Really, it should not be a question of revenge, but one of punishment. Crimes are, mostly, crimes for a reason. Criminals should be punished in accordance with their crime. The idea of cruel or unusual punishment should ALWAYS be taken in context with the crime. Jails should not have free luxuries like TV. Prisoners should HAVE to work for their keep. Does anyone have any proof that anyone has ever been rehabilitated? Really?
Enough buttons pushed yet?:)
Seriously though, most people who say they are sorry are only sorry they've been caught. As soon as you look away they will go one doing whatever they want. For many people no amount of punishment will change them, for many punishment makes them (try to be) more careful. Some people turn to crime because they don't think there is any other way, these are the ones that can be helped, given another way. The rest are just psychopaths, too bad we have no place to exile them to.
Oh yeah I almost forgot... This one paragraph tells me this person should be kept as far away from children as possible...
Students should not be of the opinion that it is acceptable to abuse the privileges that are afforded them by the taxpayers. If they are allowed to experiment and do things on the computers that the teachers have not specifically given them permission to do, we would never get any computer education accomplished.
Firstly education is a right, not a privilege, last time I checked. Secondly if children are allowed to experiment they actually might learn something, instead of succumbing to the indoctrination this lady seems to prefers, she obviously can't allow that. feh.
Because Sweeney wrote her e-mail using her taxpayer-funded district e-mail account, it is a public document, and therefore, I quote it in full so we can all share insight into the mind of one of the educators who busted Carl for writing "Hey!"
She wrote: "Mr. Lieber, I want to communicate to you my concerns about some of the 'reporting' done by [the] Star-Telegram and my concern about an article I have heard you might be writing. Too often, people who do not know the real world of public education feel that they are the 'experts' who have all the solutions and that their opinions are as valuable as those who live in this world daily.
"If you comment upon events that are reported to you by a parent and do not fully investigate those reports before you publish your article, then you are one of those people. I have not heard that you have attempted to contact those people who really know the situation.
"I am speaking about one incident in the Birdville School District in which a student was expelled for tampering with the district's computers. Having been a computer teacher in the real world of public education for many years, let me say that suspension of students who are guilty of such tampering sends a message to all students that is beneficial and necessary.
"Students should not be of the opinion that it is acceptable to abuse the privileges that are afforded them by the taxpayers. If they are allowed to experiment and do things on the computers that the teachers have not specifically given them permission to do, we would never get any computer education accomplished.
"Hacking into a system should be highest on the list of tampering violations. I believe the other students are now aware that the district takes this seriously and will not tolerate such misuse of our equipment.
"I invite you, parents, our state representatives, and anyone else that thinks they know how a teacher or a district should react to ANY situation to come live with us for a while -- be a substitute teacher for a few weeks and learn the real world of public education.
"Beverly Sweeney."
In this one short letter She proves to me that she is clueless about computers, worthless as a teacher and a danger to children's development. I must be thankful I have no kids in THAT school system, for I would feel compelled to sue the school, and they are probably short on funds as it is.
She openly admits that she has no tolerance for kids thinking for themselves, experimenting, or investigating things for themselves. If she is still an actual teacher, she should be investigated for child abuse, and lose her job at the very least. No person so narrow minded and mean spirited should be allowed near children. The kids are there to learn, not browbeaten into submission. She want to create an environment of terror for the children, so they are afraid to question authority.
I don't have any experience filing patents, and only a little in the field of graphics. It doesn't look like this patent applies to jpeg to me either. Of course the idots trying to cash in on this probably can't even read.
Now look - two occurences of 'v,c'. Patterns have occured in truly random data.
Ask any cryptanylist and they'll tell you that 'random' typing at a key board isn't really random. This being why 'random' typing isn't a good source for chaos in building keys for pgp etc.
People tend to pattern their typing movements and timing between strokes.
The really funny thing is they claim it's beacuse the browsers don't comply with the standards. If I go to and type in http://www.msn.com it says that the page is not compilant with the standard (XHTML 1.0) stated in it's header!
It's not a question of how much they spent. It's a question of they are allowing people to make use of their property, they don't have the right to know who on the plane, they have the RESPONSIBILITY to find out who is getting on the plane, they are responsible to me, the passenger, and the investors who paid for the plane. It's their plane, not public property.
We should just skip right to iris scanning, you have to check in at the airline desk anyway, it'd take a couple of seconds to have every person lean over and stare into a scanning device. Give them a statement to read or something, while they get scanned. Positive identification is required for good security. I sure as heck wouldn't allow access to my computer system based on facial recognition.
Good thing I haven't carried a checkbook for years. I almost think It'd be a good idea to do this for credit cards. You could have an electronic reader like the DMV has.
Many to one... I wonder If a many to many lawsuit would work?
Let's all bring suit against all the IP holders who remain unpatched after all this time.
Is it MS who is at fault? Yes, at first anyway.
Is it MS's fault if people don't patch their software? No
Since we can't hunt down the perps and kill them someone needs to write a flock of birds to eat all these worms. I figure anyone who's still keeping these worms alive is giving the world implicit permission to play in those exploits. So why not write up a listener that attacks the machine the worm comes from, using the same exploit to overwrite the worm, and create another BIRD.
