Being on the fence about using Linux and never really being sure what version, what build and what revision I should go for (hundreds of choices make it intimidating for newcomers to the Linux world), I've always been curious what would have happened if there was a board to approve the general direction, additions and revisions so that be it a platform or a programming language, the tangents wouldn't stray too far from the main group.
FTA --------- Open sourcing Java represents one of the largest donations of code to the developer community, Sands said, but merely making software freely available is insufficient. "Open-source developers need to have rules and governance spelled out for them for how they use and interact with the code base," he added.
With that in mind, Sun is establishing an OpenJDK interim governance board, which is to create a constitution and gain the community's approval for it over the coming year. ---------
I hope that this 'board' approach will help the Java community stay closer together. I'm not being obtuse, I simply hope that the Java language doesn't take a wide turn in countless directions so that you need so many different libraries or new revisions that your programs can't keep up with the community's additions.
All in all, I'm very pleased at this turn, I recall the proposal from last year and finally the wheel has turned towards us! Yay for Sun and good luck to all the Java community members! I look forward to sharing your new ideas with mine!
the title "Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity?"
When I read that, I had to think about the question itself. I'm sure I'm not the only one to spot this, but doesn't this particular question imply a confused sense of accountability? Time and time again we've seen the wrong people being sued, arrested, expelled or simply frowned upon when someone else breaks the rules. Take the Viacom/YouTube for example, YouTube allegedly hosts video clips that infringe upon copyrighted material and YouTube is being pinned down to enforce removal. How much of this is really YouTube's fault? Shouldn't the person uploading illegal material be responsible? You may say that YouTube may have a parental duty to monitor all uploaded videos, but the fact remains that when someone is being called out for breaking the law, it is common today to quickly respond "It was the host's fault for not catching it."
I'm not pro-DMCA, I hate RIAA/MPAA for what they're doing, but I hate them because they're going about it the wrong way, trying to enforce a law using questionable material as 'evidence'. So they turned to the ISPs and threatened to sue them if YOU, a user through that ISP, are downloading illegal material.
What sickens me the most is the appalling reasoning that I saw on some of these posts!! I've seen many posts that agree and disagree, but there are a few that completely forgot that people should be ACCOUNTABLE for their own actions!
Someone said in a reply: "Bah, that's crap. Kids who are smart enough to figure that stuff out need to be nurtured, not beat down. They displayed initiative, imagination, and creative problem solving, and they didn't cause any actual harm, just broke an arbitrary rule."
This is very typical thinking around issues of 'intention vs. premeditated vs. harm vs. creativity'. I can certainly agree that kids are being creative in their bypassing of security, but this doesn't excuse them from being accountable for their actions. Like my parents would have said to me: "You broke the rules, you're going to take the consequences." Kids can be nurtured to explore and grow their creativity WITHOUT breaking the laws, rules or policies set forth by whatever governing body surrounds them. Does anyone remember The Happy Hacker?
This article even getting through, and seeing the responses in this thread, clearly shows how confused people are today about responsibility, accountability and guidance.
It saddens me that schools have become a DAYCARE CENTER for parents, when they used to be an EDUCATIONAL FACILITY. Teachers would impart some of the responsibilities to teach kids the proper ethics and morals, but as soon as Joe Shmoe is sent to the principal's office because he was disrespectful in class, parents come running to the school to protect their kids from all the meanies and bad peoples out there:( And bring them to McDonalds for a treat to make them feel better.
Those kids deserved to be punished for breaking school policies. 3-months suspension MAY be a bit much, but you know what? I don't blame the schools for covering their own ass! In this SUE-AGE, what if one of those kids was going to some website like 'how to make pipe bombs' and some accident happened? Who do you think would have felt the heat? Everyone would turn their finger to the school for not 'having security measures in place.'
Fuck that! Remember the chaos in Boston about the ATHF brite-lite ads? The police force reacted perfectly well, because people freaked out about bomb threats. Even if it turned out to be nothing after all, if it WAS going to be a bomb threat, and the police wouldn't have acted, EVERYONE would have blamed the police force.
