Myhr said there are "other aspects" to the story, but the school district has chosen "not to bring them out at this time."
Ok... so what has not been said yet? The article comments that the parents have been told that all criminal charges will be dropped - so just what are these other aspects? I think until that not-so-subtle issue is cleared, I can't say anything about the student's actions. I will say, however, that the teacher definitely sounds like a moron - the article made no attempt to hide that.
as a parent and an uncle of 14 (nothing like getting married and, BAM, instant uncle*12), I feel that it is entirely the parent's responsibility to watch out for their kids. Not watch out for porn, not watch out for the "bad guy", but to watch and care for their children. Yes, children can be curious - so if they stumble, make sure they know what is right and wrong for them. There are many things suitable for myself (or the other 3 of tewwetruggur) to view/read, but that doesn't make it ok for our kids. WE need to be the censors for our children, WE need to be the educators, WE need to get off our lazy asses and take our own action. If people really feel that censorware for the internet is the way to go, then we must make sure that this censorware works - no more of this half-assed "defense". Since this falls into the hands of companies selling their censorware services, then they must be held accountable if they fail - either a failure to block was is not permissible, or a failure to let through what is permissible.
I've seen far too many parents think of school as a form of daycare for their kids. That is pathetic - school is to learn, and learning means making mistakes. Do I mean that all kids should make the mistake of viewing porn at the age of 7? No, certaintly not - nor do I think that a child should be able to paruse the internet unsupervised. If people have a problem with this, then they really need to re-think their priorites. Perhaps they should get out from behind their crapmed desks and volunteer some time at their childrens' schools. Then they can re-assume part of the responsibility without censorware.
Sure, that's all nice and idealistic, but that's also part of why it has become so sad.
it refers to the "tewwetruggur" contingency... we collectively post under one ID... usually at least 3 of us conspire on the posts together. When I type "I", it is because one of us (me) does most of the actual posting. It's a bizarre experiment, but so far, damn interesting and entertaining.
what is truly sad is that some feel there is a need for censorware in the first place.
Hopefully, after enough kids can't research their projects/reports because they've been blocked from non-offending sites, something will finally be done for real and/or censorware will go away... I'm getting tired of the government just putting on cheap band-aids, handed out by congress.
yeah, you're probably right on the design cost cuts...
on the interference bit, I'm tempted to think that the tower is helping there be some bleed of FM onto my phone and some other cables - WLW is filtered out, but I still pick up a country station and an easy listening station, both of which are FM... it may just be a terrible coincidence, but with that tower looming, well... I'm just glad VOA isn't in operation - I've been told when it was powerd up, everything electric in your house would be effect in one way or another. I guess it used to be pretty exciting.
well, as being that I have the giant WLW (AM 700 Cincinnati) tower not all that far from my home, and half of the elecronics in my home have to have special "anti-WLW" filters on them, especially the phones and my recording equip., this may or may not be a good thing. I hope that it keeps half-assed attempts to get on-air away, as they would only add to the noise. However, I hope that it does not inhibit those who wished to start a small market station to fill in the voids left by corp. radio. Perhaps this will be a "start", with the opportunity for more lisences to increase assuming responsibility is shown?
It is sad, though, remembering how my high school used to have a small radio station, and it was actually pretty cool for a short while, but it was axed due to many reasons, most of which I do not know. There are a lot of good reasons to have low power stations - its just too bad that things have to come about in political power-plays.
As responsible world citizens, I hereby issue a call to arms against the evil stockpiling of PS2's in Iraq! We must bring this terrible evil to justice. I personally know several children and adults who will not be able to get one of these systems for the holidays, and I strongly feel that this is the root cause!
We must invade Iraq, steal all their PS2's, then nuke them into oblivion!
And then, we attain the movie rights and begin production of a game based on the battle for the PS2.
I had been planning on making a zeppelin, who's command center was controlled by an Amiga, and the on-flight movies were provided by Betamax tapes... and I wrote the proposal w/ Wordstar!
