From the original BBC article, "Under the new approach, page edits will no longer be immediately applied to pages but will instead have to be approved by an administrator before they become visible." This is flatly false. I have been involved in discussion about the German experiment and what English wikipedia will do, and the above statement is exactly what will not happen and what no one wants, not the foundation, not administrators, not the writers. It strikes me as FUD at its worst.
Notice this correction was made, "There's no decision yet as to who will be able to "approve" a page, and of course the English-language Wikipedia is simply watching what happens in Germany and seeing how it works, so there will be no change for those of us who use the English version." Now this is accurate. English is watching the German wikipedia to see what works for them with full knowledge that what works for German is not what works for English.
Just because one state thinks you are behind, doesn't mean you are. I know someone actually ahead in their child support, but the state of California doesn't think so. The child support is being paid to someplace in another court as ordered by the judge. California doesn't seem to care that the support is being paid. They want it paid a second time.
I popped in the first disk, installed the whole thing to my hard drive, all 4 CDS and then started play. The only bug i encountered was task (Alt-Tab out to windows) switching caused the mouse to freeze, but other than that there were no glitches. Play was awsome. The only frustrating part was finding that one path in Edanna. The game seemed to flow very well and was very much in the spirit of Myst and Riven. The look of the game and the fx were not as spectacular as RealMyst with the moving clouds and changing skys and weather.
The safe CD crap is very bothersome as is the incorrect hardware requirements in the box. I was upset that the promised plush squee in the Collectors Edition morphed into a tee shirt i can't wear and a little metal squee which cracked the little plastic CD cases.
The big problem I have with Heinlein is the narrow minded way he deals with gender roles and sexual orientation. The passage in Stranger that grates my nerves the most was the passage on page 303 of my Berkely Science fiction paper back edition where the narrator talks about the "poor in betweens" probably having a wrongness that Mike could sense. The homophobia is sickening. Heinlein explores the 20th century American psyche while failing to extract himself from mores similar to the ones he satirizes.
I much prefer the group marriage as explored by Dian Duane in her Door Into series. It is a much more interesting take on humanity.
1) those numbers are damn small and the ballot books are fixed to the booth so it can be very difficilt to read and compare.
2) I asked for another ballot and was denied.
3) It can be done better and usually is. It is possible to have unused holes covered and leave spaces between separate issues. when presented with a group of 2 to 7 holes it is much easier to figure out which hole corresponds to which candidate.
1) Print out the alleged bad ballot.
2) Now place it horizontally about chest to collarbone level and at half an arms length away.
The arrows seem a lot closer together!
If it is like my poll the holes are physically under the ballot book by nearly the distance the holes are separated from each other. This means that unless you can look at it from above, which is not possible if you are short and the ballot and book are in fixed positions, again like at my poll, then the arrow appears to point between two holes.
In other paper ballot elections I attended, the ballots and books were designed so that unneeded holes were covered and there was never any doubt which holes to punch.
The palm beach ballot design my seem ok at first glance, but in use it would be quite ambiguous. This also explains why it was initially approved by the dems.
My ballot had similar problems but only on pages that were for the reelection of judges. Some other issues had several places between them. I noticed when i got to the right half of the page and the punch was already punched. This is a bigger problem for me since i am short.
I hate SONY laptops. We bought a few when the CEP fell in love with the tiny vaio. He won't fall in love with this. It does not look slick, or pretty, or corporate. It looks like a toy. That desigh might make a nice case for your sex toy, but that design does not belong in the corporate world.
SONY service bites. Ten day turn around is the minimum. I have had several nasty problems that meant the laptops spending most of their time in the shop. The warranty is 1 year, and is not extendable.
I worked with NEC and now Dell laptops. Those have great service, longer warranties that are extendable for a reasonable price and they don't spend as much time in te shop. I find the people at NEC and Dell are much easier to deal with than those at sony.
Late last summer mine when out and my roomate opened all the windows. I was so overwhelmed by allergens, that I had a bad asthma attack. I can't live without aircondtioning.
Also when I was working at a large hospital in the middle of the winter when two of the the data room air conditioners went out. We were able to safely open several windows in sub zero weather, and channel that air with fans, but when the temp got to 100 F in the back of the room, there were several failures including a router, IIRC. My network can't run without air conditioning.
Many of the lovely large highways we have go to places that are only habitable with air conditioning.
