If you want to stop school violence, stop it at the source, send bullies (and students that score high on a bully pre-screening psych exam) to re-education camps to learn to be civil (and stamp license plates while they are doing it). All these posts from people who know a kid in HS, and are in support of Draconian measures for their protection, well, they just don't get it do they, that it is never worth it to live in a police state just for a little extra security.
Gleick's book looks like a book on the Internet and computing for people who do not understand it, as his first book was for dynamical systems and chaos. That's fine, but limited, as we all know. Also, there is a strong undercurrent of Luddite FUD that is troubling. I found the reviews on the Amazon site to be pretty amusing http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679408371/ o/qid=938447321/sr=8-1/002-9140550-28280 60 The post by Katz is an interesting mix of good and bad ideas. There are valid points (mostly stuff you could glean from The Design of Everyday Things). There is a bunch of Luddite hyperbole (the 22 hour info-glutton's day). There is also a huge mismatch between the bogus catchword 'Cyberclysm' with what these folks are describing. A Cyberclysm is when the computers start opening a can of whoop-ass on us. This is more like 'Cybernausea' or 'Cyberschmertz' (although 'Cyber'-anything is firmly on the 'avoid' list by now). Personally, I find people's ridiculous ideas for gadgets to be a great source of amusement (that sampling toilet - Ewwwww). I keep thinking these guys at Sun are not too far from Project Grizzly when they talk about putting Java in my toaster...
MS dumped the browser to drive Netscape out of business. Documented by internal emails. Open and shut case. Prohibited due to abuse of this practice by oil companies early in this century. MS does not dump the OS, they actually charge more than they would have to given real competition in the marketplace.
1) This case is not only about browsers. 2) Usefulness of the tool is not at issue in this case. The issue is illegal dumping of competitors products to put them out of business, a practice clearly prohibited by the Sherman Antitrust Act. 3) Actually a browser is not a natural part of the OS. I refuse to use IE because I do not want my OS shell to crash every time I go to some 'script baby' hacker's site by mistake and it crashes my browser with some JavaScript trick. Not to mention the insecure environment that has been created by excessive integration with products like Outlook (look out). The browser is far better as an app that runs on top of the OS. 4) Hm, I am suspicious of anybody who makes pre-emptive attacks on the rationality of those who disagree with them. Perhaps you could look into some more persuasive rhetorical devices.
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If you want to stop school violence, stop it at the source, send bullies (and students that score high on a bully pre-screening psych exam) to re-education camps to learn to be civil (and stamp license plates while they are doing it). All these posts from people who know a kid in HS, and are in support of Draconian measures for their protection, well, they just don't get it do they, that it is never worth it to live in a police state just for a little extra security.
Gleick's book looks like a book on the Internet and computing for people who do not understand it, as his first book was for dynamical systems and chaos. That's fine, but limited, as we all know. Also, there is a strong undercurrent of Luddite FUD that is troubling./ o/qid=938447321/sr=8-1/002-9140550-28280 60
I found the reviews on the Amazon site to be pretty amusing
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679408371
The post by Katz is an interesting mix of good and bad ideas. There are valid points (mostly stuff you could glean from The Design of Everyday Things). There is a bunch of Luddite hyperbole (the 22 hour info-glutton's day).
There is also a huge mismatch between the bogus catchword 'Cyberclysm' with what these folks are describing. A Cyberclysm is when the computers start opening a can of whoop-ass on us. This is more like 'Cybernausea' or 'Cyberschmertz' (although 'Cyber'-anything is firmly on the 'avoid' list by now).
Personally, I find people's ridiculous ideas for gadgets to be a great source of amusement (that sampling toilet - Ewwwww). I keep thinking these guys at Sun are not too far from Project Grizzly when they talk about putting Java in my toaster...
Absolutely. As we all know, Network Solutions is the Emperor of the Internet.
MS dumped the browser to drive Netscape out of business. Documented by internal emails. Open and shut case. Prohibited due to abuse of this practice by oil companies early in this century. MS does not dump the OS, they actually charge more than they would have to given real competition in the marketplace.
1) This case is not only about browsers. 2) Usefulness of the tool is not at issue in this case. The issue is illegal dumping of competitors products to put them out of business, a practice clearly prohibited by the Sherman Antitrust Act. 3) Actually a browser is not a natural part of the OS. I refuse to use IE because I do not want my OS shell to crash every time I go to some 'script baby' hacker's site by mistake and it crashes my browser with some JavaScript trick. Not to mention the insecure environment that has been created by excessive integration with products like Outlook (look out). The browser is far better as an app that runs on top of the OS. 4) Hm, I am suspicious of anybody who makes pre-emptive attacks on the rationality of those who disagree with them. Perhaps you could look into some more persuasive rhetorical devices.