Almost as bad as chewing on your cheek/tongue as a nervous twitch.
Egads! I was doing that as I read your message. Spooky.
Frankly, most people can't stand to watch certain kinds of movies with me because I tend to jump when the hero gets in a scrape. Oh, I have to go now. They're coming to refit my dinner jacket. The sleeves are always too long.
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How is this different than a member of the Liberal Left having issues with a school because they don't want their kids exposed to dangerous ideas like the existence of a holy and personal Creator which might cause them to think for themselves? I bet you'd be screaming if the schools were teaching that.
Yeah, but not for the reasons that you think. I am probably one of the most committed Christians that you will ever meet on Slashdot. My wife is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. I spend more time on church related activities than most people spend watching television. And I certainly don't want a public school teaching my kid any religion. That's my job.
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Great! Now I'll make this my desktop background and plan to go home early due to a splitting headache that makes me want to embed an axe in my skull. Thanks!!
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As someone who works with computer systems that have been coded in the near to remote past by other people, I can assure you that if your program displays some values, someone somewhere perhaps in the remote future will look at them and try to use them. Even if your specification gives the file output as the designated deliverable, in the real world outside of academia, I would consider any incorrectly formatted output a problem with the code.
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I don't think that it would ever hold up. Let's say I extract some code from a GPLed application and release it as a GPLed library. I then release my application, which dynamically links with the library, under an evil license.
Conventional Wisdom and the official policy of the FSF would say that any program that links to the code would be a derivative and must be subject to the GPL. I think not.
The restrictions in the GPL rely entirely on copyright. You receive a license to make copies and derivative works in exchange for agreeing that all derivative works will carry a license no more restrictive than the GPL.
I don't believe that an API exposed by a library is copyrightable in that it is a "method of operation". Methods of operation are explicitly not copyrightable. I don't believe that the "derivative work" theory will hold up. In the industry, compiler vendors don't try to claim that programs you develop using their licenses are derivative works. You may have to pay a license fee to distribute their library with your application, but you can either distribute the required library or point to a source like Freshmeat for the user to go get it. I don't think that anyone will ever be able to force you to stop distributing your app or release your source.
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That Microsoft's developers could be so recklessly dumb as to add a backdoor that will surely be discovered eventually (unencoded plaintext in a DLL, FFS!!),
The plaintext is encrypted by writing it backwards in the.dll. By decrypting this copyrighted text, you have violated Section 1201 of the DCMA. Come along quietly and no one will get hurt.
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I just read an article about schools in Arizona, where it sounds like they're essentially trying to build a hybrid between state/private education, where the state puts up the money for education on a per-child basis and certifies schools, but schools are run privately and parents can choose which school(s) their children attend within their area.
I wish them the best of luck. The value of our State/Federal system is that experiments like this can be tried out. I'm not saying that the educational system needs no reform. Certainly concepts like tenure, which may make sense in a University environment, are out of place and do not promote education in public schools.
My concern is that businesses are in business to make a profit. It remains to be seen whether the profit that business skims off is less than the waste of a government run monopoly. It remains to be seen if all of the students in Arizona will actually have a choice in education or only the most priviledged. It remains to be seen if the system will encourage schools to hire qualified teachers or just placeholders. It remains to be seen if the quality of education will improve.
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The so-called "education" system of the US is a State-run propaganda organ mated to a state-subsidized day-care program. It has nothing to do with "thinking for yourself". Schools exist to promulgate conformity as practice and as virtue.
Do you think that the societal pressures to conform would go away if the schools were abolished?
I agree that the single most important determinant of success in education is the involvement of parents in the process. Schools are not and can not be a substitute for the involvement of parents in their children's education.
But the fact remains that universal, state-mandated and state-funded education has brought historically unprecedented levels of literacy. Ditching the educational system is not the answer to the educational problems that we have. It is quite literally the stupidest idea I have ever heard.
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ACs have no down side because no one reads what they write anyway.;^)
There is some place for anononymity in society. People need anononymity to be able to report illegal behavior without fear of reprisal. The authorities that receive these reports still need to gather concrete evidence and witnesses willin to speak before anything is done.
But, the type of behavior that is requested to be reported is not illegal behavior. It is behavior which just brings suspicion on a largely innocent group of people.
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How could it be better to turn over a critical function of society to business or, worse yet, require parents to home school? How could it be better to put a higher financial burden on the people who can afford it the least -- single parents.
The Radical Religious Right has got issues with schools because they don't want their children exposed to dangerous ideas like Evolution which might cause them to think for themselves. Don't ruin all of society just because a few extremists can't tell the difference between myth and scientific discovery.
In a lifetime of witnessing stupid ideas, this has got to be the stupidest. Education is an important societal function. We can not abdicate it.
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I know, hairy-pointed bosses *always* insist on "win-dos inside".