Also let's not forget the difficulty of supporting huge cities and far flung locals without food refrigeration. Food poisoning is no joke.
I give a big raspberry and a big snotty sneeze to all those who think Air conditioning and refrigeration are mere luxuries.
Anyone see the Darma and Greg ep about her starting a store? She rented a storefront and had no product. She welcomed people in and they came in. She never decided on a product, but had people coming there. They brought their own coffee and newspapers, and did other stuff. In the end, she sold her business that did nothing for a tidy profit though she had no revenue. The whole time I thought "website".
There is value in anything that attracts eyeballs. Banner revenue may not be guaranteed in the future, but it is a useful measure of eyeballs and how well your site can attract other to associated sites.
Anyone else remember the creepy CBS after school special about the wave? It was about a hitleresque movement too. At least that had a happy ending where the kids realized their behavior was wrong. . .
This is not the first rat-on-your-peers program I have heard about. In my college, they recruited students who lived in dorms for one. It was a special group called peer counselors. They were basically behavior/mental illness narcs. They were supposed to gain the confidence of other students if they saw any signs of depression etc. Any hint of depression and they would turn over their fellow students. They were trained in how to do this.
You see, depression can lead to suicide so they treated any even mildly depressed students as "A danger to themselves or others." This is a cause for summary suspension in most schools and cause enough to lock anyone up against their will indefinitely in most states. You lose all civil rights. You may be tortured. You have no right to communicate with others if doctors feel that is not in your best interest. You lose your right to vote and marry. And you never get a real trial. Sadly, a student just homesick and a bit blue could find themselves forced into counseling and maybe out of school. Oddball or unpopular behavior might lead to the diagnosis of schizophrenia with similar results.
My school had plenty of volunteers for their corps of depression narcs; after all they were helping those poor kids. There are always plenty of people willing to mind their peers business. Let people feel good about this and you have a loyal following. Some churches seem to function on this theme as well. It is very compelling. At least the charge of sin doesn't get you locked up.
In the United States at least, the charge of mental illness is very like the cry of Witch! in Salem once was. And once accused, you lose credibility no matter the truth of the charge. The only way to prove your sanity is to take tests that may very well help them lock you up. It does not matter if you have done anything wrong. Admitting to a single thought that you wish you could die even though you would not harm yourself can be enough to condemn you. Imagine telling someone you thought of as a friend about an embarrassment and saying "I just wanted to die" and then being kicked out of school. It has happened.
Peer behavior narcs in high schools is a very scary thought to me, but then I am not pleased with the paranoia that D.A.R.E. teaches kids. Did you know they outed the Snuffelupagus because they felt teaching children that sometimes they are right when the whole world doubts them was dangerous?
I am glad that the ACLU is in the fray. At least this issue will not be lost because the people who care can't afford lawyers.
That said, i think will finally give some money to the ACLU. It is about time really. They helped me out when I got married. I wanted to keep my name and my husband wanted to take my last name. The county clerk said that we could not do that just by getting married but would have to fill out lots of forms and pay lots of money. The ACLU told us our rights and gave us the information to tell the clerk. When she found out we knew our rights, she stopped fighting.
The University of Chicago Hospitals uses pnematic tubes. They send samples to the lab. The results came back on a printer. I remember hearing nurses carefully explain that vial had to be surrounded by padding of things would be messy and dangerous. Some nurses were notorious for hoarding the containers used to shuttle samples around.
Back when I dealt with herds of windows 3.1 boxes I used to keep duplicates of critical.dll files in a separate directory. If I installed special software on a workstation, I would make a quick backup of the.dlls on that workstation. It seemed like every so ofen there was a bit of harddrive corruption and it struck.dll files and my little backup caches of.dlls came in handy more than once.
This innovation might be nice for servers that have tape backups and raids, but for the average workstation this could be very bad. Sometimes you want the same file in 2 places for real, and not just for pretend.
The following quote is from the url: http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/Internet_censors hip_bills/1998_bills/HTML/19980721_eff_s tatement.html
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION REACTS TO SENATE PASSAGE OF TWO INTERNET CENSORSHIP BILLS
Statement of Barry Steinhardt President of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
This afternoon the Senate passed two draconian bills that would ultimately prevent access to a wide array of content on the Internet. The two bills were passed as amendments to an appropriations bill for the Commerce, Justice and State Department. They were brought up without any notice to those members of the Senate who opposed them and without any opportunity for meaningful debate. In effect, free speech on the Internet was the victim of an ambush.
