"When is the US going to get it's head out of it's sphincter and realize that telecom is a public resource. Or that public resources are to be protected for use, not auctioned off to the highest bidder."
If a company burns millions of dollars to roll out fiber optic cable in a city, is that infrastructure a "public resource?"
Your argument makes some sense in the context of the debate over the future of wireless frequencies, but it is pure FUD in the context of the issue at hand.
Others have already shown how wireless can be implemented trivially.
But also remember that if these buildings have telephones [which I'm sure they do, for reasons of security at least] then adding ethernet links between them would cause no more damage than that caused to install the phone lines.
Once you get inside the individual buildings, wireless with just enough power to cover the volume of each building is all you need...
Sorry, just a bit ridiculous for me. However, I do like the fact bit itself, just not the underlying implications. If no one else sees them, that's cool. Mod me down if you must, I can see how this could be seen as flaimbat. I personally however strongly want to support GNU/Linux, etc, and feel this is the wrong way to go about doing it. I believe we should continue to simply make good free and open software, and work to enlighten others to their advantages. Therefore, you could say I'm not upset with the article itself, but saw a prime example of a particular sentiment that bothers me.
I am sorry but aside from choosing one of slashdot's light-hearted fact-of-the-day posts to vent your scattered, inconcrete, and unintelligent rants, you didn't provide a solution, so I am left with no choice but to consider your post both flamebait and trolling material.
When I was fifteen, some school friends and I took over #France on Effnet using UNIX ping and the old Winbomb proggy.
Its amazing what a couple of years can do to maturity levels. All that stupid shit is behind me, and I'm using my time for somewhat productive things, like trying to teach myself Physics and watching Charlie Rose.
Still, the other guys involved in the takeover are getting busted for alcohol possesion and racking up driving tickets, all of which I have avoided, so the distribution of common sense/maturity isn't uniform. Heh.
. . . experts will no longer be identified by education or experience, but instead their ability to market themselves . . ..
Marketing is BS. Showing you have knowledge is one thing, but for some fields, such as law and medicine, the learning experience and the mental expansion in university is greater than the sum of the knowledge base, so if you're serious about becoming a lawyer, its worth it to go to the local university part time for a few years rather than read ten books and take the bar exam.
The idea that anybody can become an instant expert at any age in any context is pretty creepy. It doesn't even apply to programming or Web design, let alone law or finance.
Let me point out the epiphany moment in the NY Times Magazine article about the kid lawyer. It was incredible. The man says "where do you get your information, what are your sources" and the kid says "I just know it" and goes on to cite Law and Order and CourtTV as his primary sources.
The arrogance of saying "I just know it" for a kid who presumes to know everything you need to know about a professional field people spend years in graduate school for rather efficiently reveals that this kid's attitude probably won't take him far in serious academic study.
If I had to hire a programmer, and I ask a potential employee "where did you learn to program" and he said "well, I just know it" then I'd tell him to get the hell out. I'm not saying you have to go to university to become skilled in a field, but for knowledge based professions, you must at least have a base of book knowledge, and the kid in question apparently never thought to go to the library and read an intro to Jurisprudence.
If the kid spent his weekends looking up answers to questions in the local univeristy legal library, then I'd think he was a industrious worker with a promising future. But this kid is quite full of BS, and his answer on askme.com are engineered into piles of BS, so its mildly rediculous that he's getting all this positive attention.
This worm apparently takes specific actions at certain dates/times.
Can you interfere worms such as this by changing system/software clocks? Could a crafty craker proggy writer create some kind of independent time record to avoid such tampering affecting his effects?
I think Fugazi is a better example though. NPR News featured them on a Sunday afternoon a couple years back. They've recorded all of their many albums in the basement of a house, and distribute themselves.
Yes - go ahead - mod this offtopic - it is, but I'm sick of seeing the preferential treatment. This, should be an open forum, generally free of politial agendas. If I wanted politial opinions, I'd read democrats today or some other BS.
Slashdot started as a place for CmdrTaco et al to post cool/interesting stuff to share with others. It was never intended to be impartial or hard journalism, therefore it has no reason to be poked at on the terms of journalistic criticism. What you think it should be doesn't matter. Go find yourself a center-right newspaper, if that'll make you happy.
For example, The whole DVD issue isn't one we can hardly complain about, since we brought it on ourselves and it's somewhat stuck with it for now.
Bullshit. No one asked me if it was okay to region encode DVDs or pull other MPAA shit. Yet they get away with it because they have control over alot of media I WANT. I haven't got a choice if I want to see my favorite comedy/drama/Hong Kong action flicks.
