Would be WIIIIIDE OPEN! Free pot to the disadvantaged, so he'd have the poor vote and the tech vote. Free birth control of all kinds, so he'd have the women's vote. Sounds like he could win!
You're right... his statement was too generic. Projects you did for an ASSIGNMENT should not count, unless it's "Come up with something new and revolutionary" and there's been no suggestions by the prof. I agree with you... if you're doing an independent study or research project, and it's something you did all by yourself, it counts.
How many people can you monitor at one time with ONE drone?
We're not talking about freaking England, where there's 102.4 cameras for every person walking around. We're discussing ONE drone which will likely be so expensive to fly that they'll end up only being able to use it to monitor fantastic car chases or drug busts.
Man, I am glad you're kidding. You've written an awesome paragraph that shows just how insane people are. I'd bet that about 80% of all the/.'ers who read that were salivating at the first paragraph!
Please... don't take the parent's first paragraph seriously. But pay very close attention to the second part!
IANAL, so how does the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania subpoena someone who's not a resident? Can't he just give them a raspberry and tell the to fsck off?
I can see it being hard to prove that it was the student only if he had an open WiFi connection running at that time.
Lesson to be learned: if you're going to use P2P, make sure you have an open WiFi connection to throw a monkey wrench into "beyond a reasonable doubt."
Of course, once that defense is used commonly, there'll be a law passed that says you can't do that anymore... In fact, didn't I read something on/. about that in the past?
Let the public know. I doubt many of the citizens would take a side, but you could be putting pressure on the IT directors to justify why they spend so much money.
Of course, they might contact Microsoft, who would bring out their own "independent" (read: Microsoft-funded) studies that show that, in the long run, Microsoft is cheaper than open source.
But perhaps in this time of economic trouble, a friendly journalist might take your side and decide they want to screw with the government for wasting taxpayer $$.
It's the major reason I don't bother with the Olympics. I'll get the headlines later, at least until the IOC starts charging for them. Then I just won't give a damn.
You can have my root password when you can pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
We can admin our windoze machines to install stuff and such, but the domain control rests in our IT dept (2 guys for 140).
The several "public" linux machines I develop on and administer have a common root password, except for my "personal" machine, which I keep. All the stuff they'd want off of it is in perforce anyway, so it's not a big deal.
If you're worried about all the time spent typing, store the stupid text in a document that you cut and paste! (Yes, this will take more time, showing even more how stupid this whole thing is.)
Your answers are correct, but they don't address the OP's question.
When the company is looking at a resume, they're not going to know anything about the applicant's ability to ask those three questions.
OP: I do embedded systems, which are all in C or C++ (in Europe, I'm told Ada is popular in some areas). My windows developer friends all do C#/.Net, and/or C++.
There are several services out there, ranging from about $2 to $5 a month that do this. The point of my question was to find out what others are doing.
Those providers do much the same as many of the suggestions that have been made: parents control the whitelist, parents can ready any/all emails, etc.
Yeah, I've thought about getting him an email account on gmail and keeping the password from him, and controlling the thing every little bit.
Whatever I do with his email account, I will certainly be going through it from time to time to see what's going on. And as he gets older, and shows he can handle more responsibility, of course I would do less of that.
I don't really care for all the ads gmail shows. I can only imagine what kinds of ads would show up if he and his buddy were doing a report on beavers in the wild.
As for spam on Gmail, I currently have 46 in my spam folder, and I just emptied it earlier today.
He has very limited access at this age to computers. The one he can use is the laptop in the kitchen. It's public enough that we can see something if we walk by, but private enough that if he were perusing emails he could stumble on something objectionable.
I realize that at some point in his life he's going to be exposed to porn, email scams, penis-lengthening ads, etc. I just don't think it needs to be now.
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The kid in question just started 7th grade. He wants to be able to email his grandparents and a few friends from school.
He's taking a keyboarding class right now (I have no idea why... I learned how to type when I started writing programs...), and it has opened up his interest in the subject.
I'm simply trying to find a safe way to allow him to get used to communicating like this.
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Would be WIIIIIDE OPEN! Free pot to the disadvantaged, so he'd have the poor vote and the tech vote.
Free birth control of all kinds, so he'd have the women's vote.
Sounds like he could win!
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You're right... his statement was too generic.
Projects you did for an ASSIGNMENT should not count, unless it's "Come up with something new and revolutionary" and there's been no suggestions by the prof.
I agree with you... if you're doing an independent study or research project, and it's something you did all by yourself, it counts.
How many people can you monitor at one time with ONE drone?
