Is reality TV harmful to society?

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An Armed Society is a Polite Society

An Armed Society is a Polite Society 09/13/2004 05:03 PM
U S Ban on Assault Weapons Expires

Without much fanfare the ten year old ban on assault weapons has expired. How does this affect our relative level of safety now that we can all own high powered, high capacity weapons again?

Hansard Society - Hansard Society
organises public meeting on MPs and
Blogging

Hansard Society - Hansard Society
organises public meeting on MPs and
Blogging 01/27/2004 06:24 PM
Hansard Society Public Meeting about the Political Potential of MPs and Weblogs .. politics, MPs and blogging .. blogging for politicians .. speak

hansardsociety.org.uk/node/view/103
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Virtual reality calms the chemo reality

Virtual reality calms the chemo reality 08/01/2004 08:03 AM
Chicago Tribune Aug 1 2004 12:13PM GMT

"Is this a HARMFUL cheeseburger or
something?"

"Is this a HARMFUL cheeseburger or
something?" 04/01/2005 07:51 PM
huge kick out of this audio clip .. this 911 call

sumama.com/misc/911_tape.wma
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Is AM Radio Harmful?

Is AM Radio Harmful? 08/16/2004 04:42 AM
A Korean study says more leukemia deaths occur in regions near AM transmitters. But no definite link can be proven, and scientists can't agree on whether the transmitters are a hazard. By Stephen Leahy.

Cat in the Hat: Harmful to Minors?

Cat in the Hat: Harmful to Minors? 01/09/2004 10:11 PM
Louis Menand on the Dr. Suess?s Cat in the Hat: [T]his is a story about a woman who leaves two?

AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful?

AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful? 08/16/2004 06:26 PM

AJAX Considered Harmful

AJAX Considered Harmful 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
I intend for this to post to be constructive, so I will focus on two specific suggestions which hopefully will serve as the seed for the development of a set of best practices for AJAX.  Here are the two humble suggestions on things that people should standardize on ...

mod_rewrite considered harmful

mod_rewrite considered harmful 01/16/2003 06:06 AM
Mark Pilgrim is replacing CSS hiding with mod_rewrite. There's just one problem: caching proxies.

Inheritance Considered Harmful (PDF)

Inheritance Considered Harmful (PDF) 01/14/2003 11:24 AM
It could also be argued that inheritance falls into the class of programming language features which are accepted and instigated without thorough analysis, only to be subsequently rejected when experience has shown them to be unhelpful. It would appear that encapsulation is more relevant and applicable than inheritance, and its benefits to the maintenance process are more obvious. In [12], it is suggested that in future systems, architectures based on aggregation will be more appropriate than those based on inheritance. This is particularly true of systems incorporating multiple inheritance whose structures have tended to be elaborately concocted... Lastly, contrary to what was originally thought, it may be that most OO systems are simply not amenable to the use of inheritance, and their functionality does not lend itself well to use of inheritance. -- Rachel Harrison and Steve Counsell

"tri" Not an easy article to read, but basicly it's saying complex inheritance trees (more than 3 levels in depth?) are difficult to maintain, and many designs use inheritance inappropriately. That is why the big thing in C# and Java today is generics, and why I was such a fan of templates in C++, even if the syntax was terrible. PHP has less need for generics because most of its operators and functions are polymorphic (thx to dynamic typing).

"zeldman.hc"

Debuggers Considered Harmful

Debuggers Considered Harmful 12/02/2003 01:55 AM
Robert C. Martin: As debuggers have grown in power and capability, they have become more and more harmful to the process of software development.

cch (Classic Considered Harmful)

cch (Classic Considered Harmful) 12/29/2002 03:29 PM
We’ve switched to OS X and we’ll never go back. The cause of our quasi-religious conversion? Memory management and UNIX stability. Because of the way

dch (Death Considered Harmful)

dch (Death Considered Harmful) 12/29/2002 03:29 PM
When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come? Joe Strummer, singer/guitarist of The Clash, has died at 50. Also dead at 50,

OnStar Considered Harmful

OnStar Considered Harmful 12/29/2003 09:22 PM
Frisky070802 writes "A few weeks ago Slashdot ran an article on the privacy issues in EzPass. Some of the comments referred to other things Big Brother could ...

