Sure it might be legal but that doesn't make it wise. What I'd like to know is where do the people come from who implement these policies? I think Arthur Clarke was right when, in "The Songs of Distant Earth" IIRC, he suggested that anyone who wanted a political office was, by definition, emotionally unsuited to having that office.
I think you've hit on the main point of the appeal. Money/safety desposit box items/etc. are all physical property. The original court ruled that Verisign can't be held accountable because no physical property was involved. The article didn't make it clear (at least to me) why this made a difference.
Just because they don't ask doesn't mean they don't care. My previous employer implemented a policy shortly before I left requiring that all new hires, even down to secretaries and receptionists, had to have a college degree.
On my resume I list my MBA from a school in Michigan without mentioning that it's from an online program. I'm sure that some day I'm going to run into the one in a hundred HR guy who's actually paying attention and wants to know how I could have gone to a school in Michigan while working in Florida.
However, in my experience, one of the most important aspects -- perhaps the most important -- of education is peer interaction.
What you get in this area depends strongly on how the school's online program is setup. I got my undergraduate and first Masters from a large mega-university (the University of Florida). In my early thirities I got an MBA from an accredited online school. The level of classroom-type interaction was even greater in the online program than the traditional one. I've never been a very talkative, out going person but in the online program I found myself interacting much more than in a regular class.
I do agree that you get much less social interaction in the online program but at that point in my life I was interested in the knowledge and the degree not the social, after-hours type interaction that many seem to think is an essential element of higher education.
but ISP's blocking particular groups for their beliefs or acitivities is a pretty slippery slope
I disagree in part. Blocking someone for their beliefs is indeed the first step on a slippery slope. Blocking someone for their actions isn't. This is consistent with recent interpretations of the First Ammendment. It's okay to talk about doing bad/illegal/unethical things. It's not okay to actually do them. I think it's also consistent to take steps to protect yourself from someone who has actively discussed doing bad/illegal/unethical things.
Entrapement in what sense? If the police were doing this then maybe. As a private organization the ISP can do whatever they like (legally) to determine if someone is trying to compromise their network. The results may not be admissible in court but I don't think that's their goal.
But all this endless repetition becomes a problem too. My youngest son is in the eighth grade and is doing the same math he's done for the previous two years. I went to the school board's web site and downloaded the curriculum for the sixth through the eighth grades then compared them side by side. They are literally almost identical. I agree that in many cases levels of math are pushed onto kids before their ready but this sort of endless repetition isn't productive either.
You've missed the point. The real issue here is how do you motivate kids to learn the material. You can't do this by leaning out of your ivory tower and shouting down to the masses about how important the material is. You'll get much better results both short and long term by making the material relevant. Those who have a true vocation will go on to more abstract things; the rest will at least have absorbed the foundation that they'll need for other work.
May I recommend grad school? A great way to put the problem off for a couple of years. If you're at a decent size school you may even be able to subsidise it by working as a teaching assistant.
I believe he's refering to President Bush's abortive TIPS program that would have somehow encouraged people who work in the community to report suspicious behavior without actually spying on their fellow citizens.
I've always thought that one of the flaws in capitalism is that it's largely based on positive feedback. A company knows if it's doing something right because money comes in. Sure a company knows if it's doing something wrong because money isn't coming in but they don't necessarily know what they're doing wrong. This results in a waste of resources as a company flounders around trying to find the problem.
The page referenced in the article includes a link to a contact page. Go there. Let Sony know now that you consider this direction to be counterproductive and if they go forward with it you'll vote with your wallet and your opinions should your friends, relatives or employer ask.
I can't speak for the poster but I won't sign those machines because an electronic copy of my signature is one more piece of information they don't need. I also don't give out my zip code or phone number and, if I feel they really do need it, I'll make them jump through flaming hopes before I give them my SSN.
To me this is just another example of a technological gadget that contributes nothing to the transaction but allows the company to store yet another piece of personal information that they don't really need.
Demand a paper receipt to sign. If the sales clerk can't provide one then demand to see their supervisor. If their supervisor can't figure it out then exercise one of the benefits of living in a capitalist economy and take your money someplace else.
I left a couple hundered dollars worth of clothes sitting on a counter once because the sales clerk couldn't figure out how to complete the transaction without that silly little machine. This rarely happens anymore. Most businesses that use those things seem to have caught on that some people just don't like them and have trained their employees to know how to make a paper receipt in those cases.
1. Child support - Child support should only be applicable in the case where the child was concieved within a legal marriage. Any other situation leaves enough doubt that the man was not a willing participant unless he's willing to admit to it or assume responsibility on his own. Repealing child support law as it is would result in a great decrease in single-parent children.
