What's really going to suck is when all those ads start showing up in other sections of craigslist, cluttering it even futher. They actually made the problem worse. Whack-a-mole, yes, but in this case, after you whacked the mole, it just splattered all over the place and it's even more of a mess than it was before. At least with the "Erotic Services" section, the problem was condensed and confined to one single section, at least for the most part.
that is the very reason the "erotic services" section was put in place in the beginning. users were tired of seeing the adverts when all they were after was some "normal" (non-paid-for) encounters with "normal" (define as you see fit) people.
now it's just going to go back to the way it was. woo! score one for the average craigslist user!
no, when my kids are up, i'm up and alert with them.. and no, my keys stay in my pocket at all times unless actively being used. although that is a tactic to avoid losing them.
having watched the original story as broadcast on the news this morning when there was absolutely no mention of the video game, this is just another example of trying to shift the blame.. and revise the story after the fact..
this morning on the news, it was described how the kid waited for and missed the school bus..
then (since apparently mom was too busy sleeping to escort her 6 y/o kid to the bus stop in the first place) he decided to take the car on his own..
then somebody in the meantime must have started hounding the kid about "why'd you do this" and he mentioned that he plays a driving video game..
clearly the parents are to blame, mine, for instance would never think it was ok to take my car..
but then, i'd never leave them so unsupervised that they could in the first place..
i prefer using barcode passwords with a barcode reader.. easier than remembering them, and i can keep a 'list' of my passwords in my wallet which, even if stolen, still most likely wouldn't mean anything as i use shorthand to describe everything and the barcodes aren't printed alongside (usually i use stuff like my pack of cigarettes, a can of beer, etc) and if i ever need to get a password hint from a site i fill out the answer as the object i used to generate the password.. the nice thing is that they're nearly random, easy to remember mnemonics, and generally strong.. then i just keep a good high-security password for banking purposes..
here in portland oregon, we have one of the best mass transit systems in the country.. Tri-Met
really, in pretty much all respects but one, it's fantastic..
that one, is that for some reason, they cut off the entire bus and train system just an hour before the bars close?
is it a lack of urban planning? or another way to get and keep people in their revenue system?
a recent estimate by an accountant who got a duii calculates the actual cost of getting one at over $10k between the fines, probation costs, increases in insurance, and mandatory alcohol abuse classes.. plus, you are FOREVER branded as a drunk driver in the state computer system, it never goes off your record, and the police can pull you over for any reason or none, for the rest of your life.
so the question is, why not employ more urban planning? why not extend the (city run, not private enterprise) bus system until after the bars close?
i don't agree with driving drunk, i don't think it's some 'right' that we should have, but seriously.. in a large urban center where the population density already supports it, why can't they provide better alternatives? and no, taxi's don't have stands here (city mandate) nor do they respond to street hails (more mandates from the city "for the cab driver's protection against dangerous criminals") you MUST call the taxi company's dispatch and wait for at least 30 minutes for them to come get you.. hardly making it easy to avoid driving impared.. i suggest you look at the other practices your city government chooses to employ..
the reason they've forced you to give implied consent, the reason they've given such broad discretion to the police on the scene.. is not so that they can make the roads safer, it's so that they can grab your wallets. the sooner we get used to the idea and either acquiesce or change the attitude of the ruling body, the sooner we can start working on changing the actual problem of drunk driving..
good luck all, i'm going to go find a bar closer to home so that i can walk home at the end of the night..
since none of you with mod points seem to get the joke, i'll explain it.. and i'll use small words..
i had a witty and thoughtful first post prepared.. but then i (my input verifier) realized that it (the witty and thoughtful post) wasn't (coming from the "proper" source), so i'm (stuck) posting this tripe instead (of what i'd intended)
now, for the explanation..
just what do you think will happen when things can be censored or monitored at the source of the input?
i'm using a rather innocuous example of a first post gone awry, but what happens when **insert nasty shadowy agency here** decides that they want to be able to scan encrypted data?
why.. get the data before it's encrypted, of course.. how do you do that? why, a key logger that 'allows' you to play a certain game, of course!
now, i'm not suggesting that the average gamer routinely inputs data that the government wants, or even that intel has any special interest in doing this.. but on the other hand, what happens when your biggest rival in the game has figured out how to tell your computer that it no longer recieves "intel approved input" and so your character simply stops responding to commands..
the point of all this is that if you're going to try to do things that make it harder to cheat, you'd better make damn sure it can't be misused.. i'm sure we've seen enough of the arguments on here over the last 5 years about how seemingly benign laws and technology get misused by with those with an agenda..
and i for one don't want to see it come to my games too, because my fear is that someone will think of something more nefarious than i can, and voila, he's already got the tools in place on literally THOUSANDS of computers worldwide. oh but wait. nobody ever attacks windows gamer boxes, right?
ok. thanks for letting me vent about that, i'm sorry the joke wasn't clear enough the first time, and that i had to have the discussion with myself instead of you folks.
