Well... that's the biggest restriction (imposed today of all days!), but this is academia, and everyone downloads their mail, so the ~30 MB online storage allocation is not used - everyone just downloads their email to their laptops and lab computers.
Let's see... my univeristy sells a textbook normally for $100 (CAD... and that's for a cheap one! Not including the taxes.)
So, I have a choice - either pony up $100 at the start of semester and get a book that I actually OWN and can resell to the bookstore for $50 or directly to another student for $65, thus the net cost is $50 to $35. On the other hand, I could just by the e-text for $66.66 and I am not allowed to resell or to keep it... so in the end, it costs me $66.66.
Yes, this is designed to fail.
The image in the article is a composite of a Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM) image and the cut-out area where they show a computer model showing the structure of the carbon nanotube as it lays on the semiconductor surface.
Image
I know - that's why I've applied for a patent on it. The royalties from the Bush administration alone will be enough to buy my own island in the south pacific !!!!;o)
I would presume that since the police are asking for the ability to force people to provide their encryption keys, that would mean that UK law does not yet have a provision requiring that people do such a thing.
As for American law, as I understand it (and my understanding is limited to CSI, Ally McBeal, and Law and Order;)... and the occasional encyclopaedia and news articles), a person's Miranda / 5th Ammendment rights includes "the right to remain silent" when being questioed by police (or in court), does it not? So if a police officer asked you, "Where do you keep your journal?" one would not have to answer that, even if they had a warrant to take into their posession such a journal.
Thank you for the link also... regarding what it says: In a per curiam opinion, the Court noted its longstanding precedent that the privilege extends not only "to answers that would in themselves support a conviction" but also to "those which would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute the claimant." and In Doe I, the Court, recognizing that a compelled act of production could invoke Fifth Amendment protection, stated "[a]lthough the contents of a document may not be privileged, the act of producing the document may be . . . . A government subpoena compels the holder of the document to perform an act that may have testimonial aspects and an incriminating effect." Id. at 612. Specifically, the Court found that the act of producing subpoenaed documents could involve testimonial incrimination as to the existence, possession, or authentication of the requested documents.
So if I fear that my copy of The Anarchists Cookbook which, with the rest of my computer data is encrypted, would somehow be seen as incriminating, then I would be able to take the fifth...
Which came first - the "web hypochondriac" who thought that he was suffering from impotence, having a small p---s, and an unsatisfied love life or the online Viagra pharmacy (in Canada, of all places)?
The solution is simple: ammend the US Constitution. Or just have them modify there part about "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." and have it changed to, "the right of the people to see and bare breasts, shall not be infringed."
To quote:
We once had a "discussion" with our daughter's teacher because he said he wasn't so much interested in her spelling correctly and applying grammatical principles correctly as he was in what she was saying. While we agreed what she was trying to say was important, we felt it equally important (for a fifth grader) to be grounded in grammatical and spelling fundamentals.
The problem is that our universities are giving most elementary teachers a "postmodern" perspective because most who are entering into teaching avoided science and math like the plague, and with it the concrete nature of truth and absolutes. The students in history, english, humanities, languages, and the arts in general meanwhile are taught from a postmodern perspective by the arts professors at such universities. Postmodernism is an understanding of this world where there is no one truth - truth is relative to the person. Thus while for you '4 + 3 = 5' is wrong and 'The dog are gooder...' is gramatically incorrect, for me they are right and correct because that is my truth (if I were a postmodernist).
Or to give another examle: Little Jimmy's story about the stick and the frog (in the view of the postmodern teacher) isn't a poorly developed story, but a literary masterpiece in its metaphoric description of race relations in the United States! Perhaps little Jimmy should even have it published in Social Text!
When the only rules that apply to one are one's own rules, there is no possibility of education. Education needs definite and absolute standards. So either there is a need to de-program all of those arts-major grade school teachers or to force future teachers to have a better education, i.e. in subjects where definite rules are still taught, such as the sciences, computers, or Latin grammar.
