Comment: "Interact" = with its UI (Score 1) 229
"Interact" = with its UI
Comment: Re:3 or 4 depending (Score 1) 229
Every day I interact with some flavor of Windows (machines at work and/or my drawing tablet), OS X (laptop and/or desktop at home), and iOS (my phone), so that's a minimum of three. The Ubuntu Linux mail/web/file server at home doesn't require direct interaction most days, but I obviously use it daily. My job also frequently adds Windows Mobile, BlackBerry OS, and whatever IBM is currently calling OS/400. My personal life often adds Android (my Nook) and TiVo's hacked version of Linux (when there's something worth watching).
Comment: young != geek (Score 5, Insightful) 174
....or are they simply more cynical about the actual value of strong passwords in the era of large-scale user-database compromises?
I seriously doubt that most young people (i.e. the ones who aren't tech majors) even understand what this means. Young people appear to be more tech-savvy mostly because they have grown up around it and are not intimidated by it; it isn't because they have an innately better understanding of computer science and follow tech news more closely.
In fact, that lack of intimidation is also a better explanation of why they choose weaker passwords: they don't take it as seriously as older people, who both have had more (bad) experiences in life to make them more cautious, and are less comfortable with computers out of unfamiliarity
What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? 495
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from the make-a-wiki-about-it dept.
from the make-a-wiki-about-it dept.
Larry Sanger writes "In 2011, the Wikimedia Board committed to installing a 'controversial content' filter even weaker than Google's SafeSearch, as proposed by the '2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content.' Since then, after growing opposition by some Wikipedians, some board members have made it clear that they do not expect this filter to be finished and installed. Nevertheless, Wikipedia continues to host an enormous amount of extremely gross porn and other material most parents don't want their kids stumbling across. And this content is some of the website's most-accessed. Nevertheless, children remain some of Wikipedia's heaviest users. Jimmy Wales has recently reiterated his support for such a filter, but no work is being done on it, and the Foundation has not yet issued any statement about whether they intend to continue work on it."
(In case it isn't obvious from the headline and summary, these articles discuss subject matter that may not be appropriate for workplace reading.)
Comment: Re:Plan B (Score 1) 54
Comment: Re:It might not sound like much but (Score 1) 54
While that's sort of a flamebait topic, there is at least some truth to the concept. I saw an interview with some subsistence farmers once for whom Bono had been campaigning to "save their indigenous lifestyle" or something like that. And their take on it was, what you call a lifestyle, we call poverty.
It should be up to each culture to decide what elements of modern life they want to incorporate and which elements of their traditional life they want to preserve. Now, as for what the Aboriginees think of the changes in their society, I have no idea; I don't know any.
Comment: Re:15+:0 (Score 1) 276
All of the ones I see are secured, but two of them are WEP which these days is like locking your door with duct tape......but technically it's secured.
Comment: Re:Plan B (Score 1) 54
Er.... "space" is "another place".
Comment: Re:Civil Rights (Score 1) 245
The Bill of Rights doesn't prohibit (for example) slavery, disenfranchisement of women, or the outlawing of homosexuality. Later Amendments (e.g. 13th, 14th, 19th) corrected some of the oversights we now consider "basic civil/human rights", but not all of them.
Comment: Plan B (Score 3, Funny) 54
If I miss this, I'll just get in my spaceship and watch it some other time, from space.