i disagree. for a regular development type job, the only thing that matters is the degree. if you're looking for a cool job working on highly specialized projects that involve new technologies and research, yes, you are correct. for 90% of the jobs out there, you just need a degree (sometimes not even that).
i've been told that it doesn't matter where your undergrad degree is from, it matters where your grad degree is from, especially if you go as far as phd. the main reason for that is the top schools have more money for research and you will be working on bigger research projects and have a better chance at getting your name out there. this is true for just about any field that does a lot of research (CS included). but, like i said, if you don't plan on trying to get more into the research end of things, it doesn't matter that much.
practical experience is more important in the real world than your degree or whatever college gave you the degree, except in fields like law or medicine.
i'm also curious. i could use some extra cash and i read in one of the posts below about a guy who charges people $60 an hour because the nearest shop charges $95 an hour. i assume he's getting it under the table and he seems to be doing it for friends of friends and stuff like that.
i'd be doing it sort of out of my apartment and for people in the neighborhood and anyone they might send my way. any suggestions on if i should do this under the table or if i should get a business license? i saw the post about the SBA and all that, but i'm not sure i really want to do all that if this isn't gonna work out for me. i know a bunch of slashdotters must do this, so how do you go about it? is it just not recommended to keep things off the books?
like your parent said... you can learn skills from a class that has nothing to do with your field that can help you in your job. IT generally means working with people and interacting with others. if you're not good at that, you're not good in IT, regardless of what you know. classes in theatre or whatever can help you interact with others just by participating in the class.
as he said, a foreign language class can help you get a job. i remember when i was looking for a job, half of the jobs i looked at said "must speak japanese" or "must speak french" or something like that.
also, you can take classes in something outside of your profession and do a side job in that field so you don't get burnt out always doing the same thing for both your full time job and your side job.
don't toss off getting any education as being dumb and frivilous and not contributing to making more money. sure he didn't specifically spell it all out like i just did, but i'm gonna guess that's what he was implying.
i think you're confusing what the question is actually asking. blue collar workers (plumbers, hvac technicians, electricians, carpenters, etc) all generally do side jobs. if they aren't self-employed, they'll do work on the side for friends, friends of friends, etc for cash. it's generally a lot cheaper for the people that hired them than it would be had they gone to a company or someone who wasn't working "on the clock". take an auto-mechanic for example. he holds a regular job at a garage (maybe a place like midas or firestone or something) and gets paid hourly by them. on the side, he'll go to people's homes to do things like oil changes or something. a guy that works in a small "mom n pop" garage might have special permission to use the garage for his own purposes. even self-employed people will do side jobs for friends and stuff in their shops after hours or something. it's a way of getting a little extra cash under the table and off the books.
that's what the question seems to be referring to. i know an IT worker who works with me who uses the tech room for personal side jobs every now and then. he'll stay late at work with a couple computers he had that needed to be repaired. he helps some small businesses set up a little wireless network in their store so that they can get all their computers talking to each other without going crazy wiring the place. they pay him cash. he gets some money on the side and they save on paying some company $100 an hour to setup their computers (best buy's geek squad is a ripoff).
do you truly believe that nature will reduce the world's population?
the only way for humans to reduce it is to not have babies for many, many, many years. it would be far more practical to stabilize the population at what it is now and live with what we have and destroy no more. as is, the world works in cycles. there will be another ice age, probably wiping out most of the world's population. it won't happen in any of our lifetimes, but it will happen. humankind will not voluntarily stop having sex or start practicing safe sex. people want to have children, they bring joy that you cannot see. as your other responder said, be an example, get sterilized. it's the only way that it will happen. humans want sex, humans need sex. it's the way we were made. the only way to stop population growth is to stop having sex or have sex that doesn't result in procreation, which means the only way to really get that while not abstaining completely is to be sterilized.
i'm not going to say it has the same foibles as windows. i have used it. it's solid. however, a good portion of the exploits that spyware in windows uses is user stupidity. so if something randomly comes up asking for root permissions, the average user will probably think "gee, i should do this". yes, i know this is not the average unix user. but if it gets the attention people want, the average computer user will be using it, and will do just that (as happens in windows when a program asks for permission to install, user clicks "ok").
