Expanded? It's been downright expropriated from us true nerds! Now everyone uses it to describe them if they're a bit too into one "thing". "I'm a bit of a nerd." It's ridiculous./rant
As one poster has said that people at NASA feels the Orion project to be a clumsy mess of a project, then I'm not too upset over this.
However it's frustrating from a general standpoint that Obama has no problem with spending what we are on the bank bailout and (likely) bailing out the auto industry, private industries that put themselves into their situations, and in the end we end up losing. That doesn't seem like forward thinking but more of the same government-corporate welfare.
IMHO the billions in bailout dollars should translate into checks sent to citizens. Afterall it's our money, why shouldn't we get it? That way people would be able to pay their mortgage, keep the lights/gas on, put up a down payment on a new car, or spend spend spend this upcoming Christmas.
I never said the university didn't have an obligation to provide a reliable network to its students. I know there are a lot of valid uses of bit torrent. What I'm saying is - it is not an obligation of the uni to give you unfettered domain to download movies/music/porn for your personal consumption. I doubt you'll find a uni that has that in their mission statement.
A universities network is there to aide students/faculty in sharing information and learning. You pay them to provide an environment that encourages such. Simply because you pay, via tuition, for access to the network doesn't mean you can abuse it as you see fit.
Simply putting up the money doesn't mean you have the right to impact other peoples use of the same infrastructure they're paying for. Downloaders aren't the only ones using the network.
I agree that when you pay for something like an iPhone it's yours to do with as you please. A uni, however, is offering you a service for a fee. They're free to dictate terms on the use of that service. Don't like the terms, goto a different uni.
You should have finished reading the entirety of his comment. He went on to say that VZW's policy is that they only do so as required to for their job. They upheld their policy by punishing these employees as severely as they could (by firing them).
Part of me thinks Taco was simply hoping to start a flame war for his entertainment. It seems like any time there is an article that discusses banning cellphones on/. the comments get very ugly, very fast.
But just in case he was serious: I attend at least 10 flicks a year. Also, I live in a pretty dense metro area with all manner of obnoxious people. I have never gone to a movie or restaurant and ever been interrupted by anyone's pager or phone going off let alone them carrying on some loud conversation.
I'm of the opinion that this is such an over blown topic and that all the whiners that do go on about it are talking about one time 10 years ago when mobile devices started becoming ubiquitous.
I use to be very anal about remembering every detail. As I've gotten older I'm less concerned with this. I use technology (Outlook calendar/tasks, smartphone, Google Calendar for personal) to remember less and remind me when needed. I only concern myself with concepts and only sweat the details when it comes to actually doing the job.
I feel far less stressed out than I did when I'd try to remember every little ol' thing simply because I thought I needed to be a pedantic nerd. As a bonus I'm realizing there is more to living contently and I feel I have more time to spend on other things.
On top of it all I also make sure to leave the damn things at home when I'm going to do something and don't want distractions. Work can pay me 24/7 if they want me to be available 24/7. Otherwise when I'm not at the office I don't really care.
I do still take the time to know the important things: Birthdays, anniversaries, etc..
Screwing up your machine as root is very different from plugging a Windows XP box into the internet and getting hit by an exploit within minutes that forces you to have to reinstall your system again (RPC exploit).
Essentially they release a car with a transmission they know will drop out after enough driving. Exploiting MS software is not a matter of if, but when in most cases. The only reason they get away with it is because of the relative ease with which they can put out a patch and then gloat about how the problem is fixed. A car company wouldn't be able to do that.
If Microsoft puts out an OS which allows people to write third party software for it, don't they have some obligation to make sure their OS can't be compromised by third parties?
The brain is a very, very complicated organ that is still being mapped.
I read somewhere (I think it was Zen & the Brain - deep book, haven't had the time to hack into it very far) that no two individuals brains light up the same way given the same situation. For example: You kick me in the balls, my brain may register the pain on the left hemisphere; kick my coworker in the balls and his may light up on the right side (over generalized, but it gets my point across).
