I appreciate all the work your friend has done, but why try to extend IPv4 when IPv6 is already here? This reminds me of companies producing "blazingly-fast" ISA video cards years after the PCI and AGP specs were defined... --
[...] parents everywhere (In Canada) can now safely lock their 'kidz' in front of the tube without having to worry about them seeing violence or mayhem [...]
Horror of horrors! What's this world coming to?! (This is supposed to be a bad thing?) --
This story is an example of why vouchers are a bad idea. Private schools can do whatever they heck they want, and are not bound by all of those things that public schools are.
You're missing the most important point of all: they're bound by students that actual attend. If a school enforces draconian rules then no one will attend, and the school will go out of business. So it's obviously in a school's best interests to setup fair rules and abide by them. And in the worst case (unmerited expulsion), you find a school--remember, with private schools you choose where to go--whose values more closely match your own.
I have NO DOUBT that if I was at a private school, I would have been screwed. [...] The only thing that saved me was her accountability to the law. She had no proof of wrongdoing,
I'm not sure I follow your logic. You're saying that you were saved because your accuser had no proof of wrongdoing, then make a blanket accusation against all private schools without any proof of your own.
Not once (er, that I'm aware of) has it locked anyone in, required a platform, used Javascript [...]
Not used Javascript?!
<script language=javascript>
<!--
var remote = null;
function rs(n,u,w,h) {
remote = window.open(u, n, 'width=' + w + ',height=' + h +',resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');
We disabled the gas pedal, which is primarily a safety feature--the stock cart won't drive if the pedal isn't pressed--and difficult to operate for anyone over 4" tall.
Having to be shorter than 4" really narrows your options. --
Congratulations, Slashdot, for once more posting a story which--however factually accurate or inaccurate--is written with such bias that it infuriates everyone who reads it. Well folks, instead of just reading stories like these and getting angrier and angrier at "them," use your irritation to actually do something that will have a positive influence.
The DMCA (PDF), however villified it is here on Slashdot, was not intended to turn out as it did. Sen. Hatch's intent was a law that would allow digital copies to be made. The no-circumvention clause that we're all familiar with was supposed to be a pot sweetener to prod the recording industry into releasing digital media. Unfortunately, we all know how the law was abused by those it sought to protect.
Sen. Hatch's office has links to a number of letters and opinions regarding his true stance on the issue of digital media copying. I don't doubt he will bring this issue back up, and as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee the old media companies will be in the hot seat for what they have done.
So get moving! Do something that will have a real impact. Write your represantitive! Many of them were elected on non-technical issues and don't really know about the topic. Maybe it will be your letter that shapes their opinion.
I don't mean to play devil's advocate here for the "incumbant carries," as Mr. Heins refers to them, but I do have a point of view from our regional provider, Ameritech. I don't have the specifics of the story, but a friend who works installing DSL for Ameritech says that Ameritech has ceased upgrading equipment in all CO's. The reason is because they have been forced by the FCC to lease out their new, expensive equipment at laughable rates in the name of competition.
So instead of buying any more they've decided to take their ball and go home, so to speak. But when Heins says that "independent ISP owners and operators are willing to pay fair-market rates" it does make me wonder what he means by fair-market rates .
The fact that a quote from the article which neatly sums up the entire RAMBUS story can get moderated redundant three times while drivel like this remains at +2 serves as a telling reminder that most moderators on Slashdot have no clue what they're moderating. While the quotes was redundant, it was no less pertinant to the story than 40% of the other comments on the story that were pure speculation, unfounded opinions and of the "my PC150 h4x0r MHz SDRAM is l33t!" type.
In fact, if Slashdot posts were more informative in general, it wouldn't be bad thing. Remember when people who actually used to know something about the subject at hand would post intelligent responses? These days it seems like half the posts are people with nothing bright to say who instead resort to posting a +5, Funny attempt. --
Anyway, my mother is 62, but she sure thinks the net is essential for school work at any level.
Age has nothing to do with it, and I'm sorry for your mother, but she is wrong. To say that "the net is essential for school work at any level" is a vast generalization that's mostly incorrect. Is the Internet essential for children learning to read? No. Is the Internet essential for children learning to subtract? No. Is the Internet essential for college students learning about particle physics? No. Most any text book and a healthy double dose of class attendance and homework will do fine.
