Why should I have to sign up? Just post the damn numbers and then request I sign up, and explain why it's important. I mean, I know that requiring registration is by no means the equal of DRM, but on some philosophical levels it does present it's ironies..
My guess is they want people to register for the same reason that internet petitions aren't worth crap -- anonymity is ultimately a form of obfuscation, and when you're trying to tell someone something they don't want to hear, they'll jump on any excuse to devalue the legitimacy of your position.
But yes, it's a perfectly valid point, there is certainly some irony there.
More like the coffee shop has newspapers available for customer to read, and this guy comes in to read the newspapers but never buys anything. Rude, but not exactly illegal.
It is if you keep doing it after they ask you to leave.
I'd much prefer government regulation of the Internet than corporate regulation of the Internet, which is what the access providers are angling for. Verizon is my ISP, and they have been quite explicit in stating that they think Google should pay them every time I access Google. I can't say this any more plainly:
THAT'S WHAT I'M PAYING THEM FOR!
I'd rather go back to dial-up than watch them extort content providers.
For me, the bottom line is that I am getting the same download speed, 5x faster upload speed, and I got to dump Comcast, all for $15 LESS per month. Now I get to dump Verizon for local phone service, now that I have VoIP up and distributed through the house wiring. (Yes, I disconnected from the POTS line.)
At/. I probably don't even need to say this, but when I signed up, Verizon was saying you HAD to use their router with FIOS. I call bullshit. I never even powered up the crappy Dlink they gave me. All you have to do is set up PPoE on your current router. Theirs supposedly does some remote diagnostics, so you might need to switch back if you ever have issues, but given their initial stance on the router, I wouldn't give that statement too much weight either, although it did come from the tech who told me to set up PPoE on my current router.
If you want to see pictures of the ONT, I posted them here, mostly because people had questions about FIOS TV, so I got a closeup of the coax connector in the second one:
Dry ice is also fun by itself. If you press a small chip of it (~ 1" x 0.5" or less) down on a table top, the warmth of the table will start the bottom sublimating faster, causing it to hover. A tiny flick with your finger will send it gliding.
(YES, I was wearing gloves when I did this, and NO, you should not try this unless you are familiar with the hazards of dry ice.)
Actually, I am a social scientist, and I've seen no scientific studies about peer pressure to indicate that teens react to it much differently than adults. The common goals or targets may change, but the social dynamics are essentially the same.
Yes, illegal activities have obvious legal repercussions. However, the school is not a law-enforcement entity, and while it may have some role in educating young people about certain dangers, and not allowing certain activities, legal or not, on its grounds, if the school is concerned about illegal activities, it should advise the appropriate local, state, or Federal law enforcement entity. And considering the wording ("illegal or inappropriate") they are quite obviously angling to punish students for activities they don't like, but are not illegal. Among the other issues this policy raises, it is too vague to allow students to comply, since while they should know what constitutes illegal behavior, they have no way of knowing what might be considered "inappropriate" by a teacher, principal, or school board member.
I believe you're thinking of flock animals, like sheep or goats. AFAICT, the OP was talking about young humans, who generally can think and decide for themselves, depending upon the kind of adult examples they have in their daily lives. They may be somewhat more likely to make dumb decisions, but overall they are not that much worse at it than adults (especially if you include adults with poor decision-making skills, like maybe the school board in question), and when they make a bad decision that's part of the learning process. Or social Darwinism. Either way, difficult decisions are not a deadly pox, more like an inoculation, which can cause problems, sometimes grave ones, but usually leaves the person better off.
I was very surprised to see that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is part of the Canadian government, not McGill. That wasn't clear from the summary, and it seems important. Wow, the Canadian election wasn't that long ago...I guess the Canuck neo-cons can purge the scientific types from policy-making positions even quicker than American neo-cons!
Actually, it's not about privacy because they're marketing GPS tracking, it's about privacy because they're marketing GPS tracking to people who are not the intended end users. You can bet if they advertise this phone to kids, they will not be bragging about the GPS part in those ads.
