But the implementation is a little lacking... Just from thinking back to being a kid myself, the child wearing the watch has a whole lot more use for his location then the parent. (who has to be at a computer... the 1-800 service is of dubious use if the parent doesn't know their own coordinates).
If you gave the kid a GPS watch that they could use to figure out range and direction to, say, their home, their parents (also wearing these things), or preprogrammed "waypoints", they could find their own way back, and the adults don't have to worry about the kid wandering off and getting lost.
Get rid of the useless big-brother function and only have it broadcast the location when the panic button is hit, and you won't have to make it so that the kid can't take it off (that'll be the day)
If they weren't so butt-ugly and oversized, i'd probably want one myself, for that matter... are there GPS watches for adults out there?
I like the fact that I can leave the kid at home with a baby-sitter, and still be reachable just about anywhere if I'm needed.
Um... what exactly is the point of being accessable if you aren't near? If there's an emergency, the sitter should not be calling you--they should be calling 911, to get people who can actually help. If it's not an emergency, then there's no need for you to annoy the other people watching the movie (or whatever), right?
Fortunatley, that's totall bullshit--if you're driving, you have to have a driver's licence, and you have to show it to the police if you are stopped, but aside from that, no, the only thing you need to be out in public legally is clothing. The DMV gives out ID cards as a convienence, so you can prove your identity without needing to get a passport or somesuch.
It's still around, I used it this thanksgiving to keep food warm. Little metal cans, probably packed at or near sea level judging by how, when opened at 7,000', the cap flies off and through the air, splattering flammable purple goo... oops.
I also understand the desperate alcoholic can squeeze it through a filter of some sort to get at the ethanol within... consult your local wino for exact directions.
I own a few compact flouressant bulbs which use 1/3 the electricity and last at least 3 times as long. These lights pat for themselves at least twice over. Unfortunatley not many people have adopted them because they cost more than their incandecent cousins.
I avoid flourescent bulbs because the creepy buzz and headache-inducing flicker get on my nerves, particularly when you've got a couple of computer monitors competing for annoying strobe effect.
When you feel the cost is clear, claim you wrote it.
And get sued by your employers. Just because you don't work there anymore doesn't mean the contract doesn't still apply to what you did when you did work there.
As for the code already released under the GPL, that's GPL'ed permanently for everyone (though for the company, its effectively under public-domain). The company can't stop it from being distributed, and can't stop others from redistributing.
Uh, no. If he didn't hold the copyright to the code, he had no right to GPL it, which means the GPL holds about as much force here as if I decided to release all the Microsoft sourcecode I could get my hands on as GPL.
One, such a order would have to be federal. A court in one state can't have jurisdiction over the other states. Only a Federal Court can.
Not really. Not that it's hard to get a federal ruling. (well, anymore than doing anything becomes hard when lawyers get involved)
Now, here's something this guy can do. Claim he isn't the author of the programs. He didn't write the programs. How can the company prove that he did? If he wrote these things out of work, there's no way the company can prove he's the author. He simply wipes the files, and there's no proof.
Yeah, I'm sure everyone will fall for that, just like how everyone believes Aimster is named after some guy's daughter.
Freenet can be accessed through freenet: URI links (like <a href="freenet:SSK@npfV5XQijFkF6sXZvuO0o~kG4wEPAgM/ homepage//">) if you have a uri-handling plugin, which to my knowlege have been written for at least IE and Mozilla. Unfortunately, they are not going to be allowed into the default Freenet install for the forseeable future for political reasons (i.e., Ian doesn't like them).
You can still use fproxy to access freenet through a web browser, so I suppose you could use a http link to the fproxy presumably running on your user's localhost, but that's somewhat broken and unlikely to catch on.
I really don't get what these guys are supposed to be doing, or how it affects anyone when they do their job poorly. Their website, between bits of quorn like "Statement Concerning Schedule and Process for Consideration of Restructuring Proposal (28 February 2002)" seems to indicate all they do is make sure IP addresses, DNS names, and port numbers (!) are unique.
Is that really it? I thought IP addresses were done by IANA, are they part of ICANN? and isn't DNS registration (mis)handled by network solutions or whoever owns them these days?
So, i guess what i'm asking is, what would i miss if ICANN just went away and wasn't replaced by anything...?
