I suspect he isn't shooting bound and prostate prisoners in the back of the head.
As is the case for most of these people. I don't particularly want to stand trial for abuses conducted on my behalf by my government or representatives thereof. Do you? If not, why would you condemn people who have even less choice of whom represents them to die for the abuses of those people who happen to control the land they live on?
I can agree with this, remove the label and have it divided into 'sexually explicit' and not and I have no issues with it, so long as that's the line.
Sadly, I suspect it's really an attempt to filter gay/lesbian relationships from reality, which I do have an issue with.
My kid is being taught in school at gr 2 that some families have 2 mommys and some have 2 daddys, and I have no problem with it. I wouldn't want her to use a search engine that was less open then her school.
If they really offend you just avoid reading/commenting on them.
This is exactly why I come back to/. year after year.
Some days I'm in the mood for a debate, and some days not. I can choose to click through to the comments if I'm in the mood , read the summary or (gasp) click through to TFA if I want the less-debated viewpoints.
And for debate, compared to some of the other places on the internet, I can't find a community better then/. Our standards for flame wars (e.g. the coin toss article) look like a kid's 7th birthday party by comparison... which isn't to say they're pretty, which you'd know if you have ever hosted a 7th birthday party! (hint: don't serve hotdogs unless you can stand the penis jokes)
Probably worried about our stategic reserve.
Seriously though, laugh if you want, but maple syrup is worth ~50x as much as oil per barrel. It's big business in Quebec and Vermont.
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This, for what its worth our strategy which seems to have worked so far was to spend time on a bunch of Parks & Rec classes on diverse things and see what clicked. If it clicked she got more of them. Since P&R courses were (relatively) cheap, we could afford to do the shotgun approach.
We ended up with a kid who loves electronics, piano and skiing.
Use software written in Russia, a VPN service in China and a ISP in the US, by the time they untangle the bureaucratic red tape to decrypt your packets, you'll be safely dead from old age!
I somewhat agree. I think the target age is off Agreed - my kid has been using them since she was 4. She's moved on to soldering now, but they were useful for getting her started. She could explain a short circuit at 4, which was cool.
My (Canadian for the record, but who cares) 7 yr old daughter has been soldering since she was 4, was taught by some nice folks at the Defcon Hardware Hacking Village. So there are kids out there doing this stuff still, but it requires a bit more intent on behalf of the parents and the kids, because it is a bit counter culture now.
It's getting better tho. Groups like the defcon r00tz group, kids-targeting maker groups, etc, are rolling back the crazy a bit. If anyone can tell me where to buy a real chemistry kit, that'd be awesome.
And yes, she's been burnt by a soldering iron. We didn't sue the folks teaching her, and they pointed out to her they'd done the same thing a bunch of times. No big deal for any of us.
No generalized health insurance - Good. Why should I, someone who takes good care of his body, fund the risky behaviours of others who don't? Although I agree that congenital disorders should be
Because you're a moral person? Or you believe in a religion that says you should care for those less fortunate then you? Or you are completely self-interest driven and are so full of yourself to be sure sure bad things can't happen to you but would prefer not to be mugged for money by someone who happens to be less lucky then you and is willing to risk his life to get enough cash to pay for his treatment?
Or because you believe in living longer. Here's a link to look at: http://theincidentaleconomist.... - spoiler alert: The US spends the most in health care and gets a life expectancy equivalent to Czechoslovakia.
I find it interesting that when I see people on the right talking about these sort of 'solutions' - which I'm not implying I support - I see language like "Use in this order: Voting Box, Soap Box, Ammo Box", yet I see this type of post in reaction when the left suggests using the same 'solution'.
