It would become evident on one level or another I think when whatever Powers That Be started exploiting hidden chip id's for whatever nefarious purposes they have in mind. The minute they blast someone in court after tracking them down via the chip id, the cats will be out of the bag and on their way to Slashdot.
Your parents 'failed' in making you act in the manner of a 'good student', but they obviously did NOT fail in helping you to become a 'thoughtful person'. The ability to be insightful, introspective and question your own motives that you show in your post shows that, emotionally and intellectually, you're light-years beyond where these kids were.
Advice: get what you can out of college, even if its just a few wacky friends and a hangover. You'll move on to bigger and better things when you're ready. Other kids your age are falling into credit card debts of 1,000s of dollars. Give yourself some credit! A debt paid late is still a debt paid.
Fortune: You'll have a scary time with your folks when they realize you haven't taken to school like a fish to water. You WILL, however, find your nitch and they WILL come to respect you all the more when you do, even if its not what they intended or expected.
Er, no. The major players here are those whose teasing and taunts drove someone to lash back
"Lash back" by killing classmates indiscriminately? Nope. I was teased in high school too, and I lashed back as well, but not like these kids. You know why? Because I could not think of killing my fellow students (however much they may have been "driving" me to do so) without thinking of what such actions might lead to, in terms of the suffering of my self, my family, my fellow students, my whole town. Why did I think that way? Why did I care? Because my parents gave me clear directions (on a smaller scale) of what was right and what was wrong, what was real and what was fantasy.
They convinced me that MY life had value, hence I couldn't help but feel that OTHER people's lives had value as well.
Saying "Why can't everyone just be NICE to each other" is childish nonsense. The world ain't like that and it never will be. Raised with an ounce of caring, children grow up with the built in ability to cope constructively with emotional adversity.
Video games and the Internet do not drive kids to kill. It's only when video games and the Internet are the sum total of a child's emotional input/experience that they appear to be the cause of such events.
It ain't the clothes, it ain't the computers, it ain't the music. Those are just the straws at which the drowning child grasps in his quest for meaning, power and understanding.
Kids need feedback and guidance (love) throughout their formative years. When they don't get it, they grow up stunted and unable to forecast or concieve the repercussions of their own actions.
They can't see any difference between a thought and a deed, and they treat their lives (and the lives of others) like a video game.
We'll see more of this in the future, and all the perpetrators will be children of the middle class, with parents who nurture their own careers with far more patience, attention and diligence than they could ever even concieve of giving to their own children.
This is just what I've been looking for. If and when drivers are ported to Linux, I'll snag one for sure. I've got an old Compaq 486 laptop running Suse 5.3 like a champ, but there's no built-in sound options. Sounds like this card/adapter would let me play mp3's from the laptop.
I hear people complaining about the low bandwidth of the pport, but I think they must surely get around that by buffering, so it's a non-issue, me thinks.
If I hear a favorable response from someone who gets one, I'll grab one too!
We don't have soundcards at work, but this would make that irrelevant! I could also cranks mp3's at parties w/out having to lug a big system around.
The fruits of mp3/net-based broadcast and distribution breakthroughs will not be realized (as I think you suggest) by today's pop stars. If anything, they will 'suffer' to some degree, perhaps, as their parent Industry flips and flops on the skillet trying desparately to save itself at the expense of anything and anyone within clawing distance.
I think your idea of a Nirvana like band breakthrough is right on, and in time, the same Regular Joe's who have grown familiar with buying books direct via Amazon et al, will be buying their cd's direct from artists through low-cost mp3.com type distributors. More power, money and credit will go to the musicians and engineers who actually MAKE the product.
Change is always painful for someone. That's life!
Mitnick has delayed his own trial intentionally because he knows he will spend a minimum of x years in prison anyways, and would like to spend as much of that time as possible in Federal prison as opposed to (shudder) State Prison.
If there *is* a needle in haystack, and someone takes a nap on the haystack, Farmer John's Theorem clearly states that the needle will find either the left or the right buttock (depending on which hemisphere the haystack is located in) of the napper at the precise instant that said napper attains the Most Comfortable Position Possible within said haystack.
What we need is to re-create the cosmic equivalent of the above described scenario, at which point Intelligent Life will undoubtedly find us, prick us in the rear and send us on our way, cursing and searching for a better place to take a nice, quiet nap.
I loved the game, but I couldn't stick with it 'cause it made me nauseous! DOOM cured that with the 'bouncing' gun effect. I'd love to know how they came up with that...
