Its almost as if the defense believed that since the prosecution bears the burden of proof, anything that had *any* alternative explanation, no matter how unlikely or illogical, automatically prevented proof beyond reasonable doubt. Which is ridiculous.
The geek as a client is a nightmare for the defense --- arrogant beyond belief and with an impenetrable ignorance of the most basic principles of civil and criminal law.
These are people new to the internet. Either because they're young or they just didn't jump in until the new century. They're people who came to our party late.
It has been over twenty years since forces like AOL and Windows cracked the geek's hold on the Net. But there will some who will go to their graves unable to forgive or forget and move on.
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 27 during the 1996 Summer Olympics. The blast claimed 1 life and injured 111 people, while another person died of a heart attack. It was the first of four bombings committed by Eric Robert Rudolph.
The truth is that bags, parcels, jugs, cans, and such which don't look quite look quite right or don't seem to belong here are immediately and rightfully suspect.
Second guessing the 911 caller is a waste of time.
What the geek needs to do is start thinking about how his toys, gadgets, hoaxes, stunts and science projects out-of-doors will be perceived by others ---
who won't be so quick to assume that a real life bomber thinks like a geek and plays by his rules.
I went to a private school for about 6 years, then completed my education at the local public school, going on to get a couple undergraduate degrees and a postgraduate degree. My wife dropped out of high school and got her equivalency many years later. Now, she wants to homeschool our son.
I don't see this ending well.
It is not often these days that you such an extraordinary difference in education between husband and wife. I've seen marriages strained and broken over less.
Is she thinking of a religious or secular education? Traditional or modern approaches to what should be taught and how to teach it?
I can't speak to why your wife dropped out of school but you both need to be honest about whether she has the makings of a good teacher. You both need to be honest about why she wants to homeschool her son.
I remember the days before advertising was big on the web, when content was provided by universities and hobbyists.
I purchased an expensive "Yellow Page" directory for the Internet back in the geek's glory days, annotating web pages, FTP sites, USENET and so on ---- and it made for pretty for dull reading even then.
There was no way the university and the hobbyist would be able to keep up with the demand for content, easier access and better presentation ignited by the launch of Windows 95, affordable PCs with integrated "high speed" modems, the free web browser, dial-up AOL at a flat monthly rate and so on.
There is only one kind of systematic prejudice in today's institutions. And it is against white males. And if you happen to be heterosexual too, no one will target you for any favoritism.
Three words: Reality Distortion Field.
The white male geek starts his career from an extraordinarily privileged position.
The median household income in the US is $52,000.
College graduates in the class of 2015 with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering can expect an average starting salary of $57,000. Computer engineering graduates are close behind, with average salaries of $56,600. Next come mechanical engineering graduates with starting salaries of $56,000.
No thank you. I remember what happened last time you joined a community.
OLPC was based on the notion that you could have a school without teachers. Even in the first world, the value of laptops in the grade school classroom remains unproven.
If I were to guess, the menu changes daily and is written on something like a chalkboard or whiteboard. They could print it, but the handwriting gives it a homestyle artistic "flare" that the restaurant wants to maintain.
Marketing 101
The home style look you mention requires the use of real chalk and a real chalkboard. What a restaurant in this class needs is a discreet unattended webcam that can post live changes to the menu to its website.
Fail this and you might as well go back to flipping burgers at McD's.
What's funny is how limited / limiting the default software set is on Window...if you're used to the kind of apps that come with a typical Linux distro, or are available for instant free download.
Bloatware remains bloatware whether it is FOSS or commercial and proprietary.
I have been" instantly" downloading free software for Windows since the mid nineties --- most often from sites that offer the best in breed whatever the licence.
It's understandable why you would want to remain anonymous..
The only one likely to have anything useful to say about The Ribbon is the full time writer, analyst, clerical worker or office manager --- and he or she is isn't posting to Slashdot.
Military grade C-4 is commonly packaged as the M112 demolition block. The demolition charge M112 is a rectangular block of Composition C-4 approximately 2 inches by 1.5 inches and 11 inches long, weighing 1.25 lb (0.57 kg.)
On May 22, 1886.. Zenas F. Wilber, a former Washington patent examiner, swore in an affidavit that he'd been bribed by an attorney for Alexander Graham Bell to award Bell the patent for the telephone over a rival inventor, Elisha Gray, who'd filed a patent document on the same day as Bell in 1876.
