Why is this a surprise? The liberals have been advocating taking money from one group and giving it to another for "the public good" for decades. Now they're just doing it with property.
If they were taking money from these people and giving it to someone else, instead of their homes, this wouldn't even be a story.
Well, in this case, yeah, they are all about protecting the rights of the little guy vs. the big guy.....Or maybe you're being cynical and I didn't catch that....
Well, if you read other sources besides ones that quote the EFF, you'll see that you specifically CAN use TiVo.
The thing you won't be able to do is make copies for other people and distribute them. The "unsaid" thing people aren't saying, and the reason people are really pissed.
With the Broadcast flag I can make personal copies. This is NOT what the EFF is telling people, but if you actually get the info about the BF, it says you can.
I think this advice completely depends on where you're hired. In my experience, it's smart to do this it for jobs in business. It's NOT smart to do this in academia. In academia, raises and promotions are primarily based on "what's in it for me" with the boss. In business, there's a much clearer path for advancement.
Did anyone here actually READ the article? There are things like:
'But the proposal APPEARS to grant the FBI more power to seek information...."
and
'IN THEORY, the expand-the-Patriot-Act bill now goes to the Senate floor for a vote. '
Everyone BREATH.
OK....done?
Look at that article. "APPEARS"? "IN THEORY"???
There's NO information in that article about what it is.... but there will be before it comes up for a vote. This came out of a senate panel. Do you have any idea how many things come out of senate panels that never even make it to a real vote, let alone pass both houses of Congress?
You can bet that we'll hear ALL about this from all out congress critters before this is even voted on.
Don't go on information from some reporter about what something APPEARS to be IN THEORY without getting the facts yet... we'll have the facts before it comes up for a vote, and we'll have more than enough to voice our opinions to those congress critters before it becomes law.
Geesh. People are acting like it's already passed and it's law already.
They planned a trip for more than 2.5 years to highlight global warming, and.... it failed because the weather conditions were too cold and bitter to continue.
No, I'm not saying that he can't do any wrong. What I am saying is that people are forgetting that the main "accuser" of DeLay, that joker down in Texas is a partisan Democrat and hasn't been able to pin anything on DeLay.
If they actually prove anything on DeLay, I say get rid of him. I wouldn't want him in Congress any more than I would an ex-KKK member (Byrd) or someone that got someone killed and tried to cover it up (Kennedy).
Using that logic, we should just dump everyone in the Senate and House. It's not like one side or the other has a perfect record.....You know, that probably wouldn't be a bad idea.
And yet, nothing has happened to DeLay, because none of that is proven. Some of it is freakin' stupid (the "foreign sounding names" thing, for example), but not "evil".
Have you actually read that article? These are accusations, not proven facts. If people were labeled "evil" just because someone else said they did something, everyone could be labeled "evil".
By your criteria, based on what's in that article, we should get John Kerry kicked out of the Senate for calling his secret service agent an SOB when Kerry ran into him on a ski slope during the campaign.
Why? Because partisan Democrats in Texas are accusing him of things that haven't been proven? Or that he acts as partisan as any Democrat in the Senate or House?
Labeling someone "evil" just because you disagree with their politics is childish. If DeLay's actions are "evil" so are plenty of Democrats, but I'm sure you won't say the same thing of them.
People regularly use the Access Grid to do this over the existing Internet.
And, btw, "Access Grid" is a bit of misnomer. It's just VIC and VAT when you get down to it.... seriously, that's what they use. The rest is just repackaging.
Not sure what the Scooba does, (obviously, since the thing isn't out yet), but the Roomba doesn't a pretty good job. You have to pick up the papers you might have on the floor, but you can leave things like books (well, books that are thick) and larger objects. Not sure why you would want to do that, if you really want the whole floor vac-ed.
So, this is just a guess, but given how the Roomba works, I imagine that Scooba works nearly the same way. There's a gizmo under the Roomba that can tell when the "elevation" (for lack of a better word), changes. That keeps it from falling down staircases. When the Roomba moves onto a rug, the front of the thing gets a little higher than the rest, and I would bet this is enough for it to back off, if it were programmed to do so. The Scooba probably does this. The cleaning solution is probably back far enough so that the rug wouldn't be harmed.
The Roomba comes with gizmos you can set up as "invisible walls" so the Roomba won't move into the area. I'm guessing that the Scooba uses the same sort of technology to keep it off the regular carpets.
I had my doubts about this thing before I got it, but I have to say, I like it. Lets me keep things vac-ed a lot more often than before.;-)
The "right-wing" stuff has nothing to do with all the stuff you're citing. These are problems with places all over the country.... yes, even in "liberal" school districts. (SHOCK! SURPRISE!)
