You're 7th grade band teacher is borking the band girls. Grab him by the balls your first day of band and let him know you know, things will be a lot easier after that.
Life gets much much much better after high school. Do whatever you can to get through it until then.
When your 25 year old hottie boss leans back in the jeep and says, "This would make a great makeout place", follow your insticts, don't be a pussy!
It isn't a lack of common sense, it is a lack of perspective. Child porn to one person may not be to another. If there was an easy answer to this one, it would have been solved already.
A good example of what makes this difficult is a family photo album. Mine has a lot of pictures of my little boy in it, as he is growing up. He is as naked as the day he was born in some of those pictures. I don't consider it child porn when myself or my family sees those pictures. On the other hand, if I were to catch the babysitter wanking off while looking at them, then in that circumstance I would consider it child porn.
I suppose I can think of some types of images that could have no other possible use but to be child porn, but then again, someone else might be able to create a situation like the photo album.
If I don't tell them things they do not want to know, and do talk/ask about things they want to talk about, how the hell am I supposed to be yourself, and be comfortable with yourself ?
Just finished reading it. Pretty good short story. There were a few style issues I didn't care for too much, but then they might grow on me if I read it a couple more times. It had a rough amateurish quality to it that I liked (even though the author isn't an amateure). Think I'll go buy it now.
Just finding a bug is seldom the whole battle. To fix it you need to know why it is broken. More often than not when debugging a program that I had written, it would only take a few minutes to locate the source of the error, figuring out what was causing the error could sometimes take hours.
The beauty of Lessig's challenge is its two-fold approach to hitting RIAA/MPAA where it hurts. If you commit yourself to donating the same amount of money you spend on a movie or CD, you will be much more likely to pick your expenditures more carefully. Is that new Brittney Spears CD really worth 30$ to you? Can you really justify spending 15$ per ticket to see the latest Saturday Night Live spinoff movie? So not only are you giving money to the people that can make a difference when you indulge, you tend to indulge less frequently.
Ok, you got me, nobody owns international waters, or non-terrestrial land.
And even on land, there are vast stretches of land that are for all practical purposes unowned. since squatter laws allow a citizen who improves the value of the land to claim ownership.
I'm not sure about this one. If a tract of land isn't owned by an individual, then I imagine the state has a claim to it. Just because you can take something over from someone by their lack of use, doesn't mean it isn't owned. If I let you move into my house, and never say anything for twenty years, and let you pay the taxes and whatnot, then you would have taken ownership over from me, but that isn't the same thing as it not being owned in the first place.
Also, keep in mind that america has more houses available than we have people to live in them, because banks tend to sit on properties they aquire if they can't make a profit selling them.
No, there are more houses available than individuals can afford. I'm not sure how your claim refutes my statement anyway. The banks own the property, until they can make a profit and sell it to someone else. Then someone else owns it. I'm pretty sure you're not going to get a bank to let you take something over without them getting something out of it.
So while this isn't the case with dark fiber yet, it's entirely possible that banks will end up holding on to dark fiber until the telcos find they have need for it, and at which point they might be unwilling to sell it at a price the telcos are willing to pay, at which point it will be wasted, just like up to 20% of houses are in some US cities.
Its not that its wasted, there is no financial sense in lighting it up. Dark fiber is like oil that costs too much to pump. Someday it might be cost effective to pump/light it, but for now there is no incentive. Just because you can't use it, doesn't mean it is wasted.
I don't really agree with the It never fails that when I do see them, for the most part portion of your statement, but non-cagers are capable of some pretty dumb activities. I can't tell you the last time I was passed by a cager with half their wheels in the air in front of them going at least 80mph. I saw two cyclists do this a week ago, and another a little over a year ago. People do stupid things in cars, but they do even dumber things on bikes.
The guy that really made me laugh recently, had made a bunch of modifications to his bike. Like, putting a cover over his tail light that makes it blend in with the bike, making it harder to see. I have no sympathy for anyone that rides a bike and modifies it to make the safety features harder to see.
I don't really have a problem with bikers that don't want safety features on their bikes, don't want to wear helmets, and so on. I just don't want my car/health insurance rates going up because of how expensive it is to fix their bodies when they get in an accident. Making the choice to put yourself at risk should be a choice you are allowed to make, I just don't think I should have to subsidise it.
The fact that your post was modded +5 Interesting says something about the readers here at slashdot these days.
