Why are people having so many troubles with the apple ID thing?
I did the thing and had no problems - but then, I read everything. I saw that it did not actually want me to create a new account. I saw that I needed to enter the security code on the back of my credit card.
Once I read everything properly, it was fine. There is no spoo-- I mean, bug.
And I immediately burned an audio CD with the files. I can now take that audio cd and rip the songs to MP3.
I didn't and probably won't though, since I have no reason to right now. I'm all about buying my own music. I know that's not terribly "popular", but that's me.
I have to admit I, too, thought it was about the bust, like boobies. But then, that may just be because I have a pair, and thought, eh?? Silicon Valley what? Didn't they ALREADY? How is this NEWS?
It would be easier if Slashdot hadn't just alienated most of it's women audience by fscking up an article summary into the most vile "women have a harder time navigating the desktop" tripe.
You know what would draw more women into CS? Men taking us seriously. Really.
It would help ME a lot if Slashdot would have done me the favor of retracting/correcting that heinous 'women can't use a computer UI as well as men can' summary that had nothing to do with the article linked.
Thank you. That's the reason I directed my comments toward/. and not the submitter.
Truly, I expect large piles of shit in the form of submissions to come into/. every day. Enormous stinking mounds of poo, tons and tons of it. I expect that/. recognizes that not all of these submissions are going to be good or accurate, and not all of them will be posted.
It would behoove/. to print only NEWS that they have verified, or they become yet another bit of spoiled spam on the net.
I DO expect/. editors to read the articles they are posting to the front page, especially when it comes to the science section. I DO expect them to check to see if the article is worthy of Slashdot, isn't just flamebait, or is at all accurate. Most of all, I expect it to slightly match the summary, especially when it comes to sensitive issues like potential race or gender based discrimination. It is blindingly obvious the editor didn't even scan the article, and simply accepted the summary as is. Then he made it worse by tacking on the absolutely ridiculous and irrelevant "making the UI more accessible to females" comment.
Come on, it was even a short article!!
And BOY am I impressed by some of the replies! Good job, guys!:P
Thanks to the moderators for moderating them down. *tips hat*
I want to reply to this comment because I want to have my comment as close to the top as possible.
Slashdot SERIOUSLY messed this article summary up. Women do NOT have "problems nagivating the desktop". According to this article, women have less spacial cognizance when it comes to 3D environments such as FPS, MMORPG or games like Myst. 3D virtual worlds, NOT THE DESKTOP.
What I DON'T want to see is a bunch of jerks spouting "women have a harder time navigating the desktop" than men, because Slashdot farked up their summary of the article. I mean, SERIOUSLY FSCKED it up. Desktop = 2D. Get it straight, boys... A lot of your readers only read the summary snippets and don't bother with the articles.
For this kind of readership, you may just have spawned a whole new inaccurate generalization about women.
Thanks, we needed this new kind of misinformation.
I have no problem with the article, but I have a BIG problem with the summary snippet.
You obviously didn't READ the article, you only read Slashdot's inept snippet about the article.
It is NOT "women have a harder time nagivating the desktop", it is "women have a harder time navigating 3D environments". BIG difference.
Lordy, I wish Slashdot could get the summaries right. Some people don't bother reading the articles. >:(
Just what we need, a whole army of asswipes spouting, "women have a harder time navigating the desktop" and thinking they are right because they saw it on Slashdot, and because it was a scientific article, which of course, the combo makes it true.
But people ARE being sued like this, NOW.
Some simple group of aquarium plant enthusiasts are being sued by www.petswarehouse.com (not to be confused with www.petwarehouse.com - note the S in PetSwarehouse) because some people shared their bad experiences with the company. Currently, the company is trying to amend the lawsuit to include people who have been posting regarding the suit and having banner ads soliciting funds for the defense fund.
It's nuts, and terrifying, but it's really happening... People just like me are being sued for $15,000,000 !!!
