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Is it a TOS violation for someone else to use your account? Adult signs up, kid uses account. Seemingly all perfectly legal, right?
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I wonder if it matters whether people are using their trackpad. I was using mine and immediately figured it out; maybe it's because scrolling horizontally is trivial with a trackpad?
There's some great professional advice in this thread already but I think you're probably going to be coming at your problem from this perspective.

I recommend responding to lots of Craigslist postings (if there are enough in your city). Keep at it and you'll eventually find someone or several people that want to pay you. Probably not the big bucks but you'll start out here.

You can also go to businesses around you that look like they might need a website. Even if they don't, many people think they do and you can sell them that. Some businesses don't have much money, you may be able to get cake from them. Yes, I once developed a website in exchange for a cake a month. They were some of the best cakes I've ever had. You will move up from cakes and Craigslist as you develop more skill (re: programming, especially databases).

Try attending local conferences. I mean conference in the loosest sense of the word as in BarCamp or equivalent. Local meetings with other people doing what you're doing. Some of those people might need development work. If nothing else you'll see what people are up to and get a better feel for the local business.

It gets better.
Should have gotten him his own domain name (through someone other than google) and used backupify to back up his email. Then when google decides to shut you down, you still own your identity, and your data. Actually this applies for everybody, under or over 13.
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Are you saying you read every TOS you agree to?
I studied physics.
I must be a total minority here but as a parent of a 9 and 11 year old I'm shocked how many commenters recommend "just lie" or even teach their kids that lying is ok on the internet. Maybe this particular kid is a total outlier but I can say for sure that my kids and their friends are definitely not ready for any kind of sophisticated reasoning about when to apply which morals. At that age they are also fairly unable to separate fact from ficition and news from gossip.

The age limit of 13 seems pretty reasonable to me and if as a parent you think your kid is so mature (hint: he isn't) then it is definitely your responsibility to act as a guardian.

Google didn't make your son cry, you made your son cry. And that's fine, we all make our kids cry from time to time. Explain the mistake you made to your kid, figure out what to do in the future and move on.
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I tend to when my children are involved.
Sometimes lying is necessary though. In this case for instance, while the real solution would be to have Google's policy and the law changed, it's unlikely that's going to happen for a ten year-old kid. My parents have always told me to "pick your battles", and I think this is a clear example of a battle that's easier won by lying.

Morality aside: maintaining a fabrication is also not difficult for some people. You just need to make sure to think your lies through, and maintain two levels of backup explanations in case someone does poke their way through. Weaving details through primary and backup explanations can be difficult, but that's where practice comes in.
I hope they covered their tracks very well, because the Secret Service really does not have a sense of humour about that sort of thing.
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edit: thanks to Vivtek for translation :)
Google's already giving you a free service. Why should Google go through all that paperwork because you didn't read or comply with their Terms of Service? These people need to suck it up and find another way for their kid to talk to his grandparents.
Try thinking of it in terms of Android intents/activities. The vast majority of the time, it's handled automatically for you (where "it" is whatever you were trying to do), but when you want the option to choose, it's there.

In some cases (e.g., sharing) it's clear that there's never a single good option -- the choice should probably always exist. There are plenty of others (e.g., image editing) where a site might want to have a specific default, but allow for choice where appropriate.

The alternative, I'm afraid, is what we have now -- you only get the options (usually just one) that an app's developer happened to find time to integrate by hand, usually poorly.
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Djokovic said "hard work" was behind his success several times while taking to McEnroe. So his few percent here and there were not easy to come by, but obviously well with it.
The one thing that continues to surprise me is that this still hasn't been removed!
Actually, this seems like a pretty good idea.

I presume that if G+ really is a collection of smaller projects, then this functionality would sit neatly inside the stream area.

It's also one of those ideas that once you hear, seems obvious - so wouldn't be too surprised if they're already working on this. It'd only really be useful if/when there is a large amount of newsfeed traffic on there, similar to how busy facebook is for most of us now.
thanks. currently everything is as insensitive to time as possible (during calibration the data are tagged, so i look for the block of tagged data near the correct time).
Which country are you located in?
This article is very absurd.