The initial amendment offered by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Patty Murray (D-WA) would require schools and libraries that receive federal funds for Internet connections to install filtering software to block "inappropriate" material. The second, "the CDA II" bill sponsored by Senator Dan Coats (R-IN) would enact a wide ranging ban on Web posting of material deemed "harmful to minors."
The two bills represent a real and present danger to free speech on the Internet. The McCain/Murray amendment will force libraries and schools to use all-too-frequently crude and overbroad filters that block out a wide array of non-"harmful" speech -- everything from the Quaker home page to the American Association of University Women has been blocked by these programs.
Indeed, you can no more create a computer program to block out one community's view of "indecency" or "obscenity" than you can devise a filtering program to block out misguided proposals by members of Congress. Both may be desirable, but neither are possible.
At first glance, the Coats' CDA II bill appears to be a relatively benign provision that purportedly applies only to commercial pornographers who market to minors. But it is a Trojan horse. Beneath the veneer, it covers any Web site that has a commercial component and which has material that some community will consider "harmful to minors", even if that is not the material for sale. This ranges from the electronic bookseller Amazon.com to EFF's site, which sells books and T-Shirts.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is one of the leading civil liberties organizations devoted to ensuring that the Internet remains the world's first truly global vehicle for free speech, and that the privacy and security of all on-line communication is preserved. Founded in 1990 as a nonprofit, public interest organization, EFF is based in San Francisco, California. EFF maintains an extensive archive of information on encryption policy, privacy, and free speech at http://www.eff.org.
I used to read the Chicago Tribune everyday. I stopped recently when my husband hurt his back and could no longer go out and get the paper. I had intended to start the subscription up again, but i don't miss it as much as i thought i would.
One of the most frustrating things i had to deal with was they kept screwing with my favorite comlumn, Miss Manners. It was supposed to be in every Sunday and Thursday. Then they switched to every Wednesday and Thursday. Many, many times the appropriate section would declare that Miss Manners was running that day and it was not there. They tended to drop it in order to run ads. I called and complained, but they still did it and acted like I was out of line for asking about it!
It was also frustrating that the deliveries were fairly often late or the paper was wet. When I stopped the paper, I found that I rather liked not having the little nuisances gone from my life. I read comics online, I read news online, now available from sources as reliable as the printed paper, and all I really miss is the local ads.
My linux box has never successflly run windows. It started life as a Novell 4.1 server and was loaned to me by my employer until such time as they needed it back;-) I tried installing 95 and nt, but it crashed immediately and the harddrive would not remain formatted, at least in a way windows would recognize. I have installed windows on all sorts of machines and not seen similar problems. It hated my cd-rom drive( so what if it is a Plextor and you need to use a caddy, redhat liked it) I fdisked my hd and installed Red Hat. No prob, except netscape crashes way too often.
I tried to rip cds on my nt laptop, but the programs seemed not to work for my wierd laptop cd drive. I have several gigs free on my linux box, so ripping cds to it seems like a good use especially since my stereo stopped working.
Ok, could you put your expertise where your mouth is? Could you tell me how to rip CDs or point me to resources for doing so? I have RedHat 6.1 installed on a Pentium 75 with 48 MB RAM and a 8GB Scsi harddrive. My CDRom is scsi as well and not very fast. Will this set up work?
I also have a cable modem and dloading mp3s is quite easy. The difficult part is finding someone who has ripped the same CDs i have.
I also have lots of tapes from the 80s. They suck for sound quality after too much, but can't i legally have MP3s of the songs from those albums? Why shouldn't I be able to download MP3s of my tapes and vinyl and 8 tracks as well as my CDs.
"The first thing he did was ignore all the bad blocks we'd found that he thought were perfectly appropriate. "
I find this quote quite chilling although accurate. Why do these people feel they have a right to decide what is appropriate, and why doesn't anyone stop them from enforcing it on others?
"It is time for the millions of users and organizations who have benefited from the Internet to take responsibility and do their part to eliminate this threat. Zombie Scan is the only internet based service that everyone can use to determine if they are unknowingly contributing to this crisis." -- Zach Nelson, president and CEO of myCIO.com.
A link in a copy of the article I saw led to a page wih the above quote. Not surprisingly, Nelson is a guy selling the supposed cure for the problem the article rants about.
