"Schools may disclose, without consent, "directory" information such as a student's name, address, telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance."
The law seems mostly to be about releasing transcripts and such and making sure parents have the right to access them and get things corrected when they're wrong. Sorta a Fair Credit Reporting Act for your grades.
Despite the implications of this statement, what it probably really involves is paying off a student or two to sniff out and inform on filesharing activity, either by running RIAA apps or just manual searching.
I think you're giving them too much credit. That sounds like something that would involve too much work for the RIAA. I imagine they just assumed the sharing is going on and are waiting for the univeristies to prove them wrong.
Test drive the life of a new parent. Figure out if you really want to invest 18 years of time doing it before you get (yourself/your spouse) knocked up.
well, I think calling myspace a glorified AOL would be pretty sufficient.
No, because AOL is an ugly interface that provides plenty of used-to-be-exclusive content. And MySpace is an interface requiring users to make ugly and provide a mixure of original and non-exclusive content (much of it duplicated on a half dozen other social networking sites).
...with the help of a $400 million investment from some of the biggest technology companies, including Nokia, Intel, Apple, Sony, and Microsoft.
IP lawyers and tech executives worry that Intellectual Ventures is less interested in changing the world with big ideas, and more focused on becoming an über patent troll...
Wouldn't Apple, Sony, Microsoft, and Nokia be the companies most targeted by a patent troll? Everytime some company we've never heard of pops up with submarine patent to try and rake in millions on an existing product, it's one of these four companies who's on the other end of the infringement suit.
Unless they have some sort of ironclad immunity clause in their investment contracts, it sounds like they are helping their own worst enemy.
My only guess is becuase it appears as simply the word "Digital", even when moused over, and this article is about digital video disc formats. But I know the editors aren't clueless enough to have forgotten Digital was a company name as well.
With this huge devaluing of their stock, maybe Apple will consider buying the company outright.
What an internesting manipulation of the markets this would make.
1) Get annoyed at component costs for you main supplier of a hit product. 2) Leak that you are dumping them to put their stock price in the tank. 3) But company outright and do away with peksy contacts. 4) Profit by not having to pay the old company's margin anymore.
The only problem here seems to be that their kiosk was broken. What you could have done is used to the computer, internet connection, and time you utilized to whine about this on Slashdot to go to Kroger's Webite and to their "Careers" page, and then filled out the application there, at home.
There's a reason you couldn't fill it out on paper, and that is undoubtedly so the applications, all applications, can be screened by computer.
...a new generation of expensive high-tech tools is stoking a costly arms race among golfers looking for an edge in a sport that already has an elitist reputation.
The expensive tools aren't about "having an edge" on the green. It's a way of trying to create a new layer of socio-economic separation in the group of players. Golf has been a pasttime of the affluent and powerful for awhile. And it used to be a game that stayed in that domain. But the more people have been shouldering up the cost of equipment to get started (partially as part of corporate ass-kissing to try to get a leg up in office politics) and with more and more public golf courses springing up the game just isn't "exculsive" enough for the Good Ol' Boys anymore.
So they take it up a notch. How hardcore a golfer are you? "Oh, well I spent $1000 on this space age driver." "Oh well, I have a $4500 simulator."
It's just a new game of keeping up with the Jones's with an entry price set high enough to keep the riff-raff out.
In case you don't get it its making a decarative statement and then presenting options that have no correlation to the statement, I'm a professional in computers, and have been using them for well over 15 years and couldn't possibly even guess what each of those options should do. Continue what? if I dont have permission to do it how can I continue. Cancel what exactly?, as far as I can tell it just said it wasn't going to do anything anyway. Skip? skip the delete I was just told I can't do? I am baffled... based on the article I guess that it should have said something like "You currently don't have permission to delete this file, what would you like to do?" and given choices like "Grant Permission", "Don't Delete" etc...
"Continue" could either bring up a dialog for the user to type in the admin password, or it could server the same purpose as the "skip" button...