What may be essential are parts of the Internet. Online encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and even your mother's homework assignments are areas that would be good to have access to in a school. There's nothing wrong with that. But to give children access to 90 percent of the Internet as we know it today is a complete mistake and has a trivial effect on the advancement of their education. --
Sorry, I should have been more clear: "freshmen- and sohomore-levels of college." If you're writing papers about topics that books don't exist for, then you're obviously not doing first-year or sophomoric work, and what I wrote didn't apply to you. If you are doing entry-level work, then consider this: could you have written just as interesting of a paper using readily available information at your school's library? In most cases, I would say the answer is yes. --
what legal options do a bunch of minors with very little money have against a corporation like N2H2?
I'm consistenly amazed why the/. crowd, which is usually open-minded about many issues, fails to even consider the other side of this censorware coin:
Do schools and libraries actually need Internet access in the first place?
If they do, do they need unlimited access?
How is installing censorware any different than just not buying a book?
Let's face it: Internet access is not a necessary element of a student's first 12 years of education. Even it's value for the freshman and sophomore years of college is dubious at best. (How much time have we all wasted with email and web browsing? I'm glad no one is counting.)
At my engineering school, the same test administered by the same professors for the last 50 years has lower scores today than in the 1950's, when Internet access, calculators and personal computers were unheard of. For all our clever technology, when it comes to our intellectual aptitude we're stupider than our grandparents.
If anything, censorship in schools needs to go further. Instead of blocking certain sites and locations, censorware should only allow certain sites and locations.
But with regard to Bess, if you think you can form a lawsuit because a company whose software you used compiled statistics on your usage patterns, you need to have another think. Would you also want to sue Mobil for compiling information on its SpeedPass users? Or Ford, for tracking information on people who purchase its cars? Do you seriously think that you can launch a lawsuit against Home Depot for counting how many people purchased vinyl siding? Of course not. And so you can't with N2H2, either.
Quit thinking you're so important that your browsing habits actually matter. They don't, and it is the mark of the self-absorbed to be paranoid, because paranoia makes people feel that their cause is that much nobler. But in your case, there is no data that even ties you as an individual to any marketers, so claiming damagers--the basis of any lawsuit--isn't even a plausible option. It's time to drop the ideas of removing Internet access blocks from your school's browsers. It's time to stop spending time surfing the web. And it's time to start studying for your classes, which is how you will get into a good college, where you will continue to study for your classes, which is how you will get a good job, where you will continue to study, which is how you will do something good and make a difference in this world.
(If I've been harsh in my wording, I apologize. My intent was not to troll or throw out flamebait, but to seriously present another facet--one which is rarely seen here--of this issue.) --
Will copying between virtual machines be impossible?
I've found that life seems to parallel life, and a lot of times when I don't know the answer to something in the realm of computers, I look to other things in life as an equivalent. So in other words, the question becomes: can making a copy of something that we have created be made impossible?
I think that, when the question is asked that way, the answer is clearly no.
[This was the note I received from Egghead regarding whether or not my credit card # was stolen or not.]
Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM EGGHEAD.COM CEO
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 09:43:41 -0800
From: "Egghead.com Special Update"
To: mcdan@CSI.COM
Dear Customer,
Egghead.com has discovered that a hacker has accessed our computer
systems, potentially including our customer databases. While there
is no indication that any customer information has been compromised,
as a precautionary measure, we have taken immediate steps to protect
you by contacting the credit card companies with whom we work. They
are in the process of alerting card issuers and banks so that they
can take the necessary steps to ensure the security of cardholders
who may be affected.
We wish to underscore that we have taken these steps as precautions.
We have no information at this time to suggest that any credit card
information has been compromised. We are investigating this possibility,
and we are doing everything we can to proactively protect you. If you
would like further information, you may wish to contact the issuer of
your credit card to determine what steps they are taking. We regret any
inconvenience this may cause you.
We issued a press release on this matter earlier today. It is appended
below this message. If you have additional questions, please call our
customer service team at 1-800-EGGHEAD (344-4323).
Respectfully,
Jeff Sheahan
President & CEO
Egghead.com, Inc.
[There was a press release below this but I cut it out. It was standard business stuff.] --
[...] said Peter Petrusky, the director of new media at PricewaterhouseCoopers. But with some of these new ad formats, he said, "There's a level of intrusiveness that advertisers and publishers are going to have to manage."
Spoken like a true marketing type. How about the level of intrusiveness as it relates to the marketees? Marketing as it exists today is like feeding a city's population by dropping 1,000,000 lbs. of food all over their houses. The smart marketers of the future that actually want to make money will find a way to help them to the grocery store. --
The three methods described are pop up windows, [...] "interstitials", and [...] "superstitials".
In a related press release, AOL (NYSE:AOL) today announced that all customers who visited their astrology forums would be automatically signed up for the superstitials.