Those who want to see more about it can go to: http://www.jblaw.org/psw/
I'm so glad that this decision was made, because I am personally at risk of being sued for speaking my opinion about service I get from a company...(in fact, the suit names a "John Doe and Mary Roe" which would technically possibly include anyone who has read the forums at all)...and I don't have the money to defend myself like that!
You EXPLOITED those bugs? Shame on you! I remember playing a GREAT game, everything a good TW2002 game should be, and bam, someone exploited a few bugs and it was "Game over, man!".
I hope that this game goes open source.:) I'd get lost in TW again!
I also remember BRE... what nostalgia this is!
So, I'm fully expecting that with a port of TW2002 to Linux, someone is going to make an open source TW2002 helper? I need my steal, sell, rob automation!
Everyone describes exactly what all of us "different" geeks, nerds, outcasts felt; absolute rejection, the feeling of "me against the world". As a geekchick who hated public school so much I fought the system--and won--I can understand the feeling. I managed to fight to NOT go to high school, though every counselor, teacher and administrator tried to force me to go. They wanted one more in their headcount for cash. I ended up going straight to college instead.
However, I still managed to experience an amazing amount of what I see everyone describing. I began to feel like it was me against everyone.
Now, having been away from public school for years, in the adult world with a high paying geek job, I can sometimes hardly WAIT to see some of the people who tormented me in public school so I can show off my nice car, my hot husband (a geek like myself) and my high paying geeky job. Most of these morons are still partying, drinking to get drunk, going to sports games to be seen, and strapped for cash...and crying to their parents for help.
I don't really care WHO it is, whether it was someone I admired or someone I hated, I just want to thumb my nose at SOMEONE, because I felt persecuted by EVERYONE. It gets to be a paranoia, a feeling like everyone's torturing you, everyone's laughing at you, everyone is thinking, "what a nerd she is!"
I can without doubt see how those two kids would want to blow up the entire school, to kill (or at least injure) everyone in it. They felt like it was them against the whole world... and unfortunately, they didn't understand that high school isn't the whole world, and didn't see any way out of it.
So I have no problem seeing how they were indiscriminate about who they hurt. Nobody was on their side, so why BE discriminate? When I was being tormented, nobody helped me... silence is as much as agreement. Nobody stood up for them except their equally geeky friends... and they told them to leave. So they WERE discriminate. They told the only people in their world that ever stood up for them, stood up with them and supported them, to leave.
So that's just my two cents. I've tried to block out those years for a while... I was suicidal, angry, depressed... but I lied to everyone, and I conformed to most of the system. Now, looking back, I can see exactly what kind of mindframe, as sick and terrible as it is, those kids would have been in.
It's such a complex combination of factors that caused these two youths to go over the edge. If it were just parental ignorance, peer torment and administratorial neglect alone, it may have been different. As stated by one very astute ex-military person previously, humans have an innate resistance to killing. I believe that the combination of hopelessness, helplessness, and the breakdown of the aversion we naturally have for killing really contributed to the snapping of the mentality in these two. Yes, I do believe that DOOM or Quake or any game that let you target practice on human targets will desensitize you to killing a human. I think that goes without saying. You can't be SHOCKED by seeing anything that you've seen so many times. You can't shock yourself by doing something you've done so many times before. Why should they have any aversion to killing when they practice it so much?
(Note to gamers: that is not any sort of flame. I do not believe everyone who games in the same way will kill in the same way. I simply believe the desensitization would make it easier for hatred in the heart to lead to action of the hands)
Things seem to make more sense to me now. At first, I was shocked and asked "why?" But now I don't. I remember what it was like. I wanted to commit suicide! It was immature, of course, but I remember it. In their minds, if their problems seemed to stem from other people, if they were going to kill themselves anyways, why not take everyone who led them to it with them? Armed with the desensitization to and graphic fantasies of mass killing, it's no problem.
I really am not surprised by any of it anymore. I wish I could say "they were just sick", and not "how did their parents NOT KNOW? How did NOBODY NOTICE??!"
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Mirrored all three links:
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Be kind. Rewind.
Laren
Why are people having so many troubles with the apple ID thing?