so while an informed user will be able to spot spyware, the average user won't. you don't seem to understand my point. the whole thing has to do with who is using the operating system. the average computer user will not care and just give things permission almost constantly. the point of this whole thread was that if (and only if) linux/unix gets mainstream attention and is no longer jsut a fringe operating system used by people who know what they're doing, it will be susceptible to a lot of the same stuff windows is for the most part because of the user.
you seem to contradict yourself. just as much as you like to chastise me for having no clue.
if we're talking about spyware, we're talking about applications that need root permissions to do any of the damage that they do. maybe i should've been more clear on that, but i assumed you understood, since you made that point to begin with. you're obviously one of those linux elitists who believes that linux/unix will never have problems. but if it gets the market share people wnat it to, it will have problems because the general user is an idiot and doesn't give a crap about security.
a larger market share does not mean a dominating market share. compare apache's 50% market share to IE's 89%. half the market is using something other than apache for their web server. but almost all users are using IE as their browser. that's the difference, not a contradiction.
yes, you need to be root to install stuff, or have a user with more priviledges. this has already been discussed, but someoen mentioned how windows should be like OSX where you are always logged in as a normal user with no privs and whenever you need them, a box pops up for the root password so you can install stuff or whatever. he watched a guy sit there and blindly type in the password. while you say that normal linux/unix users wouldn't just do that, if it has the market share most wnat it to have, people will do just that, or always use it as root (which is what lindows does, isn't it?). so it is mainly a user issue, but it's not operating system dependent. i can create a normal user account on my parents XP machine and they won't be able to install spyware, however, if they see that they can't install software, they'll be pissed. so they have administrative access (actually, my parents use 98, so it's a lose-lose situation, but the same sort of thing). yeah, it's a user problem and people need to learn "smart computing", but that's not gonna happen anytime in the near future, if ever. the more people use computers, the lower the smart computing level drops. people just don't want to learn about this shit and take care of it when they can no longer use their computer.
so it's not just the way it is, linux/unix is not better, unless you're a smart user, in which case, i'm sure you're windows machine is pretty damn secure as well (i have no spyware on mine).
how is that not justified? i think it's great for both the job-seeker and the company (assuming the job seeker can make due as a contractor). the company can actually see if the person is a good fit for the position (in both skills and personality) and the job-seeker can see if the company is a good fit for him/herself. you don't risk getting fired or having to explain why you quit. granted, you wouldn't want to do this for all positions, but interviews can only tell you so much about a person, especially if the interviewers aren't good at interviewing.
i'll have to try 8080. i was using 420 (who would block port 420?), but that didn't work. yeah, i've been having problems with ping times lately. it's been going on for almost 2 months for me though. i called them up about it and they wanted to come check my wiring. i'm 99% positive that's not the problem, so i didn't have them come (besides, we both know when they come it'll be working fine). but the past week or so, i've been having issues where it just drops my connection. all the lights, other than the power light, on my modem go dead. i don't feel like i should have to reset my modem to keep my "always on" connection working the way it should. if it happens again and i notice it, they're getting a call.
while this is true, the other apps don't get everything either. i work in a college IT department and deal mainly with student issues. they have nothing but ad/spyware issues. when i personally fix a machine, i install adaware and spybot and run them both in safe mode (adaware first, spybot second). then after both finished and cleaned up mostly everything, i run hijackthis and get rid of anything else. then i use an lsp fix tool called winsockfix just to be sure the networking is repaired back to normal. i restart and 9 times out of 10, the computer is back to normal and runs a lot better. i have had the occasional one that still gets some popups. here's my issue with installing something else. all the others are only trial versions. i don't want to give someone a false idea that they're using a program that is really good and up-to-date. ad-aware and spybot are the only ones that are completely free of charge and you can still update them. after i'm done with it, i tell them how to run the programs and to update them whenever they run them. i instruct them to run them about once a week. problem is, they're not going to run them anyways, so what's the point of even installing more stuff. they don't care until their computer is nearly unusable, and at that point they come crying to me and i have to explain everything to them again. they also don't care about going to safe mode to run them where the programs will be way more effective.
so yes, you are correct. but most people, especially my clients who are students, don't want to pay for more software. and like the article proves, sometimes you pay for what you get, other times you don't get what you pay for.
you make no point. one of the biggest reasons microsoft is targeted is because of it's market dominance. someone already stated that apache has fewer problems than IIS and has a larger market share, but apache's market share is not really dominating the market like windows and IE do. they have something like at least 80% of the market. if linux or firefox had that much, we'd see viruses and spyware written for it. same goes for apple, apache, and any other operating system/browser/server/insert program-type here.
