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If you are a minor in the US (under 18), you can't legally enter into a contract without your parents permission. That's why your parents have to sign everything with you. An interesting case in court would be one in which a student installs software, say XP then sues Microsoft for accessing their info. If there was no licensing agreement between the two parties, then would MS have the right to look at the hard disk?
Another comment: I would assume that MS's right to update is contingent on responsible use of the procedure. If someone was to hack the system and change everyone's start up screens to the Playmate centerfold, do you think that MS would be able to retain the right to complete future updates?
Given two computers, each with a firewire port, neither with a NIC, how feasible is it to share files between the two computers?
Also, while we're on the topic of CAT5 cable, what is this new garbage I see at the stores called CAT6, and should anyone waste their money on it, considering the 1000BaseT runs over Cat5e?
The article linked provided didn't do a very good job in explaining Time Warner's services. Their base cable rates will stay relatively the same, but the new Video-On-Demand service is what leads to the 230 dollar bill. For 3.95 you can "rent" a new release for 8 hours. This gives you the ability to play, stop, pause, rewind, etc. the movie. Old releases will be 1.95. No ones cable bill will be 230 dollars unless they order a movie almost every day. My local newspaper published this information in a front page story today. Surprisingly the slashdot link didn't include that info.
Just for correctness, the college in question is not state-funded. Cornell is broken up into several colleges, three of which are state funded (significantly lower tuition). The College of Engineering however, is a private institution and has the typical 36k tuition bill.
With the recent trend of putting computers in the classroom, this law is nothing but trouble. Is the Senator asking that we put a 5 year old who touches the computer without the teachers permission in jail? With this law it would be illegal to even move the mouse, doing so "affects" the computer. Maybe we should just station cops in every school to preven against computer affecting incidents. And when they aren't busy, maybe they could spare some time to make sure no one has a weapon on them.
I know I'll be taken to the woodshed and shot for saying this, but what about Iomega's Clik drives. I think they hold 40MB and are fairly inexpensive. Don't know anything else and have never used one.
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If you are a minor in the US (under 18), you can't legally enter into a contract without your parents permission. That's why your parents have to sign everything with you. An interesting case in court would be one in which a student installs software, say XP then sues Microsoft for accessing their info. If there was no licensing agreement between the two parties, then would MS have the right to look at the hard disk?
Another comment: I would assume that MS's right to update is contingent on responsible use of the procedure. If someone was to hack the system and change everyone's start up screens to the Playmate centerfold, do you think that MS would be able to retain the right to complete future updates?
Given two computers, each with a firewire port, neither with a NIC, how feasible is it to share files between the two computers?
Also, while we're on the topic of CAT5 cable, what is this new garbage I see at the stores called CAT6, and should anyone waste their money on it, considering the 1000BaseT runs over Cat5e?
The article linked provided didn't do a very good job in explaining Time Warner's services. Their base cable rates will stay relatively the same, but the new Video-On-Demand service is what leads to the 230 dollar bill. For 3.95 you can "rent" a new release for 8 hours. This gives you the ability to play, stop, pause, rewind, etc. the movie. Old releases will be 1.95. No ones cable bill will be 230 dollars unless they order a movie almost every day. My local newspaper published this information in a front page story today. Surprisingly the slashdot link didn't include that info.
Yes, and especially for state-funded schools
Just for correctness, the college in question is not state-funded. Cornell is broken up into several colleges, three of which are state funded (significantly lower tuition). The College of Engineering however, is a private institution and has the typical 36k tuition bill.
With the recent trend of putting computers in the classroom, this law is nothing but trouble. Is the Senator asking that we put a 5 year old who touches the computer without the teachers permission in jail? With this law it would be illegal to even move the mouse, doing so "affects" the computer. Maybe we should just station cops in every school to preven against computer affecting incidents. And when they aren't busy, maybe they could spare some time to make sure no one has a weapon on them.
I know I'll be taken to the woodshed and shot for saying this, but what about Iomega's Clik drives. I think they hold 40MB and are fairly inexpensive. Don't know anything else and have never used one.