Many Schools and ISP's offer free shell accounts, also if you do a search for free shells on google.com you should find quite a few. Also get a copy of open BSD or linux. It's free, you just need a box to run it on. Maybe your parents would allow you to dual boot. Be sure you ask first if it's not your computer, and if you aren't sure exactly how to install it ask for help, there are Linux User Groups all over the place, I assume in the UK also, i'm sure you can find someone to help.
maybe this is part of the problem, If a computer teacher is so incompentent that he/she is only familiar with one operating system what does this say about our standards for education. It's hard to find a job just doing lowly tech support(no flames, i'm one of them) for a good isp if you only know one OS. Most like at least windows and Unix or linux with Mac OS being a plus.
If we can't require a computer teacher to be fluent in other OS's, how can we expect them to have a chance at training our children in such a rapidly moving field. *nix is indeed not userfriendly, but I would expect a computer educator to be above average when it comes to computers. If they can't learn other OS's how will they learn new programming languages? Would you want a teacher who reads only on a 5th grade level teaching 1st graders to read... I wouldn't want a teacher who knows only one OS or one language teaching. When should a teacher stop learning?
I think that's why people who are only MCSE's have such a hard time being accepted by IT or finding employment, it's all they know and there are so many of them... Maybe we should focus on being able to proficiently use and intergrate different platforms. We can't always expect our favorite OS to be everyone else's favorite also. We also can't expect to always have to use one OS with corperations, Most use many different platforms for different jobs. I think one of the strongest points of *nix is the fact that it plays well with other platforms. We can use this to our advantage, sneek it in the door:).
I totally agree that parents should have access to school records of their children, however I don't think you should have access to records of my children, my neighbor's children, your friend's children etc. If internet records are requested, then I think you should only get your children's access and no one elses. You certainly wouldn't want the whole world accessing you child's cumlative record without consent, I would consider internet logs the same.
If they are going to release the students logs, then I'd also like to see the administrations logs, the school boards logs, and hmmmm the goverment's logs also. I have a feeling that adults in position of authority are going to be more likely to abuse they're internet access than students... of course this is completely a guess so it would be cool if any one has any figures.
Isn't anyone else bothered by how it is always assumed that it is a kid thats making these attacks? I used to be a kid once, and didn't appreciate everything being blamed on my generation. Be realistic, people, it takes EXPERIENCE to become a true asshole; kids are amateurs at best... the REAL jerks are the seasoned veterans
True, maybe it's just easier on the ego to say it's some pimplefaced 14 yearold kid that doesn't know a tenth of what you do. Maybe one of the reasons we are so succeptable to DoS attacts is because we underestimate the ability of the attacker. Just because he didn't root your system doesn't mean he can't, DoS attacks are very dangerous and attract alot of attention because they can last a very long time.
So far you have contacted UUNET and the FBI, but have you considered contacting the Company that is actually leasing the ATM? I'm sure they would be quite interested to know one of there employees or customers is abusing the line. 45Mbs doesn't come cheap. Also I've noticed people that abuse other servers also abuse they're own providers. If this person hasn't done so already I would expect him to DoS his own provider/and or employeer first time they do something to upset him. I'm sure they would love to be able to can this security/lawsuit risk...If it were my line I would certainly want to be informed.
The CONSTITUTION of the United States prescribes only one duty for the vice president. He is the president, or presiding officer, of the U.S. SENATE, and if a Senate vote ends in a tie the vice president may vote to break the tie. The vice president has been assigned other duties by statute, and the president may give him other responsibilities. The importance of the vice president derives almost entirely from the fact that at any moment he may succeed to the most powerful office in the world.
taken from http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/vp/vpusa.html
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Maybe the Candidates views on law are more important than you think eh?
