Isn't an abortion a lot cheaper? I mean, with these genetic misfits being somehow a part of society, we could be doing some damage to our gene pool.
Erm, in case your remark isn't facetious: individuals with Down's Syndrome are typically sterile.
I'm not joking/flaming here but I always wondered about people with glasses - years ago they would have died of hunger unless someone took pity on them. They'd have struggled gathering food or making tools, etc.. Yet it seems those with poor eyesight amount to about 95% of the geek genepool. Look around at your next LUG meeting / Math lecture / whatever...
Shouldn't we be letting poor traits like bad eyesight die out if we wish for the race to survive?
That's why it is so important to consider the costs. Before you have sex consider - if we make a child how will I look after them and care for them for the next 18 years. If you can't or won't then don't have sexual intercourse and you won't have to.
If you really need to get your end off that bad there are other ways that will not end in conception of a child (you say blastocyte, I say prenatal child).
It is starting to look like mental retardation is a secondary symptom of DS, not a primary one. DS results in SPEECH disability, which messes up language development, which in turn screws up cognitive development.
And that kids is why you should get a PSP instead, yikes, who'd 've thunk!
There are a vast range of people with some type of autism.
We've had quite a few autistic kids (relative to what you'd expect) in our pottery studio and they generally have been happy and fun to be around but very hard work for their parents/carers!
Why do you think suicide is bad for the person who commits it, you don't appear to have a religion based/theistic morality yet your belief clearly presupposes some form of afterlife. Just curious.
What's worse, when you get old and possibly infirm, me telling you "your too old I'm going to kill you now" or me telling you "if you find you don't want to live anymore we can help you"?
Most folks with Downs I've known seem pretty content. I can't imagine what it would be like, but then I can't imagine what it must be like to be stupid (I mean really a complete imbecile) or to have no sense of morality. Just because I believe idiots (I mean real idiots, I'm not being pejorative) and sociopaths are lacking in some way doesn't mean I think we should mandate murdering them.
I remember recently that they accused Russians or Chinese or whatever for attacking their government sites and kind of they created some serious cyberforce after these attacks? Kind of makes me wonder. How is this possible to have some serious cyberforce and not able to shut botnet which originates from your own country. Smelling bullshit somewhere.
How do you fund your "Cyberforce"(!) if you don't spam other countries from your international botnet?
Assuming they're dot-coms being registered then can't ICANN simply not allow registration for domains fitting the algorithm except for to the director of a proven established and registered business (ie traceable and suable). If it really was a 32-digit hex then wouldn't they stand out like a sore thumb?
What they're more likely to go for is simply increasing the minimum charge for such domains to $1Million USD... business as usual.
But they're paying someone for the hosting. If that corp/person is irresponsible enough to let them use their servers then they should be shut down from upstream - cut off their electric if they won't comply.
Unnecessary car analogy: You may not trace the owner of an unlicensed vehicle but you can trace the driver and the vehicle. Fine/Lock-up the driver and impound the vehicle.
I was sure I read somewhere that they [the intelligence services] were registering domains ahead of them but they just didn't have the funds to keep doing this.
You don't need funds to register the domains. You simply lean on the domain registrar. Presumably the registrations follow an algorithm and bump to the next one if that domain doesn't issue proper ACKs or what-have-you.
Simply get the registrars to hold issuing those domains and put sniffers on to track the source of the bot command-request traffic... then nuke the zombies from orbit!...
I think it's contrast. I'm white (more pink really!) with dark hair and a beard meaning my face has a lot of contrast - babies (who I see a lot of through my work) seem to find me quite interesting.
The kid doesn't read or even understand what the different keys on the keyboard are at this age. A conventional computer won't teach him that.
?
Computers are, IMO, learning aids. But GCompris makes a regular computer many times better then some piece of plastic junk that they'll grow out of in a few months.
You can do simple color recognition, motor control tasks (wiggle the mouse, hit space, etc.), matching images, matching sounds... that's going down to 2+ age range easily. 3+ you can do letter recognition, sorting train carriages, mazes, more colours, number games.. my 3 year old likes to do the canal through the locks and give Tux a shower in the water-cycle game.
If you put the bar in reach they have no reason to stretch.