But read on...
His October 21, 1885 affidavit directly contradicts this story and Wilber claims it was ''given at the request of the Bell company by Mr. Swan, of its counsel'' and he was ''duped to sign it'' while drunk and depressed. However, Wilber's April 8, 1886, affidavit was also sworn to and signed before Thomas W. Swan. These conflicting affidavits discredited Wilber.
There were 600 lawsuits over Bell's patent, none successful, and a bad smell about the business from the start.
Others also laid claim to inventing versions of the telephone, including a Mr. Rogers, manager of the Pan-Electric Telephone Company. Rogers distributed his company's stock to members of Congress, including Senator Garland, (soon to become Attorney General) in the unstated hope of favorable treatment. If the Bell patent were to be invalidated, the Rogers patent and the Pan-Electric stock could become very valuable.
I mean a college-aged girl has to get over the fact that older men will be attracted to her, and make advances. Just because she's creeped-out by it, doesn't necessarily mean it's inappropriate. Ultimately gender equality means others have the right to hit on her...
I read a line like this and all I can think of is the ton of crap dumped on my sisters when they entered graduate schools focused on careers in male-dominant professions.
What might be ok in small towns where the population isn't very mobile is utterly insane in such an area.
Rural populations can be decimated by diseases that are rarely fatal elsewhere.
Idaho is gaining a reputation as a place where rigidly libertarian politics and local, hermetically sealed, nominally Christian religious sects combine to deny urgently needed medical care to children.
People will just have to adapt to the fact that you can't trust your hearing to know if a car is coming or not anymore.
No they don't, actually.
Situational awareness matters at all ages, audio and visual clues are helpful --- and if people decide they want to keep them in place, it's the geek who will have to make the adjustment, not the other way around.
It was the geek's sense of entitlement, his in-your-face attitude, that killed Google Glass. The very definition of what it means to be Glasshole,
Private restaurant? Privately owned maybe and the owner could request people not wear glass in the restaurant but it is still in public. You have NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY.
The geek confuses what is legal with what is courteous and respectful towards others.
That is what makes him a Glasshole.
Figuring out what is or isn't a public place is usually easy, but not always. If the public is allowed free and unrestricted access to a place, like streets, sidewalks and public parks, it is probably a public place (although parts of sidewalks and what appear to be public parks may be privately owned). Once you go indoors, you are probably no longer in a public place, and some person or entity can probably make the rules, including restrictions on making photographs.
Google clearly didn't anticipate the class and cultural conflicts that define the Glasshole.
The geek who thinks he is riding The Wave of The Future and pulling the rest of the world along with him, like it or not, is a very big part of the problem.
1 The frame should be easily folded and pocketed like any ordinary pair of glasses.
I spent the strangest of Christmases lit by the glow of the cell phone and tablet --- --- an obsession with the gadget so strong it destroyed any sense of a dinner with family and friends.
2 The geek will want a next-generation Glass with HD displays and cameras, front and rear facing, night vision, more sensitive microphones, better battery life, gigabytes of storage, unrestricted apps, including facial recognition with Internet connectivity, etc., etc., etc.
None of that is going to happen in the consumer market until the issues of privacy and respect for others are resolved first --- and hiding behind the geek's favorite legalisms ---"public space!"--- and memes like "Privacy is dead!" will bury Glass six feet under with no hope of resurrection.
The camera must remain visible. There can be no doubt when it is in use.
I would be very strongly tempted to insist on a warning when the audio and video feed is being streamed to the net or being interpreted --- augmented --- by internal or external apps.
3 The geek will predictably cry "Censorship!" Political correctness. But allowing AO apps into the Glass store would be disastrous.
Who wants to live in a society populated by wandering cyborgs staring vacantly into space. There is no straight line from the introduction of the cellular telephone of the eighties to the placement of an all-knowing chip in our heads in the 22nd century, With each technological breakthrough we consider [what has been lost and what has been gained] Then we react.
Because the criminals will have these www.instructables.com/id/Radio-Jammer/
It is easy to picture the geek turned criminal putting a neon sign on his roof with an arrow pointing to "Rocky's Hideout," like a character in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. He never thinks these things through.
