I remember being a touch titillated by anthony's work at about that age. My first instinct is to leave him till the reader is 12 or so, but it depends on the kid.
I would typically leave mcaffrey for early teens and up. I was rather surprised that for an elderly lady, Ann is really into male homosexuality. nothing wrong with that, but may be better for a slightly older audience.
in terms of fantasty, though it is far from classic, I'd recommend David Eddings' "the Belgariad" series. a great story, without too many adult overtones.
once their a few years older, peirs anthony is great for early teens.
Agreed, that is part of the problem, but the other part is that the BSs actively worship, and if you don't participate, then you are definetly sticking out like a sore thumb.
You have a point, though I completely agree with SheildW0lf on capitalism.
I think the point of the article is that FOSS tools have reach the point where the quality and usability is sufficient to make it a superior economic choice to commercial tools.
Personally I think Visual Studio is the best IDE I've ever worked with, but considering it's cost, I would be happy to use an Eclipse/NetBeans quality FOSS IDE if they started supporting.Net.
I share your pain. there is an upside to that issue though. I develop for several versions of java, and having several SDKs installed on my dev box helps me when setting up for a particular project.
It also seems that the apps themselves know what version to execute against. granted it makes little sense to have 6 updates for one version, it can be handy to have 1.4_x, 1.5_x, and 1.6_ x installed on a box.
So then you don't mind if I flip through your wallet. Install a key logger on your PC so I can get your account passwords and check to make sure you deposit to your savings every paycheck? you can trust me, I won't steal your money, or your Identification, or turn you over to operation ORE or anything.
You trust me, right? After all, as you say you have nothing to hide.
I found in the early ots, that colleges with tiny CS programs, usually introduce really competitive barriers to selection of the major, like cum GPA of 3.8+ (after finishing the entire calculus cycle), etc.
CS is a very expensive major to teach when compared to humanities or art history. the Instructors cost a ton, the equipment is a significant plant investment, and all the admins they need to retain to run all the stuff....
that said, once a college makes these investments (while trying to enlarge their CS program) these barriers are usually dropped. I have an intern from my college, and he didn't have to work nearly so hard as I did to get in.
Also you may want to ask yourself, are you ready for concentrated theory, or should you get some practical first, and they go back for the theory.
for me, the theory was meaningless at first. I needed some practical experience to act as a nexus to connect theory to practice.
Actually I'm a developer using MS Visual studio and MS SQL server. in Vista, I have to set both of them to run as admin just so they can work correctly. even more annoyingly, since there is no good runas method in vista (because of user/process isolation), our admins have decided to use UAC as the means for running tasks under another session, so I have to put my username and password in every time they launch.
ok then, lets be crystal clear about this.
So your telling me that AT&T, your company's primary participator, and Internet Content Policeman
did not require your company to develop a means to determine the content of a given P2P connection?
I find this very hard to believe. I do not want my protocol to notify my ISP everytime i connect to a tracker. Do you see how this is a privacy problem?
You may have hit on something there. Comcast uses a multi-tier hierarchy in their routing, like any big network.
The goal of a routing pattern like the one they describe however is to keep traffic local to a users distribution tier network (your neighborhood essentially), so that it traverses the hierarchy only as high as it must. that frees up bandwidth on the trunk lines upstream and the backbone connections, which may be kinda expensive.
the problem with this idea however, is that while the providers have spent billions over the last decade extending and enhancing their distribution tier (to get more customers), the local network is the source of most users congestion.
so, if P4P is going to emphasize connections as close to the curb as possible, won't that increase host-to-host transmissions on the already saturated local net?
I really don't trust utilities providers. I've seen enough to know that my state's utility regulatory commission does a good job balancing the needs of the providers with the needs of the public.
I really don't want regulation of the internet, but when I think about it, it's the content of the internet that I want unregulated, not the means by which corporate titans mangle my clickstream.
In the long run, I see NN as the only way to keep the telco's and the mafiaa from destroying the internet I love, and sucking money out of my pocket in the process.
