Well, this may be of particular concern to Israeli parents due to the case a few years ago of the 16-year old boy lured out by a 24-year old Palestinian woman then dragged out of the car and machine-gunned by her partners.
And I find that Israeli parents are extremely lax with their children. It is not at all uncommon to see kindergarden aged children running around the neighborhood at 11 pm. Truancy and school dropout rates are very high since nobody really makes the kids go to school. Schools are by-and-large zoos with no classroom discipline at all. I know several teachers from the US who quit teaching in disgust because they couldn't teach anything under those conditions. Late at night, 1 or 2 am, there are gangs of teenagers of various ages roaming the streets making noise and throwing beer bottles around. I've seen younger children playing a game where they take turns running and throwing a bottle as far as they can up the sidewalk, to see who gets the farthest scattering of glass, and nobody bats an eyelash. A young child was riding his tricycle up and down the isles of the supermarket, and when one elderly lady complained, was herself scolded by the store manager "he's only a child". Neighbor kids ripped all the wire netting off my garden fence to make birdcages with, and their parents got mad at me when I went to recover the netting. So I don't find this surprising at all.
er... what about 50+ grandmother geeks? I just mentioned on another forum that this wouldn't affect me at all, but if they were sniffing around PHP I'd be taking a long look at Python right now. (cue the PHP haters... 3... 2... 1... )
I occasionally download books of interest, but all I ever have "available" in my shared folder is a set of Edgar Rice Burrough's Mars books. So if "distribution" is the illegal act, I'm not doing anything illegal.
Therefore behaviour by the victim modifies their chance of becoming a victim, and hence they play a part in becoming a victim.
Naturally this of course has nothing to do with the sentencing of rapists, but is just common sense. Denying it in the name of PC will not help the situation.
Having been on the receiving end, I cannot accept that reasoning. I've had that thrown at me all too many times by everyone from counselors to relatives, that somehow I have to share any blame because I must have asked for it or deserved it or simply because I "let him do it". All you critics who have never been manhandled by someone so much bigger and stronger than you are have no idea what you are talking about.
So I suppose that it was partially because I was dumb enough to be born a girl that my father put his hands on my neck and threatened to break it if I didn't let him do what he wanted to do to me? I totally reject your placing any blame on me for being a victim of rape.
You give them your personal details (name, address, phone number, etc) and get a card that you use at checkout to get discounts. Then they track everything you purchase, and this results in a number of interesting things happening. You get targeted junk mail from them and all of their business associates. Your purchasing is tracked, so you can get investigated, arrested or fired from your job because you bought the wrong thing at the wrong time. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1755043&displaytype=printable
That is so often true! I worked for a University whose written policy was to encourage employees to take advantage of the tuition-free classes available to them. But the department I worked for had an unwritten policy of refusing to sign the applications for the classes. I was told to my face that they didn't want me taking any classes because I would then be more qualified for better jobs and they wanted to keep their turnover rate down. I had to go to Personnel and file complaints to force my department head to follow written University policy. Then I found out that my department would ask the other departments within the University that I applied to for better jobs not to hire their employees. Not much I could do about that, even though one manager who wanted to hire me, but her department head told her not to, told me that was what happened, I couldn't prove it. So I bided my time, saved for a year until I had a bit of a "parachute", and bailed out.
I do wish people would begin to understand that Open does not mean "free". I do not have to "give away" my effort for it to still be open to scrutiny and customization. I can charge for my open project.
Sure, a few will take it and start passing it around, and a few will modify and customize it on their own, but the vast majority of users will a) pay for it initially and b) pay for customization.
You want to suck it up free from somewhere? Fine. Nasty bug shows up in your special case? Tough.
I wonder if they'll ever publish information on how many of these "free" installations actually participate, how many properly disengage, and how many just disappear?
More likely a fall, which broke the ribs and spine and damaged the phone which "exploded". My husband fell in a similar situation, landed on his left side, but had his large walkie-talkie in his pocket. It cracked his ribs and destroyed the walkie-talkie; the fall would have smashed his ribs if he hadn't had it in his pocket.
Er... my boyfriend is from India, educated in the UK, and served in a tank brigade in Lebanon. He's not exactly a wuss. He hauls around a 17" MacBook Pro, on my recommendation. You really, really don't want to screw around with him. Well, I do, but that's another matter.
I had three boys and caught them on "inapropriate" BBS systems more than once, but I had the computer in the living room, right by the kitchen door. Every single "inappropriate" BBS I caught them connected to was being run by a schoolmate with a computer in his room. And believe me, they were pretty raunchy.
