You know, life is filled with uncertainty and uncomfortable situations, but through all that, we manage to grow up to a point where we *CAN* use the objectionable words in any context that we see fit. I would respect your school system much more if there was no filtering, but instead a very low key meaningful way to forward an email to a guidance counselor or parent to say hey, this one bothers me a lot, can you help.
The system is too stupid to sensor effectively, it will be laughed at by the students, you will be laughed at for thinking it works.
Instead, if your policy was, "say whatever you like within the boundaries of the constitution and laws, be considerate, don't say anything you wouldn't want someone else to say to you, and if you or your email is reported as inappropriate by another student or staff here are the possible consequences...."
Perhaps, just perhaps, you would have the respect of both parents and students and dare I say, maybe much less abuse.
Think about it.
Well given that wikileaks provides torrents for the large releases, and the new release is to be a big one full of diplomatic cables and such, then this may not be too far out there. They probably know that they can't stop the leak, so they may try to slow the dissemination, one way is to try to make it hard to find the torrents.
This is a full blown information war, people associated with wikileaks are being detained and their laptops are being searched, they're applying all types of pressure to wikileaks (financial, political, personal, legal). If none of that is working then they may try big broad strokes and couch them as something else. At no time will they appear to be in a panic over wikileaks, but it probably is a panic at this point -- must be a juicy leak -- and once it gets off wikileaks servers then they have no hope of containment.
In my opinion this guy is on drugs if he thinks that either bill can pass constitutional muster.
He would make it illegal for families to drive through South Carolina at night with children
in the car -- insane.
According to Google (Issued Patents) Microsoft has apx 600 issued patents dating back to January 1987 (don't care about any issued prior to that). So lets create a project to evaluate each patent for validity and non-obivousness, locate prior-art if any, and identify possible infringement in FOSS code.
Note that many of these are for things we may not care about (like mice, keyboards etc) so the number to analyse
will go down. Still non-trivial, but all it needs is persistence, the help of a few law students, and the IT
crowd to hunt down prior art. And lets put it all in one place where anyone that gets sued can go to for a
definitive reference.
BTW, I am not aware of such a thing being out there already, if so then please let me know, my quick search didn't
find it this morning.
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You know, life is filled with uncertainty and uncomfortable situations, but through all that, we manage to grow up to a point where we *CAN* use the objectionable words in any context that we see fit. I would respect your school system much more if there was no filtering, but instead a very low key meaningful way to forward an email to a guidance counselor or parent to say hey, this one bothers me a lot, can you help. The system is too stupid to sensor effectively, it will be laughed at by the students, you will be laughed at for thinking it works. Instead, if your policy was, "say whatever you like within the boundaries of the constitution and laws, be considerate, don't say anything you wouldn't want someone else to say to you, and if you or your email is reported as inappropriate by another student or staff here are the possible consequences...." Perhaps, just perhaps, you would have the respect of both parents and students and dare I say, maybe much less abuse. Think about it.
Well given that wikileaks provides torrents for the large releases, and the new release is to be a big one full of diplomatic cables and such, then this may not be too far out there. They probably know that they can't stop the leak, so they may try to slow the dissemination, one way is to try to make it hard to find the torrents. This is a full blown information war, people associated with wikileaks are being detained and their laptops are being searched, they're applying all types of pressure to wikileaks (financial, political, personal, legal). If none of that is working then they may try big broad strokes and couch them as something else. At no time will they appear to be in a panic over wikileaks, but it probably is a panic at this point -- must be a juicy leak -- and once it gets off wikileaks servers then they have no hope of containment.
Apparently you need to get a fucking clue and read the god damn constitution, why?
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/61.htm
In my opinion this guy is on drugs if he thinks that either bill can pass constitutional muster. He would make it illegal for families to drive through South Carolina at night with children in the car -- insane.
Hmm, I stand corrected, according to the USPTO the number of patents is 6723, with another 9713 published applications that have not as of yet issued.
source is the google search in the link, it looks for patents where microsoft is the asignee. See the google search in the initial post.
Note that many of these are for things we may not care about (like mice, keyboards etc) so the number to analyse will go down. Still non-trivial, but all it needs is persistence, the help of a few law students, and the IT crowd to hunt down prior art. And lets put it all in one place where anyone that gets sued can go to for a definitive reference.
BTW, I am not aware of such a thing being out there already, if so then please let me know, my quick search didn't find it this morning.
What do you all think?