Read the curriculum before passing judgement. This place requires a lot of non-CS courses be taken in conjunction with your CS courses.
In fact, the only place it seems to be lacking is in theory classes. But those might be hidden in there somewhere, the names can be a little deveiving.
For those of you that don't feel like digging around on their site, I have posted the course topics below. As I understand it, this is the mandatory curriculum.
CS 110 Introduction to Software Development CS 280 Certification Lab - MCSD: C# and.NET I LA 120 Written and Spoken Communications I LA 125 Collaborative and Interpersonal Communications CS 210 Collaborative Applications I CS 381 Certification Lab - MCSD: C# and.NET II with XML LA 121 Written and Spoken Communications II PH 230 Logic and Critical Thinking I CS 310 Advanced Applications I CS 382 Certification Lab MCSD: XML Web Services, COM+, and SQL MA 110 Sets, Functions, and Computer Number Systems PH 231 Logic and Critical Thinking II CS 410 Enterprise Applications I CS 383 Certification Lab MCSD MA 210 Graph Theory and Introductory Calculus AN 160 World Cultures CS 220 Collaborative Applications II CS 390 Certification Lab: Java MA 310 Probability, Statistics, and Data Mining PS 165 Psychology CS 320 Advanced Applications II CS 391 Certification Lab: OOAD with UML and J2EE MA 410 Computer Mathematics HI 140 Social History CS 420 Enterprise Applications II CS 392 Certification Lab: WebSphere PN 150 Physics HI 240 History of Technology CS 460 Community Externship PH 235 Philosophy PN 155 Life Science PE 170 Healthy Living CS 462 Community and Enterprise Externships BU 180 Business Fundamentals BU 185 International Business Relations CS 464 Enterprise Externship LA 420 Professional Communications
The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (B.S.C.S.) program is a ten-quarter, 28 month program. The academic year at Northface University is 47 weeks, and there are 10 weeks in a quarter.
Students attend classes and work on projects from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., with one hour for lunch, five days a week. Most assignments are performed in groups as part of lab and project work.
This seems possible. In fact, it seems exactly like what most universities offer - less the out-of-faculty electives.
At my university, a full degree takes 8 semesters, or approximately 4300 hours of coursework (estimating 3 hours in class, and 6 hours out, per week). This can be done in as little as 32 months if one really tries hard. (read: doesn't fail anything, and takes 5 courses a semester with not summers off)
This place is advertising 3980 course hours, a 9-5 school environment, and 47 weeks of class a year.
Really, you are getting the same ammount of education. In fact, you are likely getting more (the 3980 number does not take into account homework time, my 4300 hour estimate does). What you are losing out on is diversity. Which many students don't want.
True, diversity is a valuable asset, and a valuable experience. I enjoyed taking english and writing classes, and found them very useful as well. But if you really want diversity, go to this school, get your first degree in just over two years, and then enroll in a second degree program somewhere else.
I wonder if there's any significane to the fact that before I had finished this article, I had five other windows open:
- google search for 'the feed'
- bn.com
- amazon.ca
- chapters.ca (use all three for cost comparison)
- local library web page (why buy, when you can borrow)
I feel fed already, perhaps I don't need the book.
To be patentable, an idea must be original, useful and unobvious. If it does not fit all of these criteria, then it cannot be patented.
Original is usually pretty useful to track down (prior art is used here a lot). And while useful is a little harder, I imagine that as long as you can prove someone would use it, it qualifies.
Unobviousness is actually difficult. It must be unobvious to someone within that field - a mechanical engineer/car mechanic for auto-engines, a chemist for chemicals, a software engineer for software. But the problem is that most things are 'obvious' once they have been said (think of how many classes you've sat in where you keep thinking to yourself 'well, duh! of course that's true, and this guy won a nobel prize for that?').
Additionally, it is difficult to address the issue of obviousness because many patent officers are not mechanics, chemists, or software engineers.
