What Katz appears to be advocating is essentially paying the theaters for another movie, then sneaking into another, which boils down to paying the theater, period. Theater owners don't really care about people sneaking into another movie; that is at best a headache for the local management. This isn't advocating for serious change; it is simply a way to indulge in shallow pleasure.
Make a difference; don't go to the theaters at all. Write letters, tell everyone you know to boycott. Wait for the movies you want to see to come out on video or DVD; will a few months really matter? If you want to change the behavior of theaters, hit them where they live - in the wallet. This means not seeing any movies at a theater who's policies are offensive. Write a letter to the theater every time you want to see a movie there explaining that they lost revenue because of their policies. That is the only way they will learn.
For Katz to advocate sneaking random children into movies is irrational; would he similarly encourage taking children to see hardcore porn as well? By implying that the judgement of the reader is more important than that of the parents of the children in question, Katz shows his true colors: as a self-appointed moral guardian, no better than those who would keep these movies from theaters entirely. His universal allowance policy is as insane as one of universal rejection.
An advantage to PAM is that one doesn't always want to use kerberos. In my own case, I got the Kerb5 PAM working on a pair of laptops. When they saw a network card, they would switch to using the kerberos module; otherwise they used the local accounts.
I got Kerb5 to work through PAM on a RedHat 5.0 box last spring while I was still attending University. It worked quite nicely too; a correctly compiled ssh would simply forward my tickets to hosts to which I was connecting. Unfortunately, the machines belong to a project on which I no longer work, and the details of how I did it have vanished from my memory. But it is possible.
I knew the guy who was implementing a similar project, called DISCO. The author is a Mac guy, and may be the person of whom you're thinking. I don't know the current state of development, but the web page is still up.
This interview, or at least a majority of it was previously published in the journal of the USENIX association,;login:. It is an excellent piece, and I do recommend reading it, but it did see print before this site. Just another reason to join USENIX for all of you.
While much of what I learned in the course of obtaining my BS in Computer Sciences was extraneous to my daily work, I think that an exposure to academic CS is a good thing. It's important to know some basic theory, to determine if a given problem can be solved in polynomial time, or how to write a compiler from the ground up.
Universities also tend to be places with a lot of opportunities for geeks, such as really nice hardware. The hacker community has a tradition of being tolerated around academic institutions in a way that isn't possible in business. The sense of community provided is also important; many user groups initially take root at universities.
College may not be for everyone, but currently there is no other venue to learn the fundamentals of computer science, which are the difference between being a computer operator and truly mastering the machine.
The department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin has had a networked coke machine for several years. It was run by the student chapter of the ACM; one had to establish an account first by depositing a sum of money. After that, one could telnet to coke, login, and be greeted with a menu, from which one could purchase a coke.
The failure rate of Unix utilities under these conditions has nothing to do with root access. These tests measured the ability to handle strange and unusual input data; they could be run as any user.
A breif summary of the results can be found at here.
Also, there is no mention of any 1998 revisit to the study, nor did Prof. Miller mention it while I was working for him in the first half of last year. The "last modified" date on the file is in 1995, so there was probably not a revisit last year.
I had the good fortune to see this paper presented after the 1995 revisiting. Professor Miller gave an excellent talk, and is the best CS professor I ever had.
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Make a difference; don't go to the theaters at all. Write letters, tell everyone you know to boycott. Wait for the movies you want to see to come out on video or DVD; will a few months really matter? If you want to change the behavior of theaters, hit them where they live - in the wallet. This means not seeing any movies at a theater who's policies are offensive. Write a letter to the theater every time you want to see a movie there explaining that they lost revenue because of their policies. That is the only way they will learn.
For Katz to advocate sneaking random children into movies is irrational; would he similarly encourage taking children to see hardcore porn as well? By implying that the judgement of the reader is more important than that of the parents of the children in question, Katz shows his true colors: as a self-appointed moral guardian, no better than those who would keep these movies from theaters entirely. His universal allowance policy is as insane as one of universal rejection.
I did this once. See my other post above.
An advantage to PAM is that one doesn't always want to use kerberos. In my own case, I got the Kerb5 PAM working on a pair of laptops. When they saw a network card, they would switch to using the kerberos module; otherwise they used the local accounts.
I got Kerb5 to work through PAM on a RedHat 5.0 box last spring while I was still attending University. It worked quite nicely too; a correctly compiled ssh would simply forward my tickets to hosts to which I was connecting. Unfortunately, the machines belong to a project on which I no longer work, and the details of how I did it have vanished from my memory. But it is possible.
I knew the guy who was implementing a similar project, called DISCO. The author is a Mac guy, and may be the person of whom you're thinking. I don't know the current state of development, but the web page is still up.
This interview, or at least a majority of it was previously published in the journal of the USENIX association, ;login:. It is an excellent piece, and I do recommend reading it, but it did see print before this site. Just another reason to join USENIX for all of you.
While much of what I learned in the course of obtaining my BS in Computer Sciences was extraneous to my daily work, I think that an exposure to academic CS is a good thing. It's important to know some basic theory, to determine if a given problem can be solved in polynomial time, or how to write a compiler from the ground up.
Universities also tend to be places with a lot of opportunities for geeks, such as really nice hardware. The hacker community has a tradition of being tolerated around academic institutions in a way that isn't possible in business. The sense of community provided is also important; many user groups initially take root at universities.
College may not be for everyone, but currently there is no other venue to learn the fundamentals of computer science, which are the difference between being a computer operator and truly mastering the machine.
The department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin has had a networked coke machine for several years. It was run by the student chapter of the ACM; one had to establish an account first by depositing a sum of money. After that, one could telnet to coke, login, and be greeted with a menu, from which one could purchase a coke.
The failure rate of Unix utilities under these conditions has nothing to do with root access. These tests measured the ability to handle strange and unusual input data; they could be run as any user.
Also, there is no mention of any 1998 revisit to the study, nor did Prof. Miller mention it while I was working for him in the first half of last year. The "last modified" date on the file is in 1995, so there was probably not a revisit last year.
I had the good fortune to see this paper presented after the 1995 revisiting. Professor Miller gave an excellent talk, and is the best CS professor I ever had.
In this economy, with the current shortage of IT workers, there is no reason to make $30,000 for 60 hour weeks. As stated in the last issue of