unless I'm misunderstanding the article (it seems a bit short of details), the school in question is a public school, meaning that by law (since a public school is a government institution, they are bound by the constitution), they can't legally do that kind of crap.
you're talking about a college, which would usually be a private school, and not bound by the constitution, and thus free to do as they like in this type of situation.
Nobody is forcing you to attend a private school (outside of your family). If you and your family felt that the school was overstepping its, you could decide to attend another school. If you feel that your employer is overstepping its bounds by requiring drug tests, you are free to find employment elsewhere.
However, if you are under the age of 18 in the United States, school attendance is mandatory. If your school or your school district oversteps its authority, you can't just go elsewhere.
yes, but the thing is that I'm pretty sure (the article doesn't say) this is a public school. if i am correct, they are way out of line in this and they have no right whatsoever to be pulling this kind of stunt, as it runs completely afoul of the first amendment, which a public school has to follow as they are a government institution.
if this is a private school, and this sort of thing was in the agreement between the parents and the school, then it is perfectly legal, though i still wouldn't like it.
My HS, back in the mid to late 90's when I was in HS, had a policy of disciplining students for fighting even if they were not on school grounds at the time. Not that there were any reports of this, because both students are always punished the same, even in CLEAR cases of self defence, or even if one kid just lays there like a slug and lets the other guy beat him.
was this a private school by any chance? if so, they're completely free to do that.
if this is a public school you're talking about, then that ought to have been taken to court.
i believe i remember having read about this sort of thing before.
if i remember correctly, the climbing bit is achieved by a combination of friction (between all the little hair things, there is a rather lot of surface area when they all lay sideways) and static cling. between those effects, this stuff can support a pretty fantastic amount of weight.
unless they've found a way around it, the major problem was the gunk (dirt and stuff) kept getting in amongst the hairs and clogging them up, thus eliminating the effect. maybe they found a way to clean the things, as real geckos do.
i believe that this would be a case of shouting "FIRE!" in a theatre when there actually is a fire.
while i admit some things should be kept secret (name lists of undercover personnel for example), things that are in blatant violation of the law SHOULD NOT be able to hide behind "state secrets" and "national security".
I'm guessing you are in one of the following situations.
1. you have a crappy optical drive
2. you are trying to rip a badly scratched up CD
3. you have an extremely slow computer
4. you are a technophobe.
i have personally had CDs take over an hour to rip, but only on ones that look like they tangled with a brillo pad, when it has to go heavy on the correction and run at sub-realtime speed.
if you have to manually name your files, you need to get some different software, specifically, some that supports CDDB, FreeDB, or preferably both. i personally like Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/)
I disagree. The punishment for theft should not be instant execution without a trial or jury. Even if found guilty the punishment for theft should be execution by shooting. Even if you believe in the death penalty and even if the person was not merely there to steal and should be executed the execution should not be done with a gun. It's too inhumane a way to kill somebody.
I am shocked at people who are willing to shoot people merely for trespassing, theft, or breaking and entering.
you seem to be operating on the assumption that the shot will be lethal. most wounds (short of a lucky shot to something vital like the head or the heart) are treatable. the intent of shooting them is to incapasitate them, not nessesarily kill them.
True, but when was the last time you heard of someone being charged with barratry? Who's going to derail the billable-hours gravy train when there's always a new BMW waiting for a lawyer to drive away in it?
correct me if i'm wrong, but i belive that one of the people that is actually fighting one of the RIAA (or is it an MPAA one? i can't remember at the moment) is using that in the suit.
well, personally, if i'm doing something that i don't want traced, i'll fire up tor (http://tor.eff.org/)tor
i currently don't really worry about my email security (if someone wants to read my aunt's cookie recipes, thats fine by me). if i happened to be doing something important, i'd likely use some form of encryption, likely PGP or maybe something stronger.
If anyone has actually put malware into mp3 or mpeg files I haven't heard of it.
i've heard of a virus that exists in MP3 files, but AFAIK, its only a proof of concept. i'll see if i can find the article i read about it, though it was a few months ago.
