Don't know the juvenile penalties, but for an adult, disorderly conduct is punishable by up to a month in jail, while libel is punishable by up to three years. TFA didn't mention the exact slurs, but if any of them was "slut", then in Illinois that ia automatic libel since it is an accusation of fornication. TFA says "body parts", and "cunt" could reasonably be taken to be synonmous with "slut".
The whole problem behind bullying is that it is given a pass by the criminal system. Stuff that goes on in high school would never withstand police scrutiny in the adult world. Just an inadvertant brush against someone in the adult world is often enough to bring the police out. Any sort of name-calling would result in immediate job termination (compare to what it takes to get expelled from high school), likely a civil libel suit, and possibly even criminal libel charges.
The guy should spend a month in juvenile detention, but I doubt that will happen with a juvenile "disorderly conduct" charge.
The article draws a false dichotomy between geeks and bullies. The most successful adults in today's society combine intellect with emotional intelligence. The successful adult, today, is the one in high school who could make the jocks & cheerleaders and the nerds, alike, feel like a million bucks.
And then there is the question of what constitutes success. Is it money? Is it number of progeny? Is it spiritual tranquility? Is it lack of hostile interactions? Strangely, the article seems to focus on this last one, whereas in centuries and millenia past, hostile interactions would have been seen as "success", assuming they were directed toward competitors for women and scarce resources.
The metallic reflective layer is NOT where the information is stored, it just aids in the information retrieval. In other words, this method might not destroy the data at all. It's true that it's pretty hard to get the data back, but depending on various conditions it may not be impossible.
Indeed, I can imagine a CD data-recovery player in the future that analyzes non-reflective surfaces with high-resolution lasers or other imaging, just to recover data from aged CDs. Kind of like the laser-based record-players today. And I imagine such a player available at consumer prices.
If something doesn't have a keyboard, I expect it to fit in my pocket. Even my 2005 Sprint Pocket PC (Audiovox 6700) cell phone had a full (and large) keyboard built in.
I can see how a tablet would be cool for playing Scrabble or serving as a picture frame or as a GPS or as an e-reader, but not for composing substantive e-mails or documents. And even for those uses a tablet is good at, its lack of pocketability limits its usefulness.
In response to the market shift caused by the introduction of the media tablet form factor this year, IDC expects the mini notebook category to continue growing but at a somewhat slower pace. Worldwide mini notebook shipments are forecast to be 37.8 million units in 2010, up 10.3% from 2009. Over the next four years, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the worldwide mini notebook market will be 4.3%, topping out at 42.4 million units shipped in 2014.
In the 1800's, Japan was just practicing eXtreme Engineering (XE) and employing the principle of YAGNI. It was deemed more important to electrify the country and then iterate the solution later, than it was to design for future expansion, let alone consider the risks of human life dependence upon the early choices.
I'm confused as to how this works. On most sites, answering the secret questions correctly allows you to reset the password, which is then mailed to the e-mail address on file. How does this help in obtaining the password to an e-mail system? Is there an e-mail system out there that is so brain-dead that it allows you to re-specify a password as a reward for merely answering the secret questions correctly? If so, which e-mail system?
What an idiot. He just says "MySpace falls first, Facebook falls second" without even attempting an analysis into why MySpace fell to Facebook. It's not the definitive analysis, in fact it's off-the-cuff, but here's mine:
MySpace was infantile. It encouraged aliases, whereas Facebook encouraged valid names. MySpace also had GeoCities personalization. There's nothing wrong with infantile if that's what you want your market to be. Facebook appeals to people of all ages, and that is one of the main reasons it won.
Now that Facebook has its installed base of the whole world, it's not going anywhere.
For some reason, the author of this article has AOL on the mind. He mentions "AOL chat rooms" as being in the same spectrum as MySpace and Facebook. Never mind that AOL chat rooms, by being on AOL, limited the potential audience to those on dial-up. More interesting to me is why Facebook has replaced UseNet or even the blogs that supplanted UseNet. The reason is that Facebook is people-centric while UseNet and blog are topic-centric. There is a reason why we call it "social networking". It's different.
