Well, I for one have one on tightly because it's 1984 without the posters or screens. A camera with a very sensitive mic that tracks sound? How are we to know that these devices won't record conversation covertly? It's no mind-reading, but it is the ability of police to listen to all conversationand perhaps use it for their own ends. The system is only as strong as it's weakest link.
Seconded. While it's true that after a while you tend to want/need to pick up more books, it's nothing more than the natural progression towards specialization. But you definitly don't need any more than the 3 named by the parent to start out, and you could probably leave out the Monster Manual for a few sessions(AKA, until they get bored of killing kolbolds).
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That theory is helped by the fact that it is still up on sco.com's mainpage. It's apparently a single image replaced on the server, so either SCO can't access it's own webservers or it's a marketing ploy.
Or maybe they just don't use their website or read/.
No, you would still be able to play games on it, just put the program on one of the game-cards and stick it in when you want to use it. (I never said it would be easy, but figure a few thousand people paying 30-40 bucks each might make it profitable.)
Why just game code? Someone should trick the thing into using it's wifi to connect to the internet. IIRC the thing has a small mic and speakers, so someone could add Skype or some other VoIP program on it
The fuller quote is: " 1. Whatever goes on two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes on four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal. "
After a few revisions it ends up as; "
1. "Four legs good, two legs better!"
2. No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.
3. No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.
4. No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.
5. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
The counterargument is that we shouldn't be teaching teenagers and kids that they are A. always being monitored and have no privacy, B. that they are not trustworthy and C. acclimating them to both of those so they don't put up so much of a fight for them later. We would be better served by a population that got used to it's rights early and had some sense of what they were and more importantly what they should be.
And I'm not arguing against keeping kids in class during class, I'm arguing against them tracking us via RFIDs and keeping a very tight leash on us. They treat people in High School like they're in Elementary School with the amount of things they entrust to us. A good number of us are able to make our own decisions at this age and we need more flexibility, not less.
If you have 3 unexcused absenses you get an automatic E(new letter for F) for the quarter and three tardies = one unexcused absense. Open campus is only during lunch and only for seniors, the rest of us have to sneak out(which isn't that hard, but if caught it's a suspension) if we've found the cafeteria food to be the sludge it is (the most annoying part is that my school is in an urban area and good resturants/fast food places are less than 2-3 blocks away so we could walk there and back inside of the 45 minutes we get for lunch.
My school isn't by far the worst, I do learn and the teachers are mostly good. It's the rules and the plain idiocy of most of them that get to me. I'm fairly positive that I could be punished(detention or meeting with principal probably) for changing my password without permission from the instructional technology person. Why? Because kids forgot their passwords too much and apparently was an annoyance for the IT coordinator.
Yeah, but I think the teachers will get suspiscious when there's only one kid in the class with buldging pockets.
My real problem is what will happen when they get lost. My school instituted mandatory photo ID cards this year and pretty much everyday there's a crowd of 20-100+ teenagers outside the main office waiting for temporary IDs. Personally I havn't worn mine in two weeks and no one has noticed, so~
I'm also wondering why it would be nessisary to CC the police on who didn't show up in the morning.
Not to mention the fact that someone could track anyone in the school after they figure out which RFID is theirs. I think that's a much bigger invasion of privacy than having to wear photo IDs. I have no doubt that this will be spreading to other counties and states in the near future so I'm glad I'm graduating next year. Saves me the trouble of explaining why my RFID badge has become a finely ground white powder.
It's a good idea in theory, but there's the small problem of someone has to go to the top of the building/object to anchor the ribbon in the first place. So once they work around that, it should be fine.
And the fact that a rope and pully would do the same job faster just occured to me.
At the breaking of the speed needed for stable orbitals;
We shall call it ludicrous speed.
The point is that we will always be breaking the limits we set now, so to call it ludicrous speed is ok, but the speed will likely be pedestrian in a few years. There's always a speed barrier we'll be breaking.
The International Herald Tribune is owned lock, stock and barrel by the New York Times and they both share a lot of the same articles. So when you see the IHT think NYT.
Fuck man, it is a law enforcement problem if it's any one area at all. That's why it's the FBI/CIA that tracks/arrests terrorists. The laws as they are set up give those powers to the law enforcement community, not the armed forces.
Personally I belive that we could quench the flow of terrorism a lot if we could deal with sucky economies in other countries and get Saudi Arabia to end the welfare-state additude common there. People need something to live for, and while there will always be crazies, people who work on what they want to work on are probably less likely to fly planes into buildings.
By the way, Saddam was hated by Bin Laden. You want to know why? He had a secular state. It wasn't perfect in rights for women, but it was a damn slight better than across any of Iraq's borders.
