The Pidgin plugin also had a tendency to knock your browser session offline while your Pidgin session was online - couldn't consistently run both of them.
This is much better.
That would be a valid argument if you were talking about increasing lifespan from, say, 50 to 60.
Vaccination affects things like, expanding life span from 3 or 4 into the point where they can become productive workers.
When you're killing off a significant portion of your population before they ever reach a productive-to-society age, then they become nothing but resource sinks in resources to care for them and time to administer the care.
A society that loses so many of its young will never reach the point where it can address work imbalances and the like, because it's stuck trying to grow up, not out.
No, it narrows you down to somewhere within 252ish public IP addresses (even considering IPv6, which contains a standard rest-of-the-address to "encapsulate" IPv4).
Very few people (I'll even go so far as to say "the majority of users") on broadband services across most of the world truly appear to the outside world as an actual unique IP address, which is to say you and the guy at the desk/apartment/house/whatever next to you has a discrete and separate network address from you. Your connection is generally going to be NAT translated in some form or another from a private-network-space IP address to a public address. You will appear, to the world, to be generally the same "computer" as several users around you in the network.
If we want to move to an education system whereby teachers are valued based on their ability to teach, and the performance of their students, then the teachers own their lesson plans. This is assuming, of course, that they developed the plan in the first place. Let's just say that's the case in order to make the discussion clearer.
Teachers, good ones, develop their methods for teaching students. If those methods lead to better student understanding, then let them sell them to other teachers. It's really no different than all of the stupid process patents that we rail over, except they're not actually trying to lock them away, they're trying to share them with their peer group and get themselves some benefit in the process.
I don't see a big deal here. They figured out how to build a better mousetrap, let them market it. Unless a school district contains similar "work product" provisions in their teacher contracts that many tech people have in theirs, the schools have no right to the processes and products developed by the teachers for their use.
Define "superior conflicts-resolution system".
Currently, TiVo's scheduler is smart enough to, through the priority set in your season passes, work around jsut about any conflict. For overlaps, TiVo's now offer you the ability to trim/crop recordings that overlap in one direction or the other (end one early or start one late).
What did the Hauppage system do differently that those of us on TiVo don't realize we're missing?
> Most electronic manufacturers will give free samples of their parts if you ask them. It is standard practice in the electronics industry to get free samples to build a prototype of a new product, and then buy thousands of the chips when the product goes into production. You can use your work e-mail address to convince the electronics manufacturers that this is your plan with the samples.
Dear Slashdot:
All further requests for free samples will forthwith have the originating email address compared to the Slashdot userbase, and denied if a match is found. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
The RIAA and all seem to insist that, even when buying physical CDs, let alone digital Rights-managed files, that we don't own the files - what we're paying for is a "use license". This is why they have always claimed that we don't have the right to space/time/format shift, make backup copeis, resell, or generally do whatever we want under the Fair Use tenets.
Now, a senator in California is attempting to apply a personal property tax - a tax on tangible, owned goods - to music downloads.
IANAL (obviously, I'm posting and commenting here on/.), but how can you apply a tax on tangible goods to something which, under the use and purchase terms usually found with such "goods", aren't tangible, and aren't owned by the buyer? Seems to me that either this new tax is DOA, or California is about to invalidate and/or make illegal all EULAs which specify that digital music downloads are "licensed" and not "purchased".
"The congressional policy and agency practice of relying on the marketplace instead of regulation to maximize consumer welfare has been proven by experience (including the Comcast customer experience) to be enormously successful," concludes Cohen's thinly-veiled warning to the FCC, filed on March 11. "Bearing these facts in mind should obviate the need for the Commission to test its legal authority."
Then the FCC should test it's other legal authority, that by which it can remove Comcast's Common Carrier status for refusing to allow equal passage of datatypes on its network.
You obviously have no kids. If you did, you'd know you're asking for the Holy Grail.:)
I'd be happy with a sippy cup that had enough resistance to pressure from inside that the cup full of milk we lose under the couch every other month didn't start blowing whey out the spout and making the living room smell like baby vomit.
Damn, wish I had mod points....
Seriously, I don't "browse" the web on my phone. I look up sports scores, sometimes Google search for some particulr piece of information, and watch MLB.com's play-by when I'm not at home ot listen to the game on the radio.
