The volunteer and the teacher worked from a 25-page classroom guide to explain the concept of using a computer to download files, which they called ''morally and ethically wrong." The students played roles such as ''The Film Producer," ''The Starving Artist," and were asked questions such as ''Has anyone ever copied your homework? How did this make you feel?"
By the end of one session, the teacher asked one boy: ''Will you stop copying music online and download the right way?"
''Yes," he answered. ''I'll go to the music store and buy more CDs."
Students learn to repeat the program's motto: ''If you don't pay for it, you've stolen it."
I'm not even going to get into how wrong this is...
This is what i found in Wikipedia on Venus Transits:
"Transits of Venus, when the planet crosses directly between the Earth and the Sun' visible disc, are important astronomical events. The first such transit was observed on December 4, 1639 by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree. A transit in 1761 observed by Mikhail Lomonosov provided the first evidence that Venus had an atmosphere, and the 19th century observations of parallax during its transits allowed the distance between the Earth and Sun to be accurately calculated for the first time. The previous set of transits of Venus occurred within the interval of 1874 - 1882, and the next set of transits will occur in the period of 2004 - 2012."
Perhaps a time delay should be built into the agreement, to at least encourage people reading them instead of immediatly hitting the "yes' button? Requiring you to hit the button saying "yes, i've read the agreement" before being able to hit "yes" doesn't seem to work too well...
what happens when you accidentily run this card through the wash?
well, if the card is 3 times bigger than a normal credit card, i don't see how it could be on accident...
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Everyone knows the answer is 42.
Wired has an article on this.
Due to the popularity of e-bikes, Apple has announced their new bike mounted laptop, the iBike.
Its bad enough US troops were doing this, but why were they even taking pictures of it? How stupid can you get, really...
The volunteer and the teacher worked from a 25-page classroom guide to explain the concept of using a computer to download files, which they called ''morally and ethically wrong." The students played roles such as ''The Film Producer," ''The Starving Artist," and were asked questions such as ''Has anyone ever copied your homework? How did this make you feel?"
By the end of one session, the teacher asked one boy: ''Will you stop copying music online and download the right way?"
''Yes," he answered. ''I'll go to the music store and buy more CDs."
Students learn to repeat the program's motto: ''If you don't pay for it, you've stolen it."
I'm not even going to get into how wrong this is...
This is what i found in Wikipedia on Venus Transits:
"Transits of Venus, when the planet crosses directly between the Earth and the Sun' visible disc, are important astronomical events. The first such transit was observed on December 4, 1639 by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree. A transit in 1761 observed by Mikhail Lomonosov provided the first evidence that Venus had an atmosphere, and the 19th century observations of parallax during its transits allowed the distance between the Earth and Sun to be accurately calculated for the first time. The previous set of transits of Venus occurred within the interval of 1874 - 1882, and the next set of transits will occur in the period of 2004 - 2012."
Perhaps a time delay should be built into the agreement, to at least encourage people reading them instead of immediatly hitting the "yes' button? Requiring you to hit the button saying "yes, i've read the agreement" before being able to hit "yes" doesn't seem to work too well...
what happens when you accidentily run this card through the wash? well, if the card is 3 times bigger than a normal credit card, i don't see how it could be on accident...
Now If I run Kazaa on an infected Windows system, I'll get a message saying "Illegal Operation" as it quits out on me!
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