I have to agree. At this age, the teacher helps or at the very least knows about a project before it shows up at any science fair. If that was the case this time, the evacuation probably would not have occurred.
School policies generally are reasonable, despite what most of the people here seem to believe. If the student did violate school policies, there's probably something he did that really wasn't a smart idea.
And to all the Slashdotters with the knee-jerk reactions against the school administrator in this case: When a story sounds ridiculous or even just unreasonable, perhaps you should question the story you're hearing? Before calliing others morons or claiming they're fearful sheep. What does that say about your independent thinking?
With all due respect - isn't this exactly what is the problem with copyright? People sitting on their asses, demanding to get paid, while blaming piracy for not getting money for some work created ages ago. To hell with that.
The problem with that idea is the book didn't cost $50 to produce. It cost alot more than that. To make the book worth making, and worth buying, it needs to charge what the market will bear, say $50, and distribute the cost of making it over time.
That's why copyright works, and that's why copyright is needed. I don't understand why so many people have so much trouble with the concept of cost distributed over time.
I thought it was standard procedure to first kidnap and then request a ransom.
Why would people pay a ransom -provided they feel really threatened by the email - if noone is kidnapped yet? They can always pay ransom when the kidnapping is actually done?
Depends on who is doing it. Some Sicilian mobs ask for money before the kidnapping. Less hassle for everyone if the victim pays up front. If they don't pay, that's when you start getting increasingly nasty warnings in the form of dead pets, etc.
Or, I don't know, mbox -- which actually is supported by far more things than CSVs. Which Thunderbird uses internally.
And you know what? That's in the FAQ. Something for you to try: Before flaming something, at least have the decency to check the FAQ to see if your accusation is actually true.
Whoa there! Who's flaming anything? I was answering a question posted by my original parent. Why the hate?
There are legitimate reasons for Outlook to export CSV, which I was pointing out. We store all of our ancient email in a database. I was also pointing out that any mail client that wants to can import CSV. Sure, I could build a CSV parser (and have in the past), but I don't use Thunderbird. So why would I build one?
Mbox is fine, but it's not the only publicly available mail format. No accusations, no flames. So please stop getting so defensive.
I was an early adopter for the GP2X. It was disappointing. The community was great. The device itself was lackluster. Bad screens, worse joysticks, power issues, bricking risks... the best part was the emulators, and those are on the PSP now with Dark Alex's stuff.
And the fact that it cost as much as 2 GBA SPs... I'm sure these new ones are even more.
Same here. I was seriously disappointed with what I got for the GP2X cost. The newest hardware revision seems to be much more robust, but man, what a waste of money. The joystick issues with early versions made it almost unusable for gameplay.
And now we have a split in the open source micros community between the Wiz and the OpenPandora. The OpenPandora seems to be a greatly superior machine, but at a rather high cost for essentially a portable game machine.
I would probably rather get a cheap EEE PC or the like at this point for roughly the same cost. That would do everything either of these can do, in a slightly larger form factor for me to do general computing on, too.
At least in any MS product that I've ever seen, there's ALWAYS an option to export data out as a lowest common denominator
Outlook gives you the "opportunity" to export emails as tab- or comma-delimited files. What app, besides Outlook, knows how to import tab- or comma-delimited email files????
Every database interface I've seen can import a tab or comma delimited file. Every email app that wants to can build a parser to do so. It's not like it's hard to import tab or comma delimited files.
The fault doesn't lie with Outlook, since it provided the option. The fault lies with other programs that don't support a fully compatible and importable format like csv's.
All these benefits are just there to attract and retain staff. It is ridiculous to pick on just one or two because they don't apply to you.
What about their laundry service? Why should they provide that? What about the people who have their own washers at home?
What about the car servicing thing? What about the people that don't have cars?
What about the bus service with Wifi? What about people who live close and don't need the bus?
By your logic all these are discrimination against people who don't need these services.
