As for Mailinator, couldn't one write a script that sent to a random email address at a particular domain e.g. adflas2343872938743@gmail.com and see if it bounces? If it bounces, it isn't a mailinator address.
Most email servers don't bounce anymore. Spammers used that to determine legitimacy of email addresses and purged bad emails. Now gmail and hotmail and such (the big ones) stay silent as to whether or not the email made it to a destination.
While it is true that most(all?) developers on things like the Linux kernel are professional, it isn't true that they are usually acting on their own. In fact from the looks of it, only between 15-25% of the code is from unpaid work. The majority is by people who are paid by one company or another to work on it.
Microsoft released a beta of the datagrid awhile back and they officially released the datagrid for wpf at last years PDC out of their ship cycle due to so many complaints. It is downloadable at http://www.codeplex.com/wpf
West Texas lets you go the fun speeds of 80(which means 90), and has a provision allowing for speeds of up to 85, but doesn't have any roads on which to go those speeds.
Speed Limits in Texas
how difficult would it be for a network technician to configure a router/switch and modify an open-source network sniffer to snatch email addresses from the stream of email going to/from their customers -- and keep it hidden from anyone else that isn't in on it?
Well that wouldn't be technically difficult, but most ISPs that I have experience with work VERY hard to prevent people from doing this and you would be an idiot to use this resource to steal email address's. The more prudent thing to do if you had this kind of access is to simply pick off their credit card information/bank information. The content of the emails is far more valuable than the actual address and many people do not realize that email is not secure.
Ever heard of an encyclopedia? Also, Wikipedia is just a compilation of many other sources, it even quotes them. So how is that any worse/different than the actual source.
Is it bad for people to have access to information... does it promote cheating? If that's the case, just stick students in a white box and tell them to imagine what an education is.
Their "silly agenda" is in their name already: "Civil Liberties." If you don't want to help protect American Civil Liberties, don't join, as said before it's private. Also it might seem like just another super-liberal activist group to you, but this is only because they are aggressively trying to slow the current Conservative Government's oppression of our liberties. The same was true for Clinton's administration:
No, you don't. The government has to be able to stop in and intervene when you "choose" to just teach them crap. Such as, oh, that having sex with their parents is OK. Or that there's nothing wrong at all with polygamy. Or that you can go ahead and eat human flesh. Or that it's OK to kill black people.
The government has a responsibility to not-step in, in these situations. In your example you say that government should step in when parents teach their children that polygamy is alright, or that eating human flesh is good... But there is no law against these things. These are morals, they are subjective and are up to the discretion of the parent not you or a politician. In the case of polygamy, not only is it not illegal to teach your kids that it's right, actually practicing it is also alright. The only part that is illegal is being "legally" married to multiple spouses, but having multiple spouses cohabitate a home is fine. You and I may agree that this is bad but it is not the government's place to stop people from doing these things that have no effect on others.
The government's responsibility is to protect its citizens from violations of its citizens rights. This does not include telling parents how to raise their child. Yes, children are not the "property" of the parent, but they are also not the property of the government. Laws regarding how parents raise their children should be restricted to making sure their rights are not violated.
Such things as sex with children as you stated are considered rape not because the government thinks it is (directly)wrong to have sex with children, but rather that the children don't have the mental capacity to consent to sex, so sex with children is inherently rape. This is the government protecting the rights of the child, not inhibiting the rights of the parent. Incest among consenting adults is not illegal(although gross and horribly wrong).
In respect to preventing children from buying video games, this should only be allowed if you can argue that the children's rights are being defended by protecting them from violent/sexual video games. If this defense of their rights outweighs the detriment to their first amendment rights, both I and the government think it is alright. This is the same argument behind protecting children from pornography.
I don't agree with the American's mentality, but it is all about terrorism. If you scare people enough with death, they will give up all their freedoms in fear. It is sad but true. American's have surrendered their core values to the terrorists, core values that are impossible to recover.
Patrick Henry's famous quote of, "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!" has been said many times by liberal politicians. (liberal is ironic here because it should be the conservatives defending the opinions of our fore-fathers) But we live in a different time than Henry did. It is not the terrorism that is different, they had murder and were even in the midst of a war (declaring war) on their own land. But it is the mentality of the citizen.
We have grown to expect our government(other people) to defend us. We have no desire to go to war; to die for our country seems like a waste of our lives. This might be because of our fighting of wars that don't pertain to us: (Korea, Vietnam, Gulf1, Gulf2), but it does mean that we have shifted our values. We will no longer die for a cause, including freedom. This unwillingness to die for a cause means that it is the responsibility of the government to prevent us from dieing. This includes wire taps and the like. I know it sounds absurd, but if people get more angry about dieing than they do about violations of their constitutional rights, then we have a problem.
this is because of some church crap that has nothing to do with the government.
I'm confused... since when does church crap have nothing to do with the government. This is America silly, Church=government.
