The Edsel was the ultimate DOA car, but contrary to common opinion, this was more a function of market segmenting and changing tastes than of purely bad styling. And of course it doesn't help that it was ugly. The vertical front grille of the Edsel looked like a big nose that divided the otherwise relatively conventional front of the car, and the front and back styling made even the 350hp V-8 version look slow. By the time Ford decided to restyle the Edsel in 1959, the car's sales had slid off a cliff and that was the end of Edsel.
1989-91 Chrysler TC Masarati
There were a whopping 52 service bulletins (many requiring recalls) for this bastard-child car born of an unfortunate need by Maserati for ready cash and Chrysler's willingness to turn a LeBaron into a Maserati. Not only was a 3.0-liter V-6 a criminal concept for a supposed Italian exotic (putting out a pathetic 141 horsepower), but so was the American sheetmetal. Then there were the many mechanical nightmares from blown clutches and engines to leaking roofs. This car cost double the sticker on the LeBaron and broke twice as often. After all, it was Italian, right?
1959-1969 Chevy Corvair
Sure, the nifty-looking Corvair had some good points. Like a Porsche 911, its engine was air-cooled, and resided in the back, to provide extra rear-wheel traction. Too bad its flat-six engine biased the weight of the early cars so far aftward that the steering became very light at highway speeds; and it sure didn't help that the gas tank was mounted up front, so if you did wreck--Ka Boom! If only the design had been better executed. Bummer. (Watch out, here come the nasty letters from all those Corvair fans!)
1969-77 Ford Maverick
There were four-door Mavericks and two-doors. There was a Mercury version called the Comet. There were vinyl-topped models, too. What they had in common was that they were built on platform designs heavily prone to rust (this was the early days of unit-body cars) and weak-kneed in-line six engines. But the cars were cheap and therefore, popular, especially in the gas-crisis years. Not that we think the Maverick is necessarily as bad as what came afterward--the abysmal Fox-platform Futura/Fairmont, and the Grenada, which was still based on the Maverick platform, and so carried forward all the bad-handling traits and massive rustability to boot.
1980 Chevy Citation
With a 2.8-liter V-6 and front-wheel drive, this was GM's attempt to take on the likes of Honda and Toyota. GM also shared this so-called X-body setup (of the Citation) with Olds (Omega) Buick (Skylark) and Pontiac (Phoenix). The differences were basically in body style, not fundamental mechanics. Naturally, because the cars looked futuristic and because they got decent mileage, the Citation and its brethren were a huge hit (800,000 Citations sold in 1980). But to meet demand GM let quality slip, so problems like faulty brakes and steering plagued Citations and led to a steep drop in quality--and sales.
1986 Cadillac Eldarado
In a desperate attempt to reach a younger demographic, Cadillac revamped its classic Eldorado to look less like a classic Caddy road yacht and more like a two-door version of the ill-conceived four-door Cadillac Cimarron. Demand for the new Caddy fell (big surprise), and only a year after introduction production sank to just under 18,000 units. Did it matter that you could get a V-8 in the Caddy and not in the other GM look-alikes? Nope. It took another 16 years of awful versions (2002 will be the last year of the Eldo) but the decline all started back in 1986.
1982 Renault Fuego
In the early 1980s American Motors Corporation (before it was absorbed by Chrysler) and French-maker Renault teamed up to make some really awful cars but none as bad as the Fuego. Thankfully, the relationship died out--and today AMC no longer exists and Renault hasn't set foot on American shores since. Th
Remember when "Shakespeare in Love" beat "Saving Private Ryan"; "Forrest Gump" beat "Pulp Fiction", etc.?
Forest Gump was in 1994 as was Pulp Fiction. (not a bad movie.) I agree; Pulp Fiction was better than Forrest. But also that year was Shawshank Redemption. In my opinion, this was the best movie of 1994.
But my thinking a different movie is better than another person just illustrates the fact that all of these awards are subjective and really don't mean that much execpt for "Bragging Rights."