Mehaps you're not finding the right women then? My wife and I have a running joke about me spending too much money at Tiffany's - then I buy her what she really wants, which is typically some piece of gaming PC hardware, or a Raspberry Pi, etc. Don't get me wrong, she loves the occasional nice piece of jewelry, but she'd kill me if I did something so impractical with our money as buy an overpriced piece of jewelry from Tiffany's. She'd rather get a shiny gaming laptop:)
More and more women and finding that they can stop behaving like cardboard cutouts from commercials. My wife pretended for years not to be a geek because she thought it was wrong for girls to be a geek. Go find one:)
I stopped wearing a watch ~20 years ago due to this fact. Started wearing one again last year because a smart watch reminds me subtly of my next appointment and helps with my tendency to get caught up in things and miss my next meeting. It's also more socially acceptable in my company to look at your watch during a conversation with someone then pull out your phone and if I can see that my boss is ending emails with more and more !'s in the subject line I can excuse myself from the conversation and put out whatever fire has cropped up while I was away form my desk.
The other thing that self driving vehicles will do is allow us to timeshift some of the traffic to when freeways aren't busy. E.g. freight can be moved to 10pm - 5am in urban areas, since we won't need to worry about the driver's exhaustion level. Fright would also be more efficient as driverless trucks don't need to take rest stops, and can be lighter because they don't require human amenities.
Also, if I had a driverless car, and a comfy seat, I'd not mind sleeping while my car drives me somewhere overnight and I could wake up wherever I needed to be in the morning.
I expect we'll see the first innovations in the transport industry.
Be that as it may, I find it hard to concieve of any situation in life where she will be at in a worse position for having:
a) Had an involved parent who spent time with her doing such things b) Be a more informed human being.
I cannot predict the future. The FSM knows that I couldn't have predicted mine when I was seven, but I do know I never did more poorly for being better informed.
This is why I'm glad I've been taking my 7 yr old daughter to defcon's kids track since she was 4. She's been taught the importance of online privacy by the type of folks who could perform this hack. She'd yell at me for buying her this type of gift.
Seriously, EFF co-sponsors the track each year and it's a good annual inoculation against the dumb messages society tries to pump into her head. She's way more sensible about such things then most adults, nevermind 7 yr olds, and we have a shared vocabulary for having discussions around privacy and maintaining control of her own personal information.
They are attempting to make changes in critical infrastructure/industries (think medicial, automotive, etc) which have not had the 'benefit' of learning the lessons yet that we have learned in the web-based IT world over the last 20 years. Let's face it, we can't afford to have a slammer type incident that involves cars or hospitals to open the local Microsoft-equivalent vendor's eyes and have them find religion around security. Some people literally can't survive that.
I'm with you here. And I'm with you despite understanding that a good portion of the community has social issues that might not be in their control. For some those people having a community say "Hey, there's a line here and you crossed it" may be the 'saving throw vs wisdom' (as I've seen it described) that allows them to hold up a mirror and start realizing that behaving in a manner that is perceived by others as being anti-social has consequences. Empathy can be a learned skill, but it's hard to learn, and unless you realize that your lack of empathy is a problem, you won't undertake the learning process.//* For those who might be reading this and seeing themselves in a mirror, the advice I'd give (speaking form some experience here) is to spend some time in the psych area of your library. After you're done with that, book on social engineering will allow you to translate what you have as theoretical knowledge into practical advice on how to behave in such a way as to get what you want, and as a side effect, behave in a manner more acceptable to the community to which you wish to belong. (Because shockingly people you tell to F* off are less likely to help you out). The end result will either be an empathetic understanding, or a pattern of behavior that is indistinguishable from empathy from the external viewpoint. Either way, you win, because you WILL find out that you were playing the social game on hard mode.*//
Slashdot Mirror
That is stage 2 of the study. They will be tallying the emails the Dean receives, that way they will have a larger sample size for their next paper.
Min
I suspect he isn't shooting bound and prostate prisoners in the back of the head.
As is the case for most of these people. I don't particularly want to stand trial for abuses conducted on my behalf by my government or representatives thereof. Do you? If not, why would you condemn people who have even less choice of whom represents them to die for the abuses of those people who happen to control the land they live on?
Min
I can agree with this, remove the label and have it divided into 'sexually explicit' and not and I have no issues with it, so long as that's the line.
