I'm a little worried about the direction this is heading. I wouldn't be surprised if individuals who work for these firms will start to be publically identified and their private lives targetted. It is one thing to ddos, when when threats of violence are made the game is moving into a completely different ballpark. There are enough nutters out there and one of them could easily get worked up and do something daft.
Communities of expertise - once a few people get going, networks develop, success motivates others, and so on. Just like banking tends to be highly localised in a few places.
This is an important point - and I wonder if anyone has every bothered to investigate whether a bit of risky fun early in life is more likely to interest kids in science than teaching them from a rather dull text book. When I was a kid a bunch of us went on a school trip to a nuclear power reactor. When we visited the control room the senior engineer took us to a panel, turned a dial and made us watch as a temperature guage moved upwards - he had moved the control rod up out of the stack. He explained what was going on, we were all facinated, and then said he ought to put it back or the alarms might go off and he might get in trouble. Ok, not a chemistry set, but it highlights how engaging a bit of real world experimentation can be. I can't imagine kids these days could even get close to insides of a reactor, let alone play with control rods. Those were the days...
I must say that I find the concerns raised by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to be lacking. They haven't, for example, considered the considerable harms posed by the science kits manual itself. The risk of a paper cut is considerable.
IANAL - but my understanding of British Data Protection Law is that the person who owns the data is ultimately responsible for how that data is used. So by giving their customers' personal information to ACS, which was in turn leaked, might mean Sky customers can take action against Sky. Maybe there's someone here who can advise?
So surely then the predators will just adjust and go for the smell of deodorant? What eats these birds anyhow? Just so a I know what I can expect to find nibbling my armpit.
It stikes me as odd that someone is able to reason that massive head trauma has (only) resulted in a loss of feelings, this loss of feelings has resulted in a deprecation in rational thought, and that therefore we need emotion to think clearly. What is more, if we define rational thought as that which is unemotional then by definition we do not need emotion for rational thought. We are taking something that is extraordinarily complex and reducing it to a few choice phrases. My feelings are that this overly reductionist, compartmentalist approach where we use the blunt tools of language to disect the human mind is deeply flawed.
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that the best place to hide something was right under the nose of the person looking for it - if someone spots an encrypted file, no matter how well hidden, it says you have something to hide. Instead you could simply print out your secret file in the form of a glossy magazine, something no one in the security world would really be interested in flicking through. Gardeners World or Philosophy Today. And then just leave it lying around, literally. It will be the last place they look. And the last thing they will confiscate.
I have to agree with your sentiment - I often feel that my hardware is playing catchup. Fortunately, I have just discovered a browser that seems to cope well with all these new fancy gimmicks.
Neat - I wasn't lucky enough to get a crystal set but did get various other kits. I knocked up a two-way radio with a mate once. I feel sorry for youngsters these days, they just get iPods. Perhaps Jobs should think of an iCrystal kit.
(1) Naive users will find ways to screw things up and come running for help. Some might even forget to turn the device on and still, in a state of apoplexy, come running for help. This is the way things are. (2) Naive users are content if their phone, pc, microwave or whatever, does stuff in a way broadly consistent with what they want it to do and most are completely disinterested in fiddling around with their shiny new gadget in any shape or form. Due to 1. the number of opportunities (freedom to tinker) given to users is directly related to the number of naive users screwing things up. Becasue of 2. apoplexy can be reduced by protecting gadgets from their users without the majority of users noticing, indeed, one might go as far as saying that doing so improves the user experience for the majority.
I'm sensing a disturbance in the slashdot collective karma -- if this is raising the temperature on slashdot, god knows what/b/ will be like. I harbour a mild sense of pity for "Girish Kumar", temporarily, and look forward to the spectacle.
I always search for any prospective employee online these days. I'm not sure whether this is right or wrong - it's just I don't want some problem around the corner that could have been predicted. That said, I am yet to find anything of interest on anyone... suggesting that so long as you are sensible with your online presence then you're probably ok. I do think having a social network is a plus - but material such as "I torture animals", and "omg, my crack habit is way out of control" would probably weigh somewhat negatively. I think it is all a bit over-hyped - at the end of the day, if someone is good then a few over-the-top parties aren't going to make a big difference ont he employability front. As for insurers, I am surprised, acturaries are supposed to be switched on and I fail to see how a very selective subsample, the online community, can be used meaningfully in calculating risk.
I like Shatner, he might come across a little larger than life sometimes but there's a lot who are a whole load worse in the acting industry. And I'm not even much of a fan of the original Star Trek (do I lose my slashdot membership for saying this?) I'd certainly put him in the same class as Caine, in as far that both can easily mock themselves with a wry grin.
