This is something that in general is becoming increasingly prevalent in academic communities. Rather than focusing on acquiring and developing knowledge, and passing that knowledge on - it seems that much of the academic hierarchy has become obsessed with obtaining credit for their work.
Not that this isn't due, but this is vastly hindering peoples ability to learn.
They cannot possibly expect a first year student to produce stunning, wholly original work? Did these individuals them selves never work in a co-operative environment? So when does co-operation become cheating? When does building on the concepts put forth in previous work become plagiarism?
When you steal without any idea of your own.
Anyone who ever wrote "Hello World" is now a lying cheating stealing bastard ('Cept for that first one. They're ok.)
The U.S. constitution doesn't really guarantee a coroeration's right to make a profit. I don't believe that we should continue to make public policy decisions based on how it might effect some corperations' profit margin.
Look at what this sort of policy has done to health care and the insurance industry. Do we really want to see the same sort of effect on the flow of information?
I've always like the idea of naming your systems after your exec staff. Makes rebuilding them kinda fun - and if they're windos boxen - you know that at some point you'll get to reformat your CEO.
The link sys or net gear router I used to have had the MAC spoofing built in. But it wouldn't get around header crawling or anything like that. If they really want to get invasive - they'll get us all.
There's a (I think LinkSys) router I used to have at an old place - it allowed you to mimic the MAC address of one of the machines behind the box. To our ISP our share looked like a single win98 box (actualy our house hl/CS server)
Lets face it - we all know that the licensing has goten out of control. The truely scary thing, is how many of us have simply clicked "I accept." to something as invasive as this?
So really, how well can this work? Half the porple I know look completely diferent from day to day anyway . . .
But take this for an example:
Soon after Sept 11th one of my colegues flew east on a buisness assignment. He was concerned because, as he said "Did I forget to mention, I look like one of those terrorists?"
He did, a little. Darker complextion, goatee, curlly hair, glasses. He looked more than a little like one of the suspects.
He's sinced shaved his goatee, so he no longer looks like that . . . but would this system have been abel to diferentiate?
I also seem to remeber that one of the guys they arested and incarcerated in Tampa turned out to be the wrong guy . . . .
I think there's a difference between patenting a technology and it's implementations (The implementation being the common idea.)
Patenting a technology (be it XML or Instamatic Film) would almost make sense (though I'm rather glad XML is an open standard)
Patenting their uses - as this seems to be is ridiculous.
Lets say Guttenberg didn't patent the printing press, but some yutz came along three years later and was able to convince the USPTO to allow a patent for a "Method of communicating using text produced by a printing press"
We'd all be set back a thousand years.
This sort of profiteering could seriously hinder innovation. Really. Not just in M$ speak.
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wow. Next time I spell check this crud.
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My doc used to joke that I had what was called White Coat High Blodd Presure. I was so nervous standing in the physicians office that when my blood presure was checked by all apearances I was only seconds from stroking out.
I think it was the caffine . . . but actually people like me who are pretty much afraid of any authority (doctors, lawyers, cops, soldiers, etc . ..) are bound to trow a device such as this for a loop.
I already get searched every time I try to fly I could walk through a metal detector in boxers and set the damed thing off) Now it looks like I could face the prospect of a long interogation just for being afraid that those ungainly looking mosters we call airframs are gonna fall out of the sky?!?!
And is this going to provide any increase in security? At All?
People learn to lie well (See above Doctors, Lwyers, etc . . . "This won't hurt but a bit.")
Having just spent something in excess of 15 hours on board aircraft these holidays i seriously could have used this.
The obvious thing would be to install airport or other 802.11 stuff (wasn't there an article sometime back about Virgin Atlantic loking to do something like that?) And I know that some airlines are already installing 110 outlets on the bulkheads and such.
Banks don't tell us when their security has been comprimised. If they did, no one would ever put any money there. Of course some have been comprimised - but you'll never hear about it on the five o'clock news or ever idiot in america (and pretty much every where else) would be franticaly packing wads of cash into coffee cans to be burried in their back yards.
My father teaches CS at a small private school, and while they're not by any means struggling financially - they are somewhat apprehensive about Microsoft's new fervor for license enforcement.
