I do live in New Canaan, however I live with my parents because I just left college to try starting my own business. Do I have an opportunity here that many people don't have? Yes. But at the same time, the tens of thousands of dollars that the top third of Americans spend on a four your degree could go a lot farther than they do. Consider my advice to be tentative since I haven't actually succeeded yet. However, the myth that if you work hard in high school and get good grades to go to a good college and if you do well there then the world will take care of you is just that: a myth.
I filled out the survey, and I encourage others to do the same. It takes less than two minutes and you don't even have to give any personal identifying info if you don't want to.
Yeah, I eventually sold my account the summer before frosh year of HS for a little over 600 bucks. That was six and a half years ago. The thing was that back then there was a huge housing shortage, or so called housing shortage. The real issue was people were just too dumb to figure out how to place their houses. So I just ran around the desert between Britain and Yew (IIRC, it's been a while) clicking on all the signs waiting for houses to decay. Then I'd place a house and sell it for double what I payed for the deed. It got to the point where I could just make basically infinite money for not really doing anything so I got really bored of it. Once you have enough money to buy your first deed for a small house the game is economically over if you are smart.
BTW, I agree that the isometric graphics are way better than this 3D crap they have now. The original Asheron's Call had the best 3D graphics that I have seen, and even those were overrated because they completely kill the interactivity that is there in UO. And frankly, the graphics in WoW are downright terrible, which is especially bad considering it came out five years after the AC beta test.
Back when I played UO the game cost 50 dollars and came with a 30 day free trial. Now the game costs 20 dollars and comes with 45 days free. Granted, I think the monthly cost should be cheaper now that it's 8 years old, but it still has come down somewhat. The thing is though that if you can get past the 2D isometric graphics, UO is still more advanced after 8 years than WoW is today. Granted, UO has been dumbed down since for noobs since I quit, but even still.
Perhaps I misunderstood your original comment. I assumed you were talking about all athletes, not just recruited ones, because recruited athletes make up such a small percentage of students. I don't know, but offhand I'd guess maybe 5% of students are recruited, and that is only at the top couple hundred colleges that have big sports programs. Most D3 schools don't really give recruits a real edge in getting in. Even at the ivies you have to be within a certain percentage of your school's academic index. Anyway, if over 70% of college graduates are unable to read proficiently I guess I don't really see what the 5% or so of recruited athletes at the top 5% of colleges in the country has to do with it.
I resent your comment. I was an athlete in college on a varsity team. Not only that, but I was fast as shit.
I'm not going to claim that I'm smart, but as anecdotal evidince you may have noticed that this piece of news has been in my sig for a month now. You may have also noticed that I'm the one who wrote the Wikinews article on this and submitted it to Digg a month ago. So at least you can't claim that I don't care.
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I remember a story about a guy who was accused of arson because he had purchased the same type of firestarter on his frequent shopper card that was used to burn down his home. Guy just comes home from work one day and the cops show up and take him to jail where he stays for several months. He would have been in there for a lot of years if someone else hadn't eventually admitted to it.
It doesn't matter whether how secure the OS is, all that matters is how secure your data is. You could have an OS with more holes than a sieve, but if for one reason or another your data is less likely to be compromised then that is all that matters. Apple has unfound theoretical vulnerablities. So what, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that my word documents stay mine.
Screw that, I wrote about Web 4.0
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If anyone is interested, I recently put up an essay on why Web 2.0 is worthless as currently defined by the technology, and redefined it in a way that makes it more useful. The problem with the current definition is that it can't be used to make predictions, and the definition isn't concrete enough to be actionable. This is because it is defined vaguely in terms of "something something AJAX."
Instead, I propose that:
Web 1.0 is about allowing individuals to create and share ideas.
Web 2.0 is about allowing groups to create and share ideas.
Web 3.0 is about allowing societies to create and share ideas.
The article speculates about the future of blogging and how digital identity will have a much more profound impact on the Web than AJAX and that stuff. This is because, as Howard Rheingold said, "The "killer apps" of tomorrow's mobile infocom industry won't be hardware devices or software programs but social practices."
Anyway, if you are interested you can read the rest.
Now I know it isn't literally perpetual motion because of all the energy that goes to work, heat, etc, but still if this is true then it sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
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Personally, I like the service it provides so I don't think I'll be disabling it, not till I play with it a bit first at least. I don't think it's premature to call it spyware until we know what is done with this information, since it is pretty obvious that it does need to be sent to Apple in order to have this feature. True, it probably is spyware, but let's wait and see what Apple has to say first.
A lot of the "public" wouldn't know what to look for, but even if the public you refer to only includes programmers, keep in mind that many (if not all) programmers couldn't find most of the subtler security related bugs simply by reviewing the code.
But you don't need everyone to find bugs. If you release the code to a million people and only one person is able to find a few bugs, you're still better off. Of course it's a cost benefit of giving the source to attackers verse people who want to make it better, but judging by how many attacks there have been against Linux there have been I think it has been working out pretty well. And don't say that Linux is attacked because not many people use it, because almost every person who uses a computer uses Linux every single day. Every time you Google something, buy a book at Amazon, check Wikipedia, etc. you are using Linux.
