This is not related just to the electronic age. If anyone has ever written a letter to you with some criticism (e.g. parental letter) It is usually a far more cutting communication than person to person. Phone communication is somewhere in the middle.
I once had a work associate that I communicated with email (at first) almost exclusively. His notes were condescending, pontificating, degrading... without apparent purpose. He was somewhat better on the phone. Eventually when I dealt with him in person he was somewhat reasonable.
I do a lot of prototyping and testing out of scenarios with virtual machines. (40+ iterations for servers and client) Not all are complete builds as I do a lot of cloning. If you fire up a virtual machine that hasn't been in use for a while, you may need to spend time with security updates. Also if you didn't place or adequately configure virus protection and a firewall in an original clone you may end up with a number of machines with poor security.
On the other hand cleaning up viruses is easy with my scenario, I just delete a current clone and go back to one not infected. (Assuming the virus is readily identifiable.
a carbon-rich black layer commonly referred to as a black mat, with a basal age of approximately 12.9 ka,... identified at over 50 sites across North America"
I think you are confusing data collection with data mining. Mining is just perusing available resources and making correlations, associations, and posssibly conclusions that others do not necessarily come up with. Data Collection would be where you actively seek to get the data from. If you are collecting information that is supposedly private, such as financial, medical, etc.. (without the consent of the individual) then the concerns arise.
Data mining is just use of an existing set(s) of data.
The market place and internet space to much extent is a public area. Privacy is not a good assumption to make. I think we're pretty much at the bottom of the slippery slope you mention as far as Capitalism is concerned.
I'm not sure why there is such a concern over data mining. As long as the mining is done from public sources then I see no problem. If the mining is from medical records, government records that are sealed or presumed to be private, or some other protected database then is becomes an issue.
It's definitely a Caveat Emptor basis. Just like Wikipedia (mostly) and just like most other dreck on the Internet. There is not right to reply the user's, students in this case, need to be intelligent enough to filter out that there are troll comments against professors just as there are value added comments professors. This is just another microcosm about what is bad and good about the internet, you get everything.
These sites should be encouraged, and not prohibited. My daughters in college have found professor rating sites invaluable in avoiding 'losers' that are institutionalized into the system. There may be derogatory comments about some but the averaging of many comments provides more enlightenment to potential students than is does danger to the professors. Of course many of the 'losers' won't want to be discovered. I wish I had resources like this back when I was in school.
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This is not related just to the electronic age. If anyone has ever written a letter to you with some criticism (e.g. parental letter) It is usually a far more cutting communication than person to person. Phone communication is somewhere in the middle. I once had a work associate that I communicated with email (at first) almost exclusively. His notes were condescending, pontificating, degrading... without apparent purpose. He was somewhat better on the phone. Eventually when I dealt with him in person he was somewhat reasonable.
...and of course the government would take responsibility for the friggin' additional wear the grooves would have on the tires.
Boy those Chinese must've been surprised when they inadvertantly surfaced and were completely surrounded by potentially 'enemy' ships.
Well why stop just there?
Phoogle would be a big success.
I do a lot of prototyping and testing out of scenarios with virtual machines. (40+ iterations for servers and client) Not all are complete builds as I do a lot of cloning. If you fire up a virtual machine that hasn't been in use for a while, you may need to spend time with security updates. Also if you didn't place or adequately configure virus protection and a firewall in an original clone you may end up with a number of machines with poor security. On the other hand cleaning up viruses is easy with my scenario, I just delete a current clone and go back to one not infected. (Assuming the virus is readily identifiable.
That's stupid. If enough people vote "none of the above", then what do you get?
The answer is just like a slashdot poll -- CowboyNeil --
that comes to mind isn't whether or not to sell your vote for $95, its how many time can you sell it for $95
... a short story.
are NOT belong to us
Ya gotta do something while waiting for Vista to respond.
(Yea its flamebait, get over it.)
So you don't really understand what I'm saying when I say.
Where did you get the form from
Does it support voice commands
Hand... jerk it off... OUCH!!!
Great, and we thought people on Cell Phones were a big enough problem on the highway.
BSOD^9
... and I thought they were just gonna send Paris Hilton to jail.
F*cking for Virginity
a carbon-rich black layer commonly referred to as a black mat, with a basal age of approximately 12.9 ka, ... identified at over 50 sites across North America"
...now That's a carbon footprint
With the correct punctuation the tables are turned.
Teachers Fake. Gunmen Attack!
I think you are confusing data collection with data mining. Mining is just perusing available resources and making correlations, associations, and posssibly conclusions that others do not necessarily come up with. Data Collection would be where you actively seek to get the data from. If you are collecting information that is supposedly private, such as financial, medical, etc.. (without the consent of the individual) then the concerns arise. Data mining is just use of an existing set(s) of data. The market place and internet space to much extent is a public area. Privacy is not a good assumption to make. I think we're pretty much at the bottom of the slippery slope you mention as far as Capitalism is concerned.
I'm not sure why there is such a concern over data mining. As long as the mining is done from public sources then I see no problem. If the mining is from medical records, government records that are sealed or presumed to be private, or some other protected database then is becomes an issue.
...but its all used for the common good. (meaning: never used against me)
I've used it as a guest on 5.5.3 but the option was labeled 'experimental' Still seemed to work just fine.
It's definitely a Caveat Emptor basis. Just like Wikipedia (mostly) and just like most other dreck on the Internet. There is not right to reply the user's, students in this case, need to be intelligent enough to filter out that there are troll comments against professors just as there are value added comments professors. This is just another microcosm about what is bad and good about the internet, you get everything.
These sites should be encouraged, and not prohibited. My daughters in college have found professor rating sites invaluable in avoiding 'losers' that are institutionalized into the system. There may be derogatory comments about some but the averaging of many comments provides more enlightenment to potential students than is does danger to the professors. Of course many of the 'losers' won't want to be discovered. I wish I had resources like this back when I was in school.