Sorry, too many thoughts, too much incoherance...
1 - Phones need more phones. not less apps - just more phone functionality
2 - kill switch - this "could" go badly, but I'd like to see the history of use... Malicious app - Definitely see the use of it. Pirated app? Unlicensed app? Non-approved app? Patched app? These are more of a "Would they? Just because they can doesn't mean they should or will."
Am I the only one who's a little purturbed at the lack of phone functionality a lot of these new smartphones have?
Mind you, I have an iPhone, but I mainly use it as a phone with some apps which increase business functionality. I'm just curious why there would be a need to use said "killswitch" on a phone - unlicensed app? illegal app? immoral app (such as malware / viruses)?
If I had points, I'd mod you up. He may have gone a tad overboard... she was clearly trying to piss them off, to get a response... Police in this situation are not necessarily dealing with sane, rational people. Group mentality can be a dangerous mentality, where it only takes a few to lead a large group into something they ordinarily wouldn't be doing.
As for her being put into a van: One can only guess. I just listened to the first words out of the woman's mouth, and wanted to toss a bucket of water on her... There's no respect towards the officers who are there to do a job, there's only attitude towards "the establishment", trying to be coy and smart for the cameras. With a little luck, she'll grow up before she gets into serious trouble.
I'd mod you up if I had points... Rampage was an exception to the "He makes crap", in that it's a movie that I will likely buy - it was a genuinely good movie which deserves POSITIVE attention.
Most of what Boll has made was sensationalist crap, where he was playing off a video game theme and failed miserably... Compared to a fair number of movies out there now, this was a damn good movie. Won't win an Oscar, but you know, it deserves recognition.
And if you really think about the content of the movie, it should scare the crap out of you.
OK, I laughed when I read that, and then I wondered: How much of that would be porn? NOBODY needs a porn collection that big. And I considered making a Library of Congress type comparison, but saying the LoC would be a single hair...... it got creepy.
Can we just, as a collective, hit the delete key a couple dozen more times a day? And keep the porn down to under a terabyte?
As a parent of a 7 year old daughter, I can safely say that she wants McDonalds to JUST get the toy - McDonalds tends to get all the Disney / Dreamworks / ____ movie toys, and it's a huge draw for her. I tell her no toy, and she'll want to eat elsewhere. If I had points, I'd mod you up. As is, I can only knowingly nod and smile in agreement.
thisismywirelessnetworkkey - 26 characters, you can guess what it is
iliketastypineapples - 20 characters, password at a client site
monkeysaretooawesomeforwords- 28 characters, password on one of my VM machines.
I've read some interesting articles about the whole "complexity vs length", and while complex passwords look to be more secure, watching someone type 8 keystrokes in a slow manner vs watching them type out a 20+ character sentence in a more natural keystroke manner (Go ahead - type "bL3ar8#Z", and then type "thisweatherisfantastic" - even at 22 characters, almost 3 times the length, it's far faster and easier to remember).
A decent pass phrase is easy to remember, but hard to guess - something familiar about your computer, family, the tree outside the window, the veins on your boss's forehead.... They're hard to guess. And hard to watch, as fingers would typically be typing at a much faster rate.
I think it's time to let "123456" and "password1234" retire.
Oh look, a pun on "aging" and "retire"!....
Seriously, I see too many people keeping their passwords. Some of the "Smarter" people I've met keep the same base 8-10 character password, with a 2 digit month at the end of it. 2-3 week password aging cycle? That 2 digit number gets 1 added to it every change, until they hit however many the cycle has to be, and then they start over again, or changing back to 1 every jan.
How about NON-IT related passwords: I'm talking about bank website, or telephone banking passwords? ATM PIN on their bank / credit card?
We change website, email passwords, network passwords, you bet, but the admin / root password on the systems they monitor?
How about revisiting your accounts on whatever social networks / forums you have and changing their passwords, or better yet, checking out to see if the answer to your "Security question" is available online somewhere? How often should we run the gamut of "What websites do I have a username and password on", and how often should we change THOSE passwords?
