Children will not respect you for letting you have free reign on the internet. Wake up. 15 year-olds need rules and guidance just as much as the rest of us.
So John Ashcroft's still watching you through your webcam, I guess?
I control the router. I read the logs. When they turn 18, if they are still living in my house, we'll discuss it. Until then, what I say goes.
But if you control them until they're 18, when will they get the experience controlling themselves?
I think part of the point of adolescence is to allow them more self-control, so that they can gain practice in making their judgments for themselves, while you're still close enough at hand to be a safety net when they (inevitably) dare too much and make a misstep.
You probably taught your kids to ride bicycles. I doubt you "taught" them to ride by sitting them in a side-car attached to your bike until age 12, at which time you plopped them on a 10-speed without training wheels, expecting them not to fall just because they'd watched you balance, steer, and pedal for the last 12 years.
No, like any good parent, you got them a 3-speed, put training wheels on it, and ran behind the bike, holding the seat to balance it. And eventually they were pedaling too fast for you to hold one, so you watched them whiz away, waiting for that first skinned knee to bandage.
Rather than grep through the network logs, spend the time explaining to your kids why the values you live by are useful and effective values for them to live by. Talk about the mistakes you made, in hopes they'll more quickly recognize their future mistakes. Let your kids know that now is their chance to make mistakes, and now is when they still have the chance to come to their dad and ask for his help in correcting those mistakes.
I lost her Sept 16th. after 10years. It seams like yesterday. I wish she could answer her emails. I sent her a email after she passed.
My condolences, brother.
A moving post and a good point you make: all those people in cyberspace wondering why she isn't coming by any more, hoping they'll see her, wondering if it's somehting thye said.
I can just see the people that say the moon landings were fake now... "Those images of Jupiter can't be real. There aren't any stars in the background!"
This image of Jupiter is an obvious fake. There's no monolith full of stars in the foreground.
It's not the phone, it's the conversation.
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I want to be safe, however, and would like to find a headset for cell phones
Let's be clear. Part of the danger of using a cell phone while driving is the distraction caused by having to juggle the phone, having to look down at it to dial, and having to take at least one hand off the steering wheel to hold it.
Getting a hands-free headset will mostly remove these distractions.
But the majority of the distraction is caused by having the conversation in the first place. That the degree of distraction is similar to that caused by talking to someone physically in the car is often offered as a justification of using the phone while driving, but even if both equal distractions, the cell phone conversation is an additional and unnecessary distraction.
So don't fool yourself: headset or not, you'll be distracted, and you'll be driving less safely. Drive this way once or twice, and your number probably won't come up. Do it every morning, five mornings a week, 50 weeks a years, and eventually your number -- or the number of some kid darting across the road on his way to school -- will come up.
Yes, a good sized collection of CD's tend to take up some space, but people like to display their CD collection, and it is harder to lose a CD than a small memory stick (I have already lost one)
Surely the RIAA will anticipate this, and so allow buyers to make backup copies of the media.
That way the loss of a finger-nail sized copy won't require plunking down another $16.99 for a replacement copy.
Surely the RIAA has anticipated... oh. I mean, figured inevitable loss by customers into their expected profits.
However, we won't pay "consulting fees" to people who create CDkey hacks of our proprietary software, then post the results if we don't pay them.
I'd like to see the evidence of this. If he said he'd found vulnerabilities in their code and refused to tell them what those vulnerabilities were and threatened to reveal them publicly unless they paid him, then yes, that sounds like extortion.
If it was extortion, why did GameSpy send a cease and desist couched in terms of the DMCA?
Why not just call in the FBI, explain they're being extorted, go from there. Extortion's not only well understood, it's more respected in the community, and less controversial, than DMCA attacks. And probably extraditable (although I can't find the text of our extradition trety with italy at the state.gov web site).
"A displacement of one millimeter on the ground can cause a displacement of 100 meters in the ionosphere,"
So presumably the same technique can be used to detect stealthed underground nuclear bomb tests as well.
Next question: do arrays of GPS devices exist in India, Pkistan, and China? If not, could they be put in place easily and stealthily, as by airdrops of a number of small GPS receivers designed to transmit results to another sattelite?
However, I disagree on the non-obviousness and generally oppose any techniques that are not obvious to developers.
