I think that the Save the Children crowd is the scariest political phenomena of the last few decades.
Personally violence disgusts me and I think there is too much in the media. I particular like gratuitous violence that has little or nothing to do with the plot. So i have made the incredible step of avoiding veiwing such violent content. I have plenty of friends IRL and online that serve as my personal guide to movies and games. The capalert site is also great for this in movies( i also find it hilarious; read the review of Tarzan for a real laugh)
The Save the Children crowd don't seem to think that controlling their own viewing and the veiwing of their children is enough. Itshould be enough for anyone, but they want more. They want access to all content they disapprove of limited for everyone. To meet this goal they use children as an excuse and then try to whip up outrage that children may have access to these things, and thus we must give over our rights to Save the Children.
Articles like the false one in Family PC serve their politial agenda. I don't care for that, but the fact that the magazine is guilty of sloppy editing or outright falshood makes me smile. It highlights the inherent sloppy thinking and deception in this political movement.
If they really want to do something about kids and these games why not make a site like CAPAlert for games? That might give people information that they can use to avoid games they would dissapprove of and even *gasp* monitor their own child's PC.
But they don't want that. They want to control my PC, and yours. I won't let them, I hope you won't either.
How long before the girls computer is slower and doesn't have as much RAM because girls don't need as much power as boys.
Why do companies seem so reluctant to have products targeted to both boys and girls? I really hate the way they take fairly normal toys and make them girls toys by making them pink.
As I have noted befoer, I am a woman. I have Linux installed at home. My closest female friend has Linux at home. We do exist.
Why is it important that women use Linux? It is important for the same reason it is important thant women drive cars. Remember all the jokes about women drivers from the bad old days? Women driving seemed to be out of the ordinary. I remember a lot of sitcom plots centered around teaching a woman to drive. Now we have Mom as chauffeur. Now we women pay less on insurance. Notice all those minivans? Guess who buys and drives about half of the automobiles in America?
As computers become as common as cars, whoever gets to the mom market and can hold it will have a big advantage.
We recently had fiber installed to out building. We have ISDN as a backup. The fiber travels above ground quite a ways and then goes underground. My boss took the time to check out both the fiber route and the copper one. They only cross at one pole. If that pole goes down . . .
In my experience Windows 95 crashes more than Windows NT and of course more than Linux. These ISP's like the crash because you have a better chance of losing the connection and thus lose it a large part of the time that you are not actually there to use it. Servers are discouraged and fewer of their resources are used. Also if you need to to connect through their software each time you reconnect you are there to see any advertising. They would much better be serving packets to eyeballs than to an unattended box.
I could not get AOL 4.0 to work on my NT laptop and they indeed told me NT was not supported. And before you flame, my work paid for the AOL and asked that i have that available as a backup connection. Also, since some of the execs had AOL at home they wanted me to be familiar with it to support them.
I finally got the account cancelled because they refused to do anything to support NT.
Hmm, what worries me is the "no actual damage need be done" part. I think that regualtion of behavior was based on _impact_ to society.
I think all governments would do better to strike laws that regulate non-harmful behavior than to make up laws against behavior that is potentially harmful. Intent is difficult to judge at times. Damage is pretty clear.
That said, my remaining question is: Was it actually legal there to cause harm not _danger_ to data processing systems. Why did they feel the need to pass this law?
"For the first time ever in the history of the music business, a major recording artist and a leading record company are joining with retail to bring a complete album to music fans via download from the Internet."
So TMBG aren't major? Gee, I bought and downloaded a few of their albums. and they were in nice MP3 format. They Might Be Giants might not be as old and as famous as Bowie, but they seem like big time to me.
I really like Bowie's music, but he has let MS us his music before. This was to be expected, but it turns my stomach.
I remember when the laws concerning siezures were changed. I found them scary, but since i was a child I had no voice that would be listened to. I am appalled that we allow laws like that to stand. There should be no crime so heinous that it demands all citizens lose what is meant to be our constitutional rights. I found out a few years ago when i began to raise African violets that the grow lights I bought could be considered drug paraphenalia because they could be used to raise marajuana and could be siezed as such during a search.
Such heavy handed laws are justified to the public by saying that they help crack down on drugs and kiddie porn. We then also use programs like D.A.R.E. to make sure drugs remain as a big boogie so as the children of today grow up they will leave the seizure laws in place, and that anyone who opposes these laws will be considered by the public to support drug addiction and kiddie porn, so there is little motivation for politician to try to scale back or repeal these laws.
I think that the addiction survey the otherday that said if you use the internet over 4 hours a day is a sign of things to come. It seems to me that perhaps certain segments want computers viewed with the same unhealthy fear that D.A.R.E. teaches children to view alchohol. Read the numerous account of "Computers wrecked my marriage" in Ann Landers and Dear Abby. The sentiment is already out there waiting to be tapped.