Is this how 'musical lollipops' work? I've seen on the little impulse-shopping rack at the grocery store checkout, they claim to conduct music through your head when you press the button (with the lollipop in your mouth, of course)... I've never actually tried one, though, so I have no idea about the quality they produce or anything. (And considering the target market, they probably have c-list boy band tunes anyway)
There's an idea similar to this called hashcash, where you require the sender to 'pay' you for mail in burnt CPU cycles (usually by calculating secure hash collisions, which is hopefully only possible by brute-force). You 'charge', per message, maybe 1 sec of time on a modern system, and it's pretty much unnoticable on an ordinary machine, but in order to do the mail volume spammers need, you'd need tons of computers running full-time.
All the mail originates in the Phillippines (with the obligatory faked additional headers added) then gets punted out through open relays around the world. Complaints to the ISPs in the Phillipines get no reply or bounced.
This is no different than a public library using Cisco equipment to filter out porn sites or sites objectionable to "famliy viewers"? Should me now file lawsuits against our companies, our schools, our public access sites for filtering our content on a whim? The answer is emphatically no, because the providers of said content have the right to determine what exactly the users are allowed to see.
You're right, there is no difference, which is why people find the imposition of "filtering" in public libraries and public schools so disgusting. I was under the impression that lawsuits were going on. The government-funded library or school's internet connection is not providing the content in question, whover is serving the content is, and the government censoring that content is as offensive as funding for libraries so long they do not offer books which are `objectional to family viewers`.
Lets put the shoe on the other foot. Say I am a citizen of a foreign country and I feel enlightened today. How would you feel if I marched into the US [or more specifically your country] and made light of your values and customs due to my own superiority?
I'd think you were a jerk, but that doesn't mean I'd like to have you silenced. Without the awareness that there is a problem, there is no hope to improve things.
Its so easy to point at China and say "bad". Have you taken a look around your own neighbourhood lately?
Things aren't perfect here, but at least people usually have the freedom to complain.
I feel everyone should have free speech and the right to live a otherwise free life [i.e choice of association, religion, career, politics]. I also feel that I am not superior compared to others. If Person X has values that differ [i.e doesn't think free religion is good] thats upto them not me to choose.
I do not feel I am superior to others. However, I do not believe that any other person has the right to restrict the rights of any third person, wherever they may be.
I understand that these rights are a matter of opinion, and somewhat arbitrary, but that fact is not sufficient to justify apathy in the face of opression.
Why, for example, does the government of China (democratic or otherwise) get to decide that some arbitrary Chinese subject has no freedom of religion, and is free to enforce that idea, but if my "values differ" and I attempt to interfere, I am wrong?
If it were really the subject choosing for his or herself, to have no religious freedom, then it would not be my place to interfere, but that does not accurately describe the situation, no?
. People say there shouldn't be censorship, yet they don't wont kiddie porn, which is censorship, as well.
I'd much rather see my tax dollars spent tracking the sources of child porn and punishing them for the child abuse they are performing than trying to track down some old pervert who likes downloading it. Perhaps if the trade of child porn (or at least the noncommercial possesion) was decriminalized, it would be easier to locate the sources.
But it doesn't really matter, just because people have different opinions of morality doesn't excuse nihilism.
Would you not feel like suing the store for discrimination?
Um... who is being discriminated against here?
But anyway, I would probably be annoyed that I couldn't buy my stuff, but they're not the only office supply store in town, and if they really were using their business to push an agenda I disagreed with, I wouldn't give them my money anyway.
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But the implementation is a little lacking... Just from thinking back to being a kid myself, the child wearing the watch has a whole lot more use for his location then the parent. (who has to be at a computer... the 1-800 service is of dubious use if the parent doesn't know their own coordinates).
If you gave the kid a GPS watch that they could use to figure out range and direction to, say, their home, their parents (also wearing these things), or preprogrammed "waypoints", they could find their own way back, and the adults don't have to worry about the kid wandering off and getting lost.
Get rid of the useless big-brother function and only have it broadcast the location when the panic button is hit, and you won't have to make it so that the kid can't take it off (that'll be the day)
If they weren't so butt-ugly and oversized, i'd probably want one myself, for that matter... are there GPS watches for adults out there?