I see Facebook as being the Microsoft Word that beat out WordPerfect, WordStar, and a host of platform-specific predecessors to those. Once Microsoft reached the installed base of the whole world, the whole world wasn't about to switch, at least not for a few decades. There was an ultimate and lasting victor in that chain of previous market failures. In the analysis of trends of word processors, it was a case of "Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results".
In Japan, where streets are small and houses close, people are very used to not looking and not seeing things plainly visible from the street. It would be really rude to stare, and it isn't done.
So yes, she does have a reasonable expectation of a kind of privacy that is expected in Japan, and which was violated by Google.
And on top of that, dryers are rare in Asia. Not only do they take up valuable indoor space and consume energy, but Asians think of them as unsanitary and prefer the sun to bleach their clothes. Regardless of whether it rises to a criminal act or even civil liability, Google's act of publishing such photos makes it not only a social misfit, but also as a result anti-environmental.
According to the book DIA and Other Scams, there was a plan in the 1930's to build a ring "beltway" around Denver -- in approximately the same area as the current C-470/E-470/NW Parkway, i.e. 25-mile diameter) -- that would be not for cars, but rather be a continuous take-off/landing strip for airplanes -- take-off and land anywhere.
There was a game show in the 70's where the contestants, rather than pushing a button on the lectern to indicate a desire to answer a question, pushed a button on a hand-held device. I don't recall the name of the show, and I don't even remember whether the hand-held device was "electronic" (i.e. SPST switch). But the home version (the board game) came with metal mechanical clickers -- a metal half-shell with a metal reed extending over the shell. Pushing down on the reed made a sound similar to X-Wing laser blasts (which were created by tapping telephone pole guy wires).
Success is 1% inspiration, 9% perspiration, and 90% marketing (of which "timing" is a significant but minority component). The inspiration is cheap (obviously, since this professor has already amassed quite a portfolio), the perspiration is, yes, a commodity, and the marketing requires Emotional Intelligence, something which, ironically enough, does not often come naturally to perspirers.
So... the real question should be: what it would be like if marketers could implement ideas (not necessarily their own)?
What always baffled me was the 5 year gap between the release of.NET 1.0 and Silverlight 1.0. Remember when.NET 1.0 was released, everyone was asking, what is.NET? Part of the reason for the confusion was Microsoft's marketing department slathering the term on a variety of technologies, as they did with "Active" the previous decade. The other part of the reason was it didn't have a way to deploy to the browser. It seemed to me the main advantage of an interpretive run-time was to sandbox on the client. Instead, Microsoft built all these server-side technologies around.NET.
If Microsoft had released Silverlight back in 2002 -- i.e. if it had the small footprint, Mac compatibility, and easy browser install that Silverlight has now and that Flash had back then -- then not only might Silverlight have supplanted Flash, the momentum of millions of Microsoft developers jumping in that early might have forestalled or diminished the role of HTML5 today.
Not all of this is 20/20 hindsight. Browser install, to compete with Java Webstart, was a no-brainer. Then, if it had been a goal at that time of Microsoft to be the standard for all browsers, would have seen why Flash was succeeding (small footprint, Mac compatibility) and adopted those attributes for.NET client.
I'm not a doctor or medically trained. Since the liver is the one organ that can repair itself, wouldn't that mean that someone who needs a liver transplant would not be in a position to provide the starter liver cells to grow a replacement? If so, then it would have to be a donor, and anti-rejection drugs would need to be taken. So it's a way to increase the supply of livers available for transplant, not a way to grow one's own replacement. Still important, but not the gateway to immortality.
Looks like enable is one of those words that is its own antonym. The first definition from m-w.com is actual empowerment and the second potential empowerment. The Google statement uses the second definition. But the two definitions are as opposite as actual is from potential.
Oh wait, I'll just get modded -1 Troll by those who think I'm arrogant. Let me try this again in Slashdotese:
Timelines are a key part of Montessori at the elementary level. Had the researcher attended Montessori school, he would not have had to rely on xkcd:-) See photo of group of students working with a large timeline on Bergamo Academy's home page.
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Not only are clicky keyboards gone, but the keyboards themselves are going away with the advent of tablets.
