It must be pretty tough if your teacher is your dad, uncle, or even older sibling. Or if you belong to some sports club or similar and everyone else is a friend.
Also what's the proposed legal situation if a student and/or the teacher uses a psedonym and is unaware that their friend is a teacher/pupil?
Is it just me, or is this just voluntary user authentication? If you're someone important and someone else posts as you (or even just shares your name) there is now an opportunity to validate who you are and get a little badge. The only people this hurts are people signing up as "Steve Jobs" and wanting to get screenshots of "Posted from Android" or similar idiocy. There is no relation here to a policy of needing to use your own name, simply a means for you to PREVENT someone from using your name.
You know, kind of like GPG/PGP-signing your emails.
Seriously this could be an option for them to have the "best of both". If they lighten up on the "real user" requirement but give you the option of a real user ID and a badge, allow filtering of lists to show verified people only then they could keep everyone happy.
Some hikers keep the GPS in their backpack as a backup, look at the tracks and paths on a map, and as the parent poster says look at the contours and lie of the land. They will probably look at the map once or twice per mile in open country. If they intended to walk along the top edge of a wood, but find they reach it at a path entering the middle, a quick check of the map and on they go - they can join their original track at the other side. Often their GPS will show coordinates only, and will be used in an emergency referencing against a paper map.
Other hikers have a GPS with a detailed walking map added. They will look at this every few hunderd yards. You will sometimes see them backtrack 20 yards after a fork in a path and take the other one, rather than angling across country to join it. If they expected to walk along the top edge of a wood and reach it at a path entering the middle they would probably bactrack or find a marked path round the edge. Entering woods can bring you into dangerous territory where you lose the signal. If their GPS failed or ran out of charge they would probably be on their mobile calling rescue services. If they didn't get a signal they would not want to head for higher land if it meant leaving the track.
To me the second type doesn't sound fun and is a liability to themselves and the rescue services.
We have lots of space, you're welcome to move here.
Just watch out for the midgies.
I might just do that. In fact I suspect that if you had a referendum in England asking whether you wanted to be part of Scotland or ruled by the toffy-nosed Southern conservatives the border would move a couple of hundred miles south.
You probably wouldn't say that if you loved in a remote location. For some people connecting to the internet means driving to a wifi-enabled cafe or buying a satellite connection, i.e. the majority of situations they can't connect.
Perhaps those people are not the target market for this game, then?
Well - obviously not. But should they be denied the ability to play the game? How much further would you take it - if the next generation of Windows required to be on line would it be fair to remove their computers?
Sure, there are some situations where you cannot connect to internet, but it's really in minority.
You probably wouldn't say that if you loved in a remote location. For some people connecting to the internet means driving to a wifi-enabled cafe or buying a satellite connection, i.e. the majority of situations they can't connect.
Why would WWI soldiers be worried about the 3rd light? They would all be hanging out in their trenches down below the sight line of the enemy, NOT lighting matches and having a smoke in the middle of no mans land.
I stand corrected. Some web research shows that it was the Boer War.
Is it me or is the article a load of bollocks? "The Chinese will win because the I Ching teaches them synchronicity"! Haven't soldiers consistently exhibited synchronicity? The "gut feeling" that a valley is unsafe. The WWI idea that the "third light" was unlucky, so they extinguished the match after lighting two - years before someone figured out that the time to light three cigarettes was just long enough for a sniper to notice, aim, and fire!
Also, It will take a lot to convince me that synchronicity is of primary importance in a cyber-war. We are not talking about pursuing agents through second life, we are talking about finding weaknesses in web-connected devices that control infrastructure, and viruses that will make the centrifuges in a uranium processing plant wear out. I think the author is talking complete bollocks.
I'll ignore the implication that anyone you consider "upper class" hasn't worked for what they have
If you mean upper class (aristocracy) rather than upper middle class (business owners, entrepreneurs, company directors, etc.) then I think GP is correct 90% of the time.
The countries that can gloat are: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom
Forgive us for gloating that we have a higher credit rating in the UK, its just about the first chance we've had to gloat about anything related to our economy since 2008. I know that this probably won't last long - they probably just haven't got round to downgrading us yet!
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Also what's the proposed legal situation if a student and/or the teacher uses a psedonym and is unaware that their friend is a teacher/pupil?
Is it just me, or is this just voluntary user authentication? If you're someone important and someone else posts as you (or even just shares your name) there is now an opportunity to validate who you are and get a little badge. The only people this hurts are people signing up as "Steve Jobs" and wanting to get screenshots of "Posted from Android" or similar idiocy. There is no relation here to a policy of needing to use your own name, simply a means for you to PREVENT someone from using your name.
You know, kind of like GPG/PGP-signing your emails.