That link will show YOU which OS family (Windows or Unix variants/knockoffs like Unix-Linux-MacOS X) had more security related bugs... ok?
This seems to be the crux of your argument, but it isn't really relevant. Comparing an OS made by a single company to an OS made by volunteers/many companies is comparing apples and oranges. The real question is whether the processes used by MS are conducive to good security.
Have you even also considered the reverse of your statement, that opening up that same code would allow attackers to understand it better for the purposes of attacking it?
It's a tradeoff, you need to do a cost benefit analysis, not just look at the costs. Look at the Fuzz report...
Have you seen or used Windows Server 2003?
No. It hardly helps me if an OS I've never used and never would use is secure, when the OS I would use is insecure by default.
Turn off unnecessary services!
How? My copy of XP didn't come with any instructions on how to do this even though were popup ads showing up on my desktop without my browser even being open.
Care to explain that? (obfuscating design)
They make it very difficult to switch away from their software. Firefox is my default browser, and every time I launch IE it asks me if I want me to make it my default browser again. I have no idea how to make it stop doing this. Also, it is very difficult to switch the default application that windows uses to open a given file extension. This makes it hard for the average user to install software like Firefox that would help keep the OS safer.
And, what is wrong with that exactly? They DO provide API's to work with them MOSTLY, don't they??
Proprietary anything is less secure. As Bruce Schneier says constantly, anyone can design a system so secure that they can't figure out how to attack it. That is why you need everything to be open to review to the widest number of people possible.
They alter the OS to make it work with their programs
What I'm saying is that if the Word team is having trouble, the OS team can throw in a quick hack to make Word run. Over time this degrades the quality of the OS even if it makes Word be able to ship a couple weeks earlier.
It's not that big a deal. I've gotten a couple stories accepted, and I always just link to my home page. I usually get 300 or so people who follow the link, a few of whom might read an essay or two. I obviously make nothing from this, but even if I were a running a commercial site I can't imagine it being a viable way to make a living. Surely just improving your business would be hundreds of times more effective.
For those who don't know, this is what is known as a Chiasmus. That is, a sound pattern of ABBA. Other famous examples include, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" and "Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you."
The reason I point this out is that of all the literary devices, the Chiasmus is probably both the coolest and also the most difficult to come up with. So props to Jaron for this one.
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Why not include the referrer link? You wrote the book, you deserve the money.
I do live in New Canaan, however I live with my parents because I just left college to try starting my own business. Do I have an opportunity here that many people don't have? Yes. But at the same time, the tens of thousands of dollars that the top third of Americans spend on a four your degree could go a lot farther than they do. Consider my advice to be tentative since I haven't actually succeeded yet. However, the myth that if you work hard in high school and get good grades to go to a good college and if you do well there then the world will take care of you is just that: a myth.
Paying your dues and working your way up the ladder is for suckers.
I filled out the survey, and I encourage others to do the same. It takes less than two minutes and you don't even have to give any personal identifying info if you don't want to.
BTW, I agree that the isometric graphics are way better than this 3D crap they have now. The original Asheron's Call had the best 3D graphics that I have seen, and even those were overrated because they completely kill the interactivity that is there in UO. And frankly, the graphics in WoW are downright terrible, which is especially bad considering it came out five years after the AC beta test.
Back when I played UO the game cost 50 dollars and came with a 30 day free trial. Now the game costs 20 dollars and comes with 45 days free. Granted, I think the monthly cost should be cheaper now that it's 8 years old, but it still has come down somewhat. The thing is though that if you can get past the 2D isometric graphics, UO is still more advanced after 8 years than WoW is today. Granted, UO has been dumbed down since for noobs since I quit, but even still.
Perhaps I misunderstood your original comment. I assumed you were talking about all athletes, not just recruited ones, because recruited athletes make up such a small percentage of students. I don't know, but offhand I'd guess maybe 5% of students are recruited, and that is only at the top couple hundred colleges that have big sports programs. Most D3 schools don't really give recruits a real edge in getting in. Even at the ivies you have to be within a certain percentage of your school's academic index. Anyway, if over 70% of college graduates are unable to read proficiently I guess I don't really see what the 5% or so of recruited athletes at the top 5% of colleges in the country has to do with it.
I'm not going to claim that I'm smart, but as anecdotal evidince you may have noticed that this piece of news has been in my sig for a month now. You may have also noticed that I'm the one who wrote the Wikinews article on this and submitted it to Digg a month ago. So at least you can't claim that I don't care.
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I remember a story about a guy who was accused of arson because he had purchased the same type of firestarter on his frequent shopper card that was used to burn down his home. Guy just comes home from work one day and the cops show up and take him to jail where he stays for several months. He would have been in there for a lot of years if someone else hadn't eventually admitted to it.
Companies are now willing to pay us to look at porn.
Funny, because the sweaters at J Crew have RFID tags in them. The books at Borders have RFID tags in them. The CDs at Tower have RFID tags in them.
