So until we can have the computers monitor things, we should just give up trying to enforce rules? Did you miss the part where the student has recourse to a higher body if they felt they had been unfairly singled out?
You've never had to deal with rule breakers, have you? It's not a matter of "playing God" in most cases, it's a matter of making sure that the rules are adhered to. If all you do is sit back and repeat the rules, and are only able to do anything about the most flagrant rulebreakers, all you end up doing is pushing the real troublesome ones underground. Policies should not only say "you agree to be monitored" but also what you can do if you think you've been mistreated, and provide real relief if you are.
As a former university sysadmin, there were times when we would find out someone was breaking the rules, but to enforce them we had to have real evidence. This involved surveillance, usually electronic/email. We then made our case to the dean of students, and if they agreed that the rules were broken, punishment was handed out. The student always had the ability to appeal to higher authorities if they thought they'd been mistreated or the punishment was too harsh. Enough checks and balances that it was never abused; we didn't snoop on students who had not done anything to arouse suspicion, and I can't recall any cases where we went to any great depths investigating anyone who wasn't found to be guilty of enough of an infraction to justify our time.
That said, I think continuous keystroke logging is excessive and likely more prone to abuse, but still, there is NOT any absolute guarantee of privacy, even if I'm using my own equipment. That's why the FBI can go to a judge and get permission to wiretap a suspect (let's leave aside the fact that I believe that PATRIOT has gutted a lot of the appropriate checks and balances in this system). The other side of that is that you can't just wiretap someone because you want to, and getting back OT, that's what happened here. Regardless of how noble the cause, the means was illegal.
If parents and mentors were even close to taking responsibility for their children they'd pick up on these issues long before a keylogger alerts them to it.
Spoken like a true non-parent.
Let's just say, you can take all kinds of responsibility for your kids and still miss things they hide from you. I don't advocate keystroke loggers, but your statement is the absolute other end of the spectrum which is just as ludicrous. There is a middle ground.
That sure sounds like my experience with Office/Word. Maybe it's when things are different, they're harder to change your mindset around, rather than worse?
I have this problem with Photoshop->GIMP as well. I am hard-coded for PS's methods of doing things, and it is hard as hell for me to do anything with GIMP because of it. But that doesn't mean GIMP isn't a good product and good enough for what the majority of people want in an image manipulation program. And it's scriptability, among other things, gives it some interest for professionals too.
I would expect that the other communities affected here could do basically the same thing: instead of having a direct reporting structure to the city, engage the same people and have them run their own company with some kind of contract with the city...
Perhaps you have some difficulty parsing basic english. "$30" is an important modifier in that sentence. I didn't say no one was talking about underwear, just that no one was talking about hideously overpriced joe boxer crap.
If I can get the same pack of 5 at Target for $12, guess where I'm going to shop? In fact, despite being what I'd consider reasonably well off, I don't buy $30 underwear, and it's pretty ludicrous to assume that's what the parent poster was talking about.
I believe what they're saying is that the IMPLEMENTATION AS A WHOLE is copyrightable, but the ALGORITHM (and all those things that might be reasonably considered part of the algorithm, e.g. program logic--if I could copyright "if()then;" I'd be a wealthy man, but that is specifically disallowed) is not.
Of course, in the face of business process copyrights, that doesn't make much more sense.
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Gibson supreme? Based on a criticism of Sterling as a techno wannabe? Did you actually read Neuromancer?
There are technical clinkers scattered all through Gibson's work. Embarassing ones in the early stuff especially (I recall something about a modem being referred to in completely bizarre context).
Now, Gibson is still a fantastic prose stylist, and has some cool ideas too, but he definitely fits, or at least at one time fit, the profile of the techno wannabe.
As far as it goes, I wasn't much impressed with Difference Engine or with Islands in the Net (the opening line struck me as a really bad parody/homage to Neuromancer's opening line, and after a few more pages of turgid prose I threw it across the room). But Schizmatrix is very cool, and a lot of Bruce's short fiction is also excellent. Don't base your opinion of him on just a couple bad data points.
Kinda makes you wonder what will happen when your monitor cracks in a house fire. Is it going to make everyone who has one of these look like an arsonist? Will clever arsonists use this to try to avoid detection?
So who do you want working on your IBM AIX box? An IBM engineer, or Joe VAR service provider? Why would you want a shadetree mechanic working on your car then?
