It has been shown that children are more vulnerable to these things than adults
Got a link for this? Any reference. I didn't think so. No creditable study has shown the results you assume. The closest thing to a controlled study, the comparison of current crime rates and crime rates from the 80s, when violent video games didn't exist, shows that as violent video games have become prevalent, crime has decreased. This of course, means very little, but it makes it hard to make the blanket assertion that violent video games beget violence. If you don't like violent video games, don't play them, and take an active role in ensuring your kids don't play them. But stay out of everyone elses lives.
On another note, if a law is not Constitutional, it is not a law. The Constitution was written with the philosophy that personal freedom is of the utmost importance. Proof: The founding fathers were probably of the unamimous opinion that non-Christians were Satan-worshippers. Did they ban non-Christian faiths? No, because they believed everyone had the right to do as they wished, provided it did not affect others. Should we ban video games? Do they affect you? No.
You know, I for one would really like to know how they can change the encyption without breaking compatibility with all existing DVD players.
Having to buy a second DVD player to play Time Warner DVDs is going to make it really obvious to the average person that access control is bad
someone's probably said this, but this is a lot like Al Gore inventing the Internet. If you quote someone out of context, you can easily make them sound stupid. Al Gore claimed that he was a major player in funding the development of the Internet. RedHat could be claiming that they invented OpenSource as a business practice, or some such.
Remember, some people thought Redhat dropped support for the Sparc architecture. Then someone from Redhat told is a Sparc version of 7.0 was coming out, just a bit later. Some people jump to conclusions entirely too fast
or rather, their engineers and coders. After 5 years of getting paid for no work, they release a product and their bosses find out that its encryption can be broken by anyone with half a brain, and the hardware can be hacked not one, but TWO ways. Oh well, I guess five years of loafing around on the job must be good enough.
With all the duplicate stories we've had recently, I can't help but think of a solution.
How about, before a story can be posted, it's title is pushed through slashdot's search page. Maybe this will make people notice that some stories share more than a passing similarity.
You forget, Slashdotters can't be away from their computers for the time it takes to mail a letter, or they might miss a redundant||unverified||pointless news item from slashdot.
With email, you're going to cause a senator's secretary to hit the delete key 1 million times, or at the most, fill up their mail server's hard drive. With Mail, a million letters are going to fill up a senator's office, and make sure he sees this issue.
Remember, 0s and 1s aren't real for most people.
Mhz isn't really a good indicator either. What you need to know is how many Flops it has, how long certain commonly used operations(like multiplication) take to perform, and so on. You've got a lot more than three variables in this formula.
Who wants to bet that Tom's Hardware will be invaded by a legion of lawyers?
Anyone?
Oh, well, they can escape with this car and keep serving their site
Here's how directX does it, (to my limited understanding)
When you first load, for instance, directdraw, you get directdraw 1.0. You then specifically request the version you want. That way, as long as all versions are present, a program gets what it wants, not nessessarily the most recent verison.
The problem is that you still have other forcing their morals and beliefs on you. It's a step up from corporations, but not that great. And you'd have to establish guidelines for impartial grading of websites, try to get people to follow them...
First, I'll give some background about myself. I AM a high school student, and I took the APCS (which has been in C++ for 2 years) this year (got a 5, meaningless but looks nice) and this is what I feel is missing from most APCS courses.
Every project we had was independent which is fine for learning the basics of a language, but (as I've found during my internship this summer) completely useless for real world programming. Something I would really have like to have done in class was a program that had to be done in several sections, each done by a different person. This way, students can get experience in how to communicate in a programming project, and how to define and stick to standards.
OK then, lets have some perspective here, and not some mindless Metallica-bashing. Lars and many other artists see two corporations, the record industry and Napster. One pays them for their work, the other steals their work, and gets revenue by redistributing it. This is the problem with Napster, it seeks to make profit by leeching off the recording industry. Non-central systems like Gnutella are far better in a moral sense than Napster.
Actually, in the absence of Napster, people couldn't simply go back to FTP sites. Look what happened to MP3.com. However, Napster really has no right to be getting all high and mighty about this. Groups like Metallica have a moral and legal right to limit access to their music (record companies lack the moral right). It should be really simple to simply change the Napster service to ignore requests containing the string "metallica", and do the same for any musical group that requests the service. Suddenly artists and Napster would be on the same side. So, all you geeks at Napster, start coding!
When you think about it, there's nothing wrong with this, in itself. Firstly, it's not illegal. eWatch is just looking at statements you put into the public domain. They aren't hacking your computer and installing tracking software. If you didn't make yourself anonymous, than getting tracked down is your own fault.
Also, it's kind of nice to know that corporations care at some level. At this price, it can't be long before corporations decide to prevent rather than punish complaints, by building better products.
A lot of people have taken exception to Katz's claim that the US is the worst society in the world for genetic engineering, and posted lists of countries that shouldn't have genetic technology. Does anyone realize that this only serves to strengthen Katz's main point? It's not that America shouldn't have this technology, it's that humanity shouldn't
A while back Sun came out with a pci card that added a k6-2 processor with 64mb of memory to an ultrasparc, and software that allowed you to run windows. Is this similar? Can you run MacOS over these cards on an intel-based machine?
