The article mentions 3 spesific suits. I would ask you to consider what would happen if the statments made had instead been made on a major TV network. I submit that the results would have been approximatly the same.
Liable, Spreding false information with the spesific intent to devalue something, has been an exception to the First amendment from the begining. If your speach is intended to devalue something (or someones good name a.k.a. slander) you the speaker have a responsibility to speak the truth. In the first case had the defendent been able to show either that what he said was true, or that what he said was not intended to devalue the Co. he would have been found inocent.
The next case is pure spam. If this gentleman had e-mailed a few of his Co-workers he would have been ok, but the mass mailing of an entire company with anti-compant propaganda is illegal both for a former employee or anyone else.
The last one is a bit more sticky. printCafe must prove that the information on the websight is not true and intended to devalue the company. then they have a right to prosicute for Liable and therefore supina the identity of there harraser.
So what is the moral of this story. If you wnat to bad mouth your former company you may do so provided you follow the rules. If you want to lie about them do it to people who you have a personal connection with this is protected. If you want to tell everybody you must tell only the truth, and you must use only legal means of communication (ie you may violate Terms of Service, or state anti-spam laws). As long as you stick to those rules you ought to be legally ok. As always Check with a lawyer before attempting anything stupid.
Performance - It should be acceptably fast and stable on older hardware
Graphical Interface - most newbies and non-geeks prefer this to the command line
Functionality - It should do everything that normal users (whatever they are) expect of that type of app.
Ease of Installation - It should be reasonably simple to install, without needing kernel recompilation and without too many obscure dependencies.
Ease of Configuration - You shouldn't need to be a vi or scripting guru to knock it into shape
Ease of Use - It should be reasonably easy to learn the usage.
Every Developer should read this list aloud to themselves 20 to 100 times a day and live as if it were immutable law. If they did, the idea of linux gaining a noticable share of the consumer market would be much closer to reality.
JFMILLER
p.s. for those of you who will claim that Linux is only for those who can figure out how to use it, I say to you, "You are not numerous enought to be signifacant in any world but your own"
This all sounds good until you have to restore from backups. Our office was doing this when I came. I convensed the IT staff to come in and have a Mock emergence one Saturday. we deturmined that it would take nearly a week of constant tape exchanges to recover all the data. We now do Compleat backups of All file once a month, Backups of all directories which were deturmined to be Non-Static weekly and incrimental backups (Form the weekly backup file not each other) every day. Now 3 tape are all that is needed to restore the system.
Remember, it's not the backing up that's important it's the restore.
Then whay is it that so much stuff was left out of the movie. It looks like the writer director and producer never acutually read the whole book, or at least didn't apperciate what they were reading.
It is of course necessary to leave out a good deal of material whenever a book is turned into a movie. It is for this reason that a movie is never as good as the book. (excetption StarWars I) However in the relm of fantice novels, even childrens fanticy novels, it is the small subplots that make the book. I think that the movie version was gutted and heres a sub set of why.
Left out the sorting hat song
Norbert plot all but missing
quidich and house cup minimized
Hargred missing his accent
Most inclass elements left out
Snape charictor flat as a pancake
Fred and George who?
there are lots of others but these element I feel were a lot of what made this book great and there absents from the movie a huge disapointment
and This link should be used to report damaged packages. Use it even if you don't think you'll get anything from them to make sure someone knows what's going on.
Normally I just lurk but I feel the need to disagree with Mr. Grimes.
I like many who read Slashdot am a linux enthusiast. I appriciate having a place where my OS of choice is reported on with the zeal and timeliness that Microsoft gets in the main stream press. Slashdot is one of the few sights I read on a daily basis, and I for one appriciate hearing about the new kernels. along with the rest of the pertinante Tech news.
My local paper still lists The High School football team's results on the front page every Saturday during the fall, even though most of it's readers dont have kids on the HS football team. It builds a sence of community pride wich is greater than the information that is contained or it's relevance to peoples lives.
Kernel anouncements on slashdot are appriciated by me and I hope a great many other readers. And even if there are only a few of us Linux is one of the things that form Slashdot's Community, and therefore in the interest of Community pride I encourage CT to continue to post all the kernel updates.
