Yep the tall dark haired kid was Collusus (too lazy to check spelling). In the scene where the kid runs over water you can also see him painting as col. was wont to do. I'm pretty sure it was Pyro. Remember a bunch of the ages were messed (Kitty and Jubes at the same time. Iceman a kid and Cyke adult.) and he had to start up the fire with a lighter rather than generate it. Plus Pyro's real name was Johnny.
I got the game on Saturday at EB. A friend was working there at the time. He had gotten a copy. I later learned that he burned copies for three other people. A friend was at the store getting the game. He directly went to another friend's house to burn a copy. And of course, I went from the store to a friend's to burn a copy. Of course, I'm the one that gets to play multiplayer.
If source code is speech and noone has a copyright on it and it will not cause immediate irreperable harm, it cannot legally be suppressed. The DeCSS Judge said source code wasn't speech, but now there is a precedent that contradicts him.
Its only easy to flush the kid out if you know who he is. Librarians often won't be able to do that. How many would even know how to start? Things would just start happening, and even if they know about logs, the logs could be deleted/altered. Formatting and loading on weekly basis would require the ability to set up the system to protect against the same kids, or they'll just get root every week.
In a small town setting, will they have the technical expertise, or money to buy such expertise, to create/maintain/upgrade this system? This would be a massive project. Either 1)you get a who watches the watchers situation where who decides which sites are appropiate is sticky to the extreme, or 2) have dozens of levels of access or different sites blocked for each user. Considering the number of sites out there, that'd be a damn big database, and it'd still be imperfect.
Also, consider the ability of the young with computers. How long would it take a young nerd past the security of an amatuer admin's NT (or *nix) system, and have him/her tooling around the system as root. Then you either leave the kid in there, which is asking for trouble, or flush the intruder out with more time/money.
Still look viable for the.0001% of people looking at "offensive" material.
T/w owns CNN, Headline News, TBS, TNT, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and fifty-fifty chance T/W owns your cable Tv/modem company.
AOL (owns Netscape) can now use those cable lines monopolistically, get exclusive content on the Internet version of those channels and magazines, etc.
SH bit big time, even with Walken and nice sword work. I went with a bunch of friends and the movie dragged. It definitely wasn't scarey and..
SPOILER
You knew once Ricci mentioned the stepmom who had nursed her mother then married her father was the villain. So obvious. I only doubted after her "death" but I was still fairly sure. So it had no suspense, wasn't scary, leaving the romance. Unfortunately, the romance was uber reserved, circa 1799. Acting was fine, Ricci, Depp (and Walken's small part) was well done but not enough to save the movie.
I'm still at a high school (public) and there is one CS teacher. The first year I took CS (the first year in the school and 2nd year it'd been offered) she'd just had the basics, and we were taught C++. The second year she took some masters level courses while we took AP. Both years the class was split into those just coasting by and those learning it. Those who learned it took the AP test and we got five 5's, two 4's and a 3 in the harder version of the test.
Five of that group that are now seniors (me included) are now taking a independent research course in CS with two classes a week, so almost all work is outside the classroom.
However, now the teacher has passed her masters in CS, and some of the younger or lower level classes don't have an advanced group. So she has started to be very strict with them and now with us. I'm basically the nice one towards her and I have to smooth things through with her. She got so bad, we all code in another classrooom.
At the end of the term, she demanded progress programs. I gave her several. Unfortunately some were in PERL and awk, and she only knew C and its derivitives. She gave me a C, which screwed my senior year 1st term GPA. Because the only other people who know CS were fellow students, I couldn't get it changed.
I guess the point of the story is CS teachers are often far behind their students. I've heard other stories of incompetence at the ASCL nationals. A guidance counselor even tried to get the school board to let one of us teach CS to the lower level classes even though three of us have taught CS or math at MIT or harvard during the summer (I'm not one of them). IMO high school level CS should be learned independantly or through other students.
If I was the guy who was served with the gag, I'd keep right on posting. Its impossible to prove identity enough for a court of law in a newsgroup. Or he could go through a secondary such as friend or dejanews to post, again making proof near impossible.
If the password protects something important, then a piece of paper is bad. It can easily be thrown out allowing dumpster divers to get it, or left around, letting someone from inside get it.
A disk with the passwords that you keep with you and perhaps PGP encrypted is almost as easy and even more secure.
The exam had the following preconditions: *Unforgeable pseudonymous identities* Bidirectional, typed, filterable links Arbitrage agents Bonding agents Escrow agents Digital Cash Capability Based Security with Strong Encryption
7) Someone claiming to be you starts roaming the Web making wild claims. You want to make sure people know it isn't really you. Wouldn't unforgeable psuedonymous identities make this impossible?
I think the point of the question (11) was that computer technolgy can't solve all our problems even with universal access, or at least not immediately. All of us don't have to worry about where are food is coming day to day (even if out of work, one can go on unemployment/disability/welfare to survive in almost all situations). North Korea represents those places where some people are hanging onto life by a thread and need more basic things before the internet or computers make any practical difference in their lives. The question just helps the people in the class see that computers aren't the be all, end all of life in the future after a semester of exploring how they could change society. The funny thing is that at techno-centric slashdot, many look past this for far-fetched schemes using this technology (which the peasants wouldn't understand anyway).
