We have mail-order companies that sell anything from firearms to car parts that are illegal in some states and legal in others. The buyer is responsible for knowing their laws and not ordering items if they are in a state which doesn't allow them. The cataogs will sometimes say "Not available in CA, VA, etc." and may refuse to ship to some states, but the responsibility falls squarely on the reader.
When I drive over the Maryland state line into Virginia I know my radar detector is illegal. Virginia doesn't sue Maryland or Whistler (a radar detector manufacturer). They simply ticket the person in possession of the detector and confiscate the device.
France's politicians need to realize that the illegal items (HTML pages) aren't located in an area where Nazi memorabilia is illegal (US) and that they should target the people (French citizens) who "order" the items (again, HTML). Maybe they can catch it at the border and "confiscate" it (NetNanny for Yahoo! France).
At that point, they should take a step back and realize how ridiculous they look. Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.
So what good is this type of defense when the attacking country destroys the cell phone network's towers? Now, they kill two birds with one stone by disabling the area's communication network and allowing the stealth aircraft to safely continue operation.
It would be humorous, though, to see a stealth aircraft pilot watching the little bars on his Nokia to see when he's safe.
I like network gaming as much as the next guy, but to say playing networked games teaches about networks is like saying, "I'm learning auto repair by driving to work everyday."
By and large, the population of game players knows absolutely nothing about the console/computer/network that they use. If you want to include computer games in a class about computers, have the kids create a game. Kids like to be creative and see a product of their work.
Maybe elementary school kids can't create a first-person shooter, but if you show them a digital camera and teach them to edit their it will spark their interest. That's all you need. They'll ask questions about the ASCII and binary subjects later.
When I was a teenager I taught an astronomy class at a Scout camp one summer. It wasn't the easiest subject to teach (especially during the day) and most kids were interested in getting some requirements fulfilled and getting on to rifle or archery class.
My first mistake was opening the class with "There are 2 types of telescopes we'll be working with. Let's talk about the differences."
At that point, I knew I had already lost them and I was beginning to flounder. Immediately, one of the teachers who was there as back-up stepped up and said "Who wants to grab a telescope and spy on some of their friends in the boring classes?!!"
I came to the quick realization that we could teach the kids everything they needed to know without boring them with details. Show them what's really interesting about the subject and let them ask you the details. One of the kids asked me later which telescope would be better for spying and I was able to explain the differences with complete attention from the class... and without sounding like I was lecturing.
With younger kids especially, the teaching style has a lot more influence than the subject matter. Make it sound fun and the kids will like it no matter what the curriculum.
This will stop only the people who are ignorant to their options or too lazy to find a different route.
If an mp3 search engine gets axed (or a file-trading service has its hands tied) it doesn't slow the people who use IRC or FTP. Sure it's less convenient for most, but it doesn't stop the practice.
If Adaptec handicaps their product, it will only make other burning software more appealing. If you're reading slashdot, you're probably capable of finding an alternative.
I had to read this 3 times, just to make sure. If the prices vary then they can't be fixed. If what you are arguing is that they can vary, but not in real-time, then what is the shortest interval to still be considered fixed? A year? A month? Maybe you could go down to a week? Daily? When does it cease to be fixed?
By making any change to a price, the price becomes dynamic. Everyone changes their prices for the best profit. Anyone who doesn't change their prices to compensate for change in the market is going to fail.
Ford isn't stupid. They know what they're doing...
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They know by making a big stink out of this they end up in a series of headlines and articles. They also get a ton of people who feel compelled to try out the page and... surprise... they end up on Ford's website.
Ever wonder why why Marilyn Manson gets so excited about church groups fighting to stop his concerts? There is no such thing as bad publicity... it still helps for name recognition.
If it wasn't for "dynamic pricing" a 386 would still be worth $3,000. Sometimes, rather than looking for a conspiracy, maybe we should consider how a process like this can still help us.
What do you people think a sale is? It's dynamic pricing... and it's to our advantage.
Geckos don't have suction cups. The clinging they do to walls is done by microscopic hairs on their feet. The hairs allow them to go up textured walls in addition to glass (even glass has tiny imperfections).