Agreed 100%. If you want a service they don't offer, then submit a request for it and see what happens. If other people are using services you don't use, chances are the company has it because enough people find it useful to offer.
If they charge more for a service than in the past, it's not "discrimination", it's because they're changing the service or don't want to subsidize it so much. Discrimination is not hiring you because you have kids; not raising the cost of your subsidized child care.
If you are dumb enough to fall for one of the oldest fraud methods in existence, you deserve to lose you money, but not your freedom.
I don't know if it's as clear cut as that. Typically the victims of this scam agree to break the law in some way, in some cases to participate in committing a massive financial fraud.
I agree that it's not unbelievable, but arresting the victims in this case will just make them more likely to not come forward. Kind of like deporting sexually abused illegal aliens.
It's first person. It completely changes the feel of the game compared to a Diablo clone, so that was pretty innovative.
A first-person game where you shoot guns?! I don't know if an idea that innovative could ever catch on.
That's kind of like saying Deus Ex is just another FPS with some RPG elements. A game is more than just the genre it belongs to. Just because you want to categorize it doesn't mean it doesn't bring something new to the table.
It's a Diablo clone set in a post apocalyptic future. It's hardly innovative.
It's first person. It completely changes the feel of the game compared to a Diablo clone, so that was pretty innovative. And it had some pretty unique weapons for a Diablo clone, my favorite being a napalm launcher.
Disney created a "show" called, if I remember, Turtle Talk at their Epcot theme park. It's basically an animated turtle on screen that talks, and responds to the audience in real time. Apparently there's an actor controlling the eyes, mouth, movement, and providing the vocal responses of the character on the screen.
It had a quite a bit of an uncanny valley feel to it because it was so close to human movement and looks on a turtle. If they made the turtle an animated human that responded to the audience like that, my guess is that many of the kids in the audience would be freaked out to the point of leaving the room.
Anyways, my personal experience with uncanny valley. Turtle Talk highly recommended.
The burden of proof otherwise is on the man. Government has to prove itself innocent of trampling civil rights and the rights of the people because we have seen that government is not honest.
What civil right was trampled in this case? They believed the situation to be potentially unsafe, and based on what I see I agree with them. So they removed him and swept the place to find out what was going on.
Uggg... more knee jerk reaction to a pretty obvious case of prudent police work.
There's a fire in his house. The fire dept. and police come, and put out the fire. In the process of putting out the fire, they notice hundreds of vials of chemicals. Not in a rack, not on a shelf, not even on a table, but all over the place. On the floor, on furniture, everywhere. No reasonable chemist would be dumb enough to do that with any chemicals.
What would you want the police to do? Walk out without doing a little due diligence? There's a good chance he is storing these chemicals unsafely, and he is endangering his life and possibly others as a result. So they call in the experts to clean it up. And then they take a look at what he's done wrong, and probably will give him a fine and a slap on the wrist.
It's amazing how many Slashdotters don't even bother to do a bit of research before coming to their black-and-white conclusion about how The Man is bad and this poor fellow is being an upstanding citizen with his rights violated. How dare the police invade this man's home! It's an attack on science! They hate the science!
RTFA!
There are alot of Slashdotters that seem to take pride in their critical thinking, intelligence, and analysis skills. Honestly, alot of you really don't demonstrate it very often here. It's more like a lynch mob than a bunch of intelligent people discussing issues.
According to the screenshot, the video was titled "Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony." It's not about censorship, it's about copyright, and was probably automatically removed based just on the title.
What, does the IOC have copyright on the word "Olympics"?
I imagine they're objecting to the image of the five colored rings that's shown in the video for a second or two. And if that's the case, this is a total abuse of a copyright infringement claim.
Perhaps. But I believe this is a case of the IOC taking a look at the title, and submitting the removal request based on the that. The video submitter is claiming to be infringing copyright on the ceremonies by the very title. They probably didn't even look at the video, since they have 10,000 others to remove.
