As a kid in the late 80s and early 90s I had my Gameboy with me all the time. At dinner with my family I would play until my food came. Now granted I would put my game down, usually off as well and eat, as most kids would eat and stare at their phones now. This is also a parenting issue as well. My parents set some rules early on and would have had no issue taking my gameboy away if I didn't answer to questions or stop to eat. Another part of this is the helicopter parenting problem. Parents over protect their kids these days too much, never letting them deal with things on their own very young so they don't develop coping skills when they are away from parents influence more. I dealt with some very mean bullying in grade school and some of it did come from me being very sheltered by my mom, she meant well, but it also held me back from knowing about some things at the same time my classmates did. I really can't believe that a psychiatrist with 25 years of experience just wants to blame mobile phones for kids problems. She's pushing an oversimplified agenda/theory. Not only are more parents willing to take their rotten teenagers to a shrink they're expected to by society and sometimes forced to by the court when the teen acts out. Ms. Evans may see some glaring issues and maybe even have a valid point that kids are not unplugging enough, but it doesn't seem that she's looking at the bigger picture/data, she's looking at it through the eyes of her generation when parents just couldn't get kids to put the landline phone in their room down at night. As I saw my older brothers, 8& 10 years older than I, do and all the lectures my mom would give them about their phone use and the trouble they got into with it. Kids aren't meaner now than when we were kids, just more efficient and able to reach back into the bullied kids room when in our time it was just at school. This is the thing that we haven't figured out yet, how to teach our kids that school is not their whole life, the popular kids now probably won't be after school ends, this time will pass and something better will come.
AT&T can bite me, I have uVerse with 18Mbps and it chokes on Netflix and youtube. Im with AT&T cause I hate Comcast/Timewarner more and they are cheaper than cable internet as well (not by much). I really hope American politics can have some sense of decency restored. This Citizens united thing has flooded Washington with too much corporate money. Telecoms have no guilt, and theres not enough competition.
For all the comments on this being a bad decision, an attempt to make a political statement, it can also be seen as forward thinking. The investors involved in nurturing the endowments probably see the writing on the wall. With clean energy coming into its own, coal will be increasingly seen as unneeded and detrimental to the environment and humanity in the longterm. Battery Technology is about to explode with the introduction of Tesla's battery factories and silicons replacement, carbon nanotube materials that conduct electricity so much better. From my observance of news and company postings home battery use will increase and solar and wind energy storage will be enough to offset the need for coal power plants to take up the slack when the sun is down or the wind is not blowing. Stanford is well placed to see this movement at least in California, where Californians have been burned by the last decades brownouts and greedy manipulative power industry fat cats.
When I read the NYtimes article about this, I was disgusted. I shuttered my Chase/JPMorgan checking account about a year ago now and Im glad I did. I knew the bank was slimey but they dont seem to know what being low is. Its been one thing after another to show that they care 0% for their customers, I remember when I closed my account they didnt even try to keep me, not that it would have done any good. Congress shuts down one avenue for easy profits and they turn around and start nickel and dimeing(sp?) us even more and giving bigger bonuses to executives for screwing up and pissing away peoples pensions. Since when did anyone say that people who work on wall street as execs should live like gods with no accountability until someone with an even bigger stick is annoyed enough by the little people to whack the greedy/lying/s.o.s*** exec and put them in jail for a pathetically short amount of time in a federal resort?
Move your Money! Message your representatives to amend the Dodd/Frank Act and make bankers work for their bonuses and profits instead of collecting them like drug dealers hand over fist....
We bought a phone system some months ago when we were moving into a bigger space. its really just for inside the two office locations, a few of our remote sales people have remote phones, but most just want their calls forwarded to their cell phones. We use Skype for engineering conferences but my phone mostly just collects dust, Ill call other extensions for ease and to keep my battery up, but I wouldnt miss it. Since Im in charge of simple changes to the phone server I have to know a bit about it, but I really dont like the system. I think my boss likes having a system but I think we could have gone another route. Perhaps in a few years when the system is long in the tooth I can persuade another route.
Oh please, what a joke, MS is simply trying to play like Apple and try to get people excited which is such a joke. It's a crappy browser and it always has been. I would shave my head if MS actually came out with something actually intuitive or standards based for their next browser, itll simply be more of the same, going it alone and trying to force developers and users to use their junky implementation of some well known web standard.