I won't even get into the fact the Psyc is not a science but a field of study for people who failed basic stats. Science in this case is refering not to a skill teacher are to use to brainwash children but and understanding of how the world works that is to be imparted to these children.
Tell me do you plan to, in an elementry school class impart you great wisdom of Kid Psyc. I didn't think so. It would be nice though if you could explain the solar system. How many elemtry school teachers can give a coherent explaination of why the sky is blue, or why we have seasons.
The situation is actually worce then you think. Elementry teachers teach untrue facts that then must be unlearned later.
If you would be so kind as to post your Cell Phone number, I can assure you that you will recieve a high enough volume of calls that you will be able to properly test and evaluate all your ring tones. Why you might even have the added benifit of getting to have a long conversation about the very special properties that can be discovered by a carful evaluation of goats.
Hypothetically,
Couldn't a "virus" be writen in such a way as to disable the original and replace it with a server that sends thid "Fix" to anyone attemption to reinfect it? Sort of like a anti-Code Red worm?
Possible causes of malfunction:
Moisture: concreate is wet before it cures and the moisture may be traped in the system
Physical damage: Concreate as the article states is HEAVY
contamination of sensitave moving parts: Beofre curing the concreat myy enter hard drives, CDROMS and floppies.
Heat: Concreat is an insulator (though not a good one
Solutions:
moisture and Contamination: some well plased plastic and ample time to cure, perhaps in a water absourbing invrioment like those used to dry foods
Physical damage: Careful hand packing of the congreat so that the presure is equal on all sides of the cards
Heat: the large mas of the concreat should allow ample time to rin the computer befor local heat gradents become a problem.
Conclusion:
Chances of sucessful POST: Fair
Chances of sucessful boot: marginal
Chances of Sucessfully using: remote
Chances of upgrade: Extreamly unlikely
Just to comment on MS Office's ease of use, I was a stonch supporter of all things ms office mainly because I had learned all the gimics and how to fix certian "feachers" that come with MSO. This all changed when I got my new job and was forced (kicking and screaming) to use Corel WordPerfict 9 for all office documentation. I must confess that while I sitll use most of the MSO suite (Access Database Design seems to be what this job has morfed into) I now use WordPerfict instead of Word. It is easier to make the advanced options (Table of Contense, Cross reference, Page Numbers, Section numbers, etc...) work the way there suposed to esp. with the reviel codes function.
So what's my point:
I agree that most people use MSO for compatibility reasons more than for ease of use.
I think that (at least for the all important Word Procesor) people who clame MSWord is easy to use have never really tried anything else.
It is quite possible to make a better User interface than MicroSoft's, It will be an issue of compatibility that will make or break Open Office.
Perhaps the best thing that could happen would be for OfficeXP (even more) Restrictive and convoluted license to bomb and send the market looking for alternitives.
Yep,
Same here. I work for a government entity with built in "insentives" (Money for results). Our office, through no fault of it's own collects LOTS of these insentives. At the end of the FY (June 30)wee have to spend money. Problem is that we have to justify it. It took 12 Lawer/IT people 3 days to deside what to buy.
While I tend to agree with Hrunting that more original names would be nice, I urge caution to those who would go so far as to name photo editer GIMP. While those of you who are old hands a linux know what all the recursive MLAs stand for, I am a recovering MircoSofty and it is very dificult to find the program you want with names like pico, emacs, gimp, and grep. This is especially true for people who are used to WordPad, Word, PhotoShop, and find. Be Original just don't be obtuse.
JFMILLER
My office has also looked into this. Most of our users fall into the Family security zone. Our biggest problem is that the state run system requires that passwords be changes every 38 days. This is too often. it causes too many passsword to be used and leads otherwise responcible users to use simple password rotatations (pass1,pass2,pass3,etc...) that defeet the hole purpose.
I have looked for a system that would use cards, fingers, eyes, etc... to idintify users to the system and thus make our office more secure, but ther doesn't seem to be anything out there the fit our criteria. If any R&D folks are reading this and think they can make a system like this theres a wide oben market.
JFMILLER
System requirements:
Cost no more then $250 per user plus $5000 start up cost
Use a single form of ID for all logins. (i.e. no passwords)
Compatible with tetrminal emulation software and configurable to current system. (i.e. We can't change the state system)
Compatible with Lotis Notes, Win2k, Novell and Web.
