About the characters... but I don't seem to be able to use them in a post. No fair! I went through a lot of work hitting ctrl-c ctrl-v, all for nothing!
I think it is alt, then the 3 number code you want. That is how you get other characters.
Being a Canadian student with very little experience in Chinese, I think that it may be harder now to get localized information about specific things in China as they'll be oddities in the dns names..
But it might be easier to those who know Chinese to get localized Chinese information. It makes sense that those who most want localized Chineese information are Chineese.
If China is smart, they'll find a way to keep spam out of the new domain. I remember the golden days of the internet when I would do a search with webcrawler or excite and get back a list of useful websites, today i get back commercial websites wanting to sell something.
What at first might look like a localization issue could potentially become a powerfull user lock-in and turn out to be a very effective addition to The Great Chinese Filtering
How so, this would lock out people outside of China, not inside China. I don't have any chinese character set installed on my pc, and I would not have a way of typing in that domain name.
If I owned a company in China, and wanted to do buisness in other countries, I would not want a domain with just Chinese characters, my non-Chinese customers would have a more difficult time finding me.
I just don't see how this locks Chinese people into anything. It gives them more choice.
I agree, I don't like the look of XP, that is why when I use a XP machine I change the look back to windows classic. One I do that, it looks and feels exactly like my windows 2000 machine.
And what do those screenshots tell us anyways? I did not see anything new, something to make me excited about the new windows.
Maybe Microsoft is stuck in their 1998 way of thinking, when the new "version" of windows had people lining up outside of CompUSA at 5am to get a good space in line to be the first to own the new version. That will not happen again. Windows 2000 can do just about anything a user wants, it can play DVD movies, surf the web, play games. Why do we need a new version of Windows?
I would like to see Micrsoft do 2 things they won't. 1) I want greater control of my PC, but with the push for more DRM, I will get less control of my machine. And related to #1, I want to have tools work my way, I want to opt-in rather than opt-out, I want most services turned off unless I turn them on. 2) I would like Windows to come with some more software than just solitare. I'd love to see Windows come loaded with OpenOffice and Mozilla, and a ton of Open Source software. It would be a great sign of stregnth, to give away those products and then tell people "You have Open Office which is good, but for something really great come and buy Office".
I doubt Windows will do any of those things.
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If that's really why they're concerned, well, maybe they'd be interested in knowing that the vast majority of virus/malware type things that send email in this fashion still don't originate from the computer of the person in question anyway...therefore, this whole rationale for worry is BS, since spoofed email can come from *anywhere*, and it's most often NOT your own computer.
And - make no mistake, I really do see their point - but the IT resources belong to the university, and neither the university nor the researchers uses the person's account or any password or other credentials belonging to the person. It was simply a spoofed "from" address; nothing more. And if it's strictly "legal" for any random person to spoof a from address, it's just as legal for the purposes of research, whose findings may provide some level of insight on *protecting* people from malicious phishing.
So, what's the anwser? Is there something I can send with my emails that verifies it came from me, something that can't be spoofed. Is there some algorithm out there that a SERVER can use, attach as part of the header, that the recipient can then verify the origin?
Headers can be forged, that is old news. But what has been done about it? How can we trust any email?
The whole web was designed to be anonymous and trusted at the same time, two things that can not exists together. Either the web must evolve to a system where the sender is known, like a phone call. Just imagine if phone calls worked the way email works. You spoof your phone number, call someone else, and get their credit card number. That would land a person in jail.
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The hackers, graduate students Tom Jagatic and Nate Johnson, conducted an e-mail experiment last week that has outraged some students and raised important questions about privacy and the public sphere. Using information gleaned from publicly available sites on the Internet, Jagatic and Johnson sent e-mails to students seemingly from e-mail addresses familiar to the students. For example, Bob@indiana.edu would receive an e-mail from his girlfriend Alice@indiana.edu. The subject would boast, "This is cool!" and the e-mail would be signed, "Alice."
The body of the e-mail instructed, "Hey, check this out!" and provided a link on the IU server that prompted students to provide their username and password. The e-mails were not actually sent from the e-mail accounts they seemed to originate from.
