Yet another example of how politicians pass bills that they never expect to be enforced, just so that they can line their pockets with money. I really do hope that they realize that if this stupidity continues, not only will they be unable to move forward with technology, but they will squash educated thought and push us backwards!
Just the stuff off the top of my head that would now be illegal...
Cable/DSL routers for home use Private networks for business NAT and firewalling Proxy servers SSH and SSL tunnels Email Listservs set to strip off headers
Exactly. How can you expect your connection to be secure through the use of "security software" when the software is spyware itself. What a joke.
Yet another reason why there should be a master administrator out there somewhere who has a really big stick and a sense of humor. *SMACKO* no more stupid claims.
I carry a different perspective into this discussion. As most of the persons who have so far contributed don't seem to be driving large vehicles (defined as larger then a medium sized sedan), I seem to be constantly driving HUGE vehicles. I personally drive an extended-cab short-bed (6' bed) Ford F-150 XLT. What does this mean? My truck is twice the length of some cars and weighs in at 2+ tons plus 4 pails of sand in the back end for traction (NY state is a pain - too much snow ice and crap). Gross weight on the road with the truck and me and the sand and all of my gear? I am willing to say about 3 tons. Now, push that down the road at 65 mph on any day of the week. You end up with a large vehicle at high speed with a driver who knows how the vehicle handles, and can move it appropriately through traffic.
I also drive fire apparatus. We have a 50' E-One telesquirt that is my favorite to drive. It is roughly 40 feet long and I believe it weighs something like 7+ tons. That is 2+ tons of water (750 gal) plus all of the gear and the vehicle itself. Push that down the road at 62 mph (governed maximum) and then drive. You gain experience driving this when not in an emergency response. Thus, TRAINING!! If you don't put road time in on the vehicle, you are not allowed to drive it! I would hazard a guess that I have roughly 4 times the road time most of the people my age have (21 years).
So what am I attempting to say here... I think simply it is the fact that some people do not have the experience necessary to drive on the roads. I drive on the NY State Thruway enough to see people that do not know how to deal with tractor-trailers. Quite simply, you give them the benefit of the doubt! I have seen people cut off tractor trailers, drive right on their bumper, etc. etc. and it annoys me. I know how those guys feel, driving the big trucks. Just because people have little sportscars doesn't mean that they have the ability to drive them. 75% of the time the tractor trailers are moving slower then the rest of the cars on the road, simply because the cops are more strict with them. Remember, these truckers measure road time in hundreds of hours. They have the experience of being on the road. Most car drivers don't. Even if they are moving faster then the rest of the traffic, I would put my vote of confidence with them because they have been in these conditions before. They know what they are doing.
Personally, I would enjoy seeing a mandatory training course for dealing with other vehicles on the road. Of course, that would never happen, it is often hard enough for people to qualify to have the driver's license itself (as mentioned in an above comment). Common sense is a limited resource. And I believe that it should be required for driving privleges. And I do mean privleges. This is not a right. Rights are things like free speech and life and the pursuit of happiness. Driving is a privlege. And some people really should have it taken away.
I watched the Star Wars Episode 2 trailer, and quite frankly, I wasn't impressed. They have a LONG way to go to de-evolve that galaxy from the technologically-prevelant egotistical society that exists there now. I was discussing this in class with one of my friends, and we agreed that the original Star Wars episodes were superb, and the others that Lucas is now building are just to cash in on the Star Wars HYPE and due to that, they suck. Plain words, but they suck. Was Episode One cool? Absolutely. Should Jar Jar have been among the fishy guys that died? ABSOLUTELY! I recognize the fact that Lucas wanted to play with the CG, but building an entire race out of it? Come on now. Call me a purist, but I like characters that really could exist. How do you even define that race of Jar Jar's? Frogs? Amphibians? I mean the lobster admiral in the original 3 was really cool, and he took me for a mind trip the first time I saw him.
