Where did I bring children into this? Under the current law, a federally funded public library is permitted to refuse to uncensor any or all blocked material, even over an adult patron's wishes.
Thanks for the US v. ALA information. As the article states, "the devil remains in the details," and a second challenge to the law as applied would be needed.
if an adult wanted unfettered access to the Internet in a public library, he could ask to have the filters removed, and the library could remove them.
The library "could remove them" or "would be obligated to remove them"?
case
People who rely on public libraries for Web access typically cannot afford to finance the sort of legal representation that such a Round 2, i.e. a test case of the law as applied, would require. Or would the ALA's counsel take up these cases on the patrons' behalf?
the decision to use this particular program is still made by someone
Are you implying that the system would correct itself by making this "someone" the target of nasty letters to the editor?
and there are lots of libraries
A person who cannot afford a computer and Internet access typically cannot afford an automobile and insurance to transport himself to another county's library system. Second, some public libraries restrict web access to cardholders, who incidentally must be residents of the county.
Don't forget that the federal government has mandated that public libraries implement web censorware, and some libraries refuse to turn off the filter even for adults.
It isn't like the product doesn't allow for the child to say,
"Dad, I would like to go to this web site about guns and gun safety, but the software blocked me. Could you help?" "Sure, boy, let's go look at the site together."
Many public libraries, required to install censorware by the U.S. government, have instituted a policy of never turning off the filter, even for adults carrying proof of age.
there is a correspondence, not a causality (HUGE difference).
True, correlation does not imply causation, but correlation does indicate a need for more study, possibly including experiments.
Whether the parents are selective in their fights isn't relevant - this is what they want.
Then why doesn't censorware block the web sites of PG-13(tm) and R(tm) rated movies under the "Typical" settings the way it blocks gun-safety sites under the "Typical" settings?
a commericial product which allows the user to selectively perform their own filtering.
Censorware typically carries access control designed to prevent the user from disabling the filter. Remember that the user is not always the owner, and the owner may in fact be a state government that mandates use of a particular censorware product in its public libraries in response to a federal mandate that it implement some censorware system.
First, they could expend extra money and time to purchase another product - which is resources that could otherwise be spent inproving other services. Second, they could turn off internet access altogether
False dichotomy. Third, the library could configure the software to censor the sexual indecency categories but leave the weapon control categories alone.
You have a large number of other players to choose from.
Typically, a local public library system is going to have only one censorware product installed and will not make terminals available where the public can access the Internet through a competing filter product.
You mean when there are more searches they are cheaper?
Yes. One set of crawlers means the search engine spends more bandwidth on providing results and less on spidering pages and computing rankings, though they still have to be sent to the server farm. One set of coders means the search engine can spread out research and development costs over the revenue of more advertisements.
They are expanding the Web?
Google is expanding the amount of useful knowledge in the Web.
VGA boxes are available for at least Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube, and Hbox, and is a PC running a Knoppix or Gentoo live-CD that much different from a console? My gaming console has a VGA output. So is my 15" LCD necessarily a TV?
Better definition: A TV is a video display with a TV tuner. A "TV tuner" is defined by your national broadcast regulator.
if the cluster speed is increasing by 9555 Gflops every second
Give the OP a break. Some claim that "Gflops" can be decomposed either as Giga FLoating-point OPerationS, or as Giga FLoating-point OPerations per Second. It seems to be what the OO types call an "overloaded" name.
Anyone know of any good (preferably Open-Source) burn-down-Verisign's-headquarters software?
Use a scriptable HTTP client, such as Wget or Curl, to bombard http://sitefinder.verisign.com:80/ with valid requests. I wrote a short C program (no, I haven't had time to sit down with the llama book to learn Perl, and I needed a test case for my safe string library anyway) that does just this.
I'm guessing that if DEV ps2 units are designed for use by DEVelopers, then the DEV ps2 units have some sort of modchip in them. Have you tried playing any foreign or homebrew discs on them?
"and that intrastate drug activity affects interstate commerce"
Conspiracy theorists will claim that the court meant "and that intrastate drug activity competes with the patent drug giants that fund Congress's re-election campaigns", no?
(c) No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade or corporate name; except that the prohibition of this subsection may be waived by the commission if:
The warrantor satisfies the Commission that the warranted product will function properly only if the article or service so identified is used in connection with the warranted product, and
The Commission finds that such a waiver is in the public interest.
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The Web protocol is HTTP. Doesn't apt-get support downloading packages from an HTTP server? Or is it FTP only?
those that think so prob don't have children.
Where did I bring children into this? Under the current law, a federally funded public library is permitted to refuse to uncensor any or all blocked material, even over an adult patron's wishes.
Thanks for the US v. ALA information. As the article states, "the devil remains in the details," and a second challenge to the law as applied would be needed.
if an adult wanted unfettered access to the Internet in a public library, he could ask to have the filters removed, and the library could remove them.
