One use I could perhaps see what they'd could use this research for is to justify offering something of either deterrence or rehabilitation through the use of guilds. Give guys who feel a need to belong and a need to whack shit with a weapon and you could *maybe* have something of a replacement with something like WoW. Hey, it's a stretch, but it's all I got. Worth noting: I have a little brother who seems to not mind the juvenile justice system all that much and is a relatively frequent visitor - however, once I got him into gaming and into things like Tribes, Priston Tale, and whatnot where clans/guilds existed his desire to go outside and henceforth get into trouble dropped significantly. Granted, it's just a patch for other socio/economic issues, but it could still have a somewhat positive effect. I'd much rather lazy gamers than violent gang members.
*However* - if you buy a model not supported by them it's likely they won't push down the gprs and other settings needed to get full-functionality out of the device. Sure, I could send and receive calls, but that was it. No MMS, no data.
After being on the phone with nokia and att back and forth (nokia being WAY more helpful) I eventually found a website I could pay like 10 bucks to send the codes to my phone remotely. I was reluctant as heck given that I had no idea what they could do to my phone (could they brick it? etc), but when it's the only option - well, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Which makes a hell of a lot more sense to me. Empirically-speaking I can't fathom alternate worlds where people are doing the exact same thing 10 minutes ago - then again, perhaps that's not what time travel is in terms of the scientific community. If this theory can hold true for things we already know and expand on what we don't know for sure yet then I'm all ears for this. While I love what Einstein's work was able to accomplish - I can't say it's 100%. As I believe Newton said "If I have seen the heavens it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants" - and by this I mean let's not discredit Einstein's work either. We use past science to bring us into future science.
What the heck is up with that? That drove me NUTS when I was living there for half a year.
I half-suspect it's somehow tied into the culture there - people seem to not completely concede to huge businesses; just look at Starbucks vs. Second Cup vs. Tim Hortons.
It's almost a really cool - but then again, it gets "really cool" there which would make MORE sense for online stores to exist. And to give those poor postmen a raise!
When I was in Canada about 6 months ago they didn't even have an online presence there. It seemed like the way that business is run there is entirely different than how it is here in the states. Not sure if that's a good thing though....
Aye, I definitely got trigger-happy when I read "for the accumulated knowledge on this subject is already sufficient to say that commercial fusion power will never become a reality". Thanks for the catch! I just get defensive at the word "never" for things like that. That's like saying "man will never fly", imo.
I'm sure someone's beat me to the semantics here but they're discussing fission with uranium, not fusion, which requires lighter elements (ex: hydrogen, helium, lithium) and their isotopes (ex: deuterium, tritium).
Essentially saying the uranium reaction is like fusion is like saying the sun is a nuclear bomb. While conceptually it may "look" like such but it's nearly the reverse kind of process.
I swear this is the same issue the guys in Battlestar Galactica seem to never grasp. "AWW FRAK, we're out of water/food/fuel again and now we need to risk our lives to get more RIGHT NOW!!!"
That's just a bit shortsighted don't you think? That's like saying the money poured into all the anti-malware software was a waste despite continually keeping many computers safer than without.
I think it's highly unlikely that this would prove to be an effective measure of drug testing honestly. Think of the hands you shake, doors you touch, hand rails, etc etc. Need I continue?
But from the nerd standpoint I gotta say - this is a pretty damned cool trick.
Good point.
I wonder if you could get away with just carrying your stuff around in a "first class" mailing container (if such a thing exists):
"(2) Sealed Letter Class Mail. Officers may not read or permit others to read
correspondence contained in sealed letter class mail (the international equivalent
of First Class) without an appropriate search warrant or consent. Only articles in
the postal system are deemed "mail." Letters carried by individuals or private
carriers such as DHL, UPS, or Federal Express, for example, are not considered to
be mail, even if they are stamped, and thus are subject to a border search as
provided in this policy."
Although I suppose they could argue that it's not in the "postal system".
Normally I seem to be one of the first people to think most of the slashdotters here knee-jerk at every issue calling it a violation of privacy rights - but this one *screams* it out. There is no other way around it - if you're not suspected of anything and there is no probable cause then they have no grounds to look through your personal items. End of story. Now, who here is willing to pay a lawyer to fight this one?
