general question: His publication schedule appears to be 2007 for Volume 4, 2010 for Volume 5, plus other work following that. I'm a little concerned about his age. I dont know how old he is, but he is retired and seems to have been for quite some time. Will he live long enough to actually finish Vol 5?
Lisa: "Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie." Dad, this doesn't have your name on it.
[Homer looks closely at the card, then lowers it slowly] Homer: Kids, would you step outside for a second?
[the kids run out]
[standing up] F --
[a church organ plays a chord; birds fly away; everyone stops] Ned: Dear Lord! That's the loudest profanity I've ever heard.
Now I could imagine a machine blowing up when faced with some input such as the above.
I dont know about Phish, but I do know that DMB pressed for and received such permissions during negotiations with their label before signing with them. They had been playing at various clubs independently before making it big, and gained significant popularity from allowing fans to make their own recordings (tape or video) of live shows. They wanted that to continue after going with RCA, and got it. Fans attending a DMB concert are permitted to record the show and do pretty much whatever they want with the recording. Result is a large black-market of DMB material, now mostly on P2P networks. Check out some independent CD shops, you'll probably see some "albums" of DMB that were not published by RCA.
They say 90% of the material is copyrighted, but the statistic should rather be the percentage of copyright material that's unauthorized.
For example, Phish and Dave Matthews Band have been mentioned in some articles as giving their general OK to concert recordings being available on file-share services. These recordings are copyright of the respective performers. So do they fall into the RIAA's 90%? Or the remaining 10%?
You hit the nail on the head, this is how it's should be done. It also opens up an interesting situation for the RIAA that they didnt have before, and not just the money required to file a lawsuit first.
Before, when they could supoena the ISP directly, the RIAA could review who the person was prior to filing a suit. Thus, if the name of a politician, a music industry exec, or major public figure were to come up, they could just not sue that person because of the PR ramifications. (The idea of perceived income is also possible - the RIAA doesnt want to sue someone with the money to fight it. Easily measured by figuring out what kind home they have, the neighborhood, etc.)
Now - they risk doing something like that, especially since it's more likely to be the teenage kid of such a person that's doing the P2P'ing.
Lets say it does happen - ie, the court reveals the name of 'John Doe' to be that of a senator or other significant individual. The RIAA cant exactly drop the suit, because they know that doing so will raise accusations that they're playing favorites.
sweeping drexel was two seasons ago (2002). The page doesnt look like it's been updated in a while, as it makes a reference to Towson "being the only team to beat the Dragons at home last season."[emphasis added] That was also 2002. It probably has not been updated for 2004 because Towson was pitiful in 2003, getting only 1 win and 17 losses in the conference regular season. And that only win was because the opponent (Hofstra) had two starters out on suspension for drug use (one student had a fake joint for them when Hofstra came to town that year, that was cool).
This year, things remain to be seen. Towson has surprised a few teams already, including Deleware and defending-champs UNC-Wilmington (aka - The Tarheel Rejects). Drexel plays at Towson later this week.
the general problem with most sentencing guidelines is that they dont allow the judge to use his/her own judgement. a lot states, for example, have mandatory sentencing for things that dont really require prison for most people.
Result is you end up with a bunch of people in prison for 10+ years for possession/using pot on a first offense. While I'm not in favor of legalizing pot, that type of punishment is usally too much for a first time offender - a fine and/or probation would usally suffice for a majority of the public. Indeed, a lot of states are now in a budget crunch, and have made room in their money by releasing some of those people in for 10+, saving their prison system money, redirecting that extra cash into other necessities, and turning people that were in jail into taxpayers. (There was a NYTimes article on this topic a few months back)
Whatever the guidelines that get used alongside CANSPAM, it may take several years before we know whether or not they are effective. One poster already mentioned the law is too weak to begin with, so we'll have to see.
just change a random bit or two somewhere in the general data section (ie - where the actual video or audio is stored) and the hash gets defeated easily. (yes - an oversimplification, but it'll do)
so how long will it be until a remote radio personality makes a slip up similar to the traveling musician? Something like this:
Band Member #1, near the end of a concert: Thank you Detroit! We love you!!! [crowd goes into surprised silence] Band Member #2, whispering to #1: Hey bro, Detroit's tomorrow.
to me, they sound like all the different Microsoft execs (Ballmer, Gates, etc) trying to answer the question "What is.NET?" I know there was a business2.com article that sampled some responses, but I cant seem to find it at the moment. IIRC, one quote was along the lines "So much of our stuff has a '.NET' label attached to it, even we dont know what it is at times."
