Most online journalism fails for the same reason that you cannot get any reliable information from groups like greenpeace, peta and NORML. There is simply too much vested interest for anything but a completely biased opinion. This takes mainstream credibility away, and then there is no need to try and be unbiased. Under normal circumstances when this happens there will be few people willing to pay, but on the internet there will still be readership, and the crap will continue to be published.
Editorial control and unbias is what seperates real publications from the crap that is on the internet.
Yeah, well BC isn't exactly the best example. Just look at the 'superferries'. I guess you just can't get anything done with 40% of the population stoned at any given time.
No, this is typical slashdot misinformation. The reason the skin burned so fast was because it was painted with something very close to solid rocket fuel. The reason the whole thing went up in flames was because of the hydrogen. The amount of paint was small, the amount of hydorgen was huge.
Hydrogen is still dangerous to use as a fuel, and helium is a much safer alternitive. This is because you do not need 'fuel', just a substance lighter than air.
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for their generic, manual labours, not for anything important.
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A professional organization is very different from a union. A union 'protects' the workers, while a union is designed to protect the profession. Doctors, lawyers and engineers are all covered by professional groups which can speak on behalf of them, but rarely do. What they do however is set standards, something lacking in IT.
I do think that programmers should have a professional group, perhaps even going so far as certifying software.
Perhaps system admins should have a union, but I think that they to would be better served by a professional group as well, of course this generally required a degree, something that most MCSEs etc do not have.
I too am a christian, your comment brought up many things that have been bothering me lately. I suppose the worst side of anything will be the most publicized, but its disturbing that recently the 'bible belt' had gotten so much attention, and is almost synonymous with christianity. As a christian i believe that these people stand against almost everything christianity is about. They spread hatred, fear and force their beliefs upon others, all three of which are said to be wrong in the new testament. Just as bad is that they put more value into the laws which they have imposed than the laws of God. They somehow mistake victorian morallity with christian morality. In doing this they become hypocrites, on the same level as the pharisees, the antagonists of the new testamate.
All I ask is that people understand that this small group does not represent all christians, most of us are intellegent, open minded people who do not agree with the views of the 'bible belt'.
Game programmers need either a CS degree or a CE degree. These games take an incredible amount of skill. There is a need for speed, so many critical parts are coded in assembly, and the less critical parts must still be programmed well. CS/CE is the only place you'll learn it, trade schools just don't cut it. If your interested in design, but don't want a computer of engineering degree there is also a large demand for Artists.
Be aware, its a good paying industry, but its highly competetive and hard to break into.
At my current school they offer a gaming speciallization. Its after the second year, so i'd assume its a lot of GL, DirectX and assembly.
The kyoto accord is more like the landmine treaty.
-It starts with a good idea
-They come up with some reasonable ideas
-They come up with some unrealistic ideas
-They forget to take into account the special circumstances of some countries
-They make it a moral crusade and will not bend the rules
-The treaty doesn't make it or is completely useless
-They blame the US
With the landmine treaty they would not let the US have a 5 year extention in korea, so it wasn't signed, now the US is not at all part of the treaty and its completely useless. This can be blamed on Canadian Cabinet minister Allen Rock and his nobel prize dreams. It didn't happen.
The treaty hurts the US and Austrailia far more than the other countries, that is why they do not want to sign it.
And Bill Gates is leaving almost all of his fortune to charities, giving his children something like 10 million.
Nope it depends soley on the speed of light, the distance between them and us, how fast they developed, and of course if they exist.
Well I think its a good chance they may be out there, considering the size of the universe, the development time and the finite speed of light its unlikely SETI will ever show us anything. But while I don't think NASA should be funding it, I think that it is an interesting project that should be.
Out of the box simply refers to service running after a default install. There is no single default setting for all BSD derived systems, so each one has its own settings. OSX will have its own settings, probably will almost nothing running
This is a very simple thing to change, and RH and the others have been getting much better, but all still leave in the 'server' install, so all the little kids thinking they are 'l33t' will leave their box with everything from bind to apache to rpc and nfds open. Then they get hacked.
Not that long ago they had to shut down the computers for a course readjustment.
