You seem to be confused. You are relating time with ease, yet claim you need to master unix/linux in order to do what you are talking about... as if that happens overnight? Normally i wouldnt point out such an exagerration but... not everybody can take a "big book o' technical nonsense" read it, understand and comprehend it. Anyways, you've basically described a fool-proof method for avoiding work called "delegation" in which you turn your work into work for other people. Do it enough and you wont ever be asked to do anything again because you make a whole lot of other people do your work for you... hmmm... sounds like Windows:)
I dont really like the system myself (where's the global competition?) but... based on the arguement put forth here... what does that make the PSP??? blah blah blah BROWSER blah blah blah UMD!!!
you know whats missing in your post? government. You quoted the founding fathers but not in relation to the country which they created, but rather, in relation to their opinions/personal beleifs, with the exception of the last bit of washington , which i looked up for fun and found that he was speaking to native americans (the deleware) who wished to teach their children how to be more westernized/civilized. That is some mighty important political context.
Good question... when WILL you stop beating your wife? nobody asked a question... about religion making crappy scientists... i beleive the statement was "if you teach kids that ID is science you get crappy scientists" which i happen to agree with. The foundation of ID being what? that its all TOO GOOD to have happened on accident? that seems to be the worst assumption of all and is not based on any fact whatsoever. OTOH if you teach a scientist to reach conclusions based on bad assumptions (see ID) then you get bad scientists...
"Second question, did the student's parents know that they were being interrogated under the threat of prosecution? If the parents of the children were not present or given the opportunity to be present and if the children were not given their rights, then any evidence collected would be inadmissable in court."
IANAL but i think things work way differently in a school system as opposed to in the real world. Specifically all search and seizure protection is essentially revoked... there is no such thing as freedom of speech... and intimidation++ is definitely the path taken by any administrators. I am 17 and just got out of Highschool and very rarely did i think that an administrator had my best interests in mind.
As far as the parents proving criminal neglegence... sounds kind of like an arguement for the INDUCE act to me... you gave my kids the ability to break your Technology User Agreement by providing technology! i'm suing you!
But in the end... i just dont see how any of this was criminal. Just as any contract i suspect that the technology user agreement or whatever doesnt translate into law, but once again, school systems are scary. IMHO at worst they have their computer usage revoked and they get to draw in coloring books during their computer classes.
i've played L2 before... it wasnt pretty but i DID gain some perspective on what may have happened.
at worst this guy broke the TOS by botting and then selling the items (according to American laws i guess). i am highly suspicious of any person that uses a BOT to PK... that just doesnt work. Bots do not make you invincible they just make you predictable. I once saw a person make a pile of money that led to 10 uber dragons and laughed my ass off as a bot automatically started picking up the money off the ground and walked right into all 10 dragons. I think what happened was is he used a bot to acquire items/exp then used his new uber char to slay people.
SOLUTION! If you dont want your stuff to get stolen then buy a virtual "gun" a.k.a. buy your gear/characters and then beat the hell out of him... or get a group and start beating on him... or even BETTER! dont fight back. In L2 if you dont fight back then you cant drop gear (AFAIK) or the chance of you dropping is like below 1%. camp out next to a guard or something. they slay any red tagged people... or train the guy with enemies! there are lots of ways out... arresting an asshole, satysfying though it may be, is not the answer
Actually i work as a computer repair guy at a small shop. Uhhh no... i dont go around installing Picasa on customer's computers. The reason for this is A) it seems, to me, to be a common courtesy their business is their business. and B) their is no clear law i am aware of and they haven't signed anything stating that their personal/private information is at risk. i mean... my boss had his CC# stored in firefox! yeesh! Dont need to be sued becuase they get embarassed. I'm not saying that what you do is wrong or that you are sick but your blanket statement of "Doesn't everyone?" is definitely false.
... the worst article i have ever read on slashdot... it sounds like he's having a temper tantrum.
"This coming from a bunch of people who couldn't even agree on a constitution!"
perhaps you would like to draft a constitution that would be acceptable to all the sovereign nations of Europe?
"Here is a company that single handedly created the market for Personal Computers"
what personal computer did M$ make again??? oh i'm sorry... they had REVERSI!!! If he is arguing that REVERSIIIII!!! single handedly created the PC industry then i'd agree...:p
"Microsoft is perhaps the most hated company in the history of business"
ever heard of Carnegie?
and as several people have pointed out, disqualifying Mac based on the fact that it was "expensive" (i dont know if it was or not personally) is retarded. thats like disqualifying Corsair or Kingston because they are too expensive, obviously simpletech is the best!
