The reasoning is this: The heat sensors were used to gain thermal readings from inside a house on the pot growers, where the SCOTUS has ruled that one has a reasonable expectation of privacy, inside ones' own home. In this case, the land was not located inside the house. Thus, no reasonable expectation of privacy.
"First, Tux puts Web server code into the kernel and reads Web pages directly from Linux's kernel-mode file system cache for speed"
It might just be me, but I'm a *little* wary of the security implications of something running right in the kernel of the operating system. I smell security breach *somewhere* lurking in this product.
But, it is always nice to see progress, and I'm glad that part of the credit is given to the kernel developers and their speed improvements in the 2.4 kernel over the 2.2 kernel.
Umm... shouldn't it be... "If he will give us food and water and shelter and bend forward and grab his ankles in the nude, he may have software that plays DVD discs!"
VALENTI: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night he may have software that plays DVD discs!
That's quite a daunting task you've taken on there!
Here's what I recommend:
1: You're going to have to keep your group size small. 1 person trying to keep 20 seniors to task is just not going to work effectivley (IMHO) Back in HS, I helped with a training session for teachers. We were in a 1:5 ratio, and it was hard enough.
2: Plan, Prepare & Practice your lessons. Think about what you are going to teach. Think about things from their angle. If something is glaringly obvious to you, it's not going to be glaringly obvious to them.
3: Handouts are effective! After being asked over and over and over again about "How do I do this...", I created a series of paper handouts that has step by step instructions to do it. (Screen shots are helpful!)
4: See what they already know. Find out what the people already know. Try to get them working in teams with people who have a little bit more experience.
And my last rule of thumb: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) I can't emphasize just how important it is for you to keep things simple.
I don't think it serves the needs of students looking to fully understand the internal workings of a computer, which is in my mind what an AP computer science course should be directed towards.
IMHO, then the course isn't Computer Science anymore, it's computer architecture, or computer engineering.
I remember in High School, my first experience in programming was with a basic program for the mac, then we moved on to Pascal, and we covered the concept of a compiler and an actual program executing. The actual AP course was then in Pascal, and it covered (for the most part) pure programming. Language syntax, construction of a program, debugging, and actual results of the program were what was stressed by the AP course.
When I started college (at RIT) our initial exposure to OOP was Eiffel (and I still think it's a decent teaching language, but not overly practical (read: not used too often). Where did that leave us after our freshman year? Unemployed in our field. Not having any practical language experience (read C++, Java) hurt our chances of finding any summer employment with the skill sets we had.
RIT followed up the first year of Eiffel with one quarter of C++ (10 weeks). That was about it for languages directly taught.
RIT has since switched over to Java. Those of us in the last year of Eiffel were kind of jealous because now the freshmen had marketing skills having 30 weeks of training in a demanded language. (Translation: They were more employable than we were.) By the time the department got around to offering a Java course to the upperclassmen, most were ineligible because of the requirement that students had not taken a Software Engineering course, or other course in Java (which most of the upperclassmen had by that time. Also twice offering only one section of it with 25 seats didn't help matters much).
In all, I think Java is a decent teaching language if you can work around the 1: speed issues, 2: IDE issues, 3: building simplified libraries for students to use until they knew what they were doing.
Uh, don't you need a warrant to arrest someone? And just cause?
Nope, not really. You can be arrested at any time, but you can only be held for about 24 hours (or some such number...) before they have to release you or file charges. It's called Habeas Corpus, or literally "Present the body". Show the body (or evidence of the crime), or I get to walk.
Sure, you may have a fat pipe to connect to the net, but your pings are going to be hell! You're talking at least 250 ms for each trip through space... 1 to go up to the sattelite, 1 to come back down. Then, whatever latency there is between the landing station for the sattelite, and the rest of the network, and back. Then, back out to space, and back down. So, you're looking at 1 second (4 * 250 ms) at least to just get a simple ping through.
Sure, that's great if you're just downloading large amounts of small things, but I'd avoid playing any real-time game, 'cause your ping rate is going to be 1000+
It'd probably be good for downloading Linux tarballs or ISO's though:-)
Well, I have to really thank Moxy Fruvous for all they've done to me and my music habits. You see, Moxy Fruvous struck it big in Canada. But, then they sorta just disappeared off the face of the planet. Not completley off the face of the earth, they went underground, and built a new grassroots following.
Well, wouldn't you know it, a good fan base was created. We revolve around fruhead.com.
I was surprised by the suggestion of a "you might also like..." system. Fruhead.com has one of these. Music REcommendations. Sure, there are some big names on that list, like the Barenaked Ladies, Dave Matthews Band, but there's also lots of groups the average person probably hasn't heard of.