The unobvious clause should take care of assinine patents like this one, but it doesn't because of the grey area with regards to what is obvious, and the fact that the patent officers do not have sufficient background within the field to judge the product accurately.
In Canada at least, copyright is held on a recorded interpretation of a work. This extends to the original music that has been written down on paper as well as any performances of that work. So when an orchestra sits down to play a piece, even though they don't have copyright over the piece, they have copyright over the expression/performance, and any recordings made from that performance.
However, that doesn't necassarily imply royalties should be paid for the recording, just that copyright is owned on the recording.
Are any composers and authors actually in favour of this, or just the publishers?
I asked my wife, a musician, the above question. She replied with "No, that's stupid!" In addition to thinking it was stupid, she also seemed to feel that it was more important the people heard her music than that she was paid for every time it was played.
After asking her about the 'other sides' opinion that the artists need to get paid fairly for their work, she reminded me that even though she is a musician, she won't ever receive the royalties. In her case, she plays with an orchestra. This means that it is not her that is the artist, but the orchestra. And it is not her that can complain, but rather the orchestra director and (possibly) the conductor. But more likely the recording label, not the actual orchestra.
So, OK. The orchestra gets paid. That means that she gets more money because the royalties trickle down in her paychecks. Wrong. She is paid a fixed salary, independent of how much revenue the orchestra makes.
OK, so she isn't exactly a rock star, nor does she make millions with her music, but she is still a recording artist and the law does not benefit her, nor will it ever.
Google randomly links to its products. You may have noticed (or you may not have, if you don't use IE) that when ou conduct a search w/o the google toolbar, sometimes the toolbar ad will appear at the bottom of the page, and sometimes it doesn't.
Further, there are actually two toolbar ads (one with folding-at-home, and one without) that are selected at random as well.
I'm not really sure why goold chooses random distribution of its products. But at least they are consistent.
And it does help to keep their web page a little cleaner because I don't need to see all of the ads, all of the time; just some of the ads, some of the time.
That's great news for the wife. I didn't know there was anything like TransGaming.
The crossover office website lists Dreamweaver as a "bronze product" - one that works, but possibly not well. However, it also states that crossover office will strive to bring all bronze level apps into the silver status with the next release. So while it might be sketchy now, it will run properly soon. This is good news.
I dislike NVU, and I don't believe that Quanta is a WYSIWYG editor. I've never heard of bluefish, and I'll have to give it a try.
This might work out ok. I'll give it another shot.
" With a bit of skill, anyone can hack the proc settings of a Linux box to get the same effect. Cost to me = $0"
There are two problems with the above. First, "with a bit of skill, anyone can..." implies that not anyone can do it. You first need a bit of skill. I assure you my mom couldn't do it, neither could by granmother, nor my neighbor, nor my wife, nor my boss... all of whom *should* have firewalls installed on their computers.
Second, the assumption that there is zero cost to you is false. I, and many of the other people here, work in a service based job sector. We provide our services (programming) in trade for money (read: beer). Once we have the tools, the only thing our services cost us is time. I'm still green, and only bill between $15-20/hour for technical work. That means that the hour or two that it takes me to set up a firewall script actually costs me between $15 and $40. (and that's being optimistic. the first time I set up a firewall in my house, it took me many more than 2 hours, but like I said, I'm green.)
Sorry, but the last time I sent out "that email" was several years ago. I checked my email history, but I don't seem to have a copy. If you do write one of your own, please post it here so we call can benefit.
Perhaps you can take this fellows suggestion as well and link to some common myth busting websites.
I often do this with virus scams (reply to the person that sent me the false information with a link to Norton's website, and instructions on how to look up a hoax), and I find that it works really well. Most people are appreciative of knowing how to find out this info for themselves.
When this guy got the email, he sent an email to everyone previous asking if they had received any money.
