Yeah, I think I was still a little sleepy and bad-mooded when I posted the above. I do think that infringing on people's rights is not a solution to this problem, but I also agree that I don't know what it's like to be that bullied kid.
Yeah, along with their first time being adults.
The point was that my parents took me aside and taught me the morality and significance of various things when I was young, so that as I grew up I could decide for myself what was moral and worthwhile. Because of that I was able to see through online bullies as the people they truly are: nobodies.
If you're getting bullied online by anonymous people and taking it seriously, then your parents messed up big time somewhere along the way. I grew up with the internet, and was constantly harassed by anonymous idiots. I just knew better than to take them seriously, since they are SOME IDIOT ON THE INTERNET!!!!!1!!1!!!!lim(x->0)[sin(x)/x].
I'm getting really sick and tired of parents trying to use the legal system to protect their kids. The idea is that the legal system protects kids from things they don't understand. I'm pretty sure that the average child understands that some anonymous person on the internet cannot harm them and that they are probably just some other stupid kid.
I wish parents would start actually raising their kids. My parents did a great job, and it was their first time.
I just watched Star Trek:Nemesis the other day, and at some point Picard tells his clone that to be human is to better oneself. Since companies are technically persons, I think they should also live up to that.
I try my hardest to not give my money to companies that don't seem to want to provide a useful service to me. In fact, when I graduate I am going to try to get a job here (Computer Science degree), and if that happens I will petition to start developing an in-house system to replace Blackboard.
I am a student at UNBC (in BC, Canada), and Blackboard is our LMS, due to the fact that Blackboard bought out WebCT recently. I have to say that as a student, marker, and Computer Helpdesk staff member, I/LOATH/ Blackboard. The system is flaky, often crashes, logs you out for no reason, refuses to load files, fails to load files, as well as a myriad of other issues.
I feel that not only is allowing a patent like this counter-productive to the advancement of the product, it also continues to add precedent that it's okay to patent stupid things and then create a monopoly. The idea behind the free market is that everyone has a fighting change to sell their product. Sure, consumers have allowed companies like Wall-Mart to take off and out-sell smaller companies, but that's the risk of doing business. Letting companies sue each other left and right is not allowing for a free market, and is in the end going to hurt consumers. For example, when Blackboard bought WebCT, they stopped supporting WebCT4 (Blackboard has released WebCT6/BCE6), despite the fact that there are many classes which are not fully compatible with the new version.
I know this isn't really relevant, but I couldn't help but take up the opportunity to badmouth Blackboard. Another point to note is that a friend of mine worked at a college in Alberta implementing the system and said it's just as ugly and trying on the server side as it is on the client side.
I'm really glad you said this. I tend to lurk more than post on/. and this often crosses my mind when these type of debates start.
I fully believe that, assuming a sufficient (infinite?) amount of time and research, science and philosophy will diverge. It is already happening. Taking Christianity as an example, it can be shown that as science has progressed, so has (most of the) Christian doctrine to include those progressions. I have very little doubt that in another 20 or 30 years, ID/Creationism/whatever will look a lot more like evolution with a God behind the big bang.
While I don't think it's a good idea to simply let people do their own thing (...because they tend to try to stop you from doing your own thing), I think people need to step back and realize that only time can change a person's mind.
Your customers should be able to understand the difference should this situation come up. Others have pointed out that the article addresses this issue, but regardless, should someone confront you about spoofing packets, you should feel confident (morally as well as legally) that after explaining the situation your customers will be satisfied. As you stated, should they express a problem with this, by all means turn it off. If they now complain about their connection you can re-iterate your previous point.
Awhile back I was reading Fark (I swear, it was a slow day on/.!) and it linked an article where a woman with a disability sign for her car had been given a ticket. Unfortunately, she had forgotten to display the sign and was given a ticket.
When she tried to have the ticket repealed, she was refused (on several occasions). When she attempted to take the ticket to what I remember being small claims court (don't quote me), she was told that she would have to pay a minimum of $200 for the 'trial'. Her ticket was only worth $100, so she gave up.
Unjust? Perhaps. But why should taxpayers waste their money so everyone with a $100 ticket can dispute it?
Onto the RIAA, who, in your example, are "forced" to charge $750 in the trial. I don't think I want to explain it to you too much, but to place the hammer firmly above the head of the nail, "THE RIAA SHOULDN'T BE SUING PEOPLE IF THEY CAN'T FIND $750 WORTH OF DAMAGES DONE TO THEM". The reason for the $750 minimum is not so that people can say "sweet, 750 bucks", it's so that they don't waste the court's time suing someone over a $.99 song they downloaded (which, by the way, ends up being less than that because the RIAA companies are not directly selling the songs).
