Okay. Troll about Linux and Windows. Troll about goatse.cx. Act childish about who had the first post - I find nothing funnier than one AC insulting another for claiming a first post he didn't in fact get. Post links to the c:/aux/aux thing that crash my friend's machine when I read/. from there and annoy him at me.
However, racism has no place in this century. Go on and post copies of a certain bird. It's adolescent, but it doesn't offend people who are insulted about these things every day of their lives.
First of all, neither of the most common two web browsers are free as in free speech, and NS is not free for business use.
Secondly, the vast majority of the people out there still use MS operating systems, simply because there is so much software available for them and it is easy to go to a store and find a machine with such an OS preinstalled.
Read the prior comments. As several have said, the INS has such a large backlog that even those who applied almost right away haven't been able to get permanent resident status.
Are you saying that CS skills are no good when you have been using them for 6 years? I learned some C from my father when I was in third grade, and I'm applying the concepts now here at college to Java.
As one of my professors often says, you want to learn programming as a discipline, not just learn languages.
If the training of the H1B people is going to be obsolete, then why was my training not obsolete here? It's been more than six years! And exactly why am I confident of getting a job in CS, when I will, according to this post, have only 2 usable years left?
Oh, I few things I forgot to mention. Linux has Paul Allen (sp?) behind him, which is certain to grease the burearatic gears a fair deal. Also, Linux will be used by tens of millions of Americans by the time he is in real danger. He does not need to worry. Any congressman in California, among other states, who voted against a 'private bill' to keep Linus here can kiss his own limited-term job goodbye.
You know, I do agree that our government's idea of national security is rather absurd at times.
Example: exporting a binary for RSA encryption is illegal since a foreign government might get to it. Not so for a description of the algorithm or, in some cases, source code.
Does anyone here seriously think a major nation like Iran or Iraq lacks people who can compile a program? Or, for that matter, does not already have their own strong encryption long ago?
I think Linus still has another two or three years. However, when he does have to face leaving, I rather imagine he will have no problem finding any number of Americans willing to sponser him for dual citizenship or permanent resident status if he so wishes.
CSS is such a bullying method that if you break the contract, they can revoke your encryption key on future discs, making your company's players worthless.
If they ever tried this, I wonder how long it would take before a few programmers in the company revoked, on their idle time, were told to start working on DeCSS.
Seriously, though, the reason that we DoS one another is simply because it is with one another that we have the majority of our disputes. While I am not the type to DoS, I know that, since I rarely leave campus for a length of time, if someone gets on my nerves it will (almost by definition) be someone at the school.
Not to mention, since all students in the halls have high bandwdth, anyone on IRC or what have you that gets angry will first check my hostname, and when they realize that I have high bandwidth, if they do not have the same, they will likely forget the idea of attacking.
We college students have had high bandwidth (well beyond cable modem speed) for the better part of a decade. And, of course, we're a group that adults seem to regard as just a bunch of irresponsible drinkers and party animals. Do you see us DoSing people left and right? No.
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How long will it take Metallica to sue the CIA for people sharing their music on that chatroom?
I used EFnet before, but I find it rather unstable compared to other networks, especially given the lack of services.
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But seriously... every time something like this has happened in world history, it has been to the benefit of nobody. Witness the Nazis.
I'd always thought that that was a deliberate feature to make it impossible for people to dual boot... I wouldn't put it past MS.
Not to mention with a commercial C compiler!
However, racism has no place in this century. Go on and post copies of a certain bird. It's adolescent, but it doesn't offend people who are insulted about these things every day of their lives.
Secondly, the vast majority of the people out there still use MS operating systems, simply because there is so much software available for them and it is easy to go to a store and find a machine with such an OS preinstalled.
Doesn't IBM have a patent on the closed-hardware strategy dating to that late 1970's?
Read the prior comments. As several have said, the INS has such a large backlog that even those who applied almost right away haven't been able to get permanent resident status.
As one of my professors often says, you want to learn programming as a discipline, not just learn languages.
If the training of the H1B people is going to be obsolete, then why was my training not obsolete here? It's been more than six years! And exactly why am I confident of getting a job in CS, when I will, according to this post, have only 2 usable years left?
Linus is not IIRC wealthy. He was given stock in a few of the Linux companies, but he is not a multi-millionaire IIRC.
Oh, I few things I forgot to mention. Linux has Paul Allen (sp?) behind him, which is certain to grease the burearatic gears a fair deal. Also, Linux will be used by tens of millions of Americans by the time he is in real danger. He does not need to worry. Any congressman in California, among other states, who voted against a 'private bill' to keep Linus here can kiss his own limited-term job goodbye.
Example: exporting a binary for RSA encryption is illegal since a foreign government might get to it. Not so for a description of the algorithm or, in some cases, source code.
Does anyone here seriously think a major nation like Iran or Iraq lacks people who can compile a program? Or, for that matter, does not already have their own strong encryption long ago?
I think Linus still has another two or three years. However, when he does have to face leaving, I rather imagine he will have no problem finding any number of Americans willing to sponser him for dual citizenship or permanent resident status if he so wishes.
Not to mention the license fee, that's in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Which is, I rather expect, more than it cost to produce a 40-bit code.
If they ever tried this, I wonder how long it would take before a few programmers in the company revoked, on their idle time, were told to start working on DeCSS.
Um, I think you're all missing that the correct term for online thieves and vandals is 'Cracker', not 'Hacker', which means programmer.
Not to mention, since all students in the halls have high bandwdth, anyone on IRC or what have you that gets angry will first check my hostname, and when they realize that I have high bandwidth, if they do not have the same, they will likely forget the idea of attacking.
We college students have had high bandwidth (well beyond cable modem speed) for the better part of a decade. And, of course, we're a group that adults seem to regard as just a bunch of irresponsible drinkers and party animals. Do you see us DoSing people left and right? No.
As several have said, MRI or any similiar device that can produce a large magnetic field would disable it.