You'd definitely want to let campus security know before you went out ot play your first game.
Looks like it wouldn't be that comfortable, and of course you'd look out of place. Otherwise cool. I wonder if the shots they show are real or what they propose it would look like.
I agree with the idea that the RIAA would definitely have motive when it came to a worm like this, or some random RIAA suporter. Good thing most intelligent people quit using Kazaa a long time ago, or for sure when they found out about the spyware.
Funny thing. I have three accounts on hotmail that I check for various groups. One had the boxes checked, one did not, and one had to be reactivated. When I reactivated, that had the boxes checked. Nowhere in the reactivation agreement does it say anything about sharing your email or other information. It just points people to the privacy policy, which as far as I can tell hasn't been changed yet.
Sort of offtopic, but I've always been curious to know, how does one afford to take a year off and "just travel"? I hear it talked about all the time, especially in European countries, but I can't imagine, even at this stage in my life when I've been working for five years, how this can be affordable.
Time magazine has posted the first images from The Matrix Reloaded, the much-anticipated sequel to The Matrix. The magazine also offered a few details about the first of two sequels and reported that a teaser trailer for Reloaded should hit the Web soon.
Among the spoilery details the magazine reported from the Sydney, Australia, set of Reloaded and the third film, The Matrix Revolutions: Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) will be able to replicate himself; Reloaded takes place in the world of the Matrix, while Revolutions is set in the real world; and viewers will visit the underground city of Zion. Larry and Andy Wachowski return to direct the two sequels. Reloaded comes out in May 2003; Revolutions in either August or November of next year.
BulkRegister Wins Preliminary Injunction Against VeriSign
"The injunction against VeriSign is a definite victory for millions of domain name holders and fellow members of the domain industry," says BulkRegister's CEO Tom Cunningham. "BulkRegister is committed to seeing this matter resolved on behalf of our customers as well as the domain name community at large."
Although this ruling doesn't apply to all registrars, just bulkregister, the hope is that now that VeriSign has been warned, they'll stop what they're doing altogether.
It all comes down to the fact that the majority of the users value their services. They find enough potential value to outweight the potential harm that having a yahoo! account will have on their lives. And in the scope of things, to most people that potential harm is nil because they are already opted in to so many things, get enough junk mail and cold calls, that the yahoo! stuff won't make a dent.
I know I kept my account solely because I am in a yahoo group. That is what the account is primarily used for. I occasionally use it to check my popmail when away from home.
It's not like people didn't know about this change it the policy. yahoo! sent each account a very nice, fancy email that was highlighted in the list of messages in bright blue, to make sure that people would pay attention to their message. Why cancel an account if you can just fill your contact info with bogus information and say no to everything they want to send you???
a manufacturer who had read the paper said it believed its products were not vulnerable to the attack.
I love how the smart card manufacturing companies are just denying that this is a problem and saying that they've already looked at that issue. Do you really think they feel that way and have covered this problem already, or off the record they are panicking to find a way to fix the problem? I would guess that this is new to them, but that they don't want to admit their cards are vulnerable.
BTW, The story is taken from the NY Times, so if you have problems getting to the Yahoo! version of the story, try this link:
A group of business leaders from high-tech firms said the bill struck the right balance between consumers and businesses
It would be interesting to know which tech businesses are behind this. That way I can keep a closer eye on my dealings with them.
As others have said, I don't see how this is a privacy bill. Its best described as an anti-piracy or piracy removal effort.
And I definitely don't understand why this would make more people use the internet. Unless I misread the intent, this would make people more wary of giving out information for fear that they would accidentally be releasing a company to use their sensitive info in any way they choose.
And taking away a person's right to sue? I thought that was in the constitution. : )
Were you talking spam or postal mail? If its spam, a simple filter should work. If its postal mail, try the postal service. I'm sure they'll have a way for you to stop getting it. Perhaps have each one returned to sender? I now in my company if they are returned from the postal service they get taken off the mailing list as an invalid address.
That part right there should give you the answer you need. If you're required to sign a legal document such as this, especially one that has questionable provisions in it, you probably need a lawyer. Most of here are not lawyers and thus can't really give you the advice you need.
