is that even though they recognize the danger of setting the precedent, the government refuses to do anything about it. Effective government must be able to correct its mistakes and inefficiencies, or it will cease being effective.
All those people, typing upwards of 200 wpm....it was just a matter of time before a laptop caught fire. Now maybe we'll end all of new-fangled keyboard layouts to help people "type faster" and stick with QWERTY like Bill, Steve, and Mike intended. It's for the greater good and all.
...parenting? The most powerful censor in a child's life should be ever-vigilant, ever self-educating, ever loving Parent(s). Unfortunately, there are too many people who bear children but do not parent, thus presenting legislators with the question: should we try to Parent all of the Unparented Children with protective laws? I'm afraid that Governmental Parenting is something of a Lernaean Hydra - for every problem we solve via a new law, two new problems appear in its place.
The answer is education - not mealy-mouthed drivel, but honest efforts to improve society by building relationships, helping people understand their ignorance, and providing means by which that ignorance may be reduced and eradicated.
An educated electorate will direct their legislators to recognize that judging what is appropriate and inappropriate for children is the responsibility of the Parent. An educated electorate will also direct much of its attention towards educating itself as a means of self-perpetuation.
There are extraordinary problems with this, not the least of which is that ignorance is comfortable. If we are to be responsible for our own actions - which is perhaps the epitome of freedom - we must discard the comforts of ignorance and embrace the discomfort of responsibility and education. If we are to prevent legislation that would restrict freedom, we must embrace responsibilities that make restrictive legislation unnecessary.
That's an interesting idea. The spin-off companies would have a fair amount of indirect competition among themselves in regard to reputation, quality, work environment, growth, profit, and so forth. That competition could lead to many good things - and many unexpected things, I'm sure.
If that sidekick had belonged to Chuck Norris, it would have ceased to function in the hands of a mortal, particularly a thief. It would also have automatically summoned Chuck to the thief's real location, where Chuck would have traded him one sidekick for another.
....on the intensity of your network activity, how many people stream the NCAA playoffs at their desks, proximity to access points, the amount of time you have to setting up the network (do it fast or do it right?), and many other things.
Does your firm have more laptops vs. desktops? If more portability is necessary, then a wireless network makes more sense. If you've got more desktops than laptops, then you might be better off running cables.
What frightens me more than Microsoft's program calling the mother ship is that so many people didn't have a firewall that notified them that a new program was sending out information.
For all those software parents who were left in anguish by the mechanical engineer parents: your time has come! The next season of Lego League competition promises your children (and you) boundless opportunities for the super-hacked LegoBot....
Kudos to Lego for going open source on this.
I concur with your thoughts about the video. While I really like the idea of having video available, I would post no video stories without an accompanying transcript.
The "stories you may like" feature sounds great, and would be practical in many ways....but then again, I'm not certain that I like CNN or FOX or BBC or ABC or anyone else "suggesting" stories to me anymore than they already do. That formula could become a vehicle for dark things.
I think that it was Spy Sweeper - the network administrator handled the heavy clicking. At any rate, I monitored the machine's use and activity for a month and found no further problems. I also stopped letting 7th graders use Google to search for lyrics to song-of-the-minute, which was the real problem in the first place.
....then it's a duck, no matter how many times you call it a "flat-billed water fowl."
When every business that needs to verify my identity asks me for my driver's license, and when the federal government expects that I have a driver's license when I conduct business with their agencies, then the state-issued driver's license is the national identification card.
No matter how much we like it or dislike it.
Not unless we're absolutely certain that the only way to get major studio interest involves starting at the beginning. Even so, there's always *something* that happened before the beginning.......
I came across a 7th grader who managed to load up a Win98 machine with 14 different pieces of spyware with 1 click in IE. We wiped the machine with an industrial strength removal program, installed Firefox, locked it down, and asked her to go out to the same website. NOTHING - not one single piece of spyware - got through on Firefox. At that moment, I converted for life.
And for the wealthy among us who can afford a second home....the iHouse II, in blueberry, orange, or Classic khaki. While the house comes unfurnished, the kitchen is supplied with iPots and iPans.....
....employees leave promptly at the end of their eight-hour work day, having faithfully taken the prescribed 15 minute break every two hours, the full sixty minutes for lunch, and a bathroom break as often as possible.
