Having them work on 'technical' project, something the kid already accels in isn't going to help anything; he's just going to walk away thinking that he's better than his peers. If you're going to use group projects to try building social skills, try to pick something that he's the one who needs help getting done (or alternately, something that none of the kids really understands).
I'm shooting in the dark here, but I'd have to assume that it's something resembling a "skin watch", a practical joke in which the penis is stretched tight around one of your wrists and you then ask your friend "hey... what you think of my new watch?".
All you need to do is mention the word "FERPA" (if you live in USia) in cases like this to get administrators shitting themselves and working with you.
University students and staff are probably more computer-savvy than the general population.
Umm... no. Even the 'technical' users you'd expect to find in engineering and CS get ridiculous ammounts of malware. I think a large part of it is that, in a university environment, people just don't care; lab machines aren't their systems, and their systems on their desks are still somebody else's responsibiility.
Well, working at another large state university, in the EE/CE department, as a general rule I run Ad-Aware every time I work on a system and the numbers here are over 90% on lab machines that haven't been cleaned in 2-3 days. Personal computers for grad students and faculty aren't much better.
Once IE includes (intelligent) popup blocking, there will be little, if any, reason for advertisers to try using them and they will disappear from the web entirely.
As it is, outside of pron sites, you don't get too many popups anymore unless you've installed some sort of adware. Adware is the future of invasive advertising; infiltrate the user's TCP/IP stack and work from there, the users owe you the right to advertise to them because you have 1st ammendment rights to be heard.
Cut out the dead wood like Composter. Even the new version is still generating ugly code. If someone wants a pseudo-WYSIWYG HTML editor, there are FAR better options out there.
The thing is, nobody using WYSIWYG web-design tools really cares what the output looks like, as long as it's valid HTML that looks OK in most browsers. Anyone doing 'serious' web design is going to use a 'serious' WYSIWYG web design tool, btu the built-in editor in Mozilla (or any browser) isn't meant to be that. It's meant to be something that'll make an OK Geocities/Angelfire/MyRandomSuckyISP page that has a a few pictures of my cat and my girlfriend on it
It's essentially the same reason that Pico lives on while Vi/Emaces still exist; some people just want to get the job done and don't really care about having any power.
You mean the standard that allows any user, no matter what their access to the system is, to install software that affects every user's browsing experience?
I have to agree, having other users install spy/ad-ware for me & forceing me to see irrelevant popups is an essential feature for any web browser.
You, like most grad students in CS departments (I'm one myself) are an arrogant, self-centered prick. You might as well be docking 5 points every time you see somebody use indentation that you don't approve of or tabs instead of spaces (or vice versa).
You see, as the TA for the class, it's not your place to decide these things, it's the professor's. I'm sure that every time you do something arbitrary like this, the student is going to turn around and complain to the prof, who is more than likely to give them their 5 points back.
You make it sound like Gentoo and/or Grub somehow make this easier than normal when, in fact, it hasn't been all that difficult for something like 10 years. Even back then, the hardest thing you had to worry about was making sure that Lilo could find its files below the 1024th cylinder (or was it sector...).
While the 'cyber-terrorism' label itself is irrelevant, the extent to which this man may be punished because this act gets covered by cyber-terrorism laws is relevant. Remember the 8th ammendment?
What if there was a law on the books that said stealing a pack of gum from the Whitehouse gift shop was a terrorist act? Surely such a law could be written. Would you object to somebody stealing a pack of gum being treated as a terrorist? The law says that this crime is terrorism & there are penalties for terrorism, so what's it matter if it makes any sense to send somebody to life in prison over a $0.50 pack of gum?
Saying that this is objectionable is not the same as saying that everyone should be able to get away with stealing gum, but the penalties for stealing gum should make sense; likewise, putting somebody who made 20 machines across the country call 911 shouldn't even be in the same category as somebody whose intent is to take down the 911 system nationwide.
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The trick is to make the advertising the content. Considering how 'unbiased and objective' the average game review is, I'm suprised the reviewers aren't getting paid by the game companies...
