The question in this case is how the 'dominatrix' was brought up. Was she given advice on sex as and when she needed it or was she 'protected' from it all and thus didn't have the knowledge she needed to recognise this dirty old man for what he was. But as she's only 21 she'll probably grow out of it. Here in the UK we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe and the worst sex education. You give kids the knowledge they need and the chances are they're less likely to get into trouble. Hiding them from sex will only make them more curious - easy prey for the some of the lower-life forms that infest some chatrooms.
So you divest your responsibilities as a parent over your child's upbringing to the librarian, as in why Nazi and porn sites are a bad thing, rather than explaining to them why they are? Why did you bother having them at all? And I am not allowed to access webmail at work due to the ILOVEYOU virus and paranoia amongst the higher-ups.
So what you're saying is that you are too useless as a parent to exercise control over what your child is exposed to. Why should the library control what your children do or see, that's your job, and if you can't do it properly then maybe it's time you stopped lazing in front of the TV and get some parenting lessons. As I write this I'm watching TV and an advert is on trying to get me to buy Levis by using sexual imagery - 'ban Levis, protect the kids'. Would you ban the Bible because there's some pretty gruesome stuff in there? And it's censorship not sensorship - maybe you should invest in some English lessons along with your parenting classes.
I thought DC were using the 'no reverse-engineering of decryption clause' of the DMCA to try and make this stick. What else is there? EULA license violation by someone who didn't agree to it? If they aren't using the DMCA then what chance do they think they have, apart from a few nervous geeks caving in?
MPAA lawyers issued a cease-and-desist letter to the makers of the piracy tool Mithral which, it is claimed, allows pirates to encode Divx copies of DVD films in only 20 seconds by using all of the bandwidth of the internet.
In related news, the RIAA has gone after Compaq, Dell, IBM and HP, manufacturers of the widely-used piracy tool the personal computer. Jack Valenti, spokesdroid of the media-industrial complex, said today that 'these cases are another example of our zero-tolerance policy towards anyone threatening our inalienable right to foist N-Sync on an unsuspecting public. Anyone who resists will be ruthlessly crushed. We shall firewall them at the routers, we will firewall them on the servers, we will firewall them on their PCs but we will never, never surrender.....our right to abuse our market-position as we see fit'
Exactly, just like a certain ragtag band of terrorists should have kept their mouths shut and paid their taxes 200 years ago. At least then 'The Patriot' would never have been made.
They aren't. If the RIAA goons show up with a court order due to piracy, the university will do nothing to help. But, amazingly enough Napster has legitimate uses too.
But this is in response to a company trying to use a legal sledgehammer to crack a nut. Their software didn't run on Linux, so some bright spark cracked the crappy encryption algorithm and DC are now threatening all sorts of legal action against them. This is the kind of bull that the DMCA allows, thank god we don't have it here yet, but given that the UK is pretty much in the pocket of America, it won't be long.
Because they don't have to. The individual developers probably do want to produce good work, but the ones in charge are only interested in getting the thing out of the door and to hell with the customer. I've seen it many times where politics decides what the customer/user gets, not a product that's well-built.
Well they're forcing sysadmins to learn some obscure directory paradigm requiring major network redesign, but then the PHBs never see that, just bitch about the system not working properly and blame the sysadmins. And if Windows is so easy to use, then why do I have to keep helping my dad, an accountant of thiry years with more qualifications than you can shake a stick at, to keep his Win98 desktop up and running. Oh I forgot, it's the third-party software like errrmm Flight Simulator 2000. Linux is hard, but so is Windows and at least with Linux a power-user can find out what's wrong and fix it - no reinstall required because it's all in well-documented text files not in an obfuscated, bloated database.
Indeed and it will no doubt run perfectly well, proving that having access to the source code is a good thing. Of course nobody outside the Empire has that kind of access.
No but they do expect a certain level of service from the server, which according to the article they're not getting due to (allegedly) Microsoft expecting them to change to a relatively untried OS even though the Linux servers were running fine. Anyway, the execs of Hertz would probably all be driving Mercedes' anyway.