According to the screenshot, the video was titled "Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony." It's not about censorship, it's about copyright, and was probably automatically removed based just on the title.
How about accurately titling your video next time? I don't think trying to scam people looking for the opening ceremonies into viewing propaganda for your cause is the best way to get sympathy.
Americans are more obsessed about doing what they want, when they want and expecting everyone else to accept that. Whereas in Asia there's more of a tendency to want to maintain social order./quote>
To me, that's pretty promising on the U.S. side. As long as we continue to question and push the rules imposed on us, we can't be completely dominated.
People thought the same at the beginning of DVD, or worse.
DVD Will Fail
That was before DVD was even finalized. It didn't even list most of the benefits of DVDs, because they were unknown at the time, and misstated much of the negatives compared to VHS.
The only real benefit currently of Blu-Ray over DVDs is picture quality. So I don't think it's the same as evaluating DVD vs. VHS right now, but we'll see.
It does make you wonder though if the Google lovefest is over. Now that they are a publicly traded company their only obligation is to their shareholders and as a publicly traded company they should probably change their motto to "We do less evil than everyone else".
If they do less evil than everyone else, it's still a step in the right direction. I'm not saying they do, but any company that honestly tries to do right by the environment, community, and world is a good thing.
What I don't understand is why anyone would care... Slashdot Karma is competing with Kool-Aid Fun Points for score that has the least impact on my life.
Hey! Kool-Aid points can buy some great stuff! Like this blow up beach ball or rockin' Kool-Aid keychain!
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I have to agree. At this age, the teacher helps or at the very least knows about a project before it shows up at any science fair. If that was the case this time, the evacuation probably would not have occurred.
School policies generally are reasonable, despite what most of the people here seem to believe. If the student did violate school policies, there's probably something he did that really wasn't a smart idea.
And to all the Slashdotters with the knee-jerk reactions against the school administrator in this case: When a story sounds ridiculous or even just unreasonable, perhaps you should question the story you're hearing? Before calliing others morons or claiming they're fearful sheep. What does that say about your independent thinking?
If the publishers see this article, the next book I want to read is going to be written in capchas!
The really hard ones without an audio guide!
With all due respect - isn't this exactly what is the problem with copyright? People sitting on their asses, demanding to get paid, while blaming piracy for not getting money for some work created ages ago. To hell with that.
The problem with that idea is the book didn't cost $50 to produce. It cost alot more than that. To make the book worth making, and worth buying, it needs to charge what the market will bear, say $50, and distribute the cost of making it over time.
That's why copyright works, and that's why copyright is needed. I don't understand why so many people have so much trouble with the concept of cost distributed over time.
I thought it was standard procedure to first kidnap and then request a ransom. Why would people pay a ransom -provided they feel really threatened by the email - if noone is kidnapped yet? They can always pay ransom when the kidnapping is actually done?
Depends on who is doing it. Some Sicilian mobs ask for money before the kidnapping. Less hassle for everyone if the victim pays up front. If they don't pay, that's when you start getting increasingly nasty warnings in the form of dead pets, etc.
Or, I don't know, mbox -- which actually is supported by far more things than CSVs. Which Thunderbird uses internally.
And you know what? That's in the FAQ. Something for you to try: Before flaming something, at least have the decency to check the FAQ to see if your accusation is actually true.
Whoa there! Who's flaming anything? I was answering a question posted by my original parent. Why the hate?
There are legitimate reasons for Outlook to export CSV, which I was pointing out. We store all of our ancient email in a database. I was also pointing out that any mail client that wants to can import CSV. Sure, I could build a CSV parser (and have in the past), but I don't use Thunderbird. So why would I build one?
Mbox is fine, but it's not the only publicly available mail format. No accusations, no flames. So please stop getting so defensive.
I was an early adopter for the GP2X. It was disappointing. The community was great. The device itself was lackluster. Bad screens, worse joysticks, power issues, bricking risks... the best part was the emulators, and those are on the PSP now with Dark Alex's stuff.
