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Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by Enginerrrd »

kaybe wrote: post #123
mjburgess wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exposure builds resilience. All shielding does is turn people into hysterics who cannot see through the artifice, and assume everyone is duped by it into being murderous zombies.

I have to say, as a kid, all these games and movies were much more harmless than the news. The news had actual blood on the streets, from real people who had actually died there, real violence, real panic, real bombs and real war. If you shut off the TV, it does not go away, it's taking place somewhere out there, in the real world. A game is a joke in comparison.

I don't worry about games for those reasons, I worry about them because they're extremely seductive and attention-capturing while producing almost no real benefits or skills. I quit video games cold turkey around the age of 16 after I realized that soo often, I'd find myself sit down to play counterstrike after school, and in a blink of an eye it would be 1AM.

Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by ldoughty »

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #154
cyberpunk wrote: post #24

Ahahahaha. I remember (vaguely) pinging AOL's irc servers with hays cmdset commands and as a result my parents getting a letter to the effect that I was a computer criminal and we were on some 'blacklist' forever, fortunately this apparently blacklist didn't seem to be shared between ISPs so I was back causing chaos within days >_ And now here I am, mid thirties, children, and I wonder if I would let my kid play DOOM…

I'm not a parent (yet), but I do wonder about how I would enforce some of the double standards -- I was playing DOOM at age 8 and looking at somewhat questionable content online (my parents had no idea), and I like to think that I still turned out somewhat fine. Would I really want to use my hacker-grade computer knowledge to enforce a parental control jail on my childrens' ability to consume this meaningful informat…

My own plan: shield them until they are old enough to understand the concepts of trust and respect.. then pull back the safety net, but maintain quiet vigilance (like montoring (read only) the dns queries or system logs, and maybe keep access time window restrictions).

If that really want questionable content, it will be cat and mouse game. Build trust and respect... Give them enough rope to hang themselves... Occasionally do responses without admitting knowing... then punish if they cross your safety threshold, but then they will know you somehow know.. so a cat and mouse game will begin if they are not responding to the mutual(ish) trust plan.

Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by anm89 »

developer93 wrote: post #114
daveslash wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It needs to be up-voted that this is satire and not a real post from a 2001 concerned parent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequacy.org#Notable_stories

You don't say?

It seems like a majority of the comments here are not aware of this.

Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by jchw »

exciteabletom wrote: post #55
ro_bit wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So this is what the CPUBenchmark authors wrote before making CPUBenchmark

Did you mean the Intel shill site userbenchmark.com? https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/AMD-Ryzen-9-5900X/Rating/4087

I was not gonna comment, but wow, they really are not backing down. From their Intel vs AMD value page:

> We don't

> Put lipstick on pigs for sponsorship fees, our users are our only sponsors.

> Care for brands: red, green or blue. PC hardware isn’t a fashion show, performance comes first.

> Test at 1440p or 4K: high resolutions are rarely optimal for gaming (refresh rate > size > resolution).

> Get fooled by the corporate army of anonymous forum and reddit influencers that prey on first time buyers.

Righto. So they don’t shill. And they know how to benchmark and measure the right things; except for the period of time when they accidentally showed AMD topping the charts and then had to adjust their expert benchmark scores. 4K gaming isn’t real; it’s a conspiracy invented by Big GPU and no gamers want it because clearly all gaming graphics is chasing higher FPS. And not only are they not shills, YOU are!

What a convincing argument. Others more reputable in the benchmarking scene considered userbenchmarks to be poorly executed to begin with, but wow, they really do not know how to take an L, at all. Of course it is convenient that the cases where AMD processors would succeed at are irrelevant.

Now I’m not playing games most of the time so a high framerate in games is hardly important to me. But who would I rather get advice from: Sour grapes userbenchmarks, or literally any other reputable benchmarking site? They inch closer and closer to blatant SEO SPAM every year.

I know Intel is not good at PR, but they really ought to pay these people... to stop making them look bad.

Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by annoyingnoob »

> I attend their teen parties with them to ensure no drinking or alcohol is on the premises. I keep a fatherly eye on the CDs they listen to and the shows they watch, the company they keep and the books they read. You could say I'm a model parent.

Um, no, not a model parent. Draconian.

Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by Buttons840 »

busymom0 wrote: post #169

> If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking. AMD chips are never s…

In 2001 children soldered each logic gate by hand. /s

Just kidding. It's satire. It's supposed to be funny because a chip fab is a very clean environment, not a "sweatshop".

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