My kids at two (maybe two and a half) could log in with their usernames and passwords (3-6 letters for each, not that hard - they aren't reading it's just symbol recognition) and muck around on kids sites (nickolodian(sp?), abc4kids, etc) (added to their shortcuts of course - it's not like they can type in something like that). Great to keep them entertained for a few minutes while you're cooking tea etc.
Sure they'd open 20 firefox windows and a bunch of other applicatons etc while the little flash games were loading, but they were having fun.
Ditto for putting DVD's on to play. They don't really understand what the buttons on the remote do, they just know that they have to press the right buttons in the right order to make it happen.
Kids can be very clever when it comes to doing something they want to do, and they learn fast.
I'd definitely go for a PC over a laptop though. Despite how much you tell them they can't eat or drink while at the computer, the moment your back is turned they will, and it's heaps cheaper to replace a keyboard and mouse on a PC than it is to replace a whole laptop.
I think the uncertainty principal is still safe. What they are doing is equivalent to what they've been able to do before, only fast enough to give an impression of motion.
If you think about measurement at that scale as being equivalent to throwing tennis balls at a basketball and looking at where the tennis balls end up to calculate where the basketball must be, then even if you throw more tennis balls you are still affecting the basketball in an unpredictable way.
I think that if they were legally required to, they would do so. The RIAA is acting on the basis that "we haven't got a court order or anything, but how about you do as we say anyway and nobody has to get hurt?". The University, while initially bending over, has now taken the stance "show us some actual evidence first, eg something that wouldn't get laughed out of court if you went to try and get a court order".
As someone else pointed out, if only they'd stood up to the RIAA a few years earlier...
Maybe a better bailout would be to give the public big rebates when they buy cars.
Here in Australia they are just about to throw the public large sums of money, in the order of $1000/child, to 'stimulate the economy'. I guess the idea is that we'll all go and buy plasma TV's with it...
We have 4 kids, and sure could use the money, but I really think that there would be better ways of stimulate the economy... big rebates on locally imported goods or something.
I suspect a good deal of the money will be spent on gambling, cigarettes, and alcohol, all of which are highly taxed, so the government will probably see most of the money back again pretty quickly anyway.
I have no problem with this sort of trap. Stupid criminals deserve to get caught.
There is a guy in Australia who fled to another country to get out of being punished for crimes he committed in Australia. He was extradited back to Australia and is now appealing the process leading to his extradition. Now _that_ is wrong.
Even worse than that, when the air is decompressed during use it gets cold. Icing up is a problem in colder climates. Free airconditioning in warmer climates though!
You: "Wow. This virus interferes with T-Cells, even reanimating dead tissue. That's really wild!" Computer: "Command accepted. Releasing virus into the wild."
Yes, but the kernel has to detect this, and once it does, it assumes that it doesn't keep having to re-detect this (afterall, why would it change?). And what if you migrated right in the middle of that detection?
With PV kernels that understand virtualisation it's probably not a big deal because the kernel can just say "don't migrate while i'm doing this", but for fully virtualisation where the kernel doesn't know it's virtualised, it's a bit harder.
I forget who said it, but in the age of pac-man someone once said something along the lines of "If video games affected people at all then the kids would all be spending their time in dark rooms listening to repetitive music and consuming pills..."
If you are _really_ concerned about going green, the biggest (and likely simplest) impact you can have is to never have children
That's rubbish and you know it. A child in a suitably sized hamster wheel can produce enough energy to run all manner of electrical equipment. And once they are grown enough they can pull a cart, removing the need to own or drive a car.
Once matrix-style energy extraction is perfected, the future of the world will depend on having more children!
That's my point. six billion people, it's rare that any are hit by all that natural junk, and you are worried about this?
I've wondered about this before. A good percentage of those six billion people are in places where it might not be reported if one of them were killed by something falling from above... how sure are we that it hasn't happened once or twice before and we just never heard about it?
And since when did the refridgerator become a unit of measure? Is it a bar fridge? The sort of mini fridge you have in the back of your SUV? A double door fridge-freezer combination?
No-one cares what the fucktards at Today Tonight have to say.
Don't get me started on that show. I hate it. When I watch it (eg when it happens to be on when i'm in the room), I get really really angry about stuff, until I very quickly realize I've been sucked in, and then I get angry about that. And then I get angry about the people who will be watching and maybe haven't yet realized they've been sucked in. Then only time I actually enjoy watching it is when their reporters get attacked (eg physically punched) for getting in someone's face, and then act all innocent about it. I prefer to turn the tv off at that time of night, but i'm not the only one in the house...
Anyway, you don't care what they say on that show, and I don't care, but if nobody was watching it then the advertising dollars would go away and the show would soon follow, so unfortunately a great many someones somewhere are watching it.
Now if there was a medium that needed more censorship, tv is it. I quite happy seeing boobs and other stuff on TV, but for fscks sake please apply a stupidity filter to our current affairs shows!!!
I don't think Slashdot will be filtered... according to the summary:
"The leaders of three of Australia's largest internet service providers -- Telstra Media's Justin Milne, iiNet's Michael Malone and Internode's Simon Hackett -- have, in video interviews with ZDNet.com.au over the past few months, detailed technical, legal and ethical reasons why excellent and much looked forward to ISP-level filtering will work exactly as designed. Critics of the policy have now come to their senses and have also put forward their full support."
If there really is a performance loss, and you can quantify it, then you can attack it from another angle, eg an impact statement to management along the lines of "This will introduce a %% performance loss to our workloads, at a cost of $$$. In order to maintain the same level of productivity we will require upgraded hardware at a cost of $$$".
Having a manager who is concerned about his departments budgets on your side can help your case too:)
"He deceitfully used someone else's name and password so he would not get caught and was looking to profit from his criminal act."
Now that's the State Troopers words, and may not be true, but it's right there in the article itself. I suppose you could infer that he wanted to use the information he obtained for something other than blackmail (eg fraud), but if he wanted to do that he wouldn't have emailed the principal giving the game away, so blackmail is the obvious conclusion.
It's like a car analogy. Even a good one is still bad and serves to confuse the issue more than it does enlighten people. And then you have everyone picking on your car analogy because they don't actually understand what an analogy is... "But a car has wheels! I don't understand."
Have you ever noticed that after you have used the word 'analogy' more than a few times you start to wonder if you spelled it right? And wonder if it's even a word in the first place?
Birds can sleep standing up because their tendons lock their claws into position, even while asleep.
That's nothing!!! The Norwegian Blue Parrot can remain standing whilst asleep, pining for the fjords, or even dead. A truly remarkable bird. Beautiful plumage.
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Don't have kids do you?
My kids at two (maybe two and a half) could log in with their usernames and passwords (3-6 letters for each, not that hard - they aren't reading it's just symbol recognition) and muck around on kids sites (nickolodian(sp?), abc4kids, etc) (added to their shortcuts of course - it's not like they can type in something like that). Great to keep them entertained for a few minutes while you're cooking tea etc.
Sure they'd open 20 firefox windows and a bunch of other applicatons etc while the little flash games were loading, but they were having fun.
Ditto for putting DVD's on to play. They don't really understand what the buttons on the remote do, they just know that they have to press the right buttons in the right order to make it happen.
Kids can be very clever when it comes to doing something they want to do, and they learn fast.
I'd definitely go for a PC over a laptop though. Despite how much you tell them they can't eat or drink while at the computer, the moment your back is turned they will, and it's heaps cheaper to replace a keyboard and mouse on a PC than it is to replace a whole laptop.
I think the uncertainty principal is still safe. What they are doing is equivalent to what they've been able to do before, only fast enough to give an impression of motion.
If you think about measurement at that scale as being equivalent to throwing tennis balls at a basketball and looking at where the tennis balls end up to calculate where the basketball must be, then even if you throw more tennis balls you are still affecting the basketball in an unpredictable way.
Obviously at least 5 people remember it for your post+sig to have been scored funny :)
I'm surprised nobody has linked to The Ur-Quan Masters...
I think that if they were legally required to, they would do so. The RIAA is acting on the basis that "we haven't got a court order or anything, but how about you do as we say anyway and nobody has to get hurt?". The University, while initially bending over, has now taken the stance "show us some actual evidence first, eg something that wouldn't get laughed out of court if you went to try and get a court order".
As someone else pointed out, if only they'd stood up to the RIAA a few years earlier...
I've never studied law in my life, but "RIAA Defence 101" is a course i'd sign up for!!!
Maybe a better bailout would be to give the public big rebates when they buy cars.
Here in Australia they are just about to throw the public large sums of money, in the order of $1000/child, to 'stimulate the economy'. I guess the idea is that we'll all go and buy plasma TV's with it...
We have 4 kids, and sure could use the money, but I really think that there would be better ways of stimulate the economy... big rebates on locally imported goods or something.
I suspect a good deal of the money will be spent on gambling, cigarettes, and alcohol, all of which are highly taxed, so the government will probably see most of the money back again pretty quickly anyway.
I really don't think they thought it through.
I have no problem with this sort of trap. Stupid criminals deserve to get caught.
There is a guy in Australia who fled to another country to get out of being punished for crimes he committed in Australia. He was extradited back to Australia and is now appealing the process leading to his extradition. Now _that_ is wrong.
I bet that obscure comments in God's code would put Larry Wall to shame too :) /* FIXME: Is free will a good idea? Review after beta testing... */
Even worse than that, when the air is decompressed during use it gets cold. Icing up is a problem in colder climates. Free airconditioning in warmer climates though!
You: "Wow. This virus interferes with T-Cells, even reanimating dead tissue. That's really wild!"
Computer: "Command accepted. Releasing virus into the wild."
Yes, but the kernel has to detect this, and once it does, it assumes that it doesn't keep having to re-detect this (afterall, why would it change?). And what if you migrated right in the middle of that detection?
With PV kernels that understand virtualisation it's probably not a big deal because the kernel can just say "don't migrate while i'm doing this", but for fully virtualisation where the kernel doesn't know it's virtualised, it's a bit harder.
Those guys have been fighting wars on one front or another for centuries. They are very good at it.
I forget who said it, but in the age of pac-man someone once said something along the lines of "If video games affected people at all then the kids would all be spending their time in dark rooms listening to repetitive music and consuming pills..."
That's rubbish and you know it. A child in a suitably sized hamster wheel can produce enough energy to run all manner of electrical equipment. And once they are grown enough they can pull a cart, removing the need to own or drive a car.
Once matrix-style energy extraction is perfected, the future of the world will depend on having more children!
Now that is dangerous. Just when you think you've closed all your windows containing pr0n...
best. analogy. ever.
I've wondered about this before. A good percentage of those six billion people are in places where it might not be reported if one of them were killed by something falling from above... how sure are we that it hasn't happened once or twice before and we just never heard about it?
And since when did the refridgerator become a unit of measure? Is it a bar fridge? The sort of mini fridge you have in the back of your SUV? A double door fridge-freezer combination?
Don't get me started on that show. I hate it. When I watch it (eg when it happens to be on when i'm in the room), I get really really angry about stuff, until I very quickly realize I've been sucked in, and then I get angry about that. And then I get angry about the people who will be watching and maybe haven't yet realized they've been sucked in. Then only time I actually enjoy watching it is when their reporters get attacked (eg physically punched) for getting in someone's face, and then act all innocent about it. I prefer to turn the tv off at that time of night, but i'm not the only one in the house...
Anyway, you don't care what they say on that show, and I don't care, but if nobody was watching it then the advertising dollars would go away and the show would soon follow, so unfortunately a great many someones somewhere are watching it.
Now if there was a medium that needed more censorship, tv is it. I quite happy seeing boobs and other stuff on TV, but for fscks sake please apply a stupidity filter to our current affairs shows!!!
I don't think Slashdot will be filtered... according to the summary:
So as you can see we have nothing to worry about.
Maybe the Sprint/Cogent war has caused a partition in Slashdot too?
If there really is a performance loss, and you can quantify it, then you can attack it from another angle, eg an impact statement to management along the lines of "This will introduce a %% performance loss to our workloads, at a cost of $$$. In order to maintain the same level of productivity we will require upgraded hardware at a cost of $$$".
Having a manager who is concerned about his departments budgets on your side can help your case too :)
RTFA, not TFS...
"He deceitfully used someone else's name and password so he would not get caught and was looking to profit from his criminal act."
Now that's the State Troopers words, and may not be true, but it's right there in the article itself. I suppose you could infer that he wanted to use the information he obtained for something other than blackmail (eg fraud), but if he wanted to do that he wouldn't have emailed the principal giving the game away, so blackmail is the obvious conclusion.
I can do a car analogy analogy...
It's like a car analogy. Even a good one is still bad and serves to confuse the issue more than it does enlighten people. And then you have everyone picking on your car analogy because they don't actually understand what an analogy is... "But a car has wheels! I don't understand."
Have you ever noticed that after you have used the word 'analogy' more than a few times you start to wonder if you spelled it right? And wonder if it's even a word in the first place?
That's nothing!!! The Norwegian Blue Parrot can remain standing whilst asleep, pining for the fjords, or even dead. A truly remarkable bird. Beautiful plumage.