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The 7y/o autistic granddaughter of a close friend drowned just a couple of days ago. During the 10 minutes it took to prepare dinner, she apparently unlocked the door and walked across the street to a neighbor's pool where she had been swimming just a few days before with her mother. Yes, there was a privacy fence around the pool, but the gate wasn't locked.
Please, if you live in a neighborhood with small or autistic children and have a swimming pool, invest in a childproof lock for your pool gate.
I can't imagine what the family must be going through. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Very sad indeed! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
In South Africa where we used to live pool safety regulations were strictly enforced. Child proof fences with automatic child proof locks on the gates were mandatory. Something we can really copy here in the USA with all the private pools.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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That IS the law in many places in the US.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The problem with childproofing things is that it engenders a false sense of security. The most important thing is to take good care of your children, and always know where they are.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: and always know where they are.
Spoken like someone who never had kids. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Just as I was beginning to gain some respect for you.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You know nothing about me or my life: how many children I've had, how many have serious life threatening diseases, or were killed or injured in accidents. So kindly keep your stupid comments to yourself.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: You know nothing about me
I do know that you missed the smiley face in my message and seem to have no sense of humor about anything.  
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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My daughter is 10, soon to be 11, and is autistic.
We have a medium sized dog (about 35 pounds) that acts as a companion to my daughter and also 'shepherds' her.. if my daughter does outside, the dog follow her; when she comes back in, so does the dog. We didn't teach the dog to act this way, she instinctively did it on her own.
I am sorry for their loss; please convey my condolences and understanding.
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...and I think I see your problem: it's a hardware bug[^] 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Too much traffic on the B bus?
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yES INDEED! 
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Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The US government took the kat (kickasstorrents) domains over the past few days.
incase you were not able to get by with alternatives like pirate bay, which have been returning intercepted HTTP requests on occasion but still works with a few retries, KAT is back:
KAT - Kickass Torrents[^]
Quote: The authorities suspended our original domain Kat.am, we have now shifted to Kickass.cd - Your support keeps us alive
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
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(Underdog status) + (they're not nasty people who hurt people) - (they're hated by extremely nasty people who don't care who they hurt, as long as they can get money for nothing) = ?
Hell, you can't argue with numbers like that.
I'm British; I was hooked at "underdog".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How tragic. Maybe we (the software development community) should give away all the software we develop. That way they could be legal and operate with the blessing of the US government. I'm sure they'll share their profits with us so that we don't go hungry.
If they ask nicely as this I'm sure the film and music industries will do the same.
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Jerk your knee somewhere else, eh?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes. Replying to spam threads. I should have my head examined. 
(not you obviously, the OP)
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Hey man - don't shoot the messenger. Downvote him for news? messenger just came across the news while it was new. Roots run deep, its loving people vs. angry people.
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Hardly spam. Brian just seemed happy to see the little guys getting one up on the big, bad corporations who don't care whose lives they ruin, if it means free money for them (or, rather for their shareholders).
I can understand that, and even support it, so long as the little guys aren't hurting anyone.
What I've never understood is how employees can treat other human beings like sh1t, just so their thirty-three-times removed bosses can get personally richer. Do they really expect loyalty in return?
Or will they just get their @rses fired, if one of the people they mistreat gets a successful complaint through?
(Tip: Tick B.)
I've taken a really good look at the whole file-sharing thing, over the past week, and it turns out that the risk to copyright holders is absolutely minimal. OTOH, the possibility of profiting because of it (without having to lift a finger) is surprisingly high.
Put it this way: people who download MS Office are using MS Office! They're customers!
Someone who downloads it because it's too expensive for his current budget is someone who will start paying for it when he can afford it, will insist on using it wherever he goes, and will recommend it to other people -- so MS profits from it even in the short term, in many cases (without, as I said, lifting a finger or spending a penny).
The other side of that coin is that if that person hadn't downloaded MS Office, he'd probably have gone for an open-source or freeware office suite, and would never, ever pay MS a penny for the rest of his life, nor inspire others to.
And MS appears to have responded to it reasonably intelligently. They block bad and overused licences, they do black-screen stuff, et al, but they don't attack people.
The upshot of that is that a fair percentage of the downloaders actually pay for licenses, and don't begrudge paying up.
That's an intelligent, sensible, and businesslike response from (people who, apparently, can sometimes be) intelligent, sensible businesspeople.
What the entertainments "industry" is doing, though, is nothing like intelligent, sensible, or businesslike.
They are behaving like the useless, unintelligent, unbusinesslike people they are. They are already drowning in unearned money, and seem to believe that the world owes them even more (more than the GDP of the entire world, if you look at their suit against LimeWire).
I think you'll find that that was why Brian was celebrating -- and I confess I'm tempted to join in the celebration.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm not sure I see how you arrived at all that from his post, but I've already admitted the mistake.
I will now keep my mouth shut for a while so that my other foot can stay out of it. 
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Just ignore Mark. He likes to troll people on CP.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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