Stuff has crossed its path, past pluto it was acted on by a gravitational force of something unknown, probably a pluto like semi planet that has never been seen, this after crossing the astroid belt, and surviving all the planets which it went near. It really has had an interesting life.
It is definatly understandable why you would think this, and there is some truth to it. Ideally the filter software in the US is designed to censor porn and potentally dangerous matterials from children, while it is definatly debatable, this is the ideal. In China it is used primarily to censor outside news from their citizens.
The other diffence is that the government is censoring private business in china, in the US it government censoring what it pays for.
Controlling the public is part of an extreamist governments way of maintaining power, and I don't see this as being anything special. I was under the impression that all traffic into China was already filtered.
Last month here in Canada there were figures relased showing sales had gone down by something like 5%. Unfortunatly my local news comes from papers with poor web presence, or that only archive 7 days.
I'll post a link if I find one.
absolutly not, but making it available to someone who doesn't own it is, as is getting one which you don't own. I have mp3s of cds that I don't own, but don't expect companies such as napster survive.
This does seem stupid, but they do own the rights to it. Honestly i'd make lyrics/tabs easily accessible, to everyone, all it could do is help them sell more records.
>...downloading the MP3 is wrong.
its copyrighted, this is simple and has been the cause for as long as mp3s have been around. Yeah we used to be able to get them easy, but it went mainstream and now we can't anymore. Thats the way it goes
>...downloading the lyrics is wrong.
Well they are copyrighted too. Downloading them is really not wrong, but distributing them might
>...downloading the Tabs is wrong.
Same as above
Its not that strange, when it was just a few of us it wasn't a big deal, now its actually affecting sales, so we can't anymore
ok, well that does not mean that leaking information, or obtaining it through break and enter is alright, and they have evey right to find out who did that. This is what this is about.
As well, if classified information was published leading to the death of an american, the times would be walking through very dangerous legal ground.
I found that the globe spent more time concentrating on the actual protest, with far to little time spent on the underlying issues. It was unbiased, but I remember thinking 'I could get this on fox news'. I am very close to canceling my subsription to the paper, and if I hear many more of their terrible advertisements showing their editorail bias I will.
I'm not usually a fan of CBC news, but they did do an excellent job of covering both the meetings and the protests, but supprisingly CNN did a better job of providing the views of different groups.
The best coverage I had was my local southam paper which covered the actual issue far better, both globalization and the history of the FTAA were covered very well, including essays from both sides. They also tended to editorialize it far less than the globe. For what people say about Conrad Black his papers did an excellent, unbiased job.
I find that the more alternitive you get, the more simplistic the opinions get. This is just a side effect of appealing to a smaller, more focused audience.
Why? Because there had alread been a machine recount. Florida law makes no provisions for a hand recond. So if the vote had come out with gore on top there would be a real problem and no clear solution.
Bush won, it was fair, now stop being a poor loser. The dumbest people are those who believe the stupid jokes, the only difference is the Bush knows when he doesn't understand something, Gore thinks he knows it all, something far more dangerous.
The system is designed to allow for both rep by pop and rep by region, and is perfectly fair.
Please don't moderate me down because you disagree with me, that is far more censorship than what is happening with indymedia.
Its about whether people are allowed to smash open police vehicles, steal from them, and then post classified information to the internet. That is not protest. In fact much of what happened in Quebec was not protest, but rioting, and you do not have a right to riot. A traffic cop war severly betten and large chunks of concrete were thrown at the police. This is what is wrong, not the peaceful protests which you have every right to do. What about my rights to attend a meeting without a rock being thrown at my head. If I was CNN or CBC I wouldn't have given any chance for the protesters to give their side, but both did, something that indymedia did not.
But back on topic all free speach is not protected, slander and publishing classified material is not protected. You also don't have a right to be heard.
The only thugs are the violent protesters. They not only hurt people and caused damage to inocent people, but they completely drowned out the voice of the many peaceful protesters who just wanted to make a silent presence, something the media likes to showcase.
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Most online journalism fails for the same reason that you cannot get any reliable information from groups like greenpeace, peta and NORML. There is simply too much vested interest for anything but a completely biased opinion. This takes mainstream credibility away, and then there is no need to try and be unbiased. Under normal circumstances when this happens there will be few people willing to pay, but on the internet there will still be readership, and the crap will continue to be published.