But what about Operating Systems with ACTIVATION SCHEMES? If we don't like them, we vote them out of existance by NOT BUYING THEM.
You mean like when we buy an OS that's bundled with a machine? Or how about those millions of people who refuse to change operating systems because, dispite the hell they go through using what they use, they refuse to change because its THEIR operating system, and it what they're used to. This was one of Linus Torvald's big points when he went on Charlie Rose last Friday.
I'd rather have companies telling me what to do than the Government, because at least with a COMPANY, I can refuse to pay them. Try not paying your taxes and see how far you get!
First off, if you don't pay your taxes, the IRS is VERY soft on you these days. Second, if you go to jail for tax related issues you are probably a fucking moron. Everything you are taxed on is money you HAD at one point. Besided that, federal tax rates are relatively low in the U.S. I am so tired of conservative crybabies going on about how bad taxes are... Its not like the Turks, who cut Armenians open to take the coins they swallowed to hide from government agents before their people got forced on a death march through the desert (1916-1923).
Okay that was just a rant. The real point here is that the federal government is far more accountable to the public will than any corporation in a noncompetitive olligopoly; the gov. is run by politicians of two competing parties who LISTEN in the hope of improving things for constituants so they can get your votes. Here YOU have the upper hand. Meanwhile, for many companies, the position is opposite; they have something you want, and they will rape you for as much as they can get to further their own self interest.
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prevent the the glorious self regulated industry from implanting chips in our asses to know where we are, what we are doing, and with who."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I love reading CmdrTaco's (and other's) cynical and hyperbolic comments on these issues. They remind us both that he has a particular point of view (that readers should take into account) and that each lost battle in the struggle for privacy/consumer protection rights brings the world towards a condition that screws over everyone (chips in the ass scenario), even though the individual battles don't usually harm many individuals directly.
While IBM sold machines to Germany that they used to perform the deportations, IBM had no idea about the Final Solution. Even the scholar who released the book about IBM and Germany acknowleged this (I read about it in Newsweek a couple of months ago).
IBM stopped dealing with Germany after the invasion of Poland. This was well before the U.S. entered the war, and before the SS even planned their elimination methods. The plan was drawn up by the #2 SS man in 1941 (I think 1941...), we just covered this in my Genocide course.
I don't know why the post was moderated up. The poster's UDDI "Nazi" connection is crap. "their missions were allied on the mighty Axis of powers" hahaha
I'd no longer have to worry whether I was hiring someone with a congenital predisposition to, say, Tay-Sachs; I could just call up the DNA registry.
Tay-Sachs is a genetic lysosomal disorder that develops serious problems by nine months after birth. If someone has it, he won't make it out of childhood, and thus won't reach employment age.
3 - Rich Text, Now unless your a complete fscking idiot, doesent this just scream M$ word all over it?
I've had one experience with RTF, and it was actually very nice. When I was in the MacQuake TF clan, my leader sent me a message as an RTF attachment. It read great in Communicator on my Mac.
By contrast, even simple ASCII's line breaks get screwed up when sent to/from macs; in such cases, I have to edit the whole thing by hand before I can read it without cringing constantly.
This is kinda cool, and I'm sure we'll all be better off in the long run if we help out, but posting this stuff is a bad precedent. Do we want a flood of similar stories?
Ask/. is for discussion on technology that can help alot of people, or for sharing neat little hacks that can help a few people people, but not for legal research help for one person.
If I had to decide which candidate was the "truest geek," the only conclusion could be John Hagelin.
This New York Times story is a great overview of his candidacy. From this other story,
John Hagelin is a quantum physicist who preaches the benefits of transcendental meditation. He runs the physics department at an Iowa university named for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. As the presidential candidate of the Natural Law Party in 1996, he won exactly 0.12 percent of the vote.
Sure, his name recognition is close to zero. The media call his camp "the Perot supporters," they don't even use his name. But still he's pretty cool.
However the Reform Party has split in two parts and is deeply troubled, as this New York Times story describes. The Party probably won't be able to challenge the other two in national elections for a long time, if ever.
On the flip side, all you need to do is boot from an OS 8/9 CD and you can read the entire contents of the hard disk at will. I don't remember whether or not you could do this with At Ease.
Yep, you could. You can not only read/write anywhere, you can also reformat...
While the whole At Ease concept is outdated there are alot of institutions keeping it because they have old hardware and cannot go to OS 9 or they have incapable sysadmins. Especially in K-12 schools.
Under the Mac OS version, you could circumvent At Ease file system read protection by typing in something like file:///hard%20disk/. After you do that you can browse the filesystem with no interference from security.
