I still can't figure out the point of this article. The story is very short on information and the advice seems to be from a young programmer who was burned on his first race. The best advice seems coached from the article itself:
"Hinkley quit both companies in abrupt circumstances, in 1997 and 1998, leaving behind a confusing trail of intellectual property ownership."
After selling your soul, it's a little too late to back out of the deal. We aren't told why Adam left, and he may have had good reasons, but it seems doubtful he had a plan. After you give away the magic goose you would be foolish to except to still get golden eggs. If at all possible, don't walk without a backup plan.
"Hinkley and his father were without legal representation during the latter part of the complex court case, which began in early 1999. This followed a raid on Adam's parents' homes on September 11, 1998."
If you're going to take on a mega corp you are going to need a lawyer.
"The Hinkleys could not afford to pay an expert witness to appear at the hearing on their behalf."
You are also going to need money. A lot of it. Lawsuits are expensive.
Typically you don't use speakers at LAN parties. Everyone wears headphones. Keeps down on the signal to noise ratio. Plus speakers (espically the heavy duty ones) are an extra power drain which can be an issue at some locals.
"U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) computer systems and networks are constantly under attack. Such attacks might potentially make systems unusable, degrade performance, lead commanders to make poor decisions due to faulty data, leak valuable secrets, or even leave behind code that could provide continuing back-door access or be activated on a predetermined event to take obstructive action."
I'm sure on some level this is pretty obvious. However, I guess I've always considered script kiddies as pranksters rather than a threat to national security. Does this scare anyone else?
Wrongly accused who of what? Her only crime seems to be reporting to the "proper authorities" what she overheard. I did not read anywhere that the little girl was the one who made the judgment call to send this kid off to juvenile hall. It was either the school or the courts who decided this, so why aren't they picking up the tab?
she was spooked, and her parents are out $40k.
Yes, she probably was. So what, we have a tax on fear now? You'd prefer everyone keep their mouth shut?
[The parents] live there too and they can vote
Err... what kind of excuse is that? The defense to gunning down innocent people is that, "Hey, they can vote! They should have voted to protect themselves against guys like me!" Who says they didn't vote against this kind of stupidity and were just in the minority? You also suggesting like-minded people should segregate themselves accordingly?
So when the idiot train headed in their direction, they got ran over.
And when stupid people do stupid things, the rest of us should stand by and say, "Oh well"? I say NO to this kind of idiocy! We should unite and proclaim our displeasure on the Slashdot walls!
In a car, a downed power line, a bolt of lightning, immersion, and many accident situations that will flip the car off its rubber tires that ground it could expose the parts to electricity, making them solid/liquid when they should not be.
Fortunately they have developed a substance which can protect the magic goo from unwanted current or immersion. However, personal safely during this "accident situations" is still a problem.:P
Furthermore, what is to prevent the problems that could come with inconsistent or degraded functioning in nano-parts as the parts age?
Well, aren't you just the go-getter? Why don't we sit down and see if we can iron out all the details of commercial uses of this project, and rush our ideas to market?... Obviously magic goo needs to be employed in a useful application. It would seem we have an idea which might facilitate this as well.
...technology is not ALWAYS for the masses.
Science only shows us the how. It is for the marketriods to decide if we should.
A young girl overhears something which bothers her, and she reports it to a responsible authority figure. The "responsible" authority figure then takes this information and COMEPLETELY OVERREACTS. Another "more responsible" authority figure realizes the mistake and makes an attempt to correct a grievous wrong. The parents of the little boy who was wronged then BLAMES THE LITTLE GIRL?!
I will admit that little teenage girls may not be all that sweet and innocent and she may have had malicious intent on informing. However, even if she was trying to sow the seeds of distrust against her fellow class mate it pains me to think we would hold the little girl responsible for the harsh and unwarranted punishment doled out to the little boy.
Little girls (or anyone else) SHOULD go to the authorities when they see something troubling to them. Good parenting should be applied to comfort the distraught youngster (or oldster). Some reasonable action should then be taken by the authorities with the information provided. This reasonable action could be to do nothing if they feel or find that the information provided is unfounded. But it is then the authorities who should ultimately be held responsible for whatever action they decide to take.
If we must play the blame game I would hold the school and/or courts responsible for this madness. Merely allowing the lawsuit against the little girl to proceed is irresponsible of our court system. Making her parents pay the courts costs is unconscionable.
