Removing mailto: links is a bad solution to the problem. It might be the only solution, but it is bad.
I hate the editor in my web browser. No spell check (and a quick read of this message will prove who diasterious that is to me), not good editing ability, and other problems. By contrast my email client has an excellent editor, and a spell checker. Let me pull up a real mail client when I want to send email, please!
In addition, I want people to contact me, and not everyone is computer literate. I hang out in antique iron groups, I expect people there to be up on the latest in hot tube ignition technology, not computer technology. To many of them computers are just a tool, and they don't have time to learn all the tricks to make it work, they just learn enough to make it do what they want, and then ignore the rest. Clicking on a mailto: link is easy and does the right thing. Opening up a mail client, and typing in some address is error prone at best.
Removing mailto: links might be the only solution, but I hope not. So I make sure to regualrly use spamcop.
Not true. I worked retail, in management for a while. We served anyone who came through the door and was reasonable. However there were a few cusotmers we wanted to go away and tell all their friends. Not many, but if we could get the "long hair hippie freaks" out we would do better buisness with those who are scared of such people.
Most of the "long hair hippie freaks" are good people, perhaps better than our target customers. However they were not a target customer, and there are enough bad apples in that crowd to spoil the whole bunch.
My parents never let me watch movies or TV as a kid. then I didn't like it, but those were the rules. (and I did watch at friends houses here and there.
Today though I look back and consider myself lucky. My parents spent time with me, cared for me. They were there in my life.
So please, parent, spend time with your kids. Raise them right. give them Hugs, kiss them before bed each night. Eat supper with them every day. Play games with them. Make passive enertainment (TV) never more than a small part of their life. Make them learn piano (something I've always wished I had, but my parents weren't perfect). I have no problem with little league, karattie, scouts or whatever, but they are an activity to enjoy, not keep you from your kids.
My mom got a call a few years back from school "I know your kid is in 5th grade, but there are no parents to help the 6th graders with a projet where help is needed, can you please come in for them?" And my mom did. My parents made the choice years ago to live on one income so that someone would always be home for the kids. Note that I said for the kids. There is of course time while the kids are in school for laundry, but mom's job was to make sure we were raised right. I don't have a problem with dad being at home, and you can make two incomes work and still spend time with the kids, just make sure you do.
As for Disney world: My parents never had the money for that. So while everyone else went to Disney World every few years we went camping in a state park. While the other kids were walking from ride to ride we were hiking in the backwoods miles from civialization. Your choice, but I think you can find plenty of things that are better to do than Disney world.
Be careful in reading the above. I do not have kids. I don't want to tell you how to raise your kids, you need to find what works, and do it. I'm giving some ideas that you can use.
There isn't much difference. The real problem with a democracy isn't tyranny of the majority (because you replace the majority with a small minority. sometimes better, sometimes worse). The problem is people don't have time to understand.
Most people I know would prefer to watch their kid play soccor this afternoon, and then eat supper. In a demoracy the size of the US you would have to spend most of every day studing the issues to decide how to vote on them. I have better things to do with my time.
I think they did ban them. Still, if you have the money, just buy one anyway, and when they arrest you plead the first ammendment. It would be an interesting test case, and you can bet someone will do it (though maybe not quite so blantently.
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Huh? you have a situation where the top two canidates differe in votes by less than the margin of error (in counting), and you complain. the Rules were followed, and I have yet to find someone who is talking about civial war to solve the problem. Sounds like the system works to me.
don't forget, by every re-count Bush did win by the rules. It wasn't Bush who was trying to circumvent the process, he was trying to follow it. (granted the process isn't great, but at least he wasn't changing the rules mid stream - of course it did happen to be to his advantage not to)
The Pen is mightier than the sword, but NEVER at any given moment. So long as someone (the US) has a big sword, and is your friend, you are better off with a pen. If the US becomes your enemy (hopefully never) you better find yourself a good sword fast just in case.