Fast-forward to modern times. I have a divorced friend whose son lives with his single mom. Let's call the kid "Johnny". Johnny has a lot of after-school activities, plus his grandparents live a short distance away. So Johnny is often out for an hour or two after school. Johnny's best friend lives next door. He frequently comes over, and even if Johnny is not home, his mom lets the friend come in and use Johnny's computer. It's a good one; I know because I built it. On two occasions my friend (Johnny's dad) came by to visit, and found Johnny not home, but the neighbor kid in Johnny's room, on porno sites. Looking over the browser history, we can see that the only times such sites were visited were when Johnny was not home. So is it not possible that Johhny's friend could also install Kazaa and nobody would have any idea that he had done so? And even if Johnny knew about it, how likely is a 12-year-old to rat out his best friend?
This does not absolve Johnny's mom of responsibility for what goes on in her home, but it does make it entirely possible that she quite sincerely has no idea that anything untoward is going on. How many of YOUR parents knew everything you or your friends were up to when their eyes were not on you?
I worked for a small local computer shop for a few months. The owner would re-package returned parts and put them back on the shelf - if he was quick enough to keep me from hiding them until the wholesale rep came with new stuff, when I would give him all the returned stuff for replacement. We had frequent yelling and shouting fights because I was taking the customer's part over his; he'd tell me to "kiss my ass" and I'd tell him to wax the hairy thing first. The guy's electronics background was in selling high-end imported speaker systems in the US, and he figured selling computers back at home would make him more money. I got the job the day after his first "partner" and tech got arrested for playing with other people's credit cards. I ended up replacing or repairing over 80% of the computers they had sold in their first few months of business. And of course he "ghosted" Windows and Office on to every machine that went out... Last time I saw him, he was over $50,000 in debt, paying off one credit card from one of three others he had.
I was always awful at math, did as little as possible. Never went to college, although I did finish high school. Taught myself to program assembly language on an 8086 a year after my first grandchild was born. Learned specific math skills writing animated games with QuickBasic. Like how to make a spinning wagon wheel while moving the wagon across the screen. Then make it go slower or faster, turn right or left, all while the wheels continue to turn in an appropriate manner. My favorite resource at that time was a book on QuickBasic by Gary Cornell, a mathematics professor at the University of Connecticut. He later wrote books on Java.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, this may be of particular concern to Israeli parents due to the case a few years ago of the 16-year old boy lured out by a 24-year old Palestinian woman then dragged out of the car and machine-gunned by her partners.
And I find that Israeli parents are extremely lax with their children. It is not at all uncommon to see kindergarden aged children running around the neighborhood at 11 pm. Truancy and school dropout rates are very high since nobody really makes the kids go to school. Schools are by-and-large zoos with no classroom discipline at all. I know several teachers from the US who quit teaching in disgust because they couldn't teach anything under those conditions. Late at night, 1 or 2 am, there are gangs of teenagers of various ages roaming the streets making noise and throwing beer bottles around. I've seen younger children playing a game where they take turns running and throwing a bottle as far as they can up the sidewalk, to see who gets the farthest scattering of glass, and nobody bats an eyelash. A young child was riding his tricycle up and down the isles of the supermarket, and when one elderly lady complained, was herself scolded by the store manager "he's only a child". Neighbor kids ripped all the wire netting off my garden fence to make birdcages with, and their parents got mad at me when I went to recover the netting. So I don't find this surprising at all.
Great link! It was hard to stop reading it and put it aside for later!
er... what about 50+ grandmother geeks? I just mentioned on another forum that this wouldn't affect me at all, but if they were sniffing around PHP I'd be taking a long look at Python right now. (cue the PHP haters... 3... 2... 1... )
I occasionally download books of interest, but all I ever have "available" in my shared folder is a set of Edgar Rice Burrough's Mars books. So if "distribution" is the illegal act, I'm not doing anything illegal.
Having been on the receiving end, I cannot accept that reasoning. I've had that thrown at me all too many times by everyone from counselors to relatives, that somehow I have to share any blame because I must have asked for it or deserved it or simply because I "let him do it". All you critics who have never been manhandled by someone so much bigger and stronger than you are have no idea what you are talking about.
So I suppose that it was partially because I was dumb enough to be born a girl that my father put his hands on my neck and threatened to break it if I didn't let him do what he wanted to do to me? I totally reject your placing any blame on me for being a victim of rape.
You give them your personal details (name, address, phone number, etc) and get a card that you use at checkout to get discounts. Then they track everything you purchase, and this results in a number of interesting things happening. You get targeted junk mail from them and all of their business associates. Your purchasing is tracked, so you can get investigated, arrested or fired from your job because you bought the wrong thing at the wrong time. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1755043&displaytype=printable
Then you should really appreciate the LFS program...http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
And if this is including the entire UK, you also have haggis.
How about copyright extensions? DMCA? Microsoft anti-trust violations?