So how does the ownership of these lines pass on? Can just anybody take the existing lines, plug in, and make use of them - or do they have to be bought?
You're kidding right? Someone always owns everything, nothing of value is unowned. What, you think when someone goes out of business they just lock the doors and walk away, leaving a building full of inventory, office furniture, and whatever intact? Typically they go bankrupt, filing chapter 7 (liquidation). This means all of their assets are sold off and the creditors get the proceeds. This means someone is buying their assets, and dark fiber would be considered an asset by most. So no, you can't just use some defunct company's dark fiber.
If there were one large company that could buy out and connect most these unused lines, they could probably make something out of them. Since they're just sitting unused, I'd imagine it wouldn't cost too much to buy ownership
It was exactly this sort of thinking that put so many companies out of business to begin with.
Thats probably because its too damn cold up there to be screwing around with guns on the streets. Who in their right mind would want to take their hand out of their pocket to hold a chunk of cold metal when its -20C outside.
But seriously. I think it is mostly a matter of education. I don't mean that silly liberal "education about guns/drugs/sex/weed eaters/problem of the day" education. I'm talking about your average everyday high school education. I have no numbers to back this up, but I have a feeling that there are fewer uneducated dolts running around the streets in Canada on a per capita basis than here in the states, and thus fewer shootings.
I have to disagree that voice recognition will take over. The reason the sci-fi shows use it so much is because it is much more contrived when the actor stands at a keyboard madly typing away saying things like "Ok, now I'll locate wesley. Got him. Now I'll open the outer airlock door. I'll have to put in my safety override authorization now..." And without that, it would be hard to convey to the audience what was happening. Kind of like the way they added speach to the WOPR on War Games.
Beyond that, not everything you do with a computer is language related. I don't know about you, but when I'm dealing with lots of large numbers I would much rather 10key them in than try to speak all of them. As with everything else, there is no one size fits all solution. Some things will lend themselves nicely to speach recognition, some things will work better with a different type of input.
For smaller amounts of data, like key documents, quicken files, and the sort, online backup could work. I just archive my most important files, compress/encrypt them, and then regularly ftp the files up to my ISP. This wouldn't work too well for an MP3 collection or anything, but for the stuff you REALLY need to be able to access, it can be a lifesaver. One of the nice benefits of uploading it to an ISP account, is that you can then reach it from anywhere in the world that you have access to the net.
I know it may not be the most secure method, but I am willing to accept the risk of someone being willing and able to hack the ecryption on my files.
Wrong scale. Try taking something the size of 10000 bowling balls and dropping it on the car from a mile up. There is a chance it might miss altogether right? Now, break it up into 10000 bowling balls and drop them from the same height. Now you have to get missed by 10000 of them. One of the choices is you are really really really dead unless you get missed by one object, the other choice is that you are just dead unless you get missed by 10000 objects. Not much of a choice really.
Yeah, me too. I wish they would just pass a law that requires everyone get a little chip implanted in them that records heart rate, respiration, checks for illegal substances in the blood stream, and reports all this back with the wearers gps location via satellite link. Oh, and when they put the chip in they could take a dna sample to have on file just in case. No more unknown criminals, and we would all be a lot safer because the authorities could find us at any time in the event of an emergency.
Who wouldn't want something like that? I mean, if you aren't doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about. Only criminals would protest something like that.
No shit. Could you imagine some of these people as parents?
"Great job Timmy. Of course next time, instead of just riding your bike without the training wheels, you should try it no-handed with your eyes closed on the half-pipe."
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You're 7th grade band teacher is borking the band girls. Grab him by the balls your first day of band and let him know you know, things will be a lot easier after that.
Life gets much much much better after high school. Do whatever you can to get through it until then.
When your 25 year old hottie boss leans back in the jeep and says, "This would make a great makeout place", follow your insticts, don't be a pussy!
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It isn't a lack of common sense, it is a lack of perspective. Child porn to one person may not be to another. If there was an easy answer to this one, it would have been solved already.
A good example of what makes this difficult is a family photo album. Mine has a lot of pictures of my little boy in it, as he is growing up. He is as naked as the day he was born in some of those pictures. I don't consider it child porn when myself or my family sees those pictures. On the other hand, if I were to catch the babysitter wanking off while looking at them, then in that circumstance I would consider it child porn.
I suppose I can think of some types of images that could have no other possible use but to be child porn, but then again, someone else might be able to create a situation like the photo album.
Ok, I'll bite.
