IANAL, but I think that even better than filling the files with random gibberish would be to write up a real document expressing your thoughts about the RIAA's tactics or a critique of $RANDOM_SONG_BY_POPULAR_ARTIST. Include an explicit copyright notice and expressly state at the beginning of the document that you do not give permission for the RIAA to read this document.
Then take that file and share it under a name suited to catch a watcher's eyes (say "C. of $RANDOM_SONG_BY_POPULAR_ARTIST" [C. for critique.]) Then if you get sued, go to trial and ask the RIAA rep if they actually read the file you had available for download. If they didn't, you can blast them in court on the record for filing a lawsuit without even verifying that you were infringing on their copyright, and if they did ask them if they respected your copyright notice.
I too do not download music (either legally or illegally; I think a lot of what's out there is crap), and I believe that the copyright holders have the right to enforce their copyrights... but I feel this "sue 'em all and let the courts figure it out" mentality is the wrong way for the RIAA to do it.
Underwater research is in fact more difficult than space research -- you need a much stronger capsule to survive a deep trip than you do to survive a trip into space, at least if you just consider pressure. The difference between the atmospheric pressure inside a space capsule and outside is generally going to be 1 atmosphere -- basically 14.7 PSI or a little over a thousand grams per square centimeter.
According to the NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the pressure increases at 1 atmosphere per 10 meters. If you go 4000 meters down, that's 400 atmospheres of pressure pushing inward on the outside skin of your submarine. One atmosphere is pushing outward on the inside skin of your sub. That submarine better have a strong skin, or the people inside it are going to end up looking like something you'd spread on toast.
The article I linked above has a great account of what happened during an unmanned test of some diving equipment at 3000 feet -- it's not often that you read a scientific article or story and see the sentence "If I had been in the way, I would have been decapitated."
Sorry, they don't include quotes from non-printed sources. Quote from their How to Cite page:
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printed sources, typically books and magazines, but also physical copies of movie scripts, dated programs from cons, fanzines, unpublished papers, etc. However, Web pages, E-books, Usenet posts, movies themselves, and similar sources can not be quoted directly. Web pages may have useful historical information that will allow us to track down print examples, or a prominent use in a movie may lead us to the script, a novelization, or the like, but we ask in general that you do not send in examples from this kind of source.
Now if on that Wiki page you had a reference to a science fiction novel or movie script that used the word "nemory", they could use the Wiki page to track down that novel or script, but they wouldn't use the Wiki page itself.
If a student gives out their password and then someone destroys their work or even a chunk of a thesis/project, they sure won't think security needs aren't severe. I have a friend who lost a couple of months worth of work on a major project due to a virus (I know, it's not exactly the same, but imagine he lost it due to someone using his password to log onto his machine and erase it -- and don't ask about backups. He knows to back stuff up regularly now.) and graduated 6 months late due to it.
If you need to run using a student's profile, then rather than asking the student for their password, why not tell the student to log in, change their password to something else temporarily (so that if part of the cleanup process requires you to log off, you don't have to have the student log back in) and have the student reset the password to what they want when you give the laptop back?
Heck, the Jedi were so all-powerful that they were almost wiped out, and the last two were reduced to hiding out in a swamp (Yoda) and hiding out stalking a young boy (Obi-Wan).
It doesn't matter how powerful you are, if someone detonates a nuclear weapon (for instance) inside the building you're in, you're screwed.
As for two of the last Jedi [I believe that the novels set after the Return of the Jedi indicate that a few other Jedi managed to survive the elimination of the Jedi order, generally by being in some remote corner of the galaxy and hiding out until the search died down] it's likely that Obi-Wan was ordered by the Council or took it upon himself to hide Luke and Leia from Anakin and hid himself in order to be available as a mentor to them if they became aware of their heritage. As for Yoda... maybe he was on vacation when the Sith made their move?
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Well, if you're a company like Boeing or Toyota, it's kind of nice to be able to say "The process we're using will produce the same results when applied to this plane/car today as it's done thousands or millions of times in the past." It reassures customers (and government investigators, were something to go wrong) a bit more than "Sure, we're trying a new procedure for this $VERY_EXPENSIVE plane/car you just purchased from us. It should give basically the same results."
