The decision will be posted on the US Supreme Court website later today.
And will be promtly filtered out by most schools.
Can't have the kiddes reading about the Supremes with out some filtering and "contextual" information being provided/(force fed) to them. They might actualy start to think on thier own... ooooh, the evil that would ensue...
Why the quote marks, dude? They *did* break the law.
Do you know this for a fact, or has it been proven in court? Yeah, the _probably_ broke the law, but the leagal system still requires that it be proven that you broke the law.
Even with a speeding ticked you can get your day in court if you wish.
a typical example of microsoft having so much money that they don't know where to spend it first..
They indeed have too much money, but for MS, this is just a gamble. They only need one of the products that they throw huge amounts of cash at to suceed. They can afford to thow obsene amounts of cash a losing projects just in case one of them happens to hit it big. Then they have a second monopoly.
When you are number 1, there is only one way you can go. They will eventually get knocked out from under thier monopoly (someday). Any they probably know this, so they are diversifying as much as they can, while they can. If they fine a hit with one of thier projects they will make large quantities of cash, again.
The advantage of the Phoenix system is that it's in the BIOS, not even in the boot sector. So even if a halfway-intelligent criminal (or fence, more likely) swapped out the hard drive with a new one from Pricewatch, the theft protection would still be there.
The theft protection would still be there, if the fresh OS that was installed automaticaly installed the drivers for it... Once the OS takes over from the BIOS, nothing on that BIOS will run unless the OS says it can. Personaly I would never install a driver to run the damn thing. Too big brotherish
And who in thier right minds is going to let thier BIOS dial out on thier phone just so the laptop can check in?
I think most criminals will learn about this "protection" scheme pretty damn quickly and make sure it is disabled just as fast.
Backwards compatibility doesn't exist in the IP phone switchover.
If you use a gateway to convert touch tone and rotary phones to IP, there is no reason why backwards compatability cannot be implemented for use with the current hardware. Backwards compatability for the phone numbers, and emergency service (911 here in the states), would require a software solution. That should not be to dificult to do (even for the phone companies)
How long has it been since you've seen a rotary telephone in use?
This reminds me of a story (can't remember where I saw it) about a child going to the the school office who needed to call home. The school had an old rotary phone and the kid just started at it blankly, never having seen one before, he did not know how to use it.
What?!?! Brew your own beer, and work from home. Everything you need can be delivered. Then you will never have to leave your basement. No human contact required (unless you like that sort of thing).
Now if they will just deliver optical fiber to the house we would all never have to go outside.
Nice to see someone who had an early acting career not show up as one of those 'and they found him in his car, stoned out of his mind, with 17 sheep and a bottle of vodka' sorts of stories.
And you wan't 160? Better get a T3 instead. more expensive, but 1500/160 is worse than a modem!
Your assuming that everyone will be on all the time sucking all avaiable bandwidth. A T1 might be enough (proably not) but you have to get an idea of when the users are going to peak out. And you will most likley have a mix of users (advanced, intermediate and basic.) Some will just be checking email with some casual surfing. Others will be sharing their terrabyte of Nattlie Portman Pr0n over thier p2p connections.
If the original poster is going to run this thing, the usage agreement should include bandwidth capping, and peak and non-peak usage hours, that will help distribute the load around a little.
go outside and play ball. Here's a couple more. Get some crayons, markers, pencils, pens, charcoal, pastels, water color, or oil paints and draw....
My kids do this already. Thier "TV time" is limited, on avarage, to about 1 hour per week. And that is mostly when they are not feeling well and are low energy.
I do agree the point of your post: that most kids are not active enough and spend waaaaaay to much time inside doing passive activities. However the original question is valid. I would like to be able to provide my kids (6 and 7) with useful links, and other educational activities, to do with thier computers. The more accustomed they are to obtaining information, and making use of thier computers the better off they will be in the future.
I'm a contractor too. If I get invited to the company party the only thing I need to know is "is this billable?" Can I get my job done faster, better, chaper (ok, well the last one is a stretch.) I'm not there to have long term relationships with the people.
I am there to get a job done, period. I have stayed on at jobs after the initial phase of the contract because there was more work and the people I worked for like me and or my work. I got paid well, even when working though a body shop. But every one of my contracts finished up and I moved on. That is what I expected, and that is the way I prefer it.
If you don't what to be a contractor, don't be one. Trade your soul for the illusion of "long term job stability" and be an employee. But for god sake, stop complaining about it!
It is a harsh world out there, get used to it. Keep your skills sharp, work hard, or do not expect to make a really good living, whether it be as a contractor or an employee...
Does the phrase 'accessory to the crime' mean anything to you? The university is the one providing the network after all...
And the Phone company for providing the T1/T3 circuits...
And the upstream ISPs, they should be held liable too
Where do you draw the line? How far up the food chain do you go? The university has not way of knowing if each and every download is legit. There is no one way to find out if content is copy righted, and as soon as there is, people will start to encrypt thier communications. Do you want the universty, phone company, and ISP to monitor your every download? That worse then the Govt. doing it.
Perhaps they should hold the individual accountable (oh, but they do not have deep pockets, and are hard to find...)