They're seriously considering a move from their current student lab environment (Win 9x with Novell Netware) to a Linux thin client environment - what would basically be X terms. This has huge resource allocation advantages and because it's open source - the licensing restrictions are few if any.
This could literally save them millions over the next few years (The hardware life cycle for thin clients is considerable longer, and new server hardware, while expensive, is cheaper than buying several hundred new desktops every few years - not to mention say $100 dollars per system savings against XP Pro licenses)
That millions could keep them afloat in thin times, or could mean that they can provide scholarships to needy students.
Compared to MIT's history of frankly, wicked cool Hacks (What the students and faculty at the nerdiest of the nerd schools call prectical jokes) this one is pretty lame. Topical, but lame. See the MIT Campus Police Car Hack for one of the better ever performed.
If this is the same one they showed at Java One last year (conspiciously playing high frame rate videos of bikini clad women dancing in the rain) it is very cool. The Java layer means a short dev cycle and a highly configurable UI and the back end stability's got to be pretty good.
I was impressed back in June, i'm excited to see the final product (and for reasons other than the bikini videos)
Isn't the whole idea of CERT to prevent somone from leaking out potential dangerous information before everyone is ready to address it? Even if there's a hole - the relative breadth of the knowledge is going to be limited until a public release - and if no one else has caught up yet . ..well then thats bad.
I would comdem RH - but I use their products and I have Wu installed on some of my systems (They're all internal - so don't even think about it). I'm glad I'll have the fix.
So all someone needs to do to succeed in the anti-virus market is announce that you will detect Magic Lantern.
Lets face it:
A. It's a privacy invasion technique regardless of the need for a warrant. It seems to be increasingly easy for law enforcement agencies to get warrants these days - and we've all heard about the new and proposed relaxation of the wire tap laws. This means the geeks will complain - and we're the ones who make the technical purchasing decisions - and write the software.
B. This will be used against not only capital C Criminal (Those out to blow tings up and cause bloody mayhem) but maybe the lowercase c criminals as well (Those who "forgot" to pay tariffs on the 40 million in imported electronics, or maybe traded on "just a little bit" of insider information. This means that the corporate world is no more eager to have the government listening in than we are.
C. No one should trust the federal government to write stable code. Imagine loosing a few hours of consulting work 'cause it turns out your client is being investigated for tax fraud, and you were working on his WS when ML caused a crash. Oh happy.
Everyone should switch to the first AV provider that says they won't overlook a federal Trojan.
I think the key here is the "With the power of C" statments. I think we can assume that this won't need the ugliness of the Virtual Machine (Maybe Sun or IBM can be convinced to re-write the Java VMS in Cyclone:) )
It's a nice idea - that the compilers themselves would do the bug checking . . .
A few months back - someone, somewhere posted an article related to the work one of the printer manufacturers was doing with LEP (Light emitting polymers?) The result would something rather like a display that could be printed on plain paper. Anyone have that link? I Goggled for like half an hour without finding it (it's been a slow day here.)
This stuff is so much like that mentioned in Stephenson's The Diamond Age - it's remarkable.
In a year - you'll be finding glowing Marlboro adds in a copy of your favorite magazine.
Insanely long battery life. I don't mean 'barely survive the flight from NWK to LAX'. I mean 'I'm only going to be in Tokyo for a week, so I won't need the AC adapter.'
Good built-in networking. No PCMCIA stuff, dongles, or other junk. The system should have a respected 100base-T card built in, and probably an 802.11b card and high-gain antenna as well.
I would see if you couldn't pick up an old IBook - sure, they're pretty goofy looking - but they've got great battery life, their wiked durable (At the university I used to work at - we game them to CS Work Study students to lug around, they never broke one, which is better than I can say for most anything I touched), and with something like YDL installed - you've got an insane number of options for your configuration. It's got a built in 10/100 Eth0 and you can put an airport in it. That would be a pretty decent machine.
You can get on off Ebay
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pepol spel bad.
deal with it.
