I would say that it's only an addiction if it's actively interfering with your normal life. That is, your job, your education, your family, and your interpersonal relationships.
I don't use IM'ing and texting as much as I used to (in college) but I still use it. I don't think you can really call these addictions. These are just different forms of communication. I just think they might be overreacting a bit. For example, the comment from one of the students about being secluded... one would feel the same way if they were told not to talk to anyone.
Now if they were whining that they couldn't chat when they were hanging out with their friends... that might be a problem. I think chatting and texting augments social interaction. The problem is when it turns into a substitute. So I'm not saying that internet/text/chatting addiction doesn't exist -- we just have to be careful about defining what internet addiction really is.
Posting to an iframe and loading the iframe with dynamic content?
Haven't RTFA (slashdotted), but I used to do "AJAX" without "AJAX" in the early 2000's. You would post to a hidden iframe and the dynamic content that was loaded in the iframe was Javascript, which would manipulate the parent page. Either that or it was JSON would you would then access from the parent page.
This is it, people! The end of the internet as we own it! After the ruling yesterday anyway... oh and also that combined with the fact that earlier this year we took a step towards corporate personhood, allowing corporations to participate in the political and legal process.
Say goodbye to the free and open internet. Say hello to the tiered-pricing model, and the metered-usage model. These companies don't care about the users. They care about the bottom-line and profits. The free market won't help here, because obviously they're going to strong-arm any competition.
Welcome to the Digital dark age. The US, the pioneer of the internet, will end up as a backwater province of the intarwebs.
Everyone expected China to do this. It also means that they are saying that the Chinese in HK are different from the rest of China. I wonder if that will affect anything. Not to be cynical, but I am sure the propaganda machine will go on overdrive to put a spin on it.
I doubt it's in the US:) Based off the currency he used for his scanner (€80) I'd say that he's somewhere in Europe:) Good suggestion though. I wonder if the country he is in (or Europe in general) has a similar organization.
From what I see, it looks pretty good for working with an already existing project. It would help if they talked about starting a project from scratch using this IDE. Either way looks like something worth trying out. To all the people who say this looks like a terrible idea, I think that's rather subjective; It looks like a matter of taste (emacs vs. vi, eclipse vs. netbeans). I think it would help from a maintenance perspective (fixing bugs) or even if you're adding stuff to an existing codebase. I'd like to try this out anyway.
Wow, that must've sucked - moving a lot! Most of the main body and ops stayed on at Camp Liberty throughout the tour. I was in the IZ initially (FOB Union III) for about two weeks. After that I came back to Liberty and stayed there for the rest of the tour. We had two platoons go up north to Ramadi during the middle of the tour.
Are you Active Army? Reserves? National Guard? Or Marines?
I wonder if RIM, Motorola and Palm would join the fray. File amicus curae (or something of the sort). I think it would make sense for them to take preemptive action, in case Apple goes after them next. I think it would be a good idea. In another sense, I think this suit is good because it demonstrates how Software Patents are such a bad idea, and instead of increasing competition, they are allowing one manufacturer (Apple) to stifle competition.
I remember when I was serving in Iraq (Nov '05 to Nov '06) Facebook was just getting big. MySpace was all the rage. People would upload some pictures and videos. In our unit, we didn't really have a policy although our Operations NCO kept a handle on our accounts (he didn't have access to them, but would just check them from time to time to make sure we weren't posting anything that violated opsec). Also, if we maintained a blog we gave him the URL. I didn't think it was a big deal and I understood the rationale. You don't want to post anything online that can:
a) Be taken out of context by the media or others (or if you want to be cynical, anything that can put the military in a bad light). b) Anything that violates opsec and puts the success of the mission or personnel at risk
Not all of us had access to the NIPR net. Most of us just went to the Internet Cafe (really, a small trailer with a satellite internet connection), the MWR (Morale Welfare and Recreation center), or pooled money to get internet access (2nd platoon pooled in money and set up a satellite dish and a modem, and then strung wires between the trailers). I'm not sure how effective this policy will be in these situations.
