I don't think that there's an ugly precedent in this case. Allowing the kids to keep those pictures of themselves does not mean that it suddenly becomes legal for them to sell those pictures. After all, there is still a law against selling/buying those pictures. And if the court really wanted to prevent anyone from profiting over those images, they could give the kids a slap on the wrist and make them delete the photographs.
Either way, it would be illegal for either of them to sell the pictures if they ever need money. The kids' lives wouldn't be wasted and if the pics ever got out, the one responsible could still be punished.
1) good idea - but they're going to also need to provide directions for an alternate route
Why would that be necessary? The people are only going there because their GPS device is telling them to. One of the nice things of GPS devices is that they recalculate your route when you deviate from it.
Now, if the problem was related to route planners instead of GPS, you'd have a point.
This story reminds me of a book written by Max Barry, titled Jennifer Government...
In that book, there are 2 major customer loyalty programs with all big brands participating in one of them. The world is run by the corporations, employees take on the name of their employer and the police is now a publicly owned security firm (participating in one of said programs) which only investigates crimes if they can bill the investigation (on the victim of course)
Actually, that is an *old* British monopoly board. This is a giant advertising stunt to introduce the new board. It had a complete overhaul and property values are a little more realistic now;-)
Argh, don't give them any ideas... I'm willing to bet money that the Microsoft Longtooth Password Accelerator 2003 will be in the same price range as Windows itself...
I'm using the Dutch version of Firefox on windows and just tried it out. Nothing happened... The only thing I noticed was the mouse pointer acting strange.
That's exactly what will happen. 258$ will actually make it worth their while to drive to Germany to buy their mp3-players. And since borders are open in Europe, there is nothing the Dutch government can do about that.
If they expect something like this to work, it needs to be worked out on a European scale, not just a national one...
Unfortunately, sometimes you have no choice. I work as an ICT coordinator in a group of schools and we offer several computer courses to our students.
One of the courses we have is Windows, where we teach unwitting users how to use windows (no fancy stuff, just using it, install software, create files/folders, use the explorer) For this we need to make sure that the computer setup we use at school mimicks the one they have at home (as in only 1 user which can do everything). So we have to run a couple of hundred of computers in this almost completely unprotected mode (virus scanners and a locally managed proxy server and firewall already stop some stuff). These boxes are usually riddled with spyware by the end of a semester. (Isn't it funny how they can't manage to create a folder, but manage too find their way to all major spyware providers without any problems)
Just to make sure this doesn't affect our other courses (the different office apps, photoshop, autocad,...) these are run from a separate partition which is in a domain. This is achieved using Powerquest BootMagic.
In short, I've been looking for such a tool myself because reimaging that many computers at the end of each semester is not my idea of fun...
Gates: More has been invested in making IE secure than any browser on the planet by a long shot. Nothing is going to change. That's the one over 90% of people are going to keep using.
Firstly I'll assume that Gates' planet is the Microsoft world because I really can't speak for Apple. And then it's most likely even true. Of course you have to invest more in securing your browser if the first versions you offer are closer to a Swiss cheese than to a secure program. And then there is the little fact that mozilla.org doesn't actually invest a lot of money in their browsers;)
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I don't think that there's an ugly precedent in this case. Allowing the kids to keep those pictures of themselves does not mean that it suddenly becomes legal for them to sell those pictures. After all, there is still a law against selling/buying those pictures. And if the court really wanted to prevent anyone from profiting over those images, they could give the kids a slap on the wrist and make them delete the photographs.
Either way, it would be illegal for either of them to sell the pictures if they ever need money. The kids' lives wouldn't be wasted and if the pics ever got out, the one responsible could still be punished.
1) good idea - but they're going to also need to provide directions for an alternate route
Why would that be necessary? The people are only going there because their GPS device is telling them to. One of the nice things of GPS devices is that they recalculate your route when you deviate from it.
Now, if the problem was related to route planners instead of GPS, you'd have a point.
There is such a device already and you can pick it up at Thinkgeek for USD 269...
This story reminds me of a book written by Max Barry, titled Jennifer Government...
In that book, there are 2 major customer loyalty programs with all big brands participating in one of them. The world is run by the corporations, employees take on the name of their employer and the police is now a publicly owned security firm (participating in one of said programs) which only investigates crimes if they can bill the investigation (on the victim of course)
Actually, that is an *old* British monopoly board. This is a giant advertising stunt to introduce the new board. It had a complete overhaul and property values are a little more realistic now ;-)
Argh, don't give them any ideas... I'm willing to bet money that the Microsoft Longtooth Password Accelerator 2003 will be in the same price range as Windows itself...
I'm using the Dutch version of Firefox on windows and just tried it out. Nothing happened... The only thing I noticed was the mouse pointer acting strange.
That's exactly what will happen. 258$ will actually make it worth their while to drive to Germany to buy their mp3-players. And since borders are open in Europe, there is nothing the Dutch government can do about that.
If they expect something like this to work, it needs to be worked out on a European scale, not just a national one...
It is possible to turn this off:
;-)
Go to Tools > Options
In that dialog, go to the 'Advanced' pane
Open up 'Accessibility' (if it isn't open already) and turn off 'Begin finding when you begin typing'
It would definitely have been nice with an option that could turn it off.
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Unfortunately, sometimes you have no choice. I work as an ICT coordinator in a group of schools and we offer several computer courses to our students.
...) these are run from a separate partition which is in a domain. This is achieved using Powerquest BootMagic.
One of the courses we have is Windows, where we teach unwitting users how to use windows (no fancy stuff, just using it, install software, create files/folders, use the explorer) For this we need to make sure that the computer setup we use at school mimicks the one they have at home (as in only 1 user which can do everything). So we have to run a couple of hundred of computers in this almost completely unprotected mode (virus scanners and a locally managed proxy server and firewall already stop some stuff). These boxes are usually riddled with spyware by the end of a semester. (Isn't it funny how they can't manage to create a folder, but manage too find their way to all major spyware providers without any problems)
Just to make sure this doesn't affect our other courses (the different office apps, photoshop, autocad,
In short, I've been looking for such a tool myself because reimaging that many computers at the end of each semester is not my idea of fun...
Gates: More has been invested in making IE secure than any browser on the planet by a long shot. Nothing is going to change. That's the one over 90% of people are going to keep using.
;)
Firstly I'll assume that Gates' planet is the Microsoft world because I really can't speak for Apple. And then it's most likely even true. Of course you have to invest more in securing your browser if the first versions you offer are closer to a Swiss cheese than to a secure program. And then there is the little fact that mozilla.org doesn't actually invest a lot of money in their browsers