I'd love to see the window cleaner using this equipment when it starts to rain and his suction cups slide down the glass from his weight. Interesting technology, I admit, but I'll stick to scaffolding and ladders for all my wall-climbing needs.
I believe this is the first major section, hence it is Alpha. Next section to be attached would be Beta, and so on. It doesn't have anything to do with being the first station in space.
Yes, the table would work in zero-gravity...
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The men drilled holes, bolted the pieces together, covered the top with duct tape and, after weeks of working on it a bit at a time, finally had a table on which to eat, cook and work.
Has it occurred to any of you that are questioning the use of a table in space that you might not be thinking "outside the box" when you read this? What is the (probably incorrect) assumption that you made about the tape?
The tape is probably stick-side up. This type of thinking is why they're up there and most of us are just reading an article about them.
"I really don't have any idea what was going on in his mind," said Rita Majumder, Shinjan's mother. "But they surely are to blame."
Funny... my parents, knowing that suspension from school is the root of all the troubles in this world, just made sure I didn't do something to get myself suspended.
Even giving this woman the opportunity to voice this opinion to a mass audience is irresponsible. She's upset, but she needs to take some responsibility. By not taking reponsibility for her actions, she also managed to pass that trait on to her child. Rather than dealing with his actions, he took what he saw as the easy way out.
I've been using a similar method, alternately turning on and turning on my machine, to solve many daily tasks. For example, when I'm responding to a post-
Third, this whole article in the Washington Post is a piece of propaganda that can be summed up in one phrase: "Obey authority". Fuck authority. If you want to learn, learn. If you don't care, cheat. You are in control of your own life, and don't take your professor's point of view too seriously.
My guess is you aren't a college student. If you were, you would probably realize that attending college was your own choice. If you believed that you shouldn't trust a professor's "authority" then you wouldn't care to go in the first place.
The problem here were students who realized the importance of "obeying authority" by handing in an assignment, but didn't realize the importance of actually completing the assignment themselves.
Doesn't slashdot have a patent on allowing users to dynamically censor content according to the users' choices and moderation?
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I'd be interested to see this guy as a teacher in a university. To tackle subjects like audio, hardware, and device drivers in one, relatively short article is impressive. To make it sound simple and easy-to-follow is astounding.
If we had more instructors take the time to explain this way, we would have more people stay and graduate in Engineering and Computer Science. This would result in more capable new hires, fewer unfilled positions, less demand for tech people -- Hey, wait a minute! -- get that article down! Where's the/. effect when you need it?
Last week, after paying an outrageous sum of money for an ADT security system, I posted a sign outside of my house. The sign offered my DVD player to anyone who could find a way into my house.
I have come to find out that you realized I left my window open. I know you spent a long time studying my house and its security system. It is a feat to be proud of. While I understand you don't really want my DVD player and you were not attempting to steal additional items, I must ask that you do not reveal the open window to anyone else. While it may protect others from similar security flaws, revealing this could cause others to steal things from my house.
Perhaps, I should have studied the house more or asked you to look at it before I moved my belongings inside, but that is immaterial and I will sue to protect my interests
Sincerely,
Mr. Cocky-Ass-Caught-With-My-Pants-Down
Yes, this is politically incorrect statement, but
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leave it to those crazy Chinese to design a building that look like a grain of rice.
the family of injured student Evan Todd had their lawyer fire off a letter to the co-creator of the game "Doom" - a favorite of Harris and Klebold - asking that he stop selling adult games to kids.
The Sanders' suit... claims that if not for violent games and other media images - in particular, a school massacre scene from the movie "The Basketball Diaries" - the rampage by Harris and Klebold wouldn't have happened.
This type of horrific violence can only be achieved through a combination of this violent game and this violent movie. I beg of you, if you have seen this movie, do not play the game. Likewise, if you have played Doom, I urge you to stay far away from this movie.
Suits they forgot
the freshman who created our school's map (if you didn't have one, you still thought about it)
my brothers and I for playing it
Dell computer for selling us our terrorist training equipment
Finally, the electric company...
without their non-restricted, non-supervised, constant flow of electrons, we could never have trained on our computer, influenced others to play violent games, grow the Doom and Quake empires, force the Columbine shooters to join, plot their strategy, put guns in their hands, and push them out the door.
