Oh, I don't know. I think perhaps that he should do just enough to make the kid think he's really hiding his porn. That sort of thing is a part of the maturation process and 14 is the right age to start doing it. 'Bout the right time to start learning how to deal with real, live perverts on his own as well.
Perhaps your fears have changed due to the normal aging process?
If you mean I have become considerably more mature, self assured and generally more fearless, yes, they have changed.
. ..do any of those folks appear in the Mitrokhin Archives [wikipedia.org]?
No, although some were Stalin sympathisers (and even Hitler sympathisers) in their day. We're talkin' home grown socialists, union organizers, civil rights activists, folk singers and such like disrupters of the social order. Some actually carried red cards for a time, but most never actually did.
. . . perhaps we could leave the T-word for people who commit actual acts of terror. ..
What's today's color and why are those cameras watching me? I hope I'm not acting "suspicious" (I'm certainly wearing a black trench coat and carrying a fiddle case).
The ones spreading terror and "security" at the expense of our rights; and the fact that such brings them absolute power is, I'm sure, only an unintended consequence.
The man with the $7.50/hr pay rate, a plastic badge, an overdeveloped ego and an IQ of 90 may "protect" us from knitting needles and violin strings, but who protects us from him?
"Take off your shoes, pants, bend over and spread 'em. This won't hurt me a bit."
M$ power was in control of hardware companies - not in its OS. DOS & Windows was a tool of such control.
Yes. I have posted about this myself and such power continues to be a threat. Without it there would be no Trusted Computing at the hardware level. This does not alter the validity of my OP.
Anyone who is cited or charged for voiceing his or her belives in a nonviolent fashion is a bigger patriot than all those who drive around with a "Support our troops" sticker . ..
Pete's the one who had the guts to stand on the First Amendment, not the Fifth; and declare that Congress did not have the authority to even question him on his beliefs.
You may count yourself lucky, that you have such friends.
I am psychologically constrained to do so on a daily basis at this point. It is more and more becoming my role to be one of those who remembers them. I am of the next generation and they are passing on at an alarming rate.
You just need to be asked to run small company with all bureaucracy done on paper with typewriter. . . Though I hardly expect the average underage offsprings of computer era - which are made majority of/. readers/posters - to really understand what really computer and data networks did for small/middle/big companies.
I've been running small businesses since well before the MITS Altair was introduced. I've hand wired vacuum tube bistable multivibrators. As a child I learned to type on a Salvation Army Remington. I'm no disco era baby.
Since I not only run small businesses, but often do so as a sole propriator (or on a bonus basis when running someone else's) I see the money flowing out of my pocket. I know where it goes and I know what it buys me.
That's why I'm running Linux on a six year old box (which I will continue to run until it physically dies beyond repair) and will not be "buying" Vista.
God bless the personal computer and its many peripherals, but the fact that computers can be a financial advantage is not the same thing as saying that all money spent on computers confers such an advantage.
As we slowly give up our freedoms and rights bit by bit for some safety that nobody can prove we actually have.
And here is the irony of Franklin's dictum; it cannot be proved that we actually have some more saftey as a result of giving up rights, since giving up rights merely transfers the source of the threat from one party to another.
I have many friends and acquaintences who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era, a few of them even cited for contempt of Congress. I have lived through the hottest phase of the cold war and the social termoil of the 60s; and for the first time in my life I find myself actually afraid on a day to day basis , not of the external terrorists, who are no more a real threat to me than they ever have been (and I'm a native New Yorker) , but from the internal terrorists.
Gives a whole new meaning to the "Broken Windows" fallacy of economics.
It's hardly new. 90% of the "economic boom" of the modern computer industry has been due to the Broken Windows Fallacy for the past decade or so. Mere money is being passed around like crazy, spent on little more than flushing wealth down the toilet, not to mention far too much of my irreplacable time, which I could better spend than fixing stuff that needn't be broken in the first place.
There are other ways to sample an external signal (e.g. parallel port)
Yep, the photo sensor can be pluged into the parallel port to trigger the internal counting circuit of the cpu. Don't even need to make up a plug, just put pins on the leads and plug them directly into the appropriate holes in the socket. You can run up to eight counters at a time this way (but at that point you'll want to build a cable).
