Would have been for the school to take back the laptops from any student breaking school policy. The kids broke the rules over and over again, take away their toy. Why was there a lawsuit in the first place? Something is missing from this story....
If you read the decision, the court spends most of the time explaining why the sticker *is* constitutional. However, the sticker still failed the test. Here's one reason why:
-- In this case, the Court beleives that an informed, reasonable observer would interpret the Sticker to convey a message of endorsement of religion. That is, the Sticker sends a message to those who oppose evolution for religious reasons that they are favored members of the political community, while the Sticker sends a message to those who beleive in evolution that they are political outsiders. This is particularly so in a case such as this one involving impressionable public school students who are likely to view the message on the Sticker as a union of church and state --
As a student coming out of a school in the Washington DC area, I can tell you without a doubt that people who work for the US Government do not have to worry about outsourcing.
I'd say the average pay for students coming out of school looking for work is between 55k and 65k.
Note the 'looking for work' part. Most CS people here are staying in for their masters or (chuckles) going to law school.
Companies are starting to hire more and more, but it's still a little dicey out there.
GW started rolling out wireless a couple years ago with horrible (non existant) security. They then moved over to a Cisco VPN client which has simplified the process a great deal. Any wireless card works, and the software is available for linux, mac and even windows.
You might find it interesting that before they changed the security, I did a security presentation on 802.11b here at gwu, and I added a case study on how bad the library security was.
http://www.student.seas.gwu.edu/~justinc/
They made me take down the entire presentation!
Overall, I am very satisfied with the system, and as more access points are added you can get online most places on campus.
Foreign Key's are already available http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SEC447.html
nested subqueries, stored procedures, and foreign key integrity rules (slightly different), and multi-table UPDATE statements will be available in mysql 4.1 http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql-4.0/index .html (bottom of page)
This is pretty scary. Perhaps the illustrious President Bush should do a little reading about one Mr. Vannevar Bush. His dream of a government with a commitment to basic and practical sciences has slowly, with many fluctuations, become closer to a reality. More actions like this to destroy government research would put us back 30 years.
Riding the wave of unprecedented collaboration between academia and the government during World War II, Vannevar Bush released a well-known (but not well read) report, Science: The Endless Frontier, outlining a new role for the federal government in research. He foresaw the need to replace the minimal government science policy with one that would supply the US with human resources for science, a research infrastructure between Government and universities, and a balance between fundamental research and national goals.
Vannevar helped set science policy in the US that has lasted for 60 years, and this administration's actions flies right in the face of that policy. Maybe Gdub should go do some reading: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush194 5.htm
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Speaking of annoyances in Windows, how the heck do you set it so Internet Explorer always opens new windows maximized? The various browsers on Linux don't have any problems with this, but it's driving me crazy in every version of Windows I use.
There may be a better way to do this, but I'm not gonna waste my time figuring it out, I have work to do...
However, I too got sick of this about two or three days ago and installed a program to fix it. It's called 'IE New Window Maximizer.' It is free, of course. There are also programs out there to kill popups, which are equally annoying. I can't wait till advertisers start using CSS popups instead.. it will be harder to kill those without killing lots of other important things.
And for those comments on how XP is the same as Win2k, I guess you have never had a problem with installing old software on 2k. I ran into that problem all the time, but XP has better backwards compatibility.
I'm running XP Pro. My only bitch is that you cannot upgrade from 98, you have to reinstall.
If you are looking for what you need to know for the next 5-10 years in IS, drop out from college, save yourself some money, and go to a technical school.
As a junior in college what I keep hearing is that college doesn't teach you what to think, it teaches you how to think. And that's why a well rounded education is absolutely important.
I plan on getting exactly that with a B.A. in CS at the George Washington Univ. It allows me to take good cs courses, like o.s. (linux kernel hacking), information warfare (last year they went out drinking with a l0pht member), algorithms, networking, database, etc -- while I still have to take courses in english, art, history, law, science, math, business, econ, statistics, etc, etc, etc.
I'm probably gonna double major in law (poly sci), now that I've been exposed to it.
The department is small, but it expects you to get involved, such as ACM programming competitions (we went to the international level last year) and student councils.
It's a great curicullum in a city that expects you to learn how to network, get resume and interviewing skills with internships, but it's also a clean and (as of 9/11) an incredibly safe city.
If you think you don't need a well rounded education, and I'm not talking about lots of different IS courses, I'm talking about english and history and art and all the other things you should check out in college -- drop out. You are wasting your money.