I smoke.
My Dad smokes.
Several of my friends smoke.
Of these people, in a quick (obviously un-scientific) poll, every single person knew that cigarettes were bad for them.
Go figure that people would be aware that inhaling BURNING PLANT MATTER isn't any good for them.
The Tobacco companies never passed cigarettes off as 'healthy' or even 'not-bad-for-you'. The only thing they said was that it was relaxing/pleasant/fun. !!
The only reason tobacco companies are getting held liable now is because smoking is no longer socially 'proper'. Non-smokers have convinced the rest of the country that it's not ok to smoke anywhere anymore. I even read in a local paper's 'letters to the editor' section, a womans account of how because she got a (singular) lungful of smoke upon exiting a store that she had been "Hacking up phlegm for the last hour" Maybe if she has bad lungs to begin with, maybe if she stood there talking to someone, but I think it's because she coughed twice in an hour and decided it was all the fault of the cigarettes (ignoring the fact that it's -22f outside, she couldn't just have a cold?)
We're becoming a Pus*y-whipped society and want to blame everyone else for anything we don't like.
Don't like cigarettes? --> Don't sit in the smoking section.
Don't like guns? --> Don't own one.
Don't like health freaks? --> Eat what you want.
Don't like what I have to say? --> Don't read it, or reply and tell me just what you disagree with.
Otherwise, it's like telling slashot not to let me post, because you don't want me to speak my mind, that i might pollute your childrens minds if they are reading over your shoulder, or maybe that other people might agree with me and that leaves your world-view of 'everybody else is to blame' in a really poor state.
Know what I think? I think you people who want to see guns banned, smoking outlawed, and no media influence that could influence your children/spouse/neighbors, should take a vacation to Iraq.
Then you can see what a country looks like when it's government takes all control from it's citizens.
i'm sorry, but where i live (interior Alaska U.S.) i can't recieve any video feeds from the "local" channels.
I'm stuck with Cable (one choice, no direcTV, no TiVo, no satellite options)
I for one would absolutely love to get a subsidised version of basic cable (even at a reduced rate, i still pay $40/month for the no-frills vanilla service) and whether you techno-nerds want to realise it or not, more people are in my position than you might think..
The cable/satelite/etc. prevalence is not because you want the channels.. it is very simply because you want any channels at all.
That's why i only keep about $200 in my account at any given time..
If i'm going to make a large purchase, i
1. call the bank to transfer funds from my savings account, or
2. visit an ATM to transfer or simply withdraw the money first.
this is also incredibly useful when going out on the town, it keeps me from spending too much money at the bar as i can't simply 'leave it open' and drink until i forget how much i've spent.
hmm. Thinking, rational adults..
because the general (non-geek) public has made such wonderful decisions in the past.
i agree that it's your right to use any measure you see fit, but in the professional arena there should be a global standard.
i think i'm safe in assuming that most people who give the matter any thought can agree with this.
the significant difference i see here, is that the 'american' way is not (in this case) the best way, americans have become so accustomed to either actually being right, or being able to force the rest of the world to change, that they've forgotten the point of being able to choose.
the reason our forefathers wanted to give everyone in america a choice, is because the masses can usually make a decision better than a few individuals. in this case, the masses will have to be forced to change, because they have grown lazy, and the system they know is easier (only because they already know it) than changing to match the rest of the civilised world.
How True!
The American Military uses metric for most things.
--Meters for small distance (still miles for longer and off-base distances)
--Kilograms for most weight measurement(except things like PSI and foot-pounds on jets)
The Metric system is a much more efficient system of measurement, and I for one would much rather see the military using it when they worry about things like anthrax and VX toxisity and percistence.
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Unfortunately you are incorrect,
there is now a Technician class No-Code licence available in the U.S. as well...
