This is still a travesty of justice. Disorderly conduct and neutering her of her source of income is terrible for something of which she had no control.
You don't have kids do you? She is a teacher in charge of a classroom. When confronted with the problem of sexual images on the computer, she should have shut off the monitor and called the vice principal IMMEDIATELY, but what this woman did was stand there dumbfounded and let kids stare at some pretty graphic porn. They told their parents and that is what caused the media storm. The teacher kept it quiet and tried to solve the problem herself, and that is why she is being punished. Proper rules of conduct govern teachers and this one didn't follow them so she is being held accountable. I'm glad she didn't get 40yrs but I'm also glad they are slapping her wrist so that other teachers will see this case and be ethically stalwart and follow the correct measures to protect kids in their care.
Don't tag this suddenoutbreakofcommonsense! Some poor teacher was just convicted of a misdemeanor for something that she had no control over.
Not really. She would have seen the popups before and she likely looked the other way, because many teachers are drowning in apathy. This sends a message to teachers that they are responsible for the kids in their classroom and as a father I definitely agree with the ruling here. A teacher should call techsupport immediately if they have spyware and also make sure the kids are not looking at porn, which was reported that she just let the kids stand there and look at it while she stared at it too. That's the reason there was a big media blitz over this case... you have a teacher who wasn't in control over the situation but also she exposed these kids to sexual images without clearing the room. She could have totally removed herself from any type of scrutiny if she cleared the classroom immediately and also refrained from surfing questionable websites after hours.
Many people in positions of authority over children will want to double check and make sure their computers are clean from spyware/malware, or run the risk of similar legal ramifications. Software is available to you and even if you are a teacher with a lot of apathy (low wages, long hours, little patience, scary situations like guns in the school... etc)... and maybe it's a good idea to refrain from surfing porn on school computers!!
Yeah the concept of being "promoted to customer" is synonymous with "being fired" -- especially in retail but it also applies to pretty much any company where you would end up using the product you were working on (many MSFT products are used daily by everyone). The customer is always right and is therefore your boss!! You can also promote yourself by taking a job with the competition.
There are always going to be people complaining about something, but usually that day-to-day stuff can be handled quite easily enough. When your organization is making the right decisions however, typically everyone remains quiet and they are quite happy.
must be all the bureaucracy or some sort of internal politics
It's definitely part of the recipe for these kinds of projects. The main thing we see in big projects that are beyond a first or third iteration (like IE) is that most of the original team is gone and most of the original vision has changed, either for political reasons or for necessary course corrections, and both of which must be true for IE. Nobody on the IE team shares the exact same vision for IE. Many fragments of the IE userbase have likely caused conflicts between team members from design to production. Conflicts cause issues in every aspect of development, but also they cause turnover.
We know people were promoted out of the IE team, and promoted out of the company. In a case like Microsoft, it's been years since the first iteration, and IE has gone through so many revisions that there is a high likelihood for spaghetti code and feature creep to crush project fluidity. They have rewritten the whole thing, how many times now?
While team members wielding political weapons must be crushed on sight by worthy adversaries, it doesn't happen enough because people are afraid of repercussions. Unless you are Steve Ballmer, then you throw a chair and hit the wrong person.
This had better not include the overseas forces. What would our poor soldiers do when they have downtime? Isn't their quality of life bad enough? Now they can't even watch videos of their families waving at them and showing them homemade delicious cake. Believe me, those vids get previewed at the DOD before they get shipped over, so now there is either a greater risk to the stuff arriving in the field, or there is another big problem on the horizon to do with morale.
A ton of people were fired, and Val got a very nice check from T-Mobile.
What will Obama take for his trouble? I wonder who he's been chatting with. I see here a few dozen calls to a payphone in Ottawa. For years people were suggesting the USA could annex Canada if a big enough crisis occurred. Little did they know that Canada would annex the USA after a major stock market crash.
The problem is you need to be able to TOUCH, I mean really touch, to truly interact.
Zen masters agree that we are all not really here and therefore we can never truly touch anything. The ability to affect a change using a robust 3d environment is the only avenue left for UI. After that we'll be looking towards the 4th dementia. This project will be essential for piloting deep space at high speeds above anything we have conceived. Having a working model ready so early only assists in the other projects.
by owlnation (858981) Alter Relationship on Thursday November 20, @11:05AM (#25833075): "You need to copyright that before JJ Abrahms makes it into a movie."
I already did!
