Part of the problem with all these scare tactics programs is that they equate use and abuse. All a kid has to do is look at his parents' medicine cabinate to know that's not true.
I never did DARE, but I had its predecessor, scare-tactic "drug education" in the new york schools.
We laughed at the stupid adults who were clearly all clueless and figured half of 'em went hoem and got loaded on booze regularly anyway.
(1) parents who send a clear message not to smoke, and have never smoked themselves.
(2) parents who send strong message that smoking is bad all the time, but do or have smoked?
(3) parents who smoke and tell their children "ther are risks to this and you shoudl wait til youa re an adult to make those decisions"?
Tobacco does not exactly map to illicit drugs, but I had parents who ocassionally toked and made it VERY clear that they felt it was not a good thing to do to yourself until you were full grown and udnerstood your own head a bit better.
That struck me as a kid as honest, sincere concern from people who had the experience to know what theyw ere talkign about. As a reuslt, I listened, waited til college to experiment, and when I did I did so cautiously and with a through udnerstandign of the risks/dangers. (For instance, when it coems to illicit substances, don't do it if you don't know your source well.)
The CIA very effectively shut down their primary competition-- the Metteine (sp?) cartel.
The war on drugs was turf war between the CIA and third party drug supplires. Viewed in this light the whole thing starts to make a whole lot more sense. (See my post earlier abt the warehouse stuffed with cocaine to which the CIA held the lease and the strangely-vanishing San Jose Mercury News story abotu the CIA providing guns to drug lords in south-central Los Angeles.)
And elst we forget, what did our "War on Drugs" president, Goerge Bush, do BEFORE he was president??
(For people with little memory: he was head of the CIA.)
AFAIK No scientific study has EVER proven this "slide into debauchery" cocnept valid. It has a lot more to do with deeply ingrained american-christian myths of "temptation" then ANY scientific fact. If there were any truth to it then half of the sutdents I went to college with should now be living on the streets and main-lining.
There are only a few things anyone has found to date that corrolate to psycholigcal addicition (physical addiction is a whole different subject):
(1) The better the first expereince with a drug, the more likely someoen is to be "hooked" by repeated use.
(2) A great many so called addicts are actually suffering from mental illness and atttempting to self-medicate. It's estimated in the psychiatry community that 1/3 of all alcholics are actually suffering from undiagnosed mood disorders ("clinical depression" and "manic depression".)
AFAIK No scientific study has EVER proven this "slide into debauchery" cocnept valid. It has a lot more to do with deeply ingrained american-christian myths of "temptation" then ANY scientific fact. If there were any truth to it then half of the sutdents I went to college with should now be living on the streets and main-lining.
There are only a few things anyone has found to date that corrolate to psycholigcal addicition (physical addiction is a whole different subject):
(1) The better the first expereince with a drug, the more likely someoen is to be "hooked" by repeated use.
(2) A great many so called addicts are actually suffering from mental illness and atttempting to self-medicate. It's estimated in the psychiatry community that 1/3 of all alcholics are actually suffering from undiagnosed mood disorders ("clinical depress" and "manic depression".)
First off, the other replier is ansolutely correct. Lets call "marijuana" by its american neame, shall we? Hemp.
Hemp was a major industrial crop from the days of the tall ships to WWI, where it was the original source of canvas. Hemp seed oil (aka hash oil) was a COMMON ingredient in patent medications.
Growing hemp was illegalized after a scare campaign funded and led by William Randolph Hearst, the infamous yellow-sheet newspaper baron. As part of his empire, Hearst owned forests, logging companies and wood-pulp based paper mills. In the 1930s a machine caleld the 'decorticator' was invented theat threatned to put the wood pulp paper buisiness OUt of business by making it feasible (and much hceaper, not to memtion more environmentally friendly) to make paper from hemp.
Hearst, knowing that noone would take a hemp scare campaign seriously, imported the term "marijuana" from mexico and begin a smeer campaign. (A highly racist one at that, linking marijuana with those awful, demonic black jazz artists who gte hooped up on marijuana and rape your white women... I kid you not, the papers are stil lavailable at your major metropolitan libraries I think-- go look it up, or see the refernce at the end of this post. )
There is a ruel in politics in America that all real politicians know. If you want to understand policies, follow the money because thats ALWAYS where the trail leads.
