It's not like they can't skip class if they want to.
Actually, a number of universities have mandatory attendence. They enforce it by using "clickers" -- kind of a remote. The remote has your student number in it, and you press it at different times during the class to verify that you're there.
Bring anything. But make note-taking during lecture part of the grade. Have the Prof check for at least a page of notes, and just look at if they wrote anything down.
What difference does it make to you if I learn best by taking mental notes? Why don't you test my knowledge of the subject, instead of notes I (don't) write for myself on paper?
S.8 protects a persons right to be secure against unreasonable searches and/or seizures. There is no constitutional warrant requirement. If there was a constitutional warrant requirement s.8 would state "Everyone has the right to be secure against warrantless search or seizure". However, the Supreme Court of Canada has adopted the position that all warrantless searches are prima facie unreasonable. What this proposition enunciates is that when a search is conducted in the absence of a warrant (prior judicial authorization) the search will be presumed to be "unreasonable" and therefore a violation of s.8 of the Charter.
Radiohead's Kid A album syncs with itself if you start a second copy of the album 17 seconds later. It's been dubbed Kid 17. It only works for a few songs, apparently.
That will last as long as it takes Apple to DRM the hell out of it. Or worse, dispatch it's army of lawyers armed with cease and desist orders to anyone who dares to suggest a method to install on a non Apple box.
I'd rather they send the lawyers than put DRM in. DRM affects everyone (EULA violators & legitimate users). Lawyers only affect EULA violators.
It concerns me as an investor. PayPal/eBay won't go down without a huge fight. Google's attempt to cut into Amazon's market with Froogle flopped, and quite frankly, I don't see them unseating eBay anytime soon.
Google's attempt to what? Does Amazon have search engine that finds the lowest prices? Google isn't actually selling anything with Froogle. They seem like completely different services to me.
I don't see anything wrong with zealotry, especially when it's for a good cause like open source software.
Zealotry is an excess of zeal. Excess is bad. Even when it's for a "good cause."
Zealotry denotes zeal in excess, referring to cases where activism and ambition in relation to an ideology have become excessive to the point of being harmful to others, oneself, and one's own cause.(zealotry - Wikipedia, emphasis mine)
Seems they share schematics for the design. I'd imagine you could sell the hardware for profit (binaries) so long as you made the schematics (source code) available to those who bought it. Seems like a reasonable idea.
However I can't help but think that if Microsoft worked with a state and university to encourage closed source software and hardware development, develop academic curricula and provide computing infrastructure to closed source projects worldwide that everyone would say how dare a company try to buy a university into spreading it's FUD.
I don't see what Microsoft has to do with it. If Google were pushing closed source curricula on a university, I think the reaction would be negative.
I don't see what Fear Uncertainty and Doubt anyone could be spreading by doing anything like this.
How could a company pushing open source be looking to buy a university? The university can just go to another provider if they don't like Google's attitude -- that's why it's different with open source software. With closed source it would be a lock-in.
Open source fits in more with academia. Mainly, academic/scientific discoveries are usually funded by the university and open to the world. The idea isn't to make profit (closed source), but to share information (open source).
It's not as though open source = Good! closed source = Bad! all the time, it's just that in this situation, it seems clear open source is a better choice and doesn't apply to what you said.
Kailash Nadh writes to tell us ABC News is reporting that IBM is teaming up with several other companies to form a group called Aperi. This group will attempt to "push the open source idea deeper into computing" and "free up the bottlenecks that can occur when a business has bought tape and disk storage systems from a variety of vendors." The partnership is to include companies like Cisco, Sun, Fujitsu, and several others.
If that's true (I'm not familiar with Australian law), was iTunes (the program) available before? Because you can rip CDs to MP3 with iTunes. Actually, you can do that with most jukebox software. I guess as long as there isn't some DMCA-like law prohibiting ditribution of tools to rip CDs to MP3s, it would be fine. Anyone have any more information?
The iTunes Australia store is expected to provide largely the same offerings as its US and European stores, delivering access to almost one million songs at between AU$0.99 and AU$1.69 per song.
Uh huh. Look, I'll be honest with you. I'm not sure paleontologists are able to cure cancer. I know. It comes as a shock to most people. We've all heard the tired old argument that dinosaurs died from cancer, and that the cure to cancer is in their magical dinosaur bones, but I just don't buy it. And frankly until someone proves it, I don't think much effort is going to be put into forcing paleontologists by whip and chain to cure cancer. I'm sorry that you had to hear this from me.
"Our study shows that the claw was used as a climbing crampon. It allowed the dromaeosaurs to hook themselves on to the flanks of their prey: when the prey turned, so too was the attacker," Manning told Discovery News. He continued in a puzzlingly forced manner, "Yes. We truly have nothing at all to fear from what I am sure are very friendly dinosaurs. We should trust that any dinosaur attacks are certainly not imminent. Nothing to fear whatsoever."
Questioned on the claw marks in his back, Manning replied, "What? Oh that. Yes. Haha. Silly me, I must have walked into a door. Yes. Nothing to fear whatsoever."
I must not grasp this entirely. I don't have an ING account, maybe you could clarify how this works.
Try the ING Direct site - best over the web security ever. You need your account number
Enter Account Number: [_______________]
some ever changing specific fraction of your social security #
Which wouldn't be hard to phish. Off the top of my head, I can think of two ways of doing this:
Enter Full Social Security Number: [__________________]
Enter digits 1-3 of SS#: [___]... First 3 digits invalid. Enter digits 4-6...
zip code, or other identifier
Enter ZIP Code: [________]
and a set of letters that corresponds to a pin that are entered by clicking a icture of a number pad with a mouse. If "s" is assigned to "3" this time, it won't be the next time you're on.
This one is especially interesting and confusing. So they give you a number pad that would be something like:
1 = s,
2 = q,
3 = w,
4 = i,
5 = r,
6 = k,
7 = i,
8 = n,
9 = g,
0 = y
... then you type the letters in by clicking a pad. So wouldn't it be easy for a phisherman to get this information by giving you a grid like that, but then translating the letters back into their number form? I must misunderstand the whole thing.
Microsoft originally designed a single-play DVD. That much is true. It also had a new case. However, as time went by, they had to drop a number of features. The first to go was the 'DVD' part. Then they dropped the 'single-play' part. Now they just have a new case full of nothing.
They will just use one person, Gary Coleman, for those annoying little guys, but they will digitally put him in hundreds of times. Also: they will all look exactly like Gary Coleman and will frequently say, "Whatchu talkin' 'bout Master Cheif?"
Slashdot Mirror
Delcan NET is now tracking traffic through the tunnels....
It's not like they can't skip class if they want to.
Actually, a number of universities have mandatory attendence. They enforce it by using "clickers" -- kind of a remote. The remote has your student number in it, and you press it at different times during the class to verify that you're there.
Bring anything. But make note-taking during lecture part of the grade. Have the Prof check for at least a page of notes, and just look at if they wrote anything down.
What difference does it make to you if I learn best by taking mental notes? Why don't you test my knowledge of the subject, instead of notes I (don't) write for myself on paper?
As for the minority of women, well...You don't see a lot of girls upside-down in trash cans, do you?
Aside from Slashdot, you and I must visit drastically different websites.
5. IS A WARRANTLESS SEARCH OR SEIZURE ALWAYS UNREASONABLE?
Ha ha!
We all know that the only real anti-gravity device is a (Score:5, Insightful)
Radiohead's Kid A album syncs with itself if you start a second copy of the album 17 seconds later. It's been dubbed Kid 17. It only works for a few songs, apparently.
That will last as long as it takes Apple to DRM the hell out of it. Or worse, dispatch it's army of lawyers armed with cease and desist orders to anyone who dares to suggest a method to install on a non Apple box.
I'd rather they send the lawyers than put DRM in. DRM affects everyone (EULA violators & legitimate users). Lawyers only affect EULA violators.
It appears ScuttleMonkey didn't just make a typo, but just has no clue that it is actually Stanford not Standford...
Yeah! Sir Stanford Fleming must be spinning in his grave!
It concerns me as an investor. PayPal/eBay won't go down without a huge fight. Google's attempt to cut into Amazon's market with Froogle flopped, and quite frankly, I don't see them unseating eBay anytime soon.
Google's attempt to what? Does Amazon have search engine that finds the lowest prices? Google isn't actually selling anything with Froogle. They seem like completely different services to me.
I don't see anything wrong with zealotry, especially when it's for a good cause like open source software.
Zealotry is an excess of zeal. Excess is bad. Even when it's for a "good cause."
Zealotry denotes zeal in excess, referring to cases where activism and ambition in relation to an ideology have become excessive to the point of being harmful to others, oneself, and one's own cause. (zealotry - Wikipedia, emphasis mine)
Open Source Hardware
Seems they share schematics for the design. I'd imagine you could sell the hardware for profit (binaries) so long as you made the schematics (source code) available to those who bought it. Seems like a reasonable idea.
It's not as though open source = Good! closed source = Bad! all the time, it's just that in this situation, it seems clear open source is a better choice and doesn't apply to what you said.
Kailash Nadh writes to tell us ABC News is reporting that IBM is teaming up with several other companies to form a group called Aperi. This group will attempt to "push the open source idea deeper into computing" and "free up the bottlenecks that can occur when a business has bought tape and disk storage systems from a variety of vendors." The partnership is to include companies like Cisco, Sun, Fujitsu, and several others.
Until now, an iPod was an expensive paperweight unless you were prepared to infringe copyright ...
Or unless you listened to MP3s of bands that published them online? Or if you bought music from AllOfMP3.com? (If that is legal in Australia)
It is also illegal to rip cds to MP3.
If that's true (I'm not familiar with Australian law), was iTunes (the program) available before? Because you can rip CDs to MP3 with iTunes. Actually, you can do that with most jukebox software. I guess as long as there isn't some DMCA-like law prohibiting ditribution of tools to rip CDs to MP3s, it would be fine. Anyone have any more information?
Looks like it's not variable pricing as I thought it might have been. Thus, I hereby retract my "Crikey!"
From the article:
The iTunes Australia store is expected to provide largely the same offerings as its US and European stores, delivering access to almost one million songs at between AU$0.99 and AU$1.69 per song.
Crikey!
Women's hygiene products? Man, you're peddling your wares on the wrong site. Unless... Oh you people sicken me!
Go cure cancer or something.
Uh huh. Look, I'll be honest with you. I'm not sure paleontologists are able to cure cancer. I know. It comes as a shock to most people. We've all heard the tired old argument that dinosaurs died from cancer, and that the cure to cancer is in their magical dinosaur bones, but I just don't buy it. And frankly until someone proves it, I don't think much effort is going to be put into forcing paleontologists by whip and chain to cure cancer. I'm sorry that you had to hear this from me.
"Our study shows that the claw was used as a climbing crampon. It allowed the dromaeosaurs to hook themselves on to the flanks of their prey: when the prey turned, so too was the attacker," Manning told Discovery News. He continued in a puzzlingly forced manner, "Yes. We truly have nothing at all to fear from what I am sure are very friendly dinosaurs. We should trust that any dinosaur attacks are certainly not imminent. Nothing to fear whatsoever."
Questioned on the claw marks in his back, Manning replied, "What? Oh that. Yes. Haha. Silly me, I must have walked into a door. Yes. Nothing to fear whatsoever."
Try the ING Direct site - best over the web security ever. You need your account number
Enter Account Number: [_______________]
some ever changing specific fraction of your social security #
Which wouldn't be hard to phish. Off the top of my head, I can think of two ways of doing this:
zip code, or other identifier
Enter ZIP Code: [________]
and a set of letters that corresponds to a pin that are entered by clicking a icture of a number pad with a mouse. If "s" is assigned to "3" this time, it won't be the next time you're on.
This one is especially interesting and confusing. So they give you a number pad that would be something like:
1 = s, 2 = q, 3 = w,
4 = i, 5 = r, 6 = k,
7 = i, 8 = n, 9 = g,
0 = y
Anyone have any more info?
Microsoft originally designed a single-play DVD. That much is true. It also had a new case. However, as time went by, they had to drop a number of features. The first to go was the 'DVD' part. Then they dropped the 'single-play' part. Now they just have a new case full of nothing.
They will just use one person, Gary Coleman, for those annoying little guys, but they will digitally put him in hundreds of times. Also: they will all look exactly like Gary Coleman and will frequently say, "Whatchu talkin' 'bout Master Cheif?"