Ever be stopped by a police officer, either in your car or while you're out walking at night?
Yes, because the office had probable(sp?) cause. I was speeding, and he clocked me speeding. He gave me a ticket and explained my rights to me. I knew I was being pulled over (and I knew I was speeding). So I was aware of what my governemt was doing _for_ me and the public.
What part of checking out a book in the library constitutes "probable cause", even if it is on making explosives?
If the government got a warrant to see the library records, there isn't (AFAIK, IANAL-RU?) a rule saying that I need to be told.
OTOH, if they BRING CHARGES against me, I get to know everything that they know about me. This is a constitutionally protected right, and the PATRIOT act can't touch it.
If the Govt wants to get a warrent for records on me they require probable cause. And there are laws that already to cover this! We do not need more laws. And it is up the Govt. to collect the evidence of any criminal actions, not the public libraries, or other public institutuins.
If your actions (checking out a book) can be construed to be some indication of terrorist activity, then people will limit thier activities accordingly. Which limits all of our freedoms.
It is so easy to say, "well this is not a big deal, just let them have this one power over you", but after the 10th time of passing a "small law to protect our national security" it will become a big deal.
Tha PATRIOT act is bad legislation in general, passed in an overly paniced legislature after a bad terrorist act. Law enforcment groups shoved all sorts of stuff in there playing on the fears of the public.
You have to remember that you're using resources at a PUBLIC library probably receiving some sort of federal/local government funding
That does not make it right. If the Feds did not tax us so much the states could raise taxes and fund the libraries themselvs.
But since the fed taxes us, and the states get used to the federal dole, they (the feds) lord it over us, and attach numerious string to the funding. Can you say drive 55 or lose highway funds. Now it is hand over your patron reading lists or lose funding.
So basically the Patriot Act says that library records can be used in terrorist investigations. Is that it, or is there something more sinister I'm missing? Honestly, I'm not trying to troll here.
If that is it...then good grief, what are we talking about here? What is there about borrowing a book that should make it a sacrosanct activity like confessional, or attorney-client privelege?...
We are not talking about borrowing a book, we are talking about unfettered access, by the government, to records that we should reasonably expect to remain private. They want access to all personal data, in the name of national security, but there is no control over how that data is actually used. This can put a chilling effect on what we may or may not do just by association and the fear of being targeted for said associations.
How long until you are stopped driving and asked for your 'papers', where are you going, why? Sounds far fetched, it probably is, but where it the line that once the governemnt crosses it is no longer OK for them to have unfettered access to our personal lives?
If the government wants to know that I have read "such and such author", they should be required to tell me that they want to know, and further they should show a good reason for neededing the information.
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And will be promtly filtered out by most schools.
Can't have the kiddes reading about the Supremes with out some filtering and "contextual" information being provided/(force fed) to them. They might actualy start to think on thier own... ooooh, the evil that would ensue...
Do you know this for a fact, or has it been proven in court? Yeah, the _probably_ broke the law, but the leagal system still requires that it be proven that you broke the law.
Even with a speeding ticked you can get your day in court if you wish.
They indeed have too much money, but for MS, this is just a gamble. They only need one of the products that they throw huge amounts of cash at to suceed. They can afford to thow obsene amounts of cash a losing projects just in case one of them happens to hit it big. Then they have a second monopoly.
When you are number 1, there is only one way you can go. They will eventually get knocked out from under thier monopoly (someday). Any they probably know this, so they are diversifying as much as they can, while they can. If they fine a hit with one of thier projects they will make large quantities of cash, again.
lather, rinse, repeat
We will not know until we get there...
I believe that there is far too little basic research going on these days.
There is nothing more basic then finding out how all this matter/energy around us works.
Imagine a cluster of Coyotes holding anvils over thier heads waiting to release them. Now picture SCO's stock price
2) Actually allocate the addresses in a way that has some semblance of fairness to it.
3) Profit...
The theft protection would still be there, if the fresh OS that was installed automaticaly installed the drivers for it... Once the OS takes over from the BIOS, nothing on that BIOS will run unless the OS says it can. Personaly I would never install a driver to run the damn thing. Too big brotherish
And who in thier right minds is going to let thier BIOS dial out on thier phone just so the laptop can check in?
I think most criminals will learn about this "protection" scheme pretty damn quickly and make sure it is disabled just as fast.
If you use a gateway to convert touch tone and rotary phones to IP, there is no reason why backwards compatability cannot be implemented for use with the current hardware. Backwards compatability for the phone numbers, and emergency service (911 here in the states), would require a software solution. That should not be to dificult to do (even for the phone companies)
How long has it been since you've seen a rotary telephone in use? This reminds me of a story (can't remember where I saw it) about a child going to the the school office who needed to call home. The school had an old rotary phone and the kid just started at it blankly, never having seen one before, he did not know how to use it.
What?!?! Brew your own beer, and work from home. Everything you need can be delivered. Then you will never have to leave your basement. No human contact required (unless you like that sort of thing).
Now if they will just deliver optical fiber to the house we would all never have to go outside.
Back to the cave...
Glenda the Good Witch
I believe it is Glinda, not Glenda.
