because you don't have to be internet savvy to warn your children of the dangers of predators. that's like saying schools should have to teach kids to not look for puppies in the strange man's van because the parents aren't sex-offender savvy.
it's common sense - make all the friends you want online, but don't meet them at their houses, and if it's too good to be true it probably is. exactly like you might approach meeting someone in real life. i don't see why the internet is treated so much differently..
I have a SwissTool that I can't do without. It's sturdy, well built, has tons of different tools, locks on every single tool, and you can get a set of screwdriver bits that fit into the sheath and give you a bunch of different torx and phillips/robertson heads. The biggest benefit is that you can access the blades and such without opening the pliers - that fact alone really aggravates me about the Leatherman multitools.
Sometimes the single phillips head screwdriver is hard to fit into small places (like inside cases and whatnot), but for most things it's okay. I'd recommend it for sure.
Not to mention the security problems. The customers would have to spend a fortune purchasing and installing security equipment to tie down each and every one of those little computers. Practically speaking, nobody can steal an eMac. It's big and bulky and impossible to conceal. Stealing a mini would be child's play... literally! The cost of labor required to lock each mini to a desk would be enormous.
For what it's worth, most schools already do lock down all their computers - bulky or not people will steal most anything. Plenty of flatscreen iMacs have been stolen from my school, and they're not only relatively heavy and awkward, but they're locked with cables too.
Just use iTune's 'import and eject' function. I managed to rip a hundred or so cd's using this, and it's great. Stick a cd in my iBook's slot loading drive, wait a few minutes, and when the iBook spits it out just put in a new one. You don't even need to click anything.
Agh, as a teenager I can't tell you how aggravating this "don't trust your kids especially after they fuck up once" attitude is.
I have caught two of them drunk before. That betrayed the trust I had in them, about drinking. Now we check.
Now guess what? They'll only drink when they know you won't be home to check, or they're staying at a friend's house, etc. And, as a side effect, since they're now scared of getting in trouble for drinking (because you clearly don't trust them to be responsible), if they ever get into trouble while/as a result of their drinking, YOU will be the last person they turn to. The way I see it is good parents have kids who will ask them for help no matter what.
The different descriptions about their ventures out, prompted me to dig my GPS out of my camping gear and employ it for this purpose. They betrayed our trust again. Now we check.
Again, now your kids know to look for the GPS under the car and to drop it off at the theatre before they go hang out with guys who probably got arrested at a party for smoking a joint. Then, while they're drinking there (as you think they're at the movies), if they happen to get pregnant or whatever, they'll do their best to NOT tell you, and to NOT ask YOU for help. Now that you've made it clear you don't trust them at all, they don't trust you. Simple.
My mom saw me do a lot of stupid things a few years ago, but you know what? She expressed her concerns to me, and made it clear that she held no prejudices or mistrusts. She let me talk to her about it, and come to her when I had troubles. She helped me through them and she still trusts me as much as, if not even more than, she ever did. On the other hand, I have several friends whose parents didn't trust them one bit - they employed tactics like going through their private belongings, listening in on their phone calls, and reading their IM histories.
Guess what the kids did? They started hiding their drugs outside, using payphones, and deleting their histories. They STILL DO THE DUMB THINGS, but they learn to hide it better.
Who's the better parent - the parent who accepts their child's phases and helps them through them, or the parent who rejects them outright and pushes their child away?
I have a Panasonic 2.4GHz phone which I hardly ever use anymore, because everytime the thing even so much as rings it knocks every wifi computer off the network. Sometimes you can change channels on the phone and it'll fix it until you hang up, but that's not really a good solution because you still get knocked off for the few seconds it takes you to change channels on the phone.
In my town (Halifax, Canada) we have a few walls which are owned by local companies which have been 'donated' to local grafitti artists. You can go down there any time and see a lighted wall of absolutely amazing artwork, and it changes almost every day.
I don't see what the big problem is.. just give the artists enough places to paint and the problem will reduce if not disappear. What's the problem with that?
wow, what a good id..... buffering....ea! finally i can stop pirat......buffering....ing all my mo....buffering.....vies and get them legal.....buffering.....ly!
thank you, starz,.......buffering.....for making it easy for me to sl....buffering....eep at night.