The MS Word crack I stumbled upon I found was even worse; search for a file, and you can get read access to files in the same directory [which is supposedly secure] with an open menu dialogue. You can even open the passwd file from a remote At Ease server volume!! Though its a bin file, parts of it are readable.
However I think they cleared this up in the current version of At Ease.
Indie labels are great, and they get alot of top notch bands out in the open.
The problem is that distribution is much harder. Today, with internet commerce getting product to the end sale is becoming less of an issue, but still the vast majority of record sales is at places like Wal-Mart, Blockbuster Music, and other national chains.
Bad Religion's former-and-future-member Greg Gurewitz founded Epitaph, a highly successful alternative label. But even though Epitaph's sales took off as they picked up great bands, they couldn't meet Bad Religion's needs for publicity and distribution. Bad Religion just couldn't get into the big mass-purchasing chains.
Bad Religion joined Sony, and then Atlantic, where they've been for awhile now.
The good news for Bad Religion is that now their CDs are avaliable in many more shops across the country. However avaliability is mixed, and some Sony recordings are hard to come by. By contrast about every thing they released under Epitaph is still avaliable, save singles and Into The Unknown material, which they don't want out anyway.
I see one flaw in this argument, not all expression is protected by the first amendment! I can not say certain words and broadcast them over the television.
I didn't think the rules on banned words on television were legally binding (in the U.S.) but rather implemented by the network censors so they don't piss off parents.
Slander isn't protected speech, but most potentially offensive things on television, including vulgar language, are.
I'd like to hear from someone else who knows about this though.
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Your argument makes some sense in the context of the debate over the future of wireless frequencies, but it is pure FUD in the context of the issue at hand.
I agree. I did the same.
Michael posts crap like this all the time. I am not really suprised that it'd be him to do this.
But also remember that if these buildings have telephones [which I'm sure they do, for reasons of security at least] then adding ethernet links between them would cause no more damage than that caused to install the phone lines.
Once you get inside the individual buildings, wireless with just enough power to cover the volume of each building is all you need...
Where is problem??!
-1, Offtopic
What a lame, immature, & completely unrelated thing to say.
Did the post office deliver your computer parts a day late?
I am sorry but aside from choosing one of slashdot's light-hearted fact-of-the-day posts to vent your scattered, inconcrete, and unintelligent rants, you didn't provide a solution, so I am left with no choice but to consider your post both flamebait and trolling material.
When I was fifteen, some school friends and I took over #France on Effnet using UNIX ping and the old Winbomb proggy.
Its amazing what a couple of years can do to maturity levels. All that stupid shit is behind me, and I'm using my time for somewhat productive things, like trying to teach myself Physics and watching Charlie Rose.
Still, the other guys involved in the takeover are getting busted for alcohol possesion and racking up driving tickets, all of which I have avoided, so the distribution of common sense/maturity isn't uniform. Heh.
Marketing is BS. Showing you have knowledge is one thing, but for some fields, such as law and medicine, the learning experience and the mental expansion in university is greater than the sum of the knowledge base, so if you're serious about becoming a lawyer, its worth it to go to the local university part time for a few years rather than read ten books and take the bar exam.
The arrogance of saying "I just know it" for a kid who presumes to know everything you need to know about a professional field people spend years in graduate school for rather efficiently reveals that this kid's attitude probably won't take him far in serious academic study.
If I had to hire a programmer, and I ask a potential employee "where did you learn to program" and he said "well, I just know it" then I'd tell him to get the hell out. I'm not saying you have to go to university to become skilled in a field, but for knowledge based professions, you must at least have a base of book knowledge, and the kid in question apparently never thought to go to the library and read an intro to Jurisprudence.
If the kid spent his weekends looking up answers to questions in the local univeristy legal library, then I'd think he was a industrious worker with a promising future. But this kid is quite full of BS, and his answer on askme.com are engineered into piles of BS, so its mildly rediculous that he's getting all this positive attention.
Can you interfere worms such as this by changing system/software clocks? Could a crafty craker proggy writer create some kind of independent time record to avoid such tampering affecting his effects?
I think Fugazi is a better example though. NPR News featured them on a Sunday afternoon a couple years back. They've recorded all of their many albums in the basement of a house, and distribute themselves.
Slashdot started as a place for CmdrTaco et al to post cool/interesting stuff to share with others. It was never intended to be impartial or hard journalism, therefore it has no reason to be poked at on the terms of journalistic criticism. What you think it should be doesn't matter. Go find yourself a center-right newspaper, if that'll make you happy.