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I like the fact that I can leave the kid at home with a baby-sitter, and still be reachable just about anywhere if I'm needed.
Um... what exactly is the point of being accessable if you aren't near? If there's an emergency, the sitter should not be calling you--they should be calling 911, to get people who can actually help. If it's not an emergency, then there's no need for you to annoy the other people watching the movie (or whatever), right?
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I'll remember that
Holy shit! That doesn't bother you?
Fortunatley, that's totall bullshit--if you're driving, you have to have a driver's licence, and you have to show it to the police if you are stopped, but aside from that, no, the only thing you need to be out in public legally is clothing. The DMV gives out ID cards as a convienence, so you can prove your identity without needing to get a passport or somesuch.
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Or, now that we're tipped off to the problem, we can just not give our licences to the nice guy with the scanner.
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Ben Coates
Like the sign says, "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone"
You're going to have to get people over the rather scary concept of drinking reaction products... Maybe throw in some ph paper?
"Do not drink if stripes are visible on sides of can!"
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Benjamin Coates
It's still around, I used it this thanksgiving to keep food warm. Little metal cans, probably packed at or near sea level judging by how, when opened at 7,000', the cap flies off and through the air, splattering flammable purple goo... oops.
I also understand the desperate alcoholic can squeeze it through a filter of some sort to get at the ethanol within... consult your local wino for exact directions.
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Benjamin Coates
I own a few compact flouressant bulbs which use 1/3 the electricity and last at least 3 times as long. These lights pat for themselves at least twice over. Unfortunatley not many people have adopted them because they cost more than their incandecent cousins.
I avoid flourescent bulbs because the creepy buzz and headache-inducing flicker get on my nerves, particularly when you've got a couple of computer monitors competing for annoying strobe effect.
Does anyone know if organic LEDs flicker?
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When you feel the cost is clear, claim you wrote it.
And get sued by your employers. Just because you don't work there anymore doesn't mean the contract doesn't still apply to what you did when you did work there.
As for the code already released under the GPL, that's GPL'ed permanently for everyone (though for the company, its effectively under public-domain). The company can't stop it from being distributed, and can't stop others from redistributing.
Uh, no. If he didn't hold the copyright to the code, he had no right to GPL it, which means the GPL holds about as much force here as if I decided to release all the Microsoft sourcecode I could get my hands on as GPL.
One, such a order would have to be federal. A court in one state can't have jurisdiction over the other states. Only a Federal Court can.
Not really. Not that it's hard to get a federal ruling. (well, anymore than doing anything becomes hard when lawyers get involved)
Now, here's something this guy can do. Claim he isn't the author of the programs. He didn't write the programs. How can the company prove that he did? If he wrote these things out of work, there's no way the company can prove he's the author. He simply wipes the files, and there's no proof.
Yeah, I'm sure everyone will fall for that, just like how everyone believes Aimster is named after some guy's daughter.
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Benjamin Coates
Freenet can be accessed through freenet: URI links (like <a href="freenet:SSK@npfV5XQijFkF6sXZvuO0o~kG4wEPAgM/ homepage//">) if you have a uri-handling plugin, which to my knowlege have been written for at least IE and Mozilla. Unfortunately, they are not going to be allowed into the default Freenet install for the forseeable future for political reasons (i.e., Ian doesn't like them).
You can still use fproxy to access freenet through a web browser, so I suppose you could use a http link to the fproxy presumably running on your user's localhost, but that's somewhat broken and unlikely to catch on.
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Benjamin Coates
If anyone wants to join my mp3 (player) smuggling ring, email me. Just kidding.
We can trade them for toilets that actually work.
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Benjamin Coates
Yeah but a lot of people do not have a choice.
Huh? who doesn't have a choice?
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Benjamin Coates
I really don't get what these guys are supposed to be doing, or how it affects anyone when they do their job poorly. Their website, between bits of quorn like "Statement Concerning Schedule and Process for Consideration of Restructuring Proposal (28 February 2002)" seems to indicate all they do is make sure IP addresses, DNS names, and port numbers (!) are unique.
Is that really it? I thought IP addresses were done by IANA, are they part of ICANN? and isn't DNS registration (mis)handled by network solutions or whoever owns them these days?
So, i guess what i'm asking is, what would i miss if ICANN just went away and wasn't replaced by anything...?