I'd give up on trying to measure market reaction via SCOX's price. Many companies have investors who dont know what they're pouring money into. Case in point: the dot-com days when all an investor looked for was ".com" But more recently, this hilarious story.
maybe no specific written policy, but they usually include a catch-all statement somewhere in case something new happens to justify punishment. sometimes falls under some sort of common code of discipline that loosely defines what is acceptable rather than what is not.
what this kid did was disruptive, anyone at a terminal when that "Hey!" message popped up were unnecessarily distracted from what they were doing, even though most probably brushed it off (like the principal). you certainly dont like getting spam, or pop-up windows while browsing, but you brush it off anyway because it's routine. recall back to the very first spam email you got - what went through your head? did you even know what spam was? that's what went through the heads of most people at that school.
by punishing the kid for what he did, the principal made it known that such use of school machines are not tolerated, which will be better in the long run. even if the punishment he imposed was out of line.
ok, so an essay for sending "hey!" probably isn't necessary.
as for fearmongering, most schools are in check because they have to have people there who know what's going on. someone to maintain/administer the network, etc. you're forming an opinion of all schools based upon a small handful of isolated incidents.
i once (in a 9th grade computer class) missed the letter F when typing the word Shift for something in the class. The teacher didnt mind (she only knew enough to get her teaching done, not much else) - only took off a point or two. someone else got caught (by the admin, who was also a teacher) doing *real* hacking of the network, and only had his seat re-assigned to the front of the room.
look at this way: if a kid wants to do something wrong, he gets a few days out of going to school. majority of troublemaking kids already dont like school, so getting into trouble for them only helps their cause. giving them somethign else to do suddenly makes them think twice, doesnt it?
a lot of schools have significantly cut down on fights and arguments by introducing peer mediation programs. i feel the main reason is because they're suddenly forced to think about the actions that led up to the fight and to go beyond impulsive thinking (something typical among troublemakers) and into reasoning about it. requiring a short essay (5 paragraph format perhaps) can attain a similar result.
sounds familiar. when I was in HS, they started using ID cards with barcodes on them to handle students who get free/reduced cost lunches, to record that someone ate lunch that day. the rationale was that students on a free/reduced plan no longer needed stamps or anything, and the district was trying to fend off complaints from parents that their kids aren't eating. (they were probably also seeking to control theft of cash by the cashiers) (interestingly, class cutting during lunch periods was a somewhat major problem - they never used this to try and handle that)
one day someone i knew was paying for his lunch, when the cashier looked away for a moment. he leaned over and pushed a random button on the keyboard. He successfully shut off all the registers in the cafeteria for about a week.
the principal suspended him for misuse of the computer and disruption of school - and only for 3 days. it's the teacher trying to say he was "hacking," and the columnist sounds off against her on that. she indicates her misunderstanding of 'hacker' terminology in an email to the paper, so she'll certainly read this column.
however, what the kid did was wrong, and that's that. his punishment was overkill, and we'll all (/.'ers, that is) agree. detention or a mandatory essay was probably more appropriate.
(btw - does anyone think that forcing students to write about what they did wrong, either instead of or coupled with detention/suspension, would be more effective in the long-term for controlling behavior of disruptive students?)
the second bill (the one that enforces ESRB M ratings) is one that most chain stores already follow. if anything, passage will calm those who say violent video games are evil. because then their opponents (eg, RockStar, other game makers) will be able to point to a law that deflects blame onto the store-of-sale rather than arguing with them to try and accept common-sense reasoning.
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i graduated with my bachelors last spring without having a job lined up. my main avenue of search were the websites of companies in my area and my school's biannual job fair, and those didnt go well. i didnt want to, but I sucked it up and put my resume out on careerbuilder and monster. found a job in less than a week after graduation. and it pays well too!
IIRC, they had to develop a business case for the project (in other words, what engineers developed had to have a practical usage), and there was also some sort of entrpreneurial business plan competition sponsored by the business school going on at about the same time, so they also entered that contest using their kite project as a product and got an honorable mention. the page linked is what they submitted to that contest.
