I must admit, I am an information junkie and am connected in various ways most of the day.
However, I love going away on holiday where I am totally disconnected from everything. At no point do I feel withdrawal from facebook,/. or the Internet in general.
What I'm trying to say is that if you would remove the students from the normal environment where the Internet is a big part of their life and how they achieve their goals, maybe they wouldn't show such "addiction".
I would love to see the RIAA, MIAA, CIA, FBI, ad networks, adware distributors, email spammers, pop-up advertisers and other such useful Internet services moving to a different Internet.
Call it Internet 2 or/dev/null or whatever you want.
What a sad state of affairs it is when corporations say "jump" and the British government asks "how high".
Real crimes are constantly on the rise but instead on focusing to fight them and making a safer environment for the citizens, the government decides to start creating new laws against fictive crimes.
What a nightmare it will be for the ISPs to start controlling there customers and in the worst case to cut them off (and thus loosing their money).
Ah, so that is why I have started getting ICQ spam recently... something I haven't had for years.
I guess what they say is true: if it is information you don't want to share with the public, do not put it on the Internet!
I don't see how this strategy will work for Google in Europe.
You see here each country has a handful of operators (2-4) and a part of their revenue is bastardising the mobile phones they offer in as many ways as possible.
I am afraid it will be all too easy for the handful of operators operating in a country to choose not to allow Google in and be certain that the other operator(s) will do the same.
All DRM has been cracked because of the fundamental weakness that the "secret" message has to be "viewable" by the end user. The end user is given an encrypted message but also the key with which to decrypt it.
I don't believe it is the media companies that keep insisting on new DRM schemes.
Instead I believe technology companies keep presenting the next DRM scheme to the media companies and promising this time it is unbreakable.
They should just use good old fashioned snake oil on the media and save a bundle!
Can't you ghost a fresh install and use that image in case of a crash?
I recently had to recover a WinXP installation from Sony recovery CDs and no activation was needed there.
Spot on!
My wife is getting a new office PC. Their "IT guy" recommended Vista because "it is the latest".
When my wife asked whether it would run all of her applications, some of which are bit old, he was not sure.
I strongly advised her to go for XP. I don't expect software manufacturers to abandon XP support for a while and she can always upgrade (downgrade?) to Vista later!
Tssk, tssk
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$50 for a dictionary app seems to be kind of silly.
It's not only a dictionary app... it's also a Twitter client!
I can't hear anything!
I must admit, I am an information junkie and am connected in various ways most of the day.
However, I love going away on holiday where I am totally disconnected from everything. At no point do I feel withdrawal from facebook, /. or the Internet in general.
What I'm trying to say is that if you would remove the students from the normal environment where the Internet is a big part of their life and how they achieve their goals, maybe they wouldn't show such "addiction".
"It's not the failure - it's the failure to handle the failure."
Classic, I've scribbled it down in my book of quotes :-)
"Lagavulin 16"
Amen brother, Amen!
Maybe because there is no money in shutting down a kiddie pron site but there is money in illegally shutting down the pirate bay.
let's see who gets what they want first?
I would love to see the RIAA, MIAA, CIA, FBI, ad networks, adware distributors, email spammers, pop-up advertisers and other such useful Internet services moving to a different Internet.
/dev/null or whatever you want.
Call it Internet 2 or
Have done so, thanks for the link.
This should give you the freedom to describe minute details about the Olympic Games and as a bonus to criticize the government.
Maybe you can be creative and call your blog Fake Carolina Kluft while in fact being Kelly Sotherton!
It was a tough match between the TAC-2 and Konix SpeedKing. While I preferred the SpeedKing, the TAC-2 was longer lasting!
The plastic stick of the Speedking had a tendency to break.
What a sad state of affairs it is when corporations say "jump" and the British government asks "how high".
Real crimes are constantly on the rise but instead on focusing to fight them and making a safer environment for the citizens, the government decides to start creating new laws against fictive crimes.
What a nightmare it will be for the ISPs to start controlling there customers and in the worst case to cut them off (and thus loosing their money).
Overall a big boo from me!
Ah, so that is why I have started getting ICQ spam recently... something I haven't had for years. I guess what they say is true: if it is information you don't want to share with the public, do not put it on the Internet!
Look what happened to the British TV host Jeremy Clarkson when he said "steal these bank details".
Step six IS step one...
As has been said above: http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/img/20071001_kaguya.jpg
I don't see how this strategy will work for Google in Europe. You see here each country has a handful of operators (2-4) and a part of their revenue is bastardising the mobile phones they offer in as many ways as possible. I am afraid it will be all too easy for the handful of operators operating in a country to choose not to allow Google in and be certain that the other operator(s) will do the same.
Funny you would say that. I graduated in Physics (MSc) in 2000 but didn't even consider a job in the field.
It was so much easier to get a well paid job in central London in IT in booming 2000 (things got worse in 2001).
Nevertheless, good luck with the physics degree... it was immensely challenging and interesting!
All DRM has been cracked because of the fundamental weakness that the "secret" message has to be "viewable" by the end user. The end user is given an encrypted message but also the key with which to decrypt it.
I don't believe it is the media companies that keep insisting on new DRM schemes.
Instead I believe technology companies keep presenting the next DRM scheme to the media companies and promising this time it is unbreakable.
They should just use good old fashioned snake oil on the media and save a bundle!
If you are not hiding anything you have nothing to worry about from this new driving license / payment method overlord.... right, right?
Getting 'human rights' right proved too difficult.
Let's switch our attention and hopefully the majority will not even notice it.
My first bank (SEB in Sweden) has been doing this since the first day of their online bank service.
This was 11 years ago and I cannot believe other banks until today only rely on simple passwords and on-screen keyboards *cough* citibank *cough*.
Think of the children that could be saved with the money saved by wiping out related fraud!
Can't you ghost a fresh install and use that image in case of a crash? I recently had to recover a WinXP installation from Sony recovery CDs and no activation was needed there.
Yes already did that and hoping more will follow suit. IPRED2 is some scary stuff.
Spot on! My wife is getting a new office PC. Their "IT guy" recommended Vista because "it is the latest". When my wife asked whether it would run all of her applications, some of which are bit old, he was not sure. I strongly advised her to go for XP. I don't expect software manufacturers to abandon XP support for a while and she can always upgrade (downgrade?) to Vista later! Tssk, tssk