I am pretty sure this is illegal. It is like going to a bank with a note that says "I have a gun, give me all your money", then publishing the results as a study.
"It was deceptive, (but) there was no other way to conduct the study," said Filipo Menczer, an associate professor of Informatics and computer science. The study was conducted by Jagatic and Johnson as part of Menczer's graduate-level Web mining course offered through the School of Informatics. Associate Professor of Informatics Markus Jakobsson was the faculty adviser for the study.
"We feel very bad that the students feel violated," Menczer said. "That doesn't mean it was unethical or illegal."
Who wants to make a bet that this professor is gonna get it from *someone*??
Because of the ethical issues associated with deception, Jagatic and Johnson had to obtain permission from the Human Subjects Committee, which approves experiments on campus that involve humans and ensures studies are ethical and do not violate participants' privacy.
HUH?? I had to re-read that three times. This is better spinning than Fox News. The Human Subjects Committee is designated with protecting student privacy. And the first thing they do is???
The second part was more complicated. In most experiments, subjects must give informed consent to participate. But because the phishing study tests responses to e-mails from close friends or acquaintances -- what the study calls a person's "social network" -- it was important to keep an element of secrecy, Menczer said. So the Human Subjects Committee allowed the actual phishing attack to run without informed consent from the subjects.
I know this is going off topic, but this reminds me of the LSD studies the CIA did in the late 70's.
This professor should be fired, and he along with the students should be prosecuted. They lied. They could have done 100 differnet studies to make a network more secure. But they chose to study deception by decieving.
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I've been using this for quite a while, though. It's called Gaim [sourceforge.net].
Can Open Source software be copywrited or have patents? It seems like AOL is stealing a feature of an Open Source product. With all the big companies suing smaller ones for the same thing, who is going to protect the open source software?
Or does open source not care who uses what, that open source just wants the best possible product on the market?
Isn't AIM something only people with AOL use? I have never had it on any computer.
Maybe it is too difficult to download a different IM when you use dial up?
How about AOL is forced to have on it's instal CD a second IM program?
I had a friend who does have AOL and they had Real Player installed as part of the AOL instal. You could not opt-out. It seems to me that AOL is becomming the next M$. Luckily, most people have broadband so AOL will die.
The client will also be open to third party plug-ins
How long til they pull close the door on thrid party im's? To make them unable to use the network? Could it be they just want to make the switch with the least amount of bitching?
What I find interesting is that the U.S. Government is constantly at battle with hordes of "mischievious school kids," and actually has a big PROBLEM with it.
Explain to me, again, how school children can pose a serious threat to the United States government, and we still have the balls to declare war on a country in the middle east?
Because in the rest of the world, we can kill our enemies. In the USA, we have to give them a court. And most courts won't give stiff penalties to kids.
The other problem is with american values. Kids have no values anymore. They are being bombarded with sex on tv, everything that was wrong is now right, "don't have sex, don't lose your virginity, give blow jobs instead". Clinton: "It all depends on what your definition of the word is is". That is what they get. Add on to that all the faggots asking for civil right as if they were black people fighting for the right to vote. The world is going to hell in a handbasket.
Back in 1982 (we were 12), all that happened to us after hacking into government computers was my friend Lance getting his Apple ][+ confiscated followed by a job offer 9 years later from the same folks who confiscated his computer back in 1982
This is the problem. We must not ever let these people work around computers again. Talent does not matter, ethics does.
Think about it. Say there is a guy in college who is brilliant with law, but decides he wants to work with the mafia, to use the law to help them. No law school will admit this SOB. No state will allow him to sit for the bar exams.
Maybe this is too tough a policy, but I am all for the Bush whitehouse going after the new terrorists, kids with computers.
Iranians hate the US, period. But this deep resentment against America was not instillated by their government - only exploited as a way to strengthen their power (since the Iranian government is the most outspoken opponent of the US on the world stage, anyone who dissents with the Iranian government can conveniently be called an agent of the US). Iranians have good reasons to dislike the US. By removing a moderate, popular government from office out of short-term considerations, they opened the way for a much more brutal, oppressive and dangerous regime in the end.