Thankfully he has NEVER eaten anything not fed by me or his mom (no off-floor eating, etc).
That you know of!
Isn't your story proof that it's not really as dangerous as you seem to be implying? You left your kid alone with a keyboard and something sharp they could pry the keys off with - they weren't hurt. Yet you some how think if someone else does that their kid will die a horrible and gruesome death? You need to properly supervise your kid, sure, but unless the keys are loose they're probably going to be fine.
Incidentally I couldn't find a single reference to this having ever happened.
interest in computers !== interest in using computers
Some GCompris games require you to hit a single key - not hard for a 2 year old (wasn't for mine anyway) - or to wiggle the mouse (like the one where you wipe a picture clean).
Block the ads with adblock or find other places.
When J first started off I'd sit with a keyboard in front of us and the real one beyond that, he couldn't reach mine to mess up my emails or what-have-you and he could bash away at the old one without causing any issues.
FWIW I find the computer a useful tool for discovering new things all the time. I played on hacker.org today and learnt a few things about bash scripts, tweaking audio, using maxima... and how amazing google is and how I'd spent too much time on the internet over the years.
J (3y5mo) and I saw Jupiter rising the other day when we left a friends house for home. I wasn't sure which planet it was. Couple of days later we had chance to look on stellarium - track back and see which planet it was. We also checked out the moon and he practised using the keyboard to zoom in/out. That led, the next day, to a talk about lunar phases ("moon shadows") and orbital motion.
NASA website has inspired him about space and rockets and ties in with nursery school study on light/dark.
He loves firefighter stuff and enjoys playing "rescue boats" in the playground as well as playing rescue helicopters online.
When they sang a song about volcanoes at nursery, we looked that afternoon at lava and eruptions using videos from youtube...
This is all time "surfing the web" but it's great time together, him on my lap, and fits into those few minutes while tea is in the oven or after lunch when you don't want to be running around, etc.. We can see many things we couldn't ever see without the benefit of a computer.
But balance is essential. Everyone needs to get out and enjoy the outdoors! When was the last time you played at the park!!
Wait until he can hold a pencil and write his name with it. Then consider getting him a computer.
I disagree. I barely ever write more than a few lines with a pen/pencil (handwritten receipts at work, shopping list, working out for maths problems,..). I write a lot more with a computer.
Funny thing, when J was 2 I sat and typed emails with him on my lap, he'd already started on Tuxpaint and moved on to Gcompris and so could find some letters, we'd typed his name together a couple of times, - he asked if he could "do email". I opened a new email and made the fonts huge and he typed his name. Funny wasn't until a few days after I realised he'd "written" his name...
I'm prepared to bet he'll write more on a computer - keyboard or screen - than he ever will on paper. Starting on the keyboard early seems natural to me.
Not like you can stop them, they do what they see.
To me "kids computers" are just cheap plastic crap that I can't afford and don't want to (no that's not a contradiction, we're poor). I am planning on starting him his own account now so I can lock him down. He can switch on comp and find vids on iPlayer or play on GCompris or some of online Lego games (Rescue Helicopter, etc.) but he's getting a bit experimental and I fear for my home folder!
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I've been attacked with a chisel and threatened with a knife and (separately) a brick. But then I wanted to live.
Fear has paralysed me at one time when I was rock climbing as a child. So I know something of the self-preservation instinct.
But I imagine is you can base-jump (I don't think I could) then doing it without a parachute if you wanted to die wouldn't be too hard.
Also there are gentler ways like gas (CO?) suffocation while you sleep, ...
ha ha ha, i lol-ed, *rolls eye*
Isn't an abortion a lot cheaper? I mean, with these genetic misfits being somehow a part of society, we could be doing some damage to our gene pool.
Erm, in case your remark isn't facetious: individuals with Down's Syndrome are typically sterile.
I'm not joking/flaming here but I always wondered about people with glasses - years ago they would have died of hunger unless someone took pity on them. They'd have struggled gathering food or making tools, etc.. Yet it seems those with poor eyesight amount to about 95% of the geek genepool. Look around at your next LUG meeting / Math lecture / whatever ...
Shouldn't we be letting poor traits like bad eyesight die out if we wish for the race to survive?