Back to Blade II. For those who don't know, this was an ACTION movie. I personally think that the author of this review (not tutal but the root review here) would rather go watch some touchy-feely girly-girl movie that has a developed plotline and a romance and artistic development and etc. etc. etc. That was not the point of Blade, and was definitely not the point of Blade II. This was a movie about the Daywalker kicking the crap out of a bunch of suckheads, and they just happened to add a new breed of GENETICALLY ENGINEERED vampires to the mix to attempt to liven it up a little, and not bore the audience. I thought the new vamps were really cool, and personally, I wouldn't want to run into them in a dark alley myself. And I thought that there was more then enough information given to the audience about the new species, and while the Whistler bit was a tad far-fetched, and I thought Skud was a fu*khead, all of the elements worked together, and came out to form an excellent ACTION movie.
Did I like the movie? H3lls yes! Am I going to buy the DVD as soon as it hits the shelves? ABSOLUTELY! Do I already have Blade on DVD? Of course! Am I tired of people writing reviews about movies and expecting the kind of plotline development you end up with a weekly television series to be crammed into a 2 hour movie? EVEN MORE THEN I LIKED BLADE II! C'mon folks, get real. If you want plot development, set your VCR or computer to record one of those daytime soap operas every day for a couple of weeks and get some popcorn and watch that crap. If you want to go see a movie that parts of the script had to be removed so that another 3-hour Titanic-waste-of-time wasn't created, go to the movie theater.
As much as I wish to succeed in the Info Tech field in which i am currently studying, I have an alternative employment for myself after college. I plan to become a firefighter. (Cmon, laugh. We'll see who comes to put your house out when it burns) While it is sorta ironic that i am spending soooooo much for a technology degree and then going to one of the more manual-labor-based jobs, I think that whatever society is headed towards, the work is probably better where i get to put out the fires.
Come on folks. Get out there and vote. Heck, spend the effort to get a non-crooked politician into the legislature.
Well folks, sometimes real life doesn't apply. I guess that I am coming from both sides of the fence, I being an IT student(and a firefighter) and my father being a firefighter. While the friends we had over were from Dad's work, I can't say that my family with three boys, mom and pop had altogether too many visitors. Most of the time, it was just Dad off somewhere, installation banquets, meetings, some other fire call or something else, but not so much having people over. Food time was family time, and the rule was you were home every day for dinner. If you weren't, watchout! You were in BIG trouble then!
Now, my experience being a still-in-college IT student is that none of the people that come over to my apartment are really my IT friends. They are mostly just my housemate's friends and my girl. Now, this may be because i am still in college, but i would guess that one would expect more parties when you are in college. Then again, I do go to a school which has a reputation for geekyness and lack of parties. Hmm, lets see here, last i knew, RIT was ranked number 364 out of 365 party scools. One step above the Marine Academy at West Point. Hmm, should that be an indicator?
All I do know is that when the parties come around, don't expect the IT guys to stay sober. Me and my friends at school all have this strange tendency to become completely tanked, before, during and after finals and project due dates. Hmm, stress relief anyone?
--Shdowwar
We are not the masks we wear, but if we put them on, do we not become them? -Andromeda
You know what? My dad spanked me. You know what else? My mom spanked me. Did I turn out to be a sadistic, narcisstic gun toting trenchcoat wearing freak? NO!! Ok, I do wear a big black trenchcoat, but that is because I like it. But I have not walked through the halls of my high school, or RIT where I am now, and shot up all sorts of annoying people. Jeez, people, GET A LIFE AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITES FOR YOUR ACTIONS!!!
later
Wanna have some more fun? (Caution, suggestion about to come from person with hick-likeness) Take those lovely AOL CD's, especially those carrying AOL 5, microwave them for a short while, then drill a little hole in the top and in the bottom, and then thread them together with some monofilament line (fishing line, for all of you who dont know) and then hang the lovely chain like thing up in your window. now you have a lovely waste of time hanging in your room. Or hang it outside, with several disks at the same level, and then make it a windchime. whoohoo!
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Thats how I read it.
