I think the "Prequel" plot approvals came about after Splinter of the Mind's Eye had Luke & Leia kissing in a more than familial manner. I have a copy of the paperback and searched for other copies (pre-internet) to no avail. It's pretty easy to find copies now, but for a long time friends & I assumed it was pulled by Lucas, et al. as an unacceptable fork in the plot.
(from the bottom of the article):"Connexion's pricing, announced late last month, puts unlimited Wi-Fi access at $29.95 for flights longer than six hours; $19.95 for flights between three and six hours; and $14.95 for flights less than three hours. Connectivity can be purchased on a metered basis for $9.95 for the first 30 minutes and 25 cents for each additional minute. Airlines are considering an option to pay for connectivity with frequent-flyer miles, Boeing has said."
$20.00 / 6 hours = $3.33/hour
or $30.00 / 6+ hours = ~$5.00/hour on East Coast US to Europe flights down to 1.50 an hour or so for those West Coast US to Australia flights.
& I thought 24.95 for a day's access at a conference was exorbitant!
Best implementation of Waving Hands / Spellcaster I've seen. (and best of all is it's asynchronous) RavenBlack's Warlocks (no referal credit given to me)
And then runs this Pepsi ad? Oh, wait, it's a corporate client so it's okay?! No anti-president shite on during the SuperBowl so we don't piss off the football fans (who, of course, are all dubya voters) by accident.
In case you missed it, CBS is refusing to run the bushin30seconds ad, "Child's Pay," during the Super Bowl. Watch the ad and see if you think it's funny or worthy enough to be seen during the SuperBowl.
I found it and several of the otehrs hilarious. Especially the Mac Desktop ad.
While I question my sanity at leaving this under my ID, I have done 81.4 (85 actually) _M_ph in Manhattan - on 5th as well as FDR & West Side Hwy. On FDR & West Side Hwy I was doing speed of traffic to avoid being the "I'm-doing-the-speed-limit-so-I'm-not-the-cause-of -the-accident,-Officer" guy. On 5th (from 110th all the way to Washington Park) I was merely trying to catch all the lights green - which I did. (excepting 28th Street which was out of phase from the rest of the lights) Only scared one pedestrian who was reading a paper while walking against the light around the lower 60's. Having done it the once is not reason enough to do it again, or advise others to try it. Though from personal experience *most* Manhattan traffic will go as fast as they can, within their acceleration envelope, for as long as they can before having to stop again. The former sig-o that was with me just recently deigns to speak to me again.
An exact copy in case fsf gets/.'ed What? Oh... -dubber:-)'
FSF Statement on SCO v. IBM Eben Moglen June 25, 2003
The lawsuit brought by the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) against IBM has generated many requests for comment by FSF. The Foundation has refrained from making official comments on the litigation because only the plaintiff's allegations have been reported; comment on unverified allegations would ordinarily be premature. More disturbing than the lawsuit itself, however, have been public statements by representatives of SCO, which have irresponsibly suggested doubts about the legitimacy of free software overall. These statements require response.
SCO's lawsuit asserts that IBM has breached contractual obligations between the two companies, and also that IBM has incorporated trade secret information concerning the design of the UNIX operating system into what SCO calls generally ``Linux.'' This latter claim has recently been expanded in extra-judicial statements by SCO employees and officers to include suggestions that ``Linux'' includes material copied from UNIX in violation of SCO's copyrights. An allegation to this effect was contained in letters apparently sent by SCO to 1500 of the world's largest companies warning against use of free software on grounds of possible infringement liability.
It is crucial to clarify certain confusions that SCO's spokesmen have shown no disposition to dispel. In the first place, SCO has used ``Linux'' to mean ``all free software,'' or ``all free software constituting a UNIX-like operating system.'' This confusion, which the Free Software Foundation warned against in the past, is here shown to have the misleading consequences the Foundation has often predicted. ``Linux'' is the name of the kernel most often used in free software systems. But the operating system as a whole contains many other components, some of them products of the Foundation's GNU Project, others written elsewhere and published under free software licenses; the totality is GNU, the free operating system on which we have been working since 1984. Approximately half GNU's components are copyrighted works of the Free Software Foundation, including the C-compiler GCC, the GDB debugger, the C library Glibc, the bash shell, among other essential parts. The combination of GNU and the Linux kernel produces the GNU/Linux system, which is widely used on a variety of hardware and which taken as a whole duplicates the functions once only performed by the UNIX operating system.
