Allow computers to be seized more readily. Specifically, property such as a PC "intended to be used in any manner" to commit a copyright crime would be subject to forfeiture, including civil asset forfeiture
They'll be able to seize your PC like a they would a drug lord's vehicles and property.
this is not about humanity. the only reason this drug even exists is becuase money was able to be spent on R&D to create or discover the compound. Brazil has just put another nail in the coffin of innovation by this move: if a company cannot make money from a discovery or invention the amount of both will decline
R&D expenditures are far, far less than advertizing expenditures, and drug companies are making substantial profits and would do so even if drugs cost far less (Reference). If you know any physicians, ask them how often they are taken out to lunch/dinner at fancy restaurants, how often they get free vacations, how often they get tickets to luxury boxes at sporting events, etc, etc, etc.
I'm happy to fiddle and tweak and produce home-brew solutions to many things, but not as the sole backup: The point of a backup program is to ensure that you have backed up exactly what you think you have backed up. ChonoSync provides a reliable and flexible back-up system. It is commercial ($30) -- which you may not like -- but they offer free updates to a reasonably priced product, and have been around for a while. Their customer service is also excellent: they provided a less restrictive demo for me to try, and provided a lost serial number in less than 24 hours. I have no affiliation; just a satisfied customer.
GNOME 2.12 has picked up... some features popularised by Apple's System 7
It's good to see GNOME catching up with a state of the art (circa 1991) operating systems. However, I've heard there were some nifty new developments within the last dozen years or so that might be worth looking at...
I work at a major public research university. My department awards no credit for any courses taken at the local community college. The reason is that the state cc system is in disarray and has no assurances about the courses. In particular, they cannot assure us about (1) qualifications of the instructor, (2) topics covered, and (3) types of assessment of learning. It isn't that the course is always bad; rather, it is too variable. It also is not the case that we're snobbish or elitist: we give credit to many different institutions at many different levels. It is just that the local cc is in disarray (and has been for years and years).
That said, other states do things differently: the cc system is specifically set up as a "feeder" to the larger public universities. In many cases, your 2 years at cc give you 2 years credit at the uni.
This may not help you, but to others, please check before hand about your local cc and transfer credits. We see lots of students who waste two years (of time and money) and get nothing at the next level.
FWIW, my 2-week only PB 15 (2GB RAM, 100 GB HD) has none of those problems. The only "problem" is the Airport Extreme card still has poor reception, at least compared to my old white iBook G3.
On the plus side, battery life is superb, auto dimming works well, and I love the back-lit keys.
The parent didn't say what PB he had. Perhaps the 17" have more problems. I didn't get that one, as it is just too large for travelling. I decided not to wait for a G5 due to the noise of the G5 iMac at work.
It is slightly more dangerous than the parent implies (at least on Firefox 1.0 with MacOS X 10.3.8)
Just tried it: network.enableIDN remained set at false.
Then went to the test page at secunia.com and it was clearly set to true.
Went back to about:config, and it still says false, even though it has to be true.
Did you notice that your fans are more likely to crank up now?
My dual 1.8 G5 was always quiet, with the fans rarely being audible. However, after installing the update, the fans speed up with just the slightest increase in CPU activity (e.g., running my gui-driven synchronize program).
Although the maximum capacity is 840 (in sardine mode), the typical configuration is about 555. Compare to the typical configuration for a 747 of 416. [Reference]
I'm a faculty member at a large university, and about 75% of my email is spam. (This is based on the number of emails in my spam folder versus the number of emails in my inbox.) My email is on multiple web pages, on every syllabus I hand out, and in various directories.
By playing around with permutations of my email address, I find that a large chunk comes from infected colleagues' and students' computers. Relatively little comes from web crawlers. I also get a burst at around 8:00-8:15 when the staff members turn their machines on, and another burst a little later as faculty drift in. During the holidays, the rate goes way down.
we've found we get the best results (e.g., as close to running universally as possible) by compiling on Linux
So when you *compile* your Java app on Windows or Mac OS, the resulting.class files are less compatible with your target web clients than when you compile it on Linux?
