Fuck, my school would confiscate CDs, console games, and various other things they had no business taking. Dumb as shit and I still can't find a reason for it.
Modern schools are prisons, not educational facilities. There is no other need for them in the age of Google.
I understand them if they are rather slow in making significant changes to their algorithm. In this sue-happy society
They could go the way of Microsoft, i.e. Patch Tuesday. Optimize all you want, but we'll be changing the algorithm every month. (Oh, and flagging the quickest responders as spammers, they obviously care too much.)
As for Facebook and its kind, block it if you want to. The high school does. And the kids know how to proxy around it. You are NOT going to stop them. You are better off making sure they know how to use it safely than wishing it away with some half assed software block.
OTOH, learning to get around half-assed technical limitations might be a real useful skill against certain governments in the future. Just make sure not to set the bar too high for them.
Like how Vodafone UK's content filter can be circumvented by changing DNS servers. I'm over 18, but I don't think I should have to prove it to anyone. It's a modem, not a gun.
My kids have no privacy, period, end of discussion.
So you want them to do the "bad" stuff behind your back, then? If you're conditioning your kids to not be honest with you, what exactly do you expect from them later in life?
Oh, you think they'll stop if you tell them to? I thought you remember those hormones?
Apple is primarily a marketing company? Then why do they have what many in the industry consider to be the best OS, running on the best-manufactured hardware?
If things like that are hardcoded and only set for the following year or less the library is shite, and you're even more shite for using it.
It's not hardcoded in the library, it's hardcoded in the rules the library is supposed to follow.
For example, about a week ago, it was decided that there will be no leap second in 2010 because the Earth rotated slightly faster than expected. Did your library handle that?
And how exactly do you determine "false"? Do you also count situations when victim got threatened into dropping charges or rapist got out on technicality?
Those "technicalities" are the cornerstone of modern society, you know. Let them go, and we're back to...
BEDEVERE:
What makes you think she is a witch? VILLAGER #3:
Well, she turned me into a newt. BEDEVERE:
A newt? VILLAGER #3:
I got better. VILLAGER #2:
Burn her anyway!
Second, you linked to an article about professional auditors finding fraud and waste, not exactly backing your argument too well there.
Assuming the article is factually correct, auditors have found fraud and waste for the last 15 years as well, and nothing happened. Therefore, the audit process itself is ineffective, even though the auditors themselves are not.
Slashdot Mirror
and DEFINITELY not one that fears freedom of information, communication, speech and press.
What else is there?
Fuck, my school would confiscate CDs, console games, and various other things they had no business taking. Dumb as shit and I still can't find a reason for it.
Modern schools are prisons, not educational facilities. There is no other need for them in the age of Google.
As a facebook user, I get mad pussy.
As a facebook developer, I get mad money.
Do the math.
0 + 0 = 0
Luckily, we know how to grow trees and clean up rivers.
Yeah, but it's expensive. Better let the peasants starve first.
If you knew the location of the web site where you "belonged", you wouldn't have to search for it to begin with.
Typing it into the search bar is quicker than prefixing "www." or thinking about the spelling.
I understand them if they are rather slow in making significant changes to their algorithm. In this sue-happy society
They could go the way of Microsoft, i.e. Patch Tuesday. Optimize all you want, but we'll be changing the algorithm every month. (Oh, and flagging the quickest responders as spammers, they obviously care too much.)
As for Facebook and its kind, block it if you want to. The high school does. And the kids know how to proxy around it. You are NOT going to stop them. You are better off making sure they know how to use it safely than wishing it away with some half assed software block.
OTOH, learning to get around half-assed technical limitations might be a real useful skill against certain governments in the future. Just make sure not to set the bar too high for them.
Like how Vodafone UK's content filter can be circumvented by changing DNS servers. I'm over 18, but I don't think I should have to prove it to anyone. It's a modem, not a gun.
Very few people learn a valuable lesson by dying.
But those who do, remember it for the rest of their lives.
My kids have no privacy, period, end of discussion.
So you want them to do the "bad" stuff behind your back, then? If you're conditioning your kids to not be honest with you, what exactly do you expect from them later in life?
Oh, you think they'll stop if you tell them to? I thought you remember those hormones?
The day after tomorrow?
Apple is primarily a marketing company?
Then why do they have what many in the industry consider to be the best OS, running on the best-manufactured hardware?
Good marketing.
So ram may be the most significant power consumer for sleep mode.
Not to mention when it's sleeping because the battery is low.
If things like that are hardcoded and only set for the following year or less the library is shite, and you're even more shite for using it.
It's not hardcoded in the library, it's hardcoded in the rules the library is supposed to follow.
For example, about a week ago, it was decided that there will be no leap second in 2010 because the Earth rotated slightly faster than expected. Did your library handle that?
But how else will aabelro promote his own site on Slashdot?! It's just good business sense.
And people wonder why we don't RTFA.
There is no such crime as "sex by surprise."
Well, duh. I read that as "some non-specific sex crime the women made up after the fact".
And how exactly do you determine "false"? Do you also count situations when victim got threatened into dropping charges or rapist got out on technicality?
Those "technicalities" are the cornerstone of modern society, you know. Let them go, and we're back to...
BEDEVERE:
What makes you think she is a witch?
VILLAGER #3:
Well, she turned me into a newt.
BEDEVERE:
A newt?
VILLAGER #3:
I got better.
VILLAGER #2:
Burn her anyway!
My kids will have access to all the porn they want. As long as they don't try to hide their download folders.
Who's this "kdawson" you speak of?
You seem to think that the US == the entire world.
You seem to think geography matters when the big dogs want to put you behind bars. Just ask Julian.
The biggest difference between Linux Kernel development and Windows OS development is
...that you're comparing apples to fucking planets. I bet Firefox has more bugs than the NT kernel, too.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quash
Google suddenly decides to use Windows in their farm.
Or, you know, Mono. With all the brain damage of .NET, C# is still a pretty awesome language.
And no reference of Go?
Go was meant to be an alternative to C, not Java. In particular, it's not object-oriented, even if it has some similar features.
Second, you linked to an article about professional auditors finding fraud and waste, not exactly backing your argument too well there.
Assuming the article is factually correct, auditors have found fraud and waste for the last 15 years as well, and nothing happened. Therefore, the audit process itself is ineffective, even though the auditors themselves are not.
When all you've got is holy water, every problem looks like a demon.
So what prayers do I need to exorcise C++ threading bugs?
It's the OS responsibility to ensure that normal applications can't simply do whatever they like directly to the hardware, including the CPU.
Unless of course the CPU is in a mode the OS doesn't know about.