"So for the 150th time, if the majority of people want it that way, what's the big deal?"
The whole point to the Bill of Rights is that there are some things that we want to have the right to do that may not hold up to a majority vote at all times.
It is only the majority the people willing to show up and speak at this meeting and similar ones. Those who want filters are painting anyone who doesn't want them as corrupting the morals of the youth. That is a honorable role once played by Socrates; his award for it was a nice bowl of hemlock. People who stand up individually against these filters may experience the modern day equivalent.
If each book public libraries acquired were first approved in such public meetings, the contents of most of our libraries would be vastly different. In my experience, libraries contain a wide range of books that while reflecting local interests also reflect many conflicting view points. There are books in my public library that I find highly offensive and others that I know many other would. I am glad they are there.
One of my favorite library books was, "Fold a banana." I would not like to have to justify its purchase. It is a small fun book that I find funny. It contains suggestions of things you could do if you are bored and illustrations of them. If taken literally it and its sequel "Throw a tomato into a fan." could be viewed as a very bad influence on children--just imagine the messes from the titles alone! Yet, it was there in the library. I can just hear the argument about what should have been purchased instead. Some boring book that had a better moral lesson no doubt. The web allows library patrons access to both fun sites and the boring moral sites, no extra charge.
Also in our library were such classics as "Joy of Sex", "My Secret Garden", "Sex, a User's Manual" as well as various books on homosexuality. If the library has such books, why not allow web pages with similar content to be viewed in the library? You certainly can read those books there, even the ones with explicit illustrations, as long as you aren't noisy about it. I know I have.
Some people need AOL because their job requires them to use it. How would they know that default means wipe out all other ISP information? Now it is fairly common knowledge because of this suit.
My company used it as a on the road ISP and also as a way to test. If you can access something trhough AOL then it can be accesses by just about anyone. We don't use it now, but we did.
"These are so much monopolies as they are licenses. In my neck of the woods, Mariot pays for the rights to and provides the food service for on-campus. This benefits of a system like this typically outweigh any concequences. "
In my college and in others, freshmen and sophomore were not allowed to live off campus. No good reason except the campus made money. A friend of mine was forced to pay for food she did not eat and a room she did not sleep in for one and a half years. She was living off campus with her boyfriend after the first semester. She tried to get out of it, but to no avail. There is no excuse for this, but colleges do this all the time. I don't think the benefits outweighed the consequences.
The freshmen dorms were especially hell holes. Noise, filth, and abuse filled the guy's dorm. The girls dorm was only slightly better. There was no choice for freshmen but to live there.
I was married and so they had to let me live in an apartment. When i lived in the on campus apartment they routinely tried to cut essential services during break even though i rented month to month and not by the semester. One year this nearly meant going without long distance service for december. I threatend to go to the local news and tell them that they were not going to let me call mom on christmas and that got their attention enough to relent and not cut phone service. The did cut the heat during thanksgiving break. They also did not put smoke alarms in the apartment until i called the fire marshall after a grease fire in mine. Oh, that is when i learned you can't dial 911 from on campus. I asked them to do something and they refused until i went crying to the fire marshall. Colleges are corporations and will behave as egregiously as they can get away with. My school was run by Franciscan Friars and yet they put profit over student well being and safety. Last i checked you still could not dial 911 from there.
This is one more example of a college putting profit ahead of all else. I hope someone will do something to stop them.
When I was in grade school in the 70s we were educated about racism. My favorite lesson was this:
I lived in a community that had several elementary schools and just one junior high. Any one who lived there and did not go to private school went to that junior high. When that school was built there were originally plans for the gym in the basement to have a swimming pool. However, racists that did not want black boys using the same pool as white girls blocked this plan and so today there is no junior high swimming pool, and it is too late to add one. This outraged my entire class when we learned of it. I remember beinmg sceptical and talking to my mother about this and she confirmed the story.
This and other lessons systematically taught us that racism is stupid, wrong, and in the end damages everyone if you give into it. I was shocked to find that many of my college friends had never learned much about racism in school. I think such lessons are much more beneficial than D.A.R.E.
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From the original BBC article, "Under the new approach, page edits will no longer be immediately applied to pages but will instead have to be approved by an administrator before they become visible." This is flatly false. I have been involved in discussion about the German experiment and what English wikipedia will do, and the above statement is exactly what will not happen and what no one wants, not the foundation, not administrators, not the writers. It strikes me as FUD at its worst.
