Well, the person in charge of our network security would not tell us the whole story (like if the police came to him first about it, which I doubt) but he kept saying running these fileshare search engines was "organized crime". I think he did it to "send a message" to the student body. I think he's a prick. Now the kids could be charged with felony copyright infringement because they will no doubt have the legally required number of copyrighted itesm to make it a crime. No charges have been filed yet, but the kids don't have their computers.
At my school, P2P software and password-free fileshares are grounds for getting your internet access revoked. We found some people running fileshare search engines and turned the students over to the police, who confiscated their computers.
Yes, well, I have used a packet sniffer (ethereal) to see what my roommate was saying about me behind my back over AIM. It would suck to lose this power. Of course, it sucks that he could do it to me, but luckily, he is too damn dumb.
This gives no advantage to europe over the US. You can rest assured that before europe puts this into operation, the US will have developed a way to neutralize it if they every really need to. Imagine if europe had provided this service to Iraq so that Sadam could use satelite guided missiles against the US. That is not a possability our military will allow. They may let europe build it, but stopping it will be totally under US control.
"A technologically adept adversary could take advantage of this fact"
Actually, I think the only way to fight this is radio jamming or EMP. I am sure they have lots of ways to get around jamming, like using laser-satelite communication or changing wavelengths. And an enemy with EMP technology would be advanced enough we would be using nukes. This kind of stuff would be used in the middle east or africa where nobody has EMP.
I think the idea is that deviant sexual behavior needs to be strongly supressed because it is much more possible to happen. Deviant violent behavior, however, does not need as much supression because it is less likely to occur. There is real danger in a young teen who sees too much sex doing it himself, due to instincts and hormones, while seeing too much violence is not very likely to make a kid go out and attack people. The simplest reason for this is sex is FUN while with violence, you will probably get hurt yourself.
I worked for a market research company. We didn't sell anything but we did call people unwantedly, just like telemarketers. Privacy Manager stopped us from getting through to do the servey. But researchers don't have to follow this new list. If you quit using privacy manager, you will still get calls from researchers and from political activists. By the way, though we didn't sell anything, we often had to ask for address. I am sure whoever commissioned the survey then used that info to try to sell something. Oh well.
My office is paperless. I work for the ISP part of a large university and we pass all our information around using a web-tool we wrote (and email, too). We have a printer, but most people dont have a use for it. I guess the 80s were telling the truth to my school.
"How many students would buy one if they were under $1000? What's your personal price point?"
For me, the price would have to be competative with a sheet of paper. If I really need a digitized version of my notes, I can run them through a scanner on my $500 PC.
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Why would someone download an exe file if not to execute it? It always annoyed me that this was disabled in mozilla.
If we destroy all of our enemies, there's no need for defense at all. If they killed the 9/11 terrorists at the airport, you would probably call that defense, but when they killed like-minded people in Afg. that is offense? Still seems like defense to me. Not everything is black and white.
On a similar not, our power in the future could be something like people hugging trees. If stem cells and genetic engineering work out, perhaps we could grow giant, highly-efficient, organic muscles to power generators. These would be powered by, yep, sugar water. You could grow the fuel in fields. This kind of tech could also be used for things directly, like lifting elevators.
"First, it takes way way more mass than the Earth has (several orders of magnitude), possibly more matter than the entire solar system has, to make a stable black hole."
Wow, that's a great theory! Since it hasn't been proven I would be glad to risk the entire planet on that (most likely true) theory. Bla.
OK, so say they make a black hole, hold it in place by magnetic fields, and then there's an earthquake. Power goes out, etc, and the hole falls down sucking more and more in until it IS big enough to cause a problem...
Not an acceptable risk. Perhaps the reason we have never encountered other intelligent life in the universe is because all intelligences advance their technology until they make a black hole that sucks in and destroys the entire planet.