Anyway, apparently you haven't been to high schools lately. Naperville's isn't the most expensive high school in the midwest, not be a long shot.
There are also all those problems that you cite in many high schools in the country. It's much much worse in some areas.
Whoa there cowboy, we're on the same page here at least partially.
The "do a fork of it, and fix it" is the argument people use whenever the whole Java thing comes up. My posting was to them, saying if they're bitching about the kernel, then they should put up or shut up, because it's exactly the same argument they use when Java is brought up. They can't go using that argument about one, and not the other.
As for the kernel, there I think you're wrong. There are a helluva lot more people that understand kernel programming than you presume there are. There have been many patches submitted against it that were rejected because Linus didn't want 'em in there. Some were likely bad additions and should have been rejected; others weren't and should have been included. THAT is a BIG problem.
As I said, other OSes are getting ahead in the multiprocessor game, and Linus didn't effect change when it needed to happen... several years ago. Now it's going a really big PITA to do it. It's quite likely that some company that's doing that sort of work is going to end up surplanting Linus' kernel when multi-processor systems become more commonplace and people start waking up to the fact that the stock kernel just doesn't perform as well as it should.
What people are failing to realize is that Linus has a stranglehold on what's going on in the kernel, and they're just fat dumb and happy about it. Sun does the same thing with Java, and it's "OMFG Sun suxxorz" from the same people.
The solution for this is just like the "Java should be open source" argument that people always float. "If Java were open source, we could do a fork and fix what's wrong with it".
If you don't like what's going on with the project, do a fork of it, and fix it.
At least, that's how the argument goes when people are talking about Java. Since this is the Linux kernel, people seem to be a bit unwilling to do the same thing.
It's long since time that there be splits in the kernel. This whole thing with SMP is going to turn around and bite Linux if something isn't done about it soon. Other operating systems are prepared (or are preparing), why should Linux be so far behind?
And don't make the argument that Linux isn't really that far behind. It is. If Linus had started the work several years ago, it wouldn't be as big of a problem. The trouble is Linus doesn't want it mucking up the kernel, or making it harder for other people to code for it.
Well, doing the work to get multiple processes in kernel context (not just two or three, I mean a LOT of processes) IS hard, and it will be difficult for people to program under the new kernel rules.
It doesn't mean the results aren't worth it though.
I would have to disagree about the third movie being superior. If you read the books, the story made sense because you could fill in the blanks. Otherwise, all you would see is a disjointed series of events. "Harry does this" "Now he does this". The narrative was nearly non-existant, and made the movie a big disappointment, even for fans.
The other thing you should add is that frequently, the author list isn't accurate. Many papers are written by one person, and their superior ends up slapping their name on it, whether they had anything to do with the "research" or not.
The worst case I saw of this was a book, the majority of which was written by one person. Another person contributed a couple of chapters (fair enough). That book ended up having five or six "authors", instead of the two it should have had.
Anyway, "tons of sources"? Heck, you need GOOD sources. Just witness the last presidential election. TONS of sources. Some were good, some were completely made up.
As for Algore, this is the same guy that gave a talk on global warning on the coldest day of the year (might have even been a record that day). It's really hard to take someone seriously as an expert, when they're not specifically trained in a particular area.
I mean, Einstein was a smart guy, but I wouldn't have gone to listen to any of his lectures on cooking, if you get my drift.
It's exactly that kind of attitude (the "pathetic and childish" acts, not yours) that have damaged the Democrat party so much over the last few years. People are sick of it.
From the sounds of it, it's a good thing you're leaving. In a job like that, it's ALL about the boss, and what will make him look good. Bosses like that place blame everywhere else, and never where the blame really belongs, squarely on their own shoulders. They ignore ideas and suggestions for new things, and when you turn around and do exactly what they ask for, they try and turn it around as if it's your fault for just doing what they're asking. The boss just can't take personal responsibility, even thought it's THEIR job. It's ALWAYS someone else's fault.
No matter what you do, it's not going going to be good enough.
If this comes up in an interview where you need a reference, use co-workers as references, not the boss.
The boss can't keep that last paycheck without getting in big trouble with the state (check your state's employment office).
If word gets back to you that the boss is bad-mouthing you, get a lawyer on retainer and sue.
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Why is this a surprise? The liberals have been advocating taking money from one group and giving it to another for "the public good" for decades. Now they're just doing it with property.
If they were taking money from these people and giving it to someone else, instead of their homes, this wouldn't even be a story.
Well, in this case, yeah, they are all about protecting the rights of the little guy vs. the big guy. ....Or maybe you're being cynical and I didn't catch that....
