Oh, and when I'm talking about what they 'can' do, I mean via the courts, of course. They Obviously couldn't just walk up to you and demand things anyway.
Even if the teacher owns the copyright on the speech, and even if notes count as derivative works, a teacher has no more authorization than to demand you turn them over than a TV show can demand you turn over a fanfic you wrote, or music studio demanding you turn over a recording of you singing a song without permission.
They can demand you don't distribute it, and that you can't copy it, but if you've already made it you've already made it. They could sue you for damages but cannot, under any legal theory, require you to destroy it or give it to them. Period.
This is, of course, pretending they can both assert copyright over the class, and claim your notes are derivative. The first is unlikely, the second is utterly absurd.
But that email and the "word salad" one I get a couple of times a year that looks like a haiku written by someone on acid, again with no way to actually profit from it, just leave me with a serious case of WTF?
Some of those are viruses, and if you'd been running a specific email client, the broken MIME after that (That your client didn't show at all, cause it's wrong.) would have infected you.
Sometimes, even more confusing, the virus actually gets stripped out and the email arrives with no infection.
And some of those are simply attempt to verify which email addresses appear to receive spam, so that...well, who knows. Spammers are stupid.
There's a tool called marbl, that works with postfix as a policy daemon and lets you do different things based on the connecting OS. (Using the p0f tool.)
This by itself isn't that helpful, but what you can do is have it return something besides REJECT. On my server, I have it return a postfix restriction that does a (different) greylist policy daemon.
So I only greylist mail from Windows machines. People with actual Windows mail servers, and there aren't that many, end up with a 15 minute delay the first time they send, and from then on they're good. People with responsible OS choices for their mail server don't get greylisted. And hundreds of thousands of owned Windows machines are blocked.
I also have spamtrap addresses that aren't subject to this, so even if the owned Windows machines retry, they've usually delivered to a spamtrap already and get blocked because of that.
And, yeah, spamhous and fuzzy logic tools like spamassassin are basically what everyone uses, although I use a fuzzy logic filter called policyd-weight on the connection first.
Federal prisons can't 'refuse' to take federal prisoners. That makes no sense at all.
However, that would be an extremely dumb place to put them, as most of them have no literally evidence of guilt and hence would almost immediately be released. Might as well release those people to start with.
And, yes, other countries have offered to take most of them.
Hey, don't sweat it. We did have a breakthough, in the first bipartisanship usage of political code.
Previously, all usage of code were by one party or another, to talk about things they, and only they, couldn't say openly. Aka, the right would say 'State's Rights' and mean 'Segregation', the left would say 'Women's Rights' and mean 'Abortion', etc.
For the first time, both parties had something they couldn't say openly, namely, 'Our current president sucks ass.' and had to work together to come up with some way to refer to that obvious fact, namely, 'change'.:)
The executive branch owns tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment.
I would point out that it's astonishing that the damage was so low in eight years...except it wasn't. Stuff got replaced during that time, too.
Tens of thousands of dollars is normal 'not replaced yet' wear and tear. (Plus maybe 100 dollars worth of actual pranks, the sort of shit you see anytime thousands of people are laid off and know they will be in advance.)
It's the equivalent of the landlord retaining three dollars of your last month's rent because a light bulb is burned out. It's idiotic to even talk about, and certainly isn't some malicious act towards the new tenant.
It works as a constitutional safeguard against them taking the guns away.
But, yeah. It's amazing how people who were convinced that FEMA had been given the power, under Clinton, to declare an emergency and detain people without habeas corpus sure started singing a different tune under Bush.
What they were talking was it's ability to quarantine people, which is a perfectly reasonable function of the government, and has never, in the entire history of this country, been abused. The government has the right to detain various people outside the criminal justice system, like suicidal people and mentally incapacitated people and infectious people, but the right made out like this was some huge constitutional violation.
That power has existed as an inherent power of the government so long that it's not even in the Constitution, and just sorta assumed. Just like the right of habeas corpus is assumed. Like I said, there's no documented cases of this power ever being abused. (There are documented cases of 'mentally ill' people being detained to shut them up, but not of people being being quarantined maliciously.)
What has always been frowned on, however, and subject to strict regulation, is any attempt to lock 'lawbreakers' up outside of the criminal justice system. Which Bush just decided to do without any Congressional authorization. (Which they couldn't have give anyway, but whatever.)
