even better, firemen and other individuals with authority can gain "root access" by using a key and thus gain full control of and override ability on the elevator.
have you SEEN some victorian era pron? it puts ours to shame man. Don't talk to me about modern corruption, go read some mid 1800s porn and come back.
sure, that wasnt the founding fathers, but porn certainly isnt new, and the stuff they came up with and widely circulated back then makes Debbie does Dallas look like a children's story.
1) Not all the sites filtered are going to be pron. Filtering isnt perfect and this means that legitimate stuff will get blocked (like anything involving coral cache prolly, or medical sites, or abortion sites, or.... you get the idea)
2) Porn isnt illegal, illegal porn is illegal. That sounds silly but its important. This is a public service, if its legal than you should be allowed access to it. Sure, make temporary logs if you want to stop illegal use, but don't blanket ban everything on a subject. Sure argue that logs are ineffective, guess what? so is filtering!
I want the State of Texas to leave the internet open for any kid with
a laptop to override their usual ISP proxies and filters (AOL etc.)
at every highway service, and browse horse porn and look up bomb-making
instructions sitting next to the forecourt of a gas station."
thats the parents problem now isnt it, or are we now a nanny state?
You know you can get some types of porn from local libraries? Perhaps we should stop funding them, evil institutions.... Freedom of speech is freedom of speech, it is not freedom of speech when I like it.
300mhz? text only? god, are you kidding? my firewall, my server for proxying into from school, and my webserver are 2 300mhz and 1 450mhz machines respectively. If I wanted to they'd run kde and gnome adequetly (yes I've tried) and they run xfce or wmaker very well if you want graphics. They also serve their current purposes that I use them for very very well.
as for buying a new mini-itx machine for 200 as opposed to using old hardware... Believe it or not but these machines still eat less power and its 200 dollars I have to spend on something else.
As for other uses, there are lots of schools and hospitals that would be grateful for an infusion of 300mhz machines, even if just for use as internet kiosks (rsrch).
You're friend is very foolish to simply throw his machines out, I hope that at least some enterprising dumpster divers got some use out of the hardware.
I call total BS. On my connection, using an ssh proxy from school (which blocks BT) to my home (which is a firewalled connection on speakeasy DSL) with my upload cap at 22.5 I'm getting ~18 down, and I only just started so I expect itll go up as I seed more.
Sounds like a prob with your ISP or the truth moren BT to me....
I don't think the parent was refering to the ex's complaints and claims as much as to the fact she posted "intimate personal e-mails", which I suppose if you think about in the right light could be considered copywritten.
However, since she was the recipient of said letters I'm thinking that you could not use copyright law in this case, unless he provided a handy EULA with his email about publicating them of course:-P.
it makes a kind of sense if you think about it. After all, if (like most of this country unfortunately) you believe that your truth is the right truth and that you are always correct then of course, why shoud you be sensored. OTOH, everyone else is wrong, perhaps dangerously so (to the spread of your beliefs) so they must be censored.
this thinking is incredibly dangerous to freedom of speech and press and it is unfortunately what is spreading in this free-turned-theocracy of a country.
yeah, getting there:-P
Actually, laziness aside, I will be building stuff soon (a carboard and duct-tape boat for a race on campus for one). But for now I'm being lazy and putting off studying/paper writing.
I see this, sitting in my dorm room at 4:30AM and I say to myself, wow, if I were more productive I'd be building something like this instead of reading slashdot. Then I realize that I'm lazy and stop this line of inquiry before it makes me want to actually get up and do something, maybe next week......
lol, yeah. My local computer store has an apple store in it. Whenever I go in I always take a few minutes to ogle the 2, 30" display steup they have to showcase the G5. I always sit there and say: "now if only I had 10grand to spend...":-P.
unless you live in the upper reaches of brooklyn the L is not the line you commute with. The bulk of people who live in brooklyn (including myself) take the A/C/2/3/4/5/N/R/Q/D/M/F to commute. the L is hardly the only way into manhattan from brooklyn (hell the original purpose of the subway system was to get people from downtown brooklyn into manhattan).