That's why it is so important to consider the costs. Before you have sex consider - if we make a child how will I look after them and care for them for the next 18 years. If you can't or won't then don't have sexual intercourse and you won't have to.
If you really need to get your end off that bad there are other ways that will not end in conception of a child (you say blastocyte, I say prenatal child).
It is starting to look like mental retardation is a secondary symptom of DS, not a primary one. DS results in SPEECH disability, which messes up language development, which in turn screws up cognitive development.
And that kids is why you should get a PSP instead, yikes, who'd 've thunk!
Well they will look like you so ... probably best to avoid conception. That may or may not be a problem, you're on slashdot so I'm guessing not.
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There are a vast range of people with some type of autism.
We've had quite a few autistic kids (relative to what you'd expect) in our pottery studio and they generally have been happy and fun to be around but very hard work for their parents/carers!
Why do you think suicide is bad for the person who commits it, you don't appear to have a religion based/theistic morality yet your belief clearly presupposes some form of afterlife. Just curious.
What's worse, when you get old and possibly infirm, me telling you "your too old I'm going to kill you now" or me telling you "if you find you don't want to live anymore we can help you"?
Most folks with Downs I've known seem pretty content. I can't imagine what it would be like, but then I can't imagine what it must be like to be stupid (I mean really a complete imbecile) or to have no sense of morality. Just because I believe idiots (I mean real idiots, I'm not being pejorative) and sociopaths are lacking in some way doesn't mean I think we should mandate murdering them.
I think it's probably pretty easy to kill yourself if that is your actual aim. Especially where handguns are readily available.
I suspect that /most/ people who attempt to kill themselves simply wish to be shown love and getting attention from people is the next best thing.
I remember recently that they accused Russians or Chinese or whatever for attacking their government sites and kind of they created some serious cyberforce after these attacks?
Kind of makes me wonder. How is this possible to have some serious cyberforce and not able to shut botnet which originates from your own country. Smelling bullshit somewhere.
How do you fund your "Cyberforce"(!) if you don't spam other countries from your international botnet?
Assuming they're dot-coms being registered then can't ICANN simply not allow registration for domains fitting the algorithm except for to the director of a proven established and registered business (ie traceable and suable). If it really was a 32-digit hex then wouldn't they stand out like a sore thumb?
What they're more likely to go for is simply increasing the minimum charge for such domains to $1Million USD ... business as usual.
But they're paying someone for the hosting. If that corp/person is irresponsible enough to let them use their servers then they should be shut down from upstream - cut off their electric if they won't comply.
Unnecessary car analogy: You may not trace the owner of an unlicensed vehicle but you can trace the driver and the vehicle. Fine/Lock-up the driver and impound the vehicle.
Yeah coz no-one here would take control of a hugely profitable bot-net given the chance???
I was sure I read somewhere that they [the intelligence services] were registering domains ahead of them but they just didn't have the funds to keep doing this.
You don't need funds to register the domains. You simply lean on the domain registrar. Presumably the registrations follow an algorithm and bump to the next one if that domain doesn't issue proper ACKs or what-have-you.
Simply get the registrars to hold issuing those domains and put sniffers on to track the source of the bot command-request traffic ... then nuke the zombies from orbit! ...
Profit.
[...] point him to one of the Linux sources - he
can build his binaries & install it.
Amateurs. I gave my kid a bag of sand, some sticks and a mathematical treatise on Turing Machines and told him to get on with it ...
Aren't there any linux geeks on Slashdot anymore:
0) old keyboard / mouse to bash around on (no I don't mean the CLI!) ...
1) tuxpaint
2) GCompris
3)
4) profit
We're at 2) so far.
Why does this person as a parent frighten me?
Because you don't know the slightest thing about him and you're scared of the unknown?
I think you're getting ahead of yourself. Two-year-olds are not old enough to understand how to treat things gently.
Nonsense. It depends whether they've been taught to do that.
Granted they may not always treat it gently, but they know how if they've been shown/taught.
[...] small children are most attracted to red.
I think it's contrast. I'm white (more pink really!) with dark hair and a beard meaning my face has a lot of contrast - babies (who I see a lot of through my work) seem to find me quite interesting.
