But when parents started calling in and finding out what their kids had to do, it got outrageous. Often times _my_ parents would call in and check to see if I had any homework to do. The system can't tell them that "I" had some spare time in 6th period and got it done early. Therefore, my parents didn't allow me to leave the house until I produced the homework. Which I left at school(who wants to drag 7 big books back and forth to school everyday?) And, OF COURSE, the "I already did it" excuse didn't cut it, for my parents
This is/was a problem with trust between you and your parents, not the system. Admittedly, some parents will likely do this, and other kids will suffer the same. The solution is to prove it with grades. If this is available online and parents can see if their kids are telling the truth or not, this is a good thing.
I'm not totally opposed to something like this -- it just shouldn't involve anything to do with a student's SSN. Track it by lastname+first initial and a randomly-generated pin that forces a reset on a regular basis like a LAN login does/is supposed to do. Give parents the ability to recover the password (in case junior discovers it and tries to lock them out). Just for god's sake, keep the SSN out of it.
...there should be a way to opt-out your children from a less-than-secure system like this. I'd like to see what recourse a parent would have in the case of the database being hacked, the information stolen, and then used to steal a child's identity. Schools already (or used to) share information with outside sources (and without permission). Whats to stop them from 'accidentially' giving this info out?
Example: When I was in highschool, we had an unlisted number. The school had it, and 'mysteriously' about the time I turned 18 I started getting unsolicited calls from military recruiters. The only place they could've got this information was from the school district.
Had I had the guts at the time (and the time/money) I would've raised a holy stink with the district over this.
In Texas, all you need is the person's name or address to get all kinds of info -- and free.
Wanna know how much property Michael Dell owns, its taxable value, etc?
Check out this link for info on his property within Travis County. The Williamson County link hasn't worked in awhile, otherwise you could see the property there as well.
Click on Appraisal Roll Click Search Real Estate by Owner's name Enter "Dell M" (no quotes)
Click on any of the Owner Ids and scroll down. You can even get a plat map, suitable for stalking.
Heck, Sandra Bullock's address is in there too.
I don't know about other states, but anyone can go to the county courthouse in any county in Texas and get the info for free.
Let's see: They copy-protect CDs so that people don't distribute them and push down the profits for "the artists" (read: greedy record lables). In doing so, they cut their own throats now that radio stations can't transfer them to DAT, which equates to less stations playing the music, less exposure for the artists and less profits for "the artists".
Make sure the kiddo is latching correctly. My son wasn't and it wasn't until the 3rd lactation consultant that my wife was informed of a little procedure to snip the thing under the tounge (frenule?) that would allow him to latch properly. After that, he put on weight like he should've been doing.
This, and circumcision is evil.
You might also want to check out 'Raising a Son' and/or 'Raising a Daughter' at your local bookstore. I can't recall the authors, but Google it or check Amazon.
Road Runner in my market (Austin, Texas-area) charges an additional $14.95/mo for additional PCs on their network.
Damned straight I'm using a NAT box and have two additional (for now, soon to be three) PCs on their network. RR knows I have a NAT box and has been made aware of the additional PCs (one at least) on the network. No one's dinged me for this (yet) and I imagine that if/when this is passed in Texas, I'll either be forced to pay the additional fees or find another ISP.
For the record, one of the PCs is my son's (he's not even 3 yet, only goes to PBSkids.org) and the other is my wife's. She only uses it for email/browsing, so its not like my additional systems are consuming 500GB/mo in bandwidth.
TWC Austin's charge of essentially $15/mo for additional PCs is above what other markets apparently pay over what others are paying. TWC NYC users are only charged $4.95/mo for additional PCs.
My recolection was the company got hit with a lawsuit and settled with a six-figure out-of-court settlement ($100,000 I think). Google should provide this for sure.
I have a LinkSys BEFW11S4 thats crap. My wife's connection would drop every 30 days or so and then refuse to see the WAP. I bought both the 4Port/WAP and the WMP11 NIC at the same time and from the same company to cut down on compatibility issues.