At the risk of wandering even further off-topic: Could you please explain to me how a man could not be a willing participant in the process of creating a child?
I disagree as well. The concept of using it as much as possible without creating a formal challenge is not unusual. A great example is the War Powers Act. Congress passed the law to impose limits on what the President can do as Commander in Chief. No President has liked the law. Congress doesn't always like the way President's have interpreted the law. Neither side wants a court battle because no one can be sure which way the court would go. Their both willing to accept getting less than what they would really like rather than taking the risk of losing everything to get even more.
Mark my words, we'll soon have another set of insightful anti-DMCA diatribes, some disappointment that we didn't get to try the DMCA against such a stupid case, and a bunch of people claiming that HP, as a corporation, has done this in their own self-interest.
At the risk of proving you right I'll say that I'm sure HP did do this "in their own self-interest". I think a more interesting question, however, is "How did they come to think this was in their self-interest?" I would be interested, for example, to know how many people in the Slashdot community alone used the 'send an e-mail to Carly' page on HP's website to express their opinion. It would be interesting to know for certain whether or not this sort of activity had a positive affect on the situation.
I don't know the details of his relationship with HP but it might be better to say: An authority with whom he has a mutually beneficial relationship based on mutual respect asked him not to put them at risk.
Since, according to the article, HP is funding his other free software projects this could also be viewed as a request not to bite the hand that feeds him.
This article also says that HP 'asked him' not to give the presentation. Quite differnt from "don't do that"
Currently there are F-15/16's standing on alert across the country to shoot down any hijacked airliners.
This is not the case. There was a situation in Florida, I believe earlier this year but it may have been late last year, where an unstable teenage boy who had been taking flying lessons managed to appropriate a small plane at Clearwater airport, fly it across Tampa Bay and into an office building. All of this within miles of MacDill air force base - a very active military base.
If anyone understands sitting on the floor for long periods its the Japanese. My oldest son doesn't have a bed in his room, just tatami mats with a futon on them. He sits on it for hours playing video games. The mats can be purchased at a reasonable price from a variety of online merchants.
Does anyone know if statutes of limitations apply to civil cases or only to criminal ones? If it's the later then Sprint might still have be able to make a case.
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Sure it might be legal but that doesn't make it wise. What I'd like to know is where do the people come from who implement these policies? I think Arthur Clarke was right when, in "The Songs of Distant Earth" IIRC, he suggested that anyone who wanted a political office was, by definition, emotionally unsuited to having that office.
I think you've hit on the main point of the appeal. Money/safety desposit box items/etc. are all physical property. The original court ruled that Verisign can't be held accountable because no physical property was involved. The article didn't make it clear (at least to me) why this made a difference.
Just because they don't ask doesn't mean they don't care. My previous employer implemented a policy shortly before I left requiring that all new hires, even down to secretaries and receptionists, had to have a college degree.
All HR cares about is the piece of paper.
On my resume I list my MBA from a school in Michigan without mentioning that it's from an online program. I'm sure that some day I'm going to run into the one in a hundred HR guy who's actually paying attention and wants to know how I could have gone to a school in Michigan while working in Florida.
However, in my experience, one of the most important aspects -- perhaps the most important -- of education is peer interaction.
What you get in this area depends strongly on how the school's online program is setup. I got my undergraduate and first Masters from a large mega-university (the University of Florida). In my early thirities I got an MBA from an accredited online school. The level of classroom-type interaction was even greater in the online program than the traditional one. I've never been a very talkative, out going person but in the online program I found myself interacting much more than in a regular class.
I do agree that you get much less social interaction in the online program but at that point in my life I was interested in the knowledge and the degree not the social, after-hours type interaction that many seem to think is an essential element of higher education.
but ISP's blocking particular groups for their beliefs or acitivities is a pretty slippery slope
I disagree in part. Blocking someone for their beliefs is indeed the first step on a slippery slope. Blocking someone for their actions isn't. This is consistent with recent interpretations of the First Ammendment. It's okay to talk about doing bad/illegal/unethical things. It's not okay to actually do them. I think it's also consistent to take steps to protect yourself from someone who has actively discussed doing bad/illegal/unethical things.
Entrapement in what sense? If the police were doing this then maybe. As a private organization the ISP can do whatever they like (legally) to determine if someone is trying to compromise their network. The results may not be admissible in court but I don't think that's their goal.
But all this endless repetition becomes a problem too. My youngest son is in the eighth grade and is doing the same math he's done for the previous two years. I went to the school board's web site and downloaded the curriculum for the sixth through the eighth grades then compared them side by side. They are literally almost identical. I agree that in many cases levels of math are pushed onto kids before their ready but this sort of endless repetition isn't productive either.
