Yeah, splitting the content and formatting makes pages easier to maintain. It's also important for accessibility - browsers for users with disabilities need information about the content. The H1, H2,... tags could be pretty worthless with a blind user.
Recently, I watched some people in an online community aggressively harass an unpopular user. One of them apparently contacted people that she knew IRL and encouraged them to trash her online. She actually did have her own domain name with what appeared to be valid contact information in the "whois" field. But luckily, the nastiest people involved didn't seem to be sophisticated enough to look this up. If they had been, things might have gotten even uglier.
I happen to be at the home of (999)999-9999 on asdasdasd street in XXXXX area code and I get so much junk mail/telemarketing calls you would not believe it.
You've probably attracted some stalkers as well now.
Haven't there already been some well-written commentaries on the DMCA? The U.S. ACM (particularly Barbara Simons) have been quite vocal. See http://www.acm.org/usacm/Issues/DMCA.htm
Yeah, I agree that cyber-bullying could be a real problem. It seems like the school's ban on personal blogs could push students into posting anonymously. On one hand, this might indeed make them safer. But on the other, I wonder if it might make the bullying even nastier. In addition to not having to face the person they're harassing, they wouldn't be attaching their name to what they're saying either. Also, the official ban might make victims more reluctant to complain if they were worried about being punished for their online presence.
I was tempted to say something about how it was ironic that they claimed to be protecting kids from predators. But I also guessed that there'd be a few other comments to this effect.
After being misdiagnosed, I finally went to a doctor who noticed that some of my difficulties were consistent with ADHD. The medication helps, but I've also had to develop strategies to work around some of the difficulties. Although I take Ritalin, I've never considered sharing or trading it. There's really no temptation to take more than prescribed either; in fact, it's challenging to remember to take it consistently. So the idea of psychiatric meds being for spoiled brats who can't handle life bothers me.
Having experienced both homework and school corporal punishment, I'd say that the difference is that homework sometimes makes sense. Dumping useless busywork on kids is a problem for reasons brought up by other posters (wasted time and missed opportunities to do more productive things). However, some things do need to be practiced and reinforced, like math, musical instruments, etc. It would still be possible for kids to learn without homework, but the pace might be a lot slower. This could ultimately be pretty limiting - imagine someone who wanted to study engineering, but had only gotten as far as basic algebra when they graduated high school.
Actually, maybe it's good that people are talking about this. Colon cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the US (after lung), but there's a 90% survival rate if it's caught early. The procedure still sounds pretty embarrassing, but it helps to hear from people who've gone through it already.
That procedure may be in my future soon, due to the family history thing. I tried telling the doctor that the only thing that a specialist was likely to find up my butt was my head, but she was insistent. So it's not something I'm exactly looking forward to, but it's probably better than the alternative.
How often is it though that you see an actual vagina-and-boobs bearing person in the IT field?
Yeah, it would be so nice if all my coworkers could think of me as a "vagina-and-boobs bearing person." Forget about the actual work I do.
What?! Am I supposed to have an intellectual need for entire paragraphs? What's wrong with disjointed sentence fragments? And I think that slashdotting should count as 'sustained reading of complex texts.'
Just out of curiousity, does this remind anyone else of Stephen King's "Pet Sematary?" Sure, we're talking about a lab rather than an obscure cemetary, but the creepiness is still there.
Does anyone remember the Pyraminx, which was sort of like a Rubik's cube, but pyramid-shaped? At first, it seemed really cool, and then it was boring because it was too easy.
I remember wanting a Barbie when I was around five because one of my friends had them. My mom thought that they were awful, but she gave me one for Christmas anyhow. Now I understand why my mom hated them.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, splitting the content and formatting makes pages easier to maintain. It's also important for accessibility - browsers for users with disabilities need information about the content. The H1, H2, ... tags could be pretty worthless with a blind user.
Did you forget that bloggers are "the digital elite?" So I think it'd at least have to be fancy toilet paper, not that cheap single-ply stuff.
Recently, I watched some people in an online community aggressively harass an unpopular user. One of them apparently contacted people that she knew IRL and encouraged them to trash her online. She actually did have her own domain name with what appeared to be valid contact information in the "whois" field. But luckily, the nastiest people involved didn't seem to be sophisticated enough to look this up. If they had been, things might have gotten even uglier.