SCO's confusing use of names makes the basis of its claims unclear: has SCO alleged that trade secrets of UNIX's originator, AT&T--of which SCO is by intermediate transactions the successor in interest--have been incorporated by IBM in the kernel, Linux, or in parts of GNU? If the former, there is no justification for the broad statements urging the Fortune 1500 to be cautious about using free software, or GNU programs generally. If, on the other hand, SCO claims that GNU contains any UNIX trade secret or copyrighted material, the claim is almost surely false. Contributors to the GNU Project promise to follow the Free Software Foundation's rules for the project, which specify--among other things--that contributors must not enter into non-disclosure agreements for technical information relevant to their work on GNU programs, and that they must not consult or make any use of source code from non-free programs, including specifically UNIX. The Foundation has no basis to believe that GNU contains any material about which SCO or anyone else could assert valid trade secret or copyright claims. Contributors could have made misrepresentations of fact in their copyright assignment statements, but failing willful misrepresentation by a contributor, which has never happened so far as the Foundation is aware, there is no significant likelihood that our supervision of the freedom of our free software has failed. The Foundation notes that despite the alarmist statements SCO'
Yo, Editors, why didn't this make the front page? One measly post (which ignited our fires down here and got us to the hearing (barely) in time) about an S-DMCA hearing in Massachusetts made the front page. Everything about the Tennessee action and the response from TNDF.net and other Tennesseans has been relegated to YRO. Sure it belongs in YRO, but the parent post is a call to action. Shoulda been on the front page, since not everyone follows the sidebars and action (if driving to Nashville & sitting in a hot humid uncomfortable room for probably a couple hours is "action") is needed in Tennessee Tuesday & Wednesday next week.
Rep. Briley is putting his own (cover-his-ass) spin on things. He's the sponsor, he's spoken with the TN Cable industry's lobbyist (Ann Carr, I believe) who brought in Geoffrey Beauchamp (pronounced Jeffrey Beecham) who is the apparent author of the bill and is traceable to MPAA. (you do the tracing (Google works just fine for this type of search), it's pretty interesting to see the guy has no qualms about saying different things to different audiences) "They" are saying that what all of us (tndigitalfreedom.org related/sympathetic people) say the bill says is "not what the bill is *intended* to do". The Senate Sponsor (Sen. Person) baldly admitted to a group of 5 of us that he doesn't understand technology (and doesn't appear very interested in understanding technology, to me) but he's "been doing this for 35 [or was it 37?] years" and he's going to push it though unless we (tndigitalfreedom type people) sit down and in a 2 hour meeting with Beauchamp and Carr square it with how we'd like to see it re-written or at least show some flexibility. The legislators' defense seems to be that the TN legislature is a "part-time" position paying US$16,500/yr so they have to hold their day-job as well as travel to Nashville four days a week. Some Senators and Representatives are younger or listen to their teenaged kids better. They seem to be more receptive because they haven't been "on the [lobbyists] dole" too long, yet. So, are term limits bad or not? You be the judge. I used to think limits were unopposably bad, now I'm very not sure.
...at least 7 states: Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, and Virginia if not more later this year or next: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Check out http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/superdmca.html for status updates.
We, about 20 of us I only got a few names & some contacts, showed up (I was 20 minutes late, but I made the 44 mile trip in record (*cough*40 minutes including city streets*/cough*) time after reading the article at 3pm, it took 7 minutes to get to the car) and 3 of us (out of 6 that stood to speak) got to make our case.
The 3 that spoke made good points but the first of us got grilled hard, the second got tied up in trying to simplify but didn't quite simplify enough, and the third closed out the discussion well, after an initial gaffe (he said, straight out, the bill was being "Ramrodded" which got quite the reaction from the sponsor -- who was molified by an apology prefaced with something along the lines of this is my first time ever doing this, and I'm not as familiar with this process as all of you senators are. Very funny, all the lawyers in the room just about died laughing)
When we have a more cohesive/comprehensive set of notes from we'll be putting it on line.
Speaking privately in the hall after other business resumed, one of the Senators who was observing said he thought the bill might have passed the committee today had we not come in and spoken against it.
I wholeheartedly encourage anyone who has the time to attend committee sessions like these. If you think you won't have an effect on the committee you may be surprised. I went because I'm close (44 miles, to be picky) and I really don't want to see this kind of stuff pass.
