Sorry, I disagree. I believe that playing video games is very healthy. They are also the centerpiece of my son's friendships.
I want my daughter to play more because I wish to encourage neural development (although it may be a bit late) and help her to be less technophobic. I've been programming computers since 1968 and since I saw the first interactive systems in 1973, I've known that games are among the most important executables on the system.
I am very interested in games for girls/women because I don't
think my daughter (12) plays enough. My son (14) is OK at 3-5
hours/day.
Recently, I bought her a dancepad because she doesn't much like
game controllers. I can understand her point, I find them fiddly
myself. She seems to like it and that makes me wonder whether
the IO devices used by games are female-optimised. What is
best for each s3x?
The dancepad may save me from having to assign her homework
of one hour per day but really don't want to create that kind
of resentment.
Huh??? I thought this suit was about copyright, not patents.
I smell FUD!
There will be some code commonality between SCO SysV
and Linux. But just because SCO has a copyright (as does Linux BTW)
does NOT mean they own copyright on every single snippet of
their source. A lot of snippets would have come from third-parties
-- hardware manufacturers, journal articles, BSD, standards... Those snippet
(or whole routine) authors still retain copyright in their works,
not SCO.
Teeny weenie VW diesels and the slighly bigger Mercedes engines all
have prechambers with indirect fuel injection and glowplugs. Much easier to start in cold weather than bigrigs with _direct_ injection, most of which don't have glowplugs.
Besides, diesels idle very efficiently (if a little noisy). I'd be surprised if they used more than 1 gal/hr.
And as things get cold, you need to worry more about the battery. Battery electric blankets are essential around -40.
It's easy to tell if seatbelts have been worn in in a moderate speed crash. The belt material is specially woven to yield and absorb energy. After doing so, the belts are somewhat longer and floppy like fabric.
Now I don't care if someone wants to endanger themselves by not wearing seatbelts or helmets. But nor should anyone else pay their increased medical expenses via insurance rates or taxes.
One reason for seatbelt and helmet laws (even if unenforced) is lower insurance rates by establishing "contributory negligence".
I gotta confess. I've been using Internet email
for 9 years, and corporate email [IBM PROFS] for
10 years before that. I never saw what the fuss
was about SPAM until this spring.
Sure, the spam ads are pesky and take time to DL
and delete, but they really aren't that
intrustive or obnoxious. At least not for
me using `pine` or `mutt`. Then I had to use a
GUI browser to get my mail on vacation. Using a
GUI was bad enough, but suddenly I _saw_ the
obscene cr@p that was being foisted on
unsophisticated lusers. Oh my.
The pornographers have somewhat dubious morals,
else they wouldn't be practicing their craft. We
can hardly expect them to voluntarily stop. And
coercion is likely to require excessive force and
loss of general liberties.
My beef isn't so much with the spammers as it is
with the GUI browser/email coders. HTML email is
a Bad Idea. I delete it on sight. But maybe
somebody likes the formatting tags. Barely OK.
But why would _anyone_ autoload images, load URLs
or run poxy javascript? At least, not without
explicit user permission for listed URLs?
Greeting cards might be nice, but they can
tolerate some trouble (certification?).
I think the biggest problem with SPAM is the
MUAs. And this can easily be fixed with a few
defaults, but MS mostly makes egregious
decisions.
Very true, China is NOT part of the US. But US law doesn't distinguish where
the attacked systems are located. The offense is the attack. Boston, Birmingham, Berlin or Beijing is still a felony.
Isn't this a violation of the US DMCA or other US laws prohibiting unauthorized access to computer systems?
Just because government employees or agents are committing the felonies does not make them legal, although it does reduce the likelihood of prosecution. But that's what [runaway] Grand Juries are for!
Hey, if it's "carved in stone" I don't mind at all. When it's on electronic media then there's trouble.)
More seriously, data exchange between computer systems has always been the biggest problem. The hotel computer might know you got a room with single beds but it has enough trouble just remembering that, let alone talking to some strange surveillance computer through a non-existant interface.
... cuz all their lusers will whine. The point is that ISPs give actual consent to all traffic because they have the capability
of filtering it and many do block outbound and inbound ports.
NAT is similarly protected because it conceals nothing. The router is a computer -- I opened mine up and found a nice ARM CPU.
It is a nice computer. When it wants to, it answers some questions for me by asking it's buddies on the internet.
... certainly not The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Av, Wash DC.
For all I know, there is some wholesome local brothel using that name:)
More to the point, why criminalise something? Next they'll criminalise other information they find undesirable. To stop it, all the USgovt need do is
register some trademarks and defend them. Furthermore, I
believe the US & states attorneys can sue for trademark infringement even without the involvement of the trademark owner [consumer protection].
OTOH, your company might have an "open sharing" policy and a large writable NFS/SAMBA drive for people to dump files they wish to share rather than attach to email. Policy would be copyright had
to be respected, but that could only be determined by the uploader. Management supervision whence liability could be avoided by running a size-adjusted LRU delete program to police the free-space. Untouched by human eyes.
The problem with this mointoring scheme [as with most] is the
watcher. Who are you going to give that power to? Will they even
exercise it properly, let alone abusing it?
I'd also wonder
about the morals and ethics of the watcher. Why are they doing it?
What is there justification for peeking over someone's shoulder?
I know I'd only do it for a friend at specific request to help
overcome an internet addiction. And maybe not even then. Otherwise,
no way! I'm not going to become a snitch -- that was responsible for
terrible repression in Germany and Russia both pre-WW2 and since.