Have you been asleep for 2 years. Do you think that having a significant portion of their revenue taken off you by a company that has a monopoly on the main operating system it runs on might have had a slight effect on the way Netscape did business, not to mention the fact that IE comes with the OS, whereas NS4 had to be downloaded at 10MB over a dial-up line. If Netscape can be considered failures it's mainly because it was damn hard to compete against a monopoly that did everything in it's power to push Netscape out.
I wish people would stop whinging about mozilla being bloated and use Galeon. You get the nice, quick rendering engine of Mozilla without all the other stuff you don't want all wrapped up in a simple GTK interface.
The 'No mouse found' message in the log was a dead giveaway, and it was due to me not inserting the right module for my USB mouse. And what useful debugging info does 'Windows is waiting for the close program dialog' on a blue screen give you exactly?
Sorry I forgot the tag for the first sentence about NS and SO. I have had X completely lock my machine, so that a reboot was the only option, along with the endless fsck. I'm not saying that Linux never crashes, but it's always due to my mistake and there's a wealth of info about why it happened, unlike the various flavours of Windows.
Re:Great Link; waaay more interesting than /.'s!
on
2001: A Space Laptop
·
· Score: 1
If the costs are comparable, this would run us about $350 Million. Hell, I think we've made movies that cost more! I'm sure that if you add the money spent each year by just the European governments it comes to more than this.
Yes, because Netscape and Star Office are operating systems that crash regularly. I have seen Linux crash, but I knew that I had entered the wrong information into my X server config file, and had the information to subsequently fix it. How many Win9x crashes have you had, and how much information was provided for you to track the cause down. Oh, but it was a buggy driver. How do you know? Point to the place in the Windows log or core dump where it says that in detail. Oh sorry I forgot, Windows 9x doesn't have these because they have no place in a modern consumer OS. Just an ex-Windows user who switched to an OS that gives control to the user, not to the predatory monopoly.
It was just a poor choice of word, that's all, I meant open and standard. I just despise SMB because it caused me more work without any benefits whatsoever, merely because the monopoly likes to make life difficult for those that don't just hand over money and not try something else.
Slashdot Mirror
The question in this case is how the 'dominatrix' was brought up. Was she given advice on sex as and when she needed it or was she 'protected' from it all and thus didn't have the knowledge she needed to recognise this dirty old man for what he was. But as she's only 21 she'll probably grow out of it. Here in the UK we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe and the worst sex education. You give kids the knowledge they need and the chances are they're less likely to get into trouble. Hiding them from sex will only make them more curious - easy prey for the some of the lower-life forms that infest some chatrooms.
So you divest your responsibilities as a parent over your child's upbringing to the librarian, as in why Nazi and porn sites are a bad thing, rather than explaining to them why they are? Why did you bother having them at all? And I am not allowed to access webmail at work due to the ILOVEYOU virus and paranoia amongst the higher-ups.
So what you're saying is that you are too useless as a parent to exercise control over what your child is exposed to. Why should the library control what your children do or see, that's your job, and if you can't do it properly then maybe it's time you stopped lazing in front of the TV and get some parenting lessons. As I write this I'm watching TV and an advert is on trying to get me to buy Levis by using sexual imagery - 'ban Levis, protect the kids'. Would you ban the Bible because there's some pretty gruesome stuff in there? And it's censorship not sensorship - maybe you should invest in some English lessons along with your parenting classes.
I thought DC were using the 'no reverse-engineering of decryption clause' of the DMCA to try and make this stick. What else is there? EULA license violation by someone who didn't agree to it? If they aren't using the DMCA then what chance do they think they have, apart from a few nervous geeks caving in?
MPAA lawyers issued a cease-and-desist letter to the makers of the piracy tool Mithral which, it is claimed, allows pirates to encode Divx copies of DVD films in only 20 seconds by using all of the bandwidth of the internet.
In related news, the RIAA has gone after Compaq, Dell, IBM and HP, manufacturers of the widely-used piracy tool the personal computer. Jack Valenti, spokesdroid of the media-industrial complex, said today that 'these cases are another example of our zero-tolerance policy towards anyone threatening our inalienable right to foist N-Sync on an unsuspecting public. Anyone who resists will be ruthlessly crushed. We shall firewall them at the routers, we will firewall them on the servers, we will firewall them on their PCs but we will never, never surrender.....our right to abuse our market-position as we see fit'
Exactly, just like a certain ragtag band of terrorists should have kept their mouths shut and paid their taxes 200 years ago. At least then 'The Patriot' would never have been made.