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We've probably all seen the video on youtube with the stoned spiders, and the kooky webs they make. I wonder what the effects of cosmic radiation will be on this spider who will be waiting a long time for a snack to buzz into his web. Unless, by space-surviving spider, they mean he can eat non-living things like dust? I think he likely drifted off like the $100000 tool belt that one space-walking astronaught lost yesterday. At least this loss wasn't as expensive. However it's possible this is a mutated spider that craves the media attention for the lulz, in which case it's possible that the spider unlatched the tool-belt in order to make a getaway, and build his own Evil Spider Space Station, with his newly acquired tool set, and other classified missing materials (that would not be reported)!
Although in another scenario, the tool belt will fall to earth with the spider riding it, Slim Pickens style, to crash land and obliterate some curious bystander, ala Dead Like Me. I still think it is more likely the spider will crash land somewhere and start another internet meme (link site contains articles that are 100% NSFW).
If I want another search, e.g., AbeBooks.com, I just change it to that. Does it become an "AbeBooks.com search bar" then?
Point taken, but also noted is that over 88% of users will never change default settings. Plus even if users change default settings, this is free advertising for the Google brand which increases brand awareness. Google did lots of this stuff to get where it is today, taking a page from Microsoft's default settings use of proprietary advertising and packaged solutions (ie: AOL and others each pay a portion of the Windows development and deployment costs, and they receive packages included in Windows plus other perks and Windows customer information, making the money that Windows costs gravy for MSFT).
I am so sorry that you took my post that way. I was only kidding around a little. My post will make sense to anyone who has played Master of Orion. Nowhere did I mention an Internet sperm bank auction, so I resent the connection with a MC Shampoo post.
I think transforming the Moon would be a really positive step for our species. Call it a test, call it our first expansionary mission. Also, if we can get a jump on terraform technology, and since it's only 2008, then we have about 40000 years before the galactic senate approaches us for our assistance in matters concerning the Orions. That's plenty of time to configure a few necessities for species survival, which are notably as follows:
1. Getting everyone on the planet to work together towards a common goal. 2. Stopping the real infidels (you know the ones from other planets creating dissent so they can throw us off our game) 3. Developing and improving faster methods of space travel. The time it takes to get to an enemy home world is the only hope in a quick victory for Mother Earth! 4. Socks. We need better socks. It's very cold in space. 5. Our energy weapon program is going smoothly. Keep it up. In 40000 years, our technology should definitely surpass that Death Star planetary destruction capability. 6. Rapid data transmission is going smoothly. Keep it up. By 42008, we should be sending and receiving entire clusters of units anywhere in the known universe, and beyond. 7. Deployed rover technologies are doing better than expected. We managed to get so much out of the mars mission that future missions with our new stealth invisibility technology should make Mother Earth a candidate for the Galactic Senate. By 42008, we should be looking at microscopic alteration technology weapons that can change our enemies into friends... which is just where we want them before we destroy them. 8. We need to stop letting these wars erupt on our soil. Perhaps better diplomacy? Perhaps a global government would be better? Personally a hive mind might be the way to go... that way we can quell the dissent with the brute force of the Great Mother. By 42008, a hive mentality could be intelligent to surpass anything feasible regarding survival in the universe, so that we can all start working on self actualization. 9. We need to continue unlocking human awareness -- it holds the key to a new path of glory... which would surpass the hive mind and create an exit.
What Microsoft should really have considered was why, even before they released it, customers were ready to say NO to Vista.
Microsoft didn't sell the reason people needed Vista. They polished a dashboard up with some glassy looking graphics and slapped a pricetag on it. That's not relevant to 99% of users. Most people use their computers for the internet, or for writing letters. Could Vista do anything like that better than XP? No. And there's your answer.
If Microsoft wanted to sell Vista, they should have examined what the main concerns are of people and acted on them. Most people don't care about what is happening behind the scenes... that's what nerds are for. Most people care about what the computers can do for them.
Now if they wanted to sell Vista, they should have got Jerry Seinfeld to do the Vista commercials from the beginning, and keep Bill Gates out of them. Seinfeld would simply sell the reason people need to upgrade to Vista which is for security and for expanded multi-media capability.
Jerry could have also addressed most of the user objections to Vista openly and with a dash of dry comedy that people tend to admire in the comedian.
But they chose to do a faceless monolithic kind of ad campaign, to combat Apple's ads but that actually made people think about how good Apple is compared to windows which was the kicker-backfire!!!! OMG yes.
Yeah, the indie scene all appreciates that people who download their stuff will become life-long fans and if you're not signed with a record label those people are your bread and butter. Typical indie bands shy away from greedy corporations trying to exploit them, and bleed the soul of their music away, for profit.
