Yeah, 'cos the mob have never been involved in boxing... Christ, do you have a brain stack one byte deep? Whether an MMA match has ever been secretly "thrown" is fucking irrelevant. "Pro wrestling" is theater. Every single match is a choreographed performance. MMA matches are a competition. Yes, people have been know to cheat in competitions, but so what? They don't sit down before every MMA match and decide who is going to pretend to hit who with a tire iron while the ref pretends to be distracted.
You can find even more disinformation via google. And consider, I just now pulled up a random phrase
out of the blue -- "darfur history" -- and gave it to google. The wikipedia article is #1.
And, oh my gosh, if you click on google's "Cached" link you get a copy of the wiki article, bypassing any
attempts at blocking the terrifying wikipedia monster.
Forget wikipedia. Google must be stopped.
Google cache rules. I discovered its true utility when I went to get the 9-pin RS-232 pinout off Wikipedia and found it blocked. I work for a HUGE bureaucratic monster of a school district, and the blocked list is ridiculous. They haven't yet noticed the Google cache workaround. My coworkers were astounded. They think I'm some sort of genius hacker. I also showed my boss how to turn off the SSID announce for his prohibited wireless router, so the "WAP Gestapo" can no longer find it*. It's a shame it's a union government job and we all make the same whether we're idiots or eggheads.
* the plant manager walks around with a laptop looking for open WAPs, connects, and when the signal strength reaches 100%, shouts "OK, where's the wireless router!?" Ah, nothing like working for "The Man"....
I've always hated the saying "Those who can, do, those who can't, teach." It's trite. Plenty of my teachers have both taught and practiced their respective disciplines. The saying makes no provision for those sorts of teachers. Indeed. My high school chemistry teacher was constantly being hounded with job offers by the like of Dow, DuPont, etc. He kept turning them down because he liked teaching. My mother, an algebra teacher, once said the following about why people go into and/or stay with teaching: "never underestimate the appeal of three months off every summer".
Because classrooms are just like offices, and students are being paid to perform specific tasks using specific resources, and... yeah. OK. Students aren't the employees, the teachers and the administrators are. Students are the product. The employees are paid to perform a service which improves the product within specific narrow parameters, specifically, to educate them according to the curriculum. Any activity which does not contribute to the successful application of the service, especially if the products' owners might object, by all logic and reason should be prohibited. Save the free speech crap for university, when the students aren't minors and actually have rights.
For High School students, they are nearly adult, and such need to start learning NOW about concequences. If they were to make a strict rule that says, "Don't visit Wikipedia or you will be punished" There would be a lot of arguing. Please. There might be arguing along the lines of "if you don't want us to visit it, block it, don't allow it and then wait for someone who doesn't know it's forbidden to incur your wrath". There wouldn't, however, be so much as a peep if it was blocked. I work for one of the largest school districts in the country. Wikipedia is blocked, along with a whole lot of other things. Nobody fucking cares. Public schools don't have a long history of free, unfettered information access. Control of information access on campus is accepted as the norm.
Wow. You take my breath away. How does one respond to such an incredible warping of the purpose of school? What the hell do TAXPAYERS have to do with it?
I thought school was supposed to be about the education of students, for their benefit, that of their parents, of other citizens, and of society and democracy at large.
In your hurry to get those panties all bunched up, you overlooked the fact that "students, parents, other citizens, and democracy at large" is essentially equal to "taxpayers" in the sense he used it. He's saying that he, as a public employee, owes his employers (the public at large) the most efficient and effective use of the limited resources we as a society have collectively granted them. He didn't say "we must follow the whims and fancies of everyone who pays taxes", which appears to be the bizarre conclusion you jumped to.
They should make a big deal about blocking Wikipedia--announce it to the student body. Then tell students that they are forbidden from accessing it at all. Pick some other sites too, like MySpace or Hotmail or a news site like CNN or the BBC News. Announce it how? Your average big city high school has hundreds and hundreds of students. They don't listen to announcements.
