Asking is not rude... I think the method to the question was. PC is not the answer (and I hate it.) but a little TACT goes a long way. But I'll answere anyway.
Yes, My wife is the carrier of some type of defect. We've had some genetic tests done, and although the physical anomalies match a few syndromes, none match 100% and there has been NO genetic match that the've found. The closet thing is Saethre-Chotzen Syndrome, but again... No genetic match found yet, just physical characteristics.
My wife had it first, no other members of her family... and she has such minor characteristics, that it was never caught until after after our first child was born and we realized something was slightly different about our wonderful little boy. Being that there was a 50/50 our other children would be normal, we had one more. This time a girl. (Serenity, and named after the ship on firefly, look at previous slashdot post somewhere in the ethernet...) She also has the same S-C Syndrome, so at this point we've made a contious decisioun not to have any more children because of the emotional and physical stress on the children, ourselves, family, and the cruility of others, such as by uninformed pigs that ask questions so rudely and point, stare, and whisper.
(Maybe some parents should make the same decisions instead of blindly procreating because of the 10 second act that may produce offspring of limited tact such as those of the original questioneer.)
I'm open to people that ask, because EDUCATION is the key to fear. You cannot fear somthing you know and understand.
Anyways, S-C characteritics include Craniosynostosis where the sutures of the skull grow closed too soon. Because the brain's first 3 years of growth is made to push the plates of the skull apart during growth, closed sutures = no growth = preasure on the still growing brain = damage to brain or death. So the operation opens the sutures up, move the plates forward to provide growth.
And before you ask... My wife is an M.E , and both children are above their peers in development tracts. (early speaking, walking, intuitive, memory, etc..etc.. ) So I'll take my wife and children with their higher inteligence over any "normal" kids that spend most of their time plugged into TV.
With that being said, feel free to visit the family site:
Personally, I think years of waiting for the right material and special grinding is a waste of money... I could of pointed them in the right direction if they only had asked. Here, looking for YOUR OWN silicon sphere:
Suger based polymers... This is a statement that I've been told is in the screws and plates used to hold my son's head together. (He had a major surgery and my daughter just had the same this past wednesday.) Anyways, when I hear "Suger based polymers", I assumed pastic from sugar. Isn't "polymer" a fancy way of saying plastic? The side benifit for my children are that the screws/plates are then reabsorbed by the skull as it grows/heals.
So this Sugar/Plastic would A) reserve fuels and B) biodegrade better?
Dibs on a name, I call it Slastar or Slastic... (c) 2007, me.:)
Yes, it may have been a while, but this is NOT the first time someone has taken a picture of 3 people and embedded it as an easter egg. Once again, MS is following the crowd.
For those click weary, it is about the Tandy Color Computer 2, and the famous deveoplers picture. Now this was in the computer and you had to hold down certain keys, etc... but still it look very familiure to the "security" picture.
BTW, that small makes it an easter egg if you ask me... As the average person would not beable to look for that "SECURITY" check when purchasing the software. Really, nice try MS.. You've been egged, just accept the joke and move on.
For there to be a controlled demolition of the WTC buildings, there would have had to be a lapse of security while someone installed the demolition charges. What is remarkable is that George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of the company that would have had to be corrupted.
The only way to demolish the World Trade Center buildings was to have access to the building. Only the security company had the necessary access. Marvin P. Bush was connected to the security company.
And I thought I was a nut... If you really believe this, you got me beat...
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Holy crap! How much is your electricity? Around here it's $0.22/kwH.. My monthly electric bill is 10x the cost of a Tivo subscription, and that's after replacing practically everything (except the stove/oven which is inefficient by definition) with the latest energy efficient stuff!
Might I offer the following suggestion... Replace the Stove/oven with GAS.
