I don't know how I'd react to this were I still in high school. This time of life is already hard enough to get through; trying to find out who you are, what kind of things you're interested in, who your "crew" is. What this is going to do is drive a wedge further between the high school 'cliques'. Those who are ridiculed and ostracized will be more so, and those who are favored and priviledged are more so as well.
Another thing that this brings to mind: As understaffed as schools tend to be (I assume most are equal or worse off than mine, which was a "preppy white upper class high school") they will most undoubtedly have student "office assistants" helping with this program. It tends to be the case that most of these office assistances tend to be the more "popular" people. What kind of security and privacy will exist in this program? As if it's not bad enough to be ridiculed for who you are, then they will also be ridiculed for being on the "watch list"
In conclusion, this is something that, if implemented (which I believe to be a bad idea) needs to be done with the utmost of privacy and care.
Charlie, who's very very glad he is no longer in a high school, so he would not have to be subjected to being on the school's "list"
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
...to make money or to save souls. All in all though, I must say this sounds very hypocritical. I can say that, because I spent 5 years as an evangelical, bible-thumping Christian. Now, this may be labeled as flamebait, but oh well. Here's how it is: it's bad to show a computer game with *simulated* violence, death, and gore. This kind of deplorable killing spree might lead to more Columbine-esque killings. *BUT* It's OK to nail down some of the devil's nasties. Hey, they're only dark lords of the netherworld. Go ahead, shoot them. I wonder if this will lead to a whole new generation of school shootings, where Christians go in and shoot their "less-than holy" classmates for their perversion and not choosing Jesus as their "way, truth, and life". This is, to me anyway, just one more example of the rotten-to-the-core, two-faced, hypocritical Christianity I was once a part of.
Two more points: 1. I kill demons in Magic: The Gathering so I guess that makes the game OK in the eyes of the fundies. 2. The people making this game are the same ones that bug you by knocking on your door during dinner.
Peace Out,
Charlie.
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
I'm sure there is a significant DNA degradation in the mummification process. But the process, as neat as it is, is nowhere near as good as the "deep freeze" that the mammoth has been kept in. One would think that this would lead to significantly higher "quality" DNA, no?
Deitheres
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
It is refreshing to know that we have come to the point technologically, scientifically, and medically that we can begin to re-populate the earth with the animals we brought to extinction. Yes I am aware that we did not bring the woolly mammoths to extinction, but I think there will be other efforts to clone animals we have killed off (the tasmanian wolf comes to mind). It makes you wonder about the Star Trek movie where they have to go back in time for the whales... heheh they could've just cloned one:-)
Deitheres
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
'tis sad, but Hollywood is consumed by commercialism and showing a program printing a '6' instead of a '3' (I love it!) does not sell one bit. To give a certain idea of the mindset that Hollywood caters to: I recently helped a friend of mine fdisk a HD that I had given him and help him rebuild the MBR by using fdisk/mbr. After we had finished he started talking "shit" about how much of a computer god he was and how l33t he was. After this, I gave him a shell account on my Linux box so he could learn more about it, and now he talks about how he is a Linux hax0r. It is this type of person hollywood catches with their flashing screens, and misrepresentations of computers/hacking/programming. Until this type of mindset changes (which, unfortunately, it most likely won't as computers becomes more proliferated and easier to use) Hollywood will continue to spread disinformation and propogate these myths. Just my $.02.
Charlie
hehehe, as a side note: with Hollywood's idea of "hacking" involves flashing screens, imagine the generation of new computer users that will swear they were hacked when they get the ubiquitous BSOD. hehehehe.
ps - What IS the deal with all the phreaking stuff in WG? Good flick, the stuff with the talking computer via dialup was a bit out there... but, on the whole, a decent view.
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
Damn. Before you leave, can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE post on my board at my website to enlighten the people there too? PLease? its at www.rawtruth.com/board.html
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
#1 - Turn off your caps lock key you fucking moron... it makes much sense that you cannot turn your caps lock key off, since it is obvious you attempted to install Linux and failed miserably.
#2 - What is your obsession with homosexuality and your stereotypical classification of women? You either have the lowest mentality of a tadpole, or the highest mentality of a redneck. Perhaps both. I was under the assumption that we as a society had moved from thinking that labeling someone as a homosexual was somehow degrading or a bad thing. Thank you for proving me wrong you unenlightened drivel filled moron.
