"In Washington DC, the schools spend about $9000 per student per year (figures from memory, but they're close). That's a lot of jack, and Washington DC public schools are horrible."
Please do the math. Figuring 30 hours of school per week for forty weeks (numbers should be close to fact) that's only $7.50 per student per hour. Most yuppie parents would hardly blink an eye at that kind of rate for decent daycare.
"The United States by any conceivable measure has the finest scientists in the world."
Well DUH! Because many of the best scientific minds from around the world come here because most of the MONEY and RESOURCES are here. If there's no money to do your research, there's no research.
If you want to attract the best employees to your company, you need to provide the BEST incomes, the BEST benefits, and the BEST work environments. Compare this theory with what our public school teachers get and you will see why the overall quality of teachers is so low. The starting pay is LOWER than an equally-educated person can get an office job. School levies get voted down when they look for pay increases for the teachers, often times because teaching is seen as a cushie job that gets a lot of time off. Subtract off of their salaries the monies that many teachers spend out of their own pockets to buy supplies for their rooms, as the schools cannot afford to buy it for them.
Damnit, teachers should be some of the highest-paid professionals in the nation and not some of the lowest!
No, I'm not a teacher. I'm not even related to one, unless you count my psycho mother-in-law. Did I mention the poor quality of teachers?
Hello, subscriber to my ISP services. You, along with tens-of-thousands (or was that hundreds-of-thousands) other people, have selected our services to access the Internet.
If you haven't guessed already, we are attempting to be a profitable company. Most of you all are law-abiding citizens who on occasion like looking at porn sites, which as long as it is not in violation of your communities indecency laws we do not care. However, there are a limited number of you who take part in the illegal trade of intellectual property.
We don't have the time or the FTE's to devote to look at each accusation of piracy that we receive, so instead of getting our balls in a vice we have deemed it best to just cut you off if we get a complaint about you. Jump through some hoops for us and we'll consider reconnecting your Internet.
For us, like any other business, it's about money. We would rather lose your $40/mo. than get nailed for hudreds of thousands of dollars in damages by the MPAA. At the very least we'd have to hire some expensive lawyers to protect us in the matter.
I would like to sue the RIAA, the MPAA, the owners of the website Copyright.net, the writers of and voters for the DMCA, as well as the 52 "independent songwriters and music publishers" for "viral" stupidity.
Each of these groups in their own special ways have contributed to the widely-assumed fallacy that all of their efforts are to protect the world from eye-patched, peg-legged, rum-swilling pirates (let's face it, the masses think of visions of Blackbeard at a keyboard when the term piracy is used in conjunction with computers).
Instead, the RIAA sued to become the only legal group to be allowed to steal vast sums of money from musicians. Microsoft only dreams of such power. The MPAA sued to make sure that they weren't forced to expand their potential DVD market to include Linux users (after all, VHS killed the movie theaters so they need to keep on top of these things). Copyright.net's suit will be charged to their advertising budget. The DMCA suits are to make sure that the horrible IBM cloning nightmare never happens again (boy did THAT hurt the industry!). And those independent songwriters and music publishers sued to make sure that they had a plan to fall back on in case the rest of the world never realizes how truly brilliant their musical indeavors are.
For obvious reasons I'm claiming a massive amount of damage has been done to what was left of my beliefs that the justice system works, instead of the justice system "Will Work For Bribe Money". They have taken a corporation-sized DUMP on my First Amendment Rights as a US citizen, and used the laws of foreign countries to wipe their asses as they prosecute individuals from around the world for letting their Tools of Mass Copyright Infringement to flow through THEIR (big business') Internet.
I am seeking their collective disbandment as my compensatory damages to make sure they don't ever attempt shit like this again, and for punitive damages I want their leaders' gene pool drained. It may not keep these things from happening again, but it sure goes a long way towards that dream.
I'm sorry, but if the kernel has a bunch of modifications done by people who find it necessary to be referred to as the initials for Anonymous Coward then how can we trust the security of the kernel?
They get modded down on/. but then get merged into the kernel source? Let's make a stand and stick to it!
Oh, and I copied these comments to a text file so I can repost it in the event that/. pukes up it's guts again.
Most interesting! I ironically linked to Linux Mandrake in my link on McRosoft and it puts the TRUE name of the link in brackets! Must be the new Goatse.cx feature.
Honestly, while I agree that we must stop DOS at all costs, I fail to see why this is news. Hell, it could be argued that even McRosoft themselves do a good job at getting people to quit using the product.