"Skip" would most likely mean "Skip deleteing this item, but continue withe the rest of the opertaion", say if the user was deleteing a large number of items at once.
"Cancel" would mean to cancel the whole operation and leave everything as it was before I chose the command that started it. But then, there would still be a question of if items already deleted would remain deleted (cancelling only the tasks not yet completed) or would they be restored and undo everything.
I used to hit mute and do the same (or read email) until I got my MythTV box. I couldn't live without it - watching ads and tv in real time, how archaic.
I'd like to see what they'll do about people who hit mute when commercials come on. You can't get an advertising message accross very well without the audio component (especially on pharma. ads). What's next? Calling someone on your phone and you can't turn down the TV to hear them because it's a commercial break?
It seems 3M holds a patent on Scotch tape and God has a patent on eyelids. The court found Phillip's inoovative combination of the two not innovative enough to warrant a separate patent.
1. There is no patent protecting this invention...
Yet. People try and often succeed in patenting stuff that has been around for decades. Until someone puts forward the effort ($$$$$$$$$$$$) to prove them wrong that party will hold the patent on the obvious and use it against people who only have this ($$).
2. The consumer demand for this invention will be high... BECAUSE 3. It can be effectively used as a substitute for normal lightbulbs...AND 4. It's more cost effective than normal lightbulbs (e.g. initial cost + lifetime eneregy spend is less for OLEDs than normal lightbulbs)
Because look how compact flourescent lights have totally wiped the inferior incandescent out of the marketplace! Unless these OLED bulbs are going to be cheap (retail price, not retail devided by lifespan) compared to incandescent bulbs, people will just keep buying what they have been. And new hotness tech is never cheap, even if it is cheap to produce.
You have years of 'summers of code' ahead - at your job. Try something else while you have the chance.
Yes, but those summers of coding will be heavily deadline driven and for projects one probably doesn't want to work on that much. Whereas a 'Summer of Code' is more about working on something of personal interest and learning. It's more a workshop than a day-job.
I think it would be nice to find out what ultimately became of all the work done on last summer's coding. Voice/Video support for Gaim was one of the Summer of Code projects last year, and it's still a feature being pushed further into the roadmap.
But really, it's a very large problem. My hometown (pop 30,000) has caught something like 7 online preditors in the past 2 years. Without the logs as evidence, how else are they supposed to catch these scumbags?
I don't see us passing laws to have the post office open our mail and make photocopies of all the letters I write for temporary storage. I feel that my email should be subject to the same general privacy (cacheing by relays and normal email process forgiven) that my post appears to be granted.
If the police want to catch someone, let them start investigating them and then start having the ISP grab email and monitor traffic. But only once they are suspected. My problem is with the idea everyone is being recorded all the time for no justifiable reason beforehand. "If you innocent, you have nothing to hide" reasoning my ass.
As far as this town is concerned, I would look for reasons why so many people have been caught in Kiddie Porn recently in what is such a small city. There must be some reasoning for this anomoly.
But then, implying everybody is a criminal is a lot easier for city managers than admitting there's a local crime problem on their watch. [smirk]
My Macworld subscription just expired this month, and I'm thinking of not renewing. Nowadays when I read it I see lots of stories I read weeks ago on the web, iPod junk I'm not all that interested in, and with the harder hitting technical content and advanced Photoshop how-tos gone, I'm finsing little reason to keep getting the magazine, especially given the price and smaller size. For awhile I was signing on in two year blocks because of an extra discounted rate, but that promotion is gone and all you can do now is get a free gift sub (but it has to be a concurrent sub for someone else not to yourself), so a sales pitch, not a real deal for the reader.
MacWorld has always been a pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking magazine.
