"Traffic monitoring is one example of surveillance I would vote for tomorrow, if it came up on a ballot initiative. Traffic fatalities happen when people are reckless, when you "just didn't see" the child crossing the road, or the deer in the dark; or you "didn't have time to swerve" out of the way of a drunk driver, or you lose control in a curve when you hit black ice you don't expect. Not to mention that traffic signalling systems are designed to work within traffic law. When people cheat, traffic systems break, traffic backs-up, more people cheat, the traffic gets worse (see a pattern here?) "
Were you aware, that when the national speed limit was removed and speed limits were increased, accidents overall and fatal accidents dropped? Traffic tends to flow at the fastest safe speed, regardless of the speed limit. And if you read the previous articles on this, you would have seen that red-light cameras actually increased the number of accidents. I fundamentally also have a serious problem with any business that makes money off of the law, like lockheed martin does with their photo-radar and red-light cameras (about $30 a ticket). I don't mind cameras, but I do have a problem using them to enforce menial traffic violations. What if the radar isn't calibrated correctly? Do you want a $250 ticket mailed to you if you were going the speed limit?
suddenly the people who own the computer suddenly lose the right to control the content? The Company you work or or the school that you attend owns that computer that they installed the internet filtering software on, and they have as much right to "censor" internet access on their computer as you have to "censor" email from spammers on your computer.
The reason I have a right to complain when my school/library restricts my access to the internet is because although they own the computers, where do you think they got the money to pay for them?
I have no problem with an employer restricting access, they paid for everything.
Just because you do something first doesn't make you better at it. The russians built a space station. The US went to the moon several times. That is like saying that because my grandparents have been driving longer than me, I should take there advice when I buy a new car. This is a new space station, an INTERNATIONAL one. Russia stepped out of their boundaries by promising this schmuck a ride in exchange for money.
I went through the same dilema. I am currently a CS major in a school of engineering. Which means that I will take all the core engineering courses and have an engineering background in computer science. To a company, this looks better than a "arts and science" CS degree. My school also offers computer engineering. They have a chart of courses that overlap between Comp Eng, Electrical Eng, and Comp Sci. as far as courses go, Comp Eng is basically a cross between CS and EE. The professor in a Comp Eng course I took described what a Comp Eng does: "He constructs and communicates with intelligent machines".
You will find CS to be a lot more programming theory and high level language stuff. Analyze yourself, what do you like to do? One of the best things you can do is find someone in the field! Ask them what they do. Find an EE, a Comp Eng, and a Comp scientist, compare/contrast what they do. Try and get a job doing something in the field. My first job was just entering junk into a database. While there, I learned how to design them and now I get paid more than all my friends.
What about that whole legal thing with accessing a system you are not authorized to...I didn't think whether you could break into it or not mattered all that much (not that there is much breaking involved in windows) ??.
That just is not the case. If it was then please explain why it is legal for me to copy music for my friends and family and not steal duplicates of my car for them? IP IS NOT THE SAME AS PHSYICAL PROPERTY! You cannot make the comparison.
I think the best way to destroy would be to bring it to the Herkimer Diamond Mines (http://www.wpi.edu/~stype/herk2k.html (see pictures)). Just use it as a fulcrum or a chisel and it won't last long. I have seen old leaf springs (tempered steal, VERY hard!) that had been converted into wedges twisted worse than Dale Earnhardt's car.
Or you could just give it to my friend Liz, she seems to break everything....
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Yes, Intellectual Property IS different. When the original copyright laws were being made, there was a realization that a person should not be able to control an idea forever. Thats why there is a time period for copyrights. Medical patents only last 7 years so one pharmecutical company cannot corner the market on a particular drug. Copyrighted material should (and does) become public domain after the creator is given plenty of time to recoup any losses on its creation.
Imagine that...They DO respond to issues when it slaps them in the face. Now how do we get other issues to slap them around a bit before things go too far?
I was at radio shack picking up some various little things and they ASKED me if I had a "cat". I said "A cuecat?"
they said "Wow, He knows what one is."
They proceeded to hand me one. I never agreed to anything. There is no agreement even on the package. They just handed me a chunk of hardware. They never even said what I was supposed to do with it.
Any Business model that involves handing out the hardware and relying completely on service charges should have a more secure method.
I met a few people in high school who appeared to believe in magical stuff. I never really knew for sure. You could find hackers in the magical group, but it was most certainly not entirely computer nerds. I never really knew for sure if they actually believed in that stuff or if they were just trying to be completely different (scary too) from everyone else. The latter seemed to make more sense to me.
My father is a high school teacher, pretty good one I think, and he believes that a lot of parents (especially (not all of course) the real artsy types) try to let their children raise themselves. The parents don't pay any attention to their children, so the children go looking for attention elsewhere. After all, negative attention is better than no attention at all, right?