If it bothers you so much, move to some liberal, human rights obsessed country that defends free speech rights then stand on a soapbox and cry about your loss of freedoms to a populous that actually cares. We Americans love our co-mingling of church and government and our strict free speech only when applicable policies; it promotes good family values.
um... I'm pretty sure this was the intention of the entire line of Simpsons games, and I don't recall them making much money, although I think Hit 'n Run did alright. Kids just love their blood and gore.
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As for Mailinator, couldn't one write a script that sent to a random email address at a particular domain e.g. adflas2343872938743@gmail.com and see if it bounces? If it bounces, it isn't a mailinator address.
Most email servers don't bounce anymore. Spammers used that to determine legitimacy of email addresses and purged bad emails. Now gmail and hotmail and such (the big ones) stay silent as to whether or not the email made it to a destination.
perhaps they mean "websites"... although in reality it is probably just a typo.
While it is true that most(all?) developers on things like the Linux kernel are professional, it isn't true that they are usually acting on their own. In fact from the looks of it, only between 15-25% of the code is from unpaid work. The majority is by people who are paid by one company or another to work on it.
Microsoft released a beta of the datagrid awhile back and they officially released the datagrid for wpf at last years PDC out of their ship cycle due to so many complaints. It is downloadable at http://www.codeplex.com/wpf
West Texas lets you go the fun speeds of 80(which means 90), and has a provision allowing for speeds of up to 85, but doesn't have any roads on which to go those speeds. Speed Limits in Texas
The joys of a settlement is that they are not appealable thus it doesn't matter if it turns out they had no evidence(i.e. MPAA).
Well that wouldn't be technically difficult, but most ISPs that I have experience with work VERY hard to prevent people from doing this and you would be an idiot to use this resource to steal email address's. The more prudent thing to do if you had this kind of access is to simply pick off their credit card information/bank information. The content of the emails is far more valuable than the actual address and many people do not realize that email is not secure.
Is it bad for people to have access to information... does it promote cheating? If that's the case, just stick students in a white box and tell them to imagine what an education is.
SPACE ELEVATORS!!!
Reno v. ACLU:Communication Decency Act
Just remember that not all those that oppose the Neo-Con-Republicans are super liberals. Normal people seem to enjoy freedom as well.
The government has a responsibility to not-step in, in these situations. In your example you say that government should step in when parents teach their children that polygamy is alright, or that eating human flesh is good... But there is no law against these things. These are morals, they are subjective and are up to the discretion of the parent not you or a politician. In the case of polygamy, not only is it not illegal to teach your kids that it's right, actually practicing it is also alright. The only part that is illegal is being "legally" married to multiple spouses, but having multiple spouses cohabitate a home is fine. You and I may agree that this is bad but it is not the government's place to stop people from doing these things that have no effect on others.
The government's responsibility is to protect its citizens from violations of its citizens rights. This does not include telling parents how to raise their child. Yes, children are not the "property" of the parent, but they are also not the property of the government. Laws regarding how parents raise their children should be restricted to making sure their rights are not violated.
Such things as sex with children as you stated are considered rape not because the government thinks it is (directly)wrong to have sex with children, but rather that the children don't have the mental capacity to consent to sex, so sex with children is inherently rape. This is the government protecting the rights of the child, not inhibiting the rights of the parent. Incest among consenting adults is not illegal(although gross and horribly wrong).
In respect to preventing children from buying video games, this should only be allowed if you can argue that the children's rights are being defended by protecting them from violent/sexual video games. If this defense of their rights outweighs the detriment to their first amendment rights, both I and the government think it is alright. This is the same argument behind protecting children from pornography.
Patrick Henry's famous quote of, "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!" has been said many times by liberal politicians. (liberal is ironic here because it should be the conservatives defending the opinions of our fore-fathers) But we live in a different time than Henry did. It is not the terrorism that is different, they had murder and were even in the midst of a war (declaring war) on their own land. But it is the mentality of the citizen.
We have grown to expect our government(other people) to defend us. We have no desire to go to war; to die for our country seems like a waste of our lives. This might be because of our fighting of wars that don't pertain to us: (Korea, Vietnam, Gulf1, Gulf2), but it does mean that we have shifted our values. We will no longer die for a cause, including freedom. This unwillingness to die for a cause means that it is the responsibility of the government to prevent us from dieing. This includes wire taps and the like. I know it sounds absurd, but if people get more angry about dieing than they do about violations of their constitutional rights, then we have a problem.
I'm confused... since when does church crap have nothing to do with the government. This is America silly, Church=government.
If it bothers you so much, move to some liberal, human rights obsessed country that defends free speech rights then stand on a soapbox and cry about your loss of freedoms to a populous that actually cares. We Americans love our co-mingling of church and government and our strict free speech only when applicable policies; it promotes good family values.
um... I'm pretty sure this was the intention of the entire line of Simpsons games, and I don't recall them making much money, although I think Hit 'n Run did alright. Kids just love their blood and gore.