Google may "peak" at your email, but so far I've seen nothing to prove that it tries to incriminate you based on what you have stored in your Gmail inbox.
I feel so much safer knowing Bigger Big Brother is offering me to use his storage.
As someone who partook in LOTRO's Open Beta, all I have to say is it was (And still is) a dissapointing game.
It's just like every other generico MMO out there, and what's worse (probably the most condeming factor) is that fact that it has an unfriendly UI, compared to other games. The camera while walking thing (How it bounces up and down) was rather frustrating (during the two brief 5 hour periods I played it for).
To summize, Lord of the Rings Online is like every other generic MMORPG on the market today that tries to immitate World of Warcraft -- and we all know we could do with less World fo Warcraft clones.
To be honest, this just marks another failure for American-born MMORPGs, and pushes me to be more inclined to watch the Korean MMORPG market. (Yes, you heard me, Korean)
In the simplest sense, this list is a failure.
How can "World of Warcraft", an internet MMORPG, which is FAIRLY similiar to every other MMORPG nowadays, be considered a great "internet web software" piece? It can't. IT's a bloody video game.
Now, had he said something like Second Life, or perhaps some sort of MMO that introduced and developed a fairly different concept (User created enviroments) instead of just a "kill, level, kill, level" type of game.
Hotmail? Try Gmail. It was the first to consider a very large storage limit.
I disagree with Amazon.com, also. Simply because it's just antoher internet store.
I for one have never even heard of "The Well", therefore I must take the American approach, and dislike it.
And finally -- Altavista? Try Google. Enough said.
Everything else I agree with totally.
You are aware that the only reason (besides the obvious need to keep pr0n of children's computers) are in place is because of the parents, from that oh so powerful and oh so ignorant "special interest group"? If a fourteen year old child was more intelligent than you, and was able to circumvent some silly set of restrictions, why should he be punished? It's not like he did anything that shouldn't be applauded.
Oh, but am I commending someone on murdering and then that murder committing theft? By all means, I am not. Consider Copernicus, for one, as he wished to change the Church's thinking from the Sun revolving around the Earth to the Earth revolving around the Sun. He was punished by the Church, as he was exhildred and excommunicated, and set in jail.
Does not this sound familiar, at all? If you asked anyone who knows anything about space, and you told them of Copernicus, would they not have at the very least a shred of gratitude for him? Would not they have a shred of gratitude for Newton? Or even Einstein?
Circumvention, finding flaws, whatever you want to call it -- should NOT be punishable.
"Jimmy, do you say there's a hole in the fence people can sneak through at night when the school is closed? That's good. You're suspended for the rest of the year."
Imagine for a moment, a universe in which an organization regulates every word, every sound, and every thought of the public. No such a place should exist, but it does in the 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 zone.
Enter, with the scene of a man by the name of Jones talking to another man, named Jack.
Jones: This censorship has gone too far. I've lost my access to the world wide web.
Jack: Why is that?
Jones: I posted something on....com.
Jack:....com?
Jones:....com.
Jack: I see.
Let it be known that even the utterance of this website's location is forbidden in this place, as this zone that is very foreign, and very restricted.
Jack: What did you post?
Jones: A comment to a story about the freedom of speech.
Jack: Was there something incriminating in your comment?
Jones: I just posted "Oh nine, eff nine, eleven,..."
Enter two men, both dressed in black suits, with equally pitch black sunglasses covering their eyes. Both men look identical.
First Man: Mr. Jones, please come with us.
Jones:... w-wha..?!
The men each grab one of Jones' arms, and proceed to drag him screaming out of the doorway to the room he and the other man were once sitting in. As Mr. Jones' screams finally die away, the two men accompany Mr. Jones back into the room.
Second Man: Mr. Jones, we appreciate your cooperation in this matter.
A small amount of drool leaks out of Jones' mouth, as the men turn away, and walk out of the door.