They aren't. If the RIAA goons show up with a court order due to piracy, the university will do nothing to help. But, amazingly enough Napster has legitimate uses too.
But this is in response to a company trying to use a legal sledgehammer to crack a nut. Their software didn't run on Linux, so some bright spark cracked the crappy encryption algorithm and DC are now threatening all sorts of legal action against them. This is the kind of bull that the DMCA allows, thank god we don't have it here yet, but given that the UK is pretty much in the pocket of America, it won't be long.
I saw something even more terrifying on the wininformant site - looks like MS are planning a car crash.
And let us never accuse Slashdot of bias :)
Because they don't have to. The individual developers probably do want to produce good work, but the ones in charge are only interested in getting the thing out of the door and to hell with the customer. I've seen it many times where politics decides what the customer/user gets, not a product that's well-built.
According to the fish, that means 'old wine in new hoses' ?!!?
Has anybody got a screenshot of this 'innovation'? I keep hearing about it, but all google turns up is a few gags about how useless it all was.
Well they're forcing sysadmins to learn some obscure directory paradigm requiring major network redesign, but then the PHBs never see that, just bitch about the system not working properly and blame the sysadmins. And if Windows is so easy to use, then why do I have to keep helping my dad, an accountant of thiry years with more qualifications than you can shake a stick at, to keep his Win98 desktop up and running. Oh I forgot, it's the third-party software like errrmm Flight Simulator 2000. Linux is hard, but so is Windows and at least with Linux a power-user can find out what's wrong and fix it - no reinstall required because it's all in well-documented text files not in an obfuscated, bloated database.
Indeed and it will no doubt run perfectly well, proving that having access to the source code is a good thing. Of course nobody outside the Empire has that kind of access.
No but they do expect a certain level of service from the server, which according to the article they're not getting due to (allegedly) Microsoft expecting them to change to a relatively untried OS even though the Linux servers were running fine. Anyway, the execs of Hertz would probably all be driving Mercedes' anyway.
Have you been asleep for 2 years. Do you think that having a significant portion of their revenue taken off you by a company that has a monopoly on the main operating system it runs on might have had a slight effect on the way Netscape did business, not to mention the fact that IE comes with the OS, whereas NS4 had to be downloaded at 10MB over a dial-up line. If Netscape can be considered failures it's mainly because it was damn hard to compete against a monopoly that did everything in it's power to push Netscape out.
I wish people would stop whinging about mozilla being bloated and use Galeon. You get the nice, quick rendering engine of Mozilla without all the other stuff you don't want all wrapped up in a simple GTK interface.
The 'No mouse found' message in the log was a dead giveaway, and it was due to me not inserting the right module for my USB mouse. And what useful debugging info does 'Windows is waiting for the close program dialog' on a blue screen give you exactly?
Designed for
Maximum
Control of
America
Sorry I forgot the tag for the first sentence about NS and SO. I have had X completely lock my machine, so that a reboot was the only option, along with the endless fsck. I'm not saying that Linux never crashes, but it's always due to my mistake and there's a wealth of info about why it happened, unlike the various flavours of Windows.
If the costs are comparable, this would run us about $350 Million. Hell, I think we've made movies that cost more! I'm sure that if you add the money spent each year by just the European governments it comes to more than this.
Dumb Americans.
Yes, because Netscape and Star Office are operating systems that crash regularly. I have seen Linux crash, but I knew that I had entered the wrong information into my X server config file, and had the information to subsequently fix it. How many Win9x crashes have you had, and how much information was provided for you to track the cause down. Oh, but it was a buggy driver. How do you know? Point to the place in the Windows log or core dump where it says that in detail. Oh sorry I forgot, Windows 9x doesn't have these because they have no place in a modern consumer OS. Just an ex-Windows user who switched to an OS that gives control to the user, not to the predatory monopoly.
It was just a poor choice of word, that's all, I meant open and standard. I just despise SMB because it caused me more work without any benefits whatsoever, merely because the monopoly likes to make life difficult for those that don't just hand over money and not try something else.
Using this with the Livid project. Surely a RAM-based FIFO would be quicker than a disk-based one?