There is an excellent, very scholarly and wll researched book you should read before you try to talk abotu the history of marijuana again. It's called "The Emperors new Clothes" and it covers all of this, with cites, refernces, and reproductions of historical documents.
As a side issue, stating that "alcohol prohibition didn't work but marijuana prohibition does" is either willful blindess or totally niavete. Why should one work when the other didn't? The only difference is that there was more VIOLENCE around alcohol prohibiton so it became more obvious it was failing. Are you saying you WANT violence around marijuana prohibiton? I think it points to how much better/safer/less addictive a drug marijuana is that there ISN'T such violence.
Also, you should read "Drugs for Mental Illness". Its a college medical text book on psychopharmacological substances. They disuss eveything from Prozac to Alchohol and rate the dangers on a well thought out and objectively testable scale. Alcohol turns out to be one of the MOST dangerous substances, ranking just behind the opiates.
"The police involvement in the DARE program in it's current use makes police into nothing more than at best a gestapo, and at worst into just "
This is a REALLY important point IMO and one that seldom gets mentioned.
Kids don't respect thsoe who lie to them. I have healthy respect for police officers because I grew up in a fairly low crime community with a very active police out-reach program. The police officers were the ncie men who coached our baseball team and took us to the amusement park.
This respect is very helpful in my adult life. (Frankly my sincere attitude of respect for the officers as people doing an unpleasent and dangerous but necessary job has gotten me out of quite a few tickets.)
Turn the police itno the agents of a corrupt and hypocritical governmental policy and ALL you accomplish is destroying respect for those officers.
You can't kid a kid, kids smell hypocracy and resent it. (Strangely many of these kids grow up to be adults who go out and VOTE for that self-same hypocracy. I dunno what happens to them-- its kinda scary.)
If you can't afford to fly in and hosue someoen you'll need a relatively local speaker. Without knowing where you are I don't know what to suggest.
(If your reasonably near San Jose, CA and the topic of Java Performance tunign interests your group, give me an email to corrospond privately with you.)
"That last citation is folklore, not science. Most reliable studies will show statistical #s for alchoholism in ethnic groupings and yes, Jews and Asians are mostly on the lower end of the scale. But introduce any other drug "
But I wasn't talking about any other drug.
I was talking specificly about alcohol and the afct that training jewish kids how to USE alchol and not absuse it curbed alcohol abuse.
Your point is irellevent to mine, which is education in the skilsl of porper drug use is the only way to keep an available drug from being abused.
Now in the case of, for instance, cocaine that might be "there IS no safe way to use this", backed by a clear explaiantion of what endorphines are, how your body repsonds to them, and how cocaine mimics them. Again though that is proper drug skills training, not scare tactics or blanket non-information.
No kid is going to buy "Just say no" as long as you are popping asparine for your headaches. They're a lot smarter then that-- kids can smell hypocricy much better then adults tend to.
I was living in Florida when 20/20 broke the news that the CIA was discovered holding the lease on a Key West wearhouse that had mucho cocaine stored inside. This was about 6 years ago.
Many years later the San jose Mercury news broken an invesigative story on the web where they had Los Angeles drug dealers swearing the CI provided their weapons. This story was up for about 2 weeks and then vanished totally, with no explaination.
It astounds me how effectively our government plays on the short memory and attentio nspans of its citizens.
Its commonly undersootd in sotuhern florida that the "war on Drugs" was a turf war by rthe CIA to keep out competition. How can the government fight what the government creates?
The OMLY thing that works is REAL education. Not scare stories, not commandments, but explaiantions about the good and bad drugs do and how to avoid getting hurt.
As a relevent side note, alcholism and binge drinking is extremely low in Jewish circles. Why? Because from about age 8 up most Jews are introduced to alchol through wine at passover and taught by their parents over time how to handle it. Its all about skills folks, and if you keep your kids from learning proper drug use skills they will hurt themselevs abusing them, sooner or later.
I have a Amex Blue, which is a JavaCard.