I like the quote you gave from the paper. It doesn't matter if the way the product is working is the way it's documented to work. It doesn't matter if you ship stone tablets you received on Mt. Sinai containing a statement that the product is working as it is documented to work. If it doesn't work the way the customer thinks it should work, then customers will either report the behavior as a bug or will request an enhancement to the product to get it to work the way they think it should.
There is such a process. It's called "parents reading the TV Guide/TV listings in the newspaper ahead of time and deciding what their children watch". If you're a parent, you let your kids watch something like "NYPD Blue", and then you get angry about the content of the show, tough. The job of being a parent comes with some rights and some responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to decide to what your children are exposed. Whether you choose to make that decision in an informed manner or blindly is up to you.
There was one particular paragraph from the article that I found most interesting -- it's one of the few things that President Bush has said with which I agree:
While lawmakers and some parents groups are anxious to wipe the airwaves clean of indecency after singer Janet Jackson bared her breast last year during the Super Bowl halftime show, President Bush has said parents are the first line of defense and can just "turn it off."
Going back to your original comment about a "broadcast flag", there are a couple of potential problems I see with that system. The first is in the choice of who gets to classify programs to determine what constitutes vulgar language or inappropriate behavior. For instance, suppose that someone from Slashdot was chosen as that moderator. Any program praising Microsoft would instantly be marked as vulgar language;) Seriously, look how Slashdot's moderation and editing system works -- do you really want TV to be moderated and edited the same way? A less humorous scenario: anti-abortion or anti-gay-marriage advocates censoring out pro-abortion or pro-gay-marriage content or vice versa. [Whether you're pro or against either of those, hopefully you realize the free discussion of ths issue is important.]
The second problem with the system is that of false positives. Let's say that you were watching an episode of Bill Nye, the Science Guy. Suddenly, in the middle of a segment on how vinegar affects eggshells, the sound goes dead. Why? He was talking about acid (acetic acid, to be precise.) Similarly, both 'cock' and 'ass', among other 'dirty words', have nonsexual meanings referring to various animals.
You're correct that those people who want to harass others who have restraining orders against them will be able to do so. However, it'll be a hell of a lot easier to prove that the first person was harassing them after the restraining order was filed if the GPS records where the first person travelled and if that evidence is admissible in court. Rather than a "my word versus your word" argument, we would have a "your GPS data versus your word" situation... and it would be a lot harder to argue that the GPS unit was wrong or mistaken.
No, Andre the Giant played Fezzik. Inigo Montoya (played by Mandy Patinkin) was the one who gave the quotes the parent used. Look at the 15th quote on this IMDB page.
Hate to cash in on Slashdot's anti-Microsoft sentiment... but I will anyway. By that same rationale, Windows is solid because it's the operating system used on Microsoft's corporate network;)
How about a small blue square with white squiggly lines on it (if you squint you can just make out "The system is either busy or has become unstable...") and a big red circle with a line through it on top of the square?
Look at Blogger's terms of service. No one on Blogger, not even Google employees, are "free to blog whatever they want". Look at the sections on Member Conduct -- here's an appropriate quote from section 4 of the Blogspot.com TOS:
You agree to not use the Service to: (a) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
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(d) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); ...
(h) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law; ...
If this blogger used Blogspot.com, and he posted information that his NDA indicated that he was not allowed to post, then he was in violation of his NDA and the TOS for Blogspot.com. In that case, Blogspot.com would be well within their rights to terminate his blog and Google would be within their rights to terminate his employment. This is just my opinion, and IANAL, but it seems reasonable. Blogger.com's TOS has a similar section that would apply if he was just using Blogger.com.
A show like this one? The fans tried. In the case of Farscape, they were able to convince the network to create a miniseries to wrap up loose ends. I'm not optimistic that the Enterprise attempt to do the same will perform as well.
In a case like this, my opinion is that you should bring your concerns about the game and describe what you've heard your Little Brother talking about to his mother. Then the two of you should sit down with your LB and have a nice long chat about the difference between reality and fantasy. Depending on how mature he is, he may be well aware of the line between the two -- and in that case, there may be less of a reason for concern. On the other hand, if the line's blurry, his mother may take action and restrict his access to the game or remove it altogether.