Doesn't Debian already provide this in the installer? If it doesn't, it'd be trivial to make a dummy packack called "Productivity" that simply depends on the packages you really want...
I'm sure you could draw parallels between this and Microsoft's (and software houses in general) actions, but comparing it to registration is way off base. XP registration is an anti-piracy measure; the article talks about companies rushing unfinished products out the door.
The thing is, the primary purpose of the HDD in the XBox isn't saving games; it's caching of data from the DVD. Doing this allows the XBox to get around the latency issues that are associated with using an optical drive for program/data storage.
Granted, having the system able to run programs off the HDD makes it somewhat easier for pirates; a modded XBox with a hacked BIOS allows you to copy an arbitrary number of games to the HDD and play directly off it, but I can't see them crippling the performance of the machine in such a significant manner (and we can rule out using flash memory as a cache, since that would result in heavily used XBoxen flat-out dying after a few years).
Unfortunately, even IT people are going to have to take an intro programming course, which this kid can't handle. You're missing out on the fact that the original poster is just a lazy, whinging twit who can't deal with being expected to work a little bit.
Of course, if the article poster is whinging about there being too much programming in an intro Java class, how do you think they'd feel about churning out stacks of rigorous proofs?
No, but I know a good carpentry-management-systems program where they don't even expect graduates to know the difference between a saw & a hammer (as long as they cost the same).
It's amazing how thinly-veiled racism and musical narrowmindedness can so quickly get modded up as insightful. Had I the mod points, it'd be a troll...
What about the post-9/11 legislation such as the PATRIOT act that allows your civil rights to be suspended if you appear to be a terrorist? Couple this with a system that allows the goverment to look at every (digitized) aspect of your life & reading subversive websites slashdot AND being educated puts you in a good position to disappear.
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Having them work on 'technical' project, something the kid already accels in isn't going to help anything; he's just going to walk away thinking that he's better than his peers. If you're going to use group projects to try building social skills, try to pick something that he's the one who needs help getting done (or alternately, something that none of the kids really understands).
I'm shooting in the dark here, but I'd have to assume that it's something resembling a "skin watch", a practical joke in which the penis is stretched tight around one of your wrists and you then ask your friend "hey... what you think of my new watch?".
All you need to do is mention the word "FERPA" (if you live in USia) in cases like this to get administrators shitting themselves and working with you.
Umm... no. Even the 'technical' users you'd expect to find in engineering and CS get ridiculous ammounts of malware. I think a large part of it is that, in a university environment, people just don't care; lab machines aren't their systems, and their systems on their desks are still somebody else's responsibiility.
Well, working at another large state university, in the EE/CE department, as a general rule I run Ad-Aware every time I work on a system and the numbers here are over 90% on lab machines that haven't been cleaned in 2-3 days. Personal computers for grad students and faculty aren't much better.
What are you talking about? The Firefox logo, when it's rotating looks like a rotating quad-damage.
No. It means the end of popups.
Once IE includes (intelligent) popup blocking, there will be little, if any, reason for advertisers to try using them and they will disappear from the web entirely.
As it is, outside of pron sites, you don't get too many popups anymore unless you've installed some sort of adware. Adware is the future of invasive advertising; infiltrate the user's TCP/IP stack and work from there, the users owe you the right to advertise to them because you have 1st ammendment rights to be heard.
The thing is, nobody using WYSIWYG web-design tools really cares what the output looks like, as long as it's valid HTML that looks OK in most browsers. Anyone doing 'serious' web design is going to use a 'serious' WYSIWYG web design tool, btu the built-in editor in Mozilla (or any browser) isn't meant to be that. It's meant to be something that'll make an OK Geocities/Angelfire/MyRandomSuckyISP page that has a a few pictures of my cat and my girlfriend on it
It's essentially the same reason that Pico lives on while Vi/Emaces still exist; some people just want to get the job done and don't really care about having any power.
You forget that MSFT is planning on using SVG as the basis to their next-generation display technology like Apple uses PDF and Sun tried to use PS.
