Here Go Ken P.
Chronocidal Charlie
pre-schoolers or wanna be computer toolers.
This might be a move up fer that lil gal you got breaking in on Sugar OS
Ken.
I hadn't been aware of it's existence until a bit ago when I checked
Distrowatch 'nd seen the monthly award article.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100208#donation
Got e-mail frum thet kid mine down U, Houston bit ago. He carrying 'bout
99 average comin up on mid semester 'tween baby sitting he big sis' kids
and playen chauffeur fer her 'tween Austin 'nd M. D. Anderson fer her
Chemo stuff once week.
I through braggen now. ;-)
Life's good.
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Just A. Kid
> Or any you other propeller headed parents or grand parents what got
> pre-schoolers or wanna be computer toolers.
>
> This might be a move up fer that lil gal you got breaking in on Sugar
> OS Ken.
>
> I hadn't been aware of it's existence until a bit ago when I checked
> Distrowatch 'nd seen the monthly award article.
>
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100208#donation
>
> http://www.qimo4kids.com/
Got around to DL, burning and running the recommendation I made
yesterday. ;-)
It runs well, live mode, on the little Dell I mentioned yesterday and on
my little low powered 777 MHz laptop. It will cause whip lash on the
quad core 64, 4 gig RAM, 'chine I'm on right now. Got a neat selection
of Kiddy stuff like a rudimentary txt editor, GCompris( a collection of
educational games), Childsplay(another collection of educational games),
TuxPaint, Tux Math, Tuxtype, 'nd etoys. All pretty intuitive with the
pretty well internationalized icon sets that todays kids seem to grasp
right off the bat. Plus, it's got just about everything Mom or Pop,
Grandma or Grandpa might need to engage in without saying, "Log off kid
and let me have the computer back." In other words, It's got a full
fledged Thunderbird mail and news application on it and full fledged
Firefox browser fer Faux Gnus or Googles Continuing Education Classes
for us piece meal, easier softer way, mix and match, pick and choose
educated folk. ;-)
<rant>
Something on CNET yesterday. Scares me. May be the end of the Web if
we/they blow it. Or the end as we know it. Let me say first, I am as big
or bigger advocate of the prevention of exploitation of children, minors
and incompetents in any area, not only just sex trade or porn, but any
kind of exploitation, but putting or attempting to put the kind of
responsibilities on the backs of Internet Service Providers to do what
it seems or sounds like the FBI is asking for is like making the city
bus system responsible for identifying, keeping track of and maintaining
records of all riders, where they came from, where they went and
concievably, ascertaining what they, the riders, intentions
were in going to and from origin and destination.
For example, this snip is an example of the staggering load it would put
on an ISP:
<quote>
The technical challenges also may be formidable. John Seiver, an
attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine who represents cable providers, said
one of his clients had experience with a law enforcement request that
required the logging of outbound URLs.
"Eighteen million hits an hour would have to have been logged," a
staggering amount of data to sort through, Seiver said. The purpose of
the FBI's request was to identify visitors to two URLs, "to try to find
out...who's going to them."
</quote>
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10448060-38.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
If you read this, if you use the web, if you care, *please* investigate
what is going on, become aware, 'nd scream like hell to yer elected
representatives.
I can kind of compare this to what happened last year with an *ignorant*
or *uninformed* or self seeking politician at high level stirred up a
shit storm that cost a lot of *normal* *innocent* Usenet users a lot of
freedoms, by causing most ISP to simply quit providing NNTP service
rather than taking on the burden of *policing* it for the government.
</rant>
The nym.. "Just A. Kid" ???
*A* book by one my favorite authors. ;-)
Torey Hayden�s book �Just Another Kid� is not just another book.
http://www.torey-hayden.com/just_another_kid.htm
Oh, Qimo???
Can't find way to put an ftp application on it, so the following link
won't be good until I can reboot and get into a grown up's OS. ;-)
May not work then either if I screw up. ;-)
But I got sum nice duct tape so I should be able to tape my ducts in a
proper row.
http://the-old-gnu-zoo.org/photos/qimo.jpg
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F.H.
From link:
WASHINGTON--The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record
which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a
requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in
investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
[end quote]
This fits the wild pig analogy. Another trial balloon on the way to
becoming a polite society. Obama has spoken of favoring net neutrality
but the corporate lobbyists will /never/ let up on that. Then there's
the airport screening, the cameras all over the place, the......
JoeRaisin
Yep - I agree with you on this one.
New rules constitute new fences. Logging web traffic is like recording
books checked out of the library - very Orwellian, especially given that
there is no way to know WHY a person has checked out a particular book
or clicked on a particular site. Using such information as means to
prosecution is a very slippery slope.
As for Obama, he has spoken of a lot of things but seems to be very
short on following through with his declarations. Sure he favors net
neutrality but that has nothing to do with the logging - where does he
stand on that? Or does he?
Again, I assert that he (like those before him) will make no attempt to
stop anything that may grant more power to the Federal gummint.
F.H.
When you take the wild pig analogy to its logical conclusion, (one step
beyond the point of the author) consider...., the pigs *were* "wild" as
in free. Further, they were not caught just to feed unless to 'fatten
up' for.....
The pigs got accustomed to fences a little at a time. /Further/ in the
realm of unintended consequences, "*un* natural selection" (or
inevitability) Sundays Non Seq:
(click to enlarge)
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9632/nonseq.gif