</Nit-Pick >
Pretty creative though. :-)
Whoa, is that Dana Plato in the back seat?!?!...
Pot calling kettle
Pot calling kettle
Come in kettle
1.5 mbs / 512kbs = 3
1.5 mbs/ 386kbs = 4
1.5 mbs/ 256kbs = 6 users.
And you wan't 160? Better get a T3 instead. more expensive, but 1500/160 is worse than a modem!
Your assuming that everyone will be on all the time sucking all avaiable bandwidth. A T1 might be enough (proably not) but you have to get an idea of when the users are going to peak out. And you will most likley have a mix of users (advanced, intermediate and basic.) Some will just be checking email with some casual surfing. Others will be sharing their terrabyte of Nattlie Portman Pr0n over thier p2p connections.
If the original poster is going to run this thing, the usage agreement should include bandwidth capping, and peak and non-peak usage hours, that will help distribute the load around a little.
What is Jesus is you co-pilot?
My kids do this already. Thier "TV time" is limited, on avarage, to about 1 hour per week. And that is mostly when they are not feeling well and are low energy.
I do agree the point of your post: that most kids are not active enough and spend waaaaaay to much time inside doing passive activities. However the original question is valid. I would like to be able to provide my kids (6 and 7) with useful links, and other educational activities, to do with thier computers. The more accustomed they are to obtaining information, and making use of thier computers the better off they will be in the future.
I'm a contractor too. If I get invited to the company party the only thing I need to know is "is this billable?" Can I get my job done faster, better, chaper (ok, well the last one is a stretch.) I'm not there to have long term relationships with the people.
I am there to get a job done, period. I have stayed on at jobs after the initial phase of the contract because there was more work and the people I worked for like me and or my work. I got paid well, even when working though a body shop. But every one of my contracts finished up and I moved on. That is what I expected, and that is the way I prefer it.
If you don't what to be a contractor, don't be one. Trade your soul for the illusion of "long term job stability" and be an employee. But for god sake, stop complaining about it!
It is a harsh world out there, get used to it. Keep your skills sharp, work hard, or do not expect to make a really good living, whether it be as a contractor or an employee...
And the Phone company for providing the T1/T3 circuits...
And the upstream ISPs, they should be held liable too
Where do you draw the line? How far up the food chain do you go? The university has not way of knowing if each and every download is legit. There is no one way to find out if content is copy righted, and as soon as there is, people will start to encrypt thier communications. Do you want the universty, phone company, and ISP to monitor your every download? That worse then the Govt. doing it.
Perhaps they should hold the individual accountable (oh, but they do not have deep pockets, and are hard to find...)
Or William Shatner singing Tambourin Man
*shivers*
They already do...
No, I am a geek
Ever be stopped by a police officer, either in your car or while you're out walking at night?
Yes, because the office had probable(sp?) cause. I was speeding, and he clocked me speeding. He gave me a ticket and explained my rights to me. I knew I was being pulled over (and I knew I was speeding). So I was aware of what my governemt was doing _for_ me and the public.
What part of checking out a book in the library constitutes "probable cause", even if it is on making explosives?
If the government got a warrant to see the library records, there isn't (AFAIK, IANAL-RU?) a rule saying that I need to be told.
OTOH, if they BRING CHARGES against me, I get to know everything that they know about me. This is a constitutionally protected right, and the PATRIOT act can't touch it.
If the Govt wants to get a warrent for records on me they require probable cause. And there are laws that already to cover this! We do not need more laws. And it is up the Govt. to collect the evidence of any criminal actions, not the public libraries, or other public institutuins.
If your actions (checking out a book) can be construed to be some indication of terrorist activity, then people will limit thier activities accordingly. Which limits all of our freedoms.
It is so easy to say, "well this is not a big deal, just let them have this one power over you", but after the 10th time of passing a "small law to protect our national security" it will become a big deal.
Tha PATRIOT act is bad legislation in general, passed in an overly paniced legislature after a bad terrorist act. Law enforcment groups shoved all sorts of stuff in there playing on the fears of the public.
It will take years to get it undone...
That does not make it right. If the Feds did not tax us so much the states could raise taxes and fund the libraries themselvs.
But since the fed taxes us, and the states get used to the federal dole, they (the feds) lord it over us, and attach numerious string to the funding. Can you say drive 55 or lose highway funds. Now it is hand over your patron reading lists or lose funding.
It is just wrong!
If that is it...then good grief, what are we talking about here? What is there about borrowing a book that should make it a sacrosanct activity like confessional, or attorney-client privelege?...
We are not talking about borrowing a book, we are talking about unfettered access, by the government, to records that we should reasonably expect to remain private. They want access to all personal data, in the name of national security, but there is no control over how that data is actually used. This can put a chilling effect on what we may or may not do just by association and the fear of being targeted for said associations.
How long until you are stopped driving and asked for your 'papers', where are you going, why? Sounds far fetched, it probably is, but where it the line that once the governemnt crosses it is no longer OK for them to have unfettered access to our personal lives?
If the government wants to know that I have read "such and such author", they should be required to tell me that they want to know, and further they should show a good reason for neededing the information.