There are lots of laws. While I don't know the court case he's talking about, the obvious assumption would be that the court decided some existing law applied to the case.
My school system put every 6th grader through a few very brief typing lessons until they showed demonstrated some very basic skills. It's only grown more important to be able to type since then, so it's not that surprising there are classes for it.
As for the e-mail though, I'd suggest a gmail account. The filters are likely as good as any, and with the kid being in 7th grade (and not 5 years old, he really needs to learn to be prudent when online.
Help him pick out an address designed to be less likely to receive spam (as discussed here), and teach him not to broadcast his address to every corner of the internet. That includes not registering for an account on every website he might come across, and probably keeping it 'private' on any sites he might have an account on.
The most important part though is that no email solution will get rid of 100% of the spam that he'll get. You'll need to teach him the appropriate response. Spam represents the 'bad neighborhoods' of the internet, be it porn (or "male enhancement"!) or phishing attacks or virus-ridden something else. The lessons you teach him will have a significantly greater affect on what ends up in his inbox than whether you use gmail, yahoo mail (don't), or a supposedly kid-safe alternative.
Combine this data with the camera images and you can also identify that vehicle.
Bit of a stretch I think but maybe not far off.
Or not. Camera-only systems seem to work, why wouldn't the inductive sensors + camera system work at least as well?
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Who started this 5 years old thing anyway? The OP said nothing about ages beyond that they are old enough to want an e-mail address. My guess would be that they're older than 5.
At 5 it's not like they should be using the computer without supervision anyway.
The computer? Why not? You might want to restrict their internet access, but watching over their shoulders while they play 'Reader Rabbit' on the computer is a bit much.
So... the anonymous coward is in favor of both child labor, and students not needing teachers?
Yeah, I'm sure the average 12 year old getting home from his part-time job would just love to sit down with his textbook and teach himself something rather than play outside. I suspect he'll even get through the curriculum faster than any of his peers in schools!
I agree, it'll likely prevent mass murders. Now here's my question... would the countless single murders committed solely because a gun was at hand be worth it?
"Nope. Basically, you can synthesize most plastics starting from simple compounds like carbon, hydrogen, oxygene, chlorine etc."
Are we being serious now? Given atoms what compound couldn't you synthesize with enough energy, time, and effort?
I know those statistics (or at least very similar ones) too, but I've never seen the statistic that says "gun's good side > gun's bad side". For that matter, I don't even support a ban on guns (even where it constitutionally possible), because we all know that criminals would still have them, and the crime rate would just go up.
I'm not arguing any of that, merely that statistics are for numbers rather than "is good" or "is bad". You can determine whatever you want with your analysis, but presenting your analysis as the statistical fact is purely misleading.
Their legitimate use by those who do not abuse them far outweighs the occasional harm that occurs. (This is a statistical fact, regardless of how you may feel about it politically.) Dude... if you could figure out how to do legitimate statistics with things like the value of a human life, pain, suffering, etc.... you wouldn't be on slashdot right now. You'd be ****ing rich and defending your intellectual property copyrights/patents/etc so you could license the formulas out.
Regardless of how you feel about guns politically, the statistical fact is that you can't balance the debated value of human life against the benefits of people's freedom to own guns using statistics.
doing nothing, when she could have been doing some work! I'm glad you didn't end up becoming a teacher. In this day and age it is honestly hard enough to be a smart kid in our school systems without having to be punished for it as well.
The student finished the test first, probably indicating that she knew the material better and was able to process whatever was on the test faster than her peers (not to say she was the smartest, but she's probably not one of the dumbest). She's probably not the student who needs to do more problems "for practice" if she's the one that can do them already, and quicker than her peers. If you tell her to start doing the next section of whatever unit/subject the test was on, when the whole class gets to that lesson the next day, you'll be in the same situation with that student not needing that time.
Things do sometimes simply boil down to the fact that the entire class needs to get x far over the course of y time. Some students might only need.75y time to get there, but since the class needs to be moving on as a whole, they'll be killing some time.
Yes, try to intimidate younger people from voting. As if the majority of the younger generations didn't have enough reasons to dislike republican politics anyway...
They've clearly gotten all their agreements down to sell it legally, nobody is debating that. It's the fact that the iTunes store has such a ridiculous hold on the digital downloads market that the big 4 would like to change. They basically want to be in a better bargaining position when negotiating their arrangements, so as to be able to dictate terms a lot more than be pushed around quite so much by apple.
Buy a CD, rip it to iTunes... and have the border patrol arrest you because it wasn't purchased through the iTunes store. Greeaaaaat, just what we need.
(Don't the big record companies want to weaken iTune's grip on the digital music download market anyway? Wouldn't making iTunes DRM the standard for legality be a bit counterproductive?)
On the other hand, this could be a good thing (as if). It might finally create enough of a backlash that the "your rights online" section here on slashdot could start posting articles saying that we have any rights online.