You mean like when we buy an OS that's bundled with a machine? Or how about those millions of people who refuse to change operating systems because, dispite the hell they go through using what they use, they refuse to change because its THEIR operating system, and it what they're used to. This was one of Linus Torvald's big points when he went on Charlie Rose last Friday.
First off, if you don't pay your taxes, the IRS is VERY soft on you these days. Second, if you go to jail for tax related issues you are probably a fucking moron. Everything you are taxed on is money you HAD at one point. Besided that, federal tax rates are relatively low in the U.S. I am so tired of conservative crybabies going on about how bad taxes are... Its not like the Turks, who cut Armenians open to take the coins they swallowed to hide from government agents before their people got forced on a death march through the desert (1916-1923).Okay that was just a rant. The real point here is that the federal government is far more accountable to the public will than any corporation in a noncompetitive olligopoly; the gov. is run by politicians of two competing parties who LISTEN in the hope of improving things for constituants so they can get your votes. Here YOU have the upper hand. Meanwhile, for many companies, the position is opposite; they have something you want, and they will rape you for as much as they can get to further their own self interest.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I love reading CmdrTaco's (and other's) cynical and hyperbolic comments on these issues. They remind us both that he has a particular point of view (that readers should take into account) and that each lost battle in the struggle for privacy/consumer protection rights brings the world towards a condition that screws over everyone (chips in the ass scenario), even though the individual battles don't usually harm many individuals directly.
The post is a troll.
While IBM sold machines to Germany that they used to perform the deportations, IBM had no idea about the Final Solution. Even the scholar who released the book about IBM and Germany acknowleged this (I read about it in Newsweek a couple of months ago).
IBM stopped dealing with Germany after the invasion of Poland. This was well before the U.S. entered the war, and before the SS even planned their elimination methods. The plan was drawn up by the #2 SS man in 1941 (I think 1941...), we just covered this in my Genocide course.
I don't know why the post was moderated up. The poster's UDDI "Nazi" connection is crap. "their missions were allied on the mighty Axis of powers" hahaha
Tay-Sachs is a genetic lysosomal disorder that develops serious problems by nine months after birth. If someone has it, he won't make it out of childhood, and thus won't reach employment age.
I've had one experience with RTF, and it was actually very nice. When I was in the MacQuake TF clan, my leader sent me a message as an RTF attachment. It read great in Communicator on my Mac.
By contrast, even simple ASCII's line breaks get screwed up when sent to/from macs; in such cases, I have to edit the whole thing by hand before I can read it without cringing constantly.
Ask /. is for discussion on technology that can help alot of people, or for sharing neat little hacks that can help a few people people, but not for legal research help for one person.
In my unhumble opinion, anyway.
This New York Times story is a great overview of his candidacy. From this other story,
Sure, his name recognition is close to zero. The media call his camp "the Perot supporters," they don't even use his name. But still he's pretty cool.
However the Reform Party has split in two parts and is deeply troubled, as this New York Times story describes. The Party probably won't be able to challenge the other two in national elections for a long time, if ever.
Yep, you could. You can not only read/write anywhere, you can also reformat...
While the whole At Ease concept is outdated there are alot of institutions keeping it because they have old hardware and cannot go to OS 9 or they have incapable sysadmins. Especially in K-12 schools.
The MS Word crack I stumbled upon I found was even worse; search for a file, and you can get read access to files in the same directory [which is supposedly secure] with an open menu dialogue. You can even open the passwd file from a remote At Ease server volume!! Though its a bin file, parts of it are readable.
However I think they cleared this up in the current version of At Ease.
The problem is that distribution is much harder. Today, with internet commerce getting product to the end sale is becoming less of an issue, but still the vast majority of record sales is at places like Wal-Mart, Blockbuster Music, and other national chains.
Bad Religion's former-and-future-member Greg Gurewitz founded Epitaph, a highly successful alternative label. But even though Epitaph's sales took off as they picked up great bands, they couldn't meet Bad Religion's needs for publicity and distribution. Bad Religion just couldn't get into the big mass-purchasing chains.
Bad Religion joined Sony, and then Atlantic, where they've been for awhile now.
The good news for Bad Religion is that now their CDs are avaliable in many more shops across the country. However avaliability is mixed, and some Sony recordings are hard to come by. By contrast about every thing they released under Epitaph is still avaliable, save singles and Into The Unknown material, which they don't want out anyway.
Slander isn't protected speech, but most potentially offensive things on television, including vulgar language, are.
I'd like to hear from someone else who knows about this though.