No, The Onion would have a cover story like: "Guest speakers at university speak out against their oppression to include Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, Vampire, The Boogie-man, God, and other fictional characters"
I'm looking at things from a point of accountability. Our choices dictate where we go in life - be it physically, mentally, financially, etc.... Some of these choices are simple: "Go into the 7-11, or wait till I get home to buy milk?" - you're accountable for this choice. It's your decision. You made it. It *WILL* meet up with other people's choices - such as the person who chose to rob the store, who chose to use a gun, and chose to shoot you with it, the clerk who chose to apply to that place for employment and/or not proceed to work elsewhere / better, and the thousands of other decisions that led up to that moment / place in time.... These are choices, simple or not.
If he "needed to do that to survive" - then how did he get into that situation? Did someone decide to hold his family hostage and kill him if he didn't rob the store? Or was there a series of events leading up to that choice of his, and that's what he decided to do?
I'm not saying that bad things don't happen to good people. Bad things DO happen to "good people". Trust me, sh** happens to the best of us, and the worst of us. How we cope with that is our decision. To say that the choice is removed is to do nothing, and even that is a conscious choice.
A friend of mine works as a social worker in one of the worst areas of Toronto. He deals with people with severe mental disorders, drug addictions, alcohol issues, abuse problems, people who are in and out of jail on a regular basis. Blame alcohol, drugs, upbringing all you want - some of these people fall into the victim mentality. Many do. Some make the conscious effort, the decision to get out of that situation, to do something different. And they do it! Yes, they go through hell, how they got there can not be isolated to a single choice, however, SOME people make the decision to get out of it, to escape the situation.
In this instance, the mother, not knowing the details or the history, would not expect the son to sue, attack, or threaten her. He could have gone after her with a knife, gun, assaulted her, ignored her, blocked her, destroyed her computer, or dozens of other things... There are things he COULD have done, and very well might have done some of them. And yes, he CHOSE to sue. That's his choice.
I'm not saying they're worthless. But they are responsible, and need to see that.
You said, "Either the kid's worthless or the mom is" Very few people are truly worthless, and if they are, we as a society need to figure out if we let them down in some way.
Society isn't to blame for a person's mistakes, or a person's actions. Some successful people have risen from being poor and destitute, others have had life handed to them on a silver platter and threw it all away. We make choices, our own choices, and no one is to blame but us for the choices we make. Society isn't responsible for why this teen feels the urge to sue his mother - society has simply shown that it's possible... the individual is making it his own choice to sue. Others have felt the urge to communicate with their parents and work out a resolution to stop them from doing these things - was he not given the ability to talk with her? To Unfriend her? To mark his profile as private? These are HIS choices - not ours.
Very few people are held in a position where they HAVE to smoke, drink, do drugs, steal - maybe peer pressure pushes them to doing things once, but it's up to them to either stop or continue doing so. The choice is ultimately theirs. The choice this individual made, in this instance for this issue, was to sue.
Don't blame "Society" for his mistakes... "We" didn't let him down. He did it all by himself.
I need to do my banking via 3.5" floppy, as my 5.25" drive isn't working very well anymore, and I don't want to buy one of them newfangled compact-drive thingies...
This is going to open a can of worms, might be marked as a troll, and somewhat humourous that I have a nickname of SmackTheIgnorant while saying this, but...
Isn't the Internet more of an American invention? I'm not going to say "perfected", but more of a "refined to some extent into the abomination which it is" here in North America?
Twitter? Facebook? MySpace? YouTube?
Bing? Yahoo? Google?
The world can't bend over backwards to serve the needs of a power-hungry vengeful dictatorship , and it shouldn't have to. Corporations don't have to.
People shouldn't have to. The people of China, however, don't have a choice.
I remember watching TV a couple weeks back, some news program coming out of detroit, telling people that snow is NOT an emergency. They were then playing back 9-1-1 emergency-services calls (yes, plural), from people asking:
Should I go to work if it snows?
It's snowing outside - is it safe to drive?
I can't get to work, the street is closed off - can you tell me another route?
My car won't start, can you send someone?
The snow is heavy and I'm afraid I'll get hurt shovelling it. Can you send someone to do it for me?
Wish it were a joke, or that I'm being sarcastic. Drunk isn't the start of stupid; it's just an invitation to the party, a lot of people are there already, not a shoelace is tied.
I second that one - I've had issues with them.
As far as companies go, personally, I don't trust them - Systemax, which owns TigerDirect, owns Ultra - so if you hit TD, you'll likely get promotional information / high ratings for Ultra brand products - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Products
One thing Ultra DOES do right is the modular X-Connect line of power supplies - these are extremely handy - You want only SATA rails? Just use them. No floppy, or IDE? Don't use them. Saves some cables inside your system, it's a handy thing to have. Worth it? No. But it's nice.