Right, but the point is, there are plenty of things that can replace Myth (if you run Windows for example, or any of 2 or 3 other Linux based app suites), but if you don't have a hardware cap card and instead are using something like my AverMedia TV Stereo, it's still a major PITA even with Myth to have something burnable to VCD or DVD.
I've seen linux being advocated for and used extensively within the Air Force as much as 5 years ago. So you're absolutely right, and the parent is absolutely ludicrous.
I think what you say about "what is in the package" is exactly right. I can expect labels about contents to be accurate because they are easily verifiable. Labels about creation of products I expect not to be accurate, especially if they're created overseas. I am not advocating for the labels you cite, and I think your idea is a good one, I just don't expect the corporate environment that has produced Enron, offshoring, and caribbean tax havens to be in any way capable of applying them accurately without a Big Government Hammer which I see no political will to create. And honestly, that Hammer seems as likely to be abused as anything else anyway, so I'm not certain I advocate it, I just can't see any other independant party with enough power to force the corporations to comply and verify that compliance.
As for legal action, see "tort reform":-). I would hardly expect anything to pass that had real teeth.
Of course Nike has argued their right to lie to american consumers at least once in the courts. What makes you think they'd adhere to truth-in-labelling of this sort? Even with all the evidence out there, they deny using sweatshop labor, denying workers basic things like bathroom breaks, etc. If such labelling would hurt their sales, it's cheaper to lie about it and maybe pay a fine here or there than it is to actually do the right thing.
This is my major beef with current Libertarian thought. The world is too complex for anyone to have time to put food on their table, raise their children, pay for the house/rental and car AND have time to be "enlightened" about all the crap that some of these companies do, when the companies have people whose jobs it is to hide that crap every way they can. If the companies truly believed what you just said, they'd have no shame about the way they treat overseas workers, but that's not the case. Just watch how they squirm and fight when sweatshop conditions are pointed out.
And in what way is that a lie? He didn't ask "is it physically possible for me to play with the palm?" He asked if you would let him, and guess what? The answer was no.
Of course, keep in mind too, that in a sample of two people I know of (myself and a friend) Choline made the subjects EXTREMELY depressed. Sorry, but I don't plan to experiment on my children like that.
MythTV makes it easy to burn DVD's of your recorded shows or save the video for archival purposes.
Not unless this is in the very latest builds. nuvexport isn't difficult, but it's not an official part of Myth either, as of the release I have (to be fair, I haven't updated to r13 or beyond).
From what I can tell, all the people who've gotten mythtv to work successfully have used a hauppage pvr-250 or pvr-350. Other brands work, but need considerable tinkering.
Not even remotely true. I have an AverMedia TV Stereo, about the most generic software-driven cap card you can find, and Knoppmyth was pretty much a breeze to install. Only glitch was a formatting issue with XMLTV, which really wasn't Myth's fault. The latest KnoppMyth is supposed to have resolved this, or what I did was read the KnoppMyth forums and apply a small change to the XMLTV script. Woo hoo. Done.
So the real question is why they're leaving out any data for Illinois. I know we had a bumper crop of these bad boys just a couple years ago....And if you look at the table it lists IL even though the map shows nada. Weird....
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So what are you going to do DO to fix it? Posting to slashdot doesn't count.
So until we can have the computers monitor things, we should just give up trying to enforce rules? Did you miss the part where the student has recourse to a higher body if they felt they had been unfairly singled out?
As a former university sysadmin, there were times when we would find out someone was breaking the rules, but to enforce them we had to have real evidence. This involved surveillance, usually electronic/email. We then made our case to the dean of students, and if they agreed that the rules were broken, punishment was handed out. The student always had the ability to appeal to higher authorities if they thought they'd been mistreated or the punishment was too harsh. Enough checks and balances that it was never abused; we didn't snoop on students who had not done anything to arouse suspicion, and I can't recall any cases where we went to any great depths investigating anyone who wasn't found to be guilty of enough of an infraction to justify our time.
That said, I think continuous keystroke logging is excessive and likely more prone to abuse, but still, there is NOT any absolute guarantee of privacy, even if I'm using my own equipment. That's why the FBI can go to a judge and get permission to wiretap a suspect (let's leave aside the fact that I believe that PATRIOT has gutted a lot of the appropriate checks and balances in this system). The other side of that is that you can't just wiretap someone because you want to, and getting back OT, that's what happened here. Regardless of how noble the cause, the means was illegal.