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Benjamin Coates
Suddenly, there will be a dozen slashdot.org and a thousand sex.com sites.
If you want slashdot, you wouldn't use a dns server that doesn't do slashdot.org correctly, icann or no icann...
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Benjamin Coates
There's always a funky-looking microwave in 7-11s for cooking your burritos and whatnot...
Is this how 'musical lollipops' work? I've seen on the little impulse-shopping rack at the grocery store checkout, they claim to conduct music through your head when you press the button (with the lollipop in your mouth, of course)... I've never actually tried one, though, so I have no idea about the quality they produce or anything. (And considering the target market, they probably have c-list boy band tunes anyway)
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Benjamin Coates
The drone of violence? I can't hear you, Chief, you'll have to speak up...
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Ben Coates
Kitty Genovese
There's an idea similar to this called hashcash, where you require the sender to 'pay' you for mail in burnt CPU cycles (usually by calculating secure hash collisions, which is hopefully only possible by brute-force). You 'charge', per message, maybe 1 sec of time on a modern system, and it's pretty much unnoticable on an ordinary machine, but in order to do the mail volume spammers need, you'd need tons of computers running full-time.
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Benjamin Coates
All the mail originates in the Phillippines (with the obligatory faked additional headers added) then gets punted out through open relays around the world. Complaints to the ISPs in the Phillipines get no reply or bounced.
Philippines, huh? Maybe the U.S. troops over there might be interested in responding to some cyberterrorism?
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Benjamin Coates
This is no different than a public library using Cisco equipment to filter out porn sites or sites objectionable to "famliy viewers"? Should me now file lawsuits against our companies, our schools, our public access sites for filtering our content on a whim? The answer is emphatically no, because the providers of said content have the right to determine what exactly the users are allowed to see.
You're right, there is no difference, which is why people find the imposition of "filtering" in public libraries and public schools so disgusting. I was under the impression that lawsuits were going on. The government-funded library or school's internet connection is not providing the content in question, whover is serving the content is, and the government censoring that content is as offensive as funding for libraries so long they do not offer books which are `objectional to family viewers`.
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Benjamin Coates
Lets put the shoe on the other foot. Say I am a citizen of a foreign country and I feel enlightened today. How would you feel if I marched into the US [or more specifically your country] and made light of your values and customs due to my own superiority?
I'd think you were a jerk, but that doesn't mean I'd like to have you silenced. Without the awareness that there is a problem, there is no hope to improve things.
Its so easy to point at China and say "bad". Have you taken a look around your own neighbourhood lately?
Things aren't perfect here, but at least people usually have the freedom to complain.
I feel everyone should have free speech and the right to live a otherwise free life [i.e choice of association, religion, career, politics]. I also feel that I am not superior compared to others. If Person X has values that differ [i.e doesn't think free religion is good] thats upto them not me to choose.
I do not feel I am superior to others. However, I do not believe that any other person has the right to restrict the rights of any third person, wherever they may be.
I understand that these rights are a matter of opinion, and somewhat arbitrary, but that fact is not sufficient to justify apathy in the face of opression.
Why, for example, does the government of China (democratic or otherwise) get to decide that some arbitrary Chinese subject has no freedom of religion, and is free to enforce that idea, but if my "values differ" and I attempt to interfere, I am wrong?
If it were really the subject choosing for his or herself, to have no religious freedom, then it would not be my place to interfere, but that does not accurately describe the situation, no?
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Benjamin Coates
. People say there shouldn't be censorship, yet they don't wont kiddie porn, which is censorship, as well.
I'd much rather see my tax dollars spent tracking the sources of child porn and punishing them for the child abuse they are performing than trying to track down some old pervert who likes downloading it. Perhaps if the trade of child porn (or at least the noncommercial possesion) was decriminalized, it would be easier to locate the sources.
But it doesn't really matter, just because people have different opinions of morality doesn't excuse nihilism.
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Benjamin Coates
Would you not feel like suing the store for discrimination?
Um... who is being discriminated against here?
But anyway, I would probably be annoyed that I couldn't buy my stuff, but they're not the only office supply store in town, and if they really were using their business to push an agenda I disagreed with, I wouldn't give them my money anyway.
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Benjamin Coates