It is an extension of the national Speak Up campaign begun in other cities in 2002. It will also be initiated in New York City this fall.
Texters and callers will be able to notify trained counselors about guns in school and other threats of violence, "without being tagged as a snitch," said Julie Young-Burns, Safe and Drug-Free Schools coordinator for the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Students also may use the tip line to report threats of suicide, domestic violence and substance abuse.
b) The woman for opening it and infecting the computer?
Yes, for abject stupidity.
That depends on how well the executable was disguised.
It depends on whether it launched when she opened the e-mail. It depends on the content and header of the e-mail itself.
It depends on the security of her home computer. Her own e-mail program or browser. The protection provided by her ISP.
Think it through.
Imagine yourself as the specific target of a malicious attachment. Crafted by someone who knew you well. Who "thinks geek."
I received an e-mail once from a respected open source project that linked directly to the Windows executable. Something I'd never seen from Microsoft.
The internet and especially all the Linux nodes on the internet are designed from the ground up to have a static IP addresses and IP names and be their own DNS and own Mail smarthost and web server and....
Thirty years of experience ought to have taught the geek that almost no one wants to manage systems and services on that level.
the vast majority of machines being dumb emasculated drones begging for content from the big media industries.
Wilmington, Delaware had a music-by-wire service in 1909:
The rate of charge for this service is very reasonable. It is three cents, for each ordinary piece, and seven cents for grand opera. The subscriber must guarantee $18 per year. In most cases the actual amount of music used makes that revenue greater than the regular telephone rent. In addition to this, pay stations are installed in restaurants, cafes, hotels and other public places, where selections can be obtained by depositing a coin in the box. The returns from residence stations run from fifteen to twenty cents per day, while pay stations have averaged as high as $10 in a week. On the whole, it has been estimated by its introducers that the service will pay local telephone companies from thirty to thirty-five per cent on their investment.Distributing Music Over Telephone Lines
KDKA began broadcasting in 1920. RCA launched the first national radio network in 1926. The geek who complains that users want prime media content from the major providers was born 100 years too late.
The only fundamental difference between the geek's pristine Linux machine and the "emasculated" HP running Vista or Win 7 is that the HP will likely ship with a Blu-Ray drive, a licensed Blu-Ray player and an HDMI output for multichannel theater sound and HD Video.
The law hates jurors in the first place - all those non-professionals who evaluate things in terms of right and wrong and not on the pure bases of compliance with appropriate legal loopholes.
The legal issues are framed by the judge.
The jury isn't there to decide right and wrong. It is there to decide whether the facts demand a decision in favor of the plaintiff or defendant.
Then it has rules of evidence so that the jury is given precisely the right information so that they reach the "appropriate" conclusion.
The appropriate conclusion to a trial is a decision which is consistent with the law and the facts.
The real meaning of "jury nullification" has often been defined by the lynch mob on the courthouse steps.
The rules of evidence help keep a trial on track.
Evidence must be relevant.
It has to stand up to critical examination:
"I heard John say that Robin said that Jake said that Brian was having an affair with Elaine."
That's the stuff of soap opera and it turns your brain into mush.
The expert witness should be able to explain his methods and findings in ways that a layman can understand.
But the issue is almost never whether a appliance "caused" an injury.
It's whether the product was defective or misrepresented as safe for its intended or advertised use.
That is in some sense a judgment call, a matter of not-quite fact and not-quite opinion which a jury may have to resolve.
If the glove doesn't fit, you need to explain why it doesn't fit - or the collection and handling of all the evidence you've presented becomes suspect.
it's sad to reduce complex (and interesting) technical issues into baby talk so 8 unemployed people from the mall can pick a winner in a million dollar business dispute.
The jury trial is optional.
If you aren't comfortable with the idea, you can ask for trial before a judge.
It won't be eight unemployed people from the mall.
Maybe they're just trying to figure out what all the complicated legalese being thrown out by both sides is supposed to mean by checking out Wikipedia or Findlaw?