You're right the purported goal of P4P is to inject logic that will attempt to find local (or close) users for a peering protocol, and that sounds like a good idea, right? I agree. if only i could trust the people doing it.
P4P is a major privacy killer. based on what I see at the P4P workgroup page, P4P is not a protocol or code that will be inject into existing P2P apps, it is a network management technique and toolkit that the ISPs can use to control existing and future P2P traffic, presumably without knowledge or consent from any of the peers.
In fact here is one of the project objectives:
Determine, validate, and encourage the adoption of methods for ISPs and P2P software distributors to work together to enable and support consumer service improvements as P2P adoption and resultant traffic evolves while protecting the intellectual property (IP) of participating entities Somehow I just knew IP rights would come up. I'll pay more attention when the pirate bay is in the core group. Until then, I'm not interested, logical as the idea may seem.
I'm not certain that it is a cool precedent, thought I do salute them for respecting fair use. My fear is that if these "permit & proceed" letters become common place, they may become the defacto standard by which fair use may be evaluated. Thus in the future, without a letter giving explicit permission, everything is considered unfair use by the courts. Not the way I want to play the game.
How many of those zombies are Linux platforms? Agreed, My Linux boxen are probably safe. I did however, hear a few months ago that the botnet overlords would commonly root Linux servers to act as their C&C, because of the platforms superior stability, and the fact that too many servers are "set and forgotten", especially if their uptime is near the magic 99.9%.
Theres one big problem with this, as far as I'm concerned.
the ISPs marketing guys set the price (market equilibrium price), not the facilities guys. as a result the price we pay is based on the average price a subscriber would be willing to pay, not based on the cost of creating/maintaining the infrastructure.
The price of per-meg traffic would be centered around the marketing price. Since most users use less bandwidth us techs, the ISPs will decide that the standard rate (what we all are paying now) will be based on my grandma, who uses about 4 MB/week.
For me, at 50-60 GB/month, that would probably exceed $200 which is about 2.5-3 times what I would be willing to pay.
Given the rapid rate of technological change, is there a more practical way to interface emergent technology with our legal system while retaining civil rights over corporate rights?"
NO. obviously the legal system is obsolete and should be retired. If we don't Microsoft will develop legacy compatibility for it, and then we'll have a legal system with as many security holes as it has loopholes for the ultra-wealthy.
saying that the Internet has become a sanctury for cyber-criminals is a lot like saying the physical world has become a sanctuary for (non-cyber) criminals.
Both are probably true.
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I'd say they lost the advantage when they closed the source and betrayed us all, and then when XVID came along, it became pretty darn undesirable. h264 is just the next step.
you can be as tyrannical as you want as long as it isn't a public forum. otherwise, if you give people a public soapbox (as most forums do) then the speech is the posters protected expression, not yours, regardless of your ownership of the server. nothing gives you a right not to be exposed to things you don't like, and if your forum is public, then you should have no control over content.
your party example is fair, and I agree in that set of circumstances, but I can't trust you or any other operator to ensure my freedom, thus no, you are not in control. My words are My words and as long as I don't break existing laws that restrict free speech, I have the right to express them in any public forum.
I will not give up my freedom so your feelings won't get hurt or so you can sue someone.
Actually I intend to email Amnesty International and the other charities on U2's "Hearts and Minds" page, informing them that I will boycott their organizations until any relationship with the band or it's management is severed and their links removed from the U2 site. I like Amnesty International (not as wild about greenpeace), but this greedy corporate bastard is in part using their name to sell his cyber-fascist regime.
yep. the supreme courts test is rather stupid, but lacking clear privacy regulations, the matter is subjective, and varies between people and circumstances. thus the only test is the belief of the person, and of society's agreement (or lack thereof).
You can't tell people that. if they know it, then they lose that right. I know, it's stupid, but that was exactly the argument the that the bush admin presented to the 6th circuit fed court, on the topic of online tracking. they argued that since many people work at places with tracking policies, so they no longer can expect it to be private.
now me, I know that things are trackable, but I don't believe that it is impossible to obtain privacy in a crowd as it were. I try to keep my footprint as average as possible (well except/.), and I do expect that no one will tap my communications, attempt reconnaissance on my pc, or subpoena my ISP for a copy of my mailbox. I don't think that that is unreasonable.