This sort of policing is much, much more trouble than it's worth in the long run. Instead of staying late, taking work home, and so forth - employees determine what they must do to keep their jobs, do ONLY that, and nothing else - ever.
Is the distribution of office space an indication of how much an employer values you;simply a matter of seniority and space-mongering; or an unpredictable combination of those and other factors?
Another reason may be that Microsoft's hardware partners - Dell, HP, and so forth - already have contracts with existing AV software providers to issue "six month protection" with every new computer purchase. If those contracts are long-term, it doesn't make sense for MS to add a component to Vista that their hardware partners can't contractually let them load on the machines.
....to make this sort of scanning mandatory for every newscaster and politician.
Actually, it wouldn't matter - a lot of the bluster would disappear behind "I don't know for sure," and, "I can't tell you that for reasons of national security."
in making purchases based on the lowest possible price. Sooner or later, it all catches up at once. I'm reminded of the phrase, "Pay now, or pay later. Either way, sooner or later, payment is necessary."
....that whole thing about having a boss, and all. If I had no other responsibilities but my own business, I'd try the 28 hour day, though - I've known for a long time that I just don't fit on the "normal" schedule. My grandmother was the same way. Maybe after I become independently wealthy.
I wonder what their plans are for non-resident gasoline-powered vehicles, such as delivery trucks and tourists. If they actually make the switch, they'll almost instantly create a booming black market in gasoline sales to stranded motorists, FedEx drivers, and the like.
If the TOS for the boards says, "Anything you post becomes our property to be done with as we wish," there's not a lot of recourse for anyone. The writers all agreed to the TOS in order to post, and the board managers turned it all into a manual. Odious, but within the letter of the law - provided that the TOS was bulletproof. Another reason to read those things closely......
The obvious extension of this is planet-hunters, subsidized by those who have sufficient funds to sponsor the kind of observatory and equipment that planet-hunting would require.
The danger of this means of funding such exploration? Planet Microsoft...Google Galaxy....and AOL World.
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is that even though they recognize the danger of setting the precedent, the government refuses to do anything about it. Effective government must be able to correct its mistakes and inefficiencies, or it will cease being effective.
All those people, typing upwards of 200 wpm....it was just a matter of time before a laptop caught fire. Now maybe we'll end all of new-fangled keyboard layouts to help people "type faster" and stick with QWERTY like Bill, Steve, and Mike intended. It's for the greater good and all.
...parenting? The most powerful censor in a child's life should be ever-vigilant, ever self-educating, ever loving Parent(s). Unfortunately, there are too many people who bear children but do not parent, thus presenting legislators with the question: should we try to Parent all of the Unparented Children with protective laws? I'm afraid that Governmental Parenting is something of a Lernaean Hydra - for every problem we solve via a new law, two new problems appear in its place.
The answer is education - not mealy-mouthed drivel, but honest efforts to improve society by building relationships, helping people understand their ignorance, and providing means by which that ignorance may be reduced and eradicated.
An educated electorate will direct their legislators to recognize that judging what is appropriate and inappropriate for children is the responsibility of the Parent. An educated electorate will also direct much of its attention towards educating itself as a means of self-perpetuation.
There are extraordinary problems with this, not the least of which is that ignorance is comfortable. If we are to be responsible for our own actions - which is perhaps the epitome of freedom - we must discard the comforts of ignorance and embrace the discomfort of responsibility and education. If we are to prevent legislation that would restrict freedom, we must embrace responsibilities that make restrictive legislation unnecessary.
That's an interesting idea. The spin-off companies would have a fair amount of indirect competition among themselves in regard to reputation, quality, work environment, growth, profit, and so forth. That competition could lead to many good things - and many unexpected things, I'm sure.
If that sidekick had belonged to Chuck Norris, it would have ceased to function in the hands of a mortal, particularly a thief. It would also have automatically summoned Chuck to the thief's real location, where Chuck would have traded him one sidekick for another.
....on the intensity of your network activity, how many people stream the NCAA playoffs at their desks, proximity to access points, the amount of time you have to setting up the network (do it fast or do it right?), and many other things. Does your firm have more laptops vs. desktops? If more portability is necessary, then a wireless network makes more sense. If you've got more desktops than laptops, then you might be better off running cables.
