noteworthy wrote:
] It's time for us parents to stop thinking that our jobs as
] parents are limited to providing a comfortable,
] well-decorated house with a pretty lawn.
]
] We need to get more involved in our children's lives!

A deep grepping of my past memes or website shows I've been ranting about this for years.

Parents have steadily be shifting the responsibility of raising their own children to others. And when the shit hits the fan (ie Columbine), suddenly its everyone else's fault. It's Hollywood's fault for making violent movies. It's the movies threater's fault for not checking ids for a voluntary system anyway. It's Doom or Quake's fault. It's Ice-T talking about killing cops' fault.

Wake the fuck up! I'm so sick of all these parents bitching that all this "parenting" they suddenly have to do is taking away time from their careers.

RE: Cute Quip Cuts to Quick

] The courts will decide whether that hope will ever be
] rewarded with a big payoff. If SCO loses, the company is
] likely toast. But winning will be a tall order. SCO must
] show that the old, murky contracts between AT&T (which
] developed Unix), Novell (which bought the operating
] system from AT&T in 1993), and the old Santa Cruz
] Operation deliberately transferred the Unix copyrights to
] the new SCO Group; it also must show that it owns the
] rights to derivative flavors of Unix, like IBM's AIX.
] Finally, and perhaps most difficult, SCO must prove IBM
] and other Linux programmers around the world got sloppy
] and ported proprietary code into Linux. Legal experts
] tracking the case think each hurdle - let alone all three
] - is difficult to clear. The odds are clearly against
] SCO.
A fantastic overview of SCO's business tactics since 2002. It states exact how many lawsuits SCO is in, against who, and about what.

SCO: 2002 - present

Mulder: Modell put the whammy on him.

Scully: Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy.

] Phasmatis is a open source
] program that can read and write SPT files. SPT files
] contain screenshots, keylogs, visited URL, application
] names, and other data recorded by the Spector(tm)
] monitoring program. Spector is closed source and only
] runs on Windows Platforms. Phasmatis is OS independent,
] and currently runs on Linux and Windows platforms.
]
] Phasmatis is designed to solve several problems:
]
] * Phasmatis can be run on (theorically) any OS that
] zlib has been ported to, and SPT viewing is no longer
] locked only to Windows Platforms. As Linux moves more and
] more into the corporate setting, this is very important.
]
] * Certain people, such as System Administrators, only
] need to view SPT file, and purchasing another license for
] Spector(tm) that includes features that are not needed
] (ie recording), isn't econmical.
]
] * Phasmatis allows people who are being monitored at
] work or at home to know it, and allows them to see what
] activities are being captured. It allows the user to
] detect restrictied activity that was captured that maybe
] they did not do, and allows them to pro-actively approach
] who is in charge to discuss the matter.

Phasmatis Released

] "Kim said, 'look if you don't buy our freeze proposal and
] buy it soon, we are going to test a nuclear weapon,' and
] it continued to go on this way for the duration of the
] meeting," this official said.
]
] Pyongyang has offered to put its nuclear program on hold
] in exchange for compensation, including huge amounts of
] energy aid.

N. Korea Threatens Nuclear test

] A Comparison of Open Source Licenses

A nice table comparing the major F/OSS licenses, and what you can and cannot do with certain licenses

A Comparison of Open Source Licenses

I just over heard a 4th year CS major at Tech ask another 4th year CS major: "Whats a DLL?"

The 2nd one said "I don't know."

I piped up across row saying "Its a library of code that you can use, normally supplied by Microsoft."

The 1st says "... ... OH! So its like a Class File! In Java"

Yes. This person was a 4th Year CS major, who has a 3.4.

] Cheney contends that forcing him to disclose his task
] force's 2001 contacts with industry executives and
] lobbyists would hurt the White House's ability to receive
] candid advice.

Receive candid advice, have their PAC paid strings dance them around, the usual.

High court hears arguments on Cheney task force

] Air Force testing robot guard vehicles

Behold the T-0000.01

Air Force testing robot guard vehicles

] "If they give themselves up without force within one
] month maximum from the date of this speech, we can
] promise them that they are going to be safe."
]
] Abdullah said all such people would be dealt with fairly,
] in accordance with Islamic law.

"Ok, put out your arm, we have to chop it off... oh wait, you were killing infidels on a jihad... er... you are free to go."

Saudis offer terrorists month to surrender