You've missed the point. The real issue here is how do you motivate kids to learn the material. You can't do this by leaning out of your ivory tower and shouting down to the masses about how important the material is. You'll get much better results both short and long term by making the material relevant. Those who have a true vocation will go on to more abstract things; the rest will at least have absorbed the foundation that they'll need for other work.
Movies often open in the US 6-9 months before they show in Europe.
But this begs the question: What's the business justification for releasing a movie in Europe 6-9 months after it's released in the U.S.?
A list of Alton's Essentials can be found on his website in a typically quirky format.
May I recommend grad school? A great way to put the problem off for a couple of years. If you're at a decent size school you may even be able to subsidise it by working as a teaching assistant.
I suggest the reverse: Rent the regular version now from your local video store and buy the special edition in November.
I believe he's refering to President Bush's abortive TIPS program that would have somehow encouraged people who work in the community to report suspicious behavior without actually spying on their fellow citizens.
I've always thought that one of the flaws in capitalism is that it's largely based on positive feedback. A company knows if it's doing something right because money comes in. Sure a company knows if it's doing something wrong because money isn't coming in but they don't necessarily know what they're doing wrong. This results in a waste of resources as a company flounders around trying to find the problem.
The page referenced in the article includes a link to a contact page. Go there. Let Sony know now that you consider this direction to be counterproductive and if they go forward with it you'll vote with your wallet and your opinions should your friends, relatives or employer ask.
I can't speak for the poster but I won't sign those machines because an electronic copy of my signature is one more piece of information they don't need. I also don't give out my zip code or phone number and, if I feel they really do need it, I'll make them jump through flaming hopes before I give them my SSN.
To me this is just another example of a technological gadget that contributes nothing to the transaction but allows the company to store yet another piece of personal information that they don't really need.
but what are you going to do
Demand a paper receipt to sign. If the sales clerk can't provide one then demand to see their supervisor. If their supervisor can't figure it out then exercise one of the benefits of living in a capitalist economy and take your money someplace else.
I left a couple hundered dollars worth of clothes sitting on a counter once because the sales clerk couldn't figure out how to complete the transaction without that silly little machine. This rarely happens anymore. Most businesses that use those things seem to have caught on that some people just don't like them and have trained their employees to know how to make a paper receipt in those cases.
1. Child support - Child support should only be applicable in the case where the child was concieved within a legal marriage. Any other situation leaves enough doubt that the man was not a willing participant unless he's willing to admit to it or assume responsibility on his own. Repealing child support law as it is would result in a great decrease in single-parent children.
At the risk of wandering even further off-topic: Could you please explain to me how a man could not be a willing participant in the process of creating a child?
I disagree as well. The concept of using it as much as possible without creating a formal challenge is not unusual. A great example is the War Powers Act. Congress passed the law to impose limits on what the President can do as Commander in Chief. No President has liked the law. Congress doesn't always like the way President's have interpreted the law. Neither side wants a court battle because no one can be sure which way the court would go. Their both willing to accept getting less than what they would really like rather than taking the risk of losing everything to get even more.
Mark my words, we'll soon have another set of insightful anti-DMCA diatribes, some disappointment that we didn't get to try the DMCA against such a stupid case, and a bunch of people claiming that HP, as a corporation, has done this in their own self-interest.
At the risk of proving you right I'll say that I'm sure HP did do this "in their own self-interest". I think a more interesting question, however, is "How did they come to think this was in their self-interest?" I would be interested, for example, to know how many people in the Slashdot community alone used the 'send an e-mail to Carly' page on HP's website to express their opinion. It would be interesting to know for certain whether or not this sort of activity had a positive affect on the situation.
I don't know the details of his relationship with HP but it might be better to say: An authority with whom he has a mutually beneficial relationship based on mutual respect asked him not to put them at risk.
Since, according to the article, HP is funding his other free software projects this could also be viewed as a request not to bite the hand that feeds him.
This article also says that HP 'asked him' not to give the presentation. Quite differnt from "don't do that"
I think it would be more accurate to view this is an attack on AOL rather than support of Trillian.
This is not the case. There was a situation in Florida, I believe earlier this year but it may have been late last year, where an unstable teenage boy who had been taking flying lessons managed to appropriate a small plane at Clearwater airport, fly it across Tampa Bay and into an office building. All of this within miles of MacDill air force base - a very active military base.
If anyone understands sitting on the floor for long periods its the Japanese. My oldest son doesn't have a bed in his room, just tatami mats with a futon on them. He sits on it for hours playing video games. The mats can be purchased at a reasonable price from a variety of online merchants.
Does anyone know if statutes of limitations apply to civil cases or only to criminal ones? If it's the later then Sprint might still have be able to make a case.