I did the thing and had no problems - but then, I read everything. I saw that it did not actually want me to create a new account. I saw that I needed to enter the security code on the back of my credit card.
Once I read everything properly, it was fine. There is no spoo-- I mean, bug.
And I immediately burned an audio CD with the files. I can now take that audio cd and rip the songs to MP3.
I didn't and probably won't though, since I have no reason to right now. I'm all about buying my own music. I know that's not terribly "popular", but that's me.
That is all. Carry on.
Ha, it's not easy unless you're the bearer of the boobs. ;)
I have to admit I, too, thought it was about the bust, like boobies. But then, that may just be because I have a pair, and thought, eh?? Silicon Valley what? Didn't they ALREADY? How is this NEWS?
Oops.
It would be easier if Slashdot hadn't just alienated most of it's women audience by fscking up an article summary into the most vile "women have a harder time navigating the desktop" tripe.
You know what would draw more women into CS? Men taking us seriously. Really.
It would help ME a lot if Slashdot would have done me the favor of retracting/correcting that heinous 'women can't use a computer UI as well as men can' summary that had nothing to do with the article linked.
That's just me, though.
Thank you. That's the reason I directed my comments toward /. and not the submitter.
/. every day. Enormous stinking mounds of poo, tons and tons of it. I expect that /. recognizes that not all of these submissions are going to be good or accurate, and not all of them will be posted.
/. to print only NEWS that they have verified, or they become yet another bit of spoiled spam on the net.
/. editors to read the articles they are posting to the front page, especially when it comes to the science section. I DO expect them to check to see if the article is worthy of Slashdot, isn't just flamebait, or is at all accurate. Most of all, I expect it to slightly match the summary, especially when it comes to sensitive issues like potential race or gender based discrimination. It is blindingly obvious the editor didn't even scan the article, and simply accepted the summary as is. Then he made it worse by tacking on the absolutely ridiculous and irrelevant "making the UI more accessible to females" comment.
:P
Truly, I expect large piles of shit in the form of submissions to come into
It would behoove
I DO expect
Come on, it was even a short article!!
And BOY am I impressed by some of the replies! Good job, guys!
Thanks to the moderators for moderating them down. *tips hat*
I want to reply to this comment because I want to have my comment as close to the top as possible.
Slashdot SERIOUSLY messed this article summary up. Women do NOT have "problems nagivating the desktop". According to this article, women have less spacial cognizance when it comes to 3D environments such as FPS, MMORPG or games like Myst. 3D virtual worlds, NOT THE DESKTOP.
What I DON'T want to see is a bunch of jerks spouting "women have a harder time navigating the desktop" than men, because Slashdot farked up their summary of the article. I mean, SERIOUSLY FSCKED it up. Desktop = 2D. Get it straight, boys... A lot of your readers only read the summary snippets and don't bother with the articles.
For this kind of readership, you may just have spawned a whole new inaccurate generalization about women.
Thanks, we needed this new kind of misinformation.
I have no problem with the article, but I have a BIG problem with the summary snippet.
Get it right.
You obviously didn't READ the article, you only read Slashdot's inept snippet about the article.
It is NOT "women have a harder time nagivating the desktop", it is "women have a harder time navigating 3D environments". BIG difference.
Lordy, I wish Slashdot could get the summaries right. Some people don't bother reading the articles. >:(
Just what we need, a whole army of asswipes spouting, "women have a harder time navigating the desktop" and thinking they are right because they saw it on Slashdot, and because it was a scientific article, which of course, the combo makes it true.
Arg.
But people ARE being sued like this, NOW.
...and I don't have the money to defend myself like that!
Some simple group of aquarium plant enthusiasts are being sued by www.petswarehouse.com (not to be confused with www.petwarehouse.com - note the S in PetSwarehouse) because some people shared their bad experiences with the company. Currently, the company is trying to amend the lawsuit to include people who have been posting regarding the suit and having banner ads soliciting funds for the defense fund.
It's nuts, and terrifying, but it's really happening... People just like me are being sued for $15,000,000 !!!
