You would think so... but that's not the case. In some states, using a computer to access any private information is a felony. Also, using a computer to alarm someone is also a felony. Not harrassment; Computer Tampering. Our justice system is as ignorrant of computers as your grandma... and just as scared.
I was just thinking thinking about the same system he has setup-- but where the water is boiled off the chip into steam... If it could be totally sealed that would hella cool. Of course, it would have to be large. But, you could add plants and simple animals to the ecosystem and it would be an interesting conversational piece
Can you imagine trying to read a recipe overlaid upon the ingredients you are trying to cook with? Maybe display it on the wall or something, but to imagine your worksurface limited in such a fashion and call it convienience is simply absurd.
The only way you can really be safe is to have your data stored offshore in a country ala Kazaa with AES loopback encryption served over a vpn/coda connection routed to your friends server in Australia or Estonia, but which is actually sitting in the vacant house next door and accessing the internet through a nearby insecure 802.11 network and routing the traffic over vpn back to your own anonymous wireless connection.
Actually I'm sure you'd still get busted for you anime pron. There really is no feasible way to protect your information from everyone. If the government or a thief wants your information; they are going to throw you in jail or put a knife to your throat (respectively?).
So use encryption but don't count on it saving your ass.
It's not as if you have to be on top of the game in IT. At least, not the government sector.. Most managers and senior support staff are in their 30's and 40's and completely ignorant of whats been going on for the past 5 years.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the harder it is to catch someone doing a particular crime; the more extreme the punishment can be. Regardless of the seriousness of the offense
Take for instance harrasment. You harass someone in public; that's a misdemeanor in most cases. Now, if you use a computer to harass someone-- THATS A FELONY?? Read the LAW, in Arizona at least. Basically, if you use a computer to do pretty much anything; you're a Felon.
The only reason I can think of is because it is harder to catch people online. But is that a fair reason to increase punishment? Because most investigators don't know how to use computers?
I think this is also the reason why you're supposed to walk your bike across the street... not for any safety reason, but to briefly become a pedestrian in the eyes of the law.... In other words riding a bike across a crosswalk would be the same as driving your car across it.
My story; mixed drive speeds, sizes, software raid
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I setup Software IDE RAID in linux about 6 months ago. I had a fast 40 gig drive (IBM 60GXP) but I heard about a lot of failures with them, so I took my old WD 20 gig, slow piece of crap and mirrored my 20 gig linux partition on it (I wasn't worried about losing my Windows Partition). The performance hit was very mild, surprisingly. The Software RAID was smart enough to put most of the load on the faster drive, at least for reading. Writing was the only thing that took a bit longer, but only about 10%. A few reading functions were actually a tiny bit faster, according to the Bonnie benchmark. Overall, the piece of mind was worth it. . . until the county Sheriff stole my computers....
"Shafted for a paltry US$ 2000? Not in your wildest linga-longer dreams!"
Joris Komen
Founding Executive Director, SchoolNet Namibia and NetDay Namibia
Why doesn't the US school system have REAL leaders like Joris?
"Seeing" it is exactly where MS comes ahead. Use Windows XP for a few hours and it is absolutely amazing, visually and technically. And I'm sure this "Tablet" PC is the same way. But within a year of use it still turns out to be a huge pile of shit. Aren't all MS products like this?
Evidently not. He probably would have quit, however, he was an insidious genious. He knew stalling the Atari project for a year would help his future plans: World Domination of course.
Faculty and staff at the college where I work are getting new Compaq Evo P4 1.7ghz computers, new iMacs, and G4 computers. The computers they are replacing are typically high end Pentium II, low-end Pentium III and G3/ low-end G4 Macintosh systems.
WHAT THE HELL? These people are doing absolutely NOTHING besides Email and Word Processing, and maybe a little Filemaker Pro. But they manage to fuck up their computers with DeskFlag, Webshots, Comet Cursor, etc, etc. And then they bitch to their Department Heads, and if ONE person gets a computer upgrade, you can bet every adjacent office will be getting an upgrade soon after that. It's the biggest waste of resources I have seen (with my own eyes). Maybe I'm just bitching because I use a PIII/550 at work:-P At least my boss lets me use linux! Citrix is pretty cool stuff.
Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona is soon to be moving from Netscape 4.x to Internet Explorer as it's supported official browser. Much to my frustration, cited reasons for the move are things like "there has been no indication of a Netscape Communicator 5.0 release. AOL has dropped support for LDAP in 'Netscape Navigator 6.x' which is not as robust as the communicator product was. Overall lack of development and support"
I think Netscape shot itself in the foot when it released Netscape 6.0 w/o LDAP support. The clueless leaders haven't even heard of Mozilla, and they don't know LDAP support has returned, and that roaming profile support is in development. So now they are back in Microsoft's pocket, going to Outlook w/ Exchange to replace the LDAP features they think are missing in Netscape (Navigator?) 6.x. Yeah, they don't even realize it is just "Netscape" now, and should be called "Communicator" if anything else.