BTW, a here's a better link to the article, without the annoying popup window ad. --
Unless you're running an ad blocker proxy, it's going to get really hard to ignore ads on the web soon.
For ad blocking, I heartily recommend Guidescope. Here's a company that respects people's privacy, provides a great service, and has a program that actually works--cross platform, cross browser.
Incidentally, one of the great ironies of being in the ad blocking market is that you're assured that when you advertise it targets only those people who don't already have your product. --
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't this sort of like saying, "If you're deaf please raise your hand."
--
I appreciate all the work your friend has done, but why try to extend IPv4 when IPv6 is already here? This reminds me of companies producing "blazingly-fast" ISA video cards years after the PCI and AGP specs were defined...
--
--
Horror of horrors! What's this world coming to?! (This is supposed to be a bad thing?)
--
Shouldn't that story title be "Mir: Rust in Pieces"?
--
You're missing the most important point of all: they're bound by students that actual attend. If a school enforces draconian rules then no one will attend, and the school will go out of business. So it's obviously in a school's best interests to setup fair rules and abide by them. And in the worst case (unmerited expulsion), you find a school--remember, with private schools you choose where to go--whose values more closely match your own.
I have NO DOUBT that if I was at a private school, I would have been screwed. [...] The only thing that saved me was her accountability to the law. She had no proof of wrongdoing,
I'm not sure I follow your logic. You're saying that you were saved because your accuser had no proof of wrongdoing, then make a blanket accusation against all private schools without any proof of your own.
Not used Javascript?!
<script language=javascript>
<!--
var remote = null;
function rs(n,u,w,h) {
remote = window.open(u, n, 'width=' + w + ',height=' + h +',resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');
if (remote != null) {
if (remote.opener == null)
remote.opener = self;
window.name = 'myYahooRoot';
remote.locatio n.href = u;
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Having to be shorter than 4" really narrows your options.
--
Sorry, I didn't mean to gloss anything over by using the nominative sense. Let that read "was not intended by Sen. Hatch to turn out as it did."
CmdrTaco flaunts his limitless knowledge of industry acronyms once again!
What is that, 1.5 microbytes?! 1.5 megabytes of hard drive space?
(Strangely, the .sig is quite appropriate in this case. ;-)
The DMCA (PDF), however villified it is here on Slashdot, was not intended to turn out as it did. Sen. Hatch's intent was a law that would allow digital copies to be made. The no-circumvention clause that we're all familiar with was supposed to be a pot sweetener to prod the recording industry into releasing digital media. Unfortunately, we all know how the law was abused by those it sought to protect.
Sen. Hatch's office has links to a number of letters and opinions regarding his true stance on the issue of digital media copying. I don't doubt he will bring this issue back up, and as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee the old media companies will be in the hot seat for what they have done.
So get moving! Do something that will have a real impact. Write your represantitive! Many of them were elected on non-technical issues and don't really know about the topic. Maybe it will be your letter that shapes their opinion.
So instead of buying any more they've decided to take their ball and go home, so to speak. But when Heins says that "independent ISP owners and operators are willing to pay fair-market rates" it does make me wonder what he means by fair-market rates .
It's just too bad they didn't go with TurboLinuxCare, so they could've been known as TLC!
--
In fact, if Slashdot posts were more informative in general, it wouldn't be bad thing. Remember when people who actually used to know something about the subject at hand would post intelligent responses? These days it seems like half the posts are people with nothing bright to say who instead resort to posting a +5, Funny attempt.
--
Age has nothing to do with it, and I'm sorry for your mother, but she is wrong. To say that "the net is essential for school work at any level" is a vast generalization that's mostly incorrect. Is the Internet essential for children learning to read? No. Is the Internet essential for children learning to subtract? No. Is the Internet essential for college students learning about particle physics? No. Most any text book and a healthy double dose of class attendance and homework will do fine.
What may be essential are parts of the Internet. Online encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and even your mother's homework assignments are areas that would be good to have access to in a school. There's nothing wrong with that. But to give children access to 90 percent of the Internet as we know it today is a complete mistake and has a trivial effect on the advancement of their education.
--
Sorry, I should have been more clear: "freshmen- and sohomore-levels of college." If you're writing papers about topics that books don't exist for, then you're obviously not doing first-year or sophomoric work, and what I wrote didn't apply to you. If you are doing entry-level work, then consider this: could you have written just as interesting of a paper using readily available information at your school's library? In most cases, I would say the answer is yes.
--
I'm consistenly amazed why the /. crowd, which is usually open-minded about many issues, fails to even consider the other side of this censorware coin:
- Do schools and libraries actually need Internet access in the first place?