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general question:
His publication schedule appears to be 2007 for Volume 4, 2010 for Volume 5, plus other work following that. I'm a little concerned about his age. I dont know how old he is, but he is retired and seems to have been for quite some time. Will he live long enough to actually finish Vol 5?
of course Al Gore invented the Internet. it does, after all, run on al-gore-ithms.
Now I could imagine a machine blowing up when faced with some input such as the above.
I dont know about Phish, but I do know that DMB pressed for and received such permissions during negotiations with their label before signing with them. They had been playing at various clubs independently before making it big, and gained significant popularity from allowing fans to make their own recordings (tape or video) of live shows. They wanted that to continue after going with RCA, and got it. Fans attending a DMB concert are permitted to record the show and do pretty much whatever they want with the recording. Result is a large black-market of DMB material, now mostly on P2P networks. Check out some independent CD shops, you'll probably see some "albums" of DMB that were not published by RCA.
I read this article earlier this morning. Parts of it felt like reading a biography of myself. Anyone else feel that way?
They say 90% of the material is copyrighted, but the statistic should rather be the percentage of copyright material that's unauthorized.
For example, Phish and Dave Matthews Band have been mentioned in some articles as giving their general OK to concert recordings being available on file-share services. These recordings are copyright of the respective performers. So do they fall into the RIAA's 90%? Or the remaining 10%?
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You hit the nail on the head, this is how it's should be done. It also opens up an interesting situation for the RIAA that they didnt have before, and not just the money required to file a lawsuit first.
Before, when they could supoena the ISP directly, the RIAA could review who the person was prior to filing a suit. Thus, if the name of a politician, a music industry exec, or major public figure were to come up, they could just not sue that person because of the PR ramifications. (The idea of perceived income is also possible - the RIAA doesnt want to sue someone with the money to fight it. Easily measured by figuring out what kind home they have, the neighborhood, etc.)
Now - they risk doing something like that, especially since it's more likely to be the teenage kid of such a person that's doing the P2P'ing.
Lets say it does happen - ie, the court reveals the name of 'John Doe' to be that of a senator or other significant individual. The RIAA cant exactly drop the suit, because they know that doing so will raise accusations that they're playing favorites.
I have it a little worse. On the Lifetime award, they didn't quote me, they quoted someone of the same name as I!
sweeping drexel was two seasons ago (2002). The page doesnt look like it's been updated in a while, as it makes a reference to Towson "being the only team to beat the Dragons at home last season."[emphasis added] That was also 2002. It probably has not been updated for 2004 because Towson was pitiful in 2003, getting only 1 win and 17 losses in the conference regular season. And that only win was because the opponent (Hofstra) had two starters out on suspension for drug use (one student had a fake joint for them when Hofstra came to town that year, that was cool).
This year, things remain to be seen. Towson has surprised a few teams already, including Deleware and defending-champs UNC-Wilmington (aka - The Tarheel Rejects). Drexel plays at Towson later this week.
just exchange AOL Screen Names in a face-to-face setting, and set up a private chat room. Done!
the general problem with most sentencing guidelines is that they dont allow the judge to use his/her own judgement. a lot states, for example, have mandatory sentencing for things that dont really require prison for most people.
Result is you end up with a bunch of people in prison for 10+ years for possession/using pot on a first offense. While I'm not in favor of legalizing pot, that type of punishment is usally too much for a first time offender - a fine and/or probation would usally suffice for a majority of the public. Indeed, a lot of states are now in a budget crunch, and have made room in their money by releasing some of those people in for 10+, saving their prison system money, redirecting that extra cash into other necessities, and turning people that were in jail into taxpayers. (There was a NYTimes article on this topic a few months back)
Whatever the guidelines that get used alongside CANSPAM, it may take several years before we know whether or not they are effective. One poster already mentioned the law is too weak to begin with, so we'll have to see.
just change a random bit or two somewhere in the general data section (ie - where the actual video or audio is stored) and the hash gets defeated easily. (yes - an oversimplification, but it'll do)
what was that you said about Towson's Mens Basketball Coach?
yes - that's his real name. Makes for some cool chants from the student section when Towson visits my alma mater for a game!
also happens in newspapers, like this nugget from last year's baseball world series.
so how long will it be until a remote radio personality makes a slip up similar to the traveling musician? Something like this:
Band Member #1, near the end of a concert: Thank you Detroit! We love you!!!
