"Causing a sensation and inspiring others in the literary community" isn't my idea of a ringing endorsement. At the risk of being rated flamebait again, I could take a dump in the middle of the street and cause a sensation, that wouldn't make it good literature.
Joyce's groundbreaking "Stream of consciousness" style is to most normal people simply incomprehensible. I was tortured by Portrait of the Artist in High School, couldn't make it all the way through Ulysses, and was spared Finnegans Wake. Heinlein's description of modern art as "Pseudo-intellectual Masturbation" applies very well to Joyce.
I thought Joyce was the crap you were forced to read in school by bitter English teachers who wanted to torture kids as much as they were. You mean people actually WANT to read his swill ?
It's garbage. Not filth, just bad writing. If he Ulysses hadn't been banned no one would even remember it exists.
I have been volunteered to teach this ping in my son's Den. I will admit to having a similar reaction to most here when I first heard of it. (My initial reaction to "explain why it is important to have a rating system" was "Well, you have to know who you are better than !" Whoops.)
I have decided however to concentrate on the more technical aspects. We are talking about 8-9 year olds here, so I'm going to start with how to install a system, including what the different jacks are, the difference between composite, component, HDMI, etc. I'm also going to cover some history of video games, Space War, Pong, Atari 2600, show some classic gaming systems. Also cover online safety, and exchanging Nintendo friend codes (which I've found most of the other kids and parents actually don't know how to do).
Older versions of clamd were going to crash on signatures that newer versions would accept, and they have been prevented for at least 6 months from using that type of signature. They have posted since then for people to upgrade.
When they did was publish this type of signature (has to do with length, greater than about 900bytes), where the signature itself is an error message, so when the program dumped the signature the error would be displayed.
That's all, not a kill switch as such, but using a known bug to deliver a message, rather than have it just bomb out with a hex dump when they tried to use a larger signature.
I actually did a variation on this years ago (1988 or so) in a company running Novell. One of the servers was also acting as a router (it had two network cards and connected two 10base-2 segments). Every time someone did a database update, I got kicked off the network for an hour.
No one listened to me that this was a problem, so I just brought a book to the office, and when this happened, put my feet up on the desk and read.
It was only a few days of this before the owner of the company 'caught' me and goes nuts. I explained calmly the situation, that I couldn't work when an update was going on, and had been told there was no money to upgrade the server.
I am wondering what exactly they are calling cheating here, since the code says they "will not plagiarize, copy work or get outside help."
Plagiarize and copy are obvious, but I never heard of asking for help on homework being cheating. How else does one learn ? If you didn't get the concept in class, you are out of luck, that's it ?
I was in an Engineering program (Stevens Institute in Hoboken), and I would venture that at least half of homework was done in study groups, sometimes just to bounce idea off each other, sometimes as a collaborative group effort. This was part of the learning process.
The other side of this are the people who have lost hearing because of an ear infection.
I have two family members who lost all hearing in one ear due to ear infections. Both are older and had this happen in childhood -- BEFORE antibiotics were commonly proscribed for them.
So, my own kids have been given antibiotics for theirs. One doc in the group told us to wait for one of her infections. By the next day, puss was oozing out of my daughter's tear ducts. Needless to say, we started her on antibiotics.
On the Norway studies: I would be interested to see some numbers on their deafness rate.
My son and I played Mario Super Sluggers all last winter. For the last 3 months or so we have at least an hour every night of the whole family playing Mario Kart Wii.
My 6 year old daughter loves Disney Enchanted Princesses, and both kids are enjoying Disney Think Fast.
I have no love for TW -- I run a small ISP. But a government-run business charging break-even prices is not fair competition for any business. I would certainly be complaining if it looked like my taxes dollars were being used to compete with me !
So let them turn it private. If they can THEN charge break-even prices great. More likely, they'll find they can't. Either way, it's then fair competition.
My routers are named after gateways from literature. Due to consolidation I now have only Wardrobe and Tardis, but in the past we had Schyla, Charybdis, and Warpcore.
My servers are named Jubal, Friday, Anne, Miriam, Dorcas, Podkayne, Libby, Mycroft
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Better blowing it up in Iraq and Afghanistan than New York.
Sorry guys, short term "better you than me" goals are a fact of life.
Someone wanna translate this into units of measurement used by, oh I dunno, the entire rest of the world?
Fscking hot.
The ultimate irony will be if this letter does more to raise funds for EFF and Creative Commons then ASCAP
I'ld like to read a transcript of the phone call where they told them unicords don't exist.
"Causing a sensation and inspiring others in the literary community" isn't my idea of a ringing endorsement. At the risk of being rated flamebait again, I could take a dump in the middle of the street and cause a sensation, that wouldn't make it good literature.
Joyce's groundbreaking "Stream of consciousness" style is to most normal people simply incomprehensible. I was tortured by Portrait of the Artist in High School, couldn't make it all the way through Ulysses, and was spared Finnegans Wake. Heinlein's description of modern art as "Pseudo-intellectual Masturbation" applies very well to Joyce.