Computers are becoming a big part of our culture. A battle is waging on how they will fit into our lives.
So did I. I looked it up. Most sources in my home town library either ignored the circumstances of his death or said he had dies mysteriously. Britannica had most of the information and from there i had enough to look up the rest. There is a play about his life too. I have not had the chance to see it.
It really makes me wonder what he would have done if he had been able to live a long peacful life and not been harrassed. Despite what others here have said, his contributions were significant. He did his best to help his country during the war and to repay him they made his life hell. I for one am glad to see these chapters available.
He was gay. The British government found out and forced him to take hormone injections to treat his condition. He finally was overwhelmed with the humiliation of it and killed himself by eating a poisoned apple. He even brewed the poision himself.
I had a 386 last year with 5 MB of memory, 42 MB MFM hard drive stacked to 89. It was given to me. I had DOS 3.3 on it and played Ultima and Tristan pinball.
For my husband i put on windows 3.1 and he did the checkbook in it with some program i have forgotten the name of.
Something went wrong and the drive died. Now we have a pentium 75 with 48 MB memory and 8.1 GB scsi HD, but i miss my 386.
At my last job, they decided to finally get web access and then decided to use CyberPatrol. We were having a wierd problem with windows and i was searching on the web to see if i could find others that had experienced it.
Cyber Patrol blocked the first 7 results. The description in the search ingine seemed to indicate that they had the identical problem. I complained to the head of the department. He told me to write down the address and he would look into it. I gave him the address.
He looked at it and said, "No wonder it was blocked, this is a fake address."
I said "what makes you think that?"
He said, "it is rather obvious. This address ends in.de. All reall addresses end in.com,.org,.edu,.gov, and.mil."
I went to the movie, taking a 15 year old whose mother said she could see the movie, as long as the mother did not have to watch it, and as long as she would go to church the next day without a hassle. Although we were not hassled the ticket seller looked dubious. A third of the audience left. These were not parents, but mainly it seemed like ppl who went to see it just to dissapprove.
I liked the movie, more than any other in a long time.
Because I need to work. I don't wear heels, I don't wear makeup. I don't wear pantyhose either. I wear comfortable clothes with the exception of my bra. I work in a business casual office. My clothes are presentable. I am quite sure that they would sic a femme from HR on me if I stopped wearing my bra. I don't know why this is. At my last place of employment I got a reprimand when I wore sandals with no hose. I had on an ankle length skirt, but apparently my bare toes were impeding productivity.
I am not worried about not wearing a bra making my breasts sag; they are not the perky type anyway. When I was quite young, it was more comfortable to wear a bra than not, but since about age 20 the opposite is true.
I knew a woman in college who stopped wearing a bra because she could not find one in her size. The comments that pple gave her were usually quite nasty, the comments they made behind her back were worse.
Libraries are about allowing access to information. For years, i could not afford to buy books, anything i read was at the library. Some o what i read included "the joy of sex", "sex, a users' manual", "the lord is my shepard, and he knows i am gay", "the tearoom trade", "human sexuality", "the complete history of erotic art", "men in love", my secret garden". All of these books were available for anyone to read. Some were kept behind the desk, but the librarian was supposed to give them to whomever asked. The reason for this was to cut down on theiving. Some sports books and comic books were back there as well IIRC.
However, if I found websites with the same content and viewed them in my public library computer lab, i would be violating the rules and lose my privilege of using the library computers. If they were text only sites, I might get away with reading them, but if the consultant read over my shoulder as the little prick is fond of doing, he would by policy have the right to eject me. Filters would eliminate even text sites that could be read discreetly in the lab.
In my experience, the filters used to control net access tend to filter sex, drugs, and controversial subjects. I really don't think the library is the place to avoid information on controversial subjects. I know of ppl who go to the library and steal books they don't like. In my experience the books were often on homosexuality, abortion rights, and birth control. By enforcing content filtering, we are giving in to that mentality.
California has implied consent to give any driver licensed there a test to determine blood alchol. I wonder how soon that your permission for this giving out of your data is just that voluntary.
"Oh, you implied you gave your consent when you began working in this state. Didn't you see the fine print that is supposed to be displayed at your employers?"
Slashdot Mirror
what is this? why is this story gone from the main page?
"I particular like gratuitous violence"
That should read "I particularly do not like gratuitous violence".
One day i will get the hang of proof reading.
I think that the Save the Children crowd is the scariest political phenomena of the last few decades.