Defining the law is the judge's responsibility - and the purely legal decisions are his alone to make.
He brings to the task a lifetime of experience in court - and his mistakes are open and visible and can be corrected on appeal.
Legal encyclopedias are held in generally low regard in the states.
The general reference encyclopedia - particularly one as informally constructed as the Wikipedia - is not appropriate for the courtroom.
From Flickr. It's not like some poor bastard was paid to be out there photographing for weeks.
No. But Flickr simplifies the problem if you are building a model of a world destination-city like Rome or Venice.
What interests me more is the possibility of building models of cities and landmarks across time. Perhaps using sources other than photographs. Lincoln's Washington. New York City in 1939.
who wouldn't pony up a few days of computing power to have a fully open 3D model of some of earths greatest landmarks?
That's still a serious commitment - and we could be talking weeks or months.
Games - by definition - first have to succeed as games.
You want to see compelling game play and the emergence of relatively simple - clearly defined strategies - the path to victory.
Real life holds surprises.
Expanding trade opens the door to lethal pandemics like the Black Plague.
Building the monument - the Pyramid, The Cathedral of Notre Dame, The Golden Gate Bridge, The Great Wall of China - is fun. But do you really understand its significance? Your time might be better spent watching a rerun of Mulan.
In Britain, libel laws don't have any presumption of innocence-- any statement made is assumed to be false unless you prove it's true. Journalist are running scared.'
The geek needs to remember that the "presumption of innocence" is a concept rooted in criminal law.
You can shoot someone - a fact not in dispute - and still be innocent of the crime of murder.
The libel case begins with something you said or published that can do a great deal of harm.
Truth arrives very late as a defense.
Courts were more concerned with maintaining the public peace and order than in the injury to the victim of a defamation. That will make more sense if you have been exposed to the excesses of AM talk radio, tabloid journalism or small-town gossip.
It is never enough to say that you made an innocent mistake. You have to argue that you made a "reasonable" mistake - or that what you said was true.
It asks a lot of a court to declare that something is presumptively true - meaning that it is beyond any reasonable argument.
The geek needs to ask whether he wants a court to go down that road - because it becomes very hard to turn back.
It implies a step back in time. But you can probably live with the latency of satellite VoIP. It might even keep you off the phone long enough to enjoy that once-in-a-lifetime RV adventure with your kids.
The very size of a typical RV is going to limit the roughing it. You won't be driving it cross country, you'll likely be on Interstates and staying in campgrounds
There are customized RVs for off-road use. Off Road Motorhomes But in most cases any hard surfaced road will do - and campers have been using them since the 1920s.
is why you are carrying sensitive information across an international border?
"Traveling light" is good advice for anyone headed abroad.
But perhaps especially so for the geek whose more incendiary political rants, porn stash or internal corporate memos aren't as well secured as he thinks.
The transition from gas to electric light did always not go smoothly.
The available lighting affects your choice of color, detail, and texture in paint, fabrics, wallpapers and so on. It affects basic architectural decisions - the size and placement of windows and skylights.
These can be really, really tough problems to fix.
The candelabra bulb was a clumsy solution for an elegant cut-glass chandelier.
But the chandelier was often the focus of room's interior design - and far too expensive to casually discard.
We have started to address this by undertaking a grounded theoretical analysis of reviews garnered from games, both good and bad, to distil from these common features that characterize good and bad games
Is there a critic whose game reviews could stand up to the best work being done in film and video?
Perspective is important as well.
Any serious critic knows he will remembered most for the day he panned the film that went on to became a legend.
The film that went on to win every major award the industry had to offer - or more tellingly was denied the recognition it deserved.
The film students will be studying for generations to come.
You need to be asking not only whether the reviews were good or bad but how well they have stood up over time.
Slashdot Mirror
Standing around town centres like homeless winos. That's the problem with FOSS advocates, they keep coming up with these wacky ideas...
It doesn't get any better than this:
The scene is the Boston Common in late August.