That is so often true! I worked for a University whose written policy was to encourage employees to take advantage of the tuition-free classes available to them. But the department I worked for had an unwritten policy of refusing to sign the applications for the classes. I was told to my face that they didn't want me taking any classes because I would then be more qualified for better jobs and they wanted to keep their turnover rate down. I had to go to Personnel and file complaints to force my department head to follow written University policy. Then I found out that my department would ask the other departments within the University that I applied to for better jobs not to hire their employees. Not much I could do about that, even though one manager who wanted to hire me, but her department head told her not to, told me that was what happened, I couldn't prove it. So I bided my time, saved for a year until I had a bit of a "parachute", and bailed out.
Ah, Christmas dinner!
I do wish people would begin to understand that Open does not mean "free". I do not have to "give away" my effort for it to still be open to scrutiny and customization. I can charge for my open project.
Sure, a few will take it and start passing it around, and a few will modify and customize it on their own, but the vast majority of users will a) pay for it initially and b) pay for customization.
You want to suck it up free from somewhere? Fine. Nasty bug shows up in your special case? Tough.
Ah, somebody must be using Windows for Warcraft... http://www.windowsforwarships.com/
er... isn't that what beta testing is for?
I wonder if they'll ever publish information on how many of these "free" installations actually participate, how many properly disengage, and how many just disappear?
And you've most likely never been raped.
Well, that last sentence blew this comment up... Firefox most certainly does come with a spellchecker. http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/11/firefox-2-spelling-dictionary-hacks.html
More likely a fall, which broke the ribs and spine and damaged the phone which "exploded". My husband fell in a similar situation, landed on his left side, but had his large walkie-talkie in his pocket. It cracked his ribs and destroyed the walkie-talkie; the fall would have smashed his ribs if he hadn't had it in his pocket.
Er... my boyfriend is from India, educated in the UK, and served in a tank brigade in Lebanon. He's not exactly a wuss. He hauls around a 17" MacBook Pro, on my recommendation. You really, really don't want to screw around with him. Well, I do, but that's another matter.
I had three boys and caught them on "inapropriate" BBS systems more than once, but I had the computer in the living room, right by the kitchen door. Every single "inappropriate" BBS I caught them connected to was being run by a schoolmate with a computer in his room. And believe me, they were pretty raunchy.
Fast-forward to modern times. I have a divorced friend whose son lives with his single mom. Let's call the kid "Johnny". Johnny has a lot of after-school activities, plus his grandparents live a short distance away. So Johnny is often out for an hour or two after school. Johnny's best friend lives next door. He frequently comes over, and even if Johnny is not home, his mom lets the friend come in and use Johnny's computer. It's a good one; I know because I built it. On two occasions my friend (Johnny's dad) came by to visit, and found Johnny not home, but the neighbor kid in Johnny's room, on porno sites. Looking over the browser history, we can see that the only times such sites were visited were when Johnny was not home. So is it not possible that Johhny's friend could also install Kazaa and nobody would have any idea that he had done so? And even if Johnny knew about it, how likely is a 12-year-old to rat out his best friend?
This does not absolve Johnny's mom of responsibility for what goes on in her home, but it does make it entirely possible that she quite sincerely has no idea that anything untoward is going on. How many of YOUR parents knew everything you or your friends were up to when their eyes were not on you?
I worked for a small local computer shop for a few months. The owner would re-package returned parts and put them back on the shelf - if he was quick enough to keep me from hiding them until the wholesale rep came with new stuff, when I would give him all the returned stuff for replacement. We had frequent yelling and shouting fights because I was taking the customer's part over his; he'd tell me to "kiss my ass" and I'd tell him to wax the hairy thing first. The guy's electronics background was in selling high-end imported speaker systems in the US, and he figured selling computers back at home would make him more money. I got the job the day after his first "partner" and tech got arrested for playing with other people's credit cards. I ended up replacing or repairing over 80% of the computers they had sold in their first few months of business. And of course he "ghosted" Windows and Office on to every machine that went out... Last time I saw him, he was over $50,000 in debt, paying off one credit card from one of three others he had.
I was always awful at math, did as little as possible. Never went to college, although I did finish high school. Taught myself to program assembly language on an 8086 a year after my first grandchild was born. Learned specific math skills writing animated games with QuickBasic. Like how to make a spinning wagon wheel while moving the wagon across the screen. Then make it go slower or faster, turn right or left, all while the wheels continue to turn in an appropriate manner. My favorite resource at that time was a book on QuickBasic by Gary Cornell, a mathematics professor at the University of Connecticut. He later wrote books on Java.
http://www.amazon.ca/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A927726%2Cp_27%3AGary%20Cornell%2Cp_3%3A%2415%20-%20%2420&page=1
Now that did make me laugh out loud!