This article saved my life! I am now moving back to my original idea of a canvas-winged plane controlled by punch cards, and the power is generated by hamsters running in little wheels.
I'd hate to accidentally use outdated technology for such an endeavor.
with all the stink raised by the music industry over how evil MP3's are, I find it quite refeshing to find a different industry accepting the technology and even trying to better it. Now, if only the sun would start shining.
here I was, hoping to find a great article about pirating piffle, as I'm just fresh out of piffle, and there's nary a reference to piffle in the article a'tall. How vastly disappointing.
If you are really bothered that much by our comments, which are either meant to be humorous, off-the-beaten-path, or giving some outside insight to the world of patents - then stop reading them. We're not forcing you to read anything we write. Yet, you seem to have taken it uon yourself to "rid the world of our evil"... except it seems that its only the trolls who are complaining. Seems that a lot of other people either are intelligent enough to ignore us, or they read what we have to offer and take it as they please.
Really, just grow up. If you don't like our humor, stop reading our posts. If you don't like my comments on patents (only one of us has extensive patent knowledge), then stop reading them. We either try to "lighten the load" or give some insight. You, however seem to do nothing but bitch, complain, and post useless babble.
This will be our last reaction to anything you ever post - we don't care what you have to say - and I doubt anyone else does either.
I thought that software still sucked because it hasn't had it's teeth come in yet, much like a little baby. If we can just get past the bottle and start on some solid food, maybe software will start to bite, and eventually chew.
there are several people that I'd like to reward with a trip to mars... this would suffice, but I'm afraid they'd be able to make it back... oh, sorry, I mean, I feel the trip would be too short, and they wouldn't enjoy it as much.
Actually, yes... basically having a patent and licensing it such as it applies to the GPL probably would work... essentially "opening" the license, with the restrictions set forth in the lisence - such as "no closed-source products may use this patent" or even "no commercial products may use this patent". This would protect the information covered by the patent from the point of the inventor, but yet allow the inventor to allow others to use the patent's info for their own use. Perhaps some sort of funding should be considered to help these sort of efforts?
It'd be a hell of a lot more appropriate to make this guy go door to door for all the people he spammed, and apologize to each in person...
...although the afore mentioned "eat spam every day for 7 years" has considerable merit - I'm not sure we could legally do such a thing to his cholesterol levels. It is, however, the thought that counts.
ok... here's a bizzare question that I'm sure will creep out a bunch of you, make some of you angry with intense rage, and make some of you think.
Has anyone given thought to "open" patents? The next time someone in the open community has something novel - try to get funding to patent the idea and grant patent lisences to the open source community. Yes, I'm sure I'm oversimplifying things a bit, but that's what the lawyers are for... I'm just part of the freaky-idea group. Would there be any merit to having such "open" patents? And please, no "moralistic" counter-arguments as to why this should not be - patents are not a moral issue - business practices behind the patents are.
For those of you who have not seen my past comments on the issue, I work in a heavily patented environment, outside the "tech" realm (in actuality, I work in the pharma/bio-tech/drug delivery realm - by far older (see pharma) and much more patent heavy (see all three I listed) than compu-tech). I have the misfortune of seeing patents every day - many of them are trivial, many of them are vague.
So, anyway... open patents? Thoughts? Comments? Irate blatherings?
Can someone please write a module to handle all those unpopped kernels... I really hate biting down on them - though my dentist wouldn't mind more uptime...
I was playing in a field once, and our baseball accidentally hit one-a them there bithives, and all them bits got real mad and were byte-ing us, and a-stingin' us... maybe if we-un's 'ad had some-a that there P2P we coulda killed all 'em bits...
P2P, is that kinda like that DDT stuff?
yes, it's a really lame joke but I've had very little sleep - roto-rooter is my friend, and I LOVE mopping the basement floor with bleach
alas, all my ideas for patents are being stolen from under my nose... we here at ReallyDumbIdeas.com have been working dilligently on a sub-femto sized beer stien. But, noooo, NEC has to go and come out with a nano wineglass. Now we will be completely ignored by the media! Egads! All the effort of super-shrinking our porcelin, and all the work crafting the really freakin' tiny molds! AAAAAAAaarrrrgh!