I've seen "electronic counters" attached to the computer. One implementation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test has a small piece that attaches to the paralell port. The piece is accessed by the program which decreases a counter inside the box every time a test is taken. That way, MBTI can charge you per test you make avaliable.
How the hell can the RIAA call itself nonprofit?
RIAA itself is jsut a consortium of companies. The comapnies who are members of RIAA are the ones who are making the profits.
I have to agree. It's in many of the agreements you have signed with your university. They get IP rights over your work. More often, they get full IP rights. Look at Mosaic. Netscape had to start from scratch because they couldn't use the Mosaic stuff that had been previously developed for use. Your thesis are also copyrighted (read: owned) by the university too. They can republish your work as they see fit. (Note, you usually get a little more control over what gets done with your thesis.), but generally, anything you create that goes over the schools network belongs to the school.
Is it possible that instead of it being Napster's fault that it could be because of the recent layoffs that Canada has been expereincing? The US isn't the only country being hit by increasing numbers of layoffs. Combine that with an increase in price, and entertainment dollars are really being hurt!
I mean, last year, RIAA had a study which showed that album sales in 60+ stores located near colleges and universities had drops in record sales. Is Napster to blame? Possibly. But they also forgot to mention that the average price of a CD had increased while the income students do make hadn't increased. I think it's reasonable to say that the increase may have caused sales to drop off. I'm no economist, but I do know that when you increase prices without a corresponding increase in income, demand drops off...
Nope... this would fall under the "Free as in beer" criteria. Why? 1: "Time is money." 2: "Money buys beer." So, "Free as in time", and "Free as in Money" equate to "Free as in beer."
Letter to my congressional representative
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Rep. Slaughter:
I am writing this letter to you today to voice my opposition of H.R. 1486. HR 1486 is a requires schools and libraries receiving "E-rate" discounts for internet funding to block access to anonymous e-mail services.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Felix Grucci (R-NY), has inheret implications to rights of privacy and freedom of speech that we, as Americans, hold dear.
Not only am I offended by the law, but the rationale for the law. Rep. Grucci is quoted in the Washington Post: [privacy site users] "are made up of loosely knit groups from across the country that endorse militant action in the name of a particular cause." This statement
There are numerous legitimate cases where access to these "anonimyzers" are very nessecary. Students, just like anyone else in the world, may wish to use anonymous e-mail services to inform employers, supervisors, or other school officials to situations where a student feels unsafe, but would fear reprocussions from teachers, school administrators, co-workers, or other students.
This is very similar to the current "whistleblower" protection statutes in the federal law books desgned to protect individuals from reprocussions from reporting threatening situations to superiors or government agencies.
Another legitimate use of "anonymizer" services is to protect ones' self from Unsolicited Commercial Email (better known as Spam). Anonymizer services my be employed to hide from programs that gather e-mail addresses from the internet and fill mailboxes with spam.
Children, and students, and people in economically disadvantaged communities are going to be hurt by this law because they won't have the ability to keep their privacy on the internet.
"For the benefit of the children" is being used to push this bill through, but I am asking "for the sake of the children" that you oppose HR 1486.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
... (Of course I put my real name here... though I think it would be just as good a statement if I didn't.)
Waitasec... They can't even afford to pay their own affiliates!!! How the hell are they supposed to have the money to buy another company?!!?!?!
Look here for more info on the vile UGO network.
Navigator has: (To my knowledge) Direct support for LDAP. That's what I miss in Mozilla. I need LDAP support to keep my group's e-mail distribution running smoothly.
Other than that though, I don't know what else.
IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer), and after reading that transcript, I'm glad I chose computer science over law.
"Owww... head is hurtink very much"
Re:I hope they don't make fridge magnets
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Well, the last line of the Yahoo article is: "The company, which is privately held, supplies magnets for automotive, electronic, industry and household uses." Looks like they might be making fridge magnets. I just hope theyt aren't the ones that look like a computer and say "You've got mail!" when you press on them.
Here in Rochester, NY, the two big competitiors are Cable (Time Warner, Road Runner), and DSL (Lightning Link, Frontier [Global Crossing]).
Time Warner's cable used to advertise being the fastest... until they capped their bandwidth at 2 Mb/sec. Now Frontier has upped their maximum DSL speed to 3 Mb/sec (Of course, dependent on distance from CO), and are advertising themselves as the fastest in Rochester.
Maybe there is a reason that the MSnbc article doesn't mention anything about Operating Systems... Have you forgotten what the "MS" in MSNBC stands for? (Here's a hint: Microsoft!)
Though the last line of the/. article says: NASA is using Windows for most of their computing functions, as mentioned here.
Slashdot Mirror
The reasoning is this: The heat sensors were used to gain thermal readings from inside a house on the pot growers, where the SCOTUS has ruled that one has a reasonable expectation of privacy, inside ones' own home. In this case, the land was not located inside the house. Thus, no reasonable expectation of privacy.
