The RIAA and MPAA have time and time again told us that it isn't about right and wrong... where it's not illegal to photocopy a text book, there is no legal dilemma. Why bring ethics into it?
Because we're better people than them. Because when we go to bed at night we sleep knowing that. Because when we're on our deathbeds with our kids around us, we'll be the ones with a smile.
I own Trackmania (the new edition) and have been trying to find a no-CD crack so I do not have to take my CD to LANs (I only really play gsmes at LANs now about once a month) - I haven't found one yet. I've never had a problem finding one before.
On top of that, at a LAN recently some guys were playing Soldiers, Heroes of World War 2 and I wanted to play too. There was not a no-CD crack available, quite some time after the games release. I have never seen a game with such a large profile fail to have a crack available *BEFORE* it hit the shops until this year.
Starforce 3 appears to be very reliable. And I'm glad. Maybe now we'll see the end of the bullshit piracy "reason" for poor sales.
Reading down the comments modded 4/5 there seem to be a huge number proposing that to get more women involved, us geeks shouldn't chat them up, and we shouldn't ask them out, and we shouldn't hit on them.
The fact that so many people could write this, and the fact that so many people could moderate this horsecrap up probably explains alot of why women don't want to be in our fields.
Let's start with some basics: 1] Women want sex. Often as much as men, sometimes more. 2] Women like attention - a woman who hates to be chatted up/to is very, VERY rare. 3] Women like things that build up their self esteem, such as being asked to dinner, etc. etc.
However, counterpoints: 1] Women don't like to be asked out the blue, that's creepy. Don't hit on someone you've never met in the office - get to know them first, chat etc. Make a point of conversation, regardless of how obvious. In fact, if it's obvious you're straining for it then great, this is what's known as FLIRTING. Smile once in a while too. Maybe fetch her a coffee or something. 2] Women don't like to be HARRASSED. If you received a "no" then leave it at that. But you can keep chatting to her and flirting (though maybe tone it down a bit now). The ball is now in her court. 3] Women like clean men. So wash. Every morning. Cut your hair regularly and shave every day or two. Ask a female friend or your mother to take you out, and spend ALOT of cash on some well cut clothes that fit you. If things don't fit you because you're out of shape, then you'd better pray your personality is good, or that you find some willpower to burn some pounds quickly.
The above is fairly basic advice, but from the loooks of all the comments on this thread it seems it needs to be said. If people want evidence, how about looking at other environments with both male and female workers:
Bar Work - girls and lads fuck. Alot. Office Work - girls and lads fuck. Shop Work - girls and lads fuck. Sales/Marketing - girls and lads fuck. Alot
Everyone fucks. Thats both men and women. Why the hell do so many blokes think that women want to be treated differently in our profession than all the others?
Schumi is definitely a great driver, but he has benefitted from driving in a low time in F1 history.
Missing the point again. Regardless of whether the sport is "good" or "bad" or at an all time low or not, if quick reactions were a major advantage the sport would be dominated by someone with those reactions, not someone without.
Whoa - stop the hype. There are five or six WRC drivers
While that may be true, you are too busy arguing semantic of the word "racing", and bigging up rally car drivers to appreciate the point made by the grandparent - that Schumacher dominates a sport with incredibly intense competition, and does so without having extraordinary reactions.
British Telecom, the predominant telecommunications company in the UK, is blocking 10,000 attempts to access child pornography a day.... They apparently have no idea how many of these hits were accidental, or caused by malware.
They should be able to work out approximate values for each by watching long-term trends. "Accidental" access is likely to remain fairly constant (assuming number of users does) whereas deliberate access will surely decline as "interested" users either migrate to other ISPs or get frustrated and stop looking.
The Malware one is harder, but I would have thought some fairly clever traffic analysis would throw up a good guide as to how much of the traffic is from Malware.
The author is miles off when he talks about the speed and efficiency of asp.net - he simply says "because there is more code and it's OO, it will take longer to run, and that slows web pages down".