Notice this correction was made, "There's no decision yet as to who will be able to "approve" a page, and of course the English-language Wikipedia is simply watching what happens in Germany and seeing how it works, so there will be no change for those of us who use the English version." Now this is accurate. English is watching the German wikipedia to see what works for them with full knowledge that what works for German is not what works for English.
Just because one state thinks you are behind, doesn't mean you are. I know someone actually ahead in their child support, but the state of California doesn't think so. The child support is being paid to someplace in another court as ordered by the judge. California doesn't seem to care that the support is being paid. They want it paid a second time.
I popped in the first disk, installed the whole thing to my hard drive, all 4 CDS and then started play. The only bug i encountered was task (Alt-Tab out to windows) switching caused the mouse to freeze, but other than that there were no glitches. Play was awsome. The only frustrating part was finding that one path in Edanna. The game seemed to flow very well and was very much in the spirit of Myst and Riven. The look of the game and the fx were not as spectacular as RealMyst with the moving clouds and changing skys and weather.
The safe CD crap is very bothersome as is the incorrect hardware requirements in the box. I was upset that the promised plush squee in the Collectors Edition morphed into a tee shirt i can't wear and a little metal squee which cracked the little plastic CD cases.
The big problem I have with Heinlein is the narrow minded way he deals with gender roles and sexual orientation. The passage in Stranger that grates my nerves the most was the passage on page 303 of my Berkely Science fiction paper back edition where the narrator talks about the "poor in betweens" probably having a wrongness that Mike could sense. The homophobia is sickening. Heinlein explores the 20th century American psyche while failing to extract himself from mores similar to the ones he satirizes.
I much prefer the group marriage as explored by Dian Duane in her Door Into series. It is a much more interesting take on humanity.
1) those numbers are damn small and the ballot books are fixed to the booth so it can be very difficilt to read and compare.
2) I asked for another ballot and was denied.
3) It can be done better and usually is. It is possible to have unused holes covered and leave spaces between separate issues. when presented with a group of 2 to 7 holes it is much easier to figure out which hole corresponds to which candidate.
1) Print out the alleged bad ballot.
2) Now place it horizontally about chest to collarbone level and at half an arms length away.
The arrows seem a lot closer together!
If it is like my poll the holes are physically under the ballot book by nearly the distance the holes are separated from each other. This means that unless you can look at it from above, which is not possible if you are short and the ballot and book are in fixed positions, again like at my poll, then the arrow appears to point between two holes.
In other paper ballot elections I attended, the ballots and books were designed so that unneeded holes were covered and there was never any doubt which holes to punch.
The palm beach ballot design my seem ok at first glance, but in use it would be quite ambiguous. This also explains why it was initially approved by the dems.
My ballot had similar problems but only on pages that were for the reelection of judges. Some other issues had several places between them. I noticed when i got to the right half of the page and the punch was already punched. This is a bigger problem for me since i am short.
I hate SONY laptops. We bought a few when the CEP fell in love with the tiny vaio. He won't fall in love with this. It does not look slick, or pretty, or corporate. It looks like a toy. That desigh might make a nice case for your sex toy, but that design does not belong in the corporate world.
SONY service bites. Ten day turn around is the minimum. I have had several nasty problems that meant the laptops spending most of their time in the shop. The warranty is 1 year, and is not extendable.
I worked with NEC and now Dell laptops. Those have great service, longer warranties that are extendable for a reasonable price and they don't spend as much time in te shop. I find the people at NEC and Dell are much easier to deal with than those at sony.
I sent out an email telling users of this virus and warning outlook is to be uninstalled on all systems. We use something else for email.
So what to the id10ts do? They double click on an outlook icon and in some cases reinstall it to see what all the fuss is about!
Refrigeration are more than just comfort.
Late last summer mine when out and my roomate opened all the windows. I was so overwhelmed by allergens, that I had a bad asthma attack. I can't live without aircondtioning.
Also when I was working at a large hospital in the middle of the winter when two of the the data room air conditioners went out. We were able to safely open several windows in sub zero weather, and channel that air with fans, but when the temp got to 100 F in the back of the room, there were several failures including a router, IIRC.
My network can't run without air conditioning.
Many of the lovely large highways we have go to places that are only habitable with air conditioning.