And the US does give out billions to other countries, and most of those countries live off that money. By the way, Poland's PM has gone on the record stating that the only reason he gave troops(special forces) was so that Polish companies could get a slice of the oil action.
I belive that this falls under the "stuff that matters" catagory. And it's news to some of us. I have a sneaking suspicion I've seen this topic before though, but maybe it's just another fiber network for researchers that was being built.
Also; Le Tigre, Matmos, DJ Dolores, Cornelius, The Rapture, Paul Westerburg, Thievery Corperation, Dan the Automator, Giberto Gil(Brazilian Minister of Culture), Spoon, My Morning Jacket, Zap Mama, and David Byrne.
The Tracks are as follows::01 Beastie Boys/ Now Get Busy:02 David Byrne/ My Fair Lady:03 Zap Mama/ Wadidyusay?:04 My Morning Jacket/ One Big Holiday:05 Spoon/ Revenge!:06 Gilberto Gil/ Oslodum:07 Dan the Automator/ Relaxation Spa Treatment:08 Thievery Corporation/ DC 3000:09 Le Tigre/ Fake French:10 Paul Westerberg/ Looking Up in Heaven:11 Chuck D with Fine Arts Militia/ No Meaning No:12 The Rapture/ Sister Saviour (Blackstrobe Remix):13 Cornelius/ Wataridori 2:14 Danger Mouse & Jemini/ What U Sittin' On? (starring Cee Lo and Tha Alkaholiks):15 DJ Dolores/ Oslodum 2004:16 Matmos/ Action at a Distance
I think I would rather live in interesting, if turbulent, times than dull ones. In the interesting ones you can actually influence something of import. The dull ones have you infulencing the corn crop.
One good use I've heard of is pranking friends/enemies. A joke is a legitimate use. Say you've got a friend in the federal government that's looking to be upwardly-mobile. Spoof the White House's phone number. For the overly, overly religious; (666) 666-6666.
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Well, I for one have one on tightly because it's 1984 without the posters or screens. A camera with a very sensitive mic that tracks sound? How are we to know that these devices won't record conversation covertly? It's no mind-reading, but it is the ability of police to listen to all conversationand perhaps use it for their own ends. The system is only as strong as it's weakest link.
I knew I shouldn't have given Bush that biography of Christopher Columbus.
'See this photo gallery'
He just had to tempt the fates, didn't he?
Seconded. While it's true that after a while you tend to want/need to pick up more books, it's nothing more than the natural progression towards specialization. But you definitly don't need any more than the 3 named by the parent to start out, and you could probably leave out the Monster Manual for a few sessions(AKA, until they get bored of killing kolbolds).
That theory is helped by the fact that it is still up on sco.com's mainpage. It's apparently a single image replaced on the server, so either SCO can't access it's own webservers or it's a marketing ploy.
/.
Or maybe they just don't use their website or read
Yes, but WiFe technology is still only availible as a commodity from Russia. /resisted in-soviet-russia joke
No, you would still be able to play games on it, just put the program on one of the game-cards and stick it in when you want to use it. (I never said it would be easy, but figure a few thousand people paying 30-40 bucks each might make it profitable.)
Why just game code? Someone should trick the thing into using it's wifi to connect to the internet. IIRC the thing has a small mic and speakers, so someone could add Skype or some other VoIP program on it
The fuller quote is:
" 1. Whatever goes on two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes on four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal. "
After a few revisions it ends up as; "
1. "Four legs good, two legs better!"
2. No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.
3. No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.
4. No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.
5. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
A B C D E F. I think it bothered the english teachers.
The counterargument is that we shouldn't be teaching teenagers and kids that they are A. always being monitored and have no privacy, B. that they are not trustworthy and C. acclimating them to both of those so they don't put up so much of a fight for them later. We would be better served by a population that got used to it's rights early and had some sense of what they were and more importantly what they should be.
And I'm not arguing against keeping kids in class during class, I'm arguing against them tracking us via RFIDs and keeping a very tight leash on us. They treat people in High School like they're in Elementary School with the amount of things they entrust to us. A good number of us are able to make our own decisions at this age and we need more flexibility, not less.
Yeah, it's a high school.
If you have 3 unexcused absenses you get an automatic E(new letter for F) for the quarter and three tardies = one unexcused absense. Open campus is only during lunch and only for seniors, the rest of us have to sneak out(which isn't that hard, but if caught it's a suspension) if we've found the cafeteria food to be the sludge it is (the most annoying part is that my school is in an urban area and good resturants/fast food places are less than 2-3 blocks away so we could walk there and back inside of the 45 minutes we get for lunch.