Then turn around and in the students' social studies classes, teach them about free speech and the horrors of censorship. Be sure to explain what rights an American Citizen has and how many people have demonstrated or fought and died for these rights to remain intact. With the exception of perhaps a single semester of "Government" class in 10th grade, High School students as a whole don't have a "social studies" class. See, your whole plan is built around a school-wide policy stunt, but there's really no way to involve the entire student body of any reasonably large school.
Then sit back and wait. Wait for the students to put this together and realize that they don't have to put up with your censorship shit. Here's the biggest flaw. They're minors. They do have to put up with your censorship shit. Your whole dramatic ruse hinges upon the false assumption that the school can't block whatever web sites it pleases at school.
When someone holds a demonstration Seriously? A demonstration against restrictive internet access policies? Not likely.
No, your entire bizarre plan requires too many circumstances that simply aren't. They're children. As a whole, they'd learn the lesson better by simple direct instruction, not by subtle tricks. I know you're trying to create a lesson framework similar to the famous Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, but really it's not appropriate. Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes was a means of illustrating racism to elementary school children. Racism is always bad. You can't create a similar exercise that broad brushes censorship as "bad", when part of school administration's job is to control what students are exposed to.
People are trained from the cradle onwards to compete against against one another, never to cooperate. That's not actually true. People are taught to cooperate for most of their formative years. Cooperate with your team, compete against the other guy's team. This is as old as the cavemen. Our tribe good, their tribe bad. It can be seen at scales from "family" to "nation". Seriously, haven't you ever met one of those creepy fucks who've been taught by their sicko parents to "win at all costs"? Full of anger and jealousy at the slightest victory by someone else? That's what someone "trained from the cradle onwards to compete" looks like.
Speaking as someone who wrote reports on the Cell as early as 2004, it was mostly the people who thought Sony was the devil himself who hyped it up. Easiest way to make sure a product doesn't meet expectations is to raise expectations. Oh please. The "Sony=Satan" crowd is hardly well organized enough, nor forward thinking enough, nor fervently interested enough in disliking Sony to have ever sat down and said "hey guys, let's pretend to be Sony loving faggots and over-hype the Cell so when the PS3 comes out everyone will be disappointed when it isn't as good as we said". Seriously, you're way into conspiracy theory territory there. The hype came from where hype always does for any product: the hyper-loyal sycophants.
I'm pretty sure a lawyer answering that question would run afoul of ethics rules. Ethics? I'd be worried about liability. You know how the messages are sig'd "I am a lawyer. I am not YOUR lawyer. This is not legal advice". Liability, baby.
The RIAA is merely acting as an agent for others (the labels) who hold the copyrights. Doesn't matter, really. Since they're acting as agents, presumably with permission, their client eats the blame. Think of it this way: when a defense attorney loses a case, the client goes to jail.
I'm sure the military likely has fallbacks or safeguards in effect, but when I'm geocaching, at least I can fall back on just looking around harder. But I'm sure this will affect far more systems than I can guess at. 0.8m accuracy will be reduced to about 1.5m accuracy at the sunspot peak in 2011. "Fallbacks" are unnecessary.
Spoofing GPS is very difficult. Noise jamming (much less effective then tone jamming) will degrade the signal strenght and cause small (10's of meters) timing errors with CEP (error elipse size)increasing proportionally. With enough noise, the reviever will fail to lock, or if it's already locked, loose synch. Of course, the main problem with intentional jamming is that it's not coming from the sky. It's all well and good to speculate what white noise jamming would do under ideal conditions, but it's largely irrelevant as military GPS guidance systems are generally shielded to keep signals from the ground out. Remember in 2003, when the DoD was gloating about destroying those Russian-made GPS jammers with GPS guided bombs? As far as sunspots go, they come from the sky, but they merely turn.8m accuracy into 1.5m accuracy. Hardly noteworthy.