Its cryptologoical capabilities keep me financially safe.
What it has on board is a deigital signiture for me and one for Amex. In order to do a web purchase I put the card in a reader on my desk and it authenticates itself to Aemx through the net (and Amex authenticates itself to me.)
I believe it also generates individual authenticatable tokens for each transaction.
Using this card for a net pruchase is as safe as using a card at a store, the data transferred is of no use to anyone but Amex and myself and noone can use my account without physical possession of the card.
Actually, its SAFER, because even with the card you have to enter my PIN in order to gete it to start talking to Amex.
Smart cards IMO are a wonderful thing. Since Java Card is standardized, I can eventually have one single card in my wallet that replaces the 20 or so I now carry (charge cards, supermarket cards. health insurace cards, rental cards, etc)
THATS technology that makes my life but safer and easier.
If this is in conjunction with Sun then it is almost assruedly a java Card. The java Card sepc is public and either downloadable from Sun (java.sun.com) OR buyanle in book form at your lcoal bookstore.
You can find out more about those cards in a few hours by reading than anyone posting to slashdot seems to know. (Not that knowledge has ever been a pre-requisit for a slashdot opinion;) )
"Bushnell is the creator of "Pong" and the man who was behind the early successes of Atari, including the 2600 console and its pioneering stand-up arcade machines"
I really object to this generalization. If you do some research, I think you'll find Bushnell did not program all the early Atari arcade machines (or 2600 games) by hismelf nor de he build all of them by hand in his garage,
This kind of over generalization really minimalizes all the hard work and genius of the OTHERS who worked on these projects. (A few of whom it has been my pleasure to know later in their careers.)
... other then he's clueless and obviously never been to college-- at elast not for Computer Science.
Actually, there IS something else to say. This is a wee bit scary, the MS media amchien ash eben so successful it has managed to warp people's belief as to the meanings of words.
The mac week author shoudl do the following:
(1) Read Judge Jackson's findings of fact (he and his team did an EXCELLENT job of seperating OS for middlewar, the latter being what he thinks is missing from UNIX as an "OS".)
(2) Buy a decent machine organization text and read it (I'd recommend tannenbaum's, personally.)
When did Journalism stop being researched fact and become ignorant IMO???
Really udnerstanding what is on a page is a very difficulty AI problem and none of the available technolgoies coem anywahere close. All they do is look for keywords.
There's a great site that had a stupid filter tricks contest. It was reported on Slashdot about a month ago, if you look back you might find the link. The winner (out of thouisands of exampels sent in as entires) was the high school student who couldn't reach his own high-school's web page from his high-school's library-- it objected to the word "high". An honorbale mention (for irony) is Representative Richard "Dick" Armie's page, a big proponent of ceonsorware, which ALL current filter programs block because of his nick name.
If you really want to control this then what you need to do is
(1) make students log in.
(2) keep logs of all web activity
(3) check those logs regularly for violations of
school poicies.
(4) Permenantly take away the accounst of
violators.
American's are in love with the idea of easy fixes, but there is no such beast in this case.
Okay, I knwo this isn't going to be a popular opinion on Slashdot, but I am very UNIMPRESSED.
When he says ""What lawyers call "intellectual property" is -- as every Latin student knows -- no more than theft from the public domain" he is using an old cheap rhetorical trick called "begging the question."
In a nutshell, he assumes in his postulates that his argument is correct before he ever makes it.
As ball-stroking, maybe this rates. As constructive engagement on an improtant issue it does not come close.
What has stopped me from building a wearable is the combination of the fact that they tend to be somewhat underpowered to start with and then may not be easily upgradabel in the future. PC104 is a somewhat-standard but there seem to be newer "standards" trying to replace it.
Looked like a very promising product, I'm still watiing to be able to buy one... their web page (www.personaldisplay.com) hasn't updated froa long time.
Also for those who care, Handkey corp is taking pre-orders on the new mdoel of the Twidller, the T2. They are suppsoed to ship Dec 1 and if you pre order you get 10% off and get to be one of the first in line to buy one (Twiddlers are produced in small numbers and sell out pretty regularly.)
