What would be the purpose of a cell phone in a learning environment where you are supposed to be listening to the teacher and interacting that way? Voices serve a purpose in the classroom. What purpose do cell phones serve?
Maybe if you're wayyyy at the back of the class and can't make yourself heard ?
This is the kind of thing that gave birth to the modern legal fallacy that "to ignore the law is no excuse" (paraphrasing). Back then, when there actually was a common law it made sense. Now it doesn't. Even the lawmakers can't understand the law. It's just a game, the rules of which can be bent any way by money, power, the media or whatever the current mass hysteria is ("protect the children", the terrorists are out to get us", etc.)
17? Fucking hell... where I live (Prague, Europe) 14 is legal (before it was 15, but parliament change it year ago (at least to my best knowledge from local media).
But this is the US where seing a breast on TV (the same where people are shown being shot by cops - or vice versa - all day long) will scar you for life and will force the network to issue a public apology.
Your body is dirty, *dirty* do you hear ? It's the work of the devil !
yes activex sucks, anyone who doesn't know this already has rocks in their head, but calling a patch "weird beyond belief"? MS gets wind of security hole that might be really bad, patches it urgently.
Not only that but they patch it urgently for the 175th time. If that isn't urgent I don't know what is.
I don't know of any other OS company that's that focused on security that it patches the same kind of thing that many times : "We have to make sure, the security of our users is important to us !".
The article says it "saves fuel" and you're saying it merely turns distance in yet another weird medieval unit. People who want floating ice and strange units could just move to Alaska. This makes no sense at all.
I call shenanigans on the whole thing. Or there's yet another conspiracy at work. Obviously the Illuminati are running sea shipments.
They lost me at Wine. As that would not truly create the environment they are trying to describe. I have had up to 100 desktops all going from 10 msdn licenses (10 users). With different levels of the OS to test install and different configurations. They probably dont even need a very high level of it.
You're looking at this at the wrong level. They're interested in what the botnets do, not in what the hosts do. What runs the botnet software is irrelevant as long as it runs it.
I don't see much of it in gmail, only a couple per day. But according to it's floating 30 day archive I get about 18 000 per month. English is by far the most common language although I see a little Chinese, French and German every now and then.
There is no "we". The violence of the U.S. government has not benefited U.S. citizens. If you got in the way of the controlling groups, they would kill you, delt0r, and your family.
> google delt0r > Your search - delt0r - did not match any documents.
Damn, too late !
The U.S. government has invaded or bombed 25 countries since the 2nd world war. Most or all of the interference was for profit. Quote: '... although nearly all the post-World War II interventions were carried out in the name of "freedom" and "democracy," nearly all of them in fact defended dictatorships controlled by pro-U.S. elites' The dictators pay the corrupters, of course.
Shuddup ! What's wrong with you ?
I don't know this guy anyway. I'm not even from the US ! Honest I was just passing by ! I don't even come here that often !
Yes officer, whatever you say... I'm on my way, no I didn't see anything, shutting up right now... if you could just get the M1's main gun pointing elsewhere.
I've done all kinds of neat things over it. That was a few years ago, so things may have changed. When I was in cities, I had great speeds (like >2Mb/s). I could stream video, SSH, browse web pages, FTP, DNS back to my own servers. As far as I know, nothing was filtered. What couldn't you do?
I drove the length of I-10 a few years ago, and had my laptop sending video and GPS data up to my web server, so friends and family could see where I was, and what I was seeing. Oohh, the excitement of seeing the West half of I-10. "Look, more dirt."
A killer app if I ever saw one. A pity your remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" didn't work out, but better luck next time.
Neither are humans, particularly when they have no fresh water.
If the current trend continues, a lot of humans are going to be up to their neck in fresh water (liquid or frozen) which won't be all that great either. And others will indeed have less.
How does one promote open source in a managerial culture?
By using it only when it's the best solution. Don't push it if it's not the best tool for the job.
That might work in a managerial culture. In a university, it will only work if you have a large SWAT team and are willing to use it. Getting a university to evolve is impossible. It is frozen in amber. The OP should run away as far as he can.
I stopped using cursive a long time ago because it just wasn't as aesthetically pleasing as print and I would say the ability to read something is far more important than the time it takes to write it.
That's more likely because you never learned to write cursive. Properly written letters are *very* legible.
MS has called Free Software "a cancer", "unamerican", "implicitly criminal", and "a threat to the economy". It's been practicing *extortion* when dealing with large corporation so that they include no open-source/free software in their stack. They've threatened to sue, and excommunicate companies advocating OSS, and have been slandering free software in an on-going, relentless campaign that any totalitarian regime would be proud of. They have fired *their own employees* who dabbled in OSS. Their FUD tactics have been to keep painting OSS as legally, and commercially unmaintainable.
