Step back for a moment and ask yourself, would you rather parent a stupid teenager or a smart one? The smart ones hack Dad's on-line brokerage account and drain his 401k to fund spring break in Rio de Janeiro.
As always, be careful when you wish.
On the other hand, the idea in the main article, that intelligence is mutable, and a persons' persepctive on the mutability of intelligence affect their ability to alter their own intelligence is useful.
And, as always, if you find yourself raising a child, your #3 job is to limit your kids' screen time (#1 is feed, clothe and house them, #2 is love them unconditionally). Limiting the time they spend in front of a TV or computer will do more to increase their intelligence than anything else you do. In fact, if you keep your kids TV viewing under 1 hour per day, you virtually guarantee that they will be in the top 1% intellectually in their generation.
"What if you did campaign for the opposition and do your best to educate people in a state that voted 75% for Bush?"
You're still an American, right? And enough Americans voted for Bush that even though he's not your individual fault, that doesn't matter. He's OUR fault.
If the collective making a mistake separates you from the collective, then the collective is weak. A more responsible reaction to our collective mistake like George W. Bush is to apologize to the rest of the world and work to undo the damage he's done.
The assumption that a bigger team is an indicator of health is insane. Large teams in software development spend most of their time NOT WRITING CODE and NOT DEBUGGING CODE. They spend their time in meetings trying to figure out how to get 25 people or 50 people to all work together.
If you have a really big job, like making a modern spreadsheet product, your best bet is to figure out how to partition it into a series of jobs that can be handled more or less independently by separate 5 person teams.
If the NSA-enabled forces of tyranny and mind control are so powerful in the USA, why did this story get out? I'm sure the NSA saw this guys' e-mail and could have sent FBI agents to put him on a plane to Guantanamo. All the pieces are in place. Why aren't they using them to keep us safe from people like this AT&T technician and his alarming thoughts?
The original article implies that we MUST all use Facebook if we're going to participate in the world around us today. Me, I'm not going to do it. Screw Facebook and Flickr and the rest of it. Peoples' home movies and slide shows of their vacations were boring in 1970 when they were projected on the wall and they're still boring when they're on Facebook and Flickr.
I guess I'm a luddite, but I prefer to socialize face-to-face with no recording devices. Not cameras, not audio recorders. Some things are best forgotten.
If a person wants to illegally share music, they could (hypothetically) get a pair of 300GB USB drives. Put all their music on them. Go to the library, check-out more music. Put that on their drives. Go to their friends houses and trade. A couple of trades with friends who are actively trading will:
1. quickly net them more music than they can listen to in an entire lifetime. 2. make sure they have off-site backup of their music in case their house is burned down by RIAA goons.
And, if you don't put it on-line, none of it is traceable by RIAA. And Comcast can't stop it.
I'm getting an entire server (not virtual), with hardware RAID mirror and other reasonably decent low-end server hardware (2 GB RAM, Core 2 Duo).
I can do whatever I want with it, and the provider supplies the hardware, the O/S and the bandwidth (4 MBytes / second, up and down) for $260 / month. If the hardware breaks, the provider fixes it within 4 hrs. For extra money, I can get more fetuares, like mirrored servers, etc... For an extra $300 / month, I can have 10 M Bytes / second symmetric. They set it up for me within 48 hrs of order.
It's been great so far.
And Vinyl lovers are pretentious suckers. Listening to Vinyl is like looking at an ugly woman. If you squint your eyes so you don't see clearly, she looks better.
"What other industry is there that abuses their customers like this?"
Been on a commercial airliner lately? How about 8 hours on the tarmac without airconditioning strapped into a seat that's 2" too narrow with 300-lb companions on either side of you and crying toddlers behind and in front of you. Vista won't seem so bad after you get off that plane.
How about Tobacco? They don't abuse their customers, they just cripple and then kill them.
Meat packing? Widespread E-coli outbreaks. At least Vista doesn't give you gut-wrenching bloody diarrhea (although I hear MS Reasarch is working toward this goal).
All you need to do is call the Sheriff's office from a pay phone and say: "The people at address XXX are making and selling Meth to babies." SWAT team will be there in no time.
The defendant was from Brainerd. Brainerd is maybe 1/2 the population of Duluth. Uppity City Folk in Duluth come from the Twin Cities with 2-3 million population depending on where you draw the outer boundaries.
I got scammed on EBay. The scammer had 200 positive feedbacks, no negative. They hacked some legit seller's account. I was one of 20 who got scammed before the negative feedback flood showed up.
I got absolutely no help from EBay, just sympathetic "we can't do anything about it" e-mail. Therefore I no longer use EBay and I recommend anyone who does not want deal with scammers stay away from EBay. Friends attempting to sell on EBay have been getting nothing but scammer offers.
EBay is dead to me. Viva Craigslist.
...however, I do not want to run the infected version that ships with HP or Dell PC's. I keep the license key and strip the machine and install a clean version. If I could, I'd order it pre-installed with a clean version of XP. As Dell gets money from Macafee or Symantec or AOL or whoever to infect the PC before it ships, I cannot seem to get a desktop machine with a clean install of XP.
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...with 17 joints in the hand, can it be long before we have special purpose hand-job robots?
...Open Marriages. They're immoral! Begone foul beast of the netherregions!
...ever goes unpunished.
If everyone has computers and knowledge, how will anyone in the existing power structure be able to feel good about themselves ever again?
Step back for a moment and ask yourself, would you rather parent a stupid teenager or a smart one? The smart ones hack Dad's on-line brokerage account and drain his 401k to fund spring break in Rio de Janeiro.
As always, be careful when you wish.
