At $3,000 maybe I should buy one of these things for my next computer instead of that TiBook. BTW, for those of you students (college or otherwise out there) sign up for Apple's student developer package ($99) and get a once in a lifetime discount on Apple hardware good for up to 20% off whatever you buy. Knocks the high end TiBook down from 3,800 to 3,000. I wonder what it would do for the rackmount?
I suppose that's what we have laws about negligable parents for, but then again, those are usualy used against parents who spank their kids or send them to their room. And true, watchful parents don't solve everything, a friend of mine has some very caring and attentive family, yet she is still in trouble more often than not, but that's where friends, and teachers come in. There are 3 influences on your child's life, Parents, Friends and Teachers. Establishing communication between parents and teachers is essential to a good upbringing. And parents should trust their children's teachers when the teacher says the student is not behaving or acting abnormaly. Then comes friends, parents should really be trying to regulate friends, but as you pointed out, that isn't always possible. In these instances though, one should hope that kids can choose friends which are simmilar to them in views and opinions. If the first two aspects of influence are done properly, the friends should fall into place. But parents are the first responsibility.
Welcome to the real world. People are stupid. Now let's work on correcting that problem. Educate your kids, and if Darwin holds true, the stupid people will kill themselves off.
Yet consider what the internet really is. It's a giant community. And like any community, there are rules and comon sense to be applied. If you can trust your kid to go outside and be on his own without supervision, then you should be able to do the same on line. When was the last time giving personal information was a good idea? The same applies online. Teach your kids the think for themselves. To be reliable and dependable. If you do that, they can keep themselves safe.
Most kids are quite intelligent. If your teen is dumb enough to be giving out personal information to complete strangers, and dumb enough to believe everything he/she reads online. And easily influenced by a potentialy offensive piece of liturature, you have failed as a parent. Plain and simple, do your job or don't have kids.
Holy shit! You mean that the laws and common sense that applies to the real world applies to the virtual world too? What a revalation! So that's what we've been doing wrong!
Seriously though, why do people think that just because they're online, the rules of life don't apply anymore?
Any kid who's smart enough to learn how to defeat parental controls is most likely smart enough not to get lured into a dnagerous situation like meeting a pedophile online.
Now see that kid was a moron though, and here's why:
1) Gave out obviously personal and detailed information to someone they did not know
2) Since I am not registered I could not read the article, but I can only assuem they never told their parents about this person
3) Arranged a meeting without their parents being there.
I personaly have met people IRL that I've originaly met on-line. Each time I spent quite a bit of time talking with the person online a looking for clues that they might not be who they say they are (and I have come across a few people like that, that's what the block protocols are for). And when I arranged a meeting it was always with my parents present or near by and it was always some place public. Use common sense and you can't go wrong.
They don't have to be there 100% of the time if they raise their kids right. When they hit their teens, your kids should be quite capable of determining right from wrong and knowing that a situation which makes them uncomfortable is one that they need to get out of. Stupidity is not a reason to make a law. If you can not raise your kid properly, so that they can avoid putting themselve into dangerous situations (including giving out adress, phone number etc online) then you should not be having kids. As my parents were so fond of saying, If your kids don't hate you and think you're the worst parents in the world, you've failed at your job as a parent.
Now I realize that all the preperation in the world can't protect us 100% of the time, but that's what predator laws are in place for.
As for a time when everyone asisted in keeping kids safe, well that was also a time when you could spank your kid (let me tell you, a little public embarrasment goes a long way towards keeping your kid in line). A time when kids could be lectured and ridiculled by their nieghbors and everyone else for something they did wrong. A time when teachers could fail a kid and instead of parents calling about what a lousy teacher they were, parents would ground their kids. The most horrifying comment I ever heard uttered by a parent was "we can't give [our daughter] a curfew, she might get angry!" News flash, your kids are supposed to be angry at your rules.
Let's start by first taking responsibility for our kids and then worry about the laws.
Apple is just covering themselves in case of wide spread problems. However, it has been my experience that for most hardware problems, Apple will quite happily repair the device at no cost to the consumer. Besides, technicaly speaking, Apple is not responsible. There is a warning on the hardware which states it should only be used with approved media, and there is a warning on the CD which says you shouldn't use it in a computer. Therefore, you have been sufficiently warned and legaly speaking are responsible for any damages to your computer.
I am not 100% certain, but I could swear that all macs including the iMac have a hole for the paperclip on them. Perhaps you aren't looking carefuly enough.