Actually, I miss the old Macworld of back then. Macworld used to be more technical and more citical of design decisions at Apple. But since they incorporated MacUser and tough times have hit the publishing industry (especially the computer publishing industry), Macworld has gotten kinda soft. They're trying to appeal to a wider audience. I have over eight years of back issues of Macworld and the ones from near the beginning of my collection have 50% more to even twice the page count of the new ones. You can even see this in the design. They adopted a thinner typeface on the spine of the magazine because the old one was too thick to fit on the skimpy magazine.
Many of the articles have a much more positive spin and for awhile there it seemed every third issue was focusing on the iPod (which was an annoyance for those of us who care about Macintoshes, given that they have an entire magazine to devote to iPod worship).
Back in the day, when Apple was one bad day from becoming a memory, MacWorld had a glowing-postive view of the future.
Well, Macworld's readership depends on interest in the Mac platform, so publishing lots of articles fortelling that Apple was about to go out of business isn't going to help keep people faithful Apple wouldn't become the next Amiga and have them start looking at Wintels to switch to. It was an optimistic view not entirely without self serving tendencies for them to publish articles like that at the time.
If Macworld is glowing positive, it's now. They rarely say anything bad about Apple products they review anymore. They may point out that such-and-such desicison is specs yield performance not as good as the previous generation or some other model in the lineup. But they'll never say this was a poor decision, in the end the review always rates the hardware as being a good value.
I think part of this is simply advertising dollars. You saw the same thing with Mac News sites on the web a few years ago. Ones that have Apple as an advertiser don't say as many bad things about Apple as they used to, and ones that used to carry Apple rumors occasionally stopped completely from threat of having Apple pull their advertising.
As far as Microsofties having a mass exodus to Apple, I have to say "Why would Apple want them?"
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I find their choice of background music for that video somewhat ironic.
From the Dept of Education's webiste:
"Schools may disclose, without consent, "directory" information such as a student's name, address, telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance."
The law seems mostly to be about releasing transcripts and such and making sure parents have the right to access them and get things corrected when they're wrong. Sorta a Fair Credit Reporting Act for your grades.
Despite the implications of this statement, what it probably really involves is paying off a student or two to sniff out and inform on filesharing activity, either by running RIAA apps or just manual searching.
I think you're giving them too much credit. That sounds like something that would involve too much work for the RIAA. I imagine they just assumed the sharing is going on and are waiting for the univeristies to prove them wrong.
Oh! Dammit! I forgot to say First Post! And for once I actually got it.
Isn't MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) a standard set of vacines everyone gets before they go into school? How long are those supposed to be effective?
In a side note: the girl sitting next to me right now (at work) was gone with the mumps a couple weeks ago.
Here would be a worthwhile oppurtunity.
Test drive the life of a new parent. Figure out if you really want to invest 18 years of time doing it before you get (yourself/your spouse) knocked up.
well, I think calling myspace a glorified AOL would be pretty sufficient.
No, because AOL is an ugly interface that provides plenty of used-to-be-exclusive content. And MySpace is an interface requiring users to make ugly and provide a mixure of original and non-exclusive content (much of it duplicated on a half dozen other social networking sites).
...with the help of a $400 million investment from some of the biggest technology companies, including Nokia, Intel, Apple, Sony, and Microsoft.
IP lawyers and tech executives worry that Intellectual Ventures is less interested in changing the world with big ideas, and more focused on becoming an über patent troll...
Wouldn't Apple, Sony, Microsoft, and Nokia be the companies most targeted by a patent troll? Everytime some company we've never heard of pops up with submarine patent to try and rake in millions on an existing product, it's one of these four companies who's on the other end of the infringement suit.
Unless they have some sort of ironclad immunity clause in their investment contracts, it sounds like they are helping their own worst enemy.
My only guess is becuase it appears as simply the word "Digital", even when moused over, and this article is about digital video disc formats. But I know the editors aren't clueless enough to have forgotten Digital was a company name as well.
ebay would love for me to sell myself stuff. They get $.25 + 3% + 1.25% + 4% of every transaction.
Unfortunately, you can't sell yourself.