I was woken up by my roomate to the news that planes crashed into the WTC. As a stupid but curious individual I was walking around the DC Mall checking out the huge plume of smoke created from the pentagon crash that happened just as I left my dorm. About 10 minutes after getting to the mall and talkign with evacuated officials and news crews I heard two quick *BOOM* *BOOM*s then a shockwave that kept echoing.
I never saw any smoke rise into the air, but the noise came from (I think, it's hard to pinpoint these things with echos) from a block northwest of me -- the State Department. I don't know why the news isn't reporting this, but something went off other, and it sure as hell wasn't backfire. I heard over the radio that a car bomb was discovered and then detonated -- but that doesn't really make much sense to me. Anyone know more?
It's kind of pathetic that reuters never mentions who created this monster.
Greg Reshko made this when i was still in high school with him. He wasn't even a cmu student then, although he was working with the robotics department. This kid deserves more credit than the blurb '...developed at Carnegie Mellon University...'
Give greg another pat on the back, and if you are a cute girl in pittsburgh give him a call, i think he is still lonely.
JustinC
-- note: greg: it's now official, you owe me lunch.
While my story didn't really involve real hacking, for being able to actually use a computer I gained the hatred of my 'typing teacher' freshman year of high school, and ended up getting a 3 day suspension from her.
It's hard to do network hacking on stand alone tandy 5000, but there were some problems with the typing programs in the required course i was taking. so i changed the program by playing with it in a hex editor. i made a few other minor changes to the batch os too, but all in all i was helpful. Instead of thanking me, of course, i was bitched out and told if i did that again i'd be suspended.
a little while later when there was some trouble in the class I was suspended for a completely unrelated event i was not involved in... because that typing teacher said so.
While nothing compared to real hacking, others have done similar things at my high school. the fact is the administration is scared shitless of students. a classmate of mine got the entire district up in arms over some very basic hacking, and he can't use computers anymore in the school. Remember, public schools are poor =]. Once the administration moves to people who actually know how to type, things should change. for now, school computing is being run by people who are scared of computers... and scared of students.
This is how government works, and this is how government has been working for almost 70 years now. Power has been moving away from the states for a long time, and actually, if you pay attention you should be happy as a states rightist... because you guys are actually gaining power!
A long time ago, in a far away place, the Supreme Court started applying more and more federal laws to the states. like.. say, the first ammendment. The downhill ( for you ) slope started with Gitlow v. New York (applying the first ammendmand to a state issue) and selective incorporation (applying X ammendmand to a state issue). and it just kept on snowballing into hell until a few years ago when the supreme court started telling congress and the president to lay off. now, the Surpeme Court is doing things like Federal Gun Free Zones in schools and striking down VAWA ( Violence against Women Act ). These are big current examples of the SC using the 10th amendment to get the gov't to butt out.
So, Mr States Rightist, you tell me who is 'meddling' and who is too powerful:
1) Fed Rights - Selective Incorporation -- lets us use the bill of rights in the states. i like my privacy
2) States Rights - Overturning Fed laws -- now i don't get punished as much when i bring a gatt to my public school, and i can beat the shit out of women and not worry about the gov't beating down my door. hell yeah, @$^$ the gov't
I really don't see your point mister. The gov't is doing these things because people want them too. It's not some conspiracy. Fr#%ckin black helicopters.
-- Don't hate me because I'm a troll, hate me 'cause I'm black!
Can anyone post a link to, or comments on, what the other side of the story is? Can the filtering companies really explain why these sites are blocked? If a human really is deciding that these sites should be blocked, can they track down who did the blocking and question him or her as to why the hell he or she blocked these?
The idea of filtering does have merits -- why would there be support for it. However, these problems are serious. What is the explanation?
A student came to me almost a month ago... in tears. She saved her essay to a floppy disk and now couldn't open the file. In a school were outside of the computer science department it's hard to rely on anyone to use a computer, she was screwed. In her case I was able to fix the disk and get her the paper back, minus all her formatting since the rest of the file was corrupted. She was lucky.