Well, that was interesting - I wrote something else, previewed it, and the result was the word "This". And now I deny the world the joy which was truly witty.
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Sorry, too many thoughts, too much incoherance...
1 - Phones need more phones. not less apps - just more phone functionality
2 - kill switch - this "could" go badly, but I'd like to see the history of use... Malicious app - Definitely see the use of it. Pirated app? Unlicensed app? Non-approved app? Patched app? These are more of a "Would they? Just because they can doesn't mean they should or will."
Am I the only one who's a little purturbed at the lack of phone functionality a lot of these new smartphones have?
Mind you, I have an iPhone, but I mainly use it as a phone with some apps which increase business functionality. I'm just curious why there would be a need to use said "killswitch" on a phone - unlicensed app? illegal app? immoral app (such as malware / viruses)?
Who doesn't? C'mon, you're on a flight, several hours long, how can one POSSIBLY go that long without their dose girl-on-goat action??
If I had points, I'd mod you up. He may have gone a tad overboard... she was clearly trying to piss them off, to get a response... Police in this situation are not necessarily dealing with sane, rational people. Group mentality can be a dangerous mentality, where it only takes a few to lead a large group into something they ordinarily wouldn't be doing.
As for her being put into a van: One can only guess. I just listened to the first words out of the woman's mouth, and wanted to toss a bucket of water on her... There's no respect towards the officers who are there to do a job, there's only attitude towards "the establishment", trying to be coy and smart for the cameras. With a little luck, she'll grow up before she gets into serious trouble.
Scream in a girlish manner "Do anything you want to the girl, just don't hurt me!"
Easily - the battery only lasts for 4 hours when you're using the iPhone for music.
I'd mod you up if I had points... Rampage was an exception to the "He makes crap", in that it's a movie that I will likely buy - it was a genuinely good movie which deserves POSITIVE attention.
Most of what Boll has made was sensationalist crap, where he was playing off a video game theme and failed miserably... Compared to a fair number of movies out there now, this was a damn good movie. Won't win an Oscar, but you know, it deserves recognition.
And if you really think about the content of the movie, it should scare the crap out of you.
oh no! their children's children won't be able to afford cheap herbal viagra, knock off rolex's, and penis enlargement treatments in their own homes!
And now, we profit!
OK, I laughed when I read that, and then I wondered: How much of that would be porn? NOBODY needs a porn collection that big. And I considered making a Library of Congress type comparison, but saying the LoC would be a single hair...... it got creepy. Can we just, as a collective, hit the delete key a couple dozen more times a day? And keep the porn down to under a terabyte?
As a parent of a 7 year old daughter, I can safely say that she wants McDonalds to JUST get the toy - McDonalds tends to get all the Disney / Dreamworks / ____ movie toys, and it's a huge draw for her. I tell her no toy, and she'll want to eat elsewhere. If I had points, I'd mod you up. As is, I can only knowingly nod and smile in agreement.
thisismywirelessnetworkkey - 26 characters, you can guess what it is
iliketastypineapples - 20 characters, password at a client site
monkeysaretooawesomeforwords- 28 characters, password on one of my VM machines.
I've read some interesting articles about the whole "complexity vs length", and while complex passwords look to be more secure, watching someone type 8 keystrokes in a slow manner vs watching them type out a 20+ character sentence in a more natural keystroke manner (Go ahead - type "bL3ar8#Z", and then type "thisweatherisfantastic" - even at 22 characters, almost 3 times the length, it's far faster and easier to remember).
A decent pass phrase is easy to remember, but hard to guess - something familiar about your computer, family, the tree outside the window, the veins on your boss's forehead.... They're hard to guess. And hard to watch, as fingers would typically be typing at a much faster rate.
Oh look, a pun on "aging" and "retire"! ....
Seriously, I see too many people keeping their passwords. Some of the "Smarter" people I've met keep the same base 8-10 character password, with a 2 digit month at the end of it. 2-3 week password aging cycle? That 2 digit number gets 1 added to it every change, until they hit however many the cycle has to be, and then they start over again, or changing back to 1 every jan.
How about NON-IT related passwords: I'm talking about bank website, or telephone banking passwords? ATM PIN on their bank / credit card?