This is not wholly true. I know some Iranians, and while they love the US people, they might strongly disagree with the US government. They know firsthand how the USA makes foriegn policy, and how the USA is willing to have "collateral damage" if it is in the interest of the USA.
I think the Iranians hate the USA government as much as their own.
Nothing is really a commercial. It is more of a secret delivered just for you.:)
jkOnTheRun has posted pics of the rumored IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC pulled from the FCC filing. It looks as expected, a nice black ThinkPad with a major exception, the swivel screen and the Tablet OS
Are you still reading my post? I thought you all would be running to buy the new ThinkPad.
How much did IBM pay for this advertising? Maybe I can start my own slashdot and get rich.
And here, ladies and gentleman, is a shining example of the output of the US public school system!
My knowledge did not come from the US School systems, it came from someone who lived in Iran during the Shah rule. His gradnfather was a judge, and his father worked in the government. Once the revolution started they ran to France. From there they came to the USA. He said that he had some family which was not able to leave Iran in time, and was executed.
According to him, the USA did support the fall of the Shah. To hear him say it, the difference between living in Iran during the Shah and after is like night and day. Iranians had freedoms under the Shah, they could watch western TV, they could buy just about anything. After the Shah fell, women had to dress up, no more western TV, no more freedom. Reading the wrong books could get you arrested.
As for Hussien, he was a nobody. They USA helped his bathist party gain power. Once in power, the USA realized it was in our interest for Iraq and Iran to stay in a constant fight. So we supplied Iraq with weapons.
You might be able to tell me what is in the books, I can tell you what people who lived there told me. I'll take their first hand account as real.
Iran didn't go against the US because we decided to support Hussein, we decided to support Hussein because Iran went against the US. You seem to have confused cause and effect there. In the beginning, there wasn't any clear moral high-ground in the Iran-Iraq War, and so we went to the next question on our Flow Chart of Foreign Policy*: "Which side is friendlier with the Soviets?" Things went (further) downhill from there.
And this is a reason for war? Country A is more friendly with the USSR than the USA, so we'll aid countries to make war with Country A?
What was the USA worried about? What would have happened if Iraq and Iran never went to war? They would not have spent their oil money on wepons and huge armies. I seem to remember from history class that both countries at one time had a good university system. Could we have had a super power in the middle east if they were no so buy spending money on war?
The reason it's not an issue for the U.S. to use nuclear power is because we're genuinely interested in only using nuclear power in virtue of its energy-providing capabilities, not in virtue of its WMD capabilities. If Iran had a consistent record of pacifist-endeavors, it, too could be part of this wonderful cause. The minute that NASA workers strap nukes to their chests and run amok in downtime Washington D.C. is the minute I revoke my support for the U.S.
We used it in WWII.
And Iran would be pacifist if we never got involved in their history. They had a moderate government with some elements of capitalism. But then the USA decided to help Hussien, we sold him all the arms he needed to attack Iran for over a decade. And we let the Shah get expelled, for a very rigid Kohmeni.
Not so dangerous? What exactly happens when a nuke is detonated in space? I know that there would be no pressure wave or firestorm, but there is no atmosphere or ground to absorb the radiation...
We don't know what would happen. There is a whole cluster of scientists who believe in SuperString Theory, that we have 10 dimensions but can only percieve 3 of them. Imagine a newspaper comic strip. That character exists in the X and Y plane. What happens if you fire something in Z plane? To him something will appear and disappear quickly. Kinda like how we percieve electrons?? So say we fire off that nuke, and in reality it sends some wave we can't percieve. And that wave hits something else which causes the nuclear action to continue. The whole universe could collapse on itself.
And in those final seconds, I can just hear Bush's voice "Trust me, I know what I'm doing".
Interesting that they would pick a Brayton cycle power generation scheme. Since it's open-loop, that means you limit the lifetime of your vehicle to however much working mass - not reaction mass, that's probably xenon in this case - you have on board. Of course the limiting factor might in fact be reaction mass after all, in which case it actually makes sense to have an open-loop reactor and reap the benefits of a simpler system.
Disclaimer: I am not a rocket scientist.
