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KDE is technically superior and has a much more professional feel. Gnome is slow, locks up and crashes a lot. That is why I switched to and stayed with KDE, a proven solution.
Gnome only exists because of a licensing spat over the Qt Toolkit. Qt wasn't "free" enough. Yeah, RMS and company, it is called the "real world" come live in it for a while. Companies need to make money, people need to get paid. Want to debate that with me? Pay for a place for me to live, food for me to eat, and gas for my car comrade and then we'll talk.
Trolltech did the right thing, now it is (well past) time for the Gnome people to do the right thing and fold their work into KDE instead of dividing the community.
Too bad HIPAA only protects against "unauthorized" access, and allows the gov't and all levels of law enforcement and intelligence (local police, DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA), the CDC, the Department of We Know What Is Good For You (a.k.a. Health and Human Services), researchers, your employer, your insurance company, your educational institution, prospective employers, insurers and educational institutions, all their contractors, employees, affiliates and the contractors and employees of their affiliates and half a billion other people legal access to your information.
Well at least it protects you from the hackers, thieves, perverts, stalkers and nosy neighbors unless they are in the above list.
Well if disciplinary policies worked on their own you wouldn't even need this feature?
Although one can make the case that it makes wrongdoing more obvious, both to those guilty of and those who investigate/punish infractions.
And in some places merely being terminated from employment is the least of your worries. Having your freedom or even your life terminated (e.g. for treason) is a possibility.
Interesting and ironic that Microsoft wants to use this feature to give the owner more power but wants to use DRM to make sure the owner has LESS power over their computer.
No need for such a feature on Linux, it most likely doesn't support the device anyway. Even if it does, it is very unlikely that it was compiled into the kernel.
Ironically, professors are way more accessible in a good school without a big name that they are in the big name schools (where you have a lecturer and you have graduate assistants who have trouble with English lead the dicussion groups).
A few nights in jail can be a big price to pay indeed. Prison rape is a really, really big problem. And some protestor will be "fresh meat" for the predators indeed.
Make the phosphors only excite one cone type each, and you can generate all the colors the eye can see.
Now, monitor manufacturers, listen up! We need a reasonable green that isn't yellowish. I can *so* tell the difference. I can see cerulean blue (a most lovely color - the color of some TDK CD-Rs) in real life, but not on a monitor.
"iNet"? Dude, you have been using Macs for too long.
As for reverse spammming them, someone at a university I had gone to had this script on his "instant messager" (the system was Zephyr, originally from the Athena project at MIT) client delete anything I sent him and sent an "I'm ignoring you message" to me in reply.
He made 2 big mistakes. One, it spammed me even when I posted to a broadcast instance (vaguely analogous to an IRC channel) and 2, it didn't prevent replies to replies (which is something all the offical reply clients do). If it wasn't for the broadcast issue - I wouldn't have cared. If it wasn't for the reply-to-reply issue, it wouldn't have backfired so badly.
What I did:
I ran multiple instances of a client which sends an "I am away" message to people that write me directly, and send a normal message to the broadcast instance. Of course, his script replied back.
The resulting (exponentially growing) storm so bogged him down he knocked it off.
Moral, don't mess with geeks (the other guy was a MAJOR geek too, but he was considered an "in crowd" amongst the geek heirarchy there). He did look stupid, not for being anti-social, but for his oversight in writing his ignore-and-spam program. He really should've known better.
Schools have no right to tell someone to leave for exercising their First Amendment rights (no matter how utterly distasteful it may be) outside of school property.
The precedents that sets can be truly frightening.
Image your child having a web log support either Bush or Kerry or Nader or whoever, that doesn't involve the school at all, and the school kicks her/him out and to never, ever come back. Imagine if that was a public school and now your kid is denied his legal right to an education (or sent to some BS "opportunity school" which is more like a boot camp than a school, and doesn't teach much of anything other than "might makes right").
Things really don't change much as an adult. Now bullies don't beat you up, they just try to get you fired, fire you on false pretexts, talk behind you back and try to get people to turn on you, etc. All the nonsense that went on in high school still does in the adult world, it just takes on a more adult form. More subtle, but the stakes are higher.
Of course a physical assault gets a lesser punishment than a virtual transgression.