Personally, as far as religion goes, I don't have a freakin' clue what "is". Anyone who tells you they have it all figured out is either lying or crazy.
On another note, everyone has seen those religious zealots, right? My roomate described them in a manner that I thought fit perfectly: They have sold their souls to their religion, and now there is no hope for them. My girlfriend ran into one of those people on her college campus the other day. Spouting BS about how gays are going to hell and premarital sex is a mortal sin...etc... To me, those people are a lot scarrier than the magic people.
Thats exactly it. I am currently a Sophomore Computer Science Major at Lehigh University. Freshman year, like all the other engineers, I had to take 2 courses of English. I also have to take some other electives that are not tech related. Its not because I need to be able to write plays like shakespeare and novels like Stephen King, but as much as I hate english I know that I need to be able to write things down in a manner that other people (those figures that you see on TV sometimes, maybe walking in your house too) can understand. One of Lehigh's biggest claims is that their engineers have a higher starting pay than the average engineer after graduating. The reason being -> They know what companies want in an engineer. If I were highering people, I would take a college graduate over a High School graduate most any day. Going to college shows that you are capable of higher learning. Thats why we do it.
I have to admit, eletric cars are a wonderful idea, but still quite a ways from true usefulness. Batteries still cost a fortune and are too heavy. Imagine just a SUV-sized electric vehicle. It would weigh over 3 tons. Already insurance companies are starting to jack up collision insurance on SUVs cuz they have so much mass, they destroy everything they hit. Also, electric motors don't come close to the power of gasoline/diesel. I hate driving my mom's car cuz the acceleration sucks. It scares the hell out of me when I have to get on the highway via 10 foot 30 degree grade entrance ramp. I still believe it would be much better to go after using alcohol-based cars (no emissions except CO2) or hydrogen fueled cars (no bad emissions, except possible some nitrogen dioxide or anything else in the air that might burn). Fuel cells would be the best option but they are still appear to be a few years from the market. But overall anything that gives you more efficiency, power, and less emissions is a step in the right direction. Just remember what people want -> a car that has lots of power and is cheap to run. P.S. I drive a CRX and I really like it, but its not real practical for anything but a college student.
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I was wondering why a computer would need Electronic Fuel Injection...
I like to call it the "Clitoris".
It just seems to fit.
"Traffic monitoring is one example of surveillance I would vote for tomorrow, if it came up on a ballot initiative. Traffic fatalities happen when people are reckless, when you "just didn't see" the child crossing the road, or the deer in the dark; or you "didn't have time to swerve" out of the way of a drunk driver, or you lose control in a curve when you hit black ice you don't expect.
Not to mention that traffic signalling systems are designed to work within traffic law. When people cheat, traffic systems break, traffic backs-up, more people cheat, the traffic gets worse (see a pattern here?) "
Were you aware, that when the national speed limit was removed and speed limits were increased, accidents overall and fatal accidents dropped? Traffic tends to flow at the fastest safe speed, regardless of the speed limit. And if you read the previous articles on this, you would have seen that red-light cameras actually increased the number of accidents. I fundamentally also have a serious problem with any business that makes money off of the law, like lockheed martin does with their photo-radar and red-light cameras (about $30 a ticket). I don't mind cameras, but I do have a problem using them to enforce menial traffic violations. What if the radar isn't calibrated correctly? Do you want a $250 ticket mailed to you if you were going the speed limit?
I have no problem with an employer restricting access, they paid for everything.
Cerebral Paulsy is not really preventable. Sorry.
I setup my speedometer in my car to display my speed in furlongs per fortnight. Whats wrong with that?
Just because you do something first doesn't make you better at it. The russians built a space station. The US went to the moon several times. That is like saying that because my grandparents have been driving longer than me, I should take there advice when I buy a new car. This is a new space station, an INTERNATIONAL one. Russia stepped out of their boundaries by promising this schmuck a ride in exchange for money.
I have been wanting coke on tap in my house for years!! Send it on over!
I went through the same dilema. I am currently a CS major in a school of engineering. Which means that I will take all the core engineering courses and have an engineering background in computer science. To a company, this looks better than a "arts and science" CS degree. My school also offers computer engineering. They have a chart of courses that overlap between Comp Eng, Electrical Eng, and Comp Sci. as far as courses go, Comp Eng is basically a cross between CS and EE. The professor in a Comp Eng course I took described what a Comp Eng does: "He constructs and communicates with intelligent machines".
You will find CS to be a lot more programming theory and high level language stuff. Analyze yourself, what do you like to do? One of the best things you can do is find someone in the field! Ask them what they do. Find an EE, a Comp Eng, and a Comp scientist, compare/contrast what they do. Try and get a job doing something in the field. My first job was just entering junk into a database. While there, I learned how to design them and now I get paid more than all my friends.
