Here's the actual policy draft. The so called "articles about living people" are actually specific heavily vandalized articles that are already eligible for semi-protection, and the "experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia" is any account at least four days old that's made at least ten edits. Not exactly the epic failure of Wikipedia's core principles that the mainstream news media would like it to be. It's heavily ironic that that the NYT is too busy bashing Wikipedia to concern themselves with the facts of the story here.
You're just reiterating "the way things are" without any consideration of right or wrong. I understand that it's normal to violate the human dignity of students. I'm telling you that it's also wrong. These are not mutually exclusive concepts.
It's this stubborn refusal to acknowledge the difference between authority and morality that necessitates the rock throwing.
After seeing so many comments leaping to the defense of cops who use tasers on innocent people, I suppose I shouldn't be so shocked by the consensus here. Fine, fascism makes perfect logical sense, children should surrender their private property to agents of the state on demand or be thrown in prison, whatever. The best argument against that kind of attitude is me and people like me throwing stones at your head, and that's not really the kind of thing that can be expressed over the internet.
"Lemish advises that children should give their parents the tools to be literate Internet users"
Seriously, the idea that the only people who meet new friends online are cruising for illegal sex reminds me of Victorians refusing to answer the telephone because that wasn't how suitable people became acquainted.
Remember that case of the girl who killed herself because her former best friend and their parents, people she knew from real life, were tormenting her online? I was just reading about how when the dead girl's parents finally allowed her to get a myspace account for her birthday, after much begging and pleading, it was on the condition that her mother literally be looking over her shoulder the entire time she was logged on. If anything contributed to her death, it wasn't insufficient paranoia, it was the superstitious awe this entire family apparently had for the internet.
I tried their demo a while back, moved the folder the installer created in my start menu, and when I uninstalled, it deleted all of my start menu shortcuts. I wasn't impressed.
Yeah, that's what the PS interface needs, is twelve new levels of option-hiding. It took me an hour to confirm that half the tool pallete options really are hidden behind the other half, and no, there isn't any way to fix it. How about instead of trying to guess what you want to do, they make a clearly labeled, logically categorized button for each function the application can perform? Would that be too left-field? I though we got over this kind of nonsense when Microsoft apologized for those horrible "smart" menus.
Repeat after me: There are no such things as consumers and content providers on the internet. Nobody pays a flat rate for access. There are no such things as consumers and content providers on the internet.
Check out the website. The real problem here might be that this is one of those outfits where five or six guys sit around and confer long executive titles on each other, and save money on web design by having their nephew download a template. The rates widget that was giving them so much trouble looks like a school project, and the solution was apparently to declare the rates between script tags in the body of the page.
Sure, it's more of a justification than an explaination. But on Slashdot, where Microsoft is concerned, "being presumptuous to people who left the door wide open" turns into "ROOTKITZ NO DEFENSE OMGZ!!!". I guess it's not that surprising, since anybody with any sense manually disabled Automatic Updates the hundredth time it "notified" them about an update they had declined.
You've gotta be pretty stupid to try and get served at a bar with a fake ID, but when some kid does, this lady's response is to... steal it? And then post their picture and personal information online? And then ignore requests to take that information down? And then, wtf, research their family's political contributions? And then talk shit about their college, for some reason? Questionable use the DMCA sort of pales in comparison to what a crazy bitch stalker this woman is.
What's really weird is that they stuck that random "fag" clip on the end of it. What the hell is their strategy there? Trying to create a pattern and make the first one look worse? Throwing out whatever bad words they scraped up that day and hoping one of them catches on fire?
I'm gay myself, and it doesn't really matter to me if some neanderthal sports coach said "fag" on television. Obviously I don't like it, but it doesn't matter. I am offended by some censorship organization taking that small insult to people like me and exploiting it for political gain, when all it really means to them is "that guy said a naughty word!"
Well, walking is hard to screw up, that's true. But I would say that a surgeon or concert pianist has a higher "dexterity level" than I do, and some people are certainly better at speaking that others. Practice makes perfect.
As the parent pointed out, literacy levels have never recovered from the introduction of public schools. They have gotten much better since the middle of the twentieth century, though, when a wave of pseudoscientific teaching trends banned basic phonics from American elementary schools because it was "boring" and not necessary to understand the "essential meaning" of the text. I know how this sounds, but I've got the proof right here on my bookshelf.
Let's look at "Graded Literature Reader", a textbook for fourth graders published in 1901. It contains short works by Dickens, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and so on.
From the preface - "School readers, which supply almost the only reading of some children, should stimulate a taste for good literature."
From one of the essays - "And then, in due time, Isaac would set up for himself, and would manufacture curious clocks like those that contain sets of dancing figures which come from the dial-plate when the hour is struck; or like those where a ship sails across the face of the clock and is seen tossing up and down on the waves as often as the pendulum vibrates."
One of the follow up questions (there are very few of these) - "Who is here? It is I. Who was here? It was I. It was he. It was she. It is we. It was they. Answer the following questions, using the right words : Who is there? Who is coming? Who is reading the book? Who brought the flowers?"