It doesn't matter whether how secure the OS is, all that matters is how secure your data is. You could have an OS with more holes than a sieve, but if for one reason or another your data is less likely to be compromised then that is all that matters. Apple has unfound theoretical vulnerablities. So what, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that my word documents stay mine.
Instead, I propose that:
Web 1.0 is about allowing individuals to create and share ideas.
Web 2.0 is about allowing groups to create and share ideas.
Web 3.0 is about allowing societies to create and share ideas.
The article speculates about the future of blogging and how digital identity will have a much more profound impact on the Web than AJAX and that stuff. This is because, as Howard Rheingold said, "The "killer apps" of tomorrow's mobile infocom industry won't be hardware devices or software programs but social practices."
Anyway, if you are interested you can read the rest.
The launch wasn't lackluster, they had damn near every celebrity alive and a few celebrities who were dead. No, it was the product that was a POS.
Sorry, officer, I wasn't drinking. I was just taking a nap behind the wheel.
Sounds a lot like perpetual motion to me:
1) Burn oil fuels
2) Oil turn into CO2
3) Turn CO2 into oil.
Rather, rinse, repeat.
Now I know it isn't literally perpetual motion because of all the energy that goes to work, heat, etc, but still if this is true then it sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
Personally, I like the service it provides so I don't think I'll be disabling it, not till I play with it a bit first at least. I don't think it's premature to call it spyware until we know what is done with this information, since it is pretty obvious that it does need to be sent to Apple in order to have this feature. True, it probably is spyware, but let's wait and see what Apple has to say first.
A lot of the "public" wouldn't know what to look for, but even if the public you refer to only includes programmers, keep in mind that many (if not all) programmers couldn't find most of the subtler security related bugs simply by reviewing the code.
But you don't need everyone to find bugs. If you release the code to a million people and only one person is able to find a few bugs, you're still better off. Of course it's a cost benefit of giving the source to attackers verse people who want to make it better, but judging by how many attacks there have been against Linux there have been I think it has been working out pretty well. And don't say that Linux is attacked because not many people use it, because almost every person who uses a computer uses Linux every single day. Every time you Google something, buy a book at Amazon, check Wikipedia, etc. you are using Linux.
That link will show YOU which OS family (Windows or Unix variants/knockoffs like Unix-Linux-MacOS X) had more security related bugs... ok?
This seems to be the crux of your argument, but it isn't really relevant. Comparing an OS made by a single company to an OS made by volunteers/many companies is comparing apples and oranges. The real question is whether the processes used by MS are conducive to good security.
Have you even also considered the reverse of your statement, that opening up that same code would allow attackers to understand it better for the purposes of attacking it?
It's a tradeoff, you need to do a cost benefit analysis, not just look at the costs. Look at the Fuzz report...
Have you seen or used Windows Server 2003?
No. It hardly helps me if an OS I've never used and never would use is secure, when the OS I would use is insecure by default.
Turn off unnecessary services!
How? My copy of XP didn't come with any instructions on how to do this even though were popup ads showing up on my desktop without my browser even being open.
Care to explain that? (obfuscating design)
They make it very difficult to switch away from their software. Firefox is my default browser, and every time I launch IE it asks me if I want me to make it my default browser again. I have no idea how to make it stop doing this. Also, it is very difficult to switch the default application that windows uses to open a given file extension. This makes it hard for the average user to install software like Firefox that would help keep the OS safer.
And, what is wrong with that exactly? They DO provide API's to work with them MOSTLY, don't they??
Proprietary anything is less secure. As Bruce Schneier says constantly, anyone can design a system so secure that they can't figure out how to attack it. That is why you need everything to be open to review to the widest number of people possible.
They alter the OS to make it work with their programs
What I'm saying is that if the Word team is having trouble, the OS team can throw in a quick hack to make Word run. Over time this degrades the quality of the OS even if it makes Word be able to ship a couple weeks earlier.
I have a friend who has logged 83 DAYS on WoW in the last year. That is, 83 x 24 hours. Wow WoW wow.
the point to appreciate here is that it isn't all Microsoft's fault but they could do a whole lot more.
Actually it is all Microsoft's fault. Whether or not they deserve to be villified for it is another issue. But consider the following:
1) They don't fix bugs they know about so they don't break compatability with programs that rely on the bugs.
2) They don't submit their code for review by the public.
3) They don't follow security best practices, like turning off services by default.
4) They make their OS less secure by obfuscating design to make it difficult for competitors.
5) They use propriety data formats.
6) They alter the OS to make it work with their programs instead of designing a solid OS so that anyone can make programs run with it.
etc.
It's not that big a deal. I've gotten a couple stories accepted, and I always just link to my home page. I usually get 300 or so people who follow the link, a few of whom might read an essay or two. I obviously make nothing from this, but even if I were a running a commercial site I can't imagine it being a viable way to make a living. Surely just improving your business would be hundreds of times more effective.
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For those who don't know, this is what is known as a Chiasmus. That is, a sound pattern of ABBA. Other famous examples include, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" and "Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you."
The reason I point this out is that of all the literary devices, the Chiasmus is probably both the coolest and also the most difficult to come up with. So props to Jaron for this one.