Shouldn't that have been their wireless connections stopping and mice dying... I would start by telling your kids to clean their rooms so they don't have mice to start with.
In most states its perfectly legal for "Billy Bob" or even "Average Joe" to pull up into a school parking lot with a racked rifle if the driver is 18 years of age. He can leave it unattended if the vehicle is locked.
In either case it is absurd to punish the majority because there are a few crazy people out there. We need to work on our ability to diagnose and detect these nutjobs and remove them from society. It is ludicrous to expect us to fear for our lives and restrict our own and our children's liberties/freedoms.
I was just having a discussion with my Mother and her two sisters who were up visiting about this very thing. At this time not only is it forbidden for a friend of the family to punish your children it is damn near illegal for you to punish your own children. We are not allowed to do anything other than words. If a kid doesn't want to go along with your words thats basically the end of it and they get their way.
Go to your room! Kid replies with "no". You cannot physically take him to his room because thats "child abuse". The society is ridiculous and even having to have a topic such as this on/. is ridiculous. Parents should be allowed to parent their children however they feel is best for their child. Extreme cases should be looked at not the normal parenting behavior that has worked since the dawn of mankind.
Isn't the whole point of innovation to come up with some new idea. Reading a book about how to innovate may give assistance in helping to broaden your ability to "Think outside the box". The title leads me to believe that I will become an innovator just by mimicking someone else.
I truly believe inventors or true innovators are not made but born. Anyone can learn to do something but only people with a knack or talent will do it well.
How many times have you seen little kids telling their parents to F' off and only receiving a response back like "You shouldn't talk to mommy that way its not nice". So many kids today have no respect for their parents and through that adults.
Because in this day and age its "Child abuse" to put the fear of god into a child.
While/. usually is all for privacy in cases such as this I believe the sex offender made a choice to give up their privacy as soon as they performed the criminal act.
Unfortunately there are numerous cases that have caused a person to be labeled as a "sex offender" that should have never occurred. In some cases children (People under 18) have been convicted of child molestation. Or parents who take pictures of their children in the tub have been arrested for child pornography. Right now the major issue is that laws designed to protect children can be used against children.
I don't remember if it was on/. or somewhere else but I do remember reading a very heated discussion about sex offenders recently.
Spam has been solved. The problem is no one is implementing it.
What Bill was referring to was using SPF (Sender Policy Framework) or a form of it. The reason why spam is so prevalent is due to the ease of spoofing from addresses. With SPF enabled and enforced you would need to poison a ROOT DNS server or have a legitimate text record to send spam.
Bill gates was right on this one. Organizations are/were to lazy to enforce it to the extent AOL did.
However for you to reach "Hundreds of Dollars" you would have to stay entertained by the game for a year. Name a console game that you play consistently for a year. Everyone I have ever owned gets played until its beat (Usually a few days after purchase) and is only touched on occasion after that. And if you do well enough in WoW you can be compensated and then some by selling of your character. I made $810 bucks off my character when I quit playing. Albeit it was only about 30 cents an hour:)
Every day I am amazed at how well console system do especially now that they cost as much as a decent laptop. When I was a kid they were great but as I got older I wanted more involved games especially MMO's. Consoles did not offer this and even now it is only sub-par. The controls are preset barely customizable and the lack of hotkeys drives me nuts. I did not own my first PC until 95 (Was actually a PPC) which I used for playing MUDS/Mtrek mainly which were significantly more complex than any console I had played before. Actually learning how to write scripts in TinTin++ was a blast.
As the cost of computers came down more and more people have bought computers and we constantly see quotes concerning the increase of households that have 1+ computers I have no idea if the original Nintendo had more market penetration than lets say Play Station 2. Has the console market grown or shrunk over the last 20 years? I assume it has grown but is its rate exponentially larger than the PC market, about the same or far smaller? Are the amount of game titles being released increasing or decreasing? Basically there has really been nothing in the console market to hold my interest in its welfare with the exception of "God of War" but I am not going to pay hundreds of dollars to play just one title.
The customization available in PC games IMHO makes them a much better and barely more expensive platform. In addition you can actually use your computer for other important stuff "Like surfing Porn".
You don't get it. Everyone right now "Can" have guns. The problem is that a good portion of society thinks "guns" are the problem and not the people who have them. The "decent" citizens walk around in their imaginary bubble of safety and have no way to defend themselves. The criminals have weapons. Your sheep to the slaughter if you cannot protect yourself. You are not able to talk your way out of everything.
This is also pretty much my current view. I do believe in taking steps to prevent as much non-naturally occurring CO2 from entering the atmosphere as possible but I do also believe that our "Global Warming" is just another planetary cycle of which has been occurring for million/billions of years prior to the existence of the first human.