Let me start by saying "soem of my best friends are Germans."
Well, you knwo what i mean. My old college roomate is first generation german-born-american. His Dad , a terrific guy, was a German foot-soldiar in WWII. I hold no grudges against any of them. His dad was hardly ina positio nto knwo what the Nazi leaders were up to and really thought he was "defending his country".
Having said that, now let me say that, as a Jew, the line of reasoning you rpesented distrubs me greatly. Gemany is having a hard time keeping their edge in technology. The Asians are putting pressure on everyone. Between that and the hard times brought on by trying to absorb and rehabilitate their poorer half (East germany) I would gather that ecomonic times there are nto the best they've ever been.
Its said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. The last time Germany hit on hard times, they foudn a scape-goat-- the Jews. They maade themselevs believe that the Jews were comitting espionage and subverting their culture and that "takign care of the Jewish problem" would solve their problems.
Once again, they are on hard times, and mumbling about the "anglo-szxons." This is VERY dsitrubing because it shows a propensity stil lexistant to view everything as clash between racial groups, rather then imntyernal problems that have to be solved.
I've got news for you, EVERYONE commits a certain degree of industrail espionage. Don't tell me no German radio or TV manufacturer ever bought plans for an upcoming American product. Or that no german manufacturer ever payed for info on a ANOTHER german manufacturer. I don't buy it.
It's business, not race, and Germans seeing it in racial terms is VERY scary to those of us with a memory.
Slashdot Mirror
"Why they are not at Freemont or the Gay and Lesbian Pride march; who knows."
Because the same reactionary idiots who push programs liek DARE also hope all the "homos" catch AIDS from infected needles and die.
Said, but most likely the truth.
Reponsible Use of Drugs Education
Part of the problem with all these scare tactics programs is that they equate use and abuse. All a kid has to do is look at his parents' medicine cabinate to know that's not true.
I never did DARE, but I had its predecessor, scare-tactic "drug education" in the new york schools.
We laughed at the stupid adults who were clearly all clueless and figured half of 'em went hoem and got loaded on booze regularly anyway.
Has your wife studied the difference bteween...
(1) parents who send a clear message not to smoke, and have never smoked themselves.
(2) parents who send strong message that smoking is bad all the time, but do or have smoked?
(3) parents who smoke and tell their children "ther are risks to this and you shoudl wait til youa re an adult to make those decisions"?
Tobacco does not exactly map to illicit drugs, but I had parents who ocassionally toked and made it VERY clear that they felt it was not a good thing to do to yourself until you were full grown and udnerstood your own head a bit better.
That struck me as a kid as honest, sincere concern from people who had the experience to know what theyw ere talkign about. As a reuslt, I listened, waited til college to experiment, and when I did I did so cautiously and with a through udnerstandign of the risks/dangers. (For instance, when it coems to illicit substances, don't do it if you don't know your source well.)
And when you find out that these caring officers (who may, in fact, have seriosuly cared) were either lying or seriously misinformed?
What will you think then? (This phenomenon is called "backlash" and is as dangerous or more so then the situation they are trying to address.)
The CIA very effectively shut down their primary competition-- the Metteine (sp?) cartel.
The war on drugs was turf war between the CIA and third party drug supplires. Viewed in this light the whole thing starts to make a whole lot more sense. (See my post earlier abt the warehouse stuffed with cocaine to which the CIA held the lease and the strangely-vanishing San Jose Mercury News story abotu the CIA providing guns to drug lords in south-central Los Angeles.)
And elst we forget, what did our "War on Drugs" president, Goerge Bush, do BEFORE he was president??
(For people with little memory: he was head of the CIA.)
Such as "gateway drugs."
AFAIK No scientific study has EVER proven this "slide into debauchery" cocnept valid. It has a lot more to do with deeply ingrained american-christian myths of "temptation" then ANY scientific fact. If there were any truth to it then half of the sutdents I went to college with should now be living on the streets and main-lining.
There are only a few things anyone has found to date that corrolate to psycholigcal addicition (physical addiction is a whole different subject):
(1) The better the first expereince with a drug, the more likely someoen is to be "hooked" by repeated use.