Your laws of conservation eats energy just converting the gas->electric->Stove/Heat and you loose money. Save a little money and convert any heat producing items directly to gas to skip the middle conversion step. (Water Heater - Gas, Stove - Gas, Dryer - Gas) I guess a few exceptions to this would exist... I don't know of any Gas Toasters yet.:)
Of Course, with the Water Heater, it begs the whole tank vs. no tank argument... I'm torn: I have one friend that is thinking of going tankless and it sounds great.. another friend works on boilers, etc.. and said that the amount of heat to bring a tank @ Temp and maintain it, is less than needed when flash heating the water. (Really high temps needed to do the instant heat trick...) -- So I'm just stuck with my tank until it dies I guess and then hopefully cheap hydrogen will be out.:)
Holy crap! How much is your electricity? Around here it's $0.22/kwH.. My monthly electric bill is 10x the cost of a Tivo subscription, and that's after replacing practically everything (except the stove/oven which is inefficient by definition) with the latest energy efficient stuff!
Might I offer the following suggestion... Replace the Stove/oven with GAS. Your laws of conservation eats energy just converting the gas->electric->Stove/Heat and you loose money. Save a little money and convert any heat producing items directly to gas to skip the middle conversion step. (Water Heater - Gas, Stove - Gas, Dryer - Gas) I guess a few exceptions to this would exist... I don't know of any Gas Toasters yet.:)
Of Course, with the Water Heater, it begs the whole tank vs. no tank argument...
I'm torn:I have one friend that is thinking of going tankless and it sounds great.. another friend works on boilers, etc.. and said that the amount of heat to bring a tank @ Temp and maintain it, is less than needed when flash heating the water. (Really high temps needed to do the instant heat trick...) -- So I'm just stuck with my tank until it dies I guess and then hopefully cheap hydrogen will be out.:)
This is just a press release... I should release one that I'v put together a team of crack scientist to solve the transmutation of lead into gold... And watch the fringe investment backers start calling and asking how much to get on board...
If they were REALLY this close to this big of a milestone, then why did they secure 3.3 MILLION $$$ of investment... Nothing personal, But something like that should be 300+Million or some such. Or Maybe 2 Billion from China... etc.. etc.. Because the REAL economical & viable conversion of hydrogen to a solid and back, is the NEXT big step for ALL of our civilization(s). (yes, we lower crustations want in on it also...) THAT will make the next global market (transport/fuel/production/payment/support/mainten ance, etc..) that will make everything until now look like peanuts!
Continuting ideas: end war, space exploration, chemistry discoveries, cheap food, cleaner water (all that nasty hydrogen has finally been removed) etc..etc..etc..
For example, after a car bomb detonates, one would have the ability to play high-resolution data backward in time to follows the vehicle back to the source, and then use that knowledge to focus collection and gain additional information by organizing and searching through archived data.'"
What does this have to have a negative spin... Let them film us... They will see the truth that we all pick our noses at readlights, scratch asses getting out of cars, and fondle ourselves in the drive through... (at least thats what we saw on the tape with you...) Why does it have to be negative? If it brings down some car bombers or some such terror group, fine... If I'm not mistaken, isn't this how they did it after the subway/bus bombings in England.
Unless your up to no good, whats the problem?
No, this is not the "nothing to hide argument..." I hide lots of stuff in my HOUSE on MY property, not in a blowing up car...etc.
we know for sure we could reduce the effect by reducing human output of greenhouse gases (exactly how much we can reduce it by, is another question...).
Your Right... I say you lead the way... Start by commiting suicide to consume less, thus producing less GH gases... If it makes a measureable impact on the planet, I promise I'll follow shortly after.
BTW, IF we could get it soooo hot that everything dies (On purpose!) Eventually MAN will then die too... So eventually the planet will recreate life (from all the bacteri & stuff way down below the surface) that may lead to a new dominient species... so we are REALLY just contributing to the normal course of (if you believe in it) evolution. Right? so WHO GIVES a WHOOP if the Human race wipes itself out?
So, I don't get what the whole problem is about anyways.. It's just another normal cycle... We are only a blink in the time line. You or I will not and can not make a difference in the overall cycles of the planet. I think there is a MUCH GREATER chance that the 1,313,973,713 people in china (1.3 BILLION) will make MORE of an impact than the 298,444,215 People in the US (300 MILLION with "undocumented" immigrants) BUT everyone seems to jump on our backs first...