Personally violence disgusts me and I think there is too much in the media. I particular like gratuitous violence that has little or nothing to do with the plot. So i have made the incredible step of avoiding veiwing such violent content. I have plenty of friends IRL and online that serve as my personal guide to movies and games. The capalert site is also great for this in movies( i also find it hilarious; read the review of Tarzan for a real laugh)
The Save the Children crowd don't seem to think that controlling their own viewing and the veiwing of their children is enough. Itshould be enough for anyone, but they want more. They want access to all content they disapprove of limited for everyone. To meet this goal they use children as an excuse and then try to whip up outrage that children may have access to these things, and thus we must give over our rights to Save the Children.
Articles like the false one in Family PC serve their politial agenda. I don't care for that, but the fact that the magazine is guilty of sloppy editing or outright falshood makes me smile. It highlights the inherent sloppy thinking and deception in this political movement.
If they really want to do something about kids and these games why not make a site like CAPAlert for games? That might give people information that they can use to avoid games they would dissapprove of and even *gasp* monitor their own child's PC.
But they don't want that. They want to control my PC, and yours. I won't let them, I hope you won't either.
Californians
How long before the girls computer is slower and doesn't have as much RAM because girls don't need as much power as boys.
Why do companies seem so reluctant to have products targeted to both boys and girls? I really hate the way they take fairly normal toys and make them girls toys by making them pink.
SAY it ain't so!! @home support is bad enough AOL is worse.
OTOH my work will pay for AOL access, it won't for @home access.
As I have noted befoer, I am a woman. I have Linux installed at home. My closest female friend has Linux at home. We do exist.
Why is it important that women use Linux? It is important for the same reason it is important thant women drive cars. Remember all the jokes about women drivers from the bad old days? Women driving seemed to be out of the ordinary. I remember a lot of sitcom plots centered around teaching a woman to drive. Now we have Mom as chauffeur. Now we women pay less on insurance. Notice all those minivans? Guess who buys and drives about half of the automobiles in America?
As computers become as common as cars, whoever gets to the mom market and can hold it will have a big advantage.
We recently had fiber installed to out building. We have ISDN as a backup. The fiber travels above ground quite a ways and then goes underground. My boss took the time to check out both the fiber route and the copper one. They only cross at one pole. If that pole goes down . . .
1) the 16 bit is inadequate because it did not work with some applications that i needed.
2)AOL 4.0 install quit with an error message that said that the os was not Windows 9x.
In my experience Windows 95 crashes more than Windows NT and of course more than Linux. These ISP's like the crash because you have a better chance of losing the connection and thus lose it a large part of the time that you are not actually there to use it. Servers are discouraged and fewer of their resources are used. Also if you need to to connect through their software each time you reconnect you are there to see any advertising. They would much better be serving packets to eyeballs than to an unattended box.
I could not get AOL 4.0 to work on my NT laptop and they indeed told me NT was not supported. And before you flame, my work paid for the AOL and asked that i have that available as a backup connection. Also, since some of the execs had AOL at home they wanted me to be familiar with it to support them.
I finally got the account cancelled because they refused to do anything to support NT.
Hmm, what worries me is the "no actual damage need be done" part. I think that regualtion of behavior was based on _impact_ to society.
I think all governments would do better to strike laws that regulate non-harmful behavior than to make up laws against behavior that is potentially harmful. Intent is difficult to judge at times. Damage is pretty clear.
That said, my remaining question is: Was it actually legal there to cause harm not _danger_ to data processing systems. Why did they feel the need to pass this law?
Either my company's email boxes have not been created, do not use the stupid password, or someone has logged in and changed them.
Wasn't this the major complaint about that license?
"For the first time ever in the history of the music business, a major recording artist and a leading record company are joining with retail to bring a complete album to music fans via download from the Internet."
So TMBG aren't major? Gee, I bought and downloaded a few of their albums. and they were in nice MP3 format. They Might Be Giants might not be as old and as famous as Bowie, but they seem like big time to me.
I really like Bowie's music, but he has let MS us his music before. This was to be expected, but it turns my stomach.
I remember when the laws concerning siezures were changed. I found them scary, but since i was a child I had no voice that would be listened to. I am appalled that we allow laws like that to stand. There should be no crime so heinous that it demands all citizens lose what is meant to be our constitutional rights. I found out a few years ago when i began to raise African violets that the grow lights I bought could be considered drug paraphenalia because they could be used to raise marajuana and could be siezed as such during a search.
Such heavy handed laws are justified to the public by saying that they help crack down on drugs and kiddie porn. We then also use programs like D.A.R.E. to make sure drugs remain as a big boogie so as the children of today grow up they will leave the seizure laws in place, and that anyone who opposes these laws will be considered by the public to support drug addiction and kiddie porn, so there is little motivation for politician to try to scale back or repeal these laws.
