be shared, and hired on 500 people at the company to develop tools that do nothing but scan code. Those tools go out and look at code to find buffer overrun issues (the most common security flaw in existence), and to look for other common security mishaps in code.
After the review, they implemented the changes found therein. Then ran the new tools that by that time were done being developed, then implemented those changes, then got back on track with development and yes, rewrote the IIS layers to be partially built directly into the kernel for substantial performance increase. So with all that happening, the review, the tool development, the changes, the security education and reorganization, there were delays, yes. They got it out and look what it has... Two known vulnerabilities of which BOTH of them are a non-issue out of the box and are in areas that are rarely used.
Common sense says this is a good thing. I'd rather they took more time, and developed a better product (not sarcasm -- what do you think Microsoft, of all companies, is doing all this time?) rather than released something buggy early.
If the water's polluted enough, anyone can walk on it.
C I Host, one of the world leaders in Web hosting and Internet solutions, was awarded a temporary restraining order against America Online
I can't be the only one that finds the concept of an online restraining order more than a little amusing.
Does this mean that Earl Grey is selling a substance that is almost, but not quite, completely unlike tea?
;-)
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Rather like your almost, but not quite, entirely accurate quote.
What a coincidence then that one of the finest blends of Earl Grey on the planet in general and in the UK in particular is Harrods' Earl Grey, Blend No. ... 42.
This ties right in with the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Stonehenge, the value of pi, crop circles, that weird face on Mars, that strange 1x4x9 thing floating around Jupiter, and the fact that the sun and moon look the same size from the Earth! They're all connected, I tell you!
Perhaps that is why so many exploits are found, because people are targeting it religously, start targeting Mac and Linux as much and see who is insecure!
All of the arguments I've heard against this viewpoint -- which is to say, arguments based on "Windows is fundamentally insecure anyway, it would be much more heavily exploited even if it weren't the dominant desktop OS" -- are entirely theoretical. Well and fine, but as such their soundness is limited. The discovery of exploits is such a chaotic, surprising affair that one cannot hope to accurately predict how it would go for other operating systems without realistic tests of the systems in question. By this, I mean that unless you actually obtain a scenario where Linux or MacOS are indeed dominant, and are given the same exposure as Windows had (we can assume future tense here), running all the risks of being squinted over by troublemakers of all skill levels, and then conduct a "test run," as it were, over a very extended period of time... unless you have that, you are not going to be able to make any claims.
Even a thorough, scientific, hundreds-of-pages review of Windows security structure is no substitute for such a scenario. In computer security of this large a scale, theory is no substitute for experiment.
Here's a modest proposal: Microsoft should use some of its $49 billion hoard to mail an update CD to anybody who wants one.
The sorts of people that would think to order such a CD in the first place are likely already patching their machines. Others will get the CD and misplace it, forget about it entirely, or mistake it for something like an AOL disc and toss it in the trash.