I would imagine that being "foreign" may just mean a different kind of intervention becomes legitimate, which might be why Wikileaks resides in a bunker under a Swedish mountain
What search engine are you using where anywhere in the top 10 pages of results for "Horses" are there horses mating with humans? Google with Safe Search disabled doesn't even have anything like that.
Well.. they are very active, well-rounded kids. The youngest doesn't use a computer on account of not being able to read as yet, but does like half an hour of TV now and then, but in general does like to be doing other activities. The eldest has homework that involves work on her laptop, and yes, she was the one that brought the horses mating with humans issue to our attention - and I trust her more than I would trust most adults, as it happens. What I most certainly do not want is disturbing images stuck in front of either of them in a way that removes their opportunity for choice. I do not want them to grow up in a world thinking guns, violence and death are normal - misperceptions that are probably one of the biggest reasons why people don't leave the safety of their houses any more and probably due to the over exposure of violence on tv, fiction and non-fiction. So, thanks, I am an active dad and am pleased to see them develop independence - I just don't want some some fucktard shoving their twisted view of reality down their throats.
As a father I like the idea of being able to leave my kids at a computer or TV without having to continually monitor their activities. Here in the UK we have the BBC and thus their two fantastic advert, nudity, profanity free childrens channels. And on the home computers I've stuck K9, which seems to do a pretty good job without spoiling their use of the computer. Recently they went to a relatives house and log onto their PC. The eldest searched for "horses", as this is something she is interested in, and got links to, amongst what you would expect, "horses mating with humans". There must be a balance, of course, but I do not feel that I can let broadcasters, in the loosest definition, decide what is and what is not suitable for my children. I do not want them to grow up thinking profanity, nudity, violence or whatever is normal behaviour. Similarly, I do not want them subject to some of the adverts that appear on some childrens channels (e.g. give money to help save some poor kid's life... I feel there're more appropriate ways of teaching kids about these issues). So we need something in place, whether that is common sense or an impartial body. Unfortunately I don't think common sense is an abundant commodity and so the US would probably benefit from keeping the FCC's indecency policy in place. There's no K9 for live TV, alas.
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I'm a little worried about the direction this is heading. I wouldn't be surprised if individuals who work for these firms will start to be publically identified and their private lives targetted. It is one thing to ddos, when when threats of violence are made the game is moving into a completely different ballpark. There are enough nutters out there and one of them could easily get worked up and do something daft.
Reader SpuriousLogic notes that it's also getting easier to keep an eye on modern penguins, since Google has extended Street View to Antarctica.
Not so much "street view", more like a "tourist with a camera taking photos of penguins along with some other tourists view".
Communities of expertise - once a few people get going, networks develop, success motivates others, and so on. Just like banking tends to be highly localised in a few places.
This is an important point - and I wonder if anyone has every bothered to investigate whether a bit of risky fun early in life is more likely to interest kids in science than teaching them from a rather dull text book. When I was a kid a bunch of us went on a school trip to a nuclear power reactor. When we visited the control room the senior engineer took us to a panel, turned a dial and made us watch as a temperature guage moved upwards - he had moved the control rod up out of the stack. He explained what was going on, we were all facinated, and then said he ought to put it back or the alarms might go off and he might get in trouble. Ok, not a chemistry set, but it highlights how engaging a bit of real world experimentation can be. I can't imagine kids these days could even get close to insides of a reactor, let alone play with control rods. Those were the days...
I must say that I find the concerns raised by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to be lacking. They haven't, for example, considered the considerable harms posed by the science kits manual itself. The risk of a paper cut is considerable.
IANAL - but my understanding of British Data Protection Law is that the person who owns the data is ultimately responsible for how that data is used. So by giving their customers' personal information to ACS, which was in turn leaked, might mean Sky customers can take action against Sky. Maybe there's someone here who can advise?
You can find NASA's press release and video here
So surely then the predators will just adjust and go for the smell of deodorant? What eats these birds anyhow? Just so a I know what I can expect to find nibbling my armpit.
It stikes me as odd that someone is able to reason that massive head trauma has (only) resulted in a loss of feelings, this loss of feelings has resulted in a deprecation in rational thought, and that therefore we need emotion to think clearly. What is more, if we define rational thought as that which is unemotional then by definition we do not need emotion for rational thought. We are taking something that is extraordinarily complex and reducing it to a few choice phrases. My feelings are that this overly reductionist, compartmentalist approach where we use the blunt tools of language to disect the human mind is deeply flawed.
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that the best place to hide something was right under the nose of the person looking for it - if someone spots an encrypted file, no matter how well hidden, it says you have something to hide. Instead you could simply print out your secret file in the form of a glossy magazine, something no one in the security world would really be interested in flicking through. Gardeners World or Philosophy Today. And then just leave it lying around, literally. It will be the last place they look. And the last thing they will confiscate.
