It is practically impossible to teach good design to students that have had a prior exposure to LEGO: as potential engineers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
-with apologies to designers, engineers (especially design engineers), architects, LEGO company, people living in LEGO houses, etc. or anyone else offended by the comparison.
As with BASIC, kids love playing with LEGO. It's easy to grasp the concepts, but leaves enough space for imagination and creativity. Some of the kits today appear too purpose-built, you can't use your imagination to create much other than what's shown on the box.
No, I don't know where I'm going with this. But I thought it was a good comparison. I started with BASIC, and... well, look at me now!
...if a breach does occur, a company must notify any customers concerned...
A little alarm bell went off in my head when I read that. Put on your tinfoil hat and come with me down business plan alley...
1. Start a business; oh, online marketing or something. Doesn't matter, just a shell. 2. Collect "customer" data by whatever means necessary. Email addresses of course, anything else is a bonus. 3. Protect the data as best you can, but at some point, lose ALL the data. I didn't RTWA (whole act) so I don't know if suspected breaches count, but let's say they do. Even better if you don't even have to actually lose any data, just suspect it. Otherwise, you would actually have to cook up some "security breach" or something. 4. Here's the good part - you now have hopefully MILLIONS of customers that you MUST contact BY LAW to alert them to a possible security breach. Sounds like a great opportunity to let your customers know about new improved security products made by "affiliated" companies - they paid me some $$$ and are now fully affiliated. 5. Sell additional ad space on the emails for related items. The emails will have all sorts of official government-sactioned stuff to GUARANTEE that they will be opened and read. 6. Profit !! 7. Try to improve security. 8. Damn those evil haxxorz! They broke in again! Now we have to "notify" all the customers again! Damn! 9. Profit some more...
The DATA protection sounds like a good idea, but I hope there is some protection against this type of scenario. If I can come up with the half-baked idea above, I imagine a bunch of scummy spammers are already frothing at the mouth.
Did any of this happen in California (where a similar law has been operating for 3 years) ?
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is Fear - Fear and Uncertainty. Our 2 weapons are Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. No, wait! Among our weapons are Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt and now PEDANTRY. If we cannot subjegate our enemies with the first 3, we will now numb their minds with pompous trolls spouting come-ons about picayune, barely-related topics; drawing the discussion off to safer areas. I'll come in again.
Seriously though, I've recently found myself losing interest in/. articles more and more - this thread so far is a prime example of why.
No, I'm not new here. It was a lot funnier in my mind. (and I voted 'Other' - 'Eric the Half a Bee' for me.)
My favorite related urban legend: Young daughter has her own car - a little Neon or something. Poor girl gets into an accident, but comes away relatively unscathed. "It could have been much worse" frets Daddy, who then buys her an SUV. Thanks, Dad, for making the roads a safer place.
It's not only the news/interviews, it's the commercials as well. Of course, they usually don't come out and say it but there is the same implication of "You are a bad parent if you endanger your kids in any lesser vehicle".
Very sad, I agree.
--- cab neerst tshonzi pmioxdup ulbiz urvurzy izimith! * can you figure out these backward ELO lyrics?
3a. A regulated system, as of diet, therapy, or exercise, intended to promote health or achieve another beneficial effect.
"Diet, therapy or exercise" are intended as examples; not applicable in this case. I guess the beneficial effect is cashflow-related - for them, anyway.
When money concerns get involved with engineering concerns is when things get futzzed up.
I think advancements in technology may have something to do with these new formats, as well.
Yes, I understand your concerns and I share them. But would you rather have closed-source cathedral decisions being made for you or would you rather have the open-source bazaar? We are the milk separator - as consumers, we make the cream rise to the top. (Recall Beta/VHS)
It's all part of the M$ strategy of divide-and-conquer. Keep all the open source folks squabbling amongst themselves, chewing up cycles that would better be spent on the task at hand. Then use that against them^H^H^H^H us in the executive press - "Just look at these basement hobbyists - how can they produce anything coherent when they can't even discuss things in a civil manner? On the other hand, we here at Microsoft offer the One True Way(tm)... *coughFUD*". Seems to be a pattern over the last while (recent/. stories from memory): BSD - Linux Firefox / Mozilla KDE - Safari Xfree86 - X.org etc. My true opinion? Squabbling is good! Long live the bazaar!
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"...or give it to a homeless guy or something"
Have some fun - try sneaking up on him.
"... embedding a captcha in the ad and requiring the reader to solve the captcha before accessing the page."
You are a sick and twisted individual.
Unfortunately, you have a bright future ahead of you in advertising.
Cheers
Dave
My apologies for being unclear. I didn't mean you, I meant the original poster TubeSteak. Smearing Google by implying their dubious ethical standards.
Obviously, he works for an astroturfer hired by Yahoo!
How about this comparison?
... well, look at me now!
It is practically impossible to teach good design to students that have had a prior exposure to LEGO: as potential engineers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
-with apologies to designers, engineers (especially design engineers), architects, LEGO company, people living in LEGO houses, etc. or anyone else offended by the comparison.
As with BASIC, kids love playing with LEGO. It's easy to grasp the concepts, but leaves enough space for imagination and creativity. Some of the kits today appear too purpose-built, you can't use your imagination to create much other than what's shown on the box.
No, I don't know where I'm going with this. But I thought it was a good comparison. I started with BASIC, and
It's trivial:
10 GOTO END
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* Using BAGIC language
...if a breach does occur, a company must notify any customers concerned...
...
