Our lawyer friend Jack from the USA would use this case in China as "proof" that video games are killing children. The sad truth is that some children are incapable of distinguishing fantasy from reality, and should not be playing video games. Darwin's theory takes over if they see something they shouldn't be doing, because whatever is wrong with their brain takes over and puts fiction to life. The results are enough to stir up other kooks like Jack Thompson.
Ban parents who buy video games for mentally challenged children! Don't ban video games!
Thanks to parents who put away some money into an RESP for me, my tuition scholarship, and co-operative education program where I worked every other semester in my area of study, I came out 5 years later ahead a little bit in the money department, and it was far from time being lost. More like Time Well Spent (TM).
Hey, sons get to borrow cool electronic gadgets, and I think he used it some first. And I'll be giving it back before Christmas:-)
After all, aren't sons the definition of "vampire devices"?
Once the "point of information intake benefit" is reached, the continuance of information intake is detrimental to success because there's no time left for action. Since you're reading Slashdot, you like to take in information, but if you're just a lurker, you're not taking any action [at least not here] with the information you take in. The world pays, based on results that it sees, and a full brain looks the same as an empty one to the average employer or professor.
I convert all my MP3s to music boxes, and share them with my friends. It's a distribuated backup, and there are music boxes that last over 100 years old, it's a perfect way to back up my music. Sony might not like it, but what are they going to do? I suppose they could send hired goons over to enforce their DRM and break my music boxes.
When I was in Niagara On the Lake, or Niagara Falls [I don't remember which], I was in a museum with an Edison player, and a wax cylinder mounted in it. They wouldn't take it off, for fear that it would fall apart, even though they had a few other ones. They started it up for me and my friend, and I kicked myself for not bringing my digital vid. camera with me to record it. The music was over 90 years old, and recorded live! Cool; all those people are dead.
I got a P3 for my Dad, and have since borrowed it to meter nearly everything in my house just for fun. [Yeah I said fun, this is Slashdot and if I consider plugging things in to test for Wattage use as fun, that's fine.] I got the meter from eBay, it was about $30.
Here are some of my results: Air Conditioner wall unit: 2 hours: 17 minutes 3.12 kWh and 1300W when running.
Fridge from the 1970s, about 126W when running.
Microwave from 1980, 888W when running
Clock Radio from 1986, with the radio on and volume low, 0W measured.
Computer 1800+ AMD, 3 IDE HD, and Radeon AIW 8500DV/Speakers/Monitor/Modems/Sony VCR, 13" TV, UPS, all typically used, but the computer running 24/7: 185W approximately 214 hours 38.62kWh 1083 hours 188kWh
I'd like someone to invent small wind generation units, that people can mount on their roof, and it would provide power to "vampire devices" so that your TV, VCR, and other remote controlled devices can have power, but not use anything from the power grid until they are turned on.
Solar power would work too, but I suspect wind would be more powerful with a small generator, but anyone is free to correct me if they know better.
I'm far from an expert, but I've been using OO.o for over two years now.
My first tip is at home or for basic users, you can go into Tools Options Java Disable the Java, and your startup time is almost certainly going to improve. [Another Slashdotter showed me this trick, and it apparently disables macros or something I don't use much if ever.]
I install OO.o on a computer, and log into the profile that will run it, hit enter a few times to accept the agreement, and say I've already registered then proceed. This loads the quickstarter into the Startup, and if MS Antispyware is running it might even ask if you want it to run every time.
Since I image computers and roll out a standard image when a machine needs redoing, I don't worry about standard config settings yet. Most machines I put it on don't have Word, so I set OO to automatically open Word files, when I install it.
You might be onto something since I read that Lego is Danish, and Denmark and Canada were recently in a spat about who owns a worthless island in the high arctic, because it might one day determine trade routes through the opening NorthWest Passage.
In an effort to make http://www.openoffice.org/ 2.0 more MS Office compatible, the beloved office assistant "Clippy" has been included in the open source software. It's thought that Clippy's comforting and helpful questions will ease users into the harsh and different world of Open Office.