I get shit similar to this all time. Most people out there don't know how to use a computer. They aren't ignorant, they aren't stupid, they just don't understand computers. And even if they did, that wouldn't solve the problem. Not all universitys have extensive computer networks, and some students don't even own their own computer. The teachers with a policy of "I do not care why it's late, you fail" can screw a studen'ts GPA, but saying that the student is irresponsible because he or she lost a file to a bad floppy is unfair. There is no requirement to know anything above the basics of computing, and floppy disks *are* the unfortunate standard. Taking such a hard stance on students is unfair. They are paying too much money as it is =P
Sorry if this sounds trollish, I don't want it to =]
I can remember elementary school, sitting in the school bus agreeing with my friends that we would never smoke cigarettes, and especially never do 'harder' drugs; because that's what DARE told us to think. Look at us now. Some of us still don't do cigarettes, but as we got older we found out the real consequences from drugs, the positive and the negative, and started taking the ones we wanted to.
The problem I see with DARE is it didn't really give us useful, truthful information about the drugs it tried to keep us away from. This is understandable too; when you are seven years old you don't care about the chemical effects of drugs. In fact all DARE could do was try and mold our minds into thinking that drugs are bad. They told us drugs would destroy our lives. They told us drugs would destroy our bodies.
As a teenager rules were made to be broken, and because I didn't really know anything useful about drugs I went out and tried them.
I don't think, however, that DARE is a failure considering their circumstances. Because most drugs cannot be tested in studies, they don't get the scientific attention they deserve. Even if DARE had all the information about the physical and social effects of drugs, I don't think you can really get that across to a seven year old. DARE should be implemented at a higher age. For my area, and this probably isn't consistent across the board, drug use began in middle school, about twelve years old. Oddly enough, that's the same time DARE fades away. We had zero DARE programs in high school.
As we get older, give us the truth and let us decide. If you decide for us, we will do the opposite. It's the teenage way.
I love arguing politics with freshman at a big politics school where they don't know what they are talking about. It's even more fun because I know I don't know what I'm talking about. But here is how my argument went last night when I got into an argument with a friend's girlfriend... a Naderite.
As far as I can tell, you should vote for the president who has the same ideals as you and will fight for you. Yadda yadda yadda, I know that doesn't mean anything, because in many ways it doesn't matter what the president wants; he has to work with congress. Well how the hell are you supposed to work with a congress when you bombard them with insults? It's one of the reasons McCain, while has many popular views by the public and does what he stands for, also has a lot of enemies on both sides of the party line. I'd *love* to hear exactly what the hell Nader would do as president. No, Nader isn't gonna win, sorry folks, but that's not why people are going to vote for him, they aren't that stupid. They want to send a message... blah! The message you are sending goes to congress. The same people you elected. The presidency is not the place to send your message, because, the president isn't all that powerful compared to congress. And if he did win, what good is Nader going to do? We don't live in a monarchy. I don't care what kind of 'agenda' the President is going to set; he has hundreds of congressmen to deal with. I'm sure congress, both sides of the line, would just love to try and work with Nader, especially after all the love and tender care he has given them. (sarcasm)
Congressme n tend to act when they think they are going to lose their jobs. And since congressmen make laws, and, well, that's a damn big fucking part of government, why don't you send a message to your congressman. They will listen.
I don't know about you, but I want a president who will fight for m--, er, oops, nix that: I want someone who can get something done. And if he doesn't do what I want him to do, I also have a representative in the house fighting for ME (I hope) and a senator too (although I know he isn't fighting for me... Santorum can blo, er =P) Voting for Nader is about as good as voting for Mickey Mouse. Not because what Nader stands for, or the fact that he can't possibly win, but for the fact that if he did win, he would probably pee his pants, cause gosh golly gee he really does have all that Commander in Chief style experience behind his consumer reports underwea--
...Ok. I didn't say that last night, I like my friend's girlfriend. But I don't like her that much. She is wrong, and she is voting to send a message that will not only be resented, but more importantly -- ignored.
Since the site is down/slow ( at least for me, slashdotted? ) lemme give you the inside scoop on Greg. I went to high school with this boy, and was in a few class with him over the four years there.
Greg is, well, exceptional. In our chem class, the teacher called him the nucleus, cause he's got a big head. ( if you don't beleive me, check out http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~reshko/Calculus/ , he is the one on the far right with the nasa shirt. note: props to rosy, jeremy, ben and bronwyn on the left) He gave me homework in algebra two. (sorry rosy =]) In physics two, though, he didn't really help me at all (bastard) He is, however, probably one of the more likely candidates in our high school to become very rich and famous in the next few decades. In fact, we made a bet that whoever makes their first million first would take the other out to lunch. ( I'm more of a.com kinda guy, he's the hardcore robotics boi ) Well I guess he beat me to the famous punch. He's now got slashdot beating down his web page =[. oh well.
