Collages are fairly cheap, and I would hope we wouldn't go to war over art (although Herr Bush seems to be willing to fight at the drop of a hat lately).
Seriously though, I feel bad for the kids who signed up with the army to get the cash for college and have to go to war now. But there are other ways. I funded my education completely through scholarships and financial aid and my school costs ~39.5k/year (now, I think it was 37k/year when I got here 3 years ago). Bottom line, they'll be sure to tell their kids not to throw their lot in with the nutcases we currently (and seemingly perennially) have in power in the US for a measly few thousand dollars.
I think the saddest part of the whole thing is the defeatist attitude of the peace movement (or at least the people I'm involved with). Many people seem to be of the opinion that since we didn't prevent the war, we should give up and deal with it. To me that sets a bad example for the youth of the nation, just because our fuhrer^H^H^H^H^H^H president is stubborn and oblivious to his citizens doesn't mean we should cease trying to persuade him to stop the war.
A final question: Would it be considered assault with a deadly weapon if someone hit Bush with a Cluebat?
From my experience (I'm graduating in May too), the people who are really having a tough time finding jobs at my school are the people who've been here for four years and never worked anywhere more challenging than one of the local restaraunts, or for some reason never worked at all. The best advice I have to offer to those still in school is to go out and find a job in your field, even if it's only 20 hours a week, and even if the pay is crap (I'm talking minimum wage bad, believe me it'll be worth it in the long run even though you could make more money at one of the typical college jobs). Working for next to nothing a few hours a week for your last couple years of school will help you immensely when it comes to your post-graduation job search. The easiest time to get internships is in January and February when no one else is looking and companies are budgeting for the coming year and discovering variances that they could use to pay an intern.
The bottom line is that you can't just expect to start looking for jobs 2 months before you graduate and find something decent, you have to start preparing yourself far in advance. I hear college is supposed to be fun and games, but the people I know who don't have jobs are the ones who always bitch at me for not going drinking with them on Thursday night and can't understand that I can't just "skip work" Friday morning. So I guess I'll live with missing out on the fun and games now in exchange for a better shot at a job later (Assuming I elect to get a job, grad school is calling my name now).
Almost all "good" encryption uses prime numbers. If someone can figure out how to factor prime numbers, or find a quick way to determine a prime number, then all the fancy encryption in the world wont help because someone can just crack it in real time.
So far you're not too far off base
Right now public encryption works because it would take so long to break the encryption, even with say... 300k computers (distrubted.net) that when the encryption was broken (5-10 years later) the info would be old and it would not matter.
OK, you show that you possess basic logic skills
If someone could figure out some way to factor primes (which is along the lines of riemans sums) then they could possibly break even our stronger prime based encryption, which would make a great many people have to go back to teh drawing board on encrypting their data.
Here you make a grevious error, factoring primes is NOT "along the lines of Riemann sums." Riemann's Hypothesis, which relies on Riemann's zeta function, has little or nothing in common with Riemann Sums beyond...Riemann. Your high school calculus course did NOT teach you how to prove Riemann's Hypothesis. As a matter of fact, it's due to people like you that headlines such as "Great theorem X is proven by 26 year old construction worker with minimal understanding of multi-variable calculus," keep appearing and being proven to be WRONG. Please do a little background reading before you present your analysis to "the laymans." As a side note, I do have a degree in mathematics, though admittedly only a B.S. and even with that background, I don't feel comfortable enough with the proof to present myself as an authoritative source. However, I do know enough to point out that your statements are incorrect.
This article and the flood of uninformed and ignorant responses bring to light the need for a moderation system that provides mod points to people who actually understand the article.
I would think that would constitute a good deed. If cracking can make "ten [people] employed" I say we set up a charity and each donate/spend one hour a day cracking to help our fellow unemployed tech workers.
Cubicle drones of the world unite, we are the new proletariat.