The first speaker (Campbell?) was a UT Knoxville student (which I think is why he got grilled so bad) was grilled on the "intent" clause (he brought it up) and on "how it affects *us* today"
The second speaker (can't read my notes?) was a VAnderbilt student (i think) who cited specific things that he would no longer be able to do, encryted file transfer from student club machine to personal machine, &c which went right over the committee's collective head (very thick glaze coating decended over their eyes).
The third speaker, whom I spoke with at length while waiting for one of the non-committee senators to return from the chamber but can't remember what he does lighting design &/ Nashville-LUG member, iirc? he'll prolly correct me, tied all the arguments together and in mentioning tivo had one of the senators admit he used tivo (surprised me, but Yay) and two or perhaps 3 senators started to look unconvinced.
All in all a good day. Very motivating.
More info will follow, hopefully in a "real" article rather than in comments - if it isn't rejected a billion times.:)
The White House home page. written for the discerning who can tell at a glance when they're being fed a line. Slightly toungue in cheek, but a great source for how the administration really feels. Note that this is *neither* the.gov *nor* the.com version!
quoth the parent post: "... in the home, that's the job of the parents. In the library, that's the job of the library. Parents should be able to view the library as a trusted place to leave their kids. "
Wrong! It's the parents' job/duty/chore to see to the mental and emotional well being of their children. It's the parents' job to monitor what their children ingest, whether that be food/cartoons/books/moves/television shows. Parents that abrogate that responsibility should not be parents.
The library is a place that makes things easier (or at least cheaper) for parents to broaden their children's minds. Librarians try their best to select or emphasize the Good Stuff(tm) and marginalize the Bad Stuff(tm) but it is not their millieu to censor information (which is what it sounds like you want them to do) from the seeker. Librarians are facilitators, not policemen. You want to find something? Ask librarians and they'll help you. You want to create a safe place for your kids? Hang around with them and explain why certain things are Bad Stuff(tm) and what to do when they encounter it.
To paraphrase a government report about children and the internet (can't find it right now, sorry) ~The internet is like a swimming pool, you can put up signs and fences but to better protect children from drowning you should teach them to swim/~
Sound like too much work? Get a vasectomy / tubal ligation and you won't have to worry as much about being distracted from your self-centered-ness.
"(Building a berm... at the bottom of the hill before it snows would make a great safety net, too)" Sounds like you want to hit the buildings/trees higher with a crumpling slide down to follow. Or did you mean a berm so you could hit that and stop suddenly as opposed to hitting the buildings/trees and stopping suddenly. I think you did not think that one al the way through... JtFO!
I wonder if this "technology" is going to exacerbate the propensity for seziures in epileptics? Refresh rates (on some monitors & televisions) already have this effect and I know a few folks who've narrowly missed having seziures during quick back and forth scene changes in some film theatres. Sure, sucks to be the epileptic, but it sucks even more to be the one trusted to protect them from themselves while in a crwoded theatre watching a movie in what used to appear to be a mostly safe theatre environment.
Of course the real fun begins when two people get close enough for their bluetooth enabled modules to talk to each other's central displays & I/O devices. It would be fun to send "I love you" notes from someone else's equipoment because of mere proximity. Talk about confusion. The other user would be wondering how all that propagnda got inserted into their *nix sysadmin cover letter .
In the US go to your local KIA dealer & test drive one. Get a certificate, call the number, answer the prompts, presto 4-6 weeks later you have a Free (as in Beer, in case you couldn't figure it out) Copy of the Aug 6th release. See: Kia's website for details!
"Even boks printed on quite acidic paper will probably last for centuries..." is a global statement by Nicholson Baker.
Both should be taken with a serious dose of skepticism. Mr. Baker has as issue with major newspaper collections being dismantled for microfilming and then discarded. He is a partisian of the worst sort, willing to distort science and observation to make self-aggrandizing statements. He has this huge collection of old (ca. 1900-1940) acid paper newspapers that he lets anyone handle. He expects this collection to be usable for centuries. Ask to use this collection, if he deems you worthy he'll let you I have & it's almost unusable now, let alone 20 years from now.
If you've ever tried to read old pulp fiction even from as recent as the 60s you'll most likely have experienced the "browning", "fading", & "cracking" acid paper exhibits after even infrequent use.