When I used to get this email, I'd send an email to everyone previous asking them to not send stupid emails to every person in their address book. Usually I accompany it with:
- a brief explanation as to why it's stupid (the AOL/Intel/MS merger being unlikely)
- why there's no way they will get any money (MS is a business, not a charity)
- some basic math (do the financial return through three iterations - you, the guy who sent it to you, and the guy who sent it to him - assuming that you each sent it to precisely 20 people, then the guy who sent it to the guy who sent it to you will gain over $2-million)
- a request that they don't jam up the internet with more spam. The more people who send stupid emails, the more stupid emails in people's inbox, and the more traffic travelling through the mailservers.
- a caution about mass forwarding other people's email addresses ( if you hit forward, then everyone you forward it to gets my email address, unless you were smart enough to BCC it - that's likely hundreds or thousands of people that now have my email address... where before the number was less than a hundred)
Usually, I am able to send this 'educational' email to more than a hundred people at a time (due to everyone forwarding without using bcc).
I try to keep the tone stern, but not insulting. The idea is to make people feel stupid for being a part of the chain letter, not to insult them.
The end result: I don't get this email anymore.
In fact, I get less junk mail in general, and so do the people one iteration before me. By making the people who send me junk mail feel stupid for sending it, I've made them stop sending it.
When I was in high school, used IRC. A lot. The people I met were great. we formed close friendships, and met occasionally in real life. Also, it was fun being able to tell people that of my friends, more than half of them were a complete mystery to me in all of the normal ways that people identify with others. I didn't know their names, their gender, their skin colour, where they lived, what they did for a living, how old they were, what they looked like, etc. I just knew what we talked about. And it was good.
Then some of my friends started using ICQ. I could handle that, it was fun having quick text messages outside of IRC, or with the people that couldn't handle the concept of online chat (it really is a skill). It wasn't bad.
Then people switched to MSN. I don't know why. I still contend that there is no advantage over icq, and that people should still be using that. But ah well. Anyhow, the point is that because of the way that msn works, I can't handle online chat anymore. The interaction process with other people is overwhelming. Everything flashes, and beeps, and dings, and jumps up out of the bottom of my screen. It's like I'm being attacked from 7 different directions everytime I log on. Not to mention, most people think I'm a dick and lose interest if I haven't responded to them wihtin 2 seconds.
Now, I use my computer to browse blogs (and slashdot and fark, whish loosely fit into that description) and do my homework.
It used to be a tool for interaction, now interacting sucks balls.
ah well, what are you going to do?
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No. I'm not saying that. Your statement is an overexageration.
My complaint is that the author claims that the web messed up his computer in an hour, because he was using IE on low security, and engaging in casual web browsing. This seems unrealistic.
I suspect that his claims are used primarily to enhance his point (which, I might add, is heavily biased towards the Mozilla foundation).
I aknowledge that it's possible for this to happen. I've fixed many a computer with gain, porn commander, or "Freewebsearch+++" installed because IE is fast and loose with what it allows to be installed. However, almost all of the time, the offending application was picked up from an untrustworthy source.
Users should be aware of the websites they go to, just as they are aware of the people that they sleep with, the attachments that they open, and the applications that they install.
You forget, most cellular contracts include the provision:
x.1) The provider reserves the right to change the terms of the agreement at any time.
x.2) The provider reserves the right to alter it's coverage area at any time.
x.3) The provider will make changes to the terms of the agreement, or the coverage area, available at its website.
x.4) The above changes to your service plan may be made at a months notice.
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SO even if you read your contract, and it verified by a lawyer, your contract is subject to change at any tiem and your provider is not obligated to let you know. The only means of communication is passive, and requires that customers actively seek out details of their contract on a continual basis.
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"It took just one idle hour of web surfing on low security before some pathological web site designer leapt down the throat of my PC through the Swiss cheese that is IE. He totally messed up my computer."
What kind of sites does this guy go to that they can "totally mess up [his] computer." I've seen sites like this, but not in an hour of idle web browsing. Usually, they are associated with crappy freeware, P2P applications, warez, and pr0n. If you are avoiding the above, then most of the rest of the web appears to be safe.
