I don't follow your reasoning-- even if the law can't adequately cover the wide range of possible dangerous driving conditions, and because humanity as a whole cannot be otherwise persuaded, where is the harm in having a law against a known publicly dangerous activity.
The mobile manufacturers on their own could find new ways to use their services safely while driving, but if anything, laws prohibiting unsafe usage would motivate them to do so.
Put the effort into other forms of energy and we'll be a lot better off a lot more quickly.
That's easier to say than to do, or more importantly, to convince everyone else to do. As long as there is more than one independent mind working on the problem of resource scarcity and pollution control, why not hit it from as many angles as possible?
Although I think a simple name-and-address sticker on any further "OMG! SUSPICIOUS!" looking items might be a smart idea. Personally, I think the "guerrilla marketing" folks should be doing this as a matter of course-- if you're going to drop your institutional litter all over the place, at least own up to it.
This will never happen. It would open the door for the government to artificially get excited about any action someone does and then declare it a "terrorist act".
This junction is where I lose your train of logic.
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I had an arrangement similar to that in 6th grade, but it was in the form of more access time on the "loaner computer"-- the one that we kids could screw with the settings on because it wasn't running anything important, and would get wiped at the end of the year. Of course, this was before the Internet, so the worst you could dig up was AppleBASIC programs you wrote yourself or Stupid Control Panel Tricks.
Still, though, I think just having a "bang-on" machine (even something older and more accessible to scare away the poseurs and intrigue the truly interested. Give 'em C64s, I say!) in the classroom is the best option. Less costly, more control, and it still fulfills those few little advantages of "having computers in the classroom".
(Your mention of HyperCard brought back the memory. I was determined to actually program this Mac Performa we had on-site, that had no tools to actually do that-- I'd go back and forth between the Hypercard Player that wouldn't let you edit, and the Hypercard Demo that wouldn't let you Save... let's say that I didn't quite grasp the concept of "crippleware" at my young age. But I still remember the teacher setting down a gigantic box with the full version of HyperCard on my desk. Gift-wrapped. I was gleeful. Of course, this was the last week of school, so I never actually got a chance to use it, but looking back, I realize now something I never knew back then-- I was a big dork.)
Sounds similar to Quicksilver on the Mac. The only thing I can really complain about there is that if my hand slips, it's a juggle to get it NOT to load "Canvas Prefs 2 Backup.xpqi" into some OS9 program that hasn't been run in 5 years, from some obscure folder that it has indexed.
Of course, this is my work computer-- small shop with an "If it works well enough, don't screw with it" mentality that means I'm working on a machine that's two settings-clones, a couple former employees, three OS upgrades, and a fair number of years of everyday use removed from anything approaching pristine state. I think I'm still even using a mutated/migrated version of my predecessor's user account. But, it does the job, I suppose.
When, oh when will the OS and app vendors realize-- WE* DON'T WANT INDEXING! I haven't met an indexing or "Fast Search" technology yet that does more than thrash the hard disk when I'm not using it, to give me the convenience of freezing the machine when I actually dare to try. Content-based search is tedious and often pointless (I can't remember the name or the folder. Do you think I can actually recall the content?), and who wants to go around entering metadata on... well, anything.
* "We", being me and... well... everyone else in the world, I'd like to think. I could be wrong, I suppose. It's a rant, you see.
Complain, complain, complain... Don't throw the benefits out with the overreacting idiots. I personally like having a software firewall (Kerio 2.1) along with a NAT, because it throws a flag on everything from nosy installers, overzealous friendly network apps, to possible malware, as well as providing some level of security on a laptop when you're on someone else's network*. Okay, the idea that "when it's infected, consider it hosed" holds true more and more, but with a software firewall, you can tell more easily when that happens, and at least not keep feeding a bad machine.
* Actually (and maybe someone out there can help me) what I'd like to find, for the Windows platform, is a software firewall that's rather unobtrusive and lightweight (like I said, I'm still running Kerio 2-- no slow graphical popup crap like ZoneAlarm), and allows me to quickly switch between rule-sets. I'd like to have something that allows me to quickly switch to an "insecure" profile when I'm on an untrusted WiFi connection, that would block things like unencrypted email ports, unencrypted IM, and servers that I have set up for automatic password entry. I know Kerio allows you to load and unload rulesets, but it's buried deep in the menus and it's hardly quick or simple.
I'm not saying that there doesn't need to be security on the end machine, but that unlike an unrestricted environment, site blocking is one of the things that can be legitimately added to the arsenal. This is especially effective against less technical threats such as impersonation, online bullying, and identity theft, as well as providing an added buffer against the broader breeding grounds of various exploits.
I agree on the first point, although punishment should not be completely withheld, as that could bring questions of favoritism and erodes student respect for the school, its rules, and its property.
On the second point-- The reason the restrictions exist is the matter of school liability. Schools don't want to have to deal with responsibility and angry parents for things like students' online bullying, looking up bomb-making, hacking, porn, and just wasting time. The classroom is guided by a curriculum, and the Internet use need not be "default allow"-- if you want unrestricted Internet, get it at home on your own time. Computers in the classroom are tools for narrowly-defined purposes. Given that, it's much easier just to lock the doors entirely on questionable sites, rather than have to deal with intricate security on the chance that something malicious gets in. Why take the time and energy bolting everything down?
