But then he was eaten by a Grue. And I think that is a Wumpus I hear behind you. Like they say, the internet is a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. The Internet bites. The Internet bites. You die. --Anonymous Coward, infected by a trojan on his way to goatse.cx, while witless--
As a representitive of Chief Nze Akpamgbo I wish to personally extend my deepest gratitude towards you for undertaking this most secret venture and assisting my associate in his endeavor. You may rest assured that we are currently proceeding with utmost caution and discretion to protect you, our valued assistant in this matter, and to ensure that this transaction is completed in a manner which will provide maximum benefit for all parties.
I do hope that the previous post was intended as a farce of the "think of the children" crowd. It is not the place of the government or an ISP (Internet Service Provider, not Internet Content Provider) to protect the innocence of your child in a setting or medium over which you are in a position to exert full control. It is the parents responsibility to provide whatever "defensive measures" they deem appropriate to protect and prevent their children from accessing material which they find objectionable. Just the other day I saw blocking/filtering software for sale in the cereal aisle at Wal-Mart. It was cheap. Buy it, check it out, research online to find something better, and use it. Everything I have just said has been stated previously, but I felt it bore repeating. This is the kind of I-don't-like-this-neither-does-my-church-lets-scre w-things-up-for-everybody-because-I-don't-like-res ponsibility fundie crap (Yes, I blame everyting on fundies. Screw'em.) that is so popular as of late.
My 11th and 12th grade CS teacher, Mr. Moses, is the only teacher I have ever had that values the opinions and the skills of his students over those of the "experts" (read idiots) from the school board. He has allowed our Cisco Networking class to wire most of the school and redo some of the extremely broken wiring laid by "professionals". He has also allowed my to set up a linux server for our web-based curriculum. He's a hacker in the true sense. Too bad I'm graduating and he's leaving...
I have found that if I put my $25 Lowes Halogen lamp on the top shelf of my desk, to the right of my monitor, and place several manila folders full of various printouts between my bookends it redirects the light quite well and really cuts down on the glare.
P.S: If you're like me and after hours of hack-hack-hacking away you are easily impressed, get one of those little things in the glass bulbs with the black and white fins that spin in the light and set in on the base of the lamp. Those halogen lamps really make them twirl!
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I seem to recall robot librarians in an episode of SAC.
I find it interesting that despite having such an apparently intense fear of inanimate tools, the UK populace keeps electing them.
I'm interested in The Azure Orbs of Uzhell.
as long as my nifty laptop of the future comes default with a haruhi-esque image of anime girls as the desktop i'm sold.
But then he was eaten by a Grue. And I think that is a Wumpus I hear behind you. Like they say, the internet is a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. The Internet bites. The Internet bites. You die. --Anonymous Coward, infected by a trojan on his way to goatse.cx, while witless--
As a representitive of Chief Nze Akpamgbo I wish to personally extend my deepest gratitude towards you for undertaking this most secret venture and assisting my associate in his endeavor. You may rest assured that we are currently proceeding with utmost caution and discretion to protect you, our valued assistant in this matter, and to ensure that this transaction is completed in a manner which will provide maximum benefit for all parties.
I do hope that the previous post was intended as a farce of the "think of the children" crowd. It is not the place of the government or an ISP (Internet Service Provider, not Internet Content Provider) to protect the innocence of your child in a setting or medium over which you are in a position to exert full control. It is the parents responsibility to provide whatever "defensive measures" they deem appropriate to protect and prevent their children from accessing material which they find objectionable. Just the other day I saw blocking/filtering software for sale in the cereal aisle at Wal-Mart. It was cheap. Buy it, check it out, research online to find something better, and use it. Everything I have just said has been stated previously, but I felt it bore repeating. This is the kind of I-don't-like-this-neither-does-my-church-lets-scre w-things-up-for-everybody-because-I-don't-like-res ponsibility fundie crap (Yes, I blame everyting on fundies. Screw'em.) that is so popular as of late.
My 11th and 12th grade CS teacher, Mr. Moses, is the only teacher I have ever had that values the opinions and the skills of his students over those of the "experts" (read idiots) from the school board. He has allowed our Cisco Networking class to wire most of the school and redo some of the extremely broken wiring laid by "professionals". He has also allowed my to set up a linux server for our web-based curriculum. He's a hacker in the true sense. Too bad I'm graduating and he's leaving...
I have found that if I put my $25 Lowes Halogen lamp on the top shelf of my desk, to the right of my monitor, and place several manila folders full of various printouts between my bookends it redirects the light quite well and really cuts down on the glare. P.S: If you're like me and after hours of hack-hack-hacking away you are easily impressed, get one of those little things in the glass bulbs with the black and white fins that spin in the light and set in on the base of the lamp. Those halogen lamps really make them twirl!