I would like to add that as far as I can tell, greg still does not have a life. He is now a freshman at CMU and I think he still lives at home. So, if any hot girls out there wanna introduce that sexy russian to the ways of the world, please do.
justin wants lunch, greg =]
note: please moderate this up, I want to make greg laugh. He doesn't smile enough either =]
I had the choice of going to college or joining the work force last fall. In high school I worked as a well paid (for a high school student) programmer for two years, and at the beginning of my senior year I had to make the decision on whether I would go to college or not. My parents and I could afford it, and if we couldn't we would find a way.
I visited a ton of colleges, spoke with relatives, spoke with my bosses and talked it over with my parents. Everyone agreed college would help me in the long run, but they all also knew that I would do well, and make a ton of money, working on the web now. There is no way to make this decision. If you have lots of connections, can get a job that will keep you happy and on top of things, it might be wise to skip school. Since I couldn't make a decision on where I wanted to go, I applied to a lot of schools.
The time it took for schools to get back to me gave me even more time to think over what decision I would make. I spent more time in the computer field, dealing with the industry and seeing the quality of my coworkers, and made my decision.
I probably made the last choice people would have expected. I did decide to go to college, but I decided not to go to a good cs school like CMU or Cornell ( yeah I got in) Instead I am a B.A. in computer science. I'm in a school that has a strong department, but it's small compared to the rest of the world. The B.A. means that I can major in cs, business and law all in four years (I have a good deal of transfer credits too, don't get me wrong:). I will (hopefully) come out of school with an incredibly well rounded education. I get all the higher level cs classes, but get to skip ones that I already know, or don't want to take. Then I get the classes I would never normally see from the arts to politics.
Who knows if I decided on the right school, I can always transfer. And if I don't like college, I can always drop out. I'll be in debt for a long time, but that's why we get paid so much, right?
I'm a freshman at george washington university, and unfortunatly feel like a *very* small geek minority here. I'd like to try and see some of these court cases if (when) they get to the supreme court, since now i live here! Anyone want to get together and try and figure out how to do this, if it's possible at all.
I took what appears to be the same class at Carnegie Mellon University when I was in high school, and that book is a joke. It teachs incredibly beginner topics, which although are important, you'll never be writing anything that long for that class.
My point is if you have computers in front of you during the lecture, try and write the programs while he is teaching, they really are that simple. If not, and you can't get into the labs which have codewarrior on them, and you *have* to run some other OS on the computer in your room, use whatever you want, but make sure your code works in codewarrior before you turn it in. The TAs who check your homework (in my school at least) just dragged your assignment into a folder and ran them, and if you have something that doesn't quite work with codewarrior, the TA will consider it wrong and take off lots of points.
That's a bad thing, remember ^_^
The only reason not to use codewarrior is if you are running an OS that doesn't support it (doesn't linux now?)
Of course, the obvious answer is ask your prof. he has control over your final grade, therefore....
I have an old HP rewritable drive sitting in front of me that i trashed a while ago. it died. i know it's 2x/2x/6x drive. i do'nt know if it's the 4020. there are lots of fun numbers on the back, none of them looking like an intelligent id. and of course i don't have the original box. it's about 3 years old. Can anyone tell me if i have a winner?
also, i bought the 8250 as a replacement, which I really dislike. Can i toss that drive in too and get even more of a rebate? thanks!
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i really hate that magazine, but I think this is something that the geek community (especially the rich geek community) might want to invest some time....
The question is how do we make this profitable? Well america is a country of capitalists, that can't be that hard? I wonder how much coca cola would pay to do some landscaping work on the moon so when you look at it from earth you see the coke symbol. kill two birds with one stone, with a space station and lots of moola!
I think some sort of organized lobby, not protest, to the patent office; i dunno, something with political power should be created against them. It's an interesting legal question....
I just can't bear to part with my beloved amazon =) it did my xmas shopping!
As a poor person I do what everyone else does (you know you do it) and wish that i somehow received a check for a few million, maybe 20, from billy g. but that leads me to the question of "Is it worth it, or immoral, to take money from him?"
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Would have been for the school to take back the laptops from any student breaking school policy. The kids broke the rules over and over again, take away their toy. Why was there a lawsuit in the first place? Something is missing from this story....
