I was originally going to say, "Who the fuck cares if they come to class? If they are learning and paying for said learning, the professor should not care at all whether they come to class." However, I have a more productive solution: Don't answer emails and don't meet with students who don't come to class. Only students who come on a regular basis should be able to get extra information from the professor. This is under the assumption that students who don't come to class could have had their questions answered during class, avoiding their need to meet with the prof outside of class. This rewards students who go to class while allowing all the benefit of podcast lectures.
As there seems to be no documentation on the Sourceforge page about what this can actually do, does it learn or follow rules? If it learns, can it learn to recognize, say, Japanese characters?
You mean like the latest versions of Knoppix and Ubuntu? At least, the version of each that I have fit on one CD. Now, there are of course Knoppix and Ubuntu DVD versions, but that doesn't preclude the existence of distros which fit on CDs.
I just don't see the point of removing the DRM from a paid for iTunes file
playing iTunes music on my modded Xbox
if Apple vanishes off the face of the Earth, I still have my music
playing iTunes music on my computers that aren't powerful enough to run iTunes (memory hoooooog), but can run something like VLC or Foobar
playing iTunes music on Linux
playing iTunes music without running memory hog iTunes
Apple has already shown that they can modify the number of computers you can play iTunes music files on. What if they decide to (or are pressured to) make the number of computers ONE? Recall that they can legally do this. I'd prefer not to be at the mercy of anyone but myself with respect to something that I consider MY property. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they have the contractual right to disallow ALL playability of the downloaded tracks. Has anyone analyzed the contract for this yet?
Amen. I'm of the moral persuasion that fair use rights are inalienable, and are impossible to sign away even through contract (whether this is legally true or not is another question entirely). Thus, in my morality, if you download a song from iTunes, no amount of "Hey, you agreed to our DRM terms when you 'bought' the song from us" from Apple will alienate my fair use rights.
So I started law school today, and was anxious to use the term "inalienable" in a/. post. Sosume!
You mean the Israelis who GO ON ABOUT THEIR FUCKING LIVES ALL THE TIME?!?! The fact is, Israeli citizens DON'T freak out whenever they go shopping. Hell, after 9/11 Americans in my hometown wouldn't go to a mall for a week or so!
I'm sensing your sarcasm, but I know there were four sites in particular that blew this thing way up: Digg, Fark, SomethingAwful, and 4chan. 4chan in particular had people show up at theaters dressed in black suits with red ties wearing big black afro wigs. It was called the Snakes on a Plane Invasion.
I've asked it once, and I'll ask it again: where the fuck do you people live that people are impolite in theaters? In my hometown of Victoria, in Austin, and in Houston I've never had a problem with talking during the film. Are Texans that much more well-behaved in theaters than others? I fail to understand that, since we're the butt of so many "asshole redneck" jokes;)
1. Why are newsgroups such as this allowed to exist in the first place?
That's like asking why email that carries child pornography exists, or why Freenet has child pornography on it, or why torrents of copyrighted material exist. Someone needs to read up on how Usenet works: one posts a message to one's own Usenet server, and it propagates to many other Usenet servers in the way data from a torrent propagates (namely, like a web). Blacklisting servers whose users post illegal content would be impossible without destroying Usenet altogether.
You don't want to give police the rights to do what a blackhat does to find a pedophile, but you want the pedophile caught.
I don't want to give anyone the rights to find a pedophile, especially not blackhats who will just as soon steal my bank passwords. I especially don't want the government tacitly condoning these illegal acts for any reason. What's next? Shooting someone and then claiming that they were going to pilot a plane into a building? Ooh, look! A flight sim on his computer! Why, um, yes officer, in fact I did play some games on his computer while he was away. But that doesn't change the fact that he has a flightsim on his computer, and I shot him before he could pilot a plane into a building! That proves he's guilty!
Using evidence obtained by illegal means is absofuckinglutely unpardonable, and it makes me livid to see so many people on Slashdot say that they support 1984 spy-on-your-neighbor stuff. What happened to our tinfoil hats, guys?
And what if the Turkish guy is the kid toucher, and just put some pictures there to frame a guy? Black hats do that kind of stuff all the time, just to fuck with people (see: Freenode getting hacked, DALNet being DDoSed, random person getting their credit card numbers stolen, etc.). Sure, he may have put a Trojan on some pedo newsgroups, but then someone else packages that up as "Britney Spears Nude.scr" and forwards it to all his friends, and bam, the Turkish guy is hacking guys innocent of collecting child porn and framing them for crimes they did not commit. Vigilante justice is wrong. Always. This is why superheros like Batman exist only in comic books.
Am I the only one that doesn't see TFA as the beginnings of an excellent new movie about nationalism and pursuit of success? I think it is a fascinating story, and to contrast Yau and Perelman like that...I'd pay money to see a movie like that, provided Perelman didn't roll up with ice in his grill, shoot some hookers and blow up some cars. (not meant to be funny)
But she does have a point-- what would happen if THE CHILDREN began to eat power-ups and attack ghosts in real life?
Don't you mean: what would happen if THE CHILDREN began running around in DARKENED ROOMS eating PILLS while listening to REPETITIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC?!?
neutrality is good, neutrality is bad...I was under the impression that Net Neutrality meant that ISPs were to treat packets neutrally, and that Net Neutrality was what we wanted to have.
Is there any practical application to this, besides pure speed?
Yes: as you approach the speed of light, time speeds up around you, and when you finish your race it will be the year 3000; no longer will you even need oil from the Middle East. Instead, you'll run your car on whale oil.
For example, if your kid leaves his bike outside in the rain and it rusts, he gets a much clearer message about why it's important to put the bike away than if you simply tell him to put it away "because I said so".
Or how about the parent say, "Put your bike away because it will rust if it rains otherwise"? That's how my parents and my girlfriend's parents raised us, respectively, and neither of us have been incarcerated, we graduated from college ranked quite high, are both in grad school, and are very happy with our lives. I tend to think it was our parents' ability to raise us right, and this includes explaining why they set the rules they did. Give your kids a little credit, they'll understand much of the time if you explain your rules instead of just setting them. If they don't, then you can give 'em four across the eyes. Or a good belt whoopin' with salt on the metal part. Or throw a football at their arse.
Or put a Faraday cage around the unit, why not? I learned about those in junior high. Surely most 16 year olds would know this. Either that, or the smart ones would earn some cool points at school.
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I was originally going to say, "Who the fuck cares if they come to class? If they are learning and paying for said learning, the professor should not care at all whether they come to class." However, I have a more productive solution: Don't answer emails and don't meet with students who don't come to class. Only students who come on a regular basis should be able to get extra information from the professor. This is under the assumption that students who don't come to class could have had their questions answered during class, avoiding their need to meet with the prof outside of class. This rewards students who go to class while allowing all the benefit of podcast lectures.
As there seems to be no documentation on the Sourceforge page about what this can actually do, does it learn or follow rules? If it learns, can it learn to recognize, say, Japanese characters?
You know, I'm a little upset that NetBSD never quite caught up with Linux: did anyone finally port NetBSD to a dead badger?
Amen. I'm of the moral persuasion that fair use rights are inalienable, and are impossible to sign away even through contract (whether this is legally true or not is another question entirely). Thus, in my morality, if you download a song from iTunes, no amount of "Hey, you agreed to our DRM terms when you 'bought' the song from us" from Apple will alienate my fair use rights.
/. post. Sosume!
So I started law school today, and was anxious to use the term "inalienable" in a
I'm sensing your sarcasm, but I know there were four sites in particular that blew this thing way up: Digg, Fark, SomethingAwful, and 4chan. 4chan in particular had people show up at theaters dressed in black suits with red ties wearing big black afro wigs. It was called the Snakes on a Plane Invasion.
I've asked it once, and I'll ask it again: where the fuck do you people live that people are impolite in theaters? In my hometown of Victoria, in Austin, and in Houston I've never had a problem with talking during the film. Are Texans that much more well-behaved in theaters than others? I fail to understand that, since we're the butt of so many "asshole redneck" jokes ;)
Using evidence obtained by illegal means is absofuckinglutely unpardonable, and it makes me livid to see so many people on Slashdot say that they support 1984 spy-on-your-neighbor stuff. What happened to our tinfoil hats, guys?
Am I the only one that doesn't see TFA as the beginnings of an excellent new movie about nationalism and pursuit of success? I think it is a fascinating story, and to contrast Yau and Perelman like that...I'd pay money to see a movie like that, provided Perelman didn't roll up with ice in his grill, shoot some hookers and blow up some cars. (not meant to be funny)
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neutrality is good, neutrality is bad...I was under the impression that Net Neutrality meant that ISPs were to treat packets neutrally, and that Net Neutrality was what we wanted to have.
Or put a Faraday cage around the unit, why not? I learned about those in junior high. Surely most 16 year olds would know this. Either that, or the smart ones would earn some cool points at school.
Who says he loves his job?