Now here's a textbook for seventh or eighth graders, from the 1940s, at the height of the "new science" of reading instruction. It's called "Let's Look Around".
The introduction has this to say about the contents - "All prose selections in Let's Look Around, aside from those written expressly for the book, have been adapted to some extent in order to provide a suitable degree of reading ease... The reading content has been tested on children of varied ability. The vocabulary and sentence structure have been carefully rated to insure their suitability for the school group for which this book is designed... Excluding proper names, a large proportion of the new words fall within the first four thousand words of the Thorndike word list."
A sample passage - "Charlie enjoyed the trip, for he liked to ride on trains. But Topsy, the kitten, and Jane, the cat, had to travel all the way in baskets. They did not like this at all. Puppy Bingo had to travel all by himself in the baggage car. He did not like that either."
And finally one of the many, many follow up questions and activites and "Things to Do" - "Do you know which letters are called vowels? The vowels, in case you do not know, are A, E, I, O, U."
Well, assuming they couldn't pay the five dollars a month to access our global information network from home, I suppose they would have to stoop to using one of the free terminals at a public library, or god help them, even check out and read an actual dead-tree book.
Woooooo! Now that/. and PA are plugging Uru, I'm no longer a sad fanboy. I'm an early adopter who has secretly been cool for years. Thanks, mass web media!
Exactly. If a high school freshman girl does it with some frat boy, does that make her a "little kid" who's been "molested" and the guy a "dirty old man" and a "deviant"? This teenager met an older guy online, looked at naked pictures of him, and then met him in a park for sex. That's a pretty broad definition of "got molested".
I don't think Link exists enough to die. Like Mario, he's really more an avatar of the player than a character, and his death is just a metahpor for the player failing. When Link dies, the screen goes black, because there's no game without us and Link is us.
I always assumed that what they were hinting at in Wind Waker was that the Link from Ocarina of Time never returned to Hyrule after Majora's Mask.
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Here's the actual policy draft. The so called "articles about living people" are actually specific heavily vandalized articles that are already eligible for semi-protection, and the "experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia" is any account at least four days old that's made at least ten edits. Not exactly the epic failure of Wikipedia's core principles that the mainstream news media would like it to be. It's heavily ironic that that the NYT is too busy bashing Wikipedia to concern themselves with the facts of the story here.
You're just reiterating "the way things are" without any consideration of right or wrong. I understand that it's normal to violate the human dignity of students. I'm telling you that it's also wrong. These are not mutually exclusive concepts.
It's this stubborn refusal to acknowledge the difference between authority and morality that necessitates the rock throwing.
After seeing so many comments leaping to the defense of cops who use tasers on innocent people, I suppose I shouldn't be so shocked by the consensus here. Fine, fascism makes perfect logical sense, children should surrender their private property to agents of the state on demand or be thrown in prison, whatever. The best argument against that kind of attitude is me and people like me throwing stones at your head, and that's not really the kind of thing that can be expressed over the internet.
Check out the picture. Do Japanese scientists always dress like that when they're doing science, or was it just Cosplay Friday?
"Lemish advises that children should give their parents the tools to be literate Internet users"
Seriously, the idea that the only people who meet new friends online are cruising for illegal sex reminds me of Victorians refusing to answer the telephone because that wasn't how suitable people became acquainted.
Remember that case of the girl who killed herself because her former best friend and their parents, people she knew from real life, were tormenting her online? I was just reading about how when the dead girl's parents finally allowed her to get a myspace account for her birthday, after much begging and pleading, it was on the condition that her mother literally be looking over her shoulder the entire time she was logged on. If anything contributed to her death, it wasn't insufficient paranoia, it was the superstitious awe this entire family apparently had for the internet.
I tried their demo a while back, moved the folder the installer created in my start menu, and when I uninstalled, it deleted all of my start menu shortcuts. I wasn't impressed.
Yeah, that's what the PS interface needs, is twelve new levels of option-hiding. It took me an hour to confirm that half the tool pallete options really are hidden behind the other half, and no, there isn't any way to fix it. How about instead of trying to guess what you want to do, they make a clearly labeled, logically categorized button for each function the application can perform? Would that be too left-field? I though we got over this kind of nonsense when Microsoft apologized for those horrible "smart" menus.
How is the Five Year Plan going? Good, I bet.
Repeat after me: There are no such things as consumers and content providers on the internet. Nobody pays a flat rate for access. There are no such things as consumers and content providers on the internet.
Seriously, guys, that's like the whole point.
Check out the website. The real problem here might be that this is one of those outfits where five or six guys sit around and confer long executive titles on each other, and save money on web design by having their nephew download a template. The rates widget that was giving them so much trouble looks like a school project, and the solution was apparently to declare the rates between script tags in the body of the page.
Rock. On. It's so nice to be reminded that there are a few other wacky anti-learning kitten-hating conspiracy nuts like me out there.