This is something that in general is becoming increasingly prevalent in academic communities. Rather than focusing on acquiring and developing knowledge, and passing that knowledge on - it seems that much of the academic hierarchy has become obsessed with obtaining credit for their work.
Not that this isn't due, but this is vastly hindering peoples ability to learn.
They cannot possibly expect a first year student to produce stunning, wholly original work? Did these individuals them selves never work in a co-operative environment?
So when does co-operation become cheating? When does building on the concepts put forth in previous work become plagiarism?
When you steal without any idea of your own.
Anyone who ever wrote "Hello World" is now a lying cheating stealing bastard ('Cept for that first one. They're ok.)
Pretty much made my day . . . of course that goes a long way to measure the pathetic nature of my day . . .
The U.S. constitution doesn't really guarantee a coroeration's right to make a profit. I don't believe that we should continue to make public policy decisions based on how it might effect some corperations' profit margin.
Look at what this sort of policy has done to health care and the insurance industry. Do we really want to see the same sort of effect on the flow of information?
I've always like the idea of naming your systems after your exec staff. Makes rebuilding them kinda fun - and if they're windos boxen - you know that at some point you'll get to reformat your CEO.
The link sys or net gear router I used to have had the MAC spoofing built in. But it wouldn't get around header crawling or anything like that. If they really want to get invasive - they'll get us all.
There's a (I think LinkSys) router I used to have at an old place - it allowed you to mimic the MAC address of one of the machines behind the box. To our ISP our share looked like a single win98 box (actualy our house hl/CS server)
This is the second pro-open standard, seemingly anti copyright "thing" that phillips has come up with in the past couple weeks. Wow.
Lets face it - we all know that the licensing has goten out of control. The truely scary thing, is how many of us have simply clicked "I accept." to something as invasive as this?
So really, how well can this work? Half the porple I know look completely diferent from day to day anyway . . .
But take this for an example:
Soon after Sept 11th one of my colegues flew east on a buisness assignment. He was concerned because, as he said "Did I forget to mention, I look like one of those terrorists?"
He did, a little. Darker complextion, goatee, curlly hair, glasses. He looked more than a little like one of the suspects.
He's sinced shaved his goatee, so he no longer looks like that . . . but would this system have been abel to diferentiate?
I also seem to remeber that one of the guys they arested and incarcerated in Tampa turned out to be the wrong guy . . . .
I think there's a difference between patenting a technology and it's implementations (The implementation being the common idea.)
Patenting a technology (be it XML or Instamatic Film) would almost make sense (though I'm rather glad XML is an open standard)
Patenting their uses - as this seems to be is ridiculous.
Lets say Guttenberg didn't patent the printing press, but some yutz came along three years later and was able to convince the USPTO to allow a patent for a "Method of communicating using text produced by a printing press"
We'd all be set back a thousand years.
This sort of profiteering could seriously hinder innovation. Really. Not just in M$ speak.
wow. Next time I spell check this crud.
jonny kant spel kus jonnies skool is baad.
My doc used to joke that I had what was called White Coat High Blodd Presure. I was so nervous standing in the physicians office that when my blood presure was checked by all apearances I was only seconds from stroking out.
.) are bound to trow a device such as this for a loop.
I think it was the caffine . . . but actually people like me who are pretty much afraid of any authority (doctors, lawyers, cops, soldiers, etc . .
I already get searched every time I try to fly I could walk through a metal detector in boxers and set the damed thing off) Now it looks like I could face the prospect of a long interogation just for being afraid that those ungainly looking mosters we call airframs are gonna fall out of the sky?!?!
And is this going to provide any increase in security? At All?
People learn to lie well (See above Doctors, Lwyers, etc . . . "This won't hurt but a bit.")
Oy.
Having just spent something in excess of 15 hours on board aircraft these holidays i seriously could have used this.
The obvious thing would be to install airport or other 802.11 stuff (wasn't there an article sometime back about Virgin Atlantic loking to do something like that?) And I know that some airlines are already installing 110 outlets on the bulkheads and such.
LAN party at 30,000 ft!!!!