It might just be me, but I'm a *little* wary of the security implications of something running right in the kernel of the operating system. I smell security breach *somewhere* lurking in this product.
But, it is always nice to see progress, and I'm glad that part of the credit is given to the kernel developers and their speed improvements in the 2.4 kernel over the 2.2 kernel.
Umm... shouldn't it be... "If he will give us food and water and shelter and bend forward and grab his ankles in the nude, he may have software that plays DVD discs!"
VALENTI: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night he may have software that plays DVD discs!
1: You're going to have to keep your group size small. 1 person trying to keep 20 seniors to task is just not going to work effectivley (IMHO) Back in HS, I helped with a training session for teachers. We were in a 1:5 ratio, and it was hard enough.
2: Plan, Prepare & Practice your lessons. Think about what you are going to teach. Think about things from their angle. If something is glaringly obvious to you, it's not going to be glaringly obvious to them.
3: Handouts are effective! After being asked over and over and over again about "How do I do this...", I created a series of paper handouts that has step by step instructions to do it. (Screen shots are helpful!)
4: See what they already know. Find out what the people already know. Try to get them working in teams with people who have a little bit more experience.
And my last rule of thumb: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) I can't emphasize just how important it is for you to keep things simple.
I don't think it serves the needs of students looking to fully understand the internal workings of a computer, which is in my mind what an AP computer science course should be directed towards.
IMHO, then the course isn't Computer Science anymore, it's computer architecture, or computer engineering.
I remember in High School, my first experience in programming was with a basic program for the mac, then we moved on to Pascal, and we covered the concept of a compiler and an actual program executing. The actual AP course was then in Pascal, and it covered (for the most part) pure programming. Language syntax, construction of a program, debugging, and actual results of the program were what was stressed by the AP course.
When I started college (at RIT) our initial exposure to OOP was Eiffel (and I still think it's a decent teaching language, but not overly practical (read: not used too often). Where did that leave us after our freshman year? Unemployed in our field. Not having any practical language experience (read C++, Java) hurt our chances of finding any summer employment with the skill sets we had.
RIT followed up the first year of Eiffel with one quarter of C++ (10 weeks). That was about it for languages directly taught.
RIT has since switched over to Java. Those of us in the last year of Eiffel were kind of jealous because now the freshmen had marketing skills having 30 weeks of training in a demanded language. (Translation: They were more employable than we were.) By the time the department got around to offering a Java course to the upperclassmen, most were ineligible because of the requirement that students had not taken a Software Engineering course, or other course in Java (which most of the upperclassmen had by that time. Also twice offering only one section of it with 25 seats didn't help matters much).
In all, I think Java is a decent teaching language if you can work around the 1: speed issues, 2: IDE issues, 3: building simplified libraries for students to use until they knew what they were doing.
submitting thousands of fake bug reports, and costed the DSL Provider
What is "Something Dubaya might say?" Oops... wrong game show.
Uh, don't you need a warrant to arrest someone? And just cause?
Nope, not really. You can be arrested at any time, but you can only be held for about 24 hours (or some such number...) before they have to release you or file charges. It's called Habeas Corpus, or literally "Present the body". Show the body (or evidence of the crime), or I get to walk.
Sure, you may have a fat pipe to connect to the net, but your pings are going to be hell! You're talking at least 250 ms for each trip through space... 1 to go up to the sattelite, 1 to come back down. Then, whatever latency there is between the landing station for the sattelite, and the rest of the network, and back. Then, back out to space, and back down. So, you're looking at 1 second (4 * 250 ms) at least to just get a simple ping through.
:-)
Sure, that's great if you're just downloading large amounts of small things, but I'd avoid playing any real-time game, 'cause your ping rate is going to be 1000+
It'd probably be good for downloading Linux tarballs or ISO's though
Well, I have to really thank Moxy Fruvous for all they've done to me and my music habits. You see, Moxy Fruvous struck it big in Canada. But, then they sorta just disappeared off the face of the planet. Not completley off the face of the earth, they went underground, and built a new grassroots following.
Well, wouldn't you know it, a good fan base was created. We revolve around fruhead.com.
I was surprised by the suggestion of a "you might also like..." system. Fruhead.com has one of these. Music REcommendations. Sure, there are some big names on that list, like the Barenaked Ladies, Dave Matthews Band, but there's also lots of groups the average person probably hasn't heard of.
I've seen "electronic counters" attached to the computer. One implementation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test has a small piece that attaches to the paralell port. The piece is accessed by the program which decreases a counter inside the box every time a test is taken. That way, MBTI can charge you per test you make avaliable.