My school isn't by far the worst, I do learn and the teachers are mostly good. It's the rules and the plain idiocy of most of them that get to me. I'm fairly positive that I could be punished(detention or meeting with principal probably) for changing my password without permission from the instructional technology person. Why? Because kids forgot their passwords too much and apparently was an annoyance for the IT coordinator.
Yeah, but I think the teachers will get suspiscious when there's only one kid in the class with buldging pockets.
My real problem is what will happen when they get lost. My school instituted mandatory photo ID cards this year and pretty much everyday there's a crowd of 20-100+ teenagers outside the main office waiting for temporary IDs. Personally I havn't worn mine in two weeks and no one has noticed, so~
I'm also wondering why it would be nessisary to CC the police on who didn't show up in the morning.
Not to mention the fact that someone could track anyone in the school after they figure out which RFID is theirs. I think that's a much bigger invasion of privacy than having to wear photo IDs. I have no doubt that this will be spreading to other counties and states in the near future so I'm glad I'm graduating next year. Saves me the trouble of explaining why my RFID badge has become a finely ground white powder.
It's a good idea in theory, but there's the small problem of someone has to go to the top of the building/object to anchor the ribbon in the first place. So once they work around that, it should be fine.
And the fact that a rope and pully would do the same job faster just occured to me.
To apply Spaceballs retroactivly;
At the breaking of the 60MPH:
We shall call it ludicrous speed.
At the breaking of the sound barrier;
We shall call it ludicrous speed.
At the breaking of the speed needed for stable orbitals;
We shall call it ludicrous speed.
The point is that we will always be breaking the limits we set now, so to call it ludicrous speed is ok, but the speed will likely be pedestrian in a few years. There's always a speed barrier we'll be breaking.
The International Herald Tribune is owned lock, stock and barrel by the New York Times and they both share a lot of the same articles. So when you see the IHT think NYT.
Fuck man, it is a law enforcement problem if it's any one area at all. That's why it's the FBI/CIA that tracks/arrests terrorists. The laws as they are set up give those powers to the law enforcement community, not the armed forces.
Personally I belive that we could quench the flow of terrorism a lot if we could deal with sucky economies in other countries and get Saudi Arabia to end the welfare-state additude common there. People need something to live for, and while there will always be crazies, people who work on what they want to work on are probably less likely to fly planes into buildings.
By the way, Saddam was hated by Bin Laden. You want to know why? He had a secular state. It wasn't perfect in rights for women, but it was a damn slight better than across any of Iraq's borders.
And the US does give out billions to other countries, and most of those countries live off that money. By the way, Poland's PM has gone on the record stating that the only reason he gave troops(special forces) was so that Polish companies could get a slice of the oil action.
I belive that this falls under the "stuff that matters" catagory. And it's news to some of us. I have a sneaking suspicion I've seen this topic before though, but maybe it's just another fiber network for researchers that was being built.
Also; Le Tigre, Matmos, DJ Dolores, Cornelius, The Rapture, Paul Westerburg, Thievery Corperation, Dan the Automator, Giberto Gil(Brazilian Minister of Culture), Spoon, My Morning Jacket, Zap Mama, and David Byrne.
:01 Beastie Boys/ Now Get Busy :02 David Byrne/ My Fair Lady :03 Zap Mama/ Wadidyusay? :04 My Morning Jacket/ One Big Holiday :05 Spoon/ Revenge! :06 Gilberto Gil/ Oslodum :07 Dan the Automator/ Relaxation Spa Treatment :08 Thievery Corporation/ DC 3000 :09 Le Tigre/ Fake French :10 Paul Westerberg/ Looking Up in Heaven :11 Chuck D with Fine Arts Militia/ No Meaning No :12 The Rapture/ Sister Saviour (Blackstrobe Remix) :13 Cornelius/ Wataridori 2 :14 Danger Mouse & Jemini/ What U Sittin' On? (starring Cee Lo and Tha Alkaholiks) :15 DJ Dolores/ Oslodum 2004 :16 Matmos/ Action at a Distance
The Tracks are as follows:
Once again, Slashdot's editors prove their point. They're not changing, get used to it.
Hack number one, wait until after a presidential debate before trying for first post.
I think I would rather live in interesting, if turbulent, times than dull ones. In the interesting ones you can actually influence something of import. The dull ones have you infulencing the corn crop.
I think the price would be prohibitive. A 120-gig harddrive can be found at about 90 bucks, meanwhile flash memory is about a gig for 90 bucks.
One good use I've heard of is pranking friends/enemies. A joke is a legitimate use. Say you've got a friend in the federal government that's looking to be upwardly-mobile. Spoof the White House's phone number. For the overly, overly religious; (666) 666-6666.
But what about manipulating objects and the hundred other things(scent, texture, taste, etc.) that we'll need for life-like VR?