Yeah, I have Cox and used to get as much as about 1200kB/s downloading, even over torrents (and around 300kB/s up). These days I can manage about 250kB/s down and 125kB/s up over torrents only for a while before it slows even more (an effect that isn't solely limited to torrents, instead affecting all internet traffic). I'd say Cox has been throttling for AT LEAST two years around where I am.
5 Minutes??? What a lucky duckling you are! I have Cox, and after downloading Hardy Heron over torrents I had to wait 2 days for my connection to get back to normal. My usual experiences are more along the lines of 12 hours after last torrent usage, but either way Cox is crazy about slowing people down who use torrents. They make it impossible to game online without massive lag for hours after touching the bittorrent protocol.
Forget "the great equalizer". With my lazy eye I'll be staring up at the heavens spinning in circles all game long... that is all game until my head gets blown off repeatedly.
That'd be a bit shortsighted. We didn't tell the Japanese that we had broken some of their codes during the war, and they proceeded to continue to use some of the compromised ones for years thereafter. Had we been as quick to stand around gloating as you we'd have lost the potential intel for years to come.
My uncle made 1.5x his his yearly salary over a span of 8 months recently after being laid off (along with retaining benefits). Among other things, his contract specified that he couldn't work for any company with operations in any of the fields his company operated in for a period of 8 months after his employment there ended. Seeing as he was a relatively senior executive in a particularly cutthroat industry... it was seen fit to offer him a lovely severance package..
It was quite amusing seeing the corporate bigwig shifting to being a stay-at-home dad though!
Yes... it includes RFID tracking to reduce theft, and... manage traffic!?!?
We need our next generations of supercomputers to follow you around, knowing where you are at all times... so umm, we can change the traffic lights when the roads get busy for you....
~Director of NSA Domestic Spying Program
Of course not! Our government would release a counter-virus to infect the computers that attack, in effect hijacking the botnet for it's own purposes. It would then launch a massive distributed computing effort to aid in the creation of one collective government database containing all the information it has about any citizen. This of course would make all the information available to the poor souls whose computers were "recruited" to the effort.
Being the student... let's let me take a shot at this one.
In my school, programming 1 is offered (basic and qbasic) as a class, as in programming 2 (visual basic, js, c#) which can be taken as an honors course or a regular course. ONLY students enrolled in those courses have any ability to program, and then only during class. No other computers than the one computer lab we use have any useful software installed, and our accounts only allow us to program during school hours. And yeah.... we can't use any exit commands we put in our porgrams either as that runs into about 80 security measures of doom. We're given visual studio to take home, yet we are unable to e-mail ourselves any projects, and as all of the unused asb ports are taped over simply flaashdriving it up is no good.... we can't do things like right click on the desktop, do much in my computer (it goes straight to your personal sutedent location, and allows you to go to no higher directory), or even get into the run command to open notepad if we find that easier to write html/js in
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There are lots of laws. While I don't know the court case he's talking about, the obvious assumption would be that the court decided some existing law applied to the case.
My school system put every 6th grader through a few very brief typing lessons until they showed demonstrated some very basic skills. It's only grown more important to be able to type since then, so it's not that surprising there are classes for it.
As for the e-mail though, I'd suggest a gmail account. The filters are likely as good as any, and with the kid being in 7th grade (and not 5 years old, he really needs to learn to be prudent when online.
Help him pick out an address designed to be less likely to receive spam (as discussed here), and teach him not to broadcast his address to every corner of the internet. That includes not registering for an account on every website he might come across, and probably keeping it 'private' on any sites he might have an account on.
The most important part though is that no email solution will get rid of 100% of the spam that he'll get. You'll need to teach him the appropriate response. Spam represents the 'bad neighborhoods' of the internet, be it porn (or "male enhancement"!) or phishing attacks or virus-ridden something else. The lessons you teach him will have a significantly greater affect on what ends up in his inbox than whether you use gmail, yahoo mail (don't), or a supposedly kid-safe alternative.
Combine this data with the camera images and you can also identify that vehicle.
Bit of a stretch I think but maybe not far off.
Or not. Camera-only systems seem to work, why wouldn't the inductive sensors + camera system work at least as well?
At 5 it's not like they should be using the computer without supervision anyway.
The computer? Why not? You might want to restrict their internet access, but watching over their shoulders while they play 'Reader Rabbit' on the computer is a bit much.
So ... the anonymous coward is in favor of both child labor, and students not needing teachers?
Yeah, I'm sure the average 12 year old getting home from his part-time job would just love to sit down with his textbook and teach himself something rather than play outside. I suspect he'll even get through the curriculum faster than any of his peers in schools!
I agree, it'll likely prevent mass murders. Now here's my question ... would the countless single murders committed solely because a gun was at hand be worth it?
"Nope. Basically, you can synthesize most plastics starting from simple compounds like carbon, hydrogen, oxygene, chlorine etc." Are we being serious now? Given atoms what compound couldn't you synthesize with enough energy, time, and effort?
I know those statistics (or at least very similar ones) too, but I've never seen the statistic that says "gun's good side > gun's bad side". For that matter, I don't even support a ban on guns (even where it constitutionally possible), because we all know that criminals would still have them, and the crime rate would just go up.
I'm not arguing any of that, merely that statistics are for numbers rather than "is good" or "is bad". You can determine whatever you want with your analysis, but presenting your analysis as the statistical fact is purely misleading.
It doesn't, cash does.
The student finished the test first, probably indicating that she knew the material better and was able to process whatever was on the test faster than her peers (not to say she was the smartest, but she's probably not one of the dumbest). She's probably not the student who needs to do more problems "for practice" if she's the one that can do them already, and quicker than her peers. If you tell her to start doing the next section of whatever unit/subject the test was on, when the whole class gets to that lesson the next day, you'll be in the same situation with that student not needing that time.
Things do sometimes simply boil down to the fact that the entire class needs to get x far over the course of y time. Some students might only need
Yes, try to intimidate younger people from voting. As if the majority of the younger generations didn't have enough reasons to dislike republican politics anyway ...
So ... you have a statue = you must be worshiping it?
It doesn't. At least, not unless you're from one of those sects that damns the rest of the world to hell if they don't do things your way.
Biiiiiiiigot!
They've clearly gotten all their agreements down to sell it legally, nobody is debating that. It's the fact that the iTunes store has such a ridiculous hold on the digital downloads market that the big 4 would like to change. They basically want to be in a better bargaining position when negotiating their arrangements, so as to be able to dictate terms a lot more than be pushed around quite so much by apple.
Buy a CD, rip it to iTunes ... and have the border patrol arrest you because it wasn't purchased through the iTunes store. Greeaaaaat, just what we need.
(Don't the big record companies want to weaken iTune's grip on the digital music download market anyway? Wouldn't making iTunes DRM the standard for legality be a bit counterproductive?)
On the other hand, this could be a good thing (as if). It might finally create enough of a backlash that the "your rights online" section here on slashdot could start posting articles saying that we have any rights online.
Yeah, I have Cox and used to get as much as about 1200kB/s downloading, even over torrents (and around 300kB/s up). These days I can manage about 250kB/s down and 125kB/s up over torrents only for a while before it slows even more (an effect that isn't solely limited to torrents, instead affecting all internet traffic). I'd say Cox has been throttling for AT LEAST two years around where I am.
5 Minutes??? What a lucky duckling you are! I have Cox, and after downloading Hardy Heron over torrents I had to wait 2 days for my connection to get back to normal. My usual experiences are more along the lines of 12 hours after last torrent usage, but either way Cox is crazy about slowing people down who use torrents. They make it impossible to game online without massive lag for hours after touching the bittorrent protocol.
Forget "the great equalizer". With my lazy eye I'll be staring up at the heavens spinning in circles all game long ... that is all game until my head gets blown off repeatedly.
That'd be a bit shortsighted. We didn't tell the Japanese that we had broken some of their codes during the war, and they proceeded to continue to use some of the compromised ones for years thereafter. Had we been as quick to stand around gloating as you we'd have lost the potential intel for years to come.
My uncle made 1.5x his his yearly salary over a span of 8 months recently after being laid off (along with retaining benefits). Among other things, his contract specified that he couldn't work for any company with operations in any of the fields his company operated in for a period of 8 months after his employment there ended. Seeing as he was a relatively senior executive in a particularly cutthroat industry ... it was seen fit to offer him a lovely severance package..
It was quite amusing seeing the corporate bigwig shifting to being a stay-at-home dad though!
Yes ... it includes RFID tracking to reduce theft, and ... manage traffic!?!?
We need our next generations of supercomputers to follow you around, knowing where you are at all times ... so umm, we can change the traffic lights when the roads get busy for you ....
~Director of NSA Domestic Spying Program
What about a certain ranch in Texas ....?
Of course not! Our government would release a counter-virus to infect the computers that attack, in effect hijacking the botnet for it's own purposes. It would then launch a massive distributed computing effort to aid in the creation of one collective government database containing all the information it has about any citizen. This of course would make all the information available to the poor souls whose computers were "recruited" to the effort.
*wild applause*
Being the student ... let's let me take a shot at this one.
In my school, programming 1 is offered (basic and qbasic) as a class, as in programming 2 (visual basic, js, c#) which can be taken as an honors course or a regular course. ONLY students enrolled in those courses have any ability to program, and then only during class. No other computers than the one computer lab we use have any useful software installed, and our accounts only allow us to program during school hours. And yeah .... we can't use any exit commands we put in our porgrams either as that runs into about 80 security measures of doom. We're given visual studio to take home, yet we are unable to e-mail ourselves any projects, and as all of the unused asb ports are taped over simply flaashdriving it up is no good. ... we can't do things like right click on the desktop, do much in my computer (it goes straight to your personal sutedent location, and allows you to go to no higher directory), or even get into the run command to open notepad if we find that easier to write html/js in
Is my IP seriously in the bottom 10 they have on there!!! Why am I sooo low out of over 45,000 people!!! eegads