Editorial control and unbias is what seperates real publications from the crap that is on the internet.
And knowing what ports are open will help you how?
This proves nothing, except that people will use every possible excuse to try and justify themselves.
Well by default it does, but if you use any other type of scan, or os detection there will be custom packets sent.
Yeah, well BC isn't exactly the best example. Just look at the 'superferries'. I guess you just can't get anything done with 40% of the population stoned at any given time.
a scud is ground to ground missile.
You would need a ground to air missile, the various russian SAMs would be a good choice.
No, this is typical slashdot misinformation. The reason the skin burned so fast was because it was painted with something very close to solid rocket fuel. The reason the whole thing went up in flames was because of the hydrogen. The amount of paint was small, the amount of hydorgen was huge.
Hydrogen is still dangerous to use as a fuel, and helium is a much safer alternitive. This is because you do not need 'fuel', just a substance lighter than air.
for their generic, manual labours, not for anything important.
A professional organization is very different from a union. A union 'protects' the workers, while a union is designed to protect the profession. Doctors, lawyers and engineers are all covered by professional groups which can speak on behalf of them, but rarely do. What they do however is set standards, something lacking in IT.
I do think that programmers should have a professional group, perhaps even going so far as certifying software.
Perhaps system admins should have a union, but I think that they to would be better served by a professional group as well, of course this generally required a degree, something that most MCSEs etc do not have.
I too am a christian, your comment brought up many things that have been bothering me lately. I suppose the worst side of anything will be the most publicized, but its disturbing that recently the 'bible belt' had gotten so much attention, and is almost synonymous with christianity. As a christian i believe that these people stand against almost everything christianity is about. They spread hatred, fear and force their beliefs upon others, all three of which are said to be wrong in the new testament. Just as bad is that they put more value into the laws which they have imposed than the laws of God. They somehow mistake victorian morallity with christian morality. In doing this they become hypocrites, on the same level as the pharisees, the antagonists of the new testamate.
All I ask is that people understand that this small group does not represent all christians, most of us are intellegent, open minded people who do not agree with the views of the 'bible belt'.
Game programmers need either a CS degree or a CE degree. These games take an incredible amount of skill. There is a need for speed, so many critical parts are coded in assembly, and the less critical parts must still be programmed well. CS/CE is the only place you'll learn it, trade schools just don't cut it. If your interested in design, but don't want a computer of engineering degree there is also a large demand for Artists.
Be aware, its a good paying industry, but its highly competetive and hard to break into.
At my current school they offer a gaming speciallization. Its after the second year, so i'd assume its a lot of GL, DirectX and assembly.
Good Luck
The kyoto accord is more like the landmine treaty.
-It starts with a good idea
-They come up with some reasonable ideas
-They come up with some unrealistic ideas
-They forget to take into account the special circumstances of some countries
-They make it a moral crusade and will not bend the rules
-The treaty doesn't make it or is completely useless
-They blame the US
With the landmine treaty they would not let the US have a 5 year extention in korea, so it wasn't signed, now the US is not at all part of the treaty and its completely useless. This can be blamed on Canadian Cabinet minister Allen Rock and his nobel prize dreams. It didn't happen.
The treaty hurts the US and Austrailia far more than the other countries, that is why they do not want to sign it.
And Bill Gates is leaving almost all of his fortune to charities, giving his children something like 10 million.
Nope it depends soley on the speed of light, the distance between them and us, how fast they developed, and of course if they exist.
Well I think its a good chance they may be out there, considering the size of the universe, the development time and the finite speed of light its unlikely SETI will ever show us anything. But while I don't think NASA should be funding it, I think that it is an interesting project that should be.
I did a google search
b le .probes/
These both have mention of it, i'm sure you can find more with a better search
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/03/02/venera
http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/11/09c.html
Out of the box simply refers to service running after a default install. There is no single default setting for all BSD derived systems, so each one has its own settings. OSX will have its own settings, probably will almost nothing running
This is a very simple thing to change, and RH and the others have been getting much better, but all still leave in the 'server' install, so all the little kids thinking they are 'l33t' will leave their box with everything from bind to apache to rpc and nfds open. Then they get hacked.