That said, I would consider telling my daughter in a few years that she can only have a cell phone if it's one of these, and I would explain what it does, and that it could save her life in an emergency. (She's four; I would assume these are intended for pre-teens, not older kids.) Anything else is a breach of trust, and should only be done with cause (if they've shown they are not responsible in specific applicable ways).
You're right, it's sometimes futile to find the spammer. I try to cut it off at the source. I know this is simple, but it takes almost no effort on my part: I use blind forwarding for my domain, and make up e-mail addresses...i.e., I'll use Amazon (or even Amazon.com) @[mydomain].com for an e-mail address when I do business with them. Then, if I EVER receive unforged TO: header with that address, I know that Amazon sold my address. (They haven't, BTW. Thompson Cigars, though, put me on the list of one of their "affiliates" that sells LINENS, and one message after my first complaint, I forwarded that address back to their customer help address. For all I know they're still sending spam to themselves.)
I now know my goal in life: to buy my own island, where I can be Despot For Life, and make my own (brutal, of course) anti-spamming laws.
Yes, I know, enforcement requires that either (a), the spammer comes to my island nation, despite its arbitrary enforcement of the death penalty for infractions such as switching lanes without signaling, or (b), have some economic interest in doing business with my island nation, so that I have leverage enough for them to care what I say.
Anyone who can come up with a good way to bring about either method of enforcement can be my Minister of Justice. (Yes, you can wear the black hood.)
I get the "Error".mov, but I also get another window that starts loading the trailer. I've been closing the error window, and the other one loads just fine. Check for that.
Now if I can only figure out why I keep getting "locked" out of certain parts of the site...maybe I need to roll a 12 or better to see it. Hey, a natural 20! I find a backdoor!
First of all, I am not worried about "wasting my vote", since my state has a Democratic majority, and according to our creaky electoral college system, my state's votes will go to Gore no matter what I do. So I'm voting for Nader, mainly because I agree with more of his positions than Gore's or Bush's, but also because I want the Republicrats to know that one more person likes some of what he hears from the Green Party.
The problem is, we need proportional representation, which is the way most European governments work. For example, if the Green Party got 5% of the vote, they would get 5 seats in the House. Those Representatives would represent their party, not a certain district. Districting leads to more pork barrel projects. If the Green Party gets 5% here, they get...the shaft! Thank you for playing!
This way no one party "controlls" a legislative body, a concept that would be ludicrous if we weren't so used to it.
Man, when I got on the internet I was so happy, I could literally get everything at will, I mean, I could get a guide on how to build a bomb, copy/ paste book reports and other interesting stuff to make my school life a bit more bearable[...]
the great strenght of the internet is that everything, and I mean everything is freely available, once people start touching my right to look up whatever I want I'm gonna get pissed.
<sarcasm>Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that things that are illegal in real life aren't illegal on the Internet.</sarcasm>
You do NOT have a right to have free, unfettered access via the Internet to kiddie porn, or to Bill Gates' PIN number, for example (although I might decide to risk jail for the last one). Actually, you do not have a right to have "everything freely available", either. Any information you find via the Internet is there because someone decided to post it (usually at their expense). The great strength of the Internet is only that so many individuals have decided to put up information on the Web just because they enjoy being helpful and sharing their knowledge.
With that said, once someone decides to make the information available, and it is not illegal to do so, then yes, limiting access is a form of censorship. But you are not entitled to everything you want just because you want it.
Yes, a reward might theoretically decrease the incentive to work as a group, but this isn't some open-source OS kernel. It only takes one memo or other document showing prior art, and finding and providing that document should only require the effort of one person who is (or was) in the right place at the right time to find that document. Besides, the reward doesn't seem to have reduced the number of "Wasn't there a..." posts about vaguely remembered prior art.
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Yeah, what he said!
My guess is they want people to register for the same reason that internet petitions aren't worth crap -- anonymity is ultimately a form of obfuscation, and when you're trying to tell someone something they don't want to hear, they'll jump on any excuse to devalue the legitimacy of your position.
But yes, it's a perfectly valid point, there is certainly some irony there.
(Yes, I spend way too much time watching Futurama.)
It is if you keep doing it after they ask you to leave.
