Age of consent in the US depends on the state, generally 16 to 18. I don't know if the same age standard applies to prostitution.
This guy is an arrogant, sanctimonious prick posturing for the religious right and the "won't somebody think of the children" crowd. The Yellow Pages if full of "Escort" ads, and have been for years. If he were pursuing all forms of prostitution advertisement, Yellow Pages included, he would still be an arrogant, sanctimonious prick, but at least he'd be treating everyone the same.
Ignoring your whining, anti-US tone for a moment, your post does (surprisingly) have interesting implications.
Although the RIAA/etc would fume over it, and although the US govt would grumble, I would guess that there is probably a sizeable number of regular folks in the US who would love to have the Chinese take on various DRM schemes. That might well be the next killer app. Let's face it, China is already the epicenter for mass piracy of software and other IP from the US and elsewhere, and the official US attempts to rein it in have gained little traction. I don't think there would be much effective backlash if the Chinese put out DRM-stripping studies or tools. As a matter of fact, because of the chilling effects of the DMCA, plus the widespread US influence in much of the rest of the world, China is probably one of the few places that such tools could be developed with impunity.
Voting machines would be more worrisome, but honestly, they're already pretty crappy to begin with. If anything, your post underlines the importance of NOT relying on computerized voting machines. However, I imagine there is an important difference between the Harvard study and your hypothetical Chinese study. If the Chinese ever do (or did) study how to crack voting machines, you can bet they won't be making their findings public.
Regardless of the actual merits of their lawsuit, are you seriously advocating that a business not defend a patent because F/OSS supporters (me included) might not like it?
I get your point that most lawsuits like this usually result in bad PR for the plaintiffs, but you have to figure that they are doing this because of 1 of 2 possible scenarios:
A) They are not patent trolling, but really, firmly believe that they have a legit grievance. Regardless of the outcome, they feel they need to defend their turf, their IP, their way of making a living.
or B) They are patent trolls, in which case they don't give a damn about our opinion anyway. They are going to sue, hoping for a multi-million dollar judgement or settlement and licensing agreement, and the chances of snagging that pot of gold far outweighs the risk of pissing off Slashdot.
"Inalienable" refers to the fact that they are natural rights that exist whether or not the government or anyone else says they do.
For example, in the US, your right to own the aforementioned S&W or other firearm is one of these rights. A US citizen has said right protected by law, but that doesn't mean that there aren't other laws that constrain his/her exercise of that right.
While I understand your point, and the end result would render the whole argument pretty much moot, what you are proposing is not an technically an alienation of my right to life, but a violation of it.
Security from a MS wizard? Maybe they could teach Clippy to implement security in development!
Hi there! It looks like you are passing user input to an SQL statement. Would you like to:
A) Sanitize your input before going any further.
B) Sanitize, schmanitize, just code that sucker together. We'll iron out the kinks later.
C) Huh? Why would that be a problem?
I would have been more impressed if they had ONLY fixed bugs, rather than fixing a few bugs and coding some new marginally useful cruft which will itself likely be bug-ridden .
Admittedly, I don't know many K-12 IT folks who are open-minded about FOSS & Linux. There is a guy a few towns away from me Chris Dawson who writes a blog on ZDnet that addresses his concerns and experiences. Here is a blog that talks about the subject. Browse around some of his back editions, you'll find more info.
I don't know of any such research and studies specifically, but I'd suggest that asking educators and their IT folk about what problems they are trying to solve before offering a solution. Are they trying to run specific Windows-only software? Does that software have a Linux equivalent (browser/office apps)? Can it be run under WINE with no problems? Look at their infrastructure to see if a thin client/LTSP solution for classroom PCs might save them electricity and upgrade costs over the long run.
Do a pilot program in a couple schools, and use them as the basis for further proposals to legislators and other school districts.
Curtis asked Boucher "to use the computer" to show him the files he downloads. Curtis reviewed the video files, observing one that appeared to be a preteen undressing and performing a sexual act, among other graphic images, the affidavit says.
"Curtis" is the border agent.
IANAL, but I'll comment anyway. He allowed a border agent enough access to his computer for the border agent to actually see CP on it. At this point, probably cause exists to search the laptop, so it is less like trying to extract a confession, which is what the 5th was originally designed to protect against, and more like executing a search warrant.
