Lets say I live in a random country that has no connection at all with the US. Say I was sent a bunch of corporate secrets, by SirCam or misaddressed email or however, that were worth a lot of money for a company in the US, and I decided to exploit that. Could I be sued or imprisoned for something that is a crime in the US? The answer is no, because the US has no treaties with my random country. The company has no recourse, but I could possibly destroy them with what I know.
The internet crosses all boundaries, but the laws that affect it do not.
It's not just Europe, Australians drive manual cars too, not automatics. Only having an automatic licence is akin to only using AOL.
And Americans wonder why the rest of the world thinks they are stupid and lazy...
I know the difference, but modem is easier to type, and everyone knows what it refers to.
When someone says terminal adaptor, I think back to the days of mainframes...:)
Sell your spare DSL devices to people in other countries.
Over here (.au) we are only just getting ADSL, and Telstra (telco) is making people use Alcatel devices and charging a fortune for them. Sending a DSL modem to.au might be prohibitively expensive, but what about Mexico/Canada/Europe?
The article mentions streaming ads off a Doubleclick server onto in-game billboards. If that server goes down, will we still be able to play the game? If it gets slow, will the game slow down or freeze waiting for the ad to load?
I can see lots of script kiddies not liking this idea and attacking the ad servers for their games.
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When software companies started doing Bad Things with software, Free software was born. If hardware companies start doing Bad Things with hardware, I am sure that at least one will sense the profit in millions of geeks exclusively buying Free hardware.
The hollow space in the ground is three times the volume of the Eiffel tower. How did that get dug out, and where did they put the extra snow?
I've never seen snow (I live in Western Australia), but if its light and fluffy like it appears to be, how does one string a few hundred medium sized balls in a cavern dug out of snow?
It's just that if they intend to build a bigger one... will the cavern itself be stable?
A reason to use them still is efficiency - in the Windows camp at least, long filenames are implemented by using up extra spaces in the FAT (have a look at how vfat works). Say if a file had a 20.3 name, it might take up 3 entries just to fit the whole name in. Keeping the names short means less wasted FAT space.
Granted, this is a drop in the bucket, but it seems to matter to some ie. corporations trying to convince us that their OS isn't bloated and doesn't cause hard disk corruption:)
CS is not on a par with engineering here (Australia). I did two years of Computer Engineering, and then switched to Computer Science (two years done of that too). CS is a lot easier, less varied, and the maths is baby talk compared to the CE maths.
I was part of a similar program when I was 8, going on 9. We weren't asked either. We were told to go here, and do this, on these days. Eventually I got sick of it, and went back to normal classwork with normal people. I was offered to skip grades, go to "better" schools, all the rest of it, but I didn't want that either.
Why not? Because it was fun being with kids my own age. The things I did with my friends have given me happy memories and things to talk about with other people. Yes, my equivalent of the GPA (in.au here) isn't spectacular, but I don't care - I have plenty of mates to socialize with, and that's a lot more important to me than how big a number is.
If you teach this prodigy Assembly or Java or nanotech concepts, surely he or she will grasp them quickly and become very good in that field.
However, one day your prodigy will be on his own and will have to get a job. If he or she is merely an excellent programmer, they will always stay on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder. Teach him design concepts, algorithms (as others have pointed out) and even some management ideas so he can work his way up that ladder and make something of himself. School and his parents won't teach him that.
Also, teach him to use applications, not just write them. The amount of programmers that I know (as a CS/EE grad I know a lot of them) that can't even use Word properly is astounding.
Keep your US salary? Not over here. It's roughly half of what you would get in the US, and that's in the major cities ie. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth (where I live). Anywhere else, its less.
Quite a few Aussies in the tech industry want to move to the US because the pay is so much better over there - I certainly do.
But if you really want to come here - C++ is the most desired language, followed by Java, so you're in with more than a fighting chance.
Good luck:)
They may have dropped the case to stop attention getting to it from the mainstream press... or more likely, because it is based on the assumption that Linux is a threat to MS, and MS refuses to admit that.
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And what about those of us still on modems that won't ever see 10k/s?
Lets say I live in a random country that has no connection at all with the US. Say I was sent a bunch of corporate secrets, by SirCam or misaddressed email or however, that were worth a lot of money for a company in the US, and I decided to exploit that. Could I be sued or imprisoned for something that is a crime in the US? The answer is no, because the US has no treaties with my random country. The company has no recourse, but I could possibly destroy them with what I know.