The event the launch of FSF's "Windows 7 Sins" campaign.
Special Guest Appearance by Ron Stoppable as Team Mascot. Free Software Foundation - Windows 7 Sins
You can expect much of the time - and much of the screen - to given over to a lecture by a paunchy - balding - middle-aged geek.
540 views.
It is quite possible for a Win 7 promotional video to net two million viewers. Windows 7
Children should learn to think. They should never, under any circumstances, be indoctrinated into any belief.
Children are also entitled to accurate legal and medical advice that is within their limits of understanding.
The ability of a child to make critical judgments is limited. That is part of what it means to be a child.
It is within bounds to tell a kid that downloading movies and music from unknown sources can cost his parents a lot of money.
It is within bounds to tell a kid that feeding copies of his favorite videos to the Internet can be prosecuted as a federal crime.
--- and while that simplifies things a bit, it should be enough to keep him - and you - out of trouble.
It is within bounds to tell a kid that resources like Pandora and Netflix play by the rules.
"Don't get into a car with a stranger."
Children can be comfortable living within a rule even when they don't fully understand why it it exists.
Surely the riaa can take a lesson from the war on drugs and get the children to turn in their parents and friends for dmca violations!
When a kid reports a drug violation in his family it is most likely because he sees someone in danger.
Metro kids can be 1st to report threats via text
It is an extension of the national Speak Up campaign begun in other cities in 2002. It will also be initiated in New York City this fall.
Texters and callers will be able to notify trained counselors about guns in school and other threats of violence, "without being tagged as a snitch," said Julie Young-Burns, Safe and Drug-Free Schools coordinator for the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Students also may use the tip line to report threats of suicide, domestic violence and substance abuse.
This is the real world of drug abuse:
Inside the Levi King Courtroom: Day 9, Police make arrest in shooting that narrowly missed two small children.
I don't have sympathy to spare for the geek who expects his kid to be a silent accomplice.
You want your free movie fix?
The warez game that retails for $60?
Fine. But don't put the heat on your kids. Don't expect them to take the fall for you.
If anyone rats you out, it's your tough luck, Charlie.
Sure Microsoft, that IS a good idea! Ad-supported native software, straight from the mothership.
You get two choices.
Either the "free" games are sponsored or they are paid for by everyone who buys a Zune - whether they want them or not.
Which would be the Slashdot geek's next complaint.
b) The woman for opening it and infecting the computer?
Yes, for abject stupidity.
That depends on how well the executable was disguised.
It depends on whether it launched when she opened the e-mail. It depends on the content and header of the e-mail itself.
It depends on the security of her home computer. Her own e-mail program or browser. The protection provided by her ISP.
Think it through.
Imagine yourself as the specific target of a malicious attachment. Crafted by someone who knew you well. Who "thinks geek."
I received an e-mail once from a respected open source project that linked directly to the Windows executable. Something I'd never seen from Microsoft.
The jammer is a big red arrow that points straight at you. That sort of defeats the purpose if you want to remain inconspicuous.
The internet and especially all the Linux nodes on the internet are designed from the ground up to have a static IP addresses and IP names and be their own DNS and own Mail smarthost and web server and ....
Thirty years of experience ought to have taught the geek that almost no one wants to manage systems and services on that level.
the vast majority of machines being dumb emasculated drones begging for content from the big media industries.
Wilmington, Delaware had a music-by-wire service in 1909:
The rate of charge for this service is very reasonable. It is three cents, for each ordinary piece, and seven cents for grand opera. The subscriber must guarantee $18 per year.
In most cases the actual amount of music used makes that revenue greater than the regular telephone rent. In addition to this, pay stations are installed in restaurants, cafes, hotels and other public places, where selections can be obtained by depositing a coin in the box.