What gives? there are a lot of slants in this survey. Look at #10 for the business side:
10. Rank the importance of server operating attributes to your organization.
(1 indicates a preference for low product cost and more administive and end-user time. 5 indicates a high up-front product cost but less user effort)
What gives? I already use mutiple servers that are FREE: E-SmithAND Easy to set up. It takes, honestly, 15 minutes to set up (Includes formatting drives), and 15 minutes to install filters if it will be used as a web proxy. Then I leave it set for 6 to 8 months. It doesn;t get any freer withless effort.
It all comes down to your game design. Design your game. Write up your rules make your own gamne board by printing out what you design and pasting it on top of a peice of cardboard. Use checkers/bottlecapps for pieces. WHen you design how the game works, looks don't matter.
What matters: Is it fun? Teach others to play it. Let strangers play it. Sit in a College Student center and give away beer to those that play it. Tweak the game. MAke it more fun. I made a card game that I use in the classes I teach and following the habbit of making everyone play it and provide feedback (What did you like/dislike, I must have clocked thousands of hours of play testing.
After you have designed the game. Sell it if you are in it for the money. Game companies can market, produce and sell these things more successfully that you will out of your own basement. (Don't take it persoannly, I can't do it either).
By your question, it seems that you won't mind outsourcing everything. Maybe that will work. But it will be hard to find people to advertise it and stock it on shelves. If you are going to go stricktly mail order, how in the world am I going to find out about your game? Will you place an ad on slashdot, just like the think-geek BB-shooting-tank ad that I am ignoring at this moment?
Computers are a tool in the classroom. They should be used as such. The teachers have to know how to best teach the students. I pitty the studnets that have a teacher that only lectures and uses no "tools."
Some Tools of Education: Textbooks, Chalkboards/MarkerBoards, Maps, Record players/CD/Any Audio, Videos/DVDs, guest speakers, field trips, etc. Basically anything the teacher chooses to use to help the student to learn the prescribed lesson is a "tool."
Look at the carpenter's trade. S/he builds a house. To do so, s/he must use tools to get all of the boards to stay together straight. S/he doesn't toss the lumber out into the yard and it is done. Likewise, a teacher can't toss the information out into the classroom via lectures. Tools are needed.
Now, are teachers being asked to be "sysadmins" instead of teachers? That is possible. I have a dozen computers in my room, but they are tools to use, and I maintain these machines. I want to. I am able to create situations in which the students learn. They aren't primarily learning about computers. Priarily they are learning writing and publishing as we publish the school's newspaper and they are learning History and English. There are other classes that teach computer skills.
{Side Rant}: Because of "No Child Left Behind", I cannot officially teach a computer class even though I know more about computers and programming than the "highly qualified" teachers. Thanks Bush. {/side rant}
Anway, before I was distracted, I was going to say that teachers aren't anything that they don't want to be. We are underpaid, We do more work in 9 months than anyone else does in a year, we deal with abusive situations, we are threatened, we are attacked, add anything else to this list. We do this because we want to. I love the children I teach. I put up with all of this for them. But, this is true with all teachers, In the classroom, the teacher is God. It doesn't matter if the administration has put 20 computers in the classroom. If the teacher doesn't want to use them, the computers won't get used. In the classroom, the teachers close the door and create the world that is needed to teach the student in way that the teacher knows best....
"Because I said so" loses all meaning at about the age of 12,
I think that statement wears thin when a child hits the age of reason, not 12. Most children, from my experience, hit the age of reason around 2nd grade: some sooner, some later. If I had a mod point, I'd hand it out.
I don't want to preach; but, to me, the trust issue (as mentioned earlier) is the key to raising children. Trust them and let them know you trust them. But, children will screw up and loose that trust. Let them know that the trust is gone and let them know what it will take to get that trust back. And LET THEM EARN THE TRUST BACK. I have seen many parents that "give up" when a child becomes untrustworthy. When that happens, the child doesn't have anything to strive for in his/her parental relationship. Is this "Trust See-Saw" easy to handle? No, of course not.