Im an Apple user, but I dont approve of this course of action at all. Ive been dissapointed by the lack of quality in the apple updates recently. I use linux regularly on my second machine and it holds great promise as an alternate OS and I want to be able to do anything on it that I do on my Mac or when I have to use Windows. I hope that the linux hackers can figure this out cause I really like Songbird.
they just had to go with windows. Government IT is pathetic. The types of sensitive documents on government computers just cannot be trusted to windows. Either Mac or Linux, probably better that it be SELinux or some other good distro. Its not like government workers need windows and there is no reason that they need Office 2007.
I run mostly freeware, I will concede that sometimes its not easy to find on the first page of a google et al search but if you set up a newsletter on macupdate or versiontracker, and various mac user websites (iusethis.com) you can find nearly any kind of program you might need. Or gasp, compile open source code in Xcode. Finding freeware for the Mac or windows is just like looking for something good in the Linux repositories you have to look around, sometimes for more than thirty days or camp out on an IRC channel. IMHO I dont think this guy took much time searching for the software he wanted.
Absolutely pathetic. This is one of the worst security articles of all time. Setting up an argument with questionable data and posting it for attention.
As an Eagle scout, I can guarantee that the only reason anyone would get this badge is to make a joke about it. They wont be able to sell the book and it will drop into history.
I just deleted my yahoo account because they just havent done much that I like on the internet. The only thing I like that they bought was Del.icio.us. Flickr was ok, but now that I have picasa web albums for mac no need for flickr really. Also Google has been much nicer to Mac users.
whats the big point of all this surveillance? Theres more to this than just "terrorism" and a mind control structure only really exists in scientology today so Im left wondering what does all all this surveillance do for the government? It has to be data overload, and we all know about how bad 99% of government employees are with computers. What the hell is going on? How can the securitat deal with all the information and its technologically clueless employees?
what a waste of manpower. Why do the shareholders of MS listen to Ballmer when it comes to going into new markets that MS has no talent or background in? MS should retreat into just Office, windows, and related online services and leave the innovation to innovators and people of vision.
I see this as a question of value of the content. Because the cost of something is the amount of life you are willing to exchange for something (dont remember the origin, sorry). Todays music and movies typically dont have the same quality as so many we grew up with or came to appreciate. The plots suck, the lyrics are bland, etc... any number of complaints/truths. People today are willing to pay a premium for certain things, but not everything. The extra $ paid when purchasing blank media (cdr, dvdrs) to reimburse creators is widely accepted. Consumers have fair use rights which have traditionally been to make personal copies which is totally reasonable. But with todays technology it is almost a duty of the content holder to make media available otherwise demand will urge others to act. I can imagine that its frustrating for labels and studios to keep up with rate of advancement in distribution systems and keep a profit, but they only have to digitize the media and find tech partners, much like Apple has done with the labels and certain studios/organizations (only Apple had to drag them kicking and screaming). While I would have liked to have lower prices on older songs its not quite feasible with the costs involved for running the iTMS distribution network (server costs) Bittorent could change that, but computer storage needs and network speeds to be massively expanded for individuals to not mind donating space and bandwidth to lower content prices.
"I recall way back when Linux was smaller and faster than Windows. Dare I say it's going the other way now?"
That is probably the reason why Linus is calling for an extensive period of debugging and code cleanup.
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/08/14392 36/
the only reason they hold these hearing is to please overactive parents who are too lazy to raise their children or just want to have a say in how other people raise their children. its the ESRB's duty to rate the games, its the parents position to be involved in their kids lives. Some people know that more government involvement is not the answer while other cant get enough or just use it to inflict their beliefs on others. Elected officials are forced to act in such a way in order to please that group while others have an agenda. Unless a person has a serious mental problem its 99% of the time the parents fault for the actions of the children either by being too overbearing or setting a bad example. Its fine if people want to live their lives according to their religious beliefs but totally ridiculous if they try to make the rest of the world bend to their will because they believe their way is the best.
