As you said earlier, parents can't constantly monitor their children. But if society is responsible for protecting children when their parents aren't around, we wind up with things like internet content filters and absurd television broadcasting standards.
If flash based games don't bother you, look at some of Wickedpissah's offerings. They certainly get me thinking about physics, though they're not intended to be instructional. I think that children, especially older ones, might really get a kick out of some of them, and get an intuitive feel for how objects interact at the same time.
What I've never understood is why an ISP bent on NXDOMAIN hijacking wouldn't also block DNS queries to other than its own servers. Bellsouth did this with SMTP requests shortly before I gave up on them. You had to relay any outbound SMTP traffic through one of their servers. Ostensibly, this was to prevent zombied machines from spamming. I'm sure an evil ISP could come up with a similar rationale for DNS traffic.
You're taking this more seriously than I am, but OK.
Shouldn't the police assume that the victim at the cardiologists convention had been injected with KCl or adenosine+lidocaine by one of the attendees, and thus wait for independent medical professionals to arrive rather than allowing "random individuals" to act? After all, allowing others access to the guy might cloud any subsequent investigation.
That's certainly a win-win for the cops -- if they delay treatment and the guy dies, their investigation has gone from attempted murder to murder, a plus, and their evidence hasn't been tainted, another plus.
So you think of it more like finding a bomb at an explosives convention. Fair enough -- the cops were probably worried about some guy in the back yelling whatever the ATM equivalent of, "Cut the BLUE wire!" is.;)
I think the real fail was the cops hauling the machine away without asking for help from the Defcon attendees. Sort of like a guy having a heart attack at a cardiologists convention and the cops keeping everybody back until an ambulance can arrive and take him to a hospital.
There's a lack of good creative shows because they draw small audiences. Very loyal audiences, but still small. Some examples that come to mind are Quantum Leap, Firefly, and Arrested Development.
Certainly you must determine their needs, but don't let them get involved in the solution. You will have a History professor who's a computer hobbyist (and whom the other liberal arts faculty consider an expert) offering you helpful suggestions based on a James Martin book he read a decade ago, some guy from Electrical Engineering pushing for end-to-end quantum crypto, deans trying to preserve their schools' autonomy, etc., with the end result looking like it was designed by a committee of monkeys.
I suspect that in almost any other gov't agency, some PHB with a clipboard would have said, "Sorry, but you're not pointing that thing anywhere until you've finished calibrating it."
I would not want to be working in IT at Liquid Motors right now. You can blame their problems on them or on the feds, but either way, they're in deep yogurt.
Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered independently by Alan Hale, a professional astronomer, and Thomas Bopp, a construction worker. At the time, Hale ran something called the Southwest Institute for Space Research, which referred to Bopp as an "amateur astronomer".
I should add that the timing make it almost impossible that any of those companies knew about the loss when making their decisions. But it will be interesting to see if anything changes.
That's an interesting question. This Digitimes article published the day before he died, but after he had reported the loss, claims that Apple and Sony are cutting back on Foxconn orders, while Dell, Asustek, and HP are climbing on board.
Let's make it not so hypothetical. Some years ago, a friend came by and gave me some.doc &.xls files to hang on to. He told me he was suspicious that there was massive fraud going on at his employer, and that if he died under strange circumstances, I should go to the police. Meanwhile, he would continue to look for absolute proof. I copied them, then used gpg to encrypt them. His wife was aware that I had copies.
Not too long after that, he was diagnosed with cancer and died a few months later. I didn't have the heart to ask him, "Hey, since you're dying of natural causes, is it okay if I delete those files?" Anyway, this was over 5 years ago, and I haven't though about them until I saw this article. I have no idea what passphrase I used when encrypting the files.
The above is all true. Now I'll be hypothetical. Suppose his former company really did come under suspicion of fraud, and his widow told investigators that I had copies of his files. A SWAT team breaks in, confiscates all my computers & backups, because they may contain "important evidence."
Now here is me in court.
Judge: Sir, we can't read those documents that Mr. X gave you. Please give us the keys. Me:Your Honor, I'd love to, but I just can't remember them. Judge: I don't believe you. Bailiff, take him away.
There's no 5th amendment issue, since the files can't incriminate me. In essence, I would have to prove that I had forgotten the keys, or sit in jail waiting for the judge to have a change of heart.
The next time a judge orders you to turn over the passphrases for your SSH/PGP private keys and holds you in contempt until you do so, it will seem very/. worthy.
Zer01 says it can offer unlimited cell calls (via VoIP) and cell data through a unique relationship with AT&T. AT&T isn't talking, and the particulars of the deal fly in the face of similar virtual mobile network operator deals past and present.
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In Micronesia, they gave out short SSNs. In Polynesia, they would have looked like x^2+4x-3.
Social Security benefits are paid regardless of where you live, which might be a country that can't/won't extradite you back to the U.S.
Ceiling cat wanted to know what the big deal was.