Let me get back to the topic: Start young with teaching children what is appropriate and inappropriate. (For the parents with teens, it may not be too late to start, but it will be tough if you have to convince you child that certain clothes he/she has been wearing for two years are now inappropriate.) Is it easy to discuss this with children? It shouldn;t be hard.
Let me use a personal example: My son, at the time was age 9, went to spend the night at a friends house. While there they watched an austin powers movie. This came out in conversation a couple of days later. My wife and I were horrified that this happened, but we didn;t yell and hoot and holler. We asked about the movie and he told us about it (We had seen this movie a couple of years before at a friends house (Strange how things work out)) During this conversation we talked about attitudes toward women and sexuality. And we talked about whe we found certain things objectionable. But it wasn't a lecture. we were having a conversation and he understood why it was inapproriate when we had finished.
You may say, "Bah, kids can't handle that kind of talk." Well, you'd be suprised. It you are honest and open with your children in ALL areas, they will learn and respond in this type of conversational enviornment. A few months ago, My son was at an overnight with a few friends and a movie was going to be shown. He asked what it was rated and got a couple of friends to go into another room and play cards (or a board game, I can;t remember. He's in bed now, or I would ask him). But I think that takes some maturity. Maturity that comes from learning how to think along the lines of what is appropriate and what is not.
How does one get to a point where we can trust the kids to make good choices? As parents we should make good choices ourselves and explain these to the kids. Dinner is a great time for these discussions. And whenver something comes up, don;t hide it from the kids. Let them in one what is happeneing. Another example: A student from where I teach was kicked out of his house. We let him stay with use for a bit while things got straightened out. My children were, of course very curious about what was going on, and we told them about the neglect, abuse, and everything going on. My children were very welcoming and treated this person as a brother fot the time he was here. Since then, my son has volunteered his time at some charities in the area for other "transients."
Again, bak to the topic: In the manner of the internet, as with all areas, be open and honest. When you are deleting spam from your email, there is a great learning experience for the kids. "Look at this junk. Enlarge your breasts..." and get into a discussion about the previlence of sexual attitudes in society. It works, kids listen, and they will understand. Yesterday, When I was playing my father-in-law on some online chess and my kids were helping out, I got an offer across AIM (Through trillian) to check out some girls webcam. (Yea right.) Well what a great learning experience about the inappropriateness of the internet. We even went to the link, and sure enough, it was filtered out. which leads me to...
Don;t let children surf without proper filtering. All of our computers run through an E-Smith server (modified red-hat small office gateway and server) which runs an excellent free SquidGuard filter. This doesn't mean that you don;t t
Think about what you said and use what you know about the common user.
[scenareo] Joe gets his voucher for $49.95 (or whatever his share of 200 million is) and reads the voucher fine print that says he may buy computer software. Joe goes out to Best-Buy/Walmart/Circut City, etc and decides to buy a program. [/scenareo]
Now what is Joe going to buy? How many copies of Mitel's Server software have you seen at Walmart?
The problem with this is exacly as the original poster in this thread stated: They should have been given cash.
It seems CNN changed their links around: Here's a fixed set.
While we've been talking about the chinises space launch here, the Chineese have launched a fighter pilot into space. I wish him well on his 14 laps around the earth.
People have always done these kinds of things for the films that they enjoy. Go to The Force.Net. All sorts of fan movies. There was even an article here on slashdot about some KIDS that were remakng Indiana Jones (I can;t find it though. I'm sure someone will point it out for us)
Or, when you said no one has done this before, you were talking about the matrix? Well My favortie just happens to be matrix based.
I'm not sure what this phrase means. "Something for the masses" is usually a euphamism for "mass produced item sold at walmart stores that takes no intelligence to use."
Now computers and extra equipment usally are not for the masses if they requirme more thought than pointing and clicking. When you start mentioning things like (from the article:) Mirra comprises three pieces: hardware, software, and service, you start start losing the masses. If I were to say this to my grandmother, mother, sister, brother, father, etc they would all think I was talking about some slothing line and laundry service.