Sorry, forgot to mention the plowing. Plowing trivia:
They do plow the roads here. I think they have to, since it's the fastest way to turn a frost heave into a pothole, and filling potholes is usually the only way we get our roads resurfaced.
I live on a steep hill (that's not saying much; 90% of Worcester is steep hills). Sand trucks back up my street so they can spread sand ahead of themselves. They can't make it up the hill if they don't.
The plow truck that clears my street is a gigantic tonka-style Caterpillar front-end loader with a huge plow attachment. You know, the trucks with 5 foot tall tires? It's the only thing that has a chance of clinging to our hill in a snowstorm. Even so, I've seen it slide down our hill, despite massive chains on the aforementioned tires. A few years ago it slid off the road and hit one of the houses at the bottom of the hill.
Ahh, Worcester. Or, as we natives like to pronounce it, "Wuh-stah". Our proud city is home to various driving innovations, such as the ever-popular but still illegal "left turn on red" (especially useful on Park Ave, for some reason). The speed limit for BMWs is twice that of other vehicles, especially in residential neighborhoods on Halloween while the kids are out. Most of the real danger is on Route 9, as a recent article attested.
Please, for the sake of all involved, before you drive on our roads, please familiarize yourself with our rules. After your visit, feel free to share your experience with others.
Not-for-profit is more of a legal/accounting designation than a vow of poverty, and lawsuits are often to get an court ruling against improper/undesirable behavior, rather than win lots of money.
I agree 100%. Of course on the flip side, it would be nice for other vendors to jump on the bandwagon and start offering free training. Cisco and Oracle can start. Some *nix vendors would be welcome too, maybe NetApp and EMC. With some diversity in the education, it might be worthwhile.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who reads this as "brace yourself for 2 million more unemployed MSCE's to dilute the IT field within the next 3 years". Sorry for the cynicism, but I see this as Microsoft trying to raise a generation of tech users and admins who know nothing of the tech world beyond Windows.
Yeah...I'd thought of that....I figured I'd scan through the images picked up daily, delete anything that looked legally questionable....
Harvesting even a fraction of the porn flowing into Usenet groups daily would exceed the bandwidth of even a pretty speedy cable modem connection. Additionally, I'm pretty sure that snarfing up porn 24/7 with automated scripts and a fast cable modem would result in more porn per second than you could reliably scan.
Never mind what multiple customer uploads would do to your terms of bandwidth.
Hell...at the very least, I figure there are a ton of people out here that don't know you can get free porn on USENET...why not write a script to scrape naked chick images off there, and serve them to idiots for $10/month?
One of the corollaries to Rule 34 is that if you can imagine a porn business model, it already exists on the internet. This one has been done already by several entities out there.
They'll destroy their environment! If they don't slap some limits on those gas emissions, or come up with a workable credit-trading plan, they'll end up with a dry, dusty, desert planet in no time!
His post assumes that we wouldn't try to establish a breeding population. If we plan on bringing back an extinct species, what moral obligation do we have to prevent its extinction when the only specimen dies? Or is it okay, since our world has moved on since the last mammoth lived? If scientists make one, should we make more and restore a population? Would today's world be a good environment for a wild population or not? Would our creations be forever destined to live in zoos?
If we create a breeding population, how do we ensure genetic diversity? I am not a bioengineer, and have no way of knowing if diversity is already included in their method (taking a living elephant's skin cell and slowly reshuffling the DNA from elephant to mammoth) by simply using cells from different donor elephants for making each new mammoth. I guess that would depend on how reshuffled the DNA gets in the process of injecting new sequences.
Not doubting you, but I'm surprised. I thought turbulence problems from the vortexes coming off the lead aircraft made takeoffs that close quite risky.
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Age of consent in the US depends on the state, generally 16 to 18. I don't know if the same age standard applies to prostitution.
This guy is an arrogant, sanctimonious prick posturing for the religious right and the "won't somebody think of the children" crowd. The Yellow Pages if full of "Escort" ads, and have been for years. If he were pursuing all forms of prostitution advertisement, Yellow Pages included, he would still be an arrogant, sanctimonious prick, but at least he'd be treating everyone the same.
