I trust my 8 year old to be on the internet in the family room with minimal oversight before I get home from work while mom is making dinner. But if he searches for "on-line clock" he's one missing "L" away from porn.
We use the free Norton Online Family. It's not perfect but it's doing the job pretty well for now.
I just wish websites did a better job and allowed users to flag user-generated content as NSFW or a sliding scale. My kid is into science, math and space and loves wikipedia. I wish that website had some parental control settings. He loves it for learning about the elements but he could stumble upon other things I'd rather him not learn about quite yet.
And we try to block user-generated content in general. He liked an on-line puzzle-style game where you could upload your own levels. I noticed that some of the levels people uploaded were in the shape of 4 letter words or 'naughty-bits'.
Actually a civil war would suck really bad.
There are lots of ways to change our government. Most of them involve turning off the TV, shutting down our computers and getting involv... Hey! check out this cool YouTube video!!!!!
Universities certainly do both educate and prepare people for jobs but I'd guess that the main reason people go to universities is to get a good job and make more money than they would otherwise.
Let's imagine for a moment that going to a university would have ABSOLUTELY NO IMPACT on the kind of job you get or money you can make and that the ONLY thing anyone could get out of it was to be a more rounded and educated person.
Do you really think that people would pay the kind of money that is required to go to a university if this were the case?
The vast majority of people go to college to end up with a better job.
I've pretty much given up on freecycle as responder after responder *says* they'll come by to pick up an item and then never show up.
Great idea but lately it hasn't been as useful as it has been in the past.
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.
Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400.
My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA.
I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid.
On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.
I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.
I hope you're not implying that the US-centric version is always the 'valid' side and the one that might show the US in a negative light is always the 'insane position'.
I've been keeping track of the mileage on my new Mazda 3 (4 cylinder 2.3 liter) I've filled it up 8 times since buying it and average 28.13 miles per gallon with a mixture of both highway and city driving. I use cruise control when I'm on the highway and don't "get on it" too often.
I find this interesting as they claim this car gets 28 city/35 highway. So I get the low end with a mix of both city and highway driving. I'm not too surprised as I think they determine mpg with the vehicle in a wind-tunnel.
I'm not a graphic designer but am one of two developers at an Ad agency. I'll bet people would be AMAZED if real designers felt they could do something totally different with the Slashdot design.
Most of the redesign attempts I've seen look better than what we've got now, but none of them look like a great designer created it. And a lot of that is due to the fact that the redesign is being micro-managed by a developer.
I'm not sure when it's coming out but I hope they make it a decent quality phone. If you google for it and visit the site they sure focus a lot on the ringtones, wallpaper, Trek games and 'community' aspects of the phone.
Heck I just want a TOS-looking communicator that is a quality phone.
The site gives me an impression that it's a way to sell add-ons to Trekkies.
This is modded as funny but it's really true. Marketing, including the product's name, can give one product the edge over a competing product.
A name change and some sort of marketing campaign would make a world of difference in peoples' perception of PostgreSQL.
I'm a programmer but jeez I could have come up with a name that's catchier. How about FreeQL or something?
Think about it. Do they call a person "pro-choice" or "pro-abortion"? The term you choose shows your bias.
When Tom DeLay was indicted most big news sites ran a headling saying something to the effect of "DeLay Indicted." FoxNews' website had the slightly different headline that was something like "DeLay says 'Im innocent'". Now both headlines are true, he was indicted and he did claim innocence. The actual event that happened that day, the NEWS, if you will, was that he was indicted. DeLay's claim of innocence is his side of the story. It may seem minor but if you took a few thousand people (who knew nothing about Delay and didn't claim to be liberal or conservative) and showed half of them one headline and half the other and asked them if they thought he was guilty or innocent I'll bet that the people who saw the "I'm innocent" headline would respond more favorably to him than the "Delay Indicted" folks. Words matter.
Foxnews is as right-wing as NPR is left-wing. The only difference is that Foxnews claims to be balanced, which is total bullshit. At least NPR doesn't lie to their listeners about their "fairness".
One post claims Fox News is fair and balanced. Someone replies with links to other new organizations pointing out their slogan is not correct.
That's a troll?
My guess is that whomever moderated the post as a "troll" is right-winger. Because right-wingers don't ever want to hear a different viewpoint. 'Support us or you're a terrorist'... or a troll perhaps.
Slashdot Mirror
I trust my 8 year old to be on the internet in the family room with minimal oversight before I get home from work while mom is making dinner. But if he searches for "on-line clock" he's one missing "L" away from porn.
We use the free Norton Online Family. It's not perfect but it's doing the job pretty well for now.