Hopefully they haven't stumbled upon our plans to make these devices code-named "faucets"...
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Ok... so what has not been said yet? The article comments that the parents have been told that all criminal charges will be dropped - so just what are these other aspects? I think until that not-so-subtle issue is cleared, I can't say anything about the student's actions. I will say, however, that the teacher definitely sounds like a moron - the article made no attempt to hide that.
so there you have our take - take it or ignore it
I've seen far too many parents think of school as a form of daycare for their kids. That is pathetic - school is to learn, and learning means making mistakes. Do I mean that all kids should make the mistake of viewing porn at the age of 7? No, certaintly not - nor do I think that a child should be able to paruse the internet unsupervised. If people have a problem with this, then they really need to re-think their priorites. Perhaps they should get out from behind their crapmed desks and volunteer some time at their childrens' schools. Then they can re-assume part of the responsibility without censorware.
Sure, that's all nice and idealistic, but that's also part of why it has become so sad.
that's what I get for typing faster than I think...
Hopefully, after enough kids can't research their projects/reports because they've been blocked from non-offending sites, something will finally be done for real and/or censorware will go away... I'm getting tired of the government just putting on cheap band-aids, handed out by congress.
Oh well, its the post lunch blahs - this has been our feeble attempt at humor. enjoy.
p.s. - are there any Santa Q2/Q3 mods out there...? I'd like to kick some rebellious elven butt.
on the interference bit, I'm tempted to think that the tower is helping there be some bleed of FM onto my phone and some other cables - WLW is filtered out, but I still pick up a country station and an easy listening station, both of which are FM... it may just be a terrible coincidence, but with that tower looming, well... I'm just glad VOA isn't in operation - I've been told when it was powerd up, everything electric in your house would be effect in one way or another. I guess it used to be pretty exciting.
It is sad, though, remembering how my high school used to have a small radio station, and it was actually pretty cool for a short while, but it was axed due to many reasons, most of which I do not know. There are a lot of good reasons to have low power stations - its just too bad that things have to come about in political power-plays.
Such is life, I guess...
We must invade Iraq, steal all their PS2's, then nuke them into oblivion!
And then, we attain the movie rights and begin production of a game based on the battle for the PS2.
This article saved my life! I am now moving back to my original idea of a canvas-winged plane controlled by punch cards, and the power is generated by hamsters running in little wheels.
I'd hate to accidentally use outdated technology for such an endeavor.
btw - anyone know what teechnology is?
Really, just grow up. If you don't like our humor, stop reading our posts. If you don't like my comments on patents (only one of us has extensive patent knowledge), then stop reading them. We either try to "lighten the load" or give some insight. You, however seem to do nothing but bitch, complain, and post useless babble.
This will be our last reaction to anything you ever post - we don't care what you have to say - and I doubt anyone else does either.
Has anyone given thought to "open" patents? The next time someone in the open community has something novel - try to get funding to patent the idea and grant patent lisences to the open source community. Yes, I'm sure I'm oversimplifying things a bit, but that's what the lawyers are for... I'm just part of the freaky-idea group. Would there be any merit to having such "open" patents? And please, no "moralistic" counter-arguments as to why this should not be - patents are not a moral issue - business practices behind the patents are.
For those of you who have not seen my past comments on the issue, I work in a heavily patented environment, outside the "tech" realm (in actuality, I work in the pharma/bio-tech/drug delivery realm - by far older (see pharma) and much more patent heavy (see all three I listed) than compu-tech). I have the misfortune of seeing patents every day - many of them are trivial, many of them are vague.
So, anyway... open patents? Thoughts? Comments? Irate blatherings?
P2P, is that kinda like that DDT stuff?
yes, it's a really lame joke but I've had very little sleep - roto-rooter is my friend, and I LOVE mopping the basement floor with bleach
Hopefully they haven't stumbled upon our plans to make these devices code-named "faucets"...