If I don't tell them things they do not want to know, and do talk/ask about things they want to talk about, how the hell am I supposed to be yourself, and be comfortable with yourself ?
Sounds to me like somebody can't code...
Of course if the person they don't help does die, and someone realizes there was a doctor there that didn't do anything they will get sued too.
Just finished reading it. Pretty good short story. There were a few style issues I didn't care for too much, but then they might grow on me if I read it a couple more times. It had a rough amateurish quality to it that I liked (even though the author isn't an amateure). Think I'll go buy it now.
Whuffie++ to the author for being different.
Just finding a bug is seldom the whole battle. To fix it you need to know why it is broken. More often than not when debugging a program that I had written, it would only take a few minutes to locate the source of the error, figuring out what was causing the error could sometimes take hours.
Have people died while using the product?
EQ : yep
Smoking : yep
Bicycles: yep
Food: yep
Clothes: yep
Do people spend more money the product then they have?
EQ : Yep
Smoking : Yep
Bicycles: yep
Food: yep
Clothes: yep
Is the product marketing to children?
EQ : yep
Smoking : yep.
Bicycles: yep
Food: yep
Clothes: yep
What the hell is your point?
The beauty of Lessig's challenge is its two-fold approach to hitting RIAA/MPAA where it hurts. If you commit yourself to donating the same amount of money you spend on a movie or CD, you will be much more likely to pick your expenditures more carefully. Is that new Brittney Spears CD really worth 30$ to you? Can you really justify spending 15$ per ticket to see the latest Saturday Night Live spinoff movie? So not only are you giving money to the people that can make a difference when you indulge, you tend to indulge less frequently.
Ok, you got me, nobody owns international waters, or non-terrestrial land.
And even on land, there are vast stretches of land that are for all practical purposes unowned. since squatter laws allow a citizen who improves the value of the land to claim ownership.
I'm not sure about this one. If a tract of land isn't owned by an individual, then I imagine the state has a claim to it. Just because you can take something over from someone by their lack of use, doesn't mean it isn't owned. If I let you move into my house, and never say anything for twenty years, and let you pay the taxes and whatnot, then you would have taken ownership over from me, but that isn't the same thing as it not being owned in the first place.
Also, keep in mind that america has more houses available than we have people to live in them, because banks tend to sit on properties they aquire if they can't make a profit selling them.
No, there are more houses available than individuals can afford. I'm not sure how your claim refutes my statement anyway. The banks own the property, until they can make a profit and sell it to someone else. Then someone else owns it. I'm pretty sure you're not going to get a bank to let you take something over without them getting something out of it.
So while this isn't the case with dark fiber yet, it's entirely possible that banks will end up holding on to dark fiber until the telcos find they have need for it, and at which point they might be unwilling to sell it at a price the telcos are willing to pay, at which point it will be wasted, just like up to 20% of houses are in some US cities.
Its not that its wasted, there is no financial sense in lighting it up. Dark fiber is like oil that costs too much to pump. Someday it might be cost effective to pump/light it, but for now there is no incentive. Just because you can't use it, doesn't mean it is wasted.
I don't really agree with the It never fails that when I do see them, for the most part portion of your statement, but non-cagers are capable of some pretty dumb activities. I can't tell you the last time I was passed by a cager with half their wheels in the air in front of them going at least 80mph. I saw two cyclists do this a week ago, and another a little over a year ago. People do stupid things in cars, but they do even dumber things on bikes.
The guy that really made me laugh recently, had made a bunch of modifications to his bike. Like, putting a cover over his tail light that makes it blend in with the bike, making it harder to see. I have no sympathy for anyone that rides a bike and modifies it to make the safety features harder to see.
I don't really have a problem with bikers that don't want safety features on their bikes, don't want to wear helmets, and so on. I just don't want my car/health insurance rates going up because of how expensive it is to fix their bodies when they get in an accident. Making the choice to put yourself at risk should be a choice you are allowed to make, I just don't think I should have to subsidise it.
The fact that your post was modded +5 Interesting says something about the readers here at slashdot these days.
So how does the ownership of these lines pass on? Can just anybody take the existing lines, plug in, and make use of them - or do they have to be bought?
You're kidding right? Someone always owns everything, nothing of value is unowned. What, you think when someone goes out of business they just lock the doors and walk away, leaving a building full of inventory, office furniture, and whatever intact? Typically they go bankrupt, filing chapter 7 (liquidation). This means all of their assets are sold off and the creditors get the proceeds. This means someone is buying their assets, and dark fiber would be considered an asset by most. So no, you can't just use some defunct company's dark fiber.
