As I geek I find this interesting. As a human being though, I do find it sad.
I recently had to deal with a legal case of an elderly gentleman. I can't give any details but it was basically Mr. American Dream: young man immigrates, starts company, finds a niche, works hard and eventually becomes wealthy.
Due to a heart condition, and I suspect old age in general, he required constant supervision. Since his kids just couldn't handle it any more (I realize this is harsh but taking care of someone 24/7 isn't exactly easy) they moved him into an assisted living community.
Now, this man was wealthy and, generally doing fine when he moved in. Almost two years and more than $9000 a month later, he was broke and doing not so well (emphasis is on not).
I got to see the place and on the outside everything was alright. Modern facilities, friendly staff, a pool, competent medical personell and a state of the art security system. That's right. Camera surveillance that would make the British government pale in envy. Even in some of the rooms. Motion detectors. Wireless heart monitors. Kinda spooky in an Orwellian way.
Of course, this was all not used for surveillance purposes - they installed all this for safety and/or medical reasons. And, of course, the patients signed off on it and were(mostly) aware that they're being monitored.
The problem is, the constant lack of human interaction (the most you could hope for is somebody coming by once a day to see if you were indeed still alive) is hard on those old people and it does seem to have a really negative effect on their health. Of course, I can't prove a direct correlation but it was pretty obvious that his man's deteriorating health at least had to do with him feeling that there was nothing left to look forward to.
I think this is one of those instances were technology is not helping but rather hurting us.
Allow me to second this. Two weeks ago, I gave one of my old computers to a friend of mine as a replacement for her broken notebook. The system had SuSe 9.0 installed when I gave it to her but she wasn't comfortable at all with it, and since she had a term paper due, I agreed to install Windows XP for her.
So, I set the system up (quick'n'dirty install since I was in a rush) and hook her 56k modem up to at least install a decent, up-to-date virus scanner, SP1 and some critical updates. The computer was supposed to finish downloading the patches throughout the night, so all she would have had to do in the morning was reboot.
My phone rings the next morning. She's seriously panicing because the computer seems to be in a reboot loop. So I drive out there to see what's up. Turns out, the system got infected with an RPC way before it finished downloading the patches.
I'm just glad the worm was so buggy that it kept crashing the system. Otherwise, it would have just sat there, infected, for weeks until someone (me) had actually performed a virus scan.
I guess - and I am only assuming here - that a big distributor could get away with a lot more with a small distro.
The big distributions aren't exactly operations run out of a garage any more. Redhat has some (serious) money. SuSe is backed by Novell. The Debian folks probably wouldn't exactly be too thrilled to budge to Debian's demands (well, let's say requirements) and customize a distro. They simply don't really need the money that bad. A lot of the other distros either have their own agenda or niche or simply are too specialized (e.g. Gentoo).
Things are different if you're running a small distro though. There are bills to pay and contributions are always more than welcome. A company like Dell could therefore easily push some changes they deem necessary through. That way, they don't have to put their own people on it and, effectively, save a whole bunch of money.
I realize I'm a little late and I apologize if this has been said already but whatever happened to "don't ask, don't tell"?
Usually you're not supposed to be listening to music while working anyway so there's no need to carry your iPod around the office. Just use it on your way to the office and back and put it in your briefcase or backpack while you're at work. That way, you have your music with you (in case you decide to take care of something during lunch) but won't get in trouble.
And, by the way, I have had a USB watch for way over a year now (the old 32MB model) and I've never ever been approached about it. Granted, people know me at my place of employment and generally don't question what I'm doing. However, these watches look so generic that most people would never notice there's a USB connector on it (the silvery part is hidden anyway).
... or on the quality of the keyless entry system used, for that matter.
One of those shows that copy MTV's Punk'd concept did a thing like this with retail CB walkie-talkies. They went to one of the big parking lots downtown and when a car's owner approached his vehicle, they just hit the speak button on the CB radio and held it down. Then, when the car wouldn't open, they'd send a fake locksmith in who'd pretend to mess with the lock for a while, eventually give up and then offer to smash in one of the windows.
In most cases, that one walkie-talkie was enough to "jam" the keyless entry system. The only cars it failed to work on were Mercedes, BMW and IIRC Audi models (maybe imports use a different frequeny - I dunno).
Surprisingly, most of the people couldn't seem to figure out how to get in their cars without the remote (well, at least, of those people they showed). I sometimes wonder how those people manage to put their pants on in the morning.
If you like at the big picture, it's all part of a cycle. CD-R drives and USB sticks are so cheap and in wide-spread use these days that they've widely replaced conventional discs (at least, if you're looking at the middle class in developed countries).
These days, it's actually not uncommon to be looked at strangely if you pull a 3.5" disc out of your briefcase. In a few years, a 3.5" disc will be as much of an exotic, strange relict as 5.25" discs are today. Many people these days, have never even seen or used a ZIP drive or a magnetic tape.
As DVD records become cheaper (I rememeber when they were around $1500 not too long ago and people would ask why anyone would want a DVD burner) and, perhaps more importantly, DVD media reaches price levels currently associated with CD-R media more and more low-budget computers will come equipped with DVD-burners and not CD-RW drives.
That's, at least in my humble opinion, one of the main reason CD-RW never really took off. There was just no reason to use rewriteable CDs. With relatively high-capacitiy recordable DVDs becoming widely available, CD-Rs just became so cheap there was no reason to reuse a CD-R. In a couple of years, CD-R will only be used to burn audio CDs. Most computers can already read DVDs so there's no reason for DVD-R/DVD+R not to be used even more widely.
And the next DVD standard is already in the pipelines. Early adopters, new developments, consumer demand and, probably, the industry's demand for IP protection will eventually push the prices down enough for the new standards to replace the current DVD standard. The only thing that I think could interfere with this cycle is distributed computing along with truely distributed storage.
Umm, I think you might be missing the point here. The people who own an iPod mini (or an iPod for that matter) and are considering purchasing such an 'intgration kit' don't just want a it-works solution. They want it-works-and-looks-good.
If you buy an iPod these days you're not just buying it for the functionality, you're also buying it for the design, UI and - let's face it - bragging rights. There's a whole bunch of MP3 players out there that can compete with the iPod based on price and storage capacity but few that can do so based on style.
People like that most likely won't even consider a quick'n'dirty duct-tape fix; they want something to integrates well with their car and doesn't look and feel out-of-place.
Consider this: Apple didn't team up with BMW to introduce this for no reason. They have the same target audience. People with expendable cash who do care about style.
I got a QD for testing last Saturday. I have to admit it looks a lot nicer and it's definitely more usable than the original N-Gage (which is mostly due to the fact that you don't have to hold the phone sideways to actually make a phone call, looking like a complete dork holding a phone straight out of a cheap '80s TV show in the process, any more).
Personally, I have to say that I didn't really like it very much. For starters, the QD is huge. At least compared to modern cell phones. My current phone, which I could play Java games on, easily fits in the palm of my hand. I routinely carry it in my shirt pocket because it's so small and light. Talking on the QD, on the other hand, you kinda look like you took your cordless phone from home to impress bystanders. And it's just too bulky too suit me.
The other thing I didn't like was a more fundamental flaw. In my opinion, the QD just tries to be too much, and consequently is bound to fail. It doesn't work very well as a phone and it's not all that impressive as a mobile gaming platform. I mean there's not much of a notable difference between the QD and a $50 Gameboy Color as far as graphics and sound are concerned. And the gameboy a lot more good games going for it.
The QD could be a really interesting product if they used the synergy effects created by merging a phone with a mobile game system. For instance, Bluetooth would be a great, albeit power-consuming, way to implement multiplayer games. The same goes for location-based or WAP stuff.
I've heard a lot about them open sourcing YaST, though, and I can't find it anywhere. There's no obvious download on Novell's site. It's not on forge.novell.com, their open source site. It's not on Sourceforge.
Ummm... I found your comment interesting so I went through the trouble to double check Google, the SuSe website, as well as Novell's site. And, you're right - there were indeed no hits on the first three Google pages and the search functions on the respective vendor pages didn't return anything of value. So maybe they really should work on that.
On the other hand though, you can get the source from a pretty obvious place: their ftp servers (this is one of the mirrors; I imagine their main server is getting pretty hard right now and I don't want to add to that). Look for the yast* packages. And since they're on the servers, I'm pretty sure you can also get them through the YaST interface. Talk about recursion...;)
I think he is talking about the commercial parts that are left out
I am pretty sure the commercial parts are not and will not be made available through their FTP servers.
Afterall, the reason for only including them in the professionell version (which does still retail at $89.95 btw) is that the additional content is mostly licensed, 3rd party software that SuSe themselves have to pay for.
BAE, the British defense contractor, has announced that the same material used to foil radar by stealth bombers can be used to selectively block certain frequencies and prevent wireless networking signals from entering or exiting a building.
So... what they're saying is that all I need now is a whole bunch of their wallpaper and a cessna and I could have my very own stealth plane?
Cool... Be the first kid on your block to own your own flower wall paper stealth plane.
Hmm, that's an interesting perspective. It's a valid point and I guess it's making the best of the situation but isn't this challenging in the same sense as driving a car with no brakes is?
I mean sure it makes it harder to complete the game but couldn't your friend achieve the same result by just playing the game and chosing to not save?
I mean making mistakes is just human and all but shipping a product with such a blantantly obvious bug is, at least in my humble opinion, just ridiculous.
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Those are pretty nice.
I have a two monitor setup at home. The way it's configured I use webcam picture (high-res) as my desktop background, have it re-fetched every 5 minutes and, consequently, the desktop updated.
I guess itt's just a really geeky alternative to looking out the window but I like it.:)
Yes, the DoJ, at least in part. There are quite a few law enforcement agencies that have these restrictions in place. The military, of course, is another story.
Your point is well taken though. There may indeed be valid reasons for requiring one particular file format, even if I don't particularly like said format.
My argument stands, however, MS Word files are not suitable for status reports which is what the OP was talking about. There are better alternatives for that.
I don't mean to politicize this but maybe Sen. Hatch should just let it go.
He's been one of the big supporters of the Pirate Act (allowing the DoJ to file civil suits against file swappers) and the Induce Act (blog) which seeks to hold those that "induce" copyright infridgements criminally liable.
You make a very good point. Please allow me to make two quick annotations:
First, the reason for this requirement may be nothing more than pure ignorance. A lot of people, and this is especially true for government agencies, are not technically inclined. They may still not be aware that a word processor's file format is not the right tool for the job. They may also not be familiar with other applications (for instance, how to insert notes into a PDF document or even how to open one, for that matter).
In your case, it will most likely do no good to change the situation as those guidelines tend not to be changed or amended too quickly but I suggest that anyone who faces these kind of problems politely asks exactly why the guidelines are written the way they are. You may find the outcome surprising...
Secondly, this also works the other way around. Some government agencies specificially prohibit the use of Word and any of its file format for any non-internal electronic communication. Most places that do this have a PDF pseude-printer setup (or some other integrated solution). This is generally the case if they have a motivated and clued IT person on staff or if they've already been sued before (metadata leaks, change history leaks, that kind of thing).
Does anyone (besides me) remember F&A by Symantec?
It was a DOS based word processing and database solution that 'just worked' (tm) in a way that to my knowledge hasn't been achieved in any software product since.
The weirdest thing was, for its time, F&A was quite advanced and worked pretty well both, for power users (it had a neat dbase plugin, IIRC) and total newbies.
And what was even more impressive (this was in like 1993 before there were college classes on UI design) it was intuitive in the true sense of the word. You showed people how to get started and they usually managed to figure stuff out from there. IIRC, Symantec abandoned it in 1995-1996. Damn, I really need to get myself a 5.25" drive and hope those discs I got lying around here somewhere still work...
Oh, companies, in fact, do learn and are, at least in my experience, usually quite forthcoming and helpful in helping authorities investigate incidents like this one (at least, after the fact).
People, on the other hand, generally tend to be less smart. Usually it's plain greed taking over. And quite often, you do hear excuses along the lines of "but nobody got harmed". It's a lot easier to scam some unknown big entity than some individual or small company you know and may even sympathize with. When greed is involved, loyalty (even to ones principles) goes right out of the window.
People usually wise up when the indictments come though.
Going by the pictures, the guy drives either a newer model Volkswagen Passat Wagon or a VW Golf Variant import model (unlikely). And at least, the 2003 and later Passats can be ordered with a 24V system instead of the stock 12V system - and that's straight from the factory. They can even have an optional electric outlet (think cigarette lighter) in the trunk.
If any US-based/.'ers are considering spending their kid's inheritance on this just be sure to check with a lawyer before you bid (Europeans likewise, I guess).
You're not just looking at the $100k pricetag plus S&H but also at spending quite a bit at customs (and it's going to be a b**ch to get some of this stuff cleared by customs in the first place). Oh, and be sure to tell the UPS guy not to leave the stuff on the front porch.;)
Welcome to the phpstack demo server! phpstack is a small TCP/IP stack and web server written in PHP. It is a quick and dirty proof-of-concept hack and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
Well, it clearly says it's a PoC hack so why not cut this author some slack? To be perfectly honest, I think this is rather impressive in more than one way. Sure, this isn't exactly a novel idea but that wasn't the point. It clearly is a show of flexibility. Php wasn't designed with these kinds of applications in mind, yet it seems to handle this kind of stuff impressingly well.
Also, it testifies to the fact that thinking outside the box is a good thing. I mean, come on, what would you rather see yet another mail client or some cool project that makes you go "hmm, how come I never thought of this"?
In cases like this, some European countries, Germany being one, also allow for criminal prosecution. Whilst it isn't a crime per se to use someone else's work or made-up data in a PhD thesis it generally is considered felony perjury (most colleges require that you attest to the fact that you've had no outside help and did not willfully cheat under oath).
Very cool. I guess I will retire my screensaver and use this instead. Should be easy to write a simple wrapper that fires up a webbrowser (or maybe call mozilla http://mirror/screen.php directly).
Oh, I didn't know that. Always thought Spokane was still second to Seattle. Been a while since I've been to the area (damn, I miss Tim's Cascade Jalapeno Chips -- I'd love to get a hold of some).
Anyway, thanks for pointing this out. I appreciate it.
Hmm, you raise some controversial but nonetheless interesting points.
I am familiar with the CdA / Spokane area so please allow me point out that a lot of people outside the Native American community (not just WA & ID residents; the CdA resort is a also a major tourist attraction) will benifit from this, provided that the people in charge implement this properly (Couer d'Alene is right on the Idaho/Washington State border for those not familiar with the area).
By the way, the Spokane area really isn't "rural" for the most part. Spokane is the second-biggest city in the State of Washington (I believe Tacoma is closing in fast).
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I recently had to deal with a legal case of an elderly gentleman. I can't give any details but it was basically Mr. American Dream: young man immigrates, starts company, finds a niche, works hard and eventually becomes wealthy.
Due to a heart condition, and I suspect old age in general, he required constant supervision. Since his kids just couldn't handle it any more (I realize this is harsh but taking care of someone 24/7 isn't exactly easy) they moved him into an assisted living community.
Now, this man was wealthy and, generally doing fine when he moved in. Almost two years and more than $9000 a month later, he was broke and doing not so well (emphasis is on not).
I got to see the place and on the outside everything was alright. Modern facilities, friendly staff, a pool, competent medical personell and a state of the art security system. That's right. Camera surveillance that would make the British government pale in envy. Even in some of the rooms. Motion detectors. Wireless heart monitors. Kinda spooky in an Orwellian way.
Of course, this was all not used for surveillance purposes - they installed all this for safety and/or medical reasons. And, of course, the patients signed off on it and were(mostly) aware that they're being monitored.
The problem is, the constant lack of human interaction (the most you could hope for is somebody coming by once a day to see if you were indeed still alive) is hard on those old people and it does seem to have a really negative effect on their health. Of course, I can't prove a direct correlation but it was pretty obvious that his man's deteriorating health at least had to do with him feeling that there was nothing left to look forward to.
I think this is one of those instances were technology is not helping but rather hurting us.
So, I set the system up (quick'n'dirty install since I was in a rush) and hook her 56k modem up to at least install a decent, up-to-date virus scanner, SP1 and some critical updates. The computer was supposed to finish downloading the patches throughout the night, so all she would have had to do in the morning was reboot.
My phone rings the next morning. She's seriously panicing because the computer seems to be in a reboot loop. So I drive out there to see what's up. Turns out, the system got infected with an RPC way before it finished downloading the patches.
I'm just glad the worm was so buggy that it kept crashing the system. Otherwise, it would have just sat there, infected, for weeks until someone (me) had actually performed a virus scan.
The big distributions aren't exactly operations run out of a garage any more. Redhat has some (serious) money. SuSe is backed by Novell. The Debian folks probably wouldn't exactly be too thrilled to budge to Debian's demands (well, let's say requirements) and customize a distro. They simply don't really need the money that bad. A lot of the other distros either have their own agenda or niche or simply are too specialized (e.g. Gentoo).
Things are different if you're running a small distro though. There are bills to pay and contributions are always more than welcome. A company like Dell could therefore easily push some changes they deem necessary through. That way, they don't have to put their own people on it and, effectively, save a whole bunch of money.
Usually you're not supposed to be listening to music while working anyway so there's no need to carry your iPod around the office. Just use it on your way to the office and back and put it in your briefcase or backpack while you're at work. That way, you have your music with you (in case you decide to take care of something during lunch) but won't get in trouble.
And, by the way, I have had a USB watch for way over a year now (the old 32MB model) and I've never ever been approached about it. Granted, people know me at my place of employment and generally don't question what I'm doing. However, these watches look so generic that most people would never notice there's a USB connector on it (the silvery part is hidden anyway).
One of those shows that copy MTV's Punk'd concept did a thing like this with retail CB walkie-talkies. They went to one of the big parking lots downtown and when a car's owner approached his vehicle, they just hit the speak button on the CB radio and held it down. Then, when the car wouldn't open, they'd send a fake locksmith in who'd pretend to mess with the lock for a while, eventually give up and then offer to smash in one of the windows.
In most cases, that one walkie-talkie was enough to "jam" the keyless entry system. The only cars it failed to work on were Mercedes, BMW and IIRC Audi models (maybe imports use a different frequeny - I dunno).
Surprisingly, most of the people couldn't seem to figure out how to get in their cars without the remote (well, at least, of those people they showed). I sometimes wonder how those people manage to put their pants on in the morning.
These days, it's actually not uncommon to be looked at strangely if you pull a 3.5" disc out of your briefcase. In a few years, a 3.5" disc will be as much of an exotic, strange relict as 5.25" discs are today. Many people these days, have never even seen or used a ZIP drive or a magnetic tape.
As DVD records become cheaper (I rememeber when they were around $1500 not too long ago and people would ask why anyone would want a DVD burner) and, perhaps more importantly, DVD media reaches price levels currently associated with CD-R media more and more low-budget computers will come equipped with DVD-burners and not CD-RW drives.
That's, at least in my humble opinion, one of the main reason CD-RW never really took off. There was just no reason to use rewriteable CDs. With relatively high-capacitiy recordable DVDs becoming widely available, CD-Rs just became so cheap there was no reason to reuse a CD-R.
In a couple of years, CD-R will only be used to burn audio CDs. Most computers can already read DVDs so there's no reason for DVD-R/DVD+R not to be used even more widely.
And the next DVD standard is already in the pipelines. Early adopters, new developments, consumer demand and, probably, the industry's demand for IP protection will eventually push the prices down enough for the new standards to replace the current DVD standard. The only thing that I think could interfere with this cycle is distributed computing along with truely distributed storage.
If you buy an iPod these days you're not just buying it for the functionality, you're also buying it for the design, UI and - let's face it - bragging rights. There's a whole bunch of MP3 players out there that can compete with the iPod based on price and storage capacity but few that can do so based on style.
People like that most likely won't even consider a quick'n'dirty duct-tape fix; they want something to integrates well with their car and doesn't look and feel out-of-place.
Consider this: Apple didn't team up with BMW to introduce this for no reason. They have the same target audience. People with expendable cash who do care about style.
Personally, I have to say that I didn't really like it very much. For starters, the QD is huge. At least compared to modern cell phones. My current phone, which I could play Java games on, easily fits in the palm of my hand. I routinely carry it in my shirt pocket because it's so small and light. Talking on the QD, on the other hand, you kinda look like you took your cordless phone from home to impress bystanders. And it's just too bulky too suit me.
The other thing I didn't like was a more fundamental flaw. In my opinion, the QD just tries to be too much, and consequently is bound to fail. It doesn't work very well as a phone and it's not all that impressive as a mobile gaming platform. I mean there's not much of a notable difference between the QD and a $50 Gameboy Color as far as graphics and sound are concerned. And the gameboy a lot more good games going for it.
The QD could be a really interesting product if they used the synergy effects created by merging a phone with a mobile game system. For instance, Bluetooth would be a great, albeit power-consuming, way to implement multiplayer games. The same goes for location-based or WAP stuff.
Sorry, but so far I am not really impressed.
On the other hand though, you can get the source from a pretty obvious place: their ftp servers (this is one of the mirrors; I imagine their main server is getting pretty hard right now and I don't want to add to that). Look for the yast* packages. And since they're on the servers, I'm pretty sure you can also get them through the YaST interface. Talk about recursion... ;)
Afterall, the reason for only including them in the professionell version (which does still retail at $89.95 btw) is that the additional content is mostly licensed, 3rd party software that SuSe themselves have to pay for.
Cool... Be the first kid on your block to own your own flower wall paper stealth plane.
I mean sure it makes it harder to complete the game but couldn't your friend achieve the same result by just playing the game and chosing to not save?
I mean making mistakes is just human and all but shipping a product with such a blantantly obvious bug is, at least in my humble opinion, just ridiculous.
I have a two monitor setup at home. The way it's configured I use webcam picture (high-res) as my desktop background, have it re-fetched every 5 minutes and, consequently, the desktop updated.
I guess itt's just a really geeky alternative to looking out the window but I like it. :)
Your point is well taken though. There may indeed be valid reasons for requiring one particular file format, even if I don't particularly like said format.
My argument stands, however, MS Word files are not suitable for status reports which is what the OP was talking about. There are better alternatives for that.
He's been one of the big supporters of the Pirate Act (allowing the DoJ to file civil suits against file swappers) and the Induce Act (blog) which seeks to hold those that "induce" copyright infridgements criminally liable.
Here's some more information on him. I guess some people should just not be reelected...
In your case, it will most likely do no good to change the situation as those guidelines tend not to be changed or amended too quickly but I suggest that anyone who faces these kind of problems politely asks exactly why the guidelines are written the way they are. You may find the outcome surprising...
It was a DOS based word processing and database solution that 'just worked' (tm) in a way that to my knowledge hasn't been achieved in any software product since.
The weirdest thing was, for its time, F&A was quite advanced and worked pretty well both, for power users (it had a neat dbase plugin, IIRC) and total newbies.
And what was even more impressive (this was in like 1993 before there were college classes on UI design) it was intuitive in the true sense of the word. You showed people how to get started and they usually managed to figure stuff out from there. IIRC, Symantec abandoned it in 1995-1996. Damn, I really need to get myself a 5.25" drive and hope those discs I got lying around here somewhere still work...
People, on the other hand, generally tend to be less smart. Usually it's plain greed taking over. And quite often, you do hear excuses along the lines of "but nobody got harmed". It's a lot easier to scam some unknown big entity than some individual or small company you know and may even sympathize with. When greed is involved, loyalty (even to ones principles) goes right out of the window.
People usually wise up when the indictments come though.
Going by the pictures, the guy drives either a newer model Volkswagen Passat Wagon or a VW Golf Variant import model (unlikely). And at least, the 2003 and later Passats can be ordered with a 24V system instead of the stock 12V system - and that's straight from the factory. They can even have an optional electric outlet (think cigarette lighter) in the trunk.
This still sounds a little weird though.
You're not just looking at the $100k pricetag plus S&H but also at spending quite a bit at customs (and it's going to be a b**ch to get some of this stuff cleared by customs in the first place). Oh, and be sure to tell the UPS guy not to leave the stuff on the front porch. ;)
Well, it clearly says it's a PoC hack so why not cut this author some slack? To be perfectly honest, I think this is rather impressive in more than one way. Sure, this isn't exactly a novel idea but that wasn't the point. It clearly is a show of flexibility. Php wasn't designed with these kinds of applications in mind, yet it seems to handle this kind of stuff impressingly well.
Also, it testifies to the fact that thinking outside the box is a good thing. I mean, come on, what would you rather see yet another mail client or some cool project that makes you go "hmm, how come I never thought of this"?
In cases like this, some European countries, Germany being one, also allow for criminal prosecution. Whilst it isn't a crime per se to use someone else's work or made-up data in a PhD thesis it generally is considered felony perjury (most colleges require that you attest to the fact that you've had no outside help and did not willfully cheat under oath).
Very cool. I guess I will retire my screensaver and use this instead. Should be easy to write a simple wrapper that fires up a webbrowser (or maybe call mozilla http://mirror/screen.php directly).
Anyway, thanks for pointing this out. I appreciate it.
I am familiar with the CdA / Spokane area so please allow me point out that a lot of people outside the Native American community (not just WA & ID residents; the CdA resort is a also a major tourist attraction) will benifit from this, provided that the people in charge implement this properly (Couer d'Alene is right on the Idaho/Washington State border for those not familiar with the area).
By the way, the Spokane area really isn't "rural" for the most part. Spokane is the second-biggest city in the State of Washington (I believe Tacoma is closing in fast).