Our school issues students laptops, and has WiFi throughout *most* of the campus. Newer rooms have Ethernet ports for wired use as well.
I don't think we need to treat the Internet differently from bringing, say, a book or magazine to class. If I bring my textbook to class, and use it to follow along with the professor, it's helpful. If I bring the textbook for another class and study in downtime during class, it's only me that's losing out. If I bring Playboy to class, it'd be a distraction to others, and then we have a problem.
We give professors a means of turning network access off, but few professors do. I applaud this: I've used the Internet for a lot of constructive stuff during class. Looking up related material, getting the document we were supposed to print out and bring to class, etc.
Yes, sometimes I'll notice classmates chatting on AIM or doing other stuff of no adademic value, but they're only hurting themselves. I really don't think schools have any need to try to regulate usage in classrooms.
Right before the site went down, there was a lot of talk about licensing. People would sometimes complain that one design was based on another design; there were occasional incidents of people submitting copyrighted work. A discussion popped up not too long ago about the need for a clear license that submissions would be under.
I found OSWD to be incredibly useful, but I hope that, when it comes back, it'll have an explicit license agreement.
"Micropayments" are used a lot of send small payments to 'charitable' organizations--not just bona fide charities, but things like Open Source projects.
Suppose you could sign up and do this, but have the proceeds sent to charity? Getting 3 cents isn't at all useful for me. If many people sent their 3 cents to a developing country, it would matter.
I can't navigate the site that well right now (everything's returning errors), so I'm not sure if this is in the works or not. But it'd be a nifty idea.
On this CD's product page, there are several negative reviews on account of spyware. My favorite puts into plain English why this is bad: "I am very unhappy, since I now listen to all of my music using my IPod."
I think this is the way to fight DRM. When we complain about DRM rights, we're fighting a crusade on principle, and few people really get what's wrong. When you say, "This CD that I paid for can't be transferred to my iPod," people will see that it's outrageous. When people see that it's installing spyware on your computer, they'll flip. Cheers to whoever's left this feedback.
some of which reside in the US and may be prosecuted under the CAN-SPAM act.
I'd think there were more serious charges. Did the e-mail have forged headers? Does that make it wire fraud? Is unauthorized use of one's computers not a major crime?
Zombies are entirely different from a company putting you on its mailing list without your consent. These people aren't annoying marketers, they're criminals.
A lot of "splogs" are from places like Blogger. This would unfairly punish those who don't run their own blogs, but instead use something like Blogger. (Or those on busy shared-hosting servers.)
Do you remember that story -- it must have been at least a year ago at this point -- about some old buggy database system that was found to have "lost" records of nuclear materials? (I wish I had the story to link to.)
the only web browsers officially supported on OS X were Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator
It's lame to not support Safari (or Tiger at all), but I think the key word is official. I use Blackboard from Opera. I used to use it through Firefox. It works just as well in them as it does in IE.
Blackboard is also a fan of frames, ugliness, and odd behaviors.
Agreed. It's ugly.
It's impossible to enroll a system administrator in a course, no matter what. They can only self-enroll. While this is probably a bug, how often does this actually cause problems? Here, at least, administrators are administrators, not students. You say that they can only self-enroll, so they can enroll. Maybe it'd be nice if they could be enrolled, but I'm not seeing how this is a big issue. (I could easily be missing something, though.)
I'd never heard of it until I saw this story. Their website seems to be devoid of much information now.
A Google Image Search shows a pretty interesting-looking client, and seems to show it running on Windows, MacOS, and what I presume to be a *nix variation of some form.
Slashdot Mirror
Our school issues students laptops, and has WiFi throughout *most* of the campus. Newer rooms have Ethernet ports for wired use as well.
I don't think we need to treat the Internet differently from bringing, say, a book or magazine to class. If I bring my textbook to class, and use it to follow along with the professor, it's helpful. If I bring the textbook for another class and study in downtime during class, it's only me that's losing out. If I bring Playboy to class, it'd be a distraction to others, and then we have a problem.
We give professors a means of turning network access off, but few professors do. I applaud this: I've used the Internet for a lot of constructive stuff during class. Looking up related material, getting the document we were supposed to print out and bring to class, etc.
Yes, sometimes I'll notice classmates chatting on AIM or doing other stuff of no adademic value, but they're only hurting themselves. I really don't think schools have any need to try to regulate usage in classrooms.