IIS comes running by default on windows 2000 server. if you don't know what you're doing, you've got IIS running. you generally need to know what you're doing to get apache up and running as well since it's not quite as easy to just point and click to configure it.
yes... visiting certain websites (such as windowsupdate.microsoft.com) for the first time will pop up a window to download and install a program to allow it to run. if you click yes, it downloads and installs it. if you click yes and check off the box to "always trust ______ company" you'll never see that popup again from that company, but you'll always get stuff auto-installed. if you click no, it doesn't install the program and may not allow some parts of that site to work. these tell you what they're doing (downloading and installing a program) and you have to do it yourself (the google toolbar used to be installed this way). the ones i've seen the most from is gator/gain/claria (whatever they're calling themselves now). when i see those, i rarely even click "no". i click the X to close the window.
that's funny. when i first got the service, iw as able to run a webserver with no problems. then i noticed it was blocked and thought something happened to my firewall. i called them and they were like "you shouldn't be running one anyways, that's a violation of the TOS" and pointed me to a webpage that i couldn't access using firefox because it was IE specific. when i said the page wouldn't load, he asked if i was using IE. idiots. what kind of isp uses a page that only works in IE? so i found out http was blocked complete... i tried sitching to a different port for my webserver and it still didn't work.
i've also been having serious issues with their service lately. it sucks royally. it went down today for a little while (and not my fault because the freaking cable modem lights all went out except the power one. last time i called them about it, they wanted to come check the lines. i have since moved to a different apartment and still have the same problems. they're not very helpful. i'm almost considering paying $5 more for verizon dsl, but i like the fast download speeds when it's working.
my broadband cost to rent ratio is much greater. i pay $700 a month for a 1 BR in RI, and $40 for my cable modem service (and i live alone so i take on the whole cost). it sucks, but i couldn't live without broadband.
i also don't send certain links to modem users (which is only 1 of my friends).
but the cost of broadband for most people is far too expensive, even for those living in the NYC-metro area and those living in boston or SF or LA.
and how much are you paying for those speeds? broadband in the US is not cheap. you can get a dialup for about $15-20 a month. broadband is no cheaper than $30-35 a month.
i have cox in RI (with port blocking, unfortunately) for $39.95 a month. but i also use them for my phone and cable tv. i save $10 off my whole monthly bill because i use them for everything. also available here is verizon dsl. it's $35 a month without a phone service from them or $30 a month with their phone service (and you have to have a package for your phone service, not just basic phone). the speeds for cox are twice verizons (i supposedly get 3000/256, while verizon is 1500/128). so while i can't run a webserver out of my home on cox, i get faster speeds than i would with verizon (the webserver is the only thing i'd want to run that is blocked, i have an ftp server and ssh and vnc all running out of my apartment so i can get in from outside, but i also know you can't run an smtp server either, port 25 is blocked except for cox's smtp server).
i'm sure you pay a higher fee for your faster connection, while those with that slow dsl connection pay far less.
a person can have multiple torrent sessions going at once... also a BT server that's serving out hundreds or thousands of songs... they'll go after those people... i'm sure there's a way to do it.
and yes, i agree... kazaa and most p2p software has the sole pupose of piracy (whether it be music, movies, or software). if it was truly for sharing legit files, why wouldn't someone just make one without all the adware and spyware crap that comes along with it? and don't say "his name is bram cohen" because there's no way to open up BT and search for available torrents. ok, actually there is furthurnet which is used for trading live legal stuff (much in the same way etree works). it's all bands that allow taping and trading of their shows. it's pretty good too.