I thought Joyce was the crap you were forced to read in school by bitter English teachers who wanted to torture kids as much as they were.
You mean people actually WANT to read his swill ?
It's garbage. Not filth, just bad writing. If he Ulysses hadn't been banned no one would even remember it exists.
I have been volunteered to teach this ping in my son's Den. I will admit to having a similar reaction to most here when I first heard of it. (My initial reaction to "explain why it is important to have a rating system" was "Well, you have to know who you are better than !" Whoops.)
I have decided however to concentrate on the more technical aspects. We are talking about 8-9 year olds here, so I'm going to start with how to install a system, including what the different jacks are, the difference between composite, component, HDMI, etc. I'm also going to cover some history of video games, Space War, Pong, Atari 2600, show some classic gaming systems. Also cover online safety, and exchanging Nintendo friend codes (which I've found most of the other kids and parents actually don't know how to do).
Then top it off with some time in the basement arcade:
http://www.westnet.com/~chris/arcade/MyBasement/
It's more complicated than that.
Older versions of clamd were going to crash on signatures that newer versions would accept, and they have been prevented for at least 6 months from using that type of signature. They have posted since then for people to upgrade.
When they did was publish this type of signature (has to do with length, greater than about 900bytes), where the signature itself is an error message, so when the program dumped the signature the error would be displayed.
That's all, not a kill switch as such, but using a known bug to deliver a message, rather than have it just bomb out with a hex dump when they tried to use a larger signature.
Every state has a required course in that state's history.
I actually did a variation on this years ago (1988 or so) in a company running Novell. One of the servers was also acting as a router (it had two network cards and connected two 10base-2 segments). Every time someone did a database update, I got kicked off the network for an hour.
No one listened to me that this was a problem, so I just brought a book to the office, and when this happened, put my feet up on the desk and read.
It was only a few days of this before the owner of the company 'caught' me and goes nuts. I explained calmly the situation, that I couldn't work when an update was going on, and had been told there was no money to upgrade the server.
A new server was ordered that afternoon.
I am wondering what exactly they are calling cheating here, since the code says they "will not plagiarize, copy work or get outside help."
Plagiarize and copy are obvious, but I never heard of asking for help on homework being cheating. How else does one learn ?
If you didn't get the concept in class, you are out of luck, that's it ?
I was in an Engineering program (Stevens Institute in Hoboken), and I would venture that at least half of homework was done in study groups, sometimes just to bounce idea off each other, sometimes as a collaborative group effort. This was part of the learning process.
Looks like Digitizor already melted.
I've used Swish in it's variants since it was an alternative to WAIS.
http://www.swish-e.org/
The other side of this are the people who have lost hearing because of an ear infection.
I have two family members who lost all hearing in one ear due to ear infections. Both are older and had this happen in childhood -- BEFORE antibiotics were commonly proscribed for them.
So, my own kids have been given antibiotics for theirs. One doc in the group told us to wait for one of her infections. By the next day, puss was oozing out of my daughter's tear ducts. Needless to say, we started her on antibiotics.
On the Norway studies: I would be interested to see some numbers on their deafness rate.
Yes.
Probably because it was being used to mean kidnapped or killed.
Depends what you mean by "good games".
My son and I played Mario Super Sluggers all last winter. For the last 3 months or so we have at least an hour every night of the whole family playing Mario Kart Wii.
My 6 year old daughter loves Disney Enchanted Princesses, and both kids are enjoying Disney Think Fast.
So I would say yes.
Sorry, any 7 year old Catholic knows that is not true.
The Rite of Penance ends with "Go, and sin no more."
Sins are only forgiven if you are truly sorry, and intend not to sin again. You can not sin with impunity just by asking for forgiveness.
All I could think of watching this trailer was that it looked like a rip-off of Thundercats.
Its freedom. It doesn't affect you in the slightest.
It does, if I am expect to pay for it.
Freedom means you do what you want. it doesn't mean you do what you want and I pay for it.
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Why play something so pleasant ?
I usually play the begining of "American Hair Band" by Tuff.
Not only easier, but fairer.
I have no love for TW -- I run a small ISP. But a government-run business charging break-even prices is not fair competition for any business. I would certainly be complaining if it looked like my taxes dollars were being used to compete with me !
So let them turn it private. If they can THEN charge break-even prices great. More likely, they'll find they can't. Either way, it's then fair competition.
Sorry, Stevens Institute of Technology in fair Hoboken NJ was the first. They told us so in '86 at Freshman Orientation. :-)
Our networking project was started in at least 1985 and done by fall of '86 when I started.
My routers are named after gateways from literature. Due to consolidation I now have only Wardrobe and Tardis, but in the past we had Schyla, Charybdis, and Warpcore.
My servers are named Jubal, Friday, Anne, Miriam, Dorcas, Podkayne, Libby, Mycroft
Anyone care to guess the pattern ?
> Novell has already done this in several viral videos, just do a youtube search.
Or download then direct from Novell in MPEG or OGG:
http://www.novell.com/linux/meetlinux/