If you read the decision, the court spends most of the time explaining why the sticker *is* constitutional. However, the sticker still failed the test. Here's one reason why:
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In this case, the Court beleives that an informed, reasonable observer would interpret the Sticker to convey a message of endorsement of religion. That is, the Sticker sends a message to those who oppose evolution for religious reasons that they are favored members of the political community, while the Sticker sends a message to those who beleive in evolution that they are political outsiders. This is particularly so in a case such as this one involving impressionable public school students who are likely to view the message on the Sticker as a union of church and state
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As a student coming out of a school in the Washington DC area, I can tell you without a doubt that people who work for the US Government do not have to worry about outsourcing.
I'd say the average pay for students coming out of school looking for work is between 55k and 65k.
Note the 'looking for work' part. Most CS people here are staying in for their masters or (chuckles) going to law school.
Companies are starting to hire more and more, but it's still a little dicey out there.
GW started rolling out wireless a couple years ago with horrible (non existant) security. They then moved over to a Cisco VPN client which has simplified the process a great deal. Any wireless card works, and the software is available for linux, mac and even windows.
You might find it interesting that before they changed the security, I did a security presentation on 802.11b here at gwu, and I added a case study on how bad the library security was.
http://www.student.seas.gwu.edu/~justinc/
They made me take down the entire presentation!
Overall, I am very satisfied with the system, and as more access points are added you can get online most places on campus.
Foreign Key's are already available
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SEC447.htm
nested subqueries, stored procedures, and foreign key integrity rules (slightly different), and multi-table UPDATE statements will be available in mysql 4.1
http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql-4.0/inde
This is pretty scary. Perhaps the illustrious President Bush should do a little reading about one Mr. Vannevar Bush. His dream of a government with a commitment to basic and practical sciences has slowly, with many fluctuations, become closer to a reality. More actions like this to destroy government research would put us back 30 years.
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Riding the wave of unprecedented collaboration between academia and the government during World War II, Vannevar Bush released a well-known (but not well read) report, Science: The Endless Frontier, outlining a new role for the federal government in research. He foresaw the need to replace the minimal government science policy with one that would supply the US with human resources for science, a research infrastructure between Government and universities, and a balance between fundamental research and national goals.
Vannevar helped set science policy in the US that has lasted for 60 years, and this administration's actions flies right in the face of that policy. Maybe Gdub should go do some reading:
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush19
Speaking of annoyances in Windows, how the heck do you set it so Internet Explorer always opens new windows maximized? The various browsers on Linux don't have any problems with this, but it's driving me crazy in every version of Windows I use.
There may be a better way to do this, but I'm not gonna waste my time figuring it out, I have work to do...
However, I too got sick of this about two or three days ago and installed a program to fix it. It's called 'IE New Window Maximizer.' It is free, of course. There are also programs out there to kill popups, which are equally annoying. I can't wait till advertisers start using CSS popups instead.. it will be harder to kill those without killing lots of other important things.
And for those comments on how XP is the same as Win2k, I guess you have never had a problem with installing old software on 2k. I ran into that problem all the time, but XP has better backwards compatibility. I'm running XP Pro. My only bitch is that you cannot upgrade from 98, you have to reinstall.
You are confusing the DJ with the artist (although the line between the two is faint)
The job of the DJ is, however, to tailor the music to what sounds best.
*thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump*
If you are looking for what you need to know for the next 5-10 years in IS, drop out from college, save yourself some money, and go to a technical school.
As a junior in college what I keep hearing is that college doesn't teach you what to think, it teaches you how to think. And that's why a well rounded education is absolutely important.
I plan on getting exactly that with a B.A. in CS at the George Washington Univ. It allows me to take good cs courses, like o.s. (linux kernel hacking), information warfare (last year they went out drinking with a l0pht member), algorithms, networking, database, etc -- while I still have to take courses in english, art, history, law, science, math, business, econ, statistics, etc, etc, etc.
I'm probably gonna double major in law (poly sci), now that I've been exposed to it.
The department is small, but it expects you to get involved, such as ACM programming competitions (we went to the international level last year) and student councils.
It's a great curicullum in a city that expects you to learn how to network, get resume and interviewing skills with internships, but it's also a clean and (as of 9/11) an incredibly safe city.
If you think you don't need a well rounded education, and I'm not talking about lots of different IS courses, I'm talking about english and history and art and all the other things you should check out in college -- drop out. You are wasting your money.