Ok, now a days, every car seems wired for iPod... Why not add that to the car features, a car crash data recorder (ok, shhh... We have it built in already... I know... I know...)
AND WHAT ABOUT MY FLYING CAR!!! I WANT MY FLYING CAR!!! With the iPod option!
No, I don't get ticked off that they put me in that position...
I have a 3 yr. boy... I tell him that he can't do something because I don't want him to be hurt. What does he do, usually the oposite of what I just told him. End result is time out or a light spanking. Did I get upset that he did it and put me in a position that I'm suddenly a bad parent? No, I'm upset because I'm trying to steer him on the correct path, but he just totally went the oposite just in spite of authority. ('Respect my authority!!!!' - Ob. South Park ref..)
This is what I see time and time in the HS... Kids that try and hack a system or use proxies not because they NEED to, just because they think it is cool that they can! Kinda told the following by a cocky one in a meeting one day with deans 'Damn the system, I'm smarter than you and all the teachers/administrators/parents, etc.. so I'm Gonna do as I damn well please and you can't stop me because if you close this one, tomorrow I'll have another.' (Not verbatium AND, this is exactly what the original post was for/intending... ) Also, they didn't care about the detention or restrictive rights on their user account, etc... I'd say that if I pushed for an expulsion they wouldn't care either. It's cool to buck the system, so they do. "who really cares..." is another I hear occasionally.
No, I don't push for expulsion... I'm not on a power trip. Usually I try and get them to understand it from our side... If they "Think" they are smarter than us... Great... Use it for good. If you see a bad sight that everyone is going to to rip on other students and threaten them with emails and prank calls, etc.. Tell us. We'll close it. Doesn't stop much at home, since parents don't seem to monitor their chilln's either. (How many little teens are flashing their boobs over Im and stuff... then it gets posted and everyone emails it around etc... Could of stopped if mom & dad really cared to monitor and teach their kids good behavior to begin with. Comeing to the deans/principal etc.. is too late. )
I'd go on, but it's getting late... But the short is... No, I'm not pissed because they put me "in my place" or "in a position" I'm pissed because they are tooo stupid and one day will screw up in the real world where they will get fired, or charges pressed against them.
Then you just have to get a REAL life and and enjoy REAL friends and "Get a grip" on your daily stresses in some other way...
I don't care if home is 1000 miles away... In the United States, as an employee of the school district, I am BOUND by LAW to make efforts to restrict access to certain material... unfortuanly it has to be with a shotgun approach because so many sites allow or make no efforts to police that material. AND if cerain congress acts get passed, even other social networking sites may be banned from schools... (search/. it was just a day or two ago for that article)
He also donated 5 computers bringing their total to 10 and pointed a pringles cantenna from keywest in their direction... Castro hasn't been seen for weeks because he's now surfing myspace...
Seriously, I think Cuba has more to worry about than computers and OS's...
Just study harder and leave the web for college...
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I work for a HS... We have filters and such because we are REQUIRED by law... Because somewhere along the line, the overwhelming majority of your parents thought it was a great idea to keep you safe from all the CRAP that is 99% of the internet.
It Pisses me off to no end when little snaughts think they are hot just because they can find a proxy and surf myspace or adult sites.
(Yes, after 7 years in HS and 5 yrs before in college support, I've grown cynical of the crap that is turned out as brains...)
MySpace and other social networking sights (yes, this is gonna be a blanket statement) are worthless and BAD for children. I don't care about the age 18 thing.... If you need "faceless" friends that bad, then purchase your own pipe at home and surf from there... but considering that we are ALL paying for the internet in schools (Universal Cost recovery Fee/tax on phone bills) then it is a waste of my time and the money of the tax payers for you to be using it to watch the latest viral video advertisment from coke or pepsi. (Product placement... watch for it...then ask how many of those vids are "REAL") Or looking for boobies on myspace or google images.