Who, Microsoft ? Oh, you mean the *old* Microsoft !
This is the *new* Microsoft. They wouldn't do anything like that. Not at all. No sir. No way. The new Microsoft is only run by Carebears and Unicorns and rainbow coloured ponies (or so I'm told).
Do me a favor and call me when someone posts a home-made movie on YouTube that is, I dunno, let's say 10% as well-made, written, and acted as Star Trek.
Hmm, let's see, there was that Badger thing that wasn't too bad...
Fun fact: here in Russia we have to BUY licenses for Linux to present it to police raiding our datacenters. Thank God they cost almost nothing but anyway...
So who do you buy them from ? Do you have to get something like RH Enterprise ? Or are there local distros packaged just for this purpose ?
There is a ban on strong encryption. I think the limit of key is 40 bits. In case you want to use something stronger (Internet banking and the like) you can but the key must be given to a trusted third party and revealed to the government if they so ask. Linky.
This has changed some time ago. Personal usage of crypo is currently apparently free for keys of any size. However export may be subject to declaration or possibly in some cases prior authorisation. GPG and PGP may be used freely. See http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/archive/fr/reglementation/regl_crypto.html for a summary (in French, also requires poking at a few other files to make sense of it, typical government site...).
I don't know what the stance is on key disclosure vis à vis the authorities.
The U.S. stopped wearing the white hat long ago... sad.
Come on, you know how hard it is to keep a white hat white. What did you expect. You should be glad it only turned greyish, they could have put it in the wrong laundry basket...
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What would be the purpose of a cell phone in a learning environment where you are supposed to be listening to the teacher and interacting that way? Voices serve a purpose in the classroom. What purpose do cell phones serve?
Maybe if you're wayyyy at the back of the class and can't make yourself heard ?
They should be mandated to do this more often.
If one out of 20 laws removed their salaries and advantages in flowery and incomprehinsible writing, maybe they'd be more careful.
It just goes to say that the current way lawmaking works is broken (in case anybody still doubted that).
I went to Crete where the "Gortyn" code was (still is, for the most part) on public display. It was mostly simple and to the point. (article)
This is the kind of thing that gave birth to the modern legal fallacy that "to ignore the law is no excuse" (paraphrasing). Back then, when there actually was a common law it made sense. Now it doesn't. Even the lawmakers can't understand the law. It's just a game, the rules of which can be bent any way by money, power, the media or whatever the current mass hysteria is ("protect the children", the terrorists are out to get us", etc.)
17? Fucking hell... where I live (Prague, Europe) 14 is legal (before it was 15, but parliament change it year ago (at least to my best knowledge from local media).
But this is the US where seing a breast on TV (the same where people are shown being shot by cops - or vice versa - all day long) will scar you for life and will force the network to issue a public apology.
Your body is dirty, *dirty* do you hear ? It's the work of the devil !
yes activex sucks, anyone who doesn't know this already has rocks in their head, but calling a patch "weird beyond belief"? MS gets wind of security hole that might be really bad, patches it urgently.
Not only that but they patch it urgently for the 175th time. If that isn't urgent I don't know what is.
I don't know of any other OS company that's that focused on security that it patches the same kind of thing that many times : "We have to make sure, the security of our users is important to us !".
Now that's dedication !
nautical miles
The article says it "saves fuel" and you're saying it merely turns distance in yet another weird medieval unit. People who want floating ice and strange units could just move to Alaska. This makes no sense at all.
I call shenanigans on the whole thing. Or there's yet another conspiracy at work. Obviously the Illuminati are running sea shipments.
They lost me at Wine. As that would not truly create the environment they are trying to describe.
I have had up to 100 desktops all going from 10 msdn licenses (10 users). With different levels of the OS to test install and different configurations. They probably dont even need a very high level of it.
You're looking at this at the wrong level. They're interested in what the botnets do, not in what the hosts do. What runs the botnet software is irrelevant as long as it runs it.
I get spam even in gmail
I don't see much of it in gmail, only a couple per day. But according to it's floating 30 day archive I get about 18 000 per month. English is by far the most common language although I see a little Chinese, French and German every now and then.
There is no "we". The violence of the U.S. government has not benefited U.S. citizens. If you got in the way of the controlling groups, they would kill you, delt0r, and your family.
> google delt0r
> Your search - delt0r - did not match any documents.
Damn, too late !
Shuddup ! What's wrong with you ?
I don't know this guy anyway. I'm not even from the US ! Honest I was just passing by ! I don't even come here that often !
Yes officer, whatever you say... I'm on my way, no I didn't see anything, shutting up right now... if you could just get the M1's main gun pointing elsewhere.
