User: roamingapril

Re:Too little, too late

On: US Plots "Pirate Bay Killer" Trade Agreement

no country is going to toss even one percent of their population in jail for something that was not previously a crime. In the US, one percent of the adult population is already in jail http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/28/ST2008022803016.html

genus misspelled

On: Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas

Unfortunately, the article misspells the scientific name. It should be "Paratrechina", not "paratrenicha".

Here's my attempt:

On: A Succinct Definition of the Internet?

The internet is a world-wide network of computers, all connected together. Some computers on the internet (called "servers") send webpages, video, and other data to computers on the internet that have requested the data.

csh

On: The Birth of vi

You know, the article doesn't mention Bill Joy's other "gift" to mankind: the C Shell.

This isn't a problem, it's a generation gap

On: Social Network Users Have Ruined Their Privacy

Gee, he's warning kids that if they post on myspace, then the older generation (parents and future employers) might disapprove. Of course, the kids don't care, and why should they? They don't WANT to live in the same culture as their parents. Personally, I find the myspace culture to be preferable to the older culture. With everybody's flaws exposed on the internet, people will learn to be more tolerant of others' shortcomings, and tiny mistakes and personality quirks will no longer seem scandalous. (For example, do you remember the Howard Dean scream? Why should something like that disqualify somebody from the presidency?) The older generation is just a bunch of stuck-up, blissfully ignorant whiners, who are upset that their children aren't conforming to their expectations.