I'd much prefer government regulation of the Internet than corporate regulation of the Internet, which is what the access providers are angling for. Verizon is my ISP, and they have been quite explicit in stating that they think Google should pay them every time I access Google. I can't say this any more plainly:
THAT'S WHAT I'M PAYING THEM FOR!
I'd rather go back to dial-up than watch them extort content providers.
For me, the bottom line is that I am getting the same download speed, 5x faster upload speed, and I got to dump Comcast, all for $15 LESS per month. Now I get to dump Verizon for local phone service, now that I have VoIP up and distributed through the house wiring. (Yes, I disconnected from the POTS line.)
/. I probably don't even need to say this, but when I signed up, Verizon was saying you HAD to use their router with FIOS. I call bullshit. I never even powered up the crappy Dlink they gave me. All you have to do is set up PPoE on your current router. Theirs supposedly does some remote diagnostics, so you might need to switch back if you ever have issues, but given their initial stance on the router, I wouldn't give that statement too much weight either, although it did come from the tech who told me to set up PPoE on my current router.
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If you want to see pictures of the ONT, I posted them here, mostly because people had questions about FIOS TV, so I got a closeup of the coax connector in the second one:
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Dry ice is also fun by itself. If you press a small chip of it (~ 1" x 0.5" or less) down on a table top, the warmth of the table will start the bottom sublimating faster, causing it to hover. A tiny flick with your finger will send it gliding.
(YES, I was wearing gloves when I did this, and NO, you should not try this unless you are familiar with the hazards of dry ice.)
Actually, I am a social scientist, and I've seen no scientific studies about peer pressure to indicate that teens react to it much differently than adults. The common goals or targets may change, but the social dynamics are essentially the same.
Yes, illegal activities have obvious legal repercussions. However, the school is not a law-enforcement entity, and while it may have some role in educating young people about certain dangers, and not allowing certain activities, legal or not, on its grounds, if the school is concerned about illegal activities, it should advise the appropriate local, state, or Federal law enforcement entity. And considering the wording ("illegal or inappropriate") they are quite obviously angling to punish students for activities they don't like, but are not illegal. Among the other issues this policy raises, it is too vague to allow students to comply, since while they should know what constitutes illegal behavior, they have no way of knowing what might be considered "inappropriate" by a teacher, principal, or school board member.
I believe you're thinking of flock animals, like sheep or goats. AFAICT, the OP was talking about young humans, who generally can think and decide for themselves, depending upon the kind of adult examples they have in their daily lives. They may be somewhat more likely to make dumb decisions, but overall they are not that much worse at it than adults (especially if you include adults with poor decision-making skills, like maybe the school board in question), and when they make a bad decision that's part of the learning process. Or social Darwinism. Either way, difficult decisions are not a deadly pox, more like an inoculation, which can cause problems, sometimes grave ones, but usually leaves the person better off.
Doesn't Dr. Gaius have one of those? I like his, but it's too expensive.
The kids who uploaded that video really need to find a more constructive use for their time[video.google.com].
(IF YOU'RE AT WORK, you might want to TURN YOUR VOLUME DOWN FIRST.)
If this can't get them shut down what can? Sending out spam email that totally destroys your computer into tiny little pieces?
Well, I'll bet this would at least get them raided by the SEALs, it might even qualify for an air strike:
New PEENI-MAX! Dont have small peenus like PRECEDENT BOOSH!!!!!! Get PEENI-MAX NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
I was very surprised to see that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is part of the Canadian government, not McGill. That wasn't clear from the summary, and it seems important. Wow, the Canadian election wasn't that long ago...I guess the Canuck neo-cons can purge the scientific types from policy-making positions even quicker than American neo-cons!
Trust, but verify.
Actually, it's not about privacy because they're marketing GPS tracking, it's about privacy because they're marketing GPS tracking to people who are not the intended end users. You can bet if they advertise this phone to kids, they will not be bragging about the GPS part in those ads.