I've heard that missiles can be guided to a target through GPS. Could the noise generated from massive sunspot activity cause the missile to drift enough to hit a completely different target even though it THINKS it's on target? No. See, through the magic of computers we can now do things like error checking. If a digital signal comes in garbled, we know it's garbled and can ignore it. This isn't the 1940's, where you can spoof German bombers by setting up dummy navigation beacons. When they talk about "reduced GPS accuracy", they're talking about the accuracy going from sub-meter to slightly over one meter. GPS weapon accuracy will still totally outperform all previous guidance systems.
It is clear from this example that _some_ Google engineers have not
the first clue about what clean
room engineering is and when it should be used. What kind of idiot "clean room engineers" a freakin' dictionary? You "clean room" the software that uses the dictionary...
hopefully another country will come up with something similar to keep this research rolling while CERN awaits repairs. Tell me you don't seriously think "another country" could design and build one of these things before they install the new magnets at CERN.
Information wants to be free...but information workers want to get paid. The class has fuck all to do with payment, moron. It's about not letting others take credit for your work.
The true BSD approach is very strongly based on the concept of a gift economy, and egregious freeloaders get shunned. How does one "shun" someone from downloading and using freely distributed and BSD licensed code?
Looks like I've struck a nerve, here. Interesting...if what I'm saying is, "bullshit," then why bother getting so upset about it? Surely if what I'm saying is completely invalid, it's easier for you to dismiss without being offended by it, yes? It's a pity you engage in nothing more than freshman psychology and innuendo, rather than actually addressing his points. I would genuinely have liked to hear why you think the BSD license is superior to Public Domain.
A GSM phone near audio or AM wiring definitely causes audible interference. Its particularly a problem with systems like GSM because of the use of pulses. It isn't hard to imagine that giving some issues with some of the equipment used for ILS or Navigation, especially if we are talking about lots of mobiles at the same time. Simple audio address circuits and ILS/Nav systems are not comparable. Just because you can hear audible clicking on a speaker at close range does not logically translate to causing interference in other, dissimilar systems.
I seem to recall a flight that was having a problem with its landing gear, and it was shown circling around the airport on CNN. I also remember hearing that the satellite TVs in the plane had been turned off, so the passengers wouldn't panic. No, you remember incorrectly. They were able to watch their plane land on TV.
People tend to talk louder on cell phones than regular phones. There is no feedback of their own voice. Indeed. On regular landlines it's called "sidetone". It's an artifact of the single shared copper loop heritage of the POTS system that dates back to the 1870's. Cell phones lack sidetone because they use two separate circuits for transmit and receive. The problem arises from people not being self-aware enough to realize that the lack of sidetone is causing them to unconsciously raise their voices. I strongly urge all people to be mindful of their voice volume on cell phones. Seriously, consciously will yourself to use a low conversational volume level. You might be surprised to find people can understand you better.
The argument was that the guy checked in a ton of GPL'ed code and relicensed it (to his license) with the intent of changing everything to his code. He'd have to be careful not to simply make a derivative work (e.g. simply change the variable names), but otherwise a perfectly reasonable plan, so long as he doesn't distribute it with the BSD license at the top.
He checked it in to CVS so others could help him. Oops, wrong answer, he distributed it with the BSD license at the top.
It was in -current (meaning it wasn't release worthy). Irrelevant. Public could download code they thought was under the BSD license, when it was really still GPL.
He had made lots of checkins replacing the code -- meaning his intent was to change it -- Overall intent is irrelevant. There was still GPL code being publicly distributed under a BSD license header.
and the other side got pissy. If by "pissy" you mean "objected to GPL code being distributed under BSD license without permission", sure.
This is, of course, my interpretation of the list of mails. Wow, you must really be a strong BSD partisan to call Michael the pissy one. Michael was civil and rational the whole time, while Theo did everything short of comparing him to Goebbels.
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You can find even more disinformation via google. And consider, I just now pulled up a random phrase out of the blue -- "darfur history" -- and gave it to google. The wikipedia article is #1.
And, oh my gosh, if you click on google's "Cached" link you get a copy of the wiki article, bypassing any attempts at blocking the terrifying wikipedia monster.
