The constitution might not come out and specify what the privacy rights are, but it does very clearly say that the judicial branch will interpret the document. The Supreme Court has ruled enough times on privacy rights to make an interpretation on privacy rights.
A good pattern that I've seen is that you've got privacy when something affects your livlihood except when it puts undo duress or causes danger for the nation or the livlihood of others.
In the US, we have it in our founding Constitution that there is a privacy trust between citizens and the government.
If the computer company didn't have a written policy, known to the customer at the time of sale, stating that they would keep their information private, it's probably legal (although not good for the computer company's image) to turn over the info MS is requesting.
There are other acts that apply to things like the apartments I live in. The housing office can pretty much only confirm that I live here and nothing more without my consent. That's because it affects my livlihood and it's my homestead. Buying a computer is an extracurricular activity.
I run a 900 mhz Athlon Thunderbird. There are 8 fans in the case trying to keep that machine cool, and with a Thermaltake Super Orb and Arctic Silver, the processor is still running at 125 degrees regularly. I'd never settle for the factory heatsink and processor goop with temperatures like that.
Yes, 900 mhz is the factory setting. When you have a card in every slot of your machine, it makes it harder to cool.
While I'll agree that PHP Nuke is a hell of a lot easier to set up than Slash, I can't say that I like it. I guess my opinion could be a biased since Nuke forked from Thatware. The PHP Nuke engine is fundamentally flawed... I know, I built it.
Don't discount thatware. I'm still working on it and I'm determined to change the minds of people like you whether Burzi is doing it full time or not.
My parents were at Kent State during the shootings. If you look at the details of the shootings, guards that shot the weapons were not aiming at students but got some by accident when the bullets traveled some 1/4 mile trip down the hill to the parking lot. They were firing shots to get the crowd off their backs. If the crowd had become to intimidating to the line of guard, they might have actually aimed for people and possibly have shot a lot more in the process. It just so happens they hit some anyway trying to prevent trouble. Email me if you want the details. I've got them. There's much more to the story.
I think some credit needs to be given to the distributions especially in my case where I'm using a Dell Inspiron 7000 with a "Designed for Windows NT/98" sticker permanently attached.
When I first got this laptop, it wouldn't run anything but Windows. The sync rates for the LCD, the sound, the network card... none of them were installed correctly. Now with Mandrake 7.x in particular, the install runs great... and I'm sure Dell made little effort if any to help them out.
I think it's wrong to say that because he was most likely under the age of 18, that he didn't have a sense of what is right and wrong. People mature at different rates. Take college frat parties complete with binge drinking and school pranks for example.
Moreover, just because someone is in high school, it doesn't mean that they're younger than 18. It's perfectly normal to find 18 and 19 year old students on a campus, which by your definition have crossed some sort of wonderful line that said one day they had a sense of responsibility, but they weren't allowed to until the instant of their 18th birthday.
Using 18 as a legal maturity measurement is ok, but I don't think that it needs to be branded to ever teenager there is as a responsibility tattoo.
Perhaps the teacher isn't as bad as everyone is making him out to be. He saw a bored student and wanted to challenge him. Obviously he didn't expect the outcome.
I couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to get to advogato to update my diary. Then I realized, maybe they're being slashdotted and sure enough they are. The diary entries were far enough apart that people could still have conversations... I guess that'll be different for a couple weeks while newcomers come and go.
I think this article brings up a good point that all Thunderbird users need to be aware of... it sure made me take down my computer for a while. If you put a golden orb on your processor like I did, you remember how hard it was... well it can actually crush the die and render the processor as a $300 piece of trash. I still think it's a cool looking heatsink so I already put up another $20 for Thermaltake's fix for the golden one.
I just called around to all the IMAX theatres in the Houston area (there's 3). The movie is not scheduled to be shown at any of them.
The Wortham IMAX theatre is attached to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and I've never known them to show anything that wouldn't be something for any grade school teacher to justify as a field trip.