As to "well looked after" a quick browse though the climate controlled set of stacks at NYPL Research Libraries (any level including those under Bryant Park--if they were open stacks, which they're not) would show the same deterioration. I was lucky enough to work there for some time. From experience - my experience - Baker is talking out his butt.
You're right, no links. If you're interested enough you'll find it yourself.
While I admit I am a native english speaker (which means I get to trash the language without appearing completely stupid and/or uneducated) I read several European (live and dead) languages passably. Are you going to be expanding your non-latin alphabet coverage? How do you reconcile the various codepages and character sets to return a comprehensive (language independent) results set? As a codicil, do you plan to incorporate other translation features to make "other" language pages available in other languages besides english? (e.g. translate a Chinese page directly into Greek instead of Chinese to English to Greek as it curenly seems)
A very good analogy from "Youth, Pornography and the Internet," issued 5/2/2002 by the National Research Council:
"Swimming pools can be dangerous for children," the authors wrote. "To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences and deploy pool alarms. All of these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that one can do for one's children is to teach them to swim."
Um... Libraries already do this via OCLC (and actually there are now vendors/jobbers out there that can and/or will do this for about a US$1.50 per book)
Why do the users have to run the update in the first place?
We run {not a plug, just info about a reliable source} TrendMicro OfficeScan (ya ya, an M$ shop, do with what you've got) which has the option to alert the clients that a new pattern file/scan engine/etc is available and should be downloaded.
No end-luser involvement. As soon as I hear about a new baddie (either via/. or Trend's email alert or bugtraq or wherever) I'm updating from their site and not bothering my users with all the nitpicky $#|+ about updates -- they've got enough to think about (either whatever it is they're getting paid for or getting more pr0n - ha, as if)
Slashdot Mirror
I have a copy of the paperback and searched for other copies (pre-internet) to no avail. It's pretty easy to find copies now, but for a long time friends & I assumed it was pulled by Lucas, et al. as an unacceptable fork in the plot.
-Dubber
:-)'
If I could run all of these through my scanner & search them from an application on my desktop, I could be really obnoxious in an argument.
Hell, *I* don't need all that much processing power to be obnoxious in an argument. Oh, wait...
(from the bottom of the article):"Connexion's pricing, announced late last month, puts unlimited Wi-Fi access at $29.95 for flights longer than six hours; $19.95 for flights between three and six hours; and $14.95 for flights less than three hours. Connectivity can be purchased on a metered basis for $9.95 for the first 30 minutes and 25 cents for each additional minute. Airlines are considering an option to pay for connectivity with frequent-flyer miles, Boeing has said."
$20.00 / 6 hours = $3.33/hour
or
$30.00 / 6+ hours = ~$5.00/hour on East Coast US to Europe flights down to 1.50 an hour or so for those West Coast US to Australia flights.
& I thought 24.95 for a day's access at a conference was exorbitant!
Best implementation of Waving Hands / Spellcaster I've seen. (and best of all is it's asynchronous)
RavenBlack's Warlocks (no referal credit given to me)
or if you want to give me credit for refering you: http://games.ravenblack.net/referred
True, this doesn't give you exactly what you've asked for, but I find this one of the best ways to ARP (asynchronously role play) with old friends.
And then runs this Pepsi ad? Oh, wait, it's a corporate client so it's okay?! No anti-president shite on during the SuperBowl so we don't piss off the football fans (who, of course, are all dubya voters) by accident.
In case you missed it, CBS is refusing to run the bushin30seconds ad, "Child's Pay," during the Super Bowl.
Watch the ad and see if you think it's funny or worthy enough to be seen during the SuperBowl.
I found it and several of the otehrs hilarious. Especially the Mac Desktop ad.
The Thomas link:0 8:h.r.0 2752:
t doc.cgi ?dbname=108_cong_bills&docid=f:h2752ih.txt.pdf
:-)'
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d1
The GPO pdf of the bill:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/ge
-Dubber
While I question my sanity at leaving this under my ID, I have done 81.4 (85 actually) _M_ph in Manhattan - on 5th as well as FDR & West Side Hwy.f -the-accident,-Officer" guy.