In the long run a pen is always better, but only if you survive all the short terms that make up the long term. A sword helps your survive today, while a pen will win tommorow.
With the EU and US mostly friendly, there is no reason for the EU to have an army, they are better off beating the US with ecconomic might, and asking the US to help them out when a sword is needed. If the Us would refuse to help out where a short term solution is needed, then the EU would be in trouble. Long term, if they surivive all the short terms, the pen will win. However it will take hundreds of years to bring the entire world up to a similear level as the EU. Until then you have half civialized people who know good weapons exist and are willing to use them against whoever they see as the enemy.
In an old folks home there are younger workers whos job is to take care of these details. Most of those old folks cannot take care of themselves, so somebody is paid to do it. Pay these people to take care of feeding and excretment, and then the pets are there all day every day.
Nursing home workers soon realise that even if they want to, there just isn't time to do the nessicary work and spend quality time with residents. A pet however can get all nessicary work done in just a few minutes, before the workers heads off to whatever else needs to be done. The pet then can head off to spend quality time with the older people.
So pets (live for sure, and likely robotic) really are better for both the staff and the residents. Not as good as enough staff to spend quality time with everyone, but the number of people needed for that simply do not exist.
For those who don't get subtil things (or just happened to miss this one)
When you perdict something people tend to act on the perdiction. Thus God sent a profit to warn Niniva of coming doom, but the people repented and so God no longer needed to send that doom. So does the fact that the people lived (for 100 years before some other country invaded) mean that God doesn't exist, or that repenting will save your life?
If everyone knew the terrorist were going to fly a plane into the world trade center in september nobody would have been there. (other than press, and some engineers to study the situation). If the terrorist knew they were discovered like that odds are they would call the whole thing off, and everyone would then laugh at those who gave a warning about something that never happened.
2000 is a perfect example. There were big comptuer problems related to the roll over from 1999 to 2000, but because there was warning the problems were fixed, so there were no problems, so the warnings must have been uneeded right?
There are many more examples that can be thought of. The point is clear though: warnings are a double edged sword.
However I'm willing to perdict the next terrorist bombing will be in Iseral/Palistine. You are now warned. (too bad I can't be more specific, this will do you little good if you live in that area)
Water conducts electrisity. Well, pure water doesn't, but pure water will eat metal until it does conduct. That means you have to keep your water carefully sererate from everything else.
By contrast, oil doesn't conduct, doesn't disolve metal. Fill your case with oil, and you have better cooling than air, and much easier to deal with. (Note, oil isn't as good as water for heat capacity, but it is still better than air and has all the other advantages)
I agree, except that it costs time. To get a product to market is always important. Sure it will cost more money down the road, but we have to get something out there now, or customers will buy from someone else. It is much easier to get someone to buy your product over a compittor than to get them to switch from a okay competitor to your product when your is better. So you make it work okay today, sell it, and then fix it and send out upgrades.
Are you sure you want to move to MN? We have one of the worst winters of any state. (we even beat out parts of Alaska) Not to mention the cities are crowded, while small town resteraunts always have at least one person eating after visiting the barn. (It takes days to get the smell of a barn out of your pores)
We also don't have anti-spam laws like Washington (amoug others) have. Now that I regularly send 5-10 spams per day to spamcop I'm sensitive to this issue.
OpenBSD defaults to several YEARS of code reviewing. Years between any security hole in the latest release. (Or more, does the openSSH hole count?)
FreeBSD has trusted BSD which has similear aims, plus some code that would be really nice to have.
Sardonix is trying to start a general project to do code reviews. Not really running yet, but good goals, I hope they work out.
Just a quick search of open source sites and code review reveals that most projects think highly of code reviews and encourage them.