Dunno if anyone remembers this, but when I was younger I used to watch Blahbalicious, which is one of the most hilarious things I've seen in a long time. It's a feature movie made in Quake, and it's incredibly funny.
would be next to impossible for virus writers to circumvent
Except for viruses that spread by means other than address books, which are still fairly common (and the most destructive in terms of data loss rather than bandwidth wastage).
Why is more effort put into convincing a large audience that they need what you're selling instead of finding the people who are knowingly seeking your products/services?
It's because 90% of companies are selling a bullshit, useless product or service, or a product or service that's just a cheap copy of someone else's. As such, there's no point in advertising the merits of the product because either there are no real merits or they're just the same as everyone else's.
iPod and AAC DRM are open standards? If so why is it that only iTunes seems to support the iPod?
I dunno what kind of iPod you're using, but gtkpod and Rhythmbox support mine just fine. Not to mention MusicMactch Jukebox for Windows (although apparently that stinks).
I've never met a woman who would not scoff at my browsing usenet for porn, for instance.
Maybe it's the fact that you're browsing usenet for porn - I mean, c'mon. Maybe the girl scoffs at the fact that you're perpetuating the typical nerd stereotype and getting porn on that computer you love so much, rather than buying it at the 99 cent porno store like everyone else.
I've read (although I've no way to verify this) that for the original movie, at one point they had the entire movie on a 40gb second generation iPod. br
Now that's cool:)
I recently travelled to Canada from Bermuda (passing through the US), and at the Bermudian airport's US customs preclearance desk they had the fingerprint scanner the submitter mentioned. They also had what looked like a Logitech Quickcam Express (the black one) to take your picture.
I asked what I'd have to do to get fingerprinted and they said 'we have our criteria'. Pretty tight-lipped:D
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Provided he installed it on a mac, most definitely :)
because you don't have to be internet savvy to warn your children of the dangers of predators. that's like saying schools should have to teach kids to not look for puppies in the strange man's van because the parents aren't sex-offender savvy.
it's common sense - make all the friends you want online, but don't meet them at their houses, and if it's too good to be true it probably is. exactly like you might approach meeting someone in real life. i don't see why the internet is treated so much differently..
I have a SwissTool that I can't do without. It's sturdy, well built, has tons of different tools, locks on every single tool, and you can get a set of screwdriver bits that fit into the sheath and give you a bunch of different torx and phillips/robertson heads. The biggest benefit is that you can access the blades and such without opening the pliers - that fact alone really aggravates me about the Leatherman multitools.
Sometimes the single phillips head screwdriver is hard to fit into small places (like inside cases and whatnot), but for most things it's okay. I'd recommend it for sure.
Not to mention the security problems. The customers would have to spend a fortune purchasing and installing security equipment to tie down each and every one of those little computers. Practically speaking, nobody can steal an eMac. It's big and bulky and impossible to conceal. Stealing a mini would be child's play ... literally! The cost of labor required to lock each mini to a desk would be enormous.
For what it's worth, most schools already do lock down all their computers - bulky or not people will steal most anything. Plenty of flatscreen iMacs have been stolen from my school, and they're not only relatively heavy and awkward, but they're locked with cables too.
Personally I tend to stick to Sorny...
Just use iTune's 'import and eject' function. I managed to rip a hundred or so cd's using this, and it's great. Stick a cd in my iBook's slot loading drive, wait a few minutes, and when the iBook spits it out just put in a new one. You don't even need to click anything.
It doesn't really get much easier than that..
Ah, but degrees and high standardized test scores do not a smart person make! Educated, maybe, but not _smart_.
4. All wall decorations are essential and directly integrated into the building and cannot be removed without destroying the entire structure
"I wouldn't do that, that's a load bearing poster.."
Agh, as a teenager I can't tell you how aggravating this "don't trust your kids especially after they fuck up once" attitude is.
I have caught two of them drunk before. That betrayed the trust I had in them, about drinking. Now we check.
Now guess what? They'll only drink when they know you won't be home to check, or they're staying at a friend's house, etc. And, as a side effect, since they're now scared of getting in trouble for drinking (because you clearly don't trust them to be responsible), if they ever get into trouble while/as a result of their drinking, YOU will be the last person they turn to. The way I see it is good parents have kids who will ask them for help no matter what.
The different descriptions about their ventures out, prompted me to dig my GPS out of my camping gear and employ it for this purpose. They betrayed our trust again. Now we check.
