Surprisingly, this seems to be no longer true. I checked their FTP archives and they no longer offer an SRPM for the kernel. It may still be in their distro, however.
I think you'd be surprised and shocked at how ignorant our elected officials are. One of the four Senators (Paul Simon) who voted against CDA didn't even know that CDA was part of the Telecom Reform Act of 1996.
The point of stapling these to his office door is that this will most certainly get his attention.
I am sorely tempted to print these out in 36 point font and staple them to Howard Berman's door:
Copyright infringement is not the same thing as theft.
Copyright infringement is already illegal. We do not need an additional law to deal with it.
Prison time is not a suitable punishment for file-swapping.
The vast majority of copyright infringement and subsequent revenue loss takes place not online, but overseas.
Dropping revenue figures, particularly in a sluggish economy with high unemployment, cannot be blamed on file-swapping alone.
The Recording Industry has not made its case that file-swapping leads to substantial lost revenues.
The Recording Industry is living under the illusion that it is a mature industry. If it wishes to earn more revenues, then it needs to shed its adversity to risk.
The Recording Industry does not care about artists, and does not represent their interests.
The Recording Industry is not pro-First Amendment.
The suppression of file-swapping is not about preserving intellectual property; it is about controlling the distribution of information, including legitimate distribution of properly licensed information.
The single best way to prevent the spread of computer viruses is to not use Microsoft Office or Microsoft Outlook.
If kids want to get their hands on pornography, then it is time for their parents to have "the talk."
Without peer-to-peer networks, kids will still get pornography from friends and from the vendor down the street.
The government creates its own security risks with bad foreign policy.
Peer-to-peer networks aid, rather than inhibit, intelligence gathering efforts.
The best means of protecting national security is through human intelligence, not by making illegal a line of communication.
What I want to know is, what technologies are they using to integrate all those different computer systems? That has to be a nightmare and a half.
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The Cookbook is good for snippets of code. To really learn Java, though, you need to read complete examples. That's where Java Examples in a Nutshell comes in.
Both received an A rating from the National Rifle Association. Bush pushed through CCW; Dean made sure concealed carry is legal, permit or not. By most people's standards, this is strongly anti-gun-control.
Gay Rights: Opposed by both
Dean signed Vermont's civil unions bill. Most of his early campaign money was from the gay rights movement.
Socialism: Endorsed by both
I'm not sure how this statement is even remotely justified.
US Patriot Act: Endorsed by both
Dean is on record as opposing PATRIOT.
Increased Taxation: Endorsed by both
Bush has already enacted several tax cuts.
Increased Government power: Endorsed by both.
This is so ill-defined as to be basically meaningless.
His point is that all most of the Democrats are doing right now regarding President Bush and the war in Iraq is picking nits in a completely partisan attempt to make him look bad, not a patriotic attempt to do what is right for this country.
If that's what the President's supporters think, then they're obviously not paying attention. Bob Barr, Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak are some of Bush's biggest critics these days.
Part of the problem is that the President's supporters can't wrap their brain around this simple fact: there are a lot of people out there who think the Iraq war was an unjustified, reckless venture. Recent events, such as guerilla attacks on US troops and the admission that we had no evidence that Iraq was trying to buy uranium, have bolstered their case.
Needless to say, these people are pretty pissed off right now, and aren't likely to support the President or anyone who supports his policies (e.g., Lieberman).
You forgot to mention the part about your employer being located in Berlin. Not that I'd mind living in Germany for a few years.. but my girlfriend almost certainly would object. Perhaps after I finish my second masters, I should apply?
Alternatively, you (plural) could open a Portland, Oregon office, and hire a lot of good talent for cheap.
Most of retail theft is by employees, what is the problem of wal mart protecting their products?
Part of the problem is that RFID tags can also be used to track your products after someone buys them. It creates another means for someone to invade your privacy.
In practice, it's not such a big deal if you can disable the RFID tags after purchsing the product. There's no guarantee the store will do this (it may be in their best interests *not* to do this) and telling people how to do this themselves will probably violate DMCA, not to mention state and local laws.
And, if there are about a billion web sites out there (a conservative estimate), then a (strictly hypothetical) 0.01% false positive rate means that one million or so appropriate, acceptible web sites are being filtered.
This should, of course, be a hundred thousand or so perfectly appropriate websites.