If there were one large company that could buy out and connect most these unused lines, they could probably make something out of them. Since they're just sitting unused, I'd imagine it wouldn't cost too much to buy ownership
It was exactly this sort of thinking that put so many companies out of business to begin with.
Thats probably because its too damn cold up there to be screwing around with guns on the streets. Who in their right mind would want to take their hand out of their pocket to hold a chunk of cold metal when its -20C outside.
But seriously. I think it is mostly a matter of education. I don't mean that silly liberal "education about guns/drugs/sex/weed eaters/problem of the day" education. I'm talking about your average everyday high school education. I have no numbers to back this up, but I have a feeling that there are fewer uneducated dolts running around the streets in Canada on a per capita basis than here in the states, and thus fewer shootings.
One of my pet peeve phrases outside of Slashdot lately is "high rate of speed" when the speaker means "quickly". Acceleration is the rate at which velocity changes. Velocity is the rate at which position changes. So, what the hell is the rate of speed? From dictionary.com: high 9. a.Greater than usual or expected, as in quantity, magnitude, cost, or degree: "A high price has to be paid for the happy marriage with the four healthy children" (Doris Lessing). rate 1.A quantity measured with respect to another measured quantity: a rate of speed of 60 miles an hour. speed 1.Physics. The rate or a measure of the rate of motion, especially: a.Distance traveled divided by the time of travel. So it looks like when someone says "high rate of speed" it means they are saying "greater than usual or expected quantity measured of distance traveled divided by the time of travel. Makes sense to me.
I have to disagree that voice recognition will take over. The reason the sci-fi shows use it so much is because it is much more contrived when the actor stands at a keyboard madly typing away saying things like "Ok, now I'll locate wesley. Got him. Now I'll open the outer airlock door. I'll have to put in my safety override authorization now..." And without that, it would be hard to convey to the audience what was happening. Kind of like the way they added speach to the WOPR on War Games.
Beyond that, not everything you do with a computer is language related. I don't know about you, but when I'm dealing with lots of large numbers I would much rather 10key them in than try to speak all of them. As with everything else, there is no one size fits all solution. Some things will lend themselves nicely to speach recognition, some things will work better with a different type of input.
For smaller amounts of data, like key documents, quicken files, and the sort, online backup could work. I just archive my most important files, compress/encrypt them, and then regularly ftp the files up to my ISP. This wouldn't work too well for an MP3 collection or anything, but for the stuff you REALLY need to be able to access, it can be a lifesaver. One of the nice benefits of uploading it to an ISP account, is that you can then reach it from anywhere in the world that you have access to the net.
I know it may not be the most secure method, but I am willing to accept the risk of someone being willing and able to hack the ecryption on my files.
Wrong scale. Try taking something the size of 10000 bowling balls and dropping it on the car from a mile up. There is a chance it might miss altogether right? Now, break it up into 10000 bowling balls and drop them from the same height. Now you have to get missed by 10000 of them. One of the choices is you are really really really dead unless you get missed by one object, the other choice is that you are just dead unless you get missed by 10000 objects. Not much of a choice really.
Yeah, me too. I wish they would just pass a law that requires everyone get a little chip implanted in them that records heart rate, respiration, checks for illegal substances in the blood stream, and reports all this back with the wearers gps location via satellite link. Oh, and when they put the chip in they could take a dna sample to have on file just in case. No more unknown criminals, and we would all be a lot safer because the authorities could find us at any time in the event of an emergency.
Who wouldn't want something like that? I mean, if you aren't doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about. Only criminals would protest something like that.
Not sure what good ngrep does if you are using ssh, unless someone has figured out a way to break 3DES encryption on the fly...
In the picture on the avon.com site you can see two RCA cables going into the TV.
No shit. Could you imagine some of these people as parents?
"Great job Timmy. Of course next time, instead of just riding your bike without the training wheels, you should try it no-handed with your eyes closed on the half-pipe."
Typical right wing conservative bunk.
You obviously havn't talked to many right wing conservatives. I've met more than a few that swear everything Rush says is accurate and objective.
I just put them in the same circle as the people that think Rush Limbaugh reports news objectively.
Since you will be playing on official servers, and your client is telnet, or ssh maybe, I don't think it will be too hard to deal with.