It's....a phone. With internet access. It's not a browser.
And once again copyright infractions and stealing are two vastly different things.
Yes, they are two different things...but the first often leads to the second, and in this particular case, the first more often than not leads to the second.
Is it possible to record a 20 second clip, and not use that to lead to theft? Absolutely. However, obtaining the 20 second clip through the use of a camcorder in a theater is still illegal.
Should she go to jail, as the statute permits? Certainly not. But it's still illegal.
...and soon enough, you have the whole movie. Have you ever seen a camcordered and compressed movie? They're awful...the peopel that watch them aren't going to complain that much about a bit of content overlap a couple of times a minute.
The fact of the matter is, it's illegal to take a camcorder into a movie theater, and record what's on the screen.
If what TFA states is the actual truth, then when the case goes to court, the circumstances should temper the verdict and sentence, and maybe she'll get off with a slap on the wrist. But as the article quotes, it's not up to the managers of the places which show the movies to decide if it's "good stealing" or "bad stealing". Just like in some places, "He needed killing" might be a valid claim, but that's up to the court to decide.
She recorded a movie on her camcorder. At the very least, she's guilty of being stupid on her birthday. She needs to deal with that.
When I was in school...no, we didn't use clay tablets and styluses, or papyrus, shut up, whippersnapper...we learned how to use a word processor.
It wasn't Microsoft Office. It wasn't even Microsoft Word, the standanone version before there was a monolithic Office. It was Bank Street Writer, on an Apple II. At home, I used something else, on my 386...I actually don't even remember what it was...maybe PFSWrite.
In High School, I was introduced to Word. At the same time, I was using Wordperfect at home. I still managed to type up the 3-5 papers a year that were required to be typed and even got into an argument over a threatened "F" from my sophmore English teacher who refused to believe I could do a "rough draft" of my final paper on the computer as well as I could on actual paper (I eventually wrote out verbatim what I had originally saved as my first draft, she wouldn't take it, but she didn't fail me as she'd threatened, I think she finally realized it was a stupid requirement).
At college, we used both Word and WordPerfect as well, and I also used Abiword in the dorm room on my Linux (Slackware, running kernel 1.0.somethingEarly, installed from floppies) and printed across the campus to the labs where I had a friend working their shift grab my papers off the printer.
The point is...as some poster in here commented...these aren't "Ofice 2007" classes these kids are taking. They're learning to type and use computers in general. Learning and using a different word processing package is mostly trivial if you already know how to use one. That the school district is "strongly suggesting" (as in, "We strongly suggest you buy our protection insurance, we'd hate for something bad to happen to your family's store, ya know?") that families upgrade to MSO2007 indicates that the school ddistrict itself doesn't really understand just why they should and do have and need computers in their schols in the first place.
As another poster said...contact the school board and administration. Explain why they're wrong. If they still don't get it, make sure you vote at the next election, in most places, that's in about 4 months, you have plenty of time to spread the word about how your current board and administration are more interested in spending their hard-won budgets on hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Microsoft software while cutting programs in your students' curriculums.
You're going to work in a financial firm. As a programmer, you're high enough on the food chain that you, potentially, have access to the actual financial systems. This has been SOP for...hell, almost a decade, since i got my first job as a sysadmin at a bank.
She's going to have her prints run through CODIS, and a pretty signifigant background check run on her. They may also check her financial records, to see if she is in such bad financial shape that she shouldn't be given access to systems that control money. None of this is new, it's not because of the War on Terror. It's simply the banks limiting the damage any one person can do to them.
As an aside, in 1997, when I got my first bank job, I had pretty crap financial history (just a year out of college, no real work history), but no flags were thrown. I'd imagine you have to be pretty screwed up to trip flags on the background or financials searches.
The plaintiff would only be able to claim ownership if it were a "work for hire". Otherwise, it's technically owned by the person who created the fake ID.
And I'm reasonably sure they aren't going to claim ownership on the original work:)
The girl is stupid. Stupid in the same way that every person we interview here gets a MySpace and Google search done on them, informally, just to see what kind of things the Intarwebs have to say about them. It's nothing official, but if we're borderline about bringing on someone, that search might tip our decision one way or the other. If we're "eh" on hiring someone, and find out they prefer to spend their nights playing games until 4 AM, then coming in late to their last 4 jobs, we're probably gonna go with "poor work ethic" and not hire them. In the same way, if she's, say, at NYU Law as an undergrad, when it comes time for internships, all those law firms are probably going to be very interested in the fact that she got caught with a fake ID when she was an undergrad.