And the fact that it cost as much as 2 GBA SPs... I'm sure these new ones are even more.
Same here. I was seriously disappointed with what I got for the GP2X cost. The newest hardware revision seems to be much more robust, but man, what a waste of money. The joystick issues with early versions made it almost unusable for gameplay.
And now we have a split in the open source micros community between the Wiz and the OpenPandora. The OpenPandora seems to be a greatly superior machine, but at a rather high cost for essentially a portable game machine.
I would probably rather get a cheap EEE PC or the like at this point for roughly the same cost. That would do everything either of these can do, in a slightly larger form factor for me to do general computing on, too.
At least in any MS product that I've ever seen, there's ALWAYS an option to export data out as a lowest common denominator
Outlook gives you the "opportunity" to export emails as tab- or comma-delimited files. What app, besides Outlook, knows how to import tab- or comma-delimited email files????
Every database interface I've seen can import a tab or comma delimited file. Every email app that wants to can build a parser to do so. It's not like it's hard to import tab or comma delimited files.
The fault doesn't lie with Outlook, since it provided the option. The fault lies with other programs that don't support a fully compatible and importable format like csv's.
All these benefits are just there to attract and retain staff. It is ridiculous to pick on just one or two because they don't apply to you.
What about their laundry service? Why should they provide that? What about the people who have their own washers at home?
What about the car servicing thing? What about the people that don't have cars?
What about the bus service with Wifi? What about people who live close and don't need the bus?
By your logic all these are discrimination against people who don't need these services.
Agreed 100%. If you want a service they don't offer, then submit a request for it and see what happens. If other people are using services you don't use, chances are the company has it because enough people find it useful to offer.
If they charge more for a service than in the past, it's not "discrimination", it's because they're changing the service or don't want to subsidize it so much. Discrimination is not hiring you because you have kids; not raising the cost of your subsidized child care.
If you are dumb enough to fall for one of the oldest fraud methods in existence, you deserve to lose you money, but not your freedom. I don't know if it's as clear cut as that. Typically the victims of this scam agree to break the law in some way, in some cases to participate in committing a massive financial fraud.
I agree that it's not unbelievable, but arresting the victims in this case will just make them more likely to not come forward. Kind of like deporting sexually abused illegal aliens.
On a lesser scale, of course.
It's first person. It completely changes the feel of the game compared to a Diablo clone, so that was pretty innovative.
A first-person game where you shoot guns?! I don't know if an idea that innovative could ever catch on.
That's kind of like saying Deus Ex is just another FPS with some RPG elements. A game is more than just the genre it belongs to. Just because you want to categorize it doesn't mean it doesn't bring something new to the table.
Ah, so it's a NetHack/Angband derivative...
Sure, if you consider a FPS with loot to be a roguelike.
But that's like calling Super Mario Bros a Pac-Man derivative. They're different enough to not really be comparable.
You haven't played the game, have you?
Lay down a blanket of fire on the ground, then switch to a explosive bolt launcher to finish off your enemies. THEN tell me how ho-hum it is.
It's a Diablo clone set in a post apocalyptic future. It's hardly innovative.
It's first person. It completely changes the feel of the game compared to a Diablo clone, so that was pretty innovative. And it had some pretty unique weapons for a Diablo clone, my favorite being a napalm launcher.
Disney created a "show" called, if I remember, Turtle Talk at their Epcot theme park. It's basically an animated turtle on screen that talks, and responds to the audience in real time. Apparently there's an actor controlling the eyes, mouth, movement, and providing the vocal responses of the character on the screen.
It had a quite a bit of an uncanny valley feel to it because it was so close to human movement and looks on a turtle. If they made the turtle an animated human that responded to the audience like that, my guess is that many of the kids in the audience would be freaked out to the point of leaving the room.
Anyways, my personal experience with uncanny valley. Turtle Talk highly recommended.
It wasn't done unlawfully. They didn't bust in. There were already there putting out a fire!
