I was once on an international flight in Europe and the gentleman next to me was reading Playboy. To his credit, he was pretty discreet about it though.
I think the person creating the application form was actually quite clever as two positive (for the company) things happen this way: 1) it weeds out the idiots who admit to taking illicit drugs with some regularity and 2) it makes it much easier to fire someone for lying on their application if the employer finds out they are on illicit drugs.
As for customs, when you enter the US there is a section that literally asks if you're a spy. I hope they're not catching too many idiots that way but it does create a situation where someone who is a spy can be convicted for lying to the government. I figure the same idea applies to declaring illegal porn.
Yes, probably. Slashdot is American so it stands to reason that there would be an American bias.
American Thanksgiving is next month and it's about as big as Christmas down there. After that, you have Black Friday. A Wal-Mart employee got trampled by frenzied deal-seekers on Black Friday in 2008 so I think it's safe to count it as part of the holiday rush. After that, Christmas is only a hop, skip and a jump away. Soon people will be filling the malls looking for cheap crap to put under their trees. Sears has already started mailing their catalogs so I'm not surprised spammers are already ramping things up too. Nothing says "merry Christmas" like v1agra, I guess.
Or maybe the common thief doesn't really know/care how to recognize the value of what they're stealing and they just grabbed what they figured they could sell fastest.
I always got the impression that they managed to sneak a bit of science in between the "hurr... explosion" moments, like when they said it wasn't possible to open the door of a sinking car until the pressure equalized or explained why golf balls have dimples.
It's not a science-filled show by any standard but it does have its moments and I believe they do a good job of getting the layperson at least somewhat interested in science.
I really don't think that people are so stupid that they will think that they are not tired because a car alarm hasn't gone off. Do you also think that people won't use brakes because they can stop by driving into a wall and have the airbags protect them?
If the car starts beeping to wake you up then you have long gone past the time that you should have stopped for a rest. While you might not actually close your eyes, extreme tiredness slows the reflexes to the same level as driving while intoxicated.
Most drivers feel they're above average (BBC article). While I don't think all people are as stupid as you describe, I have enough experience to believe that some are and those are the ones that worry me.
I ended up behind a car with no brake lights one day so I gave him plenty of extra room to compensate. Another car ended up between us and rear-ended him at a red light. My theory is that they were waiting for the back of the car in front of them to light up before hitting the brakes.
If you give someone who thinks they're able to operate at full capacity all the time an alarm that alerts them to take a rest odds are they probably won't listen anyway.
If she really wanted to make a killing on the sea shell market she shouldn't sell them right next to the spot people can pick them up for free. In that scenario, the only supporters of her business would be friends and family who don't have to heart to tell her how little chance there is for her to make a living on it. If anything, she should sell sea shells somewhere like New York, where the only crustaceans are on your plate.
Now that I know you were serious I know how to respond. I honestly don't know enough about Islam to comment in that area, but I do find the logic of your earlier comments somewhat lacking.
You cannot fail if you follow the taboo.
Sure you can. You can do everything right and still fail, sometimes you can even do everything wrong and still succeed. That is just part of life.
If you daughter does not put herself into a compromising position, she won't be in a compromising position with very rare exceptions of freaky accidents. If your son does not go to a drinking party, he won't get drunk at the drinking party.
This part made me dizzy, if someone doesn't do something they will not have done it? It reads like you've twisted what I said earlier into a doughnut. If someone's son doesn't go to a party he may not get drunk at the party, but that doesn't preclude the possibility of him getting drunk somewhere else. And the only way someone's daughter is going to learn not to put herself in "compromising positions" is if she's taught not to.
The solution is not on the level of parents, the solution is on the level of the society: curb freedoms that burn the fabric of it.
Tell me, how's that working out? And I don't just mean in Islam, I mean anywhere. From what I've seen, pushing undesirable activities to the fringes of society only removes the will to acknowledge the activity, not the activity itself.
Most spam is sent from compromised computers though, so it's unlikely the spammers would be the ones footing the bill. Unfortunately, I think educating the users will ultimately prove to be the best method to reduce spam.
In general I agree. But sending nude pictures of himself to some unknown party on the other end of a smartphone conversation is a kind of failure I am not willing to allow my son to make. The fact that you would disturbs me greatly.
I teach my kid to ride a bike safely. I still make him wear a helmet when he goes out. When he was younger, I taught him how to not burn himself on a hot kitchen stove. I still kept him out of the kitchen when I was cooking. You sound like a rather poor parent.
I've reread my comment and don't see where I said I would let my kids send naked pictures of themselves to anyone, I don't even see where I implied it. You say I sound like a poor parent but then again, you sound like a poor reader. You must have missed the first half of my post, the part where I said "being a good parent means not just teaching your kids how to act properly when they are unsupervised but also instilling the desire to do so".