And the right, the 'you'll never take us alive because we have guns' right just bent over and took it.
Right. If you left on a rocket, spent years near the speed of light, and settled down in a nice planet, and then the planet you left from came to visit you at the same speed, neither of you would have aged in relation to each other.
Likewise, if you started out, kept going, and then they left behind you going slightly faster, when they caught you they would be younger.
And, like you said, if you leave, turn around, come back, you're younger.
This is why Einstein pointed out that it is impossible to measure 'simultaneous' events at different points. All those examples have, for some amount of time, the exact same situation....you've left, and they haven't left, at least not yet. Yet in some, you'll end up being older, and some you'll end up being younger, than the people you left behind.
The relative passage of personal time experienced by two people who were apart can only be measured once they come back together.
Technically, it's narrowed down by the distance between them, I guess. So that people a light year away from each other can only be confused up to one year's worth, no matter who visits who they can't be more than a year off. And if you're standing a few feet away, you've got a picosecond or so of indeterminacy.
It's worth pointing out that the destination possibly could have been other locations. It didn't appear to show up on the panel, but for all we knew that's what all the other toggles were for.
It's simply that all of the trips were either:
a) Supposed to be in the same place, aka Einstein's first trip, the trips to the future in #2 (in the air) and #3 (on railroad tracks), and the trip back in #1. And all Biff's trips had no reason to change location, although for all we know he did, as we didn't see where he arrived in the past or left from.
b) Accidents, like Marty's first trip and Doc's lightning-strike trip, although we don't know where he landed.
c) Programmed into a broken car, like Marty's trip to 1885, which did need a special location because roads weren't very good, but that car had been fried by lightning and the computer rebuilt using vacuum tubes, so possibly the 'select a new destination' was left out of the plans. (Remember, Doc intended for it to be used for one more trip, straight home. They're lucky they actually were able to change the destination with the plans he sent them, and that he didn't send them to a hardwired destination.)
It can be argued that Marty's original trip back to the present, when he reprograms it to take him back ten minutes early, would have been programmed to take him closer to Doc if he had the option, but, frankly, Marty understood almost nothing of how the DeLorean worked, and could have easily overlooked that option. Considering that he almost made it when running the distance, it's likely the mall was about a mile from the main strip so no worries in a car and he, even if he could have changed the location, might have just decided not to do it.
I think your first assumption is the logical one. The DeLorean couldn't have crossed the intervening distance, as it didn't have any time to do it in. We've seen the trip from the inside.
While you're quibbling over the definition of 'space', that's sort irrelevant.
We have no evidence that it moved 'through' space. We know it didn't move 'through' time, it disappeared from one point in time and reappeared in another, aka, it teleported through time. About the only time machine that moved through time was H.G. Wells'.
It is a simple matter to assume it teleported through space, too. In fact, that's about the only way it could work..it could hardly move through space over a period of no time! The article actually talks about this, but decided to pretend it did.
Teleporting devices are not spaceships. They do not need propulsion through space, they do not need to be airtight. Unless you're planning on arriving somewhere without air.
No kidding. I'd love a Clinton 2.0, even if that mean the Republicans are constantly making up shit and investigations that lead nowhere.
I find it funny that Republicans are trying to reduce expectations down to 'Clinton'. Cause, you know, most Democrats really didn't have a problem with Clinton. Heck, Hillary Clinton, an actual Clinton 2.0, would have won the primary if she'd planned better.
The right seems to think that everyone hated Clinton. No, that was just you guys, who constantly invented imaginary crime after crime, constantly spewing hate, and everyone else was just slightly annoyed by his philandering.
Although I'd rather Obama didn't 'triangulate' progressive issues out of existence like Clinton did. And I'd rather he keep his pants on.
I am expected to put in 100 hours of community service,
If you wish to be paid 4000 dollars, yes. Which is 40 dollars an hour, tax free, incidentally. (Which means it's more like 60 dollars an hour.)
You know what's absurd to me? I'm expected to spend 40 hours a week riding around with a garbage truck collecting trash, for very low wages. Or, rather, I would be expected to do that if I decided I wanted to have that job and went and got it.
I.e, you're a moron. Obama is, in theory, offering college students a job that pays an absurd amount, and is anything you like doing as long as it's community service. No one's making anyone do anything.
