Although China is (slowly) moving to a capitalist mode of economy (they haven't abolished it in Hong Kong yet, have they?) they still fear the idea of independent thought. E-mail is a way for people to express different and radical thoughts. Since spam clogs up the e-mail channel, perhaps the government-run ISPs encourage spam as a way to discourage people from reading e-mail. Just a thought....
Second thought, while I'm at it -- perhaps China allows ISPs to encourage Spam as a snub to the USA and the free world in general. What a better way to show disrespect of our law than to openly ignore it and encourage Spammers.
Third thought!! -- Their ISP administrators are just as lazy and careless as ours. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Let's face it-- Windows is GUI based, and UNIX predominantly isn't.
In both cases, if something isn't right, it is just a matter of where to look to fix it. But with Windows, it seems harder and harder nowadays with their additional layers of GUI cruft.
Linux may have these nicely developed new GUI adminstrator tools; but REAL ADMINISTRATORS DO IT FROM THE COMMAND LINE!
>>But if I follow point 4... >>4) Don't give your friends your email address
Here is a semi-interesting tangent.
I gave my wife and one son (both computer illiterates) each an e-mail address.
My wife gave her e-mail address to her sister, but my wife would not write any email (she prefers Long Distance phone calls.... argh!). However her sister emails her things, include some of those stupid 'pass this on to a friend' emails. Still, my wife doesn't even read her own email. After about a month, I found her email address on one of these bulk 'pass it on' messages. Since that time, spammers have inundated her mailbox.
In the meantime, my son has never sent an email, nor has he given out his email address to anyone. As an experiment, I wanted to see if the spammers would find him. So far, they haven't.
So you are right-- if you don't want spam, don't give out your email address.
If SUN ever makes Solaris Open-Source, and IF Linux is allowed to plunder the better parts of it (more multiprocessing capability, 'zones' etc) then Linux will be the OS of the future, much more so than it is today.
Some of the things that keeps Linux out of top-end shops are the reasons stated above. Sure, clustering is an alternative, but sometimes you *NEED* a big mainframe switching among thousands of processes. Linux has a difficult time of mega-multiprocessing now; but once the Solaris code is assimilated (or hijacked) it too will do one more thing Solaris is known for.
All of this just makes Linux better. Which just makes it tougher for Microsoft. Especially in the big-iron shops.
But the thing I wonder is-- is this what SUN wanted to gain from this?
If this student can sue the university "because they didn't catch him before" I guess that serial killers can sue the police "because they didn't catch him before".
Yeah... I like deterence. Let's round up a few dozen of these vermiscripters and just downright kill them, on live TV (think of the ratings!!). We can use all sorts of different ways to make it painful and exciting, too. Like shooting them with slow acting poison darts; or unleashing a hungry tiger on them; or dropping them in a tank of live piranha. What entertainment!
And then when THAT deters the vermiscripters, we can go after the SPAMMERS! After a few dozen of those scum die in agony, we will have our networks, our computers, AND our e-mail back. What could be better??
Does this sound a bit medieval to you? Well, until we get a new sheriff in town to take care of these lowlifes, maybe medieval solutions are what we need. If the law won't take care of it, maybe we need some Internet vigilante groups. Now THERE is a thought. The trouble with that thought is: How do the vigilantes differ from the people they are going after in the first place? Where is the rightousness?
Oh, well.... It's all just a silly mind exercise...
I agree. This is work that should be done by each professor; or at least a graduate assistant. Dumping work like this on the author requires (a) a lot of the authors time, and (b) equipment he doesn't have.
If I were the author, I would just scan the document in and post it as the scanner found it. The author is under no obligation to correct the papers errors. The author may not even have the expertise to correct the handwritten errors.
1) Be faster than Alta-Vista web search engine. 2) Be faster than MSN web search engine and piss off Bill Gates. 3) Look better each day for a fatter IPO. 4) Give e-mail users lots of space, so we can target advertisers at them and make more bucks. 5) Mess with the page-rankings so people have something to talk about.
These movies are George Lucas' stories. His, not anyone elses to meddle with. You either like them, don't like them, or don't care. Mr. Lucas has the final say in anything that goes on in those movies; which is more than most producers and directors have. This is something rare in Hollywood these days; and it is usually earned by bringing BIG BUCKS into the studios.
Let's face it; some of the Star Wars movies weren't artistic successes storywise; but they did put butts in seats (again and again) in the theaters. Why? It must be magic (industrial light or not). Mr. Lucas earned his stripes, and he is not about to let any whiner critics dictate otherwise. Have you seen some movies that are the collaboration of people? Usually they turn out horribly, and end up on TV late at night.
This whole post is just a big troll, anyway. The movie doesn't need saving. It needs to be released, so we all can enjoy it. Then you can criticize all you want.