Everyone knows that oil (and other material resource on Earth) is a finite resource - which means at some point, the planet will run out of it.

Economics would dictate that other energy sources would be developed (and is already prevalent) that would take away oil away from the big part of the equation.
The funny thing is that Common Lisp can be used to deliver working systems just fine. In fact, there's nothing "perfect" about it. It has warts. But it is actually quite practical.

"Worse is better," is thankfully a philosophy that is pretty unique (afaik) to software development. It is only really applicable to a sub-set of software development as well. I cannot imagine how "worse is better" would work in mission critical systems where human lives are at stake. Or lab equipment, embedded systems, and other scenarios where failures can result in huge headaches.

I don't think there was a battle that was won by any side really. Either approach could be considered for any given problem. Practicality is important and zealotry should be avoided at all costs.
>> I really see very little room for confusion here.

> I don't understand how you reach that conclusion. You might understand it, I don't see how you can say there is very little room for confusion.

Please do not put words in my mouth. I wrote "I see very little room for confusion" not "There is very little room for confusion". I tried to make it clear that I was talking about my personal experience; and I was talking about my personal experience since I was hoping it would help, not to defend the syntax of C.

Sometimes a particular point of view allows you to understand something; in some cases it makes the previously mystifying point "trivial" or "obvious". I am sorry that the POV that helped me so much does not help you at all.
The main complaint of the article is that most social networks have US-centric TOS. It's not just about finding a different provider, it's that they might not be able to find a social network that doesn't enforce COPPA internationally.
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Why would anyone living in the Netherlands know or care about COPPA? And why would Google enforce COPPA compliance internationally? That seems like a waste of resources, not to mention limiting their audience.
Yes, COPPA law is very clear and strong, and it would be a criminal act for Google to knowingly host a child's content.

The parental permissions required to host children's information are way too costly for mainstream internet services, and even with permission it might not be legal for Google to do some types of marketing towards children.
ATTENTION GOOGLE:

REGARDLESS of what you think you need to do to comply with COPPA or any other law in the United States or any other jurisdiction;

IF you have automated processes that cancel accounts and freeze data and do not offer at a minimum, an opportunity for the person affected to retrieve his/her data entrusted with you;

THEN, this will keep happening (Google-made-me-cry stories).

THEREFORE, in order to reduce the number of Google-made-me-cry stories, you should:

IMPLEMENT a system to allowed users adversely affected by your automated processes a way to RETRIEVE their data, all the time, no matter what, come hell or high water.

IN FACT the account_delete() function shouldn't even take an ARGUMENT about whether to allow data retrieval; account_delete() should have a non-overridable call to allow_account_export_for_thirty_days(), if you KNOW WHAT I MEAN, which I nearly think that you DO.

BECAUSE this isn't rocket surgery.

AND BECAUSE we get upset if we lose our data. We become WROTH. You wouldn't like us when we are WROTH.

IT is the LEAST you could do. Seriously, it's the minimum. The absolute least. You could do more, if you wanted to. But this is the least.

SINCERELY, The Internet.
I suspect it's an automatic function when a comment reaches a certain number of downvotes. In this case it may also highlight an issue with not showing points- many people may have thought it warranted downvoting, but some may have not clicked had they been aware it was already showing the max of -4.?

I know I get the flipside often- comments that may warrant a few upvotes get 20 because we've lost the 'feels about right' element of scores. Of course, I can't fault the converse 'vote on its merits' argument.
Scheme is over thirty years old; over those years, a lot of research and experimentation has been devoted to making Scheme more efficient.

When Scheme first came out, its use of lexical scope was controversial, because everyone knew that dynamic scope was more efficient.
It isn't that easy, and even with permission it might not be legal or appropriate for children to use some Google + services.
You clearly don't have children.
Under COPPA, once Google realizes the data is a child's personal information, they have to immediately delete the account.
It's not the same without the foxes and the soundtrack.