Spoken like a true non-parent.
Let's just say, you can take all kinds of responsibility for your kids and still miss things they hide from you. I don't advocate keystroke loggers, but your statement is the absolute other end of the spectrum which is just as ludicrous. There is a middle ground.
Of course, not everyone is in agreement about that fact, including some notable SC justices....
I have this problem with Photoshop->GIMP as well. I am hard-coded for PS's methods of doing things, and it is hard as hell for me to do anything with GIMP because of it. But that doesn't mean GIMP isn't a good product and good enough for what the majority of people want in an image manipulation program. And it's scriptability, among other things, gives it some interest for professionals too.
I would expect that the other communities affected here could do basically the same thing: instead of having a direct reporting structure to the city, engage the same people and have them run their own company with some kind of contract with the city...
Perhaps you have some difficulty parsing basic english. "$30" is an important modifier in that sentence. I didn't say no one was talking about underwear, just that no one was talking about hideously overpriced joe boxer crap.
If I can get the same pack of 5 at Target for $12, guess where I'm going to shop? In fact, despite being what I'd consider reasonably well off, I don't buy $30 underwear, and it's pretty ludicrous to assume that's what the parent poster was talking about.
Aha, confusion man strikes again!
Of course, in the face of business process copyrights, that doesn't make much more sense.
There are technical clinkers scattered all through Gibson's work. Embarassing ones in the early stuff especially (I recall something about a modem being referred to in completely bizarre context).
Now, Gibson is still a fantastic prose stylist, and has some cool ideas too, but he definitely fits, or at least at one time fit, the profile of the techno wannabe.
As far as it goes, I wasn't much impressed with Difference Engine or with Islands in the Net (the opening line struck me as a really bad parody/homage to Neuromancer's opening line, and after a few more pages of turgid prose I threw it across the room). But Schizmatrix is very cool, and a lot of Bruce's short fiction is also excellent. Don't base your opinion of him on just a couple bad data points.
Kinda makes you wonder what will happen when your monitor cracks in a house fire. Is it going to make everyone who has one of these look like an arsonist? Will clever arsonists use this to try to avoid detection?
So what the hell are you doing here?
So who do you want working on your IBM AIX box? An IBM engineer, or Joe VAR service provider? Why would you want a shadetree mechanic working on your car then?
Right, but the point is, there are plenty of things that can replace Myth (if you run Windows for example, or any of 2 or 3 other Linux based app suites), but if you don't have a hardware cap card and instead are using something like my AverMedia TV Stereo, it's still a major PITA even with Myth to have something burnable to VCD or DVD.
I've seen linux being advocated for and used extensively within the Air Force as much as 5 years ago. So you're absolutely right, and the parent is absolutely ludicrous.
So then it's not Myth that makes it easy, but rather the hardware PVR cards.
As for legal action, see "tort reform" :-). I would hardly expect anything to pass that had real teeth.
This is my major beef with current Libertarian thought. The world is too complex for anyone to have time to put food on their table, raise their children, pay for the house/rental and car AND have time to be "enlightened" about all the crap that some of these companies do, when the companies have people whose jobs it is to hide that crap every way they can. If the companies truly believed what you just said, they'd have no shame about the way they treat overseas workers, but that's not the case. Just watch how they squirm and fight when sweatshop conditions are pointed out.
And in what way is that a lie? He didn't ask "is it physically possible for me to play with the palm?" He asked if you would let him, and guess what? The answer was no.
Of course, keep in mind too, that in a sample of two people I know of (myself and a friend) Choline made the subjects EXTREMELY depressed. Sorry, but I don't plan to experiment on my children like that.
Not unless this is in the very latest builds. nuvexport isn't difficult, but it's not an official part of Myth either, as of the release I have (to be fair, I haven't updated to r13 or beyond).
Not even remotely true. I have an AverMedia TV Stereo, about the most generic software-driven cap card you can find, and Knoppmyth was pretty much a breeze to install. Only glitch was a formatting issue with XMLTV, which really wasn't Myth's fault. The latest KnoppMyth is supposed to have resolved this, or what I did was read the KnoppMyth forums and apply a small change to the XMLTV script. Woo hoo. Done.
So the real question is why they're leaving out any data for Illinois. I know we had a bumper crop of these bad boys just a couple years ago....And if you look at the table it lists IL even though the map shows nada. Weird....