If someone makes a post about how they got Linux running on this watch, then I will be impressed. Until then we don't need to hear about someone running Linux on a used cash register that is really the type of PC that was being used when Unreal first came out.
__NOTE__ Just because I say I'm not impressed doesn't mean this isn't cool, when it is; just like if some girl was able to lick her own crotch. That would be impressive, but not cool:)
Actually, I think it is awesome the guy is trying to do something about computer security where he works. The situation is that he is being setup to fail period. Why do I day that? I say that because the CIO had delegated the task to the guy's boss, and the guy's boss delegated the task to him; this sounds more like responsibility shucking than trying to find the right person for the task. Now if it were clear that he outright volunteered than my criticism would be for naught.
Am I just too cynical thinking that if a security plan is implemented the guy won't get the credit he deserves? If the plan fails don't you think some managers and executives will try to blame the failure on someone else rather than themselves? I think the most of us have seen this type of scenario unfold in numerous situations, especially when dealing with a governmental angency.
"Since I'm the guy who usually bugs folks about security, she tasked me to come up w/ a list of firms who could do this for us"
1. Sucks to be you about now since you're now the guy that could be scapegoated if security isn't handled adequately enough.
2. This should point out another part of the squeaky wheel proverb--The squeaky mechanic gets stuck being the one who puts the grease on the squeaky wheel...
3. Has anyone noticed that the person or persons truly responsible for their systems security isn't actually handling this? Either too much buck passing is going on or that angency truly doesn't have anyone accountable for security issues? Human ignorance, that looks like the number one security issue in this case.
1. Your contention that taking a project and "re-branding" as ones own as cheating is correct. Doubt you would find too many people who disagree about this. That's not what's in dispute in this situaton though.
2. Rules stating student shouldn't discuss take-home tests are reasonable. On the other hand rules stating there should be no discussion or collaboration is to take place in regards to projects and or assignments is for the most part unacceptable. The responsible way of handling this is to have the requirement that students document in their code or projecta when they have received assistance from another person or other people.
3. One shouldn't use Harvey Mudd College as an example since HMC is part of the liberal arts system of the Claremont colleges. People might start to think that liberalism == conservatism.
4. Yes we should be feeling bad for him that he was being accused of cheating in the first place. The reason that I support him and feel bad for him is that if I were in his same exact situation I would be looking for as much moral and legal support as possible. A tactic such as this seems as the only way a college student can successfully defend themselves against an academic institution hell-bent for leather on destorying a student's future because of some principle that doesn't coincide with how problem solving actually takes place outside of a college setting. Forgive me college English professor for the wordy and run-on sentences.
5. Some schools obviously need a reality code more than they need an honor code these days.
"I remarked that to me the book was like a French Impressionist painting of a cow, meant to give a glancing essence, not the real, smelly animal. Few would care to savor the details."
Now that's the author's way of saying he had a cosmorgasm during the conversation.
Serious though, nice to see Benford having a sense of humor.
There have been numerous milestone releases, but this is the one that proves that this project was doable from the start depsite the naysayers. What's even more amazing that the Mozilla development team started from a source tree that was a poster child for how not to maintain a source tree. Keep up the good work Mozilla team!
Just when I though there was only one person I love on this Valentine's day. Now I love Barnes & Noble besides my gf, Helga.
This is a fight that needs to be fought, although it will still be the comsumer that loses out on this because both sides will be spending quite a bit of their resources to fight this.
I smell a lawsuit against a segment of people
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The creators of pay-to-sit will file an injunction against people who can lay on a bed of nails since they don't need to pay in order to sit in the chairs. They will even go so far as to impose a entertainment fee on such people since they must enjoy it if they're crazy enough to do it!
Lighten up moderators, this guy commenting that it was already submitted is as much on topic as eighty percent of the other posts that are talking about the grad student rather than about the genome map. It seems that relevance is being confused with being on-topic here. For example, a post mentioned that James Kent may have written some krusty-trusty 3d program; this is offtopic but not irrelevant.
Now, maybe with this genetic map we can figure out what gene makes the moderator predisposed to marking posts offtopic, which gene makes someone teed-off about not seing a submission, or which gene makes me predisposed to ranting:)
Suprising this situation is not. It also wouldn't be suprising if Microsoft took it a couple steps further.
(1) Their non-compete agreement could be expanded to include not being allowed to work for any computer industry related company for a period of time after termination of employement with them.
(2) A non-compete statement could be added to Microsofts's click-through end user license agreement found in its software products.
In the end they're in the black
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Although it's a shame to see an endeavor like crack.dom officially coming to an end, at least it's ending while still making money for Dave Taylor and Jonathon Clark. No matter how much the crack.com domain is bought for, it will still be enough to be more of a profit than most computer gaming businesses will ever see.
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Yay! now I can get my virtual degree in jornalism. :)
Will that at least qualify me to write virtual articles for slashdot?
Finally a game that is virtually real!
Why not just buy the Timex Hooker?
If someone makes a post about how they got Linux running on this watch, then I will be impressed. Until then we don't need to hear about someone running Linux on a used cash register that is really the type of PC that was being used when Unreal first came out.