Check http://www.arrl.org/news/restructuring/
for more information, of course i very much think of this as an insult to the time I spent studying antenna theory and becoming proficient in morse code.
W7MB
well, you know what? i've been wrong before.
it was my understanding that the amount of data being transmitted would significantly impact the wireless router's bandwidth capability.
it still seems like that, to me, because of the number of people in each office, that sooner or later one router would get bogged down. but obviously i am just mistaken on that.
I for one welcome the day that VoIP can be a reality,
but let's face it, with the ammount of data that it requires, a WiFi enabled VoIP call would just eat up the bandwidth that others need to use to do their work. let's focus on bringing sellular technology to the IP network, rather than the other way around.
It sounds like this is just another rant about how evil M$ is...
It seems to me that this is a good thing, Google is so good they have leveled the playing field, forcing Microsoft to put out a better product.
If you ask me, Microsoft needs the same treatment as the old Ma Bells, but since it doesn't look likely, perhaps we in the coding community should ask ourselves what we can do to make the other OS's better (as in good enough to stand up to windows)
sorry about being so far off-topic, but i just had to say that after reading your sig i had to go rent spaceballs... it had been too long since i'd seen it. Thanks for reminding us all about a great movie woefully lost to hollywierd.
i have to call bullshit on you there. i installed RH 7.3 on an AMD 450, with an award bios.
i then put said hard drive into my HP intel 233, with a phoenix (pre award) bios. it booted the first time.
however, linux in general, is an immature OS with lots of kinks to be worked out before it can truly be a contender on the desktop.
BTW: does anyone know about the unix command line in OS X ? i have been considering buying a Mac, but i can't find any info on how easy it is to access the command line (eg: i don't want to reboot just to do some coding)
In summary: the expertise of geeks is coding, then you have three options: learn another expertise and lobby, teach politicians to code/use technology so they understand, or both.
maybe you haven't seen my other posts, but that is exactly what i'm talking about doing.
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What's really going to suck is when all those ads start showing up in other sections of craigslist, cluttering it even futher. They actually made the problem worse. Whack-a-mole, yes, but in this case, after you whacked the mole, it just splattered all over the place and it's even more of a mess than it was before. At least with the "Erotic Services" section, the problem was condensed and confined to one single section, at least for the most part.
that is the very reason the "erotic services" section was put in place in the beginning. users were tired of seeing the adverts when all they were after was some "normal" (non-paid-for) encounters with "normal" (define as you see fit) people.
now it's just going to go back to the way it was. woo! score one for the average craigslist user!
Until computers are granted suffrage they ought not be trusted to count votes.
no offense to symbolset, but seriously.. this really isn't (or at least shouldn't be) a funny statement.
why oh why did my mod points have to expire yesterday?
kudos to you sir.
no, when my kids are up, i'm up and alert with them.. and no, my keys stay in my pocket at all times unless actively being used. although that is a tactic to avoid losing them.
having watched the original story as broadcast on the news this morning when there was absolutely no mention of the video game, this is just another example of trying to shift the blame.. and revise the story after the fact..
this morning on the news, it was described how the kid waited for and missed the school bus..
then (since apparently mom was too busy sleeping to escort her 6 y/o kid to the bus stop in the first place) he decided to take the car on his own..
then somebody in the meantime must have started hounding the kid about "why'd you do this" and he mentioned that he plays a driving video game..
clearly the parents are to blame, mine, for instance would never think it was ok to take my car..
but then, i'd never leave them so unsupervised that they could in the first place..
can i have some pie too?
i prefer using barcode passwords with a barcode reader.. easier than remembering them, and i can keep a 'list' of my passwords in my wallet which, even if stolen, still most likely wouldn't mean anything as i use shorthand to describe everything and the barcodes aren't printed alongside (usually i use stuff like my pack of cigarettes, a can of beer, etc) and if i ever need to get a password hint from a site i fill out the answer as the object i used to generate the password.. the nice thing is that they're nearly random, easy to remember mnemonics, and generally strong.. then i just keep a good high-security password for banking purposes..
here in portland oregon, we have one of the best mass transit systems in the country.. Tri-Met
really, in pretty much all respects but one, it's fantastic..
that one, is that for some reason, they cut off the entire bus and train system just an hour before the bars close?
is it a lack of urban planning? or another way to get and keep people in their revenue system?