On FDR & West Side Hwy I was doing speed of traffic to avoid being the "I'm-doing-the-speed-limit-so-I'm-not-the-cause-o
On 5th (from 110th all the way to Washington Park) I was merely trying to catch all the lights green - which I did. (excepting 28th Street which was out of phase from the rest of the lights) Only scared one pedestrian who was reading a paper while walking against the light around the lower 60's.
Having done it the once is not reason enough to do it again, or advise others to try it. Though from personal experience *most* Manhattan traffic will go as fast as they can, within their acceleration envelope, for as long as they can before having to stop again.
The former sig-o that was with me just recently deigns to speak to me again.
"If you see X-rays from a solar flare..." your eyes are a damn sight better than the rest of ours!
An exact copy in case fsf gets /.'ed :-)'
What? Oh...
-dubber
FSF Statement on SCO v. IBM
Eben Moglen
June 25, 2003
The lawsuit brought by the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) against IBM has generated many requests for comment by FSF. The Foundation has refrained from making official comments on the litigation because only the plaintiff's allegations have been reported; comment on unverified allegations would ordinarily be premature. More disturbing than the lawsuit itself, however, have been public statements by representatives of SCO, which have irresponsibly suggested doubts about the legitimacy of free software overall. These statements require response.
SCO's lawsuit asserts that IBM has breached contractual obligations between the two companies, and also that IBM has incorporated trade secret information concerning the design of the UNIX operating system into what SCO calls generally ``Linux.'' This latter claim has recently been expanded in extra-judicial statements by SCO employees and officers to include suggestions that ``Linux'' includes material copied from UNIX in violation of SCO's copyrights. An allegation to this effect was contained in letters apparently sent by SCO to 1500 of the world's largest companies warning against use of free software on grounds of possible infringement liability.
It is crucial to clarify certain confusions that SCO's spokesmen have shown no disposition to dispel. In the first place, SCO has used ``Linux'' to mean ``all free software,'' or ``all free software constituting a UNIX-like operating system.'' This confusion, which the Free Software Foundation warned against in the past, is here shown to have the misleading consequences the Foundation has often predicted. ``Linux'' is the name of the kernel most often used in free software systems. But the operating system as a whole contains many other components, some of them products of the Foundation's GNU Project, others written elsewhere and published under free software licenses; the totality is GNU, the free operating system on which we have been working since 1984. Approximately half GNU's components are copyrighted works of the Free Software Foundation, including the C-compiler GCC, the GDB debugger, the C library Glibc, the bash shell, among other essential parts. The combination of GNU and the Linux kernel produces the GNU/Linux system, which is widely used on a variety of hardware and which taken as a whole duplicates the functions once only performed by the UNIX operating system.
SCO's confusing use of names makes the basis of its claims unclear: has SCO alleged that trade secrets of UNIX's originator, AT&T--of which SCO is by intermediate transactions the successor in interest--have been incorporated by IBM in the kernel, Linux, or in parts of GNU? If the former, there is no justification for the broad statements urging the Fortune 1500 to be cautious about using free software, or GNU programs generally. If, on the other hand, SCO claims that GNU contains any UNIX trade secret or copyrighted material, the claim is almost surely false. Contributors to the GNU Project promise to follow the Free Software Foundation's rules for the project, which specify--among other things--that contributors must not enter into non-disclosure agreements for technical information relevant to their work on GNU programs, and that they must not consult or make any use of source code from non-free programs, including specifically UNIX. The Foundation has no basis to believe that GNU contains any material about which SCO or anyone else could assert valid trade secret or copyright claims. Contributors could have made misrepresentations of fact in their copyright assignment statements, but failing willful misrepresentation by a contributor, which has never happened so far as the Foundation is aware, there is no significant likelihood that our supervision of the freedom of our free software has failed. The Foundation notes that despite the alarmist statements SCO'
Yo, Editors, why didn't this make the front page?
One measly post (which ignited our fires down here and got us to the hearing (barely) in time) about an S-DMCA hearing in Massachusetts made the front page. Everything about the Tennessee action and the response from TNDF.net and other Tennesseans has been relegated to YRO. Sure it belongs in YRO, but the parent post is a call to action.
Shoulda been on the front page, since not everyone follows the sidebars and action (if driving to Nashville & sitting in a hot humid uncomfortable room for probably a couple hours is "action") is needed in Tennessee Tuesday & Wednesday next week.