You don't really want to run a car on ethanol because your service costs will go up and you'll soon stuff the engine.
only if you're stupid enough to run it in a car that is not meant to use high concentrations (greater than about 10%) of ethanol.
ethanol is pretty corrosive stuff, and E85 will dissolve rubber or plastic parts in the fuel system. in FFVs (Flexible Fuel Vehicles, they can run on gas, ethanol, or any mix of the two)), those parts are made out of stainless steel to stop that problem.
unfortunitly, that doesn't really have any legal standing. it basically ammounts to a suggestion to countries that these are what you should have, but they are under no obligation to follow it.
if i have my head on straight, i would think that this "blackhole attack" would be similar to DNS poisoning. said spammer would have changed bluesecurities DNS listings to point to either no address or loopback to 127.0.0.1, or something else.
Yes. Apparently many large game retailers (e.g. Wal-Mart, whose influence is evidenced in the standardized, small game box size that is now omnipresent) don't stock rated-M games in efforts to maintain a family-friendly image or somesuch.
hmm. maybe its differant down there (i'm in canada), but i see M-rated games stocked in walmart. doom III, quake 4, GTA series, et all.
actually a good idea, but the problem is that we don't really have a safe/reliable way of getting it off this rock. what are the odds of a rocket failing? 1/70? and our rockets aren't able to lift that much relative to how much waste we have built up, so is we send up 7000 rockets, 100 of them will fail in some way and dump the waste back down, and in the case of the rocket spontaneously exploding (which isn't that uncommon), spreading said waste over a large area, likely in water, which would result in Very Bad Things.
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unless I'm misunderstanding the article (it seems a bit short of details), the school in question is a public school, meaning that by law (since a public school is a government institution, they are bound by the constitution), they can't legally do that kind of crap.
you're talking about a college, which would usually be a private school, and not bound by the constitution, and thus free to do as they like in this type of situation.
Nobody is forcing you to attend a private school (outside of your family). If you and your family felt that the school was overstepping its, you could decide to attend another school. If you feel that your employer is overstepping its bounds by requiring drug tests, you are free to find employment elsewhere.
However, if you are under the age of 18 in the United States, school attendance is mandatory. If your school or your school district oversteps its authority, you can't just go elsewhere.
yes, but the thing is that I'm pretty sure (the article doesn't say) this is a public school. if i am correct, they are way out of line in this and they have no right whatsoever to be pulling this kind of stunt, as it runs completely afoul of the first amendment, which a public school has to follow as they are a government institution.
if this is a private school, and this sort of thing was in the agreement between the parents and the school, then it is perfectly legal, though i still wouldn't like it.
My HS, back in the mid to late 90's when I was in HS, had a policy of disciplining students for fighting even if they were not on school grounds at the time. Not that there were any reports of this, because both students are always punished the same, even in CLEAR cases of self defence, or even if one kid just lays there like a slug and lets the other guy beat him.
was this a private school by any chance? if so, they're completely free to do that.
if this is a public school you're talking about, then that ought to have been taken to court.
yes, i did read the article. maybe you should read my post.
i said that i remember reading about something similar. i didn't say that it was the exact same thing.
i believe i remember having read about this sort of thing before.
if i remember correctly, the climbing bit is achieved by a combination of friction (between all the little hair things, there is a rather lot of surface area when they all lay sideways) and static cling. between those effects, this stuff can support a pretty fantastic amount of weight.
unless they've found a way around it, the major problem was the gunk (dirt and stuff) kept getting in amongst the hairs and clogging them up, thus eliminating the effect. maybe they found a way to clean the things, as real geckos do.
i believe that this would be a case of shouting "FIRE!" in a theatre when there actually is a fire.
while i admit some things should be kept secret (name lists of undercover personnel for example), things that are in blatant violation of the law SHOULD NOT be able to hide behind "state secrets" and "national security".
I'm guessing you are in one of the following situations.
1. you have a crappy optical drive
2. you are trying to rip a badly scratched up CD
3. you have an extremely slow computer
4. you are a technophobe.
i have personally had CDs take over an hour to rip, but only on ones that look like they tangled with a brillo pad, when it has to go heavy on the correction and run at sub-realtime speed.
if you have to manually name your files, you need to get some different software, specifically, some that supports CDDB, FreeDB, or preferably both. i personally like Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/)
I disagree. The punishment for theft should not be instant execution without a trial or jury. Even if found guilty the punishment for theft should be execution by shooting. Even if you believe in the death penalty and even if the person was not merely there to steal and should be executed the execution should not be done with a gun. It's too inhumane a way to kill somebody.