As the author states in her writings, "actions have consequences". In this case, for a young woman who is "going places", her actions are that those places she's going are going to know she, when she was underage, she was willing to break the law just to go out drinking.
I hope Rachel gets the post back online...and maybe even gets the chance to file suit for abuse of DMCA Takedown notices. We'll see what kind of places this girl goes when it's not just a post about her fake ID, but her disregard for the valid use of the law.
Shouldn't the school district be liable for their own insecurity? Why are they punishing so many students for something that should be handled from the district's end? I know at the time I was going to school there, I was punished for using a Linux LiveCD to login to their computers without using a password, even after I told the admins how to disable booting from CD-ROMs. They refused to update any of the computers and as such I was using the same tactic till the day I graduated."
While security breaches by students are something to take seriously, should school administrations continue with their knee-jerk mentality to something like this, especially at the times when its obvious that no malicious intent was involved?
Absolutely they should be coming down on the students.
The schools have rules, conditions, and access limitation in place for multiple reasons:
To prevent abuse of school resources
To limit access to educational resources, ensuring they're available for people who "need" them
To reduce liability of the school by exposing 14 year olds to Tubgirl, Goatse, etc etc etc
Many more I don't feel like itemizing, but are fairly evident to anyone who thinks about it for a bit
In the case of things like students accessing proxies not on the blacklist to access sites on the blacklist, or booting LiveCDs, or otherwise evading the infrastructure as it was in place, these students are willfully violating the conditions of their using the resources. Even if they're smart enough to avoid the viruses and popups and such, they're opening up the computers to risks the administrators have deemed too high.
Students who willfully misuse school resources, in the case of almost everything, are subject to discipline up to suspension or expulsion for most things. In the case of computers, they're not just doing something that could hurt them, they're potentionally hurting everyone at the school.
Consider if it were a work environment. In most workplaces, even looking at porn on your own computer is considered "creating a hostile work environment" for anyone who works there, since you have no expectation of privacy at a workplace. Infraction of workplace rules is punishable by up to and including termination. Convert that back to a schoolplace, and at least you get to come back to school.
The computers aren't there for your personal enjoyment, they're there as tools of learning for the student population as a whole. There is nothing "educational" to be gained by browsing Facebook or MySpace, or reading your personal email, or anything the school has explicitly decided you shouldn't have access to. If you feel you should, there should be a policy in place for reviewing and allowing or denying access.
Just cause you CAN do something doesn't mean you MAY or SHOULD. You can steal from shops, kill people, and sleep with your brother's wife. You probably may not or should not do any of those things, though.
Seriously, if you're going to go intentionally getting around rules that have been put in place, why are you complaining about being disciplined when you get caught? Chat with your MySpace ho's at home, leave the school computers for people doing real work.
I would not be surprised to learn Powershell equals if not beats bash at the shell game. I wouldn't say it is ready to replace any of the scripting languages just yet.
Unless MS rewrites all of their other commands to accept STDIN/OUT, Monad will never surpass the shells. The power of the shells isnt' their programming flexibility, it's their ability to incorporate all the other UNIX tools and commands via pipes to do what you want.
I have been using it for a while now and the single (semi-major) problem I can find is memory usage. It is a hog at best, and at worst when you are using it semi-heavily it can easily chew up 1GB of memory. That's even with giving the GC something to work with, ie unsetting $vars when you are done with their data.
Another reason it will never surpass the shells. They're lightweight, and flexible, and I don't need a Garbage Collector running in the back end to clean up my object allocation.
So why bother having a variable-output base if the receiver needs to convert anyway? Plus, what if you toss multiple devices on the pad at the same time, each with different power requirements? This is the reason I'd want one of these, to eliminate multiple chargers.
Baby steps.
You aren't gonna be able to drop your devices on the pad tomorrow. You could, assuming the market is smart enough, go out and buy a wired adapter that's powers off the pad tomorrow. It's no less convenient than what you get today, which is a strip of warts and connectors powering everything on your desk, and has a much brighter future.