Forget wikipedia. Google must be stopped.
Google cache rules. I discovered its true utility when I went to get the 9-pin RS-232 pinout off Wikipedia and found it blocked. I work for a HUGE bureaucratic monster of a school district, and the blocked list is ridiculous. They haven't yet noticed the Google cache workaround. My coworkers were astounded. They think I'm some sort of genius hacker. I also showed my boss how to turn off the SSID announce for his prohibited wireless router, so the "WAP Gestapo" can no longer find it*. It's a shame it's a union government job and we all make the same whether we're idiots or eggheads.* the plant manager walks around with a laptop looking for open WAPs, connects, and when the signal strength reaches 100%, shouts "OK, where's the wireless router!?" Ah, nothing like working for "The Man"....
Students aren't the employees, the teachers and the administrators are. Students are the product. The employees are paid to perform a service which improves the product within specific narrow parameters, specifically, to educate them according to the curriculum. Any activity which does not contribute to the successful application of the service, especially if the products' owners might object, by all logic and reason should be prohibited. Save the free speech crap for university, when the students aren't minors and actually have rights.
Wow. You take my breath away. How does one respond to such an incredible warping of the purpose of school? What the hell do TAXPAYERS have to do with it?
I thought school was supposed to be about the education of students, for their benefit, that of their parents, of other citizens, and of society and democracy at large.
In your hurry to get those panties all bunched up, you overlooked the fact that "students, parents, other citizens, and democracy at large" is essentially equal to "taxpayers" in the sense he used it. He's saying that he, as a public employee, owes his employers (the public at large) the most efficient and effective use of the limited resources we as a society have collectively granted them. He didn't say "we must follow the whims and fancies of everyone who pays taxes", which appears to be the bizarre conclusion you jumped to.Then turn around and in the students' social studies classes, teach them about free speech and the horrors of censorship. Be sure to explain what rights an American Citizen has and how many people have demonstrated or fought and died for these rights to remain intact. With the exception of perhaps a single semester of "Government" class in 10th grade, High School students as a whole don't have a "social studies" class. See, your whole plan is built around a school-wide policy stunt, but there's really no way to involve the entire student body of any reasonably large school.
Then sit back and wait. Wait for the students to put this together and realize that they don't have to put up with your censorship shit. Here's the biggest flaw. They're minors. They do have to put up with your censorship shit. Your whole dramatic ruse hinges upon the false assumption that the school can't block whatever web sites it pleases at school.
When someone holds a demonstration Seriously? A demonstration against restrictive internet access policies? Not likely.
No, your entire bizarre plan requires too many circumstances that simply aren't. They're children. As a whole, they'd learn the lesson better by simple direct instruction, not by subtle tricks. I know you're trying to create a lesson framework similar to the famous Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, but really it's not appropriate. Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes was a means of illustrating racism to elementary school children. Racism is always bad. You can't create a similar exercise that broad brushes censorship as "bad", when part of school administration's job is to control what students are exposed to.
Information wants to be free...but information workers want to get paid. The class has fuck all to do with payment, moron. It's about not letting others take credit for your work.
Retard. Yes, you are indeed.
It takes two sides for a fight, always.
Yeah, and it takes two people for a rape to happen. Fucktard.He checked it in to CVS so others could help him. Oops, wrong answer, he distributed it with the BSD license at the top.
It was in -current (meaning it wasn't release worthy). Irrelevant. Public could download code they thought was under the BSD license, when it was really still GPL.
He had made lots of checkins replacing the code -- meaning his intent was to change it -- Overall intent is irrelevant. There was still GPL code being publicly distributed under a BSD license header.
and the other side got pissy. If by "pissy" you mean "objected to GPL code being distributed under BSD license without permission", sure.
This is, of course, my interpretation of the list of mails. Wow, you must really be a strong BSD partisan to call Michael the pissy one. Michael was civil and rational the whole time, while Theo did everything short of comparing him to Goebbels.