You think the style of kids clothing is a problem?
Yup. Call me "old fashioned", but who am I likely to trust more on sight, someone who looks neat, clean, and obviously cares about their appearance, or someone sloppy, slovenly, who apprently doesn't care what other people think? Am I being judgemental? You bet! Because we don't live in a "perfect world" where how you dress and what you do and how you feel about things is unimportant. On Slashdot, people make judgements all the time, based solely on a few fragmentary paragraphs written now-and-again, and that perhaps has even less significance than how someone dresses.
And now for the shocker -- some of these "reporbates" are actually decent kids. The problem is that they've been fed a lie, that adults are the cause of all their problems, adults don't understand them, and adults don't deserve any respect. They find it easier to be malcontents than to take a good hard look at their own behavior and realize that they do it to themselves. We all do. How we act and how we react to the things going on in this world shapes who we are, not the events themselves.
So forgive me if my attitude seems a bit out of place in the modern world, but perhaps we need to go back to some "old fashioned" values like decency, honesty, and respect. Perhaps if parents learned to show those values to and in front of their kids, legislators wouldn't feel the need to step in and resuce the youth of America.
is that to build a truly self-aware computing grid, the LAST thing you want is for it to be distributed over the entire globe.
Unless you're the inscruitable Chinese menace, waiting for the day they are capable of global domination... Muahahahaha!!!! [cue 20's radio serial evil music]
Now, if you're saying that Apple should have had some kind of a dialog box come up when you first upgraded to and launched iTunes 6.0.2 explaining this and giving a clear option to simply opt to not use the new MiniStore, sure, I'll agree that would have likely been better. But Apple wasn't hiding this, and this isn't damage control, other than the fact that if enough blogs keep (incorrectly) asserting that Apple is "spying" on you, then it isn't long before some mainstream media picks the (incorrect) story up.
Perhaps "spying" is too strong a word, but they weren't exactly putting it out front for people to see easily, were they? Look, after Sony's DRM flap, even a hint of impropriety is enough to release the hounds. Why should Apple be immune? Any company that can't come right out and tell you exactly what they are doing up front is simply asking to be ridiculed.
Don't worry, this isn't going to put a dent in the growing ranks of the iZombies, but it should make people read the fine print more carefully, and it should make any company (not just Sony, Apple, or Symantec) be more wary about trying to do things in the background rather than being up front about it. The only way people are going technology they can trust is if they demand accountability from the companies that produce it. This isn't on par with the Sony DRM flap, but who knows where it might have gone had it been left unchecked.
Apple could have avoided the hullaballoo over this by making it clear from the start that this was going on. The only reason anyone got up-in-arms over it was the apparent lack of straightforward documentation on how the system worked and what a user's rights are. Now everyone knows and Apple should make sure everyone knows in the future.End of story.
A kid plays violent games and then brings a gun to school to even some scores, and they blame the video games. They don'tblame the parents how did not monitor the child's habits, see the warning signs, take preventative measures. Parents howl they need a rating system, then blatantly ignore it, letting their kids do pretty much whatever they want.
My wife see it time and again -- children who are running their homes. Their parents are afraid to punish them for fear of being turned in to the authorities or being ridiculed. No one spanks their children anymore. Punishments are weak. Let's face it, sending a kid to their room means sending them to their Internet connection, their IM, their TV and video games.
Kids walk around dressed in mismatched, mis-sized clothes. Where di they get them? Most of them don't have jobs, so it must be dear-old-mom-and-dad who are letting them dress like hoodlums, tramps, and reprobates.
Does anybody seriously think this will work, When kids can get new email addresses easily? Last I knew, Hotmail and Yahoo wasn't asking for id when you signed up. This is just another case of government being forced to do the job of parents who are too lazy or stupid to do it themselves.
Far be it from me to be in the minority, but I bet the combination would work out just fine. Imagine Sun workstations with actual style and imagine Apple on a network scale. They might be polar opposities as far as technological bent goes but that's what makes the merger such a sweet idea, for they would be complementary. As opposed to say the HP (fairly good company) and Compaq (black hole company) merger, which really doesn't seem to have borne much fruit and sent Carly Fiorina to her tropical island hideaway a bit earlier than she might have wanted.
From Omniture, Apple, iTunes, and Privacy on since1968.com: I've installed Little Snitch and can confirm this behavior: if you launch iTunes on a Mac with the new MiniStore open (and it's open by default), iTunes attempts to contact 207.net, otherwise known as Omniture. See the screenshot above. And why on earth does a third party need to bury its IP address behind a string that looks like an intranet (local) address?
Call it market-ware (as if we need another tech term) if you like. On the one hand, Apple's trying to tailor content to its iTunes users and that is supposed to be a good thing. On the other hand, they are in league with marketers and are pulling this off in a slightly underhanded fashion. What does Apple have to hide?