If you're using a USB printer this may be the way to go, since the only thing you have to "build" are the wires onto the photo sensor. The logic circuit is already built in to your computer.
As an aside you can make your own computer controled breakbeam devices this way too. Just put an infrared emiting diode on one side , a sensor plugged into the parallel port on the other and when the beam is broken it triggers the internal counter. Now just write the software for whatever you want to happen at a trigger event. Silent alarm, not so silent prerecorded greeting, turn a light on or off, etc.
An added bonus is that there would be a quantitative metric for determining how judges are performing.
Because that's worked so well for our school system.
When you create a quantitative metric the metric takes on the air of being a real measure and performance is done against the metric. Unfortunately (well, fortunately actually) you cannot quantify wisdom or justice. Those are human values that can only be put into judgement by other humans.
In the schools this means that reading test scores are going up while literacy is going down. In law enforcement this means that good people behaving innocuously are being harrassed and arrested in areas with low crime rates (to maintain arrest quotas).
I suppose this would have one good effect though, I've already seen judges nearly come to tears for handing down mandatory sentences that they knew were travesties of justice. If we could just get rid of the judges entirely than only those to whom the injustice was perpetrated against need even know about it; and a computerized abatoir ought to take care of that little problem, not to mention increase the supply of Soylent Green.
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Oh, I don't know. I think perhaps that he should do just enough to make the kid think he's really hiding his porn. That sort of thing is a part of the maturation process and 14 is the right age to start doing it. 'Bout the right time to start learning how to deal with real, live perverts on his own as well.
Ha, ha, only serious.
KFG
Perhaps your fears have changed due to the normal aging process?
.do any of those folks appear in the Mitrokhin Archives [wikipedia.org]?
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If you mean I have become considerably more mature, self assured and generally more fearless, yes, they have changed.
. .
No, although some were Stalin sympathisers (and even Hitler sympathisers) in their day. We're talkin' home grown socialists, union organizers, civil rights activists, folk singers and such like disrupters of the social order. Some actually carried red cards for a time, but most never actually did.
. . . perhaps we could leave the T-word for people who commit actual acts of terror. .
What's today's color and why are those cameras watching me? I hope I'm not acting "suspicious" (I'm certainly wearing a black trench coat and carrying a fiddle case).
KFG
Who do you mean by "internal terrorists"?
The ones spreading terror and "security" at the expense of our rights; and the fact that such brings them absolute power is, I'm sure, only an unintended consequence.
The man with the $7.50/hr pay rate, a plastic badge, an overdeveloped ego and an IQ of 90 may "protect" us from knitting needles and violin strings, but who protects us from him?
"Take off your shoes, pants, bend over and spread 'em. This won't hurt me a bit."
KFG
. . .are we pretty much screwed to slide down this slope to a place where we have no voice and no control? I sure hope not.
Hope springs infernal.
KFG
And I don't think I'm the first to be taken by irony that Blair was brought to us by . . .Blair.
KFG
Bah, I'll just keep myself full of beer so that I don't understand the visual even if I see it.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, no! This is a dupe story, you're not going to catch me posting again.
Oh, wait, shit!
KFG
. . .they came out on NBC. How did CBS get to show them. . .
Money makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around. . .
KFG
Oh come oooooooooooooooon, yer not going to let my throwing a little Saxon into the Latin throw you, are you?
KFG
I can only hope you're on the next train to get bombed.
Q.E.F.D.
KFG
M$ power was in control of hardware companies - not in its OS. DOS & Windows was a tool of such control.
Yes. I have posted about this myself and such power continues to be a threat. Without it there would be no Trusted Computing at the hardware level. This does not alter the validity of my OP.
KFG
Anyone who is cited or charged for voiceing his or her belives in a nonviolent fashion is a bigger patriot than all those who drive around with a "Support our troops" sticker . . .
Pete's the one who had the guts to stand on the First Amendment, not the Fifth; and declare that Congress did not have the authority to even question him on his beliefs.
You may count yourself lucky, that you have such friends.
I am psychologically constrained to do so on a daily basis at this point. It is more and more becoming my role to be one of those who remembers them. I am of the next generation and they are passing on at an alarming rate.
KFG
You just need to be asked to run small company with all bureaucracy done on paper with typewriter. . . Though I hardly expect the average underage offsprings of computer era - which are made majority of /. readers /posters - to really understand what really computer and data networks did for small/middle/big companies.