I am a rocket scientist, so I can anwser your questions. The key is to find planets rich in dylithium crystals. Or we can negotitate with other civilizations.
Seriously, with everything they will need to carry with them, I hope they find a power source that is plentiful everywhere.
And this is another reason why I hope we start colonizing other planets, building little self containted cities with mines and data reasearch centers. What will happen when the space ship runs out of fuel around pluto and nobody is there to help? I know.... it is all science fiction anyways. But maybe if someone can dream it, someone can build it.
If that above picture happens in my lifetime, I will drop a load.
I hope they start with something more resonable than this. A big project will get bloated and is less likely to happen. Instead of going to Jupiter, how about getting to Mars with a little more reliability, with people?
No kidding... I'm not a parent yet, but when I do have a litter of "mini Me" clones running around, you can bet I'll be involved in my kids' lives more than my own parents were.... at least, that's the plan. I'm sure every parent has the *intention* of being in their kids' lives, but life always seems to get in the way. Thankfully I'm engaged to a great young lady who has similar principles and values as I do, so raising our kids will be a great team effort.
Good luck! When you get a job that sucks every last bit of energy out of you, you'll understand it is not as easy as just wanting to do it. When you come home so stressed out because your boss was a dick, and you're worried about the morgagae payment and car bill, and if you paid the insurance bill in time, you'll understand.
It does take a village to raise a kid. We need common values, to say "this is wrong" and hold all kids to those values. This kind of technology is just the start. Parents need to get control back of their kids. Otherwise, by the time the kid turns 13 he will be a monster.
That being said, this program wont change that... kids will find a way around it, like they always have
Sure, technically, kids probably have an advantage, but that doesn't mean the parent doesn't have a good deal of control. For instance, it doesn't matter if a kid can circumvent this software if they don't have the money to buy the game in the first place. It doesn't matter if they can pirate a copy of the game, if the computer is in a common area so they get in trouble when they even try to play it.
Putting up your hands in defeat because a technical solution won't solve a parenting problem won't help anything. In fact, trusting our children to be babysat by an adult media is part of the problem.
There are some great no-tech solutions. Keep the computer in a high traffic area, in the living room or kitchen. Don't let kids have computers in their bedroom.
If you don't want your kid playing games, just writing reports, buy a used PII300mhz system (probably under $50), microsoft office will run on it, the internet will work on it, but most games can't run on it. Don't let your kids blow $200 on a video card.
From time to time, suprise your kid. Grab them so they can't touch the keyboard or mouse or turn the computer off. Then look at what they have been doing. What windows are minimized? Look at the internet history, what websites have they been to?
And don't be afraid to humiliate your kid. If a friend of your kid calls and you busted your kid looking at porn, tell the caller "He is grounded, he can't use the phone, I caught him looking at porn". Make him own his actions. Teach him responsibility, accountibility, and humility.
And make the punishment stick, and make it painful. Go to a car dealership, buy a ass ugly lime green 1977 rusted pile of crap, and when you bust your kid, tell him you're driving him to school every morning and picking him up. Honk the horn when you get in front of the school so everyone sees him.
Flash the BIOS from within the OS, that should get rid of the BIOS password.
I don't think you can do that with BIOS that is jumpered on the motherboard, only on a jumperless motherboard. That is the whole reason for the jumper. Set the jumper on, and you can write/clear the BIOS. Set the jumper the other way, and you can't write/clear the BIOS.
Plus, you would never give your kid admin on a windows box. You would not even give them permission to instal any software. And you would have some software monitoring what they are doing.
Government will force computer manufacturers to put a V-chip, hardware, in the computer. They already did it with TV's. Why? Because hardware is much more difficult to hack than software. Look at how much more difficult it is to pirate games for the playstation, you need a mod chip, not just a copy of the game. And that costs extra money, and takes time. Plus, if you try and add the chip on your own, you could fry the whole system.
I would also like an alarm system to sound when the kid tries to play a game they are not allowed to play. A nice loud siren. Maybe the monitor can flash red too.
If this gets implimented on a wide scale, I think we will see bootable Linux cds with the nvidia kernel and doom3 or halflife2 installed becomming very popular.