Seriously, though, this might be a good idea, but it desperately needs improving. I shouldn't have to catch myself thinking about typography so often while reading a Math textbook.
Care to do an after-tax-and-expenses analysis? In one of your previous income reports I've discussed that with a few people, but it'd be nice to see some actual numbers, since you don't seem to be coy about it at all.
I think Message and E-mail will be enough. Most people write down 'kind regards, name' in the message.
It seems reasonable to you that you need to be 13 or older to use email? To talk to his grandparents?
If you believe in Keynesian economics, it doesn't matter that real estate hasn't recovered. The only quantity that matters is aggregate demand and aggregate supply. (Employment should be slaved to AS.) Taking the Keynesian assumption that AD and production are monotonically related to each other, we can conclude that AD has recovered.

If you push theories in which you you treat real estate separately from the rest of the economy (i.e., you assume construction workers don't immediately go out and become nurses), you are a structuralist rather than a Keynesian.

In any case, the Keynesian assumption that employment increases with production is simply not true of the modern economy. This is quite easy to establish empirically - just compare graphs of production to graphs of employment.

By the way, here is more data on employment across the economy.

http://crazybear.posterous.com/structural-shift-in-the-econo...
How does every other freaking kids' site do this? You're telling me Google is incapable of figuring that out?

The only evidence they have he's less than 13 is his honest answer to their question. The only evidence the law holds them to is billing the parents a dollar, or really, just the assertion that they're an adult. Microsoft manages this for their online properties. Why can't Google? Because Google doesn't care to.
Or someone NOT GOOGLE could decide to do things the right way, and GOOGLE could run just a subset of the internet instead of the whole damn thing and every single service every internet-user used.

I'm not sure why you guys are always asking Google to do things. It's like you want a single, big entity to have all dominating powers over your online-life.

Maybe it's just me, but I think that's just plain weird.
Somewhat off topic, but I can't get past how similar the Prizes logo looks to the Picplz logo.

Load http://prizes.org/ and http://picplz.com in tabs next to each other and compare their favicons.
I jokingly made this suggestion to him on twitter. He posted a few "assignments" and we (I assume it was more than myself participating) posted pics of our console output.

This guy loves to program
Schools everywhere are breaking Google's TOS
Every school that allows under 13s to make Google searches breaks Google's terms of service

Here are Google's TOS which I assume apply to search:

https://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

TLDR; You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google
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COPPA is pretty reasonable, the idea is that the online personal data of young children should be treated with extra protections and permissions.
I don't share your feelings about Wave's UI. I quite liked it, with the exception of the scroll bars.
I just noticed the example is editable! Thumbs up for a great demonstration.
I see, and thanks for clarifying.

The point of my earlier post was to describe strong reasons for people to have trouble with pointers.
Their servers are in the U.S. COPPA applies to the types of data Google stores, namely children's personal information.
Oh, come on. I have kids, too. When they were that old, I told them never to sign up for anything without asking me, and I told them why we were lying about their age and address, because there are people on the Internet who we can't trust.

Now that they're older (my son is 12 now) and really do have the sophistication to understand this distinction - and you're right, a 9yo or 11yo doesn't - they understand why we did that. But the key is, your 9yo and 11yo trust you, and should continue to do so. They don't care what you answer when signing them up for Google Mail - they don't even notice discrepancies of that nature. In the case they do, you tell them why you're doing it.

Google did most certainly make Alex cry - in exactly the same way that his hard drive crashing would have done so. Sure, ultimately it's the parents' fault, in a way, for letting him use fallible computer systems, and that in itself is probably a good lesson, but Google most certainly shares the blame here for boneheaded policies that don't even give parents the option of interceding. And the reason is the same as Google's reason always is: it was easier for Google.
The service is not free, you just don't pay with money.
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They are still violating COPPA. They can't knowingly store child's information without parental permission.