I think you need to rephrase that.
No, I don't need to rephrase anything. What we want is to have the class files run universally regardless of the customer's OS, browser, and JVM. We've found that a class file compiled on my Debian box using Blackdown's port of Java works (i.e., runs) whereas class files compiled with other compilers sometimes don't work (i.e., does not run on some combinations of OS/browser/JVM).
Part of this (maybe almost all of this) is that many cash-starved educational sites (our market) still use Win95/Win98 with Microsoft's JVM, or they still use Netscape 4.* with Netscape's JVM, etc.
Disclaimer: I obviously haven't tried all possible combinations of compilers/OS. Blackdown's Java on Debian works for me.
I'm involved with a commercial, web-delivered application, and we use Java served from Debian GNU/Linux boxes. Java was picked because our market is education, we need to support Macs and Unix as well as Windows.
The key, though, is that we've found we get the best results (e.g., as close to running universally as possible) by compiling on Linux (as opposed to on a Wintel box or a Mac box). Folks using anything from Mac OS 8.1 and Win95 to the latest thing all have access.
No, really, Java is great for beginners. You can immediately get windows, buttons, etc, and it is hard to shoot yourself in the foot. There are plenty of on-line resources:
In order for the writing of textbooks to contribute to my retention, the 'system' requires publication through a 'major' commercial publisher in your field of knowledge.
I'm not sure what field you are in, but in almost all scientific fields at my major Midwest research institution, textbooks do not count towards promotion and tenure. In order of importance: (1) grants (how much money have you brought in); (2) publications in peer-reviewed journals; (3) number of PhD students; (4) service (what committees have you been on; (5) teaching. In practice, 3 through 5 don't enter into it: you either have the bucks and the pubs or you don't. You need both 1 and 2, although the larger 1, the smaller 2, and vice versa.
Text books are written for a variety of reasons (again, in the empirical sciences fields) including (1) money (oh, those horrible capitalists!), (2) there is no book for that topic, and (3) fame (a good textbook is a great way to enhance your visibility). We (tenured full professors) advise all assistant professors not to write books. At the tenure and promotion hearings, you can count on people asking why the person wasted time writing a text instead of writing a grant application or a paper.
Standard contracts give 10% royalties on the publisher's price for soft covers, 13% for hard covers. The publisher's price is not the price students pay. My text, for example, sells for about $80, the publisher's price is about $50. Sales in Canada are usually at half the royalty rate; sales overseas even less (my text sells for 20 GBP in the UK, for example). To some extent, these rates are negotiable (I have Canada classed as domestic, for example). FWIW, I wrote my book for fame; it is a graduate-level text.
One major question: Who will be your boss? You'll have more job security if the person is an administrator or staff employee than if the person is a professor.
As a full professor myself at a major research institution, I can say faculty run the whole range from wonderful to work with to requires an immediate regime change. If you go up against a grant-getting professor, you will lose regardless of the merits of the case. Some faculty believe themselves to be God (not merely a god!) and there's nothing you can do about it.
Having said that, there is far less regimentation, and far more trusting in the academic world than in the corporate world. (There's also less money, but studies repeatedly show that income level is not correlated with happiness or job satisfaction.)
Another advantage of working at a university is that most offer free or reduced tuition. You can get the opportunity to take classes in any area you like: you can expand your skills, or just satisfy your curiosity.
Did the exact same thing. They basically use Mail, iChat AV, and Safari. The peace of mind they get not worrying about viruses, trojans, worms, etc, was priceless. They're amazed at the lack of pop-up ads! They now laugh at their friends who keep getting infected.
I've trained them to log in as administrators only when they specifically need to do something. The system itself downloads Apple updates and notifies them. About all I did was set up a firewall, and a script to let me know what their current IP number is. I do tech support either through iChat AV or via OSXvnc-server and Chicken of the VNC.
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Have you opened up your G5? It is (fairly) common for people to put their G5's together incorrectly. A slight mis-alignment of all the sound-related parts can cause the fans to run amok.