BIOS password and no boot from CD-ROM. What do you have for that? Oh, and a lock for the computer case, don't want the little bastards messing with the jumpers, trying to reset the password.
hello... service industry. Not everyone is going to want to deal with the piss-poor voice recognition robots would have.
And robot wars? Even the Bush regime doesn't completely ignore that face that enemy civilians are people too. Do you really think the only thing that prevents constant war is the public demand to not kill our children? Is war the default state of humanity?
So you are saying people will have to be smart, or learn how to serve your family food? The service sector does not pay anywhere near what factory and manufacturing jobs paid in the 70's and 80's. It was possible to get a good paying job with a high school diploma, and to make enough money to be considered upper class. Now the children of those families don't have the same oppertunities.
As for wars... I think that is the natural state of man. Presidents go looking for them, it is their legacy. It is how a president gets a paragraph in a high school history textbook. The only thing which stops wars is when the blood thirsty red-states start loosing enough of their own. Then they go back to drinking and watching NASCAR.
Listening to how articulate Bush was in the gubernatorial debates against Ann Richards, I conclude that either 1) He's got Parkinson's, or 2) he's dumbing himself down to appeal to the NASCAR crowd.
Love him or hate him, he's got the best political operators since Machiavelli running his show.
That is pretty funny. I can just see the democrats commercial "Bush really... is smart". Man, there is no way to win.
I wonder if those gubernatorial debates are public, I would not mind watching a few of them. Ann Richards is no pushover.
Or could it be since winning, bush is hitting the sauce again? I can imagine the "If you're not with us, you're against us" speech after Bush watched an old western while putting down some of kentukys finest.
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I think it is alt, then the 3 number code you want. That is how you get other characters.
Try it. Alt-241 gives you ±, alt-142 gives you Ä.
But it might be easier to those who know Chinese to get localized Chinese information. It makes sense that those who most want localized Chineese information are Chineese.
If China is smart, they'll find a way to keep spam out of the new domain. I remember the golden days of the internet when I would do a search with webcrawler or excite and get back a list of useful websites, today i get back commercial websites wanting to sell something.
How so, this would lock out people outside of China, not inside China. I don't have any chinese character set installed on my pc, and I would not have a way of typing in that domain name.
If I owned a company in China, and wanted to do buisness in other countries, I would not want a domain with just Chinese characters, my non-Chinese customers would have a more difficult time finding me.
I just don't see how this locks Chinese people into anything. It gives them more choice.
I agree, I don't like the look of XP, that is why when I use a XP machine I change the look back to windows classic. One I do that, it looks and feels exactly like my windows 2000 machine.
And what do those screenshots tell us anyways? I did not see anything new, something to make me excited about the new windows.
Maybe Microsoft is stuck in their 1998 way of thinking, when the new "version" of windows had people lining up outside of CompUSA at 5am to get a good space in line to be the first to own the new version. That will not happen again. Windows 2000 can do just about anything a user wants, it can play DVD movies, surf the web, play games. Why do we need a new version of Windows?
I would like to see Micrsoft do 2 things they won't. 1) I want greater control of my PC, but with the push for more DRM, I will get less control of my machine. And related to #1, I want to have tools work my way, I want to opt-in rather than opt-out, I want most services turned off unless I turn them on. 2) I would like Windows to come with some more software than just solitare. I'd love to see Windows come loaded with OpenOffice and Mozilla, and a ton of Open Source software. It would be a great sign of stregnth, to give away those products and then tell people "You have Open Office which is good, but for something really great come and buy Office".
I doubt Windows will do any of those things.
And - make no mistake, I really do see their point - but the IT resources belong to the university, and neither the university nor the researchers uses the person's account or any password or other credentials belonging to the person. It was simply a spoofed "from" address; nothing more. And if it's strictly "legal" for any random person to spoof a from address, it's just as legal for the purposes of research, whose findings may provide some level of insight on *protecting* people from malicious phishing.
So, what's the anwser? Is there something I can send with my emails that verifies it came from me, something that can't be spoofed. Is there some algorithm out there that a SERVER can use, attach as part of the header, that the recipient can then verify the origin?