I set the stuff up to use my WAP as the preferred device, and it *always* tried to grab ahold of one of my neighbor's ad-hoc wireless 'network' or my other neighbor's Siemens AP. I also had signal problems when my wife's PC was on the otherside of the same wall (WAP in the gameroom). 1st tier support's answer? I had to have line-of-site for it to work. Excuse me? If I needed to have line-of-site, I'd might as well drop a cable.
So I did. I cabled the 2nd floor of the house and put all four bedroom drops back to the gameroom. I turned off the WAP and the WMP11 is sitting in my hutch. I slapped a 10/100 NIC in the wife's PC and said to hell with it.
Had I known about these problems, I would've bought a DLink or a Cisco 340 or 350.
What are you going to do when the field of robotics advances and jobs don't even need to be outsourced anymore because huge warehouses full of robots are now doing all the jobs. Should we outlaw the usage of robots then?
This is so far from being a reality that to suggest this as a possible problem is laughable.
We do need one reform. Scrap the visa system. Let any worker who passes security screening come to America.
You can't possibly be serious. What we need is to cut down the number of foreigners coming over here and taking our jobs, not opening the fucking floodgates.
I would think that any respectible tech company would understand your need to take a job like that. Its better than leaving a void on your paycheck and getting unemployment.
As for fuel allowances -- honestly, it was so long ago I don't recall that. I do know they check your mileage at the beginning of the shift and again at the end to see what you've clocked.
Option 2 would be the government stepping in to save jobs. Doing so would boost economy (whose going to buy products without a job?) and keep the overall economy from collapsing further than it already has.
Anyone who thinks that the government stepping in to protect our jobs and way of life is some evil plot needs to put down the bong.
We need to limint the H-1Bs, the L1s, and stop outsourcing. Now.
The question which we should all ask ourselves is: Why is efficiency good only when it involves exclusively Americans?
Easy. Its only good when it involves Americans because we're the ones doing the work and we're the ones earning the pay.
Lets outsource your job to India and dry up the market in your profession. Now do you see why?
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The problem with Option 3 is that its going to take a long time (if ever) for this to happen. Jobs outsourced to India have techs earning 1/5th a day's wage compared to the same job in the U.S.
Personally, I'd like to see Option 2 done -- and soon.
I couldn't agree more on most of your comments. However, rewarding a gamer with "graphic sexual violence" shouldn't be restricted -- its upto the parents to police their kids, not the industry. We already have too much government regulation in areas where they don't really belong.
Don't gut the undustry as a whole to protect the children whose parents are too lazy to police them.
The gaming industry says they have as much right as movie makers. Guess what? Movies have a rating and an adult is required to get you into certain movies. Should be the same with video games.
I'm not knocking violent video games at all. I don't think I could live without the ability to take out some frustration on a Stormtropper in JKII or shoot some folks in the head in UT2K3. Its either this, or Paintball for me... and seeing as how a case of Marbalizer is about $90, this is a lot cheaper.
As a parent, when my son is old enough to actually play video games (aside from the Blues Clues and Winney the Pooh ones he has now) I'll make damned sure that I know what it is he's playing.
..does your contract with your provider state that you can use your own modem with their service? If it does, then they need to rectify the matter. If not, you may not have much recourse.
I know that Time Warner wouldn't let my old boss use his own equipment for a business account (and were were a shop with such equipment and knowledge) and force him to use their rental modem. They generally do this to ensure that they can cap the modems if need be.
As someone else suggested, contact the mfg of the modem and let them know what happened. See if they can provide an update that will undo what the cable provider pushed and close the door on allowing them to do it again in the future.
And, as always, document every conversation you have with the cable company.
Work on your material though. The whole family thing isn't really as witty as you seem to think it is.
Funny, from where I'm sitting the phrase "hook, line and sinker" comes to mind.
As for your "31337" use of Google: Congrats! I'm amazed someone with as little itelligence as yourself was able to find Google and figure out its "complex" interface.