I saw my first "studio quality" amateur replica of the Enterprise bridge set more years ago than I care to think about --- and as much as I admire the effort put into projects like this, I believe it is time to move on.
The modern era of science fiction is close on to a century old now. It's an enormous body of work in all media and all genres --- space opera, speculative fiction, etc., etc. --- that the geek has largely ignored for decades.
Why should the big boys like Disney, Pixar and Marvel have all the fun?
I'm asking that not only because my first instinct when hearing the words "The Prime Directive" is to kill them by fire.
In times of rapid technological change, being an "experienced player" is often an impediment, not a benefit. Just ask Borders and Barnes&Noble.
But look at Disney.
Founded 1923.
Significant presence and impact in all media from the beginning. Jump-started the modern family oriented theme park and the ABC television network with "Disneyland."
No less a driving force in color television sales with "The Wonderful World of Color." You can't say anything meaningful about the evolution of cable TV without mentioning HBO, the Disney Channel and ESPN.
The musical adaptaion of The Lion King had a ten year run in London.
The geek obsesses over porn, but, my god, think of Disney's impact on the sale of home video hardware and video sales and rentals. You'll know 4K is here to stay when Disney supports it.
Pixar may be spinning its wheels, but Disney Studio Animation is hitting on all cylinders. The Marvel Comics division isn't doing too badly either.
I stopped using Microsoft Office in 1998 and never looked back. Would it be crazy to wish that everyone could just use.txt files for most everything and end this word processor madness?
I'll take it as given that clerical work in the broadest sense is not a significant part of your job.
Slashdot Mirror
Its almost as if the defense believed that since the prosecution bears the burden of proof, anything that had *any* alternative explanation, no matter how unlikely or illogical, automatically prevented proof beyond reasonable doubt. Which is ridiculous.
The geek as a client is a nightmare for the defense --- arrogant beyond belief and with an impenetrable ignorance of the most basic principles of civil and criminal law.
These are people new to the internet. Either because they're young or they just didn't jump in until the new century. They're people who came to our party late.
It has been over twenty years since forces like AOL and Windows cracked the geek's hold on the Net. But there will some who will go to their graves unable to forgive or forget and move on.
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 27 during the 1996 Summer Olympics. The blast claimed 1 life and injured 111 people, while another person died of a heart attack. It was the first of four bombings committed by Eric Robert Rudolph.
Centennial Olympic Park bombing
The truth is that bags, parcels, jugs, cans, and such which don't look quite look quite right or don't seem to belong here are immediately and rightfully suspect.
Second guessing the 911 caller is a waste of time.
What the geek needs to do is start thinking about how his toys, gadgets, hoaxes, stunts and science projects out-of-doors will be perceived by others ---
who won't be so quick to assume that a real life bomber thinks like a geek and plays by his rules.
Posting it just confirms that you received it.
Tear it up and shred it, it is just a letter that has no power.
I consider NSLs to be unconstitutional
There is a quote from H.P. Lovecraft that is relevant here: "Do not call up what you can't put down."
Do nothing until you talk to a lawyer.
Talk to a lawyer whose only loyalty is to his client --- you --- and not the advocate for the EFF.
I went to a private school for about 6 years, then completed my education at the local public school, going on to get a couple undergraduate degrees and a postgraduate degree. My wife dropped out of high school and got her equivalency many years later. Now, she wants to homeschool our son.
I don't see this ending well.
It is not often these days that you such an extraordinary difference in education between husband and wife. I've seen marriages strained and broken over less.
Is she thinking of a religious or secular education?
Traditional or modern approaches to what should be taught and how to teach it?
I can't speak to why your wife dropped out of school but you both need to be honest about whether she has the makings of a good teacher. You both need to be honest about why she wants to homeschool her son.
I remember the days before advertising was big on the web, when content was provided by universities and hobbyists.
I purchased an expensive "Yellow Page" directory for the Internet back in the geek's glory days, annotating web pages, FTP sites, USENET and so on ---- and it made for pretty for dull reading even then.
There was no way the university and the hobbyist would be able to keep up with the demand for content, easier access and better presentation ignited by the launch of Windows 95, affordable PCs with integrated "high speed" modems, the free web browser, dial-up AOL at a flat monthly rate and so on.
Yes, I indeed did start with an extraordinarily privileged position....
The plural of anecdote is not data.