Anybody else find the google sponsored ads that were on the bottom of the article at least mildly ironic?
SETTLE DONT CONSOLIDATE! etc. etc. an omen directly from google???
actually they have a 20 year old memo that says "Hey Intel, dont invest in Go. Lest i slay you" -Bill
(or something to that effect)
This is the whole reason for the lawsuit, these documents were suppressed (or whatever) by M$ in the 80's and recently surfaced in a different lawsuit (that explains why it took 20 years).
Maybe this story is relevant.
a recent installment of Game Informer claimed that they had "Microsoft's Secret Weapon!" on the front cover. I thought to myself "hmmm... what are the odds that Game Informer knows what Microsoft's 'Secret Weapon' is?". I'm sure that somewhere in some lab at Microsoft's headquarters they have convinced themselves that they have the Google/Apple/Linux killer in the works and they aren't talking about it. well... they must have conviced themselves of something because they dont seem to have much going on right now.
P.S. Microsoft IS Love. Just to let you know
*sigh* look up the definition of espouse some time, it itself implies that i am adopting some one else's world view. i'd hoped that you would have replied in a less aggressive manner but whatever.
i beleive real life is left to be defined by ME as i am the person living it. To say that i 'espouse' a world view is to imply that i subscribe to a specific set of views put forth by somebody else. Wrong again. As for you and I having different views, this is something that would be far better off being discussed openly (perhaps argued), the sharing of opinions and keeping an open mind will go a long way towards a better understanding of life for everybody involved in the conversation.
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Combine that with some wireless electricity (too lazy to find the link) and you are set!
AMD soon follows up with the patented and trade marked...
MUH MUH MUH MONSTER LOW Low low chips.
I'd stick with low power instead of ultra low its just sounds less like sensationalism (perhaps because it is less like sensationalism)
I have no statistical influence
You seem to be confused. You are relating time with ease, yet claim you need to master unix/linux in order to do what you are talking about... as if that happens overnight? Normally i wouldnt point out such an exagerration but... not everybody can take a "big book o' technical nonsense" read it, understand and comprehend it. Anyways, you've basically described a fool-proof method for avoiding work called "delegation" in which you turn your work into work for other people. Do it enough and you wont ever be asked to do anything again because you make a whole lot of other people do your work for you... hmmm... sounds like Windows :)
Microsoft sees the future!!!
Truly, we are doomed.
You dont see the practical application of improved security? Well... ok... You dont see the market for Windows software? Well... ok...
I dont really like the system myself (where's the global competition?) but... based on the arguement put forth here... what does that make the PSP??? blah blah blah BROWSER blah blah blah UMD!!!
Welcome our new cellphone using, military aircraft designing, subway securing overlords? no wait... you just want to know whats in my bag...
you know whats missing in your post? government. You quoted the founding fathers but not in relation to the country which they created, but rather, in relation to their opinions/personal beleifs, with the exception of the last bit of washington , which i looked up for fun and found that he was speaking to native americans (the deleware) who wished to teach their children how to be more westernized/civilized. That is some mighty important political context.
Good question... when WILL you stop beating your wife? nobody asked a question... about religion making crappy scientists... i beleive the statement was "if you teach kids that ID is science you get crappy scientists" which i happen to agree with. The foundation of ID being what? that its all TOO GOOD to have happened on accident? that seems to be the worst assumption of all and is not based on any fact whatsoever. OTOH if you teach a scientist to reach conclusions based on bad assumptions (see ID) then you get bad scientists...
aren't there highly paid consultants that answer questions like this? heheh.
"Second question, did the student's parents know that they were being interrogated under the threat of prosecution? If the parents of the children were not present or given the opportunity to be present and if the children were not given their rights, then any evidence collected would be inadmissable in court."
IANAL but i think things work way differently in a school system as opposed to in the real world. Specifically all search and seizure protection is essentially revoked... there is no such thing as freedom of speech... and intimidation++ is definitely the path taken by any administrators. I am 17 and just got out of Highschool and very rarely did i think that an administrator had my best interests in mind.
As far as the parents proving criminal neglegence... sounds kind of like an arguement for the INDUCE act to me... you gave my kids the ability to break your Technology User Agreement by providing technology! i'm suing you!
But in the end... i just dont see how any of this was criminal. Just as any contract i suspect that the technology user agreement or whatever doesnt translate into law, but once again, school systems are scary. IMHO at worst they have their computer usage revoked and they get to draw in coloring books during their computer classes.
i've played L2 before... it wasnt pretty but i DID gain some perspective on what may have happened.
at worst this guy broke the TOS by botting and then selling the items (according to American laws i guess). i am highly suspicious of any person that uses a BOT to PK... that just doesnt work. Bots do not make you invincible they just make you predictable. I once saw a person make a pile of money that led to 10 uber dragons and laughed my ass off as a bot automatically started picking up the money off the ground and walked right into all 10 dragons. I think what happened was is he used a bot to acquire items/exp then used his new uber char to slay people.
SOLUTION! If you dont want your stuff to get stolen then buy a virtual "gun" a.k.a. buy your gear/characters and then beat the hell out of him... or get a group and start beating on him... or even BETTER! dont fight back. In L2 if you dont fight back then you cant drop gear (AFAIK) or the chance of you dropping is like below 1%. camp out next to a guard or something. they slay any red tagged people... or train the guy with enemies! there are lots of ways out... arresting an asshole, satysfying though it may be, is not the answer
Actually i work as a computer repair guy at a small shop. Uhhh no... i dont go around installing Picasa on customer's computers. The reason for this is A) it seems, to me, to be a common courtesy their business is their business. and B) their is no clear law i am aware of and they haven't signed anything stating that their personal/private information is at risk. i mean... my boss had his CC# stored in firefox! yeesh! Dont need to be sued becuase they get embarassed. I'm not saying that what you do is wrong or that you are sick but your blanket statement of "Doesn't everyone?" is definitely false.
nice...
blogging = vanity... huh? the world has vain people and i suppose blogging could be used as an outlet for one's vanity but... just no.
... the worst article i have ever read on slashdot... it sounds like he's having a temper tantrum. "This coming from a bunch of people who couldn't even agree on a constitution!" perhaps you would like to draft a constitution that would be acceptable to all the sovereign nations of Europe? "Here is a company that single handedly created the market for Personal Computers" what personal computer did M$ make again??? oh i'm sorry... they had REVERSI!!! If he is arguing that REVERSIIIII!!! single handedly created the PC industry then i'd agree... :p
"Microsoft is perhaps the most hated company in the history of business"
ever heard of Carnegie?
and as several people have pointed out, disqualifying Mac based on the fact that it was "expensive" (i dont know if it was or not personally) is retarded. thats like disqualifying Corsair or Kingston because they are too expensive, obviously simpletech is the best!
Anybody else find the google sponsored ads that were on the bottom of the article at least mildly ironic? SETTLE DONT CONSOLIDATE! etc. etc. an omen directly from google???
actually they have a 20 year old memo that says "Hey Intel, dont invest in Go. Lest i slay you" -Bill
(or something to that effect)
This is the whole reason for the lawsuit, these documents were suppressed (or whatever) by M$ in the 80's and recently surfaced in a different lawsuit (that explains why it took 20 years).
this does seem legit. I'd be pissed too
Looks like we'll have to call Martin Luther...
Couldnt see it coming...
Maybe this story is relevant. a recent installment of Game Informer claimed that they had "Microsoft's Secret Weapon!" on the front cover. I thought to myself "hmmm... what are the odds that Game Informer knows what Microsoft's 'Secret Weapon' is?". I'm sure that somewhere in some lab at Microsoft's headquarters they have convinced themselves that they have the Google/Apple/Linux killer in the works and they aren't talking about it. well... they must have conviced themselves of something because they dont seem to have much going on right now. P.S. Microsoft IS Love. Just to let you know
*sigh*
look up the definition of espouse some time, it itself implies that i am adopting some one else's world view. i'd hoped that you would have replied in a less aggressive manner but whatever.
i beleive real life is left to be defined by ME as i am the person living it. To say that i 'espouse' a world view is to imply that i subscribe to a specific set of views put forth by somebody else. Wrong again. As for you and I having different views, this is something that would be far better off being discussed openly (perhaps argued), the sharing of opinions and keeping an open mind will go a long way towards a better understanding of life for everybody involved in the conversation.
I think this is a GREAT idea!
*ducks*
... welcome our new suit-wearing, list-making, teen-stalking overlords.