And how that shiny new WinModem can hold up a newbie's install (connection-wise) until they go to DejaNews or something and look up "linux win modem" and see the miles and miles of posts saying: "Give it up. Your WinModem will not work with Linux. Please tell all your friends..."
A riot is a spontaneous, unplanned outburst or confrontation, whearas the activity in Kosovo is carefully planned, directed and urged to continue by governing power of that country.
If the US government suddenly decided that all Mormons currently living in the state of Utah should be systematically killed and/or driven on foot to the Canadian boarder in the middle of winter, and outside countries expressed outrage and demanded intervention, I would think their reactions very civilized and appropriate.
Our future is closely entwined in that of Western Europe. We will always act in ways that we hope will encourage long-term stability in that area. Whether our chosen actions are appropriate or not remains to be seen.
The only time I persue, let alone enjoy, any form of on-line chat is when the qroup in question is seriously involved in an engrossing persuit, like Quake.
Comments are usually brief, humorous and punctuated by rounds of heavy artillery. What more is there?
The few irc/chat rooms I've experienced are entertaining ONLY (to me) on the level of dismally entrancing spectacle, like a car accident. I get enuff of that here on Slashdot, so why bother?;)
Your friend needs to get out a little more often!;)
Someone already touched upon the anonymity/masq effect of the text-based chat, and the effects of these things are profound. Road-rage springs out of a very similar thing, with our cars becoming our masqs, and every strange masq an enemy/victim until proven otherwise.
Slashdot Mirror
EVrrryyyyhtigns phiyneee hwwwithhhdt meeee...EEYYye kinnn wriiit uhkayy
(I think I'm gonna hurl...)
BLEEEAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!
$30 is a fair price for what is still an effective, usefull and widely supported product.
Gopher it!
Try using the arrow keys to move, jump with your pinkie on the CTRL key, duck with your index finger reaching for the "0" keypad key.
Set the right mouse button to "strafe" and the left button to "fire".
Works for me!
This input system should be called "Ah ha!", 'cause that's exactly what my brain did when I finally 'grokked' how to use it.
Kewl thang!
It would become evident on one level or another I think when whatever Powers That Be started exploiting hidden chip id's for whatever nefarious purposes they have in mind. The minute they blast someone in court after tracking them down via the chip id, the cats will be out of the bag and on their way to Slashdot.
Reeeeowrl!
Still does not change any facts.. the MP3's are ILLEGAL!
And yet...there they are!
But something will need to be done to combat this illegal music!
Something *is* being done. We're gutting the mafioso middlemen out of the picture.
Artist ===> { web } ===> Consumer
So be adult about all of this, don't download the MP3, don't advocate piracy, and respect the rights of Lucas, Williams and any other artist
You'd like that, wouldn't you?
; )
For that matter, do you have distribution rights? If not, then what the hell do you think you're doing?
Easy. He's distributing it anyways. Darn kids!
This song was removed from public access by the RIAA/mafia throwing a tantrum, much more than because any spefic legal transgressions.
When a child throws a tantrum, a responsible parent will *spank* that child.
The RIAA *must* be *spanked* as often as possible!
Also, the obvious response to your plea is that an article *about* free beer will attract a majority of folks *interested* in free beer.
(belch)
'scuse me.
Your parents 'failed' in making you act in the manner of a 'good student', but they obviously did NOT fail in helping you to become a 'thoughtful person'. The ability to be insightful, introspective and question your own motives that you show in your post shows that, emotionally and intellectually, you're light-years beyond where these kids were.
Advice: get what you can out of college, even if its just a few wacky friends and a hangover. You'll move on to bigger and better things when you're ready. Other kids your age are falling into credit card debts of 1,000s of dollars. Give yourself some credit! A debt paid late is still a debt paid.
Fortune: You'll have a scary time with your folks when they realize you haven't taken to school like a fish to water. You WILL, however, find your nitch and they WILL come to respect you all the more when you do, even if its not what they intended or expected.
(That's what happened to me, anyways!)
cheers
-kent
Er, no. The major players here are those whose teasing and taunts drove someone to lash back
"Lash back" by killing classmates indiscriminately? Nope. I was teased in high school too, and I lashed back as well, but not like these kids. You know why? Because I could not think of killing my fellow students (however much they may have been "driving" me to do so) without thinking of what such actions might lead to, in terms of the suffering of my self, my family, my fellow students, my whole town. Why did I think that way? Why did I care? Because my parents gave me clear directions (on a smaller scale) of what was right and what was wrong, what was real and what was fantasy.
They convinced me that MY life had value, hence I couldn't help but feel that OTHER people's lives had value as well.