(hmmm Binary Invasive Removal and Destruction?)
Maybe we need a way to download the entire list of hits that the search engine returns, then run a client side search on THAT information.
(grep grep perl perl grep, awk?)
The web is a publicly accessable resource, if you don't restrict acces to your pages then I can bookmark a page deeply imbeded in your site, and go directly there anytime I want. I will dispute your "right" to tell me I can't give my list of bookmarks to anyone I want.
It is the web designer's responsibility to restrict access, if such is needed. If I can go directly to a page and skip your ads (and you don't want that) then you need to redesign your page. Besides I can filter out all the ads so you don't get any hits anyway. (I don't though)
I don't know where you got your definitions, but you need to look up hacking and IP, I do not think they mean what you think.:)
Last time I checked theft ment take something from someone, I can't take something from you if you don't have it.
Actually many of these sites are stealing from the companies that pay them for ads. At least I would consider it stealing if I paid money for an ad that merely sat on a "gateway" page, or any page that dosn't have content that will hold the browser's attention.
It's really a problem of search engine designers having to "outsmart" the wily, lying, deceptive marketing types who (try to) figure out how search engines list things and then do everything to get their sites to the top of the list. Despite the fact that their page may have nothing to do with what was searched for. A pay list just makes it easier to figure out, payment.
This should be a computer science problem NOT a business problem.
It's about time something came up to interest corporate america in the space program. I had hoped that by this time the space program would be doing a little better, I watched the first man land on the moon when I was a little boy, and thought how much there was to look forward to in my future. Oh, well.
As long as the (world) governments actually keep control of what's going on and don't start getting all secretive about this stuff everyone can share the benefits. Especially if the corporate interests are allowed to benefit without being allow to take over.:)
The same continuation of tired old arguments... How exactly is the eye a jump? There are many and diverse examples of light sensing organs IN CRITTERS ALIVE TODAY. Enough for me, at least, to see the outline of a progression.
Science is really based on the idea of explaining the world around us without resorting to the supernatural.
Evolution has been observed, speciation has not. (arguable) But anything bigger than a microbe is going to take longer to change form than people have been doing science. We HAVE seen things like an entire species (moth) change it's predominant color due to an environmental change (smog).
And does ANYONE else know that just before his death, Darwin said he had been very wrong about evolution?
This is a popular misconception, and was refuted within weeks of his death. An american woman claimed to have been at his side just before his death, Darwin's family said the person wasn't allowed anywhere near him, and was, in fact, in the United states when Darwin died (in England)
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Really, it should not be a question of revenge, but one of punishment. Crimes are, mostly, crimes for a reason. Criminals should be punished in accordance with their crime. The idea of cruel or unusual punishment should ALWAYS be taken in context with the crime.
:)
Jails should not have free luxuries like TV.
Prisoners should HAVE to work for their keep.
Does anyone have any proof that anyone has ever been rehabilitated? Really?
Enough buttons pushed yet?
Seriously though, most people who say they are sorry are only sorry they've been caught. As soon as you look away they will go one doing whatever they want. For many people no amount of punishment will change them, for many punishment makes them (try to be) more careful. Some people turn to crime because they don't think there is any other way, these are the ones that can be helped, given another way. The rest are just psychopaths, too bad we have no place to exile them to.
Oh yeah I almost forgot...
This one paragraph tells me this person should be kept as far away from children as possible...
Students should not be of the opinion that it is acceptable to abuse the privileges that are afforded them by the taxpayers. If they are allowed to experiment and do things on the computers that the teachers have not specifically given them permission to do, we would never get any computer education accomplished.
Firstly education is a right, not a privilege, last time I checked.
Secondly if children are allowed to experiment they actually might learn something, instead of succumbing to the indoctrination this lady seems to prefers, she obviously can't allow that.
feh.
The real injustice is that, that so called educator is still employed.
From the article:
In this one short letter She proves to me that she is clueless about computers, worthless as a teacher and a danger to children's development. I must be thankful I have no kids in THAT school system, for I would feel compelled to sue the school, and they are probably short on funds as it is.
She openly admits that she has no tolerance for kids thinking for themselves, experimenting, or investigating things for themselves.
If she is still an actual teacher, she should be investigated for child abuse, and lose her job at the very least. No person so narrow minded and mean spirited should be allowed near children. The kids are there to learn, not browbeaten into submission. She want to create an environment of terror for the children, so they are afraid to question authority.
Hmmm, maybe she WAS hired by dubya.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this was a good idea.
Death penalty for spammers!
(or what ever your state/country uses for murderers)
error: respondent failed to actually read the post responded to.
The image distorted number is on a WEB PAGE the URL is sent in the email.
I don't have any experience filing patents, and only a little in the field of graphics.
= PT O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =31&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=pall&s1='4,698,672'&OS=%224 ,698,672%22&RS=%224,698,672%22
It doesn't look like this patent applies to jpeg to me either.