:)
__NOTE__ Just because I say I'm not impressed doesn't mean this isn't cool, when it is; just like if some girl was able to lick her own crotch. That would be impressive, but not cool
Actually, I think it is awesome the guy is trying to do something about computer security where he works. The situation is that he is being setup to fail period. Why do I day that? I say that because the CIO had delegated the task to the guy's boss, and the guy's boss delegated the task to him; this sounds more like responsibility shucking than trying to find the right person for the task. Now if it were clear that he outright volunteered than my criticism would be for naught.
Am I just too cynical thinking that if a security plan is implemented the guy won't get the credit he deserves? If the plan fails don't you think some managers and executives will try to blame the failure on someone else rather than themselves? I think the most of us have seen this type of scenario unfold in numerous situations, especially when dealing with a governmental angency.
"Since I'm the guy who usually bugs folks about security, she tasked me to come up w/ a list of firms who could do this for us"
1. Sucks to be you about now since you're now the guy that could be scapegoated if security isn't handled adequately enough.
2. This should point out another part of the squeaky wheel proverb--The squeaky mechanic gets stuck being the one who puts the grease on the squeaky wheel...
3. Has anyone noticed that the person or persons truly responsible for their systems security isn't actually handling this? Either too much buck passing is going on or that angency truly doesn't have anyone accountable for security issues? Human ignorance, that looks like the number one security issue in this case.
This POS is still a computer so what is the big deal about this? The CueCat that is attached to it is a more impressive hack.
Greedy green, wet martians googling over nude russian girls while throwing DVDs at a roller coaster
"To avoid a disastrous repeat, the 57-year-old filmmaker says he's cutting down the licensees by two-thirds for Clones"
Still too many Dollys in sci-fi costumes running around...
Who do you want to flood today?
1. Your contention that taking a project and "re-branding" as ones own as cheating is correct. Doubt you would find too many people who disagree about this. That's not what's in dispute in this situaton though.
2. Rules stating student shouldn't discuss take-home tests are reasonable. On the other hand rules stating there should be no discussion or collaboration is to take place in regards to projects and or assignments is for the most part unacceptable. The responsible way of handling this is to have the requirement that students document in their code or projecta when they have received assistance from another person or other people.
3. One shouldn't use Harvey Mudd College as an example since HMC is part of the liberal arts system of the Claremont colleges. People might start to think that liberalism == conservatism.
4. Yes we should be feeling bad for him that he was being accused of cheating in the first place. The reason that I support him and feel bad for him is that if I were in his same exact situation I would be looking for as much moral and legal support as possible. A tactic such as this seems as the only way a college student can successfully defend themselves against an academic institution hell-bent for leather on destorying a student's future because of some principle that doesn't coincide with how problem solving actually takes place outside of a college setting. Forgive me college English professor for the wordy and run-on sentences.
5. Some schools obviously need a reality code more than they need an honor code these days.
From the Royalty-Free CIFS Technical Reference License Agreement webpage:
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Nice to see the number climbing.
Anyone care to chart some statistics about this in Excel?
I thought of that but soon realized a picture of a nut is being reserved for the upcoming title "Nutshell in a Nutshell".
"I remarked that to me the book was like a French Impressionist painting of a cow, meant to give a glancing essence, not the real, smelly animal. Few would care to savor the details."
Now that's the author's way of saying he had a cosmorgasm during the conversation.
Serious though, nice to see Benford having a sense of humor.
An image created in Gimp that is a picture of RMS.
There have been numerous milestone releases, but this is the one that proves that this project was doable from the start depsite the naysayers. What's even more amazing that the Mozilla development team started from a source tree that was a poster child for how not to maintain a source tree. Keep up the good work Mozilla team!
The article was a nice read until I came to the phrase:
"If they have their way--and my guess is they will over time--they're even going to move their Windows NT64 into the high-end Unix-Linux domain"
Okay Jerry, and your next prediction is what? That Richard Stallman will become the next CEO of IBM?
Just when I though there was only one person I love on this Valentine's day. Now I love Barnes & Noble besides my gf, Helga.
This is a fight that needs to be fought, although it will still be the comsumer that loses out on this because both sides will be spending quite a bit of their resources to fight this.
The creators of pay-to-sit will file an injunction against people who can lay on a bed of nails since they don't need to pay in order to sit in the chairs. They will even go so far as to impose a entertainment fee on such people since they must enjoy it if they're crazy enough to do it!
Lighten up moderators, this guy commenting that it was already submitted is as much on topic as eighty percent of the other posts that are talking about the grad student rather than about the genome map. It seems that relevance is being confused with being on-topic here. For example, a post mentioned that James Kent may have written some krusty-trusty 3d program; this is offtopic but not irrelevant.
:)
Now, maybe with this genetic map we can figure out what gene makes the moderator predisposed to marking posts offtopic, which gene makes someone teed-off about not seing a submission, or which gene makes me predisposed to ranting
- Now put that in your FSB and smoke it
Suprising this situation is not. It also wouldn't be suprising if Microsoft took it a couple steps further.
(1) Their non-compete agreement could be expanded to include not being allowed to work for any computer
industry related company for a period of time after termination of employement with them.
(2) A non-compete statement could be added to Microsofts's click-through end user license agreement found
in its software products.
Although it's a shame to see an endeavor like crack.dom officially coming to an end, at least it's ending while still making money for Dave Taylor and Jonathon Clark. No matter how much the crack.com domain is bought for, it will still be enough to be more of a profit than most computer gaming businesses will ever see.
Dave Taylor + Jonathon Clark = Class Act!
Journalism at its finest when inuendos can be made based on names of files rather than the content of such files.