I mean, honestly, that's so cliche that even the first-on-the-scene news reports are going to start with "another".
I think the small "6 to 8 people" number opens the doors to something we haven't seen (much? at all?) before: corporate branch mass suicide. It also shows off your cleverness and people skills. After all, anyone can be a "crazed gunman", but it's another level entirely to be a "leader of a psychotic cult". Add the corporate element and the just-blooming job-loss angle, and you've got the start of a trend.
No, actually there are a number of affirmative conditions which have to be met for something to be called "work for hire" (in the US). I'm not totally sure, but I think you have to be a W2-filing employee (among other things) to have your work be "for hire". Of course, a creator can always sign away their rights to their contracted work, creating a work-for-hire-esque situation, but the natural state of a non-W2-employee is not work-for-hire. (Not a lawyer either, but I have looked into this, being a graphic designer often undertaking contract work.)
The kid gets the money because money is a primary tool of both punishment and reward in civil law. It's quantifiable, transferrable, and rather neutral.
The amount, aside from covering legal fees and compensation, is supposedly enough to punish the school to the tune that they'll not do it again.
I think that's true, but in cases of a student walking home, that "transfer of ownership" happens when the student gets to their destination, not simply when they leave the grounds.
You know, it seems like this is a perfect place for a "robots.txt" type of solution for mirroring. Something detailing whether mirroring is allowed, whether mirrorers should mirror onsite/offsite/specific links on the page, etc.
Verisign sells domain name registration services under contract to organizations that own those names (though some of that is in question now).
Somewhat. That's only dependent upon ISPs' agreement on which root servers are "definitive".
You can't just open up a registry and start charging people to register their vehicles without any connection with the government, can you?
Sure. I could give out shiny stickers that say "This car is duly registered by the FLEB Foundation", and take down their registration and details for my file. Their cars would be registered, although there's no actual benefit to such registration.
Or for that matter provide a "registry" service for land here on Earth that makes the claim that you actually own that land?
No, although you could go as far as a non-official name association, as long as it conferred no actual property rights. The closest earthly "land-grab" example might be some sort of Google Maps API game that allowed you to "own" areas of actual property in-game. Star registries are similar because there's no real chance of anyone gaining property rights to a star, so it's a moot matter of name-association-assignment. Moon-property assignment falls more under the "scam" label, since there's a decent chance of lunar colonization, perhaps in a modern lifetime.
and sitting with me playing "The Letter Game"--fire up a word processor, set the font size to 72, change the font color and she's entertained for hours.
Ahh, yes... I remember sitting and playing copy con nul at my dad's work computer (an "IBM Compatible!") as a child. I was older, of course. That was... oh... upper single digits? Of course, before that I had BASIC on the Commodore 64.
OTOH, though, something as scary-sounding as a firmware patch can be as simple as double-click and "Don't unplug it for a couple seconds". Add some sort of update manager on the computer-side, and it gets even more dead-simple.
If they do block non-compliant sites then I can see them having a lot of court battles on their hands.
Not if you agreed to abide by standards when you registered the name. Of course, this is assuming that they have a specific plan with solid guidelines in place before.mobi goes live, and spell that out in detail to prospective buyers.
For a consumer grade box-and-string security method, this will work fine (for about 90% of business users, I'd venture). Like you said, though, malicious types can obscure dangerous worms, bombs, and other "trojan horse" style attacks behind the 3D object opacity filter inherent in this architecture.
For maximum security, you need to disable the 3D features: Shred and discard the box, and run the string to a square drawn on the wall with "computer" printed on it. You'll lose a little functionality, but you'll be rock-solid secure.
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Why all the politics and "message" to it. Why not just have a fun time zombieing for the pure... zombification... of it.
Actually, you don't capitalize "freeway", but you do capitalize Interstate (the Interstate Highway System). It's a proper noun, in that it denotes a specific named subset of highways in the United States. Not every divided, limited-access freeway in the United States is an Interstate. Some are U.S. highways or (in rare cases) State highways. There are also a few portions of the Interstate System, I believe, that aren't divided/limited-access freeways, although that's even rarer (I think Hawaii has some, and I know there used to be old Temporary I-69 through Lansing, MI).
The Internet, similarily, denotes a specific IP-based network. Any other network is simply a "network", or perhaps an "intranet". I'm not sure if "internet" is ever used as a generic term for a non-Internet IP network between multiple organizations. I suppose they'd usually just have their own names.
Yes, but the purpose of the moderation system is to filter out irrelevant or incorrect information by labelling it or driving it below the threshold, and that qualifies quite well.
Another plus-point for not having Flash: I've been unable to afford Flash for quite some time (plus Macromedia's licensing is completely counterproductive in some cases). From that limitation alone, I've learned to do ten times as much in HTML/CSS/JS than I would have if I could just whip it up in Flash. Although there're no vectors or synchronized sound, you can do quite a few interesting and rich "unweblike" interfaces using just the core web languages.
A more interesting line of thought along the haircut lines is this (though it has nothing to do with free speech): could a school kick out a student who gets cancer and loses their hair if they have a particular haircut policy?
Perhaps, (The ADA might come into play in the US) but they'd be destroyed in the "court of public opinion".
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It's a social engineering hack of sorts, albeit the "brute force" method.
That's terrible.
I mean, honestly, that's so cliche that even the first-on-the-scene news reports are going to start with "another".
I think the small "6 to 8 people" number opens the doors to something we haven't seen (much? at all?) before: corporate branch mass suicide. It also shows off your cleverness and people skills. After all, anyone can be a "crazed gunman", but it's another level entirely to be a "leader of a psychotic cult". Add the corporate element and the just-blooming job-loss angle, and you've got the start of a trend.