Rep. Briley is putting his own (cover-his-ass) spin on things. He's the sponsor, he's spoken with the TN Cable industry's lobbyist (Ann Carr, I believe) who brought in Geoffrey Beauchamp (pronounced Jeffrey Beecham) who is the apparent author of the bill and is traceable to MPAA. (you do the tracing (Google works just fine for this type of search), it's pretty interesting to see the guy has no qualms about saying different things to different audiences)
"They" are saying that what all of us (tndigitalfreedom.org related/sympathetic people) say the bill says is "not what the bill is *intended* to do".
The Senate Sponsor (Sen. Person) baldly admitted to a group of 5 of us that he doesn't understand technology (and doesn't appear very interested in understanding technology, to me) but he's "been doing this for 35 [or was it 37?] years" and he's going to push it though unless we (tndigitalfreedom type people) sit down and in a 2 hour meeting with Beauchamp and Carr square it with how we'd like to see it re-written or at least show some flexibility.
The legislators' defense seems to be that the TN legislature is a "part-time" position paying US$16,500/yr so they have to hold their day-job as well as travel to Nashville four days a week.
Some Senators and Representatives are younger or listen to their teenaged kids better. They seem to be more receptive because they haven't been "on the [lobbyists] dole" too long, yet. So, are term limits bad or not? You be the judge. I used to think limits were unopposably bad, now I'm very not sure.
Tennessee Digital Freedom Network
...at least 7 states:
Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, and Virginia
if not more later this year or next:
Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
Check out http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/superdmca.html for status updates.
For Tennessee activities against this bill see: The Tennessee Digital Freedom pages
...to get our $#|+ together.
:)
We, about 20 of us I only got a few names & some contacts, showed up (I was 20 minutes late, but I made the 44 mile trip in record (*cough*40 minutes including city streets*/cough*) time after reading the article at 3pm, it took 7 minutes to get to the car) and 3 of us (out of 6 that stood to speak) got to make our case.
The 3 that spoke made good points but the first of us got grilled hard, the second got tied up in trying to simplify but didn't quite simplify enough, and the third closed out the discussion well, after an initial gaffe (he said, straight out, the bill was being "Ramrodded" which got quite the reaction from the sponsor -- who was molified by an apology prefaced with something along the lines of this is my first time ever doing this, and I'm not as familiar with this process as all of you senators are. Very funny, all the lawyers in the room just about died laughing)
When we have a more cohesive/comprehensive set of notes from we'll be putting it on line.
Speaking privately in the hall after other business resumed, one of the Senators who was observing said he thought the bill might have passed the committee today had we not come in and spoken against it.
I wholeheartedly encourage anyone who has the time to attend committee sessions like these.
If you think you won't have an effect on the committee you may be surprised. I went because I'm close (44 miles, to be picky) and I really don't want to see this kind of stuff pass.
The first speaker (Campbell?) was a UT Knoxville student (which I think is why he got grilled so bad) was grilled on the "intent" clause (he brought it up) and on "how it affects *us* today"
The second speaker (can't read my notes?) was a VAnderbilt student (i think) who cited specific things that he would no longer be able to do, encryted file transfer from student club machine to personal machine, &c which went right over the committee's collective head (very thick glaze coating decended over their eyes).
The third speaker, whom I spoke with at length while waiting for one of the non-committee senators to return from the chamber but can't remember what he does lighting design &/ Nashville-LUG member, iirc? he'll prolly correct me, tied all the arguments together and in mentioning tivo had one of the senators admit he used tivo (surprised me, but Yay) and two or perhaps 3 senators started to look unconvinced.
All in all a good day.
Very motivating.
More info will follow, hopefully in a "real" article rather than in comments - if it isn't rejected a billion times.
The White House home page. .gov *nor* the .com version!
written for the discerning who can tell at a glance when they're being fed a line. Slightly toungue in cheek, but a great source for how the administration really feels.
Note that this is *neither* the
Wrong! It's the parents' job/duty/chore to see to the mental and emotional well being of their children. It's the parents' job to monitor what their children ingest, whether that be food/cartoons/books/moves/television shows. Parents that abrogate that responsibility should not be parents.
The library is a place that makes things easier (or at least cheaper) for parents to broaden their children's minds. Librarians try their best to select or emphasize the Good Stuff(tm) and marginalize the Bad Stuff(tm) but it is not their millieu to censor information (which is what it sounds like you want them to do) from the seeker. Librarians are facilitators, not policemen. You want to find something? Ask librarians and they'll help you. You want to create a safe place for your kids? Hang around with them and explain why certain things are Bad Stuff(tm) and what to do when they encounter it.
