My son has just turned 14 last december, and he is not only free to surf on the internet but I personally encourage him to do it as a way of finding knowledge.
Here are my reasons:
1. Porn: with or without internet he will find porn very easily if he wants. Porn can be copied via usb from a friend, porn can be burn in a CD and porn can be found in a magazine. Anyway I am not scared if he watches porn, after all the desire for sex is as natural a the desire of eating, and he has the right to search for it if he wants. I am sure he will not become a rapist or pervert for watching internet porn.
2. Child abuse: my son doesn't need to find friends or talk to strangers on the internet. He has plenty of friends (both sexes) in real life, and they "bother" him enough online for him to have even time to pay attention to other people. Besides, a kid can't be raped through a wire, so as long as you know where your kid is going you don't have to worry.
The fact is he will mostly use the internet for chatting with his school friends (about homework, movies, games and the girl he likes) and for finding info about something he is interested in. He can spend hours surfing wikipedia and googling about stuff he likes (which includes geek stuff, wrestling, X games, soccer, surfing, tennis, UFO's, dinosaurs and music).
If you teach your sons the right things when they are younger they will reach puberty with things clear on his mind, and internet will just be the biggest library available for them, curiosity and desire of knowledge are as natural as sex desire on ANY human.
Considering the level of the potential catastrophe, rated by some people here as a total armageddon for the human race, I think our only hope is Chuck Norris.
is being widely used in my country (Peru), not only referring music "piracy" but also movie "piracy".
This includes commercials which are screened just before your favorite movie and printed ads in mainstream newspapers (which says "Piracy is stealing").
I have explained my son that this is a lie, because "piracy" and stealing are two different concepts, but many thousands of peruvians don't know this difference.
did I mention that the "Piracy is stealing" commercial showed before movies had the MPAA logo at the end?
Interesting, I didn't knew about such behavior in other species.
The one I was talking about was "Amazonica Amazonica", mainly found in Amazon Jungle (Peru and Brasil). Luckily my bird doesn't like targeting humans with her poop;), in fact she doesn't even like to poop inside her cage:D
It's funny to see how, like humans, our feathery friends have different behavior according to the ecosystem where they live.
Parrots love to be on trees, the higher the tree the happier they are. They tend to climb as up as they can as part of their instinct (maybe to avoid predators or for having a better view). I have seen this behavior in their natural habitat (Peru's jungle).
I don't see how parrots could eat their poo unless they can reach it, and in their natural habitat it's kinda difficult because the ground in not only way down, but also covered with meters of dead leaves that will drain the poo to almost unreachable locations. There is no solid soil on a Jungle's "floor", but meters of a mix of dead leaves, humidity, and all sort of recycling insects.
Also, in their natural habitat they have ENDLESS food (you need to be here to understand what I mean), so I don't see why they'll need to eat their excrement unless something is wrong.
Besides, experience have taught me that parrots hate their poo as much as humans do. I have a Green Parrot that hasn't shit on her cage for the last year, she waits until she is taken out to the garden (which we do every day) to take a nice shit while standing on her favorite tree.
One big difference is that parrots developed personality, but octopuses didn't.
One of the reasons I believe parrots have such a remarkable intelligence is that they live in an ecosystem bloated of food. I live in Peru and have seen the Amazon Jungle and you won't believe how rich it can be.
As far as there wasn't even an homogenous definition of what is AI (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/23/1539245)
Now they say they will stick it on cameras? Is this just a marketing trick? or a way to explain l-users that the camera has some sort of "image recognition"?
we have areas in our bodies that can be used as "co-processors". For example, a trained martial artist will have a movement (ie. circular kick) stored in his muscle tendons. That way the movement (kick) executes faster because the signal travels less time.
This is normally called "reflexes". We can train reflexes, we can also train our fingers to play guitar (we think on the note and they "play" it). This is why people can improvise singing while playing a guitar song.
We are already designed multiprocessing, we just need enough (and adequate) training on the tasks we want to accomplish.
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it means a true l33t cracker could easily start World War III?
but outlawing a game you obtain:
1. for kids the game will instantaneously become 10x cooler to be played, just because it will be harder for them to get their hands on it.
2. if you have never played the game you'll be treated like a dork.
3. the game will be sold in the "black market".
Outlaw next GTA and RockStar will sell even more copies. It's just human nature to desire what we can't easily get.
My son has just turned 14 last december, and he is not only free to surf on the internet but I personally encourage him to do it as a way of finding knowledge.
Here are my reasons:
1. Porn: with or without internet he will find porn very easily if he wants. Porn can be copied via usb from a friend, porn can be burn in a CD and porn can be found in a magazine. Anyway I am not scared if he watches porn, after all the desire for sex is as natural a the desire of eating, and he has the right to search for it if he wants. I am sure he will not become a rapist or pervert for watching internet porn.