There is only one kind of systematic prejudice in today's institutions. And it is against white males. And if you happen to be heterosexual too, no one will target you for any favoritism.
Three words: Reality Distortion Field.
The white male geek starts his career from an extraordinarily privileged position.
The median household income in the US is $52,000.
College graduates in the class of 2015 with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering can expect an average starting salary of $57,000. Computer engineering graduates are close behind, with average salaries of $56,600. Next come mechanical engineering graduates with starting salaries of $56,000.
Software design $54,000
Computer programming $54,000
Computer science $52,000
The College Degrees With The Highest Starting Salaries in 2015
No thank you. I remember what happened last time you joined a community.
OLPC was based on the notion that you could have a school without teachers. Even in the first world, the value of laptops in the grade school classroom remains unproven.
how about replacing the chalkboard with a monitor
The monitor is for Burger King.
The chalkboard the hometown bar and grill or the upmarket tavern
Trust me on this.
I live in a border town which has been successfully cultivating a low-tech exterior to satisfy the tourist trade for 190 years.
If I were to guess, the menu changes daily and is written on something like a chalkboard or whiteboard. They could print it, but the handwriting gives it a homestyle artistic "flare" that the restaurant wants to maintain.
Marketing 101
The home style look you mention requires the use of real chalk and a real chalkboard. What a restaurant in this class needs is a discreet unattended webcam that can post live changes to the menu to its website.
Fail this and you might as well go back to flipping burgers at McD's.
What's funny is how limited / limiting the default software set is on Window...if you're used to the kind of apps that come with a typical Linux distro, or are available for instant free download.
Bloatware remains bloatware whether it is FOSS or commercial and proprietary.
I have been" instantly" downloading free software for Windows since the mid nineties --- most often from sites that offer the best in breed whatever the licence.
It's understandable why you would want to remain anonymous ..
The only one likely to have anything useful to say about The Ribbon is the full time writer, analyst, clerical worker or office manager --- and he or she is isn't posting to Slashdot.
What's the harm in a drone?
That depends on the payload.
Military grade C-4 is commonly packaged as the M112 demolition block. The demolition charge M112 is a rectangular block of Composition C-4 approximately 2 inches by 1.5 inches and 11 inches long, weighing 1.25 lb (0.57 kg.)
C-4 (explosive)
Recipes for homemade C4 can be found on most any Doomsday Prepper site.
How to make C4 with RDX Explosives
On May 22, 1886 .. Zenas F. Wilber, a former Washington patent examiner, swore in an affidavit that he'd been bribed by an attorney for Alexander Graham Bell to award Bell the patent for the telephone over a rival inventor, Elisha Gray, who'd filed a patent document on the same day as Bell in 1876.
But read on...
His October 21, 1885 affidavit directly contradicts this story and Wilber claims it was ''given at the request of the Bell company by Mr. Swan, of its counsel'' and he was ''duped to sign it'' while drunk and depressed. However, Wilber's April 8, 1886, affidavit was also sworn to and signed before Thomas W. Swan. These conflicting affidavits discredited Wilber.
Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy
There were 600 lawsuits over Bell's patent, none successful, and a bad smell about the business from the start.
Others also laid claim to inventing versions of the telephone, including a Mr. Rogers, manager of the Pan-Electric Telephone Company. Rogers distributed his company's stock to members of Congress, including Senator Garland, (soon to become Attorney General) in the unstated hope of favorable treatment. If the Bell patent were to be invalidated, the Rogers patent and the Pan-Electric stock could become very valuable.
On This Day - February 13, 1886
I mean a college-aged girl has to get over the fact that older men will be attracted to her, and make advances. Just because she's creeped-out by it, doesn't necessarily mean it's inappropriate. Ultimately gender equality means others have the right to hit on her...
I read a line like this and all I can think of is the ton of crap dumped on my sisters when they entered graduate schools focused on careers in male-dominant professions.
What might be ok in small towns where the population isn't very mobile is utterly insane in such an area.
Rural populations can be decimated by diseases that are rarely fatal elsewhere.
Idaho is gaining a reputation as a place where rigidly libertarian politics and local, hermetically sealed, nominally Christian religious sects combine to deny urgently needed medical care to children.
Fallen followers: Investigation finds 10 more dead children of faith healers. Sect shuns doctors, children pay the price
People will just have to adapt to the fact that you can't trust your hearing to know if a car is coming or not anymore.