As for the L service, I've never had any probs with it and I use it all the time. It's usually more reliable than a lot of other lines (ever tried waiting for the D near coney island, or the 2/3 at off hours at clark in brklyn heights, where I live?).
unfortunately only 2 companies in the WORLD (one in paris, cant remem where the other one is) still make relays for the old system. Thus it is enourmously expensive and time consuming to get repairs when something breaks. They need to move to a new system because the old system, as refined as it is, is slowly dying.
As for hackability, the recent fire on the A/C line (the line I take) created one hell of a problem by damaging ONE central switching point. The system may not be vulnerable to hacking as we know it, but a well placed, larger fire, engineered intentionally could do just as much damage as hacking....
about the installer at least, you know that ubuntu's installer is the same as debian sarge?
as for modernity, you're right, debian should be more up to date, but part of the prob is the freeze for the upcoming (eventual) sarge release. I want gnome 2.10 and kde 3.4 too, itll get it soon I hope. In the meantime I live with gnome 2.8. If I really wanted it 2.10 is in experimental and is supposedly relatively stable. I hope sarge is released soon though, so all the modernity problems for testing vanish again (with the freeze gone they will, I hope)
all too true, the problem is, as I said, people don't see tangible benefits of space travel anymore. Its part of the instant-gratification culture of the US, unfortunate but true.
because the technology to repair the streets come from NASA? Well, maybe not the streets, but how about communication technology, flight, car design (you know the things that drive on those streets), insulation technology, rocketry and propulsion technology (engines too), even a lot of computing designs. The return we've gotten out of space travel is enourmous in terms of the technological innovations created. Just because the reward isnt immediatly visible doesnt mean it isnt there.
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even better, firemen and other individuals with authority can gain "root access" by using a key and thus gain full control of and override ability on the elevator.
my *state* school library stocks hustler though....
have you SEEN some victorian era pron? it puts ours to shame man. Don't talk to me about modern corruption, go read some mid 1800s porn and come back.
sure, that wasnt the founding fathers, but porn certainly isnt new, and the stuff they came up with and widely circulated back then makes Debbie does Dallas look like a children's story.
::sigh::
1) Not all the sites filtered are going to be pron. Filtering isnt perfect and this means that legitimate stuff will get blocked (like anything involving coral cache prolly, or medical sites, or abortion sites, or.... you get the idea)
2) Porn isnt illegal, illegal porn is illegal. That sounds silly but its important. This is a public service, if its legal than you should be allowed access to it. Sure, make temporary logs if you want to stop illegal use, but don't blanket ban everything on a subject. Sure argue that logs are ineffective, guess what? so is filtering!
I want the State of Texas to leave the internet open for any kid with a laptop to override their usual ISP proxies and filters (AOL etc.) at every highway service, and browse horse porn and look up bomb-making instructions sitting next to the forecourt of a gas station."
thats the parents problem now isnt it, or are we now a nanny state?
You know you can get some types of porn from local libraries? Perhaps we should stop funding them, evil institutions.... Freedom of speech is freedom of speech, it is not freedom of speech when I like it.
ok, replying to own posts is bad form, but I apologize for the formatting, slashdot removed it and I didnt hit preview first to check.
300mhz? text only? god, are you kidding? my firewall, my server for proxying into from school, and my webserver are 2 300mhz and 1 450mhz machines respectively. If I wanted to they'd run kde and gnome adequetly (yes I've tried) and they run xfce or wmaker very well if you want graphics. They also serve their current purposes that I use them for very very well. as for buying a new mini-itx machine for 200 as opposed to using old hardware... Believe it or not but these machines still eat less power and its 200 dollars I have to spend on something else. As for other uses, there are lots of schools and hospitals that would be grateful for an infusion of 300mhz machines, even if just for use as internet kiosks (rsrch). You're friend is very foolish to simply throw his machines out, I hope that at least some enterprising dumpster divers got some use out of the hardware.
I call total BS. On my connection, using an ssh proxy from school (which blocks BT) to my home (which is a firewalled connection on speakeasy DSL) with my upload cap at 22.5 I'm getting ~18 down, and I only just started so I expect itll go up as I seed more.