Not that long ago they had to shut down the computers for a course readjustment.
Stuff has crossed its path, past pluto it was acted on by a gravitational force of something unknown, probably a pluto like semi planet that has never been seen, this after crossing the astroid belt, and surviving all the planets which it went near. It really has had an interesting life.
It is definatly understandable why you would think this, and there is some truth to it. Ideally the filter software in the US is designed to censor porn and potentally dangerous matterials from children, while it is definatly debatable, this is the ideal. In China it is used primarily to censor outside news from their citizens.
The other diffence is that the government is censoring private business in china, in the US it government censoring what it pays for.
Controlling the public is part of an extreamist governments way of maintaining power, and I don't see this as being anything special. I was under the impression that all traffic into China was already filtered.
Last month here in Canada there were figures relased showing sales had gone down by something like 5%. Unfortunatly my local news comes from papers with poor web presence, or that only archive 7 days. I'll post a link if I find one.
absolutly not, but making it available to someone who doesn't own it is, as is getting one which you don't own. I have mp3s of cds that I don't own, but don't expect companies such as napster survive. This does seem stupid, but they do own the rights to it. Honestly i'd make lyrics/tabs easily accessible, to everyone, all it could do is help them sell more records.
It has nothing to do with that. After you are conviced you are guilty. Thats the way the law works.
>...downloading the MP3 is wrong.
its copyrighted, this is simple and has been the cause for as long as mp3s have been around. Yeah we used to be able to get them easy, but it went mainstream and now we can't anymore. Thats the way it goes
>...downloading the lyrics is wrong.
Well they are copyrighted too. Downloading them is really not wrong, but distributing them might
>...downloading the Tabs is wrong.
Same as above
Its not that strange, when it was just a few of us it wasn't a big deal, now its actually affecting sales, so we can't anymore
ok, well that does not mean that leaking information, or obtaining it through break and enter is alright, and they have evey right to find out who did that. This is what this is about.
As well, if classified information was published leading to the death of an american, the times would be walking through very dangerous legal ground.
I found that the globe spent more time concentrating on the actual protest, with far to little time spent on the underlying issues. It was unbiased, but I remember thinking 'I could get this on fox news'. I am very close to canceling my subsription to the paper, and if I hear many more of their terrible advertisements showing their editorail bias I will.
I'm not usually a fan of CBC news, but they did do an excellent job of covering both the meetings and the protests, but supprisingly CNN did a better job of providing the views of different groups.
The best coverage I had was my local southam paper which covered the actual issue far better, both globalization and the history of the FTAA were covered very well, including essays from both sides. They also tended to editorialize it far less than the globe. For what people say about Conrad Black his papers did an excellent, unbiased job.
I find that the more alternitive you get, the more simplistic the opinions get. This is just a side effect of appealing to a smaller, more focused audience.
Bush didn't, the court did.
Why? Because there had alread been a machine recount. Florida law makes no provisions for a hand recond. So if the vote had come out with gore on top there would be a real problem and no clear solution.
Bush won, it was fair, now stop being a poor loser. The dumbest people are those who believe the stupid jokes, the only difference is the Bush knows when he doesn't understand something, Gore thinks he knows it all, something far more dangerous.
The system is designed to allow for both rep by pop and rep by region, and is perfectly fair.
Please don't moderate me down because you disagree with me, that is far more censorship than what is happening with indymedia.
No, its actually you that is missing the point.
Its about whether people are allowed to smash open police vehicles, steal from them, and then post classified information to the internet. That is not protest. In fact much of what happened in Quebec was not protest, but rioting, and you do not have a right to riot. A traffic cop war severly betten and large chunks of concrete were thrown at the police. This is what is wrong, not the peaceful protests which you have every right to do. What about my rights to attend a meeting without a rock being thrown at my head. If I was CNN or CBC I wouldn't have given any chance for the protesters to give their side, but both did, something that indymedia did not.
But back on topic all free speach is not protected, slander and publishing classified material is not protected. You also don't have a right to be heard.
The only thugs are the violent protesters. They not only hurt people and caused damage to inocent people, but they completely drowned out the voice of the many peaceful protesters who just wanted to make a silent presence, something the media likes to showcase.