Sorry for the long post, but I'm tired of telling people to own up to their actions.
The third solution proposed (to send a city's worth of people on an arc) was actually exactly what Alastair Reynolds' "Chasm City" was revolved around: a centuries long journey from Earth to a new system. Well ok, this wasn't the main plot, but it was the major sub-plot.
Basically it described how thousands and thousands of humans were sent to space to colonize a new planet. They were given 5 ships aboard which were cryogenic caskets filled with the "rich" who would be frozen for the entire journey. The story describes the crew that had to live aboard the ships taking care of it, the caskets and getting engine improvement notices from Earth. Their journey would last for centuries and it describes how each ship dealt with each other and their differences.
It's a rather interesting book and I would definitely suggest it to anyone that loves sci-fi/future/space travel novels.
He (Alastair) also wrote a trilogy with "Revelation Space" being Book I: definitely a must read for anyone that loves "Chasm City"!!! Chronologically though, Revelation Space came out first, then Chasm City, then Redemption Ark (Book II of trilogy) and finally Absolution Space (Book III of trilogy)
Enjoy!
I break into a bank and steal all the money, would then the owner of the land upon which the bank sits be also responsible since it is 'hosting' the bank building, therefore giving me access to it?
Am I completely wrong? or am I onto something here?
to linuxci (3530) (sorry but internal reply seems to be temporarily out of service)
What exactly was he 'stealing' here? An idea?
It's not like if he recorded what he's playing and then sell it on it would risk losing sales to the original artists.
His actions had zero impact on sales for those artists/labels in the unlikely event it had any impact at all it would have been slightly positive (e.g. someone gets tune stuck in their head and seeks out the original).
"Stealing" wasn't mentioned in the article. The article refers to illegally playing copyrighted music. As a musician myself, the US protects me under a different law: I can be hired by any venue to play any song I want as long as the venue pays copyright fees to BMI and ASCAP in order to be able to hire musicians who play cover tunes.
As a solo pianist, I find myself in many, many restaurants playing friday/saturday night gigs and people always walk up to me asking me to play songs they know. I ablige to the request, unless I am forbidden by the restaurant to play anything but non-copyrighted songs or songs I have personal permission to play or songs I wrote myself. Some even go as far as having me sign a piece of paper that says that the restaurants does not pay fees and therefore I am prohibited to play any song that is copyrighted.
Long story short, the old man with the pianist may not have been affecting sales for the artists, but the point of a copyright is to compensate an artist for their work and to prevent the use of the work to promote, aid, or in any way be used in conjunction with any form of entertainment without consent from the artist or the copyrights holders. If they were playing copyrighted music in a bar, they may have not affected the artist or the artist's sales of records, but they more than likely have contributed to the venue's sales. How many times do we find ourselves mindlessly ordering another beer simply because we're enjoying the live music? Or how about when you go to a bar by yourself simply because you know there's live music?
In the US, the law requires the venue to pay fees. In Japan the law may require the performers themselves to pay a monthly/annual fee. Either way, the old man was breaking the law and according to the article, he had already done so in the past in 2001 and got caught.
Gail Hillebrand, a staff attorney at Consumers Union in San Francisco, said the declaration that AT&T owns customers' data represents the most significant departure from the company's previous policy.
"It creates the impression that they can do whatever they want," she said. "This is the real heart of AT&T's new policy and is a pretty fundamental difference from how most customers probably see things."
...from how most customers probably see things. Which brings me to the next quote FTFA...
John Britton, an AT&T spokesman, denied that the updated privacy policy marks a shift in the company's approach to customers' info.
"We don't see this as anything new," he said. "Our goal was to make the policy easier to read and easier for customers to understand."
...
But Britton insisted that these elements essentially could be found between the lines of the former policy.
"There were many things that were implied in the last policy." He said. "We're just clarifying the last policy."
So my dear/. fellows, AT&T is clearly stating that it was always their intention to use your private information for their needs, and it was always in their power. What changed is that now the words used in the policy are more black-and-white than before.