That being said, I doubt that you can go to $50,000 worth of training in one year and get all your work done at the same time unless the classes you are planning to attend are quite expensive or the employer plans to let you have as much time for training as you need. I doubt the latter is true because otherwise you could take 50 $1000 classes.
I'd think that if this agreement is based on you staying three years you should get to spread the training out over three years and that how much you have to pay back would be prorated on how long you stayed. Think of how much will have changed between years one and three.
You're exactly right - especially your bit about famous people. I just figured that like most things on slashdot, this was posted because Eric Flint was someone recognizable to all. Since I didn't know he was, I figured it didn't hurt to ask. Oh, except a little karma.:)
And I wasn't trying to be a flamebaiter. It was a legitimate question. Usually opinions and other things like this get posted on Slashdot because a person who is recognized for some reason is writing it. I basically wanted to know what this person was recognized for.
I may come off as uneducated here, but I don't care.
Who is Eric Flint and why the heck should we care what he thinks???
From the rant I read, it appears he is an author. Still, there are tons of authors out there. What makes him newsworthy? Why is he one we should pay attention to?
I oppose the idea of CHIPs units, but if we're going to focus on either piracy or hacking, doesn't hacking seem to be the one that would cause the most damage? What are the effects of piracy offeneses, like copying cds or downloading songs? Now compare that to the effects of a person who commits a DoS attack or breaks into secure records and steals people's credit card numbers, etc. Which one should we be tracking down here?? I can see how it might be different for people who are mass producing and selling copyrighted works - like the person distributing 4500 tapes. They are causing monetary loss on a large scale, but for home users downloading one copy of a song, with nobody profiting from the download, where's the huge harm to society?? Rosen needs to understand that some things take priority over others.
But what the hell are the postal workers, etc. going to do to me if they read about something they don't want me to be doing while they are opening my mail? Most likely nothing. Now compare that with the government and what they do to people when they find them doing things they don't like. There's a BIG difference.
To those who are saying you don't have anything to worry about if you aren't guilty of something, I ask you to look at the number of times the police or the government have busted down the wrong door, and killed some unsuspecting person. It happens all the time, especially with drug raids during the so called "war on drugs". What makes you think it won't happen to you?
Our school provides laptops to students as part of their tuition. That way everyone gets one and the cost of the laptop can be included in the financial aid package. Perhaps your school could do something similar with the internet access? I'm sure on campus people pay a fee that goes towards internet access, if you paid the same fee and lived off campus perhaps they could get a group discount or something by paying for the access themselves in bulk and them allocating it to you? I don't know. Purely speculation.
I don't care if I can get local broadcasts from around the country, I want to get local broadcasts from the station nearest my house. Yes, I am one of the few people who actually wants to know what's going on locally and wish I could clearly see the local channels. It would be nice if I could get others as well, but having local channels would be a nice first step.
Right now we are in an area where Dish Network won't let us get anything even remotely local and if we buy the broadcast networks package we will only be allowed to get NBC and Fox. I don't understand this. Our antenna hardly picks up any station but PBS with any clarity, so in essence the law blocks us from getting any local stations or having network access - not takes away our access to it my providing more options.
The networks contend that if a consumer is predicted to receive a signal from their local network TV station using a massive roof-top antenna, then the consumer should not have the option of obtaining programming
The networks forget that some of the people in the "predicted" area, cannot get their programming. And some of us are not allowed to have a massive roof-top antenna.
And while I'm on the subject, they should also rescind the law that says that if you live in an area opperated by an REC (Rural Electric Cooperative) you cannot get DirectTV unless you buy it from them. No free dish package for people who live out in the country. That's why we got Dish Network in the first place.
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You'd definitely want to let campus security know before you went out ot play your first game.
Looks like it wouldn't be that comfortable, and of course you'd look out of place. Otherwise cool. I wonder if the shots they show are real or what they propose it would look like.
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China Denies Moon Mission Plans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_
The BBC reported this earlier today:1 998000/1998686.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_
I agree with the idea that the RIAA would definitely have motive when it came to a worm like this, or some random RIAA suporter. Good thing most intelligent people quit using Kazaa a long time ago, or for sure when they found out about the spyware.