I could go on and on about your total lack of personal hygine, the fact that you have to troll teen chatrooms to get laid (and even then only by paying young boys), the fact that you think an Apple IIg was a "leap ahead" in technology, the fact that you buy your clothes at Ross, Goodwill and Woolworth's, etc. But alas, you're not worth the air that you breathe.
Please, do all of us a favor and inform the librarian that you're not allowed to visit the internet anymore.
Aww, what's wrong? Mommy and Daddy not pay enough attention to you when you were a kid? Too much maybe? Didn't you like touching Mommy's "special place"? Or was it Daddy that made you touch him?
Just the simple fact that you keep coming back for the abuse goes to reinforce my belief that you're a worthless bag of flesh, here for my amusement (not unlike your daddy's scrotum was for you in your youth).
Now let's move on to the fact that you 1) are aware of the sites that you link to in your pathetic comeback and 2) actually took the time to calculate out the number of times you've apparently swallowed choda load.
Combine this with the fact that you apparently feel that labeling someone a fag or a "Muzlim" is even a comeback and you'll come to the same conclusion that I and everyone else here at Slashdot has already realized and moved on from:
You're not worth the $12 KMart sneakers you're wearing
And as much as you'd like to wish I sucked dick, its simply never happened and never will.
Answer me this though: How do I taste? What? You don't know? Kiss your mother again and then answer me.
Actually, I've been tapping your mom's ass all week... and been forcing your daddy to watch me double up on her and your sister.
As for hitting the bottom of the barrel - you're probably right. Neither your mom or your sister were any good. I imagine you probably thought their twats were golden.
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But when parents started calling in and finding out what their kids had to do, it got outrageous.
Often times _my_ parents would call in and check to see if I had any homework to do.
The system can't tell them that "I" had some spare time in 6th period and got it done early.
Therefore, my parents didn't allow me to leave the house until I produced the homework.
Which I left at school(who wants to drag 7 big books back and forth to school everyday?)
And, OF COURSE, the "I already did it" excuse didn't cut it, for my parents
This is/was a problem with trust between you and your parents, not the system. Admittedly, some parents will likely do this, and other kids will suffer the same. The solution is to prove it with grades. If this is available online and parents can see if their kids are telling the truth or not, this is a good thing.
I'm not totally opposed to something like this -- it just shouldn't involve anything to do with a student's SSN. Track it by lastname+first initial and a randomly-generated pin that forces a reset on a regular basis like a LAN login does/is supposed to do. Give parents the ability to recover the password (in case junior discovers it and tries to lock them out). Just for god's sake, keep the SSN out of it.
...there should be a way to opt-out your children from a less-than-secure system like this. I'd like to see what recourse a parent would have in the case of the database being hacked, the information stolen, and then used to steal a child's identity. Schools already (or used to) share information with outside sources (and without permission). Whats to stop them from 'accidentially' giving this info out?
Example: When I was in highschool, we had an unlisted number. The school had it, and 'mysteriously' about the time I turned 18 I started getting unsolicited calls from military recruiters. The only place they could've got this information was from the school district.
Had I had the guts at the time (and the time/money) I would've raised a holy stink with the district over this.
..as long as I can be in the middle of a Jessica Alba/Jennifer Garner sandwich. ..and without the ass-kicking.
Since when?
In Texas, all you need is the person's name or address to get all kinds of info -- and free.
Wanna know how much property Michael Dell owns, its taxable value, etc?
Check out this link for info on his property within Travis County. The Williamson County link hasn't worked in awhile, otherwise you could see the property there as well.
Click on Appraisal Roll
Click Search Real Estate by Owner's name
Enter "Dell M" (no quotes)
Click on any of the Owner Ids and scroll down. You can even get a plat map, suitable for stalking.
Heck, Sandra Bullock's address is in there too.
I don't know about other states, but anyone can go to the county courthouse in any county in Texas and get the info for free.
Let's see: They copy-protect CDs so that people don't distribute them and push down the profits for "the artists" (read: greedy record lables). In doing so, they cut their own throats now that radio stations can't transfer them to DAT, which equates to less stations playing the music, less exposure for the artists and less profits for "the artists".
Irony anyone?