What frightens me more than Microsoft's program calling the mother ship is that so many people didn't have a firewall that notified them that a new program was sending out information.
For all those software parents who were left in anguish by the mechanical engineer parents: your time has come! The next season of Lego League competition promises your children (and you) boundless opportunities for the super-hacked LegoBot.... Kudos to Lego for going open source on this.
I concur with your thoughts about the video. While I really like the idea of having video available, I would post no video stories without an accompanying transcript. The "stories you may like" feature sounds great, and would be practical in many ways....but then again, I'm not certain that I like CNN or FOX or BBC or ABC or anyone else "suggesting" stories to me anymore than they already do. That formula could become a vehicle for dark things.
I think that it was Spy Sweeper - the network administrator handled the heavy clicking. At any rate, I monitored the machine's use and activity for a month and found no further problems. I also stopped letting 7th graders use Google to search for lyrics to song-of-the-minute, which was the real problem in the first place.
....then it's a duck, no matter how many times you call it a "flat-billed water fowl." When every business that needs to verify my identity asks me for my driver's license, and when the federal government expects that I have a driver's license when I conduct business with their agencies, then the state-issued driver's license is the national identification card. No matter how much we like it or dislike it.
Not unless we're absolutely certain that the only way to get major studio interest involves starting at the beginning. Even so, there's always *something* that happened before the beginning.......
I came across a 7th grader who managed to load up a Win98 machine with 14 different pieces of spyware with 1 click in IE. We wiped the machine with an industrial strength removal program, installed Firefox, locked it down, and asked her to go out to the same website. NOTHING - not one single piece of spyware - got through on Firefox. At that moment, I converted for life.
And for the wealthy among us who can afford a second home....the iHouse II, in blueberry, orange, or Classic khaki. While the house comes unfurnished, the kitchen is supplied with iPots and iPans.....
....employees leave promptly at the end of their eight-hour work day, having faithfully taken the prescribed 15 minute break every two hours, the full sixty minutes for lunch, and a bathroom break as often as possible.
This sort of policing is much, much more trouble than it's worth in the long run. Instead of staying late, taking work home, and so forth - employees determine what they must do to keep their jobs, do ONLY that, and nothing else - ever.
Is the distribution of office space an indication of how much an employer values you;simply a matter of seniority and space-mongering; or an unpredictable combination of those and other factors?
Another reason may be that Microsoft's hardware partners - Dell, HP, and so forth - already have contracts with existing AV software providers to issue "six month protection" with every new computer purchase. If those contracts are long-term, it doesn't make sense for MS to add a component to Vista that their hardware partners can't contractually let them load on the machines.
As for me, I'll stick with AVG, thanks. http://www.grisoft.com/
....to make this sort of scanning mandatory for every newscaster and politician.
Actually, it wouldn't matter - a lot of the bluster would disappear behind "I don't know for sure," and, "I can't tell you that for reasons of national security."
Back to reading eyes and foreheads......
in making purchases based on the lowest possible price. Sooner or later, it all catches up at once. I'm reminded of the phrase, "Pay now, or pay later. Either way, sooner or later, payment is necessary."
....that whole thing about having a boss, and all. If I had no other responsibilities but my own business, I'd try the 28 hour day, though - I've known for a long time that I just don't fit on the "normal" schedule. My grandmother was the same way. Maybe after I become independently wealthy.
In addition the aforementioned, I also use Zone Lab's free firewall . I've had no problems yet.
You mean that after all those hours to see the credits roll....they're going to just let people click and WATCH? Horrors!
I wonder what their plans are for non-resident gasoline-powered vehicles, such as delivery trucks and tourists. If they actually make the switch, they'll almost instantly create a booming black market in gasoline sales to stranded motorists, FedEx drivers, and the like.
If the TOS for the boards says, "Anything you post becomes our property to be done with as we wish," there's not a lot of recourse for anyone. The writers all agreed to the TOS in order to post, and the board managers turned it all into a manual. Odious, but within the letter of the law - provided that the TOS was bulletproof. Another reason to read those things closely......
The danger of this means of funding such exploration? Planet Microsoft...Google Galaxy....and AOL World.