I admit that there are some legit uses for a proxy... like if you live in China or some country where access to books and information is banned by the gov, etc.. BUT, using it to bypass a school filter is NOT a legit reason.
The second reason the filter exists is because you should be LEARNING! Not learning how to hack/bypass things, but shit that matters.... This is one of the reasons (IMHO) why we rank so low on the global education scale... The internet should NOT be in cassrooms, Computers SHOULD NOT be in classrooms. Maybe a computer teacher with overhead and possibly smartboard, but nothing else... Have a few labs for the classes teaching computer software @ HS Level and a bank in the library... As it is now, 4/5 computers per room results = teacher that cant watch and guide the kids to use the internet in any responsible manner.
Get a life... Go HOME to get your vids/kicks and actually LEARN in school... When you get to college, you can waste YOUR parents money on MUDS and MOOS and I don't give a crap. (Ok, that gave away what I did in college...)
Most important, RESPECT the schools computers, we are just trying to do our job, and follow the rules that have been laid down by your parents! (And they supposedly care and love you...)
Then why should there be expected privacy on the internet?
They are not MY pipes being sifted though, they are the ISP's, and most ISP's have a TOS that details things your not supposed to do with WIDE range paramters... If your illigal activities are on the internet, isn't that the same as the "Information Super Highway"
The way I see it is that you are only secure as much as you make yourself. What does that mean? Simple, DONT commit to media (_ANY_) anything you would be considered damning evidence. ie, talk to people in person... Don't use Phones. Talk to people in Person... Don't MAIL or Email instructions, notes, ideas, etc.. Don't STORE evidence that could be used against you on a computer... or ANY media (CD, Tape, Paper, etc)
In Short.. Keep all your little dirty dark secrets inside your own little head. Until they can meathack you, you'll be safe.
How many folks hear the story of the man robbing the bank puts a note on the back of his pay stub, etc... Or a Pedo that filmed himself having sex with victems to enjoy later, then found by police... or the politician who says she was co-erced into something only to have ealier tape out later with an personal explanation of exactly how she thought about the process in details that catch her in a lie...
Ok, and I guess #1 should be don't post to slashdot... BTW, None of these thoughts presented here are private, and may be viewed by millions on the internet at any time.
The guns are for protection and to take shots at idiot know-it-alls that like to talk down to us based on where we may live and the fact that we may want to have a firearm in our possesion at all times......
Son, your not gonna win any supporters with your attitude. Also even us "backwater hick libertarians" can read and have access to 'Puters and the Net.
Hey, My kids could use a boost in the schools.... Schools are not buying them laptops, why can't I purchase this as a parent for my kids to use? Sure, I don't need crank generators and such, but the pricepoint would help a lot of under privilaged neighborhood schools in even the USA.
Oh, is that a dirty little secret that folks want everyone to get better chances, but not the kids in the USA schools, because USA & Other developed countries are already ahead of the pack sooooo much that we have to hold their kids back so the rest of the world can catch up?
I don't get it... If they made it freely available, Market laws would kick in, and eventually it would get cheaper and cheaper... This is for learning, not a nintendo.
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Asking is not rude... I think the method to the question was. PC is not the answer (and I hate it.) but a little TACT goes a long way. But I'll answere anyway.
Yes, My wife is the carrier of some type of defect. We've had some genetic tests done, and although the physical anomalies match a few syndromes, none match 100% and there has been NO genetic match that the've found. The closet thing is Saethre-Chotzen Syndrome, but again... No genetic match found yet, just physical characteristics.
Some Links:
http://www.faces-cranio.org/Disord/Saethre.htm
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saethre-Chotzen_synd
My wife had it first, no other members of her family... and she has such minor characteristics, that it was never caught until after after our first child was born and we realized something was slightly different about our wonderful little boy. Being that there was a 50/50 our other children would be normal, we had one more. This time a girl. (Serenity, and named after the ship on firefly, look at previous slashdot post somewhere in the ethernet...) She also has the same S-C Syndrome, so at this point we've made a contious decisioun not to have any more children because of the emotional and physical stress on the children, ourselves, family, and the cruility of others, such as by uninformed pigs that ask questions so rudely and point, stare, and whisper.