Saying "Why can't everyone just be NICE to each other" is childish nonsense. The world ain't like that and it never will be. Raised with an ounce of caring, children grow up with the built in ability to cope constructively with emotional adversity.
Video games and the Internet do not drive kids to kill. It's only when video games and the Internet are the sum total of a child's emotional input/experience that they appear to be the cause of such events.
It ain't the clothes, it ain't the computers, it ain't the music. Those are just the straws at which the drowning child grasps in his quest for meaning, power and understanding.
Kids need feedback and guidance (love) throughout their formative years. When they don't get it, they grow up stunted and unable to forecast or concieve the repercussions of their own actions.
They can't see any difference between a thought and a deed, and they treat their lives (and the lives of others) like a video game.
We'll see more of this in the future, and all the perpetrators will be children of the middle class, with parents who nurture their own careers with far more patience, attention and diligence than they could ever even concieve of giving to their own children.
Game over.
This is just what I've been looking for. If and when drivers are ported to Linux, I'll snag one for sure. I've got an old Compaq 486 laptop running Suse 5.3 like a champ, but there's no built-in sound options. Sounds like this card/adapter would let me play mp3's from the laptop.
I hear people complaining about the low bandwidth of the pport, but I think they must surely get around that by buffering, so it's a non-issue, me thinks.
If I hear a favorable response from someone who gets one, I'll grab one too!
We don't have soundcards at work, but this would make that irrelevant! I could also cranks mp3's at parties w/out having to lug a big system around.
Kewl!
Sounds like a killer app!
The fruits of mp3/net-based broadcast and distribution breakthroughs will not be realized (as I think you suggest) by today's pop stars. If anything, they will 'suffer' to some degree, perhaps, as their parent Industry flips and flops on the skillet trying desparately to save itself at the expense of anything and anyone within clawing distance.
I think your idea of a Nirvana like band breakthrough is right on, and in time, the same Regular Joe's who have grown familiar with buying books direct via Amazon et al, will be buying their cd's direct from artists through low-cost mp3.com type distributors. More power, money and credit will go to the musicians and engineers who actually MAKE the product.
Change is always painful for someone. That's life!
Mitnick has delayed his own trial intentionally because he knows he will spend a minimum of x years in prison anyways, and would like to spend as much of that time as possible in Federal prison as opposed to (shudder) State Prison.
Just a thought!
Wrestlevania, with a "v".
There. That's better!
If there *is* a needle in haystack, and someone takes a nap on the haystack, Farmer John's Theorem clearly states that the needle will find either the left or the right buttock (depending on which hemisphere the haystack is located in) of the napper at the precise instant that said napper attains the Most Comfortable Position Possible within said haystack.
What we need is to re-create the cosmic equivalent of the above described scenario, at which point Intelligent Life will undoubtedly find us, prick us in the rear and send us on our way, cursing and searching for a better place to take a nice, quiet nap.
(yawn)
I loved the game, but I couldn't stick with it 'cause it made me nauseous! DOOM cured that with the 'bouncing' gun effect. I'd love to know how they came up with that...
And how that shiny new WinModem can hold up a newbie's install (connection-wise) until they go to DejaNews or something and look up "linux win modem" and see the miles and miles of posts saying: "Give it up. Your WinModem will not work with Linux. Please tell all your friends..."
A riot is a spontaneous, unplanned outburst or confrontation, whearas the activity in Kosovo is carefully planned, directed and urged to continue by governing power of that country.
If the US government suddenly decided that all Mormons currently living in the state of Utah should be systematically killed and/or driven on foot to the Canadian boarder in the middle of winter, and outside countries expressed outrage and demanded intervention, I would think their reactions very civilized and appropriate.
Our future is closely entwined in that of Western Europe. We will always act in ways that we hope will encourage long-term stability in that area. Whether our chosen actions are appropriate or not remains to be seen.
While *I* send my resume to Transmeta!
(I hear they need help in the mail room)
The only time I persue, let alone enjoy, any form of on-line chat is when the qroup in question is seriously involved in an engrossing persuit, like Quake.
;)
Comments are usually brief, humorous and punctuated by rounds of heavy artillery. What more is there?
The few irc/chat rooms I've experienced are entertaining ONLY (to me) on the level of dismally entrancing spectacle, like a car accident. I get enuff of that here on Slashdot, so why bother?
Your friend needs to get out a little more often! ;)
Someone already touched upon the anonymity/masq effect of the text-based chat, and the effects of these things are profound. Road-rage springs out of a very similar thing, with our cars becoming our masqs, and every strange masq an enemy/victim until proven otherwise.