For Libraries, this would be not in the side room, but in the main hall where every passer by can see. This being a public space, maybe the illusion of "privacy" in this very public space should be dispensed with. This thought has problems both ways tho.
Yes it certainly does. For starters, I wouldn't want my borrowing history to be broadcast to everyone. Why? Wrong question. It is my business what I read and the idea that I must justify that is wrongheaded. The question is it in the best interests of the nation to know what I read. The answer, it isn't. Therefore I demand that my privacy rights continue to be respected.
How is putting the Net box in a public place any different. One example. What if I'm too poor, too old, too backwards to own a computer (maybe I just like to read paperbacks when I'm at home), but my wife comes down with breast cancer. So, being the caring guy that I am, I treck down to the library and want to do some research so we can ask good questions of the oncologist during the course of treatment. Again, I see no reason why I should have to justify my right to privacy, but this is a good example of a time where I really don't want the entire neighborhood looking over my should enforcing 'community standards'. I just want to do my research, print some stuff out, and go home. It's my computer, my taxes paid for it and I resent 'the man' telling me where and how I can use it just as much as I would resent him telling me what books are fit to be published.
Too me the only problem with Linux 2.4 (and don't flame me here, I use it full time at work and at home) is the lack of driver support. Specifically with regard to USB.
I've seen glimmers of being able to use Windows drivers (using WINE parts I think) to contact USB devices.
Can anyone comment on what to expect from either that or why I shouldn't worry that we'll get everything supported 'in house' despite proprietary device vendors?
Yeah, it's too bad that no one at AP was sophisticated enough to check the 'press release' that was emailed to them for headers in the microsoft domain...
Don't groan. It's not the first time something like that has been done by them!
"I hate the GOP. There mothers are all Birchies and their fathers smell of Elderberries. Oh yeah, and all they want is Natalie Portman [insert favorite Portmanian statement here]"
Honest to God complaint:
It sucks that the GOP campaigns on a platform of small government, then turns around and wants to give my hard earned money to church's (through vouchers and such), to the military industrial complex (through a defence budget seven times the size of all the nations we list as hostile combined) and to censorship (through filtering software and lawsuits against webmasters).
If you don't agree, fine! I hope you voted for Bush and got what you wanted. I didn't get what I wanted and fully intend to exercise my right to free speech despite your tagging me as a master baiter.
This may be the first time I agreed with Katz. It should be wildly amusing to watch as the party of personal responsibility tries to explain government censorship of the internet. They support holding parents responsible for the crimes of the children for crying out loud. How can they possibly reconcile that with Net Nanny and making the gummint responsible instead.
I'm sick and tired of the right ranting about small government and then pulling shit like that. The only way to stop it is to vote for personal freedoms. Sadly only a few dozen people seem to have done that in the last election so we are stuck with the same old song...
I live in the suburbs of Chicago, a major city (ok, it's no New York much less San Francisco), and can't get a cable modem or DSL. To hear about Connie Corncrib getting DSL, voice and cable television is almost too much to bear!
But seriously. I don't see how telephone lines can scale to the same level as coax. Why should I believe this is anything but a niche tech.
If anyone had actually taken the time to read the linked page at Compaq, they would have noticed that this is NOT a high-performance (beowulf) cluster.
True that.
But a 16 node ip failover turn key linux based web farm is still hotter than an over clocked P4 with a broken heat sink!
Think of it as the dog food principle. After all the NT folks had to run NT while they were working on it. Doesn't seem so onerous to me to require that folks working on Linux use Linux. Even in a graphic arts capacity.
ICANN is wrong for thinking that they have the right to define the standards.
ACLU is wrong for thinking the ICANN can define the standards.
The internet community is also wrong. Throw your bag over your shoulder and get on board with an alternate root. Better yet, if you have the skills, propose a more open standard so that rooting doesn't need to be done in the homogenous way that it is.
First of all that kind of contract is probably illegal. Second they all have expiration dates. The one at my last consulting company (the one that mattered contractually) said I couldn't work for any client that I had worked for (the only inforcable restriction, if they are doing business at GE and I never go there personally they cannot touch me if I leave to go to GE) for a period of one year. So, I told them I was ready to go, but if they wanted they could keep me at my current customer and subcontract me. I did that for almost a year, thus eliminating the contractual problems, delighting the client and keeping a customer for the company I left.