You disabling the update service, instead of setting it to "continue to do whatever you want, but bug me more"?
Sure, it's more of a justification than an explaination. But on Slashdot, where Microsoft is concerned, "being presumptuous to people who left the door wide open" turns into "ROOTKITZ NO DEFENSE OMGZ!!!". I guess it's not that surprising, since anybody with any sense manually disabled Automatic Updates the hundredth time it "notified" them about an update they had declined.
So somebody came up with a cute metaphor for something that's been going on for a decade or so?
You've gotta be pretty stupid to try and get served at a bar with a fake ID, but when some kid does, this lady's response is to... steal it? And then post their picture and personal information online? And then ignore requests to take that information down? And then, wtf, research their family's political contributions? And then talk shit about their college, for some reason? Questionable use the DMCA sort of pales in comparison to what a crazy bitch stalker this woman is.
What's really weird is that they stuck that random "fag" clip on the end of it. What the hell is their strategy there? Trying to create a pattern and make the first one look worse? Throwing out whatever bad words they scraped up that day and hoping one of them catches on fire?
I'm gay myself, and it doesn't really matter to me if some neanderthal sports coach said "fag" on television. Obviously I don't like it, but it doesn't matter. I am offended by some censorship organization taking that small insult to people like me and exploiting it for political gain, when all it really means to them is "that guy said a naughty word!"
Well, walking is hard to screw up, that's true. But I would say that a surgeon or concert pianist has a higher "dexterity level" than I do, and some people are certainly better at speaking that others. Practice makes perfect. As the parent pointed out, literacy levels have never recovered from the introduction of public schools. They have gotten much better since the middle of the twentieth century, though, when a wave of pseudoscientific teaching trends banned basic phonics from American elementary schools because it was "boring" and not necessary to understand the "essential meaning" of the text. I know how this sounds, but I've got the proof right here on my bookshelf. Let's look at "Graded Literature Reader", a textbook for fourth graders published in 1901. It contains short works by Dickens, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and so on. From the preface - "School readers, which supply almost the only reading of some children, should stimulate a taste for good literature." From one of the essays - "And then, in due time, Isaac would set up for himself, and would manufacture curious clocks like those that contain sets of dancing figures which come from the dial-plate when the hour is struck; or like those where a ship sails across the face of the clock and is seen tossing up and down on the waves as often as the pendulum vibrates." One of the follow up questions (there are very few of these) - "Who is here? It is I. Who was here? It was I. It was he. It was she. It is we. It was they. Answer the following questions, using the right words : Who is there? Who is coming? Who is reading the book? Who brought the flowers?" Now here's a textbook for seventh or eighth graders, from the 1940s, at the height of the "new science" of reading instruction. It's called "Let's Look Around". The introduction has this to say about the contents - "All prose selections in Let's Look Around, aside from those written expressly for the book, have been adapted to some extent in order to provide a suitable degree of reading ease ... The reading content has been tested on children of varied ability. The vocabulary and sentence structure have been carefully rated to insure their suitability for the school group for which this book is designed ... Excluding proper names, a large proportion of the new words fall within the first four thousand words of the Thorndike word list."
A sample passage - "Charlie enjoyed the trip, for he liked to ride on trains. But Topsy, the kitten, and Jane, the cat, had to travel all the way in baskets. They did not like this at all. Puppy Bingo had to travel all by himself in the baggage car. He did not like that either."
And finally one of the many, many follow up questions and activites and "Things to Do" - "Do you know which letters are called vowels? The vowels, in case you do not know, are A, E, I, O, U."
So who was your fine motor control, walking, and speaking teacher? Maybe we were in the same class.
Well, assuming they couldn't pay the five dollars a month to access our global information network from home, I suppose they would have to stoop to using one of the free terminals at a public library, or god help them, even check out and read an actual dead-tree book.
Woooooo! Now that /. and PA are plugging Uru, I'm no longer a sad fanboy. I'm an early adopter who has secretly been cool for years. Thanks, mass web media!
These kids today are spending too much time on videogames, and not enough time playing hopscotch and plotting the death of God.
Penny Arcade runs on it... occasionally.
Job Description:
Innovative, independant new generation of game creators to revitalize a stagnated and over-marketed medium.
Necessary Qualifications:
Must know how to make promotional content for FPS genre kings. Must be willing to work at home, and for free.
Exactly. If a high school freshman girl does it with some frat boy, does that make her a "little kid" who's been "molested" and the guy a "dirty old man" and a "deviant"? This teenager met an older guy online, looked at naked pictures of him, and then met him in a park for sex. That's a pretty broad definition of "got molested".
I don't think Link exists enough to die. Like Mario, he's really more an avatar of the player than a character, and his death is just a metahpor for the player failing. When Link dies, the screen goes black, because there's no game without us and Link is us. I always assumed that what they were hinting at in Wind Waker was that the Link from Ocarina of Time never returned to Hyrule after Majora's Mask.