There is almost nobody with my name....but amusingly enough there is someone from almost the same town with the same name.....google away, I am not that guy. Wish I had his money...
It might seem funny now, but wait until thugs beat you up and piss on your rug. That rug really ties the room together.
This is why security is hard: Secure software is perfect software, and we don't write perfect software.
I totally agree with this. The larger problem is when you introduce Joe and Jane new web user to the great tubes of internets and they never update the software that you have written and continue to fix.
This is what adds to the security difficulties. How many computers have you fixed that had the earliest versions of the browsers installed or no updates for the OS installed, because, "it takes so long to reboot!" or "I don't wanna do it, but will continue to do all my shopping and banking on this machine with all the keyloggers, trojans, and other malware installed on it."
Joe web user: "Hey this computer thingee caused my to lose my identity! Computers suck!"
While I do not know the whole situation here, I really think that, in general, kids (and quite frankly adults) need to seriously consider what they are doing when they post in a blog or anywhere else online. When a person makes potentially violent remarks regarding their school (or workplace), they should be looked at with a wary eye. How do we know what a person is going to do? The kids at Columbine were not justified. They killed other kids. How is that justified?
Kids want freedom of speech, and they are given it under our Bill of Rights. The only thing that people really forget is that with freedom comes responsibility. The school district is in its full rights to protect the other students that go there. If I was a parent in that school district, I would back this decision. Expel him. The comments he made could have been construed as violent and/or potentially violent. I would be afraid of my child being in a school where someone like him was wandering the halls.
Now, these comments are based on the post that he wrote. If he had used a more responsible tone, the school may not have overreacted, I would not be agreeing with a friggin' school district, and he would not be facing possible expulsion.
The final thought is this: With freedom comes great responsibility.
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You know... "Snaps" and "$2 billion" seem a bit odd to see in the same sentence. That is quite the snap.
Dude!
I totally agree with this. The larger problem is when you introduce Joe and Jane new web user to the great tubes of internets and they never update the software that you have written and continue to fix.
This is what adds to the security difficulties. How many computers have you fixed that had the earliest versions of the browsers installed or no updates for the OS installed, because, "it takes so long to reboot!" or "I don't wanna do it, but will continue to do all my shopping and banking on this machine with all the keyloggers, trojans, and other malware installed on it."
Joe web user: "Hey this computer thingee caused my to lose my identity! Computers suck!"
This should read, "Live by Word; die by Word"
There was this other guy. He said "Read my lips: no new taxes!" One term is all he got.
Nice. I was visitors 107462 - 107500...
Thanks for the chuckle. This one made my day. :-)
While I do not know the whole situation here, I really think that, in general, kids (and quite frankly adults) need to seriously consider what they are doing when they post in a blog or anywhere else online. When a person makes potentially violent remarks regarding their school (or workplace), they should be looked at with a wary eye. How do we know what a person is going to do? The kids at Columbine were not justified. They killed other kids. How is that justified?
Kids want freedom of speech, and they are given it under our Bill of Rights. The only thing that people really forget is that with freedom comes responsibility. The school district is in its full rights to protect the other students that go there. If I was a parent in that school district, I would back this decision. Expel him. The comments he made could have been construed as violent and/or potentially violent. I would be afraid of my child being in a school where someone like him was wandering the halls.
Now, these comments are based on the post that he wrote. If he had used a more responsible tone, the school may not have overreacted, I would not be agreeing with a friggin' school district, and he would not be facing possible expulsion.
The final thought is this: With freedom comes great responsibility.
There will be a new version the next time a PC game is ported over to OS X...