Make sure the kiddo is latching correctly. My son wasn't and it wasn't until the 3rd lactation consultant that my wife was informed of a little procedure to snip the thing under the tounge (frenule?) that would allow him to latch properly. After that, he put on weight like he should've been doing.
This, and circumcision is evil.
You might also want to check out 'Raising a Son' and/or 'Raising a Daughter' at your local bookstore. I can't recall the authors, but Google it or check Amazon.
Road Runner in my market (Austin, Texas-area) charges an additional $14.95/mo for additional PCs on their network.
Damned straight I'm using a NAT box and have two additional (for now, soon to be three) PCs on their network. RR knows I have a NAT box and has been made aware of the additional PCs (one at least) on the network. No one's dinged me for this (yet) and I imagine that if/when this is passed in Texas, I'll either be forced to pay the additional fees or find another ISP.
For the record, one of the PCs is my son's (he's not even 3 yet, only goes to PBSkids.org) and the other is my wife's. She only uses it for email/browsing, so its not like my additional systems are consuming 500GB/mo in bandwidth.
TWC Austin's charge of essentially $15/mo for additional PCs is above what other markets apparently pay over what others are paying. TWC NYC users are only charged $4.95/mo for additional PCs.
I like the concept. However, the band doesn't look very sturdy. How much you want to bet the hinges on this thing won't hold up?
I also wonder what the likelihood would be to make this thing be Kinetic, if its even possible.
And how much is 50K yen in dollars anyway?
My recolection was the company got hit with a lawsuit and settled with a six-figure out-of-court settlement ($100,000 I think). Google should provide this for sure.
I feel your pain, brother.
I have a LinkSys BEFW11S4 thats crap. My wife's connection would drop every 30 days or so and then refuse to see the WAP. I bought both the 4Port/WAP and the WMP11 NIC at the same time and from the same company to cut down on compatibility issues.
I set the stuff up to use my WAP as the preferred device, and it *always* tried to grab ahold of one of my neighbor's ad-hoc wireless 'network' or my other neighbor's Siemens AP. I also had signal problems when my wife's PC was on the otherside of the same wall (WAP in the gameroom). 1st tier support's answer? I had to have line-of-site for it to work. Excuse me? If I needed to have line-of-site, I'd might as well drop a cable.
So I did. I cabled the 2nd floor of the house and put all four bedroom drops back to the gameroom. I turned off the WAP and the WMP11 is sitting in my hutch. I slapped a 10/100 NIC in the wife's PC and said to hell with it.
Had I known about these problems, I would've bought a DLink or a Cisco 340 or 350.
... this improves tech support and product quality.
One can hope, can't he?
Burger-flipping robots? Muhahaha!
Seriously, this has got to be a joke.
Burger-flipping robots? Prove it.
What are you going to do when the field of robotics advances and jobs don't even need to be outsourced anymore because huge warehouses full of robots are now doing all the jobs. Should we outlaw the usage of robots then?
This is so far from being a reality that to suggest this as a possible problem is laughable.
We do need one reform. Scrap the visa system. Let any worker who passes security screening come to America.
You can't possibly be serious. What we need is to cut down the number of foreigners coming over here and taking our jobs, not opening the fucking floodgates.
I would think that any respectible tech company would understand your need to take a job like that. Its better than leaving a void on your paycheck and getting unemployment.
As for fuel allowances -- honestly, it was so long ago I don't recall that. I do know they check your mileage at the beginning of the shift and again at the end to see what you've clocked.
Option 2 would be the government stepping in to save jobs. Doing so would boost economy (whose going to buy products without a job?) and keep the overall economy from collapsing further than it already has.
Anyone who thinks that the government stepping in to protect our jobs and way of life is some evil plot needs to put down the bong.
We need to limint the H-1Bs, the L1s, and stop outsourcing. Now.
OMG. Mc-Freaking-Donald's pays more than $7.50/hr.
Got a car? Deliver pizzas. Just don't expect to keep that car running long, unless its in pristine mechanical shape.
On averge, I was making $15/hr delivering pizzas. Plus, you get the perk of free food on occasion.