There will come a day when the motto "No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft." will find the counterexample which disproves it. It used to be "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM." but I new the guy who disproved that one.
it's the only way to run the heavy DHTML/javascript/XML applications that we are building to replace the old ones
Depending on your timeframe, I wonder if Netscape 6/Mozilla might be up to the task.
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I'm all for the anti-trust lawsuit, but I get the feeling the average person either doesn't care/understand the issue
Which is exactly why it's a loser issue. It's hard to explain to the voters why they should care and the other side can snipe away in easily pre-digested soundbites. Furthermore it gives Gore the accusation that GWB can be bought by big corporations.
Getting elected is an exercise in politics. The economy is still doing good and unless it tanks between now and November, Gore waltzes in (barring AG committing political suicide). The economy is almost all it's ever about.
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If they're smart, they won't bend it much until after the election. If GWB tries to make the Microsoft prosecution into an election issue, that is nothing but a loser for him. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I think that you misunderstand the tooling and inventory costs associated with having multiple models. The unit has a USB port. Plug one in yourself. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Why a hard drive? All you need is a kernel in flash with USB ethernet drivers (2.3.99pre) and the Linux Terminal Server Project server. Mount your filesystems from the server.
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the market for a cheap, cool-looking remote X terminal is virtually untapped
I think you misspelled "nonexistant" as in virtually nonexistant.
People flocked to the i-opener because it was cheap. At $99 or even $200 it's a bargain. But at a more realistic price of perhaps $600, the market dries up again. You and I both might buy one at that price (I know I want one), but there wouldn't be the huge demand that there is now.
That said, I think that Netpliance needs to get its contracts in order. If they want/need people to be obligated for some minimum term of service to cover the initial hardware cost, they need to have it specified properly in a real sign-it-and-mean-it contract with appropriate penalties for early cancellation just like a cell phone contract.
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Sorry, that's gospels blasphemy -- aka science. Tacohell is not listed on the sidebar and M$ (or even MS) is not even a section. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
...but the certificate is probably pretty.
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Anyone who buys from them thinking they're getting anything other than a piece of paper is an idiot.
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Almost as bad as chewing on your cheek/tongue as a nervous twitch.
Egads! I was doing that as I read your message. Spooky.
Frankly, most people can't stand to watch certain kinds of movies with me because I tend to jump when the hero gets in a scrape. Oh, I have to go now. They're coming to refit my dinner jacket. The sleeves are always too long.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
How is this different than a member of the Liberal Left having issues with a school because they don't want their kids exposed to dangerous ideas like the existence of a holy and personal Creator which might cause them to think for themselves? I bet you'd be screaming if the schools were teaching that.
Yeah, but not for the reasons that you think. I am probably one of the most committed Christians that you will ever meet on Slashdot. My wife is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. I spend more time on church related activities than most people spend watching television. And I certainly don't want a public school teaching my kid any religion. That's my job.
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Other than that wonderful thought, am I the only one who doesn't see this as an invention? What about prior art? I mean sheesh this was filed in 1987!
Cool! That means it'll be free technology in just a few years! Woo hoo!
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He also had stuff like the Harrison Fyord (or something like that)
Now, I would rent a Tux called Harrison Fjord, but Harrison Fyord is just silly.
"Pardon me, your highness. Bork! Bork! Bork!"
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Great! Now I'll make this my desktop background and plan to go home early due to a splitting headache that makes me want to embed an axe in my skull. Thanks!!
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
As someone who works with computer systems that have been coded in the near to remote past by other people, I can assure you that if your program displays some values, someone somewhere perhaps in the remote future will look at them and try to use them. Even if your specification gives the file output as the designated deliverable, in the real world outside of academia, I would consider any incorrectly formatted output a problem with the code.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I don't think that it would ever hold up. Let's say I extract some code from a GPLed application and release it as a GPLed library. I then release my application, which dynamically links with the library, under an evil license.
Conventional Wisdom and the official policy of the FSF would say that any program that links to the code would be a derivative and must be subject to the GPL. I think not.
The restrictions in the GPL rely entirely on copyright. You receive a license to make copies and derivative works in exchange for agreeing that all derivative works will carry a license no more restrictive than the GPL.
I don't believe that an API exposed by a library is copyrightable in that it is a "method of operation". Methods of operation are explicitly not copyrightable. I don't believe that the "derivative work" theory will hold up. In the industry, compiler vendors don't try to claim that programs you develop using their licenses are derivative works. You may have to pay a license fee to distribute their library with your application, but you can either distribute the required library or point to a source like Freshmeat for the user to go get it. I don't think that anyone will ever be able to force you to stop distributing your app or release your source.
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you'll alsmot certonally use the 16M of FLASH as a glorifyed bootloader, NFS mounting the bulk of your system. Possabbably even /.
Say, I didn't know that you could NFS mount Slashdot. Cool!
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That Microsoft's developers could be so recklessly dumb as to add a backdoor that will surely be discovered eventually (unencoded plaintext in a DLL, FFS!!),
.dll. By decrypting this copyrighted text, you have violated Section 1201 of the DCMA. Come along quietly and no one will get hurt.