I get that you're making a joke, but it's really not funny. I think a lot of people on Slashdot have
I don't know the word you're looking for, but let's call it a Miers-Alito.
Right before the site went down, there was a lot of talk about licensing. People would sometimes complain that one design was based on another design; there were occasional incidents of people submitting copyrighted work. A discussion popped up not too long ago about the need for a clear license that submissions would be under.
I found OSWD to be incredibly useful, but I hope that, when it comes back, it'll have an explicit license agreement.
Actually, you gave me an interesting idea.
"Micropayments" are used a lot of send small payments to 'charitable' organizations--not just bona fide charities, but things like Open Source projects.
Suppose you could sign up and do this, but have the proceeds sent to charity? Getting 3 cents isn't at all useful for me. If many people sent their 3 cents to a developing country, it would matter.
I can't navigate the site that well right now (everything's returning errors), so I'm not sure if this is in the works or not. But it'd be a nifty idea.
My sample HIT had me pick the storefront of a Karate place. It was a deserted parking lot and some trees.
Where are these pictures even coming from?
On this CD's product page, there are several negative reviews on account of spyware. My favorite puts into plain English why this is bad: "I am very unhappy, since I now listen to all of my music using my IPod."
I think this is the way to fight DRM. When we complain about DRM rights, we're fighting a crusade on principle, and few people really get what's wrong. When you say, "This CD that I paid for can't be transferred to my iPod," people will see that it's outrageous. When people see that it's installing spyware on your computer, they'll flip. Cheers to whoever's left this feedback.
This aren't "real" translations, but I find this to be easier to remember:
i.e. = "in effect" ("in other words")
e.g. = "example given"
Just think of it as a handy mnemonic device as opposed to literal translations.
I ever so often slip into smart-aleck mode. Press * to return to main menu.
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Is slavery illegal underground?
Haven't you heard of the Underground Railroad?
some of which reside in the US and may be prosecuted under the CAN-SPAM act.
I'd think there were more serious charges. Did the e-mail have forged headers? Does that make it wire fraud? Is unauthorized use of one's computers not a major crime?
Zombies are entirely different from a company putting you on its mailing list without your consent. These people aren't annoying marketers, they're criminals.
And if you work for Palm? Or Handspring?
The whole industry is perverted!
A lot of "splogs" are from places like Blogger. This would unfairly punish those who don't run their own blogs, but instead use something like Blogger. (Or those on busy shared-hosting servers.)
Do you remember that story -- it must have been at least a year ago at this point -- about some old buggy database system that was found to have "lost" records of nuclear materials? (I wish I had the story to link to.)
That, my friend, was a major flaw.
Are the editors not awake this early in the morning?
We have editors?
the only web browsers officially supported on OS X were Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator
It's lame to not support Safari (or Tiger at all), but I think the key word is official. I use Blackboard from Opera. I used to use it through Firefox. It works just as well in them as it does in IE.
Blackboard is also a fan of frames, ugliness, and odd behaviors.
Agreed. It's ugly.
It's impossible to enroll a system administrator in a course, no matter what. They can only self-enroll.
While this is probably a bug, how often does this actually cause problems? Here, at least, administrators are administrators, not students. You say that they can only self-enroll, so they can enroll. Maybe it'd be nice if they could be enrolled, but I'm not seeing how this is a big issue. (I could easily be missing something, though.)
My college campus blocks port 8090 (?!). MirrorDot has caches, too, in case anyone else is in my situation.
Will the hospital have free WiFi?
Because they didn't set up redundancy.
Any good data center can route around the wholesale outage of any one provider without an issue.
Kind of like asking why you should put your financial records on the computer if a hard drive crash could mean you'd lose everything.
I'd never heard of it until I saw this story. Their website seems to be devoid of much information now.
A Google Image Search shows a pretty interesting-looking client, and seems to show it running on Windows, MacOS, and what I presume to be a *nix variation of some form.
More significantly...
100% of P2P users die. Therefore, the RIAA is obviously resorting to murder to defend its copyrights.
Disciples?
A cross?
I'm not sure either would be that useful.
Unfortunately, it seems that went flying over the heads of most mods, as this is modded Insightful.
Now I see what the OP meant about very few people having seen squid.
The box said 'Requires Windows 98 or better,' so I got Linux.
I understand the "protective purposes," but what is a "peaceful purpose" of "biological agents?"