Indeed, my feelings exactly.

For my generation it was too much TV causing these issues.

What I see now are children who have zero social skills because their parents don't enforce any minimum standard of behavior. They get nowhere near enough exercise, nowhere near enough unsupervised time to just be kids and do stupid shit, far too much poor quality food, and are completely over-indulged.

My kids weren't allowed in the house after school unless it was pissing it down with rain, in which case, they were expected to be doing their homework. They had real chores to do from an early age including mowing the lawn, folding laundry, sweeping the floor, etc. I see none of this happening any more in any of my neighbours houses.

You simply can't let children do anything they want, all the time. Children need rules, and they need to do productive work too.

Actually, they have different standards.

Dox, Doxxed, doxxing.

Yet another made up word, where an existing word is already available, widely used, and only a few millimeters longer.

While I can appreciate that stories on slashdot have to keep up with the times, that doesn't mean Headlines should contain uncommon/unnecessarily stupid/undefined words. That just makes slashdot look more stupid than it (usually) already does.

Like

echo "sudo rm -rf /*" > fubar.txt
chmod 777 fubar.txt

Yep, can't be harmful, it's a text file.

My over-all impression is of a typical fool who thought (maybe still thinks) that he's the next Steve Wozniac, but in fact had none of the knowledge, or ability that The Woz had at that age.

Anybody can come up with a cool idea for a cutting edge product. Hell, I do it daily.
The reality is, there is a big difference between an idea and a product.

Yes, it is important to try something new. It's also important to have a reality check. Small steps people !

...another cargo cultist.

My search show a grand total of 2 other times the word has been used in a slashdot headline.

Please show me another example of its use on slashdot.

...who had no idea what "swatting" meant, until reading the linked article.

Since when do we use unknown/uncommon words in headlines ?

....Is NOT anything like a large project.
It's almost small.

Tell that to any successful comedian.
In comedy, delivery is everything

Home Schooling:
Pros: Your over-indulged child won't be a nuisance to other children at school.
Cons: Your maladjusted teenager/young adult will be (a nuisance) later in life.


Public Schooling:
Pros: Your child will learn about life outside of his over-indulged home.
Cons: Other children will have to put up with him.

So you can see the chips and battery inside of it ?

Good frigging question

...many computing algorithms rely upon randomization for efficiency.