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• University Circle Police - a private department funded by the businesses they serve. University Circle is a neighborhood housing many significant educational, medical, cultural and historical facilities, which is bordered on all sides by very high-crime neighborhoods
• The Transit Police, which I believe may be the largest department in Ohio - polices the public transit buses, trains and terminals
• CMHA Police - serves the public housing projects in the county
• CMSD Police - serves Cleveland's public school district
• Cleveland's three largest hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and MetroHealth, each have their own police forces (though apparently not web sites)
• Metro Parks Rangers - basically park rangers with police authority
• Most of the colleges and universities in the area (even the small schools and technical colleges) have their own campus police forces

That's obviously in addition to all the private security services that lack full law enforcement authority. And I'm probably leaving a few out in my list above - it's been a few years since I've lived there or payed real close attention. But the point is, it's by no means unusual for a private organization to form it's own full-fledged police force.

http://www.jcu.edu/math/vignettes/mersenne.htm

Why So Much Interest in Primes?

You might wonder whether the search for large primes is of any value. Apart from the adventurous spirit of exploration, there actually are uses for large prime numbers. One of the most important applications is to the field of cryptography -- the encoding and decoding of messages. National security often relies on having a secure method of encoding and deciphering messages; yet the existence of high-speed computers have rendered all but the most sophisticated coding schemes insecure. One commonly used method of message coding is the RSA scheme, named for its creators, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman. The RSA scheme relies on the fact that it is easy to multiply two prime numbers, yet hard to factor their product -- especially if the prime numbers are large. Consequently, knowledge of large prime numbers can lead to coding schemes that are difficult to break.

I wonder if something more basic might be in order.. My degree is in Philosophy, so I had to take symbolic logic. There was a CS guy in my course though who actually went to the department and said, "this should be on the CS curriculum, because we really don't formally learn logic." Here's the guy who taught me @ John Carroll: http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/lc/index.htm

Wow, I guess working on feature films, music videos, spots, pilots, or anything else we do here in Hollyweird (well Santa Monica) all day every day I wouldn't know.

That's right, apparently you don't know. First, the term "Ken Burns effect" wasn't coined by Steve Jobs (see link provided by AC), and second, its generic is name "pan and zoom", not "pan and scan". While there's an obvious connection between the two, the latter refers specifically to a technique for converting between formats, and not to the Ken Burns effect.

You seem to be having a problem with logical inferences, e.g. the fact that you first heard something from Steve Jobs doesn't mean it didn't exist previously (it more likely means that Jobs is aware of a wider world than you are); and the fact that when performing a pan and scan, you do something a lot like a pan and zoom, doesn't mean that the term "pan and scan" can correctly be used instead of "pan and zoom". To test your logical ability, try this ten question test.

Apparently, most people realize that following the Golden Rule is a good thing.

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You want your sexuality respected, so you should respect the sexuality of others. It is so lame when people try to twist the golden rule like that. "Uh I like people to call me Bubba, so I guess I better call everyone else Bubba too. Damn i'm smart!"

I think more people generally see the GPL as freer, or perhaps fairer, in that it seems to closely follow the Golden Rule (so close to common sense that it seems too fancy to call it a philosophy).

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Hi there -- sorry I didn't answer your post sooner but I never saw it.

My question is, have you considered forgiving?

Yes, and my wife and I are in marriage counselling. I love her dearly and want to forgive her, but at the same time I am terribly afraid to commit myself to someone who was able to hurt me so badly. There are many layers to an affair, and I've learned a lot about what led her there. I forgive some of her choices and I have yet to forgive others.

have you considered the possibility that it is Jesus who can give you the strength to forgive?

Well, I was raised a Pentecostal Christian (my grandfather, in fact, founded our town's churgh). Until I was seventeen or so I just believed because I was raised that way. At that point I had a sort of revelation and I commited to becoming a true believer with a personal relationship with Christ. I gave my whole heart to that process. But for some reason after a year I found myself feeling it was all a sham. I read the bible, starting at the beginning, and I came to feel it was a book written by humans, not by a divine hand. So then I became agnostic. And after a few years of self exploration I became atheist.