My friend once got a job with one of these. He was at a summer internship with his Co. when sevral of the computers got brokeninto and files deleted by a disgrunteled network tech. the CIO ran one of these on the password file and my friend was the one of only 4 out of 250 who didn't get guessed. he was hired to replace the network tech.
At My school (Cal Poly SLO) you have to sign a reliece saying that any IP associated with your Senior Project or Masters Thesis belongs to the University. My friend designed a bridge for his senior project that was actually going to be built. That is until the city found out that they would have to pay Cal Poly for the plans. Now instead of having a great deal of grunt work done for little cost, The city is starting from scratch on an inferior design. the same thing used to happen in CSC until the department changed to having students hand in a paper describing there code and methods with the (suitably licenced) code "Provided for the readers convience."
GUI has gotten a lot of ink recently, but it is not the root of computer science. I learned just enough code (printf, cout) to tel me what my programs were doing then got right into Actuall Programming (TM) It sounds like you are trying to teach CS to uninterested highschool dropouts who like flashy graphics but will never [Want/Need] to understand what a linked list is, or how to use new(). Graphics and GUI should stay in the 3rd and 4th year classes.
Also. I found it most anoying to have the professor hand me code and say fill in the blanks. Esp. when the code was poorly writen. A few worksheats with FITBs for `for` and `if` are fine but you have to know how to put the pieces together. What you do is like having a Spanish class where you translate from Spanish to English only.
CS should start with a strong foundation in a strong low level language like c/c++ spend some quality time (freshman year) learning to program by learning the language. once you know the consepts it is a much easier step to scripting (perl, JAVA, VB) and asembly. If you start with JAVA it will be a real shock when the next Prof. has to break the news thatthe JAVA VM it just a Piece of software that hide all the real programming chalanges behind a blizzard of `.`s
JFMILLER
Those who can DO those who can't TEACH -- the problem with CS
Regardless of what you think of monitering technology it will do no good to thos students who would most benifit from more stringent supervision. In order for this to be effective the parrents must be willing to both use the system to get information on their children's (mis)behavior and then must be willing to do something about it.
Many of the problems schools face stem for a lack of parental involvment in there childs education (and life in general). I applaud this system for making it easyer for involved parents to get this information easier but it will not slove any problems and in my opinion is not worth the cost. Imagine the senrio where parrent X calls up and says "My Son/Daughter wasn't in class this morning. It's your fault. Go find him/her" You may think this is silly but a teacher in my old High School was sued when a student in his class was hit by a truck while ditching class. (The lost but...)
One of the root problems which must be solved if public educatiuon is to improve is parential involvment in there childs education. To the extent that this system will facilitate that i aplaud it, but any parrent who can't figure out that there child is ammassing a stockpile of wepons with the intent to shoot up the school won't even be looking at ther childs ice cream addiction.
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The article mentions 3 spesific suits. I would ask you to consider what would happen if the statments made had instead been made on a major TV network. I submit that the results would have been approximatly the same.
Liable, Spreding false information with the spesific intent to devalue something, has been an exception to the First amendment from the begining. If your speach is intended to devalue something (or someones good name a.k.a. slander) you the speaker have a responsibility to speak the truth. In the first case had the defendent been able to show either that what he said was true, or that what he said was not intended to devalue the Co. he would have been found inocent.
The next case is pure spam. If this gentleman had e-mailed a few of his Co-workers he would have been ok, but the mass mailing of an entire company with anti-compant propaganda is illegal both for a former employee or anyone else.
The last one is a bit more sticky. printCafe must prove that the information on the websight is not true and intended to devalue the company. then they have a right to prosicute for Liable and therefore supina the identity of there harraser.
So what is the moral of this story. If you wnat to bad mouth your former company you may do so provided you follow the rules. If you want to lie about them do it to people who you have a personal connection with this is protected. If you want to tell everybody you must tell only the truth, and you must use only legal means of communication (ie you may violate Terms of Service, or state anti-spam laws). As long as you stick to those rules you ought to be legally ok. As always Check with a lawyer before attempting anything stupid.
JFMILLER
Every Developer should read this list aloud to themselves 20 to 100 times a day and live as if it were immutable law. If they did, the idea of linux gaining a noticable share of the consumer market would be much closer to reality.