Well I would agree that on first execution of a page (the first time a page is loaded after a reboot or restart, or the document is changed) asp.net is slower than ASP or PHP - however on every SINGLE subsequent page execution asp.net is considerably faster in my experience. Programming intranets and deploying/testing them has proved it to me - when the latency across the network is tiny the difference is notable on all non-trivial pages to the HUMAN eye, and the test suite backs this up.
Of course, code execution speed depends to a large extent on the coder and his techniques, but a good coder will be able to achieve much more rapidly responding web applications with ASP.NET than he would with Classic ASP or PHP 3 or 4. I can't talk about PHP5 because I moved exclusively to ASP.NET some time ago due it's superb libraries, saleability (clients like to hear MS and buzzwords) and the fact it's truly OO - just a personal preference.
It's annoying to read an English thread, then someone posts a response in Portugese, because then I can no longer follow the thread.
Then perhaps, in the same way the Portuguese speakers have learned English, you should learn Portuguese if you want to communicate with them? You are not obliged to understand or even read their posts, in the same way that they are not obliged to read or understand your English posts - but they have chosen to educate themselves in order to communicate with English speakers - perhaps this merely reflects a lack of education and considering among the primarily English-speaking population?
Even a cursory follower of international affairs probably knows just how, ahem, "effective" the paper tiger that is the UN has been
While I would agree that the UN has overstretched itself into many areas and not necessarily been effective, it was formed with a single primary goal : to prevent future generations from living in a world dominated by war. Since 1945 we haven't had a major conflict affecting a Western Nation, and most of the "2nd World" nations have faired pretty well too. The number of deaths (as a % of population) due to war have declined DRASTICALLY since the inception of the UN - and in a world where the proliferation and effectiveness of weapons increases, they are a massive success story.
Two words: audit trail. - Real security doesn't come from from banning i-Pods. It comes from auditing who is accessing what data when. If a user is downloading 1/2 a gig of data per day which he doesn't need, that should be detected in the audit logs and questions should be asked.
That's fine, if you want to find out who stole your top secret plans for a bioweapon once they're in the hands of the $communistterrorists[currentdecade]$. If you'd like to stop it being stolen in the first place however, it's not so fine.
I recently came into contact with a similar policy at a consulting firm that was concerned that top-secret information might escape through my USB watch, and made me leave it at the front desk every day. In that case, I know it was absurd overkill...
How is that overkill? You have a device capable of introducing viral agents/trojans, or of covertly copying half a gigabyte of compressed data every day you work there, from systems designated "top-secret", and you think it is unreasonable for them to ask you to leave it at the door? I think it's unreasonable that someone like you is allowed near a facility containing "top secret" information.
I see that Royal Bank of Canada sends wealthier customers to the head of the phone queue, while making ones with smaller accounts wait and wait. This is a classic example of abusing the facelessness of phone transactions, leveraging it to their advantage. Could you imagine customers putting up with this kind of stuff in a face-to-face setting?
You mean like when a local businessman walks into the bank and goes straight into the private interview office, whereupon the duty manager drops everything to spend some time with him? Perfectly normal. Bigger value customers get better attention, it's always been the way.
I certainly wish we didn't have the Patriot act, but what are the alternatives? Citizen vigilance, or martial law. That's about it. How many terrorists have you caught today? Didn't think so.
How many Martians have you caught today? Didn't think so - looks like we need a law that gives our government more powers, so we can stop those pesky Martians.
Aural means "Of or pertaining to the ear or air" - this ECPA paragraph has nothing to do with email and should not be applied to it. It is to do with spoken voice.
Bob starts charging micropayments for his webcomic. Bob witnesses most of his readers disappearing into the woodwork. Jane, Sally, and Joe notice little bumps in their traffic logs.