If you read the full text of the article, it states and confirms "that it uses the commercial
filtering package SmartFilter - made by the US-based company, Secure Computing - as the primary
technical engine of its filtering system."
The multilingual support allows them to filter Farsi. So the same company that stops you so many from visiting just about any site at work is proping up other restrictive regeimes.
While there might be a worthy debate about the appropriateness of something which might be seen as advocating a certain lifestyle versus tolerating it, that is not the issue here (i.e. you are taking this very far off topic!).
"Google should not shut out the gay community and I hope they are taken to court over this."... um... yeah... right... Google should be taken to court over a name, suggested by a slashdot visitor (and already trademarked by another company), for a product which doesn't yet exist. I am truly sorry, but your grasp of rights, the law, and tolerance seem to be lacking.
No, it's just that probably the majority of Americans (and many in other countries as well) would not accept something that sounded so scandalous/inappropriate. It's the same reason why Buick had to call their "Lacrosse" the "Allure" in Canada. Most companies don't want their product to become a joke.
Hmmm... this just sounds like another credit card to me. If it is only designed to bring money from consumers to businesses (and Google), then it appears to be just another credit card!
Most academic and industrial chemistry labs are filled with old instruments running with equally old 32, 48 or 64-kilobyte machines. In my analytical chemistry class, (only 4 years ago), being able to use DOS was essential to being able to use the computers in the lab. Even in some of the labs where I've had co-op placements there have been machines over 25 years old. Usually they're simply too expensive to replace, or other funding priorities exist, and they have to keep using them.
There's going to be a growth industry around data retrieval from these old formats! Most of them need a back-up copy of the data and paper too often takes up too much space.
Slashdot Mirror
Well... that's the biggest restriction (imposed today of all days!), but this is academia, and everyone downloads their mail, so the ~30 MB online storage allocation is not used - everyone just downloads their email to their laptops and lab computers.
The new name just sounds so... chocolaty! Boy... reading science stories sure makes me hungry!
Let's see... my univeristy sells a textbook normally for $100 (CAD... and that's for a cheap one! Not including the taxes.) So, I have a choice - either pony up $100 at the start of semester and get a book that I actually OWN and can resell to the bookstore for $50 or directly to another student for $65, thus the net cost is $50 to $35. On the other hand, I could just by the e-text for $66.66 and I am not allowed to resell or to keep it... so in the end, it costs me $66.66. Yes, this is designed to fail.
The image in the article is a composite of a Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM) image and the cut-out area where they show a computer model showing the structure of the carbon nanotube as it lays on the semiconductor surface. Image
I know - that's why I've applied for a patent on it. The royalties from the Bush administration alone will be enough to buy my own island in the south pacific !!!! ;o)
I would presume that since the police are asking for the ability to force people to provide their encryption keys, that would mean that UK law does not yet have a provision requiring that people do such a thing. As for American law, as I understand it (and my understanding is limited to CSI, Ally McBeal, and Law and Order ;) ... and the occasional encyclopaedia and news articles), a person's Miranda / 5th Ammendment rights includes "the right to remain silent" when being questioed by police (or in court), does it not? So if a police officer asked you, "Where do you keep your journal?" one would not have to answer that, even if they had a warrant to take into their posession such a journal.
Thank you for the link also... regarding what it says:
In a per curiam opinion, the Court noted its longstanding precedent that the privilege extends not only "to answers that would in themselves support a conviction" but also to "those which would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute the claimant."
and
In Doe I, the Court, recognizing that a compelled act of production could invoke Fifth Amendment protection, stated "[a]lthough the contents of a document may not be privileged, the act of producing the document may be . . . . A government subpoena compels the holder of the document to perform an act that may have testimonial aspects and an incriminating effect." Id. at 612. Specifically, the Court found that the act of producing subpoenaed documents could involve testimonial incrimination as to the existence, possession, or authentication of the requested documents.