Yet another example of how politicians pass bills that they never expect to be enforced, just so that they can line their pockets with money. I really do hope that they realize that if this stupidity continues, not only will they be unable to move forward with technology, but they will squash educated thought and push us backwards!
Just the stuff off the top of my head that would now be illegal...
Cable/DSL routers for home use
Private networks for business
NAT and firewalling
Proxy servers
SSH and SSL tunnels
Email Listservs set to strip off headers
Exactly. How can you expect your connection to be secure through the use of "security software" when the software is spyware itself. What a joke.
Yet another reason why there should be a master administrator out there somewhere who has a really big stick and a sense of humor. *SMACKO* no more stupid claims.
shdowwar
I carry a different perspective into this discussion. As most of the persons who have so far contributed don't seem to be driving large vehicles (defined as larger then a medium sized sedan), I seem to be constantly driving HUGE vehicles. I personally drive an extended-cab short-bed (6' bed) Ford F-150 XLT. What does this mean? My truck is twice the length of some cars and weighs in at 2+ tons plus 4 pails of sand in the back end for traction (NY state is a pain - too much snow ice and crap). Gross weight on the road with the truck and me and the sand and all of my gear? I am willing to say about 3 tons. Now, push that down the road at 65 mph on any day of the week. You end up with a large vehicle at high speed with a driver who knows how the vehicle handles, and can move it appropriately through traffic.
I also drive fire apparatus. We have a 50' E-One telesquirt that is my favorite to drive. It is roughly 40 feet long and I believe it weighs something like 7+ tons. That is 2+ tons of water (750 gal) plus all of the gear and the vehicle itself. Push that down the road at 62 mph (governed maximum) and then drive. You gain experience driving this when not in an emergency response. Thus, TRAINING!! If you don't put road time in on the vehicle, you are not allowed to drive it! I would hazard a guess that I have roughly 4 times the road time most of the people my age have (21 years).
So what am I attempting to say here... I think simply it is the fact that some people do not have the experience necessary to drive on the roads. I drive on the NY State Thruway enough to see people that do not know how to deal with tractor-trailers. Quite simply, you give them the benefit of the doubt! I have seen people cut off tractor trailers, drive right on their bumper, etc. etc. and it annoys me. I know how those guys feel, driving the big trucks. Just because people have little sportscars doesn't mean that they have the ability to drive them. 75% of the time the tractor trailers are moving slower then the rest of the cars on the road, simply because the cops are more strict with them. Remember, these truckers measure road time in hundreds of hours. They have the experience of being on the road. Most car drivers don't. Even if they are moving faster then the rest of the traffic, I would put my vote of confidence with them because they have been in these conditions before. They know what they are doing.
Personally, I would enjoy seeing a mandatory training course for dealing with other vehicles on the road. Of course, that would never happen, it is often hard enough for people to qualify to have the driver's license itself (as mentioned in an above comment). Common sense is a limited resource. And I believe that it should be required for driving privleges. And I do mean privleges. This is not a right. Rights are things like free speech and life and the pursuit of happiness. Driving is a privlege. And some people really should have it taken away.
I watched the Star Wars Episode 2 trailer, and quite frankly, I wasn't impressed. They have a LONG way to go to de-evolve that galaxy from the technologically-prevelant egotistical society that exists there now. I was discussing this in class with one of my friends, and we agreed that the original Star Wars episodes were superb, and the others that Lucas is now building are just to cash in on the Star Wars HYPE and due to that, they suck. Plain words, but they suck. Was Episode One cool? Absolutely. Should Jar Jar have been among the fishy guys that died? ABSOLUTELY! I recognize the fact that Lucas wanted to play with the CG, but building an entire race out of it? Come on now. Call me a purist, but I like characters that really could exist. How do you even define that race of Jar Jar's? Frogs? Amphibians? I mean the lobster admiral in the original 3 was really cool, and he took me for a mind trip the first time I saw him.