Bobs remaining 10% of users provide him with a small but appreciable revenue stream. Jane notices this, and as she is short of money she too moves to micropayments, and loses most of her readers aswell as many she earned from Bob.... but she's earning a few $dollars a month. Sally and Joe see a MASSIVE surge in readership, and Sally cannot afford her new bandwidth bills, so she implements micropayments... now Joe has nearly 90% of the available readership, and everyone else has only a few % but is earning a little money... Joe decides he would rather lose half his readership and get revenue from the other half than continue to do it for free while EVERYONE else gets paid for doing the same thing.
You can make a story go anywhere you like - but yours ends before you've completed chapter 1.
A nanomachine wouldn't be able to get much energy out of eating inorganic matter such as rocks
I, for one, am relieved that our granite and basalt overlords will survive untouched, we are fourtunate that it is only us underling "living beings" which will perish under the coming nano-plague! Now we know the rocks will be safe, bring on the grey goo!
One of these would be extremely good for the UK and very forward thinking, the other would be investing money in a technology already straining to bursting point...
And on another note, how cool will it be to have links like <a href="phonecall:phone.mydomain.com">Phone Me!</a> on websites - how long until we have that I wonder?
if you're able to think of a potential problem after ten seconds' worth of thought, do you really think it likely that the design team wouldn't have considered the exact same thing?
Depends really - many of the products put up in articles like these on Slashdot that are easy to knock down appear to have had a design team assembled purely from the Marketing department. In which case, I expect they wouldn't have considered ANYTHING.
This may seem a little weird, but if you think about it, a PhD [hopefully] shows that you're willing to apply yourself to something and do hard work.
So does getting a job, doing well at it, and obtaining a really good reference. Anyone capable of getting a PHD would also be capable of doing this, but over the period of the several years they would end up hundreds thousands of dollars/pounds better off.
you have to have 128 kbits/sec of bandwidth to send it out, at least. You may not need to support multiple users with this, but you'll still need to be able to stream at a good chunk of speed. Most cable modem/DSL users don't have that much upstream.
Yes, most of them do, however I assume you're talking about cable modem/DSL users in the USA? If that's the case maybe you need to change or lobby your provider to increase upstream bandwidth.
what we have are communications that nobody knows how to break yet. Quantum cryptography is a different ballgame. It can't be broken without changing the laws of physics.
What you should have said is that It can't be broken without changing the laws of physics as we know them (yet). The "Laws" of physics change all the time, as we make new discoveries and adopt new theories.
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I own Trackmania (the new edition) and have been trying to find a no-CD crack so I do not have to take my CD to LANs (I only really play gsmes at LANs now about once a month) - I haven't found one yet. I've never had a problem finding one before.
On top of that, at a LAN recently some guys were playing Soldiers, Heroes of World War 2 and I wanted to play too. There was not a no-CD crack available, quite some time after the games release. I have never seen a game with such a large profile fail to have a crack available *BEFORE* it hit the shops until this year.
Starforce 3 appears to be very reliable. And I'm glad. Maybe now we'll see the end of the bullshit piracy "reason" for poor sales.
Reading down the comments modded 4/5 there seem to be a huge number proposing that to get more women involved, us geeks shouldn't chat them up, and we shouldn't ask them out, and we shouldn't hit on them.
The fact that so many people could write this, and the fact that so many people could moderate this horsecrap up probably explains alot of why women don't want to be in our fields.
Let's start with some basics:
1] Women want sex. Often as much as men, sometimes more.
2] Women like attention - a woman who hates to be chatted up/to is very, VERY rare.
3] Women like things that build up their self esteem, such as being asked to dinner, etc. etc.
However, counterpoints:
1] Women don't like to be asked out the blue, that's creepy. Don't hit on someone you've never met in the office - get to know them first, chat etc. Make a point of conversation, regardless of how obvious. In fact, if it's obvious you're straining for it then great, this is what's known as FLIRTING. Smile once in a while too. Maybe fetch her a coffee or something.