JC
I was woken up by my roomate to the news that planes crashed into the WTC. As a stupid but curious individual I was walking around the DC Mall checking out the huge plume of smoke created from the pentagon crash that happened just as I left my dorm. About 10 minutes after getting to the mall and talkign with evacuated officials and news crews I heard two quick *BOOM* *BOOM*s then a shockwave that kept echoing.
I never saw any smoke rise into the air, but the noise came from (I think, it's hard to pinpoint these things with echos) from a block northwest of me -- the State Department. I don't know why the news isn't reporting this, but something went off other, and it sure as hell wasn't backfire. I heard over the radio that a car bomb was discovered and then detonated -- but that doesn't really make much sense to me. Anyone know more?
jc
It's kind of pathetic that reuters never mentions who created this monster.
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Greg Reshko made this when i was still in high school with him. He wasn't even a cmu student then, although he was working with the robotics department. This kid deserves more credit than the blurb '...developed at Carnegie Mellon University
Give greg another pat on the back, and if you are a cute girl in pittsburgh give him a call, i think he is still lonely.
JustinC
-- note: greg: it's now official, you owe me lunch.
While my story didn't really involve real hacking, for being able to actually use a computer I gained the hatred of my 'typing teacher' freshman year of high school, and ended up getting a 3 day suspension from her.
It's hard to do network hacking on stand alone tandy 5000, but there were some problems with the typing programs in the required course i was taking. so i changed the program by playing with it in a hex editor. i made a few other minor changes to the batch os too, but all in all i was helpful. Instead of thanking me, of course, i was bitched out and told if i did that again i'd be suspended.
a little while later when there was some trouble in the class I was suspended for a completely unrelated event i was not involved in... because that typing teacher said so.
While nothing compared to real hacking, others have done similar things at my high school. the fact is the administration is scared shitless of students. a classmate of mine got the entire district up in arms over some very basic hacking, and he can't use computers anymore in the school. Remember, public schools are poor =]. Once the administration moves to people who actually know how to type, things should change. for now, school computing is being run by people who are scared of computers... and scared of students.
jc
-- that's what n1ggas carry weapons for....
This is how government works, and this is how government has been working for almost 70 years now. Power has been moving away from the states for a long time, and actually, if you pay attention you should be happy as a states rightist... because you guys are actually gaining power!
A long time ago, in a far away place, the Supreme Court started applying more and more federal laws to the states. like.. say, the first ammendment. The downhill ( for you ) slope started with Gitlow v. New York (applying the first ammendmand to a state issue) and selective incorporation (applying X ammendmand to a state issue). and it just kept on snowballing into hell until a few years ago when the supreme court started telling congress and the president to lay off. now, the Surpeme Court is doing things like Federal Gun Free Zones in schools and striking down VAWA ( Violence against Women Act ). These are big current examples of the SC using the 10th amendment to get the gov't to butt out.
So, Mr States Rightist, you tell me who is 'meddling' and who is too powerful:
1) Fed Rights - Selective Incorporation -- lets us use the bill of rights in the states. i like my privacy
2) States Rights - Overturning Fed laws -- now i don't get punished as much when i bring a gatt to my public school, and i can beat the shit out of women and not worry about the gov't beating down my door. hell yeah, @$^$ the gov't
I really don't see your point mister. The gov't is doing these things because people want them too. It's not some conspiracy. Fr#%ckin black helicopters.
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Can anyone post a link to, or comments on, what the other side of the story is? Can the filtering companies really explain why these sites are blocked? If a human really is deciding that these sites should be blocked, can they track down who did the blocking and question him or her as to why the hell he or she blocked these?
The idea of filtering does have merits -- why would there be support for it. However, these problems are serious. What is the explanation?
Please don't take this as flame...
A student came to me almost a month ago... in tears. She saved her essay to a floppy disk and now couldn't open the file. In a school were outside of the computer science department it's hard to rely on anyone to use a computer, she was screwed. In her case I was able to fix the disk and get her the paper back, minus all her formatting since the rest of the file was corrupted. She was lucky.
I get shit similar to this all time. Most people out there don't know how to use a computer. They aren't ignorant, they aren't stupid, they just don't understand computers. And even if they did, that wouldn't solve the problem. Not all universitys have extensive computer networks, and some students don't even own their own computer. The teachers with a policy of "I do not care why it's late, you fail" can screw a studen'ts GPA, but saying that the student is irresponsible because he or she lost a file to a bad floppy is unfair. There is no requirement to know anything above the basics of computing, and floppy disks *are* the unfortunate standard. Taking such a hard stance on students is unfair. They are paying too much money as it is =P
Sorry if this sounds trollish, I don't want it to =]
Justin C
DARE didn't work for me, but it isn't a failure.