and it has to have a loud exhaust system and a big ass woofer so all you hear is the plastic shit on the car vibrating. tinted windows and cd hanging from rear view mirror optional.
i was actually gonna say... kids already have the classic "toy" taht they love to play with... hell, i still love to play with mine... and i've had it since birth.
i never said it wasn't tied to the OS, i just said it wasn't so tied that the OS requires iexplore.exe to successfully boot the system.
as the other guy said... in KDE, you can both browse the web and view your files from konqueror. it'll probably happen in OSX as well at some point. it's called ease of use. i don't think MS should be chastised for that. they should, however, be chastised for making it impossible to uninstall the program called "internet explorer" from your computer, along with media player (which i don't think is able to be uninstalled from windows xp). it's also impossible to install windows without also installing internet explorer or windows media player.
also... most people don't know that you can get to the web through a directory window, they think you need to click the big blue E to get it.
it's not that tied to the OS... if that were the case, then i think we would've seen that as evidence of MS forcing windows users to use their products, which have nothing to do with the OS.
you might be thinking that the windows explorer is really iexplore.exe, but it's not. at no point when i browse through my files, does iexplore.exe run. its explorer.exe that handles that. in fact, i just ran a little test and typed in a url in my directory path box and it went to the webpage (like it's supposed to), but it doesn't run iexplore.exe to do that. all the menus change to those of internet explorer, but the exe that is running it is still explorer.exe. that was an interesting little test...
i hate to say it, but in this case you're stating something the article clearly proves wrong, so... RTFA... at least the register article says that he open sourced the gnutella protocol, but AOL put an axe on that one...
funny... i did the image search on google for abu ghraib and found pics from 2003 in the first 2 pages. looks like your theory of updating every six months is wrong.
now while they would be censoring the text search as well if they were truly trying to censor stuff, they would get more complaints about valid news stories not showing up. the image search is less likely to get flamed (aside from on slashdot where anything and everything google does "wrong" will get flamed, although rightfully so in this case).
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i disagree. for a regular development type job, the only thing that matters is the degree. if you're looking for a cool job working on highly specialized projects that involve new technologies and research, yes, you are correct. for 90% of the jobs out there, you just need a degree (sometimes not even that).
i've been told that it doesn't matter where your undergrad degree is from, it matters where your grad degree is from, especially if you go as far as phd. the main reason for that is the top schools have more money for research and you will be working on bigger research projects and have a better chance at getting your name out there. this is true for just about any field that does a lot of research (CS included). but, like i said, if you don't plan on trying to get more into the research end of things, it doesn't matter that much.
practical experience is more important in the real world than your degree or whatever college gave you the degree, except in fields like law or medicine.
i'm also curious. i could use some extra cash and i read in one of the posts below about a guy who charges people $60 an hour because the nearest shop charges $95 an hour. i assume he's getting it under the table and he seems to be doing it for friends of friends and stuff like that.
i'd be doing it sort of out of my apartment and for people in the neighborhood and anyone they might send my way. any suggestions on if i should do this under the table or if i should get a business license? i saw the post about the SBA and all that, but i'm not sure i really want to do all that if this isn't gonna work out for me. i know a bunch of slashdotters must do this, so how do you go about it? is it just not recommended to keep things off the books?
craigslist rules... that's where i'm going after i finish posting in this article.
like your parent said... you can learn skills from a class that has nothing to do with your field that can help you in your job. IT generally means working with people and interacting with others. if you're not good at that, you're not good in IT, regardless of what you know. classes in theatre or whatever can help you interact with others just by participating in the class.
as he said, a foreign language class can help you get a job. i remember when i was looking for a job, half of the jobs i looked at said "must speak japanese" or "must speak french" or something like that.
also, you can take classes in something outside of your profession and do a side job in that field so you don't get burnt out always doing the same thing for both your full time job and your side job.
don't toss off getting any education as being dumb and frivilous and not contributing to making more money. sure he didn't specifically spell it all out like i just did, but i'm gonna guess that's what he was implying.