If I throw a rock through someone's window, that is a misdemeanor. Probably no jail, get a fine, and a minor criminal record that probably won't affect anything in my life. Heck, the same probably goes for if I beat someone up (the only real exceptions are if it is against a cop, if it is an attack against someone because they are a member of a protected class, if it is domestic violence, or if it severely maims/kills someone - otherwise it is almost certainly a lesser crime than anything computer related). I wonder if throwing a computer mouse at someone would be a serious crime.:) Much safer, legally speaking, to just use a rock.
If I print "You suck" on someone's printer by abusing an open print share, that's a felony and I lose all my civil rights for life, become ineligible for many jobs, student loans, not allowed to vote, run for office, exercise my 2nd Amendment rights, etc.
Because the punishment always fits the crime and how dangerous the perpetrator is, heh.
If you want to have unauthorized access to people's computers and not be a felon, just become a fed. Hacking is OK then.
Don't get me wrong, I think flying is wonderful and that everyone should be able to do it, after rigorous training and certification, in a well maintained vehicle, clearly understanding when conditions are right to fly!
I think we should also impose those conditions on driving in general.
Drivers already crash into houses. Here is another article on drivers crashing into buildings this time because they were incapacitated or died due to medical reasons behind the wheel. So much for requiring a medical check before you can get a license to fly either a plane or a flying car - since they don't require one (usually) for a regular car and those can kill people who aren't even on the roads at the time.
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KDE is technically superior and has a much more professional feel. Gnome is slow, locks up and crashes a lot. That is why I switched to and stayed with KDE, a proven solution.
Gnome only exists because of a licensing spat over the Qt Toolkit. Qt wasn't "free" enough. Yeah, RMS and company, it is called the "real world" come live in it for a while. Companies need to make money, people need to get paid. Want to debate that with me? Pay for a place for me to live, food for me to eat, and gas for my car comrade and then we'll talk.
Trolltech did the right thing, now it is (well past) time for the Gnome people to do the right thing and fold their work into KDE instead of dividing the community.
Sometimes the little guy wins.
Ever get one of those class action settlements where you get a nice $5 or so "windfall"? Almost everyone has.
The little guy wins - notice I didn't say the little guy wins a fair amount.
Too bad HIPAA only protects against "unauthorized" access, and allows the gov't and all levels of law enforcement and intelligence (local police, DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA), the CDC, the Department of We Know What Is Good For You (a.k.a. Health and Human Services), researchers, your employer, your insurance company, your educational institution, prospective employers, insurers and educational institutions, all their contractors, employees, affiliates and the contractors and employees of their affiliates and half a billion other people legal access to your information.
Well at least it protects you from the hackers, thieves, perverts, stalkers and nosy neighbors unless they are in the above list.
Well if disciplinary policies worked on their own you wouldn't even need this feature?
Although one can make the case that it makes wrongdoing more obvious, both to those guilty of and those who investigate/punish infractions.
And in some places merely being terminated from employment is the least of your worries. Having your freedom or even your life terminated (e.g. for treason) is a possibility.
Interesting and ironic that Microsoft wants to use this feature to give the owner more power but wants to use DRM to make sure the owner has LESS power over their computer.
No need for such a feature on Linux, it most likely doesn't support the device anyway. Even if it does, it is very unlikely that it was compiled into the kernel.
No, but the BIOS can.
Also, the computers need to be physically secure, or else one can compromise the BIOS.
Maybe CDMA technology would fix all this.
As long as people keep the power levels low enough (laws set max power levels), signals with different encoding codes can coexist.
Ironically, professors are way more accessible in a good school without a big name that they are in the big name schools (where you have a lecturer and you have graduate assistants who have trouble with English lead the dicussion groups).
N-Acetyl-Cystine helps with hangovers?
:O)
I know it helps with acetaminophen (Tylenol) overdoses, but that wouldn't matter unless your drink of choice was Nyquil or something similar.
F students are the ones who get banned from the college network for spending Friday nights trading illegal mp3s and movies.
Isn't that Peter Norton?
Get a Wal*mart card, or some other store or gas card.
Luckily for the RIAA, reverse engineering is illegal.
OK, strictly it isn't illegal in and of itself, just using it to do anything a copyright holder doesn't like is illegal under the DMCA.