In either case, to reboot a mac (or any computer) , even if the whole system is locked, you simply remove the power and plug it back in. Turn it on and poof! Problem solved. Getting the CD out is as simple as holding down the mouse button, or doing any of the steps listed by the poster above.
Generaly speaking, if you toss a CD into your CD ROM drive and it isn't a mac readable CD. One of two things happens:
a) The computer assumes there's no CD and merily goes on it's way, and will eject the tray next time you push the eject button.
b) The computer locks up in a continuous cycle to try and read the CD. It knows something is there, and will continue to try and read it. The CD will not mount and no matter how often you push the button, the CD will not eject. The solution to this is to restart and remove the CD during the start-up process.
If this thing is fsking with the firmware (of either the CD ROM or the Computer) we have a serious problem here. That's the equivilent of putting a tape in your VCR and having the VCR catch fire. That's not cool and if it can be proven to be intentional is also ilegal.
The problem is people don't realize that the internet isn't any different than the real world. Everyone who talks about cyber stalkers, people coning and stealing and people otherwise being evil online have forgoten the rules of the real world. Just as you wouldn't let your kid wander randomly through the streets talking to strangers and you wouldn't give some one your creditcard number on a whim, so the rules of life apply to the net. The internet is the real world reflected back at us without the safety bubble we put ourselves in everyday. No amout of law or legislation can really cange that.
So you mean that in order to become enlightened and intelligent people, we will actualy have to learn how to think for ourselves? We'll have to learn to weed through information and learn to tell fact from fiction? We'll have to use our brains? Heaven forbid
real processors did, but lots of early ones didn't. The really early intel processors, before the 8080s had a fatal design flaw in which a certain series of since lost commands entered into the computer had the wonderful effect of overloading and overheating the processor.
OOOH IDEA! Use the processors you develop to circumvent the built in copy protection that the DMCA flunkies are trying to get put in VCRs, CD drives etc etc etc. Maybe even use em to rewire anyone who thinks the DMCA can only benifit society.
I could swear I read something about this being the reaction Steve & Steve got from people about home computers. Too complex to buid a useful computer, never be able to compete with the big guys. Guess they were wrong too.
Besides, I wouldn't be aiming to build a computer processor. I'd just wna tto build a processor that could process something.
Not only is it not new, it's no longer a Hobby. My self and my firends hire our processor toasting services to disgruntled computer convention attendies pissed at the peopl esucking prescious bandwidth with their counterstrike server.
One subtly toasted processor + failed server for $20. And since they're all rent-a-sys type computers, no one really cares
I don't put much stock in people telling us what the future will bring. Look at all the brilliant people who were telling us that all these dot coms were the future. Poof, they're gone. Look at all the brilliant people that said we'd never cross the oceans, fly, go to the moon. Sorry, but a lot of smart people are wrong, quite often!
You forget all the wonderful quotes from brilliant people about computers. (I will paraphrase here because I don't want to be bothered to go look up the quotes)
"512k should be enough for anyone" -Bill Gate
"I see a use for maybe 5 computers in the world" -Some guy at IBM
"No one is going to use something called a mouse to run a computer" -Some guy at Xerox
"What would an average person want with a computer?" - I think this was Woz's boss at HP when he brought in the Apple prototype
"In the future, computers may only wiegh 2 tons" -Popular Science, 1950's ish
And of course, slashdot's personal favorite: "Microsoft Works"
Generaly speaking (from mac experience and the ocasional windows boxen) "Return" is the keyboard equivilent of yes (or the least destructive item i.e. no on the format box). Comand (or in windows control) D usualy is "Don't Save" and most buttons are the command key + the first letter of the button. And cancel is almost always command-period and/or the escape key.
As I understand it, the laws of dialog boxes are as follows (at least for macs):
1) If the command given has the potential to be destructive, ask for confrimation.
2) The default button (highlighted, return, etc) should always be the least destructive choice (save on a save dialog box, No on a format or erase dialog)
3) The most destructive choice should never be higlighted and should always be kept seperate from the other choices. Hence, the Don't Save button is the furthes away of all choices.
4) The default and preffered choices should always be on the right hand side.
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At $3,000 maybe I should buy one of these things for my next computer instead of that TiBook. BTW, for those of you students (college or otherwise out there) sign up for Apple's student developer package ($99) and get a once in a lifetime discount on Apple hardware good for up to 20% off whatever you buy. Knocks the high end TiBook down from 3,800 to 3,000. I wonder what it would do for the rackmount?
