I live in a state with mandatory seatbelt laws. As a driver, if I get stopped and my passengers are unbuckled, I could lose my license. The questionable nature of such a law aside, anyone who would ask me to risk that kind of legal trouble because they don't feel like using a perfectly simple safety device can drive their own car.
My high school did this with students in 11th and 12th grades, except without the option to buy the machine at graduation. There were no restrictions in place, and I'm not aware of any problems that ever occurred because of it. However, that may become a different story when you put them in the hands of 6th graders. At the same time, the inability to install software or use iChat makes them mostly useless. In my experience, students often found useful software (besides games) to install and iChat became a very useful tool for collaborative work. As for web filtering, I recognize the legal requirement for it on school networks, but making it follow the machine everywhere will last until an enterprising student figures out how to get the filtering software off.
Although there is a practical limit to how far a single electron can go, electrical signals don't consist of a single electron going from one end of the wire to the other. Instead, it's like a game of miniature billiards, with electrons lined up in the wire. You pop one in one end, and another falls out the other end almost instantaneously.
The law doesn't actually force the states into making the drinking age 21. As is usual, when Congress anticipates the "that's unconstitutional!" outcry, they, rather than mandate it, make some funding conditional upon it.
So, federal interstate highway funding in your state is conditional upon the 21 drinking age and the 0.08% legal limit of intoxication. But the federal government didn't "mandate" it. Neat trick, huh?
I tried this with Camino 0.8.2 on OS X 10.3.6. I do not get any text in the Citybank popup window from Secunia. What does happen is that the ORIGINAL (the one I opened to view the Secunia site) window changes to say that I am vulnerable. However, seeing as the Citybank window still says Citybank, I'm not so sure about the validity of the claim the original Secunia window made. (Furthermore it's not a vulnerability: websites change the contents of their own window all the time.)
It would certainly not be equal, by the very definition of equal.
As far as the justice of your proposal, I won't offend everyone's sensibilities by offering an inflammatory comment, but will curtail my comments with the statement that, as a former teacher of mine liked to say, "Fair [as in just] does not always mean 'equal'."
The kernel is mature he thinks. Everyone he works with agrees with him. Such a failure of imagination....
Actually, he says the kernel is maturING. He does not say anywhere (that I can see) that it has completed its maturation. Basically what it looks like he's saying is that the kernel is growing and is (thankfully) not in a state of degeneration.
If anyone can find a quote that indicates he thinks the kernel is ALREADY mature, I'd be interested to see it, but I just can't find anything of the kind in that article.
The grand prize, for the explanation of special relativity, can only be won by an Italian national born after Dec. 1983. Read it here: http://www.pirelliaward.com/ch2_eli.html
Right about Aspen, CO, but wrong about the year and the provider. It was in the early 00's. I can't find the actual date, but a 2003 Wired article says "several years ago." The network, engineered by Jim Selby covers 120 square miles in Aspen and the ski resorts around it. I saw something on TechTV about it a few years ago, but I can't find anything on their website. Here are some links I found:
Oh yeah, that and banninating IE from the Computosphere.
Banning IE would be easy if you could get a following. Just put JavaScript code in the 'onload' parameter of the 'body' tag that detects browser and if it detects IE, redirects to the Firefox download page. (I don't remember the code to do this off the top of my head, but it is very feasible) No one could use IE on your site. Get enough people to do this, and you've effectively 'banned' IE from every site except one. Then, people will start to use abandon IE, switching to Firefox (I chose Firefox because it's user-friendly enough for the non-techies who use IE in the first place) and voila! No more IE.
Well, I'm one of those people who likes to change things up often (new themes every other week, new window manager for X every month, etc.), and this article made me want to try Enlightenment out. So I did.
A warning message caught my eye when I ran the configure script. I found it, and it turned out to be of little consequence, but I also found something else in the output:
checking for mass_quantities_of_bass_ale in -lFridge... no checking for mass_quantities_of_any_ale in -lFridge... no Warning: No ales were found in your refrigerator. We highly suggest that you rectify this situation immediately.
To be added to the Summer Olympics, a sport or discipline must be widely practised by men in at least 75 countries on four continents and by women in at least 40 countries on three continents. To be added to the Winter Olympics, it must be widely practised in at least 25 countries on three continents.
Sony would have to work alot harder to get minidiscs adopted on that kind of global scale. On the other hand, minidiscs in the Olympics would be great advertising!
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I live in a state with mandatory seatbelt laws. As a driver, if I get stopped and my passengers are unbuckled, I could lose my license. The questionable nature of such a law aside, anyone who would ask me to risk that kind of legal trouble because they don't feel like using a perfectly simple safety device can drive their own car.
My high school did this with students in 11th and 12th grades, except without the option to buy the machine at graduation. There were no restrictions in place, and I'm not aware of any problems that ever occurred because of it. However, that may become a different story when you put them in the hands of 6th graders. At the same time, the inability to install software or use iChat makes them mostly useless. In my experience, students often found useful software (besides games) to install and iChat became a very useful tool for collaborative work. As for web filtering, I recognize the legal requirement for it on school networks, but making it follow the machine everywhere will last until an enterprising student figures out how to get the filtering software off.
Although there is a practical limit to how far a single electron can go, electrical signals don't consist of a single electron going from one end of the wire to the other. Instead, it's like a game of miniature billiards, with electrons lined up in the wire. You pop one in one end, and another falls out the other end almost instantaneously.
The law doesn't actually force the states into making the drinking age 21. As is usual, when Congress anticipates the "that's unconstitutional!" outcry, they, rather than mandate it, make some funding conditional upon it. So, federal interstate highway funding in your state is conditional upon the 21 drinking age and the 0.08% legal limit of intoxication. But the federal government didn't "mandate" it. Neat trick, huh?
I tried this with Camino 0.8.2 on OS X 10.3.6. I do not get any text in the Citybank popup window from Secunia. What does happen is that the ORIGINAL (the one I opened to view the Secunia site) window changes to say that I am vulnerable. However, seeing as the Citybank window still says Citybank, I'm not so sure about the validity of the claim the original Secunia window made. (Furthermore it's not a vulnerability: websites change the contents of their own window all the time.)
> BUT THAT WOULDN'T BE FAIR!!!
"Fair" as in "just" or "fair" as in "equal"?
It would certainly not be equal, by the very definition of equal.
As far as the justice of your proposal, I won't offend everyone's sensibilities by offering an inflammatory comment, but will curtail my comments with the statement that, as a former teacher of mine liked to say, "Fair [as in just] does not always mean 'equal'."
The grand prize, for the explanation of special relativity, can only be won by an Italian national born after Dec. 1983. Read it here: http://www.pirelliaward.com/ch2_eli.html
Right about Aspen, CO, but wrong about the year and the provider. It was in the early 00's. I can't find the actual date, but a 2003 Wired article says "several years ago." The network, engineered by Jim Selby covers 120 square miles in Aspen and the ski resorts around it. I saw something on TechTV about it a few years ago, but I can't find anything on their website. Here are some links I found:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0807/p17s01-stct.htA quick Google for aspen wireless jim selby returns 268 results.
Banning IE would be easy if you could get a following. Just put JavaScript code in the 'onload' parameter of the 'body' tag that detects browser and if it detects IE, redirects to the Firefox download page. (I don't remember the code to do this off the top of my head, but it is very feasible) No one could use IE on your site. Get enough people to do this, and you've effectively 'banned' IE from every site except one. Then, people will start to use abandon IE, switching to Firefox (I chose Firefox because it's user-friendly enough for the non-techies who use IE in the first place) and voila! No more IE.