The problem is that they are effectively sentenced to be registered as a sex offender (often for life), with all that that entails. This is how they get around the ex post facto restriction; they're not adding to the sentence of an individual, they're changing the restrictions on a group.
I find that the ratio of USCBP border agents who are nice versus annoyed to even have to deal with you is about 1:10.
I'm pretty sure making people feel uncomfortable is part of their training under the auspices that it'll make them slip up on something if they're lying.
And don't feel bad... it's not any better for Canadians, or at least, not for me.
So all companies start omitting the word "safe" from their ads in order to avoid any lawsuits over safety ever. You might think that a single company advertising safe products might have an advantage, but it would likely be bought / merged with the existing ones.
And a whitelist firewall would make the network almost useless to nearly everyone. From a policy standpoint, it'd be great, but they'd be constantly getting an influx of unblock requests, and most users (including and especially legitimate ones) would just give up on using it at all.
Haha, we had Fortres (spelled as such) on our machines too! That software was so incredibly easy to get around. Of course, it helped that we were probably more competent than even the sysadmin.
Frankly, if you're only trying to avoid a lawsuit, you've already missed the point.
Shit happens. Just because the school wanted to give the students a tool for learning and let the students get the most out of it by not restricting its usage, doesn't mean that the school should suddenly be liable for everything that the student does with it.
I think, in your case, the proper thing for the school to do would be to educate the kids on how to avoid that sort of thing, which I believe a fair few schools are doing already. Do that, and the school has an affirmative defence without having to strictly control everything the students do.
See title. Have you been in a high school where students have access to computers that have such filtering? They get around it really quickly, and such information spreads like wildfire. And the fun thing with laptops is, you'll never know since they'll only do it at home.
Filtering just won't work. Trust the students a little. You can't expect them to just use the laptops for schoolwork... it's just unrealistic, and it's unnecessary.
Oh, I'm sorry, that just slipped out. Where were we?
Ah yes. Merchants, of course, will continue using electronic payments. People, on the other hand, might not. One of my clients does pay me entirely in cash, for example.
Hasn't anyone heard of "the right tool for the right job"?
Sure, you might be able to force JavaScript into displaying graphics and sound with some crazy tricks or frameworks, but why bother when you can do the same thing much easier and with many fewer browser or speed issues in Flash?
IMHO, the last mile should belong to the municipality. That way, you avoid arguments as to who is responsible for issues that happen to cables outside anyone's ownership, or in communal ownership.
Just to play the Devil's Advocate here... Couldn't the RIAA use the information, once granted, to call the students and offer to "leave them alone" (as opposed to settle since they now can't sue them for anything other than injunctive relief) for a fee?
I think that's why they have the Affero version; it offers what you seek, if I remember correctly.
The same thing applies to non-web software though... if you edit it and use it strictly internally, without distributing it to the public at large, you don't have to release your changes.
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It is part of their sentence. They are sentenced to register as a sex offender.
The problem is that they are effectively sentenced to be registered as a sex offender (often for life), with all that that entails. This is how they get around the ex post facto restriction; they're not adding to the sentence of an individual, they're changing the restrictions on a group.
Yay making people second-class citizens forever!
LOL, cause obviously he can't be referring to the net as a whole including its users and sysops, he has to be only referring to its protocols...
I find that the ratio of USCBP border agents who are nice versus annoyed to even have to deal with you is about 1:10.
I'm pretty sure making people feel uncomfortable is part of their training under the auspices that it'll make them slip up on something if they're lying.
And don't feel bad... it's not any better for Canadians, or at least, not for me.
So all companies start omitting the word "safe" from their ads in order to avoid any lawsuits over safety ever. You might think that a single company advertising safe products might have an advantage, but it would likely be bought / merged with the existing ones.
Your ultra-free market in action.
And a whitelist firewall would make the network almost useless to nearly everyone. From a policy standpoint, it'd be great, but they'd be constantly getting an influx of unblock requests, and most users (including and especially legitimate ones) would just give up on using it at all.
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
- John Gilmore
Haha, we had Fortres (spelled as such) on our machines too! That software was so incredibly easy to get around. Of course, it helped that we were probably more competent than even the sysadmin.
Frankly, if you're only trying to avoid a lawsuit, you've already missed the point.
Shit happens. Just because the school wanted to give the students a tool for learning and let the students get the most out of it by not restricting its usage, doesn't mean that the school should suddenly be liable for everything that the student does with it.
I think, in your case, the proper thing for the school to do would be to educate the kids on how to avoid that sort of thing, which I believe a fair few schools are doing already. Do that, and the school has an affirmative defence without having to strictly control everything the students do.
See title. Have you been in a high school where students have access to computers that have such filtering? They get around it really quickly, and such information spreads like wildfire. And the fun thing with laptops is, you'll never know since they'll only do it at home.
Filtering just won't work. Trust the students a little. You can't expect them to just use the laptops for schoolwork... it's just unrealistic, and it's unnecessary.
Note that the parent has definitively shown how such changes would not save ink.
Flmb8 my a$$!!!!!111oneoneoneeleventytwo
Wouldn't you have to account for the saved horizontal space also, seeing as how more words would fit on a line?
Yay needless specificity!
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Oh, I'm sorry, that just slipped out. Where were we?
Ah yes. Merchants, of course, will continue using electronic payments. People, on the other hand, might not. One of my clients does pay me entirely in cash, for example.
"Will" being the key word there. And of course it's scripted quite a lot with Javascript, since Javascript is primarily a scripting language :^P
And suddenly, everyone uses cash for all of their payments. Governments everywhere do a facepalm.
And then you elect someone who isn't a complete douche bag to force a sale of the lines back to the city through eminent domain laws.
The last mile generally includes the lines on the street as well, not just the interconnect to your house.
Yep, it's Java alright. ;^)
Hasn't anyone heard of "the right tool for the right job"?
Sure, you might be able to force JavaScript into displaying graphics and sound with some crazy tricks or frameworks, but why bother when you can do the same thing much easier and with many fewer browser or speed issues in Flash?
IMHO, the last mile should belong to the municipality. That way, you avoid arguments as to who is responsible for issues that happen to cables outside anyone's ownership, or in communal ownership.
You're almost certainly running IcedTea if you're running a Java plugin in a 64-bit browser.
As a sibling pointed out, people have been bugging Sun to release a 64-bit plugin for years (including myself).
Just to play the Devil's Advocate here... Couldn't the RIAA use the information, once granted, to call the students and offer to "leave them alone" (as opposed to settle since they now can't sue them for anything other than injunctive relief) for a fee?
You might in fact say that he is a Canadian diamond, discovered by Charles Fipke in the Northwest[ERROR: STACK OVERFLOW]
Technically, the great grandparent already lost.
I think that's why they have the Affero version; it offers what you seek, if I remember correctly.
The same thing applies to non-web software though... if you edit it and use it strictly internally, without distributing it to the public at large, you don't have to release your changes.