It runs my courses, holds my course notes, give me my marks, allows me to submit assignments and (as of last year) wouldn't work with Mozilla, opera, safari, netscape 6+, etc.
In fact, it wouldn't work unless you were on IE, and even then, some of the features worked only for IE on windows.
I [borrowed] the reports from the guy sitting next to me, and used about 20 hours to rewrite them into "my own"...and not a single copied sentence. But was I plagiarizing? Hell yes!
Actually, you weren't. You were reading from your friends material, true, but because you were reading it, learning/digesting it, and rewriting it in your own words, you were not plagiarizing it.
Essentially what you were doing was reading your textbook and notes, and spewing back what you found out. Except that you were reading your friends work, instead of the work of the textbook author.
Sounds like pretty standard higschool learning to me.
This is *almost* a wonderful thing
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Dabber than installs itself and deletes the registry keys of Sasser and other viruses.
This is fantastic! It is a virus, that infects only virus infected machines, and then removes all other virii. What a great solution to rapidly spreading worms.
If users are too lazy or ignorant (in the nice sense of the word) to patch their systems, then just relase another virus to do it for them.
Except that...
It [then] creates a backdoor on infected machines on TCP port 9898 allowing hackers to download additional code...
They just couldn't stop at doing a good thing, could they...
Why watch news? I've always thought: If something so important was happening, that i had to know about it _right_now_, then someone will have posted it on slashdot. So I just come here instead.
Case in point: WTC being hit - slashdot US going to war - slashdot Space Shuttle Columbia - slashdot
47 hours of live round the clock coverage of each of the above events (most of which is old news anyhow) - cnn
Slashdot Mirror
Regarding the courses, check my other post, here.
A touch weak on Calculus, and maybe a little light on theory (but I don't know for sure) but it has everything else one would expect from a degree.
Read the curriculum before passing judgement.
.NET I
This place requires a lot of non-CS courses be taken in conjunction with your CS courses.
In fact, the only place it seems to be lacking is in theory classes. But those might be hidden in there somewhere, the names can be a little deveiving.
For those of you that don't feel like digging around on their site, I have posted the course topics below. As I understand it, this is the mandatory curriculum.
CS 110 Introduction to Software Development
CS 280 Certification Lab - MCSD: C# and
LA 120 Written and Spoken Communications I
LA 125 Collaborative and Interpersonal Communications
CS 210 Collaborative Applications I
CS 381 Certification Lab - MCSD: C# and.NET II with XML
LA 121 Written and Spoken Communications II
PH 230 Logic and Critical Thinking I
CS 310 Advanced Applications I
CS 382 Certification Lab MCSD: XML Web Services, COM+, and SQL
MA 110 Sets, Functions, and Computer Number Systems
PH 231 Logic and Critical Thinking II
CS 410 Enterprise Applications I
CS 383 Certification Lab MCSD
MA 210 Graph Theory and Introductory Calculus
AN 160 World Cultures
CS 220 Collaborative Applications II
CS 390 Certification Lab: Java
MA 310 Probability, Statistics, and Data Mining
PS 165 Psychology
CS 320 Advanced Applications II
CS 391 Certification Lab: OOAD with UML and J2EE
MA 410 Computer Mathematics
HI 140 Social History
CS 420 Enterprise Applications II
CS 392 Certification Lab: WebSphere
PN 150 Physics
HI 240 History of Technology
CS 460 Community Externship
PH 235 Philosophy
PN 155 Life Science
PE 170 Healthy Living
CS 462 Community and Enterprise Externships
BU 180 Business Fundamentals
BU 185 International Business Relations
CS 464 Enterprise Externship
LA 420 Professional Communications
The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (B.S.C.S.) program is a ten-quarter, 28 month program. The academic year at Northface University is 47 weeks, and there are 10 weeks in a quarter.
Students attend classes and work on projects from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., with one hour for lunch, five days a week. Most assignments are performed in groups as part of lab and project work.