At the end of a drill weekend I'd usually be hanging out at the readiness NCO's office before I left and sometimes I'd forget I was using a military computer and try to log on to facebook only to see that it was blocked. Sometimes they blocked Gmail (but that seemed intermittent - I was able to get to it usually). Regarding the comment someone made earlier that the military should have a policy for requesting a site be unblocked, I believe it does. A buddy of mine works for the NGB's IT department (I forget the actual name) and he handles cases. It's very hard to get a site approved though unless you can demonstrate a legitimate use. It's not like writing code where you can find an example on some random dude's blog. The military has their own sites for resources, and anything you need to find can be looked up in a TM (Technical Manual) or an AR (Army Regulation), or DA PAM (Department of the Army Pamphlet), most of which are in digitized form.
I should change that. I was trying to post some code or something once and I set it to monospaced font. Never got around to doing it - I think I'll do it now... after I hit submit!
He probably shouldn't simply be installing software that isn't essential to his work function on machines that he does not own.
I also heard on NPR that they found lots of equipment that belonged to the school at his residence. The criminal charges probably stem from that and not just for installing SETI@Home (haven't read the TFA so just speculating).
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I would say that it's only an addiction if it's actively interfering with your normal life. That is, your job, your education, your family, and your interpersonal relationships.
I don't use IM'ing and texting as much as I used to (in college) but I still use it. I don't think you can really call these addictions. These are just different forms of communication. I just think they might be overreacting a bit. For example, the comment from one of the students about being secluded... one would feel the same way if they were told not to talk to anyone.
Now if they were whining that they couldn't chat when they were hanging out with their friends... that might be a problem. I think chatting and texting augments social interaction. The problem is when it turns into a substitute. So I'm not saying that internet/text/chatting addiction doesn't exist -- we just have to be careful about defining what internet addiction really is.
Posting to an iframe and loading the iframe with dynamic content?
Haven't RTFA (slashdotted), but I used to do "AJAX" without "AJAX" in the early 2000's. You would post to a hidden iframe and the dynamic content that was loaded in the iframe was Javascript, which would manipulate the parent page. Either that or it was JSON would you would then access from the parent page.
My apologies, I skipped over that part :)
Yes I have, actually.
I've emailed both senators from my state:
Senator Kyl
Senator McCain
And my congressman:
Jeff Flake
But thanks for assuming that I haven't done anything and being sarcastic. Hey it's ok - there's different ways to karma-whore.
This is it, people! The end of the internet as we own it! After the ruling yesterday anyway... oh and also that combined with the fact that earlier this year we took a step towards corporate personhood, allowing corporations to participate in the political and legal process.
Say goodbye to the free and open internet. Say hello to the tiered-pricing model, and the metered-usage model. These companies don't care about the users. They care about the bottom-line and profits. The free market won't help here, because obviously they're going to strong-arm any competition.
Welcome to the Digital dark age. The US, the pioneer of the internet, will end up as a backwater province of the intarwebs.
Maybe I'm being cynical and alarmist. Oh well.
Everyone expected China to do this. It also means that they are saying that the Chinese in HK are different from the rest of China. I wonder if that will affect anything. Not to be cynical, but I am sure the propaganda machine will go on overdrive to put a spin on it.
That was my bad. When I saw "Lance Corporal", I immediately thought "Marines".
Back then it was just an experiment. Cool to see it being used in practice. Here is the link that goes to ABC news:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2401551&page=1
Also, technically he's not a "soldier". He's a "marine". Us Army guys are "soliders" :)
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
OR
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
How terribly disappointing, Obama. At least the EU threw out this stupid treaty. Hopefully this won't be successful at all.
Very bad taste.
I doubt it's in the US :) Based off the currency he used for his scanner (€80) I'd say that he's somewhere in Europe :) Good suggestion though. I wonder if the country he is in (or Europe in general) has a similar organization.