You are of course, free to reverse engineer if no one objects.
Just as you have totally unrestricted free speech, as long as no one objects.
A few nights in jail can be a big price to pay indeed. Prison rape is a really, really big problem. And some protestor will be "fresh meat" for the predators indeed.
We could also have them print "Speed limit: 100 mph". I wonder if the NYC cabbies would actually slow down? ;)
Humans have 3 types of cone cells.
Make the phosphors only excite one cone type each, and you can generate all the colors the eye can see.
Now, monitor manufacturers, listen up! We need a reasonable green that isn't yellowish. I can *so* tell the difference. I can see cerulean blue (a most lovely color - the color of some TDK CD-Rs) in real life, but not on a monitor.
"iNet"? Dude, you have been using Macs for too long.
As for reverse spammming them, someone at a university I had gone to had this script on his "instant messager" (the system was Zephyr, originally from the Athena project at MIT) client delete anything I sent him and sent an "I'm ignoring you message" to me in reply.
He made 2 big mistakes. One, it spammed me even when I posted to a broadcast instance (vaguely analogous to an IRC channel) and 2, it didn't prevent replies to replies (which is something all the offical reply clients do). If it wasn't for the broadcast issue - I wouldn't have cared. If it wasn't for the reply-to-reply issue, it wouldn't have backfired so badly.
What I did:
I ran multiple instances of a client which sends an "I am away" message to people that write me directly, and send a normal message to the broadcast instance. Of course, his script replied back.
The resulting (exponentially growing) storm so bogged him down he knocked it off.
Moral, don't mess with geeks (the other guy was a MAJOR geek too, but he was considered an "in crowd" amongst the geek heirarchy there). He did look stupid, not for being anti-social, but for his oversight in writing his ignore-and-spam program. He really should've known better.
Assume that *ESPECIALLY* the Feds will see it.
1. Do something stupid.
2. Post it on the Internet.
3. Profit!
BTW, it is spelled "idiocy".
Schools have no right to tell someone to leave for exercising their First Amendment rights (no matter how utterly distasteful it may be) outside of school property.
The precedents that sets can be truly frightening.
Image your child having a web log support either Bush or Kerry or Nader or whoever, that doesn't involve the school at all, and the school kicks her/him out and to never, ever come back. Imagine if that was a public school and now your kid is denied his legal right to an education (or sent to some BS "opportunity school" which is more like a boot camp than a school, and doesn't teach much of anything other than "might makes right").
Scary.
I *so* don't miss high school.
Things really don't change much as an adult. Now bullies don't beat you up, they just try to get you fired, fire you on false pretexts, talk behind you back and try to get people to turn on you, etc. All the nonsense that went on in high school still does in the adult world, it just takes on a more adult form. More subtle, but the stakes are higher.
Sounds very believable.
:) Much safer, legally speaking, to just use a rock.
Of course a physical assault gets a lesser punishment than a virtual transgression.
If I throw a rock through someone's window, that is a misdemeanor. Probably no jail, get a fine, and a minor criminal record that probably won't affect anything in my life. Heck, the same probably goes for if I beat someone up (the only real exceptions are if it is against a cop, if it is an attack against someone because they are a member of a protected class, if it is domestic violence, or if it severely maims/kills someone - otherwise it is almost certainly a lesser crime than anything computer related). I wonder if throwing a computer mouse at someone would be a serious crime.
If I print "You suck" on someone's printer by abusing an open print share, that's a felony and I lose all my civil rights for life, become ineligible for many jobs, student loans, not allowed to vote, run for office, exercise my 2nd Amendment rights, etc.
Because the punishment always fits the crime and how dangerous the perpetrator is, heh.
If you want to have unauthorized access to people's computers and not be a felon, just become a fed. Hacking is OK then.
Don't get me wrong, I think flying is wonderful and that everyone should be able to do it, after rigorous training and certification, in a well maintained vehicle, clearly understanding when conditions are right to fly!
I think we should also impose those conditions on driving in general.
Drivers already crash into houses. Here is another article on drivers crashing into buildings this time because they were incapacitated or died due to medical reasons behind the wheel. So much for requiring a medical check before you can get a license to fly either a plane or a flying car - since they don't require one (usually) for a regular car and those can kill people who aren't even on the roads at the time.