I think you're doing the right thing by being interested in what the kid is doing -- there are, sadly, too many people who think of TV/video games/the Internet as a babysitter, where they can leave their kids with it and forget.
I have one more suggestion: see if there's some way of leveraging his interest in PoP2 into a more general interest. Go out for a meal at a restaurant with a Middle-Eastern decor and food. If he's more interested in the fighting (as is likely) some form of martial arts or something like the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) might capture his interest and give him some additional guidance.
Given the Sci-Fi Channel's response to the outpouring of support for Farscape when they announced that they were cancelling it, I don't think they would be likely to throw out a life preserver for Enterprise.
Why would it be hard to find teachers to educate the inmates? Use online or video teaching courses, and tie other privileges to completion of those courses. Those who want to learn will learn and get other perks, and those who don't won't learn and won't get those perks. If an inmate hears about others who are getting good grades on tests and are therefore getting more time outside, for instance, won't that inmate think about trying out these classes so that he or she can get outside more often?
Similarly, if an inmate destroys the learning materials or in other ways prevents others from making use of the opportunities, punish them by removing some of the privileges they have received.
Once they have the basics down, give them specialized training in an area that is likely to give them something to do when they are released. Unfortunately, the law would need to be changed to allow this -- see this article from the Congressional Record published in 1996.
If vault has a rating that indicates that it should be resistant to manipulation for at least 15 minutes, it should not have a vulnerabilty that allows it to be opened with a Bic pen, a 9V battery, and two paperclips in 15 seconds.
Nitpick: SoTuA is _writing_ in English, not _speaking_ English. There are some situations where it is easy to tell what someone is saying but it would be difficult to tell what they meant if they wrote it, and vice versa.
For instance, the words "two", "to", and "too" all sound the same when spoken and you would need to figure out from context which I meant. Similarly, "which" and "witch" sound the same. However, written down you can easily differentiate them.
On the other hand, sometimes two words are written with the same spelling and only the location of the accent, or the context in which the word appears, can distinguish which meaning is intended. For instance, "desert" in the sense of the Sahara desert and "desert" in the sense of leaving a military unit without leave are spelled the same, but the first is spoken with the accent on the first syllable -- DEsert -- but the second has the accent on the second -- deSERT.
And then there are those words that are spelled and pronounced the same... but usually those are easy to distinguish from context. For instance, principal can mean the administrator of a school or the money borrowed for a loan, and interest can mean the money charged on a loan or something to which a person pays special attention. [And if you want to pay off your loan quickly, you probably have an interest in your interest.]
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IANAL, but I think that even better than filling the files with random gibberish would be to write up a real document expressing your thoughts about the RIAA's tactics or a critique of $RANDOM_SONG_BY_POPULAR_ARTIST. Include an explicit copyright notice and expressly state at the beginning of the document that you do not give permission for the RIAA to read this document.
... but I feel this "sue 'em all and let the courts figure it out" mentality is the wrong way for the RIAA to do it.
Then take that file and share it under a name suited to catch a watcher's eyes (say "C. of $RANDOM_SONG_BY_POPULAR_ARTIST" [C. for critique.]) Then if you get sued, go to trial and ask the RIAA rep if they actually read the file you had available for download. If they didn't, you can blast them in court on the record for filing a lawsuit without even verifying that you were infringing on their copyright, and if they did ask them if they respected your copyright notice.
I too do not download music (either legally or illegally; I think a lot of what's out there is crap), and I believe that the copyright holders have the right to enforce their copyrights
Underwater research is in fact more difficult than space research -- you need a much stronger capsule to survive a deep trip than you do to survive a trip into space, at least if you just consider pressure. The difference between the atmospheric pressure inside a space capsule and outside is generally going to be 1 atmosphere -- basically 14.7 PSI or a little over a thousand grams per square centimeter.
According to the NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the pressure increases at 1 atmosphere per 10 meters. If you go 4000 meters down, that's 400 atmospheres of pressure pushing inward on the outside skin of your submarine. One atmosphere is pushing outward on the inside skin of your sub. That submarine better have a strong skin, or the people inside it are going to end up looking like something you'd spread on toast.