I just wish websites did a better job and allowed users to flag user-generated content as NSFW or a sliding scale. My kid is into science, math and space and loves wikipedia. I wish that website had some parental control settings. He loves it for learning about the elements but he could stumble upon other things I'd rather him not learn about quite yet.
And we try to block user-generated content in general. He liked an on-line puzzle-style game where you could upload your own levels. I noticed that some of the levels people uploaded were in the shape of 4 letter words or 'naughty-bits'.
So Russia IS close enough to Alaska that they can smell Governor Palin! //ducks
Actually a civil war would suck really bad. There are lots of ways to change our government. Most of them involve turning off the TV, shutting down our computers and getting involv... Hey! check out this cool YouTube video!!!!!
Universities certainly do both educate and prepare people for jobs but I'd guess that the main reason people go to universities is to get a good job and make more money than they would otherwise.
Let's imagine for a moment that going to a university would have ABSOLUTELY NO IMPACT on the kind of job you get or money you can make and that the ONLY thing anyone could get out of it was to be a more rounded and educated person.
Do you really think that people would pay the kind of money that is required to go to a university if this were the case?
The vast majority of people go to college to end up with a better job.
Repeat after me.... 9/11 That is all.
I've pretty much given up on freecycle as responder after responder *says* they'll come by to pick up an item and then never show up. Great idea but lately it hasn't been as useful as it has been in the past.
Time to drop it.
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.
Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400.
My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA.
I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid.
On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.
I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.
But I have not yet gone to college.
Source
Steve Erwin anniversary anyone?
Coincidence or plot by evil stingrays to target our attention-whore pseudo-celebrities?
...Monty Python's Flying Circus?
Pretty please? You're not that naive, right?
I find this interesting as they claim this car gets 28 city/35 highway. So I get the low end with a mix of both city and highway driving. I'm not too surprised as I think they determine mpg with the vehicle in a wind-tunnel.
"if the Gates foundation isn't making money off of the evil corporations, someone will."
That's like saying
"if I'm not making money off of selling drugs, someone (else) will."
or
"if I'm not making money off of kiddie p()rn, someone (else) will."
This logic is bullshit.
Back in my day... we'd tie an onion to our belt, which was the style at the time.
I'm not a graphic designer but am one of two developers at an Ad agency. I'll bet people would be AMAZED if real designers felt they could do something totally different with the Slashdot design.
Most of the redesign attempts I've seen look better than what we've got now, but none of them look like a great designer created it. And a lot of that is due to the fact that the redesign is being micro-managed by a developer.
Set the design free!
I'd mod you up if I could.
Heck I just want a TOS-looking communicator that is a quality phone.
The site gives me an impression that it's a way to sell add-ons to Trekkies.
Now pardon me as I go "Xerox" something on our HP copier.
Hmmm. Let me guess. You're childless right? You're a dumbass who can't think outside of his own life experience. Now get busy growing up.
This is modded as funny but it's really true. Marketing, including the product's name, can give one product the edge over a competing product. A name change and some sort of marketing campaign would make a world of difference in peoples' perception of PostgreSQL. I'm a programmer but jeez I could have come up with a name that's catchier. How about FreeQL or something?
A: One's a flaming Nazi gas bag and the other is a dirigible.
That was one of Rudy Giuliani great ideas.
When Tom DeLay was indicted most big news sites ran a headling saying something to the effect of "DeLay Indicted." FoxNews' website had the slightly different headline that was something like "DeLay says 'Im innocent'". Now both headlines are true, he was indicted and he did claim innocence. The actual event that happened that day, the NEWS, if you will, was that he was indicted. DeLay's claim of innocence is his side of the story. It may seem minor but if you took a few thousand people (who knew nothing about Delay and didn't claim to be liberal or conservative) and showed half of them one headline and half the other and asked them if they thought he was guilty or innocent I'll bet that the people who saw the "I'm innocent" headline would respond more favorably to him than the "Delay Indicted" folks. Words matter.
Foxnews is as right-wing as NPR is left-wing. The only difference is that Foxnews claims to be balanced, which is total bullshit. At least NPR doesn't lie to their listeners about their "fairness".
One post claims Fox News is fair and balanced. Someone replies with links to other new organizations pointing out their slogan is not correct. That's a troll? My guess is that whomever moderated the post as a "troll" is right-winger. Because right-wingers don't ever want to hear a different viewpoint. 'Support us or you're a terrorist'... or a troll perhaps.
I feel so sorry by people who were sucked into a pseudo-religion started by a Sci-Fi writer on a bar bet just to make money.
ha ha ha. That's a good one.