Currently, the US shuts down GPS (basically) to countries it is at war with. If Europe built an always-on, indescriminate GPS system, and the US went to war with some country that used Euro-GPS guided missiles, the US would consider this giving aid to their enemy. Europe would either have to shut it down (making it do just what the US-GPS does) or the US would shoot it out of the sky. So, basically, the main gripe with GPS (US controll) is not alleviated at all. Totally pointless.
You say you are an American but you think the EU needs to be a world superpower? You must not have had much history class. WWI and WWII were both started by western europe. You may disagree with the recent US aggression toward backwards governments that shouldn't be in power in the first place, but if you think Europe would be any better you know nothing of European history.
You are obviously not a musician. # is usually called "pound" in the US, but is called "sharp" in music in ALL countries. Music is the universal language and that's why it is C-sharo.
Although it is true that execs tend to loot dying companies, your math is probably wrong. The emoloyees getting axed probably didn't make $100,000, but firing them may also mean closing some offices, which means saving on rents and property taxes and equiptment. It also can mean hiring fewer contractors, who are not exactly being laid off.
"the idea is not to teach just technical proficiency (something easily learned at a local community college) but to teach theory."
I am about to graduate, and I am severly pissed at my university for just teaching me "theory." If they would have taught all the classes in C or Java, instead of an obscure, unused language, then I would actually be able to claim a high level of proficiency in a language on my resume. As it stands, I am now very good at the language my Uni uses to teach, but that is worthless on a resume!
"yet there's one thing every nerd still needs by their computer, a USB Girlfriend!!!"
Check out fleshlight.com. It is a masturbatory aide. They have a model that has a USB interface. When you (pay to) use it, a robotic dildo operates on a woman exactly in sync with what you do to it. So, yeah, there is a USB girlfriend.
Like any tool, this is not, it itself, bad. This could be useful in criminal investigations. Say it is found that someone was planning a terrorist attack. This could be used to find if anyone else was in on it.
The key here, is that you couldn't look up someone's information in this unless you have a warrant or something like that. This would be a great tool but could have great abuse. We just need to find a balance.
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Well, the person in charge of our network security would not tell us the whole story (like if the police came to him first about it, which I doubt) but he kept saying running these fileshare search engines was "organized crime". I think he did it to "send a message" to the student body. I think he's a prick. Now the kids could be charged with felony copyright infringement because they will no doubt have the legally required number of copyrighted itesm to make it a crime. No charges have been filed yet, but the kids don't have their computers.
Congrats on the engagement! Don't let her quit doing her womanly duties once you are hitched!
At my school, P2P software and password-free fileshares are grounds for getting your internet access revoked. We found some people running fileshare search engines and turned the students over to the police, who confiscated their computers.
Yes, well, I have used a packet sniffer (ethereal) to see what my roommate was saying about me behind my back over AIM. It would suck to lose this power. Of course, it sucks that he could do it to me, but luckily, he is too damn dumb.
This gives no advantage to europe over the US. You can rest assured that before europe puts this into operation, the US will have developed a way to neutralize it if they every really need to. Imagine if europe had provided this service to Iraq so that Sadam could use satelite guided missiles against the US. That is not a possability our military will allow. They may let europe build it, but stopping it will be totally under US control.
Why do you think we chose to go to the moon?
"A technologically adept adversary could take advantage of this fact"
Actually, I think the only way to fight this is radio jamming or EMP. I am sure they have lots of ways to get around jamming, like using laser-satelite communication or changing wavelengths. And an enemy with EMP technology would be advanced enough we would be using nukes. This kind of stuff would be used in the middle east or africa where nobody has EMP.
I think the idea is that deviant sexual behavior needs to be strongly supressed because it is much more possible to happen. Deviant violent behavior, however, does not need as much supression because it is less likely to occur. There is real danger in a young teen who sees too much sex doing it himself, due to instincts and hormones, while seeing too much violence is not very likely to make a kid go out and attack people. The simplest reason for this is sex is FUN while with violence, you will probably get hurt yourself.
I worked for a market research company. We didn't sell anything but we did call people unwantedly, just like telemarketers. Privacy Manager stopped us from getting through to do the servey. But researchers don't have to follow this new list. If you quit using privacy manager, you will still get calls from researchers and from political activists. By the way, though we didn't sell anything, we often had to ask for address. I am sure whoever commissioned the survey then used that info to try to sell something. Oh well.