Since a majority of Chinese are still peasants, there definitely aren't a billion potential Linux users.
Also, since techies are as a group more rebellious in China than the average person, a endorsement by their oppressors may actually dissuade them from using linux.
How could the EU ever enfource this? The web is HUGE, and many sites are updated daily. There is no way they could keep an eye on everything. Not to mention most of the Internet is not in their territory. Where do they draw the authority to enact these laws. What will the punishment be for failing to self regulate?
The current AP test for CS is on C++ (changed for Pascal last year). I took a C++ course 3 years ago and the AP one last year, and its not too dificult. I had ~20 kids in the AP class, 14 took the higher level test, and 4 took the lower test. We had 2 3's, 6 4's, and 10 5's.
Its definitely learnable, the key is to limit lectures and maximize time actually fiddling with code.
PERL shouldn't be the first language. If it was Jr. High or younger, I'd say BASIC. I don't know much about Python, so maybe it is easier, but C++ is definitely doable.
Funny, at my HS they let the administrators search more than the cops are allowed to, including bags, lockers, students, disks, and cars. And this high school is in a relatively crime free suburb, with no serious violence at school in a year, and a drug problem lower than the average high school. But of course, noone has any rights until they become human at 18.
He didn't go to Harvard on scholarships. He was richer than just about everyone here when he was born. He had multi-million dollar trust funds. Luck and knowing the right people got his fortune.
But you're right, therapists are master BS artists. Hell, some even believe their own hype. I read an article that some of my friends and I had a laugh over. It was a well thought out study about 'shadow syndromes'. Basically, it says eeryone is a little crazy, ie, Jon Doe is a little paranoid and a tad schitzo, Mary has a dash of clostrophobia, etc.
The joke was the look of glee on this shrinks face when we saw him reading it. You could almost see the big dollar signs replace his eyes a la Looney Toons.
Slashdot Mirror
It could be Quicksilver. He's a mutant and was briefly a Xman. I can't think of any other superquick Xmen.
Yep the tall dark haired kid was Collusus (too lazy to check spelling). In the scene where the kid runs over water you can also see him painting as col. was wont to do. I'm pretty sure it was Pyro. Remember a bunch of the ages were messed (Kitty and Jubes at the same time. Iceman a kid and Cyke adult.) and he had to start up the fire with a lighter rather than generate it. Plus Pyro's real name was Johnny.
Also seen were Pyro, Jubilee and Collusus (spelling).
I got the game on Saturday at EB. A friend was working there at the time. He had gotten a copy. I later learned that he burned copies for three other people. A friend was at the store getting the game. He directly went to another friend's house to burn a copy. And of course, I went from the store to a friend's to burn a copy. Of course, I'm the one that gets to play multiplayer.
If source code is speech and noone has a copyright on it and it will not cause immediate irreperable harm, it cannot legally be suppressed. The DeCSS Judge said source code wasn't speech, but now there is a precedent that contradicts him.
Its only easy to flush the kid out if you know who he is. Librarians often won't be able to do that. How many would even know how to start? Things would just start happening, and even if they know about logs, the logs could be deleted/altered. Formatting and loading on weekly basis would require the ability to set up the system to protect against the same kids, or they'll just get root every week.
In a small town setting, will they have the technical expertise, or money to buy such expertise, to create/maintain/upgrade this system? This would be a massive project. Either 1)you get a who watches the watchers situation where who decides which sites are appropiate is sticky to the extreme, or 2) have dozens of levels of access or different sites blocked for each user. Considering the number of sites out there, that'd be a damn big database, and it'd still be imperfect.
.0001% of people looking at "offensive" material.
Also, consider the ability of the young with computers. How long would it take a young nerd past the security of an amatuer admin's NT (or *nix) system, and have him/her tooling around the system as root. Then you either leave the kid in there, which is asking for trouble, or flush the intruder out with more time/money.
Still look viable for the
T/w owns CNN, Headline News, TBS, TNT, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and fifty-fifty chance T/W owns your cable Tv/modem company.
AOL (owns Netscape) can now use those cable lines monopolistically, get exclusive content on the Internet version of those channels and magazines, etc.
Nervous yet?
or a golf club!
Looks like this was copied from an AC above. Has the same typo that the AC had, and is posted 2 hours later.
SH bit big time, even with Walken and nice sword work. I went with a bunch of friends and the movie dragged. It definitely wasn't scarey and..
SPOILER
You knew once Ricci mentioned the stepmom who had nursed her mother then married her father was the villain. So obvious. I only doubted after her "death" but I was still fairly sure. So it had no suspense, wasn't scary, leaving the romance. Unfortunately, the romance was uber reserved, circa 1799. Acting was fine, Ricci, Depp (and Walken's small part) was well done but not enough to save the movie.