(2) A great many so called addicts are actually suffering from mental illness and atttempting to self-medicate. It's estimated in the psychiatry community that 1/3 of all alcholics are actually suffering from undiagnosed mood disorders ("clinical depression" and "manic depression".)
Such as "gateway drugs."
AFAIK No scientific study has EVER proven this "slide into debauchery" cocnept valid. It has a lot more to do with deeply ingrained american-christian myths of "temptation" then ANY scientific fact. If there were any truth to it then half of the sutdents I went to college with should now be living on the streets and main-lining.
There are only a few things anyone has found to date that corrolate to psycholigcal addicition (physical addiction is a whole different subject):
(1) The better the first expereince with a drug, the more likely someoen is to be "hooked" by repeated use.
(2) A great many so called addicts are actually suffering from mental illness and atttempting to self-medicate. It's estimated in the psychiatry community that 1/3 of all alcholics are actually suffering from undiagnosed mood disorders ("clinical depress" and "manic depression".)
Guy, you need to study some history.
First off, the other replier is ansolutely correct. Lets call "marijuana" by its american neame, shall we? Hemp.
Hemp was a major industrial crop from the days of the tall ships to WWI, where it was the original source of canvas. Hemp seed oil (aka hash oil) was a COMMON ingredient in patent medications.
Growing hemp was illegalized after a scare campaign funded and led by William Randolph Hearst, the infamous yellow-sheet newspaper baron. As part of his empire, Hearst owned forests, logging companies and wood-pulp based paper mills. In the 1930s a machine caleld the 'decorticator' was invented theat threatned to put the wood pulp paper buisiness OUt of business by making it feasible (and much hceaper, not to memtion more environmentally friendly) to make paper from hemp.
Hearst, knowing that noone would take a hemp scare campaign seriously, imported the term "marijuana" from mexico and begin a smeer campaign. (A highly racist one at that, linking marijuana with those awful, demonic black jazz artists who gte hooped up on marijuana and rape your white women... I kid you not, the papers are stil lavailable at your major metropolitan libraries I think-- go look it up, or see the refernce at the end of this post. )
There is a ruel in politics in America that all real politicians know. If you want to understand policies, follow the money because thats ALWAYS where the trail leads.
There is an excellent, very scholarly and wll researched book you should read before you try to talk abotu the history of marijuana again. It's called "The Emperors new Clothes" and it covers all of this, with cites, refernces, and reproductions of historical documents.
As a side issue, stating that "alcohol prohibition didn't work but marijuana prohibition does" is either willful blindess or totally niavete. Why should one work when the other didn't? The only difference is that there was more VIOLENCE around alcohol prohibiton so it became more obvious it was failing. Are you saying you WANT violence around marijuana prohibiton? I think it points to how much better/safer/less addictive a drug marijuana is that there ISN'T such violence.
Also, you should read "Drugs for Mental Illness". Its a college medical text book on psychopharmacological substances. They disuss eveything from Prozac to Alchohol and rate the dangers on a well thought out and objectively testable scale. Alcohol turns out to be one of the MOST dangerous substances, ranking just behind the opiates.
"The police involvement in the DARE program in it's current use makes police into nothing more than at best a gestapo, and at worst into just "
This is a REALLY important point IMO and one that seldom gets mentioned.
Kids don't respect thsoe who lie to them. I have healthy respect for police officers because I grew up in a fairly low crime community with a very active police out-reach program. The police officers were the ncie men who coached our baseball team and took us to the amusement park.
This respect is very helpful in my adult life. (Frankly my sincere attitude of respect for the officers as people doing an unpleasent and dangerous but necessary job has gotten me out of quite a few tickets.)
Turn the police itno the agents of a corrupt and hypocritical governmental policy and ALL you accomplish is destroying respect for those officers.
You can't kid a kid, kids smell hypocracy and resent it. (Strangely many of these kids grow up to be adults who go out and VOTE for that self-same hypocracy. I dunno what happens to them-- its kinda scary.)
If you can't afford to fly in and hosue someoen you'll need a relatively local speaker. Without knowing where you are I don't know what to suggest.