For those of use that are not part of the masses and know how to install an operating system, There are may great linux distros that do everything that is offered in the article for much cheaper. Look at E-Smith for a great solution for home/office/small business, or even school districts. It's free for the developer release and it even runs on those old Pentium 233 machines that are laying around.
Yes! (If I could Moderate in this forum I would boot you up)This is the very reason I read up on and learned about ROBOTS.TXT. And now it IS password protected.
I post my MP3s on my personal webserver in a streaming Jukebox so I can listen to my rightfully licensed music at work. but Google got ahold of my collection and returns my site with certain searches. I then ended up on a few H4x0r5 WAREZ-MP3 lists. Needless to say, within a week of this "publicity" my bandwidth was shot to hell. The RIAA doesn't need to shut down those that put MP3s on servers. Other leeches will take care of that for them.
On a side not, I still get occasional mails from people that find a google listing and ask for access to a certain song. I can deal with that.
Is there a way to allow some search engines, say google, access to you web server and also deny access to some search engines , say microshaft? I know, don;t allow access based on IP, but I'd rather do it from a ROBOT.TXT file.
Is there a way? Before I get flamed, I'll answer "Why?" Because I'd like to see some search engines fail and see some succeed.
I'd love to hear what Frank Zappa would be saying now. I'm sure it isn't to different to what he has always been saying. Too bad he's gone the the big "Joe's Garage in the Sky." He'd be lighting a nice little fire under some RIAA peoples. If nothing else, he'd be throwing out some great musical commentary. **sigh** I miss him.
To answer your question of who might be willing... I don't know if anyone is willing today. For someone to have the "oomph" required, they would have to be a child of the RIAA and people in the entertainment industry tend not to bite hands that feed of have fed them.
Picture this: I walk by my bank at midnight while walking my dog, and I tug on the door to find it unlocked. I then write a letter and deliver it to the bank manager the next day. The letter says: You bank is unlocked at midnight. it may be possible for someone that is not authorized to walk in.
This is a non-cyber version, but is it different?
I suppose there are a couple of possible things that might happen:
The bank manager finds that there is $2,000 missing and decides to pin in on me becuase I know how to get into the bank.
I get thrown in jail for attempting to break into a bank.
Anyway, what is the propper protocol for reporting a security hole? Post a H4X0r site detailing how to get pasta security hole, or maybe ost an article about it to slashdot?
I can't mod you any higher, so I will agree with you. What has basically been decided, IMPO (It's my paranoid opinion), is that the RIAA and the MPAA are not going to sue the universities as long as the university allows the *AA to sue its students. I find this troubling as the "University" has always been a bastion of freedoms where students try out what limits are and where these limits should be (sometimes the hard way). Because of this freedom students will become better citizens in the future. Yes, students will break the law (Show me one sober student under 21 and I'll show you 112% of the student population drinking). But the universities have their own student courts and laws to handle infractions.
Before I get rambling, I'll just get to the point. Universites are going to stop handling its own affairs and looking after the students because of this, and I feel that students will not have the opportunity to start any more social rebellions as they did in the 60's and 70's.
(Because of these freedoms during the 60's and 70's that were handled by the university, the goernments was told many time to go suck eggs...as a result, 40 years later, Americans have a totally different (better?) view of government and the military.)
If the *AA can come in and swarm all over students for filesharing, then (This leap is not as big as some may think) Big Brother will be right behind to punish the GALA group activists that speak out about military operations in some small African country.
I think this will be the straw that breaks my back in the opinion of the *AAs. Sad. it really is.
Let's format this a little better: Only on Slashdot Read of poems having sex While still I get none
Not bad. Now lets take another one:
While reading bad stuff thought about the creative: Was a waste of time.
Ok, that isn't good, but let's through them in the sack and see what pops out... While reading slashdot Read about creative sex While still I waste none.
Slashdot Mirror
The Edsel 1857-59
The Edsel was the ultimate DOA car, but contrary to common opinion, this was more a function of market segmenting and changing tastes than of purely bad styling. And of course it doesn't help that it was ugly. The vertical front grille of the Edsel looked like a big nose that divided the otherwise relatively conventional front of the car, and the front and back styling made even the 350hp V-8 version look slow. By the time Ford decided to restyle the Edsel in 1959, the car's sales had slid off a cliff and that was the end of Edsel.