It's Geocities all over again!
I have to agree with your sentiment - I often feel that my hardware is playing catchup. Fortunately, I have just discovered a browser that seems to cope well with all these new fancy gimmicks.
Neat - I wasn't lucky enough to get a crystal set but did get various other kits. I knocked up a two-way radio with a mate once. I feel sorry for youngsters these days, they just get iPods. Perhaps Jobs should think of an iCrystal kit.
here is one someone knocked up a 120 years ago.
Welcome to slashdot - induction will be this Friday
(1) Naive users will find ways to screw things up and come running for help. Some might even forget to turn the device on and still, in a state of apoplexy, come running for help. This is the way things are. (2) Naive users are content if their phone, pc, microwave or whatever, does stuff in a way broadly consistent with what they want it to do and most are completely disinterested in fiddling around with their shiny new gadget in any shape or form. Due to 1. the number of opportunities (freedom to tinker) given to users is directly related to the number of naive users screwing things up. Becasue of 2. apoplexy can be reduced by protecting gadgets from their users without the majority of users noticing, indeed, one might go as far as saying that doing so improves the user experience for the majority.
I'm sensing a disturbance in the slashdot collective karma -- if this is raising the temperature on slashdot, god knows what /b/ will be like. I harbour a mild sense of pity for "Girish Kumar", temporarily, and look forward to the spectacle.
It's easy to tun 3D off... just close one eye
I always search for any prospective employee online these days. I'm not sure whether this is right or wrong - it's just I don't want some problem around the corner that could have been predicted. That said, I am yet to find anything of interest on anyone... suggesting that so long as you are sensible with your online presence then you're probably ok. I do think having a social network is a plus - but material such as "I torture animals", and "omg, my crack habit is way out of control" would probably weigh somewhat negatively. I think it is all a bit over-hyped - at the end of the day, if someone is good then a few over-the-top parties aren't going to make a big difference ont he employability front. As for insurers, I am surprised, acturaries are supposed to be switched on and I fail to see how a very selective subsample, the online community, can be used meaningfully in calculating risk.
I like Shatner, he might come across a little larger than life sometimes but there's a lot who are a whole load worse in the acting industry. And I'm not even much of a fan of the original Star Trek (do I lose my slashdot membership for saying this?) I'd certainly put him in the same class as Caine, in as far that both can easily mock themselves with a wry grin.
What does American law have to do with Wikileaks?
I would imagine that being "foreign" may just mean a different kind of intervention becomes legitimate, which might be why Wikileaks resides in a bunker under a Swedish mountain
What search engine are you using where anywhere in the top 10 pages of results for "Horses" are there horses mating with humans? Google with Safe Search disabled doesn't even have anything like that.
Youtube.
I've asked - it was You Tube
Well.. they are very active, well-rounded kids. The youngest doesn't use a computer on account of not being able to read as yet, but does like half an hour of TV now and then, but in general does like to be doing other activities. The eldest has homework that involves work on her laptop, and yes, she was the one that brought the horses mating with humans issue to our attention - and I trust her more than I would trust most adults, as it happens. What I most certainly do not want is disturbing images stuck in front of either of them in a way that removes their opportunity for choice. I do not want them to grow up in a world thinking guns, violence and death are normal - misperceptions that are probably one of the biggest reasons why people don't leave the safety of their houses any more and probably due to the over exposure of violence on tv, fiction and non-fiction. So, thanks, I am an active dad and am pleased to see them develop independence - I just don't want some some fucktard shoving their twisted view of reality down their throats.
As a father I like the idea of being able to leave my kids at a computer or TV without having to continually monitor their activities. Here in the UK we have the BBC and thus their two fantastic advert, nudity, profanity free childrens channels. And on the home computers I've stuck K9, which seems to do a pretty good job without spoiling their use of the computer. Recently they went to a relatives house and log onto their PC. The eldest searched for "horses", as this is something she is interested in, and got links to, amongst what you would expect, "horses mating with humans". There must be a balance, of course, but I do not feel that I can let broadcasters, in the loosest definition, decide what is and what is not suitable for my children. I do not want them to grow up thinking profanity, nudity, violence or whatever is normal behaviour. Similarly, I do not want them subject to some of the adverts that appear on some childrens channels (e.g. give money to help save some poor kid's life... I feel there're more appropriate ways of teaching kids about these issues). So we need something in place, whether that is common sense or an impartial body. Unfortunately I don't think common sense is an abundant commodity and so the US would probably benefit from keeping the FCC's indecency policy in place. There's no K9 for live TV, alas.
I find this hilarious - there's a whole bunch more here. My favourites are, along with Fucking, Wank (Germany), Dildo (Canada) and Cock (UK).