So you're saying that your parents in creating such a restriction actually forced you to become a more clever thinker? I'd see that as a plus.
Honestly - if my kid was able to creatively circumvent the router's internet access time restriction with some original thought I think they'd almost earn some computer time at night.
And then punished the next day by being forced to code in COBOL. That's my kind of tough love. >:]
But I do think it is entirely possible that yes - kids will find ways to get around x,y,z restrictions - but it'll also make them smarter thinkers. Or at least the brighter kids will take advantage of the experience. In theory anyway. It all stems from the hopes and dreams that every kid will be smarter than their kids. This is also known as "creative retirement".
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious. It may be redundant but I don't see how it's censoring anything. Unless of course it's been decided that controlling what your kids have access to is limiting free speech...
I'd prefer this than straight up banning. And I'd consider putting the power *and responsibility* back in the hands of the parents a good thing. All this is in my opinion is a tool to facilitate that.
Honestly I think there's actually a middle ground between your two viewpoints.
1) I'm DAMNED glad to find some parents out there still give a shit. I had lots of friends whose parents had no qualms about feeding us booze all the damned time when we were underaged. If I had kids and knew someone else's parents were facilitating this I'd go batshit.
It seems to me that there really is a lack of using the "village" to raise the kid. Back in my day (which wasn't THAT long ago even, I'm 22) I had my behind whooped by more than one of my friend's mothers.
Now, another point hit on - communication. Talk to your damned kids and let them know the reasons/motives for doing what you do. That is the ultimate important thing in my opinion. I think even if this level of parenting is reached then it may be possible that your kids will talk to you the same way - letting you into their lives and confiding in you when they have problems.
Personally I had a mix of these two posters so I've seen the good and bad in both. My mom mostly raised me until I was 12 and was relatively strict, but not unreasonably. My dad, however, took over after that until I moved out at 19 and was as liberal as could be. He didn't care when I got home, his philosophy that he communicated to me was "I don't mind what you do as long as you're responsible (which I knew *exactly* what that meant - no drugs, no getting involved with stupid shit, etc) and take care of you grades." He basically explained that if I stayed out late I'd have to live with the consequences on my own - this translated literally into "If you wake up late because you stayed out too late I'm carrying you to the bus stop with your books and a change of clothes, you can figure it out after that."
What that aspect did was give me a huge sense of self-reliance. What my mother gave me was discipline and respect. And now I'm at a point where I can talk to them about *anything*. It's just about finding that *balance*. No parent knows what the heck they're doing as if were some laid out engineered plan. Life happens, they deal with it the best they can (if they're worth a shit as a parent).
All in all, how the kid perceives their upbringing revolves 110% around how you all communicate. As for the parent who would lojack his kids - I wouldn't blame him for such while they're younger - and I'm sure as his kids approach closer and closer to 18 the necessity of such a device may become less and less relevant as trust and commuication is built up.
Personally, my kids are on lock down until they're 13. After that we'll reevaluate the situation as it comes.:)
I was of this mindset as well for the longest time until I spent a week in Montreal. I picked up so much more french there from simply *having* to know it to function. Yeah, it's a "billingual" town but if you want to function a lot better it becomes essential. Hell, trying to drive to my friend's house when I first arrived and figuring out what the hell "Sud" and "Nord" meant saved me tons of driving time I could have lost going in the wrong direction.
Oh, and learning how to say "where is the toilette" in any language is damned helpful. That and "thank you" after the fact.:)
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One use I could perhaps see what they'd could use this research for is to justify offering something of either deterrence or rehabilitation through the use of guilds. Give guys who feel a need to belong and a need to whack shit with a weapon and you could *maybe* have something of a replacement with something like WoW. Hey, it's a stretch, but it's all I got. Worth noting: I have a little brother who seems to not mind the juvenile justice system all that much and is a relatively frequent visitor - however, once I got him into gaming and into things like Tribes, Priston Tale, and whatnot where clans/guilds existed his desire to go outside and henceforth get into trouble dropped significantly. Granted, it's just a patch for other socio/economic issues, but it could still have a somewhat positive effect. I'd much rather lazy gamers than violent gang members.