I am both a teacher and a computer advocate. In fact, I teach programming and operating systems at a local technical college.
Are computers the answer to our woes? Heck no.
Computers are just tools. They are a means to get to an end. In the right hands, a computer is a powerful tool. Programmed properly it will do wonderful things, limited only by the imagination (and the pocketbooks) of the program designers and coders. But it can't do everything.
People in power and people in ignorance think it is the messiah; but they don't know a computer is only as good as the program behind it. And it's support. Again, programmed and used properly it will do what is desired. The problem is (a) not everyone knows what they want, (b) the programmers still make mistakes programming, and (c) people don't use them properly. This is a case where a workman can blame the poor tool.
There is a long road ahead before we will see what computers will really do. These past 50 years of computing are just a start. For you younger readers, look back to today from 40 or 50 years out and see where we are. You might be asking the same questions we ask here-- but I hope not.
As for educating people-- leave that to real live instructors, teachers, and professors. Spend that money you put into computers into raising the teachers standards and salary (you know they deserve it). Don't spend it on a piece of hardware that will be obsolete in 18, 36, or 54 months, just so you can replace a teacher. Shame on administrators who think like that.
"And politicians find themselves with a very good problem that they can truly throw money at. "Give every child a laptop!" "Every desk should have a computer!", etc."
Why does Microsoft ship OS software with so many ports open in the first place? Most people who buy computers are not all that computer savvy, and have no idea what a port is. But the security people want these same computer-halfliterates to close those ports.
If you know what a port is, then it is just as easy to open a closed one then to close an opened one.
What we need is an on-computer port-monitor service that scans every port on the machine while it is not otherwise busy. It should report to the user any opening of any non-solicited port, and identify the source program that asked for that port to be opened. Of course, the port-monitor should be configurable by the savvy user to skip over ports that the user may want to use.
Just my 2 cents.
Wait a minute... Haven't we seen this before?
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Google is running on YOUR MACHINE, and everyone elses machine that is connected to the internet. Through very sophisticated software and anti-detection techniques, Google uses your 'spare' CPU cycles to search, index, and respond to queries.
Has anyone actually ever SEEN any of Google's machines?
Actually, this is not the TIVO's fault, but the networks. NBC in particular.
I work on Thursday nights, and I like to TIVO a couple of programs, like CSI on CBS, and then ER on NBC (alphabet soup, anyone?) so I can 'time shift' them and view them later.
At any rate, I cannot TIVO both of programs because NBC is getting wise to TIVO.
CBS starts CSI at 9pm in my area. But NBC starts ER at 9:59pm, not 10pm.
So what are the implications of this minor change?
I can EITHER record CSI or ER, but not both. If I TIVO CSI, it ends at 10pm (or one minute after ER starts). If I TIVO ER, I have to cancel my TIVO of CSI because it is an 'overlap'. TIVO doesn't like overlaps, and you have to make a choice.
NBC *KNOWS THIS*, and that is why they start ER at 9:59pm rather than 10pm (yes, it is a conspiracy theory, but it's all I have to go on, and why would they do it otherwise??).
And my TIVO can't do anything about it. It has 'options' where you can start recording a program earlier, or keep recording it for several minutes after the program is over; but there is no option to start recording later or end recording earlier. (And that wouldn't be that hard for them to program in, either).
So in the meantime, I would be screwed if I want to record both of those programs. Fortunately, we have another networked TIVO in the house and each does it's part to record one program or the other, and we just swap later.
But NBC has struck a low blow here, and they should be exposed.
One of the reasons I studied computers and not 'shop' was because I *HATED* the idea of getting my hands dirty. I just couldn't handle that phobia. Yuk!
Now they are enlisting IT personnel to service AUTOMOBILES??
If they can smell a way to tax something, they will. No matter that this may stifle growth in LANs that may lead to slower growth in OTHER areas in the economy that can be taxed more productively.
Nooooooo..... Let's add a few cents here to their coffers NOW and let us LAN people pass it on to the users as a cost of doing business. Meanwhile, the people in control of the government (and the pursestrings) will have have some MORE cash to implement their little pork-barrel projects to keep them happy and elected.
Remember voting day. My voting strategy--> If I don't have any preferences, I always vote the incumbant OUT. Otherwise they will start to build empires.
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Although China is (slowly) moving to a capitalist mode of economy (they haven't abolished it in Hong Kong yet, have they?) they still fear the idea of independent thought. E-mail is a way for people to express different and radical thoughts. Since spam clogs up the e-mail channel, perhaps the government-run ISPs encourage spam as a way to discourage people from reading e-mail. Just a thought....
Second thought, while I'm at it -- perhaps China allows ISPs to encourage Spam as a snub to the USA and the free world in general. What a better way to show disrespect of our law than to openly ignore it and encourage Spammers.