Before Pandora was forced to close it's ports (har de har har) to Canadian listeners, I used it quite a lot. There are quite a large number of artists in there (many of which are not RIAA/countries equivalent). It takes some time to build up a playlist of music you like, but once you have it, you usually only ever hear good songs from it.
Also, as someone else mentioned above, sites like myspace and garageband are also good for finding good artists. Word of mouth has always been the best, and those sites (including facebook) simply take word of mouth online. I actually went to an outdoor party at Hell's Gate (BC, Canada) because a workmate told me about it and I researched it on Facebook.
Anything and everything are possible in Linux. People just whine too much. It's not meant to allow people to single click and stay out of the console. It's about the user being able to mess around and do what exactly they want.
The documentation is also done very well, so that's not a problem. If you don't believe me, try looking up a problem in Windows (or, God forbid, using the system's help) that's a bit more complicated than "my mouse cursor won't move".
When students need to access sites that have been blocked by the school district, they would talk to someone in administration (no doubt with the assistance of the teacher allowing them to use the topic for the assignment).
I agree that sites like Wikipedia should not be blocked, since they do provide a tremendous amount of information for people. However, sites like MySpace are known time/bandwidth wasters. The school district, while public, is still run by a board. That board is put there to do things like say what websites will make it into the system.
When it comes to schools, they seem to do a good job of knowing what websites are positive and negative towards education, and I don't think they need to be ragged on about free speech (with the current topic being an exception, of course).
I definately would not go with the Boot-Camp method for a few reasons (I think they are all mentioned somewhere, so I won't re-iterate them). If you want to have Windows or another OS on the machine, I would use Parallels or VM-Ware. However, I think that an even better solution would be to have a server running MSTSS and have students remote-desktop (http://www.mactopia.com ?) into Windows from the Macs.
Although, Coherence mode is pretty cool...
PS: Has anyone had a problem where their clock is wrong after booting back into OS X from Boot Camp Windows XP?
In other news, a recent poll says that while 99% of parents feel that they have the right to raise their own children the way they want, a staggering 100% of parents, when asked if they would impart important knowledge to their children, such as sex education, said "I don't wanna"
Maybe you're just too worried that you're gay and that you've picked up an immune deficiency. Take two Tylenols, go home, watch some Spike, and when you wake up, maybe you'll remember that you're a bigoted a**hole who needs to get some computing done for $.10 an hour.
I remember back when I bought an X-Box. The one and only reason I picked it over a PS2 or a GameCube is that it had Halo. I really miss all the FFs and the Marios, but I wanted Halo.
Long story short, if you release a good game on an HD-DVD, and require the player, that will draw in a userbase, and all of a sudden that 35% becomes a 60%. Sure, the other 40% will be mad, but they will still buy regular games (not to mention that they've already bought the console).
Not to call you an idiot or anything, but first of all, it's not Techno, it's Electronic music (Techno is a made up word by people who don't understand the differences between different forms of electronic music). The names mean a lot.
You must shop at the music stores where they only have Rock, Alternative and Electronic (wait..nvm...they still know it's not techno)
Secondly, Casual gaming is becoming a huge industry hit. The only problem is that until now it's all been free/shareware and free trials. I spend more time playing Space Cadet Table then I ever did playing Halo or Counter-Strike. It's because even though I don't have the time, it's easier to just fire up a game you can subsequently turn off 5 minutes later. The same thing is happening to lots of people I know. Almost all of my friends spend most of the X-Box time playing Tetris or something similiar. Obviously, you still have the "Lets rent XX game and play it all weekend", as well as the people who come home every day from school/work and play their 60 dollar games, but a lot people simply don't have the time to put in the hours needed to enjoy a long, in depth game.
The other day I re-installed Windows XP on my home PC (I never touch it, as I have a laptop, but the fam dam does), and before I had installed anything (other than Windows), it crashed on me. All I was trying to do at the time was get on the internet in IE. Restarted, and bam!, crashes again (this time while it was loading the tray icons [the ones I had were all XP related...I can't remember which ones exactly}).
And, as someone else stated, if you've been up for 150 days, you're lucky you didn't get hacked into (although it is arguably (sp?) easy for someone who knows not to click on suspicious links and open weird e-mails to not get virus'/trojans/spyware installed on their computer).
I realize that it's not really Windows that's crashing, but it's still Windows' fault. Firefox doesn't crash on any other operating system I use (UNIX at school and I used to have the box in question dual boot into various forms of Linux at one point or another), but in Windows it crashes at least once every two days or so.
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Well okay then. Go right ahead and sass me.
You know, 5:01PM was a long time after I recanted my argument to 3 other people. Way to go buddy.