Given this, whether we can map the brain in any definite way might seem up in the air (I'm no neuroscientist though, so I may be missing something). However just because we can't map the brain doesn't mean we can't someday have created equivalent intelligence, possibly even sooner before we understand the majority of how the brain works.
I don't think they're using invisible to mean "imperceptible". More like they're using it to say "typically we detect molecules by looking for their terahertz radiation. this method makes them invisible using that method." By your definition, not being able to interact with ANYTHING else really means the object doesn't exist. My invisible friend really takes exception to that.
Snake oil salesmen have been around for a long time. The only difference between those selling vials of "cure alls" and todays swindlers is that it's a lot easier to hit up millions of people with a few keystrokes and hope just a few take the bait.
I don't think he's against cloud computing because he didn't think of it. I think he's against it because it encourages vendor lock-in (if you RTFA linked by the P) and puts your data under the control of a third party. Pretty much DIY-freedom is why Stallman is against cloud computing, a concept he advocated since he began sporting a 5 o'clock shadow.
I repeat the mantra "Our IT security is only as strong as our weakest link." at work. Unfortunately we still have to battle for even the most basic of precautions some times. Kind of ironic for a company that provides physical security access services.
Like Google they will be spending their power savings $$ advertising on Craigslist's Portland job ads page. The Dalle's is not exactly flush with computer savvy talent.
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Expanded? It's been downright expropriated from us true nerds! Now everyone uses it to describe them if they're a bit too into one "thing". "I'm a bit of a nerd." It's ridiculous. /rant
As one poster has said that people at NASA feels the Orion project to be a clumsy mess of a project, then I'm not too upset over this.
However it's frustrating from a general standpoint that Obama has no problem with spending what we are on the bank bailout and (likely) bailing out the auto industry, private industries that put themselves into their situations, and in the end we end up losing. That doesn't seem like forward thinking but more of the same government-corporate welfare.
IMHO the billions in bailout dollars should translate into checks sent to citizens. Afterall it's our money, why shouldn't we get it? That way people would be able to pay their mortgage, keep the lights/gas on, put up a down payment on a new car, or spend spend spend this upcoming Christmas.
Please climb down from your high horse, good sir.
I never said the university didn't have an obligation to provide a reliable network to its students. I know there are a lot of valid uses of bit torrent. What I'm saying is - it is not an obligation of the uni to give you unfettered domain to download movies/music/porn for your personal consumption. I doubt you'll find a uni that has that in their mission statement.
A universities network is there to aide students/faculty in sharing information and learning. You pay them to provide an environment that encourages such. Simply because you pay, via tuition, for access to the network doesn't mean you can abuse it as you see fit.
Simply putting up the money doesn't mean you have the right to impact other peoples use of the same infrastructure they're paying for. Downloaders aren't the only ones using the network.
I agree that when you pay for something like an iPhone it's yours to do with as you please. A uni, however, is offering you a service for a fee. They're free to dictate terms on the use of that service. Don't like the terms, goto a different uni.
You should have finished reading the entirety of his comment. He went on to say that VZW's policy is that they only do so as required to for their job. They upheld their policy by punishing these employees as severely as they could (by firing them).
Part of me thinks Taco was simply hoping to start a flame war for his entertainment. It seems like any time there is an article that discusses banning cellphones on /. the comments get very ugly, very fast.
But just in case he was serious: I attend at least 10 flicks a year. Also, I live in a pretty dense metro area with all manner of obnoxious people. I have never gone to a movie or restaurant and ever been interrupted by anyone's pager or phone going off let alone them carrying on some loud conversation.
I'm of the opinion that this is such an over blown topic and that all the whiners that do go on about it are talking about one time 10 years ago when mobile devices started becoming ubiquitous.
