What is really funny is you rant about movies not giving people anything in common but you finish with a somewhat vague reference to a Spielberg (of all people) movie.
Lieberman's bill, called CAMRA, would provide funding to investigate the cognitive, physical, and sociobehavioral impact of electronic media on child and adolescent development--everything from physical coordination, diet, and sleeping habits to attention span, peer relationships, and aggression levels. Television, motion pictures, DVDs, interactive video games, the Internet, and cell phones would all be fair game.
At least they are treating games on the same level as movies etc for a change instead of pretending there is some magical difference.
It is all the rage these days to attack a person's motives rather than their arguments. I wonder sometimes if it's due to the prevalence of postmodernism in the universities, where subjectivity (e.g., "whose truth?") reigns supreme.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
University of Wisconsin's Mac OS X Challenge. HABITcky writes "The University of Wisconsin Security Challenge has ended after 38 hours, intermittent DoS attacks, 4000 ssh login attempts, a bandwidth spike of 30 Mbps, and 6 million logged ipfw events. During this time there were 'no successful access attempts, nor any claims of a successful attempt.
I think it is woefully misleading to not mention that the challenge was ended early!
Is riding to work on a bicycle rather than going to the gym a reduction in lifestyle? If you don't want to ride your bike to work then yes.
Is eating a shared meal with your neighbours rather than eating in some fast food joint halfway across town a reduction in lifestyle? If you don't want to eat a shared meal with neaighbors then yes.
Is picking fruit from your own tree rather than buying from a supermarket a reductionin lifestyle? If you don't like eating the same kind of fruit every day then yes.
in fact our economy is based on debt and it would fail if we were to ever 'balance the budget' (which Clinton never did, he just showed numbers that proved that it would balance if spending continued the way it was going).
Uhh...isn't that exactly what you do when you make a budget?
From Dictionary.com: budget
1. An itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them: submitted the annual budget to Congress.
2. A systematic plan for the expenditure of a usually fixed resource, such as money or time, during a given period: A new car will not be part of our budget this year.
3. The total sum of money allocated for a particular purpose or period of time: a project with an annual budget of five million dollars.
This November, we have a new rule in place where no e-mail older than a year will be saved. It'll be purged from backups and everything. Interestingly enough, this is primarily being done for legal reasons, not technical.
One year retention policy, nice! The best part about most retention policies is that you get to write them yourself.
But this machine was not hacked from the outside just by being on the Internet. It was hacked from within, by someone who was allowed to have a local account on the box. That is a huge distinction.
So you concede the point that it was hacked. Hence the title was correct.
If these people have such sensitive data on their machines why the hell are they allowed to install any random software off the web onto them?? You can get "software" that does waaaaaaay more than just cache some of your files online, and you might not even know you installed it.
That says alot to me. The dehumanization part isn't there, but the ability to temporarily pause your natural response because you are relaxed with the concept of target to target movement is.
Maybe the targetting improvement is just a result of improved eye-hand coordination due to video games. That seems a much simpler explanation to me....
Anyway, you always have choices. Unlike M$, Apple doesn't try to force everyone along its line.
Uh huh, remind me again, which company sells an operating system that can run on any PC with the correct specs and which one artificially limits their OS to their own line.
You're not going to be modded down because you point out Apple is a monopoly. You are going to be modded down because you fail to understand that being a monopoly in and of itself is not a bad thing.
Exactly, the bad thing is leveraging your dominance in one market to grow another.
Buying Windows or a PC with Windows is _opt-in_ as well. What is your point?
Right now anyone in the world can lay out $10 and own a domain name. Anyone anywhere in the world. What happens when, say, Yemen comes into control of.ye?
I'm not disagreeing with your sentiments, but Jews have no problem with Gentiles not keeping Kosher.
And Christans turn the other cheek and Muslims embrace all religions with a book. This isn't meant to be flamebait, just pointing out that while the average religious person might be a very open minded individual there are still quite a few zealots out there.
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I agree with your points, it just thought it was pretty funny in an ironic sort of way...
What is really funny is you rant about movies not giving people anything in common but you finish with a somewhat vague reference to a Spielberg (of all people) movie.
Not to ruin your fun but:
Lieberman's two Republican cosponsors of the bill are senators Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Sam Brownback of Kansas.
And of course, don't forget who controls the Senate right now. Nothing will pass unless it is also supported across the aisle.
Well, I watch The Simpsons twice every weekday and have been doing so for the last 10 years probably. How much exposure is that?