This seems possible. In fact, it seems exactly like what most universities offer - less the out-of-faculty electives.
At my university, a full degree takes 8 semesters, or approximately 4300 hours of coursework (estimating 3 hours in class, and 6 hours out, per week). This can be done in as little as 32 months if one really tries hard. (read: doesn't fail anything, and takes 5 courses a semester with not summers off)
This place is advertising 3980 course hours, a 9-5 school environment, and 47 weeks of class a year.
Really, you are getting the same ammount of education. In fact, you are likely getting more (the 3980 number does not take into account homework time, my 4300 hour estimate does). What you are losing out on is diversity. Which many students don't want.
True, diversity is a valuable asset, and a valuable experience. I enjoyed taking english and writing classes, and found them very useful as well. But if you really want diversity, go to this school, get your first degree in just over two years, and then enroll in a second degree program somewhere else.
I wonder if there's any significane to the fact that before I had finished this article, I had five other windows open:
- google search for 'the feed'
- bn.com
- amazon.ca
- chapters.ca (use all three for cost comparison)
- local library web page (why buy, when you can borrow)
I feel fed already, perhaps I don't need the book.
Simple. This rule already exists.
To be patentable, an idea must be original, useful and unobvious. If it does not fit all of these criteria, then it cannot be patented.
Original is usually pretty useful to track down (prior art is used here a lot). And while useful is a little harder, I imagine that as long as you can prove someone would use it, it qualifies.
Unobviousness is actually difficult. It must be unobvious to someone within that field - a mechanical engineer/car mechanic for auto-engines, a chemist for chemicals, a software engineer for software. But the problem is that most things are 'obvious' once they have been said (think of how many classes you've sat in where you keep thinking to yourself 'well, duh! of course that's true, and this guy won a nobel prize for that?').
Additionally, it is difficult to address the issue of obviousness because many patent officers are not mechanics, chemists, or software engineers.
The unobvious clause should take care of assinine patents like this one, but it doesn't because of the grey area with regards to what is obvious, and the fact that the patent officers do not have sufficient background within the field to judge the product accurately.
Are you sure about that?
In Canada at least, copyright is held on a recorded interpretation of a work. This extends to the original music that has been written down on paper as well as any performances of that work. So when an orchestra sits down to play a piece, even though they don't have copyright over the piece, they have copyright over the expression/performance, and any recordings made from that performance.
However, that doesn't necassarily imply royalties should be paid for the recording, just that copyright is owned on the recording.
Are any composers and authors actually in favour of this, or just the publishers?
I asked my wife, a musician, the above question. She replied with "No, that's stupid!" In addition to thinking it was stupid, she also seemed to feel that it was more important the people heard her music than that she was paid for every time it was played.
After asking her about the 'other sides' opinion that the artists need to get paid fairly for their work, she reminded me that even though she is a musician, she won't ever receive the royalties. In her case, she plays with an orchestra. This means that it is not her that is the artist, but the orchestra. And it is not her that can complain, but rather the orchestra director and (possibly) the conductor. But more likely the recording label, not the actual orchestra.
So, OK. The orchestra gets paid. That means that she gets more money because the royalties trickle down in her paychecks. Wrong. She is paid a fixed salary, independent of how much revenue the orchestra makes.
OK, so she isn't exactly a rock star, nor does she make millions with her music, but she is still a recording artist and the law does not benefit her, nor will it ever.
Google randomly links to its products.
You may have noticed (or you may not have, if you don't use IE) that when ou conduct a search w/o the google toolbar, sometimes the toolbar ad will appear at the bottom of the page, and sometimes it doesn't.
Further, there are actually two toolbar ads (one with folding-at-home, and one without) that are selected at random as well.
I'm not really sure why goold chooses random distribution of its products. But at least they are consistent.
And it does help to keep their web page a little cleaner because I don't need to see all of the ads, all of the time; just some of the ads, some of the time.
Hmmm....
That's great news for the wife. I didn't know there was anything like TransGaming.