How many granny's on AOL run a firewall+spybot+antivirus etc?
Don't limit it to grandmother's in their retirment homes in Florida; most of the general public is none too swift, nowhere more evident than in the tech field. I harp on this all the time. People need to use some god-given common sense, but that's the one thing lacking. There's nothing wrong with using whatever IM system you choose as long as you're smart about it.
Rly?... cuz my m8 got 0wned by this hacker on AIM. Posted about it on his myspace account if u wanna read it. u think i should tell him 2 go 2 IRC? r ther no hackers there? I'll tell him i heard its saf3r, k? cuz I heard they can get ur IP number on AIM & not on IRC, that true 2?
...they forgot VoIP. Amazing oversight really. How long before someone hacks Skype and manages to insert malware code into the VoIP data stream? You place a call to someone and somewhere along the way extra data is inserted and finds its way onto your machine. I'm not that knowledgeable about VoIP's inner workings, but it seems to me that anything that allows data to be moved back and forth from your computer unfettered is a doorway for malware to be lodged on your machine.
Not only can prior art be searched more effectively, the PEOPLE (this is, us!) can submit their comments about the patents in question. In other words, if an obvious software patent goes to slashdot, we, the slashdotters, can complain about it DIRECTLY!
I sense a disturbance in the Force. Can anyone say patents.slashdot.org?
No attribution - simply put, remove the ego/flamebait factor. If no one knows who submitted a story, theoretically they will give each one equal credence. And if someone submits a story, they'll be able to recognize it when/if it posts.
Counts - display on a user's page the count of stories submitted and accepted. If the person viewing is a subscriber, let them see the actual list (sort of like the comments list is set up now).
Incentives - In lieu of attribution, give users who submit stories subscription points, or maybe an extra mod point or two when/if they are selected to moderate. Base this on a percentage of successful stories to stories sent, so that story spammers with low rates will not reap major benefits. This might cause people to try quality over quantity.
Dupes - given the number of readers, a lot of story dupes must make their way to the mailbox. Find a way to acknowledge the fact that someone beat you to the punch in the submission game but thanks for trying.
Magicians call it "misdirection"; they get you looking in one direction so you don't see what's happening elsewhere. All the conspiracy nuts spend so much time obsessing about "Area 51" that they fail to see the government's real conspiracies (war in Iraq, etc.).
I'm nearsighted and I make it a habit to not wear my glasses when I'm at the computer, the upshot being my vision has actually improved slightly over the years. I also try not to stare at the monitor for extended periods; about every 5 minutes I let my eyeballs to break the lock on the monitor.
Hopefully you can find some of that useful. I'd also suggest looking at this artcile, which contains helpful suggestions.
...is paved with Congressional legislation. Who are they kidding? Just how enforceable is this going to be? Are the federal courts (which are already overburdened with real criminal cases) now to be swamped with case of "he called me a fsck-head on Slashdot?" The intent is good, allowing people to avoid harrassment but the execution is lousy. I can't see this standing up to the inevitable challenge by the ACLU in front of the Supreme Court.
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Yup. Call me "old fashioned", but who am I likely to trust more on sight, someone who looks neat, clean, and obviously cares about their appearance, or someone sloppy, slovenly, who apprently doesn't care what other people think? Am I being judgemental? You bet! Because we don't live in a "perfect world" where how you dress and what you do and how you feel about things is unimportant. On Slashdot, people make judgements all the time, based solely on a few fragmentary paragraphs written now-and-again, and that perhaps has even less significance than how someone dresses.
And now for the shocker -- some of these "reporbates" are actually decent kids. The problem is that they've been fed a lie, that adults are the cause of all their problems, adults don't understand them, and adults don't deserve any respect. They find it easier to be malcontents than to take a good hard look at their own behavior and realize that they do it to themselves. We all do. How we act and how we react to the things going on in this world shapes who we are, not the events themselves.
So forgive me if my attitude seems a bit out of place in the modern world, but perhaps we need to go back to some "old fashioned" values like decency, honesty, and respect. Perhaps if parents learned to show those values to and in front of their kids, legislators wouldn't feel the need to step in and resuce the youth of America.
Unless you're the inscruitable Chinese menace, waiting for the day they are capable of global domination... Muahahahaha!!!! [cue 20's radio serial evil music]
Show nothing but the tops of the character's heads as they sit in their cubicles. That would be technically accurate.
Perhaps "spying" is too strong a word, but they weren't exactly putting it out front for people to see easily, were they? Look, after Sony's DRM flap, even a hint of impropriety is enough to release the hounds. Why should Apple be immune? Any company that can't come right out and tell you exactly what they are doing up front is simply asking to be ridiculed.