Banks don't tell us when their security has been comprimised. If they did, no one would ever put any money there. Of course some have been comprimised - but you'll never hear about it on the five o'clock news or ever idiot in america (and pretty much every where else) would be franticaly packing wads of cash into coffee cans to be burried in their back yards.
My father teaches CS at a small private school, and while they're not by any means struggling financially - they are somewhat apprehensive about Microsoft's new fervor for license enforcement.
They're seriously considering a move from their current student lab environment (Win 9x with Novell Netware) to a Linux thin client environment - what would basically be X terms. This has huge resource allocation advantages and because it's open source - the licensing restrictions are few if any.
This could literally save them millions over the next few years (The hardware life cycle for thin clients is considerable longer, and new server hardware, while expensive, is cheaper than buying several hundred new desktops every few years - not to mention say $100 dollars per system savings against XP Pro licenses)
That millions could keep them afloat in thin times, or could mean that they can provide scholarships to needy students.
See related: K12 Linux Project
Compared to MIT's history of frankly, wicked cool Hacks (What the students and faculty at the nerdiest of the nerd schools call prectical jokes) this one is pretty lame. Topical, but lame. See the MIT Campus Police Car Hack for one of the better ever performed.
If this is the same one they showed at Java One last year (conspiciously playing high frame rate videos of bikini clad women dancing in the rain) it is very cool. The Java layer means a short dev cycle and a highly configurable UI and the back end stability's got to be pretty good.
I was impressed back in June, i'm excited to see the final product (and for reasons other than the bikini videos)
Great, the list of stuff my wife won't let me buy (but that I REALLY need) gets longer.
Congrats to SonicBlue for their bravery. Be very afraid of the IP Lawyers. Be Very Afraid.
Isn't the whole idea of CERT to prevent somone from leaking out potential dangerous information before everyone is ready to address it? Even if there's a hole - the relative breadth of the knowledge is going to be limited until a public release - and if no one else has caught up yet . . .well then thats bad.
I would comdem RH - but I use their products and I have Wu installed on some of my systems (They're all internal - so don't even think about it). I'm glad I'll have the fix.
So all someone needs to do to succeed in the anti-virus market is announce that you will detect Magic Lantern.
Lets face it:
A. It's a privacy invasion technique regardless of the need for a warrant. It seems to be increasingly easy for law enforcement agencies to get warrants these days - and we've all heard about the new and proposed relaxation of the wire tap laws. This means the geeks will complain - and we're the ones who make the technical purchasing decisions - and write the software.
B. This will be used against not only capital C Criminal (Those out to blow tings up and cause bloody mayhem) but maybe the lowercase c criminals as well (Those who "forgot" to pay tariffs on the 40 million in imported electronics, or maybe traded on "just a little bit" of insider information. This means that the corporate world is no more eager to have the government listening in than we are.
C. No one should trust the federal government to write stable code. Imagine loosing a few hours of consulting work 'cause it turns out your client is being investigated for tax fraud, and you were working on his WS when ML caused a crash. Oh happy.
Everyone should switch to the first AV provider that says they won't overlook a federal Trojan.
I think the key here is the "With the power of C" statments. I think we can assume that this won't need the ugliness of the Virtual Machine (Maybe Sun or IBM can be convinced to re-write the Java VMS in Cyclone :) )
It's a nice idea - that the compilers themselves would do the bug checking . . .
A few months back - someone, somewhere posted an article related to the work one of the printer manufacturers was doing with LEP (Light emitting polymers?) The result would something rather like a display that could be printed on plain paper. Anyone have that link? I Goggled for like half an hour without finding it (it's been a slow day here.)
This stuff is so much like that mentioned in Stephenson's The Diamond Age - it's remarkable.
In a year - you'll be finding glowing Marlboro adds in a copy of your favorite magazine.
I would see if you couldn't pick up an old IBook - sure, they're pretty goofy looking - but they've got great battery life, their wiked durable (At the university I used to work at - we game them to CS Work Study students to lug around, they never broke one, which is better than I can say for most anything I touched), and with something like YDL installed - you've got an insane number of options for your configuration. It's got a built in 10/100 Eth0 and you can put an airport in it. That would be a pretty decent machine. You can get on off Ebay