What about that whole legal thing with accessing a system you are not authorized to...I didn't think whether you could break into it or not mattered all that much (not that there is much breaking involved in windows) ??.
That just is not the case. If it was then please explain why it is legal for me to copy music for my friends and family and not steal duplicates of my car for them? IP IS NOT THE SAME AS PHSYICAL PROPERTY! You cannot make the comparison.
I think the best way to destroy would be to bring it to the Herkimer Diamond Mines (http://www.wpi.edu/~stype/herk2k.html (see pictures)). Just use it as a fulcrum or a chisel and it won't last long. I have seen old leaf springs (tempered steal, VERY hard!) that had been converted into wedges twisted worse than Dale Earnhardt's car.
Or you could just give it to my friend Liz, she seems to break everything....
Wonder what the aliens will think when they meet 5 women all PMSing at once?
We'll strip-mine the other planets later!
Yes, Intellectual Property IS different. When the original copyright laws were being made, there was a realization that a person should not be able to control an idea forever. Thats why there is a time period for copyrights. Medical patents only last 7 years so one pharmecutical company cannot corner the market on a particular drug. Copyrighted material should (and does) become public domain after the creator is given plenty of time to recoup any losses on its creation.
so what do you call a "frisbee"(tm) when you do not wish to pay Whammo royalties?
We ultimate players call it a "disc". Last I checked it didn't use optics or lasers though.
Imagine that...They DO respond to issues when it slaps them in the face. Now how do we get other issues to slap them around a bit before things go too far?
I am a firm supporter of the bottoms-up programming method! *GULP*
As other people have stated...
I was at radio shack picking up some various little things and they ASKED me if I had a "cat". I said "A cuecat?"
they said "Wow, He knows what one is."
They proceeded to hand me one. I never agreed to anything. There is no agreement even on the package. They just handed me a chunk of hardware. They never even said what I was supposed to do with it.
Any Business model that involves handing out the hardware and relying completely on service charges should have a more secure method.
I met a few people in high school who appeared to believe in magical stuff. I never really knew for sure. You could find hackers in the magical group, but it was most certainly not entirely computer nerds. I never really knew for sure if they actually believed in that stuff or if they were just trying to be completely different (scary too) from everyone else. The latter seemed to make more sense to me.
My father is a high school teacher, pretty good one I think, and he believes that a lot of parents (especially (not all of course) the real artsy types) try to let their children raise themselves. The parents don't pay any attention to their children, so the children go looking for attention elsewhere. After all, negative attention is better than no attention at all, right?
Personally, as far as religion goes, I don't have a freakin' clue what "is". Anyone who tells you they have it all figured out is either lying or crazy.
On another note, everyone has seen those religious zealots, right? My roomate described them in a manner that I thought fit perfectly: They have sold their souls to their religion, and now there is no hope for them. My girlfriend ran into one of those people on her college campus the other day. Spouting BS about how gays are going to hell and premarital sex is a mortal sin...etc... To me, those people are a lot scarrier than the magic people.
Thats exactly it. I am currently a Sophomore Computer Science Major at Lehigh University. Freshman year, like all the other engineers, I had to take 2 courses of English. I also have to take some other electives that are not tech related. Its not because I need to be able to write plays like shakespeare and novels like Stephen King, but as much as I hate english I know that I need to be able to write things down in a manner that other people (those figures that you see on TV sometimes, maybe walking in your house too) can understand. One of Lehigh's biggest claims is that their engineers have a higher starting pay than the average engineer after graduating. The reason being -> They know what companies want in an engineer. If I were highering people, I would take a college graduate over a High School graduate most any day. Going to college shows that you are capable of higher learning. Thats why we do it.
I have to admit, eletric cars are a wonderful idea, but still quite a ways from true usefulness. Batteries still cost a fortune and are too heavy. Imagine just a SUV-sized electric vehicle. It would weigh over 3 tons. Already insurance companies are starting to jack up collision insurance on SUVs cuz they have so much mass, they destroy everything they hit. Also, electric motors don't come close to the power of gasoline/diesel. I hate driving my mom's car cuz the acceleration sucks. It scares the hell out of me when I have to get on the highway via 10 foot 30 degree grade entrance ramp. I still believe it would be much better to go after using alcohol-based cars (no emissions except CO2) or hydrogen fueled cars (no bad emissions, except possible some nitrogen dioxide or anything else in the air that might burn). Fuel cells would be the best option but they are still appear to be a few years from the market. But overall anything that gives you more efficiency, power, and less emissions is a step in the right direction. Just remember what people want -> a car that has lots of power and is cheap to run. P.S. I drive a CRX and I really like it, but its not real practical for anything but a college student.