If they guy had a prior mental issue, then EverQuest as his 'addiction' was just one of thousands of possible things.
People can be addicted to reckless driving, dangerous sexual behavior, self-mutilation, spending sprees, alcohol, drugs, stamp collecting, television etc etc.
So now are we gonna put warning labels on credit cards and TV sets when they are bought?
This is frivolous beyond belief and more bandwagoning about video games being bad.
Anything in moderation is ok. When it gets to extremes, then a problem arises. If this guy DID have an EQ addiction, why didn't anyone intervene on his behalf? Like maybe his mother...
I did NDAs and stuff for Sierra when I was 15-17. Never an issue with them.
Granted I was not working code and wasn't contributing (only testing), but breaking an NDA is still a bad thing(TM).
I never even had to 'sign' the NDAs, it was a 'Click here to accept this NDA agreement' on an online form. I think they did have a clause saying that if you are a minor, your parents must consent on your behalf.
My mom thought it was BS stuff until I started getting FedEx deliveries every week.:p
Even then. If a plane hits the building the vault is in, you could lose everything (as did happen with millions of dollars worth of valuables and documents people had stored in a vault at the WTC site).
I'd say if it is absolute critical data, frequent tape backups to two separate offsite facilities, plus one copy onsite.
I think that if you can say to a company "Yeah, my code is in the Linux kernel" or some other big name project* that might actually be running on that company's systems, I think that is very impressive.
* You could be talking to a management goon who has no idea about anything. In fact, his biggest accomplishment was that he dressed himself that morning.
Tell them that the MPAA/RIAA is dictating to the government and hence to you, laws that say where you can play and use your on property.
Half the problem with Anti-DMCA groups is that they don't convey the huge violation of rights to the common person.
While Napster is a cut and dry issue (Even then. I mean, they don't shutdown Ford because a drug dealer uses a car in a drug deal), the DeCSS case and Skylarov case bleeds into clear violations of your rights.
Right now (IIRC) all the major cell carriers are being required to rework their networks such that cell phone callers can be located within a certain area (Useful for 911 when they can't locate a caller and shadow government raids on your location by crack paramilitary teams).
The point wasn't that American actions in Somalia were altruistic and perfect and "Hooray for America!"
It was the point of the brotherhood and courage among American forces when they were surrounded.
Take the two Delta snipers who !!volunteered!! to be dropped into the second crash site to protect and recover any survivors.
These guys knew almost for certain it was a death trap. Worse, noone might be alive and their deaths would be for nothing. They could have been captured and tortured.
These guys did it for the love of their fellow man. Thats what this movie is about. It is not supposed to be an ultra-realistic, politically correct documentary*.
If all you see is "Hooray for America!", than you are so blinded by bias, it is sad.
* I believe the book has a lot more stuff on noncombatant women and children being killed. I only read a small part of someone else's copy.
The USSPACECOM tracks all cataloged satellites for possible collision with the shuttle, the ISS, Mir, when it was in orbit and US government maneuvering sats. If it appears an object may come too close to the shuttle, then the shuttle maneuvers to avoid the object. This has happened with several missions (STS-44, 48, 53, 72, 82) in which at least 5 maneuvers were required.
Quick google, straight from NASA:
Source: http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Hazard/Hyper/debris.htm
"Larger particles (objects greater than 10-cm in diameter) are being tracked and catalogued by USSPACECOM radar. Spacecraft and satellites can avoid collisions by maneuvering around the larger debris. For example, when a space shuttle is in orbit, the USSPACECOM regularly examines the trajectories of orbital debris to identify possible close encounters. If a catalogued object is projected to come within a few kilometers of the space shuttle, it will normally maneuver away from the object."
Actually, debris entering the atmosphere (man-made and not) is a common occurrence. Happens everyday on some scale. It isn't just everyday a 3.5 ton one comes down:)
I believe US Space Command/NASA/NORAD spends a ton of time tracking objects in close orbit, even very small ones the size of your finger.