I'm still at a high school (public) and there is one CS teacher. The first year I took CS (the first year in the school and 2nd year it'd been offered) she'd just had the basics, and we were taught C++. The second year she took some masters level courses while we took AP. Both years the class was split into those just coasting by and those learning it. Those who learned it took the AP test and we got five 5's, two 4's and a 3 in the harder version of the test.
Five of that group that are now seniors (me included) are now taking a independent research course in CS with two classes a week, so almost all work is outside the classroom.
However, now the teacher has passed her masters in CS, and some of the younger or lower level classes don't have an advanced group. So she has started to be very strict with them and now with us. I'm basically the nice one towards her and I have to smooth things through with her. She got so bad, we all code in another classrooom.
At the end of the term, she demanded progress programs. I gave her several. Unfortunately some were in PERL and awk, and she only knew C and its derivitives. She gave me a C, which screwed my senior year 1st term GPA. Because the only other people who know CS were fellow students, I couldn't get it changed.
I guess the point of the story is CS teachers are often far behind their students. I've heard other stories of incompetence at the ASCL nationals. A guidance counselor even tried to get the school board to let one of us teach CS to the lower level classes even though three of us have taught CS or math at MIT or harvard during the summer (I'm not one of them). IMO high school level CS should be learned independantly or through other students.
If I was the guy who was served with the gag, I'd keep right on posting. Its impossible to prove identity enough for a court of law in a newsgroup. Or he could go through a secondary such as friend or dejanews to post, again making proof near impossible.
Changelings? The rest yes, but being able to shape change? Probably not.
(Somethings people just make up).
If the password protects something important, then a piece of paper is bad. It can easily be thrown out allowing dumpster divers to get it, or left around, letting someone from inside get it.
A disk with the passwords that you keep with you and perhaps PGP encrypted is almost as easy and even more secure.
The exam had the following preconditions:
*Unforgeable pseudonymous identities*
Bidirectional, typed, filterable links
Arbitrage agents
Bonding agents
Escrow agents
Digital Cash
Capability Based Security with Strong Encryption
7) Someone claiming to be you starts roaming the Web making wild claims. You want to make sure people know it isn't really
you.
Wouldn't unforgeable psuedonymous identities make this impossible?
I think the point of the question (11) was that computer technolgy can't solve all our problems even with universal access, or at least not immediately. All of us don't have to worry about where are food is coming day to day (even if out of work, one can go on unemployment/disability/welfare to survive in almost all situations). North Korea represents those places where some people are hanging onto life by a thread and need more basic things before the internet or computers make any practical difference in their lives. The question just helps the people in the class see that computers aren't the be all, end all of life in the future after a semester of exploring how they could change society. The funny thing is that at techno-centric slashdot, many look past this for far-fetched schemes using this technology (which the peasants wouldn't understand anyway).
Since a majority of Chinese are still peasants, there definitely aren't a billion potential Linux users.
Also, since techies are as a group more rebellious in China than the average person, a endorsement by their oppressors may actually dissuade them from using linux.
How could the EU ever enfource this? The web is HUGE, and many sites are updated daily. There is no way they could keep an eye on everything. Not to mention most of the Internet is not in their territory. Where do they draw the authority to enact these laws. What will the punishment be for failing to self regulate?
The current AP test for CS is on C++ (changed for Pascal last year). I took a C++ course 3 years ago and the AP one last year, and its not too dificult. I had ~20 kids in the AP class, 14 took the higher level test, and 4 took the lower test. We had 2 3's, 6 4's, and 10 5's.
Its definitely learnable, the key is to limit lectures and maximize time actually fiddling with code.
PERL shouldn't be the first language. If it was Jr. High or younger, I'd say BASIC. I don't know much about Python, so maybe it is easier, but C++ is definitely doable.
Bungie does make decent games usually....but Blizzard generally has the best, and are the most original. See - Diablo, Warcraft I&II and Starcraft.
Funny, at my HS they let the administrators search more than the cops are allowed to, including bags, lockers, students, disks, and cars. And this high school is in a relatively crime free suburb, with no serious violence at school in a year, and a drug problem lower than the average high school. But of course, noone has any rights until they become human at 18.
Umm actually, not really.
He didn't go to Harvard on scholarships. He was richer than just about everyone here when he was born. He had multi-million dollar trust funds. Luck and knowing the right people got his fortune.
sort of like sean connery?
I'll take 'The Rapists' for $100, Alec.
But you're right, therapists are master BS artists. Hell, some even believe their own hype. I read an article that some of my friends and I had a laugh over. It was a well thought out study about 'shadow syndromes'. Basically, it says eeryone is a little crazy, ie, Jon Doe is a little paranoid and a tad schitzo, Mary has a dash of clostrophobia, etc.
The joke was the look of glee on this shrinks face when we saw him reading it. You could almost see the big dollar signs replace his eyes a la Looney Toons.
And he also actually is very antiMTV because he realized he was a pawn.