But, yes, red I'd put next for sure.
The kid doesn't read or even understand what the different keys on the keyboard are at this age. A conventional computer won't teach him that.
?
Computers are, IMO, learning aids. But GCompris makes a regular computer many times better then some piece of plastic junk that they'll grow out of in a few months.
You can do simple color recognition, motor control tasks (wiggle the mouse, hit space, etc.), matching images, matching sounds ... that's going down to 2+ age range easily. 3+ you can do letter recognition, sorting train carriages, mazes, more colours, number games .. my 3 year old likes to do the canal through the locks and give Tux a shower in the water-cycle game.
If you put the bar in reach they have no reason to stretch.
Thankfully he has NEVER eaten anything not fed by me or his mom (no off-floor eating, etc).
That you know of!
Isn't your story proof that it's not really as dangerous as you seem to be implying? You left your kid alone with a keyboard and something sharp they could pry the keys off with - they weren't hurt. Yet you some how think if someone else does that their kid will die a horrible and gruesome death? You need to properly supervise your kid, sure, but unless the keys are loose they're probably going to be fine.
Incidentally I couldn't find a single reference to this having ever happened.
interest in computers !== interest in using computers
Some GCompris games require you to hit a single key - not hard for a 2 year old (wasn't for mine anyway) - or to wiggle the mouse (like the one where you wipe a picture clean).
Block the ads with adblock or find other places.
When J first started off I'd sit with a keyboard in front of us and the real one beyond that, he couldn't reach mine to mess up my emails or what-have-you and he could bash away at the old one without causing any issues.
FWIW I find the computer a useful tool for discovering new things all the time. I played on hacker.org today and learnt a few things about bash scripts, tweaking audio, using maxima ... and how amazing google is and how I'd spent too much time on the internet over the years.
J (3y5mo) and I saw Jupiter rising the other day when we left a friends house for home. I wasn't sure which planet it was. Couple of days later we had chance to look on stellarium - track back and see which planet it was. We also checked out the moon and he practised using the keyboard to zoom in/out. That led, the next day, to a talk about lunar phases ("moon shadows") and orbital motion.
NASA website has inspired him about space and rockets and ties in with nursery school study on light/dark.
He loves firefighter stuff and enjoys playing "rescue boats" in the playground as well as playing rescue helicopters online.
When they sang a song about volcanoes at nursery, we looked that afternoon at lava and eruptions using videos from youtube ...
This is all time "surfing the web" but it's great time together, him on my lap, and fits into those few minutes while tea is in the oven or after lunch when you don't want to be running around, etc.. We can see many things we couldn't ever see without the benefit of a computer.
But balance is essential. Everyone needs to get out and enjoy the outdoors! When was the last time you played at the park!!
Wait until he can hold a pencil and write his name with it. Then consider getting him a computer.
I disagree. I barely ever write more than a few lines with a pen/pencil (handwritten receipts at work, shopping list, working out for maths problems, ..). I write a lot more with a computer.
Funny thing, when J was 2 I sat and typed emails with him on my lap, he'd already started on Tuxpaint and moved on to Gcompris and so could find some letters, we'd typed his name together a couple of times, - he asked if he could "do email". I opened a new email and made the fonts huge and he typed his name. Funny wasn't until a few days after I realised he'd "written" his name ...
I'm prepared to bet he'll write more on a computer - keyboard or screen - than he ever will on paper. Starting on the keyboard early seems natural to me.
Not like you can stop them, they do what they see.
To me "kids computers" are just cheap plastic crap that I can't afford and don't want to (no that's not a contradiction, we're poor). I am planning on starting him his own account now so I can lock him down. He can switch on comp and find vids on iPlayer or play on GCompris or some of online Lego games (Rescue Helicopter, etc.) but he's getting a bit experimental and I fear for my home folder!
http://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/Products-Markets/ASA-clamps-down-on-anti-cellulite-ad-claims
ASA act on public complaints too.
The cosmetics companies are very careful with their ads it's always "the appearance of ..." and "women said ...".
If I give you £120 will you say "this product reduced the wrinkles I could see"?
They should sell bright lights to women as wrinkle removers.