Do a bit of research? RTFA. Research?! Are you trying to encourage people to break the law?
A bit of research is fine. A lot of research, say around 1500 vials of it, is not. So I'm only advocating a bit of research this time. :-)
The burden of proof otherwise is on the man. Government has to prove itself innocent of trampling civil rights and the rights of the people because we have seen that government is not honest.
What civil right was trampled in this case? They believed the situation to be potentially unsafe, and based on what I see I agree with them. So they removed him and swept the place to find out what was going on.
Uggg... more knee jerk reaction to a pretty obvious case of prudent police work.
There's a fire in his house. The fire dept. and police come, and put out the fire. In the process of putting out the fire, they notice hundreds of vials of chemicals. Not in a rack, not on a shelf, not even on a table, but all over the place. On the floor, on furniture, everywhere. No reasonable chemist would be dumb enough to do that with any chemicals.
What would you want the police to do? Walk out without doing a little due diligence? There's a good chance he is storing these chemicals unsafely, and he is endangering his life and possibly others as a result. So they call in the experts to clean it up. And then they take a look at what he's done wrong, and probably will give him a fine and a slap on the wrist.
It's amazing how many Slashdotters don't even bother to do a bit of research before coming to their black-and-white conclusion about how The Man is bad and this poor fellow is being an upstanding citizen with his rights violated. How dare the police invade this man's home! It's an attack on science! They hate the science!
RTFA!
There are alot of Slashdotters that seem to take pride in their critical thinking, intelligence, and analysis skills. Honestly, alot of you really don't demonstrate it very often here. It's more like a lynch mob than a bunch of intelligent people discussing issues.
According to the screenshot, the video was titled "Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony." It's not about censorship, it's about copyright, and was probably automatically removed based just on the title.
What, does the IOC have copyright on the word "Olympics"?
I imagine they're objecting to the image of the five colored rings that's shown in the video for a second or two. And if that's the case, this is a total abuse of a copyright infringement claim.
Perhaps. But I believe this is a case of the IOC taking a look at the title, and submitting the removal request based on the that. The video submitter is claiming to be infringing copyright on the ceremonies by the very title. They probably didn't even look at the video, since they have 10,000 others to remove.
> it's about copyright, and was probably automatically removed based just on the title.
Titles are immune from copyright protection.
Video content isn't. The video title claims the video to be a copyright infringing record of the opening ceremonies.
According to the screenshot, the video was titled "Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony." It's not about censorship, it's about copyright, and was probably automatically removed based just on the title.
How about accurately titling your video next time? I don't think trying to scam people looking for the opening ceremonies into viewing propaganda for your cause is the best way to get sympathy.
Americans are more obsessed about doing what they want, when they want and expecting everyone else to accept that. Whereas in Asia there's more of a tendency to want to maintain social order./quote> To me, that's pretty promising on the U.S. side. As long as we continue to question and push the rules imposed on us, we can't be completely dominated.
People thought the same at the beginning of DVD, or worse. DVD Will Fail
That was before DVD was even finalized. It didn't even list most of the benefits of DVDs, because they were unknown at the time, and misstated much of the negatives compared to VHS.
The only real benefit currently of Blu-Ray over DVDs is picture quality. So I don't think it's the same as evaluating DVD vs. VHS right now, but we'll see.
Interesting link, though.
It does make you wonder though if the Google lovefest is over. Now that they are a publicly traded company their only obligation is to their shareholders and as a publicly traded company they should probably change their motto to "We do less evil than everyone else".
If they do less evil than everyone else, it's still a step in the right direction. I'm not saying they do, but any company that honestly tries to do right by the environment, community, and world is a good thing.
What I don't understand is why anyone would care... Slashdot Karma is competing with Kool-Aid Fun Points for score that has the least impact on my life.
Hey! Kool-Aid points can buy some great stuff! Like this blow up beach ball or rockin' Kool-Aid keychain!
/me busts through a brick wall
Oh-yeah!