As far as AT&T 'owning' a customer's private info, I'd like to see the policy and read the fine print. Since I don't have one on hand, I think they are talking about the customer's information is private to the customer (DOB, SSN, First/Last name etc...) but to AT&T, it is a piece of DATA which belongs to the business. The DATA contains private info, but I think AT&T is claiming ownership on your data as a whole, as part of a registered user. The fact that they will disclose DOBs, names etc... for whatever reason, is a cascade scenario occuring from the fact that the DATA they will disclose, happens to contain your private information.
This policy change is not a shocker at all. In fact it's more shocking that they actually stated in the policy the 'ownership' and 'disclosure' as clearly as they did. We all knew AT&T has always disclosed information.
Under questioning, Mr. Laflamme and Mr. Rheault conceded their role in spreading a video that Mr. Raza, then 15, had made of himself and left on a shelf in the school TV studio.
School property was used to make this product, maybe the school should be entitled to some of the money from a percent of the royalties?:)
I agree...
and here's more food for thought...
On a one-way street you can parallel park on the opposide side of the street (something most of us do once in a great long while).
Will this car be able to tell which side you're parking on? and if it can't, then what will you do if your option is just a parking spot on the left side of the street?
The article was very short and it seemed shallow as to the content. I felt like I was watching the 10 o'clock news: lots of flashy words but shallow in content.
Uchida - left paralysed from the neck down after a spinal cord injury in a 1983 traffic accident - will make the final ascent to the 4,164-metre peak with the help of alpinist Ken Noguchi, 33.
He would carry Uchida on his back with the aid of a robot known as HAL, Saigo said.
Uchida had wanted to go up the Swiss Alps because a photo of the Matterhorn helped buoy his spirits during his convalescence, Saigo said.
However, when he finally went to Switzerland in 1998 he could get no closer than a lake near the Matterhorn due to his disability.
Seeing HAL last July, though, gave Uchida the idea about how he might finally realise his dream, Saigo said.
Sounds like the perfect media boost this technology needs and it's a win-win situation! Uchida gets his dream, and Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai (the developer) gets some media attention to his product. (Assuming the expedition goes well)
Picture two kids holding iPods while sitting in front of a computer with the monitor displaying "Google..." on one side of the strip, and some kids studying with open books on the other side.
The caption...
"While other kids were busy doing their homework, Steve Ballmer's kids were steadily growing rebellious against their parent's rules."
Heh I'm with you on calling BS on this, almost looks like a preemptive strike for a possible patent infringment from whatever company will eventually create one of these beasts in the future. I can hear it already...
"Your honor, I clearly made a patent back in February 2000. They stole my idea..." *coughs*
Call me old fashioned but until I'm actually holding one of these, I doubt I'll believe.
I'm no physics dude, but to me the MASS of the Sun would remain constant no matter where you are measuring from, assuming that you have technology precise enough to compare a measurement from Mercury's distance vs. someone from the Andromeda galaxy. The mass shouldn't differ, however the gravitational pull of the Sun on Mercury IS greater than the pull on Earth simply because it is closer. If you think of the typical picture of the space-bending gravitation caused by matter, Mercury sits on a steeper slope of the bend than Earth, therefore Mercury experiences a bigger pull than Earth. This doesn't mean that the Sun is exerting different pulls, but the distance of Mercury vs. Earth is the CAUSE for experiencing different pulls. The Sun's pull remains within the current gravity equation, but because of the equation, Mercury feels more of the Sun's gravity due to it being closer than Earth.
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Being on the fence about using Linux and never really being sure what version, what build and what revision I should go for (hundreds of choices make it intimidating for newcomers to the Linux world), I've always been curious what would have happened if there was a board to approve the general direction, additions and revisions so that be it a platform or a programming language, the tangents wouldn't stray too far from the main group.
FTA
---------
Open sourcing Java represents one of the largest donations of code to the developer community, Sands said, but merely making software freely available is insufficient. "Open-source developers need to have rules and governance spelled out for them for how they use and interact with the code base," he added.