Actually, it is not known. Some of the sites in despute by some people contain articles and information that children shouldn't really exposed to because of the harm it can cause them mentally.
This is tricky, because "mental harm" is ill-defined. It basically comes down to "anything that opposes the groupthink POV," for various definitions of "groupthink." For example: a site on Wicca is harmless, unless your ideas about religion dictate that *any* exposure to such religions will destroy Little Timmy's soul in a satanic conflagration.
I know there are sometimes a few site that get blocked that probably shouldn't be, but it is not as much as people are making it out to be.
Do you have numbers to support this?
I used to work for one of these filtering companies, and although the false positive and false negative rates were (IMO) pretty impressive, they weren't zero. And, if there are about a billion web sites out there (a conservative estimate), then a (strictly hypothetical) 0.01% false positive rate means that one million or so appropriate, acceptible web sites are being filtered. Most, if not all, web filters perform much worse than this, with false positive rates that are larger by one or two orders of magnatude.
I also know from personal experience that some of the filtered sites were embarrassing. For example: at least one U. S. Senator had their web site blocked for violent content. They mentioned gun control and assault rifles on their site, and the software decided that that made it a match.
The real problem is the clashing of what different groups consider to be appropriate information for children to see. Would you want a child to have access to {insert a sick an perverted pedophile organizaion here} information sites? I will let you pick a site because I don't want them to have any type of publication, but I know I don't want any kids viewing this information and group because it is sick!
Fair enough, but I've seen the content on the (for example) NAMBLA web page, and it isn't necessarily objectionable. I don't agree with them so much as one iota, but that's beside the point.
All this having been said, I don't trust most filters to work properly. Most of them are badly designed, poorly maintained, come with a built-in cultural agenda. (The place where I worked did its best to fix all three, which is one reason why I enjoyed working there. Sadly, it's fallen on hard times. Oh well.)
I recently got together with an old friend of mine from college who's going back to school for a degree in Math. She asked me what programming language I would recommend for her to study. Most of her pals -- mostly people who live in the academic world -- recommended C, Java or C++. Nobody had mentioned my recommendation -- Python -- even though it's probably perfect for her chosen field of specialization (neural nets), at least as a compliment to C.
Colleges don't teach it; most employers don't look for it. Me, I use it all the time, but mostly just in my own private projects. I've only had one professional project where Python was a major component of our work. *sigh*
It does no good to fault neoconservatives and hyperpatriots with hypocrisy or inconsistency. Consistency of thought is never part of their moral system; what they are interested in, first and foremost, is power by any means necessay.
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Surprisingly, this seems to be no longer true. I checked their FTP archives and they no longer offer an SRPM for the kernel. It may still be in their distro, however.
Here is the link. Go nuts.
I thought it was 95. But you're right: the media will still miss the goddamn point.
That might garner too much attention, of the wrong kind...
Man, how could I have forgotten this? Although, a better idea might be to send him a photocopy of the check I sent to his opponent.
I think you'd be surprised and shocked at how ignorant our elected officials are. One of the four Senators (Paul Simon) who voted against CDA didn't even know that CDA was part of the Telecom Reform Act of 1996.
The point of stapling these to his office door is that this will most certainly get his attention.
- Copyright infringement is not the same thing as theft.
- Copyright infringement is already illegal. We do not need an additional law to deal with it.
- Prison time is not a suitable punishment for file-swapping.
- The vast majority of copyright infringement and subsequent revenue loss takes place not online, but overseas.
- Dropping revenue figures, particularly in a sluggish economy with high unemployment, cannot be blamed on file-swapping alone.
- The Recording Industry has not made its case that file-swapping leads to substantial lost revenues.
- The Recording Industry is living under the illusion that it is a mature industry. If it wishes to earn more revenues, then it needs to shed its adversity to risk.
- The Recording Industry does not care about artists, and does not represent their interests.
- The Recording Industry is not pro-First Amendment.
- The suppression of file-swapping is not about preserving intellectual property; it is about controlling the distribution of information, including legitimate distribution of properly licensed information.
- The single best way to prevent the spread of computer viruses is to not use Microsoft Office or Microsoft Outlook.
- If kids want to get their hands on pornography, then it is time for their parents to have "the talk."
- Without peer-to-peer networks, kids will still get pornography from friends and from the vendor down the street.