There is another important benefit of a GPL game. Support doesn't stop when the original authors grow tired of it. As long as there is an interest new code revs will continue. And should interest die completely the game does not go away. It merely goes into hibernation awaiting the next hacker with an itch.
You also fail to notice another important benefit. By hosting the server-side software, they control the security on their end. Character information will be stored on the server, not the client. This will making cheating much more challenging. They will also be providing server space and bandwidth. The server and bandwidth requirements for a on-line games grow exponentially with the number of players. Hosting a 16 player Netrek game is one thing. Hosting an EverCrack server requires a lot more resources. IMHO this is a great pricing model for the GPL.
Some background: I'm a 26 year old and I've been a programmer/analyst for about three years now. I'm just now finishing an associates degree this semester. When I first started as a junior applications programmer I stood in the shadow of the more "senior" members of my team. Even after I proved my competence my opinion still needed to be "double checked" with other members of my department.
Unfortunately what many of us fail to realize is that we are in a service occupation position. Which means we are graded not only on our technical merits, but our social skills as well. I would even go so far as to say our social skills are more important than any technical ability we may have. Once you've demonstrated an aptitude then your employer KNOWS you can pick up a new programming language or implement a new SDK. The stuff that is hard to pick up is translating our geek speak into something the nontechnical can understand without making them feel uncomfortable about their lack of knowledge.
If you want to be taken "seriously" then age (specifically appearance) DOES matter. You need to look and act the part of someone important to be treated as such. I'm three years into the corporate life and I've shed the earring and long hair. I've upgraded my wardrobe to something just short of wearing a tie in a business casual office. And most importantly I now have a confidence in myself and my ability that others can see. This is something I didn't have when I first started and something you can't teach in school. You can gain confidence without the benefit of age, but being older allows you to wear it more casually.
I still recall the shock I received when doing some shopping after a business interview. I was 20 and still wearing the suit from the interview. Normally I was a jeans, metal-band t-shirt and earring kinda guy. The social shock I received from the store clerks and bank teller I encountered that day was amazing. They called me "Sir" and asked if they could help. They were happy to run around and fetch things for me as well as answer my questions.
If you can't blind 'em with your brilliance, baffle 'em with your bullshit.
Obviously the idea that Linus is "killing" Linux can be laughed about now. But I question how persistent the OS will be should a barrage of new forks spring up after Linus steps down or slips up. Sure the GPL will keep it "alive", but with many forks to choose from, how are we to tell the good side from the bad? As good idea submissions get diluted to the various new forks, how long will it take to recombine them under the One Ring's rule? Are we even guaranteed that one fork will gather them all and bind them together again?
Bad, bad, bad advice. Even if you discuss it with someone you are positive will not go tattle to further up management, you will find yourself fired so fast for "disloyalty" that it won't be funny.
Persons in a "pivotal" company position are not fired for "disloyalty", especially in a small Dot Com business.
The company can't afford to let their real talent go. I've been there. As soon as I started looking elsewhere I
received an immediate pay raise and a request to share with them any offer I received so they could have a chance
to match it. When I shared with them my best offer, they did match it.
Of course, your mileage my vary. It turns out my company was in the process of being picked up by a holding company.
However, if your company is really sinking, they likely can't afford to pay current salaries let alone start handing
out raises. But in no case do you stick with a company that has "near-incompetent management".
To thine own self be true.
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If... you're a supergenius,... you might as well go to school and get a diploma to increase your marketability. It'll be no sweat for you, and a good investment of some money (the un-degreed seem to hit a definite ceiling).
People learn in different ways and "hard" and "easy" are very relative terms. A diploma (or three) WILL increase your marketability, but it won't be easy. Even if school isn't "hard" work it is a "lot" of work.
I'm glad I are edjamacated, and I surely had no real trouble picking up theory from a text book and then applying it. But between working and going to school much of my life was sucked into pursuit of a career. And now that I have the career, it IS my life.
If I've learned anything, I've learned this: Find out what you want and make your career a means towards that end rather than the reverse.
A blanket statement "Cracking is wrong" seems to miss, IMHO, a larger issue. I would argue that Cracking is not inherently wrong, just as I would argue that a gun is not, of itself, evil.
It's what you use a Thing for that makes the difference. I'm sick of these stupid laws with no interest in intent.
If this kid had set out to maliciously disable security at his school, he should be punished. By coming forward after meeting the challenge and admitting to what he had done I fail to see evil intent.
Obviously we can't allow admission of guilt to be a free pass to commit crimes. Neither should we punish creativity, especially in children.