I will be able to catalog my pr0n in my lifetime:
Blondes, Brunettes, Red heads, Beastial^H^H^H^H^H "Other"
I use to be very anal about remembering every detail. As I've gotten older I'm less concerned with this. I use technology (Outlook calendar/tasks, smartphone, Google Calendar for personal) to remember less and remind me when needed. I only concern myself with concepts and only sweat the details when it comes to actually doing the job.
I feel far less stressed out than I did when I'd try to remember every little ol' thing simply because I thought I needed to be a pedantic nerd. As a bonus I'm realizing there is more to living contently and I feel I have more time to spend on other things.
On top of it all I also make sure to leave the damn things at home when I'm going to do something and don't want distractions. Work can pay me 24/7 if they want me to be available 24/7. Otherwise when I'm not at the office I don't really care.
I do still take the time to know the important things: Birthdays, anniversaries, etc..
Screwing up your machine as root is very different from plugging a Windows XP box into the internet and getting hit by an exploit within minutes that forces you to have to reinstall your system again (RPC exploit).
Essentially they release a car with a transmission they know will drop out after enough driving. Exploiting MS software is not a matter of if, but when in most cases. The only reason they get away with it is because of the relative ease with which they can put out a patch and then gloat about how the problem is fixed. A car company wouldn't be able to do that.
Why can't you blame them for it? They know there is a better way than to let the OS allow that sort of bad behavior.
Good point.
Sounds like they're trying to squeeze a few boxed copy purchases out of people
If Microsoft puts out an OS which allows people to write third party software for it, don't they have some obligation to make sure their OS can't be compromised by third parties?
Being the flash of the BSOD before your pricey super computer reboots?
The brain is a very, very complicated organ that is still being mapped.
I read somewhere (I think it was Zen & the Brain - deep book, haven't had the time to hack into it very far) that no two individuals brains light up the same way given the same situation. For example: You kick me in the balls, my brain may register the pain on the left hemisphere; kick my coworker in the balls and his may light up on the right side (over generalized, but it gets my point across).
Given this, whether we can map the brain in any definite way might seem up in the air (I'm no neuroscientist though, so I may be missing something). However just because we can't map the brain doesn't mean we can't someday have created equivalent intelligence, possibly even sooner before we understand the majority of how the brain works.
Just because we're "represented" by idiots who we elected in a democratic fashion doesn't mean his statement was false.
I don't think they're using invisible to mean "imperceptible". More like they're using it to say "typically we detect molecules by looking for their terahertz radiation. this method makes them invisible using that method." By your definition, not being able to interact with ANYTHING else really means the object doesn't exist. My invisible friend really takes exception to that.
"I got a bad feeling about this."?
Snake oil salesmen have been around for a long time. The only difference between those selling vials of "cure alls" and todays swindlers is that it's a lot easier to hit up millions of people with a few keystrokes and hope just a few take the bait.
I don't think he's against cloud computing because he didn't think of it. I think he's against it because it encourages vendor lock-in (if you RTFA linked by the P) and puts your data under the control of a third party. Pretty much DIY-freedom is why Stallman is against cloud computing, a concept he advocated since he began sporting a 5 o'clock shadow.
I repeat the mantra "Our IT security is only as strong as our weakest link." at work. Unfortunately we still have to battle for even the most basic of precautions some times. Kind of ironic for a company that provides physical security access services.
Like Google they will be spending their power savings $$ advertising on Craigslist's Portland job ads page. The Dalle's is not exactly flush with computer savvy talent.
With a metal file in them??
Wouldn't they get blacklisted if a users IP is attached to a block assigned to that ISP?
Fuck, that made my brain hurt. Watch it, along with /vertisements, they're seeding the comments section with marketroids.
Wow your fucking copy of Windows XP has the latest hardware drivers for nVidia packaged in it every time you reinstall?
Could be worse. Next time you install the latest MS OS your older hardware may not even HAVE drivers... ever.
Fuck.