A little alarm bell went off in my head when I read that. Put on your tinfoil hat and come with me down business plan alley
1. Start a business; oh, online marketing or something. Doesn't matter, just a shell.
2. Collect "customer" data by whatever means necessary. Email addresses of course, anything else is a bonus.
3. Protect the data as best you can, but at some point, lose ALL the data. I didn't RTWA (whole act) so I don't know if suspected breaches count, but let's say they do. Even better if you don't even have to actually lose any data, just suspect it. Otherwise, you would actually have to cook up some "security breach" or something.
4. Here's the good part - you now have hopefully MILLIONS of customers that you MUST contact BY LAW to alert them to a possible security breach. Sounds like a great opportunity to let your customers know about new improved security products made by "affiliated" companies - they paid me some $$$ and are now fully affiliated.
5. Sell additional ad space on the emails for related items. The emails will have all sorts of official government-sactioned stuff to GUARANTEE that they will be opened and read.
6. Profit !!
7. Try to improve security.
8. Damn those evil haxxorz! They broke in again! Now we have to "notify" all the customers again! Damn!
9. Profit some more...
The DATA protection sounds like a good idea, but I hope there is some protection against this type of scenario. If I can come up with the half-baked idea above, I imagine a bunch of scummy spammers are already frothing at the mouth.
Did any of this happen in California (where a similar law has been operating for 3 years) ?
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zomg!!1! Custom Ponies!!
I believe is said PRE-teen.
If I recall correctly, there is an odd phase that many girls go through between 9 and 11 where they are obsessed with horses.
Research disclaimer: Even at that age, I was socially challenged, so I only made these observations from a distance.
Besides, everyone loves kittens!
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Research cover-up: tinfoil causes brain tumors
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
/. articles more and more - this thread so far is a prime example of why.
Our chief weapon is Fear - Fear and Uncertainty.
Our 2 weapons are Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
No, wait! Among our weapons are Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt and now PEDANTRY. If we cannot subjegate our enemies with the first 3, we will now numb their minds with pompous trolls spouting come-ons about picayune, barely-related topics; drawing the discussion off to safer areas.
I'll come in again.
Seriously though, I've recently found myself losing interest in
No, I'm not new here. It was a lot funnier in my mind.
(and I voted 'Other' - 'Eric the Half a Bee' for me.)
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Tin foil causes brain cancer
When's it coming out? I want it now! Where do I pay? How about more ringtones? And a subwoofer with surround sound!
---Secular kittenism may be right for you.
My favorite related urban legend:
Young daughter has her own car - a little Neon or something. Poor girl gets into an accident, but comes away relatively unscathed. "It could have been much worse" frets Daddy, who then buys her an SUV.
Thanks, Dad, for making the roads a safer place.
It's not only the news/interviews, it's the commercials as well. Of course, they usually don't come out and say it but there is the same implication of "You are a bad parent if you endanger your kids in any lesser vehicle".
Very sad, I agree.
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cab neerst
tshonzi pmioxdup ulbiz urvurzy izimith!
* can you figure out these backward ELO lyrics?
Finally, all that spam provides the answer:
Problems keeping it up?
Get v1ag.ra, x4na.x etc. mailed direct to your ISS and end your low-orbit problems with the ladies forever.
OK, jokes over.
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Pre|ension is in the eye of the beholder
1.3a is the winning entry:
3a. A regulated system, as of diet, therapy, or exercise, intended to promote health or achieve another beneficial effect.
"Diet, therapy or exercise" are intended as examples; not applicable in this case. I guess the beneficial effect is cashflow-related - for them, anyway.
Not allowed. Parent thought of it first.
I think advancements in technology may have something to do with these new formats, as well.
Yes, I understand your concerns and I share them. But would you rather have closed-source cathedral decisions being made for you or would you rather have the open-source bazaar? We are the milk separator - as consumers, we make the cream rise to the top. (Recall Beta/VHS)
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Siggy Ztardust
Yes, Dexter-san.
BUT
kenny.somecorp.co.jp is the REAL server.
kenny.somecorp.com.jp is our cleverly disguised mock server.
You bring dishonour to somecorp. Go to the bukkake lounge to await your punishment.
Company: Somebody set up us the bomb
...and 8 others - we'll call them 'undecided'.
Government: HAHAHAHAHAHA
Company: You killed kenny.somecorp.com.jp! You bastards!
Maybe they're trying to stimulate hardware sales.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the sig
Smart people like me who understand binary.
Those who don't.
Current Title of TFA (21 Sep 6:45pm EST):
7 1&cid=13615388
WinMX PNP Network Mysteriously Ends Operations
WinMX was a plug-n-pray network? Who knew?
By the time you read this, it will probably have been corrected to 'P2P'.
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Public service astroturf warning:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1627
I'm holding out for teh 1.3.37 version.
Lame apache tribute:
http://www.adojji.org/adojji/
It's all part of the M$ strategy of divide-and-conquer. Keep all the open source folks squabbling amongst themselves, chewing up cycles that would better be spent on the task at hand. Then use that against them^H^H^H^H us in the executive press - "Just look at these basement hobbyists - how can they produce anything coherent when they can't even discuss things in a civil manner? On the other hand, we here at Microsoft offer the One True Way(tm)... *coughFUD*". /. stories from memory):
Seems to be a pattern over the last while (recent
BSD - Linux
Firefox / Mozilla
KDE - Safari
Xfree86 - X.org
etc.
My true opinion? Squabbling is good! Long live the bazaar!
--
A conspiracy a day keeps the
But what if I have some unhygienic bags that need to be douched?
I would want to douche bags (to rectify their baginine hygiene problems).
We're now up to 5... do I hear 5?
RHEL 5 - Going once, going twice...
...or better yet, AOL diskettes.