Funny thing. I have three accounts on hotmail that I check for various groups. One had the boxes checked, one did not, and one had to be reactivated. When I reactivated, that had the boxes checked. Nowhere in the reactivation agreement does it say anything about sharing your email or other information. It just points people to the privacy policy, which as far as I can tell hasn't been changed yet.
I checked it, and yes - it had two of three boxes checked. The one not checked was share my first and last name.
Sort of offtopic, but I've always been curious to know, how does one afford to take a year off and "just travel"? I hear it talked about all the time, especially in European countries, but I can't imagine, even at this stage in my life when I've been working for five years, how this can be affordable.
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue264/news.html
Matrix II Images Posted
Time magazine has posted the first images from The Matrix Reloaded, the much-anticipated sequel to The Matrix. The magazine also offered a few details about the first of two sequels and reported that a teaser trailer for Reloaded should hit the Web soon.
Among the spoilery details the magazine reported from the Sydney, Australia, set of Reloaded and the third film, The Matrix Revolutions: Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) will be able to replicate himself; Reloaded takes place in the world of the Matrix, while Revolutions is set in the real world; and viewers will visit the underground city of Zion. Larry and Andy Wachowski return to direct the two sequels. Reloaded comes out in May 2003; Revolutions in either August or November of next year.
BulkRegister Wins Preliminary Injunction Against VeriSign
"The injunction against VeriSign is a definite victory for millions of domain name holders and fellow members of the domain industry," says BulkRegister's CEO Tom Cunningham. "BulkRegister is committed to seeing this matter resolved on behalf of our customers as well as the domain name community at large."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020514/dctu071_1.html
Although this ruling doesn't apply to all registrars, just bulkregister, the hope is that now that VeriSign has been warned, they'll stop what they're doing altogether.
BulkRegister Gets Injunction Against VeriSign
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http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/0,,8
It all comes down to the fact that the majority of the users value their services. They find enough potential value to outweight the potential harm that having a yahoo! account will have on their lives. And in the scope of things, to most people that potential harm is nil because they are already opted in to so many things, get enough junk mail and cold calls, that the yahoo! stuff won't make a dent.
I know I kept my account solely because I am in a yahoo group. That is what the account is primarily used for. I occasionally use it to check my popmail when away from home.
It's not like people didn't know about this change it the policy. yahoo! sent each account a very nice, fancy email that was highlighted in the list of messages in bright blue, to make sure that people would pay attention to their message. Why cancel an account if you can just fill your contact info with bogus information and say no to everything they want to send you???
a manufacturer who had read the paper said it believed its products were not vulnerable to the attack.
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I love how the smart card manufacturing companies are just denying that this is a problem and saying that they've already looked at that issue. Do you really think they feel that way and have covered this problem already, or off the record they are panicking to find a way to fix the problem? I would guess that this is new to them, but that they don't want to admit their cards are vulnerable.
BTW, The story is taken from the NY Times, so if you have problems getting to the Yahoo! version of the story, try this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/13/technology/13SM
Microsoft bought out Digital Anvil in Dec. 2000
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http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2000nov/gam2000
More often than buying up the companies, they just make deals with them where they are the only platform that that the game can be developed for.
Ummm... Had a bit of a problem with the fish's translation of their pages. For instance the jobs page says
Therefore you are with us as more curiously, open and more competent Far philosopher exactly correctly.
Wha???
A group of business leaders from high-tech firms said the bill struck the right balance between consumers and businesses
It would be interesting to know which tech businesses are behind this. That way I can keep a closer eye on my dealings with them.
As others have said, I don't see how this is a privacy bill. Its best described as an anti-piracy or piracy removal effort.
And I definitely don't understand why this would make more people use the internet. Unless I misread the intent, this would make people more wary of giving out information for fear that they would accidentally be releasing a company to use their sensitive info in any way they choose.