Don't know the juvenile penalties, but for an adult, disorderly conduct is punishable by up to a month in jail, while libel is punishable by up to three years. TFA didn't mention the exact slurs, but if any of them was "slut", then in Illinois that ia automatic libel since it is an accusation of fornication. TFA says "body parts", and "cunt" could reasonably be taken to be synonmous with "slut".
The whole problem behind bullying is that it is given a pass by the criminal system. Stuff that goes on in high school would never withstand police scrutiny in the adult world. Just an inadvertant brush against someone in the adult world is often enough to bring the police out. Any sort of name-calling would result in immediate job termination (compare to what it takes to get expelled from high school), likely a civil libel suit, and possibly even criminal libel charges.
The guy should spend a month in juvenile detention, but I doubt that will happen with a juvenile "disorderly conduct" charge.
The article draws a false dichotomy between geeks and bullies. The most successful adults in today's society combine intellect with emotional intelligence. The successful adult, today, is the one in high school who could make the jocks & cheerleaders and the nerds, alike, feel like a million bucks.
And then there is the question of what constitutes success. Is it money? Is it number of progeny? Is it spiritual tranquility? Is it lack of hostile interactions? Strangely, the article seems to focus on this last one, whereas in centuries and millenia past, hostile interactions would have been seen as "success", assuming they were directed toward competitors for women and scarce resources.
The metallic reflective layer is NOT where the information is stored, it just aids in the information retrieval. In other words, this method might not destroy the data at all. It's true that it's pretty hard to get the data back, but depending on various conditions it may not be impossible.
Indeed, I can imagine a CD data-recovery player in the future that analyzes non-reflective surfaces with high-resolution lasers or other imaging, just to recover data from aged CDs. Kind of like the laser-based record-players today. And I imagine such a player available at consumer prices.
No faked moon landing, and humans might have really visited the moon by now.
If something doesn't have a keyboard, I expect it to fit in my pocket. Even my 2005 Sprint Pocket PC (Audiovox 6700) cell phone had a full (and large) keyboard built in.
I can see how a tablet would be cool for playing Scrabble or serving as a picture frame or as a GPS or as an e-reader, but not for composing substantive e-mails or documents. And even for those uses a tablet is good at, its lack of pocketability limits its usefulness.
In the 1800's, Japan was just practicing eXtreme Engineering (XE) and employing the principle of YAGNI. It was deemed more important to electrify the country and then iterate the solution later, than it was to design for future expansion, let alone consider the risks of human life dependence upon the early choices.
It wasn't cocaine. It was Ketracel White
Jan, 2010: Netherlands and UK.
Aug, 2010: Sale of vans with backscatter devices to U.S. law enforcement agencies
So this is the EPIC FOIA confirmation.
I'm confused as to how this works. On most sites, answering the secret questions correctly allows you to reset the password, which is then mailed to the e-mail address on file. How does this help in obtaining the password to an e-mail system? Is there an e-mail system out there that is so brain-dead that it allows you to re-specify a password as a reward for merely answering the secret questions correctly? If so, which e-mail system?
What an idiot. He just says "MySpace falls first, Facebook falls second" without even attempting an analysis into why MySpace fell to Facebook. It's not the definitive analysis, in fact it's off-the-cuff, but here's mine:
MySpace was infantile. It encouraged aliases, whereas Facebook encouraged valid names. MySpace also had GeoCities personalization. There's nothing wrong with infantile if that's what you want your market to be. Facebook appeals to people of all ages, and that is one of the main reasons it won.
Now that Facebook has its installed base of the whole world, it's not going anywhere.
For some reason, the author of this article has AOL on the mind. He mentions "AOL chat rooms" as being in the same spectrum as MySpace and Facebook. Never mind that AOL chat rooms, by being on AOL, limited the potential audience to those on dial-up. More interesting to me is why Facebook has replaced UseNet or even the blogs that supplanted UseNet. The reason is that Facebook is people-centric while UseNet and blog are topic-centric. There is a reason why we call it "social networking". It's different.