It seems the majority of the candidates support censorware in schools. I'm suprised by the fact that even though they support censorware, the don't think the federal government should decide what is to be censored. I guess this would move the decision to the states, either way it's bad. I'd hate to see what my home state of Mississippi (heart of the bible belt) would decide to censor. Obviously alternative and minority religions would be gone since they are cults to Southern Baptists. And does that mean that Califorinia would be more liberal? I wonder who these candidates think would be the appropriate agency to decide what is to be censored. I must say I find the whole position of censoring schools disheartening.
It sounds could to begin with, but in the long run how much will this really cost? 40$ covers the line's monthly fee's, but they have computer's to buy, technicians to pay, networks to build/upgrade, then admins... security... installation fee's, Censorware to buy... It sounds sneaky to me.
Napster's fatal flaw was that the programmers and producers didn't understand the music industry fully. I'm not saying that cd prices aren't obscene or that 90% of the industry isn't corrupt, but from a buisness stand point Napster should have at least talked with and industry consultant. Radio's have to pay for a broadcasting license, cd manufactures if not part of the publisher or subletted by the publisher have to pay for a mechanical license to distribute. Video's and films have to pay for both mechanical licenses to distrubute it on a media and a synchronization license to use it in the film or video.
So where does that leave Napster. Napster will probably have to negotiate some type of mechanical license. I also wonder why the RIAA is so caught up in this because they don't have much at all to do with licensing and royalties. Most royalties are collected by ASCAP, BMI, and/or SESCA. I think they just want to get their hand in the cookie jar again.
It's so ironic how everyone complains about this, yet we keep either not voting, or electing the same corperate trash into office every election. Maybe it's time we try some of these little guys(non elephant/ass parties) I'm going to vote for Nader, I know he won't win, but maybe someday... And hopefully they won't turn out to be scum. Point is, we have the power to change things, unfortunately it seems we are too lazy. If you aren't registered to vote, go do it, we need all the help we can get.
They do, when you purchase the cd, it's called a mechanical royaltie and the artist should get 75%, however it doesn't always work this way.
When you by sheet music the money is considered a performance royaltie so you can perform it.
radio stations use a blanket license usually and pay for the company's whole catalogue
colleges pay performance royalties at a discount and have to keep a program for every recital and performance. ASCAP audits them yearly and ajusts cost according to the # of performances.
basically cd's aren't the only way musicians make money. is it fair? ask most professional musicians they will probably agree with most of it.
I'm a musician and a music industry major and have been following this for a long time. I do feel that the RIAA is corrupt and has stolen more from artist than the Internet ever will. However following the basic buisness model for the Industry, the broadcast companies should contect the artist about the music they want to play. I think most "pirate broadcasters" would want to play more obscure songs. This means these small artist probably aren't affiliated w/ RIAA and would happily bypass royalties for air time. also a blanket license can be negotiated with record companies and can still be fairly inexpensive if the station is nonprofit.
the main problem I see is software programmers and admins that know nothing about the industry are venturing into untravelled territory with music without signifigant knowledge of the law. It's understandable, however it would be wise to find a consultant who knows the industry to prevent these problems. Would you start a Mail order food sevice on the Internet without adhearing to health code regulations, would you want to purchase from a company that didn't? It's the same thing. Would you want a company profitting off of your hard work without making money yourself? I think it's important to keep a perspective on this and not just cry freespeech all the time. true most of what the RIAA does is rediculous and they should rot in hell, but I have to agree with this one
well, i disagree, the RIAA (not that i like them at all) is trying to make money, that's fair. I don't think they can squash Internet pirate radio. besides I think for a REAL pirate radio they would want to play more obscure independent music than the RIAA's top 40 crap. There are plenty of labels not affiliated with the RIAA that would love for their music to get air time and would gladly bypass royalties for air time. Why would anyone want to hear the same crap they hear on normal radio on a pirate station. Defeats the purpose
Record companys pay for recording, marketing, distribution, sometimes royalty collections, tours, attorneys, accountants, power, water, rent, etc. I guess they need some money to cover that;)
generally nonprofit/public radio and television stations pay less than commercial stations. Usually ASCAP monitors the # of listners and bases cost off of that. I assume the same would be done for internet broadcast.
i worked for compusa as a tech for 2 years (and even though I hated it I have to say this much) I can say that the new machines sold were fine, if the processors were replaced it was done at the manufacture. I worked on many comppc's and even though they may be crap, i only saw one with the wrong processer, and it wasn't OC'd, so obviously just an error.