#3 - Perhaps you have some kind of repressed homosexual urges yourself? Maybe you feel the need to lash out at others because you have not come to terms with your own sexual preferences. Hmh. Any psychology majors care to share their opinion on this?
Charlie
ps - Why don't you just go back to watching WCW. Bwahahahaha.
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
Do you need help learning how to utilize the CAPS Lock key on your keyboard? If so, I would be happy to send you over a supplemental to the Windoze NT help files... just give me your email address and I'll send you the help file in an attachment called bo2k.exe. All you have to do is open that, and your caps lock key will work normally....
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
Oh BTW, don't post anonymously next time you fucking pansy wuss... see what kind of reaction THAT gets you... hehehe... Bill? Is this you? C'mon Gates, did the M$ FUD article not do enough for you, thought you had to come spread it here?
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
Awwww.... did Linux not work for you? No GUIs to get you through? Got frustrated when 'win' didn't work from the command line? Trade in for a free copy of NT? Ha. If you can't get Linux working, you'd be a lucky ass bastard to get NT up and running.
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
I kind of like 'em. Kind of reminds me of the whole V8 marketing campaign... they could revamp it; "Have you had your/. today?" Plus, it kind of goes along with the name. You know, slashdot... hehehe get it? slash... OK, well whatever.:-)
Deitheres
ps - Rob, before I posted this I forgot to close my tags too, so don't feel all that bad:-)
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
... what'll happen when they get universal translators (a la Star Trek)? "Uhura, did the Klingon ambassador just say 'Klingon make boom' -or- 'Klingon make booze'? Damn Uhura. Damn. We must figure out whether they want to make love or war..."
Charlie
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
Actually... If you don't count the title: 'Is Watching.' = 11 characters 'bananarama.' = 11 characters If you count the space in 'Is Watching,' it comes out to be 11. So this is at best more and at worst the same length as my spam block. Thanks for playing.:-)
Deitheres
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
21 patches? Come on, I'm not even a systems administrator and check Red Hat's errata section all the time. I run one box. It's at my house. I am the only one that uses it. I STILL check apply security updates. If ZD doesn't think a normal sysadmin would apply "21 security updates available for Red Hat 6.0, which had been out for only (My note: only a couple of months? Damn. I check the RH errata site once a week, and I am not even a sysadmin) a couple of months" then that is not a sysadmin I want even breathing on my box. Just my $.02.
Charlie
-- Child: Mommy, where do.sig files go when they die? Mother: HELL! Straight to hell! I've never been the same since.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know how I'd react to this were I still in high school. This time of life is already hard enough to get through; trying to find out who you are, what kind of things you're interested in, who your "crew" is. What this is going to do is drive a wedge further between the high school 'cliques'. Those who are ridiculed and ostracized will be more so, and those who are favored and priviledged are more so as well.
Another thing that this brings to mind:
As understaffed as schools tend to be (I assume most are equal or worse off than mine, which was a "preppy white upper class high school") they will most undoubtedly have student "office assistants" helping with this program. It tends to be the case that most of these office assistances tend to be the more "popular" people. What kind of security and privacy will exist in this program? As if it's not bad enough to be ridiculed for who you are, then they will also be ridiculed for being on the "watch list"
In conclusion, this is something that, if implemented (which I believe to be a bad idea) needs to be done with the utmost of privacy and care.
Charlie, who's very very glad he is no longer in a high school, so he would not have to be subjected to being on the school's "list"
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
...to make money or to save souls. All in all though, I must say this sounds very hypocritical. I can say that, because I spent 5 years as an evangelical, bible-thumping Christian. Now, this may be labeled as flamebait, but oh well. Here's how it is: it's bad to show a computer game with *simulated* violence, death, and gore. This kind of deplorable killing spree might lead to more Columbine-esque killings. *BUT* It's OK to nail down some of the devil's nasties. Hey, they're only dark lords of the netherworld. Go ahead, shoot them. I wonder if this will lead to a whole new generation of school shootings, where Christians go in and shoot their "less-than holy" classmates for their perversion and not choosing Jesus as their "way, truth, and life". This is, to me anyway, just one more example of the rotten-to-the-core, two-faced, hypocritical Christianity I was once a part of.
Two more points:
1. I kill demons in Magic: The Gathering so I guess that makes the game OK in the eyes of the fundies.
2. The people making this game are the same ones that bug you by knocking on your door during dinner.
Peace Out,
Charlie.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
I'm sure there is a significant DNA degradation in the mummification process. But the process, as neat as it is, is nowhere near as good as the "deep freeze" that the mammoth has been kept in. One would think that this would lead to significantly higher "quality" DNA, no?