JFMILLER
p.s. for those of you who will claim that Linux is only for those who can figure out how to use it, I say to you, "You are not numerous enought to be signifacant in any world but your own"
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
This all sounds good until you have to restore from backups. Our office was doing this when I came. I convensed the IT staff to come in and have a Mock emergence one Saturday. we deturmined that it would take nearly a week of constant tape exchanges to recover all the data. We now do Compleat backups of All file once a month, Backups of all directories which were deturmined to be Non-Static weekly and incrimental backups (Form the weekly backup file not each other) every day. Now 3 tape are all that is needed to restore the system.
Remember, it's not the backing up that's important it's the restore.
JFMILLER
Then whay is it that so much stuff was left out of the movie. It looks like the writer director and producer never acutually read the whole book, or at least didn't apperciate what they were reading.
- Left out the sorting hat song
- Norbert plot all but missing
- quidich and house cup minimized
- Hargred missing his accent
- Most inclass elements left out
- Snape charictor flat as a pancake
- Fred and George who?
there are lots of others but these element I feel were a lot of what made this book great and there absents from the movie a huge disapointmentJFMILLER
and This link should be used to report damaged packages. Use it even if you don't think you'll get anything from them to make sure someone knows what's going on.
JFMILLER
Normally I just lurk but I feel the need to disagree with Mr. Grimes.
I like many who read Slashdot am a linux enthusiast. I appriciate having a place where my OS of choice is reported on with the zeal and timeliness that Microsoft gets in the main stream press. Slashdot is one of the few sights I read on a daily basis, and I for one appriciate hearing about the new kernels. along with the rest of the pertinante Tech news.
My local paper still lists The High School football team's results on the front page every Saturday during the fall, even though most of it's readers dont have kids on the HS football team. It builds a sence of community pride wich is greater than the information that is contained or it's relevance to peoples lives.
Kernel anouncements on slashdot are appriciated by me and I hope a great many other readers. And even if there are only a few of us Linux is one of the things that form Slashdot's Community, and therefore in the interest of Community pride I encourage CT to continue to post all the kernel updates.
JFMILLER
To settle the debate,
6.022e26 adoms of C12 is 1.200e1 grams
I won't even get into the fact the Psyc is not a science but a field of study for people who failed basic stats. Science in this case is refering not to a skill teacher are to use to brainwash children but and understanding of how the world works that is to be imparted to these children.
Tell me do you plan to, in an elementry school class impart you great wisdom of Kid Psyc. I didn't think so. It would be nice though if you could explain the solar system. How many elemtry school teachers can give a coherent explaination of why the sky is blue, or why we have seasons.
The situation is actually worce then you think. Elementry teachers teach untrue facts that then must be unlearned later.
If you would be so kind as to post your Cell Phone number, I can assure you that you will recieve a high enough volume of calls that you will be able to properly test and evaluate all your ring tones. Why you might even have the added benifit of getting to have a long conversation about the very special properties that can be discovered by a carful evaluation of goats.
Hypothetically, Couldn't a "virus" be writen in such a way as to disable the original and replace it with a server that sends thid "Fix" to anyone attemption to reinfect it? Sort of like a anti-Code Red worm?
Analysis:
Possible causes of malfunction:
Moisture: concreate is wet before it cures and the moisture may be traped in the system
Physical damage: Concreate as the article states is HEAVY
contamination of sensitave moving parts: Beofre curing the concreat myy enter hard drives, CDROMS and floppies.
Heat: Concreat is an insulator (though not a good one
Solutions:
moisture and Contamination: some well plased plastic and ample time to cure, perhaps in a water absourbing invrioment like those used to dry foods
Physical damage: Careful hand packing of the congreat so that the presure is equal on all sides of the cards
Heat: the large mas of the concreat should allow ample time to rin the computer befor local heat gradents become a problem.
Conclusion:
Chances of sucessful POST: Fair
Chances of sucessful boot: marginal
Chances of Sucessfully using: remote
Chances of upgrade: Extreamly unlikely
So what's my point:
- I agree that most people use MSO for compatibility reasons more than for ease of use.
- I think that (at least for the all important Word Procesor) people who clame MSWord is easy to use have never really tried anything else.
