"the V-Chip will allow parents more freedom in allowing their children to watch shows" HELLOOO, maybe what we need is to have the parents spend more TIME with the kids instead of taking over the parenting duties.
Maybe if parents actually sat down and talked to the kids or took them out to do family stuff we wouldn't NEED the V-Chip because then the parents would know what the kids were doing and would actually be part of their lives instead of relying on the electronic babysitter.
Most of us grew up with bullys, most of us grew up picked on by someone (even if you were the bully, SOMONE picked on you.) Maybe it's time to take into account the idea that life is not handed to you on a silver platter and let kids learn what it's like to actually achieve their goals instead of requiring passing them even though they don't learn a darn thing. Maybe that will have them learn enough self esteem that they will know life is way to precious to waste and that they had better make use of everything they have.
Pandering to everything that sounds good and feels good is NOT an answer, unfortunately that seems to be the way the schools have gone to. Don't care about learning that there is failure in life, make the kid feel good about theirself even though they have done nothing to deserve it.
Maybe it's time to get the heck away from the give me attitude and make the kids earn their way again and then they will get the idea that they ARE responsible for what they get and not rewarded for breathing.
The newspapers have a standing rule NOT to print false alarm fire alarms for the explicit reason that they do not want copycat kids doing the same thing. Yet they print, front page, about school shootings, even they are lower today than ever before. School shootings are on the decline for goodness sake.
Want to make the front page? Want everyone to know your name? Guess how to do it. Gee, when you don't make anything but the local paper it's not really worth it, but if you believe you're ignored, the news papers are only too happy to help you achieve noteriety by splashing your name from coast to coast.
Now if only they would print the same place, in the same type face about people using firearms as defensive tools, the crime rate would drop faster than it has since the 'shall issue' laws went into effect.
Debian is the definition of stability, keep it up. The 'gotta push this out the door' mentality has taken over most of the other distros. Debian has always been the rock steady distro to turn to if you want a system to stay up.
Apt-get rocks too. That is possibly the biggest selling point for newbies, that it gets all dependancies as well and not just errors out when you're trying to upgrade a package.
Making you vomit is what I hope the site in question does. I would MUCH rather have the people I utterly disagree with out in the open than keep them sheltered and require secrecy to operate.
If you allow them open forum, people will see what garbage spews forth from them and the people will shy away from the idea of being associated with the group. If you require them to maintain secrecy, you give a certain mistique to the culture and people will be curious and look into the idea rather than away.
The anti-abortionists have as much right to free speech as the KKK, as Al Sharpton, as the Panthers, as David Duke, as the Illinois nazis (I hate Illinois nazis), as the skinheads, etc.
If you keep them under wraps and deny them free speech, you will allow them to work without knowing what is going on within the movements, if you allow free speech and do NOT censor, then you will also know what is going on within them and can keep a much better watch on what is planned and plan accordingly yourself.
Be careful who you try to silence, there's an ex NAACP lawyer in Texas who said it best "If they do not have freedom of speech, what makes you think we will later?" when he took a klan 1st amendment case Pro Bono and was fired by the NAACP.
Now we can once again TALK about something and actually be covered by free speech instead of having to toe the line for the politically correct speech of the day.
I'm glad. If it were someone with a left wing agenda, this wouldn't have even gone to trial, that's what bothers me the most. I don't like extremists of any stripe but every one of them has the right to say what they want and have all the publishings they care to have.
Some idiots have been pestering newsgroups with javascript based posts. This is cross platform and any browser/newsgroup reader that is javascript enhanced will be stung by it. So far it's only pop-up mail and pop-up browser windows but be careful if you have javascript turned on and you read newsgroups.
That is against the 'fair use' part of the copyright law.
The other question I have is can you not bit-copy the thing? It would copy the 'copy protection' over to the new one as well, but who cares? It's for my own personal use, I can do with it as I please.