2] Women don't like to be HARRASSED. If you received a "no" then leave it at that. But you can keep chatting to her and flirting (though maybe tone it down a bit now). The ball is now in her court.
3] Women like clean men. So wash. Every morning. Cut your hair regularly and shave every day or two. Ask a female friend or your mother to take you out, and spend ALOT of cash on some well cut clothes that fit you. If things don't fit you because you're out of shape, then you'd better pray your personality is good, or that you find some willpower to burn some pounds quickly.
The above is fairly basic advice, but from the loooks of all the comments on this thread it seems it needs to be said. If people want evidence, how about looking at other environments with both male and female workers:
Bar Work - girls and lads fuck. Alot.
Office Work - girls and lads fuck.
Shop Work - girls and lads fuck.
Sales/Marketing - girls and lads fuck. Alot
Everyone fucks. Thats both men and women. Why the hell do so many blokes think that women want to be treated differently in our profession than all the others?
LET ME OFF!
The Malware one is harder, but I would have thought some fairly clever traffic analysis would throw up a good guide as to how much of the traffic is from Malware.
The author is miles off when he talks about the speed and efficiency of asp.net - he simply says "because there is more code and it's OO, it will take longer to run, and that slows web pages down".
Well I would agree that on first execution of a page (the first time a page is loaded after a reboot or restart, or the document is changed) asp.net is slower than ASP or PHP - however on every SINGLE subsequent page execution asp.net is considerably faster in my experience. Programming intranets and deploying/testing them has proved it to me - when the latency across the network is tiny the difference is notable on all non-trivial pages to the HUMAN eye, and the test suite backs this up.
Of course, code execution speed depends to a large extent on the coder and his techniques, but a good coder will be able to achieve much more rapidly responding web applications with ASP.NET than he would with Classic ASP or PHP 3 or 4. I can't talk about PHP5 because I moved exclusively to ASP.NET some time ago due it's superb libraries, saleability (clients like to hear MS and buzzwords) and the fact it's truly OO - just a personal preference.
You are not obliged to understand or even read their posts, in the same way that they are not obliged to read or understand your English posts - but they have chosen to educate themselves in order to communicate with English speakers - perhaps this merely reflects a lack of education and considering among the primarily English-speaking population?
If you'd like to stop it being stolen in the first place however, it's not so fine.
I think it's unreasonable that someone like you is allowed near a facility containing "top secret" information.
Jane notices this, and as she is short of money she too moves to micropayments, and loses most of her readers aswell as many she earned from Bob.... but she's earning a few $dollars a month.
Sally and Joe see a MASSIVE surge in readership, and Sally cannot afford her new bandwidth bills, so she implements micropayments... now Joe has nearly 90% of the available readership, and everyone else has only a few % but is earning a little money... Joe decides he would rather lose half his readership and get revenue from the other half than continue to do it for free while EVERYONE else gets paid for doing the same thing.
You can make a story go anywhere you like - but yours ends before you've completed chapter 1.
One of these would be extremely good for the UK and very forward thinking, the other would be investing money in a technology already straining to bursting point...
And on another note, how cool will it be to have links like <a href="phonecall:phone.mydomain.com">Phone Me!</a> on websites - how long until we have that I wonder?
Depends really - many of the products put up in articles like these on Slashdot that are easy to knock down appear to have had a design team assembled purely from the Marketing department. In which case, I expect they wouldn't have considered ANYTHING.
So does getting a job, doing well at it, and obtaining a really good reference. Anyone capable of getting a PHD would also be capable of doing this, but over the period of the several years they would end up hundreds thousands of dollars/pounds better off.
Yes, most of them do, however I assume you're talking about cable modem/DSL users in the USA?
If that's the case maybe you need to change or lobby your provider to increase upstream bandwidth.
What you should have said is that It can't be broken without changing the laws of physics as we know them (yet) . The "Laws" of physics change all the time, as we make new discoveries and adopt new theories.