Lieberman's bill, called CAMRA, would provide funding to investigate the cognitive, physical, and sociobehavioral impact of electronic media on child and adolescent development--everything from physical coordination, diet, and sleeping habits to attention span, peer relationships, and aggression levels. Television, motion pictures, DVDs, interactive video games, the Internet, and cell phones would all be fair game.
At least they are treating games on the same level as movies etc for a change instead of pretending there is some magical difference.
It is all the rage these days to attack a person's motives rather than their arguments. I wonder sometimes if it's due to the prevalence of postmodernism in the universities, where subjectivity (e.g., "whose truth?") reigns supreme.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
University of Wisconsin's Mac OS X Challenge. HABITcky writes "The University of Wisconsin Security Challenge has ended after 38 hours, intermittent DoS attacks, 4000 ssh login attempts, a bandwidth spike of 30 Mbps, and 6 million logged ipfw events. During this time there were 'no successful access attempts, nor any claims of a successful attempt.
I think it is woefully misleading to not mention that the challenge was ended early!
Is riding to work on a bicycle rather than going to the gym a reduction in lifestyle?
If you don't want to ride your bike to work then yes.
Is eating a shared meal with your neighbours rather than eating in some fast food joint halfway across town a reduction in lifestyle?
If you don't want to eat a shared meal with neaighbors then yes.
Is picking fruit from your own tree rather than buying from a supermarket a reductionin lifestyle?
If you don't like eating the same kind of fruit every day then yes.
See where I am going with this yet?
in fact our economy is based on debt and it would fail if we were to ever 'balance the budget' (which Clinton never did, he just showed numbers that proved that it would balance if spending continued the way it was going).
Uhh...isn't that exactly what you do when you make a budget?
From Dictionary.com:
budget
1. An itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them: submitted the annual budget to Congress.
2. A systematic plan for the expenditure of a usually fixed resource, such as money or time, during a given period: A new car will not be part of our budget this year.
3. The total sum of money allocated for a particular purpose or period of time: a project with an annual budget of five million dollars.
This November, we have a new rule in place where no e-mail older than a year will be saved. It'll be purged from backups and everything. Interestingly enough, this is primarily being done for legal reasons, not technical.
One year retention policy, nice! The best part about most retention policies is that you get to write them yourself.
Eventually, his and his wife's money was freed up.
Enough said.
But this machine was not hacked from the outside just by being on the Internet. It was hacked from within, by someone who was allowed to have a local account on the box. That is a huge distinction.
So you concede the point that it was hacked. Hence the title was correct.
If these people have such sensitive data on their machines why the hell are they allowed to install any random software off the web onto them?? You can get "software" that does waaaaaaay more than just cache some of your files online, and you might not even know you installed it.
That says alot to me. The dehumanization part isn't there, but the ability to temporarily pause your natural response because you are relaxed with the concept of target to target movement is.
Maybe the targetting improvement is just a result of improved eye-hand coordination due to video games. That seems a much simpler explanation to me....
Good to see the fruits of this administration's budget "increase."
Anyway, you always have choices. Unlike M$, Apple doesn't try to force everyone along its line.
Uh huh, remind me again, which company sells an operating system that can run on any PC with the correct specs and which one artificially limits their OS to their own line.
You're not going to be modded down because you point out Apple is a monopoly. You are going to be modded down because you fail to understand that being a monopoly in and of itself is not a bad thing.
Exactly, the bad thing is leveraging your dominance in one market to grow another.
Buying Windows or a PC with Windows is _opt-in_ as well. What is your point?
You people who pretend to care about privacy should look at your tax forms some time. Do you support a repeal of the income tax for privacy reasons?
Giving private information to the Federal Govt. is a little bit different than giving it to a local political party.
Right now anyone in the world can lay out $10 and own a domain name. Anyone anywhere in the world. What happens when, say, Yemen comes into control of .ye?
.com, .net or .us instead?
Dissidents get a
Seriously, I dislike sports, but that robot basketball thing sounds kind of fun!
Try googling for this Mark Williams guy. This is like complaining that a bunch of Liberals didn't come out to a rally thrown by Rush Limbaugh.
f a manufacturer only releases a game for playstation 3 and all you have is an xbox, you're screwed. How is this any different?
When you buy software you have the right to make it run. You could still legally play that ps3 title on an emulator if you wish.
True, but it would definitely make downhill skiing more entertaining.
I might be impressed, but only if it uses a Holtzman Fields somehow....
I'm not disagreeing with your sentiments, but Jews have no problem with Gentiles not keeping Kosher.
And Christans turn the other cheek and Muslims embrace all religions with a book. This isn't meant to be flamebait, just pointing out that while the average religious person might be a very open minded individual there are still quite a few zealots out there.