My office is paperless. I work for the ISP part of a large university and we pass all our information around using a web-tool we wrote (and email, too). We have a printer, but most people dont have a use for it. I guess the 80s were telling the truth to my school.
"How many students would buy one if they were under $1000? What's your personal price point?"
For me, the price would have to be competative with a sheet of paper. If I really need a digitized version of my notes, I can run them through a scanner on my $500 PC.
Why would someone download an exe file if not to execute it? It always annoyed me that this was disabled in mozilla.
Offense is the best defense.
If we destroy all of our enemies, there's no need for defense at all. If they killed the 9/11 terrorists at the airport, you would probably call that defense, but when they killed like-minded people in Afg. that is offense? Still seems like defense to me. Not everything is black and white.
On a similar not, our power in the future could be something like people hugging trees. If stem cells and genetic engineering work out, perhaps we could grow giant, highly-efficient, organic muscles to power generators. These would be powered by, yep, sugar water. You could grow the fuel in fields. This kind of tech could also be used for things directly, like lifting elevators.
"First, it takes way way more mass than the Earth has (several orders of magnitude), possibly more matter than the entire solar system has, to make a stable black hole."
Wow, that's a great theory! Since it hasn't been proven I would be glad to risk the entire planet on that (most likely true) theory. Bla.
OK, so say they make a black hole, hold it in place by magnetic fields, and then there's an earthquake. Power goes out, etc, and the hole falls down sucking more and more in until it IS big enough to cause a problem...
Not an acceptable risk. Perhaps the reason we have never encountered other intelligent life in the universe is because all intelligences advance their technology until they make a black hole that sucks in and destroys the entire planet.
Currently, the US shuts down GPS (basically) to countries it is at war with. If Europe built an always-on, indescriminate GPS system, and the US went to war with some country that used Euro-GPS guided missiles, the US would consider this giving aid to their enemy. Europe would either have to shut it down (making it do just what the US-GPS does) or the US would shoot it out of the sky. So, basically, the main gripe with GPS (US controll) is not alleviated at all. Totally pointless.
You say you are an American but you think the EU needs to be a world superpower? You must not have had much history class. WWI and WWII were both started by western europe. You may disagree with the recent US aggression toward backwards governments that shouldn't be in power in the first place, but if you think Europe would be any better you know nothing of European history.
Well, no I am not sure, I'm a drummer! :)
"In the UK we call that square thingy a hash"
You are obviously not a musician. # is usually called "pound" in the US, but is called "sharp" in music in ALL countries. Music is the universal language and that's why it is C-sharo.
Although it is true that execs tend to loot dying companies, your math is probably wrong. The emoloyees getting axed probably didn't make $100,000, but firing them may also mean closing some offices, which means saving on rents and property taxes and equiptment. It also can mean hiring fewer contractors, who are not exactly being laid off.
"the idea is not to teach just technical proficiency (something easily learned at a local community college) but to teach theory."
I am about to graduate, and I am severly pissed at my university for just teaching me "theory." If they would have taught all the classes in C or Java, instead of an obscure, unused language, then I would actually be able to claim a high level of proficiency in a language on my resume. As it stands, I am now very good at the language my Uni uses to teach, but that is worthless on a resume!
"yet there's one thing every nerd still needs by their computer, a USB Girlfriend!!!"
Check out fleshlight.com. It is a masturbatory aide. They have a model that has a USB interface. When you (pay to) use it, a robotic dildo operates on a woman exactly in sync with what you do to it. So, yeah, there is a USB girlfriend.
Like any tool, this is not, it itself, bad. This could be useful in criminal investigations. Say it is found that someone was planning a terrorist attack. This could be used to find if anyone else was in on it.
The key here, is that you couldn't look up someone's information in this unless you have a warrant or something like that. This would be a great tool but could have great abuse. We just need to find a balance.