Ignoring your whining, anti-US tone for a moment, your post does (surprisingly) have interesting implications.
/etc would fume over it, and although the US govt would grumble, I would guess that there is probably a sizeable number of regular folks in the US who would love to have the Chinese take on various DRM schemes. That might well be the next killer app. Let's face it, China is already the epicenter for mass piracy of software and other IP from the US and elsewhere, and the official US attempts to rein it in have gained little traction. I don't think there would be much effective backlash if the Chinese put out DRM-stripping studies or tools. As a matter of fact, because of the chilling effects of the DMCA, plus the widespread US influence in much of the rest of the world, China is probably one of the few places that such tools could be developed with impunity.
Although the RIAA
Voting machines would be more worrisome, but honestly, they're already pretty crappy to begin with. If anything, your post underlines the importance of NOT relying on computerized voting machines. However, I imagine there is an important difference between the Harvard study and your hypothetical Chinese study. If the Chinese ever do (or did) study how to crack voting machines, you can bet they won't be making their findings public.
It must have attended college and law school. It was a patent lawyer for SCO.
Regardless of the actual merits of their lawsuit, are you seriously advocating that a business not defend a patent because F/OSS supporters (me included) might not like it?
I get your point that most lawsuits like this usually result in bad PR for the plaintiffs, but you have to figure that they are doing this because of 1 of 2 possible scenarios:
A) They are not patent trolling, but really, firmly believe that they have a legit grievance. Regardless of the outcome, they feel they need to defend their turf, their IP, their way of making a living.
or B) They are patent trolls, in which case they don't give a damn about our opinion anyway. They are going to sue, hoping for a multi-million dollar judgement or settlement and licensing agreement, and the chances of snagging that pot of gold far outweighs the risk of pissing off Slashdot.
"Inalienable" refers to the fact that they are natural rights that exist whether or not the government or anyone else says they do.
For example, in the US, your right to own the aforementioned S&W or other firearm is one of these rights. A US citizen has said right protected by law, but that doesn't mean that there aren't other laws that constrain his/her exercise of that right.
While I understand your point, and the end result would render the whole argument pretty much moot, what you are proposing is not an technically an alienation of my right to life, but a violation of it.
Security from a MS wizard? Maybe they could teach Clippy to implement security in development!
Hi there! It looks like you are passing user input to an SQL statement. Would you like to:
A) Sanitize your input before going any further.
B) Sanitize, schmanitize, just code that sucker together. We'll iron out the kinks later.
C) Huh? Why would that be a problem?
I would have been more impressed if they had ONLY fixed bugs, rather than fixing a few bugs and coding some new marginally useful cruft which will itself likely be bug-ridden .
Admittedly, I don't know many K-12 IT folks who are open-minded about FOSS & Linux. There is a guy a few towns away from me Chris Dawson who writes a blog on ZDnet that addresses his concerns and experiences. Here is a blog that talks about the subject. Browse around some of his back editions, you'll find more info.
I don't know of any such research and studies specifically, but I'd suggest that asking educators and their IT folk about what problems they are trying to solve before offering a solution. Are they trying to run specific Windows-only software? Does that software have a Linux equivalent (browser/office apps)? Can it be run under WINE with no problems? Look at their infrastructure to see if a thin client/LTSP solution for classroom PCs might save them electricity and upgrade costs over the long run.
Do a pilot program in a couple schools, and use them as the basis for further proposals to legislators and other school districts.
Curtis asked Boucher "to use the computer" to show him the files he downloads. Curtis reviewed the video files, observing one that appeared to be a preteen undressing and performing a sexual act, among other graphic images, the affidavit says.
"Curtis" is the border agent.
IANAL, but I'll comment anyway. He allowed a border agent enough access to his computer for the border agent to actually see CP on it. At this point, probably cause exists to search the laptop, so it is less like trying to extract a confession, which is what the 5th was originally designed to protect against, and more like executing a search warrant.
Sorry, forgot to mention the plowing. Plowing trivia:
They do plow the roads here. I think they have to, since it's the fastest way to turn a frost heave into a pothole, and filling potholes is usually the only way we get our roads resurfaced.