Again, now your kids know to look for the GPS under the car and to drop it off at the theatre before they go hang out with guys who probably got arrested at a party for smoking a joint. Then, while they're drinking there (as you think they're at the movies), if they happen to get pregnant or whatever, they'll do their best to NOT tell you, and to NOT ask YOU for help. Now that you've made it clear you don't trust them at all, they don't trust you. Simple.
My mom saw me do a lot of stupid things a few years ago, but you know what? She expressed her concerns to me, and made it clear that she held no prejudices or mistrusts. She let me talk to her about it, and come to her when I had troubles. She helped me through them and she still trusts me as much as, if not even more than, she ever did. On the other hand, I have several friends whose parents didn't trust them one bit - they employed tactics like going through their private belongings, listening in on their phone calls, and reading their IM histories.
Guess what the kids did? They started hiding their drugs outside, using payphones, and deleting their histories. They STILL DO THE DUMB THINGS, but they learn to hide it better.
Who's the better parent - the parent who accepts their child's phases and helps them through them, or the parent who rejects them outright and pushes their child away?
"Anonymous Coward writes.." ... "regards, Brian Webb".
nice anonymity!
I have a Panasonic 2.4GHz phone which I hardly ever use anymore, because everytime the thing even so much as rings it knocks every wifi computer off the network. Sometimes you can change channels on the phone and it'll fix it until you hang up, but that's not really a good solution because you still get knocked off for the few seconds it takes you to change channels on the phone.
In my town (Halifax, Canada) we have a few walls which are owned by local companies which have been 'donated' to local grafitti artists. You can go down there any time and see a lighted wall of absolutely amazing artwork, and it changes almost every day.
I don't see what the big problem is.. just give the artists enough places to paint and the problem will reduce if not disappear. What's the problem with that?
wow, what a good id..... buffering....ea! finally i can stop pirat......buffering....ing all my mo....buffering.....vies and get them legal.....buffering.....ly!
thank you, starz,.......buffering.....for making it easy for me to sl....buffering....eep at night.
Dunno if anyone remembers this, but when I was younger I used to watch Blahbalicious, which is one of the most hilarious things I've seen in a long time. It's a feature movie made in Quake, and it's incredibly funny.
(no, I didn't make it)
would be next to impossible for virus writers to circumvent
Except for viruses that spread by means other than address books, which are still fairly common (and the most destructive in terms of data loss rather than bandwidth wastage).
Why is more effort put into convincing a large audience that they need what you're selling instead of finding the people who are knowingly seeking your products/services?
It's because 90% of companies are selling a bullshit, useless product or service, or a product or service that's just a cheap copy of someone else's. As such, there's no point in advertising the merits of the product because either there are no real merits or they're just the same as everyone else's.
iPod and AAC DRM are open standards? If so why is it that only iTunes seems to support the iPod?
I dunno what kind of iPod you're using, but gtkpod and Rhythmbox support mine just fine. Not to mention MusicMactch Jukebox for Windows (although apparently that stinks).
I've never met a woman who would not scoff at my browsing usenet for porn, for instance.
Maybe it's the fact that you're browsing usenet for porn - I mean, c'mon. Maybe the girl scoffs at the fact that you're perpetuating the typical nerd stereotype and getting porn on that computer you love so much, rather than buying it at the 99 cent porno store like everyone else.
Your boss could find out if you go drinking on the weekend, and so on.
Theoretically if you're going out drinking, shouldn't you _not_ be driving your car, making this a moot point?
1 in 6250?
;)
Who wants to bet that they only sent two 'spam' and one of them was disguised well?
It's MS, not M$. It means 'Microsoft', not 'Mdollar'.
Like Andy of Mydoom fame, right?
2GB CF cards are just little hard drives, FYI.
I've read (although I've no way to verify this) that for the original movie, at one point they had the entire movie on a 40gb second generation iPod. :)
br Now that's cool
I recently travelled to Canada from Bermuda (passing through the US), and at the Bermudian airport's US customs preclearance desk they had the fingerprint scanner the submitter mentioned. They also had what looked like a Logitech Quickcam Express (the black one) to take your picture. I asked what I'd have to do to get fingerprinted and they said 'we have our criteria'. Pretty tight-lipped :D