(If your reasonably near San Jose, CA and the topic of Java Performance tunign interests your group, give me an email to corrospond privately with you.)
"That last citation is folklore, not science. Most reliable studies will show statistical #s for alchoholism in ethnic groupings and yes, Jews and Asians are mostly on the lower end of the scale. But introduce any other drug "
But I wasn't talking about any other drug.
I was talking specificly about alcohol and the afct that training jewish kids how to USE alchol and not absuse it curbed alcohol abuse.
Your point is irellevent to mine, which is education in the skilsl of porper drug use is the only way to keep an available drug from being abused.
Now in the case of, for instance, cocaine that might be "there IS no safe way to use this", backed by a clear explaiantion of what endorphines are, how your body repsonds to them, and how cocaine mimics them. Again though that is proper drug skills training, not scare tactics or blanket non-information.
No kid is going to buy "Just say no" as long as you are popping asparine for your headaches. They're a lot smarter then that-- kids can smell hypocricy much better then adults tend to.
I was living in Florida when 20/20 broke the news that the CIA was discovered holding the lease on a Key West wearhouse that had mucho cocaine stored inside. This was about 6 years ago.
Many years later the San jose Mercury news broken an invesigative story on the web where they had Los Angeles drug dealers swearing the CI provided their weapons. This story was up for about 2 weeks and then vanished totally, with no explaination.
It astounds me how effectively our government plays on the short memory and attentio nspans of its citizens.
Its commonly undersootd in sotuhern florida that the "war on Drugs" was a turf war by rthe CIA to keep out competition. How can the government fight what the government creates?
The OMLY thing that works is REAL education. Not scare stories, not commandments, but explaiantions about the good and bad drugs do and how to avoid getting hurt.
As a relevent side note, alcholism and binge drinking is extremely low in Jewish circles. Why? Because from about age 8 up most Jews are introduced to alchol through wine at passover and taught by their parents over time how to handle it. Its all about skills folks, and if you keep your kids from learning proper drug use skills they will hurt themselevs abusing them, sooner or later.
How would you feel if laws were passed allowing you boss to plant hidden microphoens and cameras in your office? Its really not very different.
Would be a virtual interview with Bill GATES.
All you need is one answer:
"Windows will solve that for you."
I have a Amex Blue, which is a JavaCard.
Its cryptologoical capabilities keep me financially safe.
What it has on board is a deigital signiture for me and one for Amex. In order to do a web purchase I put the card in a reader on my desk and it authenticates itself to Aemx through the net (and Amex authenticates itself to me.)
I believe it also generates individual authenticatable tokens for each transaction.
Using this card for a net pruchase is as safe as using a card at a store, the data transferred is of no use to anyone but Amex and myself and noone can use my account without physical possession of the card.
Actually, its SAFER, because even with the card you have to enter my PIN in order to gete it to start talking to Amex.
Smart cards IMO are a wonderful thing. Since Java Card is standardized, I can eventually have one single card in my wallet that replaces the 20 or so I now carry (charge cards, supermarket cards. health insurace cards, rental cards, etc)
THATS technology that makes my life but safer and easier.
If this is in conjunction with Sun then it is almost assruedly a java Card. The java Card sepc is public and either downloadable from Sun (java.sun.com) OR buyanle in book form at your lcoal bookstore.
;) )
You can find out more about those cards in a few hours by reading than anyone posting to slashdot seems to know. (Not that knowledge has ever been a pre-requisit for a slashdot opinion
"Bushnell is the creator of "Pong" and the man who was behind the early successes of Atari, including the 2600 console and its pioneering stand-up arcade machines"
I really object to this generalization. If you do some research, I think you'll find Bushnell did not program all the early Atari arcade machines (or 2600 games) by hismelf nor de he build all of them by hand in his garage,
This kind of over generalization really minimalizes all the hard work and genius of the OTHERS who worked on these projects. (A few of whom it has been my pleasure to know later in their careers.)
... other then he's clueless and obviously never been to college-- at elast not for Computer Science.
Actually, there IS something else to say. This is a wee bit scary, the MS media amchien ash eben so successful it has managed to warp people's belief as to the meanings of words.