It doesn't always work, but it's a great way to go is the circumstances are right.
Specifically, the 'others you meet through them' clause in your contract is unenforcable in Illinois and Wisc and I'm guessing nationwide.
Let them pay you a salary, pay your benefits, absorb the risk and move you from place to place as you meet lots of people and learn lots of things. Don't loose touch with anyone you got along well with.
Then if you decide you want to go it alone you will know lots of people in lots of places who know the level of work you are capable of.
Of course if you suck you may be better off not using this plan as word travels fast then too.
FWIW, I worked for consulting companies for six years and have been on my own for five. The contacts and reputation I build during the six has meant that I haven't had to go through a middle man or look for a job since. They come looking for me, and are dissapointed to constantly hear that I'm not available.
I would think they would appreciate the break, not having to talk.
And that's all good with me. I haven't a significant beef with the employees. I've had shitty jobs from time to time when hungry enough so I appreciate their position.
Around my house we have a contest to see who can keep the telemarketer on the phone the longest. Many have rules stating that they cannot hang up the phone without a sale, the customer must hang up on them.
They usually break that rule after 5-10 minutes, but it's pretty funny anyway.
It's usually pretty easy to string them along that long too. Just ask them to hang on a sec and go back to your program. Every so often check in to make sure they are still there.
I've had them play songs on the touch tones, listened to them talk with their bosses for instruction on what to do (referring to me as 'crazy') and generally moan as they sit there talking to no one.
It is the tiniest bit of work, but between the entertainment value and the knowledge that I'm keeping them from interrupting 30 other peoples dinner we quite enjoy ourselves.
I understand this as a practical matter, but I wonder whether the US is the only country that has such software.
Yup, that's the arrogant part of the equation. The risk is that we'll fall behind the rest of the world as more and more software is developed in countries without such laws.
BTW, a user submitted this story to Poliglut yesterday, so politically minded folks might be intersested in stopping by and seeing our other stuff.
I agree with you on this one Neutron. My favorite comment was:
I just heard someone say that they found an old procedural program of theirs that used too many global variables and too many parameters. Rather than blame his bad programming or lack of knowledge about procedural/relational organization techniques, he blamed the paradigm and used it as a sorry excuse to proceed with OOP.
Ironic given his very long rant essentially pointed at bad OOP implementations rather than OOP as a paradigm!
Of course, I run Cetus Links so I may be biased...
Think about it. The media bastards are pissing people off right and left. The don't give a rip and lots of people have switched to a broadcast free lifestyle. If this trend continues who gets hurt? The dyslexics. Where do they turn when everyone else if opening books?
So, I predict this will lead to a dyslexic lobby akin in power to the NRA. They will demand and recieve research funding the likes of which haven't been seen since trinity and the scourge of dyslexia will be finally conquered.
Everyone knows you shouldn't believe everything you read on Slashdot.
Now you tell me. I just got back from my lawyer. Bastard charged me $5,500 in legal fees to join the Apple truetype suit and it turns out it doesn't even exist!;-)
I'm sure making citizenship plans based on the volumes of great advice here will work much better though!
This is pretty funny if you look at it from the standpoint of a five year time history. Five years ago AMD was in the tank, Intel ruled the world. People were wondering what would happen when AMD finally collapsed. Their product line wasn't that compelling and they couldn't manufacture reliably what they had designed.
Now AMD is taking market share away from Intel, their chips are better and Intel is the one who can't manufacture anything in quantity to save their lives. To top it off, the AMD design is better.
Who does Transmeta turn to in that situation. It isn't hard to see that Intel isn't going to want to help them politically, but since AMD is a better choice anyway they go with the underdog.
But the big problem today is that you need
more than just a piece of chalk, a Blackboard and a teacher for a good education, you need to have computers and all sorts of
High Tech devices.
I couldn't disagree more. Tens of millions of tech illiterates make an honest living here in the US and we're, arguably, the most technologically advanced nation in the world. Certainly we're in the top few.
Third world countries need things that tech essentially doesn't matter for. Building roads, planting crops, arresting outlaws (we just posted a story on this on poliglut a few days ago which is why this story caught my eye on/.), digging wells, building sewers. None of these require high tech solutions.