From what I see, it looks pretty good for working with an already existing project. It would help if they talked about starting a project from scratch using this IDE. Either way looks like something worth trying out. To all the people who say this looks like a terrible idea, I think that's rather subjective; It looks like a matter of taste (emacs vs. vi, eclipse vs. netbeans). I think it would help from a maintenance perspective (fixing bugs) or even if you're adding stuff to an existing codebase. I'd like to try this out anyway.
Chrome: 88
Opera: 83
Safari: 83
Firefox: 74
IE: 51
(Scores calculated by using chart on last page)
Wow, that must've sucked - moving a lot! Most of the main body and ops stayed on at Camp Liberty throughout the tour. I was in the IZ initially (FOB Union III) for about two weeks. After that I came back to Liberty and stayed there for the rest of the tour. We had two platoons go up north to Ramadi during the middle of the tour.
Are you Active Army? Reserves? National Guard? Or Marines?
Smalltalk.
I wonder if RIM, Motorola and Palm would join the fray. File amicus curae (or something of the sort). I think it would make sense for them to take preemptive action, in case Apple goes after them next. I think it would be a good idea. In another sense, I think this suit is good because it demonstrates how Software Patents are such a bad idea, and instead of increasing competition, they are allowing one manufacturer (Apple) to stifle competition.
Where were you stationed in Iraq? I was at Camp Liberty.
I remember when I was serving in Iraq (Nov '05 to Nov '06) Facebook was just getting big. MySpace was all the rage. People would upload some pictures and videos. In our unit, we didn't really have a policy although our Operations NCO kept a handle on our accounts (he didn't have access to them, but would just check them from time to time to make sure we weren't posting anything that violated opsec). Also, if we maintained a blog we gave him the URL. I didn't think it was a big deal and I understood the rationale. You don't want to post anything online that can:
a) Be taken out of context by the media or others (or if you want to be cynical, anything that can put the military in a bad light).
b) Anything that violates opsec and puts the success of the mission or personnel at risk
Not all of us had access to the NIPR net. Most of us just went to the Internet Cafe (really, a small trailer with a satellite internet connection), the MWR (Morale Welfare and Recreation center), or pooled money to get internet access (2nd platoon pooled in money and set up a satellite dish and a modem, and then strung wires between the trailers). I'm not sure how effective this policy will be in these situations.
At the end of a drill weekend I'd usually be hanging out at the readiness NCO's office before I left and sometimes I'd forget I was using a military computer and try to log on to facebook only to see that it was blocked. Sometimes they blocked Gmail (but that seemed intermittent - I was able to get to it usually). Regarding the comment someone made earlier that the military should have a policy for requesting a site be unblocked, I believe it does. A buddy of mine works for the NGB's IT department (I forget the actual name) and he handles cases. It's very hard to get a site approved though unless you can demonstrate a legitimate use. It's not like writing code where you can find an example on some random dude's blog. The military has their own sites for resources, and anything you need to find can be looked up in a TM (Technical Manual) or an AR (Army Regulation), or DA PAM (Department of the Army Pamphlet), most of which are in digitized form.
That's so zen.
It was a reference to Caprica, regarding the creation of the very first Cylon.
'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,
... and then he will use your virtual avatar and put it into a military robot... we know where that goes!
"Submission: ReactOS gets Wine infusion"
OMG. A DRUNK Windows clone! Is this REALLY what we need??
Just kidding ;)
I tried to view the demonstration.
"Google Earth Plugin is only available on Windows and Mac OS X 10.4+"
I guess I'm SOL.
I should change that. I was trying to post some code or something once and I set it to monospaced font. Never got around to doing it - I think I'll do it now... after I hit submit!
I heard this story on NPR this morning.
He probably shouldn't simply be installing software that isn't essential to his work function on machines that he does not own.
I also heard on NPR that they found lots of equipment that belonged to the school at his residence. The criminal charges probably stem from that and not just for installing SETI@Home (haven't read the TFA so just speculating).