If this type of thing blows your skirt up, find the closest Discovery Store and you'll spend hours in it looking at all the various things in there.
After what 'they' have done with plants and animals I'm not sure I'm thrilled with yet another 'fast growing plant' Next they'll tell us it's perfectly safe and our kids (in my case, my kid's kids) will have three eyes and eat dog food.
With a couple thousand hits an hours security through obscurity DOES work for minor things like this unless RIAA has enlisted the help of the NSA for number crunching for who downloaded what.
The other thing I wonder is why don't sites like napster et al use basic encryption techniques to keep WHAT is seen secret? It's not like there is a derth of encryption enabled software out there, much the opposite, recent browsers all can deal with port 443 and https. Start using it. Sniffers can only tell that a connection was made, they cannot tell what the contents of that connection did or is doing.
Come on people, time to stop whining and start using what is available to us to keep big brother from tracking everything.
The gentleman voted against the 'back door' requirement from the FBI. That's the important thing for me. Export of encryption restrictions are BS as well.
So, I wonder if he really is for the common use of encryption with personal e-mail, personal web pages etc.
It seems he has not looked into the whole DCMA thing though but tries to give generalities about it's use and incorporation. Let's keep on him for positive ability to decompile for fair use.
Watch his voting record before you take any of this interview to heart though, remember he IS a politician.
No, he couldn't do that. If he even saw code that MAY have been windows code, transmeta, linus, and the entirety of the GPL would be tied up in court for eternity with MS lawyers.
Transmeta itself can put people onto the help, but I doubt very seriously that Linus would be part of that team.
"You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee"
If this is considered a 'physical transfer' then they have a point.
It is not a physical transfer, it is an electronic transfer. Physical transfer is disk, CD etc.
Yes, I see the '40 atoms in width' line. The heat from each of the transistors would screw up the transistor beside it. That was the limit of the copper lines within a chip. Now they're saying they've overcome that limitation?
Printing with UV lasers, no matter how sexy this might be, seems to be safer than the x-ray technology they were using. I would much rather be in a lab with the requirement for full covering goggles than have to wear a lead lined jock strap.
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Not content with buying up or locking out competitors in software, MS now is taking on Sony in the video game arena? X-Box Vs PS2. Gee does this sound familiar for those of us who lived through OS2, MAC, MS all competing and the first two having better, more stable products?
I just hope people realize what this means and what MS is actually up to. Diversification is a good thing within a company, as long as that company is not using it's size to freeze out everyone else. Threats of 'you will be last in the distibution chain' and 'we will change the hooks so your product doesn't work with ours' come to mind.
I wonder if that will work with Sega, Sony, et al.
Stay tuned, coming to a playstation and N64 near you, the furthering of 'embrace, extend, kill, crush, destroy'
Second, it requires nations to develop standard procedures to capture and retrieve online and other information. Nations would have to be able to issue "retention orders" that would "freeze" data on any
computer. Governments would also need the ability to capture in real time the time and origin of all traffic on a networks, including telephone networks. For serious crimes, they would be required to
intercept the actual content of the communications.
Third, nations would have to cooperate with other nations in sharing electronic evidence across borders. And this cooperation requirement would apply to all crimes. They don't have to be the cybercrimes
laid out in the first section of the treaty or even actions unlawful under U.S. law.
So, regardless of any country's 'right to privacy' this says you have none.
There's no mention of encryption that I can find, though. Does that mean that if everything I do is encrypted then it cannot be recovered? Or that there is no encryption available because it would cause the search and recovery impossible?
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Did you not see the 'Other' down there? Probably has Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and OS400.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
"the V-Chip will allow parents more freedom in allowing their children to watch shows" HELLOOO, maybe what we need is to have the parents spend more TIME with the kids instead of taking over the parenting duties.
Maybe if parents actually sat down and talked to the kids or took them out to do family stuff we wouldn't NEED the V-Chip because then the parents would know what the kids were doing and would actually be part of their lives instead of relying on the electronic babysitter.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
you need a LOT of nodes. How else do you keep up with 'everything'?