The plaintext is encrypted by writing it backwards in the
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I just read an article about schools in Arizona, where it sounds like they're essentially trying to build a hybrid between state/private education, where the state puts up the money for education on a per-child basis and certifies schools, but schools are run privately and parents can choose which school(s) their children attend within their area.
I wish them the best of luck. The value of our State/Federal system is that experiments like this can be tried out. I'm not saying that the educational system needs no reform. Certainly concepts like tenure, which may make sense in a University environment, are out of place and do not promote education in public schools.
My concern is that businesses are in business to make a profit. It remains to be seen whether the profit that business skims off is less than the waste of a government run monopoly. It remains to be seen if all of the students in Arizona will actually have a choice in education or only the most priviledged. It remains to be seen if the system will encourage schools to hire qualified teachers or just placeholders. It remains to be seen if the quality of education will improve.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
The so-called "education" system of the US is a State-run propaganda organ mated to a state-subsidized day-care program. It has nothing to do with "thinking for yourself". Schools exist to promulgate conformity as practice and as virtue.
Do you think that the societal pressures to conform would go away if the schools were abolished?
I agree that the single most important determinant of success in education is the involvement of parents in the process. Schools are not and can not be a substitute for the involvement of parents in their children's education.
But the fact remains that universal, state-mandated and state-funded education has brought historically unprecedented levels of literacy. Ditching the educational system is not the answer to the educational problems that we have. It is quite literally the stupidest idea I have ever heard.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
ACs have no down side because no one reads what they write anyway. ;^)
There is some place for anononymity in society. People need anononymity to be able to report illegal behavior without fear of reprisal. The authorities that receive these reports still need to gather concrete evidence and witnesses willin to speak before anything is done.
But, the type of behavior that is requested to be reported is not illegal behavior. It is behavior which just brings suspicion on a largely innocent group of people.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Yet Another Stupid Idea.
How could it be better to turn over a critical function of society to business or, worse yet, require parents to home school? How could it be better to put a higher financial burden on the people who can afford it the least -- single parents.
The Radical Religious Right has got issues with schools because they don't want their children exposed to dangerous ideas like Evolution which might cause them to think for themselves. Don't ruin all of society just because a few extremists can't tell the difference between myth and scientific discovery.
In a lifetime of witnessing stupid ideas, this has got to be the stupidest. Education is an important societal function. We can not abdicate it.
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...from your Nano-Explorer
Houston, we have a problem.
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As much as I like Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park has dome some /very/ different kinds of stuff. Lok for the video Creature Comforts. Highly recommended.
I just hope that the video is *not* in Quicktime.
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I said they bought his ear, not his soul.
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I know, hairy-pointed bosses *always* insist on "win-dos inside".
There will come a day when the motto "No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft." will find the counterexample which disproves it. It used to be "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM." but I new the guy who disproved that one.
it's the only way to run the heavy DHTML/javascript/XML applications that we are building to replace the old ones
Depending on your timeframe, I wonder if Netscape 6/Mozilla might be up to the task.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I'm all for the anti-trust lawsuit, but I get the feeling the average person either doesn't care/understand the issue
Which is exactly why it's a loser issue. It's hard to explain to the voters why they should care and the other side can snipe away in easily pre-digested soundbites. Furthermore it gives Gore the accusation that GWB can be bought by big corporations.
Getting elected is an exercise in politics. The economy is still doing good and unless it tanks between now and November, Gore waltzes in (barring AG committing political suicide). The economy is almost all it's ever about.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
If they're smart, they won't bend it much until after the election. If GWB tries to make the Microsoft prosecution into an election issue, that is nothing but a loser for him.
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My boss insist in having Windows on the machines.
Ha! There's your problem right there.
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I think that you misunderstand the tooling and inventory costs associated with having multiple models. The unit has a USB port. Plug one in yourself.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Why a hard drive? All you need is a kernel in flash with USB ethernet drivers (2.3.99pre) and the Linux Terminal Server Project server. Mount your filesystems
from the server.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
the market for a cheap, cool-looking remote X terminal is virtually untapped
I think you misspelled "nonexistant" as in virtually nonexistant.
People flocked to the i-opener because it was cheap. At $99 or even $200 it's a bargain. But at a more realistic price of perhaps $600, the market dries up again. You and I both might buy one at that price (I know I want one), but there wouldn't be the huge demand that there is now.
That said, I think that Netpliance needs to get its contracts in order. If they want/need people to be obligated for some minimum term of service to cover the initial hardware cost, they need to have it specified properly in a real sign-it-and-mean-it contract with appropriate penalties for early cancellation just like a cell phone contract.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Sorry, that's gospels blasphemy -- aka science. Tacohell is not listed on the sidebar and M$ (or even MS) is not even a section.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Anyone who buys from them thinking they're getting anything other than a piece of paper is an idiot.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected