You've a point. Most pols seem to pass it off to staffers. Perhaps we should forget asking for a 'Gore' interview and just ask for the uber-staffer? We might stand a chance: the staffer will spend his/her political career in the shadow of 'The Candidate', and a dose of limelight might just be enticing enough.
Huh? Let me get this straight. A Catholic school expels a student, based on a outside website, because the website 'doesn't meet with proper Catholic values'? Did I just warp back to 1690? I could understand expulsion for a threatening website, given the current political environment, but this seems to be a 'because we can'. Did they honestly expect NOT to be sued?
When I attended private schools back in the eighties, schools adhered to the guidelines they themselves had set down. (otherwise, I'd have been expelled numerous times for my antics) If the guideline makes no mention of punishment based on an individuals extra-curricular exercise of free speech, DON'T EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO CENSOR THE STUDENT!
At this point, the school is claiming 'We're not a public school; we don't have to respect free speech'. What muddies the water is that they recieve government funding, and are expected to adhere to the 'public school' rules or face revocation of funding.
I hope the school loses the lawsuit, has it's funding cut AND has to re-admit the student. Serves it right. Plus, First post?
In response to the planned IPO of Blue-Green Algae, the newly formed Union of Mitochondrial Entities (U-ME) has scheduled a press conference for later this afternoon. According to sources close to the union leadership, the U-ME is planning to announce their demands for a contract, having worked for approximatly the last three billion years without one. Probable sticking points of the proposed contract include: Cellular Hot-Tubs, a forty hour work week, and an incremental wage increase of $1x10-18/hr over the next three milennia. When asked why the union was so suddenly interested in additional compensation for their services, one source, on condition of anonymity, had this to say; 'We at U-ME feel that the establishment of B/G Algae has set a precedent. Mono-cellular proto-organisms have rights too. We feel that if we do not exercise our rights at this time, we won't get another chance. Also, with the newly created oxygen monopoly, we think it is only a matter of time before they start to expand vertically over the entire respiratory model, perhaps into cellular metobolism given enough evolutinary time. We can't risk that.' More details will follow
Do what I do.. Only view/. on a 8 bit colour X-server, running Enlightenment with the 'Chrome' background, and DO NOT assign Netscape its own colourmap. Everything is sort-of gray green once you stray into the YRO or BSD sections, and not offensive at all.
Anyone know if you can force Win95 to take the old 3.1 schemes? Or does that take a major tweak? (I'm not a Win guy.)
GraphOn's patent (and most of their thin client product line) operate much differently than VNC. Where VNC and the like are devoted to making the desktop of a 'server' machine available, this would make a Windows application or an X-app TRANSPARENTLY available from a server. They look, feel, and smell like their local counterpart, regardless of platform. Normally stuff like this is done with several servers, and with significant overhead (an X-server for each user/app) and pain.
Just a note: I don't approve of the USPO handing out software patents. Giving a 'lifetime' (technologically speaking) stranglehold on something is never a good idea.
However, this one might just steal some of the Micros~1's Windows Terminal Server business, so why are we complaining?
Unfortunatly, there are no URL's.. I never actually thought anyone else would want to do that. Actually.. Give me a day or so and I'll have all my scripts, plus a performance table up on this page
I had occasion to need a transport medium for several large video files approaching 1.8G in size each. While I could have always mailed a tape, I decided to do something more novel. CDROM-RAID0
I created three 620M files (dd if=/dev/zero blah..), hooked them to loopback devices, mdadd'ed and mdran them, then slapped a ext2 fs across them. After writing the video to the RAID volume (Don't forget to sync!) I burned each file to a CD-RW, and included a short mount/losetup/mdrun/etc script on the first CD.
The best part about the arrangement was that you could play the high-bandwidth video directly from the associated CD's, with no intermediary layer or jacking the buffer up.. (The 'seek' lag was roughly double normal, but I could pull a true 40X off of the three 16X(max) CDROM drives.)
As long as there are speedy computers and brute force attacks, the username/password scheme is vunerable. Second-level passwords or phrases decrease the vunerability substantially, as long as they are arbitrary and not user-linked. (None of that 'Mothers maiden name' stuff)
What I wonder is how adding a second authentication scheme could delay the project for so long.
Great! This is just great! I finish my own portable.MP3 player, and two days later somebody announces that it's already obselete! Granted, mine won't do anything near real-time encoding, but thats what my desktop is for.
Specs: Micro-GX motherboard (4.5x4.1x1/2) 166 MediaGX processor 1 x 32M DIMM 2 x IBM 2.4G 2.5mm HD 1 x Tulip Fast Ethernet 1 x custom PCI 'L' connector 1 x custom power supply 1 x custom plexiglas case 3 x Compaq laptop batteries
It may have no screen, but it runs for up to 16 hours on the batteries, plugs into the lighter socket in the car, and it Runs Linux(tm)!
Hey now! I'm as Gnu/Linux'y as the next/.'er, but at least I'll have the guts to say that Sun makes a good product. The OS may be slower than some others, but it's solid, stable, and not buggy in the least. The hardware, with a few exceptions (Cough.. HME.. Cough..) is also quite good. As for the Sun scalability issue, it scales well. (I won't go so far to say it scales better than Linux, because I don't have my asbestos long-johns with me). Do you have some sort of inherent grudge against Oracle? Oracle is slower than many other DB's, but it is by design. Oracle takes great lengths to make everything is pristine; it is one of the factors one considers when selecting a DB.
I listen those two guys as well, and actually bought the book as a gag gift for a terminally single co-worker. The book seems to have been written by someone stuck in the seventies; Everything is almost laughably dated. Additionally, most of the book is self-contradictory psychobabble.
All in all, the book deserves a taste of Tate, and I think the author should be placed under suspicion.
Installing Linux for the first time is only a good excuse if you actually had something else to do.;-)
Finding a SO online is really no guarantee of anything. I took a chance and did a f2f meet with a charming YL I had met online. During dinner, while discussing 'internet-addiction', I remarked 'This is probably the longest period I've gone without email in six months.' To clarify; I am usually forced to wear a pager 24x7x365. My email is forwarded to the pager on a 15 minute delay. That day I had left early on personal-time and was not considered 'on-call', so I had left the pager at home.
I hope you all will agree with me that the explaination is sufficient. She didn't, and openly called it 'sick'.
The discussion turned to hours actually spent in front of 'the box'; I'm an IS 'everything man', and a software author, so the number was two digit, and almost four times hers. The 'date' went down hill from there. I figure she labelled me an 'oddball'. Conversation, which up to then had been flowing, easy and entertaining suddenly did a nose dive towards grating.
Needless to say, I now avoid face-to-face contact until I know someone well electronically.
Notice where it says (In section 2A)"advertises for sale or hire or possesses in the course of a business" are the conditions for breaking the law. As he has neither offered for sale or substantially benifitted from the CSS decryption code, I figure he is probably safe.
Thanks to Pekka Pietikainen, who found this little goodie.
296 Devices designed to circumvent copy-protection
(1) This section applies where copies of a copyright work are issued to the public, by or with the licence of the copyright owner, in an electronic form which is copy-protected.
(2) The person issuing the copies to the public has the same rights against a person who, knowing or having reason to believe that it will be used to make infringing copies- (a) makes, imports, sells or lets for hire, offers or exposes for sale or hire, or advertises for sale or hire, any device or means specifically designed or adapted to circumvent the form of copy-protection employed, or (b) publishes information intended to enable or assist persons to circumvent that form of copy-protection, as a copyright owner has in respect of an infringement of copyright.
[(2A) Where the copies being issued to the public as mentioned in subsection (1) are copies of a computer program, subsection (2) applies as if for the words "or advertises for sale or hire" there were substituted "advertises for sale or hire or possesses in the course of a business.]
(3) Further, he has the same rights under section 99 or 100 (delivery up or seizure of certain articles) in relation to any such device or means which a person has in his possession, custody or control with the intention that it should be used to make infringing copies of copyright works, as a copyright owner has in relation to an infringing copy.
(4) References in this section to copy-protection include any device or means intended to prevent or restrict copying of a work or to impair the quality of copies made.
(5) Expressions used in this section which are defined for the purposes of Part I of this Act (copyright) have the same meaning as in that Part.
(6) The following provisions apply in relation to proceedings under this section as in relation to proceedings under Part I (copyright)-(a) sections 104 to 106 of this Act (presumptions as to certain matters relating to copyright), and (b) section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981, section 15of the Law Reform
(Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 and section 94A of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (withdrawal of privilege against self-incrimination in certain proceedings relating to intellectual property); and section 114 of this Act applies, with the necessary modifications, in relation to the disposal of anything delivered up or seized by virtue of subsection (3) above.
He makes a good point, although I see the Apache group doing a RE/RI job on the IIS 'features' as a last ditch effort befor waning into oblivion.
But I don't see all of the problem residing w/Mozilla. The problem is the Win-centric web developers. They see the 'kewl new sound/graphics service/plugin' and implement it, counting on the fact that 80% of their audience are IE users, and the remaining 20% are used to meing marginalized. Meanwhile, they're serving the content from Apache servers on *nix boxen, and looking like hypocrites.
Letter writing campaign? 'Give us Shockwave, give you DEATH'? (ex only.)
This is probably not a good idea, if only on the grounds it will probably be moderated to Hell and will clutter the crap out of the discussion. Do you have any idea how large it actually is? Imagine twenty MAX_LEN messages.
Besides, there are probably copies on thousands of user PC's. There is no real danger of it being lost.
Also; do anyone of us really have the moral right to legally endanger (potentially, OC)./ or its creators? No!
A brief update. Derek posted moments ago to the mailing list. Seems the ISP shut down the site because it "potentially violates the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988; Sectiond 296(1) and (2)".
I have, and there are days I would prefer it. Hell, there are days I'd rather be chained to an awful McCollough trimmer for twelve hours, in the blistering sun, on a ninety-five degree day. (Nothing like sun blisters and the vibration that never ends!)
Bah. Unlike Microsoft, AT&T actually DID innovative things! Cutting-edge computers, AT&T UNIX, communications satellites, multilayer digital switches, etc. What did the breakup do for you and I? Doubled the phone rates.
These are MY opinions and not those of AT&T, unless they want them.
AOL provides DESIRABLE, PREMIUM PROPRIATARY CONTENT no one else does! (Did I just say that? I'll have to wash my mouth out later.) In many locations, they are also the only 'local' ISP. If the blind want AOL's content, or are stuck out in the telecommunications boonies, THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT AOL.
As for your weak agrument that you can't sue for a Mandarin Chinese AOL, the reason is thus; The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides those with disabilities the mechanism to sue AOL for discrimination. All commercial enteprises are expected to be adaptable by the disabled under the act. Being Chinese is not a disability covered by the ADA, nor is there any US government mandate for commercial businesses to provide 'equal service' to Chinese.
I am completely sick of this neo-lasse faire (sp)resurgence. It's people like you, who believe that inalienable rights are so far removed from your life that they don't exist, who are dragging the US down into the sea of Big Brother commercialism. You attack the righteous when they have been stepped on with weak put-offs like 'So what? You should have expected it. They can do whatever they damn well please!' Lest you forget, we in the US fought long, protracted wars to secure you those rights you are so willing to give up in the name of 'cheaper chips' and corporate handouts. The blind are taking their chance to secure rights for themselves. You have a right to view commercial webpages, Why the hell shouldn't they?
The blind can 'surf the net' just fine, thank you!
There are a variety of very good speech synth programs available (if you have the patience to wait for the computer to read it out to you) as well as devices that spit out text in the form of braille flashes on a reader. (a little like a scrolling lcd display, but the dots are solenoid actuated pins)
The blind can (gasp) type too!
The complaint with AOL seems to be that they offer no text equivalent for their images/icons (no 'alt' tags), so that a reader is incapable of 'rendering' them for the blind!
Sidenote: Pretty much any Lynx/AvantGo friendly page is also friendly for the visually handicapped. Keep that in mind the next time you say to yourself 'Screw anyone who doesn't come in here riding Mozilla or IE'.
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You've a point. Most pols seem to pass it off to staffers. Perhaps we should forget asking for a 'Gore' interview and just ask for the uber-staffer? We might stand a chance: the staffer will spend his/her political career in the shadow of 'The Candidate', and a dose of limelight might just be enticing enough.
Huh? Let me get this straight. A Catholic school expels a student, based on a outside website, because the website 'doesn't meet with proper Catholic values'? Did I just warp back to 1690? I could understand expulsion for a threatening website, given the current political environment, but this seems to be a 'because we can'. Did they honestly expect NOT to be sued?
When I attended private schools back in the eighties, schools adhered to the guidelines they themselves had set down. (otherwise, I'd have been expelled numerous times for my antics) If the guideline makes no mention of punishment based on an individuals extra-curricular exercise of free speech, DON'T EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO CENSOR THE STUDENT!
At this point, the school is claiming 'We're not a public school; we don't have to respect free speech'. What muddies the water is that they recieve government funding, and are expected to adhere to the 'public school' rules or face revocation of funding.
I hope the school loses the lawsuit, has it's funding cut AND has to re-admit the student. Serves it right.
Plus, First post?
In response to the planned IPO of Blue-Green Algae, the newly formed Union of Mitochondrial Entities (U-ME) has scheduled a press conference for later this afternoon. According to sources close to the union leadership, the U-ME is planning to announce their demands for a contract, having worked for approximatly the last three billion years without one. Probable sticking points of the proposed contract include: Cellular Hot-Tubs, a forty hour work week, and an incremental wage increase of $1x10-18/hr over the next three milennia. When asked why the union was so suddenly interested in additional compensation for their services, one source, on condition of anonymity, had this to say; 'We at U-ME feel that the establishment of B/G Algae has set a precedent. Mono-cellular proto-organisms have rights too. We feel that if we do not exercise our rights at this time, we won't get another chance. Also, with the newly created oxygen monopoly, we think it is only a matter of time before they start to expand vertically over the entire respiratory model, perhaps into cellular metobolism given enough evolutinary time. We can't risk that.'
More details will follow
Do what I do.. Only view /. on a 8 bit colour X-server, running Enlightenment with the 'Chrome' background, and DO NOT assign Netscape its own colourmap. Everything is sort-of gray green once you stray into the YRO or BSD sections, and not offensive at all.
Anyone know if you can force Win95 to take the old 3.1 schemes? Or does that take a major tweak? (I'm not a Win guy.)
GraphOn's patent (and most of their thin client product line) operate much differently than VNC. Where VNC and the like are devoted to making the desktop of a 'server' machine available, this would make a Windows application or an X-app TRANSPARENTLY available from a server. They look, feel, and smell like their local counterpart, regardless of platform. Normally stuff like this is done with several servers, and with significant overhead (an X-server for each user/app) and pain.
Just a note: I don't approve of the USPO handing out software patents. Giving a 'lifetime' (technologically speaking) stranglehold on something is never a good idea.
However, this one might just steal some of the Micros~1's Windows Terminal Server business, so why are we complaining?
Unfortunatly, there are no URL's.. I never actually thought anyone else would want to do that. Actually.. Give me a day or so and I'll have all my scripts, plus a performance table up on this page
I had occasion to need a transport medium for several large video files approaching 1.8G in size each. While I could have always mailed a tape, I decided to do something more novel. CDROM-RAID0
I created three 620M files (dd if=/dev/zero blah..), hooked them to loopback devices, mdadd'ed and mdran them, then slapped a ext2 fs across them. After writing the video to the RAID volume (Don't forget to sync!) I burned each file to a CD-RW, and included a short mount/losetup/mdrun/etc script on the first CD.
The best part about the arrangement was that you could play the high-bandwidth video directly from the associated CD's, with no intermediary layer or jacking the buffer up.. (The 'seek' lag was roughly double normal, but I could pull a true 40X off of the three 16X(max) CDROM drives.)
If you want more implementation detail, just ask!
As long as there are speedy computers and brute force attacks, the username/password scheme is vunerable. Second-level passwords or phrases decrease the vunerability substantially, as long as they are arbitrary and not user-linked. (None of that 'Mothers maiden name' stuff)
What I wonder is how adding a second authentication scheme could delay the project for so long.
Great! This is just great! I finish my own portable .MP3 player, and two days later somebody announces that it's already obselete!
Granted, mine won't do anything near real-time encoding, but thats what my desktop is for.
Specs:
Micro-GX motherboard (4.5x4.1x1/2) 166 MediaGX processor
1 x 32M DIMM
2 x IBM 2.4G 2.5mm HD
1 x Tulip Fast Ethernet
1 x custom PCI 'L' connector
1 x custom power supply
1 x custom plexiglas case
3 x Compaq laptop batteries
It may have no screen, but it runs for up to 16 hours on the batteries, plugs into the lighter socket in the car, and it Runs Linux(tm)!
Hey now! I'm as Gnu/Linux'y as the next /.'er, but at least I'll have the guts to say that Sun makes a good product. The OS may be slower than some others, but it's solid, stable, and not buggy in the least. The hardware, with a few exceptions (Cough.. HME.. Cough..) is also quite good. As for the Sun scalability issue, it scales well. (I won't go so far to say it scales better than Linux, because I don't have my asbestos long-johns with me).
Do you have some sort of inherent grudge against Oracle? Oracle is slower than many other DB's, but it is by design. Oracle takes great lengths to make everything is pristine; it is one of the factors one considers when selecting a DB.
(laughs)
That was two years ago. I got over it. I just get to know them a little better digitally before the f2f.
I listen those two guys as well, and actually bought the book as a gag gift for a terminally single co-worker. The book seems to have been written by someone stuck in the seventies; Everything is almost laughably dated. Additionally, most of the book is self-contradictory psychobabble.
All in all, the book deserves a taste of Tate, and I think the author should be placed under suspicion.
Installing Linux for the first time is only a good excuse if you actually had something else to do. ;-)
Finding a SO online is really no guarantee of anything. I took a chance and did a f2f meet with a charming YL I had met online. During dinner, while discussing 'internet-addiction', I remarked 'This is probably the longest period I've gone without email in six months.' To clarify; I am usually forced to wear a pager 24x7x365. My email is forwarded to the pager on a 15 minute delay. That day I had left early on personal-time and was not considered 'on-call', so I had left the pager at home.
I hope you all will agree with me that the explaination is sufficient. She didn't, and openly called it 'sick'.
The discussion turned to hours actually spent in front of 'the box'; I'm an IS 'everything man', and a software author, so the number was two digit, and almost four times hers. The 'date' went down hill from there. I figure she labelled me an 'oddball'. Conversation, which up to then had been flowing, easy and entertaining suddenly did a nose dive towards grating.
Needless to say, I now avoid face-to-face contact until I know someone well electronically.
Notice where it says (In section 2A)"advertises for sale or hire or possesses in the course of a business" are the conditions for breaking the law. As he has neither offered for sale or substantially benifitted from the CSS decryption code, I figure he is probably safe.
Thanks to Pekka Pietikainen, who found this little goodie.
296 Devices designed to circumvent copy-protection
(1) This section applies where copies of a copyright work are issued to the public, by or with the licence of the copyright owner, in an electronic form which is copy-protected.
(2) The person issuing the copies to the public has the same rights against a person who, knowing or having reason to believe that it will be used to make infringing copies-
(a) makes, imports, sells or lets for hire, offers or exposes for sale or hire, or advertises for sale or hire, any device or means specifically designed or adapted to circumvent the form of copy-protection employed, or
(b) publishes information intended to enable or assist persons to circumvent that form of copy-protection, as a copyright owner has in respect of an infringement of copyright.
[(2A) Where the copies being issued to the public as mentioned in subsection (1) are copies of a computer program, subsection (2) applies as if for the words "or advertises for sale or hire" there were substituted "advertises for sale or hire or possesses in the course of a business.]
(3) Further, he has the same rights under section 99 or 100 (delivery up or seizure of certain articles) in relation to any such device or means which a person has in his possession, custody or control with the intention that it should be used to make infringing copies of copyright works, as a copyright owner has in relation to an infringing copy.
(4) References in this section to copy-protection include any device or means intended to prevent or restrict copying of a work or to impair the quality of copies made.
(5) Expressions used in this section which are defined for the purposes of Part I of this Act (copyright) have the same meaning as in that Part.
(6) The following provisions apply in relation to proceedings under this section as in relation to proceedings under Part I (copyright)-(a) sections 104 to 106 of this Act (presumptions as to certain matters relating to copyright), and (b) section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981, section 15of the Law Reform
(Miscellaneous Provisions)
(Scotland) Act 1985 and section 94A of the Judicature
(Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (withdrawal of privilege against self-incrimination in certain proceedings relating to intellectual property);
and section 114 of this Act applies, with the necessary modifications, in relation to the disposal of anything delivered up or seized by virtue of subsection (3) above.
He makes a good point, although I see the Apache group doing a RE/RI job on the IIS 'features' as a last ditch effort befor waning into oblivion.
But I don't see all of the problem residing w/Mozilla. The problem is the Win-centric web developers. They see the 'kewl new sound/graphics service/plugin' and implement it, counting on the fact that 80% of their audience are IE users, and the remaining 20% are used to meing marginalized. Meanwhile, they're serving the content from Apache servers on *nix boxen, and looking like hypocrites.
Letter writing campaign? 'Give us Shockwave, give you DEATH'? (ex only.)
I'm sorry to let you down, AC, but Tet is a real /. user with a history.
This is probably not a good idea, if only on the grounds it will probably be moderated to Hell and will clutter the crap out of the discussion. Do you have any idea how large it actually is? Imagine twenty MAX_LEN messages.
Besides, there are probably copies on thousands of user PC's. There is no real danger of it being lost.
Also; do anyone of us really have the moral right to legally endanger (potentially, OC)./ or its creators? No!
DeCSS is still available from the CVS repository. Details on how to retrieve it are available on the mailing list mentioned above.
Hoard it in good health, I know I will.
A brief update. Derek posted moments ago to the mailing list. Seems the ISP shut down the site because it "potentially violates the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988; Sectiond 296(1) and (2)".
I have, and there are days I would prefer it. Hell, there are days I'd rather be chained to an awful McCollough trimmer for twelve hours, in the blistering sun, on a ninety-five degree day. (Nothing like sun blisters and the vibration that never ends!)
No quitcher bitchin and get back on the damn Z.
Bah. Unlike Microsoft, AT&T actually DID innovative things!
Cutting-edge computers, AT&T UNIX, communications satellites, multilayer digital switches, etc.
What did the breakup do for you and I?
Doubled the phone rates.
These are MY opinions and not those of AT&T, unless they want them.
AOL provides DESIRABLE, PREMIUM PROPRIATARY CONTENT no one else does! (Did I just say that? I'll have to wash my mouth out later.) In many locations, they are also the only 'local' ISP. If the blind want AOL's content, or are stuck out in the telecommunications boonies, THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT AOL.
As for your weak agrument that you can't sue for a Mandarin Chinese AOL, the reason is thus; The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides those with disabilities the mechanism to sue AOL for discrimination. All commercial enteprises are expected to be adaptable by the disabled under the act. Being Chinese is not a disability covered by the ADA, nor is there any US government mandate for commercial businesses to provide 'equal service' to Chinese.
I am completely sick of this neo-lasse faire (sp)resurgence. It's people like you, who believe that inalienable rights are so far removed from your life that they don't exist, who are dragging the US down into the sea of Big Brother commercialism. You attack the righteous when they have been stepped on with weak put-offs like 'So what? You should have expected it. They can do whatever they damn well please!' Lest you forget, we in the US fought long, protracted wars to secure you those rights you are so willing to give up in the name of 'cheaper chips' and corporate handouts.
The blind are taking their chance to secure rights for themselves. You have a right to view commercial webpages, Why the hell shouldn't they?
Stupidity may be a disability covered by the ADA.
The blind can 'surf the net' just fine, thank you!
There are a variety of very good speech synth programs available (if you have the patience to wait for the computer to read it out to you) as well as devices that spit out text in the form of braille flashes on a reader. (a little like a scrolling lcd display, but the dots are solenoid actuated pins)
The blind can (gasp) type too!
The complaint with AOL seems to be that they offer no text equivalent for their images/icons (no 'alt' tags), so that a reader is incapable of 'rendering' them for the blind!
Sidenote: Pretty much any Lynx/AvantGo friendly page is also friendly for the visually handicapped. Keep that in mind the next time you say to yourself 'Screw anyone who doesn't come in here riding Mozilla or IE'.
Hmm.. I now know why people on the freeway seem to forget how to drive the moment the cell-phone touches their ear.