Portal Player solution is very expensive.
With this huge devaluing of their stock, maybe Apple will consider buying the company outright.
What an internesting manipulation of the markets this would make.
1) Get annoyed at component costs for you main supplier of a hit product.
2) Leak that you are dumping them to put their stock price in the tank.
3) But company outright and do away with peksy contacts.
4) Profit by not having to pay the old company's margin anymore.
The only problem here seems to be that their kiosk was broken. What you could have done is used to the computer, internet connection, and time you utilized to whine about this on Slashdot to go to Kroger's Webite and to their "Careers" page, and then filled out the application there, at home.
There's a reason you couldn't fill it out on paper, and that is undoubtedly so the applications, all applications, can be screened by computer.
...a new generation of expensive high-tech tools is stoking a costly arms race among golfers looking for an edge in a sport that already has an elitist reputation.
The expensive tools aren't about "having an edge" on the green. It's a way of trying to create a new layer of socio-economic separation in the group of players. Golf has been a pasttime of the affluent and powerful for awhile. And it used to be a game that stayed in that domain. But the more people have been shouldering up the cost of equipment to get started (partially as part of corporate ass-kissing to try to get a leg up in office politics) and with more and more public golf courses springing up the game just isn't "exculsive" enough for the Good Ol' Boys anymore.
So they take it up a notch. How hardcore a golfer are you? "Oh, well I spent $1000 on this space age driver." "Oh well, I have a $4500 simulator."
It's just a new game of keeping up with the Jones's with an entry price set high enough to keep the riff-raff out.
In case you don't get it its making a decarative statement and then presenting options that have no correlation to the statement, I'm a professional in computers, and have been using them for well over 15 years and couldn't possibly even guess what each of those options should do. Continue what? if I dont have permission to do it how can I continue. Cancel what exactly?, as far as I can tell it just said it wasn't going to do anything anyway. Skip? skip the delete I was just told I can't do? I am baffled... based on the article I guess that it should have said something like "You currently don't have permission to delete this file, what would you like to do?" and given choices like "Grant Permission", "Don't Delete" etc...
"Continue" could either bring up a dialog for the user to type in the admin password, or it could server the same purpose as the "skip" button...
"Skip" would most likely mean "Skip deleteing this item, but continue withe the rest of the opertaion", say if the user was deleteing a large number of items at once.
"Cancel" would mean to cancel the whole operation and leave everything as it was before I chose the command that started it. But then, there would still be a question of if items already deleted would remain deleted (cancelling only the tasks not yet completed) or would they be restored and undo everything.
All I got to say is:
Look! Someone else in government who's going to get paid to do nothing!
I'd like to see what they'll do about people who hit mute when commercials come on. You can't get an advertising message accross very well without the audio component (especially on pharma. ads). What's next? Calling someone on your phone and you can't turn down the TV to hear them because it's a commercial break?
It seems 3M holds a patent on Scotch tape and God has a patent on eyelids. The court found Phillip's inoovative combination of the two not innovative enough to warrant a separate patent.
You need three monitors to see your entire grocery list!
[rimshot]
What happens when that security check reveals that one of the people walking through the door is [Bill Gates]
It does what any other Microsoft product would do for someone claiming to be Bill Gates, it allows administrator access.
1. There is no patent protecting this invention...
...AND
Yet. People try and often succeed in patenting stuff that has been around for decades. Until someone puts forward the effort ($$$$$$$$$$$$) to prove them wrong that party will hold the patent on the obvious and use it against people who only have this ($$).
2. The consumer demand for this invention will be high... BECAUSE
3. It can be effectively used as a substitute for normal lightbulbs
4. It's more cost effective than normal lightbulbs (e.g. initial cost + lifetime eneregy spend is less for OLEDs than normal lightbulbs)
Because look how compact flourescent lights have totally wiped the inferior incandescent out of the marketplace! Unless these OLED bulbs are going to be cheap (retail price, not retail devided by lifespan) compared to incandescent bulbs, people will just keep buying what they have been. And new hotness tech is never cheap, even if it is cheap to produce.