The crossover office website lists Dreamweaver as a "bronze product" - one that works, but possibly not well. However, it also states that crossover office will strive to bring all bronze level apps into the silver status with the next release. So while it might be sketchy now, it will run properly soon. This is good news.
I dislike NVU, and I don't believe that Quanta is a WYSIWYG editor. I've never heard of bluefish, and I'll have to give it a try.
This might work out ok. I'll give it another shot.
Dreamweaver.
Games for the wife (read: warcraft, neverwinter, EQ)
" With a bit of skill, anyone can hack the proc settings of a Linux box to get the same effect. Cost to me = $0"
There are two problems with the above. First, "with a bit of skill, anyone can..." implies that not anyone can do it. You first need a bit of skill. I assure you my mom couldn't do it, neither could by granmother, nor my neighbor, nor my wife, nor my boss... all of whom *should* have firewalls installed on their computers.
Second, the assumption that there is zero cost to you is false. I, and many of the other people here, work in a service based job sector. We provide our services (programming) in trade for money (read: beer). Once we have the tools, the only thing our services cost us is time. I'm still green, and only bill between $15-20/hour for technical work. That means that the hour or two that it takes me to set up a firewall script actually costs me between $15 and $40. (and that's being optimistic. the first time I set up a firewall in my house, it took me many more than 2 hours, but like I said, I'm green.)
Sorry, but the last time I sent out "that email" was several years ago. I checked my email history, but I don't seem to have a copy. If you do write one of your own, please post it here so we call can benefit.
Perhaps you can take this fellows suggestion as well and link to some common myth busting websites.
I often do this with virus scams (reply to the person that sent me the false information with a link to Norton's website, and instructions on how to look up a hoax), and I find that it works really well. Most people are appreciative of knowing how to find out this info for themselves.
When this guy got the email, he sent an email to everyone previous asking if they had received any money.
When I used to get this email, I'd send an email to everyone previous asking them to not send stupid emails to every person in their address book. Usually I accompany it with:
- a brief explanation as to why it's stupid (the AOL/Intel/MS merger being unlikely)
- why there's no way they will get any money (MS is a business, not a charity)
- some basic math (do the financial return through three iterations - you, the guy who sent it to you, and the guy who sent it to him - assuming that you each sent it to precisely 20 people, then the guy who sent it to the guy who sent it to you will gain over $2-million)
- a request that they don't jam up the internet with more spam. The more people who send stupid emails, the more stupid emails in people's inbox, and the more traffic travelling through the mailservers.
- a caution about mass forwarding other people's email addresses ( if you hit forward, then everyone you forward it to gets my email address, unless you were smart enough to BCC it - that's likely hundreds or thousands of people that now have my email address... where before the number was less than a hundred)
Usually, I am able to send this 'educational' email to more than a hundred people at a time (due to everyone forwarding without using bcc).
I try to keep the tone stern, but not insulting. The idea is to make people feel stupid for being a part of the chain letter, not to insult them.
The end result: I don't get this email anymore.
In fact, I get less junk mail in general, and so do the people one iteration before me. By making the people who send me junk mail feel stupid for sending it, I've made them stop sending it.
When I was in high school, used IRC. A lot.
The people I met were great. we formed close friendships, and met occasionally in real life. Also, it was fun being able to tell people that of my friends, more than half of them were a complete mystery to me in all of the normal ways that people identify with others. I didn't know their names, their gender, their skin colour, where they lived, what they did for a living, how old they were, what they looked like, etc. I just knew what we talked about. And it was good.
Then some of my friends started using ICQ. I could handle that, it was fun having quick text messages outside of IRC, or with the people that couldn't handle the concept of online chat (it really is a skill). It wasn't bad.
Then people switched to MSN. I don't know why. I still contend that there is no advantage over icq, and that people should still be using that. But ah well. Anyhow, the point is that because of the way that msn works, I can't handle online chat anymore. The interaction process with other people is overwhelming. Everything flashes, and beeps, and dings, and jumps up out of the bottom of my screen. It's like I'm being attacked from 7 different directions everytime I log on. Not to mention, most people think I'm a dick and lose interest if I haven't responded to them wihtin 2 seconds.