- It is quite possible to make a better User interface than MicroSoft's, It will be an issue of compatibility that will make or break Open Office.
Perhaps the best thing that could happen would be for OfficeXP (even more) Restrictive and convoluted license to bomb and send the market looking for alternitives.JfMILLER
Did you read the the tasks from the last three years? All of them had a speed element to them.
JFMILLER
Yep, Same here. I work for a government entity with built in "insentives" (Money for results). Our office, through no fault of it's own collects LOTS of these insentives. At the end of the FY (June 30)wee have to spend money. Problem is that we have to justify it. It took 12 Lawer/IT people 3 days to deside what to buy.
While I tend to agree with Hrunting that more original names would be nice, I urge caution to those who would go so far as to name photo editer GIMP. While those of you who are old hands a linux know what all the recursive MLAs stand for, I am a recovering MircoSofty and it is very dificult to find the program you want with names like pico, emacs, gimp, and grep. This is especially true for people who are used to WordPad, Word, PhotoShop, and find. Be Original just don't be obtuse.
JFMILLER
I have looked for a system that would use cards, fingers, eyes, etc... to idintify users to the system and thus make our office more secure, but ther doesn't seem to be anything out there the fit our criteria. If any R&D folks are reading this and think they can make a system like this theres a wide oben market.
JFMILLER
If you can do this You can make a lot of money.JFMILLER
At My school (Cal Poly SLO) you have to sign a reliece saying that any IP associated with your Senior Project or Masters Thesis belongs to the University. My friend designed a bridge for his senior project that was actually going to be built. That is until the city found out that they would have to pay Cal Poly for the plans. Now instead of having a great deal of grunt work done for little cost, The city is starting from scratch on an inferior design. the same thing used to happen in CSC until the department changed to having students hand in a paper describing there code and methods with the (suitably licenced) code "Provided for the readers convience."
JFMILLER
GUI has gotten a lot of ink recently, but it is not the root of computer science. I learned just enough code (printf, cout) to tel me what my programs were doing then got right into Actuall Programming (TM) It sounds like you are trying to teach CS to uninterested highschool dropouts who like flashy graphics but will never [Want/Need] to understand what a linked list is, or how to use new(). Graphics and GUI should stay in the 3rd and 4th year classes.
Also. I found it most anoying to have the professor hand me code and say fill in the blanks. Esp. when the code was poorly writen. A few worksheats with FITBs for `for` and `if` are fine but you have to know how to put the pieces together. What you do is like having a Spanish class where you translate from Spanish to English only. CS should start with a strong foundation in a strong low level language like c/c++ spend some quality time (freshman year) learning to program by learning the language. once you know the consepts it is a much easier step to scripting (perl, JAVA, VB) and asembly. If you start with JAVA it will be a real shock when the next Prof. has to break the news thatthe JAVA VM it just a Piece of software that hide all the real programming chalanges behind a blizzard of `.`s JFMILLER Those who can DO those who can't TEACH -- the problem with CS
the Congress is currently concidering simular legislation in the form of H.R. 1017 and S.630
Actually (and IANAL - TG) I think you are now guilty of a crime. You have solicited someone to preform an illigal action.
the chroot command was designed to do just this read the howto
Regardless of what you think of monitering technology it will do no good to thos students who would most benifit from more stringent supervision. In order for this to be effective the parrents must be willing to both use the system to get information on their children's (mis)behavior and then must be willing to do something about it.
Many of the problems schools face stem for a lack of parental involvment in there childs education (and life in general). I applaud this system for making it easyer for involved parents to get this information easier but it will not slove any problems and in my opinion is not worth the cost. Imagine the senrio where parrent X calls up and says "My Son/Daughter wasn't in class this morning. It's your fault. Go find him/her" You may think this is silly but a teacher in my old High School was sued when a student in his class was hit by a truck while ditching class. (The lost but...)
One of the root problems which must be solved if public educatiuon is to improve is parential involvment in there childs education. To the extent that this system will facilitate that i aplaud it, but any parrent who can't figure out that there child is ammassing a stockpile of wepons with the intent to shoot up the school won't even be looking at ther childs ice cream addiction.
DDJ is dead (fopr the moment). could someone who got in early put up a mirror. Thanks JFMiller