- The government creates its own security risks with bad foreign policy.
- Peer-to-peer networks aid, rather than inhibit, intelligence gathering efforts.
- The best means of protecting national security is through human intelligence, not by making illegal a line of communication.
Have I missed anything?What I want to know is, what technologies are they using to integrate all those different computer systems? That has to be a nightmare and a half.
The Cookbook is good for snippets of code. To really learn Java, though, you need to read complete examples. That's where Java Examples in a Nutshell comes in.
Both received an A rating from the National Rifle Association. Bush pushed through CCW; Dean made sure concealed carry is legal, permit or not. By most people's standards, this is strongly anti-gun-control.
Gay Rights: Opposed by both
Dean signed Vermont's civil unions bill. Most of his early campaign money was from the gay rights movement.
Socialism: Endorsed by both
I'm not sure how this statement is even remotely justified.
US Patriot Act: Endorsed by both
Dean is on record as opposing PATRIOT.
Increased Taxation: Endorsed by both
Bush has already enacted several tax cuts. Increased Government power: Endorsed by both.
This is so ill-defined as to be basically meaningless.
If that's what the President's supporters think, then they're obviously not paying attention. Bob Barr, Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak are some of Bush's biggest critics these days.
Part of the problem is that the President's supporters can't wrap their brain around this simple fact: there are a lot of people out there who think the Iraq war was an unjustified, reckless venture. Recent events, such as guerilla attacks on US troops and the admission that we had no evidence that Iraq was trying to buy uranium, have bolstered their case.
Needless to say, these people are pretty pissed off right now, and aren't likely to support the President or anyone who supports his policies (e.g., Lieberman).
And this time, we won't be trading them for hostages. (No Contra terror^H^H^H^H^H^Hrebels to shore up illegally, either.)
Touche'
It may, however, very well send weapons to Iran.
Alternatively, you (plural) could open a Portland, Oregon office, and hire a lot of good talent for cheap.
Part of the problem is that RFID tags can also be used to track your products after someone buys them. It creates another means for someone to invade your privacy.
In practice, it's not such a big deal if you can disable the RFID tags after purchsing the product. There's no guarantee the store will do this (it may be in their best interests *not* to do this) and telling people how to do this themselves will probably violate DMCA, not to mention state and local laws.
Shit, man, that's been the case for the whole US for decades now.
Yes, word for word.
Good luck, Tim, wherever you are.
Tell that to KDE regarding Bluecurve, and I suspect they'll look at you ascance.
This should, of course, be a hundred thousand or so perfectly appropriate websites.
This is tricky, because "mental harm" is ill-defined. It basically comes down to "anything that opposes the groupthink POV," for various definitions of "groupthink." For example: a site on Wicca is harmless, unless your ideas about religion dictate that *any* exposure to such religions will destroy Little Timmy's soul in a satanic conflagration.
Do you have numbers to support this?
I used to work for one of these filtering companies, and although the false positive and false negative rates were (IMO) pretty impressive, they weren't zero. And, if there are about a billion web sites out there (a conservative estimate), then a (strictly hypothetical) 0.01% false positive rate means that one million or so appropriate, acceptible web sites are being filtered. Most, if not all, web filters perform much worse than this, with false positive rates that are larger by one or two orders of magnatude.
I also know from personal experience that some of the filtered sites were embarrassing. For example: at least one U. S. Senator had their web site blocked for violent content. They mentioned gun control and assault rifles on their site, and the software decided that that made it a match.
Fair enough, but I've seen the content on the (for example) NAMBLA web page, and it isn't necessarily objectionable. I don't agree with them so much as one iota, but that's beside the point.
All this having been said, I don't trust most filters to work properly. Most of them are badly designed, poorly maintained, come with a built-in cultural agenda. (The place where I worked did its best to fix all three, which is one reason why I enjoyed working there. Sadly, it's fallen on hard times. Oh well.)
Colleges don't teach it; most employers don't look for it. Me, I use it all the time, but mostly just in my own private projects. I've only had one professional project where Python was a major component of our work. *sigh*
*I* started in BASIC, but there are plenty of other people who started in, say, C or Java. Particularly younger programmers.
It does no good to fault neoconservatives and hyperpatriots with hypocrisy or inconsistency. Consistency of thought is never part of their moral system; what they are interested in, first and foremost, is power by any means necessay.