Excepting the tiny share of geniuses, most things are non-obvious to most persons, at first. I suspect, for instance, that I was surprised when I was first told that objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same rate.
The use of classes, and inheiritance to specialize code was "non-obvious" to me when I first encountered it. After reading about it, however, understanding quickly dawned, and I thought, "what a cool idea, what a good idea!"
If your developers are not learning, they're doing you a disservice and them selves a disservice. Soon enough, techniques that are "advanced" now will become more common, and your developers won't be up to speed, either for you or for their next jobs.
Agreed. A mind-blowing book, it will challenge your ideas about how to code.
It's about more than just C++ templates; although its use of templates is revolutionary, the more general and important message of the book is about designing small, re-usable pieces of code that interact gracefully with each other (and to the extent possible, interact at compile-time rather than run-time). These ideas can, in theory, be applied to any langauge that supports class typing; in practice I've used in in pre-generics Java to a small (and non-revolutionary) extent.
If you program in any significant way in C++, you owe it to yourself to get the book, if for no other reason than to re-experience that sense of wonder you felt when you compiled your first program.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - "The Honeymooners" actor Art Carney was found dead in his Connecticut home this Sunday. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
usually these online sites are only maintained for a month or two, and they offer limited material -- maybe some wallpapers, a few shots of the band, and, if you're lucky, a downloadable live track or work-in-progress.
I'd love some live shots of Bach, and a chance to hear Mozart's works-in-progress!
Oh, wait, nevermind. They'll probably limit this to boy bands, right.
2) relying on Windows Media Player (ugliest nastiest application ever)
No, no, no. I think the consensus has long since been established that RealPlayer is the nastiest application ever ("New! Improved! With 15 additional ways to phone home!).
And MusicMatch is the ugliest. ("Now in hot pink! With 47 overlapping windows, none of which are rectangular! All of which are 'Always On Top'")
You assume that Sony is stupid. They know that you can get around this by going to the first session of the disk and ripping (see the quote). However to the bulk majority of people the DRMed files are acceptable.
You've almost hit I what I suspect is Sony's plan.
They know that, aside from piracy, there are good reasons to have copies of music on a PC, notably ease and convenience of use -- with music on a PC, I don't have to change CDs, I can play tracks from multiple CDs in one playlist, etc.
By including a version of the music that's already in a convenient PC format, they hope that users won't even bother to rip the normal tracks (and maybe they'll have made that harder to do, to, by including munged tables of contents or whatever).
Once enough people have swallowed this new format -- say in five years --, they'll point out that for many users, the audio-CD portion is redundant. So they'll come out with "Bonus" CDs that contain twice as much music, for the same cost as a regular CD, omitting the audio tracks in order to have the space for the bonus DRM'd tracks.
Once that's been swallowed, they'll start producing "CD"s that contain only DRM'd tracks, probably validated by phoning home to a central server, possibly with mandatory registration.
At that point, Sony will hope they've stamped out file sharng, and will raise their prices.
Now I don't do file sharing (at this point I used to plug emusic.com, but no longer), but I do want to ensure that ay music I buy is convertable to MP3, as I have hardware that only plays MP3s, andvcan't play DRM'd music.
For the moment, Sony's hybrid CDs will probably work for me, but if they go to full DRM, dropping audio tracks, it will be a problem for me. (And, no, I won't upgrade to a DRM capable player, as I assume that it wouldn't be open source.)
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Children will not respect you for letting you have free reign on the internet. Wake up. 15 year-olds need rules and guidance just as much as the rest of us.
So John Ashcroft's still watching you through your webcam, I guess?
Yep. My house. My network. My rules. Period.
I control the router. I read the logs. When they turn 18, if they are still living in my house, we'll discuss it. Until then, what I say goes.
But if you control them until they're 18, when will they get the experience controlling themselves?
I think part of the point of adolescence is to allow them more self-control, so that they can gain practice in making their judgments for themselves, while you're still close enough at hand to be a safety net when they (inevitably) dare too much and make a misstep.
You probably taught your kids to ride bicycles. I doubt you "taught" them to ride by sitting them in a side-car attached to your bike until age 12, at which time you plopped them on a 10-speed without training wheels, expecting them not to fall just because they'd watched you balance, steer, and pedal for the last 12 years.