Really?
I've done all kinds of neat things over it. That was a few years ago, so things may have changed. When I was in cities, I had great speeds (like >2Mb/s). I could stream video, SSH, browse web pages, FTP, DNS back to my own servers. As far as I know, nothing was filtered. What couldn't you do?
I drove the length of I-10 a few years ago, and had my laptop sending video and GPS data up to my web server, so friends and family could see where I was, and what I was seeing. Oohh, the excitement of seeing the West half of I-10. "Look, more dirt."
A killer app if I ever saw one. A pity your remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" didn't work out, but better luck next time.
"Glaciers are not permanent structures. So what?"
Neither are humans, particularly when they have no fresh water.
If the current trend continues, a lot of humans are going to be up to their neck in fresh water (liquid or frozen) which won't be all that great either. And others will indeed have less.
How does one promote open source in a managerial culture?
By using it only when it's the best solution. Don't push it if it's not the best tool for the job.
That might work in a managerial culture. In a university, it will only work if you have a large SWAT team and are willing to use it. Getting a university to evolve is impossible. It is frozen in amber. The OP should run away as far as he can.
You failed to address the relationship to IE7 in your well worded response sir knight.
http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/screencap.png
Apparently Boston can't tell if it's a computer virus or a tornado.
What if it's a virus that makes your computer bomb ?
(I don't think you can still get the Mac to display the bomb thingie though)
I think you're overlooking the effect that a few decades of text messages and complicated video game controllers has on manual dexterity.
That doesn't feel like manual dexterity. It's faster twitching.
Dexterity would be better measured manipulating small objects in precise ways.
I stopped using cursive a long time ago because it just wasn't as aesthetically pleasing as print and I would say the ability to read something is far more important than the time it takes to write it.
That's more likely because you never learned to write cursive. Properly written letters are *very* legible.
Check out this Silverlight stuff -- it's great isn't it? It's cross-platform and everything.
Ahem, you forgot to read the small print
Silverlight ! Now cross platform* !
* for a very limited subset of platforms only
MS has called Free Software "a cancer", "unamerican", "implicitly criminal", and "a threat to the economy". It's been practicing *extortion* when dealing with large corporation so that they include no open-source/free software in their stack. They've threatened to sue, and excommunicate companies advocating OSS, and have been slandering free software in an on-going, relentless campaign that any totalitarian regime would be proud of. They have fired *their own employees* who dabbled in OSS. Their FUD tactics have been to keep painting OSS as legally, and commercially unmaintainable.
Who, Microsoft ?
Oh, you mean the *old* Microsoft !
This is the *new* Microsoft. They wouldn't do anything like that. Not at all. No sir. No way. The new Microsoft is only run by Carebears and Unicorns and rainbow coloured ponies (or so I'm told).
Then maybe they should start them with Lisp instead? :)
Then we'll have lots of programmerth all over the plathe. As if nerdth didn't thuffer from an image problem as it ith.
Do me a favor and call me when someone posts a home-made movie on YouTube that is, I dunno, let's say 10% as well-made, written, and acted as Star Trek.
Hmm, let's see, there was that Badger thing that wasn't too bad...
A digital witch ! a digital witch ! Flame her !
Fun fact: here in Russia we have to BUY licenses for Linux to present it to police raiding our datacenters. Thank God they cost almost nothing but anyway...
So who do you buy them from ? Do you have to get something like RH Enterprise ? Or are there local distros packaged just for this purpose ?
There is a ban on strong encryption. I think the limit of key is 40 bits. In case you want to use something stronger (Internet banking and the like) you can but the key must be given to a trusted third party and revealed to the government if they so ask. Linky.
This has changed some time ago.
Personal usage of crypo is currently apparently free for keys of any size. However export may be subject to declaration or possibly in some cases prior authorisation. GPG and PGP may be used freely.
See http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/archive/fr/reglementation/regl_crypto.html for a summary (in French, also requires poking at a few other files to make sense of it, typical government site...).
I don't know what the stance is on key disclosure vis à vis the authorities.
The U.S. stopped wearing the white hat long ago... sad.
Come on, you know how hard it is to keep a white hat white. What did you expect. You should be glad it only turned greyish, they could have put it in the wrong laundry basket...
...why do men still have nipples. Film at 11.
Because they start as women when they grow up and only later turn into men while they're still embryos and some bits are left over ?
and then the blue E icon is synonymous with internet for a lot of people
While traveling, I regularly see Internet access places advertised by IE's big blue "e". Which always irritates me to no end.
I guess to check the weather or bus schedules it doesn't matter all that much. I never enter any passwords in any of those things though.