1989-91 Chrysler TC Masarati
There were a whopping 52 service bulletins (many requiring recalls) for this bastard-child car born of an unfortunate need by Maserati for ready cash and Chrysler's willingness to turn a LeBaron into a Maserati. Not only was a 3.0-liter V-6 a criminal concept for a supposed Italian exotic (putting out a pathetic 141 horsepower), but so was the American sheetmetal. Then there were the many mechanical nightmares from blown clutches and engines to leaking roofs. This car cost double the sticker on the LeBaron and broke twice as often. After all, it was Italian, right?
1959-1969 Chevy Corvair
Sure, the nifty-looking Corvair had some good points. Like a Porsche 911, its engine was air-cooled, and resided in the back, to provide extra rear-wheel traction. Too bad its flat-six engine biased the weight of the early cars so far aftward that the steering became very light at highway speeds; and it sure didn't help that the gas tank was mounted up front, so if you did wreck--Ka Boom! If only the design had been better executed. Bummer. (Watch out, here come the nasty letters from all those Corvair fans!)
1969-77 Ford Maverick
There were four-door Mavericks and two-doors. There was a Mercury version called the Comet. There were vinyl-topped models, too. What they had in common was that they were built on platform designs heavily prone to rust (this was the early days of unit-body cars) and weak-kneed in-line six engines. But the cars were cheap and therefore, popular, especially in the gas-crisis years. Not that we think the Maverick is necessarily as bad as what came afterward--the abysmal Fox-platform Futura/Fairmont, and the Grenada, which was still based on the Maverick platform, and so carried forward all the bad-handling traits and massive rustability to boot.
1980 Chevy Citation
With a 2.8-liter V-6 and front-wheel drive, this was GM's attempt to take on the likes of Honda and Toyota. GM also shared this so-called X-body setup (of the Citation) with Olds (Omega) Buick (Skylark) and Pontiac (Phoenix). The differences were basically in body style, not fundamental mechanics. Naturally, because the cars looked futuristic and because they got decent mileage, the Citation and its brethren were a huge hit (800,000 Citations sold in 1980). But to meet demand GM let quality slip, so problems like faulty brakes and steering plagued Citations and led to a steep drop in quality--and sales.
1986 Cadillac Eldarado
In a desperate attempt to reach a younger demographic, Cadillac revamped its classic Eldorado to look less like a classic Caddy road yacht and more like a two-door version of the ill-conceived four-door Cadillac Cimarron. Demand for the new Caddy fell (big surprise), and only a year after introduction production sank to just under 18,000 units. Did it matter that you could get a V-8 in the Caddy and not in the other GM look-alikes? Nope. It took another 16 years of awful versions (2002 will be the last year of the Eldo) but the decline all started back in 1986.
1982 Renault Fuego
In the early 1980s American Motors Corporation (before it was absorbed by Chrysler) and French-maker Renault teamed up to make some really awful cars but none as bad as the Fuego. Thankfully, the relationship died out--and today AMC no longer exists and Renault hasn't set foot on American shores since. Th
If you are at work, beware of porn ads on the link to the worst slav car. FYI.
Remember when "Shakespeare in Love" beat "Saving Private Ryan"; "Forrest Gump" beat "Pulp Fiction", etc.?
Forest Gump was in 1994 as was Pulp Fiction. (not a bad movie.) I agree; Pulp Fiction was better than Forrest. But also that year was Shawshank Redemption. In my opinion, this was the best movie of 1994.
But my thinking a different movie is better than another person just illustrates the fact that all of these awards are subjective and really don't mean that much execpt for "Bragging Rights."
