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college sports players are the same and need to be paid for playing . . . .

Fixed that for you.

Seriously, how is this the same? College athletes are paid. They're paid with an education, and the cost of that education can be stratospheric. Take Duke, a big time basketball school in the Final Four. Tuition and fees, room and board, and other expenses add up to over $53,000 PER YEAR. http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/finaid.html As another example, TCU, a big time football school, has annual costs of over $41,000. http://www.fam.tcu.edu/cost.asp How may 18 year old kids are worth $53,000 or $41,000 per year? That's $41,000 or $53,000 worth of education for every player on the team. How is that not enough? Most college athletic departments are in the red and don't pay for themselves. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2010-04-01-coaches-salaries-cover_N.htm

College players get to go to school and don't have to pay for it. Most families can't afford to send their children to a college like Duke or TCU. Maybe the college athlete wins the sports lottery and gets drafted, or maybe he just gets a great education that opens a lot of doors. Either way, college athletes have nothing in common with interns who get paid NOTHING and get NOTHING in return for their time. No salary, no TUITION, no ROOM AND BOARD. Nothing.

the Mac hangs on to the application program menu as this shared resource where the app that gets the focus also gets control over the single on-screen menu. That may have been fine back in the day of small screens and limited pixels, but in these days of monster displays and ever more pixels, for crying out loud, give each app its own menu as is done by the Linux window managers and by Windows. The Mac system of you have to think which app has control over the menu is too much a distraction

Incorrect.

The Mac has kept the single menubar concept because it's the right way to do things. If you have a bunch of menus everywhere that do stuff here and there, you might as well just build your entire interface without menubars. Just replace them with dropdowns (combo boxes, for all you Microsofties), since they're exactly the same fricking thing. But wait... that rapes any and every HIG on the planet right in the ass. Twice. With a Garden Weasel.

The universal menubar provides a context menu that never moves. The alternative is a moving target menu - a PITA that is only really useful when there are only a few operations for something. A universal menubar is also always anchored at the top of the screen, so you can fling your mouse forward and your pointer lands on the menubar without the need to aim for it. It also serves as a Windows Taskbar-ish thing, though the Dock (the real MacOS UI abomination, speaking of moving targets) has usurped some of that functionality.

The MacOS 9 menubar was the perfect menubar, with the exception of poorly arranged catch-all menus (remember "Special"?), but you get those with every program (why would "Options" be under "Tools"? What makes that a tool?). You had your clock, app switcher, menus, and system status info all in one spot. It kept out cruft like random documents you didn't want to forget about 6 months ago, apps that you uninstalled 5 minutes after you put the alias there, and multiple copies of things you use daily, but never click the ones in that location. (In case you hadn't noticed, I'm poking sharp sticks into the ribs of the "Quick Launch" and similar taskbars.) There were other, cleaner, faster options for doing things with those UI "leftovers" and temporary messes. I still await the day popup folders return to the MacOS.

Well, it has to be challenged and make it into the courts before the courts could do anything about it.

This is an extremely important point. It is not unusual for the Congress to pass unconstitutional laws. But the courts can't do anything about them until until they hear a case concerned with them. Some of this has already ocurred.

So this is why Supreme Court nominations are even more important than these individual Acts in the long run.

And 3) could be: In the past Apple, like Microsoft delighted in pre-announcing features and even demoing them (like Tiger last year) long before their release dates. Many of the current features of Mac OS X, including smart folders were announced and demoed as part of the Copland project. Here is an article from 1996 which talks briefly about them, but I'm sure that a better description exists somewhere.

This is an idea of what you'll have to take to get a CS degree. Note that 32 hours of mathematics and science is required. My boyfriend CLEPed, takes summer school at a community college, and takes 15-18 hours of classes per semester, and he's only hoping to graduate in 4 years.

It's been said, but a faster way of gaining points is getting certified in something instead. Google has subcategory dedicated to tons of certification information.

I wish you good luck in whatever you choose to do.