(Maybe some parents should make the same decisions instead of blindly procreating because of the 10 second act that may produce offspring of limited tact such as those of the original questioneer.)
I'm open to people that ask, because EDUCATION is the key to fear. You cannot fear somthing you know and understand.
Anyways, S-C characteritics include Craniosynostosis where the sutures of the skull grow closed too soon. Because the brain's first 3 years of growth is made to push the plates of the skull apart during growth, closed sutures = no growth = preasure on the still growing brain = damage to brain or death. So the operation opens the sutures up, move the plates forward to provide growth.
And before you ask... My wife is an M.E , and both children are above their peers in development tracts. (early speaking, walking, intuitive, memory, etc..etc.. ) So I'll take my wife and children with their higher inteligence over any "normal" kids that spend most of their time plugged into TV.
With that being said, feel free to visit the family site:
www.shimatzki.com
Personally, I think years of waiting for the right material and special grinding is a waste of money... I could of pointed them in the right direction if they only had asked. Here, looking for YOUR OWN silicon sphere:
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Siaz-SILICON-CRYSTAL-SPHERE-S
PS.. This is not my auction, I just KNEW it must exist on ebay if someone needed it.
oops, that is SUGAR, not sugER.. Sorry...
BUT.. Google give me this:
Wiki on Polymer:
"Well known examples of polymers include plastics and DNA."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer
And, SUGAR based polymers patented: United States Patent 5270421
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5270421.html
So, I would say... news?
Umm... Correct me please...
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Suger based polymers... This is a statement that I've been told is in the screws and plates used to hold my son's head together. (He had a major surgery and my daughter just had the same this past wednesday.) Anyways, when I hear "Suger based polymers", I assumed pastic from sugar. Isn't "polymer" a fancy way of saying plastic? The side benifit for my children are that the screws/plates are then reabsorbed by the skull as it grows/heals.
So this Sugar/Plastic would A) reserve fuels and B) biodegrade better?
Dibs on a name, I call it Slastar or Slastic... (c) 2007, me.
Yes, it may have been a while, but this is NOT the first time someone has taken a picture of 3 people and embedded it as an easter egg. Once again, MS is following the crowd.
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http://www.eeggs.com/items/26468.html
For those click weary, it is about the Tandy Color Computer 2, and the famous deveoplers picture. Now this was in the computer and you had to hold down certain keys, etc... but still it look very familiure to the "security" picture.
http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/picture
BTW, that small makes it an easter egg if you ask me... As the average person would not beable to look for that "SECURITY" check when purchasing the software. Really, nice try MS.. You've been egged, just accept the joke and move on.
kinda like Forest Gump, eh? :)
From the above mentioned site: futurepower.org
For there to be a controlled demolition of the WTC buildings, there would have had to be a lapse of security while someone installed the demolition charges. What is remarkable is that George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of the company that would have had to be corrupted.
The only way to demolish the World Trade Center buildings was to have access to the building. Only the security company had the necessary access. Marvin P. Bush was connected to the security company.
And I thought I was a nut... If you really believe this, you got me beat...
I'm sure they get their own just desserts from MS with the devil pact they signed....
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Holy crap! How much is your electricity? Around here it's $0.22/kwH.. My monthly electric bill is 10x the cost of a Tivo subscription, and that's after replacing practically everything (except the stove/oven which is inefficient by definition) with the latest energy efficient stuff!
Might I offer the following suggestion... Replace the Stove/oven with GAS.
Your laws of conservation eats energy just converting the gas->electric->Stove/Heat and you loose money. Save a little money and convert any heat producing items directly to gas to skip the middle conversion step. (Water Heater - Gas, Stove - Gas, Dryer - Gas) I guess a few exceptions to this would exist... I don't know of any Gas Toasters yet.
