I was an attorney for the U of WA and handled a lot of scholarship issues. Almost all the women's scholarships (not girls by that point!) were funded ages ago, from the days when gender disparity WAS an issue. When I was there from 1994-2003, because of Title IX of the Education Amendments (which requires gender equality), the University was almost always requiring new scholarships to be gender-neutral, because any gender-specific scholarships were difficult to award.
The growing imbalance toward women in higher education may not yet be of concern for the general public but it most certainly is something that the colleges and universities are aware of and are trying to handle, both in house and in collaboration with their peers in the K-12 systems. Education in this country is complex and intertwined, for both good and bad.
Not at all. I'm a woman and I've given "prostate exams" to a few guys in my time.;-) The men who are secure enough in their sexuality to do this gain a lot of enjoyment.
No, that is NOT the current OS X menubar layout. If you click "file" you can find an option to close the _file_ but not the application. You need to click on the application name to find the option to close the application. In Windows, the option to close the application itself is found, as the parent noted, inside the file menu. Totally wrongheaded.
But for now, I'll let other Mac users be the test dummies for using Vista on a Mac. Both Vista and the needed Mac drivers are too undeveloped for me to want to try Vista on my computer yet.
I used to advise a major university on ADA and Rehabilitation Act issues, including issues related to web compliance under section 508 of the Rehab Act. It does not surprise me at all that Target was held responsible to make its website compliant with the ADA. This was far from the first lawsuit involving compliance with the ADA or otherwise trying to force web entities to make their websites accessible to the disabled. In fact, I did a paper for the National Association of College and University Attorneys back in 2000 that relied on a Slashdot article:
"The overall design of web sites can have a tremendous effect on their accessibility for persons with disabilities. Because the internet is predominantly a visual medium, it should be no surprise that accommodations may be needed for the blind. However, proper design of a web page can also accommodate the needs of persons who have mobility impairments or learning disabilities, or are deaf.
Guides for making the web accessible recommend the use of standard hypertext markup language (html) or, if appropriate, the new extensible hypertext markup language (xml or xhtml). (Html is the standard coding language that tells a web browser what to display on a computer screen; xml is the name for the most modern version of the coding language.) Cutting edge html can pose problems because specialized software for the disabled, such as reading software for the blind, may be unable to understand it. Also, in general a simple layout is better. Frames and tables, for example, can cause problems with reading software because that software reads from left to right, ignoring the layout of a page. The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) recently sued AOL because AOL's software allegedly does not work with reading software. A copy of the complaint is attached and can also be found at http://www.nfb.org/aolcompl.htm. Curtis Chung, the NFB's Director of Technology, answered questions about the suit at http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/09/1342224.shtm l. Mr. Chung said:
'. . . the quarrel we have with America Online has to do with the accessibility of the software we *MUST* *RUN* in the Windows environment in order to use any AOL service. This is *NOT* related directly to any question of accessibility to web pages. To put it simply, the AOL software, all versions, behaves in such a way as to make it difficult if not impossible for screen access programs for the blind to understand what is being displayed on the screen. What we are asking for is to have AOL software that works well with screen access software for the blind.'
The choice of colors and typefaces, and the layout of the page, can affect the ease of reading for persons with learning disabilities, particularly those with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. Consistent style and navigation design from page to page also helps those with learning disabilities. Sites designed for ease of navigation and with large hotlinks can accommodate the needs of persons with mobility impairments, who may have difficulty controlling a mouse. Keeping pages short means that reading software does not have to read a long page before the listener can click to something else. Reading software also may have difficulty with symbols and graphs, such as those used in math and science classes. Persons who are colorblind can have difficulty if the web site relies on color for navigation.
The technology selected to deliver the course content also can affect the disabled. For example, streamed audio or video is not accessible to persons with hearing or vision disabilities. An institution's duty to accommodate does not force the course designer necessarily to eschew these technologies, but it will require the institution to give thought to alternate means of providing the course content. For example, a course that uses streaming audio lectures will be accessible to a deaf student if a
That had to do with the differences in Intel's native handling of Firewire. The chipsets did not have FireWire 800 built in and there was not enough room in the smaller MacBooks for the FireWire 800. There was enough space in the 17" MacBook Pro to add the needed circuitry to support the 800, so it was added.