For phones/handhelds/etc, the charger could be something that's similar to the little bluetooth adapters they sell now for phones and handhelds - clips onto the bottom of the device on the power jack, contains the charging circuit. Hell, if it's built right and small enough, a lot of people might just leave it on the device. For plug-in type devices, a single wart with 2-4 variable circuits inside could power several devices that sit on the desk...like your desk phone, speakers, wireless mouse/kbd, etc.
Eventually, with enough interest shown in aftermarket solutions, the device fabs would start incorporating the circuitry into the devices directly...then we'd be set.
Think about how little circuitry is involved in something like this. It would be almost trivial to make a charging block with various adapters on it to let you run 1, 2, 4 small-load devices off of it...say, your router, desk phone, some number of device chargers, etc. All of them would charge off of a single station with one plug.
If you had 3 power strips under your desk simply for the reason of not being able to plug all teh transformers into a single one, you'd be all on this like white on rice.
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The Pidgin plugin also had a tendency to knock your browser session offline while your Pidgin session was online - couldn't consistently run both of them. This is much better.
That would be a valid argument if you were talking about increasing lifespan from, say, 50 to 60. Vaccination affects things like, expanding life span from 3 or 4 into the point where they can become productive workers. When you're killing off a significant portion of your population before they ever reach a productive-to-society age, then they become nothing but resource sinks in resources to care for them and time to administer the care. A society that loses so many of its young will never reach the point where it can address work imbalances and the like, because it's stuck trying to grow up, not out.
No, it narrows you down to somewhere within 252ish public IP addresses (even considering IPv6, which contains a standard rest-of-the-address to "encapsulate" IPv4). Very few people (I'll even go so far as to say "the majority of users") on broadband services across most of the world truly appear to the outside world as an actual unique IP address, which is to say you and the guy at the desk/apartment/house/whatever next to you has a discrete and separate network address from you. Your connection is generally going to be NAT translated in some form or another from a private-network-space IP address to a public address. You will appear, to the world, to be generally the same "computer" as several users around you in the network.
If we want to move to an education system whereby teachers are valued based on their ability to teach, and the performance of their students, then the teachers own their lesson plans. This is assuming, of course, that they developed the plan in the first place. Let's just say that's the case in order to make the discussion clearer.
Teachers, good ones, develop their methods for teaching students. If those methods lead to better student understanding, then let them sell them to other teachers. It's really no different than all of the stupid process patents that we rail over, except they're not actually trying to lock them away, they're trying to share them with their peer group and get themselves some benefit in the process.
I don't see a big deal here. They figured out how to build a better mousetrap, let them market it. Unless a school district contains similar "work product" provisions in their teacher contracts that many tech people have in theirs, the schools have no right to the processes and products developed by the teachers for their use.
Define "superior conflicts-resolution system". Currently, TiVo's scheduler is smart enough to, through the priority set in your season passes, work around jsut about any conflict. For overlaps, TiVo's now offer you the ability to trim/crop recordings that overlap in one direction or the other (end one early or start one late). What did the Hauppage system do differently that those of us on TiVo don't realize we're missing?
> Most electronic manufacturers will give free samples of their parts if you ask them. It is standard practice in the electronics industry to get free samples to build a prototype of a new product, and then buy thousands of the chips when the product goes into production. You can use your work e-mail address to convince the electronics manufacturers that this is your plan with the samples.
Dear Slashdot:All further requests for free samples will forthwith have the originating email address compared to the Slashdot userbase, and denied if a match is found. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
--marketing@BigElectronicsSupplier.com
The TV I had growing up was, in fact, a Heathkit 27" kit TV, in the large cabinet that had bookshelves under it. It rocked :)
They aren't suggesting a new "Use Tax" though - they're going to institute sales tax - they're expanding a 75-year old Sales Tax.
You can't put a sales tax on a transfer of intangible and revocable rights.
OK, someone explain how this works to me please.
The RIAA and all seem to insist that, even when buying physical CDs, let alone digital Rights-managed files, that we don't own the files - what we're paying for is a "use license". This is why they have always claimed that we don't have the right to space/time/format shift, make backup copeis, resell, or generally do whatever we want under the Fair Use tenets.
Now, a senator in California is attempting to apply a personal property tax - a tax on tangible, owned goods - to music downloads.