Mr. Jones, in another world, has become another silenced voice. However, this man is not as far away as it seems. For as many times as it has been portrayed amoung the media, the popular mass continues to be like Jones current voice, silent and dumbfounded. This reality of a world in which the utterance of a certain string leads to the permanent removal of one's rights may, however, not be as distant as it seems.
The major defining point of proof is "... he gave the program to several friends and one professor."
If you had malicious intentions, not even a monkey would be stupid enough to give it out to anyone, especially a professor.
Again, this sounds like a case of IT staff embarrassment. More than likely there was either a reason he foregoed telling the IT staff, and waited to inform Cisco, or he had some strange hopes for Cisco to give him some kind of kickback. (Which, if either was the case, he does somewhat deserve to get something, although not necessarily a one year suspension.)
First off, if someone wants access to your wireless network that badly, they will get in. Simple as that. And why would you want to limit your network (speaking of purely a home setting, with only the typicall "one-wireless-router" setup) signal to the insides of your home. Poor Billy can't sit outside of his house in the sun and do his homework on his Laptop anymore.
Secondly, I have to admit that nowhere in the article does is mention the word, "Faraday Cage."
Thirdly, and lastly, painting your house with a paint that essentially works as a Faraday Cage is only an after-construction idea for most businesses. If they really wanted to stop their precious wireless signal from reaching the outside, and limit their employees to land phone lines, they should look into building the building itself with a wire-mesh inside of it, so it acts as a Faraday Cage; paint, in my honest opinion, is generally less effective by any standard than an actual cage setup.
Oh, and for most places that have thousands of wires in the building's walls, I ask, why pay? You can just turn on WEP (Or WPA hopefully) and then you've got a structure than can block cell phone calls, and a internet that is much harder to "hack" into.
Assembly is STILL entirely relevant to programming today. Consider your programs that patch your fancy games; "Patchers" (At the very least) have their roots in assembly. Understanding how a machien works at a basic level, and understanding how to design code in such a way that it can be expanded upon and use a more efficient way of being run is still under the land of assembly.
You can do many things in C, but you can do EVERYTHING in assembly. Granted C is still (at a very simplistic level) a compilation of human readable macros that equate to assembly code.
Assembly applies if you're: - Working with Hardware - Looking for Efficiency - "Learning" about how a machine functions at the very base level - Attempting to debug an error caused by an anomalous string (Such as a null-byte.) - Programming in general, at all
Languages like Java, while high in readability, are going to create such a problem that efficiency (one of the CORE principles when programming) will be thrown out the window. Granted Java is for cross-platformability, it is what is currently being taught in Computer Science courses. And, what truly bothers me is the fact that one can program without knowing how to do it efficiently, or without knowing how that piece of code truly interacts within the machine.
Oh, and if you're doing anything that requires massive calculations, also, assembly is for you.
FTA:
And to get the shape of a dress, they lifted the layers of slimy cellulose off and laid them over a deflatable doll.
and, also FTA:
Cass is a laboratory technician at the university who, among other things, writes science fiction.
Please forgive me (again), but at 3AM, there are quite a lot of subliminal messages in this article. Of course, I suppose the writer had to have a little humor.
Or a dress to drink.
All humor aside, and some actual logic, you probably couldn't become intoxicated (or at the most, even near intoxicated) from ingesting this dress. In fact, being made mostly of cellulose, it would probably be considred more as a fiber dress, more than anything.
That being said, I guess I'll have to wait for the dress that's really made out of wine, and not several millions layer cellulose made from the fermentation wine.
In the actual game, Second Life, which is Linden Labs' game that uses LSL, it does allow you (and more specifically, anybody) to create a script, and make it "close-sourced." Others are not able to view your script, nor are they able to edit it, if you so choose to set it taht way.
However, you can also make it a publicly viewable script. Most people don't do that, however, because they would rather have the script they worked on remain a unique work.