But I know that I am a law abiding citizen, my messages to people are trivial to the FBI, and that I feel like I need to hide nothing.
Having nothing to hide is not synonymous with not valuing privacy. Why don't you hand out your personal information to everyone who asks? The easy answer is that they might misuse it. Do you really possess so much trust that you would believe this (or any other similar) technology could not be abused?
I would think it would be obvious why we can not ban all things which can be "abused", but some things can be more easily abused than others.
I shall be careful who I trust and recommend the same to others.
Voter turnout? We barely squeeked out 100 million at the polls, which represents only 1/2 of the eligable voters. This closely matches the 49% turnout we had back in '96.
As far as long waits at the polls... this happened all over up here too. (Roughtly 2 hours waits across the board.) This is because they're still using tech such as PUNCH CARDS to tally this stuff, as computers can not be trusted.
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"Hinkley quit both companies in abrupt circumstances, in 1997 and 1998, leaving behind a confusing trail of intellectual property ownership."
After selling your soul, it's a little too late to back out of the deal. We aren't told why Adam left, and he may have had good reasons, but it seems doubtful he had a plan. After you give away the magic goose you would be foolish to except to still get golden eggs. If at all possible, don't walk without a backup plan.
"Hinkley and his father were without legal representation during the latter part of the complex court case, which began in early 1999. This followed a raid on Adam's parents' homes on September 11, 1998."
If you're going to take on a mega corp you are going to need a lawyer.
"The Hinkleys could not afford to pay an expert witness to appear at the hearing on their behalf."
You are also going to need money. A lot of it. Lawsuits are expensive.
Typically you don't use speakers at LAN parties. Everyone wears headphones. Keeps down on the signal to noise ratio. Plus speakers (espically the heavy duty ones) are an extra power drain which can be an issue at some locals.
I'm sure on some level this is pretty obvious. However, I guess I've always considered script kiddies as pranksters rather than a threat to national security. Does this scare anyone else?
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"Sir, I'm scared."
Hmm... sounds like a plan.
"Will we have to bring our own source, or will they have some for us?"
If you want every gaming high to be like the "first time" can you do without the mediocre highs of scoring the same smack over and over?
I think we already discussed this when France had this idea. But they seemed to think it was a bad one.
Wrongly accused who of what? Her only crime seems to be reporting to the "proper authorities" what she overheard. I did not read anywhere that the little girl was the one who made the judgment call to send this kid off to juvenile hall. It was either the school or the courts who decided this, so why aren't they picking up the tab?
she was spooked, and her parents are out $40k.
Yes, she probably was. So what, we have a tax on fear now? You'd prefer everyone keep their mouth shut?
[The parents] live there too and they can vote
Err... what kind of excuse is that? The defense to gunning down innocent people is that, "Hey, they can vote! They should have voted to protect themselves against guys like me!" Who says they didn't vote against this kind of stupidity and were just in the minority? You also suggesting like-minded people should segregate themselves accordingly?
So when the idiot train headed in their direction, they got ran over.
And when stupid people do stupid things, the rest of us should stand by and say, "Oh well"? I say NO to this kind of idiocy! We should unite and proclaim our displeasure on the Slashdot walls!
Fortunately they have developed a substance which can protect the magic goo from unwanted current or immersion. However, personal safely during this "accident situations" is still a problem. :P
Furthermore, what is to prevent the problems that could come with inconsistent or degraded functioning in nano-parts as the parts age?
Well, aren't you just the go-getter? Why don't we sit down and see if we can iron out all the details of commercial uses of this project, and rush our ideas to market? ... Obviously magic goo needs to be employed in a useful application. It would seem we have an idea which might facilitate this as well.
Science only shows us the how. It is for the marketriods to decide if we should.
"Like, chill out, or something." - Beavis
I will admit that little teenage girls may not be all that sweet and innocent and she may have had malicious intent on informing. However, even if she was trying to sow the seeds of distrust against her fellow class mate it pains me to think we would hold the little girl responsible for the harsh and unwarranted punishment doled out to the little boy.
Little girls (or anyone else) SHOULD go to the authorities when they see something troubling to them. Good parenting should be applied to comfort the distraught youngster (or oldster). Some reasonable action should then be taken by the authorities with the information provided. This reasonable action could be to do nothing if they feel or find that the information provided is unfounded. But it is then the authorities who should ultimately be held responsible for whatever action they decide to take.