My basic concept is "If you make the mess, you clean it up". The idea is not to make a mess and we "are" making a mess.
Thanks, I was going to post pretty much the same comment.
For the longest time I had the misconception that farmers were lazy bastards that got paid by the gov to sit on their asses. That was before I learned a few real facts about keeping soil healthy and able to actually grow food.
America is undoubtedly the worst 1st world country when it comes to geography. We have no idea where most of our own states are, think Africa is a country and half the time don't even know what the next town down the road is named. A tool like this attached to Google Earth would help in keeping the interest of children. I think from this perspective it would be a very good teaching tool. One of the reasons I enjoyed History so much in High School was my teacher allowing me to play CivII. Adapting sounds/games into learning tools has been done and I believe it to be much more effective than text books. How many of you became quick multiplying numbers due to "Number munchers?". Entertainment for learning is the way to go.
What occurred here is students broke the rules and got punished. They need to learn to accept responsibility for their actions. If the kids get off on this one they will expect to weasel their way out of every time they break the rules. You want your house secure? Don't teach kids its okay to break the rules. Hopefully their parents are smart enough to ground them and take away their ability to use their computer at home.
And for the 3-month suspension.. what else can schools do now? When the older bunch here were children you break the rules and you used to get a thrashing from the principle/teach and it was accepted and you went back to class with red eyes. You didn't want to get thrashed you did not break the rules. Now you can barely even talk to kids without it being some form of unacceptable behavior.
I think these kids got what they deserved regardless of the circumstances. Just because the security is poor does not make it right to break the rules.
I am going to say that in hindsight that makes sense and it may be the end result but I will bet it was not their intention. Greenpeace like any "Extremist" (Positive or negative) group wants everyone to do exactly what they say. It's a power trip. Apple not complying with their demands caused them to look for sympathy in the public. So while they try to run a smear campaign against Apple. Steve comes out and politely asks them to "remove foot from mouth".
My younger brother has been deployed in Afghanistan 2 times and is on deployment leave prior to his 3rd trip there. Initially when talking to him while he was deployed it was near impossible to hold a decent conversation. He took OPSEC seriously to the point he would not even tell me there was sand on the ground. At first I found it pretty annoying. But after thinking about it anything that allows him to come home safe is well worth the annoyance.
It's wierd how morals play a bigger factor on what get more visibiliy. The chart shows Fraud making up over 90% of all crimes and CP is at 1%. Yet we see these huge articles in the news about CP and very little about fraud. Is this because CP is so morally unjust and people can mentally deal with somone ripping them off?
I agree that 1 year is to short of time. However, what if they had to show resources/productivity in the direction of further developing the technology towards the end of bringing it to market. While they consistently show the improvements/advancements in the technology they can then be approved to patent the idea again the following year and so on. This would in effect show the intent of bringing the product to market and even for the "little guy" would allow him to keep his patent while further developing or locating funds/resources for his production.
This would prevent exactly what occured to Vontage. A company such as Verizon would not be able to just "sit" on an idea waiting for somone to make a buck off it and steal the buck away.
Of course, the Bush administration has all sorts of other problems as well (Americans and Iraqi citizens dying by the thousands in the Iraq war, manipulation of intelligence leading up to said war, the whole US attourney scandal, Karl Rove's missing emails, Valerie Plame etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, the list goes on and on).
Seriously if your going to go on a rant don't pull random numbers out of your ass. We are averaging less than 3 US soldiers killed in action a day. If you want to use number like "By the thousands" look to the older wars like WWI or WWII if you want to use hugely inflated numbers. The amount of solderis dying in Iraq is not a whole hell of alot more than the amount that are dying on US soil from drunk driving and training accidents.
It's bad in Iraq and yeah we shoulda never started this war. But Slashdot is suppose to be full of smart freethinkers not people who regirgitate bullshit fed to them by the media.
I am going to address the FPS portion of your comment. The reason why I personally and I suspect many others enjoy online FPS games is because it is raw skill/talent vs another. Most games skill/player ability has little to do with the outcome of the fight. I am currently playing Eve-online and I enjoy playing it. The PVP aspect of the game IMHO is not very fun and very far from balanced. A !skill player in a hugely expensive well equipped ship will annilate a highly skilled player in the same ship but using more midrange quality of the same gear. Just because of the game mechanics.
FPS is equal footing for all players and it is your skill that allows you to do well.
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Shouldn't that have been their wireless connections stopping and mice dying... I would start by telling your kids to clean their rooms so they don't have mice to start with.