Well, if you read other sources besides ones that quote the EFF, you'll see that you specifically CAN use TiVo.
The thing you won't be able to do is make copies for other people and distribute them. The "unsaid" thing people aren't saying, and the reason people are really pissed.
With the Broadcast flag I can make personal copies. This is NOT what the EFF is telling people, but if you actually get the info about the BF, it says you can.
I think this advice completely depends on where you're hired. In my experience, it's smart to do this it for jobs in business. It's NOT smart to do this in academia. In academia, raises and promotions are primarily based on "what's in it for me" with the boss. In business, there's a much clearer path for advancement.
Either that or he works at the same place I do.
Did anyone here actually READ the article? There are things like:
...."
'But the proposal APPEARS to grant the FBI more power to seek information
and
'IN THEORY, the expand-the-Patriot-Act bill now goes to the Senate floor for a vote. '
Everyone BREATH.
OK....done?
Look at that article. "APPEARS"? "IN THEORY"???
There's NO information in that article about what it is.... but there will be before it comes up for a vote. This came out of a senate panel. Do you have any idea how many things come out of senate panels that never even make it to a real vote, let alone pass both houses of Congress?
You can bet that we'll hear ALL about this from all out congress critters before this is even voted on.
Don't go on information from some reporter about what something APPEARS to be IN THEORY without getting the facts yet... we'll have the facts before it comes up for a vote, and we'll have more than enough to voice our opinions to those congress critters before it becomes law.
Geesh. People are acting like it's already passed and it's law already.
That's an insult to everyone that had to live under those states, and shows your complete lack of understanding of what those states were.
Tell that to these guys:
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.... it failed because the weather conditions were too cold and bitter to continue.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/531/5438282.ht
They planned a trip for more than 2.5 years to highlight global warming, and
House leader. Frist is the Senate Leader.... and I wish HE were at least as partisan has Reed is proving to be.
No, I'm not saying that he can't do any wrong. What I am saying is that people are forgetting that the main "accuser" of DeLay, that joker down in Texas is a partisan Democrat and hasn't been able to pin anything on DeLay.
If they actually prove anything on DeLay, I say get rid of him. I wouldn't want him in Congress any more than I would an ex-KKK member (Byrd) or someone that got someone killed and tried to cover it up (Kennedy).
Using that logic, we should just dump everyone in the Senate and House. It's not like one side or the other has a perfect record. ....You know, that probably wouldn't be a bad idea.
And yet, nothing has happened to DeLay, because none of that is proven. Some of it is freakin' stupid (the "foreign sounding names" thing, for example), but not "evil".
Have you actually read that article? These are accusations, not proven facts. If people were labeled "evil" just because someone else said they did something, everyone could be labeled "evil".
By your criteria, based on what's in that article, we should get John Kerry kicked out of the Senate for calling his secret service agent an SOB when Kerry ran into him on a ski slope during the campaign.
Why? Because partisan Democrats in Texas are accusing him of things that haven't been proven? Or that he acts as partisan as any Democrat in the Senate or House?
Labeling someone "evil" just because you disagree with their politics is childish. If DeLay's actions are "evil" so are plenty of Democrats, but I'm sure you won't say the same thing of them.
People regularly use the Access Grid to do this over the existing Internet.
And, btw, "Access Grid" is a bit of misnomer. It's just VIC and VAT when you get down to it.... seriously, that's what they use. The rest is just repackaging.
Not sure what the Scooba does, (obviously, since the thing isn't out yet), but the Roomba doesn't a pretty good job. You have to pick up the papers you might have on the floor, but you can leave things like books (well, books that are thick) and larger objects. Not sure why you would want to do that, if you really want the whole floor vac-ed.
;-)
So, this is just a guess, but given how the Roomba works, I imagine that Scooba works nearly the same way. There's a gizmo under the Roomba that can tell when the "elevation" (for lack of a better word), changes. That keeps it from falling down staircases. When the Roomba moves onto a rug, the front of the thing gets a little higher than the rest, and I would bet this is enough for it to back off, if it were programmed to do so. The Scooba probably does this. The cleaning solution is probably back far enough so that the rug wouldn't be harmed.
The Roomba comes with gizmos you can set up as "invisible walls" so the Roomba won't move into the area. I'm guessing that the Scooba uses the same sort of technology to keep it off the regular carpets.
I had my doubts about this thing before I got it, but I have to say, I like it. Lets me keep things vac-ed a lot more often than before.
"a clear step toward a totalitarian state"
Oh, PLEASE! Talk about an overreaction!
The library has the right to run itself the way it sees fit. Read TFA. They just don't roll over when they get visited by the police.