Holy Fsckin Sh*t! No encryption for anyone? thats such a bummer. UK citizens need to make it known that they will not live in an absolute police state. Thats just a way to prevent citizens from having privacy anywhere else other than their heads. There has to be better ways to fight child porn or organized crime than outlawing lawful encryption. I dont buy into this culture of fear, its such BS. The truth is that we live under the illusion of control and we dont know when our lives will end, we may have an aneurism tomorrow while playing soduku. Honestly how many people are contacting their representatives and asking for all out war on privacy? Go after the terrorists, throw them out of the country if their student visa has expired, if they are arrested for something serious and convicted. But for the love of God dont criminalize your citizens
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As a kid in the late 80s and early 90s I had my Gameboy with me all the time. At dinner with my family I would play until my food came. Now granted I would put my game down, usually off as well and eat, as most kids would eat and stare at their phones now. This is also a parenting issue as well. My parents set some rules early on and would have had no issue taking my gameboy away if I didn't answer to questions or stop to eat. Another part of this is the helicopter parenting problem. Parents over protect their kids these days too much, never letting them deal with things on their own very young so they don't develop coping skills when they are away from parents influence more. I dealt with some very mean bullying in grade school and some of it did come from me being very sheltered by my mom, she meant well, but it also held me back from knowing about some things at the same time my classmates did. I really can't believe that a psychiatrist with 25 years of experience just wants to blame mobile phones for kids problems. She's pushing an oversimplified agenda/theory. Not only are more parents willing to take their rotten teenagers to a shrink they're expected to by society and sometimes forced to by the court when the teen acts out. Ms. Evans may see some glaring issues and maybe even have a valid point that kids are not unplugging enough, but it doesn't seem that she's looking at the bigger picture/data, she's looking at it through the eyes of her generation when parents just couldn't get kids to put the landline phone in their room down at night. As I saw my older brothers, 8& 10 years older than I, do and all the lectures my mom would give them about their phone use and the trouble they got into with it. Kids aren't meaner now than when we were kids, just more efficient and able to reach back into the bullied kids room when in our time it was just at school. This is the thing that we haven't figured out yet, how to teach our kids that school is not their whole life, the popular kids now probably won't be after school ends, this time will pass and something better will come.
AT&T can bite me, I have uVerse with 18Mbps and it chokes on Netflix and youtube. Im with AT&T cause I hate Comcast/Timewarner more and they are cheaper than cable internet as well (not by much). I really hope American politics can have some sense of decency restored. This Citizens united thing has flooded Washington with too much corporate money. Telecoms have no guilt, and theres not enough competition.
For all the comments on this being a bad decision, an attempt to make a political statement, it can also be seen as forward thinking. The investors involved in nurturing the endowments probably see the writing on the wall. With clean energy coming into its own, coal will be increasingly seen as unneeded and detrimental to the environment and humanity in the longterm. Battery Technology is about to explode with the introduction of Tesla's battery factories and silicons replacement, carbon nanotube materials that conduct electricity so much better. From my observance of news and company postings home battery use will increase and solar and wind energy storage will be enough to offset the need for coal power plants to take up the slack when the sun is down or the wind is not blowing. Stanford is well placed to see this movement at least in California, where Californians have been burned by the last decades brownouts and greedy manipulative power industry fat cats.
When I read the NYtimes article about this, I was disgusted. I shuttered my Chase/JPMorgan checking account about a year ago now and Im glad I did. I knew the bank was slimey but they dont seem to know what being low is. Its been one thing after another to show that they care 0% for their customers, I remember when I closed my account they didnt even try to keep me, not that it would have done any good. Congress shuts down one avenue for easy profits and they turn around and start nickel and dimeing(sp?) us even more and giving bigger bonuses to executives for screwing up and pissing away peoples pensions. Since when did anyone say that people who work on wall street as execs should live like gods with no accountability until someone with an even bigger stick is annoyed enough by the little people to whack the greedy/lying/s.o.s*** exec and put them in jail for a pathetically short amount of time in a federal resort? Move your Money! Message your representatives to amend the Dodd/Frank Act and make bankers work for their bonuses and profits instead of collecting them like drug dealers hand over fist....
And nothing of value was lost.
Oh how absolutely true
We bought a phone system some months ago when we were moving into a bigger space. its really just for inside the two office locations, a few of our remote sales people have remote phones, but most just want their calls forwarded to their cell phones. We use Skype for engineering conferences but my phone mostly just collects dust, Ill call other extensions for ease and to keep my battery up, but I wouldnt miss it. Since Im in charge of simple changes to the phone server I have to know a bit about it, but I really dont like the system. I think my boss likes having a system but I think we could have gone another route. Perhaps in a few years when the system is long in the tooth I can persuade another route.
Oh please, what a joke, MS is simply trying to play like Apple and try to get people excited which is such a joke. It's a crappy browser and it always has been. I would shave my head if MS actually came out with something actually intuitive or standards based for their next browser, itll simply be more of the same, going it alone and trying to force developers and users to use their junky implementation of some well known web standard.
Anyone remember that they used pictures as passkeys in Johnny Neumonic, that crazy movie with Keanu Reeves?
ok first it was Coppola, now Spielburg? http://www.buzztracker.com/permalink/32828/45626320/Coppola-Theft-amounted-to-15-years-of-data
Im an Apple user, but I dont approve of this course of action at all. Ive been dissapointed by the lack of quality in the apple updates recently. I use linux regularly on my second machine and it holds great promise as an alternate OS and I want to be able to do anything on it that I do on my Mac or when I have to use Windows. I hope that the linux hackers can figure this out cause I really like Songbird.
they just had to go with windows. Government IT is pathetic. The types of sensitive documents on government computers just cannot be trusted to windows. Either Mac or Linux, probably better that it be SELinux or some other good distro. Its not like government workers need windows and there is no reason that they need Office 2007.