Of Course, with the Water Heater, it begs the whole tank vs. no tank argument... I'm torn:
I have one friend that is thinking of going tankless and it sounds great.. another friend works on boilers, etc.. and said that the amount of heat to bring a tank @ Temp and maintain it, is less than needed when flash heating the water. (Really high temps needed to do the instant heat trick...) -- So I'm just stuck with my tank until it dies I guess and then hopefully cheap hydrogen will be out.
Holy crap! How much is your electricity? Around here it's $0.22/kwH.. My monthly electric bill is 10x the cost of a Tivo subscription, and that's after replacing practically everything (except the stove/oven which is inefficient by definition) with the latest energy efficient stuff! Might I offer the following suggestion... Replace the Stove/oven with GAS. Your laws of conservation eats energy just converting the gas->electric->Stove/Heat and you loose money. Save a little money and convert any heat producing items directly to gas to skip the middle conversion step. (Water Heater - Gas, Stove - Gas, Dryer - Gas) I guess a few exceptions to this would exist... I don't know of any Gas Toasters yet. :)
Of Course, with the Water Heater, it begs the whole tank vs. no tank argument...
I'm torn:I have one friend that is thinking of going tankless and it sounds great.. another friend works on boilers, etc.. and said that the amount of heat to bring a tank @ Temp and maintain it, is less than needed when flash heating the water. (Really high temps needed to do the instant heat trick...) -- So I'm just stuck with my tank until it dies I guess and then hopefully cheap hydrogen will be out. :)
This is just a press release... I should release one that I'v put together a team of crack scientist to solve the transmutation of lead into gold... And watch the fringe investment backers start calling and asking how much to get on board...
n ance, etc..) that will make everything until now look like peanuts!
If they were REALLY this close to this big of a milestone, then why did they secure 3.3 MILLION $$$ of investment... Nothing personal, But something like that should be 300+Million or some such. Or Maybe 2 Billion from China... etc.. etc.. Because the REAL economical & viable conversion of hydrogen to a solid and back, is the NEXT big step for ALL of our civilization(s). (yes, we lower crustations want in on it also...) THAT will make the next global market (transport/fuel/production/payment/support/mainte
Continuting ideas: end war, space exploration, chemistry discoveries, cheap food, cleaner water (all that nasty hydrogen has finally been removed) etc..etc..etc..
I say "snake oil" on this one...
For example, after a car bomb detonates, one would have the ability to play high-resolution data backward in time to follows the vehicle back to the source, and then use that knowledge to focus collection and gain additional information by organizing and searching through archived data.'"
What does this have to have a negative spin... Let them film us... They will see the truth that we all pick our noses at readlights, scratch asses getting out of cars, and fondle ourselves in the drive through... (at least thats what we saw on the tape with you...) Why does it have to be negative? If it brings down some car bombers or some such terror group, fine... If I'm not mistaken, isn't this how they did it after the subway/bus bombings in England.
Unless your up to no good, whats the problem?
No, this is not the "nothing to hide argument..." I hide lots of stuff in my HOUSE on MY property, not in a blowing up car...etc.
we know for sure we could reduce the effect by reducing human output of greenhouse gases (exactly how much we can reduce it by, is another question...).
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Your Right... I say you lead the way... Start by commiting suicide to consume less, thus producing less GH gases... If it makes a measureable impact on the planet, I promise I'll follow shortly after.
BTW, IF we could get it soooo hot that everything dies (On purpose!) Eventually MAN will then die too... So eventually the planet will recreate life (from all the bacteri & stuff way down below the surface) that may lead to a new dominient species... so we are REALLY just contributing to the normal course of (if you believe in it) evolution. Right? so WHO GIVES a WHOOP if the Human race wipes itself out?
So, I don't get what the whole problem is about anyways.. It's just another normal cycle... We are only a blink in the time line. You or I will not and can not make a difference in the overall cycles of the planet. I think there is a MUCH GREATER chance that the 1,313,973,713 people in china (1.3 BILLION) will make MORE of an impact than the 298,444,215 People in the US (300 MILLION with "undocumented" immigrants) BUT everyone seems to jump on our backs first...