Third thought!! -- Their ISP administrators are just as lazy and careless as ours. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Let's face it-- Windows is GUI based, and UNIX predominantly isn't.
In both cases, if something isn't right, it is just a matter of where to look to fix it. But with Windows, it seems harder and harder nowadays with their additional layers of GUI cruft.
Linux may have these nicely developed new GUI adminstrator tools; but REAL ADMINISTRATORS DO IT FROM THE COMMAND LINE!
>>But if I follow point 4...
>>4) Don't give your friends your email address
Here is a semi-interesting tangent.
I gave my wife and one son (both computer illiterates) each an e-mail address.
My wife gave her e-mail address to her sister, but my wife would not write any email (she prefers Long Distance phone calls.... argh!). However her sister emails her things, include some of those stupid 'pass this on to a friend' emails. Still, my wife doesn't even read her own email. After about a month, I found her email address on one of these bulk 'pass it on' messages. Since that time, spammers have inundated her mailbox.
In the meantime, my son has never sent an email, nor has he given out his email address to anyone. As an experiment, I wanted to see if the spammers would find him. So far, they haven't.
So you are right-- if you don't want spam, don't give out your email address.
If SUN ever makes Solaris Open-Source, and IF Linux is allowed to plunder the better parts of it (more multiprocessing capability, 'zones' etc) then Linux will be the OS of the future, much more so than it is today.
Some of the things that keeps Linux out of top-end shops are the reasons stated above. Sure, clustering is an alternative, but sometimes you *NEED* a big mainframe switching among thousands of processes. Linux has a difficult time of mega-multiprocessing now; but once the Solaris code is assimilated (or hijacked) it too will do one more thing Solaris is known for.
All of this just makes Linux better. Which just makes it tougher for Microsoft. Especially in the big-iron shops.
But the thing I wonder is-- is this what SUN wanted to gain from this?
I want some of whatever these guys are smokin'!
If this student can sue the university "because they didn't catch him before" I guess that serial killers can sue the police "because they didn't catch him before".
Does anyone else see the flaw in this logic?
Yeah... I like deterence. Let's round up a few dozen of these vermiscripters and just downright kill them, on live TV (think of the ratings!!). We can use all sorts of different ways to make it painful and exciting, too. Like shooting them with slow acting poison darts; or unleashing a hungry tiger on them; or dropping them in a tank of live piranha. What entertainment!
And then when THAT deters the vermiscripters, we can go after the SPAMMERS! After a few dozen of those scum die in agony, we will have our networks, our computers, AND our e-mail back. What could be better??
Does this sound a bit medieval to you? Well, until we get a new sheriff in town to take care of these lowlifes, maybe medieval solutions are what we need. If the law won't take care of it, maybe we need some Internet vigilante groups. Now THERE is a thought. The trouble with that thought is: How do the vigilantes differ from the people they are going after in the first place? Where is the rightousness?
Oh, well.... It's all just a silly mind exercise...
...then why don't they offer Linux on the laptops they sell? Even a dual boot laptop would be a sign of their sincerity.
I agree. This is work that should be done by each professor; or at least a graduate assistant. Dumping work like this on the author requires (a) a lot of the authors time, and (b) equipment he doesn't have.
If I were the author, I would just scan the document in and post it as the scanner found it. The author is under no obligation to correct the papers errors. The author may not even have the expertise to correct the handwritten errors.
Just my humble opinion.
1) Be faster than Alta-Vista web search engine.
2) Be faster than MSN web search engine and piss off Bill Gates.
3) Look better each day for a fatter IPO.
4) Give e-mail users lots of space, so we can target advertisers at them and make more bucks.
5) Mess with the page-rankings so people have something to talk about.
These movies are George Lucas' stories. His, not anyone elses to meddle with. You either like them, don't like them, or don't care. Mr. Lucas has the final say in anything that goes on in those movies; which is more than most producers and directors have. This is something rare in Hollywood these days; and it is usually earned by bringing BIG BUCKS into the studios.
Let's face it; some of the Star Wars movies weren't artistic successes storywise; but they did put butts in seats (again and again) in the theaters. Why? It must be magic (industrial light or not). Mr. Lucas earned his stripes, and he is not about to let any whiner critics dictate otherwise. Have you seen some movies that are the collaboration of people? Usually they turn out horribly, and end up on TV late at night.
This whole post is just a big troll, anyway. The movie doesn't need saving. It needs to be released, so we all can enjoy it. Then you can criticize all you want.
'Nuff said!
Shhh!!! Don't tell Bill Gates about this!!! Or HE will buy/bury/sidestep CISCO and have it all to himself in a few years!!
Heh.
We will all be assimilated.
I am both a teacher and a computer advocate. In fact, I teach programming and operating systems at a local technical college.