The returns from residence stations run from fifteen to twenty cents per day, while pay stations have averaged as high as $10 in a week. On the whole, it has been estimated by its introducers that the service will pay local telephone companies from thirty to thirty-five per cent on their investment. Distributing Music Over Telephone Lines
KDKA began broadcasting in 1920. RCA launched the first national radio network in 1926. The geek who complains that users want prime media content from the major providers was born 100 years too late.
The only fundamental difference between the geek's pristine Linux machine and the "emasculated" HP running Vista or Win 7 is that the HP will likely ship with a Blu-Ray drive, a licensed Blu-Ray player and an HDMI output for multichannel theater sound and HD Video.
Amazon. Blockbuster. iTunes. Pandora. Songbird. WinAmP. Rhapsody. YouTube.
Protected content. Unprotected content. Free services. Subscription services. It all works just fine with the native Windows clients.
an a tightly controlled web where peer to peer traffic is being squeezed out.
The real threat to P2P is the instant download stream.
The Netflix client built into the HT receiver, the 65" Vizio HDTV, the Samsung Blu-Ray drive.
The law hates jurors in the first place - all those non-professionals who evaluate things in terms of right and wrong and not on the pure bases of compliance with appropriate legal loopholes.
The legal issues are framed by the judge.
The jury isn't there to decide right and wrong. It is there to decide whether the facts demand a decision in favor of the plaintiff or defendant.
Then it has rules of evidence so that the jury is given precisely the right information so that they reach the "appropriate" conclusion.
The appropriate conclusion to a trial is a decision which is consistent with the law and the facts.
The real meaning of "jury nullification" has often been defined by the lynch mob on the courthouse steps.
The rules of evidence help keep a trial on track.
Evidence must be relevant.
It has to stand up to critical examination:
"I heard John say that Robin said that Jake said that Brian was having an affair with Elaine."
That's the stuff of soap opera and it turns your brain into mush.
The expert witness should be able to explain his methods and findings in ways that a layman can understand.
But the issue is almost never whether a appliance "caused" an injury.
It's whether the product was defective or misrepresented as safe for its intended or advertised use.
That is in some sense a judgment call, a matter of not-quite fact and not-quite opinion which a jury may have to resolve.
The defense attorneys used their peremptory challenges to remove all educated people on the jury, including myself.
Peremptory challenges are generally quite limited - and are not be expended foolishly.
I would have to ask what you mean by "educated." I would have to ask why you were still hanging around after you were excused.
"if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."
If the glove doesn't fit, you need to explain why it doesn't fit - or the collection and handling of all the evidence you've presented becomes suspect.
it's sad to reduce complex (and interesting) technical issues into baby talk so 8 unemployed people from the mall can pick a winner in a million dollar business dispute.
The jury trial is optional.
If you aren't comfortable with the idea, you can ask for trial before a judge.
It won't be eight unemployed people from the mall.
The jury pool will be weighted in favor of vigorous, literate, long term residents of their district. Juror Qualifications, Exemptions and Excuses
Typically, middle-aged, middle class, small-C conservatives who believe in the process and want to be a part of it.
The weeding-out will continue on from there.
Maybe they're just trying to figure out what all the complicated legalese being thrown out by both sides is supposed to mean by checking out Wikipedia or Findlaw?
Defining the law is the judge's responsibility - and the purely legal decisions are his alone to make.
He brings to the task a lifetime of experience in court - and his mistakes are open and visible and can be corrected on appeal.
Legal encyclopedias are held in generally low regard in the states.
The general reference encyclopedia - particularly one as informally constructed as the Wikipedia - is not appropriate for the courtroom.
From Flickr. It's not like some poor bastard was paid to be out there photographing for weeks.
No. But Flickr simplifies the problem if you are building a model of a world destination-city like Rome or Venice.
What interests me more is the possibility of building models of cities and landmarks across time. Perhaps using sources other than photographs. Lincoln's Washington. New York City in 1939.
who wouldn't pony up a few days of computing power to have a fully open 3D model of some of earths greatest landmarks?
That's still a serious commitment - and we could be talking weeks or months.