For those unfamiliar: an autoimmune disorder is a disease where, basically, your immune system has gone haywire and attacks self-cells. The most familiar one is allergies.

Autism, Autoimmunity, and Immunotherapy gives a nice synopsis of the theory, with explanation of connection to autistic characteristics to back it up. Interestingly, there may in fact be a connection between vaccines and autism, with viruses acting as teratogens in young developing brains. But it needn't be vaccines; cytomegalovirus (caught from the mother?) was one explored factor.

OK, so how does this have anything to do with Silicon Valley, or geeks? Maybe it's the onslaught of very many challenges to a young child's immune system, all at once as vaccines. Kids today do get more vaccines, and in greater combination, than a generation ago (even when we still had vaccines for smallpox). I have no doubt that kids in Silicon Valley get ALL their shots, and then some. Income and access to broad healthcare may be a better predictor than "geek factor".

The genetic component may be the inheritance of susceptibility to certain autoimmune disorders, like allergies. How many geeks do you know have allergies? This theory also includes other environmental factors that may instigate autoimmune disorders. (And as someone noted, Silicon Valley's got a serious groundwater contamination problem.)

And if you just can't learn enough, here's the Autism Autoimmunity Project. How Asperger's Syndrome fits into all this, I haven't a clue.

For those unfamiliar: an autoimmune disorder is a disease where, basically, your immune system has gone haywire and attacks self-cells. The most familiar one is allergies.

Autism, Autoimmunity, and Immunotherapy gives a nice synopsis of the theory, with explanation of connection to autistic characteristics to back it up. Interestingly, there may in fact be a connection between vaccines and autism, with viruses acting as teratogens in young developing brains. But it needn't be vaccines; cytomegalovirus (caught from the mother?) was one explored factor.

OK, so how does this have anything to do with Silicon Valley, or geeks? Maybe it's the onslaught of very many challenges to a young child's immune system, all at once as vaccines. Kids today do get more vaccines, and in greater combination, than a generation ago (even when we still had vaccines for smallpox). I have no doubt that kids in Silicon Valley get ALL their shots, and then some. Income and access to broad healthcare may be a better predictor than "geek factor".

The genetic component may be the inheritance of susceptibility to certain autoimmune disorders, like allergies. How many geeks do you know have allergies? This theory also includes other environmental factors that may instigate autoimmune disorders. (And as someone noted, Silicon Valley's got a serious groundwater contamination problem.)

And if you just can't learn enough, here's the Autism Autoimmunity Project. How Asperger's Syndrome fits into all this, I haven't a clue.

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by MtnMan1021
(jbr [at] nassau [dot] cv [dot] net) on 08:19 PM October 26th, 1999 GMT
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Looks like "flipz" is more than just a script kiddie: attrition lists her as having cracked jpl, duracell, people's bank, a bunch of .mils, department of veteran affairs and some other stuff. http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/flipz.ht ml

she doesn't seem to be very creative in her replacements/alterations, though.
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  by whocares
  (grey@enigma.mips4.com) on 09:42 PM October 26th, 1999 GMT
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  Well shit, I've written my name in marker on federal buildings, phone booths, mailboxes... I'm certainly more than your average defacer of random crap. :)
  
  
  
  Seriously. When someone releases information that's of use to someone as result of their cracking, or actually *accomplishes* something aside from defacement... maybe *then* I'll be impressed. Until then - whatever.
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  by Gleef
  (gleef@capital.net) on 08:38 PM October 26th, 1999 GMT
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  The sites weren't all that high security. Oooh, the "US Army Dental Care System" computer was compromized, while it is in the .mil hierarchy, I doubt that much effort went into securing it.
  
  
  
  I'd say flipz is probably a very busy script kiddie. The cracked sites certainly don't show much imagination.
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    (syousif@iname.com) on 09:07 PM October 26th, 1999 GMT
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    The problem is that if a single .mil/.gov/etc site is compromised, there is the distinct possibility that other sites can be compromised. Simple example: many .mil sites only allow access to "public" web pages from other .mil sites. The same goes for .edu and .gov sites... The path to a final destination is much shorter than from "the big bad internet"... Another simple scenario would be if although THAT machine was not "secured" since it has nothing of importance on it, there is a slight posssibility that the machine is on a network segment that in turn has access to another segment that DOES have material that may be valuable to someone else...
    