I can actually see the problem created by this, "what if someone creates a malicious script and hands it out to everyone?" To be truthful, I believe this HAS happened before. It has been Linden Labs' reponsibility to make srue the scritps are safe, for the most part, and that something horrendous doesn't happen in game because of someone scripting a malicious thing.
Simply put, there's no real advantage for a normal person to switch to a Linux Distro in a Windows based world. The EXEs are closed source, and precompiled generally for Windows. Wireless card drivers, being a prime example of this, have only been reverse engineered on a few chips.
Another disadvantage is Linux CAN be slower than Windows. (Granted Linux doesn't check four times for a file when you try to delete it...) The reason for this is because it IS Open Source code. Generally having something work, and having something work with great efficiency are two varied, and distant things, and with great efficiency comes a great price only companies can afford.
As for the "Linux is too hard", and "Linux still uses a CLI so it's too hard", that's bull. Complete, and utter bull. Windows is no different from Linux in the "difficulty" of that department. Some of the people I've let use my PC, particularly to check their email, were suprised to find out they were in fact using Linux, and not Windows. For any "complicated" part of Linux, you can find an equally (Somehow, it just doesn't feel right saying this) "complex" part of Windoze.
I will agree, however, that Linux can have problems with installing drivers, where Windows has it almost perfected. It can take upwards of several days for a Linux newbie to debug a mouse which does not work corretly in Linux, where it would work in Windows with the snap of a finger.
To conclude, Linux is still a developer, and geek's platform. You could TRY to convert someone to use Linux, but then they'd run into so many problems in this world comprised of Windows, they would throw their arms up into the air, and simply give up. The problems aren't even usually caused by Linux, but the fact that few companies will stand behind Linux. Few companies want to say, "Oh, by the way. Here's the source code for the drivers in our newest Wireless card. Have fun guys," even if it would be advantageous to their product, as developers have a habit of making things better.;)
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Google may "peak" at your email, but so far I've seen nothing to prove that it tries to incriminate you based on what you have stored in your Gmail inbox. I feel so much safer knowing Bigger Big Brother is offering me to use his storage.
As someone who partook in LOTRO's Open Beta, all I have to say is it was (And still is) a dissapointing game.
It's just like every other generico MMO out there, and what's worse (probably the most condeming factor) is that fact that it has an unfriendly UI, compared to other games. The camera while walking thing (How it bounces up and down) was rather frustrating (during the two brief 5 hour periods I played it for).
To summize, Lord of the Rings Online is like every other generic MMORPG on the market today that tries to immitate World of Warcraft -- and we all know we could do with less World fo Warcraft clones.
To be honest, this just marks another failure for American-born MMORPGs, and pushes me to be more inclined to watch the Korean MMORPG market. (Yes, you heard me, Korean)
You sir, are an idiot. It did not deal with "terrorists", but with love triangles in a post-nuclear world. Get your facts straight! Gosh.
Kennedy shot himself, as he came back with the time travelers. [See: Red Dwarf]
In the simplest sense, this list is a failure. How can "World of Warcraft", an internet MMORPG, which is FAIRLY similiar to every other MMORPG nowadays, be considered a great "internet web software" piece? It can't. IT's a bloody video game. Now, had he said something like Second Life, or perhaps some sort of MMO that introduced and developed a fairly different concept (User created enviroments) instead of just a "kill, level, kill, level" type of game. Hotmail? Try Gmail. It was the first to consider a very large storage limit. I disagree with Amazon.com, also. Simply because it's just antoher internet store. I for one have never even heard of "The Well", therefore I must take the American approach, and dislike it. And finally -- Altavista? Try Google. Enough said. Everything else I agree with totally.
You are aware that the only reason (besides the obvious need to keep pr0n of children's computers) are in place is because of the parents, from that oh so powerful and oh so ignorant "special interest group"? If a fourteen year old child was more intelligent than you, and was able to circumvent some silly set of restrictions, why should he be punished? It's not like he did anything that shouldn't be applauded.