You have years of 'summers of code' ahead - at your job. Try something else while you have the chance.
Yes, but those summers of coding will be heavily deadline driven and for projects one probably doesn't want to work on that much. Whereas a 'Summer of Code' is more about working on something of personal interest and learning. It's more a workshop than a day-job.
I think it would be nice to find out what ultimately became of all the work done on last summer's coding. Voice/Video support for Gaim was one of the Summer of Code projects last year, and it's still a feature being pushed further into the roadmap.
But really, it's a very large problem. My hometown (pop 30,000) has caught something like 7 online preditors in the past 2 years. Without the logs as evidence, how else are they supposed to catch these scumbags?
I don't see us passing laws to have the post office open our mail and make photocopies of all the letters I write for temporary storage. I feel that my email should be subject to the same general privacy (cacheing by relays and normal email process forgiven) that my post appears to be granted.
If the police want to catch someone, let them start investigating them and then start having the ISP grab email and monitor traffic. But only once they are suspected. My problem is with the idea everyone is being recorded all the time for no justifiable reason beforehand. "If you innocent, you have nothing to hide" reasoning my ass.
As far as this town is concerned, I would look for reasons why so many people have been caught in Kiddie Porn recently in what is such a small city. There must be some reasoning for this anomoly.
But then, implying everybody is a criminal is a lot easier for city managers than admitting there's a local crime problem on their watch. [smirk]
I forgot to add:
My Macworld subscription just expired this month, and I'm thinking of not renewing. Nowadays when I read it I see lots of stories I read weeks ago on the web, iPod junk I'm not all that interested in, and with the harder hitting technical content and advanced Photoshop how-tos gone, I'm finsing little reason to keep getting the magazine, especially given the price and smaller size. For awhile I was signing on in two year blocks because of an extra discounted rate, but that promotion is gone and all you can do now is get a free gift sub (but it has to be a concurrent sub for someone else not to yourself), so a sales pitch, not a real deal for the reader.
MacWorld has always been a pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking magazine.
Actually, I miss the old Macworld of back then. Macworld used to be more technical and more citical of design decisions at Apple. But since they incorporated MacUser and tough times have hit the publishing industry (especially the computer publishing industry), Macworld has gotten kinda soft. They're trying to appeal to a wider audience. I have over eight years of back issues of Macworld and the ones from near the beginning of my collection have 50% more to even twice the page count of the new ones. You can even see this in the design. They adopted a thinner typeface on the spine of the magazine because the old one was too thick to fit on the skimpy magazine.
Many of the articles have a much more positive spin and for awhile there it seemed every third issue was focusing on the iPod (which was an annoyance for those of us who care about Macintoshes, given that they have an entire magazine to devote to iPod worship).
Back in the day, when Apple was one bad day from becoming a memory, MacWorld had a glowing-postive view of the future.
Well, Macworld's readership depends on interest in the Mac platform, so publishing lots of articles fortelling that Apple was about to go out of business isn't going to help keep people faithful Apple wouldn't become the next Amiga and have them start looking at Wintels to switch to. It was an optimistic view not entirely without self serving tendencies for them to publish articles like that at the time.
If Macworld is glowing positive, it's now. They rarely say anything bad about Apple products they review anymore. They may point out that such-and-such desicison is specs yield performance not as good as the previous generation or some other model in the lineup. But they'll never say this was a poor decision, in the end the review always rates the hardware as being a good value.
I think part of this is simply advertising dollars. You saw the same thing with Mac News sites on the web a few years ago. Ones that have Apple as an advertiser don't say as many bad things about Apple as they used to, and ones that used to carry Apple rumors occasionally stopped completely from threat of having Apple pull their advertising.
As far as Microsofties having a mass exodus to Apple, I have to say "Why would Apple want them?"