telnet clients use plain old TCP/IP, without any layers of abstraction on top (which is why you can telnet into a web server and make HTTP requests, even though HTTP is built on top of TCP/IP and not on top of your hypothetical "telnet" protocol--try it). As far as not reading the article goes... touché (although I don't think that allowing unencrypted telnet and ftp threatens the security of an entire network unless you're allowed to su to root via an unencrypted connection [thus transmitting the root password unencrypted], otherwise it'd just be a security hazard for individuals who chose not to use something like ssh or ktelnet). I'm sorry if you got the impression that I was passing myself off as an expert; this was not my intention. If you would like to do some research of your own on this subject, I suggest you start here, and take a look at the accompanying example code found here.
This brings up an interesting point. I wonder if the lawyers involved in this case understand the implications of giving an inductive definition for "illegal" without establishing a well-defined base case?
I'm assuming that you're referring to the 5419 cluster (the computer cluster used for teaching and doing assignments in the introductory programming class). The switch from Macintosh to PC (which happened at least 2 years ago) had a lot to do with MacOS's notorious lack of memory protection. From what I've been told, you could tell when the bulk of a classroom full of students were working on test problems involving arrays and/or linked lists by the sudden onslaught of Mac-startup-gong noises because simple bugs would crash a student's computer.
While this question might be interesting in terms of pure curiosity, I don't think that the lack of internet access in third world countries is a big enough problem to worry about. People *need* food, clean water, medical care, shelter, etc. They do *not* need internet access. I realize that one of the up-and-coming attitudes in our culture (esp. Slashdot culture) is that net access is this magical source of enlightenment and power of which no human being should be deprived, but for most it is merely a source of entertainment and information. Yes, perhaps increased internet access could marginally help the economy in third world countries, but since only the richest fraction of a third world country's population can afford a computer, don't excpect to see much of an economic or social impact on a vast majority of the population.
Some time ago, object oriented programming was the next "big thing" (or "paradigm" if you prefer) of the future. Now it is obviously the "big thing" of the present. What do you think is coming next? A lot of people (especially here at CMU) seem to think that it will be type safety--do you agree?
I go to CMU, and although I love it there, when I graduate I want to live somewhere where I can find people my own age to hang out with, date, etc. Pittsburgh is at a huge disadvantage with respect to other cities in terms of attracting young people like me because:
1) Pittsburgh isn't on a coast 2) the weather sucks (it's not as bad as it's reputed to be, but a reputation for lousy weather is enough to keep people away) 3) everything closes too goddamn early 4) you need young people to attract young people.
Of the 4 things I listed, only one is somewhat easy to change, and probably wouldn't make much of a difference. As for jobs, there are plenty of Pittsburgh startups from CMU alone, but as far as I know none of them are wildly successful enough to attract nationwide attention to the area (I live in Indiana and the only people I know who have even heard of CMU know of it because I go there, and only the medical types seem to have heard of UPMC). All I can think of that the city could do would be to encourage businesses to stay open later and to run a nationwide advertizing campaign. I am doubtful as to how effective either would be.
This looks incredibly cool, but I feel the need to correct a statement made in the article:
(I believe Cye is the first robot capable of docking with a charging unit)
This is far from the truth. The Johns Hopkins "Beast," one of the first mobile robots ever, was able to do this back in the 1960's. Read the end of the first paragraph at this link.
Slashdot Mirror
The testimony from day 6 can be found here.
telnet clients use plain old TCP/IP, without any layers of abstraction on top (which is why you can telnet into a web server and make HTTP requests, even though HTTP is built on top of TCP/IP and not on top of your hypothetical "telnet" protocol--try it). As far as not reading the article goes... touché (although I don't think that allowing unencrypted telnet and ftp threatens the security of an entire network unless you're allowed to su to root via an unencrypted connection [thus transmitting the root password unencrypted], otherwise it'd just be a security hazard for individuals who chose not to use something like ssh or ktelnet). I'm sorry if you got the impression that I was passing myself off as an expert; this was not my intention. If you would like to do some research of your own on this subject, I suggest you start here, and take a look at the accompanying example code found here.
telnet just uses plain old TCP/IP. I'm sure they don't want to ban *that*, or else nothing would work.
/index.html
telnet slashdot.org 80
GET
This brings up an interesting point. I wonder if the lawyers involved in this case understand the implications of giving an inductive definition for "illegal" without establishing a well-defined base case?
I'm assuming that you're referring to the 5419 cluster (the computer cluster used for teaching and doing assignments in the introductory programming class). The switch from Macintosh to PC (which happened at least 2 years ago) had a lot to do with MacOS's notorious lack of memory protection. From what I've been told, you could tell when the bulk of a classroom full of students were working on test problems involving arrays and/or linked lists by the sudden onslaught of Mac-startup-gong noises because simple bugs would crash a student's computer.
While this question might be interesting in terms of pure curiosity, I don't think that the lack of internet access in third world countries is a big enough problem to worry about. People *need* food, clean water, medical care, shelter, etc. They do *not* need internet access. I realize that one of the up-and-coming attitudes in our culture (esp. Slashdot culture) is that net access is this magical source of enlightenment and power of which no human being should be deprived, but for most it is merely a source of entertainment and information. Yes, perhaps increased internet access could marginally help the economy in third world countries, but since only the richest fraction of a third world country's population can afford a computer, don't excpect to see much of an economic or social impact on a vast majority of the population.
Specialized GC hardware is an old idea--is this something new, or just a rehashing of something that's been done?
Some time ago, object oriented programming was the next "big thing" (or "paradigm" if you prefer) of the future. Now it is obviously the "big thing" of the present. What do you think is coming next? A lot of people (especially here at CMU) seem to think that it will be type safety--do you agree?
and email client, and web browser, and shell, and tetris game... the list goes on and on.
I've messed around with xdaliclock a bit, and it seems to do this whenever it wigs out... does it still do this after you close it and open it again?
I go to CMU, and although I love it there, when I graduate I want to live somewhere where I can find people my own age to hang out with, date, etc. Pittsburgh is at a huge disadvantage with respect to other cities in terms of attracting young people like me because:
1) Pittsburgh isn't on a coast
2) the weather sucks (it's not as bad as it's reputed to be, but a reputation for lousy weather is enough to keep people away)
3) everything closes too goddamn early
4) you need young people to attract young people.
Of the 4 things I listed, only one is somewhat easy to change, and probably wouldn't make much of a difference. As for jobs, there are plenty of Pittsburgh startups from CMU alone, but as far as I know none of them are wildly successful enough to attract nationwide attention to the area (I live in Indiana and the only people I know who have even heard of CMU know of it because I go there, and only the medical types seem to have heard of UPMC). All I can think of that the city could do would be to encourage businesses to stay open later and to run a nationwide advertizing campaign. I am doubtful as to how effective either would be.
This looks incredibly cool, but I feel the need to correct a statement made in the article:
(I believe Cye is the first robot capable of docking with a charging unit)
This is far from the truth. The Johns Hopkins "Beast," one of the first mobile robots ever, was able to do this back in the 1960's. Read the end of the first paragraph at this link.