Oh, but am I commending someone on murdering and then that murder committing theft? By all means, I am not. Consider Copernicus, for one, as he wished to change the Church's thinking from the Sun revolving around the Earth to the Earth revolving around the Sun. He was punished by the Church, as he was exhildred and excommunicated, and set in jail.
Does not this sound familiar, at all? If you asked anyone who knows anything about space, and you told them of Copernicus, would they not have at the very least a shred of gratitude for him? Would not they have a shred of gratitude for Newton? Or even Einstein?
Circumvention, finding flaws, whatever you want to call it -- should NOT be punishable.
"Jimmy, do you say there's a hole in the fence people can sneak through at night when the school is closed? That's good. You're suspended for the rest of the year."
Imagine for a moment, a universe in which an organization regulates every word, every sound, and every thought of the public. No such a place should exist, but it does in the 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 zone.
... .com.
... .com?
... .com.
..."
... w-wha..?!
Enter, with the scene of a man by the name of Jones talking to another man, named Jack.
Jones: This censorship has gone too far. I've lost my access to the world wide web.
Jack: Why is that?
Jones: I posted something on
Jack:
Jones:
Jack: I see.
Let it be known that even the utterance of this website's location is forbidden in this place, as this zone that is very foreign, and very restricted.
Jack: What did you post?
Jones: A comment to a story about the freedom of speech.
Jack: Was there something incriminating in your comment?
Jones: I just posted "Oh nine, eff nine, eleven,
Enter two men, both dressed in black suits, with equally pitch black sunglasses covering their eyes. Both men look identical.
First Man: Mr. Jones, please come with us.
Jones:
The men each grab one of Jones' arms, and proceed to drag him screaming out of the doorway to the room he and the other man were once sitting in. As Mr. Jones' screams finally die away, the two men accompany Mr. Jones back into the room.
Second Man: Mr. Jones, we appreciate your cooperation in this matter.
A small amount of drool leaks out of Jones' mouth, as the men turn away, and walk out of the door.
Mr. Jones, in another world, has become another silenced voice. However, this man is not as far away as it seems. For as many times as it has been portrayed amoung the media, the popular mass continues to be like Jones current voice, silent and dumbfounded. This reality of a world in which the utterance of a certain string leads to the permanent removal of one's rights may, however, not be as distant as it seems.
The major defining point of proof is "... he gave the program to several friends and one professor."
If you had malicious intentions, not even a monkey would be stupid enough to give it out to anyone, especially a professor.
Again, this sounds like a case of IT staff embarrassment. More than likely there was either a reason he foregoed telling the IT staff, and waited to inform Cisco, or he had some strange hopes for Cisco to give him some kind of kickback. (Which, if either was the case, he does somewhat deserve to get something, although not necessarily a one year suspension.)
Let's see... where to begin...
First off, if someone wants access to your wireless network that badly, they will get in. Simple as that. And why would you want to limit your network (speaking of purely a home setting, with only the typicall "one-wireless-router" setup) signal to the insides of your home. Poor Billy can't sit outside of his house in the sun and do his homework on his Laptop anymore.
Secondly, I have to admit that nowhere in the article does is mention the word, "Faraday Cage."
Thirdly, and lastly, painting your house with a paint that essentially works as a Faraday Cage is only an after-construction idea for most businesses. If they really wanted to stop their precious wireless signal from reaching the outside, and limit their employees to land phone lines, they should look into building the building itself with a wire-mesh inside of it, so it acts as a Faraday Cage; paint, in my honest opinion, is generally less effective by any standard than an actual cage setup.
Oh, and for most places that have thousands of wires in the building's walls, I ask, why pay? You can just turn on WEP (Or WPA hopefully) and then you've got a structure than can block cell phone calls, and a internet that is much harder to "hack" into.