Also let's not forget the difficulty of supporting huge cities and far flung locals without food refrigeration. Food poisoning is no joke.
I give a big raspberry and a big snotty sneeze to all those who think Air conditioning and refrigeration are mere luxuries.
Anyone see the Darma and Greg ep about her starting a store? She rented a storefront and had no product. She welcomed people in and they came in. She never decided on a product, but had people coming there. They brought their own coffee and newspapers, and did other stuff. In the end, she sold her business that did nothing for a tidy profit though she had no revenue. The whole time I thought "website".
There is value in anything that attracts eyeballs. Banner revenue may not be guaranteed in the future, but it is a useful measure of eyeballs and how well your site can attract other to associated sites.
No, but now everyone sees him, not just big bird. Use to be that he would wander off and no one else would get to meet him.
Anyone else remember the creepy CBS after school special about the wave? It was about a hitleresque movement too. At least that had a happy ending where the kids realized their behavior was wrong. . .
This is not the first rat-on-your-peers program I have heard about. In my college, they recruited students who lived in dorms for one. It was a special group called peer counselors. They were basically behavior/mental illness narcs. They were supposed to gain the confidence of other students if they saw any signs of depression etc. Any hint of depression and they would turn over their fellow students. They were trained in how to do this.
You see, depression can lead to suicide so they treated any even mildly depressed students as "A danger to themselves or others." This is a cause for summary suspension in most schools and cause enough to lock anyone up against their will indefinitely in most states. You lose all civil rights. You may be tortured. You have no right to communicate with others if doctors feel that is not in your best interest. You lose your right to vote and marry. And you never get a real trial. Sadly, a student just homesick and a bit blue could find themselves forced into counseling and maybe out of school. Oddball or unpopular behavior might lead to the diagnosis of schizophrenia with similar results.
My school had plenty of volunteers for their corps of depression narcs; after all they were helping those poor kids. There are always plenty of people willing to mind their peers business. Let people feel good about this and you have a loyal following. Some churches seem to function on this theme as well. It is very compelling. At least the charge of sin doesn't get you locked up.
In the United States at least, the charge of mental illness is very like the cry of Witch! in Salem once was. And once accused, you lose credibility no matter the truth of the charge. The only way to prove your sanity is to take tests that may very well help them lock you up. It does not matter if you have done anything wrong. Admitting to a single thought that you wish you could die even though you would not harm yourself can be enough to condemn you. Imagine telling someone you thought of as a friend about an embarrassment and saying "I just wanted to die" and then being kicked out of school. It has happened.
Peer behavior narcs in high schools is a very scary thought to me, but then I am not pleased with the paranoia that D.A.R.E. teaches kids. Did you know they outed the Snuffelupagus because they felt teaching children that sometimes they are right when the whole world doubts them was dangerous?
Scary stuff.
I am glad that the ACLU is in the fray. At least this issue will not be lost because the people who care can't afford lawyers.
That said, i think will finally give some money to the ACLU. It is about time really. They helped me out when I got married. I wanted to keep my name and my husband wanted to take my last name. The county clerk said that we could not do that just by getting married but would have to fill out lots of forms and pay lots of money. The ACLU told us our rights and gave us the information to tell the clerk. When she found out we knew our rights, she stopped fighting.
The University of Chicago Hospitals uses pnematic tubes. They send samples to the lab. The results came back on a printer. I remember hearing nurses carefully explain that vial had to be surrounded by padding of things would be messy and dangerous. Some nurses were notorious for hoarding the containers used to shuttle samples around.
Back when I dealt with herds of windows 3.1 boxes I used to keep duplicates of critical .dll files in a separate directory. If I installed special software on a workstation, I would make a quick backup of the .dlls on that workstation. It seemed like every so ofen there was a bit of harddrive corruption and it struck .dll files and my little backup caches of .dlls came in handy more than once.
This innovation might be nice for servers that have tape backups and raids, but for the average workstation this could be very bad. Sometimes you want the same file in 2 places for real, and not just for pretend.
The following quote is from the url: http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/Internet_censors hip_bills/1998_bills/HTML/19980721_eff_s tatement.html
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION REACTS TO SENATE PASSAGE OF TWO INTERNET CENSORSHIP BILLS
Statement of Barry Steinhardt President of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
This afternoon the Senate passed two draconian bills that would ultimately prevent access to a wide array of content on the Internet. The two bills were passed as amendments to an appropriations bill for the Commerce, Justice and State Department. They were brought up without any notice to those members of the Senate who opposed them and without any opportunity for meaningful debate. In effect, free speech on the Internet was the victim of an ambush.