How the hell can the RIAA call itself nonprofit? RIAA itself is jsut a consortium of companies. The comapnies who are members of RIAA are the ones who are making the profits.
I have to agree. It's in many of the agreements you have signed with your university. They get IP rights over your work. More often, they get full IP rights. Look at Mosaic. Netscape had to start from scratch because they couldn't use the Mosaic stuff that had been previously developed for use. Your thesis are also copyrighted (read: owned) by the university too. They can republish your work as they see fit. (Note, you usually get a little more control over what gets done with your thesis.), but generally, anything you create that goes over the schools network belongs to the school.
Is it possible that instead of it being Napster's fault that it could be because of the recent layoffs that Canada has been expereincing? The US isn't the only country being hit by increasing numbers of layoffs. Combine that with an increase in price, and entertainment dollars are really being hurt!
I mean, last year, RIAA had a study which showed that album sales in 60+ stores located near colleges and universities had drops in record sales. Is Napster to blame? Possibly. But they also forgot to mention that the average price of a CD had increased while the income students do make hadn't increased. I think it's reasonable to say that the increase may have caused sales to drop off. I'm no economist, but I do know that when you increase prices without a corresponding increase in income, demand drops off...
Looks like living on the "wrong" side of the tracks might just be the "right" side of the tracks after all :-)
free as in "time"
Nope... this would fall under the "Free as in beer" criteria. Why? 1: "Time is money." 2: "Money buys beer." So, "Free as in time", and "Free as in Money" equate to "Free as in beer."
Rep. Slaughter:
I am writing this letter to you today to voice my opposition of H.R. 1486. HR 1486 is a requires schools and libraries receiving "E-rate" discounts for internet funding to block access to anonymous e-mail services.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Felix Grucci (R-NY), has inheret implications to rights of privacy and freedom of speech that we, as Americans, hold dear.
Not only am I offended by the law, but the rationale for the law. Rep. Grucci is quoted in the Washington Post: [privacy site users] "are made up of loosely knit groups from across the country that endorse militant action in the name of a particular cause." This statement
There are numerous legitimate cases where access to these "anonimyzers" are very nessecary. Students, just like anyone else in the world, may wish to use anonymous e-mail services to inform employers, supervisors, or other school officials to situations where a student feels unsafe, but would fear reprocussions from teachers, school administrators, co-workers, or other students.
This is very similar to the current "whistleblower" protection statutes in the federal law books desgned to protect individuals from reprocussions from reporting threatening situations to superiors or government agencies.
Another legitimate use of "anonymizer" services is to protect ones' self from Unsolicited Commercial Email (better known as Spam). Anonymizer services my be employed to hide from programs that gather e-mail addresses from the internet and fill mailboxes with spam.
Children, and students, and people in economically disadvantaged communities are going to be hurt by this law because they won't have the ability to keep their privacy on the internet.
"For the benefit of the children" is being used to push this bill through, but I am asking "for the sake of the children" that you oppose HR 1486.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
... (Of course I put my real name here... though I think it would be just as good a statement if I didn't.)
Waitasec... They can't even afford to pay their own affiliates!!! How the hell are they supposed to have the money to buy another company?!!?!?! Look here for more info on the vile UGO network.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568843224/ o/qid=989937860/sr=2-2/102-2340656-1796903
Stop stealing ideas from the books on your shelves and trying to patent them as your own!
Bad Amazon! *smack*
Navigator has: (To my knowledge) Direct support for LDAP. That's what I miss in Mozilla. I need LDAP support to keep my group's e-mail distribution running smoothly. Other than that though, I don't know what else.
IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer), and after reading that transcript, I'm glad I chose computer science over law.
"Owww... head is hurtink very much"
Well, the last line of the Yahoo article is: "The company, which is privately held, supplies magnets for automotive, electronic, industry and household uses." Looks like they might be making fridge magnets. I just hope theyt aren't the ones that look like a computer and say "You've got mail!" when you press on them.
Slashdot reported thet the tax rate on CD-R's in canada had increased to 21 cents ($CDN) per blank CD-R.
Here in Rochester, NY, the two big competitiors are Cable (Time Warner, Road Runner), and DSL (Lightning Link, Frontier [Global Crossing]). Time Warner's cable used to advertise being the fastest... until they capped their bandwidth at 2 Mb/sec. Now Frontier has upped their maximum DSL speed to 3 Mb/sec (Of course, dependent on distance from CO), and are advertising themselves as the fastest in Rochester.
I certainly feel sorry for anyone who get slashdotted
Methinks they would get splatdropped...
Maybe there is a reason that the MSnbc article doesn't mention anything about Operating Systems... Have you forgotten what the "MS" in MSNBC stands for? (Here's a hint: Microsoft!) Though the last line of the /. article says: NASA is using Windows for most of their computing functions, as mentioned here.