Instead, they taught me their values, whats good and bad, then let me loose.
That's what I did with my son, and it didn't work. He's 12, extremely bright, but has OCD. He ended up spending hours a day searching for porn. He would switch to playing games or reading when someone was in the room. I thought he would fill his curiosity and get bored or disgusted and stop. Even after I told him I could see every sight he accessed because of the transparent squid proxy I set up, and talked to him about some of the poor choices he made in web browsing, he continued. He couldn't help himself. Now he's on a whitelist of ~10,000 sites. If he wants to go anywhere else he has to ask me for it. What was right for you won't work for every child, or even adult .
And as pointed out in the replies to the groklaw story, IBM asked for the same declaratory judgment on Sept. 25, 2003 in their "Amended Counterclaims Against SCO". See item 154 in the thirteenth counterclaim here.
Well, they're getting close. They're threatening legal action against Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for using Linux. LLNL is a customer of Linux Networx, part of the Canopy Group.
We DO know who bought licenses from SCO. In Mark Heise's response to IBM's letter about missing discovery items, he says there are only three that he knows of, Computer Associates, Questar and Leggett & Platt. Links here or here.
In the case of Computer Associates, they did agree to pay the Canopy Group and Center 7 40 million dollars to settle a lawsuit. Perhaps terms of the settlement required them to buy a "linux license" also. What is strange though is CA is a member of OSDL.
Here's a recent press release about an alternative to chemical batteries. It's a storage capacitor made of porous carbon. Supposedly can store twice the charge of lead acid batteries, recharge in 1 minute and last indefinitely. Sounds relatively simple.
I could find no documentation of fatlities from gila monster bites, but here's some extracts from FAQ: Venomous Critters
....They are slow and torpid animals. Since it's virtually impossible to be bitten without picking the animal up, don't pick up any Gila monsters.
Their delivery of venom depends on how long they can hang on and chew. If you can get their jaws pried open and take your hand out of the lizard's mouth, chances are that little venom will enter your system. Trying to shake the lizard off won't work well. Place it on the ground and pry its jaw open with a stick, knife, or other tool. Some people suggest holding a flame beneath its jaw or submerging it in water, or even squirting lighter fluid on its snout. This last technique presents us with the possibility of someone running in circles with a flaming lizard attached to his hand. The bite is reported to produce "instant and excruciating pain."
Gila monster venom is similar to rattlesnake venom in its action. Because the venom contains fewer of the anticoagulant agents and digestive enzymes, tissue damage will be lessened or absent. Gila monster bites are rare. But the venom is highly toxic and there's no way to tell how much you received. Weakness, dizziness and shock could result. That may not be a reliable criterion, since some people grow weak and dizzy at the very thought of having a lizard attached to their hand. No human deaths resulting solely from Gila monster venom have been documented.
No antivenom exists. The most important thing the docutor can do is remove the Gila monster's teeth, which break off in the wound and cause infection. A tetanus shot isn't a bad idea either. It's impossible to give this advice often enough: Don't apply ice or a tourniquet. Do remove the lizard. Do get to a hospital.
If you do happen to die from a Gila monster bite, they will probably erect a statue on the spot.
Perhaps an example of one living in captivity for the last 40 years is Oliver ( see here or here.
From the first link:
Oliver surfaced in the early 1970s, when he was acquired as a baby by trainers Frank and Janet Burger whose dog, chimp, pony and pig acts were once regularly featured on the Ed Sullivan Show, at Radio City Music Hall, and once even by dancer Gene Kelly. "He came in from Africa with three other chimps that one of Frank's brothers had sent over from the Congo. But this one we could never use. He was odd and the other chimps would have nothing to do with him,'' recalled Janet Burger, 69. But if Oliver was strange in appearance, and was shunned by other chimps, his intelligence and personality were also quite different from the other apes in the Burgers' entourage.
"You could send him on chores. He would take the wheelbarrow and empty the hay and straw from the stalls. And when it was time to feed the dogs, he would get the pans, and mix the dog food for me. I'd get it ready and he'd mix it,'' she said. As he grew older, Oliver also acquired habits normally enjoyed only by humans, including a cup of coffee and a nightcap. "This guy, Oliver, he enjoyed sitting down at night and having a drink, and watching television. He'd mix his own. He'd pour a shot of whiskey and put some Seven-Up in there, stir it and drink it,'' she recalled.
Actually, Caldera was a company that knowingly and intentionally released it's code under the GPL. It hired people to work on code with the express intention that the code would be released under the GPL.