We're not talking about freaking England, where there's 102.4 cameras for every person walking around. We're discussing ONE drone which will likely be so expensive to fly that they'll end up only being able to use it to monitor fantastic car chases or drug busts.
The paths in and out of Miami International are well-known.
I'm betting the FAA isn't going to let them fly their R/C toy without a lot of conditions.
I hope Dexter gets to use it...
Man, I am glad you're kidding. You've written an awesome paragraph that shows just how insane people are. I'd bet that about 80% of all the /.'ers who read that were salivating at the first paragraph!
Please... don't take the parent's first paragraph seriously. But pay very close attention to the second part!
IANAL, so how does the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania subpoena someone who's not a resident? Can't he just give them a raspberry and tell the to fsck off?
I can see it being hard to prove that it was the student only if he had an open WiFi connection running at that time.
Lesson to be learned: if you're going to use P2P, make sure you have an open WiFi connection to throw a monkey wrench into "beyond a reasonable doubt."
Of course, once that defense is used commonly, there'll be a law passed that says you can't do that anymore... In fact, didn't I read something on /. about that in the past?
I was trying to figure out how to make a funny comment in which c represented the speed of light, and not $0.01.
I failed massively.
Any takers?
Let the public know. I doubt many of the citizens would take a side, but you could be putting pressure on the IT directors to justify why they spend so much money.
Of course, they might contact Microsoft, who would bring out their own "independent" (read: Microsoft-funded) studies that show that, in the long run, Microsoft is cheaper than open source.
But perhaps in this time of economic trouble, a friendly journalist might take your side and decide they want to screw with the government for wasting taxpayer $$.
Good luck.
He could stay sane, not do the update, and sell the car and buy a car that's not a recent Toyota.
Let it be S.E.P.
It's the major reason I don't bother with the Olympics. I'll get the headlines later, at least until the IOC starts charging for them. Then I just won't give a damn.
You can have my root password when you can pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
We can admin our windoze machines to install stuff and such, but the domain control rests in our IT dept (2 guys for 140).
The several "public" linux machines I develop on and administer have a common root password, except for my "personal" machine, which I keep. All the stuff they'd want off of it is in perforce anyway, so it's not a big deal.
But now you're getting into destruction of private property.
It frosts my ass that they would do this to the author.
They've got no right at all to destroy his property. They're criminally curious.
I don't disagree that he should get a new provider, but I think I'd make their lives hell, first.
How about a padlock on the box, and a BIOS password?
It doesn't matter a rat's ass.
Pick up any browser, type in www.yahoo.com.
Does it get there? Sure!
If you're worried about all the time spent typing, store the stupid text in a document that you cut and paste! (Yes, this will take more time, showing even more how stupid this whole thing is.)
Store a stupid bookmark. Then you only have to type https://blah.blah.blah/ one time.
Get a life.
How about a box of resistors, capacitors, inductors and memristors?
Your answers are correct, but they don't address the OP's question.
When the company is looking at a resume, they're not going to know anything about the applicant's ability to ask those three questions.
OP: I do embedded systems, which are all in C or C++ (in Europe, I'm told Ada is popular in some areas). My windows developer friends all do C#/.Net, and/or C++.
Thank you. I will check out your program.
I had toyed with the idea of writing something like this, too. I simply don't have the time at the moment.
There are several services out there, ranging from about $2 to $5 a month that do this. The point of my question was to find out what others are doing.
Those providers do much the same as many of the suggestions that have been made: parents control the whitelist, parents can ready any/all emails, etc.
Yeah, I've thought about getting him an email account on gmail and keeping the password from him, and controlling the thing every little bit.
Whatever I do with his email account, I will certainly be going through it from time to time to see what's going on. And as he gets older, and shows he can handle more responsibility, of course I would do less of that.
I don't really care for all the ads gmail shows. I can only imagine what kinds of ads would show up if he and his buddy were doing a report on beavers in the wild.
As for spam on Gmail, I currently have 46 in my spam folder, and I just emptied it earlier today.
I like this idea. Thank you.
He has very limited access at this age to computers. The one he can use is the laptop in the kitchen. It's public enough that we can see something if we walk by, but private enough that if he were perusing emails he could stumble on something objectionable.
I realize that at some point in his life he's going to be exposed to porn, email scams, penis-lengthening ads, etc. I just don't think it needs to be now.
The kid in question just started 7th grade. He wants to be able to email his grandparents and a few friends from school.
He's taking a keyboarding class right now (I have no idea why... I learned how to type when I started writing programs...), and it has opened up his interest in the subject.
I'm simply trying to find a safe way to allow him to get used to communicating like this.
Thanks.
I've been toying with this very idea.