Instead of Clippy asking: "It looks like you're writing a letter, would you like help?" He'll be asking: "It looks like you're writing a letter, would you like to release it under the LGPL or BSD license?"
I didn't tell my boss to get the guy in trouble, since I didn't even realize it was a serious problem, or company policy. I was asking him the best way to fix the system.
"Sony would still have been infringing their copyright..."
But his [joking] point is that the GPL code is like a honeypot, it sucks in lazy coders that want to steal, and they don't even have to conduct corporate espionage to take the code.
Or: Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Iraq once it's discovered that they had $sys$ written all over them, and American WMD detectors have CDROMs in them that listen to Celine Dion Sony CDs.
What else has $sys$ hidden? Hoffa's body might be just a rootkit removal away...
One time I went to fix someone's Windows computer at work. I found it to be very different from the standard machine image, it was missing something like Microsoft Word. He mentioned that he'd installed linux on the machine, and put Windows back on himself. I didn't know what to do, so I told my boss what I'd seen, and it turns out tinkering with the software in that way, at this company, was a big no-no. I don't know to know what happened to that employee, but thumb screws might have been involved.
Before you tinker with a work computer, ask! You won't like the answer, but there won't be any thumb screws.
If I worked at First4Internet, I'd be thinking about vacating the UK very shortly, and find a country without copyright law to settle down in. And a country that won't extradict too.
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/20/142320 1&threshold=-1&tid=95
Our lawyer friend Jack from the USA would use this case in China as "proof" that video games are killing children. The sad truth is that some children are incapable of distinguishing fantasy from reality, and should not be playing video games. Darwin's theory takes over if they see something they shouldn't be doing, because whatever is wrong with their brain takes over and puts fiction to life. The results are enough to stir up other kooks like Jack Thompson.
Ban parents who buy video games for mentally challenged children! Don't ban video games!
If you look at the book for sale on Amazon, they'll tell you what other books people are buying if they've bought Jack's book.
Here's a sample:
How to Use DRM to Improve Your Profits
by Sony BMG
In The Line of Fire:
A Case for War
by Scooter Libby
Censorship for Dummies
by the Parents Television Council of America
[yes these are all made up titles]
There's going to be a vomit posting teenager, running from a lawyer very soon.
Slashdot looked deep into my soul
and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
-/Obligatory Homerism from Stonecutters episode.
10,000-99,999?
Yeah, that suits me fine.
Thanks to parents who put away some money into an RESP for me, my tuition scholarship, and co-operative education program where I worked every other semester in my area of study, I came out 5 years later ahead a little bit in the money department, and it was far from time being lost. More like Time Well Spent (TM).
Hey, sons get to borrow cool electronic gadgets, and I think he used it some first. And I'll be giving it back before Christmas :-)
After all, aren't sons the definition of "vampire devices"?
Once the "point of information intake benefit" is reached, the continuance of information intake is detrimental to success because there's no time left for action. Since you're reading Slashdot, you like to take in information, but if you're just a lurker, you're not taking any action [at least not here] with the information you take in. The world pays, based on results that it sees, and a full brain looks the same as an empty one to the average employer or professor.
I convert all my MP3s to music boxes, and share them with my friends. It's a distribuated backup, and there are music boxes that last over 100 years old, it's a perfect way to back up my music. Sony might not like it, but what are they going to do? I suppose they could send hired goons over to enforce their DRM and break my music boxes.
"crank my stereo up playing 1910 Rag Time."
You laugh now, but wait until the Great-Grannies start chasing you looking to be courted!
Geeks also appreciate the little things in life like having many 1111s in a user ID, or many 000s :-)
When I was in Niagara On the Lake, or Niagara Falls [I don't remember which], I was in a museum with an Edison player, and a wax cylinder mounted in it. They wouldn't take it off, for fear that it would fall apart, even though they had a few other ones. They started it up for me and my friend, and I kicked myself for not bringing my digital vid. camera with me to record it. The music was over 90 years old, and recorded live! Cool; all those people are dead.
