Last semester I was working on a project requiring the windows OS. An hour or so in, windows crashed and I lost everything. It was late, and the project was due the next day, so I immediately started over - saving periodically.
After approximately an hour of clean operation, I stopped saving every 3 secs as I was concentrating on my work. Five hours later I again lost everything and was back to the 1 hour mark. Since the project required use of Microsoft products, I decided that I wasn't going to bother finishing it , even if I got an extension (which I wouldn't, as crashes are to be expected as stated in the course outline). I instead spent the rest of the morning writing a letter expressing my outrage at having to do an assignment using notoriously inferior software. I suggested linux as a viable alternative...
I maybe ranted a bit too much in that letter. But think about it, why should we be relegated to learn on inferior equipment when cost-effective, practical solutions exist?
There is absolutely no reason other than sheer laziness and ignorance.
ha! construction toys? I took everything apart. I never had a toy that lasted more than a couple months before is was disassembled into litte peices. People stopped giving me toys when i was pretty young, so i played with rocks and paper-clips and crap like that (not joking). I think they though i was a dim child, seeing me play for 4 hours with a pile of pebbles. LoL i didnt give a shit -- my "toys" were free and scattered eveywhere! To this day i like taking things apart, but not to the point that i destroy them. I need expensive toys now because my imagination is dead and rocks wont cut it anymore. Whoo! with 2 billion polygons a second who need an imagination anyway? LOL...
A hacker didn't stumble into the credit card database by mistake. A better analogy would be if some criminal drowned a kid in your unfenced pool - not your fault, though if you had a barbed wire fence it might not have happened.
It think it would be an easy civil suit to defend against; they would just paint the stereotypical evil-genius "hacker" that everyone knows from the media -- the court would buy this. Then again, Egghead might settle out of court to avoid more bad PR. Either way thier image will suffer: admit negligence or drag things on in long court battle.
Then there is the cc companies to consider (class action?). They dont want ppl to stop using credit cards on the net, so they will probably not take any action at all. All things considered its best for everyone (excluding of course the public) to forget this incident.
According to an article from PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the US ranks third in high speed connections per capita. First is Germany (with extensive ISDN), and second Canada (where 22% of internet users have cable or ADSL). As a canadian i can believe this. I remember everyone getting cable or DSL back in grade 10 - 11 (i graduated couple years ago). I suspect cable is cheaper here; i pay $26.90 (in american dollars) / month. The US is not the only wired place!
You dont have a right to be free from another person's point of view -- even if its expressed in a video game. You DO have a right not to buy that particual game if offends you.
Spam in my email doesn't bother me. It takes me (seriously) 1 or 2 seconds to sort the "real" email from the junk.
I think a lot of people use email (and the internet in general) for inane, useless purposes. Think about it: you feel angered when unsolicited advertisements desecrate your $1000 monitor (that was bought to increase your "productivity"). You spent all this money, yet there was no magical time saving effect; your problems didn't evaporate when you doubled your ram and installed win2k.
I think people rage against spam because it's a mockery of what our great technology is used for: $, porn, and useless chatter -- we are feeling the SPAM!
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I think nuclear is the way to go. We already have 1000's of safe disposal units that can handle highly radioactive waste -- rusting coldwar ICBM's.
Last semester I was working on a project requiring the windows OS. An hour or so in, windows crashed and I lost everything. It was late, and the project was due the next day, so I immediately started over - saving periodically.
After approximately an hour of clean operation, I stopped saving every 3 secs as I was concentrating on my work. Five hours later I again lost everything and was back to the 1 hour mark. Since the project required use of Microsoft products, I decided that I wasn't going to bother finishing it , even if I got an extension (which I wouldn't, as crashes are to be expected as stated in the course outline). I instead spent the rest of the morning writing a letter expressing my outrage at having to do an assignment using notoriously inferior software. I suggested linux as a viable alternative...
I maybe ranted a bit too much in that letter. But think about it, why should we be relegated to learn on inferior equipment when cost-effective, practical solutions exist?
There is absolutely no reason other than sheer laziness and ignorance.
ha! construction toys? I took everything apart. I never had a toy that lasted more than a couple months before is was disassembled into litte peices. People stopped giving me toys when i was pretty young, so i played with rocks and paper-clips and crap like that (not joking). I think they though i was a dim child, seeing me play for 4 hours with a pile of pebbles. LoL i didnt give a shit -- my "toys" were free and scattered eveywhere! To this day i like taking things apart, but not to the point that i destroy them. I need expensive toys now because my imagination is dead and rocks wont cut it anymore. Whoo! with 2 billion polygons a second who need an imagination anyway? LOL...
A hacker didn't stumble into the credit card database by mistake. A better analogy would be if some criminal drowned a kid in your unfenced pool - not your fault, though if you had a barbed wire fence it might not have happened. It think it would be an easy civil suit to defend against; they would just paint the stereotypical evil-genius "hacker" that everyone knows from the media -- the court would buy this. Then again, Egghead might settle out of court to avoid more bad PR. Either way thier image will suffer: admit negligence or drag things on in long court battle. Then there is the cc companies to consider (class action?). They dont want ppl to stop using credit cards on the net, so they will probably not take any action at all. All things considered its best for everyone (excluding of course the public) to forget this incident.
According to an article from PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the US ranks third in high speed connections per capita. First is Germany (with extensive ISDN), and second Canada (where 22% of internet users have cable or ADSL). As a canadian i can believe this. I remember everyone getting cable or DSL back in grade 10 - 11 (i graduated couple years ago). I suspect cable is cheaper here; i pay $26.90 (in american dollars) / month. The US is not the only wired place!
You dont have a right to be free from another person's point of view -- even if its expressed in a video game. You DO have a right not to buy that particual game if offends you.
Spam in my email doesn't bother me. It takes me (seriously) 1 or 2 seconds to sort the "real" email from the junk. I think a lot of people use email (and the internet in general) for inane, useless purposes. Think about it: you feel angered when unsolicited advertisements desecrate your $1000 monitor (that was bought to increase your "productivity"). You spent all this money, yet there was no magical time saving effect; your problems didn't evaporate when you doubled your ram and installed win2k. I think people rage against spam because it's a mockery of what our great technology is used for: $, porn, and useless chatter -- we are feeling the SPAM!