Don't give yourself so much credit, everyone has had to "kick a habit" at some point in their lives, drugs, drinking, and smoking are just behavior patterns like everything else. Personally I quit smoking 11 months ago after smoking for 8 years (I've also stopped other more harmful and nefarious habits), and I didn't find it any more difficult than breaking my longstanding predisposition to sleep from 6AM to noon and instead adopt a normal schedule like the rest of society (which has done wonders for my productivity).
Like it or not, gaming is just another behavior pattern and you can "just stop." As a related post has already mentioned, all it requires is willpower, if you don't have any you might want to develop some now, because I guarantee you'll need it later in life.
Remember, "You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else," try to pull yourself together.
As an aside, I can't imagine anyone considering sex a habit (especially on Slashdot), much less ever wanting to kick that habit, but hey, that's just my opinion.
Thank You! I have no problem with vegetarians whatsoever, but if you don't want to eat meat, don't eat fake meat. It would seem to me that you would undermine your own position by buying this slop (most of which tastes horrible), by stating that meat was a desirable part of your diet, even though you don't eat it. If you really don't want to eat meat and don't need it, then you don't need a substitute for it.
There are a plethora of vegetarian dishes which do not rely on fake meat and taste much better as a result....$8 soy-sausages just seem ridiculous to me.
WTF?!? I thought you guys were about to become the 51st state pending the transfer of the three goats and case of beer we traded for your country. Now all of a sudden you tell us you actually have armed forces so we're forced to come up there and kill you all. Damn...and I was all ready to go and rename the Northwest Territory Tuxland.
FYI in case you didn't notice this is a joke, not a troll...On the other hand people often feed trolls...and I'm a poor college student...Troll it is...
The proud residents of PADUCAH, KY are outraged, our reputation has been sullied by the fact that you are not even aware of the proper spelling of our illustrious bastion of civilization. The pronunciation of our town includes, like all other words in Kentucky, the suffix -ah, as in horsah, doggah, sistah, pah, and mah. The one exception to this immutable grammatical law is ya'll, which only sort of includes an -ah.
FYI - I actually do live in KY, though not in PaducAH, so don't bitch at me if you're offended.
Just because you had "nothing" in college doesn't mean everyone has to be. I have received no assistance from my family since I left home (mostly because they can't afford it and I don't want it for this reason). The solution to being in college and having money is...GASP!... A JOB.
Yes, working has been proven to yield financial rewards. I am a full time college student taking 18 hours every semester and I also work a full time job. No, I don't have time to sit around and play video games every day but I do party on the weekends (responsibly of course). I have a cell phone, a pda, a laptop, 3 computers (Athlon 800 or better), and a decent amount of nice hi-fi equipment (Note I said hi-fi, this means not Sony and other crappy consumer level brands). Just because you're in college doesn't mean you have to be poor. On the other hand if you're lazy and irresponsible then I fully support you being destitute, becoming a bum, and hopefully persevering against all odds to survive long enough to do something monumentally stupid and win a Darwin award.
Yes self reliance is beneficial, however self pity is not. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and realize that you lived that way because you chose to, just as I chose to work a full time job and go to school in lieu of a social life 5 nights a week.
FYI: Your nutritional habits probably contributed to your low energy level which explains why you may not have elected to get a job and earn some money. It sounds dumb, but good nutrition and a proper amount of sleep (when possible) will increase your productivity exponentially. Yeah, I sound like my parents, but maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Finally, The stage of life you are in (i.e. college) does not determine your values, motivations, or financial status, you do, accept the responsibility for the way you lived because it was your choice.
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If you want something that has an ethernet port and can dump MPEG2 out to a network go here . I like ReplayTV better as a product, but Tivo has the cooler hacks available. On top of that you CAN program a Tivo like an advanced VCR, unfortunately in my experience this is not very useful as networks move their shows around a lot and you never find anything new or interesting this way.
I didn't intend this to be a shameless plug for Tivo as I am going to buy a ReplayTV in addition to my Tivo, but I've never used a ReplayTV so I don't know if it has these features.