*However* - if you buy a model not supported by them it's likely they won't push down the gprs and other settings needed to get full-functionality out of the device. Sure, I could send and receive calls, but that was it. No MMS, no data.
After being on the phone with nokia and att back and forth (nokia being WAY more helpful) I eventually found a website I could pay like 10 bucks to send the codes to my phone remotely. I was reluctant as heck given that I had no idea what they could do to my phone (could they brick it? etc), but when it's the only option - well, you gotta do what you gotta do.
[The site is here if anyone gets desperate or knows any more info about them: https://www.configuremyphone.com/ ]
Which makes a hell of a lot more sense to me. Empirically-speaking I can't fathom alternate worlds where people are doing the exact same thing 10 minutes ago - then again, perhaps that's not what time travel is in terms of the scientific community. If this theory can hold true for things we already know and expand on what we don't know for sure yet then I'm all ears for this. While I love what Einstein's work was able to accomplish - I can't say it's 100%. As I believe Newton said "If I have seen the heavens it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants" - and by this I mean let's not discredit Einstein's work either. We use past science to bring us into future science.
What the heck is up with that? That drove me NUTS when I was living there for half a year. I half-suspect it's somehow tied into the culture there - people seem to not completely concede to huge businesses; just look at Starbucks vs. Second Cup vs. Tim Hortons. It's almost a really cool - but then again, it gets "really cool" there which would make MORE sense for online stores to exist. And to give those poor postmen a raise!
When I was in Canada about 6 months ago they didn't even have an online presence there. It seemed like the way that business is run there is entirely different than how it is here in the states. Not sure if that's a good thing though....
Aye, I definitely got trigger-happy when I read "for the accumulated knowledge on this subject is already sufficient to say that commercial fusion power will never become a reality". Thanks for the catch! I just get defensive at the word "never" for things like that. That's like saying "man will never fly", imo.
I'm sure someone's beat me to the semantics here but they're discussing fission with uranium, not fusion, which requires lighter elements (ex: hydrogen, helium, lithium) and their isotopes (ex: deuterium, tritium). Essentially saying the uranium reaction is like fusion is like saying the sun is a nuclear bomb. While conceptually it may "look" like such but it's nearly the reverse kind of process.
I swear this is the same issue the guys in Battlestar Galactica seem to never grasp. "AWW FRAK, we're out of water/food/fuel again and now we need to risk our lives to get more RIGHT NOW!!!"
You actually get more REMs from the sun than living next to a live reactor.
That's just a bit shortsighted don't you think? That's like saying the money poured into all the anti-malware software was a waste despite continually keeping many computers safer than without.
I'm actually less worried about the coke and more worried about the strippers' crotches these things may have touched. *shiver*
Oh man, I hope I'm not the only one who took this seriously for a second...
I think it's highly unlikely that this would prove to be an effective measure of drug testing honestly. Think of the hands you shake, doors you touch, hand rails, etc etc. Need I continue?
But from the nerd standpoint I gotta say - this is a pretty damned cool trick.
I was actually 4 lbs 10 oz and came out *fairly* decent. And by fairly I mean: I read slashdot, therefore SOMETHING must be wrong.
Good point. I wonder if you could get away with just carrying your stuff around in a "first class" mailing container (if such a thing exists): "(2) Sealed Letter Class Mail. Officers may not read or permit others to read correspondence contained in sealed letter class mail (the international equivalent of First Class) without an appropriate search warrant or consent. Only articles in the postal system are deemed "mail." Letters carried by individuals or private carriers such as DHL, UPS, or Federal Express, for example, are not considered to be mail, even if they are stamped, and thus are subject to a border search as provided in this policy." Although I suppose they could argue that it's not in the "postal system".
Normally I seem to be one of the first people to think most of the slashdotters here knee-jerk at every issue calling it a violation of privacy rights - but this one *screams* it out. There is no other way around it - if you're not suspected of anything and there is no probable cause then they have no grounds to look through your personal items. End of story. Now, who here is willing to pay a lawyer to fight this one?