    
    
    BTW: The above scenario is exactly why many "high security" sites do not allow employees to have "important" material even on their normal day-to-day office machines..
    
    
    
    
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known.

Whatever it was, that name doesn't seem to resolve anymore. I guess they must be covering their tracks for now, because fear.microsoft.com and doubt.microsoft.com also don't resolve. :-)
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  Personally, I don't see much difference between the "new" (web page) crackers and the "old" (copy protection) crackers. Both require basic assembly knowledge, and the ability to use a debugger. And lots and lots and lots and lots of time on your hands. Obviously I am ignoring those amazing buffer overruns exploits where people manage to get code in through a function that strips out all characters but '9' 'a' and 'q', but your average exploit is not that impressive an achievement. Nor is your average software crack. I fully expect to be flamed by the script kiddies and the h4x0r groupies. Please at least attempt to keep it coherent.
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by MtnMan1021
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Looks like "flipz" is more than just a script kiddie: attrition lists her as having cracked jpl, duracell, people's bank, a bunch of .mils, department of veteran affairs and some other stuff. http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/flipz.ht ml

she doesn't seem to be very creative in her replacements/alterations, though.
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  (grey@enigma.mips4.com) on 09:42 PM October 26th, 1999 GMT
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  Well shit, I've written my name in marker on federal buildings, phone booths, mailboxes... I'm certainly more than your average defacer of random crap. :)
  
  
  
  Seriously. When someone releases information that's of use to someone as result of their cracking, or actually *accomplishes* something aside from defacement... maybe *then* I'll be impressed. Until then - whatever.
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  by Gleef
  (gleef@capital.net) on 08:38 PM October 26th, 1999 GMT
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  The sites weren't all that high security. Oooh, the "US Army Dental Care System" computer was compromized, while it is in the .mil hierarchy, I doubt that much effort went into securing it.
  
  
  
  I'd say flipz is probably a very busy script kiddie. The cracked sites certainly don't show much imagination.
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    (syousif@iname.com) on 09:07 PM October 26th, 1999 GMT
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    The problem is that if a single .mil/.gov/etc site is compromised, there is the distinct possibility that other sites can be compromised. Simple example: many .mil sites only allow access to "public" web pages from other .mil sites. The same goes for .edu and .gov sites... The path to a final destination is much shorter than from "the big bad internet"... Another simple scenario would be if although THAT machine was not "secured" since it has nothing of importance on it, there is a slight posssibility that the machine is on a network segment that in turn has access to another segment that DOES have material that may be valuable to someone else...
    
    
    
    BTW: The above scenario is exactly why many "high security" sites do not allow employees to have "important" material even on their normal day-to-day office machines..
    
    
    
    
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known.

Whatever it was, that name doesn't seem to resolve anymore. I guess they must be covering their tracks for now, because fear.microsoft.com and doubt.microsoft.com also don't resolve. :-)
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  by Anonymous Coward on 04:02 AM October 27th, 1999 GMT
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  Score: 0?
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  Don't listen to that silly moderator, I
  thought your post was hilarious. :)
  
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  by kijiki on 05:13 AM October 27th, 1999 GMT
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  Personally, I don't see much difference between the "new" (web page) crackers and the "old" (copy protection) crackers. Both require basic assembly knowledge, and the ability to use a debugger. And lots and lots and lots and lots of time on your hands. Obviously I am ignoring those amazing buffer overruns exploits where people manage to get code in through a function that strips out all characters but '9' 'a' and 'q', but your average exploit is not that impressive an achievement. Nor is your average software crack. I fully expect to be flamed by the script kiddies and the h4x0r groupies. Please at least attempt to keep it coherent.
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  Re:cracked? (Score:0)
  
  by Anonymous Coward on 10:51 PM October 26th, 1999 GMT