The library "could remove them" or "would be obligated to remove them"?
case
People who rely on public libraries for Web access typically cannot afford to finance the sort of legal representation that such a Round 2, i.e. a test case of the law as applied, would require. Or would the ALA's counsel take up these cases on the patrons' behalf?
the decision to use this particular program is still made by someone
Are you implying that the system would correct itself by making this "someone" the target of nasty letters to the editor?
and there are lots of libraries
A person who cannot afford a computer and Internet access typically cannot afford an automobile and insurance to transport himself to another county's library system. Second, some public libraries restrict web access to cardholders, who incidentally must be residents of the county.
Don't forget that the federal government has mandated that public libraries implement web censorware, and some libraries refuse to turn off the filter even for adults.
It isn't like the product doesn't allow for the child to say,
"Dad, I would like to go to this web site about guns and gun safety, but the software blocked me. Could you help?"
"Sure, boy, let's go look at the site together."
Many public libraries, required to install censorware by the U.S. government, have instituted a policy of never turning off the filter, even for adults carrying proof of age.
there is a correspondence, not a causality (HUGE difference).
True, correlation does not imply causation, but correlation does indicate a need for more study, possibly including experiments.
Whether the parents are selective in their fights isn't relevant - this is what they want.
Then why doesn't censorware block the web sites of PG-13(tm) and R(tm) rated movies under the "Typical" settings the way it blocks gun-safety sites under the "Typical" settings?
a commericial product which allows the user to selectively perform their own filtering.
Censorware typically carries access control designed to prevent the user from disabling the filter. Remember that the user is not always the owner, and the owner may in fact be a state government that mandates use of a particular censorware product in its public libraries in response to a federal mandate that it implement some censorware system.
First, they could expend extra money and time to purchase another product - which is resources that could otherwise be spent inproving other services. Second, they could turn off internet access altogether
False dichotomy. Third, the library could configure the software to censor the sexual indecency categories but leave the weapon control categories alone.
You have a large number of other players to choose from.
Typically, a local public library system is going to have only one censorware product installed and will not make terminals available where the public can access the Internet through a competing filter product.
This would be the perfect Digital Restrictions Management system for the record labels: pay per listen per person.
If the Lemmings were running Linux
Then they'd be Pingus
You mean when there are more searches they are cheaper?
Yes. One set of crawlers means the search engine spends more bandwidth on providing results and less on spidering pages and computing rankings, though they still have to be sent to the server farm. One set of coders means the search engine can spread out research and development costs over the revenue of more advertisements.
They are expanding the Web?
Google is expanding the amount of useful knowledge in the Web.
VGA boxes are available for at least Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube, and Hbox, and is a PC running a Knoppix or Gentoo live-CD that much different from a console? My gaming console has a VGA output. So is my 15" LCD necessarily a TV?
Better definition: A TV is a video display with a TV tuner. A "TV tuner" is defined by your national broadcast regulator.
if the cluster speed is increasing by 9555 Gflops every second
Give the OP a break. Some claim that "Gflops" can be decomposed either as Giga FLoating-point OPerationS, or as Giga FLoating-point OPerations per Second. It seems to be what the OO types call an "overloaded" name.
I did a little research with Google, and it appears that what makes the Sun PDL non-free is primarily the choice of law provision. Has anybody considered negotiating this with Sun? Or am I missing some point of the PDL, given that a version of Python with choice of law in its license had been in main?
The "contrib" section consists of free programs that depend on non-free programs. What non-free package does OOo's major functionality depend on?
I just call the company "Kraft".
Anyone know of any good (preferably Open-Source) burn-down-Verisign's-headquarters software?
Use a scriptable HTTP client, such as Wget or Curl, to bombard http://sitefinder.verisign.com:80/ with valid requests. I wrote a short C program (no, I haven't had time to sit down with the llama book to learn Perl, and I needed a test case for my safe string library anyway) that does just this.
The results were very Tetris-like. Anyone know what I did wrong?
You forgot to do drugs.
offer a 30 day warrenty and a support contract tied to the ink -- If you stop buying the ink, the support contract drys up.
This punishes people who don't print often, as their support might dry up before the ink or toner cartridge does.
You don't need PE to learn to dance. All you need is DDR (no, not the RAM). Score -1 against public schools' PE programs.
I'm guessing that if DEV ps2 units are designed for use by DEVelopers, then the DEV ps2 units have some sort of modchip in them. Have you tried playing any foreign or homebrew discs on them?
"and that intrastate drug activity affects interstate commerce"
Conspiracy theorists will claim that the court meant "and that intrastate drug activity competes with the patent drug giants that fund Congress's re-election campaigns", no?
Relevant text of the statute from an off-brand inkjet ink manufacturer, quoting 15 USC 2302:
Where again is it limited to motor vehicles?