The initial amendment offered by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Patty Murray (D-WA) would require schools and libraries that receive federal funds for Internet connections to install filtering software to block "inappropriate" material. The second, "the CDA II" bill sponsored by Senator Dan Coats (R-IN) would enact a wide ranging ban on Web posting of material deemed "harmful to minors."
The two bills represent a real and present danger to free speech on the Internet. The McCain/Murray amendment will force libraries and schools to use all-too-frequently crude and overbroad filters that block out a wide array of non-"harmful" speech -- everything from the Quaker home page to the American Association of University Women has been blocked by these programs.
Indeed, you can no more create a computer program to block out one community's view of "indecency" or "obscenity" than you can devise a filtering program to block out misguided proposals by members of Congress. Both may be desirable, but neither are possible.
At first glance, the Coats' CDA II bill appears to be a relatively benign provision that purportedly applies only to commercial pornographers who market to minors. But it is a Trojan horse. Beneath the veneer, it covers any Web site that has a commercial component and which has material that some community will consider "harmful to minors", even if that is not the material for sale. This ranges from the electronic bookseller Amazon.com to EFF's site, which sells books and T-Shirts.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is one of the leading civil liberties organizations devoted to ensuring that the Internet remains the world's first truly global vehicle for free speech, and that the privacy and security of all on-line communication is preserved. Founded in 1990 as a nonprofit, public interest organization, EFF is based in San Francisco, California. EFF maintains an extensive archive of information on encryption policy, privacy, and free speech at http://www.eff.org.
I used to read the Chicago Tribune everyday. I stopped recently when my husband hurt his back and could no longer go out and get the paper. I had intended to start the subscription up again, but i don't miss it as much as i thought i would.
One of the most frustrating things i had to deal with was they kept screwing with my favorite comlumn, Miss Manners. It was supposed to be in every Sunday and Thursday. Then they switched to every Wednesday and Thursday. Many, many times the appropriate section would declare that Miss Manners was running that day and it was not there. They tended to drop it in order to run ads. I called and complained, but they still did it and acted like I was out of line for asking about it!
It was also frustrating that the deliveries were fairly often late or the paper was wet. When I stopped the paper, I found that I rather liked not having the little nuisances gone from my life. I read comics online, I read news online, now available from sources as reliable as the printed paper, and all I really miss is the local ads.
My linux box has never successflly run windows. It started life as a Novell 4.1 server and was loaned to me by my employer until such time as they needed it back ;-) I tried installing 95 and nt, but it crashed immediately and the harddrive would not remain formatted, at least in a way windows would recognize. I have installed windows on all sorts of machines and not seen similar problems. It hated my cd-rom drive( so what if it is a Plextor and you need to use a caddy, redhat liked it) I fdisked my hd and installed Red Hat. No prob, except netscape crashes way too often.
I tried to rip cds on my nt laptop, but the programs seemed not to work for my wierd laptop cd drive. I have several gigs free on my linux box, so ripping cds to it seems like a good use especially since my stereo stopped working.
Ok, could you put your expertise where your mouth is? Could you tell me how to rip CDs or point me to resources for doing so? I have RedHat 6.1 installed on a Pentium 75 with 48 MB RAM and a 8GB Scsi harddrive. My CDRom is scsi as well and not very fast. Will this set up work?
I also have a cable modem and dloading mp3s is quite easy. The difficult part is finding someone who has ripped the same CDs i have.
I also have lots of tapes from the 80s. They suck for sound quality after too much, but can't i legally have MP3s of the songs from those albums? Why shouldn't I be able to download MP3s of my tapes and vinyl and 8 tracks as well as my CDs.
"The first thing he did was ignore all the bad blocks we'd found that he thought were perfectly appropriate. "
I find this quote quite chilling although accurate. Why do these people feel they have a right to decide what is appropriate, and why doesn't anyone stop them from enforcing it on others?
How did these people get so bold?
"It is time for the millions of users and organizations who have benefited from the Internet to take responsibility and do their part to eliminate this threat. Zombie Scan is the only internet based service that everyone can use to determine if they are unknowingly contributing to this crisis." -- Zach Nelson, president and CEO of myCIO.com.