I run mostly freeware, I will concede that sometimes its not easy to find on the first page of a google et al search but if you set up a newsletter on macupdate or versiontracker, and various mac user websites (iusethis.com) you can find nearly any kind of program you might need. Or gasp, compile open source code in Xcode. Finding freeware for the Mac or windows is just like looking for something good in the Linux repositories you have to look around, sometimes for more than thirty days or camp out on an IRC channel. IMHO I dont think this guy took much time searching for the software he wanted.
where is Charleton Heston when you need him?
Absolutely pathetic. This is one of the worst security articles of all time. Setting up an argument with questionable data and posting it for attention.
lmao. The only one I would have to change is not witnessing the moon landing. This gets my vote as the best comment Ive ever read on /.
I welcome our future robot satellite overlords. And at least its the UKs fault and not Americas
As an Eagle scout, I can guarantee that the only reason anyone would get this badge is to make a joke about it. They wont be able to sell the book and it will drop into history.
I just deleted my yahoo account because they just havent done much that I like on the internet. The only thing I like that they bought was Del.icio.us. Flickr was ok, but now that I have picasa web albums for mac no need for flickr really. Also Google has been much nicer to Mac users.
whats the big point of all this surveillance? Theres more to this than just "terrorism" and a mind control structure only really exists in scientology today so Im left wondering what does all all this surveillance do for the government? It has to be data overload, and we all know about how bad 99% of government employees are with computers. What the hell is going on? How can the securitat deal with all the information and its technologically clueless employees?
what a waste of manpower. Why do the shareholders of MS listen to Ballmer when it comes to going into new markets that MS has no talent or background in? MS should retreat into just Office, windows, and related online services and leave the innovation to innovators and people of vision.
I see this as a question of value of the content. Because the cost of something is the amount of life you are willing to exchange for something (dont remember the origin, sorry). Todays music and movies typically dont have the same quality as so many we grew up with or came to appreciate. The plots suck, the lyrics are bland, etc... any number of complaints/truths. People today are willing to pay a premium for certain things, but not everything. The extra $ paid when purchasing blank media (cdr, dvdrs) to reimburse creators is widely accepted. Consumers have fair use rights which have traditionally been to make personal copies which is totally reasonable. But with todays technology it is almost a duty of the content holder to make media available otherwise demand will urge others to act. I can imagine that its frustrating for labels and studios to keep up with rate of advancement in distribution systems and keep a profit, but they only have to digitize the media and find tech partners, much like Apple has done with the labels and certain studios/organizations (only Apple had to drag them kicking and screaming). While I would have liked to have lower prices on older songs its not quite feasible with the costs involved for running the iTMS distribution network (server costs) Bittorent could change that, but computer storage needs and network speeds to be massively expanded for individuals to not mind donating space and bandwidth to lower content prices.
"I recall way back when Linux was smaller and faster than Windows. Dare I say it's going the other way now?" That is probably the reason why Linus is calling for an extensive period of debugging and code cleanup. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/08/14392 36/
the only reason they hold these hearing is to please overactive parents who are too lazy to raise their children or just want to have a say in how other people raise their children. its the ESRB's duty to rate the games, its the parents position to be involved in their kids lives. Some people know that more government involvement is not the answer while other cant get enough or just use it to inflict their beliefs on others. Elected officials are forced to act in such a way in order to please that group while others have an agenda. Unless a person has a serious mental problem its 99% of the time the parents fault for the actions of the children either by being too overbearing or setting a bad example. Its fine if people want to live their lives according to their religious beliefs but totally ridiculous if they try to make the rest of the world bend to their will because they believe their way is the best.
Holy Fsckin Sh*t! No encryption for anyone? thats such a bummer. UK citizens need to make it known that they will not live in an absolute police state. Thats just a way to prevent citizens from having privacy anywhere else other than their heads. There has to be better ways to fight child porn or organized crime than outlawing lawful encryption. I dont buy into this culture of fear, its such BS. The truth is that we live under the illusion of control and we dont know when our lives will end, we may have an aneurism tomorrow while playing soduku. Honestly how many people are contacting their representatives and asking for all out war on privacy? Go after the terrorists, throw them out of the country if their student visa has expired, if they are arrested for something serious and convicted. But for the love of God dont criminalize your citizens
And people ask my why I bothered to install GPG on my Mac.