If you don't want people watching what you're doing, go to any of the bazillion free hot spots in the country and go on the internet there.
The "right-wing" stuff has nothing to do with all the stuff you're citing. These are problems with places all over the country.... yes, even in "liberal" school districts. (SHOCK! SURPRISE!)
Anyway, apparently you haven't been to high schools lately. Naperville's isn't the most expensive high school in the midwest, not be a long shot.
There are also all those problems that you cite in many high schools in the country. It's much much worse in some areas.
BTW, Godwin's Law invoked.
Whoa there cowboy, we're on the same page here at least partially.
The "do a fork of it, and fix it" is the argument people use whenever the whole Java thing comes up. My posting was to them, saying if they're bitching about the kernel, then they should put up or shut up, because it's exactly the same argument they use when Java is brought up. They can't go using that argument about one, and not the other.
As for the kernel, there I think you're wrong. There are a helluva lot more people that understand kernel programming than you presume there are. There have been many patches submitted against it that were rejected because Linus didn't want 'em in there. Some were likely bad additions and should have been rejected; others weren't and should have been included. THAT is a BIG problem.
As I said, other OSes are getting ahead in the multiprocessor game, and Linus didn't effect change when it needed to happen... several years ago. Now it's going a really big PITA to do it. It's quite likely that some company that's doing that sort of work is going to end up surplanting Linus' kernel when multi-processor systems become more commonplace and people start waking up to the fact that the stock kernel just doesn't perform as well as it should.
What people are failing to realize is that Linus has a stranglehold on what's going on in the kernel, and they're just fat dumb and happy about it. Sun does the same thing with Java, and it's "OMFG Sun suxxorz" from the same people.
The solution for this is just like the "Java should be open source" argument that people always float. "If Java were open source, we could do a fork and fix what's wrong with it".
If you don't like what's going on with the project, do a fork of it, and fix it.
At least, that's how the argument goes when people are talking about Java. Since this is the Linux kernel, people seem to be a bit unwilling to do the same thing.
It's long since time that there be splits in the kernel. This whole thing with SMP is going to turn around and bite Linux if something isn't done about it soon. Other operating systems are prepared (or are preparing), why should Linux be so far behind?
And don't make the argument that Linux isn't really that far behind. It is. If Linus had started the work several years ago, it wouldn't be as big of a problem. The trouble is Linus doesn't want it mucking up the kernel, or making it harder for other people to code for it.
Well, doing the work to get multiple processes in kernel context (not just two or three, I mean a LOT of processes) IS hard, and it will be difficult for people to program under the new kernel rules.
It doesn't mean the results aren't worth it though.
I would have to disagree about the third movie being superior. If you read the books, the story made sense because you could fill in the blanks. Otherwise, all you would see is a disjointed series of events. "Harry does this" "Now he does this". The narrative was nearly non-existant, and made the movie a big disappointment, even for fans.
The other thing you should add is that frequently, the author list isn't accurate. Many papers are written by one person, and their superior ends up slapping their name on it, whether they had anything to do with the "research" or not.
The worst case I saw of this was a book, the majority of which was written by one person. Another person contributed a couple of chapters (fair enough). That book ended up having five or six "authors", instead of the two it should have had.
This happens far to frequently.
Godwin's law invoked...
Anyway, "tons of sources"? Heck, you need GOOD sources. Just witness the last presidential election. TONS of sources. Some were good, some were completely made up.
As for Algore, this is the same guy that gave a talk on global warning on the coldest day of the year (might have even been a record that day). It's really hard to take someone seriously as an expert, when they're not specifically trained in a particular area.
I mean, Einstein was a smart guy, but I wouldn't have gone to listen to any of his lectures on cooking, if you get my drift.
It's exactly that kind of attitude (the "pathetic and childish" acts, not yours) that have damaged the Democrat party so much over the last few years. People are sick of it.
Jobs like that are poison.
From the sounds of it, it's a good thing you're leaving. In a job like that, it's ALL about the boss, and what will make him look good. Bosses like that place blame everywhere else, and never where the blame really belongs, squarely on their own shoulders. They ignore ideas and suggestions for new things, and when you turn around and do exactly what they ask for, they try and turn it around as if it's your fault for just doing what they're asking. The boss just can't take personal responsibility, even thought it's THEIR job. It's ALWAYS someone else's fault.
No matter what you do, it's not going going to be good enough.
If this comes up in an interview where you need a reference, use co-workers as references, not the boss.
The boss can't keep that last paycheck without getting in big trouble with the state (check your state's employment office).
If word gets back to you that the boss is bad-mouthing you, get a lawyer on retainer and sue.