And taking away a person's right to sue? I thought that was in the constitution. : )
Were you talking spam or postal mail? If its spam, a simple filter should work. If its postal mail, try the postal service. I'm sure they'll have a way for you to stop getting it. Perhaps have each one returned to sender? I now in my company if they are returned from the postal service they get taken off the mailing list as an invalid address.
he's having legal draw up contracts
That part right there should give you the answer you need. If you're required to sign a legal document such as this, especially one that has questionable provisions in it, you probably need a lawyer. Most of here are not lawyers and thus can't really give you the advice you need.
That being said, I doubt that you can go to $50,000 worth of training in one year and get all your work done at the same time unless the classes you are planning to attend are quite expensive or the employer plans to let you have as much time for training as you need. I doubt the latter is true because otherwise you could take 50 $1000 classes.
I'd think that if this agreement is based on you staying three years you should get to spread the training out over three years and that how much you have to pay back would be prorated on how long you stayed. Think of how much will have changed between years one and three.
You're exactly right - especially your bit about famous people. I just figured that like most things on slashdot, this was posted because Eric Flint was someone recognizable to all. Since I didn't know he was, I figured it didn't hurt to ask. Oh, except a little karma. :)
Thanks. That's exactly what I wanted to know.
And I wasn't trying to be a flamebaiter. It was a legitimate question. Usually opinions and other things like this get posted on Slashdot because a person who is recognized for some reason is writing it. I basically wanted to know what this person was recognized for.
I may come off as uneducated here, but I don't care.
Who is Eric Flint and why the heck should we care what he thinks???
From the rant I read, it appears he is an author. Still, there are tons of authors out there. What makes him newsworthy? Why is he one we should pay attention to?
The article that is the basis for this topic gives the basics of the plot line. If you'd read it you might have known.
I oppose the idea of CHIPs units, but if we're going to focus on either piracy or hacking, doesn't hacking seem to be the one that would cause the most damage? What are the effects of piracy offeneses, like copying cds or downloading songs? Now compare that to the effects of a person who commits a DoS attack or breaks into secure records and steals people's credit card numbers, etc. Which one should we be tracking down here?? I can see how it might be different for people who are mass producing and selling copyrighted works - like the person distributing 4500 tapes. They are causing monetary loss on a large scale, but for home users downloading one copy of a song, with nobody profiting from the download, where's the huge harm to society?? Rosen needs to understand that some things take priority over others.
But what the hell are the postal workers, etc. going to do to me if they read about something they don't want me to be doing while they are opening my mail? Most likely nothing. Now compare that with the government and what they do to people when they find them doing things they don't like. There's a BIG difference.
To those who are saying you don't have anything to worry about if you aren't guilty of something, I ask you to look at the number of times the police or the government have busted down the wrong door, and killed some unsuspecting person. It happens all the time, especially with drug raids during the so called "war on drugs". What makes you think it won't happen to you?
Our school provides laptops to students as part of their tuition. That way everyone gets one and the cost of the laptop can be included in the financial aid package. Perhaps your school could do something similar with the internet access? I'm sure on campus people pay a fee that goes towards internet access, if you paid the same fee and lived off campus perhaps they could get a group discount or something by paying for the access themselves in bulk and them allocating it to you? I don't know. Purely speculation.
I don't care if I can get local broadcasts from around the country, I want to get local broadcasts from the station nearest my house. Yes, I am one of the few people who actually wants to know what's going on locally and wish I could clearly see the local channels. It would be nice if I could get others as well, but having local channels would be a nice first step.
Right now we are in an area where Dish Network won't let us get anything even remotely local and if we buy the broadcast networks package we will only be allowed to get NBC and Fox. I don't understand this. Our antenna hardly picks up any station but PBS with any clarity, so in essence the law blocks us from getting any local stations or having network access - not takes away our access to it my providing more options.
The networks contend that if a consumer is predicted to receive a signal from their local network TV station using a massive roof-top antenna, then the consumer should not have the option of obtaining programming
The networks forget that some of the people in the "predicted" area, cannot get their programming. And some of us are not allowed to have a massive roof-top antenna.
And while I'm on the subject, they should also rescind the law that says that if you live in an area opperated by an REC (Rural Electric Cooperative) you cannot get DirectTV unless you buy it from them. No free dish package for people who live out in the country. That's why we got Dish Network in the first place.