The right to voice your opinion is absolutely guaranteed by the Constitution. The right to voice it in a way that will avoid criticism should be protected, too.
That said, when you represent your opinion, as an inside source of a company, you are no longer voicing an opinion anonymously. An anonymous opinion on a subject doesn't start with "I was in the mailroom and heard..."
Allowing someone to make statements like the ones made in this case, to cause a business harm, is no better than allowing someone to accuse a person of a crime anonymously. The Constitution provides protection against that, too.
Go to college, get a job, and spend a couple years outside of high school. You'll quickly come to the realization that high school is not for learning curriculum-based concepts. It's about growing as a person.
One of the hardest parts of high school is the interaction with your peers. You know why that's probably the most important part?
Because you have to do it outside of high school, too.
Welcome to the real world, people. Sometimes you get picked on for no reason. I'd like to hear the other side of the story. Poor litle guy was picked on by his peers. Find me one person, in any high school, anywhere, who wasn't picked on at one time or another. Additionally, I find it extremely difficult to believe, even in the current state of schools, that the comment was the only reason that this guy was expelled. Congratulations to the father for pulling him out of the school and successfully side-stepping the problem instead of dealing with it.
Freedom, now that is a dangerous option for the consumer. Looks like marketing is trying harder and harder to take it away from the rats in the cage.
Or... you could not use it. I don't tend to read magazines next to my computer and I have a CueCat still in the package that I got from Slickdeals. As for marketing in general, you could do what most people do... flip past the ads in magazines, take a piss during the commercials, and change the station on the radio.
Marketing people aren't my favorite people, especially in my company, but they aren't evil. They're people who are trying to drum up business with a hook. In short, if you feel like a mouse in a maze, don't go after the cheese. They'll build the next maze around a different mouse.
made available for your personal, non-commercial use only
The CueHack doesn't appear to be selling anything or making money off users so it could hardly be considered commercial. If CueHack is non-commmercial then Google's service is available for their use.
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We have mail-order companies that sell anything from firearms to car parts that are illegal in some states and legal in others. The buyer is responsible for knowing their laws and not ordering items if they are in a state which doesn't allow them. The cataogs will sometimes say "Not available in CA, VA, etc." and may refuse to ship to some states, but the responsibility falls squarely on the reader.
When I drive over the Maryland state line into Virginia I know my radar detector is illegal. Virginia doesn't sue Maryland or Whistler (a radar detector manufacturer). They simply ticket the person in possession of the detector and confiscate the device.
France's politicians need to realize that the illegal items (HTML pages) aren't located in an area where Nazi memorabilia is illegal (US) and that they should target the people (French citizens) who "order" the items (again, HTML). Maybe they can catch it at the border and "confiscate" it (NetNanny for Yahoo! France).
At that point, they should take a step back and realize how ridiculous they look. Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.
So what good is this type of defense when the attacking country destroys the cell phone network's towers? Now, they kill two birds with one stone by disabling the area's communication network and allowing the stealth aircraft to safely continue operation.
It would be humorous, though, to see a stealth aircraft pilot watching the little bars on his Nokia to see when he's safe.
I like network gaming as much as the next guy, but to say playing networked games teaches about networks is like saying, "I'm learning auto repair by driving to work everyday."
By and large, the population of game players knows absolutely nothing about the console/computer/network that they use. If you want to include computer games in a class about computers, have the kids create a game. Kids like to be creative and see a product of their work.
Maybe elementary school kids can't create a first-person shooter, but if you show them a digital camera and teach them to edit their it will spark their interest. That's all you need. They'll ask questions about the ASCII and binary subjects later.
When I was a teenager I taught an astronomy class at a Scout camp one summer. It wasn't the easiest subject to teach (especially during the day) and most kids were interested in getting some requirements fulfilled and getting on to rifle or archery class.
My first mistake was opening the class with "There are 2 types of telescopes we'll be working with. Let's talk about the differences."
At that point, I knew I had already lost them and I was beginning to flounder. Immediately, one of the teachers who was there as back-up stepped up and said "Who wants to grab a telescope and spy on some of their friends in the boring classes?!!"