What gives? there are a lot of slants in this survey. Look at #10 for the business side:
10. Rank the importance of server operating attributes to your organization. (1 indicates a preference for low product cost and more administive and end-user time. 5 indicates a high up-front product cost but less user effort)
What gives? I already use mutiple servers that are FREE: E-Smith AND Easy to set up. It takes, honestly, 15 minutes to set up (Includes formatting drives), and 15 minutes to install filters if it will be used as a web proxy. Then I leave it set for 6 to 8 months. It doesn;t get any freer withless effort.
Yes, you can have it both ways.
It all comes down to your game design. Design your game. Write up your rules make your own gamne board by printing out what you design and pasting it on top of a peice of cardboard. Use checkers/bottlecapps for pieces. WHen you design how the game works, looks don't matter.
What matters: Is it fun? Teach others to play it. Let strangers play it. Sit in a College Student center and give away beer to those that play it. Tweak the game. MAke it more fun. I made a card game that I use in the classes I teach and following the habbit of making everyone play it and provide feedback (What did you like/dislike, I must have clocked thousands of hours of play testing.
After you have designed the game. Sell it if you are in it for the money. Game companies can market, produce and sell these things more successfully that you will out of your own basement. (Don't take it persoannly, I can't do it either).
By your question, it seems that you won't mind outsourcing everything. Maybe that will work. But it will be hard to find people to advertise it and stock it on shelves. If you are going to go stricktly mail order, how in the world am I going to find out about your game? Will you place an ad on slashdot, just like the think-geek BB-shooting-tank ad that I am ignoring at this moment?
Anyway. Good luck!
Computers are a tool in the classroom. They should be used as such. The teachers have to know how to best teach the students. I pitty the studnets that have a teacher that only lectures and uses no "tools."
Some Tools of Education: Textbooks, Chalkboards/MarkerBoards, Maps, Record players/CD/Any Audio, Videos/DVDs, guest speakers, field trips, etc. Basically anything the teacher chooses to use to help the student to learn the prescribed lesson is a "tool."
Look at the carpenter's trade. S/he builds a house. To do so, s/he must use tools to get all of the boards to stay together straight. S/he doesn't toss the lumber out into the yard and it is done. Likewise, a teacher can't toss the information out into the classroom via lectures. Tools are needed.
Now, are teachers being asked to be "sysadmins" instead of teachers? That is possible. I have a dozen computers in my room, but they are tools to use, and I maintain these machines. I want to. I am able to create situations in which the students learn. They aren't primarily learning about computers. Priarily they are learning writing and publishing as we publish the school's newspaper and they are learning History and English. There are other classes that teach computer skills.
{Side Rant}: Because of "No Child Left Behind", I cannot officially teach a computer class even though I know more about computers and programming than the "highly qualified" teachers. Thanks Bush. {/side rant}
Anway, before I was distracted, I was going to say that teachers aren't anything that they don't want to be. We are underpaid, We do more work in 9 months than anyone else does in a year, we deal with abusive situations, we are threatened, we are attacked, add anything else to this list. We do this because we want to. I love the children I teach. I put up with all of this for them. But, this is true with all teachers, In the classroom, the teacher is God. It doesn't matter if the administration has put 20 computers in the classroom. If the teacher doesn't want to use them, the computers won't get used. In the classroom, the teachers close the door and create the world that is needed to teach the student in way that the teacher knows best....
Bah, time to get back to planning for the month.
"Because I said so" loses all meaning at about the age of 12,
I think that statement wears thin when a child hits the age of reason, not 12. Most children, from my experience, hit the age of reason around 2nd grade: some sooner, some later. If I had a mod point, I'd hand it out.
I don't want to preach; but, to me, the trust issue (as mentioned earlier) is the key to raising children. Trust them and let them know you trust them. But, children will screw up and loose that trust. Let them know that the trust is gone and let them know what it will take to get that trust back. And LET THEM EARN THE TRUST BACK. I have seen many parents that "give up" when a child becomes untrustworthy. When that happens, the child doesn't have anything to strive for in his/her parental relationship. Is this "Trust See-Saw" easy to handle? No, of course not.
Let me get back to the topic: Start young with teaching children what is appropriate and inappropriate. (For the parents with teens, it may not be too late to start, but it will be tough if you have to convince you child that certain clothes he/she has been wearing for two years are now inappropriate.) Is it easy to discuss this with children? It shouldn;t be hard.
