I suggested this idea on my blog about a month and a half ago. It's awesome that Google, Yahoo, and MSN were able to work together to turn it into reality.
The potential goes far beyond curbing blog spam. Perhaps more importantly, it provides a means for publishers to link to information without lending creed to it.
One of the most prominent example of a reason publishers would want to do this are educational sites that link to sites such as www.martinlutherking.org in order to teach children about misinformation on the Internet. In doing so, they inadvertantly raise its search engine rankings, propogating the misinformation itself.
The ad features the usernames and partial IP addresses of peer2peer file sharers, surrounded by bold, red captions reading:
IS THIS YOU?
IF YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH ILLEGALLY TRAFFICKING IN MOVIES, THINK AGAIN.
LAWSUITS BEGIN THIS WEEK.
It then proceeds to note that:
Pursuant to the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. Section 504(c)), statutory damages can be as much as $30,000 per motion picture, and up to $150,000 per motion picture if the infringement is willful.
Actually, on the contrary, EFNet has been on its way back up for quite some time now. After bottoming out due to DoS attacks and numerous servers losses at about 50,000 users, it's back up to an average of 75,000, and growing.
You are also mistaken in saying that EFNet does not use "things like ChanServs". A sort of channel services was in fact introduced on EFNet several months ago, and overall has been a great success.
I'll leave it at that, but suggest you (and anyone interested) checks out the most up-to-date information @ EFNet's unofficial web site - www.efnet.org.
Also realize that/. is very predictable in posting stories about EFNet's demise, but never about its successes (of which there are many). It's typical of mainstream media - bad news makes good news... too bad this is the route/. has taken.
There are released, supported Wavelan now ORiNOCO card does have drivers for Linux.
I quote from the Lucent produce listing:
"The ORiNOCO PC card is compatible with Windows® 95/98/2000/CE/NT (NDIS Miniport driver), Apple® Mac OS 7.5.2 and higher, Novell Client 3.x & 4.x, and Linux (kernel versions 2.0.x to 2.2.x) for Intel processors."
Seems quite a bit broader than this article's "Windows 95/98/NT/2000"...
I took AP Comp Sci in 1999 (the first year that the subject matter was C++ I believe), and what a waste of time. I'm not gonna bash the need for introductory programming courses, but we basically spent the entire year reinventing the wheel with BigInt and BigString classes. It just so happens that the following year, being a freshman at the University of Michigan, I took 2 courses that together covered less than AP Comp Sci.
The bottom line is that you have to keep it real, not theoretical. How many/. programmers regularly use Big-O notation or recursion? I'm sitting here with a copy of David Kruglinski's Inside Visual C++ book in which he says "If you want to learn French, you have to go to France." The AP Comp Sci curriculum does not breed programmers that will make it in the real world.
As a 19 year old computer geek with a sweet summer internship at stamps.com (cheap plug), I haven't put to use anything that I've learned from my high school or college education (well, technologically anyway).
It's all about classes, modular dynamic pieces of code, MFC and windows programming (sorry to say) - or maybe GUI programming is more accurate.. The technology behind programming is -dry-. The only thing that makes it fun is programming something that interests you - so instead of asking us for ideas and getting 400 bitter responses, ask your students what they would like to do! What interests them? Maybe there's even something that they could create that your school could put to some use.
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Are other universities eliminating Solaris in favor of a Linux distribution?
Why yes, yes they are!
** Reminder **
The ITCS Login Service will be upgraded on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005.
On May 3rd, the current servers (running Solaris) will be replaced with new machines running Linux.
I suggested this idea on my blog about a month and a half ago. It's awesome that Google, Yahoo, and MSN were able to work together to turn it into reality.
The potential goes far beyond curbing blog spam. Perhaps more importantly, it provides a means for publishers to link to information without lending creed to it.
One of the most prominent example of a reason publishers would want to do this are educational sites that link to sites such as www.martinlutherking.org in order to teach children about misinformation on the Internet. In doing so, they inadvertantly raise its search engine rankings, propogating the misinformation itself.
Read on for more...
I just posted a screenshot of an add the MPAA ran yesterday (Monday) in the school newspaper here at the University of Michigan:
- this-week.html
http://adamjh.blogspot.com/2004/11/lawsuits-begin
The ad features the usernames and partial IP addresses of peer2peer file sharers, surrounded by bold, red captions reading:
IS THIS YOU?
IF YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH
ILLEGALLY TRAFFICKING IN MOVIES, THINK AGAIN.
LAWSUITS BEGIN THIS WEEK.
It then proceeds to note that:
Pursuant to the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. Section 504(c)), statutory damages can be as much as $30,000 per motion picture, and up to $150,000 per motion picture if the infringement is willful.
*sigh*
People can't afford all that extra bandwidth?
Is that why UUNet/Worldcom is about to link a brand spankin new IRC server to EFNet?
*ponder*
it was always blackened.com, never blackened.org.
*cough* moron *cough*
Actually, on the contrary, EFNet has been on its way back up for quite some time now. After bottoming out due to DoS attacks and numerous servers losses at about 50,000 users, it's back up to an average of 75,000, and growing.
/. is very predictable in posting stories about EFNet's demise, but never about its successes (of which there are many). It's typical of mainstream media - bad news makes good news... too bad this is the route /. has taken.
You are also mistaken in saying that EFNet does not use "things like ChanServs". A sort of channel services was in fact introduced on EFNet several months ago, and overall has been a great success.
I'll leave it at that, but suggest you (and anyone interested) checks out the most up-to-date information @ EFNet's unofficial web site - www.efnet.org.
Also realize that
duh, this story was broken by the washington post last saturday.
not to mention the 5th word in his article is spelled wrong.
There are released, supported Wavelan now ORiNOCO card does have drivers for Linux.
I quote from the Lucent produce listing:
"The ORiNOCO PC card is compatible with Windows® 95/98/2000/CE/NT (NDIS Miniport driver), Apple® Mac OS 7.5.2 and higher, Novell Client 3.x & 4.x, and Linux (kernel versions 2.0.x to 2.2.x) for Intel processors."
Seems quite a bit broader than this article's "Windows 95/98/NT/2000"...
I took AP Comp Sci in 1999 (the first year that the subject matter was C++ I believe), and what a waste of time. I'm not gonna bash the need for introductory programming courses, but we basically spent the entire year reinventing the wheel with BigInt and BigString classes. It just so happens that the following year, being a freshman at the University of Michigan, I took 2 courses that together covered less than AP Comp Sci.
/. programmers regularly use Big-O notation or recursion? I'm sitting here with a copy of David Kruglinski's Inside Visual C++ book in which he says "If you want to learn French, you have to go to France." The AP Comp Sci curriculum does not breed programmers that will make it in the real world.
The bottom line is that you have to keep it real, not theoretical. How many
As a 19 year old computer geek with a sweet summer internship at stamps.com (cheap plug), I haven't put to use anything that I've learned from my high school or college education (well, technologically anyway).
It's all about classes, modular dynamic pieces of code, MFC and windows programming (sorry to say) - or maybe GUI programming is more accurate.. The technology behind programming is -dry-. The only thing that makes it fun is programming something that interests you - so instead of asking us for ideas and getting 400 bitter responses, ask your students what they would like to do! What interests them? Maybe there's even something that they could create that your school could put to some use.
Food for thought...