The article I linked above has a great account of what happened during an unmanned test of some diving equipment at 3000 feet -- it's not often that you read a scientific article or story and see the sentence "If I had been in the way, I would have been decapitated."
It's coming ... October 1st, 1993, shortly after AOL freezes over.
I'm surprised that Slashdot isn't listed as an anti-Microsoft site.
Now if on that Wiki page you had a reference to a science fiction novel or movie script that used the word "nemory", they could use the Wiki page to track down that novel or script, but they wouldn't use the Wiki page itself.
If a student gives out their password and then someone destroys their work or even a chunk of a thesis/project, they sure won't think security needs aren't severe. I have a friend who lost a couple of months worth of work on a major project due to a virus (I know, it's not exactly the same, but imagine he lost it due to someone using his password to log onto his machine and erase it -- and don't ask about backups. He knows to back stuff up regularly now.) and graduated 6 months late due to it.
If you need to run using a student's profile, then rather than asking the student for their password, why not tell the student to log in, change their password to something else temporarily (so that if part of the cleanup process requires you to log off, you don't have to have the student log back in) and have the student reset the password to what they want when you give the laptop back?
Heck, the Jedi were so all-powerful that they were almost wiped out, and the last two were reduced to hiding out in a swamp (Yoda) and hiding out stalking a young boy (Obi-Wan).
... maybe he was on vacation when the Sith made their move?
It doesn't matter how powerful you are, if someone detonates a nuclear weapon (for instance) inside the building you're in, you're screwed.
As for two of the last Jedi [I believe that the novels set after the Return of the Jedi indicate that a few other Jedi managed to survive the elimination of the Jedi order, generally by being in some remote corner of the galaxy and hiding out until the search died down] it's likely that Obi-Wan was ordered by the Council or took it upon himself to hide Luke and Leia from Anakin and hid himself in order to be available as a mentor to them if they became aware of their heritage. As for Yoda
Well, if you're a company like Boeing or Toyota, it's kind of nice to be able to say "The process we're using will produce the same results when applied to this plane/car today as it's done thousands or millions of times in the past." It reassures customers (and government investigators, were something to go wrong) a bit more than "Sure, we're trying a new procedure for this $VERY_EXPENSIVE plane/car you just purchased from us. It should give basically the same results."
I like the quote you gave from the paper. It doesn't matter if the way the product is working is the way it's documented to work. It doesn't matter if you ship stone tablets you received on Mt. Sinai containing a statement that the product is working as it is documented to work. If it doesn't work the way the customer thinks it should work, then customers will either report the behavior as a bug or will request an enhancement to the product to get it to work the way they think it should.
There was one particular paragraph from the article that I found most interesting -- it's one of the few things that President Bush has said with which I agree:
Going back to your original comment about a "broadcast flag", there are a couple of potential problems I see with that system. The first is in the choice of who gets to classify programs to determine what constitutes vulgar language or inappropriate behavior. For instance, suppose that someone from Slashdot was chosen as that moderator. Any program praising Microsoft would instantly be marked as vulgar language
The second problem with the system is that of false positives. Let's say that you were watching an episode of Bill Nye, the Science Guy. Suddenly, in the middle of a segment on how vinegar affects eggshells, the sound goes dead. Why? He was talking about acid (acetic acid, to be precise.) Similarly, both 'cock' and 'ass', among other 'dirty words', have nonsexual meanings referring to various animals.
We the people of the United States would like to welcome the people of the EU to our world :(
You're correct that those people who want to harass others who have restraining orders against them will be able to do so. However, it'll be a hell of a lot easier to prove that the first person was harassing them after the restraining order was filed if the GPS records where the first person travelled and if that evidence is admissible in court. Rather than a "my word versus your word" argument, we would have a "your GPS data versus your word" situation ... and it would be a lot harder to argue that the GPS unit was wrong or mistaken.
No, Andre the Giant played Fezzik. Inigo Montoya (played by Mandy Patinkin) was the one who gave the quotes the parent used. Look at the 15th quote on this IMDB page.
Hate to cash in on Slashdot's anti-Microsoft sentiment ... but I will anyway. By that same rationale, Windows is solid because it's the operating system used on Microsoft's corporate network ;)
How about a small blue square with white squiggly lines on it (if you squint you can just make out "The system is either busy or has become unstable ...") and a big red circle with a line through it on top of the square?