Oh, heavens, no! I use a Mac in my law business, and for the most part it is superb. But occasionally I get documents in WordPerfect, and although I can open them in other programs (NeoOffice is my choice at the moment) it would be very nice to be able to use WordPerfect itself. (I loved WordPerfect on Mac OS 7 . . ..) My partner and I also have a couple of other programs that run only in Windows, so I currently use Parallels on my MacBook. If CrossOver had been available and fully functional for WordPerfect and the other programs (WordPerfect would not install under it; I did not try the others), I could have dispensed with the cost of a Windows license.
There is nothing wrong with a bit of cross-platform compatibility built into a Mac.:-)
There may be no statute of limitations, but if the computer (and thus the evidence in the computer) is in the hands of the government, the government will be subject to statutory and constitutional limits that prohibit undue delay in prosecutions. The government would need to prove that it had just cause for failing to bring a prosecution within the time set by law, and laziness in getting the evidence from an old computer would probably not be a valid excuse.
Although that is true -- there will be a cost -- let's look at it realistically. It will be a small cost, because it will be very simple for a manufacturer to explain how to set up the product in a manner that will make it secure. And when that is done, there will also be benefits, which is (I suspect) what the law is really after. There have been some quite publicized instances of identity theft here in CA recently that have sensitized our legislators to the potential of theft via WiFi. By trying to address these possibilities through requiring warnings and instructions, the laws are trying to avoid problems down the line. That is a good thing, I think, even if it is not a libertarian ideal.
A law like this is only as good as the warnings. If the warnings wind up being heavy on the legal boilerplate or tech jargon, not many of the people who really need them will be helped. But if they are written with the law's intended target in mind -- clueless Mom and Pop (or Ted Stevens) -- and use simple explanations and instructions for securing the WiFi connection, the law could be a good thing.
That's said, I'm kind of pessimistic . . .
Not really. The Rules of Evidence limit the circumstances when the prosecution can put on evidence that a person has committed a sex offense. The sex offenders registration is utterly irrelevant to future criminal issues, at least in California and Washington -- the things that matter are the previous convictions, not the registration.
I agree about the black mark. I addressed the "issue" as a legal, constitutional issue, and as such the question is one of rights and liberties and whether the hearing is sufficient to deprive one of that right or liberty. That's what "due process" means, you see -- DUE PROCESS of law (a trial, a hearing before an impartial arbiter) before one's rights or liberties are taken away by the government.
It's not entirely clear from the article, and I'm not an Ohio attorney, but depending on what the registry does, it might be ok. The Due Process Clause of the Constitution requires a hearing before a person is deprived of life or liberty, and that hearing must be proportional to deprivation. Obviously, a criminal case gets *more* due process than a civil case, because the potential deprivation of life and liberty is greater.
In this case, it seems that the civil registry is designed to be very different from a criminal registry, so let us not assume it would deprive civil registrants of the same rights and liberties as criminal registrants. That said, it is still creepy and upsetting, from a civil liberties standpoint, and worth looking at with a very severe eye.
I've read most of the comments about fraudulent auctions and troublesome sellers, and I'm surprised. I wonder if the frauds etc are prevalent in specific areas (computer parts, games, and so on)? I've used eBay on occasion to buy old Campagnolo bicycle parts, and a few other esoteric things, and have never had a problem. My partner has a little side business of making jewelry and she buys tools, beads, and jewelry findings on eBay frequently (it seems to be The Place to find these supplies!) She also has never had a problem, although a couple packages did take quite a while to arrive from Australia or wherever. (We live in California.)
I'm not sure what this says about eBay sellers as a whole, but that at least is our experience.
Are you using flip4mac (http://www.flip4mac.com)? That is the best way to play WMV files on a Mac, and in fact is the only way to play them on the new intel Macs.
I've had my midrange MacBook for a couple months and other than a slight discoloration on the palmrests (which is noticeable but not too bad) it's been flawless. As many people have said putting in the full 2 Gb ram is a good thing - particularly if you run any virtualization software (such as Parallels) or do any video or photo work.
Of course, it's always wise to get the Applecare coverage with a laptop, even when it's a generation 2 or 3 machine.
OpenOffice runs on OS X under X11, which any of the geeks 'n' geekettes here should have installed. It does not quite blend in with the rest of the OS the way "native" OS X programs would, but it is quite usable if you have X11 set to windowless mode. I use it myself at times, and it works fine.
The furore over Summers's comments had much to do with the background at Harvard and in academia as a whole. Many studies have been done to find out why bright women tend to drop out of the sciences after they get their BS degrees. It wasn't their brains or their desire - it was usually that the male graduate faculty discouraged them, ignored them, pushed them to seek other fields. Women who fought through these barriers to gain their PhDs found horrible discrimination for lab space, research assistance, grants -- even _offices_ -- the stuff that make careers, once they gained a position. When Universities try to make their programs more welcoming to women -- that is, when the professors treat them seriously and equally -- the women begin to enroll and stay enrolled. (And they do just fine, too!)
With this background, Harvard, like many universities made concerted efforts to make their science and math programs more welcoming to women students and faculty. After all the efforts that it made, Summers bounds in and says, "well, maybe they can't." With that speech, he completely showed his cluelessness. The thing is, [i]even if women in general might not be as good at men at science and math[/i], at the university level, EVERY woman has proved (and will prove) herself individually. NO woman should have to face disparagement or doubt by her male professors or classmates because of stupid, insignificant gender differences (assuming they even exist, which I doubt.) Summers's words foolishly told all the bigots it was open season again, and THAT is why there was such a flap.
(Background: I was an attorney for the University of Washington for 9 years; my female partner is a tenured faculty member at the University of California, San Diego.
No, I'm not high. Only cases with disputed facts need trials. Cases with no disputed facts can be resolved on motions to dismiss under Civil Rule 12 (in the federal courts and most states) or on Summary Judgment under Civil Rule 26. What both of those mean is that the case can be resolved "as a matter of law" (ie, using solely legal arguments and undisputed facts). It still can cost money but it is certainly not the sort of expense that really puts the corporations and their deep pockets in the driver's seat.
I don't disagree that litigation is still expensive. I do disagree with your overstatements, sir. That's all.
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BootCamp is currently a beta. Apple would charge for the release version.
I was an attorney for the U of WA and handled a lot of scholarship issues. Almost all the women's scholarships (not girls by that point!) were funded ages ago, from the days when gender disparity WAS an issue. When I was there from 1994-2003, because of Title IX of the Education Amendments (which requires gender equality), the University was almost always requiring new scholarships to be gender-neutral, because any gender-specific scholarships were difficult to award.
The growing imbalance toward women in higher education may not yet be of concern for the general public but it most certainly is something that the colleges and universities are aware of and are trying to handle, both in house and in collaboration with their peers in the K-12 systems. Education in this country is complex and intertwined, for both good and bad.
Not at all. I'm a woman and I've given "prostate exams" to a few guys in my time. ;-) The men who are secure enough in their sexuality to do this gain a lot of enjoyment.
I'm aware of that, but the comments above were talking about the "close application" option in the file menu.
No, that is NOT the current OS X menubar layout. If you click "file" you can find an option to close the _file_ but not the application. You need to click on the application name to find the option to close the application. In Windows, the option to close the application itself is found, as the parent noted, inside the file menu. Totally wrongheaded.
But for now, I'll let other Mac users be the test dummies for using Vista on a Mac. Both Vista and the needed Mac drivers are too undeveloped for me to want to try Vista on my computer yet.
I used to advise a major university on ADA and Rehabilitation Act issues, including issues related to web compliance under section 508 of the Rehab Act. It does not surprise me at all that Target was held responsible to make its website compliant with the ADA. This was far from the first lawsuit involving compliance with the ADA or otherwise trying to force web entities to make their websites accessible to the disabled. In fact, I did a paper for the National Association of College and University Attorneys back in 2000 that relied on a Slashdot article:
"The overall design of web sites can have a tremendous effect on their accessibility for persons with disabilities. Because the internet is predominantly a visual medium, it should be no surprise that accommodations may be needed for the blind. However, proper design of a web page can also accommodate the needs of persons who have mobility impairments or learning disabilities, or are deaf.
Guides for making the web accessible recommend the use of standard hypertext markup language (html) or, if appropriate, the new extensible hypertext markup language (xml or xhtml). (Html is the standard coding language that tells a web browser what to display on a computer screen; xml is the name for the most modern version of the coding language.) Cutting edge html can pose problems because specialized software for the disabled, such as reading software for the blind, may be unable to understand it. Also, in general a simple layout is better. Frames and tables, for example, can cause problems with reading software because that software reads from left to right, ignoring the layout of a page. The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) recently sued AOL because AOL's software allegedly does not work with reading software. A copy of the complaint is attached and can also be found at http://www.nfb.org/aolcompl.htm. Curtis Chung, the NFB's Director of Technology, answered questions about the suit at http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/09/1342224.shtm l. Mr. Chung said:
'. . . the quarrel we have with America Online has to do with the accessibility of the software we *MUST* *RUN* in the Windows environment in order to use any AOL service. This is *NOT* related directly to any question of accessibility to web pages. To put it simply, the AOL software, all versions, behaves in such a way as to make it difficult if not impossible for screen access programs for the blind to understand what is being displayed on the screen. What we are asking for is to have AOL software that works well with screen access software for the blind.'
The choice of colors and typefaces, and the layout of the page, can affect the ease of reading for persons with learning disabilities, particularly those with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. Consistent style and navigation design from page to page also helps those with learning disabilities. Sites designed for ease of navigation and with large hotlinks can accommodate the needs of persons with mobility impairments, who may have difficulty controlling a mouse. Keeping pages short means that reading software does not have to read a long page before the listener can click to something else. Reading software also may have difficulty with symbols and graphs, such as those used in math and science classes. Persons who are colorblind can have difficulty if the web site relies on color for navigation.
The technology selected to deliver the course content also can affect the disabled. For example, streamed audio or video is not accessible to persons with hearing or vision disabilities. An institution's duty to accommodate does not force the course designer necessarily to eschew these technologies, but it will require the institution to give thought to alternate means of providing the course content. For example, a course that uses streaming audio lectures will be accessible to a deaf student if a
There are, but I don't have any mod points right now. ;-)
That had to do with the differences in Intel's native handling of Firewire. The chipsets did not have FireWire 800 built in and there was not enough room in the smaller MacBooks for the FireWire 800. There was enough space in the 17" MacBook Pro to add the needed circuitry to support the 800, so it was added.
Oh, heavens, no! I use a Mac in my law business, and for the most part it is superb. But occasionally I get documents in WordPerfect, and although I can open them in other programs (NeoOffice is my choice at the moment) it would be very nice to be able to use WordPerfect itself. (I loved WordPerfect on Mac OS 7 . . . .) My partner and I also have a couple of other programs that run only in Windows, so I currently use Parallels on my MacBook. If CrossOver had been available and fully functional for WordPerfect and the other programs (WordPerfect would not install under it; I did not try the others), I could have dispensed with the cost of a Windows license.
:-)
There is nothing wrong with a bit of cross-platform compatibility built into a Mac.
There may be no statute of limitations, but if the computer (and thus the evidence in the computer) is in the hands of the government, the government will be subject to statutory and constitutional limits that prohibit undue delay in prosecutions. The government would need to prove that it had just cause for failing to bring a prosecution within the time set by law, and laziness in getting the evidence from an old computer would probably not be a valid excuse.
Although that is true -- there will be a cost -- let's look at it realistically. It will be a small cost, because it will be very simple for a manufacturer to explain how to set up the product in a manner that will make it secure. And when that is done, there will also be benefits, which is (I suspect) what the law is really after. There have been some quite publicized instances of identity theft here in CA recently that have sensitized our legislators to the potential of theft via WiFi. By trying to address these possibilities through requiring warnings and instructions, the laws are trying to avoid problems down the line. That is a good thing, I think, even if it is not a libertarian ideal.
A law like this is only as good as the warnings. If the warnings wind up being heavy on the legal boilerplate or tech jargon, not many of the people who really need them will be helped. But if they are written with the law's intended target in mind -- clueless Mom and Pop (or Ted Stevens) -- and use simple explanations and instructions for securing the WiFi connection, the law could be a good thing. That's said, I'm kind of pessimistic . . .
Not really. The Rules of Evidence limit the circumstances when the prosecution can put on evidence that a person has committed a sex offense. The sex offenders registration is utterly irrelevant to future criminal issues, at least in California and Washington -- the things that matter are the previous convictions, not the registration.
I agree about the black mark. I addressed the "issue" as a legal, constitutional issue, and as such the question is one of rights and liberties and whether the hearing is sufficient to deprive one of that right or liberty. That's what "due process" means, you see -- DUE PROCESS of law (a trial, a hearing before an impartial arbiter) before one's rights or liberties are taken away by the government.
It's not entirely clear from the article, and I'm not an Ohio attorney, but depending on what the registry does, it might be ok. The Due Process Clause of the Constitution requires a hearing before a person is deprived of life or liberty, and that hearing must be proportional to deprivation. Obviously, a criminal case gets *more* due process than a civil case, because the potential deprivation of life and liberty is greater.
In this case, it seems that the civil registry is designed to be very different from a criminal registry, so let us not assume it would deprive civil registrants of the same rights and liberties as criminal registrants. That said, it is still creepy and upsetting, from a civil liberties standpoint, and worth looking at with a very severe eye.
I'm not sure what this says about eBay sellers as a whole, but that at least is our experience.
Are you using flip4mac (http://www.flip4mac.com)? That is the best way to play WMV files on a Mac, and in fact is the only way to play them on the new intel Macs.
I've had my midrange MacBook for a couple months and other than a slight discoloration on the palmrests (which is noticeable but not too bad) it's been flawless. As many people have said putting in the full 2 Gb ram is a good thing - particularly if you run any virtualization software (such as Parallels) or do any video or photo work.
Of course, it's always wise to get the Applecare coverage with a laptop, even when it's a generation 2 or 3 machine.
OpenOffice runs on OS X under X11, which any of the geeks 'n' geekettes here should have installed. It does not quite blend in with the rest of the OS the way "native" OS X programs would, but it is quite usable if you have X11 set to windowless mode. I use it myself at times, and it works fine.
Now now. THAT would violate Slashdot Rule #4. :-)
But as a tease . . . http://idisk.mac.com/thorw/Public/IronButt.jpg
There come times that are just too perfect an opportunity to flaunt it. :-)
I have LOTS of girl friends. Probably about 20 or so close ones, and a few more who aren't so close.
Of course, I'm also a girl myself.
The furore over Summers's comments had much to do with the background at Harvard and in academia as a whole. Many studies have been done to find out why bright women tend to drop out of the sciences after they get their BS degrees. It wasn't their brains or their desire - it was usually that the male graduate faculty discouraged them, ignored them, pushed them to seek other fields. Women who fought through these barriers to gain their PhDs found horrible discrimination for lab space, research assistance, grants -- even _offices_ -- the stuff that make careers, once they gained a position. When Universities try to make their programs more welcoming to women -- that is, when the professors treat them seriously and equally -- the women begin to enroll and stay enrolled. (And they do just fine, too!)
With this background, Harvard, like many universities made concerted efforts to make their science and math programs more welcoming to women students and faculty. After all the efforts that it made, Summers bounds in and says, "well, maybe they can't." With that speech, he completely showed his cluelessness. The thing is, [i]even if women in general might not be as good at men at science and math[/i], at the university level, EVERY woman has proved (and will prove) herself individually. NO woman should have to face disparagement or doubt by her male professors or classmates because of stupid, insignificant gender differences (assuming they even exist, which I doubt.) Summers's words foolishly told all the bigots it was open season again, and THAT is why there was such a flap. (Background: I was an attorney for the University of Washington for 9 years; my female partner is a tenured faculty member at the University of California, San Diego.
No, I'm not high. Only cases with disputed facts need trials. Cases with no disputed facts can be resolved on motions to dismiss under Civil Rule 12 (in the federal courts and most states) or on Summary Judgment under Civil Rule 26. What both of those mean is that the case can be resolved "as a matter of law" (ie, using solely legal arguments and undisputed facts). It still can cost money but it is certainly not the sort of expense that really puts the corporations and their deep pockets in the driver's seat.
I don't disagree that litigation is still expensive. I do disagree with your overstatements, sir. That's all.