But really, try the simpler solutions first. They will work better.
Ever heard of redundancy? Wouldn't it be nice not to rely on only 1 process working? Neighbors get bored visiting a house daily, so maybe they change to weekly visits and 6 days go by before they notice anything. Maybe there is a 2 foot snow storm, and they simple cannot visit the house. Maybe they get sick and go to the hospital. Maybe they win the lottery and go to Tahiti. These are similar to all the objections you had for the OP's request.
A backup is useful. Given a reliable OS that doesn't crash, a decent UPS, you should be able to get a cheap, effective solution. That's what the OP wanted.
Even the NCAA admits it: "Virtually every one of the NCAA's member schools regularly loses money on athletic programs, and spending more on sports does not guarantee winning more, the NCAA said Thursday."
Here's coverage of the NCAA report by the Miami Herald
They also won't get the effects of extended periods of weightlessness. One of the major problems of prolonged absence of gravity is a loss of bone density. Women lose bone density faster than men. In neither group does this effect reverse much. When the first people to Mars return, they won't be able to function on earth again: none of their bones will be strong enough.
If you don't think this is a problem, check out the recent findings of bone density loss, especially in women, in peer-reviewed journals.
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They'll be able to seize your PC like a they would a drug lord's vehicles and property.
Glad I use a Mac.
R&D expenditures are far, far less than advertizing expenditures, and drug companies are making substantial profits and would do so even if drugs cost far less (Reference). If you know any physicians, ask them how often they are taken out to lunch/dinner at fancy restaurants, how often they get free vacations, how often they get tickets to luxury boxes at sporting events, etc, etc, etc.
I use ChronoSync.
I'm happy to fiddle and tweak and produce home-brew solutions to many things, but not as the sole backup: The point of a backup program is to ensure that you have backed up exactly what you think you have backed up. ChonoSync provides a reliable and flexible back-up system. It is commercial ($30) -- which you may not like -- but they offer free updates to a reasonably priced product, and have been around for a while. Their customer service is also excellent: they provided a less restrictive demo for me to try, and provided a lost serial number in less than 24 hours. I have no affiliation; just a satisfied customer.
I can fix this in less than a minute:
In MacOS X 10.4:
System Preferences --> Keyboard & Mouse --> Keyboard --> Modifier Keys...
Set Caps Lock to Control.
It's good to see GNOME catching up with a state of the art (circa 1991) operating systems. However, I've heard there were some nifty new developments within the last dozen years or so that might be worth looking at...
That said, other states do things differently: the cc system is specifically set up as a "feeder" to the larger public universities. In many cases, your 2 years at cc give you 2 years credit at the uni.
This may not help you, but to others, please check before hand about your local cc and transfer credits. We see lots of students who waste two years (of time and money) and get nothing at the next level.
He does, but he sometimes misspells it as U.
On the plus side, battery life is superb, auto dimming works well, and I love the back-lit keys.
The parent didn't say what PB he had. Perhaps the 17" have more problems. I didn't get that one, as it is just too large for travelling. I decided not to wait for a G5 due to the noise of the G5 iMac at work.
Just tried it: network.enableIDN remained set at false. Then went to the test page at secunia.com and it was clearly set to true. Went back to about:config, and it still says false, even though it has to be true.
So, don't be misled by the setting status.
My dual 1.8 G5 was always quiet, with the fans rarely being audible. However, after installing the update, the fans speed up with just the slightest increase in CPU activity (e.g., running my gui-driven synchronize program).
Although the maximum capacity is 840 (in sardine mode), the typical configuration is about 555. Compare to the typical configuration for a 747 of 416. [Reference]
By playing around with permutations of my email address, I find that a large chunk comes from infected colleagues' and students' computers. Relatively little comes from web crawlers. I also get a burst at around 8:00-8:15 when the staff members turn their machines on, and another burst a little later as faculty drift in. During the holidays, the rate goes way down.