You mean the standard that allows any user, no matter what their access to the system is, to install software that affects every user's browsing experience?
I have to agree, having other users install spy/ad-ware for me & forceing me to see irrelevant popups is an essential feature for any web browser.
You, like most grad students in CS departments (I'm one myself) are an arrogant, self-centered prick. You might as well be docking 5 points every time you see somebody use indentation that you don't approve of or tabs instead of spaces (or vice versa).
You see, as the TA for the class, it's not your place to decide these things, it's the professor's. I'm sure that every time you do something arbitrary like this, the student is going to turn around and complain to the prof, who is more than likely to give them their 5 points back.
Violation of your rights how? You give them money to provide a service to you; what they do with that money, you have no say over, short of walking.
You make it sound like Gentoo and/or Grub somehow make this easier than normal when, in fact, it hasn't been all that difficult for something like 10 years. Even back then, the hardest thing you had to worry about was making sure that Lilo could find its files below the 1024th cylinder (or was it sector...).
While the 'cyber-terrorism' label itself is irrelevant, the extent to which this man may be punished because this act gets covered by cyber-terrorism laws is relevant. Remember the 8th ammendment?
What if there was a law on the books that said stealing a pack of gum from the Whitehouse gift shop was a terrorist act? Surely such a law could be written. Would you object to somebody stealing a pack of gum being treated as a terrorist? The law says that this crime is terrorism & there are penalties for terrorism, so what's it matter if it makes any sense to send somebody to life in prison over a $0.50 pack of gum?
Saying that this is objectionable is not the same as saying that everyone should be able to get away with stealing gum, but the penalties for stealing gum should make sense; likewise, putting somebody who made 20 machines across the country call 911 shouldn't even be in the same category as somebody whose intent is to take down the 911 system nationwide.
The trick is to make the advertising the content. Considering how 'unbiased and objective' the average game review is, I'm suprised the reviewers aren't getting paid by the game companies...
Doesn't Debian already provide this in the installer? If it doesn't, it'd be trivial to make a dummy packack called "Productivity" that simply depends on the packages you really want...
I'm sure you could draw parallels between this and Microsoft's (and software houses in general) actions, but comparing it to registration is way off base. XP registration is an anti-piracy measure; the article talks about companies rushing unfinished products out the door.
I don't see any connection.
Bah. Why mod the post down? Just force the guy to upgrade to XP; I mean, what's the point in running outdated software?
Doesn't the advanced TCP/IP settings under 2K allow you to filter ports?
Alternately, you could write a dummy service that listens on a port, accepts connections & throws all data away, forcing attackers to time-out.
The thing is, the primary purpose of the HDD in the XBox isn't saving games; it's caching of data from the DVD. Doing this allows the XBox to get around the latency issues that are associated with using an optical drive for program/data storage.
Granted, having the system able to run programs off the HDD makes it somewhat easier for pirates; a modded XBox with a hacked BIOS allows you to copy an arbitrary number of games to the HDD and play directly off it, but I can't see them crippling the performance of the machine in such a significant manner (and we can rule out using flash memory as a cache, since that would result in heavily used XBoxen flat-out dying after a few years).
Unfortunately, even IT people are going to have to take an intro programming course, which this kid can't handle. You're missing out on the fact that the original poster is just a lazy, whinging twit who can't deal with being expected to work a little bit.
Of course, if the article poster is whinging about there being too much programming in an intro Java class, how do you think they'd feel about churning out stacks of rigorous proofs?
No, but I know a good carpentry-management-systems program where they don't even expect graduates to know the difference between a saw & a hammer (as long as they cost the same).
It's amazing how thinly-veiled racism and musical narrowmindedness can so quickly get modded up as insightful. Had I the mod points, it'd be a troll...
What about the post-9/11 legislation such as the PATRIOT act that allows your civil rights to be suspended if you appear to be a terrorist? Couple this with a system that allows the goverment to look at every (digitized) aspect of your life & reading subversive websites slashdot AND being educated puts you in a good position to disappear.