Not bad, but let us not forget that it is Barry Manilow that writes the songs that make the whole world sing. And that, my friends, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I am SICK of people clammoring for all this eye candy shit. And getting all orgasmic about a game that's big promise is to drop your top-of-the-line $300 video card to it's knees so you have to throw it out in favor of ANOTHER more EXPENSIVE video card is wrong on so many levels.
Half-Life, Counter Strike, and the latest update Blue-whatever are based on the Quake I engine, and they kick ass because they are fun to play. And the best games of all time are considered great because of their playability, not because of their eye candy.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least bit if Carmack had heavy investments in nVidia stock. Hopefully when another "gee whiz it looks great but it plays like a dead dog" major release bombs we might get back to what games are best at: being fun.
They are listed as references at the end of the document.
Another bit of interesting text was in the acknowledgements:
"We informed Stuart Kerry, the 802.11 Working Group Chair, that we success-fully
implemented the Fluhrer, et al. attack. Stuart replied that the 802.11 Working
Group is in the process of revising the security, among other aspects, of the standard
and appreciates this line of work as valuable input for developing robust technical
specifications."
Nice to know that they let Mr Kerry know ahead of time and that they are already working on revising the standard, instead of taking the capitalistic approach of sending it to the courts.
"The WEP standard uses RC4 IVs
improperly, and the attack exploits this design failure."
I don't get it. This is a standard, so isn't it supposed to go through some rigorous testing? Aren't there supposed to be some rather smart people involved in the creation of a wireless networking standard? If so, how could all these brainies improperly implement encryption?
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#4, Your local DSL providers ignore your emails requesting service because they cannot figure out all your typos.
They're working hard at being mediocre, and that's good enough for me.
"In Washington DC, the schools spend about $9000 per student per year (figures from memory, but they're close). That's a lot of jack, and Washington DC public schools are horrible."
Please do the math. Figuring 30 hours of school per week for forty weeks (numbers should be close to fact) that's only $7.50 per student per hour. Most yuppie parents would hardly blink an eye at that kind of rate for decent daycare.
"The United States by any conceivable measure has the finest scientists in the world."
Well DUH! Because many of the best scientific minds from around the world come here because most of the MONEY and RESOURCES are here. If there's no money to do your research, there's no research.
If you want to attract the best employees to your company, you need to provide the BEST incomes, the BEST benefits, and the BEST work environments. Compare this theory with what our public school teachers get and you will see why the overall quality of teachers is so low. The starting pay is LOWER than an equally-educated person can get an office job. School levies get voted down when they look for pay increases for the teachers, often times because teaching is seen as a cushie job that gets a lot of time off. Subtract off of their salaries the monies that many teachers spend out of their own pockets to buy supplies for their rooms, as the schools cannot afford to buy it for them.
Damnit, teachers should be some of the highest-paid professionals in the nation and not some of the lowest!
No, I'm not a teacher. I'm not even related to one, unless you count my psycho mother-in-law. Did I mention the poor quality of teachers?
Hello, subscriber to my ISP services. You, along with tens-of-thousands (or was that hundreds-of-thousands) other people, have selected our services to access the Internet.
If you haven't guessed already, we are attempting to be a profitable company. Most of you all are law-abiding citizens who on occasion like looking at porn sites, which as long as it is not in violation of your communities indecency laws we do not care. However, there are a limited number of you who take part in the illegal trade of intellectual property.
We don't have the time or the FTE's to devote to look at each accusation of piracy that we receive, so instead of getting our balls in a vice we have deemed it best to just cut you off if we get a complaint about you. Jump through some hoops for us and we'll consider reconnecting your Internet.
For us, like any other business, it's about money. We would rather lose your $40/mo. than get nailed for hudreds of thousands of dollars in damages by the MPAA. At the very least we'd have to hire some expensive lawyers to protect us in the matter.
I swear to you all that this is true. The following email was just submitted to the Portland Oregon Free Sklyarov email list:
The latest domain name extension has arrived .SEX!!! It's the fresh ,new,
exciting web address that is taking the world by storm.
Who wants to be .com when you can now be .SEX
Register your .SEX domain name today exclusively at: [pr0n link deleted]
With this addition I can see his cause getting MAJOR "exposure" now.
I would like to sue the RIAA, the MPAA, the owners of the website Copyright.net, the writers of and voters for the DMCA, as well as the 52 "independent songwriters and music publishers" for "viral" stupidity.
Each of these groups in their own special ways have contributed to the widely-assumed fallacy that all of their efforts are to protect the world from eye-patched, peg-legged, rum-swilling pirates (let's face it, the masses think of visions of Blackbeard at a keyboard when the term piracy is used in conjunction with computers).