Are computers the answer to our woes? Heck no.
Computers are just tools. They are a means to get to an end. In the right hands, a computer is a powerful tool. Programmed properly it will do wonderful things, limited only by the imagination (and the pocketbooks) of the program designers and coders. But it can't do everything.
People in power and people in ignorance think it is the messiah; but they don't know a computer is only as good as the program behind it. And it's support. Again, programmed and used properly it will do what is desired. The problem is (a) not everyone knows what they want, (b) the programmers still make mistakes programming, and (c) people don't use them properly. This is a case where a workman can blame the poor tool.
There is a long road ahead before we will see what computers will really do. These past 50 years of computing are just a start. For you younger readers, look back to today from 40 or 50 years out and see where we are. You might be asking the same questions we ask here-- but I hope not.
As for educating people-- leave that to real live instructors, teachers, and professors. Spend that money you put into computers into raising the teachers standards and salary (you know they deserve it). Don't spend it on a piece of hardware that will be obsolete in 18, 36, or 54 months, just so you can replace a teacher. Shame on administrators who think like that.
OK, I'm riled up. So I better quit now.
"And politicians find themselves with a very good problem that they can truly throw money at. "Give every child a laptop!" "Every desk should have a computer!", etc."
Can't you see Bill Gates licking his chops now??
Perhaps your local neighborhood terrorist?
Just hang them all.
Why does Microsoft ship OS software with so many ports open in the first place? Most people who buy computers are not all that computer savvy, and have no idea what a port is. But the security people want these same computer-halfliterates to close those ports.
If you know what a port is, then it is just as easy to open a closed one then to close an opened one.
What we need is an on-computer port-monitor service that scans every port on the machine while it is not otherwise busy. It should report to the user any opening of any non-solicited port, and identify the source program that asked for that port to be opened. Of course, the port-monitor should be configurable by the savvy user to skip over ports that the user may want to use.
Just my 2 cents.
Yes! I think SUN calls it the 'Java Desktop'!
Anyone see a trend here, or is it just me?
Even a Spamee's job is being outsourced!!
Here's what actually is happening...
:-)
Google is running on YOUR MACHINE, and everyone elses machine that is connected to the internet. Through very sophisticated software and anti-detection techniques, Google uses your 'spare' CPU cycles to search, index, and respond to queries.
Has anyone actually ever SEEN any of Google's machines?
Scary, huh?
Actually, this is not the TIVO's fault, but the networks. NBC in particular.
I work on Thursday nights, and I like to TIVO a couple of programs, like CSI on CBS, and then ER on NBC (alphabet soup, anyone?) so I can 'time shift' them and view them later.
At any rate, I cannot TIVO both of programs because NBC is getting wise to TIVO.
CBS starts CSI at 9pm in my area. But NBC starts ER at 9:59pm, not 10pm.
So what are the implications of this minor change?
I can EITHER record CSI or ER, but not both. If I TIVO CSI, it ends at 10pm (or one minute after ER starts). If I TIVO ER, I have to cancel my TIVO of CSI because it is an 'overlap'. TIVO doesn't like overlaps, and you have to make a choice.
NBC *KNOWS THIS*, and that is why they start ER at 9:59pm rather than 10pm (yes, it is a conspiracy theory, but it's all I have to go on, and why would they do it otherwise??).
And my TIVO can't do anything about it. It has 'options' where you can start recording a program earlier, or keep recording it for several minutes after the program is over; but there is no option to start recording later or end recording earlier. (And that wouldn't be that hard for them to program in, either).
So in the meantime, I would be screwed if I want to record both of those programs. Fortunately, we have another networked TIVO in the house and each does it's part to record one program or the other, and we just swap later.
But NBC has struck a low blow here, and they should be exposed.
ARE YOU LISTENING NBC????
Rant mode off.
This is the kind of 'news' that appears at the end of local news broadcasts when nothing else better is going on.
I am truly surprised at the volume of output (and tangents) that this article produced.
ZZZZzzzzzzz.........
One of the reasons I studied computers and not 'shop' was because I *HATED* the idea of getting my hands dirty. I just couldn't handle that phobia. Yuk!
Now they are enlisting IT personnel to service AUTOMOBILES??
iiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
If they can smell a way to tax something, they will. No matter that this may stifle growth in LANs that may lead to slower growth in OTHER areas in the economy that can be taxed more productively.
Nooooooo..... Let's add a few cents here to their coffers NOW and let us LAN people pass it on to the users as a cost of doing business. Meanwhile, the people in control of the government (and the pursestrings) will have have some MORE cash to implement their little pork-barrel projects to keep them happy and elected.
Remember voting day. My voting strategy--> If I don't have any preferences, I always vote the incumbant OUT. Otherwise they will start to build empires.
Sorry folks. Rant off.