I think that the addiction survey the otherday that said if you use the internet over 4 hours a day is a sign of things to come. It seems to me that perhaps certain segments want computers viewed with the same unhealthy fear that D.A.R.E. teaches children to view alchohol. Read the numerous account of "Computers wrecked my marriage" in Ann Landers and Dear Abby. The sentiment is already out there waiting to be tapped.
Computers are becoming a big part of our culture. A battle is waging on how they will fit into our lives.
Not certain?? What details have you found?
So did I. I looked it up. Most sources in my home town library either ignored the circumstances of his death or said he had dies mysteriously. Britannica had most of the information and from there i had enough to look up the rest. There is a play about his life too. I have not had the chance to see it.
It really makes me wonder what he would have done if he had been able to live a long peacful life and not been harrassed. Despite what others here have said, his contributions were significant. He did his best to help his country during the war and to repay him they made his life hell. I for one am glad to see these chapters available.
Short version:
He was gay. The British government found out and forced him to take hormone injections to treat his condition. He finally was overwhelmed with the humiliation of it and killed himself by eating a poisoned apple. He even brewed the poision himself.
I had a 386 last year with 5 MB of memory, 42 MB MFM hard drive stacked to 89. It was given to me. I had DOS 3.3 on it and played Ultima and Tristan pinball.
For my husband i put on windows 3.1 and he did the checkbook in it with some program i have forgotten the name of.
Something went wrong and the drive died. Now we have a pentium 75 with 48 MB memory and 8.1 GB scsi HD, but i miss my 386.
At my last job, they decided to finally get web access and then decided to use CyberPatrol. We were having a wierd problem with windows and i was searching on the web to see if i could find others that had experienced it.
.de. All reall addresses end in .com, .org, .edu, .gov, and .mil."
Cyber Patrol blocked the first 7 results. The description in the search ingine seemed to indicate that they had the identical problem. I complained to the head of the department. He told me to write down the address and he would look into it. I gave him the address.
He looked at it and said, "No wonder it was blocked, this is a fake address."
I said "what makes you think that?"
He said, "it is rather obvious. This address ends in
I went to the movie, taking a 15 year old whose mother said she could see the movie, as long as the mother did not have to watch it, and as long as she would go to church the next day without a hassle. Although we were not hassled the ticket seller looked dubious. A third of the audience left. These were not parents, but mainly it seemed like ppl who went to see it just to dissapprove.
I liked the movie, more than any other in a long time.
Because I need to work. I don't wear heels, I don't wear makeup. I don't wear pantyhose either. I wear comfortable clothes with the exception of my bra. I work in a business casual office. My clothes are presentable. I am quite sure that they would sic a femme from HR on me if I stopped wearing my bra. I don't know why this is. At my last place of employment I got a reprimand when I wore sandals with no hose. I had on an ankle length skirt, but apparently my bare toes were impeding productivity.
I am not worried about not wearing a bra making my breasts sag; they are not the perky type anyway. When I was quite young, it was more comfortable to wear a bra than not, but since about age 20 the opposite is true.
I knew a woman in college who stopped wearing a bra because she could not find one in her size. The comments that pple gave her were usually quite nasty, the comments they made behind her back were worse.
Libraries are about allowing access to information. For years, i could not afford to buy books, anything i read was at the library. Some o what i read included "the joy of sex", "sex, a users' manual", "the lord is my shepard, and he knows i am gay", "the tearoom trade", "human sexuality", "the complete history of erotic art", "men in love", my secret garden". All of these books were available for anyone to read. Some were kept behind the desk, but the librarian was supposed to give them to whomever asked. The reason for this was to cut down on theiving. Some sports books and comic books were back there as well IIRC.
However, if I found websites with the same content and viewed them in my public library computer lab, i would be violating the rules and lose my privilege of using the library computers. If they were text only sites, I might get away with reading them, but if the consultant read over my shoulder as the little prick is fond of doing, he would by policy have the right to eject me. Filters would eliminate even text sites that could be read discreetly in the lab.
In my experience, the filters used to control net access tend to filter sex, drugs, and controversial subjects. I really don't think the library is the place to avoid information on controversial subjects. I know of ppl who go to the library and steal books they don't like. In my experience the books were often on homosexuality, abortion rights, and birth control. By enforcing content filtering, we are giving in to that mentality.
Or can any citezen pay a fee for information and get it?
Could be very useful. If a company can get the data, why not anyone?
California has implied consent to give any driver licensed there a test to determine blood alchol. I wonder how soon that your permission for this giving out of your data is just that voluntary.
"Oh, you implied you gave your consent when you began working in this state. Didn't you see the fine print that is supposed to be displayed at your employers?"