Slashdot Mirror
You would think so... but that's not the case. In some states, using a computer to access any private information is a felony. Also, using a computer to alarm someone is also a felony. Not harrassment; Computer Tampering. Our justice system is as ignorrant of computers as your grandma... and just as scared.
Dark Sucker Theory.. .
More importantly; it's a moving part. When computers have absolutely no moving parts... well, that will be nice.
I was just thinking thinking about the same system he has setup-- but where the water is boiled off the chip into steam... If it could be totally sealed that would hella cool. Of course, it would have to be large. But, you could add plants and simple animals to the ecosystem and it would be an interesting conversational piece
It's called a Prototype.
Can you imagine trying to read a recipe overlaid upon the ingredients you are trying to cook with? Maybe display it on the wall or something, but to imagine your worksurface limited in such a fashion and call it convienience is simply absurd.
The only way you can really be safe is to have your data stored offshore in a country ala Kazaa with AES loopback encryption served over a vpn/coda connection routed to your friends server in Australia or Estonia, but which is actually sitting in the vacant house next door and accessing the internet through a nearby insecure 802.11 network and routing the traffic over vpn back to your own anonymous wireless connection.
Actually I'm sure you'd still get busted for you anime pron. There really is no feasible way to protect your information from everyone. If the government or a thief wants your information; they are going to throw you in jail or put a knife to your throat (respectively?).
So use encryption but don't count on it saving your ass.
Beachball of Death!
(I heard this complaint from faculty using iBooks and Jaguar)
It's not as if you have to be on top of the game in IT. At least, not the government sector.. Most managers and senior support staff are in their 30's and 40's and completely ignorant of whats been going on for the past 5 years.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the harder it is to catch someone doing a particular crime; the more extreme the punishment can be. Regardless of the seriousness of the offense
Take for instance harrasment. You harass someone in public; that's a misdemeanor in most cases. Now, if you use a computer to harass someone-- THATS A FELONY?? Read the LAW, in Arizona at least. Basically, if you use a computer to do pretty much anything; you're a Felon.
The only reason I can think of is because it is harder to catch people online. But is that a fair reason to increase punishment? Because most investigators don't know how to use computers?
Careful lets not start another war about pipelines and the "Megahertz Myth". . . .
. . .have the advantage anyway?
Black or White??
I think this is also the reason why you're supposed to walk your bike across the street... not for any safety reason, but to briefly become a pedestrian in the eyes of the law.... In other words riding a bike across a crosswalk would be the same as driving your car across it.
I setup Software IDE RAID in linux about 6 months ago. I had a fast 40 gig drive (IBM 60GXP) but I heard about a lot of failures with them, so I took my old WD 20 gig, slow piece of crap and mirrored my 20 gig linux partition on it (I wasn't worried about losing my Windows Partition). The performance hit was very mild, surprisingly. The Software RAID was smart enough to put most of the load on the faster drive, at least for reading. Writing was the only thing that took a bit longer, but only about 10%. A few reading functions were actually a tiny bit faster, according to the Bonnie benchmark. Overall, the piece of mind was worth it. . . until the county Sheriff stole my computers....
remove the extra space that slashdot put in the link he posted.
Joris Komen
Founding Executive Director, SchoolNet Namibia and NetDay Namibia
Why doesn't the US school system have REAL leaders like Joris?
"Seeing" it is exactly where MS comes ahead. Use Windows XP for a few hours and it is absolutely amazing, visually and technically. And I'm sure this "Tablet" PC is the same way. But within a year of use it still turns out to be a huge pile of shit. Aren't all MS products like this?
Is Smoochy the Rhino!!!!!
I'm no electrical engineer, but Ohms is a measure of Resistance, not conductivity. Interestingly enough, Mhos is the reciprocal measurment of Ohms.
New reason to wash your hands after pissing. Your PDA may pick up viruses left in the static charge of bathroom doorhandles, etc. For serious.
Evidently not. He probably would have quit, however, he was an insidious genious. He knew stalling the Atari project for a year would help his future plans: World Domination of course.
WHAT THE HELL? These people are doing absolutely NOTHING besides Email and Word Processing, and maybe a little Filemaker Pro. But they manage to fuck up their computers with DeskFlag, Webshots, Comet Cursor, etc, etc. And then they bitch to their Department Heads, and if ONE person gets a computer upgrade, you can bet every adjacent office will be getting an upgrade soon after that. It's the biggest waste of resources I have seen (with my own eyes). Maybe I'm just bitching because I use a PIII/550 at work :-P At least my boss lets me use linux! Citrix is pretty cool stuff.
Signs. I saw it last night; the acting was so forced and methodical-- it must have been robots
I think Netscape shot itself in the foot when it released Netscape 6.0 w/o LDAP support. The clueless leaders haven't even heard of Mozilla, and they don't know LDAP support has returned, and that roaming profile support is in development. So now they are back in Microsoft's pocket, going to Outlook w/ Exchange to replace the LDAP features they think are missing in Netscape (Navigator?) 6.x. Yeah, they don't even realize it is just "Netscape" now, and should be called "Communicator" if anything else.