If you think the Jensen has great sound, you should probably have shopped around a little more before you bought it. Every Jensen I've ever heard sounds like someone is scraping a fork across the speakers. Jensen makes hands down some of the worst in-head amplifiers I've ever seen, and using their pre-outs with a power amp is almost as bad. Do youself and the rest of us a favor, don't recommend Jensen electronics to anyone...ever. If people stop buying crappy electronics, manufacturers will be forced to start making decent gear. If you want a solidly build in-dash cd/mp3 player that has low THD and a good feature set for a reasonable price, check out the alpine CDA 7878 http://www.alpine1.com. This is by no means the only good cd/mp3 player out there, check out Eclipse, Nakamichi, or McIntosh and see if any of their pieces play mp3's. (McIntosh only makes one head unit and I doubt it plays mp3's, but it's worth a shot)
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Seriously though, I feel bad for the kids who signed up with the army to get the cash for college and have to go to war now. But there are other ways. I funded my education completely through scholarships and financial aid and my school costs ~39.5k/year (now, I think it was 37k/year when I got here 3 years ago). Bottom line, they'll be sure to tell their kids not to throw their lot in with the nutcases we currently (and seemingly perennially) have in power in the US for a measly few thousand dollars.
I think the saddest part of the whole thing is the defeatist attitude of the peace movement (or at least the people I'm involved with). Many people seem to be of the opinion that since we didn't prevent the war, we should give up and deal with it. To me that sets a bad example for the youth of the nation, just because our fuhrer^H^H^H^H^H^H president is stubborn and oblivious to his citizens doesn't mean we should cease trying to persuade him to stop the war.
A final question: Would it be considered assault with a deadly weapon if someone hit Bush with a Cluebat?
The bottom line is that you can't just expect to start looking for jobs 2 months before you graduate and find something decent, you have to start preparing yourself far in advance. I hear college is supposed to be fun and games, but the people I know who don't have jobs are the ones who always bitch at me for not going drinking with them on Thursday night and can't understand that I can't just "skip work" Friday morning. So I guess I'll live with missing out on the fun and games now in exchange for a better shot at a job later (Assuming I elect to get a job, grad school is calling my name now).
So far you're not too far off base
Right now public encryption works because it would take so long to break the encryption, even with say... 300k computers (distrubted.net) that when the encryption was broken (5-10 years later) the info would be old and it would not matter.
OK, you show that you possess basic logic skills
If someone could figure out some way to factor primes (which is along the lines of riemans sums) then they could possibly break even our stronger prime based encryption, which would make a great many people have to go back to teh drawing board on encrypting their data.
Here you make a grevious error, factoring primes is NOT "along the lines of Riemann sums." Riemann's Hypothesis, which relies on Riemann's zeta function, has little or nothing in common with Riemann Sums beyond...Riemann. Your high school calculus course did NOT teach you how to prove Riemann's Hypothesis. As a matter of fact, it's due to people like you that headlines such as "Great theorem X is proven by 26 year old construction worker with minimal understanding of multi-variable calculus," keep appearing and being proven to be WRONG. Please do a little background reading before you present your analysis to "the laymans." As a side note, I do have a degree in mathematics, though admittedly only a B.S. and even with that background, I don't feel comfortable enough with the proof to present myself as an authoritative source. However, I do know enough to point out that your statements are incorrect.
This article and the flood of uninformed and ignorant responses bring to light the need for a moderation system that provides mod points to people who actually understand the article.
Cubicle drones of the world unite, we are the new proletariat.
Don't give yourself so much credit, everyone has had to "kick a habit" at some point in their lives, drugs, drinking, and smoking are just behavior patterns like everything else. Personally I quit smoking 11 months ago after smoking for 8 years (I've also stopped other more harmful and nefarious habits), and I didn't find it any more difficult than breaking my longstanding predisposition to sleep from 6AM to noon and instead adopt a normal schedule like the rest of society (which has done wonders for my productivity).
Like it or not, gaming is just another behavior pattern and you can "just stop." As a related post has already mentioned, all it requires is willpower, if you don't have any you might want to develop some now, because I guarantee you'll need it later in life.
Remember, "You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else," try to pull yourself together.
As an aside, I can't imagine anyone considering sex a habit (especially on Slashdot), much less ever wanting to kick that habit, but hey, that's just my opinion.