Yeah, I think I was still a little sleepy and bad-mooded when I posted the above. I do think that infringing on people's rights is not a solution to this problem, but I also agree that I don't know what it's like to be that bullied kid.
I see your point.
Yeah, along with their first time being adults. The point was that my parents took me aside and taught me the morality and significance of various things when I was young, so that as I grew up I could decide for myself what was moral and worthwhile. Because of that I was able to see through online bullies as the people they truly are: nobodies.
If you're getting bullied online by anonymous people and taking it seriously, then your parents messed up big time somewhere along the way. I grew up with the internet, and was constantly harassed by anonymous idiots. I just knew better than to take them seriously, since they are SOME IDIOT ON THE INTERNET!!!!!1!!1!!!!lim(x->0)[sin(x)/x]. I'm getting really sick and tired of parents trying to use the legal system to protect their kids. The idea is that the legal system protects kids from things they don't understand. I'm pretty sure that the average child understands that some anonymous person on the internet cannot harm them and that they are probably just some other stupid kid. I wish parents would start actually raising their kids. My parents did a great job, and it was their first time.
I just watched Star Trek:Nemesis the other day, and at some point Picard tells his clone that to be human is to better oneself. Since companies are technically persons, I think they should also live up to that. I try my hardest to not give my money to companies that don't seem to want to provide a useful service to me. In fact, when I graduate I am going to try to get a job here (Computer Science degree), and if that happens I will petition to start developing an in-house system to replace Blackboard.
I am a student at UNBC (in BC, Canada), and Blackboard is our LMS, due to the fact that Blackboard bought out WebCT recently. I have to say that as a student, marker, and Computer Helpdesk staff member, I /LOATH/ Blackboard. The system is flaky, often crashes, logs you out for no reason, refuses to load files, fails to load files, as well as a myriad of other issues.
I feel that not only is allowing a patent like this counter-productive to the advancement of the product, it also continues to add precedent that it's okay to patent stupid things and then create a monopoly. The idea behind the free market is that everyone has a fighting change to sell their product. Sure, consumers have allowed companies like Wall-Mart to take off and out-sell smaller companies, but that's the risk of doing business. Letting companies sue each other left and right is not allowing for a free market, and is in the end going to hurt consumers. For example, when Blackboard bought WebCT, they stopped supporting WebCT4 (Blackboard has released WebCT6/BCE6), despite the fact that there are many classes which are not fully compatible with the new version.
I know this isn't really relevant, but I couldn't help but take up the opportunity to badmouth Blackboard. Another point to note is that a friend of mine worked at a college in Alberta implementing the system and said it's just as ugly and trying on the server side as it is on the client side.
I'm really glad you said this. I tend to lurk more than post on /. and this often crosses my mind when these type of debates start.
I fully believe that, assuming a sufficient (infinite?) amount of time and research, science and philosophy will diverge. It is already happening. Taking Christianity as an example, it can be shown that as science has progressed, so has (most of the) Christian doctrine to include those progressions. I have very little doubt that in another 20 or 30 years, ID/Creationism/whatever will look a lot more like evolution with a God behind the big bang.
While I don't think it's a good idea to simply let people do their own thing (...because they tend to try to stop you from doing your own thing), I think people need to step back and realize that only time can change a person's mind.
Your customers should be able to understand the difference should this situation come up. Others have pointed out that the article addresses this issue, but regardless, should someone confront you about spoofing packets, you should feel confident (morally as well as legally) that after explaining the situation your customers will be satisfied. As you stated, should they express a problem with this, by all means turn it off. If they now complain about their connection you can re-iterate your previous point.
Awhile back I was reading Fark (I swear, it was a slow day on /.!) and it linked an article where a woman with a disability sign for her car had been given a ticket. Unfortunately, she had forgotten to display the sign and was given a ticket.
When she tried to have the ticket repealed, she was refused (on several occasions). When she attempted to take the ticket to what I remember being small claims court (don't quote me), she was told that she would have to pay a minimum of $200 for the 'trial'. Her ticket was only worth $100, so she gave up.
Unjust? Perhaps. But why should taxpayers waste their money so everyone with a $100 ticket can dispute it?
Onto the RIAA, who, in your example, are "forced" to charge $750 in the trial. I don't think I want to explain it to you too much, but to place the hammer firmly above the head of the nail, "THE RIAA SHOULDN'T BE SUING PEOPLE IF THEY CAN'T FIND $750 WORTH OF DAMAGES DONE TO THEM". The reason for the $750 minimum is not so that people can say "sweet, 750 bucks", it's so that they don't waste the court's time suing someone over a $.99 song they downloaded (which, by the way, ends up being less than that because the RIAA companies are not directly selling the songs).