i think you're confusing what the question is actually asking. blue collar workers (plumbers, hvac technicians, electricians, carpenters, etc) all generally do side jobs. if they aren't self-employed, they'll do work on the side for friends, friends of friends, etc for cash. it's generally a lot cheaper for the people that hired them than it would be had they gone to a company or someone who wasn't working "on the clock". take an auto-mechanic for example. he holds a regular job at a garage (maybe a place like midas or firestone or something) and gets paid hourly by them. on the side, he'll go to people's homes to do things like oil changes or something. a guy that works in a small "mom n pop" garage might have special permission to use the garage for his own purposes. even self-employed people will do side jobs for friends and stuff in their shops after hours or something. it's a way of getting a little extra cash under the table and off the books.
that's what the question seems to be referring to. i know an IT worker who works with me who uses the tech room for personal side jobs every now and then. he'll stay late at work with a couple computers he had that needed to be repaired. he helps some small businesses set up a little wireless network in their store so that they can get all their computers talking to each other without going crazy wiring the place. they pay him cash. he gets some money on the side and they save on paying some company $100 an hour to setup their computers (best buy's geek squad is a ripoff).
do you truly believe that nature will reduce the world's population?
the only way for humans to reduce it is to not have babies for many, many, many years. it would be far more practical to stabilize the population at what it is now and live with what we have and destroy no more. as is, the world works in cycles. there will be another ice age, probably wiping out most of the world's population. it won't happen in any of our lifetimes, but it will happen. humankind will not voluntarily stop having sex or start practicing safe sex. people want to have children, they bring joy that you cannot see. as your other responder said, be an example, get sterilized. it's the only way that it will happen. humans want sex, humans need sex. it's the way we were made. the only way to stop population growth is to stop having sex or have sex that doesn't result in procreation, which means the only way to really get that while not abstaining completely is to be sterilized.
i'm not going to say it has the same foibles as windows. i have used it. it's solid. however, a good portion of the exploits that spyware in windows uses is user stupidity. so if something randomly comes up asking for root permissions, the average user will probably think "gee, i should do this". yes, i know this is not the average unix user. but if it gets the attention people want, the average computer user will be using it, and will do just that (as happens in windows when a program asks for permission to install, user clicks "ok").
so while an informed user will be able to spot spyware, the average user won't. you don't seem to understand my point. the whole thing has to do with who is using the operating system. the average computer user will not care and just give things permission almost constantly. the point of this whole thread was that if (and only if) linux/unix gets mainstream attention and is no longer jsut a fringe operating system used by people who know what they're doing, it will be susceptible to a lot of the same stuff windows is for the most part because of the user.
you seem to contradict yourself. just as much as you like to chastise me for having no clue.
if we're talking about spyware, we're talking about applications that need root permissions to do any of the damage that they do. maybe i should've been more clear on that, but i assumed you understood, since you made that point to begin with. you're obviously one of those linux elitists who believes that linux/unix will never have problems. but if it gets the market share people wnat it to, it will have problems because the general user is an idiot and doesn't give a crap about security.
a larger market share does not mean a dominating market share. compare apache's 50% market share to IE's 89%. half the market is using something other than apache for their web server. but almost all users are using IE as their browser. that's the difference, not a contradiction.
yes, you need to be root to install stuff, or have a user with more priviledges. this has already been discussed, but someoen mentioned how windows should be like OSX where you are always logged in as a normal user with no privs and whenever you need them, a box pops up for the root password so you can install stuff or whatever. he watched a guy sit there and blindly type in the password. while you say that normal linux/unix users wouldn't just do that, if it has the market share most wnat it to have, people will do just that, or always use it as root (which is what lindows does, isn't it?). so it is mainly a user issue, but it's not operating system dependent. i can create a normal user account on my parents XP machine and they won't be able to install spyware, however, if they see that they can't install software, they'll be pissed. so they have administrative access (actually, my parents use 98, so it's a lose-lose situation, but the same sort of thing). yeah, it's a user problem and people need to learn "smart computing", but that's not gonna happen anytime in the near future, if ever. the more people use computers, the lower the smart computing level drops. people just don't want to learn about this shit and take care of it when they can no longer use their computer.