I think kids should be allowed to make mistakes; that doesn't mean I'm going to let them drown in the pool or stick their hands under a running lawn mower to teach them a lesson but I do allow the little, non-permanent things like scrapes and bumps. To elaborate on my previous comment, I have literally seen parents my age put their kids in kneepads and elbow pads when they played in the driveway because they tripped and fell once. My kids had that problem exactly once too, and when they did I was there with a bandage to help them out and to talk about how to avoid that situation in the future.
Kids are only as smart as you treat them. That doesn't mean treating them like adults from the moment they're born, it means that you have to allow some mistakes to slip through the parental net so they can learn to be independent. The first time one of my kids went to a party with alcohol I only had to tell them not to end up in jail and not to get in the car of someone who's been drinking. At the end of the night, he called me for a ride home. I was, and still am, proud of his decisions that night because he looked out for himself on his own and he wasn't afraid to ask for my help when it was necessary.
I value my relationship with my kids because I'm their parent before I'm their friend and they still come to me for advice or for help.
Based on your comment and the title of TFS I think it's safe to assume kids are sexting in Spanish to get around a parental control application patented by Apple.
Good points. Being a good parent means not just teaching your kids how to act properly when they are unsupervised but also instilling the desire to do so.
The biggest problem I've seen with parents putting their kids' lives on rails is that when the kid is ever exposed to a new problem they have a hell of a time reasoning out the solution based on previous experience because they've never been allowed to fail.
You would have loved my old ISP's email server then. The minimum password length was three alphanumeric characters and the maximum was eight. You weren't even allowed to use spaces, which meant a toddler drooling on the keyboard had a pretty good chance of accidentally hacking your account.
My preferred solution is to use KeePass preotected with a semi-secure passphrase and a short keyfile I can reproduce from memory. It's reasonably secure and if one account gets hacked I don't have to worry about the rest.
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It's like a car analogy.
I was once on an international flight in Europe and the gentleman next to me was reading Playboy. To his credit, he was pretty discreet about it though.
I think the person creating the application form was actually quite clever as two positive (for the company) things happen this way: 1) it weeds out the idiots who admit to taking illicit drugs with some regularity and 2) it makes it much easier to fire someone for lying on their application if the employer finds out they are on illicit drugs.
As for customs, when you enter the US there is a section that literally asks if you're a spy. I hope they're not catching too many idiots that way but it does create a situation where someone who is a spy can be convicted for lying to the government. I figure the same idea applies to declaring illegal porn.
or is this an "American" holiday botnet story ?
Yes, probably. Slashdot is American so it stands to reason that there would be an American bias.
American Thanksgiving is next month and it's about as big as Christmas down there. After that, you have Black Friday. A Wal-Mart employee got trampled by frenzied deal-seekers on Black Friday in 2008 so I think it's safe to count it as part of the holiday rush. After that, Christmas is only a hop, skip and a jump away. Soon people will be filling the malls looking for cheap crap to put under their trees. Sears has already started mailing their catalogs so I'm not surprised spammers are already ramping things up too. Nothing says "merry Christmas" like v1agra, I guess.
Or maybe the common thief doesn't really know/care how to recognize the value of what they're stealing and they just grabbed what they figured they could sell fastest.
I always got the impression that they managed to sneak a bit of science in between the "hurr... explosion" moments, like when they said it wasn't possible to open the door of a sinking car until the pressure equalized or explained why golf balls have dimples.
It's not a science-filled show by any standard but it does have its moments and I believe they do a good job of getting the layperson at least somewhat interested in science.
Darn. You have to pronounce "Adobe" as "A-dob".
And a haiku traditionally contains a word or phrase that symbolizes or implies the season.
The new Reader X
Still bloated like a dead cow
More holes than swiss cheese
I do the same, though because I use a metal bottle security does occasionally want to see inside it.
I really don't think that people are so stupid that they will think that they are not tired because a car alarm hasn't gone off. Do you also think that people won't use brakes because they can stop by driving into a wall and have the airbags protect them?
If the car starts beeping to wake you up then you have long gone past the time that you should have stopped for a rest. While you might not actually close your eyes, extreme tiredness slows the reflexes to the same level as driving while intoxicated.
Most drivers feel they're above average (BBC article). While I don't think all people are as stupid as you describe, I have enough experience to believe that some are and those are the ones that worry me.
I ended up behind a car with no brake lights one day so I gave him plenty of extra room to compensate. Another car ended up between us and rear-ended him at a red light. My theory is that they were waiting for the back of the car in front of them to light up before hitting the brakes.
If you give someone who thinks they're able to operate at full capacity all the time an alarm that alerts them to take a rest odds are they probably won't listen anyway.
If she really wanted to make a killing on the sea shell market she shouldn't sell them right next to the spot people can pick them up for free. In that scenario, the only supporters of her business would be friends and family who don't have to heart to tell her how little chance there is for her to make a living on it. If anything, she should sell sea shells somewhere like New York, where the only crustaceans are on your plate.