Headers can be forged, that is old news. But what has been done about it? How can we trust any email?
The whole web was designed to be anonymous and trusted at the same time, two things that can not exists together. Either the web must evolve to a system where the sender is known, like a phone call. Just imagine if phone calls worked the way email works. You spoof your phone number, call someone else, and get their credit card number. That would land a person in jail.
The body of the e-mail instructed, "Hey, check this out!" and provided a link on the IU server that prompted students to provide their username and password. The e-mails were not actually sent from the e-mail accounts they seemed to originate from.
I am pretty sure this is illegal. It is like going to a bank with a note that says "I have a gun, give me all your money", then publishing the results as a study.
"It was deceptive, (but) there was no other way to conduct the study," said Filipo Menczer, an associate professor of Informatics and computer science. The study was conducted by Jagatic and Johnson as part of Menczer's graduate-level Web mining course offered through the School of Informatics. Associate Professor of Informatics Markus Jakobsson was the faculty adviser for the study.
"We feel very bad that the students feel violated," Menczer said. "That doesn't mean it was unethical or illegal."
Who wants to make a bet that this professor is gonna get it from *someone*??
Because of the ethical issues associated with deception, Jagatic and Johnson had to obtain permission from the Human Subjects Committee, which approves experiments on campus that involve humans and ensures studies are ethical and do not violate participants' privacy.
HUH?? I had to re-read that three times. This is better spinning than Fox News. The Human Subjects Committee is designated with protecting student privacy. And the first thing they do is???
The second part was more complicated. In most experiments, subjects must give informed consent to participate. But because the phishing study tests responses to e-mails from close friends or acquaintances -- what the study calls a person's "social network" -- it was important to keep an element of secrecy, Menczer said. So the Human Subjects Committee allowed the actual phishing attack to run without informed consent from the subjects.
I know this is going off topic, but this reminds me of the LSD studies the CIA did in the late 70's.
This professor should be fired, and he along with the students should be prosecuted. They lied. They could have done 100 differnet studies to make a network more secure. But they chose to study deception by decieving.
I've been using this for quite a while, though. It's called Gaim [sourceforge.net].
Can Open Source software be copywrited or have patents? It seems like AOL is stealing a feature of an Open Source product. With all the big companies suing smaller ones for the same thing, who is going to protect the open source software?
Or does open source not care who uses what, that open source just wants the best possible product on the market?
It seems like a double standard.
Maybe it is too difficult to download a different IM when you use dial up?
How about AOL is forced to have on it's instal CD a second IM program?
I had a friend who does have AOL and they had Real Player installed as part of the AOL instal. You could not opt-out. It seems to me that AOL is becomming the next M$. Luckily, most people have broadband so AOL will die.
How long til they pull close the door on thrid party im's? To make them unable to use the network? Could it be they just want to make the switch with the least amount of bitching?
Explain to me, again, how school children can pose a serious threat to the United States government, and we still have the balls to declare war on a country in the middle east?
Because in the rest of the world, we can kill our enemies. In the USA, we have to give them a court. And most courts won't give stiff penalties to kids.
The other problem is with american values. Kids have no values anymore. They are being bombarded with sex on tv, everything that was wrong is now right, "don't have sex, don't lose your virginity, give blow jobs instead". Clinton: "It all depends on what your definition of the word is is". That is what they get. Add on to that all the faggots asking for civil right as if they were black people fighting for the right to vote. The world is going to hell in a handbasket.
This is the problem. We must not ever let these people work around computers again. Talent does not matter, ethics does.
Think about it. Say there is a guy in college who is brilliant with law, but decides he wants to work with the mafia, to use the law to help them. No law school will admit this SOB. No state will allow him to sit for the bar exams.
Maybe this is too tough a policy, but I am all for the Bush whitehouse going after the new terrorists, kids with computers.