- If they do, do they need unlimited access?
- How is installing censorware any different than just not buying a book?
Let's face it: Internet access is not a necessary element of a student's first 12 years of education. Even it's value for the freshman and sophomore years of college is dubious at best. (How much time have we all wasted with email and web browsing? I'm glad no one is counting.)At my engineering school, the same test administered by the same professors for the last 50 years has lower scores today than in the 1950's, when Internet access, calculators and personal computers were unheard of. For all our clever technology, when it comes to our intellectual aptitude we're stupider than our grandparents.
If anything, censorship in schools needs to go further. Instead of blocking certain sites and locations, censorware should only allow certain sites and locations.
But with regard to Bess, if you think you can form a lawsuit because a company whose software you used compiled statistics on your usage patterns, you need to have another think. Would you also want to sue Mobil for compiling information on its SpeedPass users? Or Ford, for tracking information on people who purchase its cars? Do you seriously think that you can launch a lawsuit against Home Depot for counting how many people purchased vinyl siding? Of course not. And so you can't with N2H2, either.
Quit thinking you're so important that your browsing habits actually matter. They don't, and it is the mark of the self-absorbed to be paranoid, because paranoia makes people feel that their cause is that much nobler. But in your case, there is no data that even ties you as an individual to any marketers, so claiming damagers--the basis of any lawsuit--isn't even a plausible option. It's time to drop the ideas of removing Internet access blocks from your school's browsers. It's time to stop spending time surfing the web. And it's time to start studying for your classes, which is how you will get into a good college, where you will continue to study for your classes, which is how you will get a good job, where you will continue to study, which is how you will do something good and make a difference in this world.
(If I've been harsh in my wording, I apologize. My intent was not to troll or throw out flamebait, but to seriously present another facet--one which is rarely seen here--of this issue.)
--
I've found that life seems to parallel life, and a lot of times when I don't know the answer to something in the realm of computers, I look to other things in life as an equivalent. So in other words, the question becomes: can making a copy of something that we have created be made impossible?
I think that, when the question is asked that way, the answer is clearly no.
-Daniel.
--
That's pretty funny coming from the guy that came up with "Slashdot"? ;-)
--
[This was the note I received from Egghead regarding whether or not my credit card # was stolen or not.]
Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM EGGHEAD.COM CEO
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 09:43:41 -0800
From: "Egghead.com Special Update"
To: mcdan@CSI.COM
Dear Customer,
Egghead.com has discovered that a hacker has accessed our computer
systems, potentially including our customer databases. While there
is no indication that any customer information has been compromised,
as a precautionary measure, we have taken immediate steps to protect
you by contacting the credit card companies with whom we work. They
are in the process of alerting card issuers and banks so that they
can take the necessary steps to ensure the security of cardholders
who may be affected.
We wish to underscore that we have taken these steps as precautions.
We have no information at this time to suggest that any credit card
information has been compromised. We are investigating this possibility,
and we are doing everything we can to proactively protect you. If you
would like further information, you may wish to contact the issuer of
your credit card to determine what steps they are taking. We regret any
inconvenience this may cause you.
We issued a press release on this matter earlier today. It is appended
below this message. If you have additional questions, please call our
customer service team at 1-800-EGGHEAD (344-4323).
Respectfully,
Jeff Sheahan
President & CEO
Egghead.com, Inc.
[There was a press release below this but I cut it out. It was standard business stuff.]
--
[...] said Peter Petrusky, the director of new media at PricewaterhouseCoopers. But with some of these new ad formats, he said, "There's a level of intrusiveness that advertisers and publishers are going to have to manage."
Spoken like a true marketing type. How about the level of intrusiveness as it relates to the marketees? Marketing as it exists today is like feeding a city's population by dropping 1,000,000 lbs. of food all over their houses. The smart marketers of the future that actually want to make money will find a way to help them to the grocery store.
--
In a related press release, AOL (NYSE:AOL) today announced that all customers who visited their astrology forums would be automatically signed up for the superstitials.
BTW, a here's a better link to the article, without the annoying popup window ad.
--
For ad blocking, I heartily recommend Guidescope. Here's a company that respects people's privacy, provides a great service, and has a program that actually works--cross platform, cross browser.
Incidentally, one of the great ironies of being in the ad blocking market is that you're assured that when you advertise it targets only those people who don't already have your product.
--
Pass this software with the registration number and password printed below on to your friends for their FREE trial offer! 6P-4010-2805
WARES-POORLY
Does anyone else find that pretty ironic? ;-)
--
The Register also has an interesting editorial from Wednesday about Transmeta's benchmarks.
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