So while I agree the method of knowledge dispersal makes a lot of sense, I disagree that you need high tech to teach.
Way to go Bill - promise stuff now that you are irrelevant. Where the hell was the increase in NASA budgets when people cared what the hell you thought?
Don't color me as a Clinton apologist, but I think you've spun this one a little wrong. He may be evil, but because he cares too much what people think, not because he cares little as you claim.
Why didn't he increase the budgets? Because the GOP (supported in part by the likes of those in Kansas that voted down evolution) was in charge for the last six years. During Clintons first two years he focused on an unsuccessful attempt to provide health care for everyone.
Why do I say evil dsepite my apologies? He saw that the nation was divided on the subject of President, but instead of trying to provide for a smooth transition is throwing up every roadblock he can to make the Bush Presidency more difficult.
So come hunt me down. That section adjust sentencing
guidelines for computer crimes to address a variety of factors,
including to ensure that the guidelines provide sufficiently stringent
penalties to deter and punish persons who intentionally use encryption
in connection with the commission or concealment of criminal acts. is such a load.
Let me play devils advocate for a minute though. Kopel mentions wearing gloves, which I agree is a reasonable analogy, but isn't evading arrest via destruction of evidence similar and punished seperate from the crime being concealed in many instances?
Oh, and neener neener neener, we posted it on Poliglut first.
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Yes it certainly does. For starters, I wouldn't want my borrowing history to be broadcast to everyone. Why? Wrong question. It is my business what I read and the idea that I must justify that is wrongheaded. The question is it in the best interests of the nation to know what I read. The answer, it isn't. Therefore I demand that my privacy rights continue to be respected.
How is putting the Net box in a public place any different. One example. What if I'm too poor, too old, too backwards to own a computer (maybe I just like to read paperbacks when I'm at home), but my wife comes down with breast cancer. So, being the caring guy that I am, I treck down to the library and want to do some research so we can ask good questions of the oncologist during the course of treatment. Again, I see no reason why I should have to justify my right to privacy, but this is a good example of a time where I really don't want the entire neighborhood looking over my should enforcing 'community standards'. I just want to do my research, print some stuff out, and go home. It's my computer, my taxes paid for it and I resent 'the man' telling me where and how I can use it just as much as I would resent him telling me what books are fit to be published.
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I've seen glimmers of being able to use Windows drivers (using WINE parts I think) to contact USB devices.
Can anyone comment on what to expect from either that or why I shouldn't worry that we'll get everything supported 'in house' despite proprietary device vendors?
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Don't groan. It's not the first time something like that has been done by them!
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Let me explain the difference.
Flamebait:
"I hate the GOP. There mothers are all Birchies and their fathers smell of Elderberries. Oh yeah, and all they want is Natalie Portman [insert favorite Portmanian statement here]"
Honest to God complaint:
It sucks that the GOP campaigns on a platform of small government, then turns around and wants to give my hard earned money to church's (through vouchers and such), to the military industrial complex (through a defence budget seven times the size of all the nations we list as hostile combined) and to censorship (through filtering software and lawsuits against webmasters).
If you don't agree, fine! I hope you voted for Bush and got what you wanted. I didn't get what I wanted and fully intend to exercise my right to free speech despite your tagging me as a master baiter.
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I'm sick and tired of the right ranting about small government and then pulling shit like that. The only way to stop it is to vote for personal freedoms. Sadly only a few dozen people seem to have done that in the last election so we are stuck with the same old song...
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It isn't 60 channels, it's 60 in that particular installation. Since the video is coming down the DSL on demand it could be 500 channels of choice.
Though I guess I still wonder what happens if you have three or four TV's and everyone wants to watch different stuff.
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But seriously. I don't see how telephone lines can scale to the same level as coax. Why should I believe this is anything but a niche tech.
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True that.
But a 16 node ip failover turn key linux based web farm is still hotter than an over clocked P4 with a broken heat sink!
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Ah yes, the scent of an adolescent after an all nighter trying to solve Rubiks Cube...
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ACLU is wrong for thinking the ICANN can define the standards.
The internet community is also wrong. Throw your bag over your shoulder and get on board with an alternate root. Better yet, if you have the skills, propose a more open standard so that rooting doesn't need to be done in the homogenous way that it is.