so it's not just the way it is, linux/unix is not better, unless you're a smart user, in which case, i'm sure you're windows machine is pretty damn secure as well (i have no spyware on mine).
how is that not justified? i think it's great for both the job-seeker and the company (assuming the job seeker can make due as a contractor). the company can actually see if the person is a good fit for the position (in both skills and personality) and the job-seeker can see if the company is a good fit for him/herself. you don't risk getting fired or having to explain why you quit. granted, you wouldn't want to do this for all positions, but interviews can only tell you so much about a person, especially if the interviewers aren't good at interviewing.
i'll have to try 8080. i was using 420 (who would block port 420?), but that didn't work. yeah, i've been having problems with ping times lately. it's been going on for almost 2 months for me though. i called them up about it and they wanted to come check my wiring. i'm 99% positive that's not the problem, so i didn't have them come (besides, we both know when they come it'll be working fine). but the past week or so, i've been having issues where it just drops my connection. all the lights, other than the power light, on my modem go dead. i don't feel like i should have to reset my modem to keep my "always on" connection working the way it should. if it happens again and i notice it, they're getting a call.
while this is true, the other apps don't get everything either. i work in a college IT department and deal mainly with student issues. they have nothing but ad/spyware issues. when i personally fix a machine, i install adaware and spybot and run them both in safe mode (adaware first, spybot second). then after both finished and cleaned up mostly everything, i run hijackthis and get rid of anything else. then i use an lsp fix tool called winsockfix just to be sure the networking is repaired back to normal. i restart and 9 times out of 10, the computer is back to normal and runs a lot better. i have had the occasional one that still gets some popups. here's my issue with installing something else. all the others are only trial versions. i don't want to give someone a false idea that they're using a program that is really good and up-to-date. ad-aware and spybot are the only ones that are completely free of charge and you can still update them. after i'm done with it, i tell them how to run the programs and to update them whenever they run them. i instruct them to run them about once a week. problem is, they're not going to run them anyways, so what's the point of even installing more stuff. they don't care until their computer is nearly unusable, and at that point they come crying to me and i have to explain everything to them again. they also don't care about going to safe mode to run them where the programs will be way more effective.
so yes, you are correct. but most people, especially my clients who are students, don't want to pay for more software. and like the article proves, sometimes you pay for what you get, other times you don't get what you pay for.
you make no point. one of the biggest reasons microsoft is targeted is because of it's market dominance. someone already stated that apache has fewer problems than IIS and has a larger market share, but apache's market share is not really dominating the market like windows and IE do. they have something like at least 80% of the market. if linux or firefox had that much, we'd see viruses and spyware written for it. same goes for apple, apache, and any other operating system/browser/server/insert program-type here.
IIS comes running by default on windows 2000 server. if you don't know what you're doing, you've got IIS running. you generally need to know what you're doing to get apache up and running as well since it's not quite as easy to just point and click to configure it.
yes... visiting certain websites (such as windowsupdate.microsoft.com) for the first time will pop up a window to download and install a program to allow it to run. if you click yes, it downloads and installs it. if you click yes and check off the box to "always trust ______ company" you'll never see that popup again from that company, but you'll always get stuff auto-installed. if you click no, it doesn't install the program and may not allow some parts of that site to work. these tell you what they're doing (downloading and installing a program) and you have to do it yourself (the google toolbar used to be installed this way). the ones i've seen the most from is gator/gain/claria (whatever they're calling themselves now). when i see those, i rarely even click "no". i click the X to close the window.
that's funny. when i first got the service, iw as able to run a webserver with no problems. then i noticed it was blocked and thought something happened to my firewall. i called them and they were like "you shouldn't be running one anyways, that's a violation of the TOS" and pointed me to a webpage that i couldn't access using firefox because it was IE specific. when i said the page wouldn't load, he asked if i was using IE. idiots. what kind of isp uses a page that only works in IE? so i found out http was blocked complete... i tried sitching to a different port for my webserver and it still didn't work.