Of course the idots trying to cash in on this probably can't even read.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1
I think it's a Beluga Whale.
That's a whale that lives in the arctic.
note the lack of dorsal fin.
obviously ALL mp3 players shipped to Canada need to have zero memory/hard drive in them. Just buy that 'later' as an 'accessory'.
... ZERO!
:D
Gosh at $21/gig that'd be
What? you can't tax my new laptop harddrive.
Yes it fits in an mp3 player, but it's NOT an mp3 player, and it's for a laptop.
Now look - two occurences of 'v,c'. Patterns have occured in truly random data.
Ask any cryptanylist and they'll tell you that 'random' typing at a key board isn't really random. This being why 'random' typing isn't a good source for chaos in building keys for pgp etc.
People tend to pattern their typing movements and timing between strokes.
Nothing is impossible to people who don't do the work. Marketing will promise you the moon then blame development when all you get is grilled cheese.
Doh! I guess I'll bookmark it and come back later.
This silly thing chopped out the address to go to!
try:
http://validator.w3.org/
The really funny thing is they claim it's beacuse the browsers don't comply with the standards. If I go to and type in http://www.msn.com it says that the page is not compilant with the standard (XHTML 1.0) stated in it's header!
knobs.
It's not a question of how much they spent. It's a question of they are allowing people to make use of their property, they don't have the right to know who on the plane, they have the RESPONSIBILITY to find out who is getting on the plane, they are responsible to me, the passenger, and the investors who paid for the plane. It's their plane, not public property.
We should just skip right to iris scanning, you have to check in at the airline desk anyway, it'd take a couple of seconds to have every person lean over and stare into a scanning device. Give them a statement to read or something, while they get scanned. Positive identification is required for good security. I sure as heck wouldn't allow access to my computer system based on facial recognition.
Good thing I haven't carried a checkbook for years. I almost think It'd be a good idea to do this for credit cards. You could have an electronic reader like the DMV has.
Many to one... I wonder If a many to many lawsuit would work?
Let's all bring suit against all the IP holders who remain unpatched after all this time.
Is it MS who is at fault? Yes, at first anyway.
Is it MS's fault if people don't patch their software? No
Since we can't hunt down the perps and kill them someone needs to write a flock of birds to eat all these worms. I figure anyone who's still keeping these worms alive is giving the world implicit permission to play in those exploits. So why not write up a listener that attacks the machine the worm comes from, using the same exploit to overwrite the worm, and create another BIRD.
(hmmm Binary Invasive Removal and Destruction?)
Maybe we need a way to download the entire list of hits that the search engine returns, then run a client side search on THAT information.
(grep grep perl perl grep, awk?)
" Wrong answer."
:)
The web is a publicly accessable resource, if you don't restrict acces to your pages then I can bookmark a page deeply imbeded in your site, and go directly there anytime I want. I will dispute your "right" to tell me I can't give my list of bookmarks to anyone I want.
It is the web designer's responsibility to restrict access, if such is needed. If I can go directly to a page and skip your ads (and you don't want that) then you need to redesign your page. Besides I can filter out all the ads so you don't get any hits anyway. (I don't though)
I don't know where you got your definitions, but you need to look up hacking and IP, I do not think they mean what you think.
Last time I checked theft ment take something from someone, I can't take something from you if you don't have it.
Actually many of these sites are stealing from the companies that pay them for ads. At least I would consider it stealing if I paid money for an ad that merely sat on a "gateway" page, or any page that dosn't have content that will hold the browser's attention.
It's really a problem of search engine designers having to "outsmart" the wily, lying, deceptive marketing types who (try to) figure out how search engines list things and then do everything to get their sites to the top of the list. Despite the fact that their page may have nothing to do with what was searched for. A pay list just makes it easier to figure out, payment.
:)
This should be a computer science problem NOT a business problem.
p.s. Applause for on topic FP!
It's about time something came up to interest corporate america in the space program. I had hoped that by this time the space program would be doing a little better, I watched the first man land on the moon when I was a little boy, and thought how much there was to look forward to in my future. Oh, well. As long as the (world) governments actually keep control of what's going on and don't start getting all secretive about this stuff everyone can share the benefits. Especially if the corporate interests are allowed to benefit without being allow to take over. :)
The same continuation of tired old arguments... How exactly is the eye a jump? There are many and diverse examples of light sensing organs IN CRITTERS ALIVE TODAY. Enough for me, at least, to see the outline of a progression.
Science is really based on the idea of explaining the world around us without resorting to the supernatural.
Evolution has been observed, speciation has not. (arguable) But anything bigger than a microbe is going to take longer to change form than people have been doing science. We HAVE seen things like an entire species (moth) change it's predominant color due to an environmental change (smog).
And does ANYONE else know that just before his death, Darwin said he had been very wrong about evolution?
This is a popular misconception, and was refuted within weeks of his death. An american woman claimed to have been at his side just before his death, Darwin's family said the person wasn't allowed anywhere near him, and was, in fact, in the United states when Darwin died (in England)