With that in mind, Sun is establishing an OpenJDK interim governance board, which is to create a constitution and gain the community's approval for it over the coming year.
---------
I hope that this 'board' approach will help the Java community stay closer together. I'm not being obtuse, I simply hope that the Java language doesn't take a wide turn in countless directions so that you need so many different libraries or new revisions that your programs can't keep up with the community's additions.
All in all, I'm very pleased at this turn, I recall the proposal from last year and finally the wheel has turned towards us! Yay for Sun and good luck to all the Java community members! I look forward to sharing your new ideas with mine!
the title "Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity?"
:( And bring them to McDonalds for a treat to make them feel better.
When I read that, I had to think about the question itself. I'm sure I'm not the only one to spot this, but doesn't this particular question imply a confused sense of accountability? Time and time again we've seen the wrong people being sued, arrested, expelled or simply frowned upon when someone else breaks the rules. Take the Viacom/YouTube for example, YouTube allegedly hosts video clips that infringe upon copyrighted material and YouTube is being pinned down to enforce removal. How much of this is really YouTube's fault? Shouldn't the person uploading illegal material be responsible? You may say that YouTube may have a parental duty to monitor all uploaded videos, but the fact remains that when someone is being called out for breaking the law, it is common today to quickly respond "It was the host's fault for not catching it."
I'm not pro-DMCA, I hate RIAA/MPAA for what they're doing, but I hate them because they're going about it the wrong way, trying to enforce a law using questionable material as 'evidence'. So they turned to the ISPs and threatened to sue them if YOU, a user through that ISP, are downloading illegal material.
What sickens me the most is the appalling reasoning that I saw on some of these posts!! I've seen many posts that agree and disagree, but there are a few that completely forgot that people should be ACCOUNTABLE for their own actions!
Someone said in a reply: "Bah, that's crap. Kids who are smart enough to figure that stuff out need to be nurtured, not beat down. They displayed initiative, imagination, and creative problem solving, and they didn't cause any actual harm, just broke an arbitrary rule."
This is very typical thinking around issues of 'intention vs. premeditated vs. harm vs. creativity'. I can certainly agree that kids are being creative in their bypassing of security, but this doesn't excuse them from being accountable for their actions. Like my parents would have said to me: "You broke the rules, you're going to take the consequences." Kids can be nurtured to explore and grow their creativity WITHOUT breaking the laws, rules or policies set forth by whatever governing body surrounds them. Does anyone remember The Happy Hacker?
This article even getting through, and seeing the responses in this thread, clearly shows how confused people are today about responsibility, accountability and guidance.
It saddens me that schools have become a DAYCARE CENTER for parents, when they used to be an EDUCATIONAL FACILITY. Teachers would impart some of the responsibilities to teach kids the proper ethics and morals, but as soon as Joe Shmoe is sent to the principal's office because he was disrespectful in class, parents come running to the school to protect their kids from all the meanies and bad peoples out there
Those kids deserved to be punished for breaking school policies. 3-months suspension MAY be a bit much, but you know what? I don't blame the schools for covering their own ass! In this SUE-AGE, what if one of those kids was going to some website like 'how to make pipe bombs' and some accident happened? Who do you think would have felt the heat? Everyone would turn their finger to the school for not 'having security measures in place.'
Fuck that! Remember the chaos in Boston about the ATHF brite-lite ads? The police force reacted perfectly well, because people freaked out about bomb threats. Even if it turned out to be nothing after all, if it WAS going to be a bomb threat, and the police wouldn't have acted, EVERYONE would have blamed the police force.
Sorry for the long post, but I'm tired of telling people to own up to their actions.