This translates to "It can't currently be done cheaply".
So it's reasonably secure for day to day stuff then.
My vote's on kdawson as his intelligence is often wrong.
Did you wake up dead this morning? If you did, your kid might be a ninja.
You cannot fail if you follow the taboo.
Sure you can. You can do everything right and still fail, sometimes you can even do everything wrong and still succeed. That is just part of life.
If you daughter does not put herself into a compromising position, she won't be in a compromising position with very rare exceptions of freaky accidents. If your son does not go to a drinking party, he won't get drunk at the drinking party.
This part made me dizzy, if someone doesn't do something they will not have done it? It reads like you've twisted what I said earlier into a doughnut. If someone's son doesn't go to a party he may not get drunk at the party, but that doesn't preclude the possibility of him getting drunk somewhere else. And the only way someone's daughter is going to learn not to put herself in "compromising positions" is if she's taught not to.
The solution is not on the level of parents, the solution is on the level of the society: curb freedoms that burn the fabric of it.
Tell me, how's that working out? And I don't just mean in Islam, I mean anywhere. From what I've seen, pushing undesirable activities to the fringes of society only removes the will to acknowledge the activity, not the activity itself.
Then why do we pay for both incoming and outgoing texts while in Europe they only pay for outgoing texts? Same with calling.
Not just Europe, Canada too, for texts anyway. For all the places I've been, the US is the only one that charges for incoming texts.
Most spam is sent from compromised computers though, so it's unlikely the spammers would be the ones footing the bill. Unfortunately, I think educating the users will ultimately prove to be the best method to reduce spam.
Oh, so all we have to do to stop spam is make it illegal? ;)
In general I agree. But sending nude pictures of himself to some unknown party on the other end of a smartphone conversation is a kind of failure I am not willing to allow my son to make. The fact that you would disturbs me greatly.
I teach my kid to ride a bike safely. I still make him wear a helmet when he goes out. When he was younger, I taught him how to not burn himself on a hot kitchen stove. I still kept him out of the kitchen when I was cooking. You sound like a rather poor parent.
I've reread my comment and don't see where I said I would let my kids send naked pictures of themselves to anyone, I don't even see where I implied it. You say I sound like a poor parent but then again, you sound like a poor reader. You must have missed the first half of my post, the part where I said "being a good parent means not just teaching your kids how to act properly when they are unsupervised but also instilling the desire to do so".
I think kids should be allowed to make mistakes; that doesn't mean I'm going to let them drown in the pool or stick their hands under a running lawn mower to teach them a lesson but I do allow the little, non-permanent things like scrapes and bumps. To elaborate on my previous comment, I have literally seen parents my age put their kids in kneepads and elbow pads when they played in the driveway because they tripped and fell once. My kids had that problem exactly once too, and when they did I was there with a bandage to help them out and to talk about how to avoid that situation in the future.
Kids are only as smart as you treat them. That doesn't mean treating them like adults from the moment they're born, it means that you have to allow some mistakes to slip through the parental net so they can learn to be independent. The first time one of my kids went to a party with alcohol I only had to tell them not to end up in jail and not to get in the car of someone who's been drinking. At the end of the night, he called me for a ride home. I was, and still am, proud of his decisions that night because he looked out for himself on his own and he wasn't afraid to ask for my help when it was necessary.
I value my relationship with my kids because I'm their parent before I'm their friend and they still come to me for advice or for help.
Will it still intercept those messages when kids start inventing new words to have sexual meaning?
I propose the following new word: instead of a blowjob they could call it a SteveJob.
With punishment like that, it's no surprise there was very little crime on the Enterprise.
Based on your comment and the title of TFS I think it's safe to assume kids are sexting in Spanish to get around a parental control application patented by Apple.
Good points. Being a good parent means not just teaching your kids how to act properly when they are unsupervised but also instilling the desire to do so.
The biggest problem I've seen with parents putting their kids' lives on rails is that when the kid is ever exposed to a new problem they have a hell of a time reasoning out the solution based on previous experience because they've never been allowed to fail.
"Epic" is the only word I can use to describe this.
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS
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0.0.0.0 Games-digest.com
0.0.0.0 Mariogamesplay.com
0.0.0.0 Anywhere-games.com
0.0.0.0 Galacticflashgames.com
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FTFY.
You would have loved my old ISP's email server then. The minimum password length was three alphanumeric characters and the maximum was eight. You weren't even allowed to use spaces, which meant a toddler drooling on the keyboard had a pretty good chance of accidentally hacking your account.
My preferred solution is to use KeePass preotected with a semi-secure passphrase and a short keyfile I can reproduce from memory. It's reasonably secure and if one account gets hacked I don't have to worry about the rest.