Why don't they work on a cure for orange greening? If they don't know the nature of the disease, who's to say that in 10 years the new orange won't be susceptible to a new or mutated disease? And then where are we?
Seems to me that we could think about "regular" literacy. This isn't defined very well either.. just if someone can read. This doesn't mean they can necessarily read Tolstoy, but that they can communicate in a written form in some language.
I think I'd consider someone to be computer literate if they aren't completely freightened by a computer.. My dad and a few of my friends for instance are *definitely* not computer literate. (My dad has been known to say "Proud to be computer-free" All this means is that when someone tells him he can find something on the Internet, he asks me to look it up) On the other hand, my mom knows how to use her computer for what she needs (generally geneology), so I would consider her computer literate (although she would probably be surprised to hear me say that since I know a whole lot more about computers and because she is constantly asking me questions and asking me to fix things)
But if you slow down the router, not only will you slow the worm spread, but you'll slow everything else.. the result is exactly what many worms are trying to accomplish.. DoS
While cracking into a computer *is* a crime, and should come with punishment, Mitnick did his time, and should be permitted to get on with his life. It's a crime in itself that he is not permitted to use his skills to earn a living. It is the same old story where it's assumed that a criminal who had done his/her time will do the crime again in a second. I dont' know much about Mitnick, or what he actually did, but I for one would like to give him the benefit of the doubt. As for forbidding him from speaking on the lecture circuit, isn't that a violation of the first amendment?
Wow a choice of interface would just be too cool. Imagine for instance all the blind users that could just, at the touch of a button, have all the functionality of windows on a command line! Unfortunately, another factor is fear. I suspect it doesn't matter how easy I make a procedure for my mom, she's still going to think she can't do it without me because she's afraid of her computer.
I write fanfic based on comics, mostly Batman and his family, and I've even had some people say they like my writing. My view on the copyright issue is that why would DC comics want to stop me when my writing might get someone interested in Batman or Nightwing or any of the other characters I write about enough to actually pick up the comics that these characters legally appear in? PS. If anyone wants to check out my writings, they can be found on my homepage.
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Why don't they work on a cure for orange greening? If they don't know the nature of the disease, who's to say that in 10 years the new orange won't be susceptible to a new or mutated disease? And then where are we?
Unlike the US and most likely other countries. There is a reason I don't pay attention to the media.
Wasn't there an X-Files episode about this?
Seems to me that we could think about "regular" literacy. This isn't defined very well either.. just if someone can read. This doesn't mean they can necessarily read Tolstoy, but that they can communicate in a written form in some language.
I think I'd consider someone to be computer literate if they aren't completely freightened by a computer.. My dad and a few of my friends for instance are *definitely* not computer literate. (My dad has been known to say "Proud to be computer-free" All this means is that when someone tells him he can find something on the Internet, he asks me to look it up) On the other hand, my mom knows how to use her computer for what she needs (generally geneology), so I would consider her computer literate (although she would probably be surprised to hear me say that since I know a whole lot more about computers and because she is constantly asking me questions and asking me to fix things)
nobody watches or reads science fiction to learn about the future.
True, but if there's some nifty currently-non-existant toy shown in a SF movie/tv show, I'm much happier.
But if you slow down the router, not only will you slow the worm spread, but you'll slow everything else.. the result is exactly what many worms are trying to accomplish.. DoS
Some people are engineers AND women.. wonder how they read a recipe..
While cracking into a computer *is* a crime, and should come with punishment, Mitnick did his time, and should be permitted to get on with his life. It's a crime in itself that he is not permitted to use his skills to earn a living. It is the same old story where it's assumed that a criminal who had done his/her time will do the crime again in a second. I dont' know much about Mitnick, or what he actually did, but I for one would like to give him the benefit of the doubt. As for forbidding him from speaking on the lecture circuit, isn't that a violation of the first amendment?
Wow a choice of interface would just be too cool. Imagine for instance all the blind users that could just, at the touch of a button, have all the functionality of windows on a command line! Unfortunately, another factor is fear. I suspect it doesn't matter how easy I make a procedure for my mom, she's still going to think she can't do it without me because she's afraid of her computer.
I write fanfic based on comics, mostly Batman and his family, and I've even had some people say they like my writing. My view on the copyright issue is that why would DC comics want to stop me when my writing might get someone interested in Batman or Nightwing or any of the other characters I write about enough to actually pick up the comics that these characters legally appear in? PS. If anyone wants to check out my writings, they can be found on my homepage.