IANAL (obviously, I'm posting and commenting here on /.), but how can you apply a tax on tangible goods to something which, under the use and purchase terms usually found with such "goods", aren't tangible, and aren't owned by the buyer? Seems to me that either this new tax is DOA, or California is about to invalidate and/or make illegal all EULAs which specify that digital music downloads are "licensed" and not "purchased".
I think the adult toy business has already gone down this path :)
You obviously have no kids. If you did, you'd know you're asking for the Holy Grail. :)
I'd be happy with a sippy cup that had enough resistance to pressure from inside that the cup full of milk we lose under the couch every other month didn't start blowing whey out the spout and making the living room smell like baby vomit.
Except he excluded DDS explicitly, because it was difficult to subcategorize-and-sort below the general ABC.XYZ Dewey number.
...you didn't answer any questions about this "wife" artifact you're dealing with while catalogging books. Could you please give us more details?
Damn, wish I had mod points.... Seriously, I don't "browse" the web on my phone. I look up sports scores, sometimes Google search for some particulr piece of information, and watch MLB.com's play-by when I'm not at home ot listen to the game on the radio. It's....a phone. With internet access. It's not a browser.
Yes, they are two different things...but the first often leads to the second, and in this particular case, the first more often than not leads to the second.
Is it possible to record a 20 second clip, and not use that to lead to theft? Absolutely. However, obtaining the 20 second clip through the use of a camcorder in a theater is still illegal.
Should she go to jail, as the statute permits? Certainly not. But it's still illegal.
...and soon enough, you have the whole movie. Have you ever seen a camcordered and compressed movie? They're awful...the peopel that watch them aren't going to complain that much about a bit of content overlap a couple of times a minute. The fact of the matter is, it's illegal to take a camcorder into a movie theater, and record what's on the screen. If what TFA states is the actual truth, then when the case goes to court, the circumstances should temper the verdict and sentence, and maybe she'll get off with a slap on the wrist. But as the article quotes, it's not up to the managers of the places which show the movies to decide if it's "good stealing" or "bad stealing". Just like in some places, "He needed killing" might be a valid claim, but that's up to the court to decide. She recorded a movie on her camcorder. At the very least, she's guilty of being stupid on her birthday. She needs to deal with that.
When I was in school...no, we didn't use clay tablets and styluses, or papyrus, shut up, whippersnapper...we learned how to use a word processor.
It wasn't Microsoft Office. It wasn't even Microsoft Word, the standanone version before there was a monolithic Office. It was Bank Street Writer, on an Apple II. At home, I used something else, on my 386...I actually don't even remember what it was...maybe PFSWrite.
In High School, I was introduced to Word. At the same time, I was using Wordperfect at home. I still managed to type up the 3-5 papers a year that were required to be typed and even got into an argument over a threatened "F" from my sophmore English teacher who refused to believe I could do a "rough draft" of my final paper on the computer as well as I could on actual paper (I eventually wrote out verbatim what I had originally saved as my first draft, she wouldn't take it, but she didn't fail me as she'd threatened, I think she finally realized it was a stupid requirement).
At college, we used both Word and WordPerfect as well, and I also used Abiword in the dorm room on my Linux (Slackware, running kernel 1.0.somethingEarly, installed from floppies) and printed across the campus to the labs where I had a friend working their shift grab my papers off the printer.
The point is...as some poster in here commented...these aren't "Ofice 2007" classes these kids are taking. They're learning to type and use computers in general. Learning and using a different word processing package is mostly trivial if you already know how to use one. That the school district is "strongly suggesting" (as in, "We strongly suggest you buy our protection insurance, we'd hate for something bad to happen to your family's store, ya know?") that families upgrade to MSO2007 indicates that the school ddistrict itself doesn't really understand just why they should and do have and need computers in their schols in the first place.
As another poster said...contact the school board and administration. Explain why they're wrong. If they still don't get it, make sure you vote at the next election, in most places, that's in about 4 months, you have plenty of time to spread the word about how your current board and administration are more interested in spending their hard-won budgets on hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Microsoft software while cutting programs in your students' curriculums.
Yep, what the above poster said.
You're going to work in a financial firm. As a programmer, you're high enough on the food chain that you, potentially, have access to the actual financial systems. This has been SOP for...hell, almost a decade, since i got my first job as a sysadmin at a bank.
