I'm sure if your stupid enough to let your kids on your computer without supervision you probably have all the nasty goodies on tv for them to watch too.
Parental supervision is important. But so are doors.
unlocked door != invitation to enter
having a mailbox != invitation to send letterbombs
having email != invitation to receive porn
The attitude of "get over it, bad people exist and you better watch out for yourself or you're a stupid moron and get what you deserve" is one of the reasons our society is going to crap. While spam of all kinds is inappropriate, porn spam is especially so because of two reasons:
children can receive it
it can make my boss think I'm visiting unauthorized web sites, with potential career implications
In short, porn spam has a very real potential to harm, and it is not invited into my mailbox simply because my mailbox exists.
Example the place I work we have something like 20 VB programers for our web service and its buggy and slow. A perl shop I'm familer with has 5, their code is more complex and runs faster with fewer bugs.
There is a similar debate at the place where I work. What's really funny is the VB programmers defend their technology by claiming the Perl developers are just better programmers, so you can't conclude that it's the platform.
Honest!
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Put nobody else in the picture, all you have is a big sign saying 'you are here' on a digitised map.
Similarly, unless the satellites are imaging the area in real time, the data is stale as soon as the soldier puts the goggles on. And if a soldier can't see the brand new building or big gaping hole in front of him, how can a satellite?
This is a GREAT business model. Sell the military a nifty new gadget that requires hourly updated information, then sell them a subscription to the information.
All that said, these are probably problems that can be, eventually, solved. But the things better be 100% reliable, or you risk deploying soldiers and then facing a catastrophe if the gadget fails.
Not to be confused with http://www.jobsforTHEpresident.org/....
That site had a TOTALLY different meaning during the last president's term. I don't care who we vote for as president, so long as we get Monica as vice president.
What's really awesome about this development is that you can now get rid of all that pesky natural light that windows allow into your house and replace it with enriching programs such as Jerry Springer and Elimidate and ESPN Classic and the Cartoon Network!
I don't know, I have maybe 4000 books at home, most of them Scifi/SF.... I haven't bought any kind of book other than techie for more than 2 years. I just keep reading the ones that I have over and over and over.
OK, let's assume you read really fast and have nothing else to do, like a job or children. 4,000 books at a book a day, taking off Christmas and New Year's and Superbowl Sunday, runs to roughly eleven years.
How much linear wall space does 4,000 books take up, anyway?
PS: I liked "King Hereafter" by Dorothy Dunnett. It's not "Fantasy" in the wizards and sprites and goblins sense, rather an historical novel. I have only read one of her other books, but it was enjoyable.
So you and three buddies formed a startup company in 1998 and bought some Microsoft software for your startup. In 2001, when you finally realized you weren't going to make any money selling used AOL CDs over the web, you dissolved the corporation. So technically, the purchaser no longer exists. Can you still file a claim?
(I guess the same issue exists if you are deceased, but then you probably don't care quite as much about getting your voucher.)
They didn't really "get paid" that amount of money to cripple technology. That money was donated to their campaigns to get elected. If they had taken that money personally, it would be called a "bribe" and would be illegal. Maybe that's what campaign contributions should be considered, anyway. If you like a candidate, pay for an ad or stump for them; Dropping a $250,000 check in their pocket is going to end up with some dirty shenanigans no matter how you look at it.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off Capitol Hill.
Thank goodness that with Dubya in office, we won't have to worry about what other countries think any more. After we take over and annex Iraq as the 51st state (which will carry approximately 45 electoral votes), we can start on the other Axis of Evil countries.
My only real concern is what happens when Saudi Arabia, the 65th state, provides more in campaign contributions than the entertainment industry. Ho ho, we should see some interesting laws being offered up about the Internet then!
Its human nature to enjoy sex and sensational themes, yet our religious and "civilized" side just wants us to fit in some pure ideal. But the most fun is where we are right now. We are not in sheer puritan minded times, but we havent degraded to utter pathetically primitive attitudes. Were in the balance right now where we can enjoy the advantages of both ends. We arent at either extreme. So enjoy!
I bet this is what the Romans were saying in the early 500's.
If this guy is smart, he'll get a good lawyer and sue his (former) employer LucasFilm for not warning him that taking home company items could be a crime. What with being arrested AND having to give the stuff back, the pain & suffering damages could be astronomical.
Remember, if you're a burglar and you fall through a skylight or electrocute yourself disarming the burglar alarm, you can get a big settlement!
I think it's not at all unusual for the entertainment industry to do this. If a favorite character is coming back, more people are likely to come watch if they know about it and if they're curious about how it happens.
A more intelligent argument would be about whether or not linking a web site constitutes providing a vehicle of communication...
If linking to a web site qualifies as providing a vehicle through which terrorists can communicate, then so does putting up an old-fashioned bulletin board in a public place. Or listing the location of such a bulletin board. And wouldn't the phone book that includes the phone number of a terrorist's residence also be in violation under that definition?
And, any network provider that moves packets could be providing a vehicle for terrorist communication. Anyone clicking on a link to the terrorist's web site would illuminate an entire cadre of network administrators and corporations who are providing vehicles for terrorist communications. All you'd have to do is traceroute the server, and you'd have an entire network of people violating the PATRIOT act.