"Unlike developed countries, China and other developing nations that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change are not required to reduce their emissions of six greenhouse gases to below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. " - http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=r
*China -- Population: 1,313,973,713 (July 2006 est.) According to https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/pri
*United States -- Population: 298,444,215 (July 2006 est.) According to https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/pri
Ok, now a days, every car seems wired for iPod... Why not add that to the car features, a car crash data recorder (ok, shhh... We have it built in already... I know... I know...)
AND WHAT ABOUT MY FLYING CAR!!! I WANT MY FLYING CAR!!! With the iPod option!
I hate AC... :)
No, I don't get ticked off that they put me in that position...
I have a 3 yr. boy... I tell him that he can't do something because I don't want him to be hurt. What does he do, usually the oposite of what I just told him. End result is time out or a light spanking. Did I get upset that he did it and put me in a position that I'm suddenly a bad parent? No, I'm upset because I'm trying to steer him on the correct path, but he just totally went the oposite just in spite of authority. ('Respect my authority!!!!' - Ob. South Park ref..)
This is what I see time and time in the HS... Kids that try and hack a system or use proxies not because they NEED to, just because they think it is cool that they can! Kinda told the following by a cocky one in a meeting one day with deans 'Damn the system, I'm smarter than you and all the teachers/administrators/parents, etc.. so I'm Gonna do as I damn well please and you can't stop me because if you close this one, tomorrow I'll have another.' (Not verbatium AND, this is exactly what the original post was for/intending... ) Also, they didn't care about the detention or restrictive rights on their user account, etc... I'd say that if I pushed for an expulsion they wouldn't care either. It's cool to buck the system, so they do. "who really cares..." is another I hear occasionally.
No, I don't push for expulsion... I'm not on a power trip. Usually I try and get them to understand it from our side... If they "Think" they are smarter than us... Great... Use it for good. If you see a bad sight that everyone is going to to rip on other students and threaten them with emails and prank calls, etc.. Tell us. We'll close it. Doesn't stop much at home, since parents don't seem to monitor their chilln's either. (How many little teens are flashing their boobs over Im and stuff... then it gets posted and everyone emails it around etc... Could of stopped if mom & dad really cared to monitor and teach their kids good behavior to begin with. Comeing to the deans/principal etc.. is too late. )
I'd go on, but it's getting late... But the short is... No, I'm not pissed because they put me "in my place" or "in a position" I'm pissed because they are tooo stupid and one day will screw up in the real world where they will get fired, or charges pressed against them.
Then you just have to get a REAL life and and enjoy REAL friends and "Get a grip" on your daily stresses in some other way...
/. it was just a day or two ago for that article)
I don't care if home is 1000 miles away... In the United States, as an employee of the school district, I am BOUND by LAW to make efforts to restrict access to certain material... unfortuanly it has to be with a shotgun approach because so many sites allow or make no efforts to police that material. AND if cerain congress acts get passed, even other social networking sites may be banned from schools... (search
He also donated 5 computers bringing their total to 10 and pointed a pringles cantenna from keywest in their direction... Castro hasn't been seen for weeks because he's now surfing myspace...
Seriously, I think Cuba has more to worry about than computers and OS's...
I work for a HS... We have filters and such because we are REQUIRED by law... Because somewhere along the line, the overwhelming majority of your parents thought it was a great idea to keep you safe from all the CRAP that is 99% of the internet.
It Pisses me off to no end when little snaughts think they are hot just because they can find a proxy and surf myspace or adult sites.
(Yes, after 7 years in HS and 5 yrs before in college support, I've grown cynical of the crap that is turned out as brains...)
MySpace and other social networking sights (yes, this is gonna be a blanket statement) are worthless and BAD for children. I don't care about the age 18 thing.... If you need "faceless" friends that bad, then purchase your own pipe at home and surf from there... but considering that we are ALL paying for the internet in schools (Universal Cost recovery Fee/tax on phone bills) then it is a waste of my time and the money of the tax payers for you to be using it to watch the latest viral video advertisment from coke or pepsi. (Product placement... watch for it...then ask how many of those vids are "REAL") Or looking for boobies on myspace or google images.