In most states its perfectly legal for "Billy Bob" or even "Average Joe" to pull up into a school parking lot with a racked rifle if the driver is 18 years of age. He can leave it unattended if the vehicle is locked.
In either case it is absurd to punish the majority because there are a few crazy people out there. We need to work on our ability to diagnose and detect these nutjobs and remove them from society. It is ludicrous to expect us to fear for our lives and restrict our own and our children's liberties/freedoms.
I'd mod you up if I had any left.
/. is ridiculous. Parents should be allowed to parent their children however they feel is best for their child. Extreme cases should be looked at not the normal parenting behavior that has worked since the dawn of mankind.
I was just having a discussion with my Mother and her two sisters who were up visiting about this very thing. At this time not only is it forbidden for a friend of the family to punish your children it is damn near illegal for you to punish your own children. We are not allowed to do anything other than words. If a kid doesn't want to go along with your words thats basically the end of it and they get their way.
Go to your room! Kid replies with "no". You cannot physically take him to his room because thats "child abuse". The society is ridiculous and even having to have a topic such as this on
Isn't the whole point of innovation to come up with some new idea. Reading a book about how to innovate may give assistance in helping to broaden your ability to "Think outside the box". The title leads me to believe that I will become an innovator just by mimicking someone else.
I truly believe inventors or true innovators are not made but born. Anyone can learn to do something but only people with a knack or talent will do it well.
Troll or not the guy is spot on.
How many times have you seen little kids telling their parents to F' off and only receiving a response back like "You shouldn't talk to mommy that way its not nice". So many kids today have no respect for their parents and through that adults.
Because in this day and age its "Child abuse" to put the fear of god into a child.
While /. usually is all for privacy in cases such as this I believe the sex offender made a choice to give up their privacy as soon as they performed the criminal act.
/. or somewhere else but I do remember reading a very heated discussion about sex offenders recently.
Unfortunately there are numerous cases that have caused a person to be labeled as a "sex offender" that should have never occurred. In some cases children (People under 18) have been convicted of child molestation. Or parents who take pictures of their children in the tub have been arrested for child pornography. Right now the major issue is that laws designed to protect children can be used against children.
I don't remember if it was on
Spam has been solved. The problem is no one is implementing it.
What Bill was referring to was using SPF (Sender Policy Framework) or a form of it. The reason why spam is so prevalent is due to the ease of spoofing from addresses. With SPF enabled and enforced you would need to poison a ROOT DNS server or have a legitimate text record to send spam.
Bill gates was right on this one. Organizations are/were to lazy to enforce it to the extent AOL did.
It's $15
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However for you to reach "Hundreds of Dollars" you would have to stay entertained by the game for a year. Name a console game that you play consistently for a year. Everyone I have ever owned gets played until its beat (Usually a few days after purchase) and is only touched on occasion after that. And if you do well enough in WoW you can be compensated and then some by selling of your character. I made $810 bucks off my character when I quit playing. Albeit it was only about 30 cents an hour
Every day I am amazed at how well console system do especially now that they cost as much as a decent laptop. When I was a kid they were great but as I got older I wanted more involved games especially MMO's. Consoles did not offer this and even now it is only sub-par. The controls are preset barely customizable and the lack of hotkeys drives me nuts. I did not own my first PC until 95 (Was actually a PPC) which I used for playing MUDS/Mtrek mainly which were significantly more complex than any console I had played before. Actually learning how to write scripts in TinTin++ was a blast.
As the cost of computers came down more and more people have bought computers and we constantly see quotes concerning the increase of households that have 1+ computers I have no idea if the original Nintendo had more market penetration than lets say Play Station 2. Has the console market grown or shrunk over the last 20 years? I assume it has grown but is its rate exponentially larger than the PC market, about the same or far smaller? Are the amount of game titles being released increasing or decreasing? Basically there has really been nothing in the console market to hold my interest in its welfare with the exception of "God of War" but I am not going to pay hundreds of dollars to play just one title.
The customization available in PC games IMHO makes them a much better and barely more expensive platform. In addition you can actually use your computer for other important stuff "Like surfing Porn".
You don't get it. Everyone right now "Can" have guns. The problem is that a good portion of society thinks "guns" are the problem and not the people who have them. The "decent" citizens walk around in their imaginary bubble of safety and have no way to defend themselves. The criminals have weapons. Your sheep to the slaughter if you cannot protect yourself. You are not able to talk your way out of everything.
Just for the record I currently own no firearms.
May be funny but he's spot on.