I don't really like the term "athiest" because it doesn't indicate a belief, but rather a lack of one particular belief: the belief in a God. It would be like me labelling all Christians and Muslims "non-Buddhists". I am an athiest, but I have a strong value system, which at it's most basic is the golden rule. I admit I don't know where we came from or why, but I don't see any explanations that satisfy me. So I will continue to live as best I can and learn about myself and the world. I respect others' beliefs.

All that said, I don't think that a relationship with Jesus, even if I believed he was the son of God, would help me with this forgiveness. I have the power in me to choose forgiveness, but I've yet to exercise it because I don't know if I want to. I don't know if I am willing to take the risks involved.

Anywyas, hope that you're still reading and that I've answered your question. Good luck to you and your wife. Just remember as you go on, that if you still love each other and haven't had an affair, that you have lighting in a bottle. Don't let it slip away: either of you.

Cheers.

You're parents must've been too cheap to send you to kindergarten. If you don't know the Golden Rule, here it is. The grandparent is absolutely right that the GPL and the Golden Rule philosophically coincide. The Golden Rule is the basis of civilized behavior.

and stop using that silly name

Why would the basis of civilized behavior be considered silly by anyone? Only someone who cares little for civilization, or doesn't understand the import of the Golden Rule could consider it "silly". It naturally follows that such a person doesn't understand the meaning of community, or cares little for the community to begin with.

Stop telling others that they must want the same, that is their choice, not yours.

That's funny, reading the thread, it didn't appear that he was telling anybody that they had to do anything. The only thing I could find was that he couldn't recommend the BSD. That's his opinion. In fact, you're the only one telling anybody to do anything. You should take your own advice.

Because those restrictions mean that it only works for the specific model you are trying to push wereas the BSD way would allow a standard that is used by closed software.

In all honesty, does anybody in Slashdot really care about closed software? I know I don't. Again, how is your pushing BSD any different from him pushing the GPL? What gives you any more right to do so that he doesn't have?

You may not like closed software, that is fine, but a standard that can be used by all software instead of only by software that uses a specific license is simply gonna be a lot more usefull.

That's alot of crap. The only other "useful" thing that would come out of it would be to rip-off the community without giving back to the community. How's that "a lot more useful"?

companies who use for example FreeBSD to build their products often do donate back, see for example the following bit from 'man netgraph' on a FreeBSD system.

That's nice. They should be more considerate and GPL it.

You're parents must've been too cheap to send you to kindergarten. If you don't know the Golden Rule, here it is. The grandparent is absolutely right that the GPL and the Golden Rule philosophically coincide. The Golden Rule is the basis of civilized behavior.

and stop using that silly name

Why would the basis of civilized behavior be considered silly by anyone? Only someone who cares little for civilization, or doesn't understand the import of the Golden Rule could consider it "silly". It naturally follows that such a person doesn't understand the meaning of community, or cares little for the community to begin with.

Stop telling others that they must want the same, that is their choice, not yours.

That's funny, reading the thread, it didn't appear that he was telling anybody that they had to do anything. The only thing I could find was that he couldn't recommend the BSD. That's his opinion. In fact, you're the only one telling anybody to do anything. You should take your own advice.

Because those restrictions mean that it only works for the specific model you are trying to push wereas the BSD way would allow a standard that is used by closed software.

In all honesty, does anybody in Slashdot really care about closed software? I know I don't. Again, how is your pushing BSD any different from him pushing the GPL? What gives you any more right to do so that he doesn't have?

You may not like closed software, that is fine, but a standard that can be used by all software instead of only by software that uses a specific license is simply gonna be a lot more usefull.

That's alot of crap. The only other "useful" thing that would come out of it would be to rip-off the community without giving back to the community. How's that "a lot more useful"?

companies who use for example FreeBSD to build their products often do donate back, see for example the following bit from 'man netgraph' on a FreeBSD system.

That's nice. They should be more considerate and GPL it.