a recent estimate by an accountant who got a duii calculates the actual cost of getting one at over $10k between the fines, probation costs, increases in insurance, and mandatory alcohol abuse classes.. plus, you are FOREVER branded as a drunk driver in the state computer system, it never goes off your record, and the police can pull you over for any reason or none, for the rest of your life.
so the question is, why not employ more urban planning? why not extend the (city run, not private enterprise) bus system until after the bars close?
i don't agree with driving drunk, i don't think it's some 'right' that we should have, but seriously.. in a large urban center where the population density already supports it, why can't they provide better alternatives? and no, taxi's don't have stands here (city mandate) nor do they respond to street hails (more mandates from the city "for the cab driver's protection against dangerous criminals") you MUST call the taxi company's dispatch and wait for at least 30 minutes for them to come get you.. hardly making it easy to avoid driving impared.. i suggest you look at the other practices your city government chooses to employ..
the reason they've forced you to give implied consent, the reason they've given such broad discretion to the police on the scene.. is not so that they can make the roads safer, it's so that they can grab your wallets. the sooner we get used to the idea and either acquiesce or change the attitude of the ruling body, the sooner we can start working on changing the actual problem of drunk driving..
good luck all, i'm going to go find a bar closer to home so that i can walk home at the end of the night..
now, for the explanation..
just what do you think will happen when things can be censored or monitored at the source of the input?
i'm using a rather innocuous example of a first post gone awry, but what happens when **insert nasty shadowy agency here** decides that they want to be able to scan encrypted data?
why.. get the data before it's encrypted, of course.. how do you do that? why, a key logger that 'allows' you to play a certain game, of course!
now, i'm not suggesting that the average gamer routinely inputs data that the government wants, or even that intel has any special interest in doing this.. but on the other hand, what happens when your biggest rival in the game has figured out how to tell your computer that it no longer recieves "intel approved input" and so your character simply stops responding to commands..
the point of all this is that if you're going to try to do things that make it harder to cheat, you'd better make damn sure it can't be misused.. i'm sure we've seen enough of the arguments on here over the last 5 years about how seemingly benign laws and technology get misused by with those with an agenda..
and i for one don't want to see it come to my games too, because my fear is that someone will think of something more nefarious than i can, and voila, he's already got the tools in place on literally THOUSANDS of computers worldwide. oh but wait. nobody ever attacks windows gamer boxes, right?
ok. thanks for letting me vent about that, i'm sorry the joke wasn't clear enough the first time, and that i had to have the discussion with myself instead of you folks.
have a nice day.
i had a witty and thoughtful first post prepared.. but then i realized that it wasn't, so i'm posting this tripe instead..
i read your comment, and not 10 minutes later i heard someone a few cubes over doing just that..
/. and at least one other person was too..
i splattered coffee all over my monitor..
now i have to find a way to clean it up without having to expain that i was reading
hmm. maybe i should just wander around saying "I didn't spill the coffee."
is it just me or does this bring a whole new meaning to 'burning a disc'?
sorry for that, i couldn't resist.
I smoke.
My Dad smokes.
Several of my friends smoke.
Of these people, in a quick (obviously un-scientific) poll, every single person knew that cigarettes were bad for them.
Go figure that people would be aware that inhaling BURNING PLANT MATTER isn't any good for them.
The Tobacco companies never passed cigarettes off as 'healthy' or even 'not-bad-for-you'. The only thing they said was that it was relaxing/pleasant/fun. !!
The only reason tobacco companies are getting held liable now is because smoking is no longer socially 'proper'.
Non-smokers have convinced the rest of the country that it's not ok to smoke anywhere anymore.
I even read in a local paper's 'letters to the editor' section, a womans account of how because she got a (singular) lungful of smoke upon exiting a store that she had been "Hacking up phlegm for the last hour" Maybe if she has bad lungs to begin with, maybe if she stood there talking to someone, but I think it's because she coughed twice in an hour and decided it was all the fault of the cigarettes (ignoring the fact that it's -22f outside, she couldn't just have a cold?)
We're becoming a Pus*y-whipped society and want to blame everyone else for anything we don't like.
Don't like cigarettes? --> Don't sit in the smoking section.
Don't like guns? --> Don't own one.
Don't like health freaks? --> Eat what you want.
Don't like what I have to say? --> Don't read it, or reply and tell me just what you disagree with.