I am shocked at people who are willing to shoot people merely for trespassing, theft, or breaking and entering.
you seem to be operating on the assumption that the shot will be lethal. most wounds (short of a lucky shot to something vital like the head or the heart) are treatable. the intent of shooting them is to incapasitate them, not nessesarily kill them.
Hmmm, I have to respectfully disagree. Guns are made to be able to kill, whether in self-defense or not.
yes, but the differance is what the gun is being used to kill.
Keep in mind that there are no constitutional rights to profit.
I'm sure the RIAA/MPAA are working on the 28th amendment.
True, but when was the last time you heard of someone being charged with barratry? Who's going to derail the billable-hours gravy train when there's always a new BMW waiting for a lawyer to drive away in it?
correct me if i'm wrong, but i belive that one of the people that is actually fighting one of the RIAA (or is it an MPAA one? i can't remember at the moment) is using that in the suit.
well, personally, if i'm doing something that i don't want traced, i'll fire up tor (http://tor.eff.org/)tor
i currently don't really worry about my email security (if someone wants to read my aunt's cookie recipes, thats fine by me). if i happened to be doing something important, i'd likely use some form of encryption, likely PGP or maybe something stronger.
The only real world example I've heard of was the WMF bug.
hmm. that might have been what i heard of. or maybe i got it mixed up with the jpeg virus. i dunno. i need more coffee.
If anyone has actually put malware into mp3 or mpeg files I haven't heard of it.
i've heard of a virus that exists in MP3 files, but AFAIK, its only a proof of concept. i'll see if i can find the article i read about it, though it was a few months ago.
not a dupe. that was informing about the law. this is a story about an analysis of the law and why it is flawed.
but the trouble is that it is becoming worringly likely that it will pass...
You don't really want to run a car on ethanol because your service costs will go up and you'll soon stuff the engine.
only if you're stupid enough to run it in a car that is not meant to use high concentrations (greater than about 10%) of ethanol.
ethanol is pretty corrosive stuff, and E85 will dissolve rubber or plastic parts in the fuel system. in FFVs (Flexible Fuel Vehicles, they can run on gas, ethanol, or any mix of the two)), those parts are made out of stainless steel to stop that problem.
unfortunitly, that doesn't really have any legal standing. it basically ammounts to a suggestion to countries that these are what you should have, but they are under no obligation to follow it.
i was pretty sure that it was Soap, Ballot, Jury, and Ammo.
if i have my head on straight, i would think that this "blackhole attack" would be similar to DNS poisoning. said spammer would have changed bluesecurities DNS listings to point to either no address or loopback to 127.0.0.1, or something else.
Why isn`t Barbie (tm) Rated M for Mature?
you seem to be trying to apply logic to jack's claims. your attempt is destined to fail.
Yes. Apparently many large game retailers (e.g. Wal-Mart, whose influence is evidenced in the standardized, small game box size that is now omnipresent) don't stock rated-M games in efforts to maintain a family-friendly image or somesuch.
hmm. maybe its differant down there (i'm in canada), but i see M-rated games stocked in walmart. doom III, quake 4, GTA series, et all.
but that might lead future people to believe that there was a buried weapon there that they may want.
well, in a manner of speaking, it could be used as one.
dirty bomb, anyone?
actually a good idea, but the problem is that we don't really have a safe/reliable way of getting it off this rock. what are the odds of a rocket failing? 1/70? and our rockets aren't able to lift that much relative to how much waste we have built up, so is we send up 7000 rockets, 100 of them will fail in some way and dump the waste back down, and in the case of the rocket spontaneously exploding (which isn't that uncommon), spreading said waste over a large area, likely in water, which would result in Very Bad Things.
latin?
well, it has been in use for a long time (not nearly as long as the time spans we're trying to plan for here).
i personally think the current idea (toss everything at the wall and hope something sticks) is about the surest method we can find.