Deitheres
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
Deitheres
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
It is refreshing to know that we have come to the point technologically, scientifically, and medically that we can begin to re-populate the earth with the animals we brought to extinction. Yes I am aware that we did not bring the woolly mammoths to extinction, but I think there will be other efforts to clone animals we have killed off (the tasmanian wolf comes to mind). It makes you wonder about the Star Trek movie where they have to go back in time for the whales... heheh they could've just cloned one :-)
Deitheres
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
'tis sad, but Hollywood is consumed by commercialism and showing a program printing a '6' instead of a '3' (I love it!) does not sell one bit. To give a certain idea of the mindset that Hollywood caters to: I recently helped a friend of mine fdisk a HD that I had given him and help him rebuild the MBR by using fdisk /mbr. After we had finished he started talking "shit" about how much of a computer god he was and how l33t he was. After this, I gave him a shell account on my Linux box so he could learn more about it, and now he talks about how he is a Linux hax0r. It is this type of person hollywood catches with their flashing screens, and misrepresentations of computers/hacking/programming. Until this type of mindset changes (which, unfortunately, it most likely won't as computers becomes more proliferated and easier to use) Hollywood will continue to spread disinformation and propogate these myths. Just my $.02.
Charlie
hehehe, as a side note: with Hollywood's idea of "hacking" involves flashing screens, imagine the generation of new computer users that will swear they were hacked when they get the ubiquitous BSOD. hehehehe.
ps - What IS the deal with all the phreaking stuff in WG? Good flick, the stuff with the talking computer via dialup was a bit out there... but, on the whole, a decent view.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
Nope. That just proves you're in denial.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
Hahaha you were post #69. Sorry, just had to point that out...
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
Is this you Roblimo? Hehehehehehe... venting your anger about the earlier fiasco :-)
This was in jest. Duh.
Charlie
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
#1 - Turn off your caps lock key you fucking moron... it makes much sense that you cannot turn your caps lock key off, since it is obvious you attempted to install Linux and failed miserably.
#2 - What is your obsession with homosexuality and your stereotypical classification of women? You either have the lowest mentality of a tadpole, or the highest mentality of a redneck. Perhaps both. I was under the assumption that we as a society had moved from thinking that labeling someone as a homosexual was somehow degrading or a bad thing. Thank you for proving me wrong you unenlightened drivel filled moron.
#3 - Perhaps you have some kind of repressed homosexual urges yourself? Maybe you feel the need to lash out at others because you have not come to terms with your own sexual preferences. Hmh. Any psychology majors care to share their opinion on this?
Charlie
ps - Why don't you just go back to watching WCW. Bwahahahaha.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
I kind of like 'em. Kind of reminds me of the whole V8 marketing campaign... they could revamp it; "Have you had your /. today?" Plus, it kind of goes along with the name. You know, slashdot... hehehe get it? slash... OK, well whatever. :-)
Deitheres
ps - Rob, before I posted this I forgot to close my tags too, so don't feel all that bad :-)
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
Obviously SOMEONE has been reading alt.sex.stories too much =)
tehehehehe
Charlie
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
... what'll happen when they get universal translators (a la Star Trek)?
"Uhura, did the Klingon ambassador just say 'Klingon make boom' -or- 'Klingon make booze'? Damn Uhura. Damn. We must figure out whether they want to make love or war..."
Charlie
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
... but what if you're a chick?
Charlie
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
Actually... :-)
If you don't count the title:
'Is Watching.' = 11 characters
'bananarama.' = 11 characters
If you count the space in 'Is Watching,' it comes out to be 11. So this is at best more and at worst the same length as my spam block. Thanks for playing.
Deitheres
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
"Learn to become Invisible. /.? Hehehehe.
How? By posting anonymously on
Charlie
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
21 patches? Come on, I'm not even a systems administrator and check Red Hat's errata section all the time. I run one box. It's at my house. I am the only one that uses it. I STILL check apply security updates. If ZD doesn't think a normal sysadmin would apply "21 security updates available for Red Hat 6.0, which had been out for only (My note: only a couple of months? Damn. I check the RH errata site once a week, and I am not even a sysadmin) a couple of months" then that is not a sysadmin I want even breathing on my box. Just my $.02.
Charlie
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
I kind of had to. After about the 70th time it overloaded my brain =)
Charlie
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.