But the direction of the necessary momemtum transfer is perpendicular to the tether. The force on the ascending payload is upwards, usually supplied by cables so the momentum will come from the head end.
To do the necessary momemtum transfer to the earth, you'd have to have an impossibly stiff piston pushing the payload to geosync.
Assuming strong-enough materials, I don't see how a space elevator will get around the Law of the Conservation of Momentum.
When a payload is hoisted, the geosync end [and it had better be massive] will have to accelerate it and slow down itself. You'd get this back when you lowered a load.
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The OS has to have sufficient isolation that this luser only damages her own files and processes.
IIRC, FreeBSD even has a Write-Once "SECURE" flag that locks even root out from some functions.
I want my daughter to play more because I wish to encourage neural development (although it may be a bit late) and help her to be less technophobic. I've been programming computers since 1968 and since I saw the first interactive systems in 1973, I've known that games are among the most important executables on the system.
Recently, I bought her a dancepad because she doesn't much like game controllers. I can understand her point, I find them fiddly myself. She seems to like it and that makes me wonder whether the IO devices used by games are female-optimised. What is best for each s3x?
The dancepad may save me from having to assign her homework of one hour per day but really don't want to create that kind of resentment.
Make sure there is enough vent area at the bottom and top of the case as mounted. Drill some if needed.
There will be some code commonality between SCO SysV and Linux. But just because SCO has a copyright (as does Linux BTW) does NOT mean they own copyright on every single snippet of their source. A lot of snippets would have come from third-parties -- hardware manufacturers, journal articles, BSD, standards ... Those snippet
(or whole routine) authors still retain copyright in their works,
not SCO.
Besides, diesels idle very efficiently (if a little noisy). I'd be surprised if they used more than 1 gal/hr.
And as things get cold, you need to worry more about the battery. Battery electric blankets are essential around -40.
The use might be depracated, but then so is being a grammar cop!
Now I don't care if someone wants to endanger themselves by not wearing seatbelts or helmets. But nor should anyone else pay their increased medical expenses via insurance rates or taxes.
One reason for seatbelt and helmet laws (even if unenforced) is lower insurance rates by establishing "contributory negligence".
The technology is intrinsically suited the other way -- RF for broadcast, wired for point-to-point. Yet we fight the tide.
But my thoughts were to reduce the number of different coins. Instead of 1-2-5 in each decade, how about only 1-3?
Sure, the spam ads are pesky and take time to DL and delete, but they really aren't that intrustive or obnoxious. At least not for me using `pine` or `mutt`. Then I had to use a GUI browser to get my mail on vacation. Using a GUI was bad enough, but suddenly I _saw_ the obscene cr@p that was being foisted on unsophisticated lusers. Oh my.
The pornographers have somewhat dubious morals, else they wouldn't be practicing their craft. We can hardly expect them to voluntarily stop. And coercion is likely to require excessive force and loss of general liberties.
My beef isn't so much with the spammers as it is with the GUI browser/email coders. HTML email is a Bad Idea. I delete it on sight. But maybe somebody likes the formatting tags. Barely OK. But why would _anyone_ autoload images, load URLs or run poxy javascript? At least, not without explicit user permission for listed URLs? Greeting cards might be nice, but they can tolerate some trouble (certification?).
I think the biggest problem with SPAM is the MUAs. And this can easily be fixed with a few defaults, but MS mostly makes egregious decisions.
Just because government employees or agents are committing the felonies does not make them legal, although it does reduce the likelihood of prosecution. But that's what [runaway] Grand Juries are for!
More seriously, data exchange between computer systems has always been the biggest problem. The hotel computer might know you got a room with single beds but it has enough trouble just remembering that, let alone talking to some strange surveillance computer through a non-existant interface.
NAT is similarly protected because it conceals nothing. The router is a computer -- I opened mine up and found a nice ARM CPU. It is a nice computer. When it wants to, it answers some questions for me by asking it's buddies on the internet.
I'm glad it's getting a high profile because people should always realise the consequences of their decisions.
More to the point, why criminalise something? Next they'll criminalise other information they find undesirable. To stop it, all the USgovt need do is register some trademarks and defend them. Furthermore, I believe the US & states attorneys can sue for trademark infringement even without the involvement of the trademark owner [consumer protection].
Sure, life can survive some pretty extreme conditionsi [thermal vents], but can it form there?
OTOH, your company might have an "open sharing" policy and a large writable NFS/SAMBA drive for people to dump files they wish to share rather than attach to email. Policy would be copyright had to be respected, but that could only be determined by the uploader. Management supervision whence liability could be avoided by running a size-adjusted LRU delete program to police the free-space. Untouched by human eyes.
Small, important or irretrievable stuff gets mkisofs [even -J!] to CD-R.
I'd also wonder about the morals and ethics of the watcher. Why are they doing it? What is there justification for peeking over someone's shoulder? I know I'd only do it for a friend at specific request to help overcome an internet addiction. And maybe not even then. Otherwise, no way! I'm not going to become a snitch -- that was responsible for terrible repression in Germany and Russia both pre-WW2 and since.
To do the necessary momemtum transfer to the earth, you'd have to have an impossibly stiff piston pushing the payload to geosync.
When a payload is hoisted, the geosync end [and it had better be massive] will have to accelerate it and slow down itself. You'd get this back when you lowered a load.