I've been running small businesses since well before the MITS Altair was introduced. I've hand wired vacuum tube bistable multivibrators. As a child I learned to type on a Salvation Army Remington. I'm no disco era baby.
Since I not only run small businesses, but often do so as a sole propriator (or on a bonus basis when running someone else's) I see the money flowing out of my pocket. I know where it goes and I know what it buys me.
That's why I'm running Linux on a six year old box (which I will continue to run until it physically dies beyond repair) and will not be "buying" Vista.
God bless the personal computer and its many peripherals, but the fact that computers can be a financial advantage is not the same thing as saying that all money spent on computers confers such an advantage.
KFG
As we slowly give up our freedoms and rights bit by bit for some safety that nobody can prove we actually have.
And here is the irony of Franklin's dictum; it cannot be proved that we actually have some more saftey as a result of giving up rights, since giving up rights merely transfers the source of the threat from one party to another.
I have many friends and acquaintences who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era, a few of them even cited for contempt of Congress. I have lived through the hottest phase of the cold war and the social termoil of the 60s; and for the first time in my life I find myself actually afraid on a day to day basis , not of the external terrorists, who are no more a real threat to me than they ever have been (and I'm a native New Yorker) , but from the internal terrorists.
KFG
. . .when did slashdot start covering terrorism issues? This isn't even close to news for nerds, or my rights online.
Somebody hasn't been paying attention.
KFG
Gives a whole new meaning to the "Broken Windows" fallacy of economics.
It's hardly new. 90% of the "economic boom" of the modern computer industry has been due to the Broken Windows Fallacy for the past decade or so. Mere money is being passed around like crazy, spent on little more than flushing wealth down the toilet, not to mention far too much of my irreplacable time, which I could better spend than fixing stuff that needn't be broken in the first place.
KFG
There are other ways to sample an external signal (e.g. parallel port)
Yep, the photo sensor can be pluged into the parallel port to trigger the internal counting circuit of the cpu. Don't even need to make up a plug, just put pins on the leads and plug them directly into the appropriate holes in the socket. You can run up to eight counters at a time this way (but at that point you'll want to build a cable).
If you're using a USB printer this may be the way to go, since the only thing you have to "build" are the wires onto the photo sensor. The logic circuit is already built in to your computer.
As an aside you can make your own computer controled breakbeam devices this way too. Just put an infrared emiting diode on one side , a sensor plugged into the parallel port on the other and when the beam is broken it triggers the internal counter. Now just write the software for whatever you want to happen at a trigger event. Silent alarm, not so silent prerecorded greeting, turn a light on or off, etc.
KFG
CLOSE THE GODDAMNED DOOR. WE'RE NOT COOLING THE WHOLE OUTSIDE!
Damned straight, so long as the device is running we're heating it.
KFG
You've not heard of David Brin then?
Yes, I have. It's even concievable that he has heard of me.
KFG
. . . have Porsche's, Ferari's, Lamborghini's or even Koenigsegg's just to drive to the store too?
Well it beats having 'em to keep the extra socks in.
KFG
I believe that, in private, Bush refers to Cheney as "My bulletproof vest."
KFG
There can be only one!
KFG
An added bonus is that there would be a quantitative metric for determining how judges are performing.
Because that's worked so well for our school system.
When you create a quantitative metric the metric takes on the air of being a real measure and performance is done against the metric. Unfortunately (well, fortunately actually) you cannot quantify wisdom or justice. Those are human values that can only be put into judgement by other humans.
In the schools this means that reading test scores are going up while literacy is going down. In law enforcement this means that good people behaving innocuously are being harrassed and arrested in areas with low crime rates (to maintain arrest quotas).
I suppose this would have one good effect though, I've already seen judges nearly come to tears for handing down mandatory sentences that they knew were travesties of justice. If we could just get rid of the judges entirely than only those to whom the injustice was perpetrated against need even know about it; and a computerized abatoir ought to take care of that little problem, not to mention increase the supply of Soylent Green.
KFG
Don't imply that Google is or will be doing anything wrong with this company until some negative action is taken.
Thanks, I was actually feeling a bit iffy about having hired Tony and Guido to handle my collections, but you've put my mind at ease.
KFG
If my chickens didn't like it they could just go file a complaint.
KFG