I came to the quick realization that we could teach the kids everything they needed to know without boring them with details. Show them what's really interesting about the subject and let them ask you the details. One of the kids asked me later which telescope would be better for spying and I was able to explain the differences with complete attention from the class... and without sounding like I was lecturing.
With younger kids especially, the teaching style has a lot more influence than the subject matter. Make it sound fun and the kids will like it no matter what the curriculum.
This will stop only the people who are ignorant to their options or too lazy to find a different route.
If an mp3 search engine gets axed (or a file-trading service has its hands tied) it doesn't slow the people who use IRC or FTP. Sure it's less convenient for most, but it doesn't stop the practice.
If Adaptec handicaps their product, it will only make other burning software more appealing. If you're reading slashdot, you're probably capable of finding an alternative.
Short term fixed prices vary in the long term
I had to read this 3 times, just to make sure. If the prices vary then they can't be fixed. If what you are arguing is that they can vary, but not in real-time, then what is the shortest interval to still be considered fixed? A year? A month? Maybe you could go down to a week? Daily? When does it cease to be fixed?
By making any change to a price, the price becomes dynamic. Everyone changes their prices for the best profit. Anyone who doesn't change their prices to compensate for change in the market is going to fail.
They know by making a big stink out of this they end up in a series of headlines and articles. They also get a ton of people who feel compelled to try out the page and... surprise... they end up on Ford's website.
Ever wonder why why Marilyn Manson gets so excited about church groups fighting to stop his concerts? There is no such thing as bad publicity... it still helps for name recognition.
If it wasn't for "dynamic pricing" a 386 would still be worth $3,000. Sometimes, rather than looking for a conspiracy, maybe we should consider how a process like this can still help us.
What do you people think a sale is? It's dynamic pricing... and it's to our advantage.
Geckos don't have suction cups. The clinging they do to walls is done by microscopic hairs on their feet. The hairs allow them to go up textured walls in addition to glass (even glass has tiny imperfections).
I'd love to see the window cleaner using this equipment when it starts to rain and his suction cups slide down the glass from his weight. Interesting technology, I admit, but I'll stick to scaffolding and ladders for all my wall-climbing needs.
I believe this is the first major section, hence it is Alpha. Next section to be attached would be Beta, and so on. It doesn't have anything to do with being the first station in space.
The men drilled holes, bolted the pieces together, covered the top with duct tape and, after weeks of working on it a bit at a time, finally had a table on which to eat, cook and work.
Has it occurred to any of you that are questioning the use of a table in space that you might not be thinking "outside the box" when you read this? What is the (probably incorrect) assumption that you made about the tape?
The tape is probably stick-side up. This type of thinking is why they're up there and most of us are just reading an article about them.
"I really don't have any idea what was going on in his mind," said Rita Majumder, Shinjan's mother. "But they surely are to blame."
Funny... my parents, knowing that suspension from school is the root of all the troubles in this world, just made sure I didn't do something to get myself suspended.
Even giving this woman the opportunity to voice this opinion to a mass audience is irresponsible. She's upset, but she needs to take some responsibility. By not taking reponsibility for her actions, she also managed to pass that trait on to her child. Rather than dealing with his actions, he took what he saw as the easy way out.
I've been using a similar method, alternately turning on and turning on my machine, to solve many daily tasks. For example, when I'm responding to a post-
Third, this whole article in the Washington Post is a piece of propaganda that can be summed up in one phrase: "Obey authority". Fuck authority. If you want to learn, learn. If you don't care, cheat. You are in control of your own life, and don't take your professor's point of view too seriously.
My guess is you aren't a college student. If you were, you would probably realize that attending college was your own choice. If you believed that you shouldn't trust a professor's "authority" then you wouldn't care to go in the first place.
The problem here were students who realized the importance of "obeying authority" by handing in an assignment, but didn't realize the importance of actually completing the assignment themselves.
Doesn't slashdot have a patent on allowing users to dynamically censor content according to the users' choices and moderation?
I'd be interested to see this guy as a teacher in a university. To tackle subjects like audio, hardware, and device drivers in one, relatively short article is impressive. To make it sound simple and easy-to-follow is astounding.