I do agree that security should have been a consideration. That said (and I'm honestly asking here), are there vulnerabilities (particularily XSS) that can be created purely by adding AJAX components? I suppose that in the case of a package with server-side parts there could be XSS vulnerabilities on the server side, but given that AJAX, like all JavaScript, is restricted to same-domain-only, any leaking or insertion of data would have to come from the same old back-end "didn't sanitize the input" problems.
it didn't hurt them until "commercial-free" paid services came on the scenes
I think you meant "alternatives to the bland, top-down managed, lowest-common-denominator 'hit machine' based homogenized national advertisements" came on the scene. IMO, radio is killing itself through a slow wasting process of terminal mediocrity. It just took a bright alternative to throw it into contrast.
It's clearly extortion. We all know the terrible consequences of ignoring iTMS and EMI, and not buying music from either of them. Oh, the horrors of not owning a particular specific piece of non-essential entertainment!
If the information is sufficiently worthy of being disseminated, there are plenty of unstoppable ways to get it out-- P2P, email lists, USENET, even anonymous comment spamming.
The school board, the administration, and the staff are there to determine what is educational or not. School is not a "default allow" environment.
Even setting aside any "corrosive" educational effect, there're also the matters of personal privacy and the school's responsibilities, social problems that in-school social-networking can assist (I won't say "facilitate", since troublemakers can do just as much damage from home), and IT hassles caused by stupid people on the open Internet. There just isn't enough demonstrated educational value in unrestricted MySpace usage to overcome those issues.
The users are in a school, a place defined in the least by the goal of education, and further by the specific educational requirements of the community being served. Does this need to be "decided"?
The real difficulties are getting enough focus to only grab signals from the laptop you're looking for, and not all the other CRTs and TVs and LCDs around...
Unless you have the time to build a "Subservient Chicken" parser, it's a lot harder to put up a webcam "feed" of someone who's far more attractive than you.
Plus, they're selling the video. The pics are free.
MySpace is not what anyone is there for. At best, it's an undue distraction. At worst, it's an invitation for numerous technological and social problems.
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I don't follow your reasoning-- even if the law can't adequately cover the wide range of possible dangerous driving conditions, and because humanity as a whole cannot be otherwise persuaded, where is the harm in having a law against a known publicly dangerous activity.
The mobile manufacturers on their own could find new ways to use their services safely while driving, but if anything, laws prohibiting unsafe usage would motivate them to do so.
Screw this.
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Put the effort into other forms of energy and we'll be a lot better off a lot more quickly.
That's easier to say than to do, or more importantly, to convince everyone else to do. As long as there is more than one independent mind working on the problem of resource scarcity and pollution control, why not hit it from as many angles as possible?
Although I think a simple name-and-address sticker on any further "OMG! SUSPICIOUS!" looking items might be a smart idea. Personally, I think the "guerrilla marketing" folks should be doing this as a matter of course-- if you're going to drop your institutional litter all over the place, at least own up to it.
This will never happen. It would open the door for the government to artificially get excited about any action someone does and then declare it a "terrorist act".
This junction is where I lose your train of logic.
Use a light beam/sensor between the arms of the office chair. Or, for that matter, a pressure switch wired to the chair.
Can you still run your television cable on the same lines through some sort of filter, or is that disconnected?
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I had an arrangement similar to that in 6th grade, but it was in the form of more access time on the "loaner computer"-- the one that we kids could screw with the settings on because it wasn't running anything important, and would get wiped at the end of the year. Of course, this was before the Internet, so the worst you could dig up was AppleBASIC programs you wrote yourself or Stupid Control Panel Tricks.
Still, though, I think just having a "bang-on" machine (even something older and more accessible to scare away the poseurs and intrigue the truly interested. Give 'em C64s, I say!) in the classroom is the best option. Less costly, more control, and it still fulfills those few little advantages of "having computers in the classroom".
(Your mention of HyperCard brought back the memory. I was determined to actually program this Mac Performa we had on-site, that had no tools to actually do that-- I'd go back and forth between the Hypercard Player that wouldn't let you edit, and the Hypercard Demo that wouldn't let you Save... let's say that I didn't quite grasp the concept of "crippleware" at my young age. But I still remember the teacher setting down a gigantic box with the full version of HyperCard on my desk. Gift-wrapped. I was gleeful. Of course, this was the last week of school, so I never actually got a chance to use it, but looking back, I realize now something I never knew back then-- I was a big dork.)
Sounds similar to Quicksilver on the Mac. The only thing I can really complain about there is that if my hand slips, it's a juggle to get it NOT to load "Canvas Prefs 2 Backup.xpqi" into some OS9 program that hasn't been run in 5 years, from some obscure folder that it has indexed.