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Iranians hate the US, period. But this deep resentment against America was not instillated by their government - only exploited as a way to strengthen their power (since the Iranian government is the most outspoken opponent of the US on the world stage, anyone who dissents with the Iranian government can conveniently be called an agent of the US). Iranians have good reasons to dislike the US. By removing a moderate, popular government from office out of short-term considerations, they opened the way for a much more brutal, oppressive and dangerous regime in the end.
This is not wholly true. I know some Iranians, and while they love the US people, they might strongly disagree with the US government. They know firsthand how the USA makes foriegn policy, and how the USA is willing to have "collateral damage" if it is in the interest of the USA.
I think the Iranians hate the USA government as much as their own.
jkOnTheRun has posted pics of the rumored IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC pulled from the FCC filing. It looks as expected, a nice black ThinkPad with a major exception, the swivel screen and the Tablet OS
Are you still reading my post? I thought you all would be running to buy the new ThinkPad.
How much did IBM pay for this advertising? Maybe I can start my own slashdot and get rich.
My knowledge did not come from the US School systems, it came from someone who lived in Iran during the Shah rule. His gradnfather was a judge, and his father worked in the government. Once the revolution started they ran to France. From there they came to the USA. He said that he had some family which was not able to leave Iran in time, and was executed.
According to him, the USA did support the fall of the Shah. To hear him say it, the difference between living in Iran during the Shah and after is like night and day. Iranians had freedoms under the Shah, they could watch western TV, they could buy just about anything. After the Shah fell, women had to dress up, no more western TV, no more freedom. Reading the wrong books could get you arrested.
As for Hussien, he was a nobody. They USA helped his bathist party gain power. Once in power, the USA realized it was in our interest for Iraq and Iran to stay in a constant fight. So we supplied Iraq with weapons.
You might be able to tell me what is in the books, I can tell you what people who lived there told me. I'll take their first hand account as real.
Iran didn't go against the US because we decided to support Hussein, we decided to support Hussein because Iran went against the US. You seem to have confused cause and effect there. In the beginning, there wasn't any clear moral high-ground in the Iran-Iraq War, and so we went to the next question on our Flow Chart of Foreign Policy*: "Which side is friendlier with the Soviets?" Things went (further) downhill from there.
And this is a reason for war? Country A is more friendly with the USSR than the USA, so we'll aid countries to make war with Country A?
What was the USA worried about? What would have happened if Iraq and Iran never went to war? They would not have spent their oil money on wepons and huge armies. I seem to remember from history class that both countries at one time had a good university system. Could we have had a super power in the middle east if they were no so buy spending money on war?
We used it in WWII.
And Iran would be pacifist if we never got involved in their history. They had a moderate government with some elements of capitalism. But then the USA decided to help Hussien, we sold him all the arms he needed to attack Iran for over a decade. And we let the Shah get expelled, for a very rigid Kohmeni.
We don't know what would happen. There is a whole cluster of scientists who believe in SuperString Theory, that we have 10 dimensions but can only percieve 3 of them. Imagine a newspaper comic strip. That character exists in the X and Y plane. What happens if you fire something in Z plane? To him something will appear and disappear quickly. Kinda like how we percieve electrons?? So say we fire off that nuke, and in reality it sends some wave we can't percieve. And that wave hits something else which causes the nuclear action to continue. The whole universe could collapse on itself.
And in those final seconds, I can just hear Bush's voice "Trust me, I know what I'm doing".
Disclaimer: I am not a rocket scientist.
I am a rocket scientist, so I can anwser your questions. The key is to find planets rich in dylithium crystals. Or we can negotitate with other civilizations.
Seriously, with everything they will need to carry with them, I hope they find a power source that is plentiful everywhere.
And this is another reason why I hope we start colonizing other planets, building little self containted cities with mines and data reasearch centers. What will happen when the space ship runs out of fuel around pluto and nobody is there to help? I know.... it is all science fiction anyways. But maybe if someone can dream it, someone can build it.
http://prometheus.jpl.nasa.gov/contentImages/Blimp _over_Titan211_br.jpg
If that above picture happens in my lifetime, I will drop a load.
I hope they start with something more resonable than this. A big project will get bloated and is less likely to happen. Instead of going to Jupiter, how about getting to Mars with a little more reliability, with people?