The mac week author shoudl do the following:
(1) Read Judge Jackson's findings of fact (he and his team did an EXCELLENT job of seperating OS for middlewar, the latter being what he thinks is missing from UNIX as an "OS".)
(2) Buy a decent machine organization text and read it (I'd recommend tannenbaum's, personally.)
When did Journalism stop being researched fact and become ignorant IMO???
The problem, is, they don't work.
Really udnerstanding what is on a page is a very difficulty AI problem and none of the available technolgoies coem anywahere close. All they do is look for keywords.
There's a great site that had a stupid filter tricks contest. It was reported on Slashdot about a month ago, if you look back you might find the link. The winner (out of thouisands of exampels sent in as entires) was the high school student who couldn't reach his own high-school's web page from his high-school's library-- it objected to the word "high". An honorbale mention (for irony) is Representative Richard "Dick" Armie's page, a big proponent of ceonsorware, which ALL current filter programs block because of his nick name.
If you really want to control this then what you need to do is
(1) make students log in.
(2) keep logs of all web activity
(3) check those logs regularly for violations of
school poicies.
(4) Permenantly take away the accounst of
violators.
American's are in love with the idea of easy fixes, but there is no such beast in this case.
Children from going to the "Bush" for president page, due to sexual imagery?
That alone might make it worth doing...
Although it would probably block "Gore", for violent content, as well.
Okay, I knwo this isn't going to be a popular opinion on Slashdot, but I am very UNIMPRESSED.
When he says ""What lawyers call "intellectual property" is -- as every Latin student knows -- no more than theft from the public domain" he is using an old cheap rhetorical trick called "begging the question."
In a nutshell, he assumes in his postulates that his argument is correct before he ever makes it.
As ball-stroking, maybe this rates. As constructive engagement on an improtant issue it does not come close.
What has stopped me from building a wearable is the combination of the fact that they tend to be somewhat underpowered to start with and then may not be easily upgradabel in the future. PC104 is a somewhat-standard but there seem to be newer "standards" trying to replace it.
What are other people's expereicnes in this area?
Looked like a very promising product, I'm still watiing to be able to buy one... their web page (www.personaldisplay.com) hasn't updated froa long time.
Also for those who care, Handkey corp is taking pre-orders on the new mdoel of the Twidller, the T2. They are suppsoed to ship Dec 1 and if you pre order you get 10% off and get to be one of the first in line to buy one (Twiddlers are produced in small numbers and sell out pretty regularly.)
Let me start by saying "soem of my best friends are Germans."
Well, you knwo what i mean. My old college roomate is first generation german-born-american. His Dad , a terrific guy, was a German foot-soldiar in WWII. I hold no grudges against any of them. His dad was hardly ina positio nto knwo what the Nazi leaders were up to and really thought he was "defending his country".
Having said that, now let me say that, as a Jew, the line of reasoning you rpesented distrubs me greatly. Gemany is having a hard time keeping their edge in technology. The Asians are putting pressure on everyone. Between that and the hard times brought on by trying to absorb and rehabilitate their poorer half (East germany) I would gather that ecomonic times there are nto the best they've ever been.
Its said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. The last time Germany hit on hard times, they foudn a scape-goat-- the Jews. They maade themselevs believe that the Jews were comitting espionage and subverting their culture and that "takign care of the Jewish problem" would solve their problems.
Once again, they are on hard times, and mumbling about the "anglo-szxons." This is VERY dsitrubing because it shows a propensity stil lexistant to view everything as clash between racial groups, rather then imntyernal problems that have to be solved.
I've got news for you, EVERYONE commits a certain degree of industrail espionage. Don't tell me no German radio or TV manufacturer ever bought plans for an upcoming American product. Or that no german manufacturer ever payed for info on a ANOTHER german manufacturer. I don't buy it.
It's business, not race, and Germans seeing it in racial terms is VERY scary to those of us with a memory.
I used to hang out during boring study halls at the computer terminal and write games.
You KNOW if they put censorware on school computers the kids will try to crack it (and succeed.)
I can't think of a better way to get them interested in learning more about computers, so I'm all for this bill!