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It doesn't always work, but it's a great way to go is the circumstances are right.
Specifically, the 'others you meet through them' clause in your contract is unenforcable in Illinois and Wisc and I'm guessing nationwide.
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Then if you decide you want to go it alone you will know lots of people in lots of places who know the level of work you are capable of.
Of course if you suck you may be better off not using this plan as word travels fast then too.
FWIW, I worked for consulting companies for six years and have been on my own for five. The contacts and reputation I build during the six has meant that I haven't had to go through a middle man or look for a job since. They come looking for me, and are dissapointed to constantly hear that I'm not available.
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And that's all good with me. I haven't a significant beef with the employees. I've had shitty jobs from time to time when hungry enough so I appreciate their position.
Just so long as I get to slow them down.
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They usually break that rule after 5-10 minutes, but it's pretty funny anyway.
It's usually pretty easy to string them along that long too. Just ask them to hang on a sec and go back to your program. Every so often check in to make sure they are still there.
I've had them play songs on the touch tones, listened to them talk with their bosses for instruction on what to do (referring to me as 'crazy') and generally moan as they sit there talking to no one.
It is the tiniest bit of work, but between the entertainment value and the knowledge that I'm keeping them from interrupting 30 other peoples dinner we quite enjoy ourselves.
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Sure, but you wouldn't be able to read it because they would have used lime green ink on a yellow background to show how 1337 they are!
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Yup, that's the arrogant part of the equation. The risk is that we'll fall behind the rest of the world as more and more software is developed in countries without such laws.
BTW, a user submitted this story to Poliglut yesterday, so politically minded folks might be intersested in stopping by and seeing our other stuff.
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I just heard someone say that they found an old procedural program of theirs that used too many global variables and too many parameters. Rather than blame his bad programming or lack of knowledge about procedural/relational organization techniques, he blamed the paradigm and used it as a sorry excuse to proceed with OOP.
Ironic given his very long rant essentially pointed at bad OOP implementations rather than OOP as a paradigm!
Of course, I run Cetus Links so I may be biased...
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The article makes it pretty clear that the law is directed at pr0n not anything else.
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So, I predict this will lead to a dyslexic lobby akin in power to the NRA. They will demand and recieve research funding the likes of which haven't been seen since trinity and the scourge of dyslexia will be finally conquered.
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Now you tell me. I just got back from my lawyer. Bastard charged me $5,500 in legal fees to join the Apple truetype suit and it turns out it doesn't even exist!
I'm sure making citizenship plans based on the volumes of great advice here will work much better though!
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Now AMD is taking market share away from Intel, their chips are better and Intel is the one who can't manufacture anything in quantity to save their lives. To top it off, the AMD design is better.
Who does Transmeta turn to in that situation. It isn't hard to see that Intel isn't going to want to help them politically, but since AMD is a better choice anyway they go with the underdog.
Sweeeet.
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I couldn't disagree more. Tens of millions of tech illiterates make an honest living here in the US and we're, arguably, the most technologically advanced nation in the world. Certainly we're in the top few.
Third world countries need things that tech essentially doesn't matter for. Building roads, planting crops, arresting outlaws (we just posted a story on this on poliglut a few days ago which is why this story caught my eye on /.), digging wells, building sewers. None of these require high tech solutions.
So while I agree the method of knowledge dispersal makes a lot of sense, I disagree that you need high tech to teach.
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Don't color me as a Clinton apologist, but I think you've spun this one a little wrong. He may be evil, but because he cares too much what people think, not because he cares little as you claim.
Why didn't he increase the budgets? Because the GOP (supported in part by the likes of those in Kansas that voted down evolution) was in charge for the last six years. During Clintons first two years he focused on an unsuccessful attempt to provide health care for everyone.
Why do I say evil dsepite my apologies? He saw that the nation was divided on the subject of President, but instead of trying to provide for a smooth transition is throwing up every roadblock he can to make the Bush Presidency more difficult.
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Let me play devils advocate for a minute though. Kopel mentions wearing gloves, which I agree is a reasonable analogy, but isn't evading arrest via destruction of evidence similar and punished seperate from the crime being concealed in many instances?
Oh, and neener neener neener, we posted it on Poliglut first.
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