If there's anything to complain about, it's that this probably won't get set up in time for you to benefit from it.
of which, any hours I contribute at my church or non-government affiliated group, will not count.
This is incorrect. Organizations have always been able to file and make themselves eligible for counting as 'community service'.
Helping a church do religious stuff probably wouldn't count, but helping in their food pantry would.
Most non-profits are already using some local webhosting business for free. Probably one that totally ignores them because they aren't real customers, but whatever.
Oh, and I'd like a rough version I can set up on my laptop, either live boot or via VMWare, that I can use to demonstrate roughly how it would look, because she thinks modern computers are very complicated
But if I can show up with an interface that she could easily use to do email and read the news on, she'd love it.
Specifically, I want a Linux distro for my grandmother. She retired about two decades ago, and used the computer all the time.
The catch is that the computer she used was a simple dumb terminal.
There are lots of people out there, parents of baby boomers, who used that, or a DOS menu shell and TUI apps, their last decade of work before retirement. They don't really know how to use a mouse, perhaps their coordination isn't very good. They don't understand that 'pointing' stuff.
However, they can type just fine.
So what I've been constantly tempted to do is find a text-based distro, with pine and lynx and some sort of text menu to run them, for her.
Although I'd really like a graphical one that just mimics a text-one, where everything is doable via keystrokes (Which are shown on screen.), and all apps are full screen. (Possibly this would be best done using command line framebuffer programs, like Links.)
You could volunteer and show a few elderly individuals how to use a computer.
If you want to do this, the place to get in contact with is your local library. They'll either do the classes themselves, or know who to contact at the local school system's 'continuing education', which is the other place that might be doing it.
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Oh, and when I'm talking about what they 'can' do, I mean via the courts, of course. They Obviously couldn't just walk up to you and demand things anyway.
Even if the teacher owns the copyright on the speech, and even if notes count as derivative works, a teacher has no more authorization than to demand you turn them over than a TV show can demand you turn over a fanfic you wrote, or music studio demanding you turn over a recording of you singing a song without permission.
They can demand you don't distribute it, and that you can't copy it, but if you've already made it you've already made it. They could sue you for damages but cannot, under any legal theory, require you to destroy it or give it to them. Period.
This is, of course, pretending they can both assert copyright over the class, and claim your notes are derivative. The first is unlikely, the second is utterly absurd.
But that email and the "word salad" one I get a couple of times a year that looks like a haiku written by someone on acid, again with no way to actually profit from it, just leave me with a serious case of WTF?
Some of those are viruses, and if you'd been running a specific email client, the broken MIME after that (That your client didn't show at all, cause it's wrong.) would have infected you.
Sometimes, even more confusing, the virus actually gets stripped out and the email arrives with no infection.
And some of those are simply attempt to verify which email addresses appear to receive spam, so that...well, who knows. Spammers are stupid.
There's a tool called marbl, that works with postfix as a policy daemon and lets you do different things based on the connecting OS. (Using the p0f tool.)
This by itself isn't that helpful, but what you can do is have it return something besides REJECT. On my server, I have it return a postfix restriction that does a (different) greylist policy daemon.
So I only greylist mail from Windows machines. People with actual Windows mail servers, and there aren't that many, end up with a 15 minute delay the first time they send, and from then on they're good. People with responsible OS choices for their mail server don't get greylisted. And hundreds of thousands of owned Windows machines are blocked.
I also have spamtrap addresses that aren't subject to this, so even if the owned Windows machines retry, they've usually delivered to a spamtrap already and get blocked because of that.
You should switch to zen.spamhaus.org.
And, yeah, spamhous and fuzzy logic tools like spamassassin are basically what everyone uses, although I use a fuzzy logic filter called policyd-weight on the connection first.
Windows normally keeps up with prefetch maintenance but every now and then an issue appears that is fixed by clearing the prefetch.
No, it's not. Not unless that issue is 'needs 20k of disk space'.
Clearing the prefetch can, in no manner, fix any problem. All it can do is make your next boot slower.
Federal prisons can't 'refuse' to take federal prisoners. That makes no sense at all.
However, that would be an extremely dumb place to put them, as most of them have no literally evidence of guilt and hence would almost immediately be released. Might as well release those people to start with.