If this blogger used Blogspot.com, and he posted information that his NDA indicated that he was not allowed to post, then he was in violation of his NDA and the TOS for Blogspot.com. In that case, Blogspot.com would be well within their rights to terminate his blog and Google would be within their rights to terminate his employment. This is just my opinion, and IANAL, but it seems reasonable. Blogger.com's TOS has a similar section that would apply if he was just using Blogger.com.
A show like this one? The fans tried. In the case of Farscape, they were able to convince the network to create a miniseries to wrap up loose ends. I'm not optimistic that the Enterprise attempt to do the same will perform as well.
In a case like this, my opinion is that you should bring your concerns about the game and describe what you've heard your Little Brother talking about to his mother. Then the two of you should sit down with your LB and have a nice long chat about the difference between reality and fantasy. Depending on how mature he is, he may be well aware of the line between the two -- and in that case, there may be less of a reason for concern. On the other hand, if the line's blurry, his mother may take action and restrict his access to the game or remove it altogether.
I think you're doing the right thing by being interested in what the kid is doing -- there are, sadly, too many people who think of TV/video games/the Internet as a babysitter, where they can leave their kids with it and forget.
I have one more suggestion: see if there's some way of leveraging his interest in PoP2 into a more general interest. Go out for a meal at a restaurant with a Middle-Eastern decor and food. If he's more interested in the fighting (as is likely) some form of martial arts or something like the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) might capture his interest and give him some additional guidance.
Given the Sci-Fi Channel's response to the outpouring of support for Farscape when they announced that they were cancelling it, I don't think they would be likely to throw out a life preserver for Enterprise.
Why would it be hard to find teachers to educate the inmates? Use online or video teaching courses, and tie other privileges to completion of those courses. Those who want to learn will learn and get other perks, and those who don't won't learn and won't get those perks. If an inmate hears about others who are getting good grades on tests and are therefore getting more time outside, for instance, won't that inmate think about trying out these classes so that he or she can get outside more often?
Similarly, if an inmate destroys the learning materials or in other ways prevents others from making use of the opportunities, punish them by removing some of the privileges they have received.
Once they have the basics down, give them specialized training in an area that is likely to give them something to do when they are released. Unfortunately, the law would need to be changed to allow this -- see this article from the Congressional Record published in 1996.
You can't sue Usenet. It's too decentralized.
No, but FYI, apparently you can try to sue a newsgroup.
How did you get access to Senator Orrin Hatch's beta Windows PiracySolution (Win PS) operating system?
How interesting that you chose age 60 as the cutoff ... so did the writers of this Star Trek: the Next Generation episode.
If vault has a rating that indicates that it should be resistant to manipulation for at least 15 minutes, it should not have a vulnerabilty that allows it to be opened with a Bic pen, a 9V battery, and two paperclips in 15 seconds.
Unless, of course, the person trying to open the vault is MacGyver. Oh wait. The "MacGyverisims" shown in the series are all based on scientific fact, but not all of the steps needed to create the experiment were shown.. You'd need a Bic pen, a 9V, two paperclips, and a rubber band.
Nitpick: SoTuA is _writing_ in English, not _speaking_ English. There are some situations where it is easy to tell what someone is saying but it would be difficult to tell what they meant if they wrote it, and vice versa.
... but usually those are easy to distinguish from context. For instance, principal can mean the administrator of a school or the money borrowed for a loan, and interest can mean the money charged on a loan or something to which a person pays special attention. [And if you want to pay off your loan quickly, you probably have an interest in your interest.]
For instance, the words "two", "to", and "too" all sound the same when spoken and you would need to figure out from context which I meant. Similarly, "which" and "witch" sound the same. However, written down you can easily differentiate them.
On the other hand, sometimes two words are written with the same spelling and only the location of the accent, or the context in which the word appears, can distinguish which meaning is intended. For instance, "desert" in the sense of the Sahara desert and "desert" in the sense of leaving a military unit without leave are spelled the same, but the first is spoken with the accent on the first syllable -- DEsert -- but the second has the accent on the second -- deSERT.
And then there are those words that are spelled and pronounced the same