/. effect when you need it?
If we had more instructors take the time to explain this way, we would have more people stay and graduate in Engineering and Computer Science. This would result in more capable new hires, fewer unfilled positions, less demand for tech people -- Hey, wait a minute! -- get that article down! Where's the
"Doing that will make you go blind."
Now it may be true.
Last week, after paying an outrageous sum of money for an ADT security system, I posted a sign outside of my house. The sign offered my DVD player to anyone who could find a way into my house.
I have come to find out that you realized I left my window open. I know you spent a long time studying my house and its security system. It is a feat to be proud of. While I understand you don't really want my DVD player and you were not attempting to steal additional items, I must ask that you do not reveal the open window to anyone else. While it may protect others from similar security flaws, revealing this could cause others to steal things from my house.
Perhaps, I should have studied the house more or asked you to look at it before I moved my belongings inside, but that is immaterial and I will sue to protect my interests
Sincerely,
Mr. Cocky-Ass-Caught-With-My-Pants-Down
leave it to those crazy Chinese to design a building that look like a grain of rice.
the family of injured student Evan Todd had their lawyer fire off a letter to the co-creator of the game "Doom" - a favorite of Harris and Klebold - asking that he stop selling adult games to kids.
The Sanders' suit... claims that if not for violent games and other media images - in particular, a school massacre scene from the movie "The Basketball Diaries" - the rampage by Harris and Klebold wouldn't have happened.
This type of horrific violence can only be achieved through a combination of this violent game and this violent movie. I beg of you, if you have seen this movie, do not play the game. Likewise, if you have played Doom, I urge you to stay far away from this movie.
Obvious Suits
id for creating Doom
publishing companies for distributing it
Wal-Mart for selling it (you know they're evil)
Suits they forgot
the freshman who created our school's map (if you didn't have one, you still thought about it)
my brothers and I for playing it
Dell computer for selling us our terrorist training equipment
Finally, the electric company...
without their non-restricted, non-supervised, constant flow of electrons, we could never have trained on our computer, influenced others to play violent games, grow the Doom and Quake empires, force the Columbine shooters to join, plot their strategy, put guns in their hands, and push them out the door.
The right to voice your opinion is absolutely guaranteed by the Constitution. The right to voice it in a way that will avoid criticism should be protected, too.
That said, when you represent your opinion, as an inside source of a company, you are no longer voicing an opinion anonymously. An anonymous opinion on a subject doesn't start with "I was in the mailroom and heard..."
Allowing someone to make statements like the ones made in this case, to cause a business harm, is no better than allowing someone to accuse a person of a crime anonymously. The Constitution provides protection against that, too.
Go to college, get a job, and spend a couple years outside of high school. You'll quickly come to the realization that high school is not for learning curriculum-based concepts. It's about growing as a person.
One of the hardest parts of high school is the interaction with your peers. You know why that's probably the most important part?
Because you have to do it outside of high school, too.
Welcome to the real world, people. Sometimes you get picked on for no reason. I'd like to hear the other side of the story. Poor litle guy was picked on by his peers. Find me one person, in any high school, anywhere, who wasn't picked on at one time or another. Additionally, I find it extremely difficult to believe, even in the current state of schools, that the comment was the only reason that this guy was expelled. Congratulations to the father for pulling him out of the school and successfully side-stepping the problem instead of dealing with it.
Freedom, now that is a dangerous option for the consumer. Looks like marketing is trying harder and harder to take it away from the rats in the cage.
Or... you could not use it. I don't tend to read magazines next to my computer and I have a CueCat still in the package that I got from Slickdeals. As for marketing in general, you could do what most people do... flip past the ads in magazines, take a piss during the commercials, and change the station on the radio.
Marketing people aren't my favorite people, especially in my company, but they aren't evil. They're people who are trying to drum up business with a hook. In short, if you feel like a mouse in a maze, don't go after the cheese. They'll build the next maze around a different mouse.
made available for your personal, non-commercial use only
The CueHack doesn't appear to be selling anything or making money off users so it could hardly be considered commercial. If CueHack is non-commmercial then Google's service is available for their use.