What i did see was corrupt techs pulling processors from refurbs and replacing them with their old hardware OC'd. When we discovered this the machines were field destroyed.
Not only is Projekt not an RIAA member, Sam Rosenthol the owner, supports napster:).
He also mentioned in his weekly newsletter that for small label's like his mp3's are great exposer. When projekt started he encourged people to make copies of his tapes just so more people would know who Projekt is, imagine how much faster a label can grow now with mp3's.
The RIAA not only needs to be boycotted for it's stand on napster, but it's horrible cost on cd's. Why is it RIAA labels who have plenty of money charge from 15-19 dollars a cd and indy labels that don't have excessive amounts of cash can profit from selling cd's for 10-16 dollars?
"Your average teenage movie goer or comic book fan won't notice the bad acting (though Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen were spectactular), and Wolverine and Rogue are nice subjects to focus on." actually I thought most of the acting was good, the thing that did bother me was Rogue's accent (it seemed to fall somewhere between a Texas Accent and a speech impetiment);). Growing up in Mississippi(and I'm only an hour from Meridian) I've never heard anyone speak like that. It would have been better for her to speak "without" an accent than like that. Aside from her accent I thought her acting abilities were good. ~lee -----Begin GEEKCODE BLOCK----- GMU/L/CM d---@ a23 C++ UL++@$ L++@ w P+ E---(----)@ M+@ PS+ 5- X+++@ tv b++++ e>++>+++>++++ r++ b ------End GEEKCODE BLOCK------
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Many Schools and ISP's offer free shell accounts, also if you do a search for free shells on google.com you should find quite a few. Also get a copy of open BSD or linux. It's free, you just need a box to run it on. Maybe your parents would allow you to dual boot. Be sure you ask first if it's not your computer, and if you aren't sure exactly how to install it ask for help, there are Linux User Groups all over the place, I assume in the UK also, i'm sure you can find someone to help.
maybe this is part of the problem, If a computer teacher is so incompentent that he/she is only familiar with one operating system what does this say about our standards for education. It's hard to find a job just doing lowly tech support(no flames, i'm one of them) for a good isp if you only know one OS. Most like at least windows and Unix or linux with Mac OS being a plus.
If we can't require a computer teacher to be fluent in other OS's, how can we expect them to have a chance at training our children in such a rapidly moving field. *nix is indeed not userfriendly, but I would expect a computer educator to be above average when it comes to computers. If they can't learn other OS's how will they learn new programming languages? Would you want a teacher who reads only on a 5th grade level teaching 1st graders to read... I wouldn't want a teacher who knows only one OS or one language teaching. When should a teacher stop learning?
I think that's why people who are only MCSE's have such a hard time being accepted by IT or finding employment, it's all they know and there are so many of them... Maybe we should focus on being able to proficiently use and intergrate different platforms. We can't always expect our favorite OS to be everyone else's favorite also. We also can't expect to always have to use one OS with corperations, Most use many different platforms for different jobs. I think one of the strongest points of *nix is the fact that it plays well with other platforms. We can use this to our advantage, sneek it in the door:).
I totally agree that parents should have access to school records of their children, however I don't think you should have access to records of my children, my neighbor's children, your friend's children etc. If internet records are requested, then I think you should only get your children's access and no one elses. You certainly wouldn't want the whole world accessing you child's cumlative record without consent, I would consider internet logs the same.