That said, I would consider telling my daughter in a few years that she can only have a cell phone if it's one of these, and I would explain what it does, and that it could save her life in an emergency. (She's four; I would assume these are intended for pre-teens, not older kids.) Anything else is a breach of trust, and should only be done with cause (if they've shown they are not responsible in specific applicable ways).
Hey, I don't drink pisswater, so I don't refrigerate my beer. Real beer should be stored in a basement or other cool, not cold, place.
But a prioritized wish list should really be offered as prior art. From there, it's no big leap to an ordering queue.
The word "hip" should no longer be used unless it is followed by the word "replacement", "fracture", or it is in an Austin Powers movie.
-The Language Police
(In other words, calling yourself hip is like asking if you're cool.)
You're right, it's sometimes futile to find the spammer. I try to cut it off at the source. I know this is simple, but it takes almost no effort on my part: I use blind forwarding for my domain, and make up e-mail addresses...i.e., I'll use Amazon (or even Amazon.com) @[mydomain].com for an e-mail address when I do business with them. Then, if I EVER receive unforged TO: header with that address, I know that Amazon sold my address. (They haven't, BTW. Thompson Cigars, though, put me on the list of one of their "affiliates" that sells LINENS, and one message after my first complaint, I forwarded that address back to their customer help address. For all I know they're still sending spam to themselves.)
I now know my goal in life: to buy my own island, where I can be Despot For Life, and make my own (brutal, of course) anti-spamming laws.
Yes, I know, enforcement requires that either (a), the spammer comes to my island nation, despite its arbitrary enforcement of the death penalty for infractions such as switching lanes without signaling, or (b), have some economic interest in doing business with my island nation, so that I have leverage enough for them to care what I say.
Anyone who can come up with a good way to bring about either method of enforcement can be my Minister of Justice. (Yes, you can wear the black hood.)
I get the "Error" .mov, but I also get another window that starts loading the trailer. I've been closing the error window, and the other one loads just fine. Check for that.
Now if I can only figure out why I keep getting "locked" out of certain parts of the site...maybe I need to roll a 12 or better to see it. Hey, a natural 20! I find a backdoor!
First of all, I am not worried about "wasting my vote", since my state has a Democratic majority, and according to our creaky electoral college system, my state's votes will go to Gore no matter what I do. So I'm voting for Nader, mainly because I agree with more of his positions than Gore's or Bush's, but also because I want the Republicrats to know that one more person likes some of what he hears from the Green Party.
The problem is, we need proportional representation, which is the way most European governments work. For example, if the Green Party got 5% of the vote, they would get 5 seats in the House. Those Representatives would represent their party, not a certain district. Districting leads to more pork barrel projects. If the Green Party gets 5% here, they get...the shaft! Thank you for playing!
This way no one party "controlls" a legislative body, a concept that would be ludicrous if we weren't so used to it.
Man, when I got on the internet I was so happy, I could literally get everything at will, I mean, I could get a guide on how to build a bomb, copy/ paste book reports and other interesting stuff to make my school life a bit more bearable[...]
the great strenght of the internet is that everything, and I mean everything is freely available, once people start touching my right to look up whatever I want I'm gonna get pissed.
<sarcasm>Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that things that are illegal in real life aren't illegal on the Internet.</sarcasm>
You do NOT have a right to have free, unfettered access via the Internet to kiddie porn, or to Bill Gates' PIN number, for example (although I might decide to risk jail for the last one). Actually, you do not have a right to have "everything freely available", either. Any information you find via the Internet is there because someone decided to post it (usually at their expense). The great strength of the Internet is only that so many individuals have decided to put up information on the Web just because they enjoy being helpful and sharing their knowledge.
With that said, once someone decides to make the information available, and it is not illegal to do so, then yes, limiting access is a form of censorship. But you are not entitled to everything you want just because you want it.
Yes, a reward might theoretically decrease the incentive to work as a group, but this isn't some open-source OS kernel. It only takes one memo or other document showing prior art, and finding and providing that document should only require the effort of one person who is (or was) in the right place at the right time to find that document. Besides, the reward doesn't seem to have reduced the number of "Wasn't there a..." posts about vaguely remembered prior art.
Oops, make that 150 pages. (I knew I saw 125 somewhere...)