Here's one of those employees, Ronald Joe Record. According to his bio "...In 2001 he was purchased by Caldera Systems as part of Caldera's acquisition of the server software division of SCO. In 2002 Caldera changed its name back to SCO. He is currently an Open Source Architect for SCO"... and..." author of
"Porting Open Source Software to SCO"." He's also a member in good standing of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists(TM).
I routinely see crystal lattice images in TEMs (transmission electron microscopes). Perhaps this is what the parent poster remembers. Single crystal gold is often used to check performance and is quite easy to resolve.14 nm lattice spacings in higher end models. This isn't really resolving individual atoms though, but columns of atoms. It is possible though to view individual atoms, depending on your hardware and the element you're looking at. Google search for "individual atoms" "electron microscope".
another interesting comment of RMS:
"It has just been suggested that we impose someone's standards on us because otherwise he MIGHT do so. Well, if you feel that those standards are right and necessary, go right ahead and support them. But if you disagree with them, as I do, why hand your opponents the victory on a silver platter? By the suggested reasoning, we should always follow the political views that we don't believe in, and especially those of terrorists, in anticipation of their attempts to impose them on us."
When I saw this story, the first movie that came to me was "Brazil". It had the most profound effect on me, I'm not sure why. My/. name is from the poor guy ( in the movie who is arrested mistakenly instead of Harry Tuttle (Robert DeNiro), because of a bug that is killed and falls into a teletype machine, transforming the T into a B in the arrest warrant. After the cops drop through the ceiling, burst through the windows and door, Mr. Buttle (Brian Miller) is subdued and led away.
What happens next, from thisreview of the movie:
"A plain-clothed Ministry of Information official enters and reads the notice of Buttle's incarceration, including the principle of Information Retrieval charges, and then forces the dazed and panic-stricken Mrs. Buttle to sign the documents as her husband (with muffled cries heard under the burlap) is hauled away:
I hereby inform you under powers entrusted to me under Section 476 that
Mr. Buttle, Archibald, residing at 412 North Tower, Shangri La Towers, has
been invited to assist the Ministry of Information with certain inquiries
and that he is liable to certain financial obligations as specified in Council
Order RB-stroke-C-Z-stroke-nine-O-seven-stroke-X.
The ultimate indignity is his presentation to her of the receipt:
That is your receipt for your husband. Thank you. And this is my receipt for your receipt."
If you are looking for this movie, search for the Criterion 3-cd release which includes the director's cut.
And don't forget, We're all in it together, kid.
Yes, it was a plasma. I saw it. Here is the link. Though if you search Costco it doesn't show up, so it may not still be available. In my opinion the Daewoo is not worth US$3000, and pales in comparison to the Panasonic model with the same features, which is available for a few hundred dollars more.
The last official release from Junkbusters Co. was in 1998. You may want to take a look at Privoxy . It's Junkbuster rebuilt, with many new features, at version 3.0 and a release date of Aug 28 2002. It's available in most of the favorite flavors
Where I come from, they're effectively free. Almost monthly, one or more chain stores have 25, 50 or sometimes 100 CDR's free after rebate. So I've only payed tax and postage for mine the last several years.
Is an easy to use, easy to configure, telephone answering machine/ fax program and Quicken. I know some have used quicken under wine, but I've been searching for a long time for a Linux TAM solution, and the only thing that looks remotely close to what I want is PrimaFAX Pro . Has anyone used it? Is it worth $99 for home use? I can find zero reviews.
Hey, come on, you forgot the most important comparison. With this as a rough guide, you would need ~106 square inches to store the Library of Congress.
Slashdot Mirror
ISPs' AUPs will limit us. Right not my cap on downloading is 30GB/month, which is ~6 dvds or ~0.003 LOCs.
That's what I did with my son, and it didn't work. He's 12, extremely bright, but has OCD. He ended up spending hours a day searching for porn. He would switch to playing games or reading when someone was in the room. I thought he would fill his curiosity and get bored or disgusted and stop. Even after I told him I could see every sight he accessed because of the transparent squid proxy I set up, and talked to him about some of the poor choices he made in web browsing, he continued. He couldn't help himself. Now he's on a whitelist of ~10,000 sites. If he wants to go anywhere else he has to ask me for it. What was right for you won't work for every child, or even adult .
And as pointed out in the replies to the groklaw story, IBM asked for the same declaratory judgment on Sept. 25, 2003 in their "Amended Counterclaims Against SCO". See item 154 in the thirteenth counterclaim here.