No, like any good parent, you got them a 3-speed, put training wheels on it, and ran behind the bike, holding the seat to balance it. And eventually they were pedaling too fast for you to hold one, so you watched them whiz away, waiting for that first skinned knee to bandage.
Rather than grep through the network logs, spend the time explaining to your kids why the values you live by are useful and effective values for them to live by. Talk about the mistakes you made, in hopes they'll more quickly recognize their future mistakes. Let your kids know that now is their chance to make mistakes, and now is when they still have the chance to come to their dad and ask for his help in correcting those mistakes.
I lost her Sept 16th. after 10years. It seams like yesterday. I wish she could answer her emails. I sent her a email after she passed.
My condolences, brother.
A moving post and a good point you make: all those people in cyberspace wondering why she isn't coming by any more, hoping they'll see her, wondering if it's somehting thye said.
I'm sorry for you loss.
The job pays 17.00 to 19.00 Canadian dollars per hour.
That's 13.05 to 14.58 US dollars per hour.
(No this is not a cheap anti-Canada joke. Currency conversion is taken from here, the first Google lsiting for currency conversion.
I can just see the people that say the moon landings were fake now... "Those images of Jupiter can't be real. There aren't any stars in the background!"
This image of Jupiter is an obvious fake. There's no monolith full of stars in the foreground.
I want to be safe, however, and would like to find a headset for cell phones
Let's be clear. Part of the danger of using a cell phone while driving is the distraction caused by having to juggle the phone, having to look down at it to dial, and having to take at least one hand off the steering wheel to hold it.
Getting a hands-free headset will mostly remove these distractions.
But the majority of the distraction is caused by having the conversation in the first place. That the degree of distraction is similar to that caused by talking to someone physically in the car is often offered as a justification of using the phone while driving, but even if both equal distractions, the cell phone conversation is an additional and unnecessary distraction.
So don't fool yourself: headset or not, you'll be distracted, and you'll be driving less safely. Drive this way once or twice, and your number probably won't come up. Do it every morning, five mornings a week, 50 weeks a years, and eventually your number -- or the number of some kid darting across the road on his way to school -- will come up.
A blown fuse would from then on be read as a zero, while an unblown one that lets current pass through is read as a one."
I put the wrong battery in my player, and now all my violin sonatas are Heavy Metal songs.
Then I tried a different batery and now all my Heavy Metal sounds like John Cage's 4'33".
Yes, a good sized collection of CD's tend to take up some space, but people like to display their CD collection, and it is harder to lose a CD than a small memory stick (I have already lost one)
Surely the RIAA will anticipate this, and so allow buyers to make backup copies of the media.
That way the loss of a finger-nail sized copy won't require plunking down another $16.99 for a replacement copy.
Surely the RIAA has anticipated... oh. I mean, figured inevitable loss by customers into their expected profits.
Is it just me or does this look like Rosie's great grandmother?
As long as it doesn't look like Rosie O'Donnell.
Funny you should mention elephants. The first thing I thought of when I saw this article was "time to queue the Barnum and Bailey music".
;)
I was thinking John Philip Sousa's Liberty Bell March, better known as the theme music to Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Each to his own.
If it was extortion, why did GameSpy send a cease and desist couched in terms of the DMCA?
Why not just call in the FBI, explain they're being extorted, go from there. Extortion's not only well understood, it's more respected in the community, and less controversial, than DMCA attacks. And probably extraditable (although I can't find the text of our extradition trety with italy at the state.gov web site).
First post!
I still win, with a Singapore Police style pre-emptive first post.
Becaues I knew someone would try for it.
There are other things going on that demand one's attention and you just can't fight every battle that comes into your life.
True enough. But if you've got the time to complain about GameSpy, take the time to complain to GameSpy.
Or if you had the time to respond to my post....
patented in 2001 by AltaVista
If AltaVista patented it, does BotBlock license the patent? Or will this service be rather short-lived?
Thanks. I used it to tell GameSpy that I found their actions reprehensible.
To everyone else reading this:
"A displacement of one millimeter on the ground can cause a displacement of 100 meters in the ionosphere,"
So presumably the same technique can be used to detect stealthed underground nuclear bomb tests as well.