If they are going to release the students logs, then I'd also like to see the administrations logs, the school boards logs, and hmmmm the goverment's logs also. I have a feeling that adults in position of authority are going to be more likely to abuse they're internet access than students... of course this is completely a guess so it would be cool if any one has any figures.
The admins seem to have killed the sight... "Forbidden, you do not have permission to access this site" Somebody's in trouble...
we're doomed... vote nader next election...
True, maybe it's just easier on the ego to say it's some pimplefaced 14 yearold kid that doesn't know a tenth of what you do. Maybe one of the reasons we are so succeptable to DoS attacts is because we underestimate the ability of the attacker. Just because he didn't root your system doesn't mean he can't, DoS attacks are very dangerous and attract alot of attention because they can last a very long time.
So far you have contacted UUNET and the FBI, but have you considered contacting the Company that is actually leasing the ATM? I'm sure they would be quite interested to know one of there employees or customers is abusing the line. 45Mbs doesn't come cheap. Also I've noticed people that abuse other servers also abuse they're own providers. If this person hasn't done so already I would expect him to DoS his own provider/and or employeer first time they do something to upset him. I'm sure they would love to be able to can this security/lawsuit risk...If it were my line I would certainly want to be informed.
The CONSTITUTION of the United States prescribes only one duty for the vice president. He is the president, or presiding officer, of the U.S. SENATE, and if a Senate vote ends in a tie the vice president may vote to break the tie. The vice president has been assigned other duties by statute, and the president may give him other responsibilities. The importance of the vice president derives almost entirely from the fact that at any moment he may succeed to the most powerful office in the world.
taken from http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/vp/vpusa.html
>BR> Maybe the Candidates views on law are more important than you think eh?
It seems the majority of the candidates support censorware in schools. I'm suprised by the fact that even though they support censorware, the don't think the federal government should decide what is to be censored. I guess this would move the decision to the states, either way it's bad. I'd hate to see what my home state of Mississippi (heart of the bible belt) would decide to censor. Obviously alternative and minority religions would be gone since they are cults to Southern Baptists. And does that mean that Califorinia would be more liberal? I wonder who these candidates think would be the appropriate agency to decide what is to be censored. I must say I find the whole position of censoring schools disheartening.
It sounds could to begin with, but in the long run how much will this really cost? 40$ covers the line's monthly fee's, but they have computer's to buy, technicians to pay, networks to build/upgrade, then admins... security... installation fee's, Censorware to buy... It sounds sneaky to me.
Napster's fatal flaw was that the programmers and producers didn't understand the music industry fully. I'm not saying that cd prices aren't obscene or that 90% of the industry isn't corrupt, but from a buisness stand point Napster should have at least talked with and industry consultant. Radio's have to pay for a broadcasting license, cd manufactures if not part of the publisher or subletted by the publisher have to pay for a mechanical license to distribute. Video's and films have to pay for both mechanical licenses to distrubute it on a media and a synchronization license to use it in the film or video.
So where does that leave Napster. Napster will probably have to negotiate some type of mechanical license. I also wonder why the RIAA is so caught up in this because they don't have much at all to do with licensing and royalties. Most royalties are collected by ASCAP, BMI, and/or SESCA. I think they just want to get their hand in the cookie jar again.
god also hates the MPAA
god hates me
It's so ironic how everyone complains about this, yet we keep either not voting, or electing the same corperate trash into office every election. Maybe it's time we try some of these little guys(non elephant/ass parties) I'm going to vote for Nader, I know he won't win, but maybe someday... And hopefully they won't turn out to be scum. Point is, we have the power to change things, unfortunately it seems we are too lazy. If you aren't registered to vote, go do it, we need all the help we can get.
i'm on crack... royalty... :) not royaltie hehe
They do, when you purchase the cd, it's called a mechanical royaltie and the artist should get 75%, however it doesn't always work this way. When you by sheet music the money is considered a performance royaltie so you can perform it. radio stations use a blanket license usually and pay for the company's whole catalogue colleges pay performance royalties at a discount and have to keep a program for every recital and performance. ASCAP audits them yearly and ajusts cost according to the # of performances. basically cd's aren't the only way musicians make money. is it fair? ask most professional musicians they will probably agree with most of it.