All that said, UCSD is probably within their right to restrict the speech of someone hosted on their servers. This happening just shows that they're more afraid of the Bush government than they are in love with free speech.
We should try to get the US government to declare all contributions to open source development as a tax writeoff.
While I agree wholeheartedly in theory, the practical reality is that a huge amount of "open source software" is made up of "here's a guestbook script I wrote." I don't really think people should get a tax write-off for building some crappy script for their own personal web site and then submitting it to one of the many free script listings. If such a write-off could be created with the proper incentives, I'd be for it (except that I prefer a flat-tax system).
Besides, the government is already giving you a tax break on contributions to open source software: Since you're not realizing any revenue, you don't have to pay income tax for the hours you worked on it!
I have read a lot of snickering about idiotic network managers and know-nothing, affluent homeowners. I guess I fall into the latter category. It would be really nice if one--just one--person posting criticism might also offer a link or word of advice on how to actually secure my spiffy new wireless access point.
My router offers WEP, but a quick Google search makes me wonder if even that's enough. What can the know-nothing, affluent homeowner do that does not take six weeks of intensive reading on network security?
Reminds me of Predator, and the way that it shimmered when it moved. My guess is that they used the same thought when they made that movie.
More likely, they were just thinking that a truly invisible creature didn't make for very scary film footage.
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How about allowing this gizmo to offer pre-ordering via the web? Go to the machine's web site, see the machine's inventory. Purchase your products on a credit card. The products get set aside into a separate compartment for you. You go to the machine, insert your credit card (same one you used to purchase), the products are released to you, and you are charged for them.
If you need to order something that's not in stock, the machine operator could offer some service level for an additional charge to stock it in the next stocking run.
Reduces delivery/distribution costs for the vendors while providing additional convenience for the consumers.
(And why couldn't fast-food places operate like this? Certainly robots can do an equally good job of microwaving and assembling a Big Mac, depositing it into the queue, and then charging your credit card.)
Linux sales declined nearly 5 percent in 2001... Windows sales climbed 11 percent... Now... are we getting worried?
Worried? Why? $80 million is a lot more than it was in 1994. Plus, look at the dynamics of the market.
I think we all agree that desktop linux has failed (so far) to reach the masses. That means that all those cheaper, more powerful CPUs out there ship with Windows (with a nod to you Macheads). Meanwhile, lots of garage dot-coms (and Wall Street dot-coms too) have gone under, putting their nice Linux servers out on the market cheap.
What would really be interesting is to learn what the resale/auction numbers are for Linux-loaded machines for the past two years.
Will Linux ever take a serious portion of the desktop market? Perhaps Wal-Mart distribution will help, perhaps not. The real debate is whether the statistics in the article represent what's really going on in the market.
That $80 million in revenues for Linux probably generated about $200 million in revenues for Microsoft due to Microsoft's licensing tactics. As we all know, Microsoft's "campus" style licenses require you to pay a fee for every CPU whether it's running Windows or some other OS.
no, no... I meant why do all these IDs consist of a small number of digits? why not use a great number of digits and have the id = the person's public key? (i.e. issue everyone their set of keys and have their public key double as their id)
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Parental supervision is important. But so are doors.
unlocked door != invitation to enter
having a mailbox != invitation to send letterbombs
having email != invitation to receive porn
The attitude of "get over it, bad people exist and you better watch out for yourself or you're a stupid moron and get what you deserve" is one of the reasons our society is going to crap. While spam of all kinds is inappropriate, porn spam is especially so because of two reasons:
In short, porn spam has a very real potential to harm, and it is not invited into my mailbox simply because my mailbox exists.
There is a similar debate at the place where I work. What's really funny is the VB programmers defend their technology by claiming the Perl developers are just better programmers, so you can't conclude that it's the platform.
Honest!
Similarly, unless the satellites are imaging the area in real time, the data is stale as soon as the soldier puts the goggles on. And if a soldier can't see the brand new building or big gaping hole in front of him, how can a satellite?
This is a GREAT business model. Sell the military a nifty new gadget that requires hourly updated information, then sell them a subscription to the information.
All that said, these are probably problems that can be, eventually, solved. But the things better be 100% reliable, or you risk deploying soldiers and then facing a catastrophe if the gadget fails.
That site had a TOTALLY different meaning during the last president's term. I don't care who we vote for as president, so long as we get Monica as vice president.
What's really awesome about this development is that you can now get rid of all that pesky natural light that windows allow into your house and replace it with enriching programs such as Jerry Springer and Elimidate and ESPN Classic and the Cartoon Network!
Do they have a skylight version for my bedroom?
OK, let's assume you read really fast and have nothing else to do, like a job or children. 4,000 books at a book a day, taking off Christmas and New Year's and Superbowl Sunday, runs to roughly eleven years.
How much linear wall space does 4,000 books take up, anyway?
PS: I liked "King Hereafter" by Dorothy Dunnett. It's not "Fantasy" in the wizards and sprites and goblins sense, rather an historical novel. I have only read one of her other books, but it was enjoyable.