Games - by definition - first have to succeed as games.
You want to see compelling game play and the emergence of relatively simple - clearly defined strategies - the path to victory.
Real life holds surprises.
Expanding trade opens the door to lethal pandemics like the Black Plague.
Building the monument - the Pyramid, The Cathedral of Notre Dame, The Golden Gate Bridge, The Great Wall of China - is fun. But do you really understand its significance? Your time might be better spent watching a rerun of Mulan.
Science long ago abandoned the idea that reliable and useful data could be gained by "After I did X, Y happened".
But that is where you begin. There is no other place to start.
If you kick a dog and it bites hard into your leg - perhaps you have learned something significant and useful.
And surely you must realize the worst kind of evidence short of fabricated evidence is anecdotal evidence.
You realize of course that you have struck a blow to the heart of Slashdot.
In Britain, libel laws don't have any presumption of innocence-- any statement made is assumed to be false unless you prove it's true. Journalist are running scared.'
The geek needs to remember that the "presumption of innocence" is a concept rooted in criminal law.
You can shoot someone - a fact not in dispute - and still be innocent of the crime of murder.
The libel case begins with something you said or published that can do a great deal of harm.
Truth arrives very late as a defense.
Courts were more concerned with maintaining the public peace and order than in the injury to the victim of a defamation. That will make more sense if you have been exposed to the excesses of AM talk radio, tabloid journalism or small-town gossip.
It is never enough to say that you made an innocent mistake. You have to argue that you made a "reasonable" mistake - or that what you said was true.
It asks a lot of a court to declare that something is presumptively true - meaning that it is beyond any reasonable argument.
The geek needs to ask whether he wants a court to go down that road - because it becomes very hard to turn back.
It implies a step back in time. But you can probably live with the latency of satellite VoIP. It might even keep you off the phone long enough to enjoy that once-in-a-lifetime RV adventure with your kids.
The very size of a typical RV is going to limit the roughing it. You won't be driving it cross country, you'll likely be on Interstates and staying in campgrounds
There are customized RVs for off-road use. Off Road Motorhomes But in most cases any hard surfaced road will do - and campers have been using them since the 1920s.
I'm certain the faculty at UW are completely familiar enough with free software that they could have made this work without MS's help.
150,000 photos. 21 Hours. 496 Cores. That makes it a labor intensive, computation intensive project. None of that comes "free as in beer."
is why you are carrying sensitive information across an international border?
"Traveling light" is good advice for anyone headed abroad.
But perhaps especially so for the geek whose more incendiary political rants, porn stash or internal corporate memos aren't as well secured as he thinks.
The transition from gas to electric light did always not go smoothly.
The available lighting affects your choice of color, detail, and texture in paint, fabrics, wallpapers and so on. It affects basic architectural decisions - the size and placement of windows and skylights.
These can be really, really tough problems to fix.
The candelabra bulb was a clumsy solution for an elegant cut-glass chandelier.
But the chandelier was often the focus of room's interior design - and far too expensive to casually discard.
1. Buy Netbook with Microsoft Windows XP installed.
Which will almost certainly be XP SP3. You want a point of entry? You will have to open the door yourself.
How does this rate insightful, when the fellow knows nothing about his topic?
The Win 7 RC stands up very well against Linux in the most frequently quoted stats: Operating System Market Share, OS Platform Statistics
We have started to address this by undertaking a grounded theoretical analysis of reviews garnered from games, both good and bad, to distil from these common features that characterize good and bad games
Is there a critic whose game reviews could stand up to the best work being done in film and video?
Perspective is important as well.
Any serious critic knows he will remembered most for the day he panned the film that went on to became a legend.
The film that went on to win every major award the industry had to offer - or more tellingly was denied the recognition it deserved.
The film students will be studying for generations to come.
You need to be asking not only whether the reviews were good or bad but how well they have stood up over time.
But a game of chess or poker or Monopoly will have an evolving narrative - defined by the personalities and actions of the players.