Assembly is STILL entirely relevant to programming today. Consider your programs that patch your fancy games; "Patchers" (At the very least) have their roots in assembly. Understanding how a machien works at a basic level, and understanding how to design code in such a way that it can be expanded upon and use a more efficient way of being run is still under the land of assembly.
You can do many things in C, but you can do EVERYTHING in assembly. Granted C is still (at a very simplistic level) a compilation of human readable macros that equate to assembly code.
Assembly applies if you're:
- Working with Hardware
- Looking for Efficiency
- "Learning" about how a machine functions at the very base level
- Attempting to debug an error caused by an anomalous string (Such as a null-byte.)
- Programming in general, at all
Languages like Java, while high in readability, are going to create such a problem that efficiency (one of the CORE principles when programming) will be thrown out the window. Granted Java is for cross-platformability, it is what is currently being taught in Computer Science courses. And, what truly bothers me is the fact that one can program without knowing how to do it efficiently, or without knowing how that piece of code truly interacts within the machine.
Oh, and if you're doing anything that requires massive calculations, also, assembly is for you.
and, also FTA: Cass is a laboratory technician at the university who, among other things, writes science fiction.
Please forgive me (again), but at 3AM, there are quite a lot of subliminal messages in this article. Of course, I suppose the writer had to have a little humor.
Or a dress to drink.
All humor aside, and some actual logic, you probably couldn't become intoxicated (or at the most, even near intoxicated) from ingesting this dress. In fact, being made mostly of cellulose, it would probably be considred more as a fiber dress, more than anything.
That being said, I guess I'll have to wait for the dress that's really made out of wine, and not several millions layer cellulose made from the fermentation wine.
In the actual game, Second Life, which is Linden Labs' game that uses LSL, it does allow you (and more specifically, anybody) to create a script, and make it "close-sourced." Others are not able to view your script, nor are they able to edit it, if you so choose to set it taht way.
However, you can also make it a publicly viewable script. Most people don't do that, however, because they would rather have the script they worked on remain a unique work.
I can actually see the problem created by this, "what if someone creates a malicious script and hands it out to everyone?" To be truthful, I believe this HAS happened before. It has been Linden Labs' reponsibility to make srue the scritps are safe, for the most part, and that something horrendous doesn't happen in game because of someone scripting a malicious thing.
Simply put, there's no real advantage for a normal person to switch to a Linux Distro in a Windows based world. The EXEs are closed source, and precompiled generally for Windows. Wireless card drivers, being a prime example of this, have only been reverse engineered on a few chips.
;)
Another disadvantage is Linux CAN be slower than Windows. (Granted Linux doesn't check four times for a file when you try to delete it...) The reason for this is because it IS Open Source code. Generally having something work, and having something work with great efficiency are two varied, and distant things, and with great efficiency comes a great price only companies can afford.
As for the "Linux is too hard", and "Linux still uses a CLI so it's too hard", that's bull. Complete, and utter bull. Windows is no different from Linux in the "difficulty" of that department. Some of the people I've let use my PC, particularly to check their email, were suprised to find out they were in fact using Linux, and not Windows. For any "complicated" part of Linux, you can find an equally (Somehow, it just doesn't feel right saying this) "complex" part of Windoze.
I will agree, however, that Linux can have problems with installing drivers, where Windows has it almost perfected. It can take upwards of several days for a Linux newbie to debug a mouse which does not work corretly in Linux, where it would work in Windows with the snap of a finger.
To conclude, Linux is still a developer, and geek's platform. You could TRY to convert someone to use Linux, but then they'd run into so many problems in this world comprised of Windows, they would throw their arms up into the air, and simply give up. The problems aren't even usually caused by Linux, but the fact that few companies will stand behind Linux. Few companies want to say, "Oh, by the way. Here's the source code for the drivers in our newest Wireless card. Have fun guys," even if it would be advantageous to their product, as developers have a habit of making things better.