After all, anything going 17500 miles per hour hitting something like the space shuttle or Hubble or any other satellite (GPS, communications, spy/defense) wouldn't be pretty.
Someone who worked for NASA at MSFC told me that they have actually had astronauts on the space shuttle change the shuttle's orbit slightly in order to avoid certain large pieces of debris.
I think that "blind people being about to read eBooks" is just a plea to sympathy.
I mean, it makes the copyright holders out to be really bad people if they aren't letting blind people have access to books. Villianizes them. I guess it is a fallacy of argument (They should get a better example... perhaps several more actually that they can play from multiple angles).
It is not just that blind person argument, I think they need to emphasize the fundamental impact on freedom that is occuring because of the DMCA.
They also need to bring it to the American people, because while right now it is a bunch of online geeks fighting it (Read: A small minority). That is if the American public even knows/cares about the DMCA and this case altogether.
It shouldn't wait until it gets worse before popular support makes it get better.
Slashdot Mirror
If they guy had a prior mental issue, then EverQuest as his 'addiction' was just one of thousands of possible things.
People can be addicted to reckless driving, dangerous sexual behavior, self-mutilation, spending sprees, alcohol, drugs, stamp collecting, television etc etc.
So now are we gonna put warning labels on credit cards and TV sets when they are bought?
This is frivolous beyond belief and more bandwagoning about video games being bad.
Anything in moderation is ok. When it gets to extremes, then a problem arises. If this guy DID have an EQ addiction, why didn't anyone intervene on his behalf? Like maybe his mother...
I did NDAs and stuff for Sierra when I was 15-17. Never an issue with them.
:p
Granted I was not working code and wasn't contributing (only testing), but breaking an NDA is still a bad thing(TM).
I never even had to 'sign' the NDAs, it was a 'Click here to accept this NDA agreement' on an online form. I think they did have a clause saying that if you are a minor, your parents must consent on your behalf.
My mom thought it was BS stuff until I started getting FedEx deliveries every week.
I'm in college now, and I would say the majority of oncampus students do have laptops.
Even then. If a plane hits the building the vault is in, you could lose everything (as did happen with millions of dollars worth of valuables and documents people had stored in a vault at the WTC site).
I'd say if it is absolute critical data, frequent tape backups to two separate offsite facilities, plus one copy onsite.
You are so right.
Plus, most residential lines are line sharing (Shared between ILEC for voice and CLEC for data).
As a result, it is a freaking problem to get anything done in the way of line repairs.
www.k12linux.org
Absolutely phenomenal. We installed it today and will be deploying it in a lab environment soon.
Not a SINGLE problem in install or setup.
I think that if you can say to a company "Yeah, my code is in the Linux kernel" or some other big name project* that might actually be running on that company's systems, I think that is very impressive.
* You could be talking to a management goon who has no idea about anything. In fact, his biggest accomplishment was that he dressed himself that morning.
Except for totally cutting the end user (us, the people) out!
Well, make it a graphic demonstration.
Tell them that the MPAA/RIAA is dictating to the government and hence to you, laws that say where you can play and use your on property.
Half the problem with Anti-DMCA groups is that they don't convey the huge violation of rights to the common person.
While Napster is a cut and dry issue (Even then. I mean, they don't shutdown Ford because a drug dealer uses a car in a drug deal), the DeCSS case and Skylarov case bleeds into clear violations of your rights.
The best part about this is that it is happening under a Conservative Republician presidency.
You know, the Republician party?
The one who is for less big government.
And preserving the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Yeah that one.
Cell phones are different.
Right now (IIRC) all the major cell carriers are being required to rework their networks such that cell phone callers can be located within a certain area (Useful for 911 when they can't locate a caller and shadow government raids on your location by crack paramilitary teams).
You missed most of the point of the movie.
The point wasn't that American actions in Somalia were altruistic and perfect and "Hooray for America!"