Next question: do arrays of GPS devices exist in India, Pkistan, and China? If not, could they be put in place easily and stealthily, as by airdrops of a number of small GPS receivers designed to transmit results to another sattelite?
However, I disagree on the non-obviousness and generally oppose any techniques that are not obvious to developers.
Excepting the tiny share of geniuses, most things are non-obvious to most persons, at first. I suspect, for instance, that I was surprised when I was first told that objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same rate.
The use of classes, and inheiritance to specialize code was "non-obvious" to me when I first encountered it. After reading about it, however, understanding quickly dawned, and I thought, "what a cool idea, what a good idea!"
If your developers are not learning, they're doing you a disservice and them selves a disservice. Soon enough, techniques that are "advanced" now will become more common, and your developers won't be up to speed, either for you or for their next jobs.
get Andrei Alexandrescu's book Modern C++ Design
Agreed. A mind-blowing book, it will challenge your ideas about how to code.
It's about more than just C++ templates; although its use of templates is revolutionary, the more general and important message of the book is about designing small, re-usable pieces of code that interact gracefully with each other (and to the extent possible, interact at compile-time rather than run-time). These ideas can, in theory, be applied to any langauge that supports class typing; in practice I've used in in pre-generics Java to a small (and non-revolutionary) extent.
If you program in any significant way in C++, you owe it to yourself to get the book, if for no other reason than to re-experience that sense of wonder you felt when you compiled your first program.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - "The Honeymooners" actor Art Carney was found dead in his Connecticut home this Sunday. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Corporate America is always honest!
I keep trying to post this comment, but everytime I hit "Submit", I get an ad for Belkin's Parental Notification.
usually these online sites are only maintained for a month or two, and they offer limited material -- maybe some wallpapers, a few shots of the band, and, if you're lucky, a downloadable live track or work-in-progress.
I'd love some live shots of Bach, and a chance to hear Mozart's works-in-progress!
Oh, wait, nevermind. They'll probably limit this to boy bands, right.
2) relying on Windows Media Player (ugliest nastiest application ever)
No, no, no. I think the consensus has long since been established that RealPlayer is the nastiest application ever ("New! Improved! With 15 additional ways to phone home!).
And MusicMatch is the ugliest. ("Now in hot pink! With 47 overlapping windows, none of which are rectangular! All of which are 'Always On Top'")
So, what's gonna crack it this time? .... Rubbing a small kitten on the disc?
Not gonna work, dude. Slashdotters have already killed so many kittens.
You assume that Sony is stupid. They know that you can get around this by going to the first session of the disk and ripping (see the quote). However to the bulk majority of people the DRMed files are acceptable.
You've almost hit I what I suspect is Sony's plan.
They know that, aside from piracy, there are good reasons to have copies of music on a PC, notably ease and convenience of use -- with music on a PC, I don't have to change CDs, I can play tracks from multiple CDs in one playlist, etc.
By including a version of the music that's already in a convenient PC format, they hope that users won't even bother to rip the normal tracks (and maybe they'll have made that harder to do, to, by including munged tables of contents or whatever).
Once enough people have swallowed this new format -- say in five years --, they'll point out that for many users, the audio-CD portion is redundant. So they'll come out with "Bonus" CDs that contain twice as much music, for the same cost as a regular CD, omitting the audio tracks in order to have the space for the bonus DRM'd tracks.
Once that's been swallowed, they'll start producing "CD"s that contain only DRM'd tracks, probably validated by phoning home to a central server, possibly with mandatory registration.
At that point, Sony will hope they've stamped out file sharng, and will raise their prices.
Now I don't do file sharing (at this point I used to plug emusic.com, but no longer), but I do want to ensure that ay music I buy is convertable to MP3, as I have hardware that only plays MP3s, andvcan't play DRM'd music.
For the moment, Sony's hybrid CDs will probably work for me, but if they go to full DRM, dropping audio tracks, it will be a problem for me. (And, no, I won't upgrade to a DRM capable player, as I assume that it wouldn't be open source.)
[Arnold Schwarzenegger joke:] 100% not funny.
So the rumors are true! There is at least one Republican on Slashdot!
Take that, you stereotypers of Slashdot!