A link in a copy of the article I saw led to a page wih the above quote. Not surprisingly, Nelson is a guy selling the supposed cure for the problem the article rants about.
"So for the 150th time, if the majority of people want it that way, what's the big deal?"
The whole point to the Bill of Rights is that there are some things that we want to have the right to do that may not hold up to a majority vote at all times.
It is only the majority the people willing to show up and speak at this meeting and similar ones. Those who want filters are painting anyone who doesn't want them as corrupting the morals of the youth. That is a honorable role once played by Socrates; his award for it was a nice bowl of hemlock. People who stand up individually against these filters may experience the modern day equivalent.
If each book public libraries acquired were first approved in such public meetings, the contents of most of our libraries would be vastly different. In my experience, libraries contain a wide range of books that while reflecting local interests also reflect many conflicting view points. There are books in my public library that I find highly offensive and others that I know many other would. I am glad they are there.
One of my favorite library books was, "Fold a banana." I would not like to have to justify its purchase. It is a small fun book that I find funny. It contains suggestions of things you could do if you are bored and illustrations of them. If taken literally it and its sequel "Throw a tomato into a fan." could be viewed as a very bad influence on children--just imagine the messes from the titles alone! Yet, it was there in the library. I can just hear the argument about what should have been purchased instead. Some boring book that had a better moral lesson no doubt. The web allows library patrons access to both fun sites and the boring moral sites, no extra charge.
Also in our library were such classics as "Joy of Sex", "My Secret Garden", "Sex, a User's Manual" as well as various books on homosexuality. If the library has such books, why not allow web pages with similar content to be viewed in the library? You certainly can read those books there, even the ones with explicit illustrations, as long as you aren't noisy about it. I know I have.
Some people need AOL because their job requires them to use it. How would they know that default means wipe out all other ISP information? Now it is fairly common knowledge because of this suit.
My company used it as a on the road ISP and also as a way to test. If you can access something trhough AOL then it can be accesses by just about anyone. We don't use it now, but we did.
IMHO this lawsuit has merit.
"These are so much monopolies as they are licenses. In my neck of the woods, Mariot pays for the rights to and provides the food service for on-campus. This benefits of a system like this typically outweigh any concequences. "
In my college and in others, freshmen and sophomore were not allowed to live off campus. No good reason except the campus made money. A friend of mine was forced to pay for food she did not eat and a room she did not sleep in for one and a half years. She was living off campus with her boyfriend after the first semester. She tried to get out of it, but to no avail. There is no excuse for this, but colleges do this all the time. I don't think the benefits outweighed the consequences.
The freshmen dorms were especially hell holes. Noise, filth, and abuse filled the guy's dorm. The girls dorm was only slightly better. There was no choice for freshmen but to live there.
I was married and so they had to let me live in an apartment. When i lived in the on campus apartment they routinely tried to cut essential services during break even though i rented month to month and not by the semester. One year this nearly meant going without long distance service for december. I threatend to go to the local news and tell them that they were not going to let me call mom on christmas and that got their attention enough to relent and not cut phone service. The did cut the heat during thanksgiving break. They also did not put smoke alarms in the apartment until i called the fire marshall after a grease fire in mine. Oh, that is when i learned you can't dial 911 from on campus. I asked them to do something and they refused until i went crying to the fire marshall. Colleges are corporations and will behave as egregiously as they can get away with. My school was run by Franciscan Friars and yet they put profit over student well being and safety. Last i checked you still could not dial 911 from there.
This is one more example of a college putting profit ahead of all else. I hope someone will do something to stop them.
When I was in grade school in the 70s we were educated about racism. My favorite lesson was this:
I lived in a community that had several elementary schools and just one junior high. Any one who lived there and did not go to private school went to that junior high. When that school was built there were originally plans for the gym in the basement to have a swimming pool. However, racists that did not want black boys using the same pool as white girls blocked this plan and so today there is no junior high swimming pool, and it is too late to add one. This outraged my entire class when we learned of it. I remember beinmg sceptical and talking to my mother about this and she confirmed the story.
This and other lessons systematically taught us that racism is stupid, wrong, and in the end damages everyone if you give into it. I was shocked to find that many of my college friends had never learned much about racism in school. I think such lessons are much more beneficial than D.A.R.E.