Another is in Space Center Houston (NASA's "theme park") and they only show space promo movies. The other is in Galveston at Moody Gardens which really only shows movies about nature and/or the sea.
It's too bad, I would have liked to have seen Disney's shot at culture enrichment (even if it is expensive) on the *big* screen.
There is an audit system built in. To become a member, you have to enter a mailing address (where they send a pin to activate your account). If you try to subscribe under different addresses, you'll still only get the pin for the address that you registered where you live.
Just think. Most schools have some sort of computer department head or liaison. The computer liaisons have other things to worry about. They've got to replace burned out hard drives in 486's, pick gum out of floppy drives, and plug mice back into the computers of teachers that can't figure out how.
The sad thing is principals will pass Mosaic off as a good thing for the students, parents will mindlessly agree just because they don't know better, and when their kid is labeled as a murderer, then we'll see things start getting weird.
I disagree that RealNetworks is worthless. Check out krbe.com and they have their station set up to encode their broadcast for G2 in linux. I listen to them almost 24/7 and get a nice constant, clear stream.
I disagree with it being an attempt at "world domination". If people in Europe prefer SuSE RedHat just won't be sucessful over there. RedHat won't be able to force people to use it, but since I like RedHat, I wish them the best.
The government has no right to go into the houses of people to tell them how to live. If the government wanted, they could pass a law that put NetNanny in every public library and school, but at home if parents have got the internet, it should be the concerned parents that take it upon themselves to install the nessesary software or if they don't know how not let their kids on the internet.
You just must not realize they would spend a lot more money creating a system of taxation and enforcement then they would raise from taxing the emails.
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The constitution might not come out and specify what the privacy rights are, but it does very clearly say that the judicial branch will interpret the document. The Supreme Court has ruled enough times on privacy rights to make an interpretation on privacy rights.
A good pattern that I've seen is that you've got privacy when something affects your livlihood except when it puts undo duress or causes danger for the nation or the livlihood of others.
In the US, we have it in our founding Constitution that there is a privacy trust between citizens and the government.
If the computer company didn't have a written policy, known to the customer at the time of sale, stating that they would keep their information private, it's probably legal (although not good for the computer company's image) to turn over the info MS is requesting.
There are other acts that apply to things like the apartments I live in. The housing office can pretty much only confirm that I live here and nothing more without my consent. That's because it affects my livlihood and it's my homestead. Buying a computer is an extracurricular activity.
I run a 900 mhz Athlon Thunderbird. There are 8 fans in the case trying to keep that machine cool, and with a Thermaltake Super Orb and Arctic Silver, the processor is still running at 125 degrees regularly. I'd never settle for the factory heatsink and processor goop with temperatures like that.
Yes, 900 mhz is the factory setting. When you have a card in every slot of your machine, it makes it harder to cool.
While I'll agree that PHP Nuke is a hell of a lot easier to set up than Slash, I can't say that I like it. I guess my opinion could be a biased since Nuke forked from Thatware. The PHP Nuke engine is fundamentally flawed... I know, I built it.
Don't discount thatware. I'm still working on it and I'm determined to change the minds of people like you whether Burzi is doing it full time or not.
My parents were at Kent State during the shootings. If you look at the details of the shootings, guards that shot the weapons were not aiming at students but got some by accident when the bullets traveled some 1/4 mile trip down the hill to the parking lot. They were firing shots to get the crowd off their backs. If the crowd had become to intimidating to the line of guard, they might have actually aimed for people and possibly have shot a lot more in the process. It just so happens they hit some anyway trying to prevent trouble. Email me if you want the details. I've got them. There's much more to the story.
I hope this question doesn't make the top 10. It is a question better suited for pudge on slashcode.com, where the slash perl development takes place.
I think some credit needs to be given to the distributions especially in my case where I'm using a Dell Inspiron 7000 with a "Designed for Windows NT/98" sticker permanently attached.
When I first got this laptop, it wouldn't run anything but Windows. The sync rates for the LCD, the sound, the network card... none of them were installed correctly. Now with Mandrake 7.x in particular, the install runs great... and I'm sure Dell made little effort if any to help them out.