i've also been having serious issues with their service lately. it sucks royally. it went down today for a little while (and not my fault because the freaking cable modem lights all went out except the power one. last time i called them about it, they wanted to come check the lines. i have since moved to a different apartment and still have the same problems. they're not very helpful. i'm almost considering paying $5 more for verizon dsl, but i like the fast download speeds when it's working.
my broadband cost to rent ratio is much greater. i pay $700 a month for a 1 BR in RI, and $40 for my cable modem service (and i live alone so i take on the whole cost). it sucks, but i couldn't live without broadband.
i also don't send certain links to modem users (which is only 1 of my friends).
but the cost of broadband for most people is far too expensive, even for those living in the NYC-metro area and those living in boston or SF or LA.
and how much are you paying for those speeds? broadband in the US is not cheap. you can get a dialup for about $15-20 a month. broadband is no cheaper than $30-35 a month.
i have cox in RI (with port blocking, unfortunately) for $39.95 a month. but i also use them for my phone and cable tv. i save $10 off my whole monthly bill because i use them for everything. also available here is verizon dsl. it's $35 a month without a phone service from them or $30 a month with their phone service (and you have to have a package for your phone service, not just basic phone). the speeds for cox are twice verizons (i supposedly get 3000/256, while verizon is 1500/128). so while i can't run a webserver out of my home on cox, i get faster speeds than i would with verizon (the webserver is the only thing i'd want to run that is blocked, i have an ftp server and ssh and vnc all running out of my apartment so i can get in from outside, but i also know you can't run an smtp server either, port 25 is blocked except for cox's smtp server).
i'm sure you pay a higher fee for your faster connection, while those with that slow dsl connection pay far less.
a person can have multiple torrent sessions going at once... also a BT server that's serving out hundreds or thousands of songs... they'll go after those people... i'm sure there's a way to do it.
and yes, i agree... kazaa and most p2p software has the sole pupose of piracy (whether it be music, movies, or software). if it was truly for sharing legit files, why wouldn't someone just make one without all the adware and spyware crap that comes along with it? and don't say "his name is bram cohen" because there's no way to open up BT and search for available torrents. ok, actually there is furthurnet which is used for trading live legal stuff (much in the same way etree works). it's all bands that allow taping and trading of their shows. it's pretty good too.
and it has to have a loud exhaust system and a big ass woofer so all you hear is the plastic shit on the car vibrating. tinted windows and cd hanging from rear view mirror optional.
i was actually gonna say... kids already have the classic "toy" taht they love to play with... hell, i still love to play with mine... and i've had it since birth.
i never said it wasn't tied to the OS, i just said it wasn't so tied that the OS requires iexplore.exe to successfully boot the system.
as the other guy said... in KDE, you can both browse the web and view your files from konqueror. it'll probably happen in OSX as well at some point. it's called ease of use. i don't think MS should be chastised for that. they should, however, be chastised for making it impossible to uninstall the program called "internet explorer" from your computer, along with media player (which i don't think is able to be uninstalled from windows xp). it's also impossible to install windows without also installing internet explorer or windows media player.
also... most people don't know that you can get to the web through a directory window, they think you need to click the big blue E to get it.
it's not that tied to the OS... if that were the case, then i think we would've seen that as evidence of MS forcing windows users to use their products, which have nothing to do with the OS.
you might be thinking that the windows explorer is really iexplore.exe, but it's not. at no point when i browse through my files, does iexplore.exe run. its explorer.exe that handles that. in fact, i just ran a little test and typed in a url in my directory path box and it went to the webpage (like it's supposed to), but it doesn't run iexplore.exe to do that. all the menus change to those of internet explorer, but the exe that is running it is still explorer.exe. that was an interesting little test...
i hate to say it, but in this case you're stating something the article clearly proves wrong, so... RTFA... at least the register article says that he open sourced the gnutella protocol, but AOL put an axe on that one...
funny... i did the image search on google for abu ghraib and found pics from 2003 in the first 2 pages. looks like your theory of updating every six months is wrong.
now while they would be censoring the text search as well if they were truly trying to censor stuff, they would get more complaints about valid news stories not showing up. the image search is less likely to get flamed (aside from on slashdot where anything and everything google does "wrong" will get flamed, although rightfully so in this case).