Sadly, I suspect it's really an attempt to filter gay/lesbian relationships from reality, which I do have an issue with.
My kid is being taught in school at gr 2 that some families have 2 mommys and some have 2 daddys, and I have no problem with it. I wouldn't want her to use a search engine that was less open then her school.
Min
Here's the link to the application on steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/...
Min
If they really offend you just avoid reading/commenting on them.
This is exactly why I come back to /. year after year.
Some days I'm in the mood for a debate, and some days not. I can choose to click through to the comments if I'm in the mood , read the summary or (gasp) click through to TFA if I want the less-debated viewpoints.
And for debate, compared to some of the other places on the internet, I can't find a community better then /. Our standards for flame wars (e.g. the coin toss article) look like a kid's 7th birthday party by comparison... which isn't to say they're pretty, which you'd know if you have ever hosted a 7th birthday party! (hint: don't serve hotdogs unless you can stand the penis jokes)
Min
Probably worried about our stategic reserve. Seriously though, laugh if you want, but maple syrup is worth ~50x as much as oil per barrel. It's big business in Quebec and Vermont. Min
It seems like every thread we get someone whining about how much slashdot has gone down the tubes
But that's OK, because they've been doing that for the last 15 years. I view them as the /. historical preservation society.
Min
This, for what its worth our strategy which seems to have worked so far was to spend time on a bunch of Parks & Rec classes on diverse things and see what clicked. If it clicked she got more of them. Since P&R courses were (relatively) cheap, we could afford to do the shotgun approach.
We ended up with a kid who loves electronics, piano and skiing.
Min
Use software written in Russia, a VPN service in China and a ISP in the US, by the time they untangle the bureaucratic red tape to decrypt your packets, you'll be safely dead from old age!
Min
I somewhat agree. I think the target age is off
Agreed - my kid has been using them since she was 4. She's moved on to soldering now, but they were useful for getting her started. She could explain a short circuit at 4, which was cool.
Min
My (Canadian for the record, but who cares) 7 yr old daughter has been soldering since she was 4, was taught by some nice folks at the Defcon Hardware Hacking Village. So there are kids out there doing this stuff still, but it requires a bit more intent on behalf of the parents and the kids, because it is a bit counter culture now.
It's getting better tho. Groups like the defcon r00tz group, kids-targeting maker groups, etc, are rolling back the crazy a bit. If anyone can tell me where to buy a real chemistry kit, that'd be awesome.
And yes, she's been burnt by a soldering iron. We didn't sue the folks teaching her, and they pointed out to her they'd done the same thing a bunch of times. No big deal for any of us.
Min
No generalized health insurance - Good. Why should I, someone who takes good care of his body, fund the risky behaviours of others who don't? Although I agree that congenital disorders should be
Because you're a moral person?
Or you believe in a religion that says you should care for those less fortunate then you?
Or you are completely self-interest driven and are so full of yourself to be sure sure bad things can't happen to you but would prefer not to be mugged for money by someone who happens to be less lucky then you and is willing to risk his life to get enough cash to pay for his treatment?
Or because you believe in living longer. Here's a link to look at: http://theincidentaleconomist.... - spoiler alert: The US spends the most in health care and gets a life expectancy equivalent to Czechoslovakia.
One of those reasons?
Min
If this bothers you, check out http://originaltrilogy.com/top... - this is the version my kid will be watching :)
Min
I find it interesting that when I see people on the right talking about these sort of 'solutions' - which I'm not implying I support - I see language like "Use in this order: Voting Box, Soap Box, Ammo Box", yet I see this type of post in reaction when the left suggests using the same 'solution'.
Min
Yes because we do so well in private industry...
Here's a hint:
'No results found for "on time and budget sap delivery"' :)
Min
Yip, awesome isn't it?
Met my wife on a MUSH in the 1990s. Best TCP connection I ever made!