The question which we should all ask ourselves is: Why is efficiency good only when it involves exclusively Americans?
Easy. Its only good when it involves Americans because we're the ones doing the work and we're the ones earning the pay.
Lets outsource your job to India and dry up the market in your profession. Now do you see why?
The problem with Option 3 is that its going to take a long time (if ever) for this to happen. Jobs outsourced to India have techs earning 1/5th a day's wage compared to the same job in the U.S.
Personally, I'd like to see Option 2 done -- and soon.
'Cmon. How can /. be so far behind on this story?
For those of us in the industry, go check out TechsUnite.org for info on what we can do to have our voices heard on this matter.
To me, its just as important to be a member of TechsUnite as it is the EFF.
I couldn't agree more on most of your comments. However, rewarding a gamer with "graphic sexual violence" shouldn't be restricted -- its upto the parents to police their kids, not the industry. We already have too much government regulation in areas where they don't really belong.
Don't gut the undustry as a whole to protect the children whose parents are too lazy to police them.
The gaming industry says they have as much right as movie makers. Guess what? Movies have a rating and an adult is required to get you into certain movies. Should be the same with video games.
I'm not knocking violent video games at all. I don't think I could live without the ability to take out some frustration on a Stormtropper in JKII or shoot some folks in the head in UT2K3. Its either this, or Paintball for me... and seeing as how a case of Marbalizer is about $90, this is a lot cheaper.
As a parent, when my son is old enough to actually play video games (aside from the Blues Clues and Winney the Pooh ones he has now) I'll make damned sure that I know what it is he's playing.
Just my $.02.
..does your contract with your provider state that you can use your own modem with their service? If it does, then they need to rectify the matter. If not, you may not have much recourse.
I know that Time Warner wouldn't let my old boss use his own equipment for a business account (and were were a shop with such equipment and knowledge) and force him to use their rental modem. They generally do this to ensure that they can cap the modems if need be.
As someone else suggested, contact the mfg of the modem and let them know what happened. See if they can provide an update that will undo what the cable provider pushed and close the door on allowing them to do it again in the future.
And, as always, document every conversation you have with the cable company.
Work on your material though. The whole family thing isn't really as witty as you seem to think it is.
Funny, from where I'm sitting the phrase "hook, line and sinker" comes to mind.
As for your "31337" use of Google: Congrats! I'm amazed someone with as little itelligence as yourself was able to find Google and figure out its "complex" interface.
I could go on and on about your total lack of personal hygine, the fact that you have to troll teen chatrooms to get laid (and even then only by paying young boys), the fact that you think an Apple IIg was a "leap ahead" in technology, the fact that you buy your clothes at Ross, Goodwill and Woolworth's, etc. But alas, you're not worth the air that you breathe.
Please, do all of us a favor and inform the librarian that you're not allowed to visit the internet anymore.
Aww, what's wrong? Mommy and Daddy not pay enough attention to you when you were a kid? Too much maybe? Didn't you like touching Mommy's "special place"? Or was it Daddy that made you touch him?
Just the simple fact that you keep coming back for the abuse goes to reinforce my belief that you're a worthless bag of flesh, here for my amusement (not unlike your daddy's scrotum was for you in your youth).
Now let's move on to the fact that you 1) are aware of the sites that you link to in your pathetic comeback and 2) actually took the time to calculate out the number of times you've apparently swallowed choda load.
Combine this with the fact that you apparently feel that labeling someone a fag or a "Muzlim" is even a comeback and you'll come to the same conclusion that I and everyone else here at Slashdot has already realized and moved on from:
You're not worth the $12 KMart sneakers you're wearing
And as much as you'd like to wish I sucked dick, its simply never happened and never will.
Answer me this though: How do I taste? What? You don't know? Kiss your mother again and then answer me.
Actually, I've been tapping your mom's ass all week. .. and been forcing your daddy to watch me double up on her and your sister.
As for hitting the bottom of the barrel - you're probably right. Neither your mom or your sister were any good. I imagine you probably thought their twats were golden.