I'm impressed, but I don't see my ex-wife listed in the site.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Most of us grew up with bullys, most of us grew up picked on by someone (even if you were the bully, SOMONE picked on you.) Maybe it's time to take into account the idea that life is not handed to you on a silver platter and let kids learn what it's like to actually achieve their goals instead of requiring passing them even though they don't learn a darn thing. Maybe that will have them learn enough self esteem that they will know life is way to precious to waste and that they had better make use of everything they have.
Pandering to everything that sounds good and feels good is NOT an answer, unfortunately that seems to be the way the schools have gone to. Don't care about learning that there is failure in life, make the kid feel good about theirself even though they have done nothing to deserve it.
Maybe it's time to get the heck away from the give me attitude and make the kids earn their way again and then they will get the idea that they ARE responsible for what they get and not rewarded for breathing.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
The newspapers have a standing rule NOT to print false alarm fire alarms for the explicit reason that they do not want copycat kids doing the same thing. Yet they print, front page, about school shootings, even they are lower today than ever before. School shootings are on the decline for goodness sake.
Want to make the front page? Want everyone to know your name? Guess how to do it. Gee, when you don't make anything but the local paper it's not really worth it, but if you believe you're ignored, the news papers are only too happy to help you achieve noteriety by splashing your name from coast to coast.
Now if only they would print the same place, in the same type face about people using firearms as defensive tools, the crime rate would drop faster than it has since the 'shall issue' laws went into effect.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Debian is the definition of stability, keep it up. The 'gotta push this out the door' mentality has taken over most of the other distros. Debian has always been the rock steady distro to turn to if you want a system to stay up.
Apt-get rocks too. That is possibly the biggest selling point for newbies, that it gets all dependancies as well and not just errors out when you're trying to upgrade a package.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Making you vomit is what I hope the site in question does. I would MUCH rather have the people I utterly disagree with out in the open than keep them sheltered and require secrecy to operate.
If you allow them open forum, people will see what garbage spews forth from them and the people will shy away from the idea of being associated with the group. If you require them to maintain secrecy, you give a certain mistique to the culture and people will be curious and look into the idea rather than away.
The anti-abortionists have as much right to free speech as the KKK, as Al Sharpton, as the Panthers, as David Duke, as the Illinois nazis (I hate Illinois nazis), as the skinheads, etc.
If you keep them under wraps and deny them free speech, you will allow them to work without knowing what is going on within the movements, if you allow free speech and do NOT censor, then you will also know what is going on within them and can keep a much better watch on what is planned and plan accordingly yourself.
Be careful who you try to silence, there's an ex NAACP lawyer in Texas who said it best "If they do not have freedom of speech, what makes you think we will later?" when he took a klan 1st amendment case Pro Bono and was fired by the NAACP.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Can I get it in Teal?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Alright, count me in. One problem, though. I don't think I will be asking for it to open the pod bay doors any time soon.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
The little hood or the sickle it carried?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Now we can once again TALK about something and actually be covered by free speech instead of having to toe the line for the politically correct speech of the day.
I'm glad. If it were someone with a left wing agenda, this wouldn't have even gone to trial, that's what bothers me the most. I don't like extremists of any stripe but every one of them has the right to say what they want and have all the publishings they care to have.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Some idiots have been pestering newsgroups with javascript based posts. This is cross platform and any browser/newsgroup reader that is javascript enhanced will be stung by it. So far it's only pop-up mail and pop-up browser windows but be careful if you have javascript turned on and you read newsgroups.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
That is against the 'fair use' part of the copyright law.
The other question I have is can you not bit-copy the thing? It would copy the 'copy protection' over to the new one as well, but who cares? It's for my own personal use, I can do with it as I please.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
If this type of thing blows your skirt up, find the closest Discovery Store and you'll spend hours in it looking at all the various things in there.