To paraphrase a government report about children and the internet (can't find it right now, sorry) ~The internet is like a swimming pool, you can put up signs and fences but to better protect children from drowning you should teach them to swim/~
Sound like too much work? Get a vasectomy / tubal ligation and you won't have to worry as much about being distracted from your self-centered-ness.
"(Building a berm... at the bottom of the hill before it snows would make a great safety net, too)"
Sounds like you want to hit the buildings/trees higher with a crumpling slide down to follow.
Or did you mean a berm so you could hit that and stop suddenly as opposed to hitting the buildings/trees and stopping suddenly.
I think you did not think that one al the way through...
JtFO!
I wonder if this "technology" is going to exacerbate the propensity for seziures in epileptics?
Refresh rates (on some monitors & televisions) already have this effect and I know a few folks who've narrowly missed having seziures during quick back and forth scene changes in some film theatres.
Sure, sucks to be the epileptic, but it sucks even more to be the one trusted to protect them from themselves while in a crwoded theatre watching a movie in what used to appear to be a mostly safe theatre environment.
Of course the real fun begins when two people get close enough for their bluetooth enabled modules to talk to each other's central displays & I/O devices.
It would be fun to send "I love you" notes from someone else's equipoment because of mere proximity.
Talk about confusion. The other user would be wondering how all that propagnda got inserted into their *nix sysadmin cover letter .
The friggin thing is already 10 years of more late!
The dig was supposed to be done before I moved to Tennessee (1994)
In the US go to your local KIA dealer & test drive one. Get a certificate, call the number, answer the prompts, presto 4-6 weeks later you have a Free (as in Beer, in case you couldn't figure it out) Copy of the Aug 6th release.
See: Kia's website for details!
"Even boks printed on quite acidic paper will probably last for centuries..." is a global statement by Nicholson Baker.
Both should be taken with a serious dose of skepticism. Mr.
Baker has as issue with major newspaper collections being dismantled for microfilming and then discarded. He is a partisian of the worst sort, willing to distort science and observation to make self-aggrandizing statements. He has this huge collection of old (ca. 1900-1940) acid paper newspapers that he lets anyone handle. He expects this collection to be usable for centuries. Ask to use this collection, if he deems you worthy he'll let you I have & it's almost unusable now, let alone 20 years from now.
If you've ever tried to read old pulp fiction even from as recent as the 60s you'll most likely have experienced the "browning", "fading", & "cracking" acid paper exhibits after even infrequent use.
As to "well looked after" a quick browse though the climate controlled set of stacks at NYPL Research Libraries (any level including those under Bryant Park--if they were open stacks, which they're not) would show the same deterioration. I was lucky enough to work there for some time. From experience - my experience - Baker is talking out his butt.
You're right, no links. If you're interested enough you'll find it yourself.
While I admit I am a native english speaker (which means I get to trash the language without appearing completely stupid and/or uneducated) I read several European (live and dead) languages passably.
Are you going to be expanding your non-latin alphabet coverage? How do you reconcile the various codepages and character sets to return a comprehensive (language independent) results set? As a codicil, do you plan to incorporate other translation features to make "other" language pages available in other languages besides english? (e.g. translate a Chinese page directly into Greek instead of Chinese to English to Greek as it curenly seems)
A very good analogy from "Youth, Pornography and the Internet," issued 5/2/2002 by the National Research Council:
"Swimming pools can be dangerous for children," the authors wrote. "To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences and deploy pool alarms. All of these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that one can do for one's children is to teach them to swim."
Um...
Libraries already do this via OCLC (and actually there are now vendors/jobbers out there that can and/or will do this for about a US$1.50 per book)
Why do the users have to run the update in the first place? /. or Trend's email alert or bugtraq or wherever) I'm updating from their site and not bothering my users with all the nitpicky $#|+ about updates -- they've got enough to think about (either whatever it is they're getting paid for or getting more pr0n - ha, as if)
We run {not a plug, just info about a reliable source} TrendMicro OfficeScan (ya ya, an M$ shop, do with what you've got) which has the option to alert the clients that a new pattern file/scan engine/etc is available and should be downloaded.
No end-luser involvement. As soon as I hear about a new baddie (either via