Just because a corporation wants to talk doesn't necessarily mean they care. It's quite possible that they want to be able to say "We discussed our program with those who had concerns, yada yada yada." I seriously doubt they plan to consider changing their program. The only way to keep this company from making our schools even more repressive than they already are is to fight this in court.
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Got a link for this? Any reference. I didn't think so. No creditable study has shown the results you assume. The closest thing to a controlled study, the comparison of current crime rates and crime rates from the 80s, when violent video games didn't exist, shows that as violent video games have become prevalent, crime has decreased. This of course, means very little, but it makes it hard to make the blanket assertion that violent video games beget violence. If you don't like violent video games, don't play them, and take an active role in ensuring your kids don't play them. But stay out of everyone elses lives.
On another note, if a law is not Constitutional, it is not a law. The Constitution was written with the philosophy that personal freedom is of the utmost importance. Proof: The founding fathers were probably of the unamimous opinion that non-Christians were Satan-worshippers. Did they ban non-Christian faiths? No, because they believed everyone had the right to do as they wished, provided it did not affect others. Should we ban video games? Do they affect you? No.
You realize, you're just giving THEM ideas.
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You know, I for one would really like to know how they can change the encyption without breaking compatibility with all existing DVD players.
Having to buy a second DVD player to play Time Warner DVDs is going to make it really obvious to the average person that access control is bad
Remember, some people thought Redhat dropped support for the Sparc architecture. Then someone from Redhat told is a Sparc version of 7.0 was coming out, just a bit later. Some people jump to conclusions entirely too fast
or rather, their engineers and coders. After 5 years of getting paid for no work, they release a product and their bosses find out that its encryption can be broken by anyone with half a brain, and the hardware can be hacked not one, but TWO ways. Oh well, I guess five years of loafing around on the job must be good enough.
With all the duplicate stories we've had recently, I can't help but think of a solution.
How about, before a story can be posted, it's title is pushed through slashdot's search page. Maybe this will make people notice that some stories share more than a passing similarity.
You forget, Slashdotters can't be away from their computers for the time it takes to mail a letter, or they might miss a redundant||unverified||pointless news item from slashdot.
With email, you're going to cause a senator's secretary to hit the delete key 1 million times, or at the most, fill up their mail server's hard drive. With Mail, a million letters are going to fill up a senator's office, and make sure he sees this issue.
Remember, 0s and 1s aren't real for most people.
If my memory serves me right, this could be a clever fraud!
Mhz isn't really a good indicator either. What you need to know is how many Flops it has, how long certain commonly used operations(like multiplication) take to perform, and so on. You've got a lot more than three variables in this formula.
Who wants to bet that Tom's Hardware will be invaded by a legion of lawyers?
Anyone?
Oh, well, they can escape with this car and keep serving their site
Are you, or anyone else for that matter, really going to vote for someone based on their stance on mp3s?
Take a look around, people. In the US, people vote on issues like abortion, gun control, education, and taxes.
The average person probably can't install Windows. Luckily for them, the average person only needs to use it.
When you first load, for instance, directdraw, you get directdraw 1.0. You then specifically request the version you want. That way, as long as all versions are present, a program gets what it wants, not nessessarily the most recent verison.
It just wouldn't work
Every project we had was independent which is fine for learning the basics of a language, but (as I've found during my internship this summer) completely useless for real world programming. Something I would really have like to have done in class was a program that had to be done in several sections, each done by a different person. This way, students can get experience in how to communicate in a programming project, and how to define and stick to standards.
Lars and many other artists see two corporations, the record industry and Napster. One pays them for their work, the other steals their work, and gets revenue by redistributing it.
This is the problem with Napster, it seeks to make profit by leeching off the recording industry. Non-central systems like Gnutella are far better in a moral sense than Napster.
Actually, in the absence of Napster, people couldn't simply go back to FTP sites. Look what happened to MP3.com. However, Napster really has no right to be getting all high and mighty about this. Groups like Metallica have a moral and legal right to limit access to their music (record companies lack the moral right). It should be really simple to simply change the Napster service to ignore requests containing the string "metallica", and do the same for any musical group that requests the service. Suddenly artists and Napster would be on the same side. So, all you geeks at Napster, start coding!
Interesting, Microsoft refers to bugs as features, and Mozilla refers to features as bugs.
Sometimes the government does something useful. Too bad you can't vote for the head of the FTC.
Also, it's kind of nice to know that corporations care at some level. At this price, it can't be long before corporations decide to prevent rather than punish complaints, by building better products.
A lot of people have taken exception to Katz's claim that the US is the worst society in the world for genetic engineering, and posted lists of countries that shouldn't have genetic technology. Does anyone realize that this only serves to strengthen Katz's main point? It's not that America shouldn't have this technology, it's that humanity shouldn't
A while back Sun came out with a pci card that added a k6-2 processor with 64mb of memory to an ultrasparc, and software that allowed you to run windows. Is this similar? Can you run MacOS over these cards on an intel-based machine?
The best thing about the movie is that now Katz can say he published one article on slashdot without being flamed mercilessly
Just because a corporation wants to talk doesn't necessarily mean they care. It's quite possible that they want to be able to say "We discussed our program with those who had concerns, yada yada yada." I seriously doubt they plan to consider changing their program. The only way to keep this company from making our schools even more repressive than they already are is to fight this in court.