Comment Re:MS Licenses...[Is there a charge?] (Score 1) 20
You seem to have a thing about prisons
About them being a good place for criminals to live? Sure.
Comment Re:MS Licenses...[Is there a charge?] (Score 2) 20
If "we" really wanted to stop the scamming spammers, then I think it could be done.
Well, long prison sentences might help. And perhaps large fines for any network delivering spam. Big tariffs for countries allowing it to be sent?
Let's get creative. We obviously haven't taken it very seriously, yet.
How can the large numbers of spam haters be placed between the scammers and their suckers to shift the profits into losses?
By electing people who pass laws mandating long prison sentences for spam?
Comment Anything ... (Score 2) 20
... that allows "invitations", and customizing, or even just adding to, the invite message, can result in scam email sent from very real email addresses of trusted entities.
This is not new. Never click the link in the email, never call the number in the email. And most of all, never rush; carefully read it, think about it, see if it even makes sense ("hmm, what's this weird invitation thing at the bottom?"), and if you feel you must follow up on it, do so through completely independent and verifiable channels.
Comment Re:Just the basics (Score 1) 38
F. B. Purity gives you a reverse-chronological feed and zaps most ads. Downside is it only works in a browser on the desktop, but then again that's the only sort-of-safe way to use Facebook.
Dang, even the old review quoted on that page about what some guy didn't like about Facebook sounds like some sort of hazy, pristine, nostalgic wonderful version of it!
F.B. Purity Reviewed in The Washington Post:
Like several bazillion other users, I like using Facebook to keep tabs on what my friends are up to. What I don't like is the endless stream of "so-and-so took this quiz" and "Joe became friends with Jane" messages and "What Kind of Jedi Are You?" come-ons.
That's why I just became a fan of Facebook Purity, a browser extension / add-on that removes those annoying quiz and application notifications from your Facebook home page.
Personally, I'm loving this add-on. Anything that cuts down Facebook clutter is a winner in my book.
Comment Re:Yeah... (Score 1, Insightful) 35
Does your irony meter ever go off when you try the dementia thing?
Comment I guess it's nice to have a study ... (Score 1) 40
... I mean "reading better for you brain than TV", news at 11?
Comment Re:SAT prep classes were a thing even in 1990. (Score 1) 14
I never saw how the SAT could actually be a test of ability when there were so many entrenched courses to teach exactly what is on it. I didn't care and never prepped and was still in the 90 something percentile - just imagine how much worse everyone else would have been if they hadn't prepped - and I would say more than 3/4 of my class took the SAT prep course.
Standardized testing doesn't work towards the common good, plus that test is all the schools will now teach because if it isn't on the test the school board doesn't care as it won't help the school's rating.
The old SAT was a thinly disguised IQ test. I doubt that the prep helped much, unless some people were totally unused to taking standardized tests at all. (Which is doubtful; I recall being peppered with them all through school.)
Comment You'd have hated ... (Score 1) 60
... the days of wandering musicians and "players" companies.
Songs were copied, and tweaked into new works, left and right. So were plays.
Comment Re:agreed (Score 1) 60
I'd like to see copyright go back to a reasonable time limit, like author's lifetime, or even less.
Seven years, renewable once to 14, was good enough for the founding fathers. Would be good enough for me
Comment Re:no thanks (Score 1) 105
Just searched this Ozempic drug and the first side effect is: Possible thyroid tumors, including cancer.
Life is all about comparative risk. Obesity has HUGE risks.
Comment And ... (Score 1) 104
... almost 100% of drownings come from just one compound, H2O!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment There's also ... (Score 1) 19
... nothing terribly unique about "edtech".
Videos. Text. Forms. Reporting. Not too difficult to just use generic parts to assemble a whole.
Comment Re:We all mix pics emojis in our communications .. (Score 1) 83
> We all mix pictures, emojis, and text freely in our communications
No we don't, unless we don't want to be taken seriously.
Eh, I do (unless I'm emailing some stodgy unknown who might be offended)
A smile indicates that I am, you know, smiling. A laugh indicates that I am joking. Context is provided; communication is improved.
My coworkers and our clients seem to take me seriously {shrugging faux emoji here, lol}
Comment Re:Wrong Priorities (Score 1) 43
Texas did. It created the Guardian School program in 2007 which is a method for school employees who chose to, to remain armed and defend their students. There has never been a mass shooting at a Guardian school.
Do you know how crazy that sounds to the rest of the planet?
Which part of the planet? Rotherham, say?
Comment Gee, I had no idea ... (Score 1) 93
... that I was so special (eye roll).
Or, just maybe, you aren't counting everybody, just large companies.
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