I happen to be at the home of (999)999-9999 on asdasdasd street in XXXXX area code and I get so much junk mail/telemarketing calls you would not believe it.
You've probably attracted some stalkers as well now.
So one of the big challenges is extracting the useful stuff from the mounds of garbage. Not an uncommon problem with any kind of data.
What a great way for the Nazis to improve their public image! Maybe the Nazi Olsen twins can put out a song about it.
CNN also had a story on this: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/04/crime. botmaster.reut/index.html
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign also had an article in the local paper. http://www.news-gazette.com/localnews/story.cfm?Nu mber=19284
Haven't there already been some well-written commentaries on the DMCA? The U.S. ACM (particularly Barbara Simons) have been quite vocal. See http://www.acm.org/usacm/Issues/DMCA.htm
Yeah, I agree that cyber-bullying could be a real problem. It seems like the school's ban on personal blogs could push students into posting anonymously. On one hand, this might indeed make them safer. But on the other, I wonder if it might make the bullying even nastier. In addition to not having to face the person they're harassing, they wouldn't be attaching their name to what they're saying either. Also, the official ban might make victims more reluctant to complain if they were worried about being punished for their online presence.
I was tempted to say something about how it was ironic that they claimed to be protecting kids from predators. But I also guessed that there'd be a few other comments to this effect.
After being misdiagnosed, I finally went to a doctor who noticed that some of my difficulties were consistent with ADHD. The medication helps, but I've also had to develop strategies to work around some of the difficulties. Although I take Ritalin, I've never considered sharing or trading it. There's really no temptation to take more than prescribed either; in fact, it's challenging to remember to take it consistently. So the idea of psychiatric meds being for spoiled brats who can't handle life bothers me.
Having experienced both homework and school corporal punishment, I'd say that the difference is that homework sometimes makes sense. Dumping useless busywork on kids is a problem for reasons brought up by other posters (wasted time and missed opportunities to do more productive things). However, some things do need to be practiced and reinforced, like math, musical instruments, etc. It would still be possible for kids to learn without homework, but the pace might be a lot slower. This could ultimately be pretty limiting - imagine someone who wanted to study engineering, but had only gotten as far as basic algebra when they graduated high school.
Actually, maybe it's good that people are talking about this. Colon cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the US (after lung), but there's a 90% survival rate if it's caught early. The procedure still sounds pretty embarrassing, but it helps to hear from people who've gone through it already.
That procedure may be in my future soon, due to the family history thing. I tried telling the doctor that the only thing that a specialist was likely to find up my butt was my head, but she was insistent. So it's not something I'm exactly looking forward to, but it's probably better than the alternative.
I'm also a woman, though slashdotters in the past have refused to believe this.
How often is it though that you see an actual vagina-and-boobs bearing person in the IT field?
Yeah, it would be so nice if all my coworkers could think of me as a "vagina-and-boobs bearing person." Forget about the actual work I do.
And besides, how much fun is it to be the only girl out of a 100 geeks in CS? :)
Well, it's a nice change to not have any lines in restrooms.
What?! Am I supposed to have an intellectual need for entire paragraphs? What's wrong with disjointed sentence fragments? And I think that slashdotting should count as 'sustained reading of complex texts.'
Just out of curiousity, does this remind anyone else of Stephen King's "Pet Sematary?" Sure, we're talking about a lab rather than an obscure cemetary, but the creepiness is still there.
Oooh, I remember MasterMind too. That was kind of fun, though I remember liking Othello better.
Does anyone remember the Pyraminx, which was sort of like a Rubik's cube, but pyramid-shaped? At first, it seemed really cool, and then it was boring because it was too easy.
I remember wanting a Barbie when I was around five because one of my friends had them. My mom thought that they were awful, but she gave me one for Christmas anyhow. Now I understand why my mom hated them.
Hey, if I got a polyphonic cell phone, do you suppose I could get a ringtone with Bill O'Reilly talking about his sexual fantasies?
http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/21702/index.p hp
Here are some earlier related stories:
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/21273
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/20764