New Domains Considered Harmful, Says Tim
Berners-Lee

New Domains Considered Harmful, Says Tim
Berners-Lee 05/19/2004 01:14 PM
As lots of folks are pushing to get ICANN to expand the number of top level domains (so people an get more than just .com, .net, etc.), Tim Berners-Lee is argung against the idea, saying that current proposals are really just a racket to get more money out of companies. The original idea was that the domain name space (really just the .com space) was getting too crowded and good names were increasingly difficult to come by. However, instead of really expanding the market, adding .biz and .info mostly just made companies feel the need to buy up the same domains they already owned the .com for. If anything, he considers it domain "inflation" - devaluing existing domains. He is particularly against the idea of a .mobi domain name specifically for wireless content, agreeing with us that there's really no need for it and it will make things more confusing. Increasingly, mobile phones and devices are able to access the entire internet without any problems. There's no reason they need a specific separate TLD all their own. He's also against the idea of the .xxx domain, pointing out (as always) that figuring out exactly what is porn is quite subjective. That's true, but as long as no one is forced into the .xxx domain, it might make sense for certain sites that want the domain. He's not entirely against new TLDs, but wants them to have a specific purpose - such as mapping to telephone numbers, which some groups have proposed as well.

Blue LEDs Considered Harmful

Blue LEDs Considered Harmful 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
Wired: Backlash Brews Over Blue LEDs Some researchers report that, at night, even low-level blue light may be enough to...

SUVs considered harmful to your head

SUVs considered harmful to your head 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
A NYT article titled "Automak ers Agree to Work for S.U.V. Safety" addresses the dangers associated with a height differential between SUVs and cars in collisions.

"A lot of times, people die from their head hitting the hood of the striking car, so if you can add some sort of head protection, like a curtain, you can mitigate injuries and fatalities," said Chris Tinto, one of Toyota's top safety experts.

SUV makers ought to consider pushing for the application of helmet laws to drivers mistakenly choosing reasonably-sized vehicles. Perhaps these wimpy drivers should further consider helmets, knee-pads, and pedestrian roll-bars when outside their ill-considered puny vehicles to prevent against head-butts by "bullies."

Wired News: Is AM Radio Harmful?

Wired News: Is AM Radio Harmful? 08/17/2004 03:29 AM
study in Korea suggests a 70-percent increase in the incidence of leukemia .. Rush Limbuagh causes cancer .. Is AM Radio Harmful?

wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64579,00.html
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Baby food contains harmful bugs

Baby food contains harmful bugs 06/02/2004 08:03 PM
A survey has found disease-causing microbes in dried baby food products.

Security Tools More Harmful Than
Helpful?

Security Tools More Harmful Than
Helpful? 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Slashdot Apr 9 2004 12:24PM GMT

Security tool more harmful than helpful?

Security tool more harmful than helpful? 04/09/2004 04:09 PM

Starbucks and Ikea not considered
harmful

Starbucks and Ikea not considered
harmful 01/27/2004 09:51 PM
Here's an inspired rant in favor of Ikea ("If your life is mediocre, I promise you, Ingvar Kamprad didn't make it that way. You did.") and Starbucks:

I am also old enough to remember the swill that Americans drank and were pleased to call "coffee" before Howard Schultz swept down out of his damp PNW redoubt and clusterbombed us with franchises. It tasted like soggy cardboard, it was served in chipped diner porcelain that itself generally tasted of soap, and most importantly, with a very few exceptions, it was all you could get anywhere.

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Heroin and teenage pregnancy not
considered harmful?

Heroin and teenage pregnancy not
considered harmful? 12/17/2004 06:36 PM
Imagine an average guy with an average job (tire salesman, cubicle-dwelling Java programmer, whatever) with two teenage kids.  The father is upset because his son is using heroin.  Now that the movie Ray is out the son can reply "if I stayed off the smack I might be able to get a job like yours dad but I'd rather be like Ray Charles."  The 17-year-old daughter is pregnant with her second child, which also earns her some verbal abuse from dad.  In the 1970s she would have to suffer this abuse but today when Buddhism is recognized as the provably optimal religion for human felicity she can say "sorry that you're upset dad; I was 'in the moment' when this baby was conceived."