Otherwise, it's like telling slashot not to let me post, because you don't want me to speak my mind, that i might pollute your childrens minds if they are reading over your shoulder, or maybe that other people might agree with me and that leaves your world-view of 'everybody else is to blame' in a really poor state.
Know what I think? I think you people who want to see guns banned, smoking outlawed, and no media influence that could influence your children/spouse/neighbors, should take a vacation to Iraq.
Then you can see what a country looks like when it's government takes all control from it's citizens.
wouldn't AC/DC's "highway to hell" be more appropriate?
i'm sorry, but where i live (interior Alaska U.S.) i can't recieve any video feeds from the "local" channels.
I'm stuck with Cable (one choice, no direcTV, no TiVo, no satellite options)
I for one would absolutely love to get a subsidised version of basic cable (even at a reduced rate, i still pay $40/month for the no-frills vanilla service) and whether you techno-nerds want to realise it or not, more people are in my position than you might think..
The cable/satelite/etc. prevalence is not because you want the channels.. it is very simply because you want any channels at all.
That's why i only keep about $200 in my account at any given time..
If i'm going to make a large purchase, i
1. call the bank to transfer funds from my savings account, or
2. visit an ATM to transfer or simply withdraw the money first.
this is also incredibly useful when going out on the town, it keeps me from spending too much money at the bar as i can't simply 'leave it open' and drink until i forget how much i've spent.
hmm. Thinking, rational adults..
because the general (non-geek) public has made such wonderful decisions in the past.
i agree that it's your right to use any measure you see fit, but in the professional arena there should be a global standard.
i think i'm safe in assuming that most people who give the matter any thought can agree with this.
the significant difference i see here, is that the 'american' way is not (in this case) the best way, americans have become so accustomed to either actually being right, or being able to force the rest of the world to change, that they've forgotten the point of being able to choose.
the reason our forefathers wanted to give everyone in america a choice, is because the masses can usually make a decision better than a few individuals. in this case, the masses will have to be forced to change, because they have grown lazy, and the system they know is easier (only because they already know it) than changing to match the rest of the civilised world.
How True!
The American Military uses metric for most things.
--Meters for small distance (still miles for longer and off-base distances)
--Kilograms for most weight measurement(except things like PSI and foot-pounds on jets)
The Metric system is a much more efficient system of measurement, and I for one would much rather see the military using it when they worry about things like anthrax and VX toxisity and percistence.
Unfortunately you are incorrect,
there is now a Technician class No-Code licence available in the U.S. as well...
Check http://www.arrl.org/news/restructuring/
for more information, of course i very much think of this as an insult to the time I spent studying antenna theory and becoming proficient in morse code. W7MB
well, you know what? i've been wrong before.
it was my understanding that the amount of data being transmitted would significantly impact the wireless router's bandwidth capability.
it still seems like that, to me, because of the number of people in each office, that sooner or later one router would get bogged down. but obviously i am just mistaken on that.
I for one welcome the day that VoIP can be a reality,
but let's face it, with the ammount of data that it requires, a WiFi enabled VoIP call would just eat up the bandwidth that others need to use to do their work. let's focus on bringing sellular technology to the IP network, rather than the other way around.
It sounds like this is just another rant about how evil M$ is...
It seems to me that this is a good thing, Google is so good they have leveled the playing field, forcing Microsoft to put out a better product.
If you ask me, Microsoft needs the same treatment as the old Ma Bells, but since it doesn't look likely, perhaps we in the coding community should ask ourselves what we can do to make the other OS's better (as in good enough to stand up to windows)
sorry about being so far off-topic, but i just had to say that after reading your sig i had to go rent spaceballs... it had been too long since i'd seen it. Thanks for reminding us all about a great movie woefully lost to hollywierd.
i have to call bullshit on you there. i installed RH 7.3 on an AMD 450, with an award bios.
i then put said hard drive into my HP intel 233, with a phoenix (pre award) bios. it booted the first time.
however, linux in general, is an immature OS with lots of kinks to be worked out before it can truly be a contender on the desktop.
BTW: does anyone know about the unix command line in OS X ? i have been considering buying a Mac, but i can't find any info on how easy it is to access the command line (eg: i don't want to reboot just to do some coding)
In summary: the expertise of geeks is coding, then you have three options: learn another expertise and lobby, teach politicians to code/use technology so they understand, or both.
maybe you haven't seen my other posts, but that is exactly what i'm talking about doing.