Now, I use my computer to browse blogs (and slashdot and fark, whish loosely fit into that description) and do my homework.
It used to be a tool for interaction, now interacting sucks balls.
ah well, what are you going to do?
No. I'm not saying that.
Your statement is an overexageration.
My complaint is that the author claims that the web messed up his computer in an hour, because he was using IE on low security, and engaging in casual web browsing. This seems unrealistic.
I suspect that his claims are used primarily to enhance his point (which, I might add, is heavily biased towards the Mozilla foundation).
I aknowledge that it's possible for this to happen. I've fixed many a computer with gain, porn commander, or "Freewebsearch+++" installed because IE is fast and loose with what it allows to be installed. However, almost all of the time, the offending application was picked up from an untrustworthy source.
Users should be aware of the websites they go to, just as they are aware of the people that they sleep with, the attachments that they open, and the applications that they install.
You forget, most cellular contracts include the provision:
x.1) The provider reserves the right to change the terms of the agreement at any time.
x.2) The provider reserves the right to alter it's coverage area at any time.
x.3) The provider will make changes to the terms of the agreement, or the coverage area, available at its website.
x.4) The above changes to your service plan may be made at a months notice.
-----------
SO even if you read your contract, and it verified by a lawyer, your contract is subject to change at any tiem and your provider is not obligated to let you know. The only means of communication is passive, and requires that customers actively seek out details of their contract on a continual basis.
"It took just one idle hour of web surfing on low security before some pathological web site designer leapt down the throat of my PC through the Swiss cheese that is IE. He totally messed up my computer."
What kind of sites does this guy go to that they can "totally mess up [his] computer." I've seen sites like this, but not in an hour of idle web browsing. Usually, they are associated with crappy freeware, P2P applications, warez, and pr0n. If you are avoiding the above, then most of the rest of the web appears to be safe.
WebCT.
It runs my courses, holds my course notes, give me my marks, allows me to submit assignments and (as of last year) wouldn't work with Mozilla, opera, safari, netscape 6+, etc.
In fact, it wouldn't work unless you were on IE, and even then, some of the features worked only for IE on windows.
I [borrowed] the reports from the guy sitting next to me, and used about 20 hours to rewrite them into "my own"...and not a single copied sentence. But was I plagiarizing? Hell yes!
Actually, you weren't. You were reading from your friends material, true, but because you were reading it, learning/digesting it, and rewriting it in your own words, you were not plagiarizing it.
Essentially what you were doing was reading your textbook and notes, and spewing back what you found out. Except that you were reading your friends work, instead of the work of the textbook author.
Sounds like pretty standard higschool learning to me.
Dabber than installs itself and deletes the registry keys of Sasser and other viruses.
This is fantastic! It is a virus, that infects only virus infected machines, and then removes all other virii. What a great solution to rapidly spreading worms.
If users are too lazy or ignorant (in the nice sense of the word) to patch their systems, then just relase another virus to do it for them.
Except that...
It [then] creates a backdoor on infected machines on TCP port 9898 allowing hackers to download additional code...
They just couldn't stop at doing a good thing, could they...
Why is it that every benchmarking article contains the words "The results may surprise you?"
Have any of you ever been surprised?
first post.
please mod this down so it's not in anyones way.
Buy off a minister to change the laws for you.
Why watch news?
I've always thought: If something so important was happening, that i had to know about it _right_now_, then someone will have posted it on slashdot.
So I just come here instead.
Case in point:
WTC being hit - slashdot
US going to war - slashdot
Space Shuttle Columbia - slashdot
47 hours of live round the clock coverage of each of the above events (most of which is old news anyhow) - cnn
I don't get cnn for a reason.
Maybe this is the planetary equivelent of "format and reinstall"