And finially, the typical way to get into open source is to do start reading code, and then contribute when you can do something. One of the things you can do is find potential holes
None of the above is perfect. All are useful, and all go on all the time. Maybe Microsoft put in more work into theirs, but I remember openBSD which was just a better netBSD, and not secure. By fixing problems they got secrure. I've been a programer long enough to know that each fix has implications elsewhere. Microsoft might have solved a lot of problems, but my expirence is the first two months introduce more problems than they fix, it is only after fixing those new problems that you begine to make progress, and it takes months to get them all closed.
I saw this, and my first thought is it is perfect for the piano. It has audio already, so just plug in a mic and download some sheet music. With good software it should be able to tell where I am and automaticly turn pages. Put some speakers nearyby, and I can learn to play by ear from some tune, and after I give up on some hard section let the software give me sheet music for just that section. And it gives me a comptuer in the living room where I don't want a real one, but once in a while want to use one.
Note that piano software isn't exactly easy to write. Beginners make mistakes, while experts improvise, so it needs to allow very loose interpitations of where you are. Figguring out what notes are being played is also doable, but not easy. Probably more complex than a strongArm can do, but that is okay, I got a fast comptuer in the office to offload the hard work onto, just compress the audio and process it elsewhere)
Big open source projects attract more than the best. However the bad programers generally make slow progress, so in most cases a better programer gets it done first. (and the bad programer learns by reading the good programers code, and understand it having tried to do the same himself). For the few cases when a bad programer submits something, the good programers reject the patch, and the bad program either acts on the suggestions, or a good programer re-writes it to be good.
Big buisness can't afford that. If a bad programers turns in some working, but bad code we use it because time it money. Our good programers are better used to devolpe some new feature that can sell, not re-write the bad parts. the only exception is after service costs prove the bad code is costing more money to maintian than a re-write would cost.
SO what idiots would sign a control that does what these do? The whole point microsoft had when the introduced signing activeX controls was you trusted whatever was signed to do the right thing.
It seems that hacker objection "But you can get anything signed, and then it is trusted no matter what it does" is coming true. You would think that after all those objectections Microsoft would be more careful what gets signed just to prove us wrong.
Of course the above assumes these controls are signed. I don't know. fortunatly FreeBSD won't run these controls even if they do get downloaded so I'm fair safe through obsecurity, even before we get design issues.
I don't know, the wright brothers were flying in 1904. Henry Ford started a automobile company about the same time. (not the ford company of today, this one went out of buisness) Both heavier than air flight, and automobiles were known in the 1800s, but they were not useful. (In the case of ariplanes they were only about to get a few yards before crashing, cars were not faster than a horse, and much less reliable)
I think they had submarines in the 1800s too, but again, nothing useful.
That $200 hammer would cost you $200 at your local hardware store if they carried it. It was ment to be used in an explosive enviorment, so it had to be made of special (non-sparking) meterials. I'm sure non-reactive was also a requirement.
sure You can buy a hammerfor $5 at home depot, but professionals won't buy that cheap model, they pay $20 for the best. And that is for working outside where there are not dangerious gas mixtures to worry about. If I had to use a hammer when the atmosphere was explosive I'd want a hammer that was safe in that enviorment.
Can anyone verify any of the 3 claims given? I think it is well accepted that the goverment paid far more than home depot prices for a hammer at one time. However why seems to be in doupt, and the normal urban legends sites and google didn't turn anything up.
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I don't try to compete with low end systems. Without a tax number (or tax-free number... this in the US where buisnesses can avoid taxes) I can't compete. However when I build my own systems I get UW-SCSI, and other such things not found in your low end systems. I can beat the price of a similear high end system.
I prefer Matrox cards (I don't care about 3-d, and for 2-d they are the best). I get several hard drives so I can keep swap and/usr on differnt drives. (This isn't an issue now that memory was cheap, but on my first system 16 meg was all the ram than I could afford) I can choose my motherboard, getting something that works, whatever is cheap
Well, my first high school job was at McDonalds, and there I met a girl who could not handle that job, unskilled as it is. I wouldn't trust her to run these deleveries. However she did have a cheerful voice (which is why she was hired before we realised she couldn't do the job), and so she would be perfect in a hospital just to cheer up those who need a lift. I wouldn't put her in the long term care wing, she would just annoy everyone. For someone who is only in for a few days though, someone to interact with would help prevent depression (mild cases), in those bored in bed all day.
In Minnesota it is illegal to display anything of a pronographic nature in public. Note that this statue applies to everything, not just comptuers. You can have all the porn you want, just make sure it isn't a public place.
In other words, it isn't just web porn that the law keeps out of the library, it is all porn. It doesn't however prevent you from checking out playboy (if the librarian chooses to carry that magazine) but if you do, you are required to make sure that nobody can see you with it in public.
I'm not sure that the above law is perfect, but it is a lot better than one narrowly targeted at comptuers. And it avoids the issue of filtering. No need if you go to legitimate sites. (Although it doesn't cover what happens if the person before you leaves a trojon horse to get you into trouble)
Yeah, much as it pains me to admit a brute force idiot like Eddison was right over a thinker like Tesla, DC is better for long distance transmission than AC.
To Teslas credit though, technology of his day did not allow easy working with DC. In fact even today DC at high voltages cannot be worked with easially. (for instnace you cannot make a DC circuit breaker because when the breaker trips the power just turns air to plasma which is enough of a conductor that the triped breaker still send current. - this is solveable but the prefered way is just have the breaker on AC and then transform DC) Tesla also came up with the induction engine which requires AC. Today it is still cheaper and easier to change voltages with AC, and convert to DC where needed, than to transform DC into AC. So for the last mile I would have to say that AC is better. When going many miles (in the hundreds) DC is better. At the last foot level it is easy to transform to whatever you need at the end.
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Removing mailto: links is a bad solution to the problem. It might be the only solution, but it is bad.
I hate the editor in my web browser. No spell check (and a quick read of this message will prove who diasterious that is to me), not good editing ability, and other problems. By contrast my email client has an excellent editor, and a spell checker. Let me pull up a real mail client when I want to send email, please!
In addition, I want people to contact me, and not everyone is computer literate. I hang out in antique iron groups, I expect people there to be up on the latest in hot tube ignition technology, not computer technology. To many of them computers are just a tool, and they don't have time to learn all the tricks to make it work, they just learn enough to make it do what they want, and then ignore the rest. Clicking on a mailto: link is easy and does the right thing. Opening up a mail client, and typing in some address is error prone at best.
Removing mailto: links might be the only solution, but I hope not. So I make sure to regualrly use spamcop.
Not true. I worked retail, in management for a while. We served anyone who came through the door and was reasonable. However there were a few cusotmers we wanted to go away and tell all their friends. Not many, but if we could get the "long hair hippie freaks" out we would do better buisness with those who are scared of such people.
Most of the "long hair hippie freaks" are good people, perhaps better than our target customers. However they were not a target customer, and there are enough bad apples in that crowd to spoil the whole bunch.
My parents never let me watch movies or TV as a kid. then I didn't like it, but those were the rules. (and I did watch at friends houses here and there.
Today though I look back and consider myself lucky. My parents spent time with me, cared for me. They were there in my life.
So please, parent, spend time with your kids. Raise them right. give them Hugs, kiss them before bed each night. Eat supper with them every day. Play games with them. Make passive enertainment (TV) never more than a small part of their life. Make them learn piano (something I've always wished I had, but my parents weren't perfect). I have no problem with little league, karattie, scouts or whatever, but they are an activity to enjoy, not keep you from your kids.
My mom got a call a few years back from school "I know your kid is in 5th grade, but there are no parents to help the 6th graders with a projet where help is needed, can you please come in for them?" And my mom did. My parents made the choice years ago to live on one income so that someone would always be home for the kids. Note that I said for the kids. There is of course time while the kids are in school for laundry, but mom's job was to make sure we were raised right. I don't have a problem with dad being at home, and you can make two incomes work and still spend time with the kids, just make sure you do.
As for Disney world: My parents never had the money for that. So while everyone else went to Disney World every few years we went camping in a state park. While the other kids were walking from ride to ride we were hiking in the backwoods miles from civialization. Your choice, but I think you can find plenty of things that are better to do than Disney world.
Be careful in reading the above. I do not have kids. I don't want to tell you how to raise your kids, you need to find what works, and do it. I'm giving some ideas that you can use.
There isn't much difference. The real problem with a democracy isn't tyranny of the majority (because you replace the majority with a small minority. sometimes better, sometimes worse). The problem is people don't have time to understand.
Most people I know would prefer to watch their kid play soccor this afternoon, and then eat supper. In a demoracy the size of the US you would have to spend most of every day studing the issues to decide how to vote on them. I have better things to do with my time.
Accualy I suspect the DMCA was what they wanted, but they saw the loss of public support, so they propose this law to divert attention from the DMCA.
I think they did ban them. Still, if you have the money, just buy one anyway, and when they arrest you plead the first ammendment. It would be an interesting test case, and you can bet someone will do it (though maybe not quite so blantently.
Huh? you have a situation where the top two canidates differe in votes by less than the margin of error (in counting), and you complain. the Rules were followed, and I have yet to find someone who is talking about civial war to solve the problem. Sounds like the system works to me.
don't forget, by every re-count Bush did win by the rules. It wasn't Bush who was trying to circumvent the process, he was trying to follow it. (granted the process isn't great, but at least he wasn't changing the rules mid stream - of course it did happen to be to his advantage not to)
I have to say that the system worked.
The Pen is mightier than the sword, but NEVER at any given moment. So long as someone (the US) has a big sword, and is your friend, you are better off with a pen. If the US becomes your enemy (hopefully never) you better find yourself a good sword fast just in case.
In the long run a pen is always better, but only if you survive all the short terms that make up the long term. A sword helps your survive today, while a pen will win tommorow.
With the EU and US mostly friendly, there is no reason for the EU to have an army, they are better off beating the US with ecconomic might, and asking the US to help them out when a sword is needed. If the Us would refuse to help out where a short term solution is needed, then the EU would be in trouble. Long term, if they surivive all the short terms, the pen will win. However it will take hundreds of years to bring the entire world up to a similear level as the EU. Until then you have half civialized people who know good weapons exist and are willing to use them against whoever they see as the enemy.
In an old folks home there are younger workers whos job is to take care of these details. Most of those old folks cannot take care of themselves, so somebody is paid to do it. Pay these people to take care of feeding and excretment, and then the pets are there all day every day.
Nursing home workers soon realise that even if they want to, there just isn't time to do the nessicary work and spend quality time with residents. A pet however can get all nessicary work done in just a few minutes, before the workers heads off to whatever else needs to be done. The pet then can head off to spend quality time with the older people.
So pets (live for sure, and likely robotic) really are better for both the staff and the residents. Not as good as enough staff to spend quality time with everyone, but the number of people needed for that simply do not exist.
For those who don't get subtil things (or just happened to miss this one)
When you perdict something people tend to act on the perdiction. Thus God sent a profit to warn Niniva of coming doom, but the people repented and so God no longer needed to send that doom. So does the fact that the people lived (for 100 years before some other country invaded) mean that God doesn't exist, or that repenting will save your life?
If everyone knew the terrorist were going to fly a plane into the world trade center in september nobody would have been there. (other than press, and some engineers to study the situation). If the terrorist knew they were discovered like that odds are they would call the whole thing off, and everyone would then laugh at those who gave a warning about something that never happened.
2000 is a perfect example. There were big comptuer problems related to the roll over from 1999 to 2000, but because there was warning the problems were fixed, so there were no problems, so the warnings must have been uneeded right?
There are many more examples that can be thought of. The point is clear though: warnings are a double edged sword.
However I'm willing to perdict the next terrorist bombing will be in Iseral/Palistine. You are now warned. (too bad I can't be more specific, this will do you little good if you live in that area)
Ahh. I forget that some people accually like to drink that stuff known as coffee. Since I cannot stand the stuff, the corrolation never occured to me.
Water conducts electrisity. Well, pure water doesn't, but pure water will eat metal until it does conduct. That means you have to keep your water carefully sererate from everything else.
By contrast, oil doesn't conduct, doesn't disolve metal. Fill your case with oil, and you have better cooling than air, and much easier to deal with. (Note, oil isn't as good as water for heat capacity, but it is still better than air and has all the other advantages)
I agree, except that it costs time. To get a product to market is always important. Sure it will cost more money down the road, but we have to get something out there now, or customers will buy from someone else. It is much easier to get someone to buy your product over a compittor than to get them to switch from a okay competitor to your product when your is better. So you make it work okay today, sell it, and then fix it and send out upgrades.
Are you sure you want to move to MN? We have one of the worst winters of any state. (we even beat out parts of Alaska) Not to mention the cities are crowded, while small town resteraunts always have at least one person eating after visiting the barn. (It takes days to get the smell of a barn out of your pores)
We also don't have anti-spam laws like Washington (amoug others) have. Now that I regularly send 5-10 spams per day to spamcop I'm sensitive to this issue.
OpenBSD defaults to several YEARS of code reviewing. Years between any security hole in the latest release. (Or more, does the openSSH hole count?)
FreeBSD has trusted BSD which has similear aims, plus some code that would be really nice to have.
Sardonix is trying to start a general project to do code reviews. Not really running yet, but good goals, I hope they work out.
Just a quick search of open source sites and code review reveals that most projects think highly of code reviews and encourage them.
And finially, the typical way to get into open source is to do start reading code, and then contribute when you can do something. One of the things you can do is find potential holes
None of the above is perfect. All are useful, and all go on all the time. Maybe Microsoft put in more work into theirs, but I remember openBSD which was just a better netBSD, and not secure. By fixing problems they got secrure. I've been a programer long enough to know that each fix has implications elsewhere. Microsoft might have solved a lot of problems, but my expirence is the first two months introduce more problems than they fix, it is only after fixing those new problems that you begine to make progress, and it takes months to get them all closed.
I saw this, and my first thought is it is perfect for the piano. It has audio already, so just plug in a mic and download some sheet music. With good software it should be able to tell where I am and automaticly turn pages. Put some speakers nearyby, and I can learn to play by ear from some tune, and after I give up on some hard section let the software give me sheet music for just that section. And it gives me a comptuer in the living room where I don't want a real one, but once in a while want to use one.
Note that piano software isn't exactly easy to write. Beginners make mistakes, while experts improvise, so it needs to allow very loose interpitations of where you are. Figguring out what notes are being played is also doable, but not easy. Probably more complex than a strongArm can do, but that is okay, I got a fast comptuer in the office to offload the hard work onto, just compress the audio and process it elsewhere)
Now if the cost is just reasonable
Big open source projects attract more than the best. However the bad programers generally make slow progress, so in most cases a better programer gets it done first. (and the bad programer learns by reading the good programers code, and understand it having tried to do the same himself). For the few cases when a bad programer submits something, the good programers reject the patch, and the bad program either acts on the suggestions, or a good programer re-writes it to be good.
Big buisness can't afford that. If a bad programers turns in some working, but bad code we use it because time it money. Our good programers are better used to devolpe some new feature that can sell, not re-write the bad parts. the only exception is after service costs prove the bad code is costing more money to maintian than a re-write would cost.
No, I don't need to read the source. I just use FreeBSD's jail.
SO what idiots would sign a control that does what these do? The whole point microsoft had when the introduced signing activeX controls was you trusted whatever was signed to do the right thing.