I see Facebook as being the Microsoft Word that beat out WordPerfect, WordStar, and a host of platform-specific predecessors to those. Once Microsoft reached the installed base of the whole world, the whole world wasn't about to switch, at least not for a few decades. There was an ultimate and lasting victor in that chain of previous market failures. In the analysis of trends of word processors, it was a case of "Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results".
Of course, in Europe, few people will have full size Ford Excursions going down cobblestone streets.
Yes, not like in the U.S.
Leslie Nielsen died at a time conducive to his legacy. Timing is everything.
And on top of that, dryers are rare in Asia. Not only do they take up valuable indoor space and consume energy, but Asians think of them as unsanitary and prefer the sun to bleach their clothes. Regardless of whether it rises to a criminal act or even civil liability, Google's act of publishing such photos makes it not only a social misfit, but also as a result anti-environmental.
According to the book DIA and Other Scams, there was a plan in the 1930's to build a ring "beltway" around Denver -- in approximately the same area as the current C-470/E-470/NW Parkway, i.e. 25-mile diameter) -- that would be not for cars, but rather be a continuous take-off/landing strip for airplanes -- take-off and land anywhere.
There was a game show in the 70's where the contestants, rather than pushing a button on the lectern to indicate a desire to answer a question, pushed a button on a hand-held device. I don't recall the name of the show, and I don't even remember whether the hand-held device was "electronic" (i.e. SPST switch). But the home version (the board game) came with metal mechanical clickers -- a metal half-shell with a metal reed extending over the shell. Pushing down on the reed made a sound similar to X-Wing laser blasts (which were created by tapping telephone pole guy wires).
That'll work great until cell phones start being implanted surgically.
Success is 1% inspiration, 9% perspiration, and 90% marketing (of which "timing" is a significant but minority component). The inspiration is cheap (obviously, since this professor has already amassed quite a portfolio), the perspiration is, yes, a commodity, and the marketing requires Emotional Intelligence, something which, ironically enough, does not often come naturally to perspirers.
So... the real question should be: what it would be like if marketers could implement ideas (not necessarily their own)?
What always baffled me was the 5 year gap between the release of .NET 1.0 and Silverlight 1.0. Remember when .NET 1.0 was released, everyone was asking, what is .NET? Part of the reason for the confusion was Microsoft's marketing department slathering the term on a variety of technologies, as they did with "Active" the previous decade. The other part of the reason was it didn't have a way to deploy to the browser. It seemed to me the main advantage of an interpretive run-time was to sandbox on the client. Instead, Microsoft built all these server-side technologies around .NET.
If Microsoft had released Silverlight back in 2002 -- i.e. if it had the small footprint, Mac compatibility, and easy browser install that Silverlight has now and that Flash had back then -- then not only might Silverlight have supplanted Flash, the momentum of millions of Microsoft developers jumping in that early might have forestalled or diminished the role of HTML5 today.
Not all of this is 20/20 hindsight. Browser install, to compete with Java Webstart, was a no-brainer. Then, if it had been a goal at that time of Microsoft to be the standard for all browsers, would have seen why Flash was succeeding (small footprint, Mac compatibility) and adopted those attributes for .NET client.
Opting out of the body scanner is opting in to the invasive pat-down. "Opting out" merely validates the false dichotomy put forth by the TSA.
I'm not a doctor or medically trained. Since the liver is the one organ that can repair itself, wouldn't that mean that someone who needs a liver transplant would not be in a position to provide the starter liver cells to grow a replacement? If so, then it would have to be a donor, and anti-rejection drugs would need to be taken. So it's a way to increase the supply of livers available for transplant, not a way to grow one's own replacement. Still important, but not the gateway to immortality.
How hard is it to provide a data feed from HAARP?
Looks like enable is one of those words that is its own antonym. The first definition from m-w.com is actual empowerment and the second potential empowerment. The Google statement uses the second definition. But the two definitions are as opposite as actual is from potential.
Oh wait, I'll just get modded -1 Troll by those who think I'm arrogant. Let me try this again in Slashdotese:
Uh, no it doesn't...
Timelines are a key part of Montessori at the elementary level. Had the researcher attended Montessori school, he would not have had to rely on xkcd :-) See photo of group of students working with a large timeline on Bergamo Academy's home page.