Seriously this could be an option for them to have the "best of both". If they lighten up on the "real user" requirement but give you the option of a real user ID and a badge, allow filtering of lists to show verified people only then they could keep everyone happy.
I hear they will also stick a chip in your ass so their street view cars can identify you!
You could be exempt, you obviously already have a chip on your shoulder.
Is it just me....
I don't know - please show us your google badge and I'll tell you
Anything you find on these two searches is likely to be true
Not for long - cue blackhawk-66 shags sheep page.
Because ad hominem attacks show such a depth of character and wisdom...
Way to go Judas.
I'll make a note of that, and be sure to light an actual fire before yelling
Stay where you are. The police will arrive shortly
Some hikers keep the GPS in their backpack as a backup, look at the tracks and paths on a map, and as the parent poster says look at the contours and lie of the land. They will probably look at the map once or twice per mile in open country. If they intended to walk along the top edge of a wood, but find they reach it at a path entering the middle, a quick check of the map and on they go - they can join their original track at the other side. Often their GPS will show coordinates only, and will be used in an emergency referencing against a paper map.
Other hikers have a GPS with a detailed walking map added. They will look at this every few hunderd yards. You will sometimes see them backtrack 20 yards after a fork in a path and take the other one, rather than angling across country to join it. If they expected to walk along the top edge of a wood and reach it at a path entering the middle they would probably bactrack or find a marked path round the edge. Entering woods can bring you into dangerous territory where you lose the signal. If their GPS failed or ran out of charge they would probably be on their mobile calling rescue services. If they didn't get a signal they would not want to head for higher land if it meant leaving the track.
To me the second type doesn't sound fun and is a liability to themselves and the rescue services.
Yes, because countries with constitutions never have such a problem, do they?
Actually in terms of suddenly preventing free speech, etc. they don't.
We have lots of space, you're welcome to move here.
Just watch out for the midgies.
I might just do that. In fact I suspect that if you had a referendum in England asking whether you wanted to be part of Scotland or ruled by the toffy-nosed Southern conservatives the border would move a couple of hundred miles south.
Perhaps those people are not the target market for this game, then?
Well - obviously not. But should they be denied the ability to play the game? How much further would you take it - if the next generation of Windows required to be on line would it be fair to remove their computers?
Sure, there are some situations where you cannot connect to internet, but it's really in minority.
You probably wouldn't say that if you loved in a remote location. For some people connecting to the internet means driving to a wifi-enabled cafe or buying a satellite connection, i.e. the majority of situations they can't connect.
Linux does not have a shot at the desktop and never will. That is some /. nerd fantasy.
I think it had a shot years ago. And missed.
Why would WWI soldiers be worried about the 3rd light? They would all be hanging out in their trenches down below the sight line of the enemy, NOT lighting matches and having a smoke in the middle of no mans land.
I stand corrected. Some web research shows that it was the Boer War.
Is it me or is the article a load of bollocks? "The Chinese will win because the I Ching teaches them synchronicity"! Haven't soldiers consistently exhibited synchronicity? The "gut feeling" that a valley is unsafe. The WWI idea that the "third light" was unlucky, so they extinguished the match after lighting two - years before someone figured out that the time to light three cigarettes was just long enough for a sniper to notice, aim, and fire!
Also, It will take a lot to convince me that synchronicity is of primary importance in a cyber-war. We are not talking about pursuing agents through second life, we are talking about finding weaknesses in web-connected devices that control infrastructure, and viruses that will make the centrifuges in a uranium processing plant wear out. I think the author is talking complete bollocks.
Thanks - very informative. I thought there has to be something like that now USB is so widely used.
Does this mean that USB3 cannot be implemented on tablets, netbooks and other low power portables?
I'll ignore the implication that anyone you consider "upper class" hasn't worked for what they have
If you mean upper class (aristocracy) rather than upper middle class (business owners, entrepreneurs, company directors, etc.) then I think GP is correct 90% of the time.
just some yobs who believe they can do what you want because the police won't stop them. multiculturalism and tolerasty at its best.
Is that toleration of Rastafarians?
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Funny you should say this while London is burning (literally).
Not part of the UK though, just an enclave of niggerland. They can burn their enclave to hell as far as I'm concerned.
The countries that can gloat are: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom
Forgive us for gloating that we have a higher credit rating in the UK, its just about the first chance we've had to gloat about anything related to our economy since 2008. I know that this probably won't last long - they probably just haven't got round to downgrading us yet!
I'm also from Texas, native enough to know where the Chicken Ranch was and which governor personally shut it down,
That would impress me more if your mom hadn't worked there.
Exactly. My "Intents" are that Google pisses the fuck off.
Your intents are making you rather intense
...mysteriously pinned to the bottom of a dust-filled crater.
Send Captain Scarlet