After what 'they' have done with plants and animals I'm not sure I'm thrilled with yet another 'fast growing plant' Next they'll tell us it's perfectly safe and our kids (in my case, my kid's kids) will have three eyes and eat dog food.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
This is commercialism. That's the way it is. Pay to hear or don't pay and don't hear.
This is supposed to be surprising to someone?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
This is the same thing the Apache (tank killing helicopter) uses for the 30MM. It's already tried and proven technology.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
With a couple thousand hits an hours security through obscurity DOES work for minor things like this unless RIAA has enlisted the help of the NSA for number crunching for who downloaded what.
The other thing I wonder is why don't sites like napster et al use basic encryption techniques to keep WHAT is seen secret? It's not like there is a derth of encryption enabled software out there, much the opposite, recent browsers all can deal with port 443 and https. Start using it. Sniffers can only tell that a connection was made, they cannot tell what the contents of that connection did or is doing.
Come on people, time to stop whining and start using what is available to us to keep big brother from tracking everything.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
The gentleman voted against the 'back door' requirement from the FBI. That's the important thing for me. Export of encryption restrictions are BS as well.
So, I wonder if he really is for the common use of encryption with personal e-mail, personal web pages etc.
It seems he has not looked into the whole DCMA thing though but tries to give generalities about it's use and incorporation. Let's keep on him for positive ability to decompile for fair use.
Watch his voting record before you take any of this interview to heart though, remember he IS a politician.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
No, he couldn't do that. If he even saw code that MAY have been windows code, transmeta, linus, and the entirety of the GPL would be tied up in court for eternity with MS lawyers.
Transmeta itself can put people onto the help, but I doubt very seriously that Linus would be part of that team.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
"You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee"
If this is considered a 'physical transfer' then they have a point.
It is not a physical transfer, it is an electronic transfer. Physical transfer is disk, CD etc.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Are sites linked from /. thinking they're in the middle of a DoS attack?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Bill and Linus working on the same end-result project? Cats and dogs living together. "C'mon Martha, time to get to the bomb shelter."
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Yes, I see the '40 atoms in width' line. The heat from each of the transistors would screw up the transistor beside it. That was the limit of the copper lines within a chip. Now they're saying they've overcome that limitation?
Printing with UV lasers, no matter how sexy this might be, seems to be safer than the x-ray technology they were using. I would much rather be in a lab with the requirement for full covering goggles than have to wear a lead lined jock strap.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Not content with buying up or locking out competitors in software, MS now is taking on Sony in the video game arena? X-Box Vs PS2. Gee does this sound familiar for those of us who lived through OS2, MAC, MS all competing and the first two having better, more stable products?
I just hope people realize what this means and what MS is actually up to. Diversification is a good thing within a company, as long as that company is not using it's size to freeze out everyone else. Threats of 'you will be last in the distibution chain' and 'we will change the hooks so your product doesn't work with ours' come to mind.
I wonder if that will work with Sega, Sony, et al.
Stay tuned, coming to a playstation and N64 near you, the furthering of 'embrace, extend, kill, crush, destroy'
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Second, it requires nations to develop standard procedures to capture and retrieve online and other information. Nations would have to be able to issue "retention orders" that would "freeze" data on any
computer. Governments would also need the ability to capture in real time the time and origin of all traffic on a networks, including telephone networks. For serious crimes, they would be required to
intercept the actual content of the communications.
Third, nations would have to cooperate with other nations in sharing electronic evidence across borders. And this cooperation requirement would apply to all crimes. They don't have to be the cybercrimes
laid out in the first section of the treaty or even actions unlawful under U.S. law.
So, regardless of any country's 'right to privacy' this says you have none.
There's no mention of encryption that I can find, though. Does that mean that if everything I do is encrypted then it cannot be recovered? Or that there is no encryption available because it would cause the search and recovery impossible?
This sounds like a really REALLY bad idea.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page