We change website, email passwords, network passwords, you bet, but the admin / root password on the systems they monitor?
How about revisiting your accounts on whatever social networks / forums you have and changing their passwords, or better yet, checking out to see if the answer to your "Security question" is available online somewhere? How often should we run the gamut of "What websites do I have a username and password on", and how often should we change THOSE passwords?
No, The Onion would have a cover story like: "Guest speakers at university speak out against their oppression to include Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, Vampire, The Boogie-man, God, and other fictional characters"
Just use Lynx.
Hi, I'm on Slashdot, and Windows 7 wasn't my idea.
If he "needed to do that to survive" - then how did he get into that situation? Did someone decide to hold his family hostage and kill him if he didn't rob the store? Or was there a series of events leading up to that choice of his, and that's what he decided to do?
I'm not saying that bad things don't happen to good people. Bad things DO happen to "good people". Trust me, sh** happens to the best of us, and the worst of us. How we cope with that is our decision. To say that the choice is removed is to do nothing, and even that is a conscious choice.
A friend of mine works as a social worker in one of the worst areas of Toronto. He deals with people with severe mental disorders, drug addictions, alcohol issues, abuse problems, people who are in and out of jail on a regular basis. Blame alcohol, drugs, upbringing all you want - some of these people fall into the victim mentality. Many do. Some make the conscious effort, the decision to get out of that situation, to do something different. And they do it! Yes, they go through hell, how they got there can not be isolated to a single choice, however, SOME people make the decision to get out of it, to escape the situation.
In this instance, the mother, not knowing the details or the history, would not expect the son to sue, attack, or threaten her. He could have gone after her with a knife, gun, assaulted her, ignored her, blocked her, destroyed her computer, or dozens of other things... There are things he COULD have done, and very well might have done some of them. And yes, he CHOSE to sue. That's his choice.
I'm not saying they're worthless. But they are responsible, and need to see that.
You said, "Either the kid's worthless or the mom is" Very few people are truly worthless, and if they are, we as a society need to figure out if we let them down in some way.
Society isn't to blame for a person's mistakes, or a person's actions. Some successful people have risen from being poor and destitute, others have had life handed to them on a silver platter and threw it all away. We make choices, our own choices, and no one is to blame but us for the choices we make. Society isn't responsible for why this teen feels the urge to sue his mother - society has simply shown that it's possible... the individual is making it his own choice to sue. Others have felt the urge to communicate with their parents and work out a resolution to stop them from doing these things - was he not given the ability to talk with her? To Unfriend her? To mark his profile as private? These are HIS choices - not ours.
Very few people are held in a position where they HAVE to smoke, drink, do drugs, steal - maybe peer pressure pushes them to doing things once, but it's up to them to either stop or continue doing so. The choice is ultimately theirs. The choice this individual made, in this instance for this issue, was to sue.
Don't blame "Society" for his mistakes... "We" didn't let him down. He did it all by himself.
It'll be the most interesting use of the iPhone to ever get rejected by iTunes.
What can the bank do for me?
Isn't the Internet more of an American invention? I'm not going to say "perfected", but more of a "refined to some extent into the abomination which it is" here in North America?
Twitter? Facebook? MySpace? YouTube?
Bing? Yahoo? Google?
The world can't bend over backwards to serve the needs of a power-hungry vengeful dictatorship , and it shouldn't have to. Corporations don't have to.
People shouldn't have to. The people of China, however, don't have a choice.
Godzilla lives on Rizon.
You don't get that big off of Ramon (noodles), that's for sure.
Wish it were a joke, or that I'm being sarcastic. Drunk isn't the start of stupid; it's just an invitation to the party, a lot of people are there already, not a shoelace is tied.
No stupid, they're not falling up, they're falling down!
I second that one - I've had issues with them. As far as companies go, personally, I don't trust them - Systemax, which owns TigerDirect, owns Ultra - so if you hit TD, you'll likely get promotional information / high ratings for Ultra brand products - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Products One thing Ultra DOES do right is the modular X-Connect line of power supplies - these are extremely handy - You want only SATA rails? Just use them. No floppy, or IDE? Don't use them. Saves some cables inside your system, it's a handy thing to have. Worth it? No. But it's nice.
This
Well, that was interesting - I wrote something else, previewed it, and the result was the word "This". And now I deny the world the joy which was truly witty.