Why wouldn't you think Indie when you think Radiohead? The band is signed with TBD currently, but I think that they really proved that it could be profitable using independent, free-thinking album release, which is actually part-in-parcel with being Indie -- regardless of who promotes and/or distributes you. I'm not sure who gets more credit, TBD or Radiohead for that move, but it's a big departure from the RIAA, is it not?
By fingerprint, it's not really a watermark because watermarks are used to tell an author if their property has been downloaded illegally.
What I'm talking about is something that tells the END USER, if the file is free or not, and a service that backs it up would be WORTH PAYING FOR.
I would like to have a way to know which songs are open source music (OSM) or public domain. The current file format doesn't supply that information. I'm flying blind, here.
I have a right to know if my actions will jeopardize my legal future. The act of clicking a mouse can put you away if a series of logical errors stack up and crush you.
The RIAA and the MPAA wants to sue people for downloading their stuff.
Sure there are obvious candidates like Britney Spears and Metallica... you know they are sellouts because they suck... it's a given that they MUST be corporate whores. But what about the grey-area bands that nobody knows? What about that techno band who has a bootleg on the internet, that everyone loves and is downloading? How can you tell me that a BOOTLEG can be a copyright offense? No, I'm sorry but I would have to draw the line on bootlegs -- they are public domain if they get out. Or are they?
I have an idea. The RIAA and MPAA should be forced to release an XML file on P2P networks that lists their copyright materials, so that we can choose to exclude them from our libraries if they happen to get on there.
Why don't they do that? Oh right... because they make millions suing people.
Fascinating! The planets could be operating in stages. I wonder if there is something at the end of our solar system creating planets? That can't be true because of Pluto's declassification.
Another approach to fighting RIAA and MPAA would be to create a kind of digital fingerprint process that would allow Indie bands and film makers to freely release their stuff over a closed P2P utilizing user accounts. This type of thing has been attempted in the past with great failure, but it's possible that with the proper interest, a push to exclude greedy practices from infiltrating P2P networks would be essential.
A theory of mine is that many record labels would want to release their stuff for free on P2P so that they can sue later and reap big rewards. That song used to generate $0.99 each, but after you seed it and nurture it, the windfall is $2500 for each song for each downloader.
Stop listening to garbage music that corporate America wants you to buy. Indie music is free and you can't be sued for downloading it freely, because it's offered as a promotional gimmick to sell concert tickets. Many Indie bands advocate people sharing purchased copies of their albums, because musicians know that this freely sharing of music creates more fans. Look at Radiohead... how much did they earn on that album they released as donor-ware?
Sure you can apply all the regulations you want but you're just excluding people from your products in the long run.
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You don't have kids do you? She is a teacher in charge of a classroom. When confronted with the problem of sexual images on the computer, she should have shut off the monitor and called the vice principal IMMEDIATELY, but what this woman did was stand there dumbfounded and let kids stare at some pretty graphic porn. They told their parents and that is what caused the media storm. The teacher kept it quiet and tried to solve the problem herself, and that is why she is being punished. Proper rules of conduct govern teachers and this one didn't follow them so she is being held accountable. I'm glad she didn't get 40yrs but I'm also glad they are slapping her wrist so that other teachers will see this case and be ethically stalwart and follow the correct measures to protect kids in their care.
Not really. She would have seen the popups before and she likely looked the other way, because many teachers are drowning in apathy. This sends a message to teachers that they are responsible for the kids in their classroom and as a father I definitely agree with the ruling here. A teacher should call techsupport immediately if they have spyware and also make sure the kids are not looking at porn, which was reported that she just let the kids stand there and look at it while she stared at it too. That's the reason there was a big media blitz over this case... you have a teacher who wasn't in control over the situation but also she exposed these kids to sexual images without clearing the room. She could have totally removed herself from any type of scrutiny if she cleared the classroom immediately and also refrained from surfing questionable websites after hours.
Many people in positions of authority over children will want to double check and make sure their computers are clean from spyware/malware, or run the risk of similar legal ramifications. Software is available to you and even if you are a teacher with a lot of apathy (low wages, long hours, little patience, scary situations like guns in the school... etc)... and maybe it's a good idea to refrain from surfing porn on school computers!!
Yeah the concept of being "promoted to customer" is synonymous with "being fired" -- especially in retail but it also applies to pretty much any company where you would end up using the product you were working on (many MSFT products are used daily by everyone). The customer is always right and is therefore your boss!! You can also promote yourself by taking a job with the competition.
There are always going to be people complaining about something, but usually that day-to-day stuff can be handled quite easily enough. When your organization is making the right decisions however, typically everyone remains quiet and they are quite happy.
It's definitely part of the recipe for these kinds of projects. The main thing we see in big projects that are beyond a first or third iteration (like IE) is that most of the original team is gone and most of the original vision has changed, either for political reasons or for necessary course corrections, and both of which must be true for IE. Nobody on the IE team shares the exact same vision for IE. Many fragments of the IE userbase have likely caused conflicts between team members from design to production. Conflicts cause issues in every aspect of development, but also they cause turnover.
We know people were promoted out of the IE team, and promoted out of the company. In a case like Microsoft, it's been years since the first iteration, and IE has gone through so many revisions that there is a high likelihood for spaghetti code and feature creep to crush project fluidity. They have rewritten the whole thing, how many times now?
While team members wielding political weapons must be crushed on sight by worthy adversaries, it doesn't happen enough because people are afraid of repercussions. Unless you are Steve Ballmer, then you throw a chair and hit the wrong person.
A delay until 2090.
This had better not include the overseas forces. What would our poor soldiers do when they have downtime? Isn't their quality of life bad enough? Now they can't even watch videos of their families waving at them and showing them homemade delicious cake. Believe me, those vids get previewed at the DOD before they get shipped over, so now there is either a greater risk to the stuff arriving in the field, or there is another big problem on the horizon to do with morale.
I'll just leave this here.
Probably offset against debt.
What will Obama take for his trouble? I wonder who he's been chatting with. I see here a few dozen calls to a payphone in Ottawa. For years people were suggesting the USA could annex Canada if a big enough crisis occurred. Little did they know that Canada would annex the USA after a major stock market crash.
Zen masters agree that we are all not really here and therefore we can never truly touch anything. The ability to affect a change using a robust 3d environment is the only avenue left for UI. After that we'll be looking towards the 4th dementia. This project will be essential for piloting deep space at high speeds above anything we have conceived. Having a working model ready so early only assists in the other projects.
I already did!
We've probably all seen the video on youtube with the stoned spiders, and the kooky webs they make. I wonder what the effects of cosmic radiation will be on this spider who will be waiting a long time for a snack to buzz into his web. Unless, by space-surviving spider, they mean he can eat non-living things like dust? I think he likely drifted off like the $100000 tool belt that one space-walking astronaught lost yesterday. At least this loss wasn't as expensive. However it's possible this is a mutated spider that craves the media attention for the lulz, in which case it's possible that the spider unlatched the tool-belt in order to make a getaway, and build his own Evil Spider Space Station, with his newly acquired tool set, and other classified missing materials (that would not be reported)!
Although in another scenario, the tool belt will fall to earth with the spider riding it, Slim Pickens style, to crash land and obliterate some curious bystander, ala Dead Like Me. I still think it is more likely the spider will crash land somewhere and start another internet meme (link site contains articles that are 100% NSFW).
Point taken, but also noted is that over 88% of users will never change default settings. Plus even if users change default settings, this is free advertising for the Google brand which increases brand awareness. Google did lots of this stuff to get where it is today, taking a page from Microsoft's default settings use of proprietary advertising and packaged solutions (ie: AOL and others each pay a portion of the Windows development and deployment costs, and they receive packages included in Windows plus other perks and Windows customer information, making the money that Windows costs gravy for MSFT).
That strategy worked for Einstein.
I am so sorry that you took my post that way. I was only kidding around a little. My post will make sense to anyone who has played Master of Orion. Nowhere did I mention an Internet sperm bank auction, so I resent the connection with a MC Shampoo post.
I think transforming the Moon would be a really positive step for our species. Call it a test, call it our first expansionary mission. Also, if we can get a jump on terraform technology, and since it's only 2008, then we have about 40000 years before the galactic senate approaches us for our assistance in matters concerning the Orions. That's plenty of time to configure a few necessities for species survival, which are notably as follows:
1. Getting everyone on the planet to work together towards a common goal.
2. Stopping the real infidels (you know the ones from other planets creating dissent so they can throw us off our game)
3. Developing and improving faster methods of space travel. The time it takes to get to an enemy home world is the only hope in a quick victory for Mother Earth!
4. Socks. We need better socks. It's very cold in space.
5. Our energy weapon program is going smoothly. Keep it up. In 40000 years, our technology should definitely surpass that Death Star planetary destruction capability.
6. Rapid data transmission is going smoothly. Keep it up. By 42008, we should be sending and receiving entire clusters of units anywhere in the known universe, and beyond.
7. Deployed rover technologies are doing better than expected. We managed to get so much out of the mars mission that future missions with our new stealth invisibility technology should make Mother Earth a candidate for the Galactic Senate. By 42008, we should be looking at microscopic alteration technology weapons that can change our enemies into friends... which is just where we want them before we destroy them.
8. We need to stop letting these wars erupt on our soil. Perhaps better diplomacy? Perhaps a global government would be better? Personally a hive mind might be the way to go... that way we can quell the dissent with the brute force of the Great Mother. By 42008, a hive mentality could be intelligent to surpass anything feasible regarding survival in the universe, so that we can all start working on self actualization.
9. We need to continue unlocking human awareness -- it holds the key to a new path of glory... which would surpass the hive mind and create an exit.
END TRANSMISSION
Microsoft didn't sell the reason people needed Vista. They polished a dashboard up with some glassy looking graphics and slapped a pricetag on it. That's not relevant to 99% of users. Most people use their computers for the internet, or for writing letters. Could Vista do anything like that better than XP? No. And there's your answer.
If Microsoft wanted to sell Vista, they should have examined what the main concerns are of people and acted on them. Most people don't care about what is happening behind the scenes... that's what nerds are for. Most people care about what the computers can do for them.
Now if they wanted to sell Vista, they should have got Jerry Seinfeld to do the Vista commercials from the beginning, and keep Bill Gates out of them. Seinfeld would simply sell the reason people need to upgrade to Vista which is for security and for expanded multi-media capability.
Jerry could have also addressed most of the user objections to Vista openly and with a dash of dry comedy that people tend to admire in the comedian.
But they chose to do a faceless monolithic kind of ad campaign, to combat Apple's ads but that actually made people think about how good Apple is compared to windows which was the kicker-backfire!!!! OMG yes.
Yeah, the indie scene all appreciates that people who download their stuff will become life-long fans and if you're not signed with a record label those people are your bread and butter. Typical indie bands shy away from greedy corporations trying to exploit them, and bleed the soul of their music away, for profit.
Why wouldn't you think Indie when you think Radiohead? The band is signed with TBD currently, but I think that they really proved that it could be profitable using independent, free-thinking album release, which is actually part-in-parcel with being Indie -- regardless of who promotes and/or distributes you. I'm not sure who gets more credit, TBD or Radiohead for that move, but it's a big departure from the RIAA, is it not?
By fingerprint, it's not really a watermark because watermarks are used to tell an author if their property has been downloaded illegally.
What I'm talking about is something that tells the END USER, if the file is free or not, and a service that backs it up would be WORTH PAYING FOR.
I would like to have a way to know which songs are open source music (OSM) or public domain. The current file format doesn't supply that information. I'm flying blind, here.
I have a right to know if my actions will jeopardize my legal future. The act of clicking a mouse can put you away if a series of logical errors stack up and crush you.
The RIAA and the MPAA wants to sue people for downloading their stuff.
Sure there are obvious candidates like Britney Spears and Metallica... you know they are sellouts because they suck... it's a given that they MUST be corporate whores. But what about the grey-area bands that nobody knows? What about that techno band who has a bootleg on the internet, that everyone loves and is downloading? How can you tell me that a BOOTLEG can be a copyright offense? No, I'm sorry but I would have to draw the line on bootlegs -- they are public domain if they get out. Or are they?
I have an idea. The RIAA and MPAA should be forced to release an XML file on P2P networks that lists their copyright materials, so that we can choose to exclude them from our libraries if they happen to get on there.
Why don't they do that? Oh right... because they make millions suing people.
Fascinating! The planets could be operating in stages. I wonder if there is something at the end of our solar system creating planets? That can't be true because of Pluto's declassification.
Another approach to fighting RIAA and MPAA would be to create a kind of digital fingerprint process that would allow Indie bands and film makers to freely release their stuff over a closed P2P utilizing user accounts. This type of thing has been attempted in the past with great failure, but it's possible that with the proper interest, a push to exclude greedy practices from infiltrating P2P networks would be essential.
A theory of mine is that many record labels would want to release their stuff for free on P2P so that they can sue later and reap big rewards. That song used to generate $0.99 each, but after you seed it and nurture it, the windfall is $2500 for each song for each downloader.
Tell me this isn't happening!!!!!!
Stop listening to garbage music that corporate America wants you to buy. Indie music is free and you can't be sued for downloading it freely, because it's offered as a promotional gimmick to sell concert tickets. Many Indie bands advocate people sharing purchased copies of their albums, because musicians know that this freely sharing of music creates more fans. Look at Radiohead... how much did they earn on that album they released as donor-ware?
Sure you can apply all the regulations you want but you're just excluding people from your products in the long run.