So you and three buddies formed a startup company in 1998 and bought some Microsoft software for your startup. In 2001, when you finally realized you weren't going to make any money selling used AOL CDs over the web, you dissolved the corporation. So technically, the purchaser no longer exists. Can you still file a claim?
(I guess the same issue exists if you are deceased, but then you probably don't care quite as much about getting your voucher.)
The real problem is that 74 of the 100 worst would be out of business between creation of the plates and distribution of the magazine.
So, am I successful? I have about six zeros followed by a couple other numbers then the decimal.
They didn't really "get paid" that amount of money to cripple technology. That money was donated to their campaigns to get elected. If they had taken that money personally, it would be called a "bribe" and would be illegal. Maybe that's what campaign contributions should be considered, anyway. If you like a candidate, pay for an ad or stump for them; Dropping a $250,000 check in their pocket is going to end up with some dirty shenanigans no matter how you look at it.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off Capitol Hill.
Thank goodness that with Dubya in office, we won't have to worry about what other countries think any more. After we take over and annex Iraq as the 51st state (which will carry approximately 45 electoral votes), we can start on the other Axis of Evil countries.
My only real concern is what happens when Saudi Arabia, the 65th state, provides more in campaign contributions than the entertainment industry. Ho ho, we should see some interesting laws being offered up about the Internet then!
I bet this is what the Romans were saying in the early 500's.
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you have to be careful only to steal from stores that don't already have signs stating that shoplifting is a crime.
If this guy is smart, he'll get a good lawyer and sue his (former) employer LucasFilm for not warning him that taking home company items could be a crime. What with being arrested AND having to give the stuff back, the pain & suffering damages could be astronomical.
Remember, if you're a burglar and you fall through a skylight or electrocute yourself disarming the burglar alarm, you can get a big settlement!
I think it's not at all unusual for the entertainment industry to do this. If a favorite character is coming back, more people are likely to come watch if they know about it and if they're curious about how it happens.
If linking to a web site qualifies as providing a vehicle through which terrorists can communicate, then so does putting up an old-fashioned bulletin board in a public place. Or listing the location of such a bulletin board. And wouldn't the phone book that includes the phone number of a terrorist's residence also be in violation under that definition?
And, any network provider that moves packets could be providing a vehicle for terrorist communication. Anyone clicking on a link to the terrorist's web site would illuminate an entire cadre of network administrators and corporations who are providing vehicles for terrorist communications. All you'd have to do is traceroute the server, and you'd have an entire network of people violating the PATRIOT act.
All that said, UCSD is probably within their right to restrict the speech of someone hosted on their servers. This happening just shows that they're more afraid of the Bush government than they are in love with free speech.
I have read a lot of snickering about idiotic network managers and know-nothing, affluent homeowners. I guess I fall into the latter category. It would be really nice if one--just one--person posting criticism might also offer a link or word of advice on how to actually secure my spiffy new wireless access point.
My router offers WEP, but a quick Google search makes me wonder if even that's enough. What can the know-nothing, affluent homeowner do that does not take six weeks of intensive reading on network security?
More likely, they were just thinking that a truly invisible creature didn't make for very scary film footage.
How about allowing this gizmo to offer pre-ordering via the web? Go to the machine's web site, see the machine's inventory. Purchase your products on a credit card. The products get set aside into a separate compartment for you. You go to the machine, insert your credit card (same one you used to purchase), the products are released to you, and you are charged for them.
If you need to order something that's not in stock, the machine operator could offer some service level for an additional charge to stock it in the next stocking run.
Reduces delivery/distribution costs for the vendors while providing additional convenience for the consumers.
(And why couldn't fast-food places operate like this? Certainly robots can do an equally good job of microwaving and assembling a Big Mac, depositing it into the queue, and then charging your credit card.)
Hey, good idea. We should also give this idea to Operation TIPS. Imagine how much more efficient their snitches could be.
And I understand x10 is coming out with a model airplane version of their wireless camera... (if they're not, they should!).
Worried? Why? $80 million is a lot more than it was in 1994. Plus, look at the dynamics of the market.
I think we all agree that desktop linux has failed (so far) to reach the masses. That means that all those cheaper, more powerful CPUs out there ship with Windows (with a nod to you Macheads). Meanwhile, lots of garage dot-coms (and Wall Street dot-coms too) have gone under, putting their nice Linux servers out on the market cheap.
What would really be interesting is to learn what the resale/auction numbers are for Linux-loaded machines for the past two years.
Will Linux ever take a serious portion of the desktop market? Perhaps Wal-Mart distribution will help, perhaps not. The real debate is whether the statistics in the article represent what's really going on in the market.
That $80 million in revenues for Linux probably generated about $200 million in revenues for Microsoft due to Microsoft's licensing tactics. As we all know, Microsoft's "campus" style licenses require you to pay a fee for every CPU whether it's running Windows or some other OS.
I was going to say "troop deployment" but then I remembered the Hindenberg.
no, no... I meant why do all these IDs consist of a small number of digits? why not use a great number of digits and have the id = the person's public key? (i.e. issue everyone their set of keys and have their public key double as their id)