On the other hand, the idea in the main article, that intelligence is mutable, and a persons' persepctive on the mutability of intelligence affect their ability to alter their own intelligence is useful.
And, as always, if you find yourself raising a child, your #3 job is to limit your kids' screen time (#1 is feed, clothe and house them, #2 is love them unconditionally). Limiting the time they spend in front of a TV or computer will do more to increase their intelligence than anything else you do. In fact, if you keep your kids TV viewing under 1 hour per day, you virtually guarantee that they will be in the top 1% intellectually in their generation.
"What if you did campaign for the opposition and do your best to educate people in a state that voted 75% for Bush?"
You're still an American, right? And enough Americans voted for Bush that even though he's not your individual fault, that doesn't matter. He's OUR fault.
If the collective making a mistake separates you from the collective, then the collective is weak. A more responsible reaction to our collective mistake like George W. Bush is to apologize to the rest of the world and work to undo the damage he's done.
The assumption that a bigger team is an indicator of health is insane. Large teams in software development spend most of their time NOT WRITING CODE and NOT DEBUGGING CODE. They spend their time in meetings trying to figure out how to get 25 people or 50 people to all work together. If you have a really big job, like making a modern spreadsheet product, your best bet is to figure out how to partition it into a series of jobs that can be handled more or less independently by separate 5 person teams.
...he's not the same as the old boss. He IS the old boss.
At least with Russia, the citizens can blame Putin for their woes. In the USA, we've got nobody to blame for Bush but ourselves.
If the NSA-enabled forces of tyranny and mind control are so powerful in the USA, why did this story get out? I'm sure the NSA saw this guys' e-mail and could have sent FBI agents to put him on a plane to Guantanamo. All the pieces are in place. Why aren't they using them to keep us safe from people like this AT&T technician and his alarming thoughts?
The original article implies that we MUST all use Facebook if we're going to participate in the world around us today. Me, I'm not going to do it. Screw Facebook and Flickr and the rest of it. Peoples' home movies and slide shows of their vacations were boring in 1970 when they were projected on the wall and they're still boring when they're on Facebook and Flickr.
I guess I'm a luddite, but I prefer to socialize face-to-face with no recording devices. Not cameras, not audio recorders. Some things are best forgotten.
... suicide car bombers.
It begins with Mice, but we quickly escalate to Gerbils.
The gay supervillain thinks he's insering a normal Gerbil, butt he inserts the GM-Uber-Gerbil and that's the end of him.
If a person wants to illegally share music, they could (hypothetically) get a pair of 300GB USB drives. Put all their music on them. Go to the library, check-out more music. Put that on their drives. Go to their friends houses and trade. A couple of trades with friends who are actively trading will:
1. quickly net them more music than they can listen to in an entire lifetime.
2. make sure they have off-site backup of their music in case their house is burned down by RIAA goons.
And, if you don't put it on-line, none of it is traceable by RIAA. And Comcast can't stop it.
I'm getting an entire server (not virtual), with hardware RAID mirror and other reasonably decent low-end server hardware (2 GB RAM, Core 2 Duo). I can do whatever I want with it, and the provider supplies the hardware, the O/S and the bandwidth (4 MBytes / second, up and down) for $260 / month. If the hardware breaks, the provider fixes it within 4 hrs. For extra money, I can get more fetuares, like mirrored servers, etc... For an extra $300 / month, I can have 10 M Bytes / second symmetric. They set it up for me within 48 hrs of order. It's been great so far.
are more interesting than hand-held.
...a vast 500 channel waste-land. The best choice with Cable TV is to cancel it altogether.
And Vinyl lovers are pretentious suckers. Listening to Vinyl is like looking at an ugly woman. If you squint your eyes so you don't see clearly, she looks better.
Think we could get 20/20 all the way to the backbone for $65? That'd be nice, but somehow I'm guessing it will hit a bottleneck.
"What other industry is there that abuses their customers like this?"
Been on a commercial airliner lately? How about 8 hours on the tarmac without airconditioning strapped into a seat that's 2" too narrow with 300-lb companions on either side of you and crying toddlers behind and in front of you. Vista won't seem so bad after you get off that plane.
How about Tobacco? They don't abuse their customers, they just cripple and then kill them.
Meat packing? Widespread E-coli outbreaks. At least Vista doesn't give you gut-wrenching bloody diarrhea (although I hear MS Reasarch is working toward this goal).
...by NC state researchers.
All you need to do is call the Sheriff's office from a pay phone and say: "The people at address XXX are making and selling Meth to babies." SWAT team will be there in no time.
The defendant was from Brainerd. Brainerd is maybe 1/2 the population of Duluth. Uppity City Folk in Duluth come from the Twin Cities with 2-3 million population depending on where you draw the outer boundaries.
Churches...Ignore them and if we're lucky they'll go away!
I got scammed on EBay. The scammer had 200 positive feedbacks, no negative. They hacked some legit seller's account. I was one of 20 who got scammed before the negative feedback flood showed up. I got absolutely no help from EBay, just sympathetic "we can't do anything about it" e-mail. Therefore I no longer use EBay and I recommend anyone who does not want deal with scammers stay away from EBay. Friends attempting to sell on EBay have been getting nothing but scammer offers. EBay is dead to me. Viva Craigslist.
...however, I do not want to run the infected version that ships with HP or Dell PC's. I keep the license key and strip the machine and install a clean version. If I could, I'd order it pre-installed with a clean version of XP. As Dell gets money from Macafee or Symantec or AOL or whoever to infect the PC before it ships, I cannot seem to get a desktop machine with a clean install of XP.
...that big businesses do not care what Canadians want.