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lol! Ok, I will :-) I know parents who bring their children up this way, and they are some of the most healthy people I know. You obviously have different(perhaps more normal) experience than I and I respect that. I may just find that you are right. Maybe children's rights may become more of an issue as we stray more and more from athoritarianism enforced by phisical distinctions. I just believe strongly in that the distinctions do not lie in age, but experience and maturity. While a governing body must handle this problem, and makes blanket rules for these people, there are important distinctions between different types of minors. Perhaps my complaint could be fixed with something as simple as more regular grants for emancipation for minors. I don't claim to know the right way, but I have presented my opinion and thanks for considering it at least. And no, in no way am I going to mess up the world :-) I'm a pacifist programmer with a terrible sense of humor, and politically a passionate socialist/libertarian.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

I graduate from a private institution this Friday, and we implemented a similar system this year. While this may protect kids or not, what it will do is violate the rights of kids over 18 still in school, and allow serious abuses of power. What network is safe? And we're trusting this data in the hands of largely incompetent administrators?
I am ok with this idea, as long as it is consentual, as it is here, just as I may give permission for my parents to access my medical records or not.
For conspiracy theorists, get over it - the government already tracks what you do, so what?
For you "concerned parents" out there, consider the rights which you regularally deny children. Are those not the very same rights which you pride yourself on, the ones which we founded our country to preserve? I have never been property of my parents; I have been a sentient being forced to live under conditions mandated by so called 'responsible' adults, who were regularally more irresponsible than I. And I'm pretty irresponsible, admittedly. I recognize your concern for your children, but at least recognize your children's concern - remember these are the people who will pay your social security, decide to put you into a home or not(when you no longer become 'fit'), and decide how long to keep you plugged in.
While that last remark is rather bitter, I am very happy with my personal situation, but cannot fathom how you can justify controlling another person like that, regardless of their capacity. I guess the other sticking point is that children are only considered adults when it is convienient for adults, in court when they want to demonize kids. Make up your mind - either we are irresponsible and need this treatment, or we are capable, and deserve our rights. What I can say is that the selective treatment of minors is not alright in America. Even now, I can be drafted by the government and still not be allowed to legally drink alcohol. I wish I understood what logic backs any of this up...
<gets off soapbox>
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

I respect your opinion. I do think that you misinterpreted this statement though.

When he is talking about "casual sex" and prudes, he is referring to the Christian church and it's followers, not females. Don't take everything so personally - this was obviously not written for or against you.

Rape is at an epidemic scale, in fact my mom has been a leader in speaking out against such things. However, this is not because of "male dominant attitudes", but because of underlying social problems. In fact, Hollywood has picked up on this and exploit it regularally. Abuse of one sex is always a social problem though. I would enjoy seeing a society where sexes are equal, but I doubt it will happen. Our instincts are to conquer and destroy all who threaten power.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

Daemons have always been considered lowlevel, and therefore special by OS programmers. There are tons of special hooks for that reason(ie nice), and in MINIX, there's even a different task queue just for servers, between user apps and drivers.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

I've implemented life in java and c... looks like I may do it for my AP CS class this year too, in C++. You should be able to find a 'life' pretty easily. Too bad I don't one now. Automata are cool.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

use macOS if you feel that way. Nothing is perfect, including linux.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

What a boring use of this technology! Use it to create a massive set of links to porn - you'd be rich!
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

you can't blame him for the fact that people like that follow him. He is is own person, and the person who would do something like that because "the all mighty taco" said so is delusional. Judge a person on thier own merit.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

I don't have to have a point :-) But no, seriously. What the conversation implied was that VMware was, and plex86 wasn't - saying that "vmware killer" and whatnot. So it was a comparison, no? And one of the points against it was that it was not an emulator, which would tend to imply that the thing it is being compared to also has this feature. It is similar to when M$ said that linux didn't have a journaling filesystem :-) Neither did they,(NT maybe) but hush!
So just avoiding confusion and FUD. I apologize for the confrontational tone, senior coward.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

VMware accesses the processor directly. That's what that driver that comes with it does, allows direct processor accessies to attempt to achieve the 5% margin they were aiming for. Perhaps things changed in 2.0, but from 1.2, it was still calling the processor directly. Otherwise different devices wouldn't work(like DVD). On other platforms, it'd fall flat on it's face as far as I know.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

Actually, if you read the VMware whitepapers, neither is VMware. So what's your point in bringing that up again?
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest

There was plex86 version 1.0 on the ftp site last night... He said he'd have to update the cvs there... but I still wonder if that is the version that he's showing off there(there were boot images as well..). I'll have to try it out tonight.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest