If you want your kids to take a walk every day, get them a dog. My 4 year old helps me walk the dogs almost every evening for a half a hour or so. And with four dogs it would have to be a brave mugger indeed to approach us!
Just a small point to consider. Supposing you have access to this list of blocked sites. Supposing it also contains a reason why each site is blocked. Unless the URL is very descriptive, how can you be sure that the reason for blocking it is accurate? After all, you can't access the site to perform an independant check, can you? Unless you are one of the pirates using illegal methods to get round the filter....
Basically, if the copper thinks you are not paying enough attention, they can stop you and ticket you. This caries from 3 to 9 points. They don't have to observe you doing anything dangerous. You then have to prove that the copper was wrong. Good luck with that...
One interesting side note, until the UK brought in the no mobile whilst driving law (Which actually covers any electronic device which sends or recieves data electronicaly, so your TomTom is illigal to fiddle with, but your iPod is not) which carries a £60 penalty, you used to be charged with careless driving. So when the law came in it actually reduced the penalty.
The key is using 2 feet - one for the gas and one for the brake. I suppose you could use the old manual gearbox beginners' trick of leaving the parking brake on as well.
Tell Rally drivers that using the (hand/parking) brake is a beginners trick! Using it properly whilst in motion is quite an art....
Having to think about your gear makes you think about your speed and generally keeps you more focussed on the fact that you're driving a big chunk of metal around.
Most cars here in England are manual, and we have more than our share of people driving round in a doze. Trust me, a manual garbox != focus on driving.
I tend to take my blackberry on Holiday with me, so I can keep an eye on what my back-stabbing team-leader is getting up to. It has saved my butt more than once.
No, it is not an ideal situation, but it will do until I find another job.
Just like films. Do me a favor, go to your nearest Blockbuster and rent any random DVD that you have not seen. Now, instead of playing it all select the "choose chapter" option and watch the chapters in the following order: "5, 4, 7, 3, 1", you skipped chapter 2 and 6 (and if there are more than 7 chapters, all those also). Did the movie made any sense to you?.
I just tried this with Pulp Fiction, and I think it made more sense! Thank you!
I am not sure how much this would help you on a metal aircraft, and I also think that you may have some difficulty about casually taking a wriggling beanbag on the plane with you.
Oh, yeah, and you may want to make it a few termites, rather than just the one, unless he is huge enough to rip peoples heads off..
I used to deal with calls from mobile phone users. The number of times you explain to someone where the IMEI number was on the back of the phone under the battery and get cut off 20 seconds later...
But my all-time favorite went like this:
Me: Hello, IT Servicedesk. Caller: I am having a problem with my phone, can you help me? Me:Sure! Caller: Excellent, thank you. Bye! {hangs up} Me: ???????
The law says a Web site is jointly liable with the host of the pirated files for infringement ``if it knows or should know that the work, performance or sound or video recording linked to was infringing.''
Who decides what the website should know? If you link to a website with a bunch of mp3's called My_Talk1.mp3, My_Talk2.mp3,.... , My_Talk20.mp3 and it turns out My_Talk5.mp3 is a Madonna track, can you be prosecuted because you should have checked? Who draws the line and where?
Seems like you could easily get into a situation where you rue that the only 20/20 vision you have is hindsight.
One of the main problems with underground cables is locating faults. Most faults are caused by water seeping into the cable via a damaged insulator. When enough water has seeped in, the cable shorts and blows the breaker. Unfortunatly, this also dries the cable out nicely, which means that testing for the fault becomes a problem. The best method for locating these faults is to switch bits of cable in and out, and narrow down which section it is, then dig it up.
And how do the insulators get damaged? One way that happens more than most people would admit is it gets clipped by someone digging up something else. Say you are digging up the gas pipe in the street. If you just nick the electricity cables insulation, would you tell your boss so he can get the electric company out to replace the cable, delaying your work by hours, or are you just going to throw some dirt over it, so no-one will be able to tell?
I have worked for 2 Electric companies, so I know a little about this.
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Blacklists largely do work. It's true that they have both false positives and false negitives, but the rates are reasonably low.
The fact of the matter is that email itself is broken, and as long as we keep using the current recipient-pays-before-recieving model it will stay broken - and we'll be stuck with marginal systems like RBLs. [/qoute]
[sigquote] The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always. [/sigquote]
Thank you for your well reasoned and persuasive comment. That has really made me change my views. No, really, I'm gonna burn my Gentoo boot disk and be publicly flogged
I have been using Linux since Red Hat 5.0. Not as long as some here, but long enough to have a good idea of what I am on about. How many kernels have I compiled? 2. One in March this year to install Gentoo on this pc, and one in May this year to install Gentoo on a Sun E3500. So not a regular practice then.
Another assumption you make is that these children are going to be working in an exclusively Windows environment when they leave school. This is nearly true in my country, and I suspect in your country too, but do you have any idea about the situation in the third world countries these laptops are destined for? No? Didn't think so.
Also, look at the Specs for the $100 laptop. 500Mhz processor, 1Gb of ram, Flash for a HD. The screen alone is $35, so you are not looking at spending a large amount on flash storage. Minimum HD space for OS X on the Mac is 3Gb. I cannot see it going down much on intel. How much does 3Gb of flash cost? Then add some more to make it useable. Over $100 yet?
A 500Mhz processor? How long would Windows XP and Office XP take to load? These are after all famously light-weight programs, easy on the processor...
In total, you have just spouted off a load of rubbish to Linux bash.
"You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting."
One cool feature of a Interactive Fiction is that it is very difficult to tell from a casual glance (say, from walking past your screen) that you are playing a game and not just doing some command-line admin on one of your unix servers........
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If you want your kids to take a walk every day, get them a dog. My 4 year old helps me walk the dogs almost every evening for a half a hour or so. And with four dogs it would have to be a brave mugger indeed to approach us!
Hmm, (Score:-1, Offtopic).
Looks like the moderators have spoken, it doesn't belong here.
I kinda hope that I don't get any nuclear bang for my buck. The nice hum of electric generation yes, but please no bang....
Yay! /. will supply 80% of the worlds Biodiesel!
Just a small point to consider. Supposing you have access to this list of blocked sites. Supposing it also contains a reason why each site is blocked. Unless the URL is very descriptive, how can you be sure that the reason for blocking it is accurate? After all, you can't access the site to perform an independant check, can you? Unless you are one of the pirates using illegal methods to get round the filter....
Here in the UK we have a "Driving without due care and attention" Law.
People have been done for this for such things as applying Makeup, and eating a apple or Kit-Kat. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4788910.stm
Basically, if the copper thinks you are not paying enough attention, they can stop you and ticket you. This caries from 3 to 9 points. They don't have to observe you doing anything dangerous. You then have to prove that the copper was wrong. Good luck with that...
One interesting side note, until the UK brought in the no mobile whilst driving law (Which actually covers any electronic device which sends or recieves data electronicaly, so your TomTom is illigal to fiddle with, but your iPod is not) which carries a £60 penalty, you used to be charged with careless driving. So when the law came in it actually reduced the penalty.
The key is using 2 feet - one for the gas and one for the brake. I suppose you could use the old manual gearbox beginners' trick of leaving the parking brake on as well.
Tell Rally drivers that using the (hand/parking) brake is a beginners trick! Using it properly whilst in motion is quite an art....
Having to think about your gear makes you think about your speed and generally keeps you more focussed on the fact that you're driving a big chunk of metal around.
Most cars here in England are manual, and we have more than our share of people driving round in a doze. Trust me, a manual garbox != focus on driving.
That is not the only issue, just the first one. Imagine trying to catch it again!
I tend to take my blackberry on Holiday with me, so I can keep an eye on what my back-stabbing team-leader is getting up to. It has saved my butt more than once. No, it is not an ideal situation, but it will do until I find another job.
All I can say is "What a load of Balls!"
I kind of thought so, but the picture it brought to mind was a good one.
:-)
I am not sure how much this would help you on a metal aircraft, and I also think that you may have some difficulty about casually taking a wriggling beanbag on the plane with you.
Oh, yeah, and you may want to make it a few termites, rather than just the one, unless he is huge enough to rip peoples heads off..
Either you have made the tablets very, very small, or you have one big-ass oven!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/
Twice!:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091419/
....You did not realise that the loud Whoooshing noise was the joke going over your head.
I used to deal with calls from mobile phone users. The number of times you explain to someone where the IMEI number was on the back of the phone under the battery and get cut off 20 seconds later...
But my all-time favorite went like this:
Me: Hello, IT Servicedesk.
Caller: I am having a problem with my phone, can you help me?
Me:Sure!
Caller: Excellent, thank you. Bye! {hangs up}
Me: ???????
Who decides what the website should know? If you link to a website with a bunch of mp3's called My_Talk1.mp3, My_Talk2.mp3,
Seems like you could easily get into a situation where you rue that the only 20/20 vision you have is hindsight.
One of the main problems with underground cables is locating faults. Most faults are caused by water seeping into the cable via a damaged insulator. When enough water has seeped in, the cable shorts and blows the breaker. Unfortunatly, this also dries the cable out nicely, which means that testing for the fault becomes a problem. The best method for locating these faults is to switch bits of cable in and out, and narrow down which section it is, then dig it up.
And how do the insulators get damaged? One way that happens more than most people would admit is it gets clipped by someone digging up something else. Say you are digging up the gas pipe in the street. If you just nick the electricity cables insulation, would you tell your boss so he can get the electric company out to replace the cable, delaying your work by hours, or are you just going to throw some dirt over it, so no-one will be able to tell?
I have worked for 2 Electric companies, so I know a little about this.
[quote] Blacklists largely do work. It's true that they have both false positives and false negitives, but the rates are reasonably low.
The fact of the matter is that email itself is broken, and as long as we keep using the current recipient-pays-before-recieving model it will stay broken - and we'll be stuck with marginal systems like RBLs. [/qoute]
[sigquote] The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always. [/sigquote]
So are Blacklists a form of censorship?
Thank you for your well reasoned and persuasive comment. That has really made me change my views. No, really, I'm gonna burn my Gentoo boot disk and be publicly flogged
I have been using Linux since Red Hat 5.0. Not as long as some here, but long enough to have a good idea of what I am on about. How many kernels have I compiled? 2. One in March this year to install Gentoo on this pc, and one in May this year to install Gentoo on a Sun E3500. So not a regular practice then.
Another assumption you make is that these children are going to be working in an exclusively Windows environment when they leave school. This is nearly true in my country, and I suspect in your country too, but do you have any idea about the situation in the third world countries these laptops are destined for? No? Didn't think so.
Also, look at the Specs for the $100 laptop. 500Mhz processor, 1Gb of ram, Flash for a HD. The screen alone is $35, so you are not looking at spending a large amount on flash storage. Minimum HD space for OS X on the Mac is 3Gb. I cannot see it going down much on intel. How much does 3Gb of flash cost? Then add some more to make it useable. Over $100 yet?
A 500Mhz processor? How long would Windows XP and Office XP take to load? These are after all famously light-weight programs, easy on the processor...
In total, you have just spouted off a load of rubbish to Linux bash.
"You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting."
It all depends on how their month is going. I know a chap that was done for 31mph in a 30 limit.
One cool feature of a Interactive Fiction is that it is very difficult to tell from a casual glance (say, from walking past your screen) that you are playing a game and not just doing some command-line admin on one of your unix servers........
I am sure there is a "In soviet Russia" joke in there somwhere!