Good luck! When you get a job that sucks every last bit of energy out of you, you'll understand it is not as easy as just wanting to do it. When you come home so stressed out because your boss was a dick, and you're worried about the morgagae payment and car bill, and if you paid the insurance bill in time, you'll understand.
It does take a village to raise a kid. We need common values, to say "this is wrong" and hold all kids to those values. This kind of technology is just the start. Parents need to get control back of their kids. Otherwise, by the time the kid turns 13 he will be a monster.
Sure, technically, kids probably have an advantage, but that doesn't mean the parent doesn't have a good deal of control. For instance, it doesn't matter if a kid can circumvent this software if they don't have the money to buy the game in the first place. It doesn't matter if they can pirate a copy of the game, if the computer is in a common area so they get in trouble when they even try to play it.
Putting up your hands in defeat because a technical solution won't solve a parenting problem won't help anything. In fact, trusting our children to be babysat by an adult media is part of the problem.
There are some great no-tech solutions. Keep the computer in a high traffic area, in the living room or kitchen. Don't let kids have computers in their bedroom.
If you don't want your kid playing games, just writing reports, buy a used PII300mhz system (probably under $50), microsoft office will run on it, the internet will work on it, but most games can't run on it. Don't let your kids blow $200 on a video card.
From time to time, suprise your kid. Grab them so they can't touch the keyboard or mouse or turn the computer off. Then look at what they have been doing. What windows are minimized? Look at the internet history, what websites have they been to?
And don't be afraid to humiliate your kid. If a friend of your kid calls and you busted your kid looking at porn, tell the caller "He is grounded, he can't use the phone, I caught him looking at porn". Make him own his actions. Teach him responsibility, accountibility, and humility.
And make the punishment stick, and make it painful. Go to a car dealership, buy a ass ugly lime green 1977 rusted pile of crap, and when you bust your kid, tell him you're driving him to school every morning and picking him up. Honk the horn when you get in front of the school so everyone sees him.
I don't think you can do that with BIOS that is jumpered on the motherboard, only on a jumperless motherboard. That is the whole reason for the jumper. Set the jumper on, and you can write/clear the BIOS. Set the jumper the other way, and you can't write/clear the BIOS.
Plus, you would never give your kid admin on a windows box. You would not even give them permission to instal any software. And you would have some software monitoring what they are doing.
Government will force computer manufacturers to put a V-chip, hardware, in the computer. They already did it with TV's. Why? Because hardware is much more difficult to hack than software. Look at how much more difficult it is to pirate games for the playstation, you need a mod chip, not just a copy of the game. And that costs extra money, and takes time. Plus, if you try and add the chip on your own, you could fry the whole system.
I would also like an alarm system to sound when the kid tries to play a game they are not allowed to play. A nice loud siren. Maybe the monitor can flash red too.
BIOS password and no boot from CD-ROM. What do you have for that? Oh, and a lock for the computer case, don't want the little bastards messing with the jumpers, trying to reset the password.
And robot wars? Even the Bush regime doesn't completely ignore that face that enemy civilians are people too. Do you really think the only thing that prevents constant war is the public demand to not kill our children? Is war the default state of humanity?
So you are saying people will have to be smart, or learn how to serve your family food? The service sector does not pay anywhere near what factory and manufacturing jobs paid in the 70's and 80's. It was possible to get a good paying job with a high school diploma, and to make enough money to be considered upper class. Now the children of those families don't have the same oppertunities.
As for wars... I think that is the natural state of man. Presidents go looking for them, it is their legacy. It is how a president gets a paragraph in a high school history textbook. The only thing which stops wars is when the blood thirsty red-states start loosing enough of their own. Then they go back to drinking and watching NASCAR.
Love him or hate him, he's got the best political operators since Machiavelli running his show.
That is pretty funny. I can just see the democrats commercial "Bush really... is smart". Man, there is no way to win.
I wonder if those gubernatorial debates are public, I would not mind watching a few of them. Ann Richards is no pushover.
Or could it be since winning, bush is hitting the sauce again? I can imagine the "If you're not with us, you're against us" speech after Bush watched an old western while putting down some of kentukys finest.