Don't worry, this isn't going to put a dent in the growing ranks of the iZombies, but it should make people read the fine print more carefully, and it should make any company (not just Sony, Apple, or Symantec) be more wary about trying to do things in the background rather than being up front about it. The only way people are going technology they can trust is if they demand accountability from the companies that produce it. This isn't on par with the Sony DRM flap, but who knows where it might have gone had it been left unchecked.
OS X: Quit crowding XP!
XP: But I need room for my Recycle Bin!
Linux (shaking head): Amateurs...
Apple could have avoided the hullaballoo over this by making it clear from the start that this was going on. The only reason anyone got up-in-arms over it was the apparent lack of straightforward documentation on how the system worked and what a user's rights are. Now everyone knows and Apple should make sure everyone knows in the future.End of story.
No one has parenting skills anymore.
A kid plays violent games and then brings a gun to school to even some scores, and they blame the video games. They don'tblame the parents how did not monitor the child's habits, see the warning signs, take preventative measures. Parents howl they need a rating system, then blatantly ignore it, letting their kids do pretty much whatever they want.
My wife see it time and again -- children who are running their homes. Their parents are afraid to punish them for fear of being turned in to the authorities or being ridiculed. No one spanks their children anymore. Punishments are weak. Let's face it, sending a kid to their room means sending them to their Internet connection, their IM, their TV and video games.
Kids walk around dressed in mismatched, mis-sized clothes. Where di they get them? Most of them don't have jobs, so it must be dear-old-mom-and-dad who are letting them dress like hoodlums, tramps, and reprobates.
Does anybody seriously think this will work, When kids can get new email addresses easily? Last I knew, Hotmail and Yahoo wasn't asking for id when you signed up. This is just another case of government being forced to do the job of parents who are too lazy or stupid to do it themselves.
Far be it from me to be in the minority, but I bet the combination would work out just fine. Imagine Sun workstations with actual style and imagine Apple on a network scale. They might be polar opposities as far as technological bent goes but that's what makes the merger such a sweet idea, for they would be complementary. As opposed to say the HP (fairly good company) and Compaq (black hole company) merger, which really doesn't seem to have borne much fruit and sent Carly Fiorina to her tropical island hideaway a bit earlier than she might have wanted.
From Omniture, Apple, iTunes, and Privacy on since1968.com: I've installed Little Snitch and can confirm this behavior: if you launch iTunes on a Mac with the new MiniStore open (and it's open by default), iTunes attempts to contact 207.net, otherwise known as Omniture. See the screenshot above. And why on earth does a third party need to bury its IP address behind a string that looks like an intranet (local) address?
Call it market-ware (as if we need another tech term) if you like. On the one hand, Apple's trying to tailor content to its iTunes users and that is supposed to be a good thing. On the other hand, they are in league with marketers and are pulling this off in a slightly underhanded fashion. What does Apple have to hide?
Don't limit it to grandmother's in their retirment homes in Florida; most of the general public is none too swift, nowhere more evident than in the tech field. I harp on this all the time. People need to use some god-given common sense, but that's the one thing lacking. There's nothing wrong with using whatever IM system you choose as long as you're smart about it.
Y wud any1 wnt 2 rite lyk tht?
...they forgot VoIP. Amazing oversight really. How long before someone hacks Skype and manages to insert malware code into the VoIP data stream? You place a call to someone and somewhere along the way extra data is inserted and finds its way onto your machine. I'm not that knowledgeable about VoIP's inner workings, but it seems to me that anything that allows data to be moved back and forth from your computer unfettered is a doorway for malware to be lodged on your machine.
'Nuff said.
Every government official in China editing a Wikipedia entry - talk about re-writing history! Perhaps Wikipedia should be blocking China.
I sense a disturbance in the Force. Can anyone say patents.slashdot.org?
Just my two copper pieces.
Magicians call it "misdirection"; they get you looking in one direction so you don't see what's happening elsewhere. All the conspiracy nuts spend so much time obsessing about "Area 51" that they fail to see the government's real conspiracies (war in Iraq, etc.).
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Set it on fire. The processor is bound to be a lot cooler than a flaming case.
I'm nearsighted and I make it a habit to not wear my glasses when I'm at the computer, the upshot being my vision has actually improved slightly over the years. I also try not to stare at the monitor for extended periods; about every 5 minutes I let my eyeballs to break the lock on the monitor.
Hopefully you can find some of that useful. I'd also suggest looking at this artcile, which contains helpful suggestions.
And how soon will I be able to get my blogozine as a blogocast?!?
...is paved with Congressional legislation. Who are they kidding? Just how enforceable is this going to be? Are the federal courts (which are already overburdened with real criminal cases) now to be swamped with case of "he called me a fsck-head on Slashdot?" The intent is good, allowing people to avoid harrassment but the execution is lousy. I can't see this standing up to the inevitable challenge by the ACLU in front of the Supreme Court.
New HD-DVD hard drives will also be able to make pancakes.