This is also pretty much my current view. I do believe in taking steps to prevent as much non-naturally occurring CO2 from entering the atmosphere as possible but I do also believe that our "Global Warming" is just another planetary cycle of which has been occurring for million/billions of years prior to the existence of the first human.
My basic concept is "If you make the mess, you clean it up". The idea is not to make a mess and we "are" making a mess.
Thanks, I was going to post pretty much the same comment.
For the longest time I had the misconception that farmers were lazy bastards that got paid by the gov to sit on their asses. That was before I learned a few real facts about keeping soil healthy and able to actually grow food.
Kirk has been reading/speaking like this for years.
America is undoubtedly the worst 1st world country when it comes to geography. We have no idea where most of our own states are, think Africa is a country and half the time don't even know what the next town down the road is named. A tool like this attached to Google Earth would help in keeping the interest of children. I think from this perspective it would be a very good teaching tool. One of the reasons I enjoyed History so much in High School was my teacher allowing me to play CivII. Adapting sounds/games into learning tools has been done and I believe it to be much more effective than text books. How many of you became quick multiplying numbers due to "Number munchers?". Entertainment for learning is the way to go.
If I had points I'd mark you up.
What occurred here is students broke the rules and got punished. They need to learn to accept responsibility for their actions. If the kids get off on this one they will expect to weasel their way out of every time they break the rules. You want your house secure? Don't teach kids its okay to break the rules. Hopefully their parents are smart enough to ground them and take away their ability to use their computer at home.
And for the 3-month suspension.. what else can schools do now? When the older bunch here were children you break the rules and you used to get a thrashing from the principle/teach and it was accepted and you went back to class with red eyes. You didn't want to get thrashed you did not break the rules. Now you can barely even talk to kids without it being some form of unacceptable behavior.
I think these kids got what they deserved regardless of the circumstances. Just because the security is poor does not make it right to break the rules.
Yeah but after a big bowl of beans I can find plenty of gas on earth.
I am going to say that in hindsight that makes sense and it may be the end result but I will bet it was not their intention. Greenpeace like any "Extremist" (Positive or negative) group wants everyone to do exactly what they say. It's a power trip. Apple not complying with their demands caused them to look for sympathy in the public. So while they try to run a smear campaign against Apple. Steve comes out and politely asks them to "remove foot from mouth".
Since we ./'ed the heck out of the origonal link. There are some alternates here.. some are slow heh.
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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8
My younger brother has been deployed in Afghanistan 2 times and is on deployment leave prior to his 3rd trip there. Initially when talking to him while he was deployed it was near impossible to hold a decent conversation. He took OPSEC seriously to the point he would not even tell me there was sand on the ground. At first I found it pretty annoying. But after thinking about it anything that allows him to come home safe is well worth the annoyance.
It's wierd how morals play a bigger factor on what get more visibiliy. The chart shows Fraud making up over 90% of all crimes and CP is at 1%. Yet we see these huge articles in the news about CP and very little about fraud. Is this because CP is so morally unjust and people can mentally deal with somone ripping them off?
I agree that 1 year is to short of time. However, what if they had to show resources/productivity in the direction of further developing the technology towards the end of bringing it to market. While they consistently show the improvements/advancements in the technology they can then be approved to patent the idea again the following year and so on. This would in effect show the intent of bringing the product to market and even for the "little guy" would allow him to keep his patent while further developing or locating funds/resources for his production.
This would prevent exactly what occured to Vontage. A company such as Verizon would not be able to just "sit" on an idea waiting for somone to make a buck off it and steal the buck away.
Seriously now Logitech and Microsoft will be suing google over the term double-click..
Seriously if your going to go on a rant don't pull random numbers out of your ass. We are averaging less than 3 US soldiers killed in action a day. If you want to use number like "By the thousands" look to the older wars like WWI or WWII if you want to use hugely inflated numbers. The amount of solderis dying in Iraq is not a whole hell of alot more than the amount that are dying on US soil from drunk driving and training accidents.
It's bad in Iraq and yeah we shoulda never started this war. But Slashdot is suppose to be full of smart freethinkers not people who regirgitate bullshit fed to them by the media.
I am going to address the FPS portion of your comment. The reason why I personally and I suspect many others enjoy online FPS games is because it is raw skill/talent vs another. Most games skill/player ability has little to do with the outcome of the fight. I am currently playing Eve-online and I enjoy playing it. The PVP aspect of the game IMHO is not very fun and very far from balanced. A !skill player in a hugely expensive well equipped ship will annilate a highly skilled player in the same ship but using more midrange quality of the same gear. Just because of the game mechanics.
FPS is equal footing for all players and it is your skill that allows you to do well.