Those who want to see more about it can go to: http://www.jblaw.org/psw/
I'm so glad that this decision was made, because I am personally at risk of being sued for speaking my opinion about service I get from a company...(in fact, the suit names a "John Doe and Mary Roe" which would technically possibly include anyone who has read the forums at all)
Julie
You EXPLOITED those bugs? Shame on you! I remember playing a GREAT game, everything a good TW2002 game should be, and bam, someone exploited a few bugs and it was "Game over, man!".
:) I'd get lost in TW again!
I hope that this game goes open source.
I also remember BRE... what nostalgia this is!
So, I'm fully expecting that with a port of TW2002 to Linux, someone is going to make an open source TW2002 helper? I need my steal, sell, rob automation!
Julie
they're all just zbeba!
Everyone describes exactly what all of us "different" geeks, nerds, outcasts felt; absolute rejection, the feeling of "me against the world". As a geekchick who hated public school so much I fought the system--and won--I can understand the feeling. I managed to fight to NOT go to high school, though every counselor, teacher and administrator tried to force me to go. They wanted one more in their headcount for cash. I ended up going straight to college instead.
...loooong... two cents worth.
However, I still managed to experience an amazing amount of what I see everyone describing. I began to feel like it was me against everyone.
Now, having been away from public school for years, in the adult world with a high paying geek job, I can sometimes hardly WAIT to see some of the people who tormented me in public school so I can show off my nice car, my hot husband (a geek like myself) and my high paying geeky job. Most of these morons are still partying, drinking to get drunk, going to sports games to be seen, and strapped for cash...and crying to their parents for help.
I don't really care WHO it is, whether it was someone I admired or someone I hated, I just want to thumb my nose at SOMEONE, because I felt persecuted by EVERYONE. It gets to be a paranoia, a feeling like everyone's torturing you, everyone's laughing at you, everyone is thinking, "what a nerd she is!"
I can without doubt see how those two kids would want to blow up the entire school, to kill (or at least injure) everyone in it. They felt like it was them against the whole world... and unfortunately, they didn't understand that high school isn't the whole world, and didn't see any way out of it.
So I have no problem seeing how they were indiscriminate about who they hurt. Nobody was on their side, so why BE discriminate? When I was being tormented, nobody helped me... silence is as much as agreement. Nobody stood up for them except their equally geeky friends... and they told them to leave. So they WERE discriminate. They told the only people in their world that ever stood up for them, stood up with them and supported them, to leave.
So that's just my two cents. I've tried to block out those years for a while... I was suicidal, angry, depressed... but I lied to everyone, and I conformed to most of the system. Now, looking back, I can see exactly what kind of mindframe, as sick and terrible as it is, those kids would have been in.
It's such a complex combination of factors that caused these two youths to go over the edge. If it were just parental ignorance, peer torment and administratorial neglect alone, it may have been different. As stated by one very astute ex-military person previously, humans have an innate resistance to killing. I believe that the combination of hopelessness, helplessness, and the breakdown of the aversion we naturally have for killing really contributed to the snapping of the mentality in these two. Yes, I do believe that DOOM or Quake or any game that let you target practice on human targets will desensitize you to killing a human. I think that goes without saying. You can't be SHOCKED by seeing anything that you've seen so many times. You can't shock yourself by doing something you've done so many times before. Why should they have any aversion to killing when they practice it so much?
(Note to gamers: that is not any sort of flame. I do not believe everyone who games in the same way will kill in the same way. I simply believe the desensitization would make it easier for hatred in the heart to lead to action of the hands)
Things seem to make more sense to me now. At first, I was shocked and asked "why?" But now I don't. I remember what it was like. I wanted to commit suicide! It was immature, of course, but I remember it. In their minds, if their problems seemed to stem from other people, if they were going to kill themselves anyways, why not take everyone who led them to it with them? Armed with the desensitization to and graphic fantasies of mass killing, it's no problem.
I really am not surprised by any of it anymore. I wish I could say "they were just sick", and not "how did their parents NOT KNOW? How did NOBODY NOTICE??!"
My
Julie