Instead, the RIAA sued to become the only legal group to be allowed to steal vast sums of money from musicians. Microsoft only dreams of such power. The MPAA sued to make sure that they weren't forced to expand their potential DVD market to include Linux users (after all, VHS killed the movie theaters so they need to keep on top of these things). Copyright.net's suit will be charged to their advertising budget. The DMCA suits are to make sure that the horrible IBM cloning nightmare never happens again (boy did THAT hurt the industry!). And those independent songwriters and music publishers sued to make sure that they had a plan to fall back on in case the rest of the world never realizes how truly brilliant their musical indeavors are.
For obvious reasons I'm claiming a massive amount of damage has been done to what was left of my beliefs that the justice system works, instead of the justice system "Will Work For Bribe Money". They have taken a corporation-sized DUMP on my First Amendment Rights as a US citizen, and used the laws of foreign countries to wipe their asses as they prosecute individuals from around the world for letting their Tools of Mass Copyright Infringement to flow through THEIR (big business') Internet.
I am seeking their collective disbandment as my compensatory damages to make sure they don't ever attempt shit like this again, and for punitive damages I want their leaders' gene pool drained. It may not keep these things from happening again, but it sure goes a long way towards that dream.
Signed,
John Q. Citizen
What Happens To -AC (And Other) Kernel Mods?
I'm sorry, but if the kernel has a bunch of modifications done by people who find it necessary to be referred to as the initials for Anonymous Coward then how can we trust the security of the kernel?
They get modded down on /. but then get merged into the kernel source? Let's make a stand and stick to it!
Oh, and I copied these comments to a text file so I can repost it in the event that /. pukes up it's guts again.
I'm sure that SOMEONE will take care of that registration for you so that you won't have to.
"You've got mail!"
Thanks to Hotmail there are going to be a number of people out there now using my name to get valuable college degrees over the `net.
Hopefully they'll be good sports and also get me a lower interest rate on my home.
Oh wait, it did it to all my links. Guess it's not THAT smart.
Most interesting! I ironically linked to Linux Mandrake in my link on McRosoft and it puts the TRUE name of the link in brackets! Must be the new Goatse.cx feature.
Here's a list of groups actively working on Anti-DOS projects:
RedHat
Slackware
Debian
One of the first
Honestly, while I agree that we must stop DOS at all costs, I fail to see why this is news. Hell, it could be argued that even McRosoft themselves do a good job at getting people to quit using the product.
Wherehouse Music is a large music and video store chain.
"...and also giving people reasons to stop by and linger"
I'm guessing that you aren't a Network Administrator, are you?
Get yourself a poster of Doris Day or Racquel Welch so that the warden doesn't see the hole that you are digging.
Off-topic? You're just pissy because you were conceived to that song.
Not bad, but let us not forget that it is Barry Manilow that writes the songs that make the whole world sing. And that, my friends, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Do us all a big favor and patent the letter K. This will force developers to be a little more kreative in their naming schemes.
Thank you, and most importantly, kongratulations on a great release!
I am SICK of people clammoring for all this eye candy shit. And getting all orgasmic about a game that's big promise is to drop your top-of-the-line $300 video card to it's knees so you have to throw it out in favor of ANOTHER more EXPENSIVE video card is wrong on so many levels.
Half-Life, Counter Strike, and the latest update Blue-whatever are based on the Quake I engine, and they kick ass because they are fun to play. And the best games of all time are considered great because of their playability, not because of their eye candy.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least bit if Carmack had heavy investments in nVidia stock. Hopefully when another "gee whiz it looks great but it plays like a dead dog" major release bombs we might get back to what games are best at: being fun.
Now this is a sequal worthy of the name The Clone Wars.
White guys have been without rhythm for generations.
"Quite a few readers submitted news of a distributed system to be built by four U.S. institutions..."
Looks like our "Slashdot Distributed Story Submission" (SDSS) is working quite nicely.
They are listed as references at the end of the document.
Another bit of interesting text was in the acknowledgements:
"We informed Stuart Kerry, the 802.11 Working Group Chair, that we success-fully implemented the Fluhrer, et al. attack. Stuart replied that the 802.11 Working Group is in the process of revising the security, among other aspects, of the standard and appreciates this line of work as valuable input for developing robust technical specifications."
Nice to know that they let Mr Kerry know ahead of time and that they are already working on revising the standard, instead of taking the capitalistic approach of sending it to the courts.
Bravo to both parties.
"The WEP standard uses RC4 IVs improperly, and the attack exploits this design failure."
I don't get it. This is a standard, so isn't it supposed to go through some rigorous testing? Aren't there supposed to be some rather smart people involved in the creation of a wireless networking standard? If so, how could all these brainies improperly implement encryption?