I live on a steep hill (that's not saying much; 90% of Worcester is steep hills). Sand trucks back up my street so they can spread sand ahead of themselves. They can't make it up the hill if they don't.
The plow truck that clears my street is a gigantic tonka-style Caterpillar front-end loader with a huge plow attachment. You know, the trucks with 5 foot tall tires? It's the only thing that has a chance of clinging to our hill in a snowstorm. Even so, I've seen it slide down our hill, despite massive chains on the aforementioned tires. A few years ago it slid off the road and hit one of the houses at the bottom of the hill.
Ahh, Worcester. Or, as we natives like to pronounce it, "Wuh-stah". Our proud city is home to various driving innovations, such as the ever-popular but still illegal "left turn on red" (especially useful on Park Ave, for some reason). The speed limit for BMWs is twice that of other vehicles, especially in residential neighborhoods on Halloween while the kids are out. Most of the real danger is on Route 9, as a recent article attested.
Please, for the sake of all involved, before you drive on our roads, please familiarize yourself with our rules. After your visit, feel free to share your experience with others.
Standard disclaimer: IANAL
"Not-for-profit" != "takes in no money".
Not-for-profit is more of a legal/accounting designation than a vow of poverty, and lawsuits are often to get an court ruling against improper/undesirable behavior, rather than win lots of money.
I agree 100%. Of course on the flip side, it would be nice for other vendors to jump on the bandwagon and start offering free training. Cisco and Oracle can start. Some *nix vendors would be welcome too, maybe NetApp and EMC. With some diversity in the education, it might be worthwhile.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who reads this as "brace yourself for 2 million more unemployed MSCE's to dilute the IT field within the next 3 years". Sorry for the cynicism, but I see this as Microsoft trying to raise a generation of tech users and admins who know nothing of the tech world beyond Windows.
If Chicago wants to use cameras to reduce crime, maybe they should mount them in the government offices instead of on street corners.
Bill Microsoft, of course.
Yeah...I'd thought of that....I figured I'd scan through the images picked up daily, delete anything that looked legally questionable....
Harvesting even a fraction of the porn flowing into Usenet groups daily would exceed the bandwidth of even a pretty speedy cable modem connection. Additionally, I'm pretty sure that snarfing up porn 24/7 with automated scripts and a fast cable modem would result in more porn per second than you could reliably scan. Never mind what multiple customer uploads would do to your terms of bandwidth.
Hell...at the very least, I figure there are a ton of people out here that don't know you can get free porn on USENET...why not write a script to scrape naked chick images off there, and serve them to idiots for $10/month?
One of the corollaries to Rule 34 is that if you can imagine a porn business model, it already exists on the internet. This one has been done already by several entities out there.
If you'll excuse me, I do believe I just stopped existing.
Nope. Belief requires thought. Cogito ergo sum. You still exist. ;)
(Like the Windows on Warships networks)
Windows for Warships? Version 3.11?
... tells me how to fix my motorcycle.
They'll destroy their environment! If they don't slap some limits on those gas emissions, or come up with a workable credit-trading plan, they'll end up with a dry, dusty, desert planet in no time!
His post assumes that we wouldn't try to establish a breeding population. If we plan on bringing back an extinct species, what moral obligation do we have to prevent its extinction when the only specimen dies? Or is it okay, since our world has moved on since the last mammoth lived? If scientists make one, should we make more and restore a population? Would today's world be a good environment for a wild population or not? Would our creations be forever destined to live in zoos?
If we create a breeding population, how do we ensure genetic diversity? I am not a bioengineer, and have no way of knowing if diversity is already included in their method (taking a living elephant's skin cell and slowly reshuffling the DNA from elephant to mammoth) by simply using cells from different donor elephants for making each new mammoth. I guess that would depend on how reshuffled the DNA gets in the process of injecting new sequences.
"Aside from Shakespeare, most students dread reading stuff born before the printing press"
Sorry, little nit - Gutenberg press invented circa 1440, Shakespeare lived between 1560 or so through the early 1600s.
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Yeah, I know, most kids hate reading Shakespeare regardless of when the press was invented.
Not doubting you, but I'm surprised. I thought turbulence problems from the vortexes coming off the lead aircraft made takeoffs that close quite risky.