Of course, this is my work computer-- small shop with an "If it works well enough, don't screw with it" mentality that means I'm working on a machine that's two settings-clones, a couple former employees, three OS upgrades, and a fair number of years of everyday use removed from anything approaching pristine state. I think I'm still even using a mutated/migrated version of my predecessor's user account. But, it does the job, I suppose.
When, oh when will the OS and app vendors realize-- WE* DON'T WANT INDEXING! I haven't met an indexing or "Fast Search" technology yet that does more than thrash the hard disk when I'm not using it, to give me the convenience of freezing the machine when I actually dare to try. Content-based search is tedious and often pointless (I can't remember the name or the folder. Do you think I can actually recall the content?), and who wants to go around entering metadata on... well, anything.
* "We", being me and... well... everyone else in the world, I'd like to think. I could be wrong, I suppose. It's a rant, you see.
Complain, complain, complain... Don't throw the benefits out with the overreacting idiots. I personally like having a software firewall (Kerio 2.1) along with a NAT, because it throws a flag on everything from nosy installers, overzealous friendly network apps, to possible malware, as well as providing some level of security on a laptop when you're on someone else's network*. Okay, the idea that "when it's infected, consider it hosed" holds true more and more, but with a software firewall, you can tell more easily when that happens, and at least not keep feeding a bad machine.
* Actually (and maybe someone out there can help me) what I'd like to find, for the Windows platform, is a software firewall that's rather unobtrusive and lightweight (like I said, I'm still running Kerio 2-- no slow graphical popup crap like ZoneAlarm), and allows me to quickly switch between rule-sets. I'd like to have something that allows me to quickly switch to an "insecure" profile when I'm on an untrusted WiFi connection, that would block things like unencrypted email ports, unencrypted IM, and servers that I have set up for automatic password entry. I know Kerio allows you to load and unload rulesets, but it's buried deep in the menus and it's hardly quick or simple.
I'm not saying that there doesn't need to be security on the end machine, but that unlike an unrestricted environment, site blocking is one of the things that can be legitimately added to the arsenal. This is especially effective against less technical threats such as impersonation, online bullying, and identity theft, as well as providing an added buffer against the broader breeding grounds of various exploits.
I agree on the first point, although punishment should not be completely withheld, as that could bring questions of favoritism and erodes student respect for the school, its rules, and its property.
On the second point-- The reason the restrictions exist is the matter of school liability. Schools don't want to have to deal with responsibility and angry parents for things like students' online bullying, looking up bomb-making, hacking, porn, and just wasting time. The classroom is guided by a curriculum, and the Internet use need not be "default allow"-- if you want unrestricted Internet, get it at home on your own time. Computers in the classroom are tools for narrowly-defined purposes. Given that, it's much easier just to lock the doors entirely on questionable sites, rather than have to deal with intricate security on the chance that something malicious gets in. Why take the time and energy bolting everything down?
I do agree that security should have been a consideration. That said (and I'm honestly asking here), are there vulnerabilities (particularily XSS) that can be created purely by adding AJAX components? I suppose that in the case of a package with server-side parts there could be XSS vulnerabilities on the server side, but given that AJAX, like all JavaScript, is restricted to same-domain-only, any leaking or insertion of data would have to come from the same old back-end "didn't sanitize the input" problems.
it didn't hurt them until "commercial-free" paid services came on the scenes
I think you meant "alternatives to the bland, top-down managed, lowest-common-denominator 'hit machine' based homogenized national advertisements" came on the scene. IMO, radio is killing itself through a slow wasting process of terminal mediocrity. It just took a bright alternative to throw it into contrast.
It's clearly extortion. We all know the terrible consequences of ignoring iTMS and EMI, and not buying music from either of them. Oh, the horrors of not owning a particular specific piece of non-essential entertainment!
It's clear you didn't understand the statement-- Limewire, BitTorrent: also "free" (barring lawsuit liability) and no ads.
If the information is sufficiently worthy of being disseminated, there are plenty of unstoppable ways to get it out-- P2P, email lists, USENET, even anonymous comment spamming.
Paper? I know both by rote.
The school board, the administration, and the staff are there to determine what is educational or not. School is not a "default allow" environment.
Even setting aside any "corrosive" educational effect, there're also the matters of personal privacy and the school's responsibilities, social problems that in-school social-networking can assist (I won't say "facilitate", since troublemakers can do just as much damage from home), and IT hassles caused by stupid people on the open Internet. There just isn't enough demonstrated educational value in unrestricted MySpace usage to overcome those issues.
The users are in a school, a place defined in the least by the goal of education, and further by the specific educational requirements of the community being served. Does this need to be "decided"?
What are you trying to say?
The real difficulties are getting enough focus to only grab signals from the laptop you're looking for, and not all the other CRTs and TVs and LCDs around...
Pringles can?
Unless you have the time to build a "Subservient Chicken" parser, it's a lot harder to put up a webcam "feed" of someone who's far more attractive than you.
Plus, they're selling the video. The pics are free.
MySpace is not what anyone is there for. At best, it's an undue distraction. At worst, it's an invitation for numerous technological and social problems.