I suppose that's what we have laws about negligable parents for, but then again, those are usualy used against parents who spank their kids or send them to their room. And true, watchful parents don't solve everything, a friend of mine has some very caring and attentive family, yet she is still in trouble more often than not, but that's where friends, and teachers come in. There are 3 influences on your child's life, Parents, Friends and Teachers. Establishing communication between parents and teachers is essential to a good upbringing. And parents should trust their children's teachers when the teacher says the student is not behaving or acting abnormaly. Then comes friends, parents should really be trying to regulate friends, but as you pointed out, that isn't always possible. In these instances though, one should hope that kids can choose friends which are simmilar to them in views and opinions. If the first two aspects of influence are done properly, the friends should fall into place. But parents are the first responsibility.
Welcome to the real world. People are stupid. Now let's work on correcting that problem. Educate your kids, and if Darwin holds true, the stupid people will kill themselves off.
Yet consider what the internet really is. It's a giant community. And like any community, there are rules and comon sense to be applied. If you can trust your kid to go outside and be on his own without supervision, then you should be able to do the same on line. When was the last time giving personal information was a good idea? The same applies online. Teach your kids the think for themselves. To be reliable and dependable. If you do that, they can keep themselves safe.
The internet isn't spiraling anywhere, the internet is more accurately than you realize reflecting society as a whole.
In all truth, anecdotal evidence is the best kind. It reflects the real world. Statistics are very cold and distorded things, for example:
99% of all prisoners have eaten bread in their lifetime therefore, bread causes violent tendencies.
100% of kids age 10+ have been sick after going outside in the winter, therefore, we should not let kids outside in the winter
95% of kids have been teased in school, teasing is bad for self esteem, school is bad for self esteem.
Anecdotes are the only way you will see how the real world works, statistics are twistable
Most kids are quite intelligent. If your teen is dumb enough to be giving out personal information to complete strangers, and dumb enough to believe everything he/she reads online. And easily influenced by a potentialy offensive piece of liturature, you have failed as a parent. Plain and simple, do your job or don't have kids.
Holy shit! You mean that the laws and common sense that applies to the real world applies to the virtual world too? What a revalation! So that's what we've been doing wrong!
Seriously though, why do people think that just because they're online, the rules of life don't apply anymore?
Any kid who's smart enough to learn how to defeat parental controls is most likely smart enough not to get lured into a dnagerous situation like meeting a pedophile online.
Now see that kid was a moron though, and here's why:
1) Gave out obviously personal and detailed information to someone they did not know
2) Since I am not registered I could not read the article, but I can only assuem they never told their parents about this person
3) Arranged a meeting without their parents being there.
I personaly have met people IRL that I've originaly met on-line. Each time I spent quite a bit of time talking with the person online a looking for clues that they might not be who they say they are (and I have come across a few people like that, that's what the block protocols are for). And when I arranged a meeting it was always with my parents present or near by and it was always some place public. Use common sense and you can't go wrong.
They don't have to be there 100% of the time if they raise their kids right. When they hit their teens, your kids should be quite capable of determining right from wrong and knowing that a situation which makes them uncomfortable is one that they need to get out of. Stupidity is not a reason to make a law. If you can not raise your kid properly, so that they can avoid putting themselve into dangerous situations (including giving out adress, phone number etc online) then you should not be having kids. As my parents were so fond of saying, If your kids don't hate you and think you're the worst parents in the world, you've failed at your job as a parent.
Now I realize that all the preperation in the world can't protect us 100% of the time, but that's what predator laws are in place for.
As for a time when everyone asisted in keeping kids safe, well that was also a time when you could spank your kid (let me tell you, a little public embarrasment goes a long way towards keeping your kid in line). A time when kids could be lectured and ridiculled by their nieghbors and everyone else for something they did wrong. A time when teachers could fail a kid and instead of parents calling about what a lousy teacher they were, parents would ground their kids. The most horrifying comment I ever heard uttered by a parent was "we can't give [our daughter] a curfew, she might get angry!" News flash, your kids are supposed to be angry at your rules.
Let's start by first taking responsibility for our kids and then worry about the laws.
Apple is just covering themselves in case of wide spread problems. However, it has been my experience that for most hardware problems, Apple will quite happily repair the device at no cost to the consumer. Besides, technicaly speaking, Apple is not responsible. There is a warning on the hardware which states it should only be used with approved media, and there is a warning on the CD which says you shouldn't use it in a computer. Therefore, you have been sufficiently warned and legaly speaking are responsible for any damages to your computer.
I am not 100% certain, but I could swear that all macs including the iMac have a hole for the paperclip on them. Perhaps you aren't looking carefuly enough.