Why not? They get to vote.
H.R. 1020 is an attempt to put some reasonable limits on mandatory arbitration. It's not doing too well, but write your congressman.
As you said earlier, parents can't constantly monitor their children. But if society is responsible for protecting children when their parents aren't around, we wind up with things like internet content filters and absurd television broadcasting standards.
Aren't your post and your sig at odds with each other?
Some the the journals are published by Elsevier, which cropped up here last May for publishing entire bogus journals!
Last time they pimped for Merck, now Wyeth. If anyone needs to be punished, it's Elsevier.
If flash based games don't bother you, look at some of Wickedpissah's offerings. They certainly get me thinking about physics, though they're not intended to be instructional. I think that children, especially older ones, might really get a kick out of some of them, and get an intuitive feel for how objects interact at the same time.
What I've never understood is why an ISP bent on NXDOMAIN hijacking wouldn't also block DNS queries to other than its own servers. Bellsouth did this with SMTP requests shortly before I gave up on them. You had to relay any outbound SMTP traffic through one of their servers. Ostensibly, this was to prevent zombied machines from spamming. I'm sure an evil ISP could come up with a similar rationale for DNS traffic.
You're taking this more seriously than I am, but OK.
Shouldn't the police assume that the victim at the cardiologists convention had been injected with KCl or adenosine+lidocaine by one of the attendees, and thus wait for independent medical professionals to arrive rather than allowing "random individuals" to act? After all, allowing others access to the guy might cloud any subsequent investigation.
That's certainly a win-win for the cops -- if they delay treatment and the guy dies, their investigation has gone from attempted murder to murder, a plus, and their evidence hasn't been tainted, another plus.
So you think of it more like finding a bomb at an explosives convention. Fair enough -- the cops were probably worried about some guy in the back yelling whatever the ATM equivalent of, "Cut the BLUE wire!" is. ;)
I think the real fail was the cops hauling the machine away without asking for help from the Defcon attendees. Sort of like a guy having a heart attack at a cardiologists convention and the cops keeping everybody back until an ambulance can arrive and take him to a hospital.
There's a lack of good creative shows because they draw small audiences. Very loyal audiences, but still small. Some examples that come to mind are Quantum Leap, Firefly, and Arrested Development.
What's annoying is that they care about neither.
Certainly you must determine their needs, but don't let them get involved in the solution. You will have a History professor who's a computer hobbyist (and whom the other liberal arts faculty consider an expert) offering you helpful suggestions based on a James Martin book he read a decade ago, some guy from Electrical Engineering pushing for end-to-end quantum crypto, deans trying to preserve their schools' autonomy, etc., with the end result looking like it was designed by a committee of monkeys.
I suspect that in almost any other gov't agency, some PHB with a clipboard would have said, "Sorry, but you're not pointing that thing anywhere until you've finished calibrating it."
I would not want to be working in IT at Liquid Motors right now. You can blame their problems on them or on the feds, but either way, they're in deep yogurt.
Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered independently by Alan Hale, a professional astronomer, and Thomas Bopp, a construction worker. At the time, Hale ran something called the Southwest Institute for Space Research, which referred to Bopp as an "amateur astronomer".
I should add that the timing make it almost impossible that any of those companies knew about the loss when making their decisions. But it will be interesting to see if anything changes.
That's an interesting question. This Digitimes article published the day before he died, but after he had reported the loss, claims that Apple and Sony are cutting back on Foxconn orders, while Dell, Asustek, and HP are climbing on board.
Let's make it not so hypothetical. Some years ago, a friend came by and gave me some .doc & .xls files to hang on to. He told me he was suspicious that there was massive fraud going on at his employer, and that if he died under strange circumstances, I should go to the police. Meanwhile, he would continue to look for absolute proof. I copied them, then used gpg to encrypt them. His wife was aware that I had copies.
Not too long after that, he was diagnosed with cancer and died a few months later. I didn't have the heart to ask him, "Hey, since you're dying of natural causes, is it okay if I delete those files?" Anyway, this was over 5 years ago, and I haven't though about them until I saw this article. I have no idea what passphrase I used when encrypting the files.
The above is all true. Now I'll be hypothetical. Suppose his former company really did come under suspicion of fraud, and his widow told investigators that I had copies of his files. A SWAT team breaks in, confiscates all my computers & backups, because they may contain "important evidence."
Now here is me in court.
Judge: Sir, we can't read those documents that Mr. X gave you. Please give us the keys.
Me:Your Honor, I'd love to, but I just can't remember them.
Judge: I don't believe you. Bailiff, take him away.
There's no 5th amendment issue, since the files can't incriminate me. In essence, I would have to prove that I had forgotten the keys, or sit in jail waiting for the judge to have a change of heart.
The next time a judge orders you to turn over the passphrases for your SSH/PGP private keys and holds you in contempt until you do so, it will seem very /. worthy.
When a company's CEO is on probation for security fraud, that's not a good sign either.