I can remember elementary school, sitting in the school bus agreeing with my friends that we would never smoke cigarettes, and especially never do 'harder' drugs; because that's what DARE told us to think. Look at us now. Some of us still don't do cigarettes, but as we got older we found out the real consequences from drugs, the positive and the negative, and started taking the ones we wanted to.
The problem I see with DARE is it didn't really give us useful, truthful information about the drugs it tried to keep us away from. This is understandable too; when you are seven years old you don't care about the chemical effects of drugs. In fact all DARE could do was try and mold our minds into thinking that drugs are bad. They told us drugs would destroy our lives. They told us drugs would destroy our bodies.
As a teenager rules were made to be broken, and because I didn't really know anything useful about drugs I went out and tried them.
I don't think, however, that DARE is a failure considering their circumstances. Because most drugs cannot be tested in studies, they don't get the scientific attention they deserve. Even if DARE had all the information about the physical and social effects of drugs, I don't think you can really get that across to a seven year old. DARE should be implemented at a higher age. For my area, and this probably isn't consistent across the board, drug use began in middle school, about twelve years old. Oddly enough, that's the same time DARE fades away. We had zero DARE programs in high school.
As we get older, give us the truth and let us decide. If you decide for us, we will do the opposite. It's the teenage way.
I love arguing politics with freshman at a big politics school where they don't know what they are talking about. It's even more fun because I know I don't know what I'm talking about. But here is how my argument went last night when I got into an argument with a friend's girlfriend... a Naderite.
...Ok. I didn't say that last night, I like my friend's girlfriend. But I don't like her that much. She is wrong, and she is voting to send a message that will not only be resented, but more importantly -- ignored.
As far as I can tell, you should vote for the president who has the same ideals as you and will fight for you. Yadda yadda yadda, I know that doesn't mean anything, because in many ways it doesn't matter what the president wants; he has to work with congress. Well how the hell are you supposed to work with a congress when you bombard them with insults? It's one of the reasons McCain, while has many popular views by the public and does what he stands for, also has a lot of enemies on both sides of the party line. I'd *love* to hear exactly what the hell Nader would do as president. No, Nader isn't gonna win, sorry folks, but that's not why people are going to vote for him, they aren't that stupid. They want to send a message... blah! The message you are sending goes to congress. The same people you elected. The presidency is not the place to send your message, because, the president isn't all that powerful compared to congress. And if he did win, what good is Nader going to do? We don't live in a monarchy. I don't care what kind of 'agenda' the President is going to set; he has hundreds of congressmen to deal with. I'm sure congress, both sides of the line, would just love to try and work with Nader, especially after all the love and tender care he has given them. (sarcasm)
Congressme n tend to act when they think they are going to lose their jobs. And since congressmen make laws, and, well, that's a damn big fucking part of government, why don't you send a message to your congressman. They will listen.
I don't know about you, but I want a president who will fight for m--, er, oops, nix that: I want someone who can get something done. And if he doesn't do what I want him to do, I also have a representative in the house fighting for ME (I hope) and a senator too (although I know he isn't fighting for me... Santorum can blo, er =P) Voting for Nader is about as good as voting for Mickey Mouse. Not because what Nader stands for, or the fact that he can't possibly win, but for the fact that if he did win, he would probably pee his pants, cause gosh golly gee he really does have all that Commander in Chief style experience behind his consumer reports underwea--
-- i know i'm wrong. i'm just tired, so...
Since the site is down/slow ( at least for me, slashdotted? ) lemme give you the inside scoop on Greg. I went to high school with this boy, and was in a few class with him over the four years there.
.com kinda guy, he's the hardcore robotics boi ) Well I guess he beat me to the famous punch. He's now got slashdot beating down his web page =[. oh well.