Sounds like a prob with your ISP or the truth moren BT to me....
can you also use it on the normal desktop instead of it's own layer (like superkaramba, gdesklets, or even konfabulator, etc)?
I hate replying to my own post, but I re-read it and realized that I don't believe publicating is, in fact, a word. I mean publishing.
I don't think the parent was refering to the ex's complaints and claims as much as to the fact she posted "intimate personal e-mails", which I suppose if you think about in the right light could be considered copywritten.
:-P.
However, since she was the recipient of said letters I'm thinking that you could not use copyright law in this case, unless he provided a handy EULA with his email about publicating them of course
it makes a kind of sense if you think about it. After all, if (like most of this country unfortunately) you believe that your truth is the right truth and that you are always correct then of course, why shoud you be sensored. OTOH, everyone else is wrong, perhaps dangerously so (to the spread of your beliefs) so they must be censored.
this thinking is incredibly dangerous to freedom of speech and press and it is unfortunately what is spreading in this free-turned-theocracy of a country.
actually, its the same package manager, but the packages are not the same.
yeah, getting there :-P
Actually, laziness aside, I will be building stuff soon (a carboard and duct-tape boat for a race on campus for one). But for now I'm being lazy and putting off studying/paper writing.
I see this, sitting in my dorm room at 4:30AM and I say to myself, wow, if I were more productive I'd be building something like this instead of reading slashdot. Then I realize that I'm lazy and stop this line of inquiry before it makes me want to actually get up and do something, maybe next week......
lol, yeah. My local computer store has an apple store in it. Whenever I go in I always take a few minutes to ogle the 2, 30" display steup they have to showcase the G5. I always sit there and say: "now if only I had 10grand to spend..." :-P.
woops forgot the J/Z (and M) which, if you're talking about williamsburg, also run there in addition to the L.
unless you live in the upper reaches of brooklyn the L is not the line you commute with. The bulk of people who live in brooklyn (including myself) take the A/C/2/3/4/5/N/R/Q/D/M/F to commute. the L is hardly the only way into manhattan from brooklyn (hell the original purpose of the subway system was to get people from downtown brooklyn into manhattan). As for the L service, I've never had any probs with it and I use it all the time. It's usually more reliable than a lot of other lines (ever tried waiting for the D near coney island, or the 2/3 at off hours at clark in brklyn heights, where I live?).
unfortunately only 2 companies in the WORLD (one in paris, cant remem where the other one is) still make relays for the old system. Thus it is enourmously expensive and time consuming to get repairs when something breaks. They need to move to a new system because the old system, as refined as it is, is slowly dying.
As for hackability, the recent fire on the A/C line (the line I take) created one hell of a problem by damaging ONE central switching point. The system may not be vulnerable to hacking as we know it, but a well placed, larger fire, engineered intentionally could do just as much damage as hacking....
about the installer at least, you know that ubuntu's installer is the same as debian sarge?
as for modernity, you're right, debian should be more up to date, but part of the prob is the freeze for the upcoming (eventual) sarge release. I want gnome 2.10 and kde 3.4 too, itll get it soon I hope. In the meantime I live with gnome 2.8. If I really wanted it 2.10 is in experimental and is supposedly relatively stable. I hope sarge is released soon though, so all the modernity problems for testing vanish again (with the freeze gone they will, I hope)
all too true, the problem is, as I said, people don't see tangible benefits of space travel anymore. Its part of the instant-gratification culture of the US, unfortunate but true.
so you're asking someone to replace you with a very small shell script.... :-P
because the technology to repair the streets come from NASA? Well, maybe not the streets, but how about communication technology, flight, car design (you know the things that drive on those streets), insulation technology, rocketry and propulsion technology (engines too), even a lot of computing designs. The return we've gotten out of space travel is enourmous in terms of the technological innovations created. Just because the reward isnt immediatly visible doesnt mean it isnt there.
it won't overcook it?
I want one so I can throw my laptop in it and have it power its own demise :-P
god I should use preview. 'pologize for the formatting and mispellings.