Thank You! I have no problem with vegetarians whatsoever, but if you don't want to eat meat, don't eat fake meat. It would seem to me that you would undermine your own position by buying this slop (most of which tastes horrible), by stating that meat was a desirable part of your diet, even though you don't eat it. If you really don't want to eat meat and don't need it, then you don't need a substitute for it.
...$8 soy-sausages just seem ridiculous to me.
There are a plethora of vegetarian dishes which do not rely on fake meat and taste much better as a result.
I only use Ogg.
Ogg is cooler and better and the fact that I use Ogg makes me superior to you.
So you see, your point is moot.
This is called Barratry. IANAL and I'm rather busy here at work, otherwise I would provide more info, hope this helps.
FYI in case you didn't notice this is a joke, not a troll...On the other hand people often feed trolls...and I'm a poor college student...Troll it is...
The proud residents of PADUCAH, KY are outraged, our reputation has been sullied by the fact that you are not even aware of the proper spelling of our illustrious bastion of civilization. The pronunciation of our town includes, like all other words in Kentucky, the suffix -ah, as in horsah, doggah, sistah, pah, and mah. The one exception to this immutable grammatical law is ya'll, which only sort of includes an -ah.
FYI - I actually do live in KY, though not in PaducAH, so don't bitch at me if you're offended.
Parent is a troll. Parent is lie.
Lies are bad.
Going to learn grammar now.
Yes, working has been proven to yield financial rewards. I am a full time college student taking 18 hours every semester and I also work a full time job. No, I don't have time to sit around and play video games every day but I do party on the weekends (responsibly of course). I have a cell phone, a pda, a laptop, 3 computers (Athlon 800 or better), and a decent amount of nice hi-fi equipment (Note I said hi-fi, this means not Sony and other crappy consumer level brands). Just because you're in college doesn't mean you have to be poor. On the other hand if you're lazy and irresponsible then I fully support you being destitute, becoming a bum, and hopefully persevering against all odds to survive long enough to do something monumentally stupid and win a Darwin award.
Yes self reliance is beneficial, however self pity is not. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and realize that you lived that way because you chose to, just as I chose to work a full time job and go to school in lieu of a social life 5 nights a week.
FYI: Your nutritional habits probably contributed to your low energy level which explains why you may not have elected to get a job and earn some money. It sounds dumb, but good nutrition and a proper amount of sleep (when possible) will increase your productivity exponentially. Yeah, I sound like my parents, but maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Finally, The stage of life you are in (i.e. college) does not determine your values, motivations, or financial status, you do, accept the responsibility for the way you lived because it was your choice.
Someone please LART this SOB
http://samba.org/~tridge/tivo-ethernet/
If you want something that has an ethernet port and can dump MPEG2 out to a network go here . I like ReplayTV better as a product, but Tivo has the cooler hacks available. On top of that you CAN program a Tivo like an advanced VCR, unfortunately in my experience this is not very useful as networks move their shows around a lot and you never find anything new or interesting this way.
I didn't intend this to be a shameless plug for Tivo as I am going to buy a ReplayTV in addition to my Tivo, but I've never used a ReplayTV so I don't know if it has these features.
If you think the Jensen has great sound, you should probably have shopped around a little more before you bought it. Every Jensen I've ever heard sounds like someone is scraping a fork across the speakers. Jensen makes hands down some of the worst in-head amplifiers I've ever seen, and using their pre-outs with a power amp is almost as bad. Do youself and the rest of us a favor, don't recommend Jensen electronics to anyone...ever. If people stop buying crappy electronics, manufacturers will be forced to start making decent gear. If you want a solidly build in-dash cd/mp3 player that has low THD and a good feature set for a reasonable price, check out the alpine CDA 7878 http://www.alpine1.com. This is by no means the only good cd/mp3 player out there, check out Eclipse, Nakamichi, or McIntosh and see if any of their pieces play mp3's. (McIntosh only makes one head unit and I doubt it plays mp3's, but it's worth a shot)