Let me use a personal example: My son, at the time was age 9, went to spend the night at a friends house. While there they watched an austin powers movie. This came out in conversation a couple of days later. My wife and I were horrified that this happened, but we didn;t yell and hoot and holler. We asked about the movie and he told us about it (We had seen this movie a couple of years before at a friends house (Strange how things work out)) During this conversation we talked about attitudes toward women and sexuality. And we talked about whe we found certain things objectionable. But it wasn't a lecture. we were having a conversation and he understood why it was inapproriate when we had finished.
You may say, "Bah, kids can't handle that kind of talk." Well, you'd be suprised. It you are honest and open with your children in ALL areas, they will learn and respond in this type of conversational enviornment. A few months ago, My son was at an overnight with a few friends and a movie was going to be shown. He asked what it was rated and got a couple of friends to go into another room and play cards (or a board game, I can;t remember. He's in bed now, or I would ask him). But I think that takes some maturity. Maturity that comes from learning how to think along the lines of what is appropriate and what is not.
How does one get to a point where we can trust the kids to make good choices? As parents we should make good choices ourselves and explain these to the kids. Dinner is a great time for these discussions. And whenver something comes up, don;t hide it from the kids. Let them in one what is happeneing. Another example: A student from where I teach was kicked out of his house. We let him stay with use for a bit while things got straightened out. My children were, of course very curious about what was going on, and we told them about the neglect, abuse, and everything going on. My children were very welcoming and treated this person as a brother fot the time he was here. Since then, my son has volunteered his time at some charities in the area for other "transients."
Again, bak to the topic: In the manner of the internet, as with all areas, be open and honest. When you are deleting spam from your email, there is a great learning experience for the kids. "Look at this junk. Enlarge your breasts..." and get into a discussion about the previlence of sexual attitudes in society. It works, kids listen, and they will understand. Yesterday, When I was playing my father-in-law on some online chess and my kids were helping out, I got an offer across AIM (Through trillian) to check out some girls webcam. (Yea right.) Well what a great learning experience about the inappropriateness of the internet. We even went to the link, and sure enough, it was filtered out.
which leads me to...
Don;t let children surf without proper filtering. All of our computers run through an E-Smith server (modified red-hat small office gateway and server) which runs an excellent free SquidGuard filter. This doesn't mean that you don;t t
Swish is a program that I find easier to use than Flash. Give it a look.
Oh, it is also a helluva cheaper product too.
Think about what you said and use what you know about the common user.
[scenareo]
Joe gets his voucher for $49.95 (or whatever his share of 200 million is) and reads the voucher fine print that says he may buy computer software. Joe goes out to Best-Buy/Walmart/Circut City, etc and decides to buy a program.
[/scenareo]
Now what is Joe going to buy? How many copies of Mitel's Server software have you seen at Walmart?
The problem with this is exacly as the original poster in this thread stated: They should have been given cash.
It seems CNN changed their links around: Here's a fixed set.
While we've been talking about the chinises space launch here, the Chineese have launched a fighter pilot into space. I wish him well on his 14 laps around the earth.
Read about it here.
People have always done these kinds of things for the films that they enjoy. Go to The Force.Net. All sorts of fan movies.
There was even an article here on slashdot about some KIDS that were remakng Indiana Jones (I can;t find it though. I'm sure someone will point it out for us)
Or, when you said no one has done this before, you were talking about the matrix? Well My favortie just happens to be matrix based.
When Neo was found
and taught cool kung-fu fighting,
It's for this sequel
ALl you need to do to look at my signature to understand why I an jizzed about this as well.
:-)
Hopefully the our neighbors across the pond will but up some Bit Torrents.
A troll. Oh well. I'll bite:
It isn't because Italy is shaped like a boot. It's becaue it boots off of linux.
**goes for the life vest as Karma goes down the drain.**
I'm not sure what this phrase means. "Something for the masses" is usually a euphamism for "mass produced item sold at walmart stores that takes no intelligence to use."