No, I don't need to rephrase anything. What we want is to have the class files run universally regardless of the customer's OS, browser, and JVM. We've found that a class file compiled on my Debian box using Blackdown's port of Java works (i.e., runs) whereas class files compiled with other compilers sometimes don't work (i.e., does not run on some combinations of OS/browser/JVM).
Part of this (maybe almost all of this) is that many cash-starved educational sites (our market) still use Win95/Win98 with Microsoft's JVM, or they still use Netscape 4.* with Netscape's JVM, etc.
Disclaimer: I obviously haven't tried all possible combinations of compilers/OS. Blackdown's Java on Debian works for me.
The key, though, is that we've found we get the best results (e.g., as close to running universally as possible) by compiling on Linux (as opposed to on a Wintel box or a Mac box). Folks using anything from Mac OS 8.1 and Win95 to the latest thing all have access.
Paranoid Android protects against all of these potential exploits, including telnet://-nfoo.
I'm not sure what field you are in, but in almost all scientific fields at my major Midwest research institution, textbooks do not count towards promotion and tenure. In order of importance: (1) grants (how much money have you brought in); (2) publications in peer-reviewed journals; (3) number of PhD students; (4) service (what committees have you been on; (5) teaching. In practice, 3 through 5 don't enter into it: you either have the bucks and the pubs or you don't. You need both 1 and 2, although the larger 1, the smaller 2, and vice versa.
Text books are written for a variety of reasons (again, in the empirical sciences fields) including (1) money (oh, those horrible capitalists!), (2) there is no book for that topic, and (3) fame (a good textbook is a great way to enhance your visibility). We (tenured full professors) advise all assistant professors not to write books. At the tenure and promotion hearings, you can count on people asking why the person wasted time writing a text instead of writing a grant application or a paper.
Standard contracts give 10% royalties on the publisher's price for soft covers, 13% for hard covers. The publisher's price is not the price students pay. My text, for example, sells for about $80, the publisher's price is about $50. Sales in Canada are usually at half the royalty rate; sales overseas even less (my text sells for 20 GBP in the UK, for example). To some extent, these rates are negotiable (I have Canada classed as domestic, for example). FWIW, I wrote my book for fame; it is a graduate-level text.
Of course, the problem can be easily fixed by changing this to:
Security tools == trouble? Yes/No
As a full professor myself at a major research institution, I can say faculty run the whole range from wonderful to work with to requires an immediate regime change. If you go up against a grant-getting professor, you will lose regardless of the merits of the case. Some faculty believe themselves to be God (not merely a god!) and there's nothing you can do about it.
Having said that, there is far less regimentation, and far more trusting in the academic world than in the corporate world. (There's also less money, but studies repeatedly show that income level is not correlated with happiness or job satisfaction.)
Another advantage of working at a university is that most offer free or reduced tuition. You can get the opportunity to take classes in any area you like: you can expand your skills, or just satisfy your curiosity.
I've trained them to log in as administrators only when they specifically need to do something. The system itself downloads Apple updates and notifies them. About all I did was set up a firewall, and a script to let me know what their current IP number is. I do tech support either through iChat AV or via OSXvnc-server and Chicken of the VNC.
Have you opened up your G5? It is (fairly) common for people to put their G5's together incorrectly. A slight mis-alignment of all the sound-related parts can cause the fans to run amok.
Reference
Ever heard of redundancy? Wouldn't it be nice not to rely on only 1 process working? Neighbors get bored visiting a house daily, so maybe they change to weekly visits and 6 days go by before they notice anything. Maybe there is a 2 foot snow storm, and they simple cannot visit the house. Maybe they get sick and go to the hospital. Maybe they win the lottery and go to Tahiti. These are similar to all the objections you had for the OP's request.
A backup is useful. Given a reliable OS that doesn't crash, a decent UPS, you should be able to get a cheap, effective solution. That's what the OP wanted.
Here's coverage of the NCAA report by the Miami Herald
If you don't think this is a problem, check out the recent findings of bone density loss, especially in women, in peer-reviewed journals.