No, actually there are a number of affirmative conditions which have to be met for something to be called "work for hire" (in the US). I'm not totally sure, but I think you have to be a W2-filing employee (among other things) to have your work be "for hire". Of course, a creator can always sign away their rights to their contracted work, creating a work-for-hire-esque situation, but the natural state of a non-W2-employee is not work-for-hire. (Not a lawyer either, but I have looked into this, being a graphic designer often undertaking contract work.)
The kid gets the money because money is a primary tool of both punishment and reward in civil law. It's quantifiable, transferrable, and rather neutral.
The amount, aside from covering legal fees and compensation, is supposedly enough to punish the school to the tune that they'll not do it again.
A threat of apathy against the President?!?
I think that's true, but in cases of a student walking home, that "transfer of ownership" happens when the student gets to their destination, not simply when they leave the grounds.
You know, it seems like this is a perfect place for a "robots.txt" type of solution for mirroring. Something detailing whether mirroring is allowed, whether mirrorers should mirror onsite/offsite/specific links on the page, etc.
Verisign sells domain name registration services under contract to organizations that own those names (though some of that is in question now).
Somewhat. That's only dependent upon ISPs' agreement on which root servers are "definitive".
You can't just open up a registry and start charging people to register their vehicles without any connection with the government, can you?
Sure. I could give out shiny stickers that say "This car is duly registered by the FLEB Foundation", and take down their registration and details for my file. Their cars would be registered, although there's no actual benefit to such registration.
Or for that matter provide a "registry" service for land here on Earth that makes the claim that you actually own that land?
No, although you could go as far as a non-official name association, as long as it conferred no actual property rights. The closest earthly "land-grab" example might be some sort of Google Maps API game that allowed you to "own" areas of actual property in-game. Star registries are similar because there's no real chance of anyone gaining property rights to a star, so it's a moot matter of name-association-assignment. Moon-property assignment falls more under the "scam" label, since there's a decent chance of lunar colonization, perhaps in a modern lifetime.
Settle, renounce your citizenship, and form a new country on the Moon. Of course, there's the matter of defense, but other than that...
and sitting with me playing "The Letter Game"--fire up a word processor, set the font size to 72, change the font color and she's entertained for hours.
Ahh, yes... I remember sitting and playing copy con nul at my dad's work computer (an "IBM Compatible!") as a child. I was older, of course. That was... oh... upper single digits? Of course, before that I had BASIC on the Commodore 64.
OTOH, though, something as scary-sounding as a firmware patch can be as simple as double-click and "Don't unplug it for a couple seconds". Add some sort of update manager on the computer-side, and it gets even more dead-simple.
"If you haven't seen it before... IT'S NEW TO YOU!!!"
(dumbest campaign ever, I'm certain)
If they do block non-compliant sites then I can see them having a lot of court battles on their hands.
.mobi goes live, and spell that out in detail to prospective buyers.
Not if you agreed to abide by standards when you registered the name. Of course, this is assuming that they have a specific plan with solid guidelines in place before
For a consumer grade box-and-string security method, this will work fine (for about 90% of business users, I'd venture). Like you said, though, malicious types can obscure dangerous worms, bombs, and other "trojan horse" style attacks behind the 3D object opacity filter inherent in this architecture.
For maximum security, you need to disable the 3D features: Shred and discard the box, and run the string to a square drawn on the wall with "computer" printed on it. You'll lose a little functionality, but you'll be rock-solid secure.
Why all the politics and "message" to it. Why not just have a fun time zombieing for the pure... zombification... of it.
Noted in my "Things I now know" file. Thanks!
Sounds like a faulty driver for something you normally never use.
Actually, you don't capitalize "freeway", but you do capitalize Interstate (the Interstate Highway System). It's a proper noun, in that it denotes a specific named subset of highways in the United States. Not every divided, limited-access freeway in the United States is an Interstate. Some are U.S. highways or (in rare cases) State highways. There are also a few portions of the Interstate System, I believe, that aren't divided/limited-access freeways, although that's even rarer (I think Hawaii has some, and I know there used to be old Temporary I-69 through Lansing, MI).
The Internet, similarily, denotes a specific IP-based network. Any other network is simply a "network", or perhaps an "intranet". I'm not sure if "internet" is ever used as a generic term for a non-Internet IP network between multiple organizations. I suppose they'd usually just have their own names.
Yes, but the purpose of the moderation system is to filter out irrelevant or incorrect information by labelling it or driving it below the threshold, and that qualifies quite well.
You wouldn't really need a hack to en/decrypt the iPod HDD. The software could just en/decrypt the individual files when opening or saving them.
As for Flash: dump the old thing and embrace an SVG + XForms future...
If only browser manufacturers would. As it stands, it seems to be a perpetual "future" just past the horizon.
Another plus-point for not having Flash: I've been unable to afford Flash for quite some time (plus Macromedia's licensing is completely counterproductive in some cases). From that limitation alone, I've learned to do ten times as much in HTML/CSS/JS than I would have if I could just whip it up in Flash. Although there're no vectors or synchronized sound, you can do quite a few interesting and rich "unweblike" interfaces using just the core web languages.
Well put. Have you considered a career in the quickly-growing field of FAQ writing?
A more interesting line of thought along the haircut lines is this (though it has nothing to do with free speech): could a school kick out a student who gets cancer and loses their hair if they have a particular haircut policy?
Perhaps, (The ADA might come into play in the US) but they'd be destroyed in the "court of public opinion".
Credit card
Age limit.
PayPal
Age limit.
mail in a check, whatever you like.
Disproportionately inconvenient (for both sides) solution to the problem at hand.
You could even make it refundable after six months or a year.
Not likely, I'd say. By the time transaction fees take a bite both ways, a small sum is reduced to near-nothing anyway.