/plug
Now computers and extra equipment usally are not for the masses if they requirme more thought than pointing and clicking. When you start mentioning things like (from the article:) Mirra comprises three pieces: hardware, software, and service, you start start losing the masses. If I were to say this to my grandmother, mother, sister, brother, father, etc they would all think I was talking about some slothing line and laundry service.
For those of use that are not part of the masses and know how to install an operating system, There are may great linux distros that do everything that is offered in the article for much cheaper. Look at E-Smith for a great solution for home/office/small business, or even school districts. It's free for the developer release and it even runs on those old Pentium 233 machines that are laying around.
Yes! (If I could Moderate in this forum I would boot you up)This is the very reason I read up on and learned about ROBOTS.TXT. And now it IS password protected.
Strange what a little experience can teach us!
I post my MP3s on my personal webserver in a streaming Jukebox so I can listen to my rightfully licensed music at work. but Google got ahold of my collection and returns my site with certain searches. I then ended up on a few H4x0r5 WAREZ-MP3 lists. Needless to say, within a week of this "publicity" my bandwidth was shot to hell. The RIAA doesn't need to shut down those that put MP3s on servers. Other leeches will take care of that for them.
On a side not, I still get occasional mails from people that find a google listing and ask for access to a certain song. I can deal with that.
Is there a way to allow some search engines, say google, access to you web server and also deny access to some search engines , say microshaft? I know, don;t allow access based on IP, but I'd rather do it from a ROBOT.TXT file.
Is there a way?
Before I get flamed, I'll answer "Why?" Because I'd like to see some search engines fail and see some succeed.
I'd love to hear what Frank Zappa would be saying now. I'm sure it isn't to different to what he has always been saying. Too bad he's gone the the big "Joe's Garage in the Sky." He'd be lighting a nice little fire under some RIAA peoples. If nothing else, he'd be throwing out some great musical commentary. **sigh** I miss him.
To answer your question of who might be willing... I don't know if anyone is willing today. For someone to have the "oomph" required, they would have to be a child of the RIAA and people in the entertainment industry tend not to bite hands that feed of have fed them.
I'm sure that you've been around Slashdot long enough to know that the goatse guy is there for you.
(God, how I wish I could un-see some things)
This is a non-cyber version, but is it different?
I suppose there are a couple of possible things that might happen:
Anyway, what is the propper protocol for reporting a security hole? Post a H4X0r site detailing how to get pasta security hole, or maybe ost an article about it to slashdot?
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I can't mod you any higher, so I will agree with you.
What has basically been decided, IMPO (It's my paranoid opinion), is that the RIAA and the MPAA are not going to sue the universities as long as the university allows the *AA to sue its students.
I find this troubling as the "University" has always been a bastion of freedoms where students try out what limits are and where these limits should be (sometimes the hard way). Because of this freedom students will become better citizens in the future. Yes, students will break the law (Show me one sober student under 21 and I'll show you 112% of the student population drinking). But the universities have their own student courts and laws to handle infractions.
Before I get rambling, I'll just get to the point. Universites are going to stop handling its own affairs and looking after the students because of this, and I feel that students will not have the opportunity to start any more social rebellions as they did in the 60's and 70's.
(Because of these freedoms during the 60's and 70's that were handled by the university, the goernments was told many time to go suck eggs...as a result, 40 years later, Americans have a totally different (better?) view of government and the military.)
If the *AA can come in and swarm all over students for filesharing, then (This leap is not as big as some may think) Big Brother will be right behind to punish the GALA group activists that speak out about military operations in some small African country.
I think this will be the straw that breaks my back in the opinion of the *AAs. Sad. it really is.
Let's format this a little better:
:-)
Only on Slashdot
Read of poems having sex
While still I get none
Not bad. Now lets take another one:
While reading bad stuff
thought about the creative:
Was a waste of time.
Ok, that isn't good, but let's through them in the sack and see what pops out...
While reading slashdot
Read about creative sex
While still I waste none.
My head hurts now.