I agree. There are more than enough drugs out there have detrimental effects. Now with this "wonder-drug" we get to skip nature's way of fixing itself. "Just take this other pill to aleviate _________________."
Before long, perfectly healthy people will carry IV backpacks so they will have a constant stream of drugs "correcting" what the previous drug caused to enable us to live without sleep.
One thing I've noticed with all the new drugs announced in the news is that they tie the drug to some ribbon-based disease. In this case it's Alzeimer's Disease. I'm sure this is help the approval process along with the FDA.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic or anything but whenever I hear news that Micrsoft is working with another company/organization I can't help but think of OS/2.
Sun has been pushing x86 pretty hard for about a year now. At USENIX last year Sun said that if the Linux version of an application ran faster on similar hardware than the Solaris version of said application then it's a bug.
Sun's very serious about x86 but the Sparc builds are being released at the same time. What a lot of people forget is that Linux on x86 cannot compete with Sun's high-end servers.
The founding of copyright laws had nothing to do with the founders of this country. In fact, the US Copyright Act wasn't written into law until 1891. Until that time American publishers (as well as foreign countries not part of the Berne Convention) were pretty much free to do as they wanted, especially with foreign works.
No, it's not that hard to understand. Yet, people will debate and complain about every side effect of copying but will not take the time to examine the underlying problem itself, which is copying.
Copyright issues have existed in this country for a long, long time. In fact, England pretty much forced us to incorporate copyright laws because books were being duplicated in America and sold without giving any royalties to the author/publisher. That was over 100 years ago.
There's nothing in TFA that says that the guy downloaded child pornography, and nothing in TFA that says he downloaded anything at all from the library's website.
The article does say that the man was caught with possession of child pornography. This event occured some time after he visited the library. The article implied through the following quote
"but he declined to explain why he thought she had not done enough to prevent the incident, which occurred July 25. Police charged Michael Bushee, 25, with possession of child pornography several days later"
I think you just hit the nail on the head. Companies come out with gizmos and whiz-bangs to satisfy a gamers desire to tell his friend, "Hey! Look what I just got!" With today's PC cases full of fans on the inside and outside, I can't see a reason to buy one and I'm a hardcore gamers.:).
Maybe not in a huge library system but this case deals with the Valparaiso (Fla.) Community Library. Valparaiso, FL is a rather small town next to Eglin, AFB.
Stupid or not. Monitoring computer access appears to be part of a librarian's job there.
Gasp all you want. If that's what the majority of the people in that community want then that's what is to be enforced.
You may not see anything wrong with it but that's just your opinion, which, I suspect, has no basis science and merely an opinion. The dangers of sexual addiction (the sex offender from the article is key in this discussion) are widely known within and outside of psychiatric circles. Do your own internet search for proof.
It wasn't the librarian that's getting suspendeded. It's the "The director of the Valparaiso (Fla.) Community Library".
It looks like people are on a witch hunt since a registered sex offender downloaded child pornography from the library's website.
If anyone should be fired it should be the librarian on-duty sice he or she was not doing his or her duty of performing a walk-through of the area and monitoring all the computers.
From the article:
The Sun quoted a letter Martin had written to Billingsley in which she explained, "We continually enforce our policy by monitoring all computers. Any suspicious use is immediately checked by accessing the history of the patrons' Web use. In addition, the staff monitors the patrons' use by 'walkthroughs' of the computer areas."
The only bad thing about jedit is it's print function. When I print out a color document such as my perl code, bolded letters oftentimes overlap other characters. When I need a color print-out I open the code up in Vim and print it from there.:)
I love Vi but it is hard to beat all the features jedit has built in.
Perhaps, but Perl is versatile (and fast) enough to allow the programmer to write readable code. I've only seen a few times where a little "obfuscation" was needed to produce the kind of performance necessary to get the job done. Those cases are rare, however.
I've been using Smoothwall Express for over a year and have been extremely happy with my decision to use it. Plus, I installed Adzapper to block virtually every web ad on the sites I visit (including all the ads here at/.).
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I agree. There are more than enough drugs out there have detrimental effects. Now with this "wonder-drug" we get to skip nature's way of fixing itself. "Just take this other pill to aleviate _________________."
Before long, perfectly healthy people will carry IV backpacks so they will have a constant stream of drugs "correcting" what the previous drug caused to enable us to live without sleep.
One thing I've noticed with all the new drugs announced in the news is that they tie the drug to some ribbon-based disease. In this case it's Alzeimer's Disease. I'm sure this is help the approval process along with the FDA.I'm not trying to be pessimistic or anything but whenever I hear news that Micrsoft is working with another company/organization I can't help but think of OS/2.
Depends on which language one's using.
Sun has been pushing x86 pretty hard for about a year now. At USENIX last year Sun said that if the Linux version of an application ran faster on similar hardware than the Solaris version of said application then it's a bug.
Sun's very serious about x86 but the Sparc builds are being released at the same time. What a lot of people forget is that Linux on x86 cannot compete with Sun's high-end servers.Read it again. Redhat is a commercial vendor. He never said RH = Linux.
The founding of copyright laws had nothing to do with the founders of this country. In fact, the US Copyright Act wasn't written into law until 1891. Until that time American publishers (as well as foreign countries not part of the Berne Convention) were pretty much free to do as they wanted, especially with foreign works.
No, it's not that hard to understand. Yet, people will debate and complain about every side effect of copying but will not take the time to examine the underlying problem itself, which is copying.
Copyright issues have existed in this country for a long, long time. In fact, England pretty much forced us to incorporate copyright laws because books were being duplicated in America and sold without giving any royalties to the author/publisher. That was over 100 years ago.
The article does say that the man was caught with possession of child pornography. This event occured some time after he visited the library. The article implied through the following quote
that the libraries network was used.Also see the following articles:
That's what makes the Powermac G5 so efficient.
I think you just hit the nail on the head. Companies come out with gizmos and whiz-bangs to satisfy a gamers desire to tell his friend, "Hey! Look what I just got!" With today's PC cases full of fans on the inside and outside, I can't see a reason to buy one and I'm a hardcore gamers. :).
Maybe not in a huge library system but this case deals with the Valparaiso (Fla.) Community Library. Valparaiso, FL is a rather small town next to Eglin, AFB.
Stupid or not. Monitoring computer access appears to be part of a librarian's job there.If it is in the job description, then it's the librarian's job. In this case, it was either slap a filter on the network or monitor access.
Gasp all you want. If that's what the majority of the people in that community want then that's what is to be enforced.
You may not see anything wrong with it but that's just your opinion, which, I suspect, has no basis science and merely an opinion. The dangers of sexual addiction (the sex offender from the article is key in this discussion) are widely known within and outside of psychiatric circles. Do your own internet search for proof.
It wasn't the librarian that's getting suspendeded. It's the "The director of the Valparaiso (Fla.) Community Library".
It looks like people are on a witch hunt since a registered sex offender downloaded child pornography from the library's website.
If anyone should be fired it should be the librarian on-duty sice he or she was not doing his or her duty of performing a walk-through of the area and monitoring all the computers.
From the article:The only bad thing about jedit is it's print function. When I print out a color document such as my perl code, bolded letters oftentimes overlap other characters. When I need a color print-out I open the code up in Vim and print it from there. :)
I love Vi but it is hard to beat all the features jedit has built in.
Not after his latest switcharoo decision!
Perhaps, but Perl is versatile (and fast) enough to allow the programmer to write readable code. I've only seen a few times where a little "obfuscation" was needed to produce the kind of performance necessary to get the job done. Those cases are rare, however.
I've been using Smoothwall Express for over a year and have been extremely happy with my decision to use it. Plus, I installed Adzapper to block virtually every web ad on the sites I visit (including all the ads here at
I fully agree with you.
A very good example of a legitimate company forced into submission is the Nissan.com case. I encourage you to read it and be outraged at the injustice.t m
I'll never own a Nissan vehicle.http://www.ncchelp.org/
http://www.linksandlaw.com/decisions-141-nissan.h
Agreed. In fact, if his laptop had Little Snitch installed the thief wouldn't have to worry about the Powerbook calling home to report the crime.
Of course, if a person were to steal another's laptop they should be smart enough to wipe it clean before using it.It reminds me of the email tax scare in the late-90s and early-00s.
If companies want casual players then they need to make a change. Either make the software free or the subscription free. Do not charge for both!.
Nice correction.
We would have to name "him/her" CowboyNil.
why software patents are good?