I think it's wrong to say that because he was most likely under the age of 18, that he didn't have a sense of what is right and wrong. People mature at different rates. Take college frat parties complete with binge drinking and school pranks for example.
Moreover, just because someone is in high school, it doesn't mean that they're younger than 18. It's perfectly normal to find 18 and 19 year old students on a campus, which by your definition have crossed some sort of wonderful line that said one day they had a sense of responsibility, but they weren't allowed to until the instant of their 18th birthday.
Using 18 as a legal maturity measurement is ok, but I don't think that it needs to be branded to ever teenager there is as a responsibility tattoo.
Perhaps the teacher isn't as bad as everyone is making him out to be. He saw a bored student and wanted to challenge him. Obviously he didn't expect the outcome.
I couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to get to advogato to update my diary. Then I realized, maybe they're being slashdotted and sure enough they are. The diary entries were far enough apart that people could still have conversations... I guess that'll be different for a couple weeks while newcomers come and go.
I think this article brings up a good point that all Thunderbird users need to be aware of... it sure made me take down my computer for a while. If you put a golden orb on your processor like I did, you remember how hard it was... well it can actually crush the die and render the processor as a $300 piece of trash. I still think it's a cool looking heatsink so I already put up another $20 for Thermaltake's fix for the golden one.
Ways to get your host's attention: uploading the prerelease I grabbed from Betanews last night to my website:
e tup.exe
ftp://ftp.atthat.com/pub/getslashdotted/NetscapeS
It's the Win32 version w/ installer.
I just called around to all the IMAX theatres in the Houston area (there's 3). The movie is not scheduled to be shown at any of them.
The Wortham IMAX theatre is attached to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and I've never known them to show anything that wouldn't be something for any grade school teacher to justify as a field trip.
Another is in Space Center Houston (NASA's "theme park") and they only show space promo movies. The other is in Galveston at Moody Gardens which really only shows movies about nature and/or the sea.
It's too bad, I would have liked to have seen Disney's shot at culture enrichment (even if it is expensive) on the *big* screen.
There is an audit system built in. To become a member, you have to enter a mailing address (where they send a pin to activate your account). If you try to subscribe under different addresses, you'll still only get the pin for the address that you registered where you live.
Just think. Most schools have some sort of computer department head or liaison. The computer liaisons have other things to worry about. They've got to replace burned out hard drives in 486's, pick gum out of floppy drives, and plug mice back into the computers of teachers that can't figure out how.
The sad thing is principals will pass Mosaic off as a good thing for the students, parents will mindlessly agree just because they don't know better, and when their kid is labeled as a murderer, then we'll see things start getting weird.
I disagree that RealNetworks is worthless. Check out krbe.com and they have their station set up to encode their broadcast for G2 in linux. I listen to them almost 24/7 and get a nice constant, clear stream.
I think you're at the wrong website. You should go make your own.
If the govt is really that powerful, it is the people that let it happen.
Taco is Rob is and he's cool.
David and Gillian are the XFiles. Replacing them would just make Fox look stupid. I would like to see them have one final blow-your-mind show though.
I disagree with it being an attempt at "world domination". If people in Europe prefer SuSE RedHat just won't be sucessful over there. RedHat won't be able to force people to use it, but since I like RedHat, I wish them the best.
I hope I'll be able to use my USB Quickcam Pro on 2.4
The government has no right to go into the houses of people to tell them how to live. If the government wanted, they could pass a law that put NetNanny in every public library and school, but at home if parents have got the internet, it should be the concerned parents that take it upon themselves to install the nessesary software or if they don't know how not let their kids on the internet.
A law like this could never be passed in the US.
Safe?! They were only in danger of being exposed to lights coming from a tube, not from being kidnapped or molested. You're making too big a deal.
You just must not realize they would spend a lot more money creating a system of taxation and enforcement then they would raise from taxing the emails.
lol! me too
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