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I remember being a touch titillated by anthony's work at about that age. My first instinct is to leave him till the reader is 12 or so, but it depends on the kid.
I would typically leave mcaffrey for early teens and up. I was rather surprised that for an elderly lady, Ann is really into male homosexuality. nothing wrong with that, but may be better for a slightly older audience.
in terms of fantasty, though it is far from classic, I'd recommend David Eddings' "the Belgariad" series. a great story, without too many adult overtones.
once their a few years older, peirs anthony is great for early teens.
Blackdown on Linux is the most compelling reason to OSS java.
Personally I'm very pleased that they opened it. I much prefer to write my code against the same runtime that will be used to run it.
Agreed, that is part of the problem, but the other part is that the BSs actively worship, and if you don't participate, then you are definetly sticking out like a sore thumb.
You have a point, though I completely agree with SheildW0lf on capitalism. .Net.
I think the point of the article is that FOSS tools have reach the point where the quality and usability is sufficient to make it a superior economic choice to commercial tools.
Personally I think Visual Studio is the best IDE I've ever worked with, but considering it's cost, I would be happy to use an Eclipse/NetBeans quality FOSS IDE if they started supporting
I share your pain. there is an upside to that issue though. I develop for several versions of java, and having several SDKs installed on my dev box helps me when setting up for a particular project.
It also seems that the apps themselves know what version to execute against. granted it makes little sense to have 6 updates for one version, it can be handy to have 1.4_x, 1.5_x, and 1.6_ x installed on a box.
So then you don't mind if I flip through your wallet. Install a key logger on your PC so I can get your account passwords and check to make sure you deposit to your savings every paycheck? you can trust me, I won't steal your money, or your Identification, or turn you over to operation ORE or anything.
You trust me, right? After all, as you say you have nothing to hide.
I found in the early ots, that colleges with tiny CS programs, usually introduce really competitive barriers to selection of the major, like cum GPA of 3.8+ (after finishing the entire calculus cycle), etc. CS is a very expensive major to teach when compared to humanities or art history. the Instructors cost a ton, the equipment is a significant plant investment, and all the admins they need to retain to run all the stuff....
that said, once a college makes these investments (while trying to enlarge their CS program) these barriers are usually dropped. I have an intern from my college, and he didn't have to work nearly so hard as I did to get in.
Also you may want to ask yourself, are you ready for concentrated theory, or should you get some practical first, and they go back for the theory. for me, the theory was meaningless at first. I needed some practical experience to act as a nexus to connect theory to practice.
just some things to think about.
good luck!
Actually I'm a developer using MS Visual studio and MS SQL server. in Vista, I have to set both of them to run as admin just so they can work correctly. even more annoyingly, since there is no good runas method in vista (because of user/process isolation), our admins have decided to use UAC as the means for running tasks under another session, so I have to put my username and password in every time they launch.
ok then, lets be crystal clear about this. So your telling me that AT&T, your company's primary participator, and Internet Content Policeman did not require your company to develop a means to determine the content of a given P2P connection?
I find this very hard to believe. I do not want my protocol to notify my ISP everytime i connect to a tracker. Do you see how this is a privacy problem?
You may have hit on something there. Comcast uses a multi-tier hierarchy in their routing, like any big network.
The goal of a routing pattern like the one they describe however is to keep traffic local to a users distribution tier network (your neighborhood essentially), so that it traverses the hierarchy only as high as it must. that frees up bandwidth on the trunk lines upstream and the backbone connections, which may be kinda expensive.
the problem with this idea however, is that while the providers have spent billions over the last decade extending and enhancing their distribution tier (to get more customers), the local network is the source of most users congestion.
so, if P4P is going to emphasize connections as close to the curb as possible, won't that increase host-to-host transmissions on the already saturated local net?
I really don't trust utilities providers. I've seen enough to know that my state's utility regulatory commission does a good job balancing the needs of the providers with the needs of the public.