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Before Pandora was forced to close it's ports (har de har har) to Canadian listeners, I used it quite a lot. There are quite a large number of artists in there (many of which are not RIAA/countries equivalent). It takes some time to build up a playlist of music you like, but once you have it, you usually only ever hear good songs from it. Also, as someone else mentioned above, sites like myspace and garageband are also good for finding good artists. Word of mouth has always been the best, and those sites (including facebook) simply take word of mouth online. I actually went to an outdoor party at Hell's Gate (BC, Canada) because a workmate told me about it and I researched it on Facebook.
Try reading it over again. Apple wouldn't lower their prices to something they still can't compete with. :P
Anything and everything are possible in Linux. People just whine too much. It's not meant to allow people to single click and stay out of the console. It's about the user being able to mess around and do what exactly they want. The documentation is also done very well, so that's not a problem. If you don't believe me, try looking up a problem in Windows (or, God forbid, using the system's help) that's a bit more complicated than "my mouse cursor won't move".
When students need to access sites that have been blocked by the school district, they would talk to someone in administration (no doubt with the assistance of the teacher allowing them to use the topic for the assignment).
I agree that sites like Wikipedia should not be blocked, since they do provide a tremendous amount of information for people. However, sites like MySpace are known time/bandwidth wasters. The school district, while public, is still run by a board. That board is put there to do things like say what websites will make it into the system.
When it comes to schools, they seem to do a good job of knowing what websites are positive and negative towards education, and I don't think they need to be ragged on about free speech (with the current topic being an exception, of course).
I definately would not go with the Boot-Camp method for a few reasons (I think they are all mentioned somewhere, so I won't re-iterate them). If you want to have Windows or another OS on the machine, I would use Parallels or VM-Ware. However, I think that an even better solution would be to have a server running MSTSS and have students remote-desktop (http://www.mactopia.com ?) into Windows from the Macs. Although, Coherence mode is pretty cool... PS: Has anyone had a problem where their clock is wrong after booting back into OS X from Boot Camp Windows XP?
In other news, a recent poll says that while 99% of parents feel that they have the right to raise their own children the way they want, a staggering 100% of parents, when asked if they would impart important knowledge to their children, such as sex education, said "I don't wanna"
Apologies. Didn't know the GRID reference. I thought you were pulling something out of your a**.
Maybe you're just too worried that you're gay and that you've picked up an immune deficiency. Take two Tylenols, go home, watch some Spike, and when you wake up, maybe you'll remember that you're a bigoted a**hole who needs to get some computing done for $.10 an hour.
I remember back when I bought an X-Box. The one and only reason I picked it over a PS2 or a GameCube is that it had Halo. I really miss all the FFs and the Marios, but I wanted Halo.
Long story short, if you release a good game on an HD-DVD, and require the player, that will draw in a userbase, and all of a sudden that 35% becomes a 60%. Sure, the other 40% will be mad, but they will still buy regular games (not to mention that they've already bought the console).
If I had the right to share a copyrighted file every time someone said the word "draconian"...
Not to call you an idiot or anything, but first of all, it's not Techno, it's Electronic music (Techno is a made up word by people who don't understand the differences between different forms of electronic music). The names mean a lot.
You must shop at the music stores where they only have Rock, Alternative and Electronic (wait..nvm...they still know it's not techno)
Secondly, Casual gaming is becoming a huge industry hit. The only problem is that until now it's all been free/shareware and free trials. I spend more time playing Space Cadet Table then I ever did playing Halo or Counter-Strike. It's because even though I don't have the time, it's easier to just fire up a game you can subsequently turn off 5 minutes later. The same thing is happening to lots of people I know. Almost all of my friends spend most of the X-Box time playing Tetris or something similiar. Obviously, you still have the "Lets rent XX game and play it all weekend", as well as the people who come home every day from school/work and play their 60 dollar games, but a lot people simply don't have the time to put in the hours needed to enjoy a long, in depth game.
Windows itself is quite stable.
The other day I re-installed Windows XP on my home PC (I never touch it, as I have a laptop, but the fam dam does), and before I had installed anything (other than Windows), it crashed on me. All I was trying to do at the time was get on the internet in IE. Restarted, and bam!, crashes again (this time while it was loading the tray icons [the ones I had were all XP related...I can't remember which ones exactly}).
And, as someone else stated, if you've been up for 150 days, you're lucky you didn't get hacked into (although it is arguably (sp?) easy for someone who knows not to click on suspicious links and open weird e-mails to not get virus'/trojans/spyware installed on their computer).
I realize that it's not really Windows that's crashing, but it's still Windows' fault. Firefox doesn't crash on any other operating system I use (UNIX at school and I used to have the box in question dual boot into various forms of Linux at one point or another), but in Windows it crashes at least once every two days or so.