Maybe I need sarcasm-tags, but seriously? Please look at the age of the children and think again about your comment.
Maybe you don't understand the permanence of the Intarweb?
Yes, *maybe* the kid has matured and realized the errors of his ways. Or... maybe he's just a malicious bastard.
The Uni or business that the now-grown person applies to Googles the name and finds the false allegations. Rejected. Same with a prospective boy/girlfriend Googling the name. Maybe even a landlord or bank deciding on an lease or loan.
If they'd been smart, they would have bought a pre-paid phone with a camera, took naked pictures of themselves at school and sent them to the teacher, then throw the phone away.
Wouldn't that mean that the pics are in his email folder not his "pictures" folder?
Anyway, if I got such pictures, the third thing I'd do (after panicking and saying the Litany Against Fear) would be to go straight to the police and show them what I received.
I'm not convinced that our modern culture of extending "childhood" until age 18 is the right thing to do...
The Democrats just effectively extended childhood to 26.
My (grand) parents weren't bad or mean, but I still couldn't wait to leave after HS. The thought of going back after I graduated Uni was *completely* absurd.
I'm not sure how damaging a post that requires the principal to force a child to sign into her account in order for it to be viewed, can be.
There's a lot that I understand as a 40-something that I didn't not understand as a 20-something (though as a teen-something I actually did think that I understood more about "life" than my grandparents).
As much as a love my kids (who are just a year or two younger than these GA fools), if they ever pulled a stunt like this... well, there would be hell to pay.
No matter how sorry they hopefully would be, they would need some "memorable" object lesson in the destructive nature of such conduct.
So, replace it with a Unix work-alike on which Flash Player actually works correctly.
I'm not a developer or system administrator and I find web browsing in the Unix environment to be a pain in the neck -- flash crashes the browser, etc.
I'm sure that FreeBSD is good for allowing you to feel smug about loving Unix, but the fact is that the modern, useful stuff is more thoroughly QAed on Linux. x86 and x64-64 to be specific.
Debian Sid with package flashplayer-mozilla from www.debian-multimedia.org Just Works. There are no magic incantations.
One thing that occurs to me, though which definitely might (snicker) have an impact on Flash's stability: I installed Flashblock, so 86 flash animations aren't continuously running on my 38 open windows and tabs.
By the metric which my wife constantly complains about her work Windows PC locking up or something significant breaking, but the home Ubuntu PC Just Works.
I find web browsing in the Unix environment to be a pain in the neck -- flash crashes the browser, etc.
You're doing it wrong.
We (I using Debian Sid and wife/kids using Ubuntu 10.04) haven't had a Firefox (w/ lots of of addons and proprietary plugins like Flash, Acroread & Sun Java) crash in years. Flash crashes every few months.
(Yes, we especially wife+kids are heavy Flash users.)
"Dumbing down" is just saying, "I don't like this, but I haven't bothered to spend any time figuring out why." With a side-order of "oh and I'm smarter than all of you."
Having used GNOME from 1.4 to 2.28 (now using XFCE) and watched it's slide into the gooey lowest common denominator, I can confidently say that your comment is horse shit.
*If* this solar reactor tech ends up having an economic advantage
If, schmith.
Every other week there's some super-duper new alternative energy.
The "only" problem is that they're in the laboratory and stay in the laboratory.
Call me back when there's a 1500MW solar reactor generating electricity for eve 2x the cost of nuclear, or an algae "refinery" producing 500 barrels of diesel per day.
the feasibility of an energy technology shouldn't be discounted just because it would take a lot of investment in order to make practical.
Except that I live in the real world, where it takes lots of money (that we do not have) and overwhelming superiority to rip up a trillion dollars of existing infrastructure.
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Maybe I need sarcasm-tags, but seriously? Please look at the age of the children and think again about your comment.
Maybe you don't understand the permanence of the Intarweb?
Yes, *maybe* the kid has matured and realized the errors of his ways. Or... maybe he's just a malicious bastard.
The Uni or business that the now-grown person applies to Googles the name and finds the false allegations. Rejected. Same with a prospective boy/girlfriend Googling the name. Maybe even a landlord or bank deciding on an lease or loan.
Few will take the chance.
mark firmly when they are exceeding their bounds.
What the hell do you think that suspension and expulsion are?
Except that (guys) locker room talk is more in the line of "he's a bastard, sucks donkey dicks, married a toad", etc, etc.
If they'd been smart, they would have bought a pre-paid phone with a camera, took naked pictures of themselves at school and sent them to the teacher, then throw the phone away.