The internet crosses all boundaries, but the laws that affect it do not.
Holy Shit! Who painted the big red 'Crack me' sign on those servers?
Red Hat did. Who else?
It's not just Europe, Australians drive manual cars too, not automatics. Only having an automatic licence is akin to only using AOL. And Americans wonder why the rest of the world thinks they are stupid and lazy...
I know the difference, but modem is easier to type, and everyone knows what it refers to. When someone says terminal adaptor, I think back to the days of mainframes... :)
Sell your spare DSL devices to people in other countries. Over here (.au) we are only just getting ADSL, and Telstra (telco) is making people use Alcatel devices and charging a fortune for them. Sending a DSL modem to .au might be prohibitively expensive, but what about Mexico/Canada/Europe?
The article mentions streaming ads off a Doubleclick server onto in-game billboards. If that server goes down, will we still be able to play the game? If it gets slow, will the game slow down or freeze waiting for the ad to load?
I can see lots of script kiddies not liking this idea and attacking the ad servers for their games.
When software companies started doing Bad Things with software, Free software was born. If hardware companies start doing Bad Things with hardware, I am sure that at least one will sense the profit in millions of geeks exclusively buying Free hardware.
The hollow space in the ground is three times the volume of the Eiffel tower. How did that get dug out, and where did they put the extra snow? I've never seen snow (I live in Western Australia), but if its light and fluffy like it appears to be, how does one string a few hundred medium sized balls in a cavern dug out of snow? It's just that if they intend to build a bigger one... will the cavern itself be stable?
A reason to use them still is efficiency - in the Windows camp at least, long filenames are implemented by using up extra spaces in the FAT (have a look at how vfat works). Say if a file had a 20.3 name, it might take up 3 entries just to fit the whole name in. Keeping the names short means less wasted FAT space. Granted, this is a drop in the bucket, but it seems to matter to some ie. corporations trying to convince us that their OS isn't bloated and doesn't cause hard disk corruption :)
Works for me too. WD suck. Also, I have found that installing Windows 2000 and using it's NTFS filesystem reduces the waiting period significantly.
CS is not on a par with engineering here (Australia). I did two years of Computer Engineering, and then switched to Computer Science (two years done of that too). CS is a lot easier, less varied, and the maths is baby talk compared to the CE maths.
The ACCC is an excellent organization - they do wonders for this country. The ACCC staff work very hard for us here in .au.
For those of you that want to contact the ACCC to voice your support, you can email the CEO, Brian Cassidy: (brian.cassidy@accc.gov.au)
I was part of a similar program when I was 8, going on 9. We weren't asked either. We were told to go here, and do this, on these days. Eventually I got sick of it, and went back to normal classwork with normal people. I was offered to skip grades, go to "better" schools, all the rest of it, but I didn't want that either.
Why not? Because it was fun being with kids my own age. The things I did with my friends have given me happy memories and things to talk about with other people. Yes, my equivalent of the GPA (in .au here) isn't spectacular, but I don't care - I have plenty of mates to socialize with, and that's a lot more important to me than how big a number is.
If you teach this prodigy Assembly or Java or nanotech concepts, surely he or she will grasp them quickly and become very good in that field.
However, one day your prodigy will be on his own and will have to get a job. If he or she is merely an excellent programmer, they will always stay on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder. Teach him design concepts, algorithms (as others have pointed out) and even some management ideas so he can work his way up that ladder and make something of himself. School and his parents won't teach him that.
Also, teach him to use applications, not just write them. The amount of programmers that I know (as a CS/EE grad I know a lot of them) that can't even use Word properly is astounding.
Keep your US salary? Not over here. It's roughly half of what you would get in the US, and that's in the major cities ie. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth (where I live). Anywhere else, its less. Quite a few Aussies in the tech industry want to move to the US because the pay is so much better over there - I certainly do. But if you really want to come here - C++ is the most desired language, followed by Java, so you're in with more than a fighting chance. Good luck :)
They may have dropped the case to stop attention getting to it from the mainstream press... or more likely, because it is based on the assumption that Linux is a threat to MS, and MS refuses to admit that.
Who's this Jon Katz? And if he's so unpopular, why is he allowed to post stuff?