So if I fear that my copy of The Anarchists Cookbook which, with the rest of my computer data is encrypted, would somehow be seen as incriminating, then I would be able to take the fifth...
Anyway, I thank you for your post and the link.
What is the difference between the right to prevent self-incrimination (i.e. the right to silence) and the right to not say your password?
In England and Wales, "a defendant cannot be convicted solely due to their silence" yet this is saying precisely the opposite.
Or... in the modern version of the question:
Which came first - the "web hypochondriac" who thought that he was suffering from impotence, having a small p---s, and an unsatisfied love life or the online Viagra pharmacy (in Canada, of all places)?
The solution is simple: ammend the US Constitution. Or just have them modify there part about "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." and have it changed to, "the right of the people to see and bare breasts, shall not be infringed."
To quote: We once had a "discussion" with our daughter's teacher because he said he wasn't so much interested in her spelling correctly and applying grammatical principles correctly as he was in what she was saying. While we agreed what she was trying to say was important, we felt it equally important (for a fifth grader) to be grounded in grammatical and spelling fundamentals.
The problem is that our universities are giving most elementary teachers a "postmodern" perspective because most who are entering into teaching avoided science and math like the plague, and with it the concrete nature of truth and absolutes. The students in history, english, humanities, languages, and the arts in general meanwhile are taught from a postmodern perspective by the arts professors at such universities. Postmodernism is an understanding of this world where there is no one truth - truth is relative to the person. Thus while for you '4 + 3 = 5' is wrong and 'The dog are gooder...' is gramatically incorrect, for me they are right and correct because that is my truth (if I were a postmodernist).
Or to give another examle: Little Jimmy's story about the stick and the frog (in the view of the postmodern teacher) isn't a poorly developed story, but a literary masterpiece in its metaphoric description of race relations in the United States! Perhaps little Jimmy should even have it published in Social Text ! When the only rules that apply to one are one's own rules, there is no possibility of education. Education needs definite and absolute standards. So either there is a need to de-program all of those arts-major grade school teachers or to force future teachers to have a better education, i.e. in subjects where definite rules are still taught, such as the sciences, computers, or Latin grammar.
If you read the full text of the article, it states and confirms "that it uses the commercial filtering package SmartFilter - made by the US-based company, Secure Computing - as the primary technical engine of its filtering system." The multilingual support allows them to filter Farsi. So the same company that stops you so many from visiting just about any site at work is proping up other restrictive regeimes.
While there might be a worthy debate about the appropriateness of something which might be seen as advocating a certain lifestyle versus tolerating it, that is not the issue here (i.e. you are taking this very far off topic!). "Google should not shut out the gay community and I hope they are taken to court over this." ... um... yeah... right... Google should be taken to court over a name, suggested by a slashdot visitor (and already trademarked by another company), for a product which doesn't yet exist. I am truly sorry, but your grasp of rights, the law, and tolerance seem to be lacking.
No, it's just that probably the majority of Americans (and many in other countries as well) would not accept something that sounded so scandalous/inappropriate. It's the same reason why Buick had to call their "Lacrosse" the "Allure" in Canada. Most companies don't want their product to become a joke.
Hmmm... this just sounds like another credit card to me. If it is only designed to bring money from consumers to businesses (and Google), then it appears to be just another credit card!
Most academic and industrial chemistry labs are filled with old instruments running with equally old 32, 48 or 64-kilobyte machines. In my analytical chemistry class, (only 4 years ago), being able to use DOS was essential to being able to use the computers in the lab. Even in some of the labs where I've had co-op placements there have been machines over 25 years old. Usually they're simply too expensive to replace, or other funding priorities exist, and they have to keep using them. There's going to be a growth industry around data retrieval from these old formats! Most of them need a back-up copy of the data and paper too often takes up too much space.