Min
Mehaps you're not finding the right women then? My wife and I have a running joke about me spending too much money at Tiffany's - then I buy her what she really wants, which is typically some piece of gaming PC hardware, or a Raspberry Pi, etc. Don't get me wrong, she loves the occasional nice piece of jewelry, but she'd kill me if I did something so impractical with our money as buy an overpriced piece of jewelry from Tiffany's. She'd rather get a shiny gaming laptop :)
More and more women and finding that they can stop behaving like cardboard cutouts from commercials. My wife pretended for years not to be a geek because she thought it was wrong for girls to be a geek. Go find one :)
Min
I stopped wearing a watch ~20 years ago due to this fact. Started wearing one again last year because a smart watch reminds me subtly of my next appointment and helps with my tendency to get caught up in things and miss my next meeting. It's also more socially acceptable in my company to look at your watch during a conversation with someone then pull out your phone and if I can see that my boss is ending emails with more and more !'s in the subject line I can excuse myself from the conversation and put out whatever fire has cropped up while I was away form my desk.
Min
The other thing that self driving vehicles will do is allow us to timeshift some of the traffic to when freeways aren't busy. E.g. freight can be moved to 10pm - 5am in urban areas, since we won't need to worry about the driver's exhaustion level. Fright would also be more efficient as driverless trucks don't need to take rest stops, and can be lighter because they don't require human amenities.
Also, if I had a driverless car, and a comfy seat, I'd not mind sleeping while my car drives me somewhere overnight and I could wake up wherever I needed to be in the morning.
I expect we'll see the first innovations in the transport industry.
Min
They laid the 'track' out with cones. When you have VR, you don't need walls :)
Min
Be that as it may, I find it hard to concieve of any situation in life where she will be at in a worse position for having:
a) Had an involved parent who spent time with her doing such things
b) Be a more informed human being.
I cannot predict the future. The FSM knows that I couldn't have predicted mine when I was seven, but I do know I never did more poorly for being better informed.
Min
This is why I'm glad I've been taking my 7 yr old daughter to defcon's kids track since she was 4. She's been taught the importance of online privacy by the type of folks who could perform this hack. She'd yell at me for buying her this type of gift.
Seriously, EFF co-sponsors the track each year and it's a good annual inoculation against the dumb messages society tries to pump into her head. She's way more sensible about such things then most adults, nevermind 7 yr olds, and we have a shared vocabulary for having discussions around privacy and maintaining control of her own personal information.
Min
My wife and I want to see you do a reddit AMA with all your answers in comic form too!
Tnx!
Min
If you're interested in helping with problems like this one, check out this group: https://www.iamthecavalry.org/
They are attempting to make changes in critical infrastructure/industries (think medicial, automotive, etc) which have not had the 'benefit' of learning the lessons yet that we have learned in the web-based IT world over the last 20 years. Let's face it, we can't afford to have a slammer type incident that involves cars or hospitals to open the local Microsoft-equivalent vendor's eyes and have them find religion around security. Some people literally can't survive that.
It's not glamorous, but it's important work.
Min
I'm with you here. And I'm with you despite understanding that a good portion of the community has social issues that might not be in their control. For some those people having a community say "Hey, there's a line here and you crossed it" may be the 'saving throw vs wisdom' (as I've seen it described) that allows them to hold up a mirror and start realizing that behaving in a manner that is perceived by others as being anti-social has consequences. Empathy can be a learned skill, but it's hard to learn, and unless you realize that your lack of empathy is a problem, you won't undertake the learning process. //* For those who might be reading this and seeing themselves in a mirror, the advice I'd give (speaking form some experience here) is to spend some time in the psych area of your library. After you're done with that, book on social engineering will allow you to translate what you have as theoretical knowledge into practical advice on how to behave in such a way as to get what you want, and as a side effect, behave in a manner more acceptable to the community to which you wish to belong. (Because shockingly people you tell to F* off are less likely to help you out). The end result will either be an empathetic understanding, or a pattern of behavior that is indistinguishable from empathy from the external viewpoint. Either way, you win, because you WILL find out that you were playing the social game on hard mode.*//
Min