I really don't want regulation of the internet, but when I think about it, it's the content of the internet that I want unregulated, not the means by which corporate titans mangle my clickstream.
In the long run, I see NN as the only way to keep the telco's and the mafiaa from destroying the internet I love, and sucking money out of my pocket in the process.
P4P is a major privacy killer. based on what I see at the P4P workgroup page, P4P is not a protocol or code that will be inject into existing P2P apps, it is a network management technique and toolkit that the ISPs can use to control existing and future P2P traffic, presumably without knowledge or consent from any of the peers. In fact here is one of the project objectives: Determine, validate, and encourage the adoption of methods for ISPs and P2P software distributors to work together to enable and support consumer service improvements as P2P adoption and resultant traffic evolves while protecting the intellectual property (IP) of participating entities Somehow I just knew IP rights would come up. I'll pay more attention when the pirate bay is in the core group. Until then, I'm not interested, logical as the idea may seem.
I'm not certain that it is a cool precedent, thought I do salute them for respecting fair use. My fear is that if these "permit & proceed" letters become common place, they may become the defacto standard by which fair use may be evaluated. Thus in the future, without a letter giving explicit permission, everything is considered unfair use by the courts. Not the way I want to play the game.
Computerworld botnet C&C article
Theres one big problem with this, as far as I'm concerned.
/week.
the ISPs marketing guys set the price (market equilibrium price), not the facilities guys. as a result the price we pay is based on the average price a subscriber would be willing to pay, not based on the cost of creating/maintaining the infrastructure.
The price of per-meg traffic would be centered around the marketing price. Since most users use less bandwidth us techs, the ISPs will decide that the standard rate (what we all are paying now) will be based on my grandma, who uses about 4 MB
For me, at 50-60 GB/month, that would probably exceed $200 which is about 2.5-3 times what I would be willing to pay.
NO. obviously the legal system is obsolete and should be retired. If we don't Microsoft will develop legacy compatibility for it, and then we'll have a legal system with as many security holes as it has loopholes for the ultra-wealthy.
saying that the Internet has become a sanctury for cyber-criminals is a lot like saying the physical world has become a sanctuary for (non-cyber) criminals.
Both are probably true.
I'd say they lost the advantage when they closed the source and betrayed us all, and then when XVID came along, it became pretty darn undesirable. h264 is just the next step.
ummmm... KVM is an upstart in the Virtulazation market. thats what they're saying.... they are not refering to a peice of software called "Upstart".
you can be as tyrannical as you want as long as it isn't a public forum. otherwise, if you give people a public soapbox (as most forums do) then the speech is the posters protected expression, not yours, regardless of your ownership of the server. nothing gives you a right not to be exposed to things you don't like, and if your forum is public, then you should have no control over content.
your party example is fair, and I agree in that set of circumstances, but I can't trust you or any other operator to ensure my freedom, thus no, you are not in control. My words are My words and as long as I don't break existing laws that restrict free speech, I have the right to express them in any public forum.
I will not give up my freedom so your feelings won't get hurt or so you can sue someone.
Actually I intend to email Amnesty International and the other charities on U2's "Hearts and Minds" page, informing them that I will boycott their organizations until any relationship with the band or it's management is severed and their links removed from the U2 site. I like Amnesty International (not as wild about greenpeace), but this greedy corporate bastard is in part using their name to sell his cyber-fascist regime.
yep. the supreme courts test is rather stupid, but lacking clear privacy regulations, the matter is subjective, and varies between people and circumstances. thus the only test is the belief of the person, and of society's agreement (or lack thereof).
You can't tell people that. if they know it, then they lose that right. I know, it's stupid, but that was exactly the argument the that the bush admin presented to the 6th circuit fed court, on the topic of online tracking. they argued that since many people work at places with tracking policies, so they no longer can expect it to be private.
/.), and I do expect that no one will tap my communications, attempt reconnaissance on my pc, or subpoena my ISP for a copy of my mailbox. I don't think that that is unreasonable.
now me, I know that things are trackable, but I don't believe that it is impossible to obtain privacy in a crowd as it were. I try to keep my footprint as average as possible (well except