I got a P3 for my Dad, and have since borrowed it to meter nearly everything in my house just for fun. [Yeah I said fun, this is Slashdot and if I consider plugging things in to test for Wattage use as fun, that's fine.] I got the meter from eBay, it was about $30.
/Speakers/Monitor/Modems/Sony VCR, 13" TV, UPS, all typically used, but the computer running 24/7:
Here are some of my results:
Air Conditioner wall unit: 2 hours: 17 minutes 3.12 kWh and 1300W when running.
Fridge from the 1970s, about 126W when running.
Microwave from 1980, 888W when running
Clock Radio from 1986, with the radio on and volume low, 0W measured.
Computer 1800+ AMD, 3 IDE HD, and Radeon AIW 8500DV
185W approximately
214 hours 38.62kWh
1083 hours 188kWh
I'd like someone to invent small wind generation units, that people can mount on their roof, and it would provide power to "vampire devices" so that your TV, VCR, and other remote controlled devices can have power, but not use anything from the power grid until they are turned on.
Solar power would work too, but I suspect wind would be more powerful with a small generator, but anyone is free to correct me if they know better.
http://www.boycottsony.us/ is the correct site. Once again I wish I could modify previous posts, but then trolls would have a field day.
Check out http://www.boycottsony.com/ for some organizational goodness.
I'm far from an expert, but I've been using OO.o for over two years now.
My first tip is at home or for basic users, you can go into
Tools
Options
Java
Disable the Java, and your startup time is almost certainly going to improve.
[Another Slashdotter showed me this trick, and it apparently disables macros or something I don't use much if ever.]
I install OO.o on a computer, and log into the profile that will run it, hit enter a few times to accept the agreement, and say I've already registered then proceed. This loads the quickstarter into the Startup, and if MS Antispyware is running it might even ask if you want it to run every time.
Since I image computers and roll out a standard image when a machine needs redoing, I don't worry about standard config settings yet. Most machines I put it on don't have Word, so I set OO to automatically open Word files, when I install it.
You might be onto something since I read that Lego is Danish, and Denmark and Canada were recently in a spat about who owns a worthless island in the high arctic, because it might one day determine trade routes through the opening NorthWest Passage.
I agree, I often get Slashdotters visiting my webpages, which is pretty neat I think and some even look around so they must like what they see?
;-)
I got my Digg account last week, so at least I'll have a low number user ID on one major online community
In an effort to make http://www.openoffice.org/ 2.0 more MS Office compatible, the beloved office assistant "Clippy" has been included in the open source software. It's thought that Clippy's comforting and helpful questions will ease users into the harsh and different world of Open Office.
Instead of Clippy asking:
"It looks like you're writing a letter, would you like help?"
He'll be asking:
"It looks like you're writing a letter, would you like to release it under the LGPL or BSD license?"
"You're lucky you're not my colleague."
I feel the same way.
I didn't tell my boss to get the guy in trouble, since I didn't even realize it was a serious problem, or company policy. I was asking him the best way to fix the system.
"Sony would still have been infringing their copyright..."
But his [joking] point is that the GPL code is like a honeypot, it sucks in lazy coders that want to steal, and they don't even have to conduct corporate espionage to take the code.
Or:
Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Iraq once it's discovered that they had $sys$ written all over them, and American WMD detectors have CDROMs in them that listen to Celine Dion Sony CDs.
What else has $sys$ hidden? Hoffa's body might be just a rootkit removal away...
One time I went to fix someone's Windows computer at work. I found it to be very different from the standard machine image, it was missing something like Microsoft Word. He mentioned that he'd installed linux on the machine, and put Windows back on himself. I didn't know what to do, so I told my boss what I'd seen, and it turns out tinkering with the software in that way, at this company, was a big no-no. I don't know to know what happened to that employee, but thumb screws might have been involved.
Before you tinker with a work computer, ask! You won't like the answer, but there won't be any thumb screws.
If I worked at First4Internet, I'd be thinking about vacating the UK very shortly, and find a country without copyright law to settle down in. And a country that won't extradict too.