Back to Blade II. For those who don't know, this was an ACTION movie. I personally think that the author of this review (not tutal but the root review here) would rather go watch some touchy-feely girly-girl movie that has a developed plotline and a romance and artistic development and etc. etc. etc. That was not the point of Blade, and was definitely not the point of Blade II. This was a movie about the Daywalker kicking the crap out of a bunch of suckheads, and they just happened to add a new breed of GENETICALLY ENGINEERED vampires to the mix to attempt to liven it up a little, and not bore the audience. I thought the new vamps were really cool, and personally, I wouldn't want to run into them in a dark alley myself. And I thought that there was more then enough information given to the audience about the new species, and while the Whistler bit was a tad far-fetched, and I thought Skud was a fu*khead, all of the elements worked together, and came out to form an excellent ACTION movie.
Did I like the movie? H3lls yes! Am I going to buy the DVD as soon as it hits the shelves? ABSOLUTELY! Do I already have Blade on DVD? Of course! Am I tired of people writing reviews about movies and expecting the kind of plotline development you end up with a weekly television series to be crammed into a 2 hour movie? EVEN MORE THEN I LIKED BLADE II! C'mon folks, get real. If you want plot development, set your VCR or computer to record one of those daytime soap operas every day for a couple of weeks and get some popcorn and watch that crap. If you want to go see a movie that parts of the script had to be removed so that another 3-hour Titanic-waste-of-time wasn't created, go to the movie theater.
Big Erik
My opinions, my post.
As much as I wish to succeed in the Info Tech field in which i am currently studying, I have an alternative employment for myself after college. I plan to become a firefighter. (Cmon, laugh. We'll see who comes to put your house out when it burns) While it is sorta ironic that i am spending soooooo much for a technology degree and then going to one of the more manual-labor-based jobs, I think that whatever society is headed towards, the work is probably better where i get to put out the fires.
Come on folks. Get out there and vote. Heck, spend the effort to get a non-crooked politician into the legislature.
-Big Erik
Well folks, sometimes real life doesn't apply. I guess that I am coming from both sides of the fence, I being an IT student(and a firefighter) and my father being a firefighter. While the friends we had over were from Dad's work, I can't say that my family with three boys, mom and pop had altogether too many visitors. Most of the time, it was just Dad off somewhere, installation banquets, meetings, some other fire call or something else, but not so much having people over. Food time was family time, and the rule was you were home every day for dinner. If you weren't, watchout! You were in BIG trouble then!
Now, my experience being a still-in-college IT student is that none of the people that come over to my apartment are really my IT friends. They are mostly just my housemate's friends and my girl. Now, this may be because i am still in college, but i would guess that one would expect more parties when you are in college. Then again, I do go to a school which has a reputation for geekyness and lack of parties. Hmm, lets see here, last i knew, RIT was ranked number 364 out of 365 party scools. One step above the Marine Academy at West Point. Hmm, should that be an indicator?
All I do know is that when the parties come around, don't expect the IT guys to stay sober. Me and my friends at school all have this strange tendency to become completely tanked, before, during and after finals and project due dates. Hmm, stress relief anyone?
--Shdowwar
We are not the masks we wear, but if we put them on, do we not become them? -Andromeda
You know what? My dad spanked me. You know what else? My mom spanked me. Did I turn out to be a sadistic, narcisstic gun toting trenchcoat wearing freak? NO!! Ok, I do wear a big black trenchcoat, but that is because I like it. But I have not walked through the halls of my high school, or RIT where I am now, and shot up all sorts of annoying people. Jeez, people, GET A LIFE AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITES FOR YOUR ACTIONS!!! later
Wanna have some more fun? (Caution, suggestion about to come from person with hick-likeness) Take those lovely AOL CD's, especially those carrying AOL 5, microwave them for a short while, then drill a little hole in the top and in the bottom, and then thread them together with some monofilament line (fishing line, for all of you who dont know) and then hang the lovely chain like thing up in your window. now you have a lovely waste of time hanging in your room. Or hang it outside, with several disks at the same level, and then make it a windchime. whoohoo!
now dont have too much fun with this one!!