No they don't, actually.
Situational awareness matters at all ages, audio and visual clues are helpful --- and if people decide they want to keep them in place, it's the geek who will have to make the adjustment, not the other way around.
It was the geek's sense of entitlement, his in-your-face attitude, that killed Google Glass. The very definition of what it means to be Glasshole,
Private restaurant? Privately owned maybe and the owner could request people not wear glass in the restaurant but it is still in public. You have NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY.
The geek confuses what is legal with what is courteous and respectful towards others.
That is what makes him a Glasshole.
Figuring out what is or isn't a public place is usually easy, but not always. If the public is allowed free and unrestricted access to a place, like streets, sidewalks and public parks, it is probably a public place (although parts of sidewalks and what appear to be public parks may be privately owned). Once you go indoors, you are probably no longer in a public place, and some person or entity can probably make the rules, including restrictions on making photographs.
Frequently asked questions about privacy and libel
Makes me wonder what Bennett had to do...
He is working undercover as a Slashdot editor.
The geek who thinks he is riding The Wave of The Future and pulling the rest of the world along with him, like it or not, is a very big part of the problem.
1 The frame should be easily folded and pocketed like any ordinary pair of glasses.
I spent the strangest of Christmases lit by the glow of the cell phone and tablet --- --- an obsession with the gadget so strong it destroyed any sense of a dinner with family and friends.
2 The geek will want a next-generation Glass with HD displays and cameras, front and rear facing, night vision, more sensitive microphones, better battery life, gigabytes of storage, unrestricted apps, including facial recognition with Internet connectivity, etc., etc., etc.
None of that is going to happen in the consumer market until the issues of privacy and respect for others are resolved first --- and hiding behind the geek's favorite legalisms ---"public space!"--- and memes like "Privacy is dead!" will bury Glass six feet under with no hope of resurrection.
The camera must remain visible. There can be no doubt when it is in use.
I would be very strongly tempted to insist on a warning when the audio and video feed is being streamed to the net or being interpreted --- augmented --- by internal or external apps.
3 The geek will predictably cry "Censorship!" Political correctness. But allowing AO apps into the Glass store would be disastrous.
Who wants to live in a society populated by wandering cyborgs staring vacantly into space.
There is no straight line from the introduction of the cellular telephone of the eighties to the placement of an all-knowing chip in our heads in the 22nd century, With each technological breakthrough we consider [what has been lost and what has been gained] Then we react.
Google Glass is the creepy innovation we didn't want.
Because the criminals will have these www.instructables.com/id/Radio-Jammer/
It is easy to picture the geek turned criminal putting a neon sign on his roof with an arrow pointing to "Rocky's Hideout," like a character in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. He never thinks these things through.
I saw my first "studio quality" amateur replica of the Enterprise bridge set more years ago than I care to think about --- and as much as I admire the effort put into projects like this, I believe it is time to move on.
The modern era of science fiction is close on to a century old now. It's an enormous body of work in all media and all genres --- space opera, speculative fiction, etc., etc. --- that the geek has largely ignored for decades.
Why should the big boys like Disney, Pixar and Marvel have all the fun?
I'm asking that not only because my first instinct when hearing the words "The Prime Directive" is to kill them by fire.
In times of rapid technological change, being an "experienced player" is often an impediment, not a benefit. Just ask Borders and Barnes&Noble.
But look at Disney.
Founded 1923.
Significant presence and impact in all media from the beginning. Jump-started the modern family oriented theme park and the ABC television network with "Disneyland."
No less a driving force in color television sales with "The Wonderful World of Color." You can't say anything meaningful about the evolution of cable TV without mentioning HBO, the Disney Channel and ESPN.
The musical adaptaion of The Lion King had a ten year run in London.
The geek obsesses over porn, but, my god, think of Disney's impact on the sale of home video hardware and video sales and rentals. You'll know 4K is here to stay when Disney supports it.
Pixar may be spinning its wheels, but Disney Studio Animation is hitting on all cylinders. The Marvel Comics division isn't doing too badly either.
There is no single point of failure.
I stopped using Microsoft Office in 1998 and never looked back. Would it be crazy to wish that everyone could just use .txt files for most everything and end this word processor madness?
I'll take it as given that clerical work in the broadest sense is not a significant part of your job.