And, yes, other countries have offered to take most of them.
I disagree, and I have a much lower ID, so I'm right.
Hey, don't sweat it. We did have a breakthough, in the first bipartisanship usage of political code.
Previously, all usage of code were by one party or another, to talk about things they, and only they, couldn't say openly. Aka, the right would say 'State's Rights' and mean 'Segregation', the left would say 'Women's Rights' and mean 'Abortion', etc.
For the first time, both parties had something they couldn't say openly, namely, 'Our current president sucks ass.' and had to work together to come up with some way to refer to that obvious fact, namely, 'change'. :)
The executive branch owns tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment.
I would point out that it's astonishing that the damage was so low in eight years...except it wasn't. Stuff got replaced during that time, too. Tens of thousands of dollars is normal 'not replaced yet' wear and tear. (Plus maybe 100 dollars worth of actual pranks, the sort of shit you see anytime thousands of people are laid off and know they will be in advance.)
It's the equivalent of the landlord retaining three dollars of your last month's rent because a light bulb is burned out. It's idiotic to even talk about, and certainly isn't some malicious act towards the new tenant.
Ah, okay. You missed what 'Change' is. Change was a codeword last election. It didn't mean 'Do things differently'.
It mean 'Do things in a way that is not Bush'.
It works as a constitutional safeguard against them taking the guns away.
But, yeah. It's amazing how people who were convinced that FEMA had been given the power, under Clinton, to declare an emergency and detain people without habeas corpus sure started singing a different tune under Bush.
What they were talking was it's ability to quarantine people, which is a perfectly reasonable function of the government, and has never, in the entire history of this country, been abused. The government has the right to detain various people outside the criminal justice system, like suicidal people and mentally incapacitated people and infectious people, but the right made out like this was some huge constitutional violation.
That power has existed as an inherent power of the government so long that it's not even in the Constitution, and just sorta assumed. Just like the right of habeas corpus is assumed. Like I said, there's no documented cases of this power ever being abused. (There are documented cases of 'mentally ill' people being detained to shut them up, but not of people being being quarantined maliciously.)
What has always been frowned on, however, and subject to strict regulation, is any attempt to lock 'lawbreakers' up outside of the criminal justice system. Which Bush just decided to do without any Congressional authorization. (Which they couldn't have give anyway, but whatever.)
And the right, the 'you'll never take us alive because we have guns' right just bent over and took it.
No one 'vandalized' any offices at all. There was the normal wear and tear you'd expect after eight years, and three or four pranks.
Right. If you left on a rocket, spent years near the speed of light, and settled down in a nice planet, and then the planet you left from came to visit you at the same speed, neither of you would have aged in relation to each other.
Likewise, if you started out, kept going, and then they left behind you going slightly faster, when they caught you they would be younger.
And, like you said, if you leave, turn around, come back, you're younger.
This is why Einstein pointed out that it is impossible to measure 'simultaneous' events at different points. All those examples have, for some amount of time, the exact same situation....you've left, and they haven't left, at least not yet. Yet in some, you'll end up being older, and some you'll end up being younger, than the people you left behind.
The relative passage of personal time experienced by two people who were apart can only be measured once they come back together.
Technically, it's narrowed down by the distance between them, I guess. So that people a light year away from each other can only be confused up to one year's worth, no matter who visits who they can't be more than a year off. And if you're standing a few feet away, you've got a picosecond or so of indeterminacy.
It's worth pointing out that the destination possibly could have been other locations. It didn't appear to show up on the panel, but for all we knew that's what all the other toggles were for.
It's simply that all of the trips were either:
a) Supposed to be in the same place, aka Einstein's first trip, the trips to the future in #2 (in the air) and #3 (on railroad tracks), and the trip back in #1. And all Biff's trips had no reason to change location, although for all we know he did, as we didn't see where he arrived in the past or left from.
b) Accidents, like Marty's first trip and Doc's lightning-strike trip, although we don't know where he landed.
c) Programmed into a broken car, like Marty's trip to 1885, which did need a special location because roads weren't very good, but that car had been fried by lightning and the computer rebuilt using vacuum tubes, so possibly the 'select a new destination' was left out of the plans. (Remember, Doc intended for it to be used for one more trip, straight home. They're lucky they actually were able to change the destination with the plans he sent them, and that he didn't send them to a hardwired destination.)