Note: I worked on this issue for a Fortune 100 company when COPPA was passed.
You can also use the numbered circles at the top to advance to each section of the image. This can also provide a less jerky scrolling than doing it manually.
His mother's American. She'll be talking to her congresscritter; I know her.
I have very low expenses (as I am just sitting at the computer). Tax is 19% from income - expenses. Moreover I need to pay about $150 of health and other obligatory insurances.
I agree completely, as a teenager myself despite wanting to stay away from such petty, defaming conversations, you eventually get hauled in, either because one of your friends starts believing them in which case you're social life is at stake, or because any new acquaintances will be sorely misled by those comments.
Your answer is really good. Therefore I have dig a little bit deeper.

"As of September 2004 the U.S. Congressional Budget Office reported that federal government spending for 2004 was projected to be $2.293 trillion, or slightly less than 20% of the GDP. Of that, $159 billion was for net interest, $486 billion for defense, $492 billion for Social Security, $473 billion for Medicare and Medicaid, $191 billion for various welfare programs, $136 billion for "retirement and disability" benefits, and $64 billion was projected to be spent elsewhere." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending)

Therefore your numbers are correct. It is big work to find numbers for the same year but for example military spending between EU and USA can be compared:

"The combined defence budgets of the 27 EU member states in 2008 amounted to €284.9 billion ($406,7 billion). This represents 1.63% of European Union GDP[2], second only to the US military's €477.4 billion ($620.5 billion) 2008 defence budget, which represents 4.5% of United States GDP." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_European_Union)

In this case we still have different agents but military spending has indirect economic effect on different EU countries (e.g. military airports in countries that do not even have its own war air planes).

Still your argument is really strong having in mind social security of federal budget's spending. Europe Union has its own budget as well but it is way smaller compared to US federal budget (about 1-2% of EU GDP vs 20% of USA).

Finally it is not very good to mix EU and Euro zone (because not all EU members have Euro).
Yep, there is a seminal paper on this subject. Start by reviewing coretalk.net and directly contact me.
That's the most cogent point I've seen in this entire debate.
Your statement is not true. In fact Google's only obligation under the law is not to make PUBLICLY available children's personal information without parental consent, and not to continue to collect personal information from a verified child without parental consent.

There's even a specific safe harbor for Google to disclose a child's personal information to the child's parent.
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I am Brazilian, so I might get the slang wrong but I think that red tape means bureaucracy. I think he is asking you how hard it is to declare the taxes from this income to your own government...
Chrome's bookmarks straight-up suck; in my opinion, it's one of the very few things Firefox has over it.

AFAIK there is no in-browser solution to your problem, but IIRC Chrome does keep its bookmarks in a local JSON file.

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The issue is not with blocking access to Google+, it is with the (impending) deletion of his ~2 years worth of emails. I don't believe you need to be 13 years old to use email, I know I was using it at around Alex's age.
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This seems useful. Hopefully they don't take too long coming out with the Google Plus API, I predict there will be a lot of thirdparty addons/interfaces like we saw with Twitter. I'd like to be able to use circles as venn diagrams and perform more sophisticated unions/intersections/differences/joins on my circles as well as generate them on the fly for one-use purposes.
As far as I see, this only applies to registered users, as it talks about accounts and whatnot. You don't need that for ye' olde search.
Google accounts aren't just yet-another-email-address anymore. While I like to think of my gmail account as a throwaway (I still only use it for testing email delivery from my proper email accounts), my entire Android "profile" is linked through it.

If I fat-finger some signup form somewhere, or my stupid cousin decides to play a prank on me with my signed-in Google account, or something else bad happens unrelated to this "underage"/COPPA policy, I have no recourse to recover from a lockout?

That's stupid, and impacts something very important to me. While Google may or may not get any money from my use of Android, they are (by their own hand) accountable for my experience there, which includes not ever being irrevocably locked out of the "cloud" resources that the phone depends upon.
Even better: parent proves with credit/debit card that child is 18+.