If we must play the blame game I would hold the school and/or courts responsible for this madness. Merely allowing the lawsuit against the little girl to proceed is irresponsible of our court system. Making her parents pay the courts costs is unconscionable.
You also fail to notice another important benefit. By hosting the server-side software, they control the security on their end. Character information will be stored on the server, not the client. This will making cheating much more challenging. They will also be providing server space and bandwidth. The server and bandwidth requirements for a on-line games grow exponentially with the number of players. Hosting a 16 player Netrek game is one thing. Hosting an EverCrack server requires a lot more resources. IMHO this is a great pricing model for the GPL.
Unfortunately what many of us fail to realize is that we are in a service occupation position. Which means we are graded not only on our technical merits, but our social skills as well. I would even go so far as to say our social skills are more important than any technical ability we may have. Once you've demonstrated an aptitude then your employer KNOWS you can pick up a new programming language or implement a new SDK. The stuff that is hard to pick up is translating our geek speak into something the nontechnical can understand without making them feel uncomfortable about their lack of knowledge.
If you want to be taken "seriously" then age (specifically appearance) DOES matter. You need to look and act the part of someone important to be treated as such. I'm three years into the corporate life and I've shed the earring and long hair. I've upgraded my wardrobe to something just short of wearing a tie in a business casual office. And most importantly I now have a confidence in myself and my ability that others can see. This is something I didn't have when I first started and something you can't teach in school. You can gain confidence without the benefit of age, but being older allows you to wear it more casually.
I still recall the shock I received when doing some shopping after a business interview. I was 20 and still wearing the suit from the interview. Normally I was a jeans, metal-band t-shirt and earring kinda guy. The social shock I received from the store clerks and bank teller I encountered that day was amazing. They called me "Sir" and asked if they could help. They were happy to run around and fetch things for me as well as answer my questions.
If you can't blind 'em with your brilliance, baffle 'em with your bullshit.
Obviously the idea that Linus is "killing" Linux can be laughed about now. But I question how persistent the OS will be should a barrage of new forks spring up after Linus steps down or slips up. Sure the GPL will keep it "alive", but with many forks to choose from, how are we to tell the good side from the bad? As good idea submissions get diluted to the various new forks, how long will it take to recombine them under the One Ring's rule? Are we even guaranteed that one fork will gather them all and bind them together again?
Persons in a "pivotal" company position are not fired for "disloyalty", especially in a small Dot Com business. The company can't afford to let their real talent go. I've been there. As soon as I started looking elsewhere I received an immediate pay raise and a request to share with them any offer I received so they could have a chance to match it. When I shared with them my best offer, they did match it.
Of course, your mileage my vary. It turns out my company was in the process of being picked up by a holding company. However, if your company is really sinking, they likely can't afford to pay current salaries let alone start handing out raises. But in no case do you stick with a company that has "near-incompetent management".
To thine own self be true.
People learn in different ways and "hard" and "easy" are very relative terms. A diploma (or three) WILL increase your marketability, but it won't be easy. Even if school isn't "hard" work it is a "lot" of work.
I'm glad I are edjamacated, and I surely had no real trouble picking up theory from a text book and then applying it. But between working and going to school much of my life was sucked into pursuit of a career. And now that I have the career, it IS my life.
If I've learned anything, I've learned this: Find out what you want and make your career a means towards that end rather than the reverse.
Jack, a dull boy
It's what you use a Thing for that makes the difference. I'm sick of these stupid laws with no interest in intent.
If this kid had set out to maliciously disable security at his school, he should be punished. By coming forward after meeting the challenge and admitting to what he had done I fail to see evil intent.
Obviously we can't allow admission of guilt to be a free pass to commit crimes. Neither should we punish creativity, especially in children.
Having nothing to hide is not synonymous with not valuing privacy. Why don't you hand out your personal information to everyone who asks? The easy answer is that they might misuse it. Do you really possess so much trust that you would believe this (or any other similar) technology could not be abused?
I would think it would be obvious why we can not ban all things which can be "abused", but some things can be more easily abused than others.
I shall be careful who I trust and recommend the same to others.
Voter turnout? We barely squeeked out 100 million at the polls, which represents only 1/2 of the eligable voters. This closely matches the 49% turnout we had back in '96. As far as long waits at the polls... this happened all over up here too. (Roughtly 2 hours waits across the board.) This is because they're still using tech such as PUNCH CARDS to tally this stuff, as computers can not be trusted.