I'm a musician and a music industry major and have been following this for a long time. I do feel that the RIAA is corrupt and has stolen more from artist than the Internet ever will. However following the basic buisness model for the Industry, the broadcast companies should contect the artist about the music they want to play. I think most "pirate broadcasters" would want to play more obscure songs. This means these small artist probably aren't affiliated w/ RIAA and would happily bypass royalties for air time. also a blanket license can be negotiated with record companies and can still be fairly inexpensive if the station is nonprofit. the main problem I see is software programmers and admins that know nothing about the industry are venturing into untravelled territory with music without signifigant knowledge of the law. It's understandable, however it would be wise to find a consultant who knows the industry to prevent these problems. Would you start a Mail order food sevice on the Internet without adhearing to health code regulations, would you want to purchase from a company that didn't? It's the same thing. Would you want a company profitting off of your hard work without making money yourself? I think it's important to keep a perspective on this and not just cry freespeech all the time. true most of what the RIAA does is rediculous and they should rot in hell, but I have to agree with this one
well, i disagree, the RIAA (not that i like them at all) is trying to make money, that's fair. I don't think they can squash Internet pirate radio. besides I think for a REAL pirate radio they would want to play more obscure independent music than the RIAA's top 40 crap. There are plenty of labels not affiliated with the RIAA that would love for their music to get air time and would gladly bypass royalties for air time. Why would anyone want to hear the same crap they hear on normal radio on a pirate station. Defeats the purpose
Record companys pay for recording, marketing, distribution, sometimes royalty collections, tours, attorneys, accountants, power, water, rent, etc. I guess they need some money to cover that ;)
generally nonprofit/public radio and television stations pay less than commercial stations. Usually ASCAP monitors the # of listners and bases cost off of that. I assume the same would be done for internet broadcast.
i worked for compusa as a tech for 2 years (and even though I hated it I have to say this much) I can say that the new machines sold were fine, if the processors were replaced it was done at the manufacture. I worked on many comppc's and even though they may be crap, i only saw one with the wrong processer, and it wasn't OC'd, so obviously just an error. What i did see was corrupt techs pulling processors from refurbs and replacing them with their old hardware OC'd. When we discovered this the machines were field destroyed.
Not only is Projekt not an RIAA member, Sam Rosenthol the owner, supports napster :).
He also mentioned in his weekly newsletter that for small label's like his mp3's are great exposer. When projekt started he encourged people to make copies of his tapes just so more people would know who Projekt is, imagine how much faster a label can grow now with mp3's.
The RIAA not only needs to be boycotted for it's stand on napster, but it's horrible cost on cd's. Why is it RIAA labels who have plenty of money charge from 15-19 dollars a cd and indy labels that don't have excessive amounts of cash can profit from selling cd's for 10-16 dollars?
"Your average teenage movie goer or comic book fan won't notice the bad acting (though Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen were spectactular), and Wolverine and Rogue are nice subjects to focus on." actually I thought most of the acting was good, the thing that did bother me was Rogue's accent (it seemed to fall somewhere between a Texas Accent and a speech impetiment) ;). Growing up in Mississippi(and I'm only an hour from Meridian) I've never heard anyone speak like that. It would have been better for her to speak "without" an accent than like that. Aside from her accent I thought her acting abilities were good. ~lee -----Begin GEEKCODE BLOCK----- GMU/L/CM d---@ a23 C++ UL++@$ L++@ w P+ E---(----)@ M+@ PS+ 5- X+++@ tv b++++ e>++>+++>++++ r++ b ------End GEEKCODE BLOCK------
Bill Gates can lick my nuts...