Aliens as a defense? Why didn't I think of that?
So you're saying that your parents in creating such a restriction actually forced you to become a more clever thinker? I'd see that as a plus.
Honestly - if my kid was able to creatively circumvent the router's internet access time restriction with some original thought I think they'd almost earn some computer time at night.
And then punished the next day by being forced to code in COBOL. That's my kind of tough love. >:]
But I do think it is entirely possible that yes - kids will find ways to get around x,y,z restrictions - but it'll also make them smarter thinkers. Or at least the brighter kids will take advantage of the experience. In theory anyway. It all stems from the hopes and dreams that every kid will be smarter than their kids. This is also known as "creative retirement".
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious. It may be redundant but I don't see how it's censoring anything. Unless of course it's been decided that controlling what your kids have access to is limiting free speech...
I'd prefer this than straight up banning. And I'd consider putting the power *and responsibility* back in the hands of the parents a good thing. All this is in my opinion is a tool to facilitate that.
"With the Wii you point and shake and it vibrates" Yeah, I have the same relationship with my wii too.
Honestly I think there's actually a middle ground between your two viewpoints. 1) I'm DAMNED glad to find some parents out there still give a shit. I had lots of friends whose parents had no qualms about feeding us booze all the damned time when we were underaged. If I had kids and knew someone else's parents were facilitating this I'd go batshit. It seems to me that there really is a lack of using the "village" to raise the kid. Back in my day (which wasn't THAT long ago even, I'm 22) I had my behind whooped by more than one of my friend's mothers. Now, another point hit on - communication. Talk to your damned kids and let them know the reasons/motives for doing what you do. That is the ultimate important thing in my opinion. I think even if this level of parenting is reached then it may be possible that your kids will talk to you the same way - letting you into their lives and confiding in you when they have problems. Personally I had a mix of these two posters so I've seen the good and bad in both. My mom mostly raised me until I was 12 and was relatively strict, but not unreasonably. My dad, however, took over after that until I moved out at 19 and was as liberal as could be. He didn't care when I got home, his philosophy that he communicated to me was "I don't mind what you do as long as you're responsible (which I knew *exactly* what that meant - no drugs, no getting involved with stupid shit, etc) and take care of you grades." He basically explained that if I stayed out late I'd have to live with the consequences on my own - this translated literally into "If you wake up late because you stayed out too late I'm carrying you to the bus stop with your books and a change of clothes, you can figure it out after that." What that aspect did was give me a huge sense of self-reliance. What my mother gave me was discipline and respect. And now I'm at a point where I can talk to them about *anything*. It's just about finding that *balance*. No parent knows what the heck they're doing as if were some laid out engineered plan. Life happens, they deal with it the best they can (if they're worth a shit as a parent). All in all, how the kid perceives their upbringing revolves 110% around how you all communicate. As for the parent who would lojack his kids - I wouldn't blame him for such while they're younger - and I'm sure as his kids approach closer and closer to 18 the necessity of such a device may become less and less relevant as trust and commuication is built up. Personally, my kids are on lock down until they're 13. After that we'll reevaluate the situation as it comes. :)
I think...I must either have a beer with you or force you to write a book.
I was of this mindset as well for the longest time until I spent a week in Montreal. I picked up so much more french there from simply *having* to know it to function. Yeah, it's a "billingual" town but if you want to function a lot better it becomes essential. Hell, trying to drive to my friend's house when I first arrived and figuring out what the hell "Sud" and "Nord" meant saved me tons of driving time I could have lost going in the wrong direction. Oh, and learning how to say "where is the toilette" in any language is damned helpful. That and "thank you" after the fact. :)
ALMOST daily? Phew, I feel relieved now. ;)
Really though, I think China is just trying to take down the U.S. by removing all of our tech support.
-Or- these attacks are really from U.S. unions trying to combat outsourcing.
Guess we got to make a new one: SNL: SCO's not Linix.
Kinda takes the fun out of backacronyms though...