[crowd goes into surprised silence]
Band Member #2, whispering to #1: Hey bro, Detroit's tomorrow.
to me, they sound like all the different Microsoft execs (Ballmer, Gates, etc) trying to answer the question "What is .NET?" I know there was a business2.com article that sampled some responses, but I cant seem to find it at the moment. IIRC, one quote was along the lines "So much of our stuff has a '.NET' label attached to it, even we dont know what it is at times."
I'd give up on trying to measure market reaction via SCOX's price. Many companies have investors who dont know what they're pouring money into. Case in point: the dot-com days when all an investor looked for was ".com" But more recently, this hilarious story.
maybe no specific written policy, but they usually include a catch-all statement somewhere in case something new happens to justify punishment. sometimes falls under some sort of common code of discipline that loosely defines what is acceptable rather than what is not.
what this kid did was disruptive, anyone at a terminal when that "Hey!" message popped up were unnecessarily distracted from what they were doing, even though most probably brushed it off (like the principal). you certainly dont like getting spam, or pop-up windows while browsing, but you brush it off anyway because it's routine. recall back to the very first spam email you got - what went through your head? did you even know what spam was? that's what went through the heads of most people at that school.
by punishing the kid for what he did, the principal made it known that such use of school machines are not tolerated, which will be better in the long run. even if the punishment he imposed was out of line.
ok, so an essay for sending "hey!" probably isn't necessary.
as for fearmongering, most schools are in check because they have to have people there who know what's going on. someone to maintain/administer the network, etc. you're forming an opinion of all schools based upon a small handful of isolated incidents.
i once (in a 9th grade computer class) missed the letter F when typing the word Shift for something in the class. The teacher didnt mind (she only knew enough to get her teaching done, not much else) - only took off a point or two. someone else got caught (by the admin, who was also a teacher) doing *real* hacking of the network, and only had his seat re-assigned to the front of the room.
look at this way: if a kid wants to do something wrong, he gets a few days out of going to school. majority of troublemaking kids already dont like school, so getting into trouble for them only helps their cause. giving them somethign else to do suddenly makes them think twice, doesnt it?
a lot of schools have significantly cut down on fights and arguments by introducing peer mediation programs. i feel the main reason is because they're suddenly forced to think about the actions that led up to the fight and to go beyond impulsive thinking (something typical among troublemakers) and into reasoning about it. requiring a short essay (5 paragraph format perhaps) can attain a similar result.
sounds familiar. when I was in HS, they started using ID cards with barcodes on them to handle students who get free/reduced cost lunches, to record that someone ate lunch that day. the rationale was that students on a free/reduced plan no longer needed stamps or anything, and the district was trying to fend off complaints from parents that their kids aren't eating. (they were probably also seeking to control theft of cash by the cashiers) (interestingly, class cutting during lunch periods was a somewhat major problem - they never used this to try and handle that)
one day someone i knew was paying for his lunch, when the cashier looked away for a moment. he leaned over and pushed a random button on the keyboard. He successfully shut off all the registers in the cafeteria for about a week.
the principal suspended him for misuse of the computer and disruption of school - and only for 3 days. it's the teacher trying to say he was "hacking," and the columnist sounds off against her on that. she indicates her misunderstanding of 'hacker' terminology in an email to the paper, so she'll certainly read this column.
however, what the kid did was wrong, and that's that. his punishment was overkill, and we'll all (/.'ers, that is) agree. detention or a mandatory essay was probably more appropriate.
(btw - does anyone think that forcing students to write about what they did wrong, either instead of or coupled with detention/suspension, would be more effective in the long-term for controlling behavior of disruptive students?)
the second bill (the one that enforces ESRB M ratings) is one that most chain stores already follow. if anything, passage will calm those who say violent video games are evil. because then their opponents (eg, RockStar, other game makers) will be able to point to a law that deflects blame onto the store-of-sale rather than arguing with them to try and accept common-sense reasoning.
i graduated with my bachelors last spring without having a job lined up. my main avenue of search were the websites of companies in my area and my school's biannual job fair, and those didnt go well. i didnt want to, but I sucked it up and put my resume out on careerbuilder and monster. found a job in less than a week after graduation. and it pays well too!
found it! http://prism.mem.drexel.edu/projects/kite/index.ht ml
IIRC, they had to develop a business case for the project (in other words, what engineers developed had to have a practical usage), and there was also some sort of entrpreneurial business plan competition sponsored by the business school going on at about the same time, so they also entered that contest using their kite project as a product and got an honorable mention. the page linked is what they submitted to that contest.