It seems that hacker objection "But you can get anything signed, and then it is trusted no matter what it does" is coming true. You would think that after all those objectections Microsoft would be more careful what gets signed just to prove us wrong.
Of course the above assumes these controls are signed. I don't know. fortunatly FreeBSD won't run these controls even if they do get downloaded so I'm fair safe through obsecurity, even before we get design issues.
I don't know, the wright brothers were flying in 1904. Henry Ford started a automobile company about the same time. (not the ford company of today, this one went out of buisness) Both heavier than air flight, and automobiles were known in the 1800s, but they were not useful. (In the case of ariplanes they were only about to get a few yards before crashing, cars were not faster than a horse, and much less reliable)
I think they had submarines in the 1800s too, but again, nothing useful.
That $200 hammer would cost you $200 at your local hardware store if they carried it. It was ment to be used in an explosive enviorment, so it had to be made of special (non-sparking) meterials. I'm sure non-reactive was also a requirement.
sure You can buy a hammerfor $5 at home depot, but professionals won't buy that cheap model, they pay $20 for the best. And that is for working outside where there are not dangerious gas mixtures to worry about. If I had to use a hammer when the atmosphere was explosive I'd want a hammer that was safe in that enviorment.
Can anyone verify any of the 3 claims given? I think it is well accepted that the goverment paid far more than home depot prices for a hammer at one time. However why seems to be in doupt, and the normal urban legends sites and google didn't turn anything up.
I don't try to compete with low end systems. Without a tax number (or tax-free number... this in the US where buisnesses can avoid taxes) I can't compete. However when I build my own systems I get UW-SCSI, and other such things not found in your low end systems. I can beat the price of a similear high end system.
I prefer Matrox cards (I don't care about 3-d, and for 2-d they are the best). I get several hard drives so I can keep swap and /usr on differnt drives. (This isn't an issue now that memory was cheap, but on my first system 16 meg was all the ram than I could afford) I can choose my motherboard, getting something that works, whatever is cheap
Well, my first high school job was at McDonalds, and there I met a girl who could not handle that job, unskilled as it is. I wouldn't trust her to run these deleveries. However she did have a cheerful voice (which is why she was hired before we realised she couldn't do the job), and so she would be perfect in a hospital just to cheer up those who need a lift. I wouldn't put her in the long term care wing, she would just annoy everyone. For someone who is only in for a few days though, someone to interact with would help prevent depression (mild cases), in those bored in bed all day.
In Minnesota it is illegal to display anything of a pronographic nature in public. Note that this statue applies to everything, not just comptuers. You can have all the porn you want, just make sure it isn't a public place.
In other words, it isn't just web porn that the law keeps out of the library, it is all porn. It doesn't however prevent you from checking out playboy (if the librarian chooses to carry that magazine) but if you do, you are required to make sure that nobody can see you with it in public.
I'm not sure that the above law is perfect, but it is a lot better than one narrowly targeted at comptuers. And it avoids the issue of filtering. No need if you go to legitimate sites. (Although it doesn't cover what happens if the person before you leaves a trojon horse to get you into trouble)
Yeah, much as it pains me to admit a brute force idiot like Eddison was right over a thinker like Tesla, DC is better for long distance transmission than AC.
To Teslas credit though, technology of his day did not allow easy working with DC. In fact even today DC at high voltages cannot be worked with easially. (for instnace you cannot make a DC circuit breaker because when the breaker trips the power just turns air to plasma which is enough of a conductor that the triped breaker still send current. - this is solveable but the prefered way is just have the breaker on AC and then transform DC) Tesla also came up with the induction engine which requires AC. Today it is still cheaper and easier to change voltages with AC, and convert to DC where needed, than to transform DC into AC. So for the last mile I would have to say that AC is better. When going many miles (in the hundreds) DC is better. At the last foot level it is easy to transform to whatever you need at the end.