She's going to have her prints run through CODIS, and a pretty signifigant background check run on her. They may also check her financial records, to see if she is in such bad financial shape that she shouldn't be given access to systems that control money. None of this is new, it's not because of the War on Terror. It's simply the banks limiting the damage any one person can do to them.
As an aside, in 1997, when I got my first bank job, I had pretty crap financial history (just a year out of college, no real work history), but no flags were thrown. I'd imagine you have to be pretty screwed up to trip flags on the background or financials searches.
The plaintiff would only be able to claim ownership if it were a "work for hire". Otherwise, it's technically owned by the person who created the fake ID.
And I'm reasonably sure they aren't going to claim ownership on the original work :)
The author should most definitely file a counter-notice against Blogger, and have the page restored.
Directions for such can be found on ChillingEffects
The girl is stupid. Stupid in the same way that every person we interview here gets a MySpace and Google search done on them, informally, just to see what kind of things the Intarwebs have to say about them. It's nothing official, but if we're borderline about bringing on someone, that search might tip our decision one way or the other. If we're "eh" on hiring someone, and find out they prefer to spend their nights playing games until 4 AM, then coming in late to their last 4 jobs, we're probably gonna go with "poor work ethic" and not hire them. In the same way, if she's, say, at NYU Law as an undergrad, when it comes time for internships, all those law firms are probably going to be very interested in the fact that she got caught with a fake ID when she was an undergrad.
As the author states in her writings, "actions have consequences" . In this case, for a young woman who is "going places", her actions are that those places she's going are going to know she, when she was underage, she was willing to break the law just to go out drinking.
I hope Rachel gets the post back online...and maybe even gets the chance to file suit for abuse of DMCA Takedown notices. We'll see what kind of places this girl goes when it's not just a post about her fake ID, but her disregard for the valid use of the law.
Absolutely they should be coming down on the students.
The schools have rules, conditions, and access limitation in place for multiple reasons:
In the case of things like students accessing proxies not on the blacklist to access sites on the blacklist, or booting LiveCDs, or otherwise evading the infrastructure as it was in place, these students are willfully violating the conditions of their using the resources. Even if they're smart enough to avoid the viruses and popups and such, they're opening up the computers to risks the administrators have deemed too high.
Students who willfully misuse school resources, in the case of almost everything, are subject to discipline up to suspension or expulsion for most things. In the case of computers, they're not just doing something that could hurt them, they're potentionally hurting everyone at the school.
Consider if it were a work environment. In most workplaces, even looking at porn on your own computer is considered "creating a hostile work environment" for anyone who works there, since you have no expectation of privacy at a workplace. Infraction of workplace rules is punishable by up to and including termination. Convert that back to a schoolplace, and at least you get to come back to school.
The computers aren't there for your personal enjoyment, they're there as tools of learning for the student population as a whole. There is nothing "educational" to be gained by browsing Facebook or MySpace, or reading your personal email, or anything the school has explicitly decided you shouldn't have access to. If you feel you should, there should be a policy in place for reviewing and allowing or denying access.
Just cause you CAN do something doesn't mean you MAY or SHOULD. You can steal from shops, kill people, and sleep with your brother's wife. You probably may not or should not do any of those things, though.
Seriously, if you're going to go intentionally getting around rules that have been put in place, why are you complaining about being disciplined when you get caught? Chat with your MySpace ho's at home, leave the school computers for people doing real work.
Unless MS rewrites all of their other commands to accept STDIN/OUT, Monad will never surpass the shells. The power of the shells isnt' their programming flexibility, it's their ability to incorporate all the other UNIX tools and commands via pipes to do what you want.
Another reason it will never surpass the shells. They're lightweight, and flexible, and I don't need a Garbage Collector running in the back end to clean up my object allocation.
It's all about the wall wart consolidation.
Think about how little circuitry is involved in something like this. It would be almost trivial to make a charging block with various adapters on it to let you run 1, 2, 4 small-load devices off of it...say, your router, desk phone, some number of device chargers, etc. All of them would charge off of a single station with one plug.
If you had 3 power strips under your desk simply for the reason of not being able to plug all teh transformers into a single one, you'd be all on this like white on rice.