The third solution proposed (to send a city's worth of people on an arc) was actually exactly what Alastair Reynolds' "Chasm City" was revolved around: a centuries long journey from Earth to a new system. Well ok, this wasn't the main plot, but it was the major sub-plot. Basically it described how thousands and thousands of humans were sent to space to colonize a new planet. They were given 5 ships aboard which were cryogenic caskets filled with the "rich" who would be frozen for the entire journey. The story describes the crew that had to live aboard the ships taking care of it, the caskets and getting engine improvement notices from Earth. Their journey would last for centuries and it describes how each ship dealt with each other and their differences. It's a rather interesting book and I would definitely suggest it to anyone that loves sci-fi/future/space travel novels. He (Alastair) also wrote a trilogy with "Revelation Space" being Book I: definitely a must read for anyone that loves "Chasm City"!!! Chronologically though, Revelation Space came out first, then Chasm City, then Redemption Ark (Book II of trilogy) and finally Absolution Space (Book III of trilogy) Enjoy!
I break into a bank and steal all the money, would then the owner of the land upon which the bank sits be also responsible since it is 'hosting' the bank building, therefore giving me access to it? Am I completely wrong? or am I onto something here?
As a solo pianist, I find myself in many, many restaurants playing friday/saturday night gigs and people always walk up to me asking me to play songs they know. I ablige to the request, unless I am forbidden by the restaurant to play anything but non-copyrighted songs or songs I have personal permission to play or songs I wrote myself. Some even go as far as having me sign a piece of paper that says that the restaurants does not pay fees and therefore I am prohibited to play any song that is copyrighted.
Long story short, the old man with the pianist may not have been affecting sales for the artists, but the point of a copyright is to compensate an artist for their work and to prevent the use of the work to promote, aid, or in any way be used in conjunction with any form of entertainment without consent from the artist or the copyrights holders. If they were playing copyrighted music in a bar, they may have not affected the artist or the artist's sales of records, but they more than likely have contributed to the venue's sales. How many times do we find ourselves mindlessly ordering another beer simply because we're enjoying the live music? Or how about when you go to a bar by yourself simply because you know there's live music?
In the US, the law requires the venue to pay fees. In Japan the law may require the performers themselves to pay a monthly/annual fee. Either way, the old man was breaking the law and according to the article, he had already done so in the past in 2001 and got caught.
First Post! woot!
School property was used to make this product, maybe the school should be entitled to some of the money from a percent of the royalties?
I agree... and here's more food for thought... On a one-way street you can parallel park on the opposide side of the street (something most of us do once in a great long while). Will this car be able to tell which side you're parking on? and if it can't, then what will you do if your option is just a parking spot on the left side of the street? The article was very short and it seemed shallow as to the content. I felt like I was watching the 10 o'clock news: lots of flashy words but shallow in content.
see subject :)
Picture two kids holding iPods while sitting in front of a computer with the monitor displaying "Google..." on one side of the strip, and some kids studying with open books on the other side. The caption... "While other kids were busy doing their homework, Steve Ballmer's kids were steadily growing rebellious against their parent's rules."
Count the number of dots on a pair of dice (or just do ((1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6) * 2) = 42) :-P
Heh I'm with you on calling BS on this,
almost looks like a preemptive strike for a possible patent infringment from whatever company will eventually create one of these beasts in the future. I can hear it already...
"Your honor, I clearly made a patent back in February 2000. They stole my idea..." *coughs*
Call me old fashioned but until I'm actually holding one of these, I doubt I'll believe.
I'm no physics dude, but to me the MASS of the Sun would remain constant no matter where you are measuring from, assuming that you have technology precise enough to compare a measurement from Mercury's distance vs. someone from the Andromeda galaxy. The mass shouldn't differ, however the gravitational pull of the Sun on Mercury IS greater than the pull on Earth simply because it is closer. If you think of the typical picture of the space-bending gravitation caused by matter, Mercury sits on a steeper slope of the bend than Earth, therefore Mercury experiences a bigger pull than Earth. This doesn't mean that the Sun is exerting different pulls, but the distance of Mercury vs. Earth is the CAUSE for experiencing different pulls. The Sun's pull remains within the current gravity equation, but because of the equation, Mercury feels more of the Sun's gravity due to it being closer than Earth.