Wouldn't that mean that the pics are in his email folder not his "pictures" folder?
Anyway, if I got such pictures, the third thing I'd do (after panicking and saying the Litany Against Fear) would be to go straight to the police and show them what I received.
30 years ago. (Time really flies, doesn't it!!)
I'm not convinced that our modern culture of extending "childhood" until age 18 is the right thing to do...
The Democrats just effectively extended childhood to 26.
My (grand) parents weren't bad or mean, but I still couldn't wait to leave after HS. The thought of going back after I graduated Uni was *completely* absurd.
I think what we fail to do is convey to children just how serious a false accusation is.
I just used this as as "teaching moment" on the consequences of making false accusations...
The "punishment" side of suspension is assumed to be meted by out by the parents.
Except that in the bizarro country that we live in, the parents sue the school.
I'm not sure how damaging a post that requires the principal to force a child to sign into her account in order for it to be viewed, can be.
There's a lot that I understand as a 40-something that I didn't not understand as a 20-something (though as a teen-something I actually did think that I understood more about "life" than my grandparents).
As much as a love my kids (who are just a year or two younger than these GA fools), if they ever pulled a stunt like this... well, there would be hell to pay.
No matter how sorry they hopefully would be, they would need some "memorable" object lesson in the destructive nature of such conduct.
had the parents actually done some parenting, this could have been avoided
Do enlighten us with your recipe for perfect parenting. I'm not aware of any foolproof method for making tweens never be jerks.
You do realize that there's a difference between "could" and "would", right?
What he said was:
Frankly, I have no reason to have FreeBSD.
So, replace it with a Unix work-alike on which Flash Player actually works correctly.
I'm not a developer or system administrator and I find web browsing in the Unix environment to be a pain in the neck -- flash crashes the browser, etc.
I'm sure that FreeBSD is good for allowing you to feel smug about loving Unix, but the fact is that the modern, useful stuff is more thoroughly QAed on Linux. x86 and x64-64 to be specific.
Even if not BSD, you can always go Gentoo and compile your system without all the dbus gconfd gstreamer esd pulseaudio crap.
Gee, I have the same thing with Debian Sid using XFCE.
Debian Sid with package flashplayer-mozilla from www.debian-multimedia.org Just Works. There are no magic incantations.
One thing that occurs to me, though which definitely might (snicker) have an impact on Flash's stability: I installed Flashblock, so 86 flash animations aren't continuously running on my 38 open windows and tabs.
You're the guy that says that Rock and Roll stopped in the 70s.
1983, with the release of Terminator was the coffin closing.
Linux is as easy to use as Windows
By what metric?
By the metric which my wife constantly complains about her work Windows PC locking up or something significant breaking, but the home Ubuntu PC Just Works.
was required by somethings I had installed via RPM. What a disaster...
A similar bout of RPM Hell is what sent me running to Debian. Never looked back.
I find web browsing in the Unix environment to be a pain in the neck -- flash crashes the browser, etc.
You're doing it wrong.
We (I using Debian Sid and wife/kids using Ubuntu 10.04) haven't had a Firefox (w/ lots of of addons and proprietary plugins like Flash, Acroread & Sun Java) crash in years. Flash crashes every few months.
(Yes, we especially wife+kids are heavy Flash users.)
My personal philosophy
As opposed to your impersonal philosophy?
"Dumbing down" is just saying, "I don't like this, but I haven't bothered to spend any time figuring out why." With a side-order of "oh and I'm smarter than all of you."
Having used GNOME from 1.4 to 2.28 (now using XFCE) and watched it's slide into the gooey lowest common denominator, I can confidently say that your comment is horse shit.
Should have used ZMODEM.
The first thing I noticed when I got dial-up Internet is that TCP/IP is *dreadfully* inefficient compared to BBSs and ZMODEM.
I noticed the same thing. But what do you expect from a web "journalist"?
I wonder what the stereotype of someone who used AIX would be.
In 2011, it's "greying middle-class corporate geek".
GNOME on Choice: "Option to turn feature on? Users are too stupid to be trusted with extra features!"
Fixed that for you...
If, schmith.
Every other week there's some super-duper new alternative energy.
The "only" problem is that they're in the laboratory and stay in the laboratory.
Call me back when there's a 1500MW solar reactor generating electricity for eve 2x the cost of nuclear, or an algae "refinery" producing 500 barrels of diesel per day.
As opposed to... what?
Except that I live in the real world, where it takes lots of money (that we do not have) and overwhelming superiority to rip up a trillion dollars of existing infrastructure.