Greg is, well, exceptional. In our chem class, the teacher called him the nucleus, cause he's got a big head. ( if you don't beleive me, check out http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~reshko/Calculus/ , he is the one on the far right with the nasa shirt. note: props to rosy, jeremy, ben and bronwyn on the left) He gave me homework in algebra two. (sorry rosy =]) In physics two, though, he didn't really help me at all (bastard) He is, however, probably one of the more likely candidates in our high school to become very rich and famous in the next few decades. In fact, we made a bet that whoever makes their first million first would take the other out to lunch. ( I'm more of a
I would like to add that as far as I can tell, greg still does not have a life. He is now a freshman at CMU and I think he still lives at home. So, if any hot girls out there wanna introduce that sexy russian to the ways of the world, please do.
justin wants lunch, greg =]
note: please moderate this up, I want to make greg laugh. He doesn't smile enough either =]
I had the choice of going to college or joining the work force last fall. In high school I worked as a well paid (for a high school student) programmer for two years, and at the beginning of my senior year I had to make the decision on whether I would go to college or not. My parents and I could afford it, and if we couldn't we would find a way.
:). I will (hopefully) come out of school with an incredibly well rounded education. I get all the higher level cs classes, but get to skip ones that I already know, or don't want to take. Then I get the classes I would never normally see from the arts to politics.
I visited a ton of colleges, spoke with relatives, spoke with my bosses and talked it over with my parents. Everyone agreed college would help me in the long run, but they all also knew that I would do well, and make a ton of money, working on the web now. There is no way to make this decision. If you have lots of connections, can get a job that will keep you happy and on top of things, it might be wise to skip school. Since I couldn't make a decision on where I wanted to go, I applied to a lot of schools.
The time it took for schools to get back to me gave me even more time to think over what decision I would make. I spent more time in the computer field, dealing with the industry and seeing the quality of my coworkers, and made my decision.
I probably made the last choice people would have expected. I did decide to go to college, but I decided not to go to a good cs school like CMU or Cornell ( yeah I got in) Instead I am a B.A. in computer science. I'm in a school that has a strong department, but it's small compared to the rest of the world. The B.A. means that I can major in cs, business and law all in four years (I have a good deal of transfer credits too, don't get me wrong
Who knows if I decided on the right school, I can always transfer. And if I don't like college, I can always drop out. I'll be in debt for a long time, but that's why we get paid so much, right?
JustinC
I'm a freshman at george washington university, and unfortunatly feel like a *very* small geek minority here. I'd like to try and see some of these court cases if (when) they get to the supreme court, since now i live here! Anyone want to get together and try and figure out how to do this, if it's possible at all.
JustinC
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I took what appears to be the same class at Carnegie Mellon University when I was in high school, and that book is a joke. It teachs incredibly beginner topics, which although are important, you'll never be writing anything that long for that class.
My point is if you have computers in front of you during the lecture, try and write the programs while he is teaching, they really are that simple. If not, and you can't get into the labs which have codewarrior on them, and you *have* to run some other OS on the computer in your room, use whatever you want, but make sure your code works in codewarrior before you turn it in. The TAs who check your homework (in my school at least) just dragged your assignment into a folder and ran them, and if you have something that doesn't quite work with codewarrior, the TA will consider it wrong and take off lots of points.
That's a bad thing, remember ^_^
The only reason not to use codewarrior is if you are running an OS that doesn't support it (doesn't linux now?)
Of course, the obvious answer is ask your prof. he has control over your final grade, therefore....
Good luck!
JustinC
I have an old HP rewritable drive sitting in front of me that i trashed a while ago. it died. i know it's 2x/2x/6x drive. i do'nt know if it's the 4020. there are lots of fun numbers on the back, none of them looking like an intelligent id. and of course i don't have the original box. it's about 3 years old. Can anyone tell me if i have a winner?
also, i bought the 8250 as a replacement, which I really dislike. Can i toss that drive in too and get even more of a rebate? thanks!
i really hate that magazine, but I think this is something that the geek community (especially the rich geek community) might want to invest some time....
The question is how do we make this profitable? Well america is a country of capitalists, that can't be that hard? I wonder how much coca cola would pay to do some landscaping work on the moon so when you look at it from earth you see the coke symbol. kill two birds with one stone, with a space station and lots of moola!
Pepsi sucks =)
I think some sort of organized lobby, not protest, to the patent office; i dunno, something with political power should be created against them. It's an interesting legal question....
I just can't bear to part with my beloved amazon =) it did my xmas shopping!
As a poor person I do what everyone else does (you know you do it) and wish that i somehow received a check for a few million, maybe 20, from billy g. but that leads me to the question of "Is it worth it, or immoral, to take money from him?"
fuck open source that's twenty million dollars =)
JC