I admit that there are some legit uses for a proxy... like if you live in China or some country where access to books and information is banned by the gov, etc.. BUT, using it to bypass a school filter is NOT a legit reason.
The second reason the filter exists is because you should be LEARNING! Not learning how to hack/bypass things, but shit that matters.... This is one of the reasons (IMHO) why we rank so low on the global education scale... The internet should NOT be in cassrooms, Computers SHOULD NOT be in classrooms. Maybe a computer teacher with overhead and possibly smartboard, but nothing else... Have a few labs for the classes teaching computer software @ HS Level and a bank in the library... As it is now, 4/5 computers per room results = teacher that cant watch and guide the kids to use the internet in any responsible manner.
Get a life... Go HOME to get your vids/kicks and actually LEARN in school... When you get to college, you can waste YOUR parents money on MUDS and MOOS and I don't give a crap. (Ok, that gave away what I did in college...)
Most important, RESPECT the schools computers, we are just trying to do our job, and follow the rules that have been laid down by your parents! (And they supposedly care and love you...)
Then why should there be expected privacy on the internet?
They are not MY pipes being sifted though, they are the ISP's, and most ISP's have a TOS that details things your not supposed to do with WIDE range paramters... If your illigal activities are on the internet, isn't that the same as the "Information Super Highway"
The way I see it is that you are only secure as much as you make yourself. What does that mean? Simple, DONT commit to media (_ANY_) anything you would be considered damning evidence. ie, talk to people in person... Don't use Phones. Talk to people in Person... Don't MAIL or Email instructions, notes, ideas, etc.. Don't STORE evidence that could be used against you on a computer... or ANY media (CD, Tape, Paper, etc)
In Short.. Keep all your little dirty dark secrets inside your own little head. Until they can meathack you, you'll be safe.
How many folks hear the story of the man robbing the bank puts a note on the back of his pay stub, etc... Or a Pedo that filmed himself having sex with victems to enjoy later, then found by police... or the politician who says she was co-erced into something only to have ealier tape out later with an personal explanation of exactly how she thought about the process in details that catch her in a lie...
Ok, and I guess #1 should be don't post to slashdot... BTW, None of these thoughts presented here are private, and may be viewed by millions on the internet at any time.
The guns are for protection and to take shots at idiot know-it-alls that like to talk down to us based on where we may live and the fact that we may want to have a firearm in our possesion at all times......
Son, your not gonna win any supporters with your attitude. Also even us "backwater hick libertarians" can read and have access to 'Puters and the Net.
Why Should Congress Pay? To Protect Lives?
When I bought our new Minivan (expanding family) I Had to pay for side impact air bags if I wanted extra protection.
Shouldn't the airlines pay for this? Not Congress enriching the 1 or 2 companies that might actually make this, with MY (OUR) Money!
Grumble... Grumble... Why not add the cost to ticket prices and make the money back?
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And I heard they were gonna EOL OS/2 also... ;)
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Of course that just took a while...
Hey, My kids could use a boost in the schools.... Schools are not buying them laptops, why can't I purchase this as a parent for my kids to use? Sure, I don't need crank generators and such, but the pricepoint would help a lot of under privilaged neighborhood schools in even the USA.
Oh, is that a dirty little secret that folks want everyone to get better chances, but not the kids in the USA schools, because USA & Other developed countries are already ahead of the pack sooooo much that we have to hold their kids back so the rest of the world can catch up?
I don't get it... If they made it freely available, Market laws would kick in, and eventually it would get cheaper and cheaper... This is for learning, not a nintendo.
Shut the F$@# UP! We are trying to meditate up here.
Signed
Your space neighbors
PS.. PLEASE Stop all broadcast of American Idol before we come and FORCE it off the air.
Thanks Colonel Mitchell! Keep up the good work!