2. Child abuse: my son doesn't need to find friends or talk to strangers on the internet. He has plenty of friends (both sexes) in real life, and they "bother" him enough online for him to have even time to pay attention to other people. Besides, a kid can't be raped through a wire, so as long as you know where your kid is going you don't have to worry.
The fact is he will mostly use the internet for chatting with his school friends (about homework, movies, games and the girl he likes) and for finding info about something he is interested in. He can spend hours surfing wikipedia and googling about stuff he likes (which includes geek stuff, wrestling, X games, soccer, surfing, tennis, UFO's, dinosaurs and music).
If you teach your sons the right things when they are younger they will reach puberty with things clear on his mind, and internet will just be the biggest library available for them, curiosity and desire of knowledge are as natural as sex desire on ANY human.
without fear it will also be harder to push laws to control the internet and log all communications.
In case you haven't seen it, that's where "democratic governments" are trying to pull their strings now
but internet will be much more used as business tool now that is time to drop costs. This would bring balance to the force.
Considering the level of the potential catastrophe, rated by some people here as a total armageddon for the human race, I think our only hope is Chuck Norris.
is being widely used in my country (Peru), not only referring music "piracy" but also movie "piracy".
This includes commercials which are screened just before your favorite movie and printed ads in mainstream newspapers (which says "Piracy is stealing").
I have explained my son that this is a lie, because "piracy" and stealing are two different concepts, but many thousands of peruvians don't know this difference.
did I mention that the "Piracy is stealing" commercial showed before movies had the MPAA logo at the end?
anyone played with these things? would it be harder than the servo?.
Interesting, I didn't knew about such behavior in other species.
;), in fact she doesn't even like to poop inside her cage :D
The one I was talking about was "Amazonica Amazonica", mainly found in Amazon Jungle (Peru and Brasil). Luckily my bird doesn't like targeting humans with her poop
It's funny to see how, like humans, our feathery friends have different behavior according to the ecosystem where they live.
I find this rather strange.
Parrots love to be on trees, the higher the tree the happier they are. They tend to climb as up as they can as part of their instinct (maybe to avoid predators or for having a better view). I have seen this behavior in their natural habitat (Peru's jungle).
I don't see how parrots could eat their poo unless they can reach it, and in their natural habitat it's kinda difficult because the ground in not only way down, but also covered with meters of dead leaves that will drain the poo to almost unreachable locations. There is no solid soil on a Jungle's "floor", but meters of a mix of dead leaves, humidity, and all sort of recycling insects.
Also, in their natural habitat they have ENDLESS food (you need to be here to understand what I mean), so I don't see why they'll need to eat their excrement unless something is wrong.
Besides, experience have taught me that parrots hate their poo as much as humans do. I have a Green Parrot that hasn't shit on her cage for the last year, she waits until she is taken out to the garden (which we do every day) to take a nice shit while standing on her favorite tree.
One big difference is that parrots developed personality, but octopuses didn't.
One of the reasons I believe parrots have such a remarkable intelligence is that they live in an ecosystem bloated of food. I live in Peru and have seen the Amazon Jungle and you won't believe how rich it can be.
http://askpang.typepad.com/relevant_history/2008/12/octopus-watch-tv-have-no-personalities.html
how intelligence evolved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
They are probably the smartest non-mammal creatures around.
It's documentation is one of the bests among distros. They cover not only installation, but deep customization and administration too.
Every Linux/Unix admin should read/install this at least once.
Don't forget you buy A LOT of oil from Venezuela, who's president not only insulted yours in several ocations, but is as communist as Fidel.
some massive amount of lawsuits?
if the game servers shut down completely do players/customers have the rights for at least getting their money back?
and start chasing the people that harm the children.
and you will be fine. If you don't like the conditions, just don't use the service.
keeping them ignorant and miserable is their way of keeping control over them.
Truth will set you free, they don't want you to be free.
As far as there wasn't even an homogenous definition of what is AI (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/23/1539245)
Now they say they will stick it on cameras? Is this just a marketing trick? or a way to explain l-users that the camera has some sort of "image recognition"?
Why don't they just optimize the needed lines from IcedTea and glue them to their licensed code?
isn't that supposed to be the way OSS benefits the community?
We problem is not with multitasking/multiprocessing itself, but with our "conscious self" connecting to more than one data output at the same time.
What you are doing is sending "batch programs" to your brain so it learns them. Very useful indeed.
which is, if analyzed deeply, a very complicated task.
Just try to do the same thing with a computer.
Evolution is wise.
That is true, but you miss something:
we have areas in our bodies that can be used as "co-processors". For example, a trained martial artist will have a movement (ie. circular kick) stored in his muscle tendons. That way the movement (kick) executes faster because the signal travels less time.
This is normally called "reflexes". We can train reflexes, we can also train our fingers to play guitar (we think on the note and they "play" it). This is why people can improvise singing while playing a guitar song.
We are already designed multiprocessing, we just need enough (and adequate) training on the tasks we want to accomplish.
yeah!
just like Duke Nukem Forever will really really really really really really really come out this year!
they just want their law to be respected, not your money.