Well, they're getting close. They're threatening legal action against Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for using Linux. LLNL is a customer of Linux Networx, part of the Canopy Group.
We DO know who bought licenses from SCO. In Mark Heise's response to IBM's letter about missing discovery items, he says there are only three that he knows of, Computer Associates, Questar and Leggett & Platt. Links here or here.
considering the source of the study, I wouldn't give it a lot of credence.
In the case of Computer Associates, they did agree to pay the Canopy Group and Center 7 40 million dollars to settle a lawsuit. Perhaps terms of the settlement required them to buy a "linux license" also. What is strange though is CA is a member of OSDL.
I tried searching for litigious bastards at SCO but I get an error code of -12281, which was unexpected. I wonder what that means?
Here's a recent press release about an alternative to chemical batteries. It's a storage capacitor made of porous carbon. Supposedly can store twice the charge of lead acid batteries, recharge in 1 minute and last indefinitely. Sounds relatively simple.
Oliver surfaced in the early 1970s, when he was acquired as a baby by trainers Frank and Janet Burger whose dog, chimp, pony and pig acts were once regularly featured on the Ed Sullivan Show, at Radio City Music Hall, and once even by dancer Gene Kelly. "He came in from Africa with three other chimps that one of Frank's brothers had sent over from the Congo. But this one we could never use. He was odd and the other chimps would have nothing to do with him,'' recalled Janet Burger, 69. But if Oliver was strange in appearance, and was shunned by other chimps, his intelligence and personality were also quite different from the other apes in the Burgers' entourage. "You could send him on chores. He would take the wheelbarrow and empty the hay and straw from the stalls. And when it was time to feed the dogs, he would get the pans, and mix the dog food for me. I'd get it ready and he'd mix it,'' she said. As he grew older, Oliver also acquired habits normally enjoyed only by humans, including a cup of coffee and a nightcap. "This guy, Oliver, he enjoyed sitting down at night and having a drink, and watching television. He'd mix his own. He'd pour a shot of whiskey and put some Seven-Up in there, stir it and drink it,'' she recalled.
I routinely see crystal lattice images in TEMs (transmission electron microscopes). Perhaps this is what the parent poster remembers. Single crystal gold is often used to check performance and is quite easy to resolve .14 nm lattice spacings in higher end models. This isn't really resolving individual atoms though, but columns of atoms. It is possible though to view individual atoms, depending on your hardware and the element you're looking at. Google search for "individual atoms" "electron microscope".
another interesting comment of RMS: "It has just been suggested that we impose someone's standards on us because otherwise he MIGHT do so. Well, if you feel that those standards are right and necessary, go right ahead and support them. But if you disagree with them, as I do, why hand your opponents the victory on a silver platter? By the suggested reasoning, we should always follow the political views that we don't believe in, and especially those of terrorists, in anticipation of their attempts to impose them on us."
But, on the other hand, or hip, if your handgun is not concealed no permit is necessary in Arizona.
Forgive me if any of these have been previously mentioned. I haven't finished reading the thread yet.
FunBrain.com
The Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception.
BrainPOP
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab - Free Fun Educational Science Experiments
KidsCom, a fun site for kids
Thinkquest Libraries
Yes, it was a plasma. I saw it.
/. articles available here.
Here is the link. Though if you search Costco it doesn't show up, so it may not still be available. In my opinion the Daewoo is not worth US$3000, and pales in comparison to the Panasonic model with the same features, which is available for a few hundred dollars more.
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The last official release from Junkbusters Co. was in 1998. You may want to take a look at Privoxy . It's Junkbuster rebuilt, with many new features, at version 3.0 and a release date of Aug 28 2002. It's available in most of the favorite flavors
Where I come from, they're effectively free. Almost monthly, one or more chain stores have 25, 50 or sometimes 100 CDR's free after rebate. So I've only payed tax and postage for mine the last several years.
Microsoft OS/2
Google? what's that? How do you spell it? Do I need to use 1's and 0's in place of i's and o's?
Is an easy to use, easy to configure, telephone answering machine/ fax program and Quicken. I know some have used quicken under wine, but I've been searching for a long time for a Linux TAM solution, and the only thing that looks remotely close to what I want is PrimaFAX Pro . Has anyone used it? Is it worth $99 for home use? I can find zero reviews.
Sorry, forgot the link
Hey, come on, you forgot the most important comparison. With this as a rough guide, you would need ~106 square inches to store the Library of Congress.