It was the point of the brotherhood and courage among American forces when they were surrounded.
Take the two Delta snipers who !!volunteered!! to be dropped into the second crash site to protect and recover any survivors.
These guys knew almost for certain it was a death trap. Worse, noone might be alive and their deaths would be for nothing. They could have been captured and tortured.
These guys did it for the love of their fellow man. Thats what this movie is about. It is not supposed to be an ultra-realistic, politically correct documentary*.
If all you see is "Hooray for America!", than you are so blinded by bias, it is sad.
* I believe the book has a lot more stuff on noncombatant women and children being killed. I only read a small part of someone else's copy.
One problem with google is that I find 8000 pages pointing to a source that doesn't exist anymore...
Perhaps something that could take random word strings from random pages.
m l
Similar to http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5898.sht
I was there Friday. Saw a K9 unit near the email garden, on the HP side.
I think it was only because of the world economic thing in town, not because of us wild Linux hippies.
There were beanbag chairs, over by the game area near the .orgs
I was a bit surprised to see bomb sniffing dogs at LWE. Then I realized with all the Linux hippies, they were probably DRUG sniffing dogs :)
Still more:
The USSPACECOM tracks all cataloged satellites for possible collision with the shuttle, the ISS, Mir, when it was in orbit and US government maneuvering sats. If it appears an object may come too close to the shuttle, then the shuttle maneuvers to avoid the object. This has happened with several missions (STS-44, 48, 53, 72, 82) in which at least 5 maneuvers were required.
http://www.satobs.org/satclose.html
Wrong (Sorry).
Quick google, straight from NASA:
Source: http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Hazard/Hyper/debris.htm
"Larger particles (objects greater than 10-cm in diameter) are being tracked and catalogued by USSPACECOM radar. Spacecraft and satellites can avoid collisions by maneuvering around the larger debris. For example, when a space shuttle is in orbit, the USSPACECOM regularly examines the trajectories of orbital debris to identify possible close encounters. If a catalogued object is projected to come within a few kilometers of the space shuttle, it will normally maneuver away from the object."
Also, further: http://see.msfc.nasa.gov/see/mod/modtech.html
Scroll down on that page. Left side. Headline articles.
Actually, debris entering the atmosphere (man-made and not) is a common occurrence. Happens everyday on some scale. It isn't just everyday a 3.5 ton one comes down :)
I believe US Space Command/NASA/NORAD spends a ton of time tracking objects in close orbit, even very small ones the size of your finger.
After all, anything going 17500 miles per hour hitting something like the space shuttle or Hubble or any other satellite (GPS, communications, spy/defense) wouldn't be pretty.
Someone who worked for NASA at MSFC told me that they have actually had astronauts on the space shuttle change the shuttle's orbit slightly in order to avoid certain large pieces of debris.
I think that "blind people being about to read eBooks" is just a plea to sympathy.
I mean, it makes the copyright holders out to be really bad people if they aren't letting blind people have access to books. Villianizes them. I guess it is a fallacy of argument (They should get a better example... perhaps several more actually that they can play from multiple angles).
It is not just that blind person argument, I think they need to emphasize the fundamental impact on freedom that is occuring because of the DMCA.
They also need to bring it to the American people, because while right now it is a bunch of online geeks fighting it (Read: A small minority). That is if the American public even knows/cares about the DMCA and this case altogether.
It shouldn't wait until it gets worse before popular support makes it get better.
At USB, our file serving is powered by SneakerNet (http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?snea kernet).
Most universities have this, in the form of online access to records and then seperate packages like Blackboard.
However, the briding of the two really needs to be done and to be done seamlessly.
SUNY Morrisville has wireless access across the entire campus. They also have Cat5 in some spots.
:)
I think they were IBM's "Most Wired Campus", which I would say in the case of wireless is a misnomer.
Giving every student an account on a Samba server they can reach from anywhere on campus would be good.
It would eliminate the need for floppies and such.