It can be argued that Marty's original trip back to the present, when he reprograms it to take him back ten minutes early, would have been programmed to take him closer to Doc if he had the option, but, frankly, Marty understood almost nothing of how the DeLorean worked, and could have easily overlooked that option. Considering that he almost made it when running the distance, it's likely the mall was about a mile from the main strip so no worries in a car and he, even if he could have changed the location, might have just decided not to do it.
Actually, you're be pulled into the earth.
Unless you're assuming that other physical laws also function, and at that point there's a serious question of why no one can see you.
I think your first assumption is the logical one. The DeLorean couldn't have crossed the intervening distance, as it didn't have any time to do it in. We've seen the trip from the inside.
While you're quibbling over the definition of 'space', that's sort irrelevant.
We have no evidence that it moved 'through' space. We know it didn't move 'through' time, it disappeared from one point in time and reappeared in another, aka, it teleported through time. About the only time machine that moved through time was H.G. Wells'.
It is a simple matter to assume it teleported through space, too. In fact, that's about the only way it could work..it could hardly move through space over a period of no time! The article actually talks about this, but decided to pretend it did.
Teleporting devices are not spaceships. They do not need propulsion through space, they do not need to be airtight. Unless you're planning on arriving somewhere without air.
No kidding. I'd love a Clinton 2.0, even if that mean the Republicans are constantly making up shit and investigations that lead nowhere.
I find it funny that Republicans are trying to reduce expectations down to 'Clinton'. Cause, you know, most Democrats really didn't have a problem with Clinton. Heck, Hillary Clinton, an actual Clinton 2.0, would have won the primary if she'd planned better.
The right seems to think that everyone hated Clinton. No, that was just you guys, who constantly invented imaginary crime after crime, constantly spewing hate, and everyone else was just slightly annoyed by his philandering.
Although I'd rather Obama didn't 'triangulate' progressive issues out of existence like Clinton did. And I'd rather he keep his pants on.
It is just the swearing in of another president....can't we just look at the digested version on the nights news?
Um...yes? You can?
I am expected to put in 100 hours of community service,
If you wish to be paid 4000 dollars, yes. Which is 40 dollars an hour, tax free, incidentally. (Which means it's more like 60 dollars an hour.)
You know what's absurd to me? I'm expected to spend 40 hours a week riding around with a garbage truck collecting trash, for very low wages. Or, rather, I would be expected to do that if I decided I wanted to have that job and went and got it.
I.e, you're a moron. Obama is, in theory, offering college students a job that pays an absurd amount, and is anything you like doing as long as it's community service. No one's making anyone do anything.
If there's anything to complain about, it's that this probably won't get set up in time for you to benefit from it.
of which, any hours I contribute at my church or non-government affiliated group, will not count.
This is incorrect. Organizations have always been able to file and make themselves eligible for counting as 'community service'.
Helping a church do religious stuff probably wouldn't count, but helping in their food pantry would.
Most non-profits are already using some local webhosting business for free. Probably one that totally ignores them because they aren't real customers, but whatever.
Oh, and I'd like a rough version I can set up on my laptop, either live boot or via VMWare, that I can use to demonstrate roughly how it would look, because she thinks modern computers are very complicated
But if I can show up with an interface that she could easily use to do email and read the news on, she'd love it.
You know what I'd like. The opposite.
Specifically, I want a Linux distro for my grandmother. She retired about two decades ago, and used the computer all the time.
The catch is that the computer she used was a simple dumb terminal.
There are lots of people out there, parents of baby boomers, who used that, or a DOS menu shell and TUI apps, their last decade of work before retirement. They don't really know how to use a mouse, perhaps their coordination isn't very good. They don't understand that 'pointing' stuff.
However, they can type just fine.
So what I've been constantly tempted to do is find a text-based distro, with pine and lynx and some sort of text menu to run them, for her.
Although I'd really like a graphical one that just mimics a text-one, where everything is doable via keystrokes (Which are shown on screen.), and all apps are full screen. (Possibly this would be best done using command line framebuffer programs, like Links.)
You could volunteer and show a few elderly individuals how to use a computer.
If you want to do this, the place to get in contact with is your local library. They'll either do the classes themselves, or know who to contact at the local school system's 'continuing education', which is the other place that might be doing it.