Sweet-smelling stationery harmful for
children

Sweet-smelling stationery harmful for
children 07/05/2004 12:56 AM
Content.sina.com - Sun Jul 4, 08:02 pm GMT

iPodlounge deals with harmful iPod
accessories

iPodlounge deals with harmful iPod
accessories 02/01/2005 09:21 PM
In an effort to protect iPod owners, iPodlounge has created new policies on dangerous iPod accessories, knock-offs, and questionable vendor business practices...

"Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and
20th Centuries"

"Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and
20th Centuries" 06/05/2005 11:44 PM

smch (Special Menu Considered Harmful)

smch (Special Menu Considered Harmful) 12/29/2002 03:29 PM
In every Mac since the dawn of time, you could erase a disk by choosing Erase Disk from the Special menu. In OS X there

Standard Data Vocabularies
Unquestionably Harmful

Standard Data Vocabularies
Unquestionably Harmful 05/30/2002 08:10 AM

First mobile phone virus discovered, but
not harmful (AFP)

First mobile phone virus discovered, but
not harmful (AFP) 06/15/2004 03:09 PM
AFP - The first ever computer virus that can infect mobile phones has been discovered, anti-virus software developers said, adding that up until now it has had no harmful effect.

bwch (Book Writing Considered Harmful)

bwch (Book Writing Considered Harmful) 12/29/2002 03:29 PM
While Dean Allen noshes Brie and pretends to be heterosexual, and while Christendom lurches from eggnog to champagne, we slog through the muck of writing

'Toxic' computer dust harmful to humans

'Toxic' computer dust harmful to humans 06/08/2004 04:08 AM
iafrica.com Jun 8 2004 8:39AM GMT

vbdch (View by Date Modified Considered
Harmful)

vbdch (View by Date Modified Considered
Harmful) 12/29/2002 03:29 PM
OS X is not perfect. In some ways it’s still quite unrefined and somewhat user-hostile. For instance. Just as you could in OS 9, in OS

HTML considered harmful to airport
terminals | Ten Years of My Life

HTML considered harmful to airport
terminals | Ten Years of My Life 02/17/2004 06:09 AM
what? airport kiosks don't support web standards? .. HTML in Airports .. more

tenyearsofmylife.com/2004/02/15
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Let Users Control Font Size: Style
Sheets considered harmful

Let Users Control Font Size: Style
Sheets considered harmful 08/19/2002 06:48 AM
Another example of harmful Web technology comes with the increasing use of style sheets, which let web designers specify the exact size of text down to the pixel. Unfortunately, many designers are using this ability, leading to reduced readability of an increasing number of websites. -- Jakob Nielsen

"zeldman.aac"

Northwestern Memorial Study Finds That
Computer Keyboards May Harbor Harmful
Bacteria

Northwestern Memorial Study Finds That
Computer Keyboards May Harbor Harmful
Bacteria 04/19/2005 05:59 AM
Science Daily Apr 19 2005 9:43AM GMT

It would be a harmful thing if all
information technology products were to
bear one company's logo - Microsoft

It would be a harmful thing if all
information technology products were to
bear one company's logo - Microsoft 05/16/2004 10:50 PM
Xinhua News Agency May 17 2004 3:43AM GMT

Reality Porn - Hot Reality Porn Reviews

Reality Porn - Hot Reality Porn Reviews 04/26/2004 06:49 PM
www.reality-porn.ws

reality-porn.ws
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Red Hat Society

Red Hat Society 07/08/2004 12:21 PM
If you thought the Red Hat Society would have something to do with open source and Linux, you're wrong....

Pay Per Use Society

Pay Per Use Society 08/13/2004 07:21 AM
Whenever I speak with librarians about fair use or the Copyright Act more generally, I inevitably hear them express concerns that we run the risk of becoming a pay per use society, one in which content is available only for a fee. I am concerned that the bookmobiles we all...
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