In either case, to reboot a mac (or any computer) , even if the whole system is locked, you simply remove the power and plug it back in. Turn it on and poof! Problem solved. Getting the CD out is as simple as holding down the mouse button, or doing any of the steps listed by the poster above.
Generaly speaking, if you toss a CD into your CD ROM drive and it isn't a mac readable CD. One of two things happens:
a) The computer assumes there's no CD and merily goes on it's way, and will eject the tray next time you push the eject button.
b) The computer locks up in a continuous cycle to try and read the CD. It knows something is there, and will continue to try and read it. The CD will not mount and no matter how often you push the button, the CD will not eject. The solution to this is to restart and remove the CD during the start-up process.
If this thing is fsking with the firmware (of either the CD ROM or the Computer) we have a serious problem here. That's the equivilent of putting a tape in your VCR and having the VCR catch fire. That's not cool and if it can be proven to be intentional is also ilegal.
Right cause sexual preference has such a bering on which computer you choose.
The problem is people don't realize that the internet isn't any different than the real world. Everyone who talks about cyber stalkers, people coning and stealing and people otherwise being evil online have forgoten the rules of the real world. Just as you wouldn't let your kid wander randomly through the streets talking to strangers and you wouldn't give some one your creditcard number on a whim, so the rules of life apply to the net. The internet is the real world reflected back at us without the safety bubble we put ourselves in everyday. No amout of law or legislation can really cange that.
So you mean that in order to become enlightened and intelligent people, we will actualy have to learn how to think for ourselves? We'll have to learn to weed through information and learn to tell fact from fiction? We'll have to use our brains? Heaven forbid
real processors did, but lots of early ones didn't. The really early intel processors, before the 8080s had a fatal design flaw in which a certain series of since lost commands entered into the computer had the wonderful effect of overloading and overheating the processor.
OOOH IDEA! Use the processors you develop to circumvent the built in copy protection that the DMCA flunkies are trying to get put in VCRs, CD drives etc etc etc. Maybe even use em to rewire anyone who thinks the DMCA can only benifit society.
I could swear I read something about this being the reaction Steve & Steve got from people about home computers. Too complex to buid a useful computer, never be able to compete with the big guys. Guess they were wrong too.
Besides, I wouldn't be aiming to build a computer processor. I'd just wna tto build a processor that could process something.
Not only is it not new, it's no longer a Hobby. My self and my firends hire our processor toasting services to disgruntled computer convention attendies pissed at the peopl esucking prescious bandwidth with their counterstrike server.
One subtly toasted processor + failed server for $20. And since they're all rent-a-sys type computers, no one really cares
One would assume that the retention mechanism of the heatsink would be a part of the unit as a whole, therefore, the heatsink failed.
I don't put much stock in people telling us what the future will bring. Look at all the brilliant people who were telling us that all these dot coms were the future. Poof, they're gone. Look at all the brilliant people that said we'd never cross the oceans, fly, go to the moon. Sorry, but a lot of smart people are wrong, quite often!
You forget all the wonderful quotes from brilliant people about computers. (I will paraphrase here because I don't want to be bothered to go look up the quotes)
"512k should be enough for anyone" -Bill Gate
"I see a use for maybe 5 computers in the world" -Some guy at IBM
"No one is going to use something called a mouse to run a computer" -Some guy at Xerox
"What would an average person want with a computer?" - I think this was Woz's boss at HP when he brought in the Apple prototype
"In the future, computers may only wiegh 2 tons" -Popular Science, 1950's ish
And of course, slashdot's personal favorite:
"Microsoft Works"
(I couldn't resist)
Generaly speaking (from mac experience and the ocasional windows boxen) "Return" is the keyboard equivilent of yes (or the least destructive item i.e. no on the format box). Comand (or in windows control) D usualy is "Don't Save" and most buttons are the command key + the first letter of the button. And cancel is almost always command-period and/or the escape key.
As I understand it, the laws of dialog boxes are as follows (at least for macs):
1) If the command given has the potential to be destructive, ask for confrimation.
2) The default button (highlighted, return, etc) should always be the least destructive choice (save on a save dialog box, No on a format or erase dialog